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Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be…
Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be the present Church of Rome wherein all objections are fully answered : to which is added, the time of the end, or a clear explanation of Scripture prophecies, with the judgment of divers learned men concerning the final ruin of the Romish Church, that it will be in this present age : together with an account of the two witnesses, who they are, with their killing, resurrection & ascension : also an examination and confutation of what Mr. Jurieu hath lately written concerning the effusion of the vials ... : likewise a brief review of D. Tho. Goodwins exposition of the 11th chapter of the Revelations, concerning the witnesses, and of that street in which they should lie slain, proving it to be meant of Great Britain : and a brief collection of divers strange prophecies, some very ancient / by Benj. Keach ... ; to which is annexed, a short treatise in two parts : 1. The calculation of Scripture numbers by Scripture only, without the help of humane history, 2. Upon the witnesses, giving light to the whole book.Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be the present Church of Rome wherein all objections are fully answered : to which is added, the time of the end, or a clear explanation of Scripture prophecies, with the judgment of divers learned men concerning the final ruine of the Romish Church, that it will be in this present age : together with an account of the two witnesses, who they are, with their killing, resurrection & ascention : also an examination and confutation of what Mr. Jurieu hath lately written concerning the effusion of the vials ... : likewise a brief review of D. Tho. Goodwins exposition of the 11th chapter of the Revelations, concerning the witnesses, and of that street in which they should lie slain, proving it to be meant of Great Brittain : and a brief collection of divers strange prophecies, some very antient / by Benj. Keach ... ; to which is annext, a short treatise in two parts : 1. The calculation of Scripture numbers by Scripture only, without the help of humane history, 2. Upon the witnesses, giving light to the whole book.
London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1689
Chapter 2: Wherein is clearly proved that all the marks of mystery Babylon doth fully meet in, and…
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XIV. Mystery Babylon hath one mark more whereby she may be known, i. e. She • said to sit upon a Beast, that hath Seven Heads and Ten Horns, the Seven Heads ••em to signify (as the Angel opens it) seven ⟨p. 98⟩sorts of sovereign governments as well as hills▪ read the Text, And here is the mind that hat• wisdom, the seven Heads are seven Mountains on which the Woman sitteth; And there ar• seven Kings, five are fallen, one is and one • not yet come, but when he is come, he ma• continue a short space; And the Beast that w• and is not, even he is the eighth and of the seve• and goeth into perdition. Rev. 17. 9, 10, 11▪ Besides all that we have said, it we find n• Papal Rome here viz. having this character upon her, we will acquit her for ever, for t• city that is built upon seven Hills is Rome nay, you will find that all Authors do general assert that Rome is the only City in the Wor• that is founded on seven Hills, and fame for it by its old Poets (as it is noted by • late Annotators) as Ovid, Virgil, Hora• Propertius; The names of these Hills a• known, viz. Palatinus, Quirinalis, Ave•• nus, Celius, Veminalis, Esquilinus, Capit• nus; But the seven Heads do not only (as • said before) signify seven Hills or Mountai•• but also seven Kings, that is, seven sorts governments, which ruled or were to rule that City where the Beast reigned, that ca ried this cursed Harlot (the term Kings, Scripture signifying rulers, whether the government was in a single person, or more,