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Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be…

Name: Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be…
Author: Benjamin Keach

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.

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1689

[8], 231, [12] p., 1 leaf of plates. · 67k words · Wing K44 · ESTC R19009

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Chapter 3: Proving that literal Babylon in Chaldea, was a Type or Figure of Rome Papal or the pres…

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So in like manner Rome who is Mister Babylon, notwithstanding her horrid crime and most amazing wickednesses, is a v•• proud and imperious people, exceeding all • the Christian World, saying in her Heart, sit a Queen, am no Widow, shall see no sorrow; ⟨p. 107⟩for which haughtiness and pride the Lord will suddenly remember her with Judgments and sore severity, he being now risen up to make Inquisition for Blood, and to avenge upon her the injury done to Zion, Rev. 18. 7. How much she hath glorified her self and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her.

So in like manner Rome who is Myster Babylon, notwithstanding her horrid crime and most amazing wickednesses, is a v•• proud and imperious people, exceeding all • the Christian World, saying in her Heart, sit a Queen, am no Widow, shall see no sorrow; ⟨p. 107⟩for which haughtiness and pride the Lord will suddenly remember her with Judgments and sore severity, he being now risen up to make Inquisition for Blood, and to avenge upon her the injury done to Sion, Rev. 18. 7. How much she hath glorified her self and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her.

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VI. Chaldean or Literal Babylon set up Images, and had Idols of Silver and Gold, Wood and Stone, to which they bowed and worshipped, which were also representations of the Gods and Saints whom they adored, to wit, of Bel (which was Jupiter) and Nebo and Succoth berioth, and the like, and such who would not bow down to her Images, she threatened to cast into the Fire, into the burning fiery Furnace,

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Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be…

CHAP. IV. Showing that by the little Horn, Dan. 7. and vile person, Dan. 11, is meant the Papal power of Rome, or the Pope, who is the supreme Bishop thereof, all the marks and chief characters of the little Horn, meeting directly also in him as the head of the present Church of Rome.

CHAP. IV. Shewing that by the little Horn, Dan. 7. and vile person, Dan. 11, is meant the Papal power of Rome, or the Pope, who is the supream Bishop thereof, all the marks and chief characters of the little Horn, meeting directly also in him as the head of the present Church of Rome.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. IV. Showing that by the little Horn, Dan. 7. and vile person, Dan. 11, is meant the Papal power of Rome, or the Pope, who is the supreme Bishop thereof, all the marks and chief characters of the little Horn, meeting directly also in him as the head of the present Church of Rome.

CHAP. IV. Shewing that by the little Horn, Dan. 7. and vile person, Dan. 11, is meant the Papal power of Rome, or the Pope, who is the supream Bishop thereof, all the marks and chief characters of the little Horn, meeting directly also in him as the head of the present Church of Rome.

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