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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 3: Proving that literal Babylon in Chaldea, was a Type or Figure of Rome Papal or the pres…
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This Character hath Rome Papal upon her, for she hath all along made base and vil• men ⟨p. 110⟩Rulers and Chief among the people, not suffering any men to bear Office in Kingdom, Cities or Corporations, but such vile time serving Persons that would Sacrifice all Justice▪ Right and Honesty to her cursed Will and unsatisfied Lust, no nor indeed have so much as a Vote, to choose Persons to bear Rule i• Government, nor comfortably to buy nor •ell unless they would relinquish all Goodness and Religion, and receive the Mark of the Beast in their Foreheads or right Hands, viz. publicly to profess, or privately subscribe to •ud Injunctions and Commands of the Beast, the against their Consciences, and inconsiste• with their Religion. Who can be Cardinal unless they do own the Pope? Who can b• Kings without being in danger of being deposed or poisoned that subscribe not to the S•• of Rome? Who can sit safe as Governor over Cities, &c. where she sits as Queen Regent, without truckling under that Yoke o• Subjection which she puts on the Necks of all her Vassals; nay, Pope Martin the Fifth i• his Bull added to the Council of Constance (•• Pareus tells us) Prohibits all Roman Catholics to suffer any Heretics to have any dwellings in their Countries, or to make any Bargains, or use any Trades, or to perform to them any Civil Offices, which makes good th•• word, Rev. 13. 16, 17.
This Character hath Rome Papal upon her, for she hath all along made base and vil• men ⟨p. 110⟩