A47362:299
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
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2. As touching the slaying of them, it must either intend a natural Death, or external slaying, or else • civil death; now I see no ground to conclude the former, because they were so killed all along whilst they Prophesied in sack-cloth, besides, friends nor enemies would not suffer their Dead Bodies, to lie ••buried in the Street for the space of three years and half, for the best of expositors conclude generally, that is the time meant by three days and a half, therefore it must be a civil Death or slaying.
2. As touching the slaying of them, it must either intend a natural Death, or external slaying, or else • civil death; now I see no ground to conclude the former, because they were so killed all along whilst they Prophecied in sack-cloath, besides, friends nor enemies would not suffer their Dead Bodies, to lie ••buried in the Street for the space of three years and half, for the best of expositors conclude generally, that is the time meant by three days and a half, therefore it must be a civil Death or slaying.
This then I conclude to be intended, viz. near the end of the two and forty months, or 1260. years of their Prophecy the Beast who rose out of the bottomless Pit, shall make a new rally or attempt upon Gods faithful people, quite to extinguish or put •n end to their testimony, and so far prevail as they shall be looked upon as dead in Law, or be accounted as dead and lost people, in the eye of the Enemy, and in their own sight also, both in respect of the Ministry and Magistracy too. To this effect also Dr. Tho. Goodwin speaks, p. 154, 155. This killing them considered as witnesses, not as men, that is, a taking away of all power from them, of prophesying as they were wont, a general silencing of Ministers, and deposing Magistrates and men of worth, that profess and uphold Religion, &c. putting them out from all places, &c. That the Popish ⟨p. 140⟩