A47362:300
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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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⟩party should again arrive to such • in some one or more Kingdoms, that were formerly a Horn, or Horns of the Beast, or one • the Streets of the great City; nay, and prevail • far, as to have great hopes to work the utter • of Gods faithful people and witnesses, as to rejoin and conclude the day will, nay is their own, • that to such a degree that she viz. Mystery Babyl• shall say in her Heart, I sit a Queen, and shall see • sorrow, nor know less of Children any more. This • ing dead, saith the Dr. here of the witnesses, • needs be taken metaphorically, and underst••• of a civil death, and of a suppression of them, • their cause, And as they are witnesses to be put do• and extinguished that they for a time remain• men dead laid forth by the Walls for dead, and • men in whose Testimony, there is in appear••• no likelihood of a revival, their Enemies has now got such power over them; this certain made the great matter of their Enemies rejoice that as the Pharisees thought they had Christ […] enough, when they got him condemned and cr cified, and had him in the grave: so these Enemies shall think they have the witnesses do sure enough for ever; so great, desperate, […] helpless in all view, will the suppression of […] witnesses be by their Enemies.