A47362:309
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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What a Flood of contempt, reproach, and what not, hath been (as he ••serves) cast upon the whole of the true interest […] Christ in this Kingdom, with the barbarous ⟨p. 146⟩slaughter of those worthy Christians and Witness•• in the West, together with that Storm of Persec• tion, which we have no ground to doubt was ••• ried on by the Popish Enemy, and Emissaries of R•••, together with the turning out of places of tru•• many good Protestants, and the taking away of Charters of Cities and Corporations, silencing worthy Ministers, &c. nay, striking at the root and whole constitution of the English Government, •• thing being designed but the utter subversion of the Protestant Religion, things growing every day worse and worse, nothing appearing but the blackness of darkness, and that which was worst of all many of Gods witnesses seemed to be strangely dispirited, whilst others truckled to the Enemi•• yoke, suffering Chapels to be erected for Popery and Cursed Mass Priests, and Jesuits; and that to• in many of the chief of our Cities, nay, in famo•• London it self, and that in the very Heart of it. O•• state seeming desperate and hopeless in the view […] all at home and abroad, many good men basely misled, joining in with them unawares, in carry•• on the design of this Whore, in this her great […] last attempt, wherein she doubted not but to […] all the Heretics under her Foot, and utterly to extirpate the Protestant Religion, such a death […] face of things never sure appeared, before this ho•• and power of darkness, and it was strangely pr•• ged, as many feared, by that lightening before […] in 1678. upon the discovery of the Popish […] when our hopes were raised by that great zeal […] our brave English Parliaments, against the Pa and Popish Religion, most thinking at that […] our morning light appeared to break forth, & the terness of death was over, but lo what a sudden ch did we see? how was our light turned into dark and our joy to sorrow and lamentation, and […]