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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
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2. I do not conceive how the pouring out of the Plagues, and Vials full of divine wrath in any good sense, and according to Scripture use, may be applied to, and understood of the Preaching of the glad tidings of the Gospel; truly I think, that the publishing of the sweet and most precious Soul saving truths of Jesus, all the time of the Beasts reign, even 42 months or 1260 years, is in another way, and by other words expressed, and not by the Vials full of wrath; see Rev. 10. 9, 10, 11. and therefore by the Seven last Plagues filled up with the wrath of God, Rev. 15. 1. I understand real and proper Plagues, and not the preaching of the Gospel, either by Grosthead, Wycliffe, Luther, Calvin, &c. but rather such temporal Plagues as shall be poured out upon wicked men for despising and persecuting the truth; In her was found the Blood of the Prophets and Saints, Rev. 18. 24. It is not said that the effects of the Vials shall be wrath, or turn to wrath, for in the it is filled up the wrath of God. 3. Suppose it be granted there is a Vial of wrath poured out (which to me sounds harshly) and that Wycliffe, Huss, Jeremiah, Luther, &c. were the Angels, the question then is, who before them poured ⟨p. 169⟩out their Vials upon the Earth; for it is said these seven Angels had the 7 last Plagues, signifying, that there were Plagues before, although for time, persons, matter, and manner of proceeding, and other circumstances, unlike. 4. I have (saith he) not seen any reason why so much time is allowed between the first and second Vials: Some allow 100 years, others 200, and some more, namely, from the pouring out of the first Vial, to the beginning of the second, and to all the rest not half the time. If those Vials and last Plagues have an allusion to the Plagues of Egypt, (as it is generally held) then it is probable, when there is once a beginning, they will suddenly all be poured out. Some have observed from History in Exodus, that within the space of 30 days the ten Plagues fell upon the Egyptians; now if (in the Antitype) we reckon a day for a year (as it is often in Prophetical Types) then the seven last Plagues will be finished in thirty years when begun; neither is it to be doubted, but a short work will the Lord make upon the Earth,