A47362:424
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
Postscript › Part 2: Secondly, As to the opening of the Temple, and of the Smoke, &c.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He then proceeds to speak his conjectures about the pouring out of all the 7 Vials.
1. On the earth, which (he thinks) intends the ⟨p. 196⟩Joss of Church Revenues and so falls upon the Worldly and Carnal Interest of Antichristian men (let the Carnal Earthly and Self-seeking Prelates and Clergy look to it.)
2. Vial upon the Sea, &c. The Sea, he says, is the Papal Kingdom, (in this he agrees with reverend Mr. Knowles.) In its uttermost extent, not only the Country where the Pope is Sovereign, but likewise all those Princes who acknowledge him, and this Empire shall become as the blood of a dead man, &c. So that every Soul which liveth in it shall die. That is (saith he,) the government of Popish Princes shall not be able to endure their Yoke, as fish cannot live in waters which are turned into blood.
2. Vial upon the Sea, &c. The Sea, he says, is the Papal Kingdom, (in this he agrees with reverend Mr. Knowles.) In its uttermost extent, not only the Countrey where the Pope is Soveraign, but likewise all those Princes who acknowledge him, and this Empire shall become as the blood of a dead man, &c. So that every Soul which liveth in it shall die. That is (saith he,) the government of Popish Princes shall not be able to endure their Yoke, as fish cannot live in waters which are turned into blood.