A47362:437
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, saith he, is the great principle that Mr. Jurieu goes upon, i. e. the 7 Vials are certainly 7 Periods of time: and after this principle, saith he, he draws three conclusions. (1.) That there is a difference between the Vials and the Plagues, that the 7 Plagues are the Judgments of God, and the 7 Vials denote the 7 Periods of time, wherein those Judgments are to fall upon the Papal Empire. (2.) That all the Plagues are designed against the Papal Kingdom, and not so much as one of them against the Empire of the Turks, 'tis certain, saith Jurieu, that the 7 Plagues are entirely intended against the Empire of the Beast. (3.) That there are in all thirteen Plagues, whereof the 6 first have destroyed the Roman Empire as civil, & these 6 Plagues fell under the 5 first Trumpets, and that the 6th. Trumpet which is divided into 7 Vials, shall destroy the same Empire as Ecclesiastical and Papal, and that the Vials have been pouring out since the 10th. Century, that the 7th. is not yet wholly poured out, but that it begun at the time of Luther's reformation, and will end at the general reformation, &c.
This, saith he, is the great principle that Mr. Jurieu goes upon, i. e. the 7 Vials are certainly 7 Periods of time: and after this principle, saith he, he draws three conclusions. (1.) That there is a difference between the Vials and the Plagues, that the 7 Plagues are the Judgments of God, and the 7 Vials denote the 7 Periods of time, wherein those Judgments are to fall upon the Papal Empire. (2.) That all the Plagues are designed against the Papal Kingdom, and not so much as one of them against the Empire of the Turks, 'tis certain, saith Jurieu, that the 7 Plagues are entirely intended against the Empire of the Beast. (3.) That there are in all thirteen Plagues, whereof the 6 first have destroyed the Roman Empire as civil, & these 6 Plagues fell under the 5 first Trumpets, and that the 6th. Trumpet which is divided into 7 Vials, shall destroy the same Empire as Ecclesiastical and Papal, and that the Vials have been pouring out since the 10th. Century, that the 7th. is not yet wholly poured out, but that it begun at the time of Luthers reformation, and will end at the general reformation, &c.
Now, saith this learned French Minister, whereas Mr. Jurieu's principle is, that the 7 Vials are certainly 7 Periods of time, this hath no evidence in it, being neither certain nor clear, to those that are versed in the reading the Prophets,—saith he, Jurieu affirms that the 7 Vials signify an Hour-glass and not a cup; for a cup is of another form than a Vial, in that this hath a large Belly and a narrow Mouth,—to which our Author saith it is not about the form of a Vial that we treat, but about the signification of it, nor is there any Greek Author that ascribeth to the word Vial, the signification of an Hour-glass;—But by all Dictionaries it does appear that the term Vial signifies a Cup, a