A47362:453
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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These are the principles, upon which, saith he, the Anonymous Author, hath built the System of his Explanations, which as he Judgeth to be beyond all possibility of being overthrown, so it is from this source that he will bring his answers to those reasons which Mr. Jurieu hath endeavoured to prove that all the Vials are already poured out, and also the defence of the Reasons, by which he hath in his Illustrations proved that they are not yet poured forth, p. 14. ⟨p. 205⟩He then proceeds to answer all Mr. Jurieu's reasons which the said Jurieu brings to prove all the Vials already to be poured out. The proof, saith he, which Mr. Jurieu grounds upon the conformity of the first 4 Vials, with the Events observable in the history of the Pagan Empire, is perfectly overthrown by considering the nature of the Vials themselves, for they are nothing else but the Judgments of God upon the Papal Empire, in order to destroy it, but the events which he will have to answer the 7 Vials, produced a quite contrary effect, i. e, They raised it, they increased it and brought the Papal Empire to its grandeur, the wonderful corruption of the tenth Age signified according to Mr. Jurieu by the noisome sore of the first Vial, served to diffuse the darkness of Error and Idolatry by which that Empire is supported, the Crusades, which he will have to be signified by the Sea & Rivers under the 2d and 3d Vials, as likewise the Suns scorching men under the 4th Vial, which he will have to prefigure the growth of the Papal Authority, did all contribute to the rendering the Empire stronger and more terrible.
These are the principles, upon which, saith he, the Anonymous Author, hath built the Systeme of his Explanations, which as he Judgeth to be beyond all possibility of being overthrown, so it is from this source that he will bring his answers to those reasons which Mr. Jurieu hath endeavoured to prove that all the Vials are already poured out, and also the defence of the Reasons, by which he hath in his Illustrations proved that they are not yet poured forth, p. 14. ⟨p. 205⟩He then proceeds to answer all Mr. Jurieu's reasons which the said Jurieu brings to prove all the Vials already to be poured out. The proof, saith he, which Mr. Jurieu grounds upon the conformity of the first 4 Vials, with the Events observable in the history of the Pagan Empire, is perfectly overthrown by considering the nature of the Vials themselves, for they are nothing else but the Judgments of God upon the Papal Empire, in order to destroy it, but the events which he will have to answer the 7 Vials, produced a quite contrary effect, i. e, They raised it, they increased it and brought the Papal Empire to its grandeur, the wonderful corruption of the tenth Age signified according to Mr. Jurieu by the noisom sore of the first Vial, served to diffuse the darkness of Error and Idolatry by which that Empire is supported, the Croisad's, which he will have to be signified by the Sea & Rivers under the 2d and 3d Vials, as likewise the Suns scorching men under the 4th Vial, which he will have to prefigure the growth of the Papal Authority, did all contribute to the rendering the Empire stronger and more terrible.