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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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Jurieu to answer this difficulty would have us believe, that some of the severe Judgments of God, nay and they must be some of the last Plagues or Judgments too, the Popes are not the Subject, but the instruments, these plagues, saith Jurieu, fall upon those who worship the Beast and his Image, and not upon the Beast himself and false Prophet.
To which our worthy Author replies that it is ⟨p. 204⟩Impossible that an Empire should be smitten with Plagues and Judgments of God, in order to its being weakened, and impaired, and that its head and Sovereign should in the mean time no ways suffer (to which I might add but contrariwise great strength thereby) the union, saith he that is between the head and the members, is wholly inconsistent with any such a notion, whensoever the body is very sick, the head is in a very ill condition; and this holds more truly in reference to a Political body than to the body Natural, whereas 'tis a Spiritual Empire, viz. Antichristianism, the Judgments that are to be executed upon it are to be Physical and Penal evils, which as punishments are to weaken and subvert it, the Judgments of God against an Empire whose criminalness from the very nature of it, lies in its Errors, i. e. Idolatry, Tyranny, &c. which comprehends in them the corruption of manners, cannot consist in evils of offence, but the first 4 Vials according to Jurieu, import evils of crime, & not of punishment, & do strengthen and advance the Empire or Papistry in all that is essential to it, instead of depressing and enfeebling it, for it never had so great power and Splendour as it enjoyed from the 10th to the 14th Century, and that is the time according to Mr. Jurieu, for the effusion of the 1st 4 Vials, never man was certainly more mistaken; our author proceeds and confutes Jurieu as fully, in respect of what he affirms to be the effects of the other 3 Vials, which I have not room to insert, p. 17.
To which our worthy Author replies that it is ⟨p. 204⟩Impossible that an Empire should be smitten with Plagues and Judgments of God, in order to its being weakned, and impaired, and that its head and Soveraign should in the mean time no ways suffer (to which I might add but contrarywise great strength thereby) the union, saith he that is between the head and the members, is wholly inconsistent with any such a notion, whensoever the body is very sick, the head is in a very ill condition; and this holds more truly in reference to a Political body than to the body Natural, whereas 'tis a Spiritual Empire, viz. Antichristianism, the Judgments that are to be executed upon it are to be Physical and Penal evils, which as punishments are to weaken and subvert it, the Judgments of God against an Empire whose criminalness from the very nature of it, lies in its Errors, i. e. Idolatry, Tyranny, &c. which comprehends in them the corruption of manners, cannot consist in evils of offence, but the first 4 Vials according to Jurieu, import evils of crime, & not of punishment, & do strengthen and advance the Empire or Papistry in all that is essential to it, instead of depressing and enfeebling it, for it never had so great power and Splendor as it enjoyed from the 10th to the 14th Century, and that is the time according to Mr. Jurieu, for the effusion of the 1st 4 Vials, never man was certainly more mistaken; our author proceeds and confutes Jurieu as fully, in respect of what he affirms to be the effects of the other 3 Vials, which I have not room to insert, p. 17.