A47362:457
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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In p. 24. our Author confesseth that Luther's reformation was a Judgment of God upon the Papal Kingdom, (yet not the effects of the 5th Vial according to Mr. Jurieu, nor the 1st Vial according to some of our English Writers) for he withal says, that it was an effect of the 6th Trumpet, which continueth ⟨p. 205⟩to represent the War of Antichrist against the Church of God: till then Antichrist had been always victorious against the Saints for more than a 1000 years, but then came to receive a disaster; now this misfortune befell the Papal Empire, saith he, under the sixth Trumpet, which being the last save one was the season that the War was hastening to an end, and that the last Trumpet was about to sound under which this War will both actually end, and all the Vials come to be poured forth, but the damage which the reformation hath done the Papal Kingdom, tho' it hath dismembered it, is only a beginning of its sorrows, and is but an effect of the War which was to continue 42 months, during the time of all the six Trumpets, and which shall be finished through' the effusion of the Vials under the 7th Trumpet; to which let me add, what greater reason have our English Writers to fix the pouring forth of the 1st Vial, about the time of Luther's reformation wrought by his preaching above others, who go as high as Waldo, nay, with Jurieu, to the tenth age, since there was some worthy men in every Century, that bare a brave testimony against the Papal Idolatry, and wounded the Papistry very sorely, tho' 'tis granted not to such a degree as in the last age? Besides, what reason is there to conclude the Harvest of Gods wrath is come, till 'tis fully ripe? and why should we conclude it will be fully ripe till the 42 months are expired, which seems to be the set time of cutting down? I do conclude the slaying of the Witnesses of Christ quite fills up their measure, and so makes way for the 7th Trumpet and Harvest of Gods wrath,—when the measure of the Churches afflictions shall come to their height, and the Beast will have filled up his number and measure of wrath against Gods people, then will the time of Gods fury break forth, which will be as he observes when the 6 Trumpets cease ⟨p. 206⟩sounding, and the seven Vials, which are the seven Plagues, shall arrive and begin to take place against the Papacy, and against Mahometism;
In p. 24. our Author confesseth that Luthers reformation was a Judgment of God upon the Papal Kingdom, (yet not the effects of the 5th Vial according to Mr. Jurieu, nor the 1st Vial according to some of our English Writers) for he withal says, that it was an effect of the 6th Trumpet, which continueth