A47362:458
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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'tis, saith he, for this reason that 'tis said by the seven last Plagues (which are the Vials) the wrath of God is finished; from whence it followeth that the Vials are not contemporary with the sixth Trumpet, and that it is not the sixth Trumpet that is subdivided into the seven Vials, but that this subdivision is to be assigned to the seventh Trumpet; the sixth as well as the five preceding speaketh nothing save War against the Church of God; so long as it lasts Antichrist abates nothing of his fury, but constantly makes the same Efforts for the oppressing of the Truth, and such who do profess it: But as soon as the seventh Angel comes to sound, the case will be quite altered, the Wrath of God will break forth, and the Vials empty themselves. And this is the reason why the Vials are called the seven last Plagues by which the Wrath of God is fulfilled.
Lastly, He shows us that the seven Vials or last Plagues do manifestly allude to the Plagues of Egypt, because they are called Plagues as well as Vials, and are also poured out upon Spiritual Egypt; and seeing, saith he, the Plagues of Egypt did take up but a short space of time, we may not allot years; nay, may be, saith he, not allow months, for the Execution of all the Egyptian Plagues, why then should it seem strange that all the Vials should be poured out within the space of fifteen or eighteen years? The third woe cometh quickly under which all the seven last Plagues shall be poured out, which signifieth that all the Plagues shall be poured out, saith he, close upon one another; (in this he so agrees with what Mr. Can hath written upon the same account directly) let us remember, that there is no natural Agent which acteth with ⟨p. 207⟩the rapidity that fire doth, our God is a consuming fire, and 'tis a terrible thing to fall into his hands; the fire of Gods wrath will burn doubtless (when it begins to seize upon the combustible matter of the Antichristian state) with great fury God will make a short riddance of his Enemies; the second woe is past, and behold the third woe cometh quickly, Rev. 11. 14. We are to observe (saith he,) that this is not said in prediction of the two first woes, all that is said of them they shall come; but this quickly is not added, save in the prediction of the third woe. When we may conclude, that the seventh Trumpet shall immediately follow the Resurrection of the Witnesses, whose death, as it fell out in 1685, so their Resurrection shall ensue within three years and a half; in this he agrees directly with Jurieu, it will be well if they do not both prove mistaken.