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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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2. That Histories do greatly differ, both as to number of Persons reigning, and the time that each reigned, that they rather confound than help in this matter, and is one reason why Expositors have so varied; each following him whom he liked best, and endeavouring to reconcile the Scriptures to them, when indeed we should reconcile them to the Scriptures, and if they speak not according to them, not to hear them. And therefore to prosecute my design, I find we may reckon up this account of 2300 years (so many of them as were past at Christs death) by Scripture thus.
First, 21 years after the 70 years expired in the ending of the Babylonian Monarchy, which was the time of Darius his Reign, after he took Babylon, before Cyrus came to the Throne, who was foretold by Isaiah the Prophet, Chap. 44. 28. to be the Person that should let go Gods Captives; who accordingly did, Ezra. c. 1. Now the Scriptures give us this account;
1. That the Medes and Persians were but one Monarchy. 2. That the Government was in the seed of th• Medes, at the time when Babylon was taken, D•• 5. 31. ch. 9. 1. ⟨p. 213⟩3. That Darius was 62 years old when he took Babylon, Dan. 5 31. (there is some reason for the Spirits noting of that) so that he might well Reign 21 years more, for that is but 83, and many live to that age. 4. That he ordered, over the affairs of the Kingdom, 120 Princes, and 3 Presidents, &c. 5. He by the motion of these Princes made that Law, as firm as the Laws of the Medes and Persians, that Daniel was cast into the Lions Den by,