A47362:477
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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(1.) In Dan. 9. after Daniel had understood by Books, the expiration of the 70 years captivity under the Babylonians, he sets himself to pray for Mercy and Deliverance, and hath no other Answer than •th Vision of 70 weeks, and the division of them, Dan. •9. 25, 26. which account was to begin from the going forth of the Commandment to build the City Jerusalem: ⟨p. 214⟩7 weeks it should be building: and built 62 to the Messiah, and in the midst of the last week, the Messiah should be cut off. So that in all this, there is no direct answer to Daniels prayer for present deliverance, for the Temple took up a long time in building, through the long death upon the work, before the command here spoken of for building the City came forth. Now as his prayer was in the first year of Darius, that is, not of his being a King, but his taking Babylon, and so being concerned with the Church of God, (for God in his Word takes little or no notice of earthly powers, but as▪ in Relation to his people) so when Daniel was even now going out of the World, He sets himself to pray again, in ch. 10. which is said to be in the third of Cyrus, v. 1. and has this for Answer, that God was not unmindful of his Prayer, as v. 12. and gives a reason why deliverance was not yet to come; The Prince of the Kingdom of […] the Prince of Persia, but the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia, i. e. Darius who, though he was of the seed of the Medes, was Prince of the Kingdom of Persia, withstood him, that is, had not let Israel go, tho' he had strengthened him in his Kingdom, ch. 11. 1. Now this third year of Cyrus, might possibly be but the first of his absolute Reign, for it's like he might under Darius, being old, rule 2 years before his death, because its said, 2 Chron. the last, and 1. Ezra. 1. That in the first of Cyrus, he let Israel go, and 'tis probable that Daniel died in the first of his absolute Reign, Dan x. last, for he continued but to the first of King Cyrus. Now the continuance here cannot relate to his honours, that King Nebuchadnezzar advanced him to, chap. 2. 48. for after his death, if not before, he retired and lived obscure at Court, chap. 5. 11, 13. Neither did the Prophet Daniel come out of captivity, which it's like he had done if he had lived to the time of liberty to return, being a man