A47362:478
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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besides, it hath been, that such as were to succeed in the Throne, have been in the management of the Government, before the death of him that preceded, as in the case of Solomon, and Darius, being 62 years old when he took Babylon, must be 81 when Cyrus came to the Government, if he managed these affairs the two last years of his life, as it's probable he did, and 83 when he died, being the third of Cyrus his being concerned in the Government, but the first of his absolute rule; and then he gives liberty to the People of God to return and build the Temple. Now this work after they entered upon it, did soon meet with interruptions in the time of Cyrus, that made the Decree for building the Temple, Ezra. 4. 5, 24. But in the Reign of Darius, as v. 25. with chap. 5. 1. In the second year of his Reign, Hag. 1. 1. Zech. 1. 1. God stirred up the Spirit of his People, to set about the work afresh, encouraged from the Prophesying of those two Prophets, speaking to them from the mouth of God, and God disposing the Heart of that Prince to encourage it also, so that it was finished in four years, (i. e.) the sixth of his Reign, Ezra. 6. 14. 15. How many years this interruption continued; or how many years it was between the first Decree of Cyrus, when they laid the Foundation of the Temple, including the years of Preparation, Ezra 3. 8, 10. and the Decree of this Darius, in the sixth year of whose Reign it was finished, the Prophet Zechariah gives us an account, chap. 1. 12. to be seventy years, for the seventy years here intended, cannot be the seventy of their captivity in Babylon, in which time they were to pray for the peace of the City, and of the place where they were carried Captive; For God promised that in the Peace thereof they should have peace, till the time came of their return, ⟨p. 216⟩according to divine appointment, they were to build Houses, to Plant and to Marry, Jer. 29. 5, 6, 7. without attempting to return to build the Temple, till the seventy years were out; therefore in that time to build Houses in Babylon, and not God's House in Jerusalem, was no crime. But the great thing the Prophets Zechariah and Haggai reprove them for, was this,—consider (1.) The Prophets were contemporary, and prophesied in the second of Darius, the time that the Temple work is revived and finished. (2.) They tell the People, 1.