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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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That God was displeased with their Fathers, and now with them. 2. For what he was displeased, viz. For minding their own private things, as Houses and Lands, &c. and letting the House of God lye waste. 3. The effects, in blasting all their labours, &c. (3.) He promiseth them that upon their applying themselves to the work of finishing his House and the service of it, he would abundantly bless them; So that the Prophets applying it to that time, we have reason to judge, that it was no other but the interruption upon the work which was, as all apprehend, some considerable length of time, but are at great uncertainty how to reckon it, when the labour may be saved, and we at no loss in the thing, when the Holy Spirit hath reckoned it for us; now the Scripture tells us, that as the work was revived after seventy years Death upon it, in the second year of Darius, so it was finished in his sixth year, Ezek. 6. 15. which sixth year was his last, Artaxerxes succeeding him, in the seventh of whose Reign there is another decree to beautify the House of God, and to provide it with Sacrifices, Ezra 7. 21, 22, 23, 24, 27. for this decree relates only to the House of God, and his worship therein; In the twentieth of whose Reign another Decree comes forth to Build the City, Neh. 2. 1.— ⟨p. 217⟩to the ninth, and here begins Daniel's seventy weeks of years; so that, if this account be right, we have a very plain and certain account of the time, adding the seventy weeks of years to the death of Christ. I know it is the Opinion of most, if not all, to reckon otherwise, and indeed they cannot otherwise do, that go by History, which tells of more Kings Reigning, and that some of these I have mentioned did Reign longer, as that this Darius, in the sixth of whose Reign the Temple was finished, Reigned in all nineteen years, as Helvicus, Juni•s, Alsted, and others say; but whence have they the account which we with so much confidence take up from them? It's from no infallible Writ; they say also, that from Cyrus, including him, there was fourteen Kings Reigned in the Persian Monarchy before it was taken by the Grecians; also that Cyrus in the nineteenth year of his Persian Monarchy Conquered Darius the Mede King of Babylon; all which could not be: For