A47362:484
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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To what hath been said there is something Objected, the which with the answers take as followeth.
Obj. That this calculation cannot be right, because it's said, that when the Foundations of this second Temple were laid, many of the Priests and Levites, and chief of the Fathers that were ancient men, that had seen the first Temple, wept, when others, that were young, and had not seen the first house, rejoiced, &c. And if this be true that it was so long before Cyrus came to the absolute Government, and before the Decree for their return out of Babylon to build the House of God, they must be older, than in reason we can Judge men to live; and this first, Because they must not be Infants when carried into Captivity, for then they could not remember what the first Temple was, •ly. The 70 years of Captivity and the 21 years of Darius before Cyrus came to the Kingdom, and at least a year of preparation before they began to build, with their own age when carried Captive, which could not be in reason much less than twenty years, is 102 years in all, which is an age beyond what usually men lived; and it's said there were many of those Ancient men that wept, &c.
Obj. That this calculation cannot be right, because it's said, that when the Foundations of this second Temple were laid, many of the Priests and Levites, and chief of the Fathers that were ancient men, that had seen the first Temple, wept, when others, that were young, and had not seen the first house, rejoyced, &c. And if this be true that it was so long before Cyrus came to the absolute Government, and before the Decree for their return out of Babylon to build the House of God, they must be older, than in reason we can Judge men to live; and this first, Because they must not be Infants when carried into Captivity, for then they could not remember what the first Temple was, •ly. The 70 years of Captivity and the 21 years of Darius before Cyrus came to the Kingdom, and at least a year of preparation before they began to build, with their own age when carryed Captive, which could not be in reason much less than twenty years, is 102 years in all, which is an age beyond what usually men lived; and it's said there were many of those Ancient men that wept, &c.