A47362:500
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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368 1290 1658
But the abomination which makes desolate, I conceive is some corruption in the Gospel worship, the true worship of God; And therefore seeing we, as before, find the Apostle concerned so much in forewarning the Church by a Spirit of Prophecy, of what had also been expressly foretold by the Spirit of God; If it was expressly foretold, it must be written some where or other: and take the Apostles own exposition, 1 Tim. 4. 1, 2, 3. Why may we not rather reckon this to be the abomination, to astonishment foretold by Daniel, and this came in in the 383. year, when Syricius was Bishop of Rome and continued 15 years; in his time Marriage was forbidden to the Priests, and in the 425. year Caelestinus was Bishop of Rome and continued eight years; He assumed the temporal power, as 2 Tim. 3. 1, 2, 4, 5. ⟨p. 230⟩and why we may not head these numbers here, I would be glad to understand. In the last of which I conceive Antichrist did make his first visible appearance in the World: so that add the 1260 to 425 it makes 1685, and you bring it to the end of 2300 days within forty five years, or a year or two, which time I conceive is allotted to pour out the Vials, and to accomplish the great revolutions in, that shall come upon the Earth, in order to the possessing of the Kingdom, that shall be given to the Saints of the most high, Dan. 7. 26, 27, 28. There is time expressed by time, times, and dividing of time, three times in Scripture, as Dan. 7. 25. 12. 7. Rev. 12. 14. I find time thus expressed but in one place more, and that is, Dan. 4. 23