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The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at…
The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London who was beheaded on Tower-hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. With a most extraordinary prophecy, of the late revolution in France, and the downfall of the antichristian kingdom, in that country. By M. Peter Jurieu. Also, Nixon's Cheshire prophecy.The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London who was beheaded on Tower-hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. With a most extraordinary prophecy, of the late revolution in France, and the downfall of the antichristian kingdom, in that country. By M. Peter Jurieu. Also, Nixon's Chesire prophecy.
London : printed for the bookseller, 1651?
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To this it may be objected, that for the last fifty years, the Pope's empire hath not been made up of ten Kings, because England, Sweden, Denmark, &c. have thrown off his government; and consequently, France is not at this day the tenth part of the Babylonian empire; for 'tis more than a tenth part of it. But this is no difficulty: for we must know, that things retain the names which they bore in their original (without regarding the alterations which ⟨p. 11⟩time does bring along). Though at this day, there are not ten kingdoms under the Babylonian empire, 'tis notwithstanding certain, that each Kingdom was called, and ought to be called in […] prophecy, the tenth part; because the prophet having described this empire in its beginning, by its ten horns or ten Kings, 'tis necessary for our clear understanding, that every one of these ten Kings, and kingdoms should be called one of the ten Kings or of the ten kingdoms, with respect to the constitution of the Antichristian empire.
To this it may be objected, that for the last fifty years, the Pope's empire hath not been made up of ten Kings, because England, Sweden, Denmark, &c. have thrown off his government; and consequently, France is not at this day the tenth part of the Babylonian empire; for 'tis more than a tenth part of it. But this is no difficulty: for we must know, that things retain the names which they bore in their original (without regarding the alterations which ⟨p. 11⟩time does bring along). Though at this day, there are not ten kingdoms under the Babylonian empire, 'tis notwithstanding certain, that each Kingdom was called, and ought to be called in 〈…〉 prophecy, the tenth part; because the prophet having described this empire in its beginning, by its ten horns or ten Kings, 'tis necessary for our clear understanding, that every one of these ten Kings, and kingdoms should be called one of the ten Kings or of the ten kingdoms, with respect to the constitution of the Antichristian empire.