A95413:127
The doubting conscience resolved. In answer to a (pretended) perplexing question, &c. Wherein is…
The doubting conscience resolved. In answer to a (pretended) perplexing question, &c. Wherein is evidently proved, that the holy Scriptures (not the pope) is the foundation whereupon the Church is built. Or, That a Christian may be infallibly certain of his faith and religion by holy Scriptures. By William Twice D.D. Prolocutor of the Assembly of Divines. Written at the desire of Samuel Hartlib, Esquire, for the satisfaction of his friends beyond the seas; and now divulged in print for more public edification.The doubting conscience resolved. In answer to a (pretended) perplexing question, &c. Wherein is evidently proved, that the holy Scriptures (not the pope) is the foundation whereupon the Church is built. Or, That a Christian may be infallibly certain of his faith and religion by holy Scriptures. By William Tvvisse D.D. Prolocutor of the Assembly of Divines. Written at the desire of Samuel Hartlib, Esquire, for the satisfaction of his friends beyond the seas; and now divulged in print for more publick edification.
London: printed for Thomas Matthews, 1652
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Now we have no cause to wonder at this, when we consider what Daniel hath written concerning this, and how blessed a thing it should be to live at that time when Antichrist should be proclaimed to the world and revealed, Dan. 11. For then nothing remained to be looked for but the ⟨p. 89⟩blasting of him with the breath of the Lords mouth, and the utter abolishing of him by the brightness of his coming. The reconciling of Ezekiels measures of new Jerusalem with Johns measures in the Revelations, is a great mystery, and held to be desperate, yet now it is made feasible, nor so only, but cleared throughout. So the number of the Beast 666. how long hath the Christian world groped after the meaning of it, as a blind man after his way? What various notions hath the investigation hereof produced in mens brains, after that of Ireneus accommodated to the word [Greek or Hebrew], and at length for want of a better the best Students in these mysteries driven to come back thither again. But now the vanity thereof newly discovered, and that at full, even by every Text calling us expressly to calculate this, which is not to rest in ⟨p. 90⟩this number, but by Calculation of this to find out another number, which will notably decipher unto us that Beast: And indeed the number of the Beast 666. is opposed to the number of Christs Church, 144. and the number most momentous arising by the Calculation thereof, is the number 12. the root thereof, and no other calculation belongs to a single number than that which is called the extraction of roots, and the number 25. found to be the root of 666. so far as it comes to be said in the usual way of Arithmetic, to have a root, discovering strange mysteries concerning the delineating of that Beast the body of Antichrist in a wonderful manner.
Now we have no cause to wonder at this, when we consider what Daniel hath written concerning this, and how blessed a thing it should be to live at that time when Antichrist should be proclamed to the world and revealed, Dan. 11. For then nothing remained to be looked for but the ⟨p. 89⟩