and when he shall begin to Sound, the Mystery of God shall be finished. As he has Declared to his Servants the Prophets, and the Kingdoms of the World will Gradually become the Kingdoms of Christ, until the whole World is become Christendom, Rev. 10. 7. & 11. 14, 15. But that the Second Woe is past, and that the present Great Earthquake among the European Nations is a Sign of it, there is great reason to believe. It is generally agreed among Interpreters, that by the Second Woe, the Turkish Empire is intended, which has for many Ages been a Woeful Plague to the Third Part of men, by which Europe, a Third part of the formerly known World may be meant. It is said of the Turkish Empire, That it is prepared for an Hour, and a Day, and a Month, and a Year: Which according to the Prophetical account, is Three Hundred Ninety Six Years, Rev. 9. 15. (a)Mr. Brightman, above an Hundred Years ago, did from thence conclude, that the Turk, who began his Reign Auno Domini 1300. would cease to be a Woe to the Apostate Christian World, in the Year 1696. Of this I made mention, in (b)a Discourse Published Twenty Six Years ago; then hoping that Mr. Brightmans Conjecture would prove true, which it seems to me to Admiration it has done. But if we can find that this Remarkable Prophecy has been in our Time fulfilled, even to a Day, it ⟨p. 94⟩will be wonderful indeed. A Learned (c)Divine, (who is now also a Professor of the Mathematics, in the University of Cambridge) and who has given a greater Light into many Dark Scriptures, than any Writer that I have met with, has endeavoured to clear this matter. An Hour, in the Prophetical Style, is Fifteen Days: A Day, is a Year: A Month, is Thirty Years: A Prophetical Year, is Three Hundred Sixty Five Years. The Total is, Three Hundred Ninety Six Years, and a Hundred and Six Days. This Author, by a diligent search into Histories and Chronologies, finds that the Beginning of the Turkish Empire, is to be Dated from May, 19. Anno Dom. 1301. To which add, 396 Years, and 106 Days, and we shall come to September the first, Anno Dom. 1697. On which very Day, by a famous Victory over the Turk, it seems as if an End was put to the Second Woe; and immediately followed the Peace at Carlowitz; which no Temptations have prevailed with the Turk to Violate.
and when he shall begin to Sound, the Mystery of God shall be finished. As he has Declared to his Servants the Prophets, and the Kingdoms of the World will Gradually become the Kingdoms of Christ, until the whole World is become Christendom, Rev. 10. 7. & 11. 14, 15. But that the Second Wo is past, and that the present Great Earthquake among the European Nations is a Sign of it, there is great reason to believe. It is generally agreed among Interpreters, that by the Second Wo, the Turkish Empire is intended, which has for many Ages been a Woful Plague to the Third Part of men, by which Europe, a Third part of the formerly known World may be meant. It is said of the Turkish Empire, That it is prepared for an Hour, and a Day, and a Month, and a Year: Which according to the Prophetical account, is Three Hundred Ninety Six Years, Rev. 9. 15. (a)Mr. Brightman, above an Hundred Years ago, did from thence conclude, that the Turk, who began his Reign Auno Domini 1300. would cease to be a Wo to the Apostate Christian World, in the Year 1696. Of this I made mention, in (b)a Discourse Published Twenty Six Years ago; then hoping that Mr. Brightmans Conjecture would prove true, which it seems to me to Admiration it has done. But if we can find that this Remarkable Prophecy has been in our Time fulfilled, even to a Day, it ⟨p. 94⟩will be wonderful indeed. A Learned (c)Divine, (who is now also a Professor of the Mathematicks, in the University of Cambridge) and who has given a greater Light into many Dark Scriptures, than any Writer that I have met with, has endeavoured to clear this matter. An Hour, in the Prophetical Style, is Fifteen Days: A Day, is a Year: A Month, is Thirty Years: A Prophetical Year, is Three Hundred Sixty Five Years. The Total is, Three Hundred Ninety Six Years, and a Hundred and Six Days. This Author, by a diligent search into Histories and Chronologies, finds that the Beginning of the Turkish Empire, is to be Dated from May, 19. Anno Dom. 1301. To which add, 396 Years, and 106 Days, and we shall come to September the first, Anno Dom. 1697. On which very Day, by a famous Victory over the Turk, it seems as if an End was put to the Second Wo; and immediately followed the Peace at Carlowitz; which no Temptations have prevailed with the Turk to Violate.
- (a)In Apoc. 9. 15.
- (b)Of Comets. P. 137, 138.
- (c)Mr. William Whiston, in his Essay on the Revelation p. 187.
