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A30061	A letter of a Protestant clergy-man to the reverend clergy of the Church of England, and to all other good Protestants advertising them from the sacred revelation of St. John of the evil which he apprehends to be coming upon the Protestant church, etc. / written by Digby Bull ...	Bull, Digby.	1695 (1695)	Wing B5412; ESTC R40767	54,096	68

the Popish Religion as they call them but are in truth the deep Mysteries of Satan I will put upon you none other burden but that which you have already hold fast till I come That is persist on in your reformed Religion till I come to give you freedom from your Popish Persecutions c. And here our Saviour doth threaten this Jezebel that is the Papacy and Church of Rome ver 22 23. saying Behold I will cast her into a bed and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation except they repent of their deeds And I will kill her Children with death And what our Saviour here threatneth I conceive had its completion towards the latter end of this Thyatirian Interval in the Plagues and Wars and other Calamities that were then inflicted upon the Popedom from about the year 1500 till 1558 the Pope himself being then taken prisoner by the Emperor Charles Vth. and Rome being taken and sacked c. And here also our Saviour doth promise to give power over the Nations to him that overcometh and keepeth his works unto the end v. 26. And seeing this Power over the Nations was granted to the Protestants in these Kingdoms when Queen Elizabeth came to the Throne therefore with respect to these Kingdoms of England and Ireland I shall set the period of this Thyatirian Church at that time when Queen Elizabeth came to the Throne and at the year of our Lord 1558. The Epistle to the Church in Sardis Rev. 3 1-6 seems to be directed to the Protestant Church some considerable time before this Second Woe that is now at hand For here our Saviour admonisheth the Protestants to remember how they have received and heard concerning their Predecessors and the Reformation and to hold fast the Protestant Religion according to the blessed Word of God and not to return to the Popish Religion again And also he exhorts them to repent and mend their lives and not only to bear the dead name of life but to take care that the Spiritual Life may be quick and vigorous in them and exert and shew it self in all the vital operations thereof in all kinds of Piety and Goodness And if they will not be admonished to repent and take more care he tells them plainly That he will come in judgment upon them as a Thief and that they shall not know at what hour he will come and be sensible of his coming ver 3. And seeing this is a prophetick Epistle of our blessed Saviour directed to the Protestant Church some time before now therefore it is that I desire that all the Bishops and Pastors of the Protestant Church would carefully read it over and lay it to heart and look upon it as directed to themselves as I have said before And when this second Woe shall be past and the sinfuller part of the Church cut off and when the Protestant Religion shall be set up again after Popery hath prevailed over the Protestant Church three years and an half then I conceive the Sardian Church will end and that of Philadelphia will begin The Epistle to the Church in Philadelphia Rev. 3 7-13 seems to be directed to the Christian Church between this second Woe which is now at hand and the third Woe which is like to fall upon the Popish Church about the year 1826. That this Epistle is directed to the Christian Church before the Destruction of the Popedom and Popish Church seems plain by ver 9 where our Lord saith Behold I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan that is of the Popish Church which say they are Jews and are not but do lye that is which pretend to be Christians but in truth and reality are not but are lying deceivers behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet and to know that I have loved thee That is as I understand it I will make them to stand in fear and awe of thee and in a submissive manner to crave thy favour and to know and be sensible that thou art protected by an extraordinary and peculiar hand of Providence And here our Saviour doth advertise his Church and Servants of the third dreadful Woe and for their great Patience doth promise to protect and keep them if they stick close to him then when all the World about them is like to be up in Arms ver 10 11. Because thou hast kept the Word of my Patience I also will keep thee from the hour of Temptation which shall come upon all the World to try them that dwell upon the earth Behold I come quickly hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy Crown The Church and Servants of God will then be in great Danger and will see great cause to fear as is shewed in this place and elsewhere in this sacred Book and the Papists then will make their last Attempt against them But if they hold fast and keep close to God they will be sure then to be preserved and may expect a Crown when the Marriage Supper of the Lamb cometh after this third Woe as I conceive And as for the period of this Philadelphian Church it seems probable to me that it will fall about the year of our Lord 2826. The Popedom is like to be destroyed about the year 1826 as I have shewed and then I conceive the thousand years when Satan is to be bound Rev. 20.2 will begin This seems to be intimated Rev. 12.12 where it is said Woe to the Inhabiters of the Earth and of the Sea for the Devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time By the Earth and the Sea here I understand the Popish Kingdoms and the Heathen World And when the Devil is expelled and cast out of the true Christian Church from Domineering over it any more after this second Woe then he will go with greater wrath and fury into the Popish Dominions and Heathen World because he is sensible that he hath but a short time to domineer and play his games in till the third Woe cometh when he must be bound a thousand years And if the thousand years begin about the year 1826 and do signifie the full and just number of a thousand years and so far as I know they may And if the Philadelphian Church shall endure to the end of these thousand years and so far as I see it may Then the period of the Philadelphian Church will fall about the year 2826. The Epistle to the Church of the Laodiceans Rev. 3.14 22 seems to be directed to the Christian Church some considerable time before the end of the World For herein they are exhorted to be zealous and repent ver 19. And a considerable time for repentance is here to be allowed as in all the other Epistles where any Evil is threatned And if they do not repent and get out of their lukewarm condition and grow more zealous our Saviour

I have here written to you I desire also your earnest Prayers for the Good of the Protestant Church and of all the Members thereof and particularly for my self that my Faith may not fail nor my strength be too weak in the Day of Tryal but that I may persevere to the end and not lose my Crown of Life and be exiled and banished from the glorious presence of God the fountain of all true joy and Happiness and be sent to the Infernal Shades of Death below and the Regions of Eternal Darkness and Misery And the God of all Love and Mercy preserve and keep us all from falling away from him and grant that his watchful Providance and the Light of his Countenance may always attend us here through this Vale of Misery that we may find Help and Comfort from above when we can meet with none here below Which God of his infinite Mercy Grant for his dear Son Christ Jesus's sake Amen A Quotation taken out of the Remarkable Predictions of the Holy and Learned James Usher Archbishop of Armagh as it was written by the Person who heard it from his own mouth not long before he dyed and published with Licence in the year 1678. I Then presumed saith this Person to enquire of him what his present apprehensions were concerning a very great Persecution which should fall upon the Church of God in these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland of which this Reverend Primate had spoken with great confidence many years before when we were in the highest and fullest state of outward Peace and Settlement I asked him whether he did believe those sad times to be past or that they were yet to come To which he answered That they were yet to come and that he did as confidently expect it as ever he had done adding That this sad Persecution would fall upon all the Protestant Churches of Europe I replyed That I did hope it might have been past as to these Nations of ours since I thought that though we who are the People thereof have been punished much less than our sins have deserved and that our late Wars had made far less devastations than War commonly brings upon those Countries where it pleaseth God in judgment to suffer it yet we must needs acknowledge that many great Houses had been Burnt Ruined and left without Inhabitants many great Families impoverished and undone and many Thousand Lives also had been lost in that bloody War and that Ireland and Scotland as well as England had drunk very deep of the Cup of God's Anger even to the overthrow of the Government and the utter Desolation almost of a very great part of those Countries But this Holy Man turning to me and fixing his Eyes upon me with that serious and ireful look which he usually had when he spake God's Word and not his own and when the Power of God seemed to be upon him and to constrain him to speak which I could easily discern much to differ from the countenance wherewith he usually spake to me He said thus Fool not your self with such hopes for I tell you all you have yet seen hath been but the beginning of sorrows to what is yet to come upon the Protestant Churches of Christ who will ere long fall under a sharper Persecution than ever yet has been upon them and therefore said he to me look you be not found in the Outward Court but a worshipper in the Temple before the Altar for Christ will measure all those that profess his Name and call themselves his People and the Outward worshippers he will leave out to be trodden down by the Gentiles The Outward Court says he is the formal Christian whose Religion lies in performing the outside duties of Christianity without having an inward Life and Power of Faith and Love uniting them to Christ and these God will leave to be trodden down and swept away by the Gentiles But the worshippers within the Temple and before the Altar are those who do indeed worship God in Spirit and in Truth whose Souls are made his Temples and he is honoured and adored in the most inward thoughts of their hearts and they sacrifice their Lusts and Vile affections yea and their own wills to him and these God will hide in the hollow of his Hand and under the shadow of his wings and this shall be one great difference between this last and all the other preceding Persecutions For in the former the most eminent and spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally suffer most and were most violently fallen upon but in this last Persecution these shall be preserved by God as a Seed to partake of that Glory which shall immediately follow and come upon the Church as soon as ever this storm shall be over For as it shall be the sharpest so it shall be the shortest Persecution of them all and shall only take away the gross Hypocrites and formal Professors but the true Spiritual Believers shall be preserved till the Calamity be over-past I then asked him by what means or Instruments this great Tryal should be brought on He answered By the Papists I replyed that it seemed to me very improbable they should be able to do it since they were now little countenanced and but few in these Nations and that the hearts of the People were more set against them than ever since the Reformation He answered again That it would be by the hands of Papists and in the way of a sudden Massacre and that the then Pope should be the chief Instrument of it All this he spake with so great Assurance and with the same serious and concerned Countenance which I have before observed him to have when I have heard him foretel some things which in all humane appearance were very unlikely to come to pass which yet I my self have lived to see happen according to his prediction and this made me give the more earnest attention to what he then uttered He then added That the Papists were in his Opinion the Gentiles spoken of in the 11th of the Revelations to whom the outward Court should be left that they might tread it underfoot They having received the Gentiles Worship in their adoring Images and Saints departed and in taking to themselves many Mediators And this said he the Papists are now designing among themselves and therefore be sure you be ready This was the Substance and I think for the greatest part the very same words which this Holy Man spake to me at the time beforementioned not long before his death and which I writ down that so great and notable a Prediction might not be lost and forgotten by my self nor others This gracious Man repeated the same things in Substance to his only Daughter the Lady Tyrril and that with many tears and much about the same time that he had exprest what is aforesaid to me and which the Lady Tyrril assured me of with her own mouth c. 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