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A66982	The fall of Babylon, or, Seasonable reflections on the novelties of Rome with the rise, growth, and final overthrow of Antichrist now at hand, occasioned by the preface to a treatise called Nubes testium, or, A collection of primitive fathers giving testimony to the faith once delivered to the saints, being (as the author stileth it) a full discovery of the sentiments of the ancient fathers in the chief points of controversy at present under debate : written upon the first coming forth of the said treatise (but not permitted to be then made publick) for the benefit of all who abominate the corruptions of the great whore and would not be partakers of her sins of plagues / by B.W.	Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3467; ESTC R27594	163,329	256

upon the Altar and builded Idol-Altars throughout the Cities of Judah on every side vers 55. And burnt Incense at the doors of their Houses and in the Streets vers 56. And when they had rent in pieces the Books of the Law which they found they burnt them with Fire vers 57. And whosoever was found with any of the Books of the Testament or if any consented to the Law the Kings Commandment was that they should put him to Death ver 58. Thus did they by their Authority to the Israelites every Month to as many as were found in the Cities Which happened to be before Christ 167 Years Now take 167 out of 1290 and you leave 1123. But as the learned Mede observes we are not to take it from the first but any of the Years of the Profanation of the Temple which lasting 6 Years if we take it from the middle will fall on 1120 the very Year when the forementioned Treatise was set out by the Waldenses or Albigenfes declaring Antichrist to be come Or If we understand it of the Time his Reign was to continue then 't will not point out so much to the time of the setting up the abomination that maketh desolate by Antiochus Epiphanes as to that time whereof the other was the Type i. e. As we observed before to the time when Antichrist for of him Antiochus is generally agreed to the be Type began to exalt himself which we shewed to belong to the times of Leo Magnus and to fall in with the time the ten Horns or ten Kings were to take their Kingdoms and that was in or about 455. From whence reckoning 1290 we are brought to the 1745 th year after Christ But this exceeding 1260 the Years the Angel had before mentioned by 30 If we take out the said 30 will leave 1715 Concerning which it may be worth our while to enquire whether in likelihood that be not the time for the expiration of the Reign of Antichrist A Period which we are led to from the other measures of Prophetick time which we shall have occasion to take notice of in this following Discourse As whether with respect to the Jews for whom Daniel there puts the Question a thing never yet taken notice of by any whom I have yet met with the Year 1745 be not a likely Epocha for their return to the true Worship of God in its full Purity As the other is for the downfal of Antichrist and the beginning of those happy Times to them and the fulness of the Gentiles which shall be in very great Glory at this Period As also Whether from thence reckoning the Millennium to ensue we have not the full Period of the Worlds duration Or If we take it in the Answer the Angel had before given to Daniel chap. 8. 14. Of 2300 Days reckoning them from the time when Daniel saw the Vision which was as Calvisius gives it us in his Chronology Anno Mundi 3393 or before Christ 555 we fall again upon the same number of 1745 for the time of the Vision concerning the Daily Sacrifice and the transgression of Desolation to give both the Sanctuary and the Host to be trodden under foot vers 14. And then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed Which being as I have observed the answer given to Daniel Sollicitous of the Welfare of his People may very well point out the time for their being called again and to be received into the Enjoyment of those Glorious things which were promised them in the times of the Messias And the Calculation of it is thus 555 before Christ added to 1745 after Christ gives 2300 the Time assigned for the fulfilling of those things by the Angel And whatever we are to understand by that Phrase whether it relate to the Millenium so much spoken of or the Resurrection foretold vers 1 2 3. Or whatever else I leave it to the more Learned at present to determine but whatever we are to understand by that Phrase 't is then 't is promised to Daniel That he shall stand in his Lot vers ult But go thou thy way till the End be for thou shalt rest and stand in thy Lot at the end of thy Days But then this number exceeding the other in the same place of Daniel viz. Dan. 12. 11 12. by 45. If we take out the said 45 will leave us to consider what may happen with relation to that People in the Year 1700 And the issue of the Wars that are at present between the Imperialists and the Turks with those other Commotions which may be very shortly expected in the Eastern part of the World will in all likelihood explain this I would not be too positive in things of this Nature but who can be silent where God speaks What I have farther to remark hereon may be seen afterward in that scene of Affairs which is offered at in the Explicatiou of the sixth Vial to which I refer the Reader 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The next thing to be spoken to is How this great Eclipse in the Church was to clear up again CHAP. VII How this great Eclipse in the Church was to clear up again AND now we are again to follow Daniel in his Prophesy who tells us Chap. 7. 27. That the Kingdom Dominion and greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the People of the Saints of the most high whose Kingdom is an Everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him Which the Angel thus expresses Revel 11. 15. The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall Reign for ever and ever Whereupon the twenty four Elders which sate before God on their Seats fell upon their Faces and worshipped God saying We give thee Thanks O Lord God Almighty which art and wast and art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great Power and hast reigned vers 16 17. Agreeable to what is ascribed to him Revel 19. 12. Allelujah Salvation and Glory and Honour and Power unto the Lord our God for True and Righteous are his Judgments for he hath judged the great Whore which did corrupt the Earth with her Fornication and hath avenged the Blood of his Servants at her hand And again vers 6. Allelujah for the Lord Omnipotent Reigneth So that as to the clearing up this Eclipse the delivering the Church from that Cloud which so long was over it 't will be by the ruin of Antichrist and Christs taking to Himself the Kingdom his Enemy had so long usurped What manner of Kingdom that shall be Whether Temporal or Spiritual or both VVhether so as that himself shall Personally Reign or only by his Sub-Administrators is not my business here to determine though I think too the distinction of Reigning Personally or by his Sub-adminishrators how great Disputes and Controversies soever it hath bred in the World is very trifling for 't is his personal

chosen Emperor in the place of Lewis whom he had deposed they deny him to be lawfully chosen as being neither chosen nor Crowned in the Places proper for either as also because it was all a clancular proceeding and when there was no Vacancy of the Empire whereupon they chuse King Edward the third of England but he having Affairs of his own to mind returns his Thanks for the great honour done him and waves it The Pope however sends his Legate after the Death of Lewis to absolve the Princes of the Empire who adhered to Lewis on condition they would swear that the Emperor had no Power to depose the Pope and that from thenceforward they would not obey their Emperor unless he be approved as Emperor by the Pope The Ecclesiasticks most readily approve this and the Laicks as fiercely oppose it whereupon the Pope is forced to abate something let me so express it of this great Heat with which they had so long scorched Men and remit this Oath and absolve them from the Excommunication And this may be sufficient to explain this Vial Only here as before it will be asked what is this to the Fall of Antichrist These and such like Instances for many more might be given and particularly in our own Story witness 1. the Controversy between William the second and Urban the second Anno 1097. in the Case of Anselm's appealing to the Pope who was thereupon about to Excommunicate the King but having a little before excommunicated the Emperor Henry the fourth he forbore it lest otherwise Excommunications by being made common might be slighted as also 2. between him and Henry the first in the case of Investitutes in which Anselm likewise opposed the King in behalf of the Pope's Pretensions to them 3. Between him i. e. his Legate and King Stephen and again 4. in the case of the Legatine Powee between him and Henry the Second 5. Between him and King John whom the Excommunicated and Interdicted the Kingdom and upon his submission to him at the instance of Pandulphus at whose Feet he laid down his Crown to be disposed of as the Pope should please which Pandulphus took up and kept it three or four days nor restoring it then but upon condition that he and his Successors should hold the Kingdom of the See of Rome at the annual Tribute of 1000 Marks which was the great occasion of that Slavery in which Rome so long held this our Nation all tending to aggrandize him in his most insolent Tyranny but if so yet 't is too for the Encrease of that Guilt which will at last be so thorowly avenged as will appear by that time we shall have rellected on the following Vials The first whereof i. e. the fifth is directly on Antichrist i. e. The very Seat of the Beast The second or sixth is likewise on Antichrist though so as to affect the whole Seat of the Roman and Mahometan Empires i. e. The Eastern and Western Empires thus joined again for they shall be both then hastening towards the day of Vengeance And as for the third or seventh it is to end in the final Ruin of both and all the Antichristian Powers under them or rather in the Kingdom of Christ set up against Antichrist in its utmost extent in that lasting Triumph he shall then give his Church over him and all other her Enemies But then as in this Vial we have been now speaking of so in that which next follows this will be again to be observed that it is not necessary it should immediately succeed the other or not to be to begin till the other is fully expired no it is necessary in the nature of the thing that several of the Vials should be contemporary with one another forasmuch as they are Punishments for Sin and did not the Sin continue to which Men are often judicially given up the Punishment inflicted for it would not be so agreeable to the manner of Gods proceeding in the ways of his Judgment the Rule being Isaiah 27. 9. By this therefore shall the Iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his Sin Now then these being spoken of as distinct Vials i. e. The Punishment and Sins which bring them on if instead of having their Iniquity purged Men shall run into more gross and hainous Iniquity if instead of that Fruit they ought to bring forth upon the Chastisement which is to take away their sin they shall fructifie only in Malice and Wickedness if which is the case in these Vials they who are punished for having the Mark of the Beast on them and worshipping his Image shall continue still to wear that Mark and worship his Image which I take to belong to the second third and fourth Vials for on such it is not so properly on the Beast himself they are poured out what can be expected but that the Plague should go along with the Sin that calls for it down And that if the Beast himself do not so immediately suffer in those Vials that it should be because to Him more particular Judgments are reserved or both He and they to go on from one wickedness to another till there be no Remedy 2 Chron. 36. 16. CHAP. XV. Of the fifth Vial Rev. 16. 10 11. AND the fifth Angel poured out his Vial upon the seat of the Beast and his Kingdom was full of Darkness and they gnawed their Tongues for Pain And blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their Pains and their sores and repented not of their Deeds What is the seat of the Beast but Rome What the Vial poured out upon his seat but the depriving it of what gives it its Lustre Dignity and Wealth i. e. as it is exprest in the former Vial of its Sun the Pope I mean whose more benign aspect and influence were so highly beneficial to it whilst it was the place of his Residence but being removed thence how is its Greatness and Glory forthwith Eclipsed How all things black and dark and under the thickest Cloud Now when happened this but when Clement the fifth Anno 1305 being chosen Pope in his absence in France called the Cardinals thither and settled his Residence at Avignon 'T was now the City that was full of People sat solitary and became as a Widdow now she that was great among the Nations and Princess among the Provinces became Tributary Lam. 1. 1. She that before received the Riches of so great a part of the World that had so great Honour and Devotion paid to her now sends her Wealth and pays homage herself to another shrine This lasted for seventy four Years together till Gregory the Eleventh brought back his See to Rome but so that after his Death the French Cardinals would have a Pope of their Nation and accordingly chose Clement the 7 th the rest of the Cardinals having chosen Urban the sixth Urban keepeth at Rome but Clement at Avignon The Schism continued

pain for grief and Vexation that all they can say in the defence of their Superstition and Idolatry will never be able to silence Truth Let them do all they can to hold the World in Darkness still by the denying them the use of Scripture but the Day is dawned and the Light is broken forth and will dazzle the Eyes of those Bats and Owls who so much fly from it The Knowledge of God's Word blessed be his holy Name for it will not suffer Men to be so Blind as to be led any longer by such dark Guides let them seeing it is their black doom so to do Blaspheme the God of Heaven let them continue in their Impenitency and not repent of their Deeds but that God whom they Blaspheme is able to recover his own Glory and will give them but too too long a day to repent when they who have so much laboured to support their Kingdom by it shall themselves be reserved in Everlasting Chains of Darkness CHAP. XVI Of the sixth Vial Rev. 16. 12 13 14 15 16. AND the sixth Angel poured out his Vial upon the great River Euphrates and the Water thereof was dried up that the way of the Kings of the East might be prepared And I saw three unclean Spirits like Frogs come out of the Mouth of the Dragon and out of the Mouth of the Beast and out of the Mouth of the false Prophet For they are the Spirits of Devils working Miracles which go forth unto the Kings of the Earth and of the whole World to gather them to the Battle of that great Day of God Almighty Behold I come as a Thief blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his Garments lest he walk naked and they see his Shame And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew Tongue Amageddon This Vial contains a great variety of matter and Subjects to whom it relates and seems to point at Events which concern not only the fall of Antichrist under the restriction we have hitherto been speaking of him but of all others though not so precisely under that Denomination who with him rise up against the Lord and his Anointed Psal 2. 2. And 't is but necessary we should have this notion of it the business of this Vial being to usher in the Kingdom of Christ on Earth i. e. To open a way for the Return of the Jews and the fulness of the Gentiles which is what that Kingdom will consist in And if so it cannot be imagined how there should be any left to oppose the Purity of the Christian Religion which will be the great Glory of our Lords Reign any of his Enemies remain who shall not be destroyed That indeed his Enemies shall be willing to make a push for it to make their last attempt against his Power is scarce to be doubted for if as it is in the former Vial they repent not after all his Plagues of their Deeds what can be expected but that their Impenitency will hide the things that belong to their Peace from their Eyes and they will use all endeavours to assert their unrighteous Cause What can be expected but that they will band and league together to oppose their common Enemy or if they band not if they enter not into common Leagues and Alliances to this purpose if they continue still at a distance and Enemies to one another yet that they will all conspire in the same Malice against Christ i. e. That the Dragon the Beast and false Prophet will all unite in the common cause of Hell and gather themselves together to the Battle of that great day of God Almighty Such is the precipitate Malice such the blind Envy such the unaccountable Despair of the Devil and his wicked Instruments that though they are certain nothing but ruin can be the Consequence they cannot deny themselves the satisfaction of the attempt Lucifer under whom they have listed will ascend and be like the most high will in his boundless Pride and Ambition be aspiring to set himself above God although he thereby be but preparing his own Hell and fitting himself for everlusting Chains of Darkness But then Chains and Darkness will be their Lot Ruin and Destruction will attend all their Enterprises and that in the Extent Manner and Circumstances of it is what is here more particularly to be considered Now that I shall do in the Method the Vial is delivered 1. I shall consider what is to be understood by the great River Euphrates and the water thereof and how that is to be dried up 2. What by the way of the Kings of the East to be prepared and how the drying up of the Water of the great River Euphrates will prepare their way 3. What is to be meant by the three unclean Spirits like Frogs coming out of the Mouth of the Dragon and out of the Mouth of the Beast and out of the Mouth of the false Prophet 4. Why Christ is said to come as a Thief at this time and to declare those Blessed that shall then Watch 5. The turn he shall give to Affairs in gathering them into a place called in the Hebrew Tongue Amageddon 1. What is to be understood by the great River Euphrates and the Water thereof and how that is to be dried up Euphrates may be taken either literally or in a figurative sense either for the River it self and its Waters in the common Notion we have of these or for those who are Borderers on it and it is the stile the Holy Ghost makes use of Rev. 17. 15. to express Peoples Multitudes Nations and Tongues by Waters If in the first sense we take this viz. For the River it self and its Waters in the common notion we have of these then the drying up the Water thereof under this Vial will be either like what happened in the drying up the Red-Sea for the Children of Israel to pass through it towards Canaan or what hath already happened to Euphrates it self at the taking of Babylon by Cyrus who made wide and deep Trenches whereby to divert it Streams and so came upon that City unawares in the night of their solemn Feast the same Stratagem by which Semiramis and Alexander are likewise reported to have taken it as Frontinus relates l. 3. c. 7. i. e. This will be Either By Miracle God immediately interposing as he then did for the deliverance of his People the same People of Israel as we shall afterwards shew for whom he wrought the former Miracle and in order to his bringing them into the same Canaan or Land of Promise Or By some artificial Stratagem whereby they shall be enabled to open to themselves a passage thorow it But if in the latter Sense Euphrates and its Waters are to be taken viz. for those who are Borderers on or Inhabitants near or about it Then The drying up the Water thereof will be causing the People who thus inhabit or border on or about it like

Passion and Interest and avoid the Censure and Prejudices which have usually attended those who have hitherto though with ever so great Care and Industry Fidelity and Piety ingaged in the same undertaking and as he wholly depends upon Thee O Blessed Father Son and Holy-Ghost O most mysterious and adorable Vnity in Trinity Trinity in Vnity whose Nature and Ways are unsearchahle Let him accordingly meet with that success which may make it appear that that blessed Spirit who was promised to guide the Disciples into all Truth and shew them things to come John 16 13. first inspired thy unworthy Servant and moved him to so holy a Work in the discharge whereof to thee O Father Son and Holy Ghost be Praise Glory and Honour to thy distressed Church the use and benefit of what Thou shalt instruct me to deliver and to thy poor Servant Comfort and sure confiderce of thy Assistance and Direction through Jesus Christ my Lord Amen Amen What here follows is the Copy of a Dedication written to the King on the occasion of what is now Published it being written on the same Page with the Prayer above 't is thought fit to add it here without altering it in any thing from what it is in the Manuscript To the K. Octob. 9. 1686. SIRE THE final Ruin of Antichrist is at hand it will not be many Tears before this will he fully compleated it will begin in a very short time the Pope is the great Antichrist the power of the Papacy his Antichristian Kingdom I do not say how this shall be accomplished whether by Noise Confusion and Violence or by the Spirit of the Lord working in the Hearts of Kings and Princes to take away the Power they have so long given to the Beast or by a general Conversion of the Heathen World and coming in of the Jews all conspiring towards the overthrow of Superstition and Idolatry and making Way for the true Kingdom of Christ on Earth in that universal Piety and Holiness which shall prevail throughout the World only that this shall be and that the time is at hand is what I think I can by God's Assistance demonstrate I most dutifully premonish and in the Name of Christ beseech your Majesty not to be found in the RVINS OF ANTICHRIST or to share in his Plagues Your most Dutiful W. Sire As you value either a Temporal or Eternal an Earthly or Heavenly Crown despise not the Warning Let not the Drolls of the Ignorant or Prophane rob you of the Price put in your hand to get Wisdom Prov. 17. 16. FINIS This refers to Page 151. l. 7. And in the Preface to page 15. l. 4. LEst there should be any Mistake about the Period fixt for the Fall of Antichrist which in the Preface p. 15. l. 4. is said to be in the latter end of 1696 or the middle of 1697 whereas p. 151 there is but one of those numbers mentioned viz. 1696 and the other supposed in the different Calculation it is thought fit here for the clearing of both to add the Calculations from whence those Numbers arise which are thus 1260 Days or Years are assigned for the Reign of Antichrist which beginning at 455 after Christ the time upon so many accounts fixed for it as is at large there discoursed gives us 1715 and the odd Days Hours and Minutes in 1260 for that is the number from whence the abatement must be made it being only of that Period the Holy-Ghost so often speaks under the different Measures give us in the whole 18 years and 125 days 9 hours i. e. five days to be taken from every year will in in 1260 years give us 17 years and an half and 5 hours taken like manner out of the said 1260 will make 262 days 12 hours and then for the 49 minutes to be also thus taken out those in 1260 years amount to 42 days and 21 hours For 49 minutes multiplied by 1260 give for the whole number of Minutes 61740 which divided by 60 for hours give 1029 hours and that again by 24 for days gives 42 days 21 hours Now out of 1715 take 18 years and 125 days and 9 hours and that will throw it back to the latter end of 1696 i. e. 125 days and 9 hours in that year which generally speaking I say to be about the later end of that year Not that for the Reasons there mentioned and those p. 146. I would presume so to fix this in a Point as not to allow a great Latitude for the completion of such Predictions which number is to be taken the event must shew and when that comes that will regulate all our Chronology but that it lies within the compass of the numbers there offered I cannot have the least Scruple God Almighty clear up the Minds and Eyes of Men to wait for behold and adore his wonderful Works for I cannot but add it again BEHOLD I COME AS A THIEF The Translation of the Manuscript p. 49. c. is as here follows THIS Book is dated in the Year 1120 and the Title that is prefixed to the Treatise of Antichrist is this As the Smoak goes before the Fire as the Battle before the Victory so the Temptation of Antichrist goes before Glory and then the Book it self follows thus Who Antichrist is Antichrist is the falshood of Eternal Damnation covered with the appearance of Truth and of the Righteousness of Christ and his Spouse Opposed in like manner to the way of Truth of Justice of Faith of Hope of Charity and to a moral Life and the ministerial truth of the Church 't is menaged by false Apostles and most obstinately maintained on all hands Or else Antichrist is a Cheat which hides the Truth of Salvation both in Substantial and Ministerial Matters or else is a fraudulent opposing of Christ and his Spouse and every faithful Member And so it is not any particular Person set in any Degree Office or Ministry i. e. commonly so considered but it is the same falshood opposed to Truth which is covered with and makes shew of Beauty and Piety out of the Church of Christ as in certain Names Offices Scriptures Sacraments and in many other things which sort of Iniquity with its Ministers great and small and all those who with a wicked and blind Heart follow them His names such a Congregation taken together is called Antichrist or Babylon or the fourth Beast or Where or the Man of Sin and Son of Perdition His Ministers are called False Prophets Lyars Ministers of Darkness the Spirit of Error the Where in the Revelation the Mother of Fornication Clouds without Water Autumnal Trees dead and twice pulled up by the Root Waters of the cruel Sea Wandring Stars Balaamites and Egyptians Why called Antichrist He is called Antichrist because being covered and decked with the Livery of Christ and of his Church and of his faithful Members he acts contrary to the Salvation wrought by Christ and truly administred