AN APOLOGY For the Hope of the Kingdom of Christ Appearing Within This Approaching Year 1697. Wherein some of the Principal Arguments for such an Expectation are briefly Couch'd and the Greater Objections Answered Presented to the Notice and Examination of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops Now in PARLIAMENT Assembled By T. BEVERLEY â—zek 10. 13. As concerning the Wheels It was cryed to them in my Hearing Oh! Revolution LONDON Printed for and Sold by Will. Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-Street and John Marshal at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street 1697. An APOLOGY for the Hope of the Kingdom of Christ Entring Its Succession within this Now Beginning 1697. And an Answer of Principal Objections presented with It. To the Archbishops and Bishops as in Parliament at This Time Assembled Most Reverend Right Reverend I Have now by the Space of Fourteen or Two Weeks of Years been Serving for that Beautiful Rachel-State of the Church of Christ in the place of that Rachel in the Wilderness weeping for her Children in Sackcloth and under Death and would not be comforted Because They were not I have set my self all along by Meditation and Supplication to the Father of Lights to search out and by the Assistance of the Spirit of Prophecy to Find What or What Manner of Time the Spirit of Christ did signify for the Fullfilling that Grand Petition of his Servants Thy Kingdom come That thy Name may be Sanctified and Thy Will done as in Heaven and upon Earth and I am now Wrestling to the Break of Day and I Hope the Dawn of the Morning and Resolv'd not to Let Go Till I obtain the Blessing of it The Time that from the First and throughout it pleased the Lord of Time to fix upon my Mind as the Time of That Kingdom Entring into its Succession and Preparation for its Glory was and is This Approaching 1697. A Year to which I could have no Temptation either in Regard of Nearness or Distance or on any Account whatever but as a Scripture-Line of Time and Concurrent Reasons of Prophecy and History very many and in a Series and Continuation have Led me On this Foundation having Setled I have by Gracious Vouchsafements of Help from God Turn'd my Self to All the Grand Prophetick Points of Scripture and Found New Confirmations and have Given as Publick Accounts of them as I could attain and presented some of Them to Your Selves and to the Great Councel of the Nation And in as much as Supreme Goodness hath Granted me to Set up an Eben Ezer now at the Portal of 97. I have Thought it my Duty to offer this Apology for the Kingdom of Christ so near Approaching And that The Great Isaac The Son of Promise of Universal Laughter and Rejoycing The Desire of all Nations will Appear at a Set Time this Next Year the very Last of those Three Set Seasons Time Times Half Time Eleven Times expresly or Vertually Recorded in Scripture Prophecy and therefore I can have no Doubt But in the observing These so often Repetitions Remarking close upon Them and on what Accounts They are Recalled and to what Applied and Ballancing These One with Another I have Arriv'd to Full Assurance They are Assign'd to the Papal Last State of the Roman Monarchy the Last of the Four Kingdoms or Monarchies and the Four now Expiring in the Expiration of These Times and Half Indeed I look upon no Truth of Scripture to be more Plain and Certain except the Articles of Faith and Rules of Holy Practice necessary to Salvation Then that Those Four Monarchies are given as a Calendar of Time for the Embarrassment of the Kingdom of Christ or that Glorious State of Christianity which even the Prayers styl'd Establish'd by Law oblige the Belief Desire and Expectation of Scripture takes therefore so particular Notice of the Four viz. the Babylonian and Persian as is well known and Takes Account of Their Time of the Grecian more obscurely Yet the very New Testament in that Language and the so often Division of the People of that Time into Jews and Greeks is a very undoubted Owning Them as one of the Monarchies Out of which through a Great Part of the 70 Weeks the State of the World had been sliding into the Fourth the Roman Monarchy which Surrounds the whole New Testament History and Prophecy as is undeniable But assoon as ever the Time allowed to the last of these is at an End The Kingdom of Christ will immediately succeed and there can be no Inter-Reign Nor can any other Kingdom Interpose The Vision is so sure and its Interpretation so certain And such a kind of Kingdom it must be as was Congenially to have its succession so Connexed to those before it that tho it is a Holy a Heavenly a Spiritual yet it must be also a Visible Sensible Kingdom as to the Dominion and Glory of it and no Metaphor or Allegorical sense can satisfy without it And we know the Nations to which we belong are a part of the Ancient Roman Empire and Remaine still of the Ten into which it was canton'd Which Division hath been to me an Infallible Reason of Confidence France should no more prevail to an Vniversal Monarchy then the House of Austria hath done And herein for the keeping a within the Figure allowed its King by Prophecy I know God hath made our K. an Instrument All the Iron of it could never break the Northern Iron and Steel of the sure Word of Prophecy But seeing we I say are such a part of the Ancient Roman Emâ—ire we are the more concern'd and ought to be the more Awake an the Fullfilling of Prophecy as of the first of the Kingdoms of the World which is to become the Kingdom of the Lord and of as Christ. I have the same assurance that this Time Times and Half Time must be just on the Expiration By Prophecy we might rather have expected their End sooner The Wisdom of the Divine Spi … t draws them so very near to the Time of the Roman Empire Becoming Christian in all its Portraitures of the Anti-christian State As I know my self able by Divine Assistance to make out to the satisfaction of Any that will allow themselves the thought they know and yield necessary in any more retired Parts of Science That had I not the Faithful Evidence of the Scripture Line 〈◊〉 Time I have already mention'd together with uncontestable Events I should Fourteen Years ago have pitch'd upon some nearer Time For to mention one of the most obvious the very Casting the 1260 and Additional 75 so manifestly into Indictions a Fifteens of Years a Character of Time not Regulated and known till soon-after Constantine would have Enclin'd to have commenced them sooner I know the Hope for which I Apologize cannot but Encounter Great Objections but I am assured God hath set it and my self as a Minister of it as a Brazen Wall that tho it be Fought against It shall not be prevail'd
in Vain Even for the understanding of the Prophecies of my Word And in the very same Chapter God Encourages to Ask of Him Things to Come Even as his Spirit is said to shew to his Servants Things to Come All which I hope will appear a sufficient Answer to the Suspicion That God gave the Prophesies of his Word and so Eminent a Part of them Numbers of Time and did not intend they should be understood If it be taken as in this very Joinct and Objected How câ—mâ— it to pass That All who hitherto have Writ on Prophet … Scripture have much differed one from another and they 〈◊〉 Fix'd Time have either liv'd to see themselves mistaken 〈…〉 hath appear'd after their Death They have been so I des … 〈◊〉 should be considered Those who as the Holy Servants of Christ and Ministers of his Word have Sett Themselves to Understand have Given Great Light and Broken the Way for Those who have Followed and Their Memory and Services are precious to All Wise and Good Men notwithstanding some Mistakes and thereupon Differences which are yet not more or Greater than Those we Find in most Points not Fundamental and in All Interpretation of Scripture And as to their Mistakes in Point of Time It is to be Allowed Their Distances some of Them from the Time of Completion might be their Disadvantage God not vouchsafing such Light concerning that Time till nearer upon it as not to Daniel but upon the very Year of the 70 Years Ending It is further to be considered That there are some Eminent and Learned Persons who have though upon somewhat Different Grounds yet concentred upon this very 97. and some so near it as upon 98 99 and especially 1700. That their Expectations are yet as I may say in Abeyance and Things most probably will be so Conducted as easily to Reconcile so small Disagreements by the First Breakin gs out of Light and further Illustrations But Herein I Humbly Magnifie and Adore the Freeness of Grace and Divine Assistance to his Unworthiest Servant That He hath Granted to me to Lay before me the Whole â—nd Entire Prophetical Table of his Word which is the Greatest Security against Mistake that can be vouchsafed Because by the View and Survey of things together They are seen in â—heir Just Scituations and Allowances of Room and placed â—qually one in proportion to another That there may be no croud Confusion Justle upon or Interfere one with another Whereas if this be not a plausible Semblance or Sound of Agreement may mislead If such a Scheme be Reflected upon as Imaginary and the Work of Fancy I make an Humble Challenge to all the Wit â—he Fancy the Learning that is in the World to Give a Pa … el Scheme in such an Agreement with the Word of God and 〈◊〉 Providential Events in Concert with it By which I am … ed It is not nor cannot be my own but as Found in Sa … Writings seeing Fancy and Imagination cannot create in … f-subsistent Things or Erect into undoubted matter of Fact As it is That there are such and such Prophetical Emblems and Representations Such Examples of the Way and Manner of Interpretation as that Nâ—buchadnezzar was the Head of Gold the King of Persia the Ram the King of Grecia the He Goat The Babylonish Woman the City on Seven Mountains that at the Time of the Revelation Given was then Reigning over the Kings of the Earth All These Give such a Pattern of the Manner of Interpreting Prophetick Images and what way the Spirit of God means They should be Expounded and Discypher'd that They are Equal to Matter of Fact That there are such Numbers as 2300 Eves Morns 70 Weeks Time Times Half a Time Three Days and an Half 1260 1290 1335 Days 42 Moons And all these to be multiplied by the Prophetical Standard of Time or Days for Years And that These are some of Them Repeated variously plac'd is plain Matter of Fact To find therefore the Concert of these and to place Them in their Just Order one towards another and in the Greatest Friendliness Peace Harmony and Beautifull â—ymmetry and with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Admirable Air and Mien of the Divine Wisdom finding out the Knowledge of All Witty Inventions herein and then Supervening or Coming upon All These Substantial Undoubted Matters of Fact the Greatest Events that have been in the World Adjustable to these Numbers of Time Comprobated and Assured by the most Valuable History and Chronology that are in the World All Make up such a Plerophory a Fullness of Assurance that must needs deliver from the Scruple that Fancy and Imagination have had the Architecture of such a Triangular as I may call it Compage of Things in such a Justice of Respect one to another such a Trine or Threefold strongest Combination one with another For to give a Summary Delineation on what Grand Pillars of Event the Emblems of Prophecy are Planted or drawn and what Proportions of Time are adjusted to them and then 〈◊〉 well it is known That such Events and within some General Ken of such Allowances of Time are own'd by History 〈◊〉 Chronology to those Events is the Greatest satisfaction th … can be given For either small Petite or Obscure Events 〈◊〉 Disgrace any Prophetick Scheme And to be out of all Bounda … of Time is as Dishonourable The Root therefore of Prophetick Time I make that Stupendious Failure of the so Illustrious Types of the Kingdom of Christ the Reigns of David and Solomon at the Death of Solomon and the Incredible Depression of Them had not Sacred Writ assur'd it in the Division of the Tribes into the Two Houses of Israel and Judah Till Both Involv'd each in a dreadful Captivation distinct to Each The Rescue and Deliverance of the Two Tribes from their Captivity in Babylon was by the Destruction of that Monarchy the First of the Four and the Decree of Cyrus the Founder of the Persian Monarchy at the End of the 390 and 40 Years of the Visional Bearing of Iniquity for them and settling the Prophetical Standard of a Day for a Year by Ezekiel In Cyrus his Universal Monarchy so Favourable to the people of God and so Great a Type of Christ as to be called Messiah or God's Annointed Begin the 2300 Eves and Morns That staple Line of Time that Reaches to the very Glorious Kingdom of Christ In the First Hundred Twenty Four Years of them there is though with Interruptions a Gradual Restoration of Judah and Jerusalem Entring within the First Seven Weeks or Forty Nine Years of that so Famous and by Christians Universally Agreed Character of Time confirming the Prophetick … ndard of a Day for a Year to 490 Years Viz. The 70 Weeks Through these runs the very Dwarf-like and Tributary Condition of the Jews besides some horrible Inroads upon them under the latter part of the Persian the whole of the Grecian Monarchy and
the beginning of the Fourth or Roman At the last of these Weeks there is that so Glorious Exaltation of … me to its Fulness in the Appearance of our true Messiah and in the midst of it His Death and Resurrection Greater things then which all his Glorious Appearance the Fulness of Times or of all Time Time cannot contain In the other Half the Loud Publication of the Gospel of these Things as by the Heraldry of Thunder 〈◊〉 in the First Seal Opened by the Apostles In the Next Four Hundred the First Seal is continued and the 〈◊〉 Three Seals are Opened in very Great and New Productions the Roman Empire till in that Conclusive Persecution of the … stians within the Fifth Seal under Dioclesian and the Con … porary Pagan Emperors In the Sixth Seal That so indeed â—â—st Revolution of the Roman Empire from Pagan to Christian begun by Constantine in the Sixth Seal continued Julian's short Reign Excepted till Vindicated and Statuminated by Theodosius the Great in the Seventh Seal a Great Precursory Emblem of the Glorious Kingdom of Christ But Early under Constantine and so Going on That Appearance of the Kingdom of Christ began to be Eclips'd And the Barbarous Nations Rushed in on the Empire in the Just Revenges of Christ upon Antichristian Supplantation who yet after United as his People and as Ten Kingdoms under his Ecclesiastick Empire and Undermine by the Interposal of the Antichristian Moon so soon that Prophecy gives the Notice of it as Immediate in the Sealing the Servants of God against both the Antichristianism and the Vengeance in those Trumpets of Vengeance Given into the Hands of the Angelick Ministers of it the Witnesses Entring into Sackcloth and the Churches Flight into the Wilderness or being so Hidden that it was hard to be Discovered before the Reformation These Early Notices do beyond All Reasonable Contradiction Assure the Times and Hair Sworn to Antichrist must needs be now upon the Expiration which as before Noted are cast into Fifteens in the 1260 Days into which they are Expounded to shew their Nearness to Constantine's Time and because so Determinate a Time and Short Compared with the Glory to follow is styl'd a Short Time in Godâ— Answer to the Souls under the Altar And the Devil considering it Reflected on it as a Short Time not as the Father of Lyes but as it was Extorted from him by God shew it near Ending At the End of 400 Years from the Weeks of 404. from the Resurrection and 437. from the Incarnation Begin the Time Times and Half with the High Sounds of the Four First Trump … Of which That Year was not without its Answerableness to this Prophetick Character by reason of the Incursions of the Barbarous Nations as a Storm of Hail and Fire mingled with Blood who because They were to Become the Subjects of the Antichristian Papacy are call'd The Gentiles Entring into the Outward Court And their 42 Moons Commence being Solemnly as it were Inaugurated into Them by Cyril Bishop of Abexandria the very Year so Earnest in Adjusting Lunar Time to Solar At the same Time began that Apostacy the Apostle Paul speaks of in Delay of the Kingdom of Christ And in such Corruptions of the Doctrine Worship and Conversation of Christianity the True Church was Hidden under the Publick Profession so Corrupted as to be the Church as in a Wilderness and on which the Witnesses Prophecy That is Declare Chrsts Kingdom in Delay as in Sackcloth of which That Year there was a Sample in a Persecution Rais'd by Gensericus a Vandal Prince against the Servant of God Holding the Testimony of Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God and It was continued against Those who Kept the Commandments of God and Held the Testimony of Jeâ—us Christ by the Papal Tyranny Within the Four First Trum … t s Fall the so often Burning and Sacking Rome the utter Cessation of the Name of Emperor of Rome in the West and even of Consular Dignity At that very Time of the Cessation of Empire begin the Moons of the Papal Antichristian Power which Prophecy styles The Beast as a Preparation to which the Hierarchy as the Historian Sozomen Relates had been Rising stilly as Feet of Clay from the Earth and crept silently Forward into a Dynasty styl'd therefore The Other Beast which procurated for the Grand Beast thus Came in the Succession of the Beast Dated to this very Year 476 and so its Succession is Given as the 7th Head and Eighth King Rev. 17. For it is in Immediate Succession to the Seventh King no Head which was the Christian Emperor in the West Then the Bestian Anti-christian Power grew up to its height or Supremacy at 606 as the Star Fallen to the Earth within his First Time and pursued by God with the First Woe or the Maâ—ometan Imposture at 622 and so to 797 Arm'd in the Saracenick Inrodes upon the Western Parts of the Empire This continued along â—e Second Time or First of the Two Times of his settled or consistent Power till the Second Turkish Woe starts out in the Third Time or Second of the Two Times where His stint or the Bounds of his Power were set Till it came down to the Reformation at the Beginning of his Half Time at the Year 1517. Where it hath continued an 180 Years down to the present 1697 a declined and decayed but not a Fallen Power according to the very Importance of Two Times degraded to a Half Time Now I would Appeal to all the Reason and Understanding 〈◊〉 Man whether when all the Prophetical Images are so expressive of these Events And that the Line of Time that Prophecy hath proportion'd to them when laid to them is so fairly every way Adjustable Viz. From Cyrus before the Weeks Since the Weeks to the Death and Resurrection of Christ After the Death and Resurrection of Christ and the Preaching of the Apostles at the End of the Weeks in 400 Years of the Seales and the Greater Cantons of Time Times-Half Time dividing and distributing 1260 Years into 360 720 180 and All so according with the very Years we Vulgarly Account to 1697. I would I say appeal to all Sense and Understanding whether this â—ccount can be the Creature of Fancy and Imagination or so much as of Accident Except they think such a Conspiration of so many things of so great Concernment to the World and to the Churches of Christ be below the Notice of the Divine Spirit or its Care to make them known For that the very things themselves cannot be contriv'd into such Representations cannot be once said when it is so Experimental that the things if not so Design'd by the All-seeing Spirit must by Accident be so subject to the Elaboration of Fancy and Imagination or rather of J … ment and Understanding Seeing this Threefold Respect is found in Reality and Substance of Scripture-Emblems of Scripture-Numbers of Correspondent Events in History
and Chronology To say which Undermines All Rationality of Inference from the Greatest Correspondency of Effects in Creation and Providence with the Wisdom and Power of the Supreme Creator and Governour of All Vâ—â— If we may not Reason from these to the Intention of Divine Spirit Now from hence reach the Additional 75 to the Thousand Years of the Blessed State Viz. From the Kingdom of Christ in Succession in Thirty years of the Sealed Thunders opened in Rev. c. 14. Making the 1260 1290. Wherein First there is a Glorious shini … out of the Gospel and the Glory of Christianity for the Conversion and bringing Multitudes to Christ and for a Testimony against those who remain obstinate the Filthy being Filthy still And then the Vials poured out that Time of Trouble such as never was since Man was upon Earth Through the Forty Five Additional to the 1290 and making them 1335 to the Glorious and Blessed State and the Lots of the New Jerusalem in the End of these Days Dan. 12. 11 12 13. And in the same way of Evidence and Assurance I find mâ—self through the Gracious Assistance of God able to go backward in the Analytical or Retrograde method to the very Death of Solomon where I began and find the Connexion of one thing to another so Just so True so Stedfast and so Unmoveable that they cannot be dislocated nor Disjoynted And the Numbers of Scripture-Time so Lock'd one within another That they cannot be Wrench'd or Forced asunder All which I have in Readiness to offer to every Judicious Considerer and of which I would give the Briefest Specimen in this following Scheme that I can Contrive The Thousand Years are by all the Wonders of it the most undoubted End or Finishing of Wonders And the very same with the Mystery of God to be Finish'd by the Seventh Angel sounding according as he hath spoken in Gospel to and by his Servants the Prophets This being the Fullness of Times all Times Center or flow down and rest in it Here rest the 45 Last of the 2300 Eves Morns as is exprest in Daniel The 45 take such hold of the 30 that all the force in the World can't divide them As is Apparent by 1290 made 1335 the Thirty take the same hold of the 1260 Which are the Times and Half That they can no more be separated then the others The 1260 in the Three Divisions Viz. The Half Time takes hold of the 720 or the two Times And the two Times of the First Time or 360 And they can endure no distance Because they are together one 1260. The 1260 necessarily take hold of whatever Time went before and lay between the 490 of the Weeks and the 1260 This can be no way contested Because the Weeks by Express Scripture End Three Years and Half or Half a Week from the Death of Christ And then we know a Time there must be from the Beginning of the 1260 â—f some distance of Space from the End of the Weeks Because him the Three Years and Half after the Death of Christ so many more Years then 1260 are now passed and yet the Great Events at the End of the 1260 not yet come to pass and therefore not the 1260 themselves And yet that space must take hold of the End of the Weeks Because the Half Week Ends a Three Years and a Half Half a Week from the Death of Christ The Seventy Weeks Notwithstanding They are divided to Joynts yet are as close as the Joynted parts of any the same Member of the Body being together the Seventy Weeks The Seventy Weeks lay an Indisputed Claim to whatever Time went before to â—rus And every part must be Joyned Each to other Because all the several Portions of Time stand United in the 2300 Aâ—â— seeâ—â—g so much Time hath already passed since the End of the Weeks as leaves no more then 75 before the Weeks of the 2300 to Cyrus we are sure there can be no more I confess there may be Fewer and so more of the 1260 to Run out then to 97 But so far as we can be sure there can be no more than 400 before the 1335. We may be sure there can be no Fewer than 75 before the Weeks From Cyrus backward must be the 40 of Judah's Sin Bâ—â—n Lying Close to the End of the 390 Days of Israel's Sin Born which Bring back to the Division of the Tribes into the Two Houses of Israel and Judah All which Things have been and are Ready to be Fully made out to any who Desire it in particular The Undoubted Emblems of Scripture Answering to these Numbers of Time may be Accounted for with the same Evidence in this Retrospective Motion as in the Progression For the very End of the Wonders is plac'd in the Beastâ— â—â—d the False Prophet cast alive into the Lake And the Glory oâ— Christ's Appearance and the Armies of Heaven for whom Throâ—â— were Set and They Sate upon Them and They Lived and â—igâ—ed with Christ a Thousand Years were such as did not Worship the Beast nor Receive his Mark c. The Vials that Brought in the Thousand Years are Noted to Fall on the Beast 〈◊〉 them that Worshipp'd the Beast and had Receiv'd his Mark. â—â—e Voices that prepar'd for the Vials and at the End of which thâ— Vials Began were also upon the Beast and the Witnesses coming out of the Death the Beast had laid them under plainly Entwist the Vials and the Voices with the Beast and the Witnesses and â—â— their Times one with another viz. with the 1260 Days 〈◊〉 42 Moons the Times and Days and Half And in this 〈◊〉 manner the Dragon and they that were Beheaded for the Word of God and for the Testimony of Jesus and the Dragon cast down and the Martyrs of Christ Overcoming by the Blood of the Lâ—â— and the Word of his Testimony and not Loving their Livâ— unto Death Seeing the Dragon Gave his Power and his Seat unâ— the Beast shew very Evidently that the Moons of the Gentilâ—â— and of the Beast Began at the End of the Seals Even 〈◊〉 is most clear in a Progressive Motion the Seals Issue into â—â— Trumpets by the Seventh Seal conveying to them The Trumpets into the Voices by the Seventh Trumpet the Voices by the Seventh Voice into â—he Vials the Vials by the Seventh Vial into the Thousand Years The Seals Run plainly Back into the Weeks Beginning in the Confirmation of the Covenant by that Preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles Emblem'd by Christ Riding out on his White Horse conquering and to conquer at the Ending of the Weeks The Weeks Run back into the Time of the Word Going forth for the Restoring Judah and Jerusalem from whence they are Dated The Going forth of the Word into the Babylonish Captivity which gave Occasion to the going forth of that Word and the Last Forty Years of the Babylonish Captivity which was the Ground of Bearing the Iniquity
forth as the Great Prince to have That great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Fold that is a Court One Shepherd and One Fold In the Goodness and Faithfulness of the Spirit of Truth Guiding into all Truth Glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ by taking of the Things That are His and so of his Kingdom and shewing them to his Servants and shewing them Things that are to Come I have Great Assurance in his Tenderest Mercies having Led and Guided and Supported me thus far in the Search after his Kingdom and Manifested so much to me He will not Leave more to be ashamed of my Hope I can Humbly say before Him as his Servant Jeremy Oh Lord thy Words have been Found and I have Eaten them and they have been the Joy and the Rejoycing of my Heart I Humbly therefore Expostulate with Him Wilt Thou Wilt Thou be to me as a Lyar I know it is Impossible He should Lye He is God that cannot Lye And therefore herein His Servants may plead with Him The Vision shall not Lye He will not â—e aâ— Waters that are not sure of which he hath given so Lively â— Description in comparing the Unfaithfulness of Friends to Theâ— My Friends have dealt Deceitfully with me as a Brook and â—s the Streams of Waters that pass away Which are Blackish by Reason of Ice c. But what Time they are warm They Vanish when â—â— is Hot They are Consumed out of their Place the Paths of their â—y are turned aside They go to nothing and Perish The Troops of Tema Looked and VVaited â—he Companies of Seba were Confounâ—â—d Because they had Hoped they came thiâ—her and were Ashamed Jer. 15. 15. c. Job 15. 15. c. How fully does this Express what Jeremy understood by Waters not sure And how Applicable to My Case if the Hopes I have of the Kingdom of Christ should prove mistaken It may be said Indeed if I were sure I had the Right Sense of â—â—ripture-Prophecy the Argument were enough sure I therefore â—erein Rely on his Grace that he hath Guided me into the Truth â—â— his Word that as I am sure His Word cannot Fail He cannot 〈◊〉 so neither can any Iron any Created Power break the Norâ—â—rn Iron or prepared Steel of his Wisdom Truth and Power But lest any should say If you have such a Fasth have it to â—â—r self before God and Happy are you if you do not find Reason â— Condemn your self in what you so much approve This therefore â—my Third Profession The things that I have so heard and seen by continual search into Meditation upon and seeking Divine Diâ—â—tion in I cannot but speak I look upon the Kingdom as of â—ose Things wherein we should confess Christ and not be ashamed of â—â— before Men who so despise his Kingdom and of those of which Confession is to be made with the Mouth uneo Salvation And therefore â—â— have Humble Hopes That Jesus Christ hath been Graciously â—â—as'd to draw out my Heart Thoughts Meditations to â—â—ch Every Retirement of his Word therein above All that â—e been before me And to give me Greater Confidence and â—â—surance and a more open Profession and Publication of what I have Found So that he will graciously Accept Remember Pardon spare me through the Multitude of his Mercies and not 〈◊〉 up to shame and Confusion of Face before Men and confess 〈◊〉 before his Father and before his Holy Angels That such a State of his Kingdom and such a Revolution with it and by it shall this very Year Appear to All thâ— World as hath never been since the Apostacy of Humane Nature and that therefore All Mighty Works shall shew forth Themselves in it The Spirit shall be poured out from on High The Wilderness shall Become a Fruitful Field viz. in the highest Purity and Prosperity of his Churches and that which look'd like a Fruitful Field become Desert even the Antichristian State and whatever partakes of it the Glory of All this World and the Grandeur of it and so the Everlasting Gospel shall be preached to every Nation Tongue and People and every Thing move to the Glory of that Kingdom To whom then Most Reverend and Right Reverend could I present equally as to you the consideration of these things who I am assured are so Richly Furnished with all Advantages of Learning both in that Sure word of Prophecy and in History and Chronology Correspondent therewith And whose very Title Imports the Office of Those who are on the VVatch Tower waiting for the Speaking of the Vision which will not Tarry beyond its Time And therefore should be able to Answer the Question VVatchman VVatchman what of the Night Or how Near is the Morning and who as Persons of an Elevated Station ought to Vindicate your selves by a Higher Zeal for the Kingdom of Christ and even by a Holy Haste to bring Him to his Throne above otheâ—â— That you may not Fall under any Ombrage of the Anti-christ … Hierarchy who as Feet of Clay are found in the Undermine of the Kingdom of Christ and are Broken by the very First Openings of it as upon which that Image Rests that Stands in delay of that Kingdom How therefore should you be able to answer that Question What do you more than others for the Kingdom of the Chief Shepherd who hath it on his Vesture and on his Thigh King of Kings and Lord of Lords and who Profess to Attend upon him more Near and in Ordinary 〈◊〉 â—â—st Humbly therefore submit this Apology to your Severest â—â—ation and that as Prophets that is Persons above Ordinary â—â—ted in the Sure Word of Prophecy for no otherwise can it be 〈◊〉 you would Judge The Grounds Themselves I freely tender to â—age and Learned a Christian a Protestant Presidency There is a 〈◊〉 of Intuitive Knowledge and Plerophory of Satisfaction I must with â— Reverence yet and Humble Fear Hope I have a Right unto as â—â—per to the having seen together the Curious Lines of Prophecy eâ—l to the Curious Lines and Symmetry in the Works of God which â—â— most Exact Astronomer Anatomist Naturalist Mathematician 〈◊〉 or can Observe I desire the Things I offer might be brought 〈◊〉 Seriousest Consultation and Debate as in the Days of Herod â—â—erning the place where Christ should be born so now concerning â—â— Time of his Kingdom Appearing It cannot be but most Great â— be near the proclaiming of the Kingdoms of this world to be the Kingâ—â—s of the Lord and of his Christ How would it releive in All the â—ost Inextricable Labyrinths of the present Difficulties of Nations â— our Nation particularly to our King to the Councel of the Nation in â—â—liament That He whose Right it is is now about to take to Himâ—â— his Great Power and to Reign and to destroy them who have been â—â—ong destroying the Earth I know the Paganizing Nations and Spirits will be very 〈◊〉 even at the Mention of these Things as Vtopian Imagiâ—â— Fanatical and think to Scoff it off But as an Hidden and â—â—ncealed Train that Gives Fire and hath its Effect in a Moâ—ent so the Chain of Divine Councels the Predictions of â—â—nisciency in All Times take Full Effect in their own Just â—â—ments how Unawares soever the World be concerning them â—â— He who is wonderful in Counsel and excellent in working â—â— neither be out-witted nor over ruled What I offer can be onely from Sense of Duty to declare â—â—at I have so Full Assurance of Duty as to the Great Reâ—â—r of Prophetical Secrets the wonderful Numberer of the Times â— Prophecy so Duty to the Publick in the so Generally Acâ—owledged Distress of Affairs For which my Constant Supâ—â—cations Ascend as also for You whose Most Christian Assiâ—â—ce and Administration according to Your Higher Sphere I Beseech and who I Hope Count it Your 〈…〉 to Serve Him who is the Prince of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore will not with a Gallio-like Spirit 〈…〉 any of these Things Most Reverend Right Reverend Your Most Humble Serv … In That Kingdom of our Lord T. BEVERLEY This First Month of the Year 1697. FINIS