Witnesses in their sufferings under Anti-christian Powers or the Universality of the Witnesses of Christ out of their Sackcloth-state and Mournful Prophecy of the Kingdom of Christ in delay and not yet being in its Illustrious Appearance They have yet the Seale of Concealment on their Foreheads and do not yet stand on Mount Zion with the Lamb having his Fathers Name Conspicuously written on those very Foreheads where the Seal was before That is there is not yet that Pouring out of the Spirit They are not yet publickly justified as the Witnesses of Christ along the 1260 Years 2. That the Stone cut out of the Mountains that is not in Humane Hands That is That doth his Great Works immediately by himself in breaking the Image of the Four Monarchyes in the last of them and himself becoming a Great Mountain filling the whole Earth hath not yet thus appear'd must also be confessed 3. That therefore the Antichristian and the Mahometan State joyn'd with it tho as a woe upon it are not so broken yet as that the Kingdoms of this World should by the Ten Kings being overcome by the Lamb be Proclaimed to be become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and He himself Universally Acknowledged King of Kings and Lord of Lords and his witnesses with Him Called Chosen Faithful and known to be so All which I had Hoped and Expected should have come to pass in this Year 97 and in the Prophetical Hour Viz. In the latter part of the Month August Herein therefore and thus far I most willingly and humbly Acknowledge my Fault and Mistake I come therefore to the Second Head and that is to observe how far God hath been pleased to own his unworthyest Servant this Year and in the very time of the Year in the Interpretation of Prophecy And there are two Things which I would Remark upon as very Eminent â—isposes of Providence wherein by Regarding the Operations of the Lord and Searching out the more hidden Things in the Works of his Hand as those who Take Pleasure therein We may find a very wonderful agreement of Providence with Prophecy in this very Year and at that Noted time of the Year 1. The First is That so Illustrious Providential Revolution of setting Peace in so many of the Kingdoms into which the Western Roman Empire hath stood so long divided after so long a War 2. The strokes by the supreme ordination of Divine Government in the World by the Hand of the Prince of Mascovy as a Prince of the Christian Profession according to those we Call the Grecian Churches and by the Hand of the Imperial Power that submits its self to the Roman Church as it is also called and its Papacy upon the Turkish Empire And on each of these I would make their Particular and Peculiar Remarks and First on the First Rem 1. The settling Peace in the Borders of any Nation and of Nations together after many Evils and Harassings of War is a Great Mercy and Goodness of God to those Nations wherever It is display'd This is very easily Intelligible and as easily Acknowledged by the Rejoycings and Hopeful Expectations from the present Peace and the Triumphs wherewith it is Receiv'd And War is Accounted one of the Four Great Judgments of God in the World If we then consider what an unreformed Nation we our selves are and how unreformed the Nations about us are It is not according to the usual Method of Providence to Remove Judgments without much Greater Effects of Ruine or Reformation What then can we think but that God bears with Patience the Great Provocations of the Nations of Europe Because they are Kingdoms that Peculiarly belong to the Kingdom of Christ For the Lamb shall overcome the Ten Kings into a Voluntary subjection to his Rev. 17. 14 16. Kingdom Which appears in that They shall Hate the Whore and burn her Flesh with Fire I cannot but hope therefore God spares them from Ruining one another because he reserves them for that Time Thus because he would make the Israelites a Type of the Kingdom of Christ Altho even at the Time of their deliverance from Egypt They Lifted up their Eyes to the Idols of Egypt and God lifted up his Hand to Destroy them yet he wrought for his Name sake and did not Destroy them And so I hope he does now Rem 2. It is certain according to Prophecy Peace is a Great Signal Ezek. 20. 9 10. of the Kingdom of Christ And such a Time there shall be When Nations shall beat their Spears into Pruning Hooks and their Swords into Esa 2. Mic. 4. Ploughshares Nation shall not Lift up Sword against Nation Nor shall they Learn War any more They shall sit every Man under his own Vine and Figtree Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace shall be no End and of the Increase of his Peace even as of his Government there God will do that Astonishing Thing in the World He will Psal 46. 8. make Wars to cease to the Ends of the Earth He will break the Bow and Cut the Spear in sunder and burn the Chariots in the Fire All the Instruments of Cruelty shall as by Gods own Hand be brought to an utter End He will Still All by his own Appearance as God when He in favour of his own People will be Exalted in the Earth when He is with his People as in that City whose Name is Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there Obr. I know it will be said There have been many times Treaties of Peace and that have been Consummated in an effective Peace and yet no Kingdom of Christ hath succeeded what Argument then can it be of such a Kingdom now That there is such a Peace Answ 1. Yet every Peace is an Olive Branch and a memorial of that Kingdom of Peace Even as every Judgment is an assurance of the Last Judgment and every War a Fore-runner of the Great Battel at Armageddon That shall bring All Enemies under the Feet of Christ and his Saints Answ 2. The certain Argument of such a succeeding Kingdom of Christ does not Lye Singly in a Peace but in a Peaâ—e at such a Time when by the Line of Time the Kingdom of Christ is so justly to be Expected and so the Line of Time and the Peace do mutually strengthen and assure one another In the wisdom of Divine Government of the World There was an Universal Peace under Augustus at the Time of that First Specimen of the Kingdom of Christ His coming in the Flesh It was not by it self a direct Argument of his coming at that Time But the Fulness of Time for his Coming and the Peace did mutually Corroborate one another and give the Expectation of the Messiah then to appear And so I hope it will appear at this Time As some Years ago In the Light of Prophecy I predicted The End of this War whether by breaking the French or by Peace
Depths of Satan the Arcana Imperii or Counsels of Antichristianism as the settlement of the Reformation here and by all Imaginable Artifices of Policy and Power And it seem'd the very Crisis for it in that last Reign That the most High decided against it with so High a Hand was very Glorious That God hath given so Great Advantages in Appearance for the Return of King James by such a War so Tedious so Burdensome in such an absence of the King And that the whole should be thus resolv'd into so very an August Acknowledgment by the Grand opposer of Him and that the Interest of the same King James should be as it were hush'd into such a silence and neglect as now appears and by his very so Great Allie is a very Exalted Hand of Jehovah for the Justification of the Reformation in these Nations And that it should be reserv'd for this Year 97. Is an Honourable Character fixed upon this Year as I hope Immediately preceeding the entrance of the Kingdom of Christ Rem 6. That the War hath been Carryed on by such a Ballance of Equality that except we consider that Great Intention of Providence to consine within his own Figure Allowed by Prophecy the French King in which It Confederated so many Princes and States however differing among Themselves and the securing Protestancy to these Nations Except I say we consider this All hath been Labouring in the very Fire and wearying the Nations for very Vanity And yet God hath as by an Immediate Hand of his own Determined All into Peace This is I have Great Trust Because the next Thing he will do shall be to Fill the Earth with the Knowledge of his Glory as the Waters cover the Sea Rem 7. I should Rejoyce to find this Peace Propagating an Universal Reformation of the open prophanesses and wickednesses of the Nations Which the Societyes for Reformation in this City give some Hopeful Appearances of and it is much to be desired The Power of the Magistrate would with it's own Authority and Influence Encourage such Honourable undertakings And if it be not so as I doubt not It will a Greater Magistracy will Take the matter into its own Hand But the very Motions however unformed or Abortive they would or might prove of Themselves are some Preliminary Motions to that Great Reformation the Kingdom of Christ will bring in when to the People shall be turned a Pure Language And Men shall Fear the Lord from the Rising of the Sun to the going down of the same Rem 8. It is Greatly to be Lamented if the suffering Witnesses of Christ in any parts Comprehended within this Peace have found no place of consideration in it and Relaxation by it But if they have not I am the more Assured It is reserv'd for the Immediate Hand of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords overcoming the Ten Kings and moving them as by an Impulse from himself with the Hatred of the Whore and He will shew his Servants as a Light Arising in the darkness of their sufferings yet continuing the Morning Star in the first Dawns of his Kingdom Till it shall come to the Bright Morning Star of his own Glorious Appearance in that Kingdom at the Highest Elevation of it Rem 9. It is in the next Place of a most Hopeful Reflection to me That this Peace Falls as a Blow upon the League between the French King and the Turkish Sultan so as to dissolve it For as I have heretofore argued so I shall now more Fully and yet very Breifly Represent it The true Account of the Visional order of Breaking the Image Dan. 2. Is That the Stone smote the Image on its Feet of Iron and Clay First and so the whole was broken This is most Precisely and Definitively set down v. 34. The Stone Cut out which is not in Hands smote the Image upon his Feet which were of Iron and Clay and Brake Them to Peices And again v. 35. Then was the Iron and the Clay First and All the Image Broken so that it became as the Chaff of the Summer-Threshing Floor This therefore from compare of one part of this Prophetick Vision with another and with the New Testament Prophecy of the Revelation must be the Order The First part of the Image smitten is the Iron Feet of the Ten Kings Rev. 17. overcome by the Lamb and the Called Faithful Chosen Witnesses with Him Then these Ten Kings who had with one Consent given their Kingdom and Power to the Beast serve the Lamb by hating the Whore and burning her Flesh with Fire This shaking as an Earthquake the Great City and its Decemprincipality or Tenfold Principality Arising from the Ten Kings so giving their Power to the Beast that Carryed Her Falls Thus the Clay is Broken by the First Approach of the Kingdom of Christ weilding the Iron or the Ten Kings to his service But then All is Threshed and Broken as into Chaff by the stone Becoming a Mountain fuling the whole Earth So there remains no Power but Christ's and his Saints with him to whom the Dominion under the whole Heaven is given But now v. 45. The Stone cut out of the Mountains without hands brake in peices first the Iron then nor the Clay but the Brass The True Order of the Final Stroke was set down before which could not be changed what therefore is given v. 45. must be some previous and preparatory stroke that Falls upon the Iron and the Brass in a Conjunction and the Greatness that Each had by that Conjunction comes to nothing And by that change of the Order this Previous Stroke is shaded under the Full and Final Breaking of the whole and silently intimated by it By the Iron I understand the French Power in this Great Spread of it self against so many of the Ten Kingdoms confederated as it hath been of late years and its Aspirings to be the whole Iron it self that is to Vniversal Monarchy And this I look upon to be noted by the Iron in this place of Daniel By the Brass I Apprehend the Grecian Power as now in the Hand of the Turk whose Port is the Grecian Constantinople Now then this is a private Prophâ—tical Watch-word of the very Time when the whole Image shall be Broken It shall be when that Unnatural Conjunction between Him who would be the whole Iron of the Feet and who will be called the most Christian King and the now Belly of Brass the Turkish Power the Professed Enemy of Christians shall be Broken by the Stone cut out of the Mountains in his Supreme Providence and come to nothing Now this Conjunction we see thus brought to nothing by this Peace the French King not able to bear up his Former retensions by the Loss of Turkish Aids nor the Turk against the Emperor by the Loss of French Assistances And in this very 97. why then should we not look for the whole Image to be soon after
would be speedily followed by the opening of the Kingdom of Christ Rem 3. This Providential Revolution of the Peace hath given a stop to the French Kings Aspirings to Vniversal Monarchy Which as most contrary to the Boâ—nds and Measures Assigned Him by Prophecy To be but one of Ten Kings and not the whole Ten a part of the Iron and not the whole Iron I have always with greatest confidence in the very height of the War asserteâ— He could never obtain But He would find the same Disappointment the House or Austria found in Charlâ— â—â—ifth Retreating into Solitude after the attempt and in His Son Philip of Spain from that defeat of the Armada 88 Sinking lower and lower to this Day Now in and by this Peace an Eminent Hand of God hath caus'd that Haughty Monarch to Acknowledge That he had Coveted an Evil Coveteousness and Increased That which was not His and therefore tho He hath not been spoiled by the Force of War or the Prevalency of Victory Yet He is made to find He hath in Asâ—iring to set his Nest so High and to stablish an Vniversal Monarchy by Blood Laboured in the very Fire and wearied himself for very Vanity And oh That that which follows in Prophecy might now speedily follow in Time brought to pass by the immediate Hand and Power of God That the Knowledge of the Glory of the Lord might cover the Earth as the Waters cover the Sea And then All that is within his Poor Servants Hab. 2. 14. should Bless his Holy Name But it is not very Remarkable that that Prince who hath Arrogated to Himself in the common Language of his People Our Monarch as Preparatory to the Style of Vniversal Monarch should so quietly Resign and Give up his pretensions and I make no doubt however Insensibly to himself and others through the secret Force and Constitution of Prophecy That the Western Roman Empire that was under one Caesar as supreme till It ceas'd in Augustulus and then was to be Variegated into Ten Kingdoms as Ten Toes under One Papal Head or Supremacy in an Image as Prophecy styles it most Prophetically which it also styles the Beast might so be till his Time Times and Hast a Time shall be Accomplished When those very Ten Kings who gave their Kingdom to him shall together as Ten Recall it and hate the Whore As therefore Prophecy hath been in this Peace just to its word They shall be Ten till then So I doubt not It will be true in their speedy subjection to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords whose Right Alone It is to be the truely Vniversal Monarch And this shall be when the Ten Kings shall be thus overcome It is therefore so signally set at that Time and on that overcoming He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords And it is much the more Remarkable That the Great Lord who hath Times even as the Hearts of Men and Princes in his own Hand should order this Peace in the Year 1697. In which ending I am bold yet to declare The Times and Half Determin'd to the Papacy Expire So that this Year must be the Ending of Half Time As then at the Beginning of Half Time In the Wise and Holy dispose of God There was by the Emperor Charles V. being King of Spain and Chosen Emperor of Germany 1519. an offer made at Vniversal Monarchy and was so Repressed as hath been spoken for the making Good of Prophecy so in the latâ—er End of Half Time He hath permitted the same Attempt by the French King for some Yeaâ—s past and having wearied it all along by the opposition raisâ—d to it by the Confederacy upon the very end of Half Time this very 97 He hath by the Peace given this Boundary to it That he may shew He magnifies his Word and particularly of Prophecy above All his Name Rem 4. It desâ—rves just Reflection That the Time of Negotiating and Transacting this Peace must in the nearest and most Conclusive Treaties of it have run through the Prophetick Hour Viz. From August 15th to the end of that Month and so into the following Month So the publick owning and signing of it was on the very 10th of the Seventh Month the Day of the Ancient Attonement and Jubilee and that therein God hath in some measure pleased to own the Reference of his unworthyest Servant to that very Time Oh that it might be an earnest of the Acceptable Year of the Lord as of the Jubilee of his Kingdom Approaching though as yet I must Acknowledge much below my Hopes and Expectations I cannot yet but add The Proclamations of Peace in England and France in this Month of October Answer in Time in this last Year of Half Time to Gods Gracious Impulse upon the Spirit of Luther to Proclaim an open Evangelic War on Antichristian Rome in the same Month of the First Year of Half Time Viz. 1517. And those who Joyned to herein with him were Called Evangelici as in Allusion to the Word us'd in Prophecy for the Finishing the mystery God had Rev. 10. 7. Evangelized his Servants the Prophets in or made them Evangelics concerning which gives great Ground of Hope there shall be some Highly Evangelical Product of this Peace and defyance of Antichristianism by it Oh! Let us Humbly wait and pray for it Rem 5. It is very Greatly to be remarked that God was pleas'd in the Last 1688. To have made an Extraordinary Universally Acknowledged to be so Revolution in these Protestant Nations of England Scotland and Ireland in Bar of Popery endeavouring to return upon them and Universal Monarchy That hath been owned confederated and allyed with by some of the Greatest Princes that yet Give their Kingdom to the Beast and hath been disputed by the French King from the very Entrance of it and in continuation till this Peace And with whom the Abdicated King the Late King James hath had his Residence ever since Now that God hath been pleased to own the Protestant Prince this Revolution brought in to sustain him and these Nations in so Long and Expensive a War in the midst of many great Losses by Sea in a mutual satisfaction and confidence one in another That he hath preserved him in so many Hazardous Passings and Repassings the Sea in so many Approaches of Danger and Jeopardyes of Life as Scripture speaks in the High Places of the Field where his person was so constantly Adventur'd That he hath been so secur'd from Private Conspiracys and Assassinations and now so Highly Agniz'd so Publickly so Solemnly and Augustly by the very French King who made it his Glory to disown Him and is Returned this very Year of 97. Safe with Publick Tryumphs and Rejoycings in the Peace equal to the Tryumphs of a Victory how Glorious soever Oh how many Grand Agreements hath all this with Prophecy The attempts of Refunding Popery into these Nations hath been a Design as Ancient among the
Broken in its own Just Order now First given And the Strokes upon the Turk in the very Time of the Treaty are Justly to be looked upon as the Proclaiming his Coming to an End and None to help Him Now if this be a True Interpretation of this Prophetic Vision and I do not sâ—e what can be objected to it what a Great Assurance is it That in this 97. the Great Change that this Vision foretells must needs be very near to come into effect and who can once imagine that so Divine a Vision so exactly in every Thing framed could by Chance and â—ot without some Great Design and Purpose Transpose the Iron from the Feet of Iron and Clay to the Belly and Thighs of Brass and place the Clay of the Feet between the Brass of the Belly and the Silver of the Breast And I cannot but demand what Fairer Exposition or Interpretation of Providenttal Event could be given to such a Prophecy Now I must be bold to say Whoso hath Wisdom let him consider it The Wise shall understand but the Prejudiced and the Careless will not understand Rem 10. All this is much the more Remarkable in that Prince who hath been the severe Enemy and the open Persecutor of the Reformation and yet continues so and therefore iâ— the Kingdom of Christ be so near as these Compares of Prophecy give hopes he must either be Removed suddenly by a stroke of Judgment or by so eminent a Conversion as Persecuting Paul was an Hypotyposis or Pattern of For he hath Raged even to Madness against the Reformation and been Breathing out Threatnings against the Witnesses of it and so continues And yet his Kingdom is one of the Teâ— whose Kings shall be overcome by the Lamb and Hate the Whore He must then either be a Great Instance of Converting Grace as it were from Heaven or of Judgment and seeing the God of All Grace is most Glorious in the Former and the Fruit of it might be much Greater in the World I look upon it as our Duty to pray for it and desire it if I may not say to hope for it That God who hath bowed his Heart so far in the Acknowledgment of a Protestant Kiâ—g so set up by himself may please also to Bow his Soul to the Protestant Religion and to a Zeal for it answerable to his former Persecutions and to this very day Now thus far I have Remrak'd upon the First of the Providential Events of this Year as it is preparatory to the Kingdom of Christ according to the Interpretation of Prophecy That Prophecyings may not be despised but All awaken'd Earnestly to Pray and wait for that Kingdom seeing there is so much to be observ'd in this Providential Revolution of the Peace as to be a Door of hope and a Day of small Things and that in this very Year of 1697. And I dare not Assume it to be more I humbly confess as yet As in the Following Observations upon the Great Strokes on the Turkish Potentacy I shall further Acknowledge I come now to the Second Grand Providential Event of this Year 1697. The severe Strokes The Great Governour of the World and Lord of Hosts hath caused by the Arms of the Czar of Muscovy and of the Emperor of Germany to fall upon the Mahometan â—ttoman Signiory and to adjust them by Prophecy to the near Approach of the Kingdom of Christ That I may present this in the Clearest and most Compendious Table I shall First consider Mahometanism in the General as common to the Saracens and Turks and then peculiarly as it is now seated in the Ottoman Turkish Empâ—râ—â— and each in several short Notes of Observation and Argue from them the Great Hopes that these Strokes upon that Mahometan Imposture and Tyranny are Fore-Runners of the Final Dissolution of it and of the Kingdom of Christ succeeding 1. The very Essential State of this Imposture and Tyranny is design'd by God as a Mock-Antichrist to the Grand Roman Papal Antichrist a Paraselene or Counterfeit Moon to his Moon even as Antichrist is a mock-Christ or in Despite to our True Lord Christ 1. Mahomet acknowledges Christ a Great Prophet even as Antichrist does but robs Him of the Glory of his Divinity and of being the onely Supreme True Prophet wherein He is an Antichrist 2. He Abhors Idols Herein He mocks Antichristian Idolatry but sets up the Idol-Prophet Mahomet Therein He is an Antichrist 3. He pretends to an Vniversal Kingdom Herein He mocks the Papal Antichrist One by the Spiritual the other by the Temporal Sword pretends to an Vniversal Kingdom but both undermine Christâ—s Kingdom and Both are Antichrists therein 4. He offers a Fools Paradice and Deliverance from Future Misery but as Counterfeit as the Popes Deliverance from Purgatory by his Key of the Bottomless Pit Herein are they both Antichrists but Mahomet as coming last and upon the Papacy is a Mock-Antichrist an Antichrist in despite 5. He pretends some Reverence to some of the Sacred Writings but hath brought in a Nonsensic Alcoran as vain as Papal Traditions and Oral Laws 2. The Time therefore of the Beginning of this Imposture and Tyranny was soon after the Papal Supremacy the one at 606. the other at 622. The one the Antichristian the other the Mahometan Hegire when its Tyranny came forth while the one lasts the other lasts also when the one ends the other shall end also If therefore Antichristian Times determine in 97. Mahometan Times shall determine with them why them may we not hope this Blow on Mahometanism is an Alarm-Blow upon Both Antichrists now ready to Expire I come now more particularly to consider the Ottoman Turkish Power and to Remark on that as more precisely before us in the Events of this Year and so make these Remarks upon it 1. The Ottoman Power Appear'd in the Greatest Extremity and lowest Condition of the Witnesses after the Great Persecution upon Those we call the Vaudois and the most cruel Slaughter of so many of Them In Revenge of which God sent the Ottoman Power to Remonstrate against the Antichristian Salvagenesses 2. They were designed by God to Raise the Mahometan Imposture and Tyranny to the Imperial Throne of Eastern Rome or Constantinople C. 11. 45. This is expressed by Daniel as the planting the Tabernacle of his Pallace between the Seas in the Glorious Holy Mountain so Honourably styled because it was the City of Constantinople that First Christian Emperor and Great Type of the Kingdom of Christ This was in the Year 1453. 3. The Ottoman Emperor Selymus in or upon the First Year of the Reformation 1517. seized upon Judea and Jerusalem styled by Daniel Ch. 11. 41. the Glorious Land 4 There is an Absolute Determination of God This Mahometan Ottoman Prince shall come to his End C. 11. 45. Seeing this is so determined we have Reason to look upon this very Year as the Year of his Approaching end on these Reasons
Hopes or publick Testimony concerning this Year Ending and the Following Beginning First then I consider the Time of this Imperial Victory I have so far and I hope not without Great Weight Remark'd upon and I find the Imperial Army so in motion and preparation for iâ— by the most Certain and Valuable Intelligences we have Receiv'd of it from our 23d of August and the very Victory it self upon the 31st of that Month according to our Old Style Account within the Virge of the Prophetical Hour that I cannot but stand in Humble Admiration at it For every â—ove of the Armies to that very Day of Victory it self is to be enfolded with and united to it So that herein is in undeniable Matter of Fact an Agreement thus far in Time Obj. I know the difference of New and Old Style may be objected and that the New Style as being the Reformation of the Calendar is most Exact And that from this the Prophetical Hour in the Sixth Month and so the Imperial Victory Flyes further off by the Ten Days difference and the Peace in the Seventh Month from the Day of Attonement and Jubilee Answ 1. But in Answer to this It is nothing strange If God is pleased to neglect that Papal Reformation of the Calendar as coming within that usurpation of his Changing Times Dan. 7. 25 Who would not Reform his Changing of Laws even those Eternal ones of the Word of God Although he must needs see a Divine Hand had gone some considerable Number of Years before Him in such a Reformation by Luther and other eminent Servants of his Churches and States viz. from 1517. to 1582. But He who by his Great Works of Providence changes Times and Seasons with Supreme Right Justice and Authority or Retains them pleases to Honour the Old Style with peculiar Respect to this Protestant Nation that still uses it Answ 2. Although some Times God in his Great Works observes Time to the self same Day yet at other Times He may as he pleases make some Variation as Solomon's Beginning to Build the Temple is dated 2 Chron. 3. 2. On the second Day of the second Month from the Going of the Children of Israel out of Egypt which was on the Self-same day of the Fourteenth of the First Month This shews God sometimes is pleased to Alloâ— a Latitude I cannot therefore but most Humbly Adore Divine Goodness in Approaching so near with so Emâ—nent a Providence as so compleat a Victory over the Power of the Eastern Antichrist so Acknowledged an Enemy to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ upon the Time Remarked by the Unworthiest Minister of his Kingdom Answ â— But it is much more considerable That the Gracious God hath by Striking that Mâ—ck-Antichrist so near that very Day of the Cessation of the Westâ—rn Eâ—â—â—â—â— in the Year 476 yielding Rist to the 42 Moons of the Beast and the Ten Kings given Warning that according to the True Adjustment of Lunar Time to Solar Their Space of Reign then strictly speaking ended and that was their last August of Power and before the Coming of that Month in the following Year They shall be in Subjection to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Answ 4. It is most Remarkable That the Effective Treaties of the Peace at Reswick and the Victory over the Turks by the Imperial Forces were very hear together by which our Wise and Holy God was pleased to show That He would dissolve that Union between the French King that would have been the whole Iron or an Vniversal Monarch as hath been said and the Brass of the Graco-Turkish Potentacy and Bring that Potentacy Low at the same time and that by both He would preserve as hath been before Argued the Ten Kingdoms of the Weâ—â—ern Empire till They shall as â—en be Overcome by the Lamb at the Expiration of their Term with the Beast now so near Expiring And it is indeed very observable That as in the disposes of our True God the Power of the Eastern Empire was Thrown early after the settlement of the Ten Kingdoms in the West out of the â—estern Empire and the Exarchate of Ravenna made to cease for many Great Services and Ends according to Prophâ—cy So although in a way of Iudgment God hath suffâ—red Mahometan partiâ—ularly Turkish Eruptions into it especially in Hungary and Transyâ—vania Yet he hath still Reprimaâ—ded theâ— and the Attempts of the Greatest Princes among them as of their Magnificent Solyman upon â—enna was shamefully disgraced and from the Last Besâ—iging of it in the Year 80 That Empire hath been Tottering and Shaking Beâ—ause tâ—erein it hath dared to pass the Bounds set it by Prophâ—cy Although it hath entered into the Holy Land Egypt hath not escaped Ethiopia hath been at its steps Yet it never could stretch its Hands as over other Countreys Or overnow to Vienna mâ—ch less to Rome carried Alought by the Pâ—pal â—east This Stroke therefore hath so overtaken and surrounded the Turkish Armies in â—ungary as if God would give Testimony That at the same time He preserved the Ten Kingdoms from the Aspirings of an Vniversal French Monâ—â—chy by the Peace He would also Vindicate Thâ—m from the Overspread of a Mahometan Turkish Overflâ—w In all which the wonderâ—ul Doings of our Great and Holy God ought to be Triumph'd in by Alâ— His Servants and most especially by the Unâ—orthiest of his Servants in the Sure Word of Prophecy as happy Forebodes of his Kingdom at the End of 97. and the â—eginning and Going on of 98 And now upon All that hath been spoken I cannot but Rejoyce in Recalling that Prophâ—cy I have â—ome Years ago in a former â—reatise enlarged upon Found in the Study of â—ustus Lâ—psiâ—s Ann 1606. and that hath been near Fifty Years Extant in the Exposition of Dâ— Mâ—yer on those Books of Scripture called The small Prophets which I will again here Transcribe for more universal Notice because I Know It to be â—ounded on Greatest Reason of Scripture and Assured by the Chronoâ—ogy of Propâ—etic Events and therefore I cannot but Think the Composer Assisted by a Prophetic Spirit The Original Prophecy Post Mille Expletos a Partu Virginis Annos Et post sexcentos Rursus ab Orbe Datos Nonagesimus octavus Mirabilis Annus Ingruet Is secum Gaudia Laeta Fcret Corruet Hoc Anno Turcarum Invisa propago Roma Tuum in Libris Fabula Nomen Erit Omnia Tunc-Ibunt Munde sursum atque Deorsum Imperia ut populos sceptra Novella premant Vtque suum cunctas Verbum Diffundat in or as Christus Imperitet Nomine Vbique suo The Translation From Virgins Son Thousand Years when Told And after them a Hundred more are Roll'd Then Ninety Eight a Year of wonders comes And Joys on Joys it heaps to vastest Summs The Hated stem of Turks that Year shall Fall Oh Rome in sacred Boâ—ks Foretold Men All Shall Call thy Name that Lye Earths Empires move Their upside down