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A77670	A brief survey of the prophetical and evangelical events of the last times: VVherein that which principally is insisted on, is the prophetical little horn, or man of sin, and evangelical beast, and his seven heads and ten hornes. Shewing by the Scriptures what they be, when their rise, what their work, how long their continuance, and their end and ruine. Much differing from former and common interpretations hereupon. Wherein also those prophecies are briefly touched which concern the persecution of the saints, the falling away of the churches, the night of darknesse, the virgins going forth to meet the bridegroom, the mystical whore, the preaching of the Gospel of the kingdome to all the world, and the gathering of the Jewes into their own land. Being a portion of the paines in searching of the holy Scriptures by several members of the congregation of Orpington in Kent. And now published for the comfort of all those that have an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, and wait, look for, and long after his coming, Tit. 2. 11, 12, 13. / By Capt. John Brovvne a member of that congregation.	Browne, John, Captain.	1655 (1655)	Wing B5117; Thomason E826_18; ESTC R207735	43,228	58

Ages were subdued 2 Kings 16 9 Also by Shalmaness●r his Successor if not Son the rest of the ten ●ribes in the dayes of Hoshea King of Israel are carried captive 2 Kings 17. 3 and 6. These are carried captive into the ●and of Assyria it is not said Cal●ea not but that Caldea and Babylon were under the Assyrian Mona●chy 2 Kings 8 11. Then 〈◊〉 the ●uccessor if not Son of Shalm●ness●r in the fourteenth yeer of King H●zekiah comes up with a great Army against the fenced Cities of Iudah and takes them to whom Hezekiah is willing to submit and therefore sends him great presents and for want of his own borrowes from the Temple But the King of Assyria is not content therewith and therefore sends an Army under the Command of his Captaines Tartan Rabsaris Rabshakeh to Ierusalem to take it either by words or deeds 2 Kings 18. 17. to the end But these not being able to prevail return to their Master the King of Assyria who was warring against Libnah from whence he sends Messengers with a blasphemous Letter to King Hezekiah with which he goeth up to the House of the Lord and prayeth the efficacy whereof was such that that night the Angel of the Lord destroyes 185000. men in the Assyrian Host who returning with the remaining number to his own Land and City Nineveh is there slain ●y two of his own Sons as he is worshipping in the Temple of Nisroch his God and Ezrahaddon his Son reigneth in his stead verse 36 37. Now that the Assyrian alone was the next great Monarch or chief Government of Note in the world to the Assyrian and Babylonian together we doe prove not onely by what hath been related as to what four of those Kings did but also for these insuing reasons grounded upon History and Scripture First from History Pull whom the Scripture mentions 1 Chron. 5. 26. who was but Sardanapulus Lieutenant in Babylon and conspiring with Arbaces another of his Lieutenants in Media who was incited thereunto partly by the Prediction of this Pull and partly by his own in that having had a sight of the Person of his King found him disguised in womans apparel striving to counterfeit an Harlot these two after several battels overthrew him and beseiging him in this great City Niniveh by the overflowing of the River Tysris whereby twenty furlongs of that great wall was overthrown they take the City but not their Master for he finding himself in a lost condition shuts up him●●lf in his Pallace with his Wives Eunuches and all his Treasures and sets fire thereunto whereby both he and they were all consumed After which the Median is content with his own Government of Media but Pull and his Posterity are not with theirs till they get possession of that great City Nineveh which they make the Seat of their Monarchy and therefore is called the Assyrian alone to distinguish it from the First whose chief City in Nimrods time was Babylon Second Reason Because the Scripture mentions a larger extent of dominion to this second Monarchy then unto the first For we doe not find that Nimrods dominion did extend Westward from the River Euphrates that is into Syria if it did it was but of short continuance but this of Pulls doth and that very farre even to the Land of Israel and Iudah whose Lot was bounded by the Mediteranean Sea Ioshua 15. 12. called the great Sea And we find that Media that was under Nimrods posterity and after usurped by Arbac●s is a great part if not all brought under by the Assyrian For Shalmanessar who carries the remaining part of the ten Tribes captive placeth some of them in the Cities of the Medes 2 Kings 17. 6 And the Prophet Ezekiel speaking unto Pharaoh in the Name of the Lord maketh mention of the greatnesse of the Assyrian Ezek. 31. 2. to the 10 verse as also of his fall and ruine by the Caldean chap. 32. 11 12. which makes way for the third Head or Monarchy The third Head of the Beast is the Caldean Monarchy whose foundation was laid in the dayes of Berodach Baladan the Son of Balladan who sent unto Hezekiah King of Iudah both Letters and a Present 2 King 20. 12. which was in or about the fifteenth year of Hezekiah's raign for in his fourteen year Sennacherib the King of Assyria invades Iudea 2 Kings 18. 13. And after the great losse of 185000. he returnes into his own Land In those dayes Hezekiah falls sick 2 Kings 20 1. upon whose earnest prayer and the Promise of God to David for Hezekiah had no Son as yet that the Scripture mentions and Manasseh his Successor was not born in three yeares after for he was but twelve yeers old when he began to raign 2 Kings 21. 1. the Lord ●nds him a Message by the Prophet Esay that he would adde fifteen yeares to his dayes and a sign for his recovery is that the Sun should goe ten degrees backward by which it had gone down in the Dyall of Ahaz 2 Kings 20. 6 11. and the whole raign of Hezekiah was but twenty nine yeers 2 Kings 18. 2. Now though the Scripture be silent as to inform us how Berodash Baladan came to be King of Babylon yet we find that both he and the Caldeans take notice of Hezekiahs sicknesse and recovery with that great sign in the Heaven of the Suns going backward the Caldeans being famous in Astronimie and naturall Astrologie as well as infamous for their divellish Astrologie which was in or about the fifteenth year of his raign which as it was the last of Sennacheribs so it was the first of Berodash for we read in the Scripture of no King of Babylon since Nimrod to this time not but that Babylon was a famous City all along And if we may give credit to Sir Walter Rawleigh of whose extraordinary travell in searching of Histories of all Ages past to the finishing of that excellent piece of his called the Hystory of the World that this Berodash or as he cass him as also the Geneva Translation Merodash took time by the foretop and laid hold on the present opportunity that offered it self which was this Merodash was Lieutenant in Babylon under Sennacherib whose head City was Niniveh who having warres in Syria and Aegypt had levied a very great Army and having been forced to raise his Seige from before Pelusium in Aegypt and that not without some losse and more disgrace through the coming of Tirhaba King of Ethiopia or Arabia to the aid of the Aegyptian he was the more desirous to have had possession of Ierusalem to have retreated unto with his Army but failing of his purpose sends a great part thereof to beseige it with the rest he beseigeth Lachish and afterwards Lib●ah 2 Kings 19. 8. of which Army presently after the Angell of the Lord destroyes in one night 185000. verse 35 upon which he returnes with the remaining

A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE PROPHETICAL and EVANGELICAL EVENTS OF THE LAST TIMES VVherein that which principally is insisted on is the Prophetical Little Horn or Man of Sin and Evangelical Beast and his seven Heads and ten Hornes Shewing by the Scriptures what they be when their Rise what their Work how long their Continuance and their End and Ruine Much differing from former and common Interpretations hereupon Wherein also those Prophecies are briefly touched which concern the persecution of the Saints the falling away of the Churches the night of darknesse the Virgins going forth to meet the Bridegroom the Mystical Whore the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdome to all the World and the gathering of the Jewes into their own Land Being a Portion of the paines in searching of the holy Scriptures by several of the Members of the Congregation of Orpington in Kent And now published for the comfort of all those that have an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ and walt look for and long after his coming Tit. 2. 11 12 13. By Capt. JOHN BROVVNE a Member of that CONGREGATION LONDON Printed by Gartrude Dawson Anno Dom. 1655 TO HIS HIGHNESSE OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR Of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND SCOTLAND IRELAND My LORD THE Actings of the Almighty in this last Age of the World are visible to the eyes of all Persons in generall in these Nations especially to those that Love and Obey him over whom Providence hath placed you as the chief Magistrate in whose hands you have been an eminent Instrument to bring to pass those things which he had determined so to be and foretold by his Prophets the Lord Jesus and his Apostles which having in some measure been discovered to some of His despised in this world they durst not hide their Talent in a Napkin but what was freely given in to them of knowledge understanding in things yet to be brought to passe they doe as freely communicate to all there being duties to be performed by all and especially by those who have power in their hands to make good use of it and their time in imploying of it so as that This Gospel of the Kingdome may be Preached in all the World and the Jews brought to their own Land that so the Coming and Kingdom of the Lord Iesus to raign on the Earth with his Saints may be hastened who knowes but that the time of deliverance to his People is nigh the Lord grant that there may be no cursed Murmurers or wicked Transgressors among us whereby that deliverance should yet be retarded a longer time as it was with Israel for such Transgressions who were deprived of the possession of the Land of Promise a long time and wandred in the Wildernesses fourty yeares My Lord the work is great that is to be done and it will be done in a short time if we put forth our Selves Conquest and Liberty to preach the Gospel of the Kingdome go together our eares have heard you have some design on the Western parts of the World where these glad Tidings were never as yet made known if Your Highness have any desire that the same should be there or in any other part of the World published you need not fear the Attempt At your spare time cast your Eye upon what this ushers to your view and if the Lord have appointed you for the great work that is yet to be done He will stirre up your heart to a speedy acting therein to whom our Prayers for your direction and blessing therein and protection over you that under your Government we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and Honesty shall not be wanting in whom we desire to be found My Lord Your Highnesses in all faithfull Obedience to your Commands not disagreeing to the Command of our God and our Lord Iesus Signed in the Name of several Believers in Christ and especially of many of the Congregation at Orpington JOHN BROWNE To all Christian Readers by Profession in general but especially to such who have made manifest their Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ by yeilding Obedience to all his Commandements THis little Trratise comes forth to the publick view of all naked yet innotent and that to an encounter with Eminent Expositers both Antient and Modern on this Subject of the Beast like a stripling David with the great a Goliah of Gath one of the Sons of b Harephah well and compleatly armed when little David brings with him onely a c Staffe or Sling with a Scrip wherein he puts a few smooth stones which he had taken out of the Brook contemptible weapons in themselves for to incounter such a Gyant such may this seem to be which shall dare to oppose the volumes of the many famous Authors for so many Ages past who have so largely expressed themselves in their Writings on this Subject all of them in generall concluding that this Beast is risen long since yea many hundreds of yeares past but with much difference of Opinion as to the time as Mr. Tillinghast in his late Treatise of the Knowledge of the Times hath observed when as this doth clearly prove that he is not yet risen if they mean the little Horn or vile Person in Daniels Prophesie or the Beast with seven Heads and ten Hornes in Johns Visions nor shall not arise till the seventh Head King or Government be risen and fallen which is but yet arising the truth of this with the event of the Combate will evidently appear to such as desire after true Knowledge who are not prepossest with the Opinion of other Expositers like a Vessel that is first seasoned with unsavory Liquor which will hardly be c●eansed and that not without some tang or relish of its first seasoning there being nothing but plain Scripture proofes weapons like a Staffe or Sling and a few Observations out of History like a few smooth stones out of the Brook for what we doe alledge as for our Opponents who are many how they build one upon another and adde strength to strength till they become a Gyant invincible and unanswerable in their own and others Opinions and armed with a staffe many Scriptures but how rightly applied weigh and consider but beyond that of a Sling a Spear whose shaft was like a weavers beam armed with an Iron head weighing six hundred shekels that is pretending many hundreds of yeares past for the originall of that which they affirm so that for poor contemptible ones to come with a new doctrine a new interpretation of these Prophesies and Visions may seem very adventurous possibly to some a rash and a distemper'd brain yea and be cried down as dangerous and not to be tollerated but we beg this favour of the Readers as to be spectators a while and if any will be Judges let them have patience also and suspend their Judgements for a time which will trie the truth of all things and they may possibly receive

to do they are cast into the hot fiery Furnace verse 21. and delivered from the danger thereof verse 25. 27. After which he destroyes Aegypt as Sir Walter Rawleigh saith but the Scripture is silent as to the time of the destruction of that rich Country onely Ezekiel in his 29 chapter 17. saith in the twenty seven year the Word of the Lord came to him but whether it were the twenty seven year of his Captivity or of Iehoiakim's Captivity or of Nebuchadn●ssars raign is questionable however so it was that Aegypt was destroyed according to the prophesies of Ezekiel and Ieremy chap. 44 30. and chap. 43. 8. to the end Afterwards Daniel tells him the interpretation of his dream concerning the Tree Dan. 4 19 to the 28. and about a year after the same is fulfilled for his not bearkening to the Counsell of the Prophet and is cast out for seven yeares which is towards the end of his raign for neither Scripture nor History maketh any mention of any Acts of his after his Restauration The length of whose raign was about 43. or 44. yeares for the fourth year of Iehoiakin was the first year of his raign and the thirty seventh year of Iehoiakim's Captivity is the first year of Evilmerodach King of Babylon Successor if not Son to Nebuchadnessar 2 Kings 25. 17. Evilmerodach in the first year of his raign lifteth up the head of Iehoiachin King of Iudah and brought him out of Prison the 52. Ieremy 31. to the end What other thing of note he did or how long he reigned the Scripture is altogether silent History saith he lost some part of his Dominions and lost his Successor imbroyld in a dangerous Warre against the Meades but whether Balthazar was his immediate Successor or no we cannot positively conclude from the Scriptures onely we find him the next to Evilmerodach that the Scriptures doe mention and cannot but conclude him to be of Nebuchadnessars Race because of Ieremies Prophesie chap 27. 7. where it is said All Nations shall serve him and his Son and his Sons Son untill the very time of his Land come and then many Nations and great King's shall serve themselves of him In the first year of this Balthazar Daniel sees the Vision of four Beasts chap. 7. 1. In his third year Daniel sees the Vision of the Ram and of the Hee-Goat chap. 8. 1. And in his last year the last day thereof Daniel read the hand writing on the wall and tells him the interpretation thereof chap. 5. 25 26 27 28. and verse 30. in that night was Balthazar the King of the Caldeans slain and Darius the Median took the Kingdom verse 31. Now how long these two last Successors of Nebuchadnessar reigned the Scripture doth not mention in particular onely between them two is spent either thirty and three yeares or fourty and four yeares The ground of our apprehension as to this is the seventy yeares of the Iewes Captivity which began either in the first year of Iehoiachin's Captivity or the last year of Zedekiah when the City was taken and the Temple was bu●nt if it began at the first then the Scripture tells us that Evilmerodach King of Babylon lifted up the head of Iehoiachin and brought him out of Prison in the seven and thirtieth year of his Captivity and first year of his Raign Ierem. 52. 31. so that adding thirty and three yeares to thirty and seven and then the seventy yeares is fulfilled but if the Captivity began not till Zedekiah's death then there must be added eleven yeares more for he raigned eleven yeares after Iehoiachin was carried Captive to thirty and three yeares which is fourty and four and then Iehoiachin was carried Captive to Babylon eleven yeares before the seventy yeares began which were to be fulfilled before they were to return out of Captivity And that the seventy yeares were fulfilled at the death of Belshazar Daniel tells us that in the first year of Darius the Mede which was made King over the Realm of the Caldeans Dan. 9. 1 2 3. that after he had fasted and prayed that the Man Gabriel or Angel of the Lord revealed the same to him take his words at large And whiles I was speaking and praying and conf●ssing my sin and the sin of my People Israel and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy Mountain of my God yea whiles I was speaking in Prayer even the Man Gabriel whom I had seen in the Vision at the beginning being caused to fly swiftly touched me about the time of the evening Oblation And he informed me and talked with me and said O Daniel I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding At the beginning of thy supplication the Commandement came forth and I am come to shew thee for thou art greatly beloved therefore understand the matter and consider the Vision Seventy weeks are determined upon thy People and upon thy holy City to finish the transgression and make an end of sinnes and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousnesse and to seal up the Vision and Prophesie and to annoint the most Holy verse 20 21 22 23 24. Whichleads us to the fourth Head the Meades and Persians The Caldean ending in Belshazar as we said before Darius the Mede being made King over the Realm of Caldea Dan. 9. 1. In the first year of whose Raign who raigned about two yeares saith Sir Walter Rawleigh Daniel by the searching of Books and by the Man Gabriel attaines to the knowledge of knowing the seventy weeks are expired that the Iewes were to be in Captivity In the first year of Cyrus the Persian the Iewes are permitted to return to their own Land and that openly by way of Proclamation 2 Chron. 36. 22 23. and Ezra 1. 1 2 3 4. Who also delivers the Vessels of the House of the Lord to Sheshbazzer the Prince of Iudah verse 7 8. And this was according to what was foretold by the Prophets concerning their seventy yeares Captivity Ier. 25. 12. and chap. 29. 10. And Cyrus to be the Man to deliver Gods People Esay 44. last and chap. 45. 1 2 3 4 13. In the third year of Cyrus Daniel sees a Vision chap. 10. 1. and talketh with one like the similitude of the Son of Man whom he calls my Lord verse 16 17. And is made acquainted by revelation what Governments should succeed in the world till the coming of the Lord Iesus to Raign on the earth chap. 11. 2. to the beginning of the 12. chapter Concerning the remainder of the yeares of Cyrus Raign how long or what he did the Scriptures are silent Onely the Apocripha mentions some obstruction in the building of the Temple during the Raign of Cyrus by his Son Cambyse● whom he made his Lieutenant in all his Dominions while himself followeth the Wars and this was not onely done by him during his Fathers Raign but also

his royal Seats of which more hereafter Secondly concerning the place from whence the Beast and ten Kings are to arise it will evidently appear to be out of the Dominion that the seventh Head is to have though Daniel seemeth to say that they shall arise out of the sixth Head or fourth Beast in his 7. chapter 23 24 yet compared with other Scriptures it will plainly appear that they will arise out of the seventh Head see the 17. Revelations 11 12. and Daniel 11. 21. but they must arise out of that part of the Dominion that was under the sixth Head or Romane Monarchy in Iohns time for the Dominion of the seventh Head will be of a farre larger extent than ever the sixth was in Iohns dayes in regard of that large part of the world that was unknown and undiscovered in those dayes but now is and shall be brought under the power and government of the seventh Head And in particular the Beast that was and is not which is the Beast compleat with seven Heads and ten Hornes and which yet shall be he is the eight and is of the seven his rise will be in that part of the world that it was at the first viz. in Assyria and in that part thereof which was called Caldea whose chief City shall be Babylon as it was at the first for Iohn saith The Beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse Pit chap. 17. 8. Not that it was then so made manifest or known for Iohn saw not things as they then were apparent to the world but what should be in its time nor that it should be made manifest when the Beast did arise but what it should be afterwards So that his rise is out of that part of the world that should in its time be made manifest to be the bottomlesse Pit out of which Pit the Locusts shall arise that shall plague or sting the Inhabitants of the Earth which have not the Seal of God in their foreheads Revel. 9. 3 4. and in which place the Devill shall be chained up for a thousand yeares Revel. 20. 1 2 3. Now that the bottomlesse Pit shall be in Caldea see what the same Apostle Iohn heard as concerning Babylon what it should be viz The habitation of Devils and the hold of every foul Spirit and a cage of every unclean and hatefull Bird Revel. 18. 2. which compared with the 13. Isaiah 19 20. 21 22. and chap. 14. 22 23. you will find how they agree in their Prophesies and Visions concerning the desolation and destruction of that place I shall to conclude as concerning the bottomlesse Pit which shall be in Caldea and chiefly in Babylon relate a little at large what the Prophet Ieremy hath foretold concerning it whose words are these Therefore the wild Beasts of the Desert with the wild Beasts of the Islands shall dwell there and the Owles shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever neither shall it be dwelt in from Generation to Generation As God overthrew Sodome and Gomorha and the neighbor Cities thereof saith the Lord so shall no man abide there neither shall any son of man dwell therein The third thing to be considered of is what the ten Horns and Beast will doe before and after the taking up of the Saints First before the taking up of the Saints the ten Hornes will arise and hate the Whore and make her desolate c. Revel. 17. 16. and this Whore or Woman is that great City which raigneth over the Kings of the Earth verse 18. viz. in that time that Iohn saw the Vision and wrote this Book and God hath put into their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree with one consent to give their Kingdome unto the Beast untill the words of God be fulfilled verse 17. So that they must first hate the Whore and destroy her before they give up their power unto the Beast Secondly As to the Beast what he will doe First Before the Saints are taken up we find much in the 21. chapter of Daniels Prophesie after his rise As that Armes shall be overthrown with a floud before him and shall be broken and also the Prince of the Covenant or chief of those who had joyned in a League to oppose him and after the League made with him he having obtained his power and dominion at the first by flatteries he shall work deceitfully for he shall come up and overcome with a small people in regard the Nations had no thoughts of a Warre a League being lately made before between them and he shall enter into the quiet and plentifull Province that is into the Land of Canaan whose barrennesse shall then be healed as severall of the Prophets have foretold Esay 32. 15. and in his 51. chapter 3. he faith For the Lord shall comfort Sion he will comfort all her wast places and he will make her Wildernesse like Eden and her Desert like the Garden of the Lord Ioy and gladnesse shall be found therein thanksgiving and the voyce of melody Also the 30. Ieremiah 17. and chap. 33. 6. to the 14. verse Ezekiel 38. 12. and Ioell 2. 19 22 23 24. and he shall doe that which his Fathers have not done nor his Fathers Fathers he shall divide among them the prey and the spoil and the substance a thing which his Fathers nor none of his Predecessors ever did for they took all from the people of the Iewes never divided any among them which he shall doe yea he shall forecast his devises against the strong holds even for a time verse 24. although at that time he doth doe much for them onely to put them into a secure condition In the 25. and 26. verses it is said he shall make warre with the King of the South the Aegyptdan Prince and he shall be betrayed to the vile Person by those that feed of the Portion of his meat but afterwards they shall be reconciled seemingly for they shall talk of deceit or speak lies at one Table verse 27. and both set their hearts to doe mischief but it shall not avail for yet the end shall be at the time appointed and verse 28. He shall return into his own Land with great substance or Riches and his heart shall be against the holy Covenant or people of the Iowes with whom he had before made a League and divided his spoll among them so shall he doe and return to his own Land that is his evill thoughts will then begin to work against them according to Ez●kiels Prophesie in his 38. chapter 10 11 13. for this Gog or Prince of Meshech and Tuball will evidently appear to be be this vile Person or Iohns Beast if we compare Ezok. 38. 18. to the 23. and 39. chapter 17 18 19 20 with the 19. Revel. 17 18. And at the time appointed he shall return and come toward the South at which return of