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The good hope through grace the jubilee of the kingdom of Christ shall come upon the counterfeit jubilee of Rome, and before the end of the following year 1700, shall begin to bring under desolation that great city and its papacy : therein uniting the year 1697 with 1700 according to prophecy / humbly presented to the faith and prayers of all sincere Protestants by T. Beverley.
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THE GOOD HOPE THROUGH GRACE The Jubilee of the Kingdom of Christ shall come upon the Counterfeit Jubilee of Rome and before the end of the Following Year 1700 shall begin to bring under Desolation that Great City and its Papacy Therein Uniting the Year 1697 with 1700. according to Prophecy Humbly Presented to the Faith and Prayers of all Sincere Protestants By T. BEVERLEY Rev. xviii xix In one Hour is she made Desolate LONDON Printed for William Marshall at the Sign of the Bible in Newgate-Street and John Marshall at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street TO THE HONOURABLE His much Honoured Sir Samuel Barnardiston Honoured Sir ALthough I must ever Acknowledge a long Series of very great Obligations to your Friendship and Favour for me Yet That is not the Sole nor so much as the Principal Reason of the presenting this following Discourse to your Acceptance The more Due Reasons of that are That by the Freedoms you have Allowed me of Conversation with you I have very undoubted Evidences of your sincere Love to the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory in its present Spiritual Evangelical Administration and in its Gradual Illustrations of it self in Glory Promised and Foretold to the latter Days And yet more particularly as in All Things I had observed your Patriottal Spirit your Great Love to your Country the true English Spirit so your Great Love to Protestancy and Bewailing That no Greater Liberty and Security could be procured for the Suffering Protestants beyond the Seas and particularly in France But I hope God supports you in so long a Life to see the Openings of his Kingdom And That your Honourable Lady whom I have long observed the Truest Consort of All the Varieties that God hath been pleased to Dispensate to you may Rejoyce with you in that so Great Joy is the Humble Earnest Prayer of Most Honour'd Sir Your most Affectionate Humble Servant in our Great Lord T. BEVERLEY The PREFACE to the Favourable Protestant READER THE Discourse following I Humbly Present as the Result of the most Close Researches into the Sure Word of Prophecy after the so great Disappointment of the Hopes I had at the Year Ninety Seven I Humbly Acknowledge to Infinite Grace it gave me not the least Doubt of the Truth and Divine Authority of sacred Scripture or particularly of the Prophetic Scriptures of Truth which the Divine Spirit takes such care to assure Are the True Sayings of God and that These Sayings are Faithful and True And I Humbly Bless Him I have besides all those Great and Weighty Arguments that so many Holy and Learned Men have Established the Autopisty or self-evident Diviness of Scripture upon I have the particular Assurance of so Admirable a Prophetic Scheme and Frame God hath given me that I am sure none but Infinite Prescience could ever have Projected or so curiously have Wrought and Inlaid and only to be Found by Compare of one Prophetic Scripture with another and when they are so matched one with another the Admirable Artifice is seen Now this very Adorable Workmanship led me to Ninety Seven by Prophetic Iconisms or Images adjusted to Prophetic Numbers of Time and justified and verified by Matters of Fact or as Prophecy calls them Effects of Vision in Ez. 12. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Matter of Fact of Vision universal History and Chronology Corresponding to them And in the very last Year after all Hope seeming to be past it pleased the Lord to shew me that Character of Time stiled Indictions or Fifteens of Years even studiously observed in adding 2 and 3 Fifteens to 1260 made up of so exact Dan. 12. Fifteens making them 1290 1345 All which sure could never be by Chance This Note of Indiction I say what I had always accounted I found enclapsed whole Prophetic Time from Solomon's Death to the Blessed Time at the end of the 1335 Days all which make 2730 Days â—â— Indicted As any one versed in Accomptancy may easily find And the very first the 390 Days of Ezekiel's bearing Judah's Sin begin in set Indictions Hereby I have found Ninety Seven established by even Arithmetic Demonstration as I have made out in a Treatise on purpose Printed 1699. Vpon all this I could not remove from Ninety Seven However so great a Failure looked so unfavourably upon it What therefore God upon earnest unwearied Prayers and so strict Enquiry aâ— the Holy Oracle was pleased to give in the Night at the House of an Elect Lady near Sarisbury and to enable to Cultivate and Improve I have here given to public view consisting of Four Heads 1. The Certainty of a most Stupendious Judgment to be executed on some City descyphered by Babylon and this City proved to be Rome 2. That the Time of this Judgment to be executed is at some pompous Time of Babylon such as the Holy Year or Jubilee and great Princes appearing for it 3. That whereas the Time this Judgment to be Executed was most properly Ninety Seven there is by a curious Artifice of Prophecy a Reserve of 3 Years and a half reaching to 1700 With an Answer of Objections to search of Time from Mistakes 4. That such a Reserve is called God's Infraction or Breach of Promise or his Abruption and Breaking off the Series and Contexture of Begun Providences the Notions of which are opened and applied to the present Case there are also Reserves in a way of Wisdom and Goodness from Ninety Seven And all recommended to Faith and Prayer under Divine Blessing and Humbly laid at the Feet of the Supreme Palmoni or Wonderful Numberer of Time the Apocalyptes or Revealer the High-Priest or Man Cloathed in Linnen and the Apostle of our Profession That He may judge whether his Word or not To Him God over all Blessed for ever be Glory for ever Amen THE JUBILEE OF THE Kingdom of CHRIST Coming on the Counterfeit JUBILEE of ROME Rev. xviii vii viii She saith in her Heart I sit a Queen and am no Widow and shall see no Sorrow Therefore shall her Plagues come in one day Death and Mourning and Famine and she shall be utterly burnt with Fire for strong is the Lord who judgeth her THE Intention of the following Discourse is to give Encouragement from this Scripture first then to excite and even arouse the Protestant Zeal Faith and Hope and to oblige the earnest Prayers and Supplications of the Reformed Churches and Nations and humbly to beseech the Princes and Governments of them by their Commands and Examples so to lead the way that we may all Rev. 6. 10. cry out with the loud Voice of the Souls under the Altar How long Lord Holy and True dost Thou not avenge the Blood of thy Servants on Them who dwell on the Earth which is a Prophetick Periphrase of Pagan Rome first and then of Rome Antichristian And this at a Time whereunto the Divine Spirit hath directed us so plainly and specially to
and People His Spirit not coming upon them as on the Worthies of Old Nor was He pleased to give them that Resolution To make no Peace without the Security and Freedom for that which they accounted the True Christian Religion or with them who would and do now make Advantage of that Peace to the Persecution and Slavery of them with whom they are or ought to be of the same Character who keep the Commandments of God and hold the Testimony of Jesus So that this Peace was not at all to their Honour before God and His Servants although those under them ought to be Humbled because their want of Faith Love Holiness Peace and Union so Dishonoured God that He in Just Offence left Princes States Governments to themselves not to Appear for God as for their own Interests Object I know it may be said Because the Time was not come There was not that Spirit of Life from God foretold by Prophecy coming upon them and therefore they could not Act according to it And this alone was Argument enough Ninety Seven was not the Time of Accomplishing to Scatter nor of Beginning to Finish the Wonders Answ It is most True the Spirit of Life from God not coming down and Entering the Witnesses did shew It was not the Time But it is yet True the unsuitable Frame of Spirit in Protestants did Provoke God to Breach of Promise the culpable Cause of Mercies deny'd or delay'd is the want of that Holy Agreeable Frame although the Gift of such Grace is from God For in God alone is our Help yet still our Destruction is of our selves It is alway His Spirit that makes that other Spirit in us that was in Caleb and Joshua The want of such a Spirit as is Agreeable to what God hath promised to do provokes Him most Justly to Breach of Promise as to the Time held out to our Eye although he alone Gives that Spirit and Will at the very Time when the Promise must and shall certainly be Fulfilled Want of Holiness is a full Reason of Want of Deliverance although at the Time when Deliverance shall be Hâ—liness shall be also The peculiar Frame agreeing with the Kingdom of Christ is the Frame we find Obab 17. in the Church of Philadelphia not in our Sardis Rev. 3. 2. Let us now Consider the Delay or Translation of the great Effects expected at 97 from 97 to 1700 as the word Breach of Promise signifies Abruption or Breaking off the Series and Contexture God had pleased to have Begun and seem'd to be Going on in as therefore it cannot but be acknowledged There was not in 97 the glorious Appearance of the expected Effects So on the other side it cannot be deny'd There were such Beginnings that if God had pleased to go on in there had certainly been before this Time a very great Change and Revolution in the World But no sooner were those Offertures made but God shew'd his Abruption or Breaking off from any Thing he had Begun Two great Instances of which we had in that Year First The Treaty of Peace at Reswick was a very Remarkable Dispose of God bringing the Antichristian Princes to a Necessity of making Peace while Protestant Princes and States had a Ballance upon them and the Peace This looked very Hopefully that the Interests of Protestancy and the Reformation wherein the Glory of God of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Safety of His People and their Peace and Quiet was so undeniably Compriz'd should have found great Advantages and by an Embarrassement on all further Persecution on Protestancy there might have been an Accomplishment of Scattering This was a gracious Honorary Dispose on 97 and at the very Autumnal Equinox as the very Time that was to bear the Signal of the Witnesses Rising Herein God was pleased to set Judgment before those Protestant Sovereigns and to shew them what they were to do especially considering what Just Pleas they had to Insist upon as particularly and eminently that Edict of Nantz in behalf of the French Reformed where the Persecution hath since been Pursued with so great Barbarity But to shew God's Abruption as in the very Time and in the very Act of the Treaty concluded and so his Infraction in the very Year of Ninety Seven and of the Peace concluded And to Remonstrate both as before all the Nations about as he hath sometimes put a Word into the Mouth of his very Enemies especially when they are of Eminency as Balaam an exalted Prophet Caiaphas the High-Priest So it is much to be Reflected upon what the King of France that Prince of Persecution writ to the Arch-Bishop of Paris in the beginning of the Month called January in Popish Style 98 but in True Prophetic and even Protestant Style 97 Requiring the Thanksgiving of Te Deum after the Popish Manner for the Peace thus He Began The Time which Heaven hath Ordained How express for 97. for the Reconciliation of the Nations Sure the Protestants of each Nation made up the Nations This looked Fair for the Accomplishing to Scatter For the Protestants making up the Nations and the Time for the Reconciliation of the Nations being come their Scattering or Persecution was to Cease or to be Accomplished How else Reconciled But as if at the same Time God made an Abruption upon what was so promisingly Begun in 97 and put a Reproof into that Prince's Mouth upon the Protestant Princes and in them upon the Nations and even the Churches walking so much beneath the True Spirit of the Reformation and so provoking God to withdraw His mighty Spirit and Presence from the Princes That King thus expresses himself That which I Glory in most of all is the Worship of the true Religion as Authorized by a solemn Treaty under Sovereigns of a Different Faith the Author of so many Graces shews Himself too manifestly not to be Acknowledged and the Visible Characters of his Almighty Hand which they Bear seem to be the Seal he hath Affixed to them to Justify my Intentions Busied from this Time forward in Causing him to be truly Worshipped in all my Dominions In all which I have not the least Regard to the Assumings of that Haughty Monarch in which there is much of the Spirit and Style of the King of Assyria's Letter by Rabshakeh when he ask'd Am I come up without Jehovah All I consider is What of Agreement there can be Found between His Words and the Words of Prophecy As when he saith The Time for the Reconciliation of the Nations is Come a Word of great Extent in Scripture-Sense and Introducting a great Change indeed among the Nations and very Consonant to Scripture Predictions For I have all Reasons of Assurance to Conclude It was so in the First Institution of God and the Treaty of Peace was a Fit Method in Human View to it When the Treaty therefore was Concluded and a Peace so call'd made without Reconciliation of the