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A47362	Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be the present Church of Rome wherein all objections are fully answered : to which is added, the time of the end, or a clear explanation of Scripture prophecies, with the judgment of divers learned men concerning the final ruine of the Romish Church, that it will be in this present age : together with an account of the two witnesses, who they are, with their killing, resurrection & ascention : also an examination and confutation of what Mr. Jurieu hath lately written concerning the effusion of the vials ... : likewise a brief review of D. Tho. Goodwins exposition of the 11th chapter of the Revelations, concerning the witnesses, and of that street in which they should lie slain, proving it to be meant of Great Brittain : and a brief collection of divers strange prophecies, some very antient / by Benj. Keach ... ; to which is annext, a short treatise in two parts : 1. The calculation of Scripture numbers by Scripture only, without the help of humane history, 2. Upon the witnesses, giving light to the whole book.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1689 (1689)	Wing K44; ESTC R19009	133,186	254

and hearts of multitudes and corrupted great part of the World with the Wine of her Fornication even the common sort of people see Rev. 17. 2. And the inhabitants of the Earth have been made drunk with the Wine of her Fornication c. Paral. That Rome Papal or Church of Rome hath not only caused Kings of the Earth and great men to commit fornication with her by dancing after her Pipes in all her mysterious allurements and detestable errors but hath also intoxicated the Minds and Hearts of multitudes and miserably corrupted and bewi●ched great part of the World or common sort of people by her erroneous and wicked doctrine O what a world of poor people hath she a long time deceived and made to commit Spiritual Fornication with her in Italy Germany Poland France Spain Portugal Ireland and lastly in England and Scotland too besides many other Countreys 1. As first Is it not a strange intoxication that such a multitude of the Inhabitants of the Earth should believe that a wicked man should be appointed of God to be the Vicar of Christ as if God had no more regard to the Honour of his own Name and the good of his Church and Dignity of his Son than to substitute a Child of the Devil as all wicked men are to be Vice-gerent to the most holy Jesus in the highest transactions that relate to Heaven and the Souls of Men Surely if God shut Judas out of his Bishoprick for his wickedness tho an Apostle it can't stand consistent with his truth and holiness to set up or allow of a wicked and imperious Pope got up to the highest pinacle of pride and make him the Immediate Deputy and successor of Christ and to impose a Wolf as Shepherd upon the universal Church 2. One who saith that he is an infallible Judge to determine Articles of Faith and indued with power to Impose them upon great Penalties so that as a Lord he hath Dominion over Mens Faith Consciences and Souls too which the Apostles disclaimed 3. Is it not a strange intoxication that such a multitude of poor People should believe that the Church cannot err tho God and Thousands of good Men see and fully know there are not such abominable Errors in Principles nor such villanous Enormities cursed Actions cruel and immoral Practices in the World Nay such that Turks and Infidels do abhor Yet this doctrine that the Church is infallible and cannot err the poor deluded multitude believes and hate nay kill others that oppose it and venture Body and Soul upon it 4. Is it not a strange intoxication that such a multitude of the Inhabitants of the Earth should believe that the Pope tho never so wicked nay a priest tho he be a treacherous villain a contriver of Murther and an abominable Adulterer hath power to absolve his equals and fellow Sinners from all their Sins tho directly committed against God If he come to confession tho the pretended penitent keeps his old evil habit of wickedness still contrary to what God and Jesus Christ in his blessed Word saith where 't is recorded that 't is God alone that forgiveth Sins and blo●●eth out our iniquities and that a man must be born again i. e. the evil habits must be changed and all wicked practices must be forsaken or no forgiveness nor entring into the Kingdom of heaven John 3. 3. 5. Is it not a strange piece of Witchcraft and Intoxication that such a multitude of the inhabitants of the Earth should believe that there is a Purgatory which is no part of Heaven nor Hell and that men may be redeemed out of it with Money tho God saith The redemption of the Soul is precious and ceaseth for ever Psal. 49. i. e. After the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all and that 't is only the Blood of Christ which purges and cleanses from all sin 1 Jo. 1. 9. and that we are not redeemed with corruptible things as Silver and Gold but with the precious Blood of Christ as a Lamb without Blemish and without Spot 6. Is it not a strange Intoxication and a clear demonstration that the Inhabitants of the Earth have drunk of the Wine of this Whores Fornication that such a multitude of poor Souls should believe that a filthy and wicked Priest by speaking a few Words can not only make Bread and Wine sacred but also turn and change the Bread into the real Body and Blood of the Son of God and make whole Christ of a pittyful Wafer-cake by a charm of five Latin words viz. Hoc est enim corpus meum and this transubstantiated Idol they fall down before adore as their Maker anathematizing and cursing all that shall deny this Idol of indignation to be adored with the highest degree of Divine Worship which is proper to God only for she saith 't is her God as she singeth in her Roman Missal Plagas sicut Thomas non intueor Deum tamen meum te confiteor Wounds as Thomas did I not see Yet do I confess thee my God to be In this as one observes they out-do the vanity of the Heathens who thought none was so witless as to believe that that which is eaten is a God yet this God of theirs these Canibals devour even Flesh Blood and Bones in their conceit the poor deluded multitude believieng contrary to their own natural Reason and all their sences that they eat real Flesh when they eat that Wafer-cake the substance nor quality being changed the Form Colour and Taste of Bread remaining after the Words of Consecration 7. Is it not a strange Intoxication that such a multitude of people should believe that evil and idle doctrine of hers viz. that no person how good and pious so ever he be can be saved out of the Pale of their polluted ungodly and devilish Church notwithstanding 't is a great doubt and question whether any member of such a false Church can be saved sith the Holy Scripture saith that no Idolater hath any inheritance in the Kingdom of God and again that If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his mark in his Forehead or in his Hand the same shall drink of the Wine of the wrath of God c. Rev. 14. 9 10. And he shall be tormented with Fire and Brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb c. Besides considering the Scripture directly holdeth forth that all who are born again or truly regenerate shall be saved let them be of what Church they will provided they are sound in the essentials of the Christian Faith and not guilty of Idolatry for certainly the new birth comprehends a change of all such erroneous principles as well as of other evil and corrupt habits and wicked practices 8. Is it not a strange kind of Spiritual Intoxication that such a number of the Inhabitants of the Earth should believe that 't is no Sin

Babylon XIII But further to put it out of all doubt who this Whore is 't is said she was drunk with Blood this is another Mark and Character the Holy Ghost hath given to know her by And I saw a Woman drunk with the Blood of the Saints and the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and I wondered with great admiration Rev. 17. 6. Now if the Church of Rome be guilty here or hath this black Mark and Character upon her she is the unhappiest Church and People in all the World and gives cause enough to Angels as well as to the Apostles and Holy Men to wonder i. e. to see a Woman pretending to be nobly descended the Daughter of the great King of Heaven and Earth the only chast Spouse of the Lamb the Mother of all Peace Holiness and Innocency not only defiled with all those foul and abominable errors Idolatries and detestable pollutions but also guilty of so much Blood of Saints and of the precious blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and not only guilty of Blood but also drunk with Blood yea drunk with such Blood but that this the Church of Rome is guilty of nothing is more clear which indeed gives cause to every good man in the World to abhor her And that we may make this most evidently to appear 1. Consider what it is to be drunk 2. What things do necessarily contribute to it 3. Shew what the true and proper signs of it are 4. Whether such things can be fixed upon the Church of Rome 1. To be drunk is to take in excessively any thing as disorders nature in its course and operations this we take to be a general definition of it including the proper and metaphorical notions thereof 2. Such things as necessarily contribute to it are 1. Great and vehement desire or thirst after it 2. Plenty of the thing thirsted after 3. The greedy taking their fill of it 3. The signs of drunkenness are 1. When the faculties are so disordered that they will not submit to the best Reason that can be given them 2. When they will abuse those whom they are most obliged to love and respect 3. When they have cast off all considerations of their own and others good and for bear no mischief but what they are restrained from by force 4. That these things are evident in the Church of Rome will appear 1. Because she hath shed a Mass a very great Mass of Blood of Saints and of the Martyrs of Jesus who is able to account the numbers of them that she hath murthered in all parts of the Christian World only upon the account of Religion particularly in Bohemia Germany Poland Lithuania France Spain Italy Portugal Low Countrys England Scotland and Ireland 'T is enough to peirce an heart of Stone to hear of the barbarous crueltys and devilish inhumanities exercised for more than five hundred years upon the poor Waldenses and Albingenses by the hands of this Bloody Whore or Romish Harlot besides the wonderful numbers and multitudes of them for according to the account I have met with in History hundreds of Thousands nay some millions of those Godly Christians were most unhumanely butchered by the bloody Papists Children Born of her own Body nay in every street of this great City the Blood of the Saints hath run down like a River were this not notoriously known to the whole World I could give an account of the vast numbers slain in Bohemia in France and in Ireland of late years where there were not fewer than two hundred thousand souls sacrificed to allay the thirst of this Bloudy Whore. So that it is out of dispute she hath the first signs of a most filthy shameless drunken Strumpet i. e. she has been excessive in drinking of innocent Blood and 2. Not only so but she has drunk so much that she is intoxicated and disordered that she would never submit to the best reason that could be given her for she has been so mad that none could disswade her from exercising her cruelties on the Bodies of the Saints whose Blood she thirsted after in as unhumane a manner as incarnate Devils could devise as if to murther them was not sufficient nor could it satisfie her but she would have them die many deaths as hanging by the Feet by the Hands by the middle on a Beam by the Hair of the Head on Tenters pouring melted Lead on their Heads Boiling in Caldrons rosting alive and burning alive The poor Waldenses living in and about the valleys of Piedmont about the year 1560 were most cruelly and barbarously murthered to allay her excessive thirst some were stript stark naked and whip'd to death with Rods of Iron others drawn through the Streets and Burnt with fire brands some thrown down an high Tower and some cut in pieces with sharp Knives fourscore persons had their Throats cut as Butchers kill their Sheep threescore Women were so cruelly rackt that the Cords pierced their Arms and Legs to the Bones and then being cast into Prison they all died except nine of them young Virgins were Ravished in a Barbarous manner until they died Children were pull'd alive out of their Mothers Bellies and the Breasts of many Women cut off so that the Infants died of Famine and many other strange kind of tortures for many years together multitudes of those Godly Waldenses indured And the Albingenses who professed the same doctrine and principles were all along in the like or worse sort and manner if possible butchered in the City of Bezier there were saith my author threescore thousand persons slain the Priests and Fryers going about the Streets in the mean time with Crosses and Banners and singing Te Deum Laudamus in the year 1655 in the Valley of Lucerna and other places this bloody Strumpet thirsting still after the Blood of the Saints and like a filthy drunken wretch caused an Edict to be put forth that such who would not turn Papists within three days must take what would follow and indeed that was bad enough as you may see in Sir Samuel Morelands History of that late Persecution it began Jan. 25. 1655. upon which some Thousands of those poor Souls were forc't to fly for their lives in the depth of Snow when all the Valleys were covered with Water there being amongst them some Women with child others newly delivered some sick and diseased Children crying and lamenting Old Men and Women some decre●it leaning on their Staves all dragged or forc't over the Ice Snow c. with bitter tears sighings cries and wringing of hands beating of Breasts mourning and complaining of the cruelties of those merciless Papists but alas so drunk with Blood before that they like brutes regarded none of their cries no more than the bleating of Sheep but this is not all no sooner that they were forc't from their ha●itations but their houses were pillaged rifled and ransackt of all that was left and this not sufficient neither to

of them as yet poured forth but do believe they shall all be poured out under the seventh Trumpet which contains the third wo and will effect the utter overthrow of the Beasts Kingdom and the setting up the Kingdom of Jesus Christ we shall therefore give you some brief hints of what most of our late Interpreters have said in respect of this matter in order to the doing of this it is not amiss to note unto you the three several periods spoken of in the Book of the Revelations which seems to me to be a Key to open most of those deep Mysteries contained in that wonderful Prophecy First The Seven Seals Second The Seven Trumpets The Third The Seven Vials or seven last Plagues Expositors generally all agree that the six first Seals contained those Judgments of God executed upon the Heathen or Pagan Emperours which fell out and was wholly accomplished in the space of three hundred or three hundred and ten years or thereabouts after Christ and so as some conceive brought in the first Wo. The seventh Seal according to the late famous Peter Jurieu a French Writer and some others produced or brought in the Seven Trumpets and brings the events even to the last Judgments the first Trumpet not being sounded until the seventh Seal was opened so that these Seven Seals as he observes are like six Branches that shoot forth from the Body of a Tree with a seventh great Branch which it self became a great Arm and shoots forth into seven other Branches which are the seven Trumpets Secondly The six first Trumpets contain the Judgments of God upon the World under the Arian Apostate Persecuters and the bringing in the Antichristian state i. e. the Beast or man of Sin and Mystery Babylon with the Mahometan Monarchy together with the death or slaying of the Witnesses of Christ which lasteth for a long series of time at least as some conceive 1300 and odd years and compleats the second Wo. Thirdly The seventh Trumpet some wise and understanding men of late do conclude produces the seven Vials and seven last plagues which they do not think any of them as yet are poured forth but will gradually effect the utter overthrow of the Papal Church containing the intire Judgments or wrath of God upon the Beast and Babylon and therefore called the seven last Plagues and so let in the Third Wo. Upon the Antichristian World and brings in the glory of the latter day or Kingdom of Christ if this may be admitted we may very well say that the Seven Seals contained in them the whole events of things from the time that St. John received his Revelation to the end of all Gods Mysteries there spoken of but then you must observe the rule we have noted and this seems to me the clearest and best exposition I can arrive to the knowledge of who have laboured according to that light and understanding God hath given me to find out the Mysteries contained in this Book for near 30 years last past though I dare not be positive that none of the Vials are yet poured out knowing what has been said by our able expositers to the contrary some of which I shall here mention and their arguments upon which they build their conceptions amongst those that say the three first Vials are poured forth are these following First Mr. Joseph Mede Dr. More Du Moulin Mr. Durham De Launay Dr. Goodwin and many others the first Vial they say was poured forth by the faithful Ministers of Christ at the first reformation before Luthers time and that grievous sore that fell upon the Antichristian state was the discovery of the abominable Idolatry of the Romish Clergy together with that hatred of them for their odious impure lives The Second Vial some of them affirm was poured forth by the Preaching of Luther and those worthy Witnesses of Christ in his days The Third Vial was poured forth according to their Judgments by other worthy Ministers signified by the third Angel who rose up in the Church after Luthers time who in some things had more light and partly also by laws made against Popery in the days of Queen Elizabeth c. Mr. Mede and Dr. More seem to agree in this as likewise do our late Annotators read them on Rev. 16. The Fourth Vial they as well as Dr. Goodwin seem to hint we are under which is said to be poured forth upon the Sun which the Dr. concludes p. 99. to mean either the Emperor or King of Spain or both they being of the same house of Austria Mr. Parkins long before hinted that by the Sun did mean some Protestant Prince in Germany who should have some of this Vial poured forth upon him by the Popish party but being provoked thereby afterwards he should rise again and like the Sun scorch them with his heat but the Dr. rather inclines to Mr. Mede and Dr. More But to proceed our late French Author Peter Jurieu positively affirms that six of the Vials are already poured forth and that we are under the seventh which will effect the final ruin of the Papistry or Church of Rome if I mistake him not one reason why he doth thus believe is because the Vials signifie seven periods of time which ought to be distinguisht one from another 2 part p. 68 69. as the seven Seals and seven Trumpets did signify seven periods which succeeded one another and he concludes that the periods described by every Vial are each of them more than one age so that saith he if there is but two or three of them yet to be poured out we shall have four or five hundred years to come before Antichrists Kingdom comes to an end which I do not find him to give any convincing demonstration to make appear tho' I cannot but say he seems to be a person of good understanding in many respects touching these great Mysteries contained in the Book of the Apocalypse moreover he distinguishes between the Vials and Plagues viz. saying the Vial signifies the Period of time the Plague signifying the Judgment of God which falls out during the Period which if it be granted yet why must every Period contain a 100 years or at least as he intimates 50 years or 70 the first Plague of the 7. he fixes to the 10 Century in respect of the dismal corruption of the Popedom in that age p. 79. the first Vial was poured out saith he upon the Earth i. e. upon the whole Globe for Earth contains both dry and moist the corruption of manners was spread over the Head and the Members over the whole Papal seat and all its subjects but saith he the Second Vial is poured out only upon the Waters the Sea and Rivers i. e. upon the people of the Antichristian Empire or upon the different Nations Tribes and Languages the Waters of the Sea were turned into Blood and every living Soul died What more native and lively representation saith

Monarch This has been Printed several years Nostradamus predicts THAT Rome shall be ruled by the Britanish head That the new Prince that joins the lower and Northern Countries of Europe shall be the instrument of loss to the Church of Rome And that the Bishop of Rome together with his Clergy except they shew themselves willing to be reformed shall be made to spit Blood when the Rose shall flourish That of the Trojan Blood shall spring a Prince of a doughty Dutch Heart who shall attain to so high a degree that he shall chase far away the Arabick or Mahometan multitude and likewise return to the Church her Ancient Eminency and Sincerity I leave every man to his own liberty to Judge of those predictions as he pleases I always lookt upon such kind of Prophesies as doubtful and no certain conclusions to be drawn from them A Postscript Giving an Account of the Judgment of a late nameless French Author concerning the Non-offusion of the seven Vials with his Answer to Mr. Jurieu JUst as I had quite finished this Treatise I met with a Book lately writ by another worthy French Minister intituled A new Systeme of the Apocalypse who asserts the Non-effusion of the Vials proving that none of the 7 Vials or last Plagues as yet are poured out with an answer to Mr. Jurieu which Author I am not a little affected with and therefore have thought good to add some short hints of the most remarkable passages contained in it about our present Controversie First Of the Harvest and Vintage The Harvest he says signifies those initial Judgments which were executed by means of the Reformation begun in the last Age by the ministry of Luther Zuinglius c. p. 91. to which I cannot agree because I judge the Harvest is not ripe until the end of the 42 Months and signifies more and greater ruin to the Beast and his Kingdom than was effected then or till this time 2. The Vintage he says signifies a definitive Judgment which shall ruin the Papal Empire beyond recovery and to begin at the beginning of the end of ●he 42 Months I conclude the Harvest comes in at ●he beginning of the 7 Vials and the Vintage at the ●●tter part of them Secondly As to the opening of the Temple and of the Smoke c. He says the opening of the Temple alludes to the Church of the Jews which was shut up under ●haz and opened under Hezekiah From hence he notes three things 1. That the Vials belong to this state of the Church wherein Antichrist is made manifest and wherein there shineth a measure of light in the Church 2. That the Vials are all contained under the 7th Trumpet 3. The Temple is not only here represented open in order to give passage to the 7 Angels that pour out the Vials but to give way for all Nations to enter in according as it is said v. 4. That all Nations shall come and worship before God. The smoke that filled the Temple answereth to the Cloud that covered the Tabernacle of Moses and the divine glory the Smoke was a Symbol of Gods gracious presences in the midst of Israel and so signifieth Gods return to his Temple or the glory of the Church 't is added No man was able to enter into the Temple till the 7 Plagues of the 7 Angels were fulfilled which inmateth that tho' the time of the destruction of the Churches Enemies draweth near and the time wherein the Gospel shall shine bright in the World yet that the Gospel will not be universally received till after the subversion of Babylon which will not be until the Vials have been poured out yet some are ready to think the fulfilling of the 7 Plagues c. alludes to the fulfilling of the time of their first pouring out and not till they are all poured out Of the 7 Trumpets 7 Thunders and 3 Woes As touching the 7 Seals and 7 Trumpets he much agrees with our Expositors he concludes the first Woe fell out under the 4th and 5th Trumpets take his own words St. John tells us c. 8. 13. that he heard an Angel flying through the midst of Heaven saying with a loud voice Woe woe woe to the Inhabitants of the Earth by reason of the Trumpets that are yet to sound After the sounding of the 5th Trumpet St. John adds One woe is past and behold there come two more hereafter One of these two woes fell undoubtedly out under the 6th Trumpet under which Mahometanism and the Turkish Army destroyed the whole East and therefore the third woe must come to pass under the seventh and last Trumpet That all the Vials saith he being contained under the 3d woe they are yet to be poured out foras much as we are this year 1687. still under the sixth Trumpet and groaning under the pressure of the 2d woe So that here we have a new proof that all the Vials from the first to the last are yet to be poured out for as much as the Vials are no other thing than the 7 Thunders which are spoken of Rev. 10. and indeed the Thunders are 7 in number as well as the Vials are and as the Thunders do signifie the Judgments of God against the Enemies of the Church so the Vials do signifie the same in that by them the wrath of God is to be consummated Moreover the things threatned by the Thunders are delayed from being executed until the sounding of the 7th Trumpet and therefore were to be sealed up until the Mysteries of God should be finished which in my judgment means the whole of the Beasts 42 Months which agrees with what he further says p. 249. The Mysteries of God saith he is the bringing in of the Kingdom of Christ and the uniting of all Christians from whence that peace of the Church shall arise and if there be any difference between the Vials and the Thunders it consisteth only in this viz. the Thunders are the denunciation of the Judgments of God and the Vials are the execution of them for tho' the Thunders were heard by St. John under the 6th Trumpet yet they were not to be executed till under the 7th when all the Vials shall be poured out He then proceeds to speak his conjectures about the pouring out of all the 7 Vials 1. On the earth which he thinks intends the Joss of Church Revenues and so falls upon the Worldly and Carnal Interest of Antichristian men let the Carnal Earthly and Self-seeking Prelates and Clergy look to it 2. Vial upon the Sea c. The Sea he says is the Papal Kingdom in this he agrees with reverend Mr. Knowles In its uttermost extent not only the Countrey where the Pope is Soveraign but likewise all those Princes who acknowledge him and this Empire shall become as the blood of a dead man c. So that every Soul which liveth in it shall die That is saith he the government of Popish Princes shall not be able