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<HEAD>A mo&s;t Humble REPRESENTATION In a Further Review, ERECTING <HI>A Pillar of Prai&s;e,</HI> In acknowledgement of what GOD hath been plea&s;ed to Do in this La&s;t Remarkable Year.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">WITH Rea&s;ons from thence of Expectation of a <HI>Happy Revolution</HI> in the Ri&s;ing of the Suffering <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> of Chri&s;t, or <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> &amp;c. The Fall of the <HI>Papal</HI> and <HI>Ottoman</HI> State, and the Beginning of the <HI>Kingdom of Chri&s;t</HI> in the World, &s;peedily to be brought to pa&s;s by the <HI>Stone cut out of the Mountains not in</HI> Human <HI>hands,</HI> but to become Him&s;elf a Great Mountain, filling <HI>the whole Earth.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Am mo&s;t &s;en&s;ible, The great Events, I hoped this la&s;t Year, have not had their Complement; and that therefore, The Cen&s;ures of many are very &s;evere upon me, according to the great Rigor of Human Nature upon it &s;elf in this Degeneracy of it.</P>
<P>But upon the Review of the whole Year, and the Events of it, which mu&s;t needs be ac|knowledged to be very Extraordinay Ones; and the particular Times, in which the <HI>Divine Providence</HI> did advance them, I find great Rea&s;on of Encouragement; For it plea&s;ed the great LORD of <HI>Time,</HI> through Grace in <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> the Mediator of His Churches Times, the Great <HI>Palmoni,</HI> or Wonderful Numberer of Time; the Supreme <HI>Apocalyptes,</HI> to whom God gave that Illu&s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s <HI>Prophecy</HI> of the <HI>New Te&s;tament; The Revelation;</HI> to direct me in a Paper publi&s;hed in the Fifth Month, called, <HI>July</HI> to the mo&s;t particular. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="5 letters">&s;e Times of the greate&s;t of Events this La&s;t Year, in both, <HI>Old,</HI> and <HI>New-Stile.</HI></P>
<P>The times I fix'd upon, were, the Month of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> from the 15th to the end of the Month; the 1&s;t of <HI>September</HI> the Ancient <HI>Fea&s;t</HI> of <HI>Trumpets;</HI> the 10th of <HI>September,</HI> the Day of <HI>Jubilee;</HI> the <HI>Fea&s;t</HI> of <HI>Tabernacles</HI> from the 15th to the 22th of the &s;ame Month.</P>
<P>Accordingly on the 22th of <HI>Augu&s;t, Old-Stile,</HI> ju&s;t on the Time of the Ce&s;&s;ation of the <HI>Em|pire of Rome</HI> in the <HI>We&s;t,</HI> (as was more fully &s;et out in that Paper) and in <HI>New-Stile, Sep|tember</HI> the 1st, the <HI>Fea&s;t</HI> of <HI>Trumpets;</HI> The <HI>French</HI> King comes forth, taking upon him&s;elf as a <HI>Cae&s;ar-Augustus,</HI> or <HI>&V;niver&s;al Monarch,</HI> to <HI>&s;hut the Temple of</HI> Janus in an <HI>&V;niver&s;al Peace,</HI> or, as he &s;poke, <HI>Giving Repo&s;e to Eu|rope.</HI></P>
<P>On the &s;ame 22th of <HI>Augu&s;t, Old-Style,</HI> and <HI>September</HI> the 1st <HI>New-Style,</HI> the <HI>Imperial</HI> Armies were in motion towards the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Forces, and on the 31th <HI>Old-Style,</HI> That &s;o extraordinary and monumental Victory was obtained over the <HI>Grand Signior</HI> and his <HI>Ba&s;haws.</HI></P>
<P>On the 10th of <HI>September, Old-Style,</HI> the 20.
<PB N="2" REF="2">of <HI>September, New-Style;</HI> the <HI>Articles</HI> of <HI>Peace</HI> were Sign'd at <HI>Ri&s;wick.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e Things came to pa&s;s at the very times of this Year, that had been Foretold (as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ath been &s;aid) in that Paper; which, as it may be &s;ubject to Cen&s;ure becau&s;e Things have not ri&s;en to that h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, yet ought to be con|&s;idered and ju&s;tify'd, in what the Year hath at|tained in &s;uch Determinate Times for Events; That though not to the highe&s;t them&s;elves, yet <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ontain within them&s;elves the Seeds, Begin|nings, and Principle, or the&s;e Highe&s;t, and are the Pledges, Earne&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and A&s;&s;urances of them; As the Peace, which the <HI>French</HI> King takes upon him&s;elf to have given, imports (however he under&s;tand it not the Re&s;ignation of <HI>&V;ni|ver&s;al Monarch;</HI> and the <HI>&V;niver&s;al Peace</HI> of the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rce of Peace:</HI> The <HI>Mabo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">etan Ottoman</HI> De|f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t a&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">es the pa&s;&s;ing aw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y of the <HI>&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ond <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o.</HI> viz. Of the <HI>Ottoman lyranny;</HI> and That <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> coming to an end, and none to help him; His <HI>Day. Hour, Month, Year,</HI> being expired, and the Kingdom of Chri&s;t immedi|ately ready to &s;ucceed; and therefore, the <HI>Pa|pacy,</HI> on which it is a Judgment, certainly to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ad with it.</P>
<P>And though I do not pretend to have affixt the following Events to their proper Points and Times; They are yet great Events of this Year, that ought to be Recorded as &s;o. The <HI>Ar|ticles</HI> of <HI>Peace,</HI> with the Empire, after a time of Su&s;pen&s;ion, holding the <HI>Peace</HI> at &s;ome incer|tainly, were accepted by the Emperor, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lob.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">. and Signed <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v.</HI> the 1&s;t. <HI>New Style,</HI> and Remarkably &s;o, as it <HI>Divine Providence</HI> would Note the <HI>Half <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e,</HI> or an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Years pa&s;t, &s;ince The <HI>Reformation</HI> by <HI>Luther</HI> more illu&s;tri|ou&s;ly &s;hew'd it &s;elf in the Empire; who affix'd his <HI>Antipapi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ed Po&s;itions</HI> to the Church-doors at <HI>Winemberg</HI> the &s;ame <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">bob.</HI> 31. for the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">re of the <HI>Popi&s;h high All-&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">irts Day</HI> following, to be thereby made of the mo&s;t Publick Noteri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ty in the <HI>Empire;</HI> and it gives great Hopes, &s;ome great Intentions of <HI>Providence,</HI> for the Glory of His Go&s;pel in the <HI>Reformation,</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ngdom</HI> in the Empire, are laid up in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Peace.</P>
<P>This Year hath produced a very ob&s;ervable App<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ance of the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">zir</HI> of <HI>Mu&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ovia.</HI> and in a Victoriou&s;ne&s;s over the <HI>Ottoman S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iory,</HI> as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">iar</HI> (as we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tile<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">em) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> out of their I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">norance, Bar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="5 letters">, Sla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ry, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ording to <HI>preph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">;</HI> of which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Prince i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a <HI>i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t Fruits,</HI> and the m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">re for his co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="5 letters"> into &s;o cle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r an Air of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> in this Nation; and whene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">r That doth come to pa&s;s, I am In<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">allibly cer|tain. the Great City <HI>Rome</HI> &s;hall be ready to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
<P>But That, which in the la&s;t place, but with a Primary Intention, I Record as a great Event of this Year 97. is, That, though It is much to be Lamented, The <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Intere&s;t could not be comprehended in the Peace; and that the <HI>Herodian</HI> Spirit hath appeared in a time of Univer&s;al Peace, which &s;laughtered the Infants at one time, and at another time <HI>&s;treached forth its hand</HI> on the Chri&s;tian Church to vex and to kill; So a Per&s;ecutory Spirit hath even, &s;ince the Peace, raged in the <HI>French Monarch:</HI> A great Remove from the Magnanimity of Chri&s;tian or Princely Com|pa&s;&s;ion, that would over&s;low at &s;uch a time to|wards all. Oh that there were a due &s;en&s;e of it among Prote&s;tants, that are at ea&s;e; and that &s;olemn Fa&s;ting and Prayer, without cea&s;ing. were made for &s;uch Sufferers; <HI>For why &s;hould there be Wrath agairst Protestant Princes, Chur|ches and Nations!</HI> Who would not bewail, That <HI>Protestancy,</HI> our greate&s;t Priviledge, Glo|ry, and Enjoyment, &s;hould be puni&s;h'd on them as their only Crime! But I cannot but hope that God hath been plea&s;ed to &s;uffer it, that it might be made Evident, that the Suffering Prote&s;tant; beyond the Seas, who at this time, <HI>Keep the Commandments of God,</HI> and <HI>Hold the Faith of Je&s;us,</HI> are tho&s;e <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> of God, in whom God is plea&s;ed at this time, as in an <HI>Epitome,</HI> or Summary, to draw up the &s;uffer|ings of all the Confe&s;&s;ors, and <HI>Martyrs</HI> under the <HI>Papacy,</HI> and <HI>Antichristian Apostacy</HI> for &s;o ma|ny Hundreds of Years, before their Full, and Compleat Ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ng, and the op<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ning of his King|dom. There is therefore a perfect <HI>Sciagraphy,</HI> or plat-form of the <HI>Apocalyptick Vi&s;ion,</HI> cap. 11. in their pre&s;ent Ca&s;e and State.</P>
<P>They lye, at this time, in a Large <HI>Bredth of the Great City,</HI> the <HI>Roman Artichristian Church,</HI> viz. The Empire, In which the Refor|mation h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">an; and more e&s;pecially in <HI>France,</HI> whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;o many Dread<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">l Scenes of their Ma&s;&s;a|cres, and Per&s;ecutions have heretofore been pre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed; and in <HI>Pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t</HI> and <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rcoy,</HI> where They have been (as many Faithful Hi&s;torians witne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> continued by an uninterrupted &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ion of &s;o many Hundred Years, as will make up the 1260. in the pure Profe&s;&s;ion of the Go&s;pel; and However Per&s;ecuted, they have been pre&s;erved, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> his <HI>bu&s;h,</HI> burn|ing, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> not confirmed; Now in this very Year, They <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> this Breadth <HI>lye dead,</HI> (but as was &s;aid e&s;pecially in <HI>France</HI>) &amp; under <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">athemaes,</HI> Pro|&s;cription, Edicts for D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and Bani&s;hment, Able <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ion to the <HI>Gallies;</HI> their Te&s;timony to Chri&s;tianity, and their Sufferings, as it were Vying one with another.</P>
<P>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ey of the Popi&s;h People, and Kindreds
<PB N="3" REF="2">and Tongues, and Nations, have by their <HI>Ple|nipotentiaries looked upon their Dead Bodies</HI> to the purpo&s;e, and determined they &s;hould lye Dead: and the <HI>Protestant Plenipoteniaries</HI> have beheld them dead, and profe&s;&s;ed they could not help them.</P>
<P>They cannot yet be <HI>Buried,</HI> in Regard of God's Gracious Bearing up of their Spirits with Renewed Re&s;olution, to keep up their Faith to Chri&s;t in the mid'&s;t of &s;o great Cru|eky upon them; and further, There are &s;uch great Kingdoms, and States, that <HI>standing up|on their feet;</HI> that is, &s;ub&s;i&s;ting upon their own Strength. Authority, Laws, and Govern|ment; Avow the &s;ame Profe&s;&s;ion publickly, in defiance of <HI>Papal Powers,</HI> whatever, and &s;o are called <HI>Protestants,</HI> or open Avowed <HI>Wit|ne&s;&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>They that <HI>dwell upon the Earth;</HI> The Popi&s;h Princes, and States, The <HI>Eccle&s;iasti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k Head,</HI> which the Scripture calls The <HI>Bea&s;t,</HI> as the <HI>I|mage</HI> of Ancient Empire, have &s;ent their Compliments of Congratulation and Joy, and their Gifts, and Pre&s;ents, one to another, upon the &s;uppre&s;&s;ed State of <HI>Prote&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ncy</HI> &s;o far, as they have attained; and what Alliances they are forming further, if the <HI>Stone cut out of the Mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ontains</HI> &s;hould not &s;urpri&s;e them, Time would Di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">over: And that they may think them&s;elves more &s;ecure, &amp; That they are &s;till to continue. Providence hath given them the re|turns into that <HI>Adulterous B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t,</HI> of one of the <HI>German El<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lors,</HI> in the Cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t and Territories of who&s;e Predece&s;&s;ors, Prote&s;tancy had its fir&s;t Protection; that <HI>babylon</HI> may &s;ay, <HI>I &s;it a Queen, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> no Widow, and &s;hall &s;ee to &s;orrow, and that &s;o, Her Plagues may come in one hour.</HI> For therefore I Record the&s;e as &s;ignal Events of this Year, becau&s;e I look upon all the&s;e as &s;igns at the Time, God hath ordained, when the <HI>&s;pi|rit of Life f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> God &s;mall enter unto the Witne&s;&s;es;</HI> their whole tim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of 126<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Years of <HI>Sa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">loth Prophecy</HI> being expired; and their pre&s;ent po|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">are, &s;uch as Prophecy hath de&s;cribed it at their Ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing and Deliverance.</P>
<P>But it is y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> a mo&s;t Remarkable Event of this Year. That God hath been plea&s;ed, this Year, by the <HI>Peace,</HI> to place it, as an <HI>Honour,</HI> upon the King, as <HI>Prince of Orange,</HI> to provide <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at His Principality, as a Sanctuary; that his Witne&s;&s;es there may not only <HI>not be buried,</HI> but not &s;o much as <HI>lye Dead;</HI> but their Profe&s;&s;ion <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> born up there, when in Regard of the Seve|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ty of the Pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">tion they <HI>lye Dead</HI> in other <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rts of that Nation. And in Regard, it is a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">toration of the Kingdoms of <HI>Protestancy,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> before the Peace, had e|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> of the <HI>Kingdom</HI> of <HI>France;</HI> It bears the face of a <HI>Re&s;urrection;</HI> and the Return of their <HI>Four Fastors</HI> thither in &s;o &s;olemn a manner, out of their Impri&s;onment at <HI>Lyons,</HI> as is related in their Letter<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Mont<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Accou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Mont<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> led Fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ary.</NOTE> to the <HI>Pastor</HI> of the <HI>Walloon</HI> Congregation at <HI>Rotterdam,</HI> (I hope mo&s;t Authentick) carries the very Type of a <HI>Spirit of Life from God, entring into them, &s;et|ting them on their</HI> Feet, and <HI>A Voice from Hea|ven, &s;aying, Come up hither,</HI> Their <HI>Enemies be|holding them;</HI> and many Papi&s;ts &s;o moved, as <HI>to give Glory to the God of Heaven</HI> by Conver&s;i|on to <HI>Protestancy.</HI> All which, is both an Ear|ne&s;t, and pledge, and A&s;&s;urance of the <HI>Re|&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es</HI> in general, &s;peedily to go on; And one may even &s;ay, They have begun to Ri&s;e; and I cannot but hope, hereby God hath made the King, whom the Enemies have called in contempt, <HI>Prince of Orange,</HI> The <HI>Prince of Orange le Grand!</HI> and on this very Account, as on others, <HI>A Signet in God's own Right Hand.</HI></P>
<P>But it ought not to be omitted, that God hath been plea&s;ed by a Spirit from him&s;elf, now in the Clo&s;e of the Year, to &s;et a further mark of Honour upon it; the Unanimous Ad|dre&s;s of the <HI>Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons</HI> for the Honour of <HI>Jehovah,</HI> in a Reformed Nation and accepted with &s;uch a Zealous Chearfulne&s;s by the King in &s;o great a <HI>Proclamation:</HI> This is, I hope, laid up, as Scripture expre&s;&s;es it, as a <HI>Memorial</HI> before <HI>the Lord in his Temple,</HI> for the Glory of the King, and Parliament, in his approaching Kingdom; It being a Te&s;timony for God unparallel'd, &s;ince what is &s;tiled, <HI>The Re&s;toration;</HI> and looks as if tho&s;e earne&s;t Motions for Reformation, that have been at any time before, &s;ince the <HI>Reformation</HI> from <HI>Popery,</HI> were Reviving by joint Supreme Authority, near to <HI>The Re&s;titution of all things.</HI></P>
<P>Now, by way of Reflection upon all the&s;e Imp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="5 letters">, of Divine Providence, upon this Year <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> which being &s;o many, and all clear Matter of Fact, cannot be &s;uppo&s;ed to be by chance. I cannot but Remon&s;trate; That tho' Thing are not A&s;cended to the H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hs I had hoped and expected, yet, it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">not be denied, God hath not left this Year <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;titute, Naked, or <HI>without Witne&s;s</HI> from Him&s;elf, and that He hath, in an Eminency, Graced tho&s;e very particular Times in this Year, I had &s;ingled out, as de&s;igned, by Prophecy, for En|gravings upon with Effects of Divine Power, and Goodne&s;e.</P>
<P>Now, whatever hath come to pa&s;s this Year, of &s;o great Remark, and &s;o ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">able to Prophecy, de&s;erves &s;ome of that <HI>Ast<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k</HI> upon
<PB N="4" REF="3">and Re&s;urrection, and of the <HI>Mi&s;&s;ion</HI> of the Holy Spirit, Remarking it <HI>That Year,</HI> and <HI>That &s;ame Year,</HI> on occa&s;ion of that &s;o Memorable Prophecy of <HI>Caiaphas,</HI> their High-Prie&s;t that Year, as Productive of it, and Impelling it: In like manner the&s;e things have come to pa&s;s, this Great Prophetick Year 97. b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cau&s;e <HI>This &s;ame Year.</HI></P>
<P>And as In a Wonderful Re&s;emblance of <HI>Caiaphas,</HI> and his Prophecy, I cannot but look upon that <HI>Oracular</HI> Acknowledgment of the <HI>French King,</HI> as what he was Impell'd to, on the Account of his being permitted, and &s;o far upheld by Providence, to take upon him|&s;elf, as an <HI>&V;niver&s;al Monarch</HI> in the Peace, <HI>This &s;ame Year.</HI> He Writing to the Arch-Bi|&s;hop of <HI>Paris,</HI> in de&s;ire of the Popi&s;h <HI>le Deum,</HI> as a Thank&s;giving for the Peace with the Em|peror: Thus begins: <HI>CO&V;SIN, THE TIME, WHICH HEAVEN HAD ORDAIN'D, FOR THE RECONCILIATION OF THE NATIONS IS COME.</HI> I hope This is Prophetical of the Reconciliation of all Nations by the <HI>Kingdo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> of the <HI>Prince</HI> of <HI>Peace.</HI></P>
<P>How, therefore, God will plea&s;e to promote the&s;e Beginnings, thro' this following Year 1698. (Being very po&s;itive the 1260 Years of the Delay of the Kingdom of Chri&s;t there ex|pired) <HI>viz.</HI> Beginning at the <HI>Apocalyptick Epoch,</HI> the time of our Lord's Re&s;urrection, A&s;cen&s;ion, and Mi&s;&s;ion of his Spirit; Down to the time of the Ce&s;&s;ation of the <HI>Roman</HI> Empire; Month the 6th; Then on the <HI>Feast of Trumpets, Ju|bilee,</HI> and <HI>Feast of Tabernacles</HI> in the 7th Month; I will not <HI>Pronounce,</HI> but Humbly <HI>Wait</HI> with greate&s;t Hope, and Expectation from Him, who <HI>Magni&s;ies his Word a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ove All his Name.</HI></P>
<P>For I am humbly Con&s;cious to my &s;elf, whatever Thoughts Any may have, I have not Ra&s;hly, or Rudely, &s;eiz'd on the Time of the La&s;t, and of this Year, as the Time of the Great Revolution I expect for the <HI>King|dom of Christ;</HI> but I have, through the Grace of the <HI>Wonderful Numberer,</HI> and through His Redemption, extending it &s;elf to every Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> of His Kingdom, that is <HI>the Kingdom of Re|demption;</HI> drawn a <HI>Line of Time.</HI> according to the Scriptures, made Illu&s;trious with the greate&s;t Events that have been known in the World; coming down to this very Time from <HI>Solo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="5 letters">.</HI> Death, the very Time where <HI>Pro|phetical <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e</HI> begins, and goes in a &s;trait Line <GAP DESC="foreign"> or expre&s;ly, for the &s;pace of &s;even 390's, or 2730. Years, <HI>viz.</HI> the Changes made upon the Ancient People of God, the <HI>Ten Tribes of</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and the <HI>Kingdom of</HI> Judah, in their &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>De&s;olation;</HI> the <HI>Babylonian, Per&s;ian</HI> and Gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> <HI>Monarchies;</HI> the <HI>Roman Empire,</HI> and the Gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Changes, and Revolution of it; which in re|gard of the coming of the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah, His De<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Re&s;urection,</HI> and <HI>A&s;cen&s;ion the Mi&s;&s;ion of the Spirit,</HI> and the <HI>Preaching</HI> of the <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> to the <HI>Gentiles</HI> falling within it; is of all other the mo&s;t Remarkable (next to that of <HI>I&s;rael</HI>) Subject of <HI>Prophecy</HI> in the <HI>Old,</HI> and <HI>New Te&s;tament;</HI> and hath dependent upon it be Great Revolution of &s;o great a part of the World coming under the Name of Je&s;us Chri&s;t But imediately attended with the Black and Dark <HI>Eclips</HI> of <HI>Antichri&s;tiani&s;m,</HI> Styled very ju&s;tly <HI>Romani&s;m;</HI> The time of which <HI>Pro|phecy</HI> is &s;o Intent upon, as to have given ten times the exact mea&s;ure of, and in all kinds of Characters: On which Follow the Dreadful Judgments of God in Revenge of &s;uch a Traterous Undermine of his <HI>Kingdom;</HI> In letting out the <HI>Barbarous Nations</HI> to Ra|vage upon <HI>Rome,</HI> and to Break in peices <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Empire</HI> into Ten (or a variety of) <HI>King|doms,</HI> Intoxicated into <HI>Papal</HI> Subjection; Then came <HI>Mahometari&s;m</HI> with it <HI>Two W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> the <HI>Saracens</HI> and the <HI>Turki&s;h Ottoman</HI> Power, which hath &s;eated it &s;elf in the Room of the <HI>Grecian Empire,</HI> and in it's very <HI>Atr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">|lis,</HI> or at <HI>Con&s;tantinople;</HI> All which is become a very great part of the <HI>History</HI> of the <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ter Times;</HI> And &s;ince that, The <HI>Reform<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> by <HI>Luther</HI> which hath made &s;o great a Change in the <HI>Papal</HI> State, and the Kingdomes of <HI>E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|rope</HI> in General. Now all the&s;e, I have &s;o Adju&s;ted to their mo&s;t Lively <HI>Types</HI> in <HI>Pro|phecy,</HI> and to their mo&s;t exact Scituation, in what I look upon to be the Expre&s;s <HI>Prophetic Line of Time,</HI> or <HI>Prophetic Chronology;</HI> And with &s;uch Atte&s;tation; of General <HI>Hi&s;tory,</HI> and <HI>Chro|nology,</HI> (e&s;pecially in &s;ome mo&s;t Eminent Joynts of Time) &s;o undoubted as thereby to a&s;&s;ure in what may &s;eem more Dark and Doubtful; and all to this day, That I am &s;ure, The mo&s;t Learn|ed and Sagatious cannot draw &s;uch another <HI>Line,</HI> &s;o Ju&s;tly &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ved, and &s;o &s;upported.</P>
<P>But however, or whenever The&s;e things &s;hall appear, I will not Fail Ince&s;&s;antly to Cry out with the <HI>Spirit</HI> and the <HI>Bride,</HI> and to provoke <HI>him that heareth to &s;ay, <HI>Come Lord Je&s;us, Come quickly in thy Kingdom.</HI></HI></P>
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