AN APOLOGY For the Hope of the Kingdom of Christ, Appearing Within This Approaching Year, 1697.  
Wherein some of the Principal Arguments for such an Expectation are briefly Couched, and the Greater Objections Answered.  
Presented to the Notice and Examination of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops Now in PARLIAMENT Assembled.  
By T. BEVERLEY.  ●zek. 10. 13. As concerning the Wheels, It was cried to them, in my Hearing, Oh! Revolution! 
LONDON: Printed for, and Sold by Will. Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-Street, and John Marshal at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street, 1697.   

An APOLOGY for the Hope of the Kingdom of Christ, Entering Its Succession within this Now Beginning 1697. And an Answer of Principal Objections presented with It.  
To the Archbishops and Bishops, as in Parliament at This Time Assembled.  
Most Reverend, Right Reverend,  
I Have now, by the Space of Fourteen, or Two Weeks of Years, been Serving for that Beautiful- Rachel-State of the Church of Christ, in the place of that Rachel in the Wilderness, weeping for her Children in Sackcloth, and under Death; and would not be comforted, Because They were not. I have set myself all along, by Meditation, and Supplication to the Father of Lights, to search out, and by the Assistance of the Spirit of Prophecy, to Find, What, or What Manner of Time the Spirit of Christ did signify, for the Fullfilling that Grand Petition of his Servants; Thy Kingdom come, That thy Name may be Sanctified, and Thy Will done, as in Heaven, and upon Earth; and I am now Wrestling to the Break of Day, and I Hope, the Dawn of the Morning, and Resolved, not to Let Go, Till I obtain the Blessing of it.  
The Time, that from the First, and throughout, it pleased the Lord of Time to fix upon my Mind, as the Time of That Kingdom Entering into its Succession, and Preparation for its Glory, was, and is, This Approaching 1697. A Year, to which I could have no Temptation, either in Regard of Nearness, or Distance, or on any Account whatever, but as a Scripture-Line of Time, and Concurrent Reasons of Prophecy, and History, very many, and in a Series, and Continuation have Led me.  
On this Foundation, having Settled, I have by Gracious Vouchsafements of Help from God, Turned myself to All the Grand Prophetic Points of Scripture▪ and Found New Confirmations, and have Given as Public Accounts of them, as I could attain, and presented some of Them to Yourselves, and to the Great Council of the Nation: And in as much as Supreme Goodness hath Granted me to Set up an Eben Ezer, now at the Portal of 97. I have Thought it my Duty to offer this Apology for the Kingdom of Christ so near Approaching; And that The Great Isaac, The Son of Promise, of Universal Laughter and Rejoicing, The Desire of all Nations will Appear at a Set Time this Next Year, the very Last of those Three Set Seasons, Time, Times, Half Time; Eleven Times expressly, or Virtually Recorded in Scripture Prophecy; and therefore I can have no Doubt; But in the observing These so often Repetitions, Remarking close upon Them, and on what Accounts They are Recalled, and to what Applied; and Balancing These, One with Another, I have Arrived to Full Assurance, They are Assigned to the Papal Last State of the Roman Monarchy, the Last of the Four Kingdoms, or Monarchies (and the Four) now Expiring in the Expiration of These Times and Half.  
Indeed I look upon no Truth of Scripture to be more Plain and Certain, except the Articles of Faith, and Rules of Holy Practice necessary to Salvation, Then that Those Four Monarchies are given as a Calendar of Time for the Embarrassment of the Kingdom of Christ, or that Glorious State of Christianity, which even the Prayers, styled, Established by Law, oblige the Belief, Desire, and Expectation of: Scripture takes therefore so particular Notice of the Four, viz. the Babylonian, and Persian; as is well known; and Takes Account of Their Time; of the Grecian more obscurely; Yet the very New Testament, in that Language, and the so often Division of the People of that Time, into Jews and Greeks, is a very undoubted Owning Them, as one of the Monarchies; Out of which, through a Great Part of the 70 Weeks, the State of the World had been sliding into the Fourth, the Roman Monarchy, which Surrounds the whole New Testament History, and Prophecy, as is undeniable.  
But assoon as ever the Time allowed to the last of these is at an End, The Kingdom of Christ will immediately succeed, and there can be no Inter-Reign; Nor can any other Kingdom Interpose: The Vision is so sure, and its Interpretation so certain; And such a kind of Kingdom it must be, as was Congenially to have its succession so Connexed to those before it, that though it is a Holy, a Heavenly, a Spiritual, yet it must be also a Visible, Sensible Kingdom, as to the Dominion, and Glory of it, and no Metaphor, or Allegorical sense can satisfy without it: And we know the Nations, to which we belong, are a part of the Ancient Roman Empire, and Remain still of the Ten, into which it was cantoned; Which Division hath been to me an Infallible Reason of Confidence, France should no more prevail to an Universal Monarchy, than the House of Austria hath done. And herein for the keeping a within the Figure, allowed its King by Prophecy; I know God hath made our K. an Instrument. All the Iron of it, could never break the Northern Iron and Steel of the sure Word of Prophecy. But seeing we, I say, are such a part of the Ancient Roman Empire, we are the more concerned, and aught to be the more Awake an the Fullfilling of Prophecy, as of the first of the Kingdoms of the World, which is to become the Kingdom of the Lord, and of as Christ.  
I have the same assurance, that this Time, Times, and Half Time, must be just on the Expiration; By Prophecy, we might rather have expected their End sooner; The Wisdom of the Divine Spi … t draws them so very near to the Time of the Roman Empire Becoming Christian in all its Portraitures of the Anti-christian State (As I know myself able, by Divine Assistance to make out to the satisfaction of Any, that will allow themselves the thought, they know, and yield necessary in any more retired Parts of Science) That had I not the Faithful Evidence of the Scripture Line 〈◊〉 Time, (I have already mentioned) together with contestable Events; I should Fourteen Years ago have pitched upon some nearer Time; For (to mention one of the most obvious) the very Casting the 1260, and Additional 75 so manifestly into Indictions, a Fifteen of Years, a Character of Time, not Regulated and known till soon-after Constantine, would have Inclined to have commenced them sooner.  
I know, the Hope, for which I Apologise cannot, but Encounter Great Objections, but I am assured, God hath set it, and myself as a Minister of it, as a Brazen Wall, that though it be Fought against, It shall not be prevailed over.  
The Objections, and Solutions, I shall very much in short thus Account for: First, It will be pretended against it; It is a Presumptuous Curiosity to undertake to Pry into Prophetic Times, and that it ought to be immediately checked with that of our Lord; It is not for you to know the Times, and Seasons which the Father hath Set in his own Power.  
But as to that Particular Scripture, it is evident, it was an Importune Enquiry of the Apostles, not in the order of Scripture Researches, nor in the due waiting for of the promise of the Spirit, which was the Duty of that very Juncture; And therefore though our Lord is quick upon their disorderly question, yet he implies, there would be a Gracious method for their Resolution in it, and commands them to Jerusalem, to wait for The promise of the Spirit from the Father, which saith He, you have heard of me, One Branch of which was, The showing them things to come, Joh. 10. 14. And in general, we find the search of Prophetic Times, is much more under the Favour, than the Displeasure of Scripture; It is recorded with Honour to the Children of Issachar, that they had understanding of Times, and knew what Israel was to do; Particularly 
1 Chron. 2. 32.  concerning David's Kingdom, which was the concernment of that Time; And in which I doubt not, they laid together the Prediction of Jacob, and other Revelations of God peculiar to that People, and those Times, by which they were able to give a Judgement: And it is observed, Their Brethren were at their Command; This swayed no doubt in the Union of Israel in David: The Prophet Daniel was not satisfied with what he found by Immediate 
C. 9 1.  Revelation, but understood by Books of Scripture, and civil Records (It is a Recommendation of that method) the Number of Years God had Determined for the Desolations of the Sanctuary; The Prophets in the same manner searched, What and what manner 
1 Pet. 1. 11.  of Time, the Spirit which was in them did signify; The Apostle by the Spirit Praises the Giving heed to the sure Word of Prophecy, as doing well. Seeing then the Account of Time is one eminent Branch of that sure Word, It is Praiseworthy to give heed to that, and no Presumption to do so: Our Lord charges it as Hypocrisy, not to discern the Signs of the Times, those Characters and Notes of Impression God hath set upon them by Prophecy: How often is there Encouragement given in that Great Prophecy of the Now Testament, Blessed is he that Readeth, and they that hear the Words of the Prophecy of this Book. Let Him that hath Wisdom Count Here 
Rev. c. 1. 3  is the Mind that hath Wisdom; Let any one now Impartially lay these things together, and it will plainly appear, There is waranty for searching Times revealed in Scripture; And They are still in the Father's Power, when the Knowledge of them is waited for by the assistance of his Spirit, in the understanding of his Word.  
It may be further Argued against the Defining of Time from Scripture-Prophecy; That the Scripture-Prophecies are so Dark, and Enigmatical, that it appears most probable; The Spirit of God did not intent, They should be understood, or Laid Open, till the very End of All Things, at the Day of Judgement, or in the Kingdom of Heaven in Eternity; And therefore, The Soberest, Gravest Men, though very Learned, and of Great Sagaciousness, do not engage themselves therein, and Lest of All in the Accounts of Time.  
To This I would, by way of Defence, Rejoin in the First Place; That it is most True, That in the Darkness of the Present State, while the Apostasy of the Papal State so much Eclipses the Glory of Christianity, There is a Great Indisposition, and a Great Inability to Interpret Scripture-Prophecies; The Unlearned 
Esa. 29. 12.  say, They are not Learned; and the Learned say, The Book is Sealed; And This Begets a Prejudice against Any Undertakers herein; and they are Charged with Boldness, and Presumption, or with Madness or Enthusiasm; It is said to Them, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from us to you? How come you to be wiser than others? And this will in a very Great Measure continue, till the Kingdom of Christ come into its Succession, that the Ears of the Deaf shall hear the Words of this Book, and the Eyes of the Blind see out of obscurity.  
But yet, in the second place, it is undeniable, That which is most Enigmatical, and under what we call Riddle, if it be wisely contrived, and designed, must have sense under it, though not so open, but that it shall require close Attendance, the most Exercised Thought; And on those Terms it is so prepared, that it may be understood, and excellent Sense found under it, though a Riddle. Samsons Riddle had a very certain Determinate sense, and if we knew fully the meaning of it, advances beyond the First Unriddling, very admirable Instructions; All retired Parts of Knowledge in Anatomy, Astronomy, Mathematics, Algebra, Call for Understandings speculiarly fitted to them, and most attended Application, and Curious Instruments, Microscopes, Telescopes; and yet the Knowledge, and Assurance, that rises from them, when understood is the most Refined and Satisfactory: And so it is in Prophecy of Scripture, although it does not offer itself at so easy a Rate, as some other Points of Scripture-Knowledge; Yet by deep and fixed Meditation, by comparing of its parts, one with another, and especially waiting upon the Spirit of Prophecy for its Illumination, we shall find, it is prepared, and weighed out with the greatest Severity of Truth, Divine Sense, and leads into very sublime Discoveries of Divine Wisdom in the Government of the World, in Relation to his Church, the Times and Seasons of it; And tends to the Greatest Awes of God, and obedience to the Supreme Majesty of Heaven, and Earth, and to know, That he is God.  
In the Third Place, It is affirmed by the Spirit of God, that it is intended, it should be understood; For it affirms, 2 Pet. 1. 19, 20. It is a Light that shines in a Dark Place, Now if it be darker, than the Dark Place, How can it be called a Light? Or how can it enlighten such a Dark place? And it is not of Private Interpretation, as I have heretofore given an Account publicly; The very meaning is, It is not of a Reserved, or Apart-Interpretation; As it is said, Christ privately, or apart Interpreted his Parables to his Disciples. God says of Himself, Esa. 45. 19 I have not spoken in secret, or in a Dark Place of the Earth, like the Dark dubious Oracles of Devils: I Jehovah speak Righteousness; I declare the things that are Right, of Greatest Sincerity, Uprightness and Truth, not perplexed, but plain to them that understand most Right, Strait, and direct, to Him that understandeth; Right to them, that find knowledge; And I have not said, saith our God, to any of the Seed of Jacob, Seek ye my Face in Vain, Even for the understanding of the Prophecies of my Word; And in the very same Chapter, God Encourages to Ask of Him Things to Come; Even, as his Spirit is said to show to his Servants Things to Come: All which I hope, will appear a sufficient Answer to the Suspicion; That God gave the Prophecies of his Word, and so Eminent a Part of them; Numbers of Time; and did not intent, they should be understood.  
If it be taken as in this very Joinct, and Objected, How c●m● it to pass? That All, who hitherto have Writ on Prophet … Scripture, have much differed one from another, and they 〈◊〉 Fixed Time, have either lived to see themselves mistaken, 〈…〉 hath appeared after their Death, They have been so: I des … 〈◊〉 should be considered; Those, who as the Holy Servants of Christ, and Ministers of his Word, have Sett Themselves to Understand, have Given Great Light, and Broken the Way for Those who have Followed; and Their Memory and Services are precious to All Wise, and Good Men, notwithstanding some Mistakes, and thereupon Differences; which are yet not more, or Greater, than Those we Find in most Points not Fundamental, and in All Interpretation of Scripture: And as to their Mistakes, in Point of Time, It is to be Allowed, Their Distances, some of Them, from the Time of Completion, might be their Disadvantage; God not vouchsafing such Light concerning that Time, till nearer upon it; as not to Daniel, but upon the very Year of the 70 Years Ending.  
It is further to be considered; That there are some Eminent and Learned Persons, who have, though upon somewhat Different Grounds, yet concentred upon this very 97. and some so near it, as upon 98, 99, and especially 1700. That their Expectations are yet (as I may say) in Abeyance; and Things most probably will be so Conducted, as easily to Reconcile so small Disagreements, by the First Breaking's out of Light, and further Illustrations.  
But Herein I Humbly Magnify, and Adore the Freeness of Grace, and Divine Assistance to his Unworthiest Servant; That He hath Granted to me, to Lay before me, the Whole ●nd Entire Prophetical Table of his Word, which is the Greatest Security against Mistake, that can be vouchsafed: Because by the View and Survey of things together, They are seen in ●heir Just Situations, and Allowances of Room, and placed ●qually, one in proportion to another; That there may be no crowd, Confusion, Justle upon, or Interfere one with another: Whereas, if this be not, a plausible Semblance, or Sound of Agreement may misled.  
If such a Scheme be Reflected upon, as Imaginary, and the Work of Fancy, I make an Humble Challenge to all the Wit, ●he Fancy, the Learning that is in the World, to Give a Pa … el Scheme in such an Agreement with the Word of God, and 〈◊〉 Providential Events in Concert with it; By which I am … ed, It is not, nor cannot be my own, but as Found in Sa … Writings; seeing Fancy and Imagination cannot create in … f-subsistent Things; or Erect into undoubted matter of Fact; As it is; That there are such and such Prophetical Emblems, and Representations; Such Examples of the Way and Manner of Interpretation, as, that N●buchadnezzar was the Head of Gold; the King of Persia the Ram; the King of Grecia the He Goat; The Babylonish Woman, the City on Seven Mountains, that at the Time of the Revelation Given, was then Reigning over the Kings of the Earth: All These Give such a Pattern of the Manner of Interpreting Prophetic Images, and what way the Spirit of God means, They should be Expounded, and Deciphered; that They are Equal to Matter of Fact; That there are such Numbers, as 2300 Eves, Morn's; 70 Weeks; Time, Times, Half a Time; Three Days and an Half; 1260, 1290, 1335 Days, 42 Moons; And all these to be multiplied by the Prophetical Standard of Time, or Days for Years. And that These, are some of Them Repeated, variously placed, is plain Matter of Fact. To find therefore the Concert of these, and to place Them in their Just Order one towards another, and in the Greatest Friendliness, Peace, Harmony, and Beautiful symmetry; and with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the Admirable Air, and Mien of the Divine Wisdom, finding out the Knowledge of All Witty Inventions herein; and then Supervening, or Coming upon All These, Substantial, Undoubted Matters of Fact; the Greatest Events, that have been in the World; Adjustable to these Numbers of Time, Comprobated and Assured by the most Valuable History and Chronology, that are in the World; All Make up such a Plerophory, a Fullness of Assurance, that must needs deliver from the Scruple, that Fancy, and Imagination have had the Architecture of such a Triangular, as I may call it, Compage of Things, in such a Justice of Respect one to another such a Trine, or Threefold strongest Combination one with another.  
For to give a Summary Delineation, on what Grand Pillars of Event the Emblems of Prophecy are Planted, or drawn; and what Proportions of Time are adjusted to them, and then 〈◊〉 well it is known, That such Events and within some General Ken of such Allowances of Time are owned by History 〈◊〉 Chronology to those Events, is the Greatest satisfaction, th' … can be given: For either small Petite, or Obscure Events 〈◊〉 Disgrace any Prophetic Scheme, And to be out of all Bounda … of Time, is as Dishonourable.  
The Root therefore of Prophetic Time, I make that Stupendious Failure of the so Illustrious Types of the Kingdom of Christ, the Reigns of David, and Solomon at the Death of Solomon; and the Incredible Depression of Them, had not Sacred Writ assured it, in the Division of the Tribes into the Two Houses of Israel, and Judah; Till Both Involved, each in a dreadful Captivation, distinct to Each: The Rescue, and Deliverance of the Two Tribes from their Captivity in Babylon, was by the Destruction of that Monarchy, the First of the Four, and the Decree of Cyrus, the Founder of the Persian Monarchy, at the End of the 390, and 40 Years of the Visional Bearing of Iniquity for them, and settling the Prophetical Standard of a Day for a Year by Ezekiel.  
In Cyrus his Universal Monarchy, so Favourable to the people of God, and so Great a Type of Christ, as to be called Messiah, or God's Anointed Begin the 2300 Eves, and Morn's; That staple Line of Time, that Reaches to the very Glorious Kingdom of Christ; In the First Hundred Twenty Four Years of them, there is, though with Interruptions, a Gradual Restoration of Judah, and Jerusalem, Entering within the First Seven Weeks, or Forty Nine Years of that so Famous, and by Christians, Universally Agreed Character of Time, confirming the Prophetic … ndard of a Day for a Year to 490 Years, Viz. The 70 Weeks  
Through these runs the very Dwarf-like and Tributary Condition of the Jews, besides some horrible Inroads upon them, under the latter part of the Persian, the whole of the Grecian Monarchy, and the beginning of the Fourth, or Roman.  
At the last of these Weeks there is that so Glorious Exaltation of … me to its Fullness in the Appearance of our true Messiah, and in the midst of it, His Death and Resurrection; Greater things than which all his Glorious Appearance, the Fullness of Times, or of all Time, Time cannot contain; In the other Half, the Loud Publication of the Gospel of these Things, as by the Heraldry of Thunder, 〈◊〉 in the First Seal Opened by the Apostles.  
In the Next Four Hundred, the First Seal is continued, and the 〈◊〉 Three Seals are Opened, in very Great and New Productions the Roman Empire; till in that Conclusive Persecution of the … stians, within the Fifth Seal, under Dioclesian, and the Contemporary porary Pagan Emperors: In the Sixth Seal, That so indeed ●●st Revolution of the Roman Empire from Pagan to Christian, begun by Constantine in the Sixth Seal, continued (Julians short Reign Excepted) till Vindicated, and Statuminated by Theodosius the Great, in the Seventh Seal, a Great Precursory Emblem of the Glorious Kingdom of Christ.  
But Early under Constantine, and so Going on, That Appearance of the Kingdom of Christ, began to be Eclipsed; And the Barbarous Nations Rushed in on the Empire, in the Just Revenges of Christ upon Antichristian Supplantation (who yet after United as his People, and as Ten Kingdoms under his Ecclesiastic Empire) and Undermine by the Interposal of the Antichristian Moon, so soon that Prophecy gives the Notice of it, as Immediate; in the Sealing the Servants of God, against both the Antichristianism, and the Vengeance in those Trumpets of Vengeance Given into the Hands of the Angelic Ministers of it, the Witnesses Entering into Sackcloth, and the Church's Flight into the Wilderness, or being so Hidden; that it was hard to be Discovered before the Reformation. These Early Notices do beyond All Reasonable Contradiction, Assure the Times and Hair Sworn to Antichrist, must needs be now upon the Expiration, which as before Noted, are cast into Fifteen, in the 1260 Days, into which they are Expounded, to show their Nearness to Constantine's Time; and because so Determinate a Time, and Short, Compared with the Glory to follow, is styled, a Short Time, in God● Answer to the Souls under the Altar; And the Devil considering it, Reflected on it as a Short Time, not as the Father of Lies, but as it was Extorted from him by God; show it near Ending.  
At the End of 400 Years from the Weeks, of 404. from the Resurrection, and 437. from the Incarnation, Begin the Time, Times and Half with the High Sounds of the Four First Trump … Of which That Year was not without its Answerableness to this Prophetic Character, by reason of the Incursions of the Barbarous Nations, as a Storm of Hail and Fire mingled with Blood, who because They were to Become the Subjects of the Antichristian Papacy, are called, The Gentiles Entering into the Outward Court; And their 42 Moons Commence, being Solemnly, as it were, Inaugurated into Them by Cyril, Bishop of Abexandria the very Year so Earnest in Adjusting Lunar Time to Solar; At the same Time began that Apostasy the Apostle Paul speaks of in Delay of the Kingdom of Christ; And in such Corruptions of the Doctrine, Worship, and Conversation of Christianity, the True Church was Hidden under the Public Profession so Corrupted, as to be the Church as in a Wilderness; and on which the Witnesses Prophecy, That is, Declare christ Kingdom in Delay; as in Sackcloth; of which That Year there was a Sample in a Persecution Raised by Gensericus, a Vandal Prince, against the Servant of God Holding the Testimony of Jesus Christ, the Eternal Son of God; and It was continued against Those, who Kept the Commandments of God, and Held the Testimony of Je●us Christ, by the Papal Tyranny: Within the Four First Trum … 'tis, Fall the so often Burning, and Sacking Rome, the utter Cessation of the Name of Emperor of Rome in the West, and even of Consular Dignity.  
At that very Time of the Cessation of Empire begin the Moons of the Papal Antichristian Power, which Prophecy styles, The Beast; as a Preparation to which the Hierarchy (as the Historian Sozomen Relates) had been Rising stilly, as Feet of Clay from the Earth, and crept silently Forward into a Dynasty; styled therefore, The Other Beast, which procurated for the Grand Beast; thus Came in the Succession of the Beast, Dated to this very Year 476; and so its Succession is Given as the 7th Head, and Eighth King, Rev. 17. For it is in Immediate Succession to the Seventh King, no Head, which was the Christian Emperor in the West.  
Then the Bestian Anti-christian Power grew up to its height, or Supremacy at 606, as the Star Fallen to the Earth, within his First Time, and pursued by God with the First Woe, or the Mahometan Imposture, at 622, and so to 797, Armed in the Saracenick, Inroads upon the Western Parts of the Empire: This continued along ●e Second Time, or First of the Two Times of his settled, or, consistent Power, till the Second Turkish Woe starts out in the Third Time, or Second of the Two Times, where His stint, or the Bounds of his Power were set: Till it came down to the Reformation at the Beginning of his Half Time, at the Year 1517. Where it hath continued an 180 Years, down to the present. 1697, a declined and decayed, but not a Fallen Power, according to the very Importance of Two Times degraded to a Half Time.  
Now I would Appeal to all the Reason, and Understanding 〈◊〉 Man, whether, when all the Prophetical Images are so expressive of these Events; And that, the Line of Time, that Prophecy hath proportioned to them, when laid to them, is so fairly every way Adjustable, Viz. From Cyrus before the Weeks; Since the Weeks, to the Death and Resurrection of Christ, After the Death, and Resurrection of Christ, and the Preaching of the Apostles at the End of the Weeks, in 400 Years of the Seals; and the Greater Cantons of Time, Times-Half Time dividing, and distributing 1260 Years into 360, 720, 180, and All so according with the very Years, we Vulgarly Account to 1697. I would, I say, appeal to all Sense, and Understanding, whether this accounted can be the Creature of Fancy, and Imagination, or so much, as of Accident; Except they think, such a Conspiration of so many things, of so great Concernment to the World, and to the Churches of Christ, be below the Notice of the Divine Spirit, or its Care to make them known; For that the very things themselves cannot be contrived into such Representations, cannot be once said; when it is so Experimental, that the things, if not so Designed by the Allseeing Spirit, must by Accident be so subject to the Elaboration of Fancy, and Imagination, or rather of I … ment, and Understanding; Seeing this Threefold Respect is found in Reality, and Substance of Scripture-Emblems, of Scripture-Numbers, of Correspondent Events, in History, and Chronology; To say which Undermines All Rationality of Inference from the Greatest Correspondency of Effects in Creation, and Providence, with the Wisdom, and Power of the Supreme Creator, and Governor of All, V●●. If we may not Reason from these, to the Intention of Divine Spirit.  
Now from hence, reach the Additional 75, to the Thousand Years of the Blessed State, Viz. From the Kingdom of Christ in Succession, in Thirty years of the Sealed Thunders, opened in Rev. c. 14. Making the 1260, 1290. Wherein First there is a Glorious shini … out of the Gospel, and the Glory of Christianity for the Conversion, and bringing Multitudes to Christ, and for a Testimony against those who remain obstinate, the Filthy being Filthy still; And then the Vials poured out, that Time of Trouble, such as never was, since Man was upon Earth, Through the Forty Five Additional to the 1290, and making them 1335, to the Glorious and Blessed State, and the Lots of the New Jerusalem, in the End of these Days, Dan. 12. 11, 12, 13.  
And in the same way of Evidence, and Assurance, I find m●self through the Gracious Assistance of God, able to go backward in the Analytical, or Retrograde method to the very Death of Solomon, where I began, and find the Connexion of one thing to another, so Just, so True, so Steadfast, and so Unmoveable, that they cannot be dislocated, nor Disjointed; And the Numbers of Scripture-Time so Locked, one within another, That they cannot be Wrenched, or Forced asunder; All which I have in Readiness to offer to every Judicious Considerer, and of which I would give the Briefest Specimen in this following Scheme, that I can Contrive.  
The Thousand Years, are by all the Wonders of it the most undoubted End, or Finishing of Wonders; And the very same with the Mystery of God to be Finished, by the Seventh Angel sounding, according as he hath spoken in Gospel to, and by his Servants the Prophets.  
This being the Fullness of Times, all Time's Centre, or flow down, and rest in it. Here rest the 45 Last of the 2300 Eves, Morn's, as is expressed in Daniel; The 45 take such hold of the 30, that all the force in the World can't divide them; As is Apparent by 1290 made 1335, the Thirty take the same hold of the 1260; Which are the Times, and Half; That they can no more be separated, than the others; The 1260 in the Three Divisions, Viz. The Half Time takes hold of the 720, or the two Times; And the two Times of the First Time, or 360, And they can endure no distance; Because they are together one 1260. The 1260 necessarily take hold of whatever Time went before, and lay between the 490 of the Weeks, and the 1260; This can be no way contested; Because the Weeks by Express Scripture End Three Years, and Half, or Half a Week from the Death of Christ; And then, we know a Time there must be, from the Beginning of the 1260, ●f some distance of Space from the End of the Weeks; Because him the Three Years and Half after the Death of Christ, so many more Years, than 1260 are now passed, and yet the Great Events at the End of the 1260, not yet come to pass, and therefore not the 1260 themselves. And yet that space must take hold of the End of the Weeks, Because the Half Week Ends a Three Years, and a Half; Half a Week; from the Death of Christ; The Seventy Weeks Notwithstanding, They are divided to Joints, yet are as close, as the Jointed parts of any the same Member of the Body, being together the Seventy Weeks; The Seventy Weeks lay an Indisputed Claim to whatever Time went before to ●rus; And every part must be Joined Each to other, Because all the several Portions of Time stand United in the 2300; A●● see●●g so much Time hath already passed since the End of the Weeks, as leaves no more than 75 before the Weeks of the 2300 to Cyrus, we are sure, there can be no more; I confess, there may be Fewer, and so more of the 1260 to Run out then to 97; But so far, as we can be sure, there can be no more than 400 before the 1335. We may be sure, there can be no Fewer, than 75 before the Weeks.  
From Cyrus backward, must be the 40 of Judah's Sin B●●n, Lying Close to the End of the 390 Days of Israel's Sin Born, which Bring back to the Division of the Tribes into the Two Houses of Israel, and Judah; All which Things have been, and are Ready to be Fully made out to any, who Desire it in particular.  
The Undoubted Emblems of Scripture Answering to these Numbers of Time, may be Accounted for with the same Evidence, in this Retrospective Motion, as in the Progression; For the very End of the Wonders is placed in the Beasthood ●●d the False Prophet cast alive into the Lake; And the Glory o● Christ's Appearance, and the Armies of Heaven, for whom Thro●● were Set, and They Sat upon Them, and They Lived and ●ig●ed with Christ a Thousand Years were such, as did not Worship the Beast, nor Receive his Mark, etc. The Vials, that Brought in the Thousand Years, are Noted to Fall on the Beast, 〈◊〉 them that Worshipped the Beast, and had Received his Mark. ●●e Voices, that prepared for the Vials, and at the End of which, th● Vials Began, were also upon the Beast; and the Witnesses coming out of the Death, the Beast had laid them under, plainly Entwist the Vials and the Voices with the Beast, and the Witnesses; and ●● their Times one with another; viz. with the 1260 Days, 〈◊〉 42 Moons, the Times, and Days, and Half. And in this 〈◊〉 manner the Dragon, and they that were Beheaded for the Word of God, and for the Testimony of Jesus, and the Dragon cast down, and the Martyrs of Christ Overcoming, by the Blood of the L●●, and the Word of his Testimony, and not Loving their Liv● unto Death; Seeing the Dragon Gave his Power, and his Seat un● the Beast, show, very Evidently, that the Moons of the Gentil●●, and of the Beast, Began at the End of the Seals. Even 〈◊〉 is most clear in a Progressive Motion, the Seals Issue into ●● Trumpets, by the Seventh Seal conveying to them; The Trumpets into the Voices by the Seventh Trumpet; the Voices by the Seventh Voice into ●he Vials, the Vials by the Seventh Vial into the Thousand Years.  
The Seals Run plainly Back into the Weeks, Beginning in the Confirmation of the Covenant, by that Preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles, Emblem'd by Christ Riding out on his White Horse, conquering, and to conquer, at the Ending of the Weeks; The Weeks Run back into the Time of the Word Going forth for the Restoring Judah, and Jerusalem, from whence they are Dated; The Going forth of the Word into the Babylonish Captivity, which gave Occasion to the going forth of that Word; and the Last Forty Years of the Babylonish Captivity, which was the Ground of Bearing the Iniquity, or Punishment of the House of Judah, clasps Fast with the 390 of Bearing Israel's Sin; because God commanded Ezekiel, when He bade Born the sin of Israel on the Left side, without any Intermission, to Turn on the Other side, and to Bear the sin of the House of Judah on the Right side, and the Bearing▪ the Sin of the House of Israel goes back to the Division of the Tribes into Two Houses, at Solomon's Death.  
In the Last Place, I dare Appeal to the Greatest Chronologers, ●● Historians, whether our General Accounts do not, within ●ome Fair Proportion, Allow the Years of the Papacy, of the Pa●● Power, of the Roman Empire, of the Grecian, Persian, Baby●●sh Kingdoms, to serve these Prophetical Accounts; and so ●●ward by the Kings of Israel and Judah, to the Death of ●●lomon. Now all these Things, were there Room to Represent Them clearly, particularly, and in Full, would Give such certainty ●● these Points, according to the Exactness of Scripture-Time, as ●ould amount to the Justification of the Great Hope, I so pub●●ly make Offer of; and against which, in every minute Par●●ar, I Humbly Pledge myself to be Ready to Receive Exceptions, and to Return Due Satisfaction; and therefore shall ●ow Return to the more General Objections.  
This way of Endeavour to Justify every Thing, by Plain ●●counts, and Arguments of Reason▪ Approachable by every ●● Reason, and Subject to the Examination of every Man. ●oever will take so much Thought, and Care of Trial, and ●● Judgement upon Himself; may take off much of that Exce●●; Why should All This be Revealed to you more than to Any ●er?  
For The Answer I would give, is, Because God hath ●ngaged my Heart and Thoughts to this Inquiry; And it hath been the Principal Subject of my Intellectual Inquiries, though I hope not in a Neglect of other Points of Theology, and Scripture-Knowledge; But by this means I have been looking every way into All the Advertisements of Scripture-Prophecy, comparing Prophetical Things with Prophetical, and any of the most Accurate Memoirs of History and Chronology, I could Attain; And This is no other, than what Any Other Studious in these Things, might have Attained; and much Higher, according to the Advantages of Learning, more enlarged Capacities of Mind, Clearness of Expression; as is▪ most experimental in that Excellent Person, The Annotator on the Re●elation, and his Annotations, Published about Four Years ago; The Only Thing that I pretend to, of Peculiar Favour herein from the Most High, is, That he hath thus engaged my Heart, and Thoughts to separate myself, and to Intermeddle with this Wisdom, and Assisted me so far therein.  
When any one vouches any Immediate Revelation, that cannot be disproven by its plain Disagreeableness to other Sealed Parts of Divine Revelation, though indeed from God; H●, and his Revelation are Inaccessible, but by the same Spirit of Revelation, in some suitable Efficacy of the same Spirit, enabling to discern, or to feel the Virtue of it; As in the Apostles Days▪ When the Prophets spoke one by one, 1 Cor. 14. 29. Then the Rest Judged; that is, Discerned the Divineness of the Revelation; by the Participations of the same Spirit in themselves: But when Any offer the Interpretation of written Prophecies, or Prophecies of Scripture, by the Assistance of the same Spirit that gave them; this Interpretation, if Just, and True, and according to the Sense of the Divine Spirit, is the Spirit of Probacy; Because it is the Testimony of Jesus, which is the very Essence of the Spirit of Prophecy: Now this is plainly Approvable by All, who wait upon the same Word of God by the Assistance of the same Spirit: I do not therefore in Any of these Prophetical Discourses, offer at any such thing, as in which the Spirit of the Lord passing by others, should have spoken to me, but what every one hath the same Right, and Open Door to, and Freedom of; and what every one hath a Riight to Examine and Accept, or Reject, according to the Evidence he finds of an Agreeableness with the Sure Word of Prophecy or not: That only I stand up for, is, That He Judges as a Prophet, according to the measure of that Dispensation of the Blessed Spirit, now vouchsefed to his Servants; That is, that he Judge by the Due Compare of Prophecy with Prophecy, by Attendance to every Hint, and Indication of the Prophetical Mind Flowing from that Spirit, and that he lay this First, as a Foundation, that the Prophecies of Scripture ought to be Given Heed to; and that they may be understood, as a Light shining in a dark place: And whoever doth not thus address himself, can no more Judge, than any one could of the Revelations then made by the Spirit to the Prophets of those First Times, when they met in those Prophetical Exercises, without the Communication of the same Spirit to themselves; or then an Illiterate, or unknowing Person in any Science or Art, Can Judge of the Exercitations of the most knowing Persons, or Artists, when they meet together for the Communication of their most Elaborate Exercitations therein: And so I do indeed Claim, and Insist on this Privilege; That none undertake to Judge, of what I have offered in these things, but by such Prophetical Preparations, and Attendances upon Scription Prophecies, that are indeed open to every one that Desires to ●nter by the Key of Scripture- Prophetical Knowledge, and shut to others. And this is no more Presumption, than what every one thinks his Privilege, that no one Judge of his Art, but He that Understands it first Himself: And this I hope Vindicates from any undue Assumption of any more, than the Gracious Direction of my Heart, and Thoughts, to that Book of Scripture Prophecy, that Lies open to every one, that draws nigh with due Preparation; And that every one may Judge of by the same Preparation.  
It may be further Objected, that yet it is very hard, if not Impossible to attain the Sense of the Divine Spirit to a Year, or any such Precise, Definitive Account of Time.  
To this I Answer, It will easily be allowed that the Divine Spirit hath Determined, and knows according to that its Expression of itself, to the very Self same Day; And therefore, seeing it hath given Numbers of Time, it must be to the very Self same Day, For the end of every Number is so Precise, and Definite; That It must needs be to the very Self same Year, and even Day, if we could have, as Punctual Account of Days, as of Years; But I find not the Holy Spirit ordinarily, is more particular than Years: By therefore a due Poise of that Trine Aspect, of Prophetic Emblems, Prophetic Numbers, and Providential Effects in Event, and Matters of Fact; of the Records of which, It hath taken Care by General History, and Chronology, we may come to know to a Year; And of this, Besides several other Assurances that Require more Discourse, There is that Time of the Reformation more Easy, and Immediate▪ to every Observation; wherein Divine Superintendencies upon all Historians concerning it, to Fix the Beginnings of it in 1517. does so assure the Beginning of Half Time, as to assure also the End of Half Time, as of an 180 Years, and so of Time, and Times at 1697. and therefore the Beginning of Times, or the Two Times at 797. and of the First Time at 437. The Times, and Half, are contrived therefore into such Large Cantons of Time, as One Time, Two Times and Half a Time, that They may be seen in so Large Spaces, and so much together; and yet in such Minute, Exact Divisions, as Days of Years, especially and on purpose, that they might be fully known, and exactly understood all along, and at the End. which with so many Concurrences beforenamed, (and of which I should be most Ready to Give the particular State, more at large, to a Free and Desirous, and a Judicious Recipient) does not make it strange to determine so particularly upon 97. and may free from that Objection.  
But what is there of Preparation to so great a Change? or what Instruments in view for such Effects? may it be said. To which, this Answer is to be given: That when we have to do with Him, who Planted the Heavens, and Laid the Foundations of the Earth: who telleth the Number of the Stars, and calleth them All by their Names; and appoints them every one their Course, to Fight in; Nothing is Hard. Or how wonderful soever it be in our Eyes, can it be so in His? Who works his signs, and his wonders in Heaven's and on Earth; and none can stay his Hand, or say unto him, what dost thou? who works, and none can let it: Hath he spoken, and shall he not do it? Is Any Thing too hard for me, saith our Jehovah?  
And as to Means and Instruments, although he could raise them, if he pleased; Yet His Word of Propheby so expresses the doing of it, as if he would make use of No Hand but his own; The Stone cut out of the Mountain is not in Hands; That Power that stands up against the Prince of Princes, shall be broken without Hand. Now this without Hand, is a manner of speaking, the Spirit of God is pleased, as by the Translation of it from Daniel, into the New Testament, to Apply a Tabernacle made without Hands, the Circumcision without Hands; the House not made with Hands, Eternal in the Heavens, appears to be an Expression of God working by an Immediate Power of his own, and by Himself. It is by a Spirit of Life from God, and by a Voice from Heaven. The Four Wheels ●f the Four Monarchies are brought into the Temple, under the Che●●bims; and without any more ado, It was cried concerning them in ●y Hearing (the Hearing of the Servants of God) Oh Revolution! It immediately passed upon them All, and there were Loud Voices ●● Heaven upon it, proclaiming that Revolution: The Kingdoms of this World are bocome the Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ. And this is done at Half Time Ending, which signifies Suddenness, and Surprise: When this is done, He, who does it, Comes with strong Hand; His Arm Rules for Him. He understands his own Work; In the midst ●f All the Perplexities of it, His work is before him; He understands ●● perfectly and throughout, Every Spring, every Wheel to be mo●ed, Every Pin of Connexion.  
But that which may much indeed Terrify, and Discourage, is the Great Unworthinefs of All Sorts and Degrees of Men, of Nations, and even of Churches; so that some very Sweeping Judgement, ●●d Desolation rather, or, at least, is first to be expected.  
The Hope yet is, That when God works for his Kingdom, and seems ● be Lifting up his Hand to Destroy, He will work for his own Names 〈◊〉, in a Deliverance. He will consider, He, to whom the Kingdom ● to be Given, is worthy: And when the Lord Jesus Christ, the An●● of the Covenant, comes into his Temple, He does not expect to ●●d Refinement ready to his Hand, but He comes to Refine: He hath ●●ven an Example in the Apostle Paul of All Long-suffering and Pa●●ce, especially prepared for that very Time; Those, who shall Hereafter, in a great distance of Time, Believe on Him: His Reward ●●●th Him. He expects it only from Himself, when his work ie so ●●re him. And even to Impenitents there is first a time of Warning ●●d Testimony, and then the Day that will Burn as an Oven, and the ●i●ked are as Ashes under the Soles of the Feet▪ After this warning is ●he perdition of ungodly Men reserved for punishment.  
I know very well, Notwithstanding, all this Assurance, and ●e Reason of it, I have given; It will be said yet to me; Seeing ●●is Year ●7 is in so near on Approach, and there are no Appearances of such a Succession, or opening of the Kingdom of Christ, ●ght it not therefore to shake your Confidence, and put a diffidence upon such a continued Affirmation of such a Kingdom to ●ake any Entrance at this Time?  
In Answer to this, I would make this Humble Profession, or Confession in these Three things.  
First, I cannot be shaken in my assurance; Because I find my Grounds in the Word of God unshakable, and unmoveable; A False Witness, that hath no Foundation Perisheth in this Sense; He cannot Bear up to, nor continue in his Testimony; But, He that Heareth, and knows, on what Grounds He speaks, Affirmeth constantly: He that hath seen nothing, as the Ground of his Prophecy is like a Reed shaken with the Wind; But they, that have the Word of the Lord, Continue to speak it: While I am so certain, The Kingdom of Christ Enters its Succession without any delay, whenever the Last of the Four Kingdoms Ends; That the Third Woe of the Seventh Angel, that Sounds the Kingdom of Christ, Cometh quickly; I look to see therefore, what assurances there are, this Last Kingdom, even its Last State is upon giving up. I find then, the Times and Half, Which are the Term of the Last State, of the Last Kingdom; By the Time since Constantine; By the Time, since the Christian Empire Demised; By the Time since Mahometanism, and more Particularly the Ottoman Empire hath entered the World; By the Time, since the Reformation first entered by Luther, just ending. All these have such Lively Sculpture and Engraving, in the Sure word of Prophecy, and their Times so Delineated; I do not better know the Course of the Months in the Year, the Days in the Month, or the Hours in the Day, than I know the very Last Year of the 1260 Days of Years, is now entering, and to Run its Circle; and that within its Circle, the Kingdom of Christ will come into its Succession.  
The Second thing, that I most Humbly desire to be Steadfast, Unmoveable, Unshaken in, and upon, is the Exceeding R●●s of the Grace, and Loving Kindness of God in Jesus Christ, ●e Great High Priest, and Apostle of my Profession; That Shepherd of the Sheep, that is to Shine forth as the Great Prince, to have; That great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, that Fold▪ that is a Court, One Shepherd, and One Fold: In the Goodness and Faithfulness of the Spirit of Truth, Guiding into all Truth: Glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ, by taking of the Things, That are His, and so of his Kingdom, and showing them to his Servants, and showing them Things that are to Come; I have Great Assurance in his Tenderest Mercies, having Led, and Guided, and Supported me thus far, in the Search after his Kingdom, and Manifested so much to me; He will not Leave more to be ashamed of my Hope; I can Humbly say before Him, as his Servant Jeremy; Oh Lord, thy Words have been Found, and I have Eaten them, and they have been the Joy, and the Rejoicing of my Heart, I Humbly therefore Expostulate with Him, Wilt Thou? Wilt Thou be to me as a Liar; I know it is Impossible, He should Lie, He is God, that cannot Lie; And therefore herein His Servants may plead with Him; The Vision shall not Lie, He will not ●e, a● Waters, that are not sure, of which he hath given so Lively ● Description, in comparing the Unfaithfulness of Friends to The●; My Friends have dealt Deceitfully with me, as a Brook, and ●s the Streams of Waters, that pass away; Which are Blackish by Reason of Ice, etc. But what Time they are warm, They Vanish, when ●● is Hot, They are Consumed out of their Place; the Paths of their ●y are turned aside, They go to nothing, and Perish; The Troops of Tema, Looked, and Waited; ●he Companies of Seba were Confounded, Because they had Hoped, they came thither, and were Ashamed, Jer. 15. 15. etc. Job 15. 15. etc. How fully does this Express, what Jeremy understood by Waters not sure! And how Applicable to My Case, if the Hopes I have of the Kingdom of Christ, should prove mistaken.  
It may be said, Indeed if I were sure, I had the Right Sense of ●●ripture-Prophecy, the Argument were enough sure; I therefore ●erein Rely on his Grace, that he hath Guided me into the Truth ●● his Word; that as I am sure, His Word cannot Fail; He cannot 〈◊〉; so neither can any Iron, any Created Power break the Nor●●rn Iron, or prepared Steel of his Wisdom, Truth and Power.  
But lest any should say, If you have such a Fasth, have it to ●●r self before God, and Happy are you, if you do not find Reason ● Condemn yourself in what you so much approve: This therefore ●my Third Profession, The things that I have so heard and seen by continual search into, Meditation upon, and seeking Divine Di●●tion in, I cannot but speak; I look upon the Kingdom, as of ●ose Things wherein we should confess Christ, and not be ashamed of ●● before Men, who so despise his Kingdom; and of those, of which Confession is to be made with the Mouth uneo Salvation. And therefore, ●● have Humble Hopes, That Jesus Christ hath been Graciously ●●as'd to draw out my Heart, Thoughts, Meditations, to ●●ch Every Retirement of his Word therein above All, that ●e been before me; And to give me Greater Confidence and ●●surance; and a more open Profession and Publication of what I have Found; So that he will graciously Accept, Remember, Pardon, spare me through the Multitude of his Mercies, and not 〈◊〉 up to shame, and Confusion of Face before Men, and confess 〈◊〉 before his Father, and before his Holy Angels.  
That such a State of his Kingdom, and such a Revolution with it, and by it, shall this very Year Appear to All th● World, as hath never been since the Apostasy of Humane Nature; and that therefore All Mighty Works shall show forth Themselves in it: The Spirit shall be poured out from on High; The Wilderness shall Become a Fruitful Field; viz. in the highest Purity, and Prosperity of his Churches; and that, which looked like a Fruitful Field, become Desert, even the Antichristian State, and whatever partakes of it, the Glory of All this World, and the Grandeur of it; and so the Everlasting Gospel shall be preached to every Nation, Tongue and People, and every Thing move to the Glory of that Kingdom.  
To whom then (Most Reverend, and Right Reverend) could I present equally, as to you, the consideration of these things, who, I am assured are so Richly Furnished with all Advantages of Learning, both in that Sure word of Prophecy, and in History, and Chronology, Correspondent therewith; And whose very Title Imports the Office of Those, who are on the Watch Tower, waiting for the Speaking of the Vision, which will not Tarry beyond its Time; And therefore should be able to Answer the Question, Watchman, Watchman, what of the Night? Or how Near is the Morning? and who, as Persons of an Elevated Station, aught to Vindicate yourselves by a Higher Zeal for the Kingdom of Christ, and even by a Holy Haste to bring Him to his Throne above othery That you may not Fall under any Ombrage of the Anti-christ … Hierarchy, who as Feet of Clay, are found in the Undermine of the Kingdom of Christ; and are Broken by the very First Openings of it, as upon which that Image Rests, that Stands in delay of that Kingdom.  
How therefore should you be able to answer that Question▪ What do you more than others for the Kingdom of the Chief Shepherd, who hath it on his Vesture, and on his Thigh, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords? and who Profess to Attend upon him more Near and in Ordinary.  
〈◊〉 ●●st Humbly therefore submit this Apology to your Severest ●●ation, and that as Prophets, that is, Persons above Ordinary, ●●ted in the Sure Word of Prophecy, (for no otherwise can it be 〈◊〉) you would Judge; The Grounds Themselves I freely tender to ●age and Learned a Christian, a Protestant Presidency. There is a 〈◊〉 of Intuitive Knowledge and Plerophory of Satisfaction, I must (with ● Reverence yet, and Humble Fear) Hope I have a Right unto, as ●●per to the having seen together the Curious Lines of Prophecy, e●l to the Curious Lines and Symmetry in the Works of God, which ●● most Exact Astronomer, Anatomist, Naturalist, Mathematician 〈◊〉 or can Observe. I desire the Things I offer might be brought 〈◊〉 Seriousest Consultation, and Debate, as in the Days of Herod ●●erning the place where Christ should be born, so now concerning, ●● Time of his Kingdom Appearing. It cannot be but most Great, ● be near the proclaiming of the Kingdoms of this world to be the King●●s of the Lord and of his Christ. How would it relieve in All the ●ost Inextricable Labyrinths of the present Difficulties of Nations, ● our Nation particularly, to our King, to the Council of the Nation in parliament: That He, whose Right it is, is now about to take to Him●● his Great Power, and to Reign, and to destroy them, who have been ●●ong destroying the Earth.  
I know, the Paganizing Nations, and Spirits will be very 〈◊〉 even at the Mention of these Things, as Utopian, Imagi●●, Fanatical; and think to Scoff it off; But as an Hidden and concealed Train, that Gives Fire, and hath its Effect in a Mo●ent; so the Chain of Divine Counsels, the Predictions of omnisciency in All Times take Full Effect in their own Just ●●ments, how Unawares soever the World be concerning them: ●● He who is wonderful in Counsel, and excellent in working, ●● neither be out-witted, nor over ruled.  
What I offer can be only from Sense of Duty to declare, ●●at I have so Full Assurance of: Duty as to the Great Re●●r of Prophetical Secrets, the wonderful Numberer of the Times ● Prophecy; so Duty to the Public, in the so Generally Ac●owledged Distress of Affairs; For which my Constant Supplications Ascend, as also for You whose Most Christian Assi●●ce, and Administration, according to Your Higher Sphere, I Beseech, and who, I Hope, Count it Your 〈…〉 to Serve Him, who is the Prince of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore will not with a Gallio-like Spirit, 〈…〉 any of these Things.  
Most Reverend, Right Reverend, Your Most Humble Serv … In That Kingdom of our Lord T. BEVERLEY This First Month of the Year 1697.  
FINIS.