And the Lord Said, Writ the Vision, and make it plain upon Tables, that He may Run, that readeth it, for the Vision is for an Appointed Time, etc. Heb. 2.2.3.  The Testimony of T. Beverley according to Scripture Prophecy, concerning the Kingdom of Christ near Approoching, Summed up in these Following Positions.  
Position 1. A Truly Universal, Monarchy, or Kingdom from Sea to Sea, and from the River to the Ends of the Earth, even the Dominion under the whole Heaven is decreed by God to our Lord Jesus Christ, at the End of the Fourth, viz. the Roman Monarchy, yet in Being in the Papacy, in Order to Prepare for His Glorious Kingdom of a 1000 Years, in the New Heaven, and the New Earth, never to end, but to be delivered up to God All in All.  
Posit. 2. The Time of this Kingdom succeeding, may be known by due search of the Scripture, and its Prophecies; God having Given therein a Line of Time, drawn throughout all Ages, either by its own History, or by its Prophecy; and because the Last Times are most notable, and of Greatest Concern to be known; and Given in Mystical, and Prophetical Delineations; The Line of Time drawn over those latter Times, is supported by Coincident, or Collatteral Lines, with such Evident Characters of Relation and Agreement, that no several Joints of a Tube can be more known by any Marks, or fitness of their Commissures one with Another.  
Posit. 3. By such Search, There are several Great Reasons of Assurance, that the Time is 1697. for the Succession of that Kingdom: But that which may most easily Run into General Observation, is, That 1697 is the 180th Year from the Reformation, which Reformation could not have been with so known a Retrenchment of the Papal Kingdom, but after the manner of Christ's Rising on the Morning of the Third day, called yet Three days; when Time, Times, and Half a Time are Sworn by Christ to it, if the Half Time had not been Entered; which Half Time compared with Time and Times; (Time, Times, and Half Time being just equal unto 1260 Days for Years.) can be but an 180 Years; Seeing then the Apostasy of the Christian Church, hath in all Protestant Judgement stood so near 1260 Years, as by the Prophecy It ought to stand, and that the most Recorded Time of the Reformation Beginning, was 1517. The 180th from it must be 1697; And seeing, as soon as ever Papal Times cease, the Kingdom of Christ according to a Great Harmony of Scriptures, must succeed; The Succession of that Kingdom must be at 1697. Who can but lay All this together!  
It fairly Conspires, That the American New World, 
* Such a one Most Remarkably Branded Heresy in the deep Time of the Apostasy, by Pope Zechary. Anno 745.  and the Magellanic Sea were so lately before the Reformation discovered; that according to that Landscaph of the Reformation, Revel. 10. Jesus Christ making his Entry, as we speak, and Claim of his Kingdom might set his Right Foot on the Sea, and his Left Foot on the Earth of a Larger, and Greater World, than had been Known before; and might with his Hand Lifted up to Heaven, Swear; That there should be no more Time, but the Half Time Running out; The Time of the Kingdom succeeding to prepare for its Glory, and then his Kingdom in Full Glory Brings in Time of a New date, as every New Kingdom does, and this is such Time, as never was before.  
Posit. 4. The Papal Kingdom having a Greater Interest in Half Time, though as of a Kingdom Retrenched, than Christ in Regard of hi● Oath for Half Time also, would Assume in it; So many of the Kings of the Christian Name, called the Ten Kongs, did upon so Great an Invitation to Recall their Power from the Beast, as the Reformation was; by a Joint deliberate Act, as it were a Second Act with One consent, Decree to Give their Kingdom still to the Beast, mentioned therefore a Second Time, and with this peculiar Remark on that Second Mention, until the Words of God should be Fulfilled in the Half Time also. Rev. 17.17. Seeing then this Second Act had its date from 1517, and that so many Kings and States could not have gone off, except It had been the Half Time entered, and that None of them shall Continue Longer with Him, then till the Words of God are Fulfilled in that Half Time also; How certain is it, There must be so Great a Change at 1697, the Half Times End, which so plainly Appears to be 97!  
On the same Account, The Reformation cannot be perfect, but in it will be Found Remains of the Apostasy, and this on the Account of the Oath of Christ for Half Time also; The Thunders therefore in that Forementioned Landscaph▪ that opened the Reformation so far, as we find it, were Sealed; That it should proceed no further, but a far Greater Reformation be Expected at the End of Half Time, viz. 97. which will then certainly come to pass, wherein All Remains of Antichristianism will be purged off.  
Posit. 5. Those Two Scriptures urged so much against Search into Prophetic Times, Mark 13.32. Of that Day and Hour Knoweth no Man, etc. and Acts 1.7. It is not for you to Know the Times, and the Seasons, which the Father hath set in his own Power, may according to the Best, and most Agreed Rules for Interpreting Scripture, be demonstratively cleared, to Intent no such Foreprizal, seeing so many Scriptures make plain the Abundant Communication of the Knowledge of Times from God to Christ, and from Christ to his Servants, especially in the Revelation, God Gave to Him to show to His Servants; So that That Scripture stands Immutably Firm against all Cavil Rev. 1.3. Blessed is He that Readeth, and They that Hear the words of his Prophecy, most especially, now the Time is so near at Hand.  
Posit. 6. The Turkish Tyranny, being a Judgement on purpose designed, and set out in Prophecy, as a Judgement on the Antichristian Apostasy, It cannot pass off either according to the nature of the Thing, or according to the Representation of Prophecy, till the Time Allowed to the Antichristian Apostasy be Ended, and that Removed.  
Posit. 7. The First Great Dawn of the Great Change, that will be at the Succession of the Kingdom of Christ, will be seen in the Suffering Reformed Churches, lying among the yet Continuing Popish Powers; wherein the Vaudois and the French Protestants, being the most Eminent, the Deal of God towards Them, are especially to be Eyed according to the nearness of the present Time, to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, and to be waited for as the Great Signal of it; And it is now every day to be expected, and to be prayed for with all Fervent Prayer, as the effect of this next Summer's Action, and our Prince's Appearance in it.  
Posit. 8. The Desolations on the Jewish People and State, are decreed, till the End of the War against Christ and his Kingdom, first by the Roman Pagan, and then by the Roman Antichristian Empire: As therefore the word War is made use of by Daniel, c 9.26. as the Bounding of Jewish Desolations; So the word War is used by the Spirit of God as its own word, which It Kept in Memory in the Revelation, concerning the Pagan Empire, Rev. 12.7. and concerning the Antichristian Empire; The word War is Three Times used, c. 11.7. c. 13. 7 c. 17.14. Now when the Kingdom of Christ is in Succession, the War will End, and so There is a Great Assurance, The Jews will be Called by the Preaching the Everlasting Gospel.  
Posit. 9 For the Preaching the Everlasting Gospel, (by which the Great Achievements of the Kingdom of Christ will be obtained;) There will be a Pouring out of the Spirit, as in the Apostles days, and with a much more Perfect Universality, which shall first Bring forth the Full Orbed Light, styled the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Gentile Churches, that have been so long under an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Eclipse, and so shall Hasten in the Jews; Even All Israel, and make them Ready for the First Resurrection; For Their Full Light, or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, much more than their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Eclipse, or so long Diminution shall be the Riches of the World, and that Life from the Dead of the first Resurrection. Rom. 11.18.  
Posit. 10. The Cessation of the Extraordinary and Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit, hath been in Permission of, and during the State of the Apostasy; For the Fullness of the Spirit is even Essential to the Glory of Redemption, and to the Kingdom of Messiah. Acts 2.17. Isa. 59.21.  
Posit. 11. As a Specimen of the Line of Time, drawn over the Last Times; I Affirm, that after that Great Vision of Ezekiel's Temple and City, and the Throne of God in it; There is that Grand Line of the 2300 Evens. Morn's. in Daniel, as the Line of all Time, to the Kingdom of Christ from the End of the Babylonish Captivity, and the Entrance of Cyrus' Decree to Restore it; 
* From Litteral to Mystical Babylon Falling.  c. 8. which is in the after Visions of Daniel, and of the Revelation, Parcell●d out into lesser Lines; and all, and every one Engraven with Notes of the Temple, Sanctuary, or Daily Sacrifice, to Indent with Ezekiel's Vision, viz, 75 Y. 
* With Great Beauty 75 Y. at first prepare for the Litteral. 75 at last prepare for the New Jerusalem.  as may by Computation be Found, for the Word going forth according to the Commandment of the God of Israel, by Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, Kings of Persia, Ezra 6.14. From thence 490 in the 70 Weeks Express, till the Anointing the Holiest by the Spirit, poured out on Christ without Measure; and then on his Apostles, and Christians as the Spiritual Temple, Dan. 9.24. Ephes. 2.21. Represented Rev. c. 4. From thence to the Temple, Measured and Shut up, with its Worshippers, and the Outward Court cast out, and Trodden under Foot of the Gentiles, Rev. 11.1. etc. and so the Daily Sacrifice Taken away, as may be Computed 400 Y. From thence during the Abomination of the Apostasy, making Desolate to the Temple, seen on Mount Zion by the Followers of the Lamb in the Time of the 7th Trumpet, 1260 Express Years; From thence to the Temple opened, and the Tabernacle of Testimony more Fully seen, (c. 15.5.8.) 30 Express Years making the 1260 1290. as Dan. 12. when the Temple was filled with Smoke from the Glory of the Lord, and his Power, during the Pouring out of the Vials, so that none could enter, v. 8. From thence to God and the Lamb, Bringing down their Tabernacle to be with Men, c. 21. v. 3. v. 22. and being the Temple of the New Jerusalem 45 Express Y. making the 1290 1335, when All the Servants of God shall stand in their Lots, Dan. 12.13. as the Kings and Priests of the New Jerusalem, and Ezekiel's Visional Throne, Ezek. 43.7. Even the Throne of God, and of the Lamb are in it, Rev. 22 3. All which make the 2300 Evens Morn's. of Years to the Great Sabbatism, So from the Temple are the Two Voices, It is done, It is done. Rev. 16.17. c. 21.6.  
Posit. 12. There is no Parcel, or Collatteral Line of These 2300 Evens. Morn's. but is under Express Prophetical Number, except the 75 of the Word going forth before the 70 Weeks, and the 400 from the 70 Weeks ending, unto the Churches going into the Wilderness upon the Apostasy Beginning. Now if the 400 Y. can be any way Ascertained, the 75 before the Weeks must needs be Ascertained also; because all the other parts but these Two being numbered, if the Certain Number of the 400 be fixed, There can be no more than 75 at the first; Now therefore besides many Reasons of Essential Intimacy to the Prophecy of the Revelation, and to History, Assuring this Time was just 400 Y. as is elsewhere Fully Argued; It hath pleased God to bring to my mind this Great Observation.  
The only Prophetical, and Mystical Time God gave to his Church before the Babylonish Captivity, when All Time was drawing up into Prophecy, was the 400 Years, Given to Abraham till His Posterities going out of Egypt into the Wilderness, and the 40 Days for Years in the Wilderness; Between which 400 Years, and the 400 Years to the Christian Churches, Going into the Wilderness, and its being in the Wilderness, There are so many Admirable Agreements that must needs persuade, One was Intended for the other as a Type.  
1. The 400 Y. were Given to Abraham on the Covenant Renewed by Sacrifice, so to the Christian Church, 400 Y. at the Covenant on Greatest Sacrifice Confirmed by Christ and his Apostles. Gen. 15.13. Dan. 9.27. 2. The first 400 Y. Reached to Pharaoh, as a Dragon, Essaying to destroy Israel, God's First born, by Killing the Male Children; so the Pagan Emperor Thought to devour the Imperial Manly Child Jesus Christ, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. Revel. 12.2. etc. 3. When the Church of Israel went out from under Pharaoh, It Immediately passed into the Wilderness; The Christian Church was no sooner Fully Free from the Pagan Persecution, but it went into the Wilderness, as the Revelations sets out, c. 12. 4. God carried Israel into the Wilderness, as on eagle's Wings. The Christian Church was carried into a Retired State by a special Care of God to be Nourished in its place. 5. The Wilderness State was a State of Apostasy; So the Apostasy of Antichrist covered the General Christian Profession, and the True Church was Hid, as in a Wilderness. 6. There were Days for Years in the Wilderness; so in the Christian Church, the 1260 Days are Days for Years, and the 42 Months are Months of Years. 7. There were 42 Encamp, 
* As it were Months.  as the excellent Mr. Mede long ago observed, and They are Numb. 33, strictly reckoned, and there are 42 Months of the Gentiles, 
* As it were Mansions.  and of the Beast Complicated into one. 8. As the Israelites provoking God by their Apostasy, caused their Long Stay in the Wilderness, so the Apostolizing Eastern, and Western Roman Empires Wings carried the Christian Church so far into the Wilderness. 9 As Israel was Fed with Manna, so the Christian True Church was Fed with Hidden Manna during the Apostasy. 10. As it had a Balam then to Seduce it, so had the Christian Church in its Wilderness State, Rev. 2.14.17. 11. As the Israelites had divine Protection as a Pillar of Cloud on the Tabernacle, that made the 42 Mansions 
* As it were Months.  or Delays to Canaan before spoken of: So the Christian Glory is under a divine Reserve, till the End of the Apostasy secured from All Enemies to its Future State, during the 42 Months of delay. 
* As it were Mansions.  12. As the Cloud was a Night, and darkness to the Egyptians, and Light to the Israelites. Exod. 14.20. So Spiritual Egypt is in a Dark Foul Place as in a Night, Accounted by Time of the Moon, or 42 M. but the True Israelitish Christian Church had, as the Appearance of Fire to Guide all its Motions: Saints Time is therefore accounted by the Day 1260 D. although in Sackcloth, because of the Apostasy. 13. As the Israelites moves towards Canaan, were by divine direction by the Cloud taken off: so the Moves of All the Witnesses of Christ against Idolatry, Image-worship, Superstition was by that Dark Cloud of the Apostasy taken off from Them: so in the Enemies of Images, the Waldenses, John Hus, Jerome of Prague, Wickliff, the Bohemians, the Reformation, which was indeed like that small part of the Tribes, Reuben, Gad, the Half Tribe of Manasseh before the Rest, Possessing part of the Promised Lands, but still to be in Arms, as the Protestant Churches ought to be, 
Bind up the Testimony, seal the Law among my Disciples, and I will wait, etc. Isa. 8.16.17. etc.  and not to Take Rest, Grandieur and splendour to Themselves till the Full Reformation, lest that sin Find them out, as Numb. 32.23. 14. The End of the Wilderness was the Promised Land by Joshuah or Jesus: so the True Jesus and his Kingdom shall be the End of the Wilderness-state of the Christian Church.  
From All this I Conclude, That there being other most Substantial Proof, This Parallel is a very Assuring Illustration, that the Time from the 70 W. ended to the Church of Christ, going into the Wilderness, or being out of sight during the Apostasy, was just 400 Y. ending at 437, and so It must come out of the Wilderness 1697. after the 1260 Days for Years, and the 42 Months of Years Ended, and so is most certainly to be Expected; For 1260 Years from 437, must Terminate in 1697.  
The TESTIMONY is FINISHED.