The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697, Discourse · Part 5
Thus far I have been repreſenting the real, and ſolid part of the Calendar, of which I cannot doubt the Satisfaction, It hath given to every obſerving Mind; It now remains, that the numeral, though myſtic part of it be conſider'd under that Characteriſm of it; Time, Times, and Half a Time in the Prophecy of Daniel.
And that this may be underſtood, It muſt be expounded to us by that ſo divinely Learned, and truly infallible Key of it, and of the whole Prophecy of Daniel, the Apocalyptical Prophecy of the New Teſtament; and the Expoſition it gives, is as in a Complication of Charactoriſms of Time; Twice forty two Months, Twice twelve hundred, and ſixty days, and Twice three Times, and a Half, but with the little variation of Three Days and a Half for the great Reaſon of alluding to our Lords three Days in the Grave; that we might learn to find a deeper, and more intimate part in the ſpace given, as our Lord was but a deep part of the firſt, the whole of the ſecond, and a ſmall deep part, viz. the very dawn or Morning-Break of the Third Day in the Grave; which yet is call'd, being Three Days and Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth. This plainly teaches us, there was parallel-wiſe in theſe; Time, Times, and Half a Time; a deeper Tyranny of the Beaſt, and of the Apoſtolical Church cclips'd by it; and its Seed, the Witneſſes ſuffering under it, in ſome parts of theſe Times, then in others.
And Theſe Things I have more at large handled in their proper place of the Line of Time, and ſhall now only recal what is neceſſary to preſent this Time more at full.
And in the firſt place It is duly to be Remark'd, that as the Spirit gave a Calendar, however Myſtic, but juſt at the Riſing of the Ten Horns on the Head of the Fourth Roman Beaſt, which appears the ſeventh Head or Papacy in the Revelation, with his Ten Horns or Kings, and He a little Horn among them; So in the Revelation, It affixes thoſe Charecteriſms of Time to the Gentiles coming in to the outward Court, and to the Witneſſes putting on Sackcloth, and to the Church fled into the Wilderneſs upon it; as alſo to the Times of the Beaſt, who is the ſeventh Head of the Fourth Beaſt in Daniel, which we have proved to be Roman; and to his Ten Horns, and to the Woman perſecuted by the Dragon, making War with its Seed by the Beaſt, to whom he gave his Throne, Power, &c. Killing her Seed the Witneſſes. By which as alſo by the very expreſs uſe of Three Times, and Half the Spirit hath, if we will receive it, demonſtrated to us; That the Ten Horns, and Little Horn in Daniel, and the Beaſt and its Ten Horns in the New Teſtament-Prophet John are the very ſame Kingdom.
And the Time is doubled in the Witneſſes, and the Woman both for the certainty, and alſo explanation of the Church not to be found, as the Beaſts and Romaniſts vaunt before Luther; but Collectively as a Church, Woman, or Mother, Hid in the Wilderneſs, and yet diſtricutively War'd with, and kill▪d in ſingle Saints, or Witneſſes, as its Seed.
Now it is moſt Evident, that in every one of theſe Characteriſms of Time, Three equal parts and a Half part of Time are ſtill moſt clearly, and peremptorily defin'd, that we may thereby be moſt aſſuredly guided in the Calculation, or Computation of the whole ſpace; And then, they are made up into eighty four Indictions, giving a broad Indication, It was a Time ſoon after Conſtantine, that was intended to be defin'd; For ſo, ſoon after Him, Indictions came to be general Characters of Time, being as Chronologers moſt agree, inſtituted under him.
That we may then find the fundamental Reaſon of this Time, we muſt conſider, that the Kingdom of Chriſt having made an Appearance, and given a Specimen of it ſelf, as hath been ſhewn, It was Eſtop'd by that Oath of Chriſt; There ſhall be Time, Times and half a Time for that Kingdom to be under an Eclipſe; In which Time, That He, the little Horn made ſo Famous, Dan. 7. ſhould ſcatter the Power of the Holy People, or drive the Church into the Wilderneſs for thoſe Times, and Half a Time.
Accordingly Revel. 12. This very Eclipſe is repreſented to come to paſs; For the Kingdom of Chriſt, from Conſtantines Chriſtian Retgn to the Death of Theodoſius the Great, as the Church cloathed with the Sun; had the Beſtian Pagan Kingdom compar'd with the Moon, under its Feet, as it were diametrally; Hereupon there begins a gradual darkneſs, or Eclipſe upon the True Church; For the Pagan, Beſtian Kingdom, being now to become Antichriſtian-Beaſtian, That Antichriſtian Beaſtian Kingdom borrows (as the Moon in an Eclipſe does) moſt Light and Glory from the Sun, and yet Eclipſes that Light from the World; For it turns its own dark obſcure ſhade downward, and retires the Light from above.
How does this moſt admirably Reſemble the Antichriſtian Church, in which former Paganiſm finding it ſelf ſo to lye under the Sun, takes as it were, the advantage to guild it ſelf with the Beams of Christianity; It takes upon it ſelf the Apoſtolick Faith, the Acknowledgment of Scripture, the names of Christ, and of his Saints, the ſtyle of Catholick Church.
And all this it does, That it may engroſs to it ſelf Thoſe Titles of honour, and Glory, that Riches, and ſplendor which is onelyonly due to the True, and pure Chriſtianity in the Kingdom of Chriſt.
Hereby it robs the World of the Light, and glory of Chriſtianity, for inſtead of thoſe powerful, and enlivening rays, it caſts upon the Earth, Idolatry, Superſtition, Ceremony, Foppery of Religion, which are ancient Paganiſm Antichriſtianiz'd, and muſt needs chill, make wan and pale all appearances of Goſpel Truth, ſo far, as any were, but in deed rather darken and obſcure them, altogether, as truly Goſpel; and this indeed was turning Chriſtianity, as much as is poſſible into Fable, according to that Papal Prophaneſs, that ſtyl'd it ſo, when themſelves had made it ſo.
Together with this obſcuring of Truth; that Honour, and Glory moſt due to the Church of Chriſt, and to his Servants, that ſhould fill the World, is ſo intercepted by the Children of the Night, uſurping it; that while the Church is in the Wilderneſs and unſeen, tho' cloath'd with the Sun, its Seed, the Witneſſes, that ſhould ſhine with the ſame Beams, are cover'd with Sackcloth according to the Prophetical alluſion; the Sun became as Sackcloth of Hair; and Kill'd all the day long.
Never was ſhade, or portraicture thus fitted to the life, but who, as the divine Spirit, can at the ſame Time hide in Cyphar, and yet declare the thing plentifully, as it is?
But now this Time of the Eclipſe is determin'd to be Twelve Hundred ſixty prophetical days, or years of the Sun, whoſe ſtate is to guide, and determine this Time; In which regard the Moon, that is, the Times of the Moon, are under its Feet, and to be guided, and over-rul'd by it; It comes then to be conſider'd, that the Times of the Moon are not equal to the Times of the Sun; For the Time, in which the Moon meaſures the Zodiac twelve Times, and hath as often New Congreſſes with the Sun, and thereby makes the lunar year, is agreed to be, as near, as can be computed a thirty eighth part leſs, then what the Sun requires to viſit the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, and to give twelve meetings to the Moon in its yearly Courſe; ſo that the Moon is advanced near eleven days in the ſtage of a New Year, before the Sun hath finiſh'd any year.
Proportionably the Beaſts Times and Half Time are expounded in the Revelation by Forty two, not only Months, but Moons; For every ſeveral Month is as under another Moon, call'd therefore, a New Moon, and therefore Months muſt be Times of the Moon, for they are Moons; but the Moon is not the Sun; If therefore Theſe Moons had begun at the ſame Time, the twelve hundred ſixty days began, They muſt have ended Thirty eight years ſooner, then They could end according to the Symbol; For then the Eclipſe ſhould have laſted, when the Moon had no longer been ſo poſited, as to intercept the Suns Beams, that is, the Glory of Chriſt in his Church.
Therefore in the Jews Times, from whom This, as All the other Types in this Prophecy, relating to the Church and Servants of Chriſt are taken; There was the Intercalation of a ſecond Adar the laſt Jewiſh Month, betwixt each precedent and following year, that was to be intercalar, that it might ſupply the hollow, or vacuity in the Moons Time, and guide the Paſchal New Moon in its due regard to the vernal Sun, to keep Time with it.
Now the Rule of this Intercalation; becauſe the balance betwixt the Motion of the Sun, and of the Moon; was the Decem-Novennal Cycle, or ſo generally known Golden Number.
And laſtly, this Intercalation was generally neceſſary, but every Third year, of all which particulars the Treatiſe of that learned Jew, Maimonides, concerning the New Moons and Intercalation is a Great Teſtimony, and his ſixth Chapter gives Great Light to the Type, we are are upon.
For proportionably, The Forty two Months of the Gentiles are, as Intercalary, to the Months of the Beaſts, and begin Thirty eight years before them, and are, as it were, a ſecond, ſupplemental Adar, to the Time of the Draconic ſixth Head, and come in as a fit ſpace of the Dragons giving his Throne to the Beaſt.
For the Barbarous Nations are call'd Gentiles, becauſe They ravag'd on the Chriſtian Empire, the Emblem of Chriſts Kingdom, though indeed Sathan by Them, as hath been ſay'd, miſs'd his Aim; For the Empire was now Antichriſtianiz'd, and the True Church hid.
Yet their coming into the outward Cuort of the Empire, and of the Profeſſion of Chriſtianity, and to become the Beaſts People, manag'd at firſt by the other Beaſt, or Antichriſtian Roman Hierarchy, God was pleas'd to ordain as the beginning of the Apoſtaſie, upon which the Witneſſes put on their Sackcloth, and the Woman actually fled into the Wilderneſs, and the Twelve hundred ſixty days began; And becauſe the Beaſts Moons did not begin till thirty eight years after; Here is the Intercalation of the Thirty eighth part, the Beaſts Moons would want; and given in two Nineteens or Cycles of the Moon, ſetting right the Moon to the Sun, that ſo the Moon of the Antichriſtian Beſtian Kingdom might be in its juſt Time under the Suns Feet, with which the Church was cloath'd, to Eclipſe it.
Now this Type is ſo wonderful, as not poſſibly to fall into this Model of Time by chance, with that admirable Congruity, and therefore cannot be look'd upon, but as divinely deſign'd, and ſo to be accepted, as demonſtrative; That the Beasts Months beginning at 475. There muſt have been Thirty eight years of Beſtian preparatory Time before them; with the firſt of which the twelve hundred ſixty days, or years beginning, All may end together 1697.
And if it be ask'd, what becomes of the Months of the Gentiles, after the Beaſts Months enter'd; and of the Action of the other Beaſt, or Antichriſtian Hierarchy, who exercis'd the Power of the Firſt Draconic Beaſt, and ſpake as the Dragon, not dead, but to live in the Antichriſtian Beaſt; The Anſwer is; The Gentiles Months merg'd into the Beaſts, who had Power given Him over all Kindreds, Tongues, and Nations, as an Antichriſtian Head; and ſo though for the Grace of the Type, They are given, as Forty two Months; yet They are drown'd in the Beaſts Months after They have done their Service of Intercalation, before the Beaſts Months began; even as ſmaller Accounts of Time are ſwallowed up in that of the Reigns of Supreme Princes, dating All Times; Then alſo the other Beaſt became the Beaſts falſe Prophet, the Tutor or Guardian of his Infantile Power, till He came to his manly Number 666. and after that, his Inſeparable Spirit, and Intelligence; as hath appear'd in all Councels; before the Beaſts Times, wherein the Hierarchy had been Heaving the Papacy into an Antichriſtian Idolatrous Supremacy; The Dawn of which was viſible in the Councel of Chalcedon within the Gentiles Intercalary Months; within his Times confirming and ſwelling it to a Height, as in the ſecond Councel of Nice, and in the Lateran Councels of the Eleventh, and Twelfth Centuries; Or ſupporting the declining State of it, as in that laſt Famous Councel of Trent in his Half Time.
But beſides all, that hath been ſpoken, let us, but take Time, Times, and Half a Time; and we may by one eaſie way of Argument, and in which any one may ſatisfie himſelf, aſſure our ſelves in this determination of Time, that I have made.
For when a Calendar of Time is given in Time, Times, and Half a Time, as the meaſure of that ſpace, wherein a Kingdom and Government, as of returning Pagan Bestianiſm, ſhould Eclipſe, and obſcure the Kingdom of Chriſt; after it had given an Emblem and appearance of it ſelf, (which is the Foundation of the whole Type) the very Frame and aſpect of ſuch a Calendar neceſſarily imports, that the Time and Times are Three equal parts, viz. The Time one ſingle part, and Times Two equal parts in themſelves, but double, when conjoyn'd; and then the Half Time the juſt Half of any of thoſe equal parts.
And thus the explication of Time, Times, Half a Time by thoſe ſo particular Characteriſms aſſure us; For Twelve hundred ſixty days, and Forty two Monnhs neceſſarily carry us upon Three equal years, and one Half year; and Three days and a Half are yet more expreſs, that There are Three equal parts, and one Half part of any of the Three equal parts, intended to be given.
Now that theſe are explanatory of theſe three Times and a Half is in two Inſtances, viz. of the twelve Hundred ſixty days and of the Beaſts Forty two Months moſt clear, which is enough to the preſent purpoſe; For the twelve Hundred ſixty days and the Three Times and Half, are both the meaſure of the ſpace of the Woman in the Wilderneſs, and ſo the ſame; And the three Times and Half, and the Beaſts Forty two Months are both given, as the ſpace of the Power of the little Horn in Daniel and of the Beaſt in the Revelation; both which I have already prov'd are the ſame, and therefore the Times, and the Forty two Months muſt be neceſſarily the ſame; and ſo equal in the Three parts, and a half part.
But further, when the Times and Half are thus diſtributed, and with ſuch alluſion to the Death and Burial of Jeſus Chriſt, as in the Witneſſes lying dead three days and a Half. It is both in the thing it ſelf, as in the alluſion moſt evident, that the firſt Time is allowed for the Aſcendency of this Kingdom of the Beaſt, till the Eclipſe of the Kingdom of Chriſt by it becomes Total; The two Times are the uniform Continuation of things in that very State, the end of the Firſt Time left Them; But when It comes to a Half Time, the Kingdom of the Beaſt, being at the very moment of that Half Time entring, what It was, all the Two Times; It juſt then comes under a check, and ſurpriſe, and can continue the Total Eclipſe no longer; but ſhall continue a partial Eclipſe, till the Half Time given to Him be alſo expir'd: Then that Kingdom ſhall be preſcinded, as at the middle, with both Ruin, and Infamy; upon which the Glory of Chriſt, his Kingdom, Church and People ſo long Eclipſed ſhall at the End of that Half Time ſhine out much more gloriouſly, then ever yet It hath done, and after a ſhort preparation, to a perfect day without any more Night.
Let us then examine, at what Time the Half Time enter'd, which may be certainly known by that check, and ſurprize upon the Antichriſtian Kingdom, that It could no longer totally Eclipſe the Church of Chriſt, as it had done; And what Time that was, there is a Vox Populi, a common ſaying, even of the Antichriſtian People, that indeed is Vox Dei, the very Oracle of God concerning the Half Time; Where, ſay They, was your Church before Luther? that is; It was before indeed all along from Chriſt, but It was for Time, and Two Times under an Eclipſe, even Total, that It could not be ſeen before Luther's Time; From his Time It hath been (bleſſed be God) to be ſeen, but not as It ſhall be at the End of the Half Time, ſo here is evidently the Half Time begun.
Now what Chronology is not agree'd, that Luther appear'd at 1517? Here then, viz. at 1517, the Half Time moſt certainly Began; For from that Time, not any accidental change, or for a Time, but an unmoveable Reformation, and Retrenchment upon the Antichriſtian Kingdom hath enſued in the revolt of ſeveral Kingdoms and States from it; And how unmovable it hath been; So univerſal conſent in the late Revolution, as it appear'd againſt Popery, is in this Proteſtant Nation a Monument, undoubtedly ſet up by God as a Specimen, what ſhall be at the end of the Half Time, whatever Judgment our ſins may in the mean Time provoke upon us!
Being thus aſſur'd then, when the Half Time began, we are alſo moſt certain, the Half Time is a Half, equal to each of the Three equal parts; In twelve hundred and ſixty therefore, an equal Half part to each equal whole part muſt be one hundred, and eighty; And if this Half part begin at 1517. It muſt end at 1697. by a conſequence undeniable.
And then, if from 1517. where the Half Time began, we carry backward one Thouſand and Eighty, the juſt Amount of the three equal parts, They muſt needs reach back by a retrograde motion to Anno 437. of the Chriſtian Account; at which Time the Ten Kings were every where, carving their Kingdoms out of the Empire, under the play of the firſt Trumpet.
So the Gentiles at that very time came, as before explain'd, into the outward Court, and their Forty two Months began, and gave Thirty eight Intercalar years, till the Beaſt and the Ten Kings receiv'd Power, as hath been explain'd, which was at 475, as was before explain'd.
And thus the Times of the Beaſts Moon, ſo under the Feet of the Church as to Ecclipſe it, by ſurprizing the Glory proper to it, as Cloath'd with the Sun, are made equal to the Times of the Church in the Wilderneſs, and of the Witneſſes in their Sackcloth, and run equal with them to the end; and the Gentiles Months are of no further conſiderations but moſt naturally, and ſimimilarly ſink into the Months of the Beaſt, and are united with them.
And yet laſtly, to make this Calendar moſt undoubted, If we ſhould lay aſide the diſtinction betwixt Lunar and Solar Time, and the Intercalation upon it, and take the Time, Times, and Half Time as of the little Horn onelyonly, abſolutely, and by themſelves; Yet allowing the Little Horn, the ſame with the Beaſt, the eigth King, ſucceding the Chriſtian Empire at 475; as hath been ſo fully prov'd, and let the Half Time, as hath been alſo prov'd enter with Luther, they will come to the very ſame point of 1697; if we allow but five Years from Luther 1517, viz. till 1522 for the revolts from the Beſtian Kingdom, which Reformed Princes and States in that Time made; and which have continued to this day; at which very Time Images, and the worſhip of them, of greateſt Intereſt in Beſtianiſm began to be caſt out; And then proportion the Times, and half Time among themſelves; (as was before moſt undeniably ſtated) The expedients of Lunar Time, and of Intercalation will be more neceſſary▪ to ſet the Beſtian Time at an even ballance with the whole Apocalyptical Emblem both of the ſtate and Characters of this Time, then to make certain the Calendar, and its computation. For Luther's appearance or ſo very little diſtant from it, as not to deſtroy the very ſymbol of the Half Time, is ſo certain a Barrier of that Half Time; and the Ceſſation of the Chriſtian Empire, ſo certain an Epoch of the three equal Times, that we cannot fail of proportioning them all amongſt themſeves and knowing, the longeſt of their duration can be but till 1697.
The Calendar being thus determin'd, let us conſider the diſtribution, and as the Half Time hath appear'd to be a Time of declination; So the firſt Time Comprehended his ſucceſſion, his aſcending to Supremacy receiv'd from Phocas, ratified by a Councel at Rome ſoon after; and ſo onwards his Beſtianiſm and Idolatrous eſtabliſhing Imageworſhip by the ſecond Counſel of Nice; His becomming a little Horn, and rooting up any Horns in his way, his diſpoſing of Crowns, and Excommunicating Emperours; All which he attain'd before 797. the Period of his first Time, acording to the ballance of it, with the 1260. day; And the conſtituting and Crowning as Emperour Charls the Great of France, very cloſe to it in the year 800. and within it, if we Calculate the Times and Half of the little Horn, (as we may with very little variation do) within themſelves.
This Obſervation of the Beast riſing, as from an Infantile State, ſhews us; The Revelation conſiders his ſucceſſion as an Imperial Beſtian Seventh Head bearing ten Horns, who becoming within his firſt Time, a little Horn alſo, himſelf riſes according to Daniel, to his number at his powerful and effective Image; And this ariſing to and ſettlement of power very naturally agrees with the firſt Time of any Potentacy.
His two Times, however full of variety of accidents, as All worldly power is, yet ſpeak one main, and deep of power, as the two Times are joyn'd; but with ſome little diſtinction, as they are two Times; in which there was a ſpread of the roots and Branches of Beſtian power; viz. in the coupling of the two Times; and ſo we may obſerve at that very Time, viz. in the Eleventh, and Twelth Centuries; enlarged Idolatries to the Hoaſt, more Blaſphemous aſſumptions in the Temple, and Church of God; His Perſecution of the Saints and Churches of Christ, more Bloody; the Hiſtory of the Albigenſes, and Waldenſes is the Pyramid of it; His Exaltation of himſelf above all, even the higheſt Names of Majeſty, and Empire more prodigious, and Luciferian; as the Hiſtory of his Treaty of the German Emperors, and of our own King John, are abundant Teſtimonies: Theſe things were moſt notorious about the latter part of the Firſt of the two Times ending 1157. and the ſecond of the two Times beginning, when the other ended.
The Half Time is remarkable for the Cutting off ſuch a Lap of his Beſtian Purple, and Scarlet, with ſo much Diſhonor; the Continuance yet of ſo Great a part as neceſſary to his Half Time; and that yet more Infamous and Deſtructive ſtroke on theſe Feet of Clay, that now hangs over Him, and will certainly Fall by his Periodical, and Fatal 1697. Thus every way is our Calendar aſſur'd in the whole, and in the Diſtribution.
And with how great Grace do theſe three Times, and Half agree with that Moon intercepting and ſo Eclipſing the Glory, and Kingdom of Chriſt, firſt partial, till after the middle of the Firſt Time; then total till the end of the Two Times; At the Half Time the Firſt Re-appearances of Light were very ſurprizing; But there is yet an obſcurity; But It ſhall at laſt ſo go off, So that the Sun of Righteouſneſs ſhall ſhine out in its Strength, and the Light of one Day ſhall be then as the Light of any ſeven, that have been hitherto, ſince the Reformation.
Object. Now if It ſhould ſeem any Diſparagement to the Calendar, that the Turkiſh ſo vaſt Empire hath no place in it, though ſeated in ſo large Traicts of the Ancient Roman Empire, and in the Imperial City of its Eaſtern Empire, Conſtantinople, call'd New Rome.
Anſw. The Anſwer is clear; It is ſo far from diſparaging the Calendar, that It much ſtrengthens, and Illuſtrates it; For It hereby is moſt evident, that only thoſe Four Monarchies, we have ſo much ſpoken of, make the Calendar and only in that order, wherein the Divine Spirit plac'd Them; ſo that neither Perſia, nor Graece, whatever Greatneſs They have had, ſince the former was demonarchiz'd by Alexander, and the latter by the Romans, have any place in this Calendar; And though the Turkiſh Power hath invaded ſo much, what was heretofore Roman Empire; Yet It hath been on purpoſe ſo plac'd by Divine Vengeance, that It might the more cloſely offend, and annoy the Apoſtate Roman State, and be a more effective Woe upon it. In the mean Time, It hath been ſo limited, that It could never poſſeſs Rome, nor the Amplitude of the Weſtern Empire.
Yet it is evident, Prophecy is not ignorant of the Mahometan Greatneſs, but moſt abundant in the deſcypharings of it, both in Daniel, Dan. 11. 40. under the King of the South, as the Saracens, and of the North in the Turks; and ſo in the Revelation, chap. 9. in the Firſt Woe Trumpet of the Locusts, and the Second Woe Trumpet of the Armed Horſemen; and that They Both Fall in with the Times of the Calendar, and are as much engrafted into it, as They have been, or are into the Roman Empire, as hath been ſhown in the Line of Time; where It ought to be; and the Times of the preſent Mahometan Kingdom in the Turks ſhall certainly take End with this Calendar, when that Apoſtate Beſtianiſm ſhall ceaſe to require ſo Great a Vengeance upon the Chriſtian World; on which Account, when the Witneſſeſs enter into Glory at the Period of the 1260 Days; It is ſaid the ſecond Woe is paſt, but a Greater Third Woe immediately ſeizes the Apoſtaſie, even the ſucceeding Kingdom of Chriſt.
The naming of which by way of ſtrongeſt Intereſt ſhould oblige us to watch, and keep our Garments, that our Shame may not be ſeen.
For as that Kingdom will put an utter end to all Pagan Imperialiſm in the World, by ways and Methods known to Him, who does, whatever He pleaſes, and as It ſhall utterly deſtroy Antichriſtianiſm which we ſo Highly have diſavowed; So It will be as ſevere on all Formal, Ceremonial, Perſecutory Proteſtancy, and not only that, but all Prophane, Irreligious Proteſtants unreform'd in Heart, unreform'd in Life; For It is a Kingdom of Truth, Righteouſneſs, and Peace, not in Word but in Power.
And ſeeing, It is certainly ſo near, as I have Repreſented, and that All the Policy and Power of the World, can no longer interpoſe againſt it; but that Chriſt will take to Himſelf, his Great Power, and Reign; however Angry the Nations will be at it, and will destroy them, that have destroyed ſo long the Earth, and will ſtay the Wicked with the Rod of his Mouth, and with the Breath of his Lips; How diligent ſhould All be, to prepare for ſo Happy a Revolution, if we are found of Him in Peace; For if not, we ſhall in vain call to the Mountain to Hide us, and to the Rocks to cover us, when the Great Day of His Wrath is Come.