Remarkable extracts selected from a work printed in ... 1687 ... entitled The accomplishment of the Scripture prophecies, etc. : In which are pointed out ... many things analogous to the present great changes in France; particularly the fall of the Pope's authority; of tyranny; of the nunneries, etc. and of titles of honour ... To which are added, several Acts and Decrees of the National Assembly of France / [By E. May].

  • Pierre Jurieu
Date:
1793
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Credit: Remarkable extracts selected from a work printed in ... 1687 ... entitled The accomplishment of the Scripture prophecies, etc. : In which are pointed out ... many things analogous to the present great changes in France; particularly the fall of the Pope's authority; of tyranny; of the nunneries, etc. and of titles of honour ... To which are added, several Acts and Decrees of the National Assembly of France / [By E. May]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ right to require the fame afturance from others, neither do fc I require it. But that which I demand at leaft,is a little c* of that -attention*, which I employed in the meditation of <c thofe divine Oracles; and then I am perfuaded, that if u you are not as fully convinc’d as I ana, you will yet fee u reafon enough, not to condemn me of rafhnefs.” In the firft part of the body of the work, our author treats of many parts of the prophecies, till he comes to the feventh trumpet, where he fays, in page 80, Cf The voice- “ of the feventh trumpet is that which mult found at the fc moment of the laft fall of the Antichrifiian empire, when cc Popery fhall be deftroyed : then all the nations fhall turn fc unto God, to make up the kingdom of Jefus Chrift, £C that is yet to come, as appears by thefe words : £f The feventh angel founded, and there were great voices in cc Heaven, faying, The kingdoms of this world are become the iC kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Chrift, and he fhall reign cc j-cr ever an(p After feme remarks on the above, he proceeds, in page 81, thus >—Then the myftery of God fhall be finifiot, as he hath “ declared to his fervants the prophets, viz. the myftery of this glorious reign of Jefus Chriff on the earth, which “ hath been foretold by all the prophets in fo magnificent a ‘c manner, as we fhall fhew in the procefs of this work, ( and which Daniel iaw fo clearly as to mark the time ec and circumftances of it.” In his thirteenth chapter, in his enquiry after the cha¬ racters of the Antichriltian empire, he lays, page 123, cc But we muft carefully obierve, that in all places of “ Chriftendom where thefe Characters are found, the pride and tyranny of Egypt, the fit h and abominations of Sodom, <c and the Idolatries of Babylon, there is the Antichrifiian <£ empire, in whole or in part. And hereupon we muft <c conclude, that this empire is not confined to what we 4C call the Papiftn, the places fubjedt to the Popedy And again, page 125, <c I therefore make no fcruple cc to affirm that the Babylonifo Empire is in all places, ■f Rev. xi. 15, <c wherever .4 *
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