The shaking and translating of heaven and earth. A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled April 19 1649. To which are annexed, prophetical extracts: particularly such as relaie [sic] to the Revolution in France and the decline of the papal power in the world / By John Owen.

  • John Owen
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1794
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Credit: The shaking and translating of heaven and earth. A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled April 19 1649. To which are annexed, prophetical extracts: particularly such as relaie [sic] to the Revolution in France and the decline of the papal power in the world / By John Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    after the kings of France fhall have broken with the Biihop of Rome. Ver. 14. Fhe fecond wo is pcijl, and behold the third wo cojneth quickly ; namely, the fecond of the three woes, which had been denounced after the found of the fourth trumpet. And I heard an an- gel flying through the midfl of heaven, crying with a loud voice, IVo, wo, wo to the inhabitants of the earth, by reafon of the other voices of the trumpet, which are yet to-found. The fir ft of thefe three woes was the grafhoppers, who came up out of the bottomlefs pit with their head Apollyon, and in Hebrew Abaddon. Thefe grafhoppers are plainly the Saracens, Arabians with their head Mahomet, The fecond wo is the domination of the Turks, who paiTed from the other fide of Euphrates at the found of the fixth trumpet. And the third wo is the fall of the antichridian empire. Thefe three great events deferve to be didin- guifhed from all others; for they have changed, „ or fhall change the whole face of the world. It is clear, that thefe kings, who, through igno¬ rance or weaknefs, fuffered their power to be ufur- ped by the empire of the papacy, fhall take it again, fhall eat her fleflo ; i. e. fhall enrich themfelves with her benefices and revenues, and burn her with fire, i. e. fhall abolifli the memory of this Rotnifh empire, fo that nothing but afhes fhall remain of it. The firfl thing, which fhall be done in the third period of the feventh vial, is the fall of the tenth part of the city ; i. e. of the kingdom of France, which fhall break with the court of Rome, and wholly change the face of religion in that kingdom: this is the firfl action of the vintage. The beall: and the falfe prophet, the Pope and his agents, fhall rally all their forces: but God fhall mufler all his together, and give the lafl blow to popery ; then the bead and the falfe prophet fhall be
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