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6. crets,” 2; That they were intrufted with him, that thereby he might | zjocbus, and at laſt reftor'd by Fudas Macchabeus, and confirmed by 4n- - the ſec the Force and Fruit of his Humiliation and fervent Prayer. 3. That | riochus ? trom thence to the Death of Antiochus are 45 Days, which ad- i ans, {Dc ſhould ſuppreſs and lay up theſe things for the wpport of the God- | ded to 1290 make 1335. But this is a falſe Account and contrary to 'q the! Iy in their future deep Afflietions. 4+ That God would never utterly | the Scope of this Place, and to Hiftory and Chronology, which the [f v-_ forlake his Peop'e, though their Sins juſtly provoked his heavy Hand | Learned Foſeph Mede hath proved at large, ib. oper. TI. p. 832. The þ upon chem. 5. That theſe things be kept from the Profane, who would | Fews make theſe Days to end at the Coming of Chriſt ; but they are un- by ut ut make an evil Uſe of them. 6. The Book was commanded to be ſealed, | certain when to begin their Reckoning, and ſo have been often and i mpitey becauſe it would be long e're the Words would be all fulfilled, where- | grofly deceived. Sound Chriſtians reter it to the ſecond coming of L aS thoſe that were ſhortly to be fulfilled were forbidden to be ſealed ; | Chritt; Mr. Mede makes the chief Revelation of Antichriſt to be in 1127, A ES of ſee 2 Chron, 21. 12 Iſa. $. 16. Rev. 22. 10. hþ They ſhall diligently | the latter Number of 1335. ends in Anno Chritti 1169. and ſo the Tipe | 195 of rquireand ſearch theſe Prophecies concerning the Fates of the Crurch, | of Anichriſt, which is Anriochus Epipkanes, teads us by the Hand t9 the bs It his and (hall fee and admire both the Prelcience and Providence of God | Revelation of Antichriſt, which fell out An. 1106, to An. 1120. be- Wy Ht concerning things ro come; they ſhall know Signs. of the Times, and | tween which time the Papal Power was highly mounted, the Church WalY. wait upon God in the way of his Judgments ; ſee Pſal. 77. 5, 6, 7. | greatly perſecuted, after that great Numbers of them had ſeparated "LF: ſr, Iſa. 26. 8. 1 Pet: 1. 10, 11, 12. The miſerable Jews pervert this Scrip- | trom the Abominations of Xome, openly declaring it to be A4nrichriſtian 2. F. Bs 4 tre, and forbid the People by dire Threatnings to Calculate Times; | Therefore the Angel faith, the Saints by their Trials ſhall he purified and k [ wb NotT namely, leaft they find thereby that Feſus Chriſt is the true Meſſab, Thus | made white, that is by thoſe cruel Perſecutions which befel them from 1 8: great Ire they wilfully and judiciouſly blinded, A&#s 28. 26. Ko. 11. 8: | their ignorant and inraged Enemies, who went on todo wickedly, and we ! He means chiefly in Goſpel tires, which came by the Preaching of | did not underftand. How this is further cleared, and why the Angel -4linth Chriſt, and ſearching the Scriptures about it. makes ule of the £oman Supputation in this Caſe, namely, by 1nd:t- 7 all 5 C Then I Daniel looked and behold, there ſtood | ons, and how it anſwers, and reſolves che Cale, ſee in the forecites . Power other two k, the one on this ſide of the - Bank of the | Author. : 11 BY : River, and the other on that ſide of the Bank of the | 13 But go thy way till the ena te y: i| for thou 1} Oz, ard "Of Pala Iver, ſhalr relt, and ſtand in thy lot at the end oi the days Z. rvpoy, &c. 2 th 1; Jo; h Two Angels waiting and miniſtring on Chriſt to obſerve his yq. 4, T have revealed to thee ſo much of thele things as I had in M1 ; ommands, by the Banks of the Kiver Tigris or Hiddekel, where this | Commilſion, that thou and thy People ſhould be-prepared for the >ut- Ms n to tt! new Vition was. ferings which will come upon them, and yet NOT without Hope of a eaſter 6 And one ſaid to the Man clothed in * Linen], | glorious eter + n w___ _ _ _ 4 ve _ atiih, Which . ' . Fear or teeling of trouble, £11 3e Rent 10N of the Juſt, to the 1e Wit "ich was {| upon the Waters of the River, How Jong Joys of another World. Which ſome make to be here, a'ter all Enz-
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