Temple, built in Rome, which was built by the Saints, and long preferv'd; and this is reprefented as deftroy'd by wicked Men. And a reform'd ftate of Worship is reprefented by those who praise God in no obfcure Land; and they have no Images, nor Ornaments of Gold to deceive Souls, but worship God, the Father of all Saints, who were only infpir'd Men. This third ftate of the Roman Church represents the Reformation.

Rome by fome

call'd Impure

But now an ignoble and impure King is The ruining of come (into Italy), and has deftroy'd this Turki Pyrate. City, and fpoil'd the Structure with a great The Turks are multitude, and famous Men. He died when ing by the Sihe invaded that excellent Land; and there byls. never was, fuch a Wonder amongst Men, to fee Strangers deftroy this great City.

Note, This is the laft Deftruction of Rome, by fome Pyrate Turks, who fhall furprize and burn it. The fame Hiftory is mention'd in the Eightli Book. This King is call'd cavis, and therefore muft be, fome inferiour Prince; and he is, call'd day, by which the Mahometans are defcrib'd.

Millennium,

: The Bleffed Man is come from the high christ coming Heavens, having His Sceptre in His Hands on in the which God gave Him, and gloriously go-and builds New verns all, and He reftores to all good Men Ferufalem. the Riches which Men formerly took from them; and He has deftroy'd all Cities with Fire, to their very Foundations, and burnt all Nations of Men, who were guilty of evil Works; but He hath made the City which God loves more fplendid than the

Sun,

Babylon's
Fall.

Sun, and Stars, and the Moon, and hath adorn'd it, and made a Holy Temple, fubftantial, large, and beautiful, and rais'd a Tower great and large, upon many Stadia, as if it touch'd the Clouds, and visible to all, that all holy and juft Men may fee the Glory of the invifible God; a defirable Spectacle the East and Weft fhall fing in Hymns the Praife of God; for there fhall not be any terrible Evils to miferable Mortals; no Adulteries, nor deteftable Sodomy, nor Murder, nor Sedition, but all shall ftrive for Virtue and Righteousness. The laft times fhall belong to the Saints; for God Almighty determines them fo to be, who is the Builder of the great Temple.

Note, That Chrift's Reign is here defcrib'd after the Fall of Rome, and then he builds the New Ferufalem.

Alas for thee, O Babylon! who fitteft on thy golden Throne and golden Footstool, an ancient Queen, who alone didst com mand the World, a City formerly great and famous! thou fhalt no longer remain on the golden Mountains, by the Waters of Euphrates; thou fhalt be thrown down in the time of Earthquakes. The cruel Parthians help'd thee to conquer all. O impure City !ftop thy Mouth, thou Generation of the Chaldeans; neither be follicitous, nor ask how you fhall govern Perfia, or how to conquer the Medes, for he that

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defir'd thy Empire, for which he hath Hostages, fent to Rome thofe who ferv'd as Soldiers in Afia; therefore thou, who art a wife Queen, fhalt have the fame Judg ment as the Athenians, for whom thou didst pay a Ranfom; and thou wilt fuffer feverely from thy Enemies for the perverse Words thou haft given them.

Note, That Babylon will fall by an Earthquake, as the Angel with the seventh Vial declares in the Revelations. She formerly was the Seat of the Babylonifh Empire, and at laft fell into the Turks Hands. The Parthian Kings were made by the Romans in the Time of Auguftus, but they foon revolted from the Romans: Tiridates was fet over them by Tiberius, and the Romans kept fome HoItages at Rome. Trajan conquer'd Babylon, Anno 115. This ought to be carefully obferv'd, that Rome was deftroy'd before Babylon, and the Sibyls never call Rome, Babylon.

Rev. 16.

The Sea fhall be dry in the laft Times, No Sea or Ilan and Ships fhall not fail into Italy; then great Afia, which is very fruitful, fhall be cover'd by Water, and Crete fhall be a Field, and Cyprus fhall fuffer much damage, and Paphos fhall fuffer a terrible Fate, which may make it wife; and the great City Salamis fhall fuffer great Calamity, and the Land fhall be barren on the Shore again, and a great number of Caterpillars fhall destroy the Land of Cyprus; and Men who shall look upon Tyre Thall weep.

Notes

he Hail in

avafion of the

artars.

Note, This is the Account in the Revelations, chap. 16, ver. 20, all Islands filed away, and the Mountains were not found, and this immediately follows the Fall of Babylon, both in the Revelati ons and Oracles.

O Phænicia! great Wrath is referv'd for thee, till thou fall, that the Sirenes may truly lament thy Ruin. There shall be in the fifth Generation, when the Destruction of Egypt fhall ceafe, when the fhameless King fhall mix with one another Generations of all People, who fhall fettle them in Egypt: And there shall be a War in Macedonia, Afia, and Lycia, which will perplex the World, and be very bloody, and burn all to Ashes, which the King of Rome and the Western Princes fhall caufe to cease.

Note, That this Deftruction of Phenicia muft be in the Macedonian War, and in that of Afia and Lycia.

When the Winter Blafts fhall bring much ev. 19, or the Snow, the great River being froze up, and the great Fenns, prefently a barbarous People fhall come into Afia, and destroy the terrible Stock of the Thracians, now easily deftroy'd: The melancholy Mortals fhall eat their Ancestors, being tormented by Hunger, and fwallow greedily fuch Meats; and every Houfe will yield a Table to all wild Beafts; and the Birds fhall eat all * Men; and the Sea fhall be fill'd with the Wicked, from the Rivers in which the

bloody

bloody Bodies fwim, as well as the Blood of foolish Men. Then there will be fuch a little City upon the Earth, that the number of Men and Women may be easily reckon❜d.

Note, This must be an Invafion of the Tartars, near Thrace, in a hard Winter, coming over the River Danube and the Fens of Meotis. This is like the fecond Vial, where the Sea is turn'd into Blood; but I refer it to the last Destruction of them before the Millennium.

The miferable Generation in the Weft-, In Rev.21, there ern Countries will lament infinitely, for was no more fear the remaining part of the Ocean fhould Sea. not return to wash them with its Waters; for it faw the impure Wickedness of many Men: A palpable Darkness fhall cover the whole Heaven, and a thick Fogg the Valleys of the Earth; but the Light of God fhall lead good Men, who have prais'd

him.

Note, The Seas lie moft on the Weft, and they will become dry at the End of the World, and a Darkness fhall fall on the Wicked, but the Good fhall enjoy a divine Light, who praised God.

O Ifis, the unfortunate Goddess! thou fhalt continue at the Waters of Nile alone, mad and raging upon the Sands of Acheron, and thou shalt no more be remember'd thro? all the Earth. And you, Serapis, plac'd on

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