AS I have made an Appeal to All , who will set Themselves to Consider Scripture , Concerning the Spirits speaking Expresly , or word for word , of the Thousand Years Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ , by a Compare of Plain Doctrinal and Prophetical Scripture ; So it hath Pleased God to put it into my Thoughts to Give a Scheme of Prophecy , concerning the Things to Come to Pass , these Six next ensuing Years , until 1697. When I Affirm , This Kingdom of Christ will be in its Succession , to prepare in 75 , for its Thousand Years Glory . But because Prophetical Arguments are so little Heeded , and so hardly Understood ; I herein make an Appeal concerning its Truth unto Him , who by his Almighty Disposes , is Able to Give the Undeniable Assurance of Matter of Fact , and to Justifie my Prophetical Grounds by Event .

The Prophetical Assertion , or Prediction , I Declare , is , That God will Bless the Expedition and Conduct of the King this Summer , with this Great and Happy Event ; That the Vaudois and French-Suffering Protestants who have so long Lain , as in a State of being Kill'd , shall see the Dawn of the Morning-Star , and Begin to use the Rod of Iron upon the Antichristian Tyranny over Them .

The Grounds I have for this in Prophecy , are , The Church of Thyatyra is the Great Symbol of these Suffering Witnesses , whose High Opposition to the Kingdom of Antichrist , and Appearance for the Kingdom of Christ , is made Remarkable , by not only Christ knowing its Works , as in the other Churches , but by a Secret Remark of Their Works : Besides , and Distinct from Their Faith , Love , and Patience ; And Their Last Works are Observed by Christ to be Greater , Larger , Richer , More Worthy than Their First . Now to Those of this Church , who shall not only Overcome , but Keep the Works of Christ to the End ▪ He Promises the Morning-Star , and in a Peculiar manner the Use of the Iron Rod .

The Time of the End then being so near , and They having by so long a Succession , Signified by the Word , [ The Rest of Thyatyra ] Held the Works of Christ so near that End , and so near the Morning , I with Humble Confidence Foretel ; The Morning-Star is near to Dawn on Them , and the Iron Rod Ready to be Put into Their Hand . that They may Use it upon their Persecutors . For these Works of Christ in Owning and Appearing for his Kingdom , are most Illustriously joyn'd with Their Overcoming ; Disserent from any other of these Seven Churches ; and They shall be Their Last , Greater , Nobler , than Their First .

Herein I Know and Understand my own Prophetical Grounds ; But They lying Deep in Prophecy , and so not easie to be Drawn out unto Publick View , I humbly make Appeal to Almighty Providence this Summer , Concerning Their Truth , and shall Present this Short and more Easie Scheme in these Three Heads .

1. There are some Things so Clear in Prophecy , That I call Them Postulates .

Post . 1. That we are now under the Last Apocalyptical Scaling ; viz. The Sealing of the Thunders ; For when the Seven Seals were Opened , then the 144000 Witnesses were Sealed , The Time and Times of their Sealing , and the Last Half-Time of it being Enter'd , the Book was Held Open ; on which Seven Thunders Uttered their Voices , and so All had been Opened , if those Thunders had not been Seal'd . This being then at the Last Half-Time , beyond which there should be by the Oath of the Angel , No more such Time , must needs be the Last 180 of the 1260. And being at the Reformation , which could not have been with such a Diminution of the Beastian Kingdom sooner than Half-Time Began ; And that being at 1517 , we must be now within Six Years of the End of the 1260 Days of the Seventh Trumpet , and of the Proclaiming the Kingdom of Christ in Succession , and so within Six of the Last 75 , of the 2300 Eves Morns Reserved for the Kingdom of Christ's preparation for it self before the Thousand Years Glory .

2ly . The Ten Kings must be Ten Kings to the Last ; And as in so many Distinct Monarchies , and not Engross'd into the Empire or Universal Monarchy of One ; As Ten They gave Their Kingdom to the Beast ; As Ten They shall Hate the Whore : Therefore no One shall Comprehend the Other in an Empire over the Rest .

3ly . The Greatness of the Roman Church and its Papacy , shall Fall before the Turk Fulls , For the Tenth of the Great City shall Fall before the Second Woe , which was of the Turkish Tyranny , shall pass away .

4ly . The Churches , and Nations Rescued from Papal Tyranny , by Christ , and by the Thunders uttering their Voices , shall not be Repriz'd back by Papal Power : For then that Glorious Appearance of Christ making his Claim , and the Thunders uttering their Voices , had been in vain , and the whole Work to Do Anew ; Which would not Become the Glory of Christ so Celebrating Half-Time Beginning .

5ly . The Protestant Churches lying in the Bowels of Popish Territories and Laws , or even Natives , as in Ireland , though they were subject to the Breaking out of such Tyranny upon Them , until near the End , Yet it is to the Glory of Christ , that near that End , They should be Restor'd to any of the Freest Times , and Higher than They have Enjoyed since the Reformation ; And the End being now so near , it is to be Expected , there should be an Appearance of their Standing , as the Witnesses on their Feet , by a Dawning of the Morning-Star upon Them , and a Putting the Iron Rod into their Hand . For all this , as it is most Agreeable to the Prophecy of the Revelation ; so to the Prophecy of Zechary , That Foretels , That One Day of Two Half-Days , Known to the Lord , contrary to other Times of Deliverance , Its Half-Time , or Evening , shall in that After-part , or Evening , be Light ; For the other Part of that Half-Time , or Half-Day , shall be the Kingdom of Christ in Succession ; Proportionably towards the very End of the Half-Time , it shall be Light .

Sixthly , There being a They of the Synagogue of Satan , Rising out of the Splendid Pompous , though Protestant-Church , of Sardis , first severe upon Those , who shall after Constitute the Philadelphian-Church , and endeavouring to Shut the Door , Christ both Set , and will keep Open for Them : There shall be a Preparation even of such to Come Bending to Philadelphia , and to Worship at its Feet , and to Know , Christ loves it : Which is Daily to be more and more Expected , together with the Morning-Star Dawning on the Suffering French and Vaudois , and the Iron Rod put into their Hand .

Let Us now Observe on the Second Head , the Balance of Providence of Late Time , according to this Judgment upon Prophecy , and in Confirmation of Its giving Hopes , that what is now spoken , shall be Fulfilled , Even as already It hath been , in these Observations following .

Observ . 1. Because Half-Time , as hath been Observ'd often , is not yet Run out ; There are so many of the Ten Kings , who continue to Give Their Kingdom to the Beast ; and the Conclave is at this Time engag'd in a Papal Election , and so many Princes Endeavouring to Concert the Choice with their Interests .

Observat . 2. Because the Half-Time also is not yet Run out : We Observe a Pompous Sardian Church with its Hierarchick Feet of Clay , and Elections to that very purpose Remarkably at the same Time with the Instant Conclave in its Election . All which Derives from that Primitive Synagogue of Satan , as hath been also Largely heretofore even as now Declard , and a Ceremonial Formal-worship suited to it .

Observat . 3 Because the Turkish Fall is to Attend the Papal and Roman , as hath been often heretofore observ'd ; Therefore when its Fall seem'd so in View , the French Power ( so Order'd by Supream Providence working as by a Wheel within a Wheel , ) Interpos'd for its Respite by such Attacks on the Empire .

Observat . 4. Because the Kings are to be Ten , till in that Configura●ion , They hate the Whore ; even the Princes , yet Giving their Kingdom to the Beast , yea the Papal See its self is Confederated against the Freuch Aspirings to Imperial Power . This hath also been before Remarkt .

Observ . 5. Because none of the Kingdoms Rescu'd from the Papacy are to be Repriz'd to it : Therefore by so Immediate a Hand of Providence was a Papal Prince , See K. James's Letter to the Pope , in L. Preston's Tryal at the end . Acknowledging his Intention to have Render'd back These Nations under that Supremacy , Remov'd , and a Protestant Prince brought in , as on the very Wings of Prophecy ; Therefore was there so Wonderful a Victory last Summer at the BOYN , Settling a Protestant Supream in Ireland ; And yet because Ireland is a Country of Popish Natives , it stopp'd there : All which was Predicted according to Prophecy , even before that Victory .

Observ . 6. Because the Suffering-Witnesses of the French and Vaudois are to See the Morning-Star , and to be Entrusted with the Rod of Iron ; Therefore even Popish Princes are made Helpful to Them , and especially so Great a Protestant PRINCE is Commanded by God to be at the Head of a Confederate Army ; And it is to be Hop'd , This shall at Least prepare for that which is to Bee ; Even The Hating the Whore by Those Confederate Princes ; who have not yet Abdicated that Antichristian Church .

Observ . 7. Because the They of the Synagogue of Satan , are to Worship at the Feet of Philadelphia so soon ; Therefore in Preparation hath there been so Great an Episcopal Revolution as we now see even in this Nation ; The most Eminent of which are , It is to be Hoped , in their own Persons of the Undefiled Names of Sardis : Although that cannot Attone for the Constitution ; But it must and shall Fall in the Approaching . Grand Re-Reformation . Yet I doubt not , it makes way to a far Greater Union of all Churches and Judgments , then can , at the Persent be seen ; And It Runs to that Greatest Union that shall Contemporate with the Two Sticks of Judah and Joseph United ; even the Israelitish and Gentile Churches , the whole Isaerl of God made one .

In all these Things , I have found hitherto a Wonderful Concert betwixt my Prophetical Models and the Late Governments of Providence ; But with an Highest Ardency of Affection and Prayer , I wait for the Gracious Answer of this Appeal , in some Illustrious Success of this present ROYAL EXPEDITION .

And though so Great a Formality , Security , Worldliness , such Feuds and Animosities found in the Best Churches , and Persons ; such a Deluge of Profaneness and Debauchery found in the Generality ; Seem most certain Presages of Ruine ; And so many French Vanities and Sins , more Dreadful than French Pensionaries , and secret Partisans ; ( Though They Humanely speaking , are Dreadful enough ; ) Look as a Surer Prophecy of a French Victoriousness and Servitude under it , than what I here offer ; Yet because the Kingdom of Christ is Principally Concern'd , and Prophecy Rests upon that , I doubt not still to make the Appeal with Humble Boldness , and Assurance ; And to say , God will work for his Names Sake , and will either Reform , or by some other Method of Judgment , then that of French or Papal Tyranny , Punish the Outward Court-Protestancy of these Nations , and of other Protesta t States and Churches ; His Servants Keeping no Silence , nor Giving Him Rest Day or Night , Till He make Jerusalem a Praise in the Earth .

For when I find God hath so laid Things together , according to the whole Prophetick Idea before us ; That He hath stirr'd up the Spirit of a Protestant Prince , whose Grand Motions , ( however he may Discover the Frailty of a Man in his smaller Administrations ) Look up as of Divine Erection and Inspiration ; and that God hath put Life in those Suffering-Witnesses , under so Great a Minister of His Gospel , and Commander together ; M. Arnold ; That he hath Congregated the other Ten Kings , and even the Papal Head to keep France to the Tenour of Prophecy , as but a Tenth Horn ; and to Repress his Exorbitancy ; That the Turk Survives , and yet shall not Exceed the Bounds set Him , but rather Verge to his Fall ; That the Protestant Churches Abroad and at Home , and particularly the Church of England hold , each their State , according to the very Model given ; That Ireland is upon its Reduction , though more slowly ; I fear not God will give Judgment for Me in this Appeal , as He hath hitherto done ; Although the Churches abroad ought much to awaken to a Higher Re-Reformation , Although the Nation , and Church , and even Churches of England need much of the Refining Fire , and Fullers-Soap ; And although the Appellant be most Unworthy of All , whom God should Hear ; yet because All is for the Kingdom , and through the Death and Intercession of Christ for Transgressors , who is so near to have Portion divided Him with the Great , and to divide the Spoil with the Strong ; I shall not sear , that God so near the very Time , will Disannul so Great Appearances ; I Stand therefore on my Watch-Tower Day and Night , and Watch to See what He will say to me , and what I shall Answer on any of His Counter , Arguments : For He will Enable Me to Answer Them .