Beverley in 1693: “what I have so often fixed at 1697”
interpretation
On: that there shall be delay no longer
Source quotation · Thomas Beverley, A Fresh Memorial of the Kingdom of Christ (London, 1693), title page and pp. 27–28
Title page: A Fresh Memorial of the Kingdom of Christ: Demonstrating from that Solemn OATH of Christ, Rev. X. By express Letter of Scripture, and most Historical Matter of Fact; It must needs enter its Succession 1697. And begin so Great and Happy an Era of Time, that in Regard to it, it might well be sworn, there shall be time (viz. such as had been) No more, or no farther, for ever.
pp. 27–28: Object. 2d. It is a much greater Objection, that there seems no Reason to begin the Half Time, and so the Reformation, at the first Appearance of Luther; but rather when it came to some strength and Settlement, or at the very time, when the Reformers began to be call’d Protestants; which was not till about Twelve Years after: Now if this should be so, it would, I acknowledge, make a very scandalous and disadvantagious Delay in my Computation, and adjourn what I have so often fixed at 1697. to 1709. and thereby ruin wholly the Reputation of it; so that it concerns me carefully to look to this very Point.
Answ. 1. Besides the Arguments arising from half time, begnn at the Reformation 1517. and ending at 1697. I have, in drawing out the Scripture-Line from the very Beginning of Time, found so many wonderful Concurrences upon this very Point of half time, beginning at 1597, and so ending at 1697. that I do not rest the whole weight upon this Interpretation of the Oath, though firm enough to carry it; but then the Reformation, according to this Oath falling in together, and so centring with all other Accounts of Time on 1517. take away from me all Doubt, that half time is justly placed according to the most sure word of prophecy; and therefore, that so happy a change, as will arise from the Kingdom of Christ in Succession, and Time ot a former Date, as such, as it had been from the Fall of Adam to that Day, being no more, shall come to pass at 1697.
A Fresh Memorial of the Kingdom of Christ · T. Beverley, A Fresh Memorial of the Kingdom of Christ: Demonstrating from that Solemn Oath of Christ, Rev. X. … It must needs enter its Succession 1697 (London: Printed for William Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-Street, and John Salusbury, at the Rising Sun in Corn-hill, 1693). Title page (leaf n0) and pp. 27–28, from “Object. 2d.” to “shall come to pass at 1697.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-fresh-memorial_beverley-thomas_1693, leaves n32–n33). The printed forms “begnn”, “Time ot a former Date” and “beginning at 1597” are kept as printed. Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures and marginal notes omitted; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item’s OCR text layer.
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Title page: A Fresh Memorial of the Kingdom of Christ: Demonstrating from that Solemn OATH of Christ, Rev. X. By express Letter of Scripture, and most Historical Matter of Fact; It must needs enter its Succession 1697. And begin so Great and Happy an Era of Time, that in Regard to it, it might well be sworn, there shall be time (viz. such as had been) No more, or no farther, for ever.
pp. 27–28: Object. 2d. It is a much greater Objection, that there seems no Reason to begin the Half Time, and so the Reformation, at the first Appearance of Luther; but rather when it came to some strength and Settlement, or at the very time, when the Reformers began to be call’d Protestants; which was not till about Twelve Years after: Now if this should be so, it would, I acknowledge, make a very scandalous and disadvantagious Delay in my Computation, and adjourn what I have so often fixed at 1697. to 1709. and thereby ruin wholly the Reputation of it; so that it concerns me carefully to look to this very Point.
Answ. 1. Besides the Arguments arising from half time, begnn at the Reformation 1517. and ending at 1697. I have, in drawing out the Scripture-Line from the very Beginning of Time, found so many wonderful Concurrences upon this very Point of half time, beginning at 1597, and so ending at 1697. that I do not rest the whole weight upon this Interpretation of the Oath, though firm enough to carry it; but then the Reformation, according to this Oath falling in together, and so centring with all other Accounts of Time on 1517. take away from me all Doubt, that half time is justly placed according to the most sure word of prophecy; and therefore, that so happy a change, as will arise from the Kingdom of Christ in Succession, and Time ot a former Date, as such, as it had been from the Fall of Adam to that Day, being no more, shall come to pass at 1697.
Beverley’s Scheme of Prophecy: six years from 1691 to the succession of Christ’s kingdom in 1697
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On: Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered
Linked by verbal allusion. Beverley’s first postulate takes up Revelation 10: the book “Held Open”, the “Seven Thunders” that “Uttered their Voices” and were “Seal’d”, and “the Oath of the Angel, No more such Time”.
Source quotation · Thomas Beverley, A Scheme of Prophecy Now to be Fulfilled (1691), pp. [1]–2
A Scheme of Prophecy Now to be Fulfilled; Beginning this present Year, 1691; And so to be carried on to the Succession of the Kingdom of Christ, 1697. Assuring the Success of the King's Present Expedition. With a most Humble Appeal upon it to Him, who Frustrateth the Tokens of Lyars, and maketh Diviners Mad; That turneth Wise Men Backward, and maketh their Knowledge Foolishness; But Confirmeth the Word of His Servants, and Performeth the Counsel of His Messengers; Isaiah xliv. 26.
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.
[…] Post. 1. That we are now under the Last Apocalyptical Sealing; 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.
A Scheme of Prophecy Now to be Fulfilled · [T. Beverley], A Scheme of Prophecy Now to be Fulfilled; Beginning this present Year, 1691 (no imprint; four pages; the author is not named in the tract). The “Catalogue of Late Books By That Reverend Divine Mr. Thomas Beverly” printed at the end of the 1696 second edition of his Catechism of the Kingdom lists “A Scheam of Prophecies now to be Fulfilled” as item 24 (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-catechism-of-the-kin_beverley-thomas_1696, leaves n24 and n26). Pp. [1]–2 (leaves n0–n1), from “A Scheme of Prophecy” to “the Thousand Years Glory.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-scheme-of-prophecy_beverley-thomas_1696, catalogued there under 1696). Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures and marginal notes omitted; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images.
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A Scheme of Prophecy Now to be Fulfilled; Beginning this present Year, 1691; And so to be carried on to the Succession of the Kingdom of Christ, 1697. Assuring the Success of the King's Present Expedition. With a most Humble Appeal upon it to Him, who Frustrateth the Tokens of Lyars, and maketh Diviners Mad; That turneth Wise Men Backward, and maketh their Knowledge Foolishness; But Confirmeth the Word of His Servants, and Performeth the Counsel of His Messengers; Isaiah xliv. 26.
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.
[…] Post. 1. That we are now under the Last Apocalyptical Sealing; 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.
Snow’s argument from the autumn festivals
interpretation
On: but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished the mystery of God
Source quotation · Samuel S. Snow
The Types
The Law of Moses contained a shadow of good things to come; a system of figures or types pointing to Christ and his kingdom. See Hebrews 10:1; Colossians 2:16, 17. Everything contained in the law was to be fulfilled by him.” In Matthew 5:17, 18, Jesus says, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the, law, till all be fulfilled.” Our Lord at his first coming, when he died on the cross, began the fulfillment of those types contained in the law; as our great High Priest he is still fulfilling them; and when he comes the second time, he will complete their fulfillment. Not the least point will fail, either in the substance shadowed forth, or in the time so definitely pointed out for the observance of the types. For God is an exact time keeper. See Acts 17:26, 31; Job 24:1; Leviticus 23:4, 37. These passages show that time is an important point in the law of the Lord; therefore type and antitype must correspond exactly as it regards time. One type fulfilled in Christ, was the killing of the Passover lamb. This was slain on the 14th day of the first month. See Leviticus 23:5. From Exodus 12:6, we learn that the lamb was killed in the evening. The margin gives the literal rendering from the Hebrew, “between the two evenings.” Joseph Frey, a converted Jew, in his work on the Passover, says the afternoon or evening of the day was by them divided into two parts, the lesser or former evening and the greater or latter evening. The dividing point between the two, was three in the afternoon, the ninth hour of the day.
Jesus died on the cross, on the same day, and at the same hour. See Mark 15:33-37. Thus Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. Not one point of the law failed here. Time was most strictly regarded. In Leviticus 23:6, 7, we are informed that the day after the Passover was to be a special Sabbath; and in verses 10 and 11, is a command to offer the first fruits of the harvest on the morrow after the Sabbath. This was a type of the resurrection of Christ. And on the same day, that is, the day after the Sabbath, he burst the bonds of the tomb, and arose triumphant, the sample of the future harvest, the first fruits of them that slept. See 1 Corinthians 15:20-23. Again, in Leviticus 23:15, 16, we have the time of the feast of weeks, or, as it is called, the Pentecost, which signifies the fiftieth day. This was the anniversary of the Lord’s descent on Mount Sinai at the giving of the law; and was fulfilled, as we learn from Acts 2:1-4, when the Holy Spirit descended as a rushing mighty wind, and as cloven tongues of fire, by which the apostles were endued with power from on high, qualifying them to go forth and execute the great commission which the Master had given them, to preach the gospel to every creature.
Thus we see that those types that pointed to events connected with our Lord’s first coming, were fulfilled exactly at the time of their observance. And every one who is not willingly blind must see, and feel too, that those which remain unfulfilled, will be fulfilled with an equally strict regard to time. Not only so, but Christ himself confirms this argument from analogy by saying that one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Those types which were to be observed in the 7th month, have never yet had their fulfilment in the antitype.
On the first day of that month, as we learn from Leviticus 23:23-25, was the memorial of blowing of trumpets. See Psalm 81:3. “Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” See also Revelation 10:7: “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God shall be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” On the first day of the 7th month, 6000 years being complete, from the first day of the week of creation, the great millennial Sabbath will be introduced, by the sounding of the seventh trumpet. Another type is given in Leviticus 23:26-32, that is, the day of atonement or reconciliation, on the tenth day of the 7th month, in which the high priest went into the most holy place of the tabernacle, presenting the blood of the victim before the mercy-seat, after which on the same day he came out and blessed the waiting congregation of Israel. See Leviticus 9:7, 22-24, and Leviticus 16th chap.; Hebrews 5:1-6, and 9:1-12, 27, 28. Now the important point in this type is the completion of the reconciliation at the coming of the high priest out of the holy place. The high priest was a type of Jesus our High Priest; the most holy place a type of heaven itself; and the coming out of the high priest a type of the coming of Jesus the second time to bless his waiting people. As this was on the tenth day of the 7th month, so on that day Jesus will certainly come, because not a single point of the law is to fail. All must be fulfilled. The feast of tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, (see Leviticus 23:33-43,) was a type of the marriage supper of the Lamb; which will be celebrated in the New Jerusalem, the tabernacle of God which is to be with men. In Leviticus 25:8-13, 23, 24, we find that on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the fiftieth year, the jubilee trumpet was always to be blown, and redemption granted to all the land. Let any man read carefully the connection of this subject, and he must surely see that this is a most striking type of the glorious deliverance of the people of God, and of the whole creation which is now groaning under the curse, when the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and accomplish the redemption of the bodies of all his saints, and the redemption of the purchased possession. See Romans 8:19-23; Ephesians 1:9-14. Our blessed Lord will therefore come, to the astonishment of all them that dwell upon the earth, and to the salvation of those who truly look for him, on the tenth day of the seventh month of the year of jubilee: and that is the present year, 1844.
“If they hear not MOSES and the PROPHETS, neither will they be persuaded although one rose from the dead.” S. S. Snow.
Reasons for Believing the Advent Will Be on the 10th of the 7th Month · The Advent Herald and Signs of the Times Reporter, volume 8 no. 10, 9 October 1844; EGW Writings digital transcription. Source paragraphs retained; site reference-code labels removed, whitespace normalized, typographic emphasis rendered plain. Digital historical transcription. Earlier chronological subsections are outside this selected coherent argument.
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The Types
The Law of Moses contained a shadow of good things to come; a system of figures or types pointing to Christ and his kingdom. See Hebrews 10:1; Colossians 2:16, 17. Everything contained in the law was to be fulfilled by him.” In Matthew 5:17, 18, Jesus says, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the, law, till all be fulfilled.” Our Lord at his first coming, when he died on the cross, began the fulfillment of those types contained in the law; as our great High Priest he is still fulfilling them; and when he comes the second time, he will complete their fulfillment. Not the least point will fail, either in the substance shadowed forth, or in the time so definitely pointed out for the observance of the types. For God is an exact time keeper. See Acts 17:26, 31; Job 24:1; Leviticus 23:4, 37. These passages show that time is an important point in the law of the Lord; therefore type and antitype must correspond exactly as it regards time. One type fulfilled in Christ, was the killing of the Passover lamb. This was slain on the 14th day of the first month. See Leviticus 23:5. From Exodus 12:6, we learn that the lamb was killed in the evening. The margin gives the literal rendering from the Hebrew, “between the two evenings.” Joseph Frey, a converted Jew, in his work on the Passover, says the afternoon or evening of the day was by them divided into two parts, the lesser or former evening and the greater or latter evening. The dividing point between the two, was three in the afternoon, the ninth hour of the day.
Jesus died on the cross, on the same day, and at the same hour. See Mark 15:33-37. Thus Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. Not one point of the law failed here. Time was most strictly regarded. In Leviticus 23:6, 7, we are informed that the day after the Passover was to be a special Sabbath; and in verses 10 and 11, is a command to offer the first fruits of the harvest on the morrow after the Sabbath. This was a type of the resurrection of Christ. And on the same day, that is, the day after the Sabbath, he burst the bonds of the tomb, and arose triumphant, the sample of the future harvest, the first fruits of them that slept. See 1 Corinthians 15:20-23. Again, in Leviticus 23:15, 16, we have the time of the feast of weeks, or, as it is called, the Pentecost, which signifies the fiftieth day. This was the anniversary of the Lord’s descent on Mount Sinai at the giving of the law; and was fulfilled, as we learn from Acts 2:1-4, when the Holy Spirit descended as a rushing mighty wind, and as cloven tongues of fire, by which the apostles were endued with power from on high, qualifying them to go forth and execute the great commission which the Master had given them, to preach the gospel to every creature.
Thus we see that those types that pointed to events connected with our Lord’s first coming, were fulfilled exactly at the time of their observance. And every one who is not willingly blind must see, and feel too, that those which remain unfulfilled, will be fulfilled with an equally strict regard to time. Not only so, but Christ himself confirms this argument from analogy by saying that one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Those types which were to be observed in the 7th month, have never yet had their fulfilment in the antitype.
On the first day of that month, as we learn from Leviticus 23:23-25, was the memorial of blowing of trumpets. See Psalm 81:3. “Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” See also Revelation 10:7: “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God shall be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” On the first day of the 7th month, 6000 years being complete, from the first day of the week of creation, the great millennial Sabbath will be introduced, by the sounding of the seventh trumpet. Another type is given in Leviticus 23:26-32, that is, the day of atonement or reconciliation, on the tenth day of the 7th month, in which the high priest went into the most holy place of the tabernacle, presenting the blood of the victim before the mercy-seat, after which on the same day he came out and blessed the waiting congregation of Israel. See Leviticus 9:7, 22-24, and Leviticus 16th chap.; Hebrews 5:1-6, and 9:1-12, 27, 28. Now the important point in this type is the completion of the reconciliation at the coming of the high priest out of the holy place. The high priest was a type of Jesus our High Priest; the most holy place a type of heaven itself; and the coming out of the high priest a type of the coming of Jesus the second time to bless his waiting people. As this was on the tenth day of the 7th month, so on that day Jesus will certainly come, because not a single point of the law is to fail. All must be fulfilled. The feast of tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, (see Leviticus 23:33-43,) was a type of the marriage supper of the Lamb; which will be celebrated in the New Jerusalem, the tabernacle of God which is to be with men. In Leviticus 25:8-13, 23, 24, we find that on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the fiftieth year, the jubilee trumpet was always to be blown, and redemption granted to all the land. Let any man read carefully the connection of this subject, and he must surely see that this is a most striking type of the glorious deliverance of the people of God, and of the whole creation which is now groaning under the curse, when the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and accomplish the redemption of the bodies of all his saints, and the redemption of the purchased possession. See Romans 8:19-23; Ephesians 1:9-14. Our blessed Lord will therefore come, to the astonishment of all them that dwell upon the earth, and to the salvation of those who truly look for him, on the tenth day of the seventh month of the year of jubilee: and that is the present year, 1844.
“If they hear not MOSES and the PROPHETS, neither will they be persuaded although one rose from the dead.” S. S. Snow.