'Out of Mr Garret's discourse concerning Antichrist' Isaac Newton c. 1,329 words Newton Project London 2012 Newton Project, University of Sussex

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 c. 1680s-90s, in English, c. 1,338 words, 4 ff. of which two blank. 4 ff. of which two blank.

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 Notes on prophetic works [Yahuda Ms. 10b]Yahuda Ms. 10

Extracts from Walter Garrett, A discourse concerning Antichrist [...] Shewing, that the Church of Rome is that woman mentioned Rev. xvii.3 (London, 1680).

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Ms. 10a1r Out of Mr Garret's discourse concerning Antichrist.

Est et alia major necessitas nobis orandi pro Imperatoribus, etiam pro omni statu Imperij, rebusque Romanis quod vim maximam universo orbi imminentem, ipsamque clausulam sæculi acerbitates horrendas comminantem, Romani Imperij commeatu scimus retardari. Itaque nolumus experiri, & dum precamur differri, Romanæ diuturnitati favemus. Tertullian. Apolog. cap: 32. Thus the christians of yethe first ages understood St Paul 2 Thess. 2 of him that withheld yethe man of sin. But afterward in St Austins time the meaning of yethe place became disputable yet not so far but ytthat St Austin thought it probable to interpret him that withholdeth of yethe Roman Empire. De Civit. Dei l 2. c 19.

Sed quæ de septem, totum circumspicit orbem, Montibus, Imperij Roma Deûmque locus. Ovid. Trist. lib: 1 Eleg: 4.

Thou art this head of gold Dan 2.38. This is not spoken of Nebuchandnzzar'sNebuchadnezzar's person only but also of his Kingdom as appersars by vers 39 After thee shall arise another kingdom, that is not inferior to thee, that is not to his person but to his kingdom

The number ten is often used indefinitely in scripture as in 1 Sam. 1.8 Nehem 4.12. Iob 19.23. Dan 1.20. Amos 6.9. Zech 8.23.

Leo who presided in yethe Roman See Anno 456 circiter boasted in his sermon de wherein yethe Roman Emperors ceasted, boasted in his sermon de Apostolis that yethe temporal government of yethe Roman Emperors was changed into yethe power of yethe Roman See as BpBishop Morton in his catholick appeal for protestants thus mentions Lib 2, cap 5 sect 10 thus mentions In cujus (viz. Romanæ) sedis potestatem fuit temporale illud imperium (speaking of yethe whole imperial authority) commutatum, ut auctor est Leo Papa, sermone de Apostolis. And the general Councel of Chalcedon (in wchwhich Martianus yethe Greek Emperor was present in person) in an epistle1v epistle to yethe said Leo called him caput ecclesiarum: if Bellarmin say true De Rom. Pont. lib 3 cap 3. § Hæc sententia, who there tells us that Phocas was not yethe first that called yethe Pope head of yethe Churches, but Iustinian did it before him & yethe Councel of Caledon before him.

In yethe contention about Images wthwith Leo Isaurus Gregory yethe second (saith Sigonius) not only excommunicated yethe Emperor but absolved all yethe people of Italy from their allegiance & forbad yethe paymtment of any tribute to him: whereupon yethe inhabitants of Rome Campania Ravenna & Pentalipolis (i.e. yethe region about Ancona immediately rebelled & rose upo in opposition to their magistrates whom they destroyed. At Ravenna Paulus yethe Exarch was killed. At Rome Peter yethe governour had his eyes put out &c Vnde Petavius l 7. c 8 p 372 part pri Rateio. Temp. speaking of yethe constest of Leo Is. & Gregory 2d saith of yethe latter, Romæ et quicquid Italiæ reliquum erat a Græcorūum abstraxit imperio, tributaque ijs ultra impendere prohibuit. The same is affirmed by Theophanes & Zonaras Sigebert, Otto Trisingensis, Conradus Vspergensis, Hieronymus Rubeus &c. Sigonius saith dthe people not only cast of yethe Emperor but sware to be faithful to yethe Pope.

The Ægyptian Dragon waited to devour the Hebrew children as soon as they were born, Then the Hebrew woman fled into yethe wildernes from yethe Dragon, & her child Moses was caught upt to God & to his throne. And as soon as they came into yethe wildnesse they fell into Idolatry.

Caught up to God & to his throne (by an Hendiadis) for caught up to yethe throne of God

Remnant of her seed. When any general defection or calamity is described in scripture, those whom it pleases God to save out of it are seldome otherwise expressed then by a remnant sSee 2 King. 19.4, 31. Nehem. 1.3 & many other places there are to yethe like purpose.

When St Iohn wrot fell down to wpworship yethe Angel, he answers: I am thy fellow servant & of thy bretheren that have yethe testimony of Iesus Christ for the testimony of Iesus is yethe sptspirit of prophesy. Which answer is thus worded to shew that yethe Angel is a wthwith relation to yethe two wittnesses, he to insinuate that he wthwith yethe rest is a type thereof.

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I have appointed thee a day for a year Ezek 4.4, 5, 6 that is, that each day sho a day to signify to yethe Iews a year. SoIn Daniels weeks, Schabuahh, (according to yethe etimology of yethe word signifies indeed seven in general & may as well signify seven years as seven days & so does ἑβδομὰς in greek. But according to yethe use of the words they it signifies a week of days as ἑβδομὰς does & never in when ever it is put absolutely wthwith out any thin other expressions or circumstances to determin it to signify otherwise. With s In such circumstances it may signify a week of years as in Gen 29.27. Levit 25.8. Otherwise of it self it signifies in common speaking seven days & cannot be understood of years no more then ἑβδομὰς And this is yethe case of Daniel. & The word there literally signifys days, typically years, a day being put for a year. See Lueke 13.32, 33

Satan knoweth he hath but a short time Apoc 12.12 Ergo yethe 1260 days are natural days. Resp. In respect o Behold I come quickly Apoc 3.11 & 22.7, 12, 20 Four times repeated & the last time thus Surely I come quickly, to make yethe stronger impression, & yet that quickly is not yet arrived. In respect of God &Christ & Angels good & bad a thousand years is but a short time, especially to bad angels whose torments ap come too quickly in their apprehension.

Idolatry is every where in yethe Apocalyps charged on ytthat Apostacy: & no other kind of blasphemy. And therefore blasphemy must signify Idolatry. Yet if you will: Blaspheming the name of God & his tabernacle & those ytthat dwell in heaven may be speaking evill of the true God & true Christ (his tabernacle Ephes Colos. 2.9 so are yethe saints Ephes 3.19 1 Cor. 3.17) & of the true saints as if they were fals ones.

Aventinus Annal. lib: 7, relates these words of Everhardus: Romani majestas populi, qua olim orbis regebatur, sublata est e terris: Imperator vana appellatio est et sola umbra est. So Salmeron yethe Iesuite (comment on 2 Thes. 2) Imperium Romanum jam diu eversum est, nam qui nunc est Imperator Romanus levissima est umbra Imperij antiqui; us adeo ut ne quidem urbem Romæ possideat, & jam per multos annos Romani Imperatores defecerunt. Hence Mr. Garret thinks the German Empire to be yethe Image of yethe Beast.

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It was an ancient custome among the Romans to set a mark upon their souldiers & servants, that it might be known to what MrMaster yethe servants & to wtwhat General yethe souldiers belonged. The servants usually received this mark in their foreheads & the souldiers in their hands. To this custome yethe Apocalyps alludes in the sealed saints & those ytthat receive yethe mark of the Beast, & Chiefly in the latter because they were subjects of yethe Romans in yethe there spoken of.

That no man should buy or sell save that he had yethe mark of or numb name of yethe Beast Apoc 13. In yethe councel of Lateral held agtagainst yethe Waldenses & Albigenses under Pope Alexander yethe 7th there is this canon Nequis eos in domo vel in terra sua tenere vel fovere, vel Negotiationem cum ijs exercere præsumat. Tom 4 Concil. Edit. Rom. pag. 37. And in another Synod of France held under yethe same Pope Alexander: – Ne ubi cogniti fuerint illius Hæreseos sectatores, receptaculum quisquam eis in terra præbere aut præsidium impertiri præsumat: sed nec in venditionevenditione et emptione aliqua cum ijs communio habeatur. Apud Rev. Armachan. De success. Eccles. p. 239.