Of the XII fore-named Foundations of the said Doctrine, in the second part of the general Title-page believed: — As being,
I. FIrst promised by God the Father, Gen. 3.15. as the most emi∣nent breaking of the Serpents [Satans] Head, both natural, (as I may say) and politick, of his Craft and Dominion, when all his former Babylonish Designs shall be defeated and utterly destroyed; which was, saith the Apostle John, 1 Epist. 3.8. one end of Christs coming into the world, to destroy the works of the Devil; which in an especial manner will most evidently and powerfully be done, when Christ comes from the right hand of the Father, whither (as that No∣bleman in the Gospel, Luke 19.) he went at his ascention into Heaven, te receive his Kingdom, and to return, as he himself speaketh; to wit, when he will so come, and in such wonderful manner make his foes his footstool; until which said time he will continue there, ac∣cording to that Divine Oracle so frequently mentioned and improved in the New Testament, Psal. 110.1, &c. Sit thou on my right hand un∣til I make thy soes thy sootstool: VVhere, as the Apostle saith, he sits still, expecting till his foes are made his footstool, Heb. 10.13. which at Christs said coming in the Clouds will most certainly and powerful∣ly be accomplished above 1000 years before the last Resurrection and General Judgment, as is most orderly set down in that divine and glo∣rious Revelation to St. John, Chap. 19 11. & Chap. 20. to v. 11. when he will cause his most proud and mighty foes to hide themselves again in the holes of the Rocks, as in some measure in Constantines ruining of the Paganish Powers, Rev. 6.15.16, 17, was terribly fulfilled: but at the last ruine of the most abominably tyrannous Kingdom of the Beast and false Prophet, at the appearance of Christs said Coming and Kingdom will much more terribly by himself be accomplished, 1 Thes. 2.8. 2 Tim 4.1. As then the Prophet Isaiah twice of those times confirms the terrour of it, Chap 2. verse 19, 21. That the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of man shall be made low,