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A POSTSCRIPT to the READER.
SEeing the Consequence of this Table of Time arm'd with its agreeable Events, which I here present, is so visibly and sensibly Great in the Demonstration of True Christianity, against the Atheist, the Pagan, the Mahometan, the Deist, the Jew, and the Antichristian, as also full of Assurance against the (I may almost call it superstitions) Abstemiousness and Dread of search into Sacred Prophecy, under the shew of Humility, Modesty, and avoidance of Curiosity,* 1.1 I do most solemnly ap∣peal to every Reader, whether it can be charged with any such Absurdity, as should make it Inconsistent with it self, or such as offers violence to Scripture, to Reason, or to undoubted History.
For if It cannot; Then, as it is most evident, there is such a Book as Scripture; so It is as evident, I here present a Table of Time grounded upon express places of it, emboss'd with the most notorious Occurrences, that have been in the World with Rela∣tion to the Church of God in every Age, the proper Ornament of a Scripture Line of Time, as closely dispos'd, and organiz'd into its several Joynts, as the humane Body it self is, and that cannot be so much as Dislocated without violence: And I challenge all the World to draw such another, lest it be suspected a Creature of Fancy.
If then there is such a Table, and so unchargable, There cannot be a more sensible-Rational proof of Divine Beeing, than the declaring things to come,* 1.2 and of the Divinity of Jesus Christ; who Himself gave the greater part of the Prophetick Line, and in whom, and in whose Glorious Kingdom the whole Centers.
I do therefore most loudly again appeal to, and beseech every Reader, [if they see Reason] to charge these Positions, or any of them with any such Inconsistency, or violence, as must convince them of Folly, or Falshood, that I may either vindicate, or Retract them: If not, that there may be a due waiting for, and Expectation of those Grand Events yet to Come, which I do with a full Confidence declare at this very Time, when the Turkish Ruine seems to outstrip the Antichristian; But he that ballan∣ces all Times, and their Events, will hasten both in their due Time;* 1.3 and seeing they are determin'd together, neither of them shall want its Mate.
And because I have already published a larger Discourse upon some parts of this Line of Time, and an Adjustment of Solomons most Prophetick Song of Songs to so much of this Line, as runs from Davids Time to the Glorious Kingdom of Christ, and am endeavouring to publish the Full Discussion of those parts of the Line not dis∣cuss'd in the former Treatise, I humbly beg the favourable Assistance towards the pub∣lication of All, who have Favour for the Work, and its Ʋndertaking.
T Beverley.