The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

VI. Heylyn Expresses General Longing for Antichrist’s End

PETER HEYLYN, or Heylin (1600-1662), theologian and historian, author of some fifty works, was born at Burford, Oxford shire, and educated at Oxford. About 1631 he became chaplain to Charles I, but was ejected by the Republicans because of his High Church partisanship. In a sermon preached in 1661, on the ten virgins, he stressed the nearness of the end, from Daniel 7. ¹⁴ To this he added these signs: “The Nations are shaking: the Devil is roaring: the Turks are falling: envy is boiling: the Papists are raging: the Elect are crying. To which we may add: The Virgins [“Protestants”] are sleeping”—and all this before the approaching “Downfal of Babylon.” Therefore he urged preparation for the coming storm and tribulation. PFF2 563.1