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A07226	A revelation of the Revelation wherein is contayned, a most true, plaine, and briefe manifestation of the meaning and scope of all the Reuelation, and of euery mystery of the same : whereby the pope is most plainely declared and proued to bee Antichrist / by Thomas Mason ...	Mason, Thomas, 1580-1619?	1619 (1619)	STC 17623; ESTC S1299	31,570	120

blessed are they that are called vnto the Lambes Supper In that there shall bee then a new heauen meaning the Church and a new earth meaning temporall gouernment and the old is passed away it sheweth that things touching the Church and Common wealth shall bee wholly ruled according vnto the Word of God and that all Popish and Iewish lawes which are contrary to the Word of GOD shall bee no more And there shall be no more sea that is ignorant and vnconstant men carryed away with euery wind of false doctrine as the waues of the sea are tossed with the winde Then the Church shall be prepared as a fit Bride for Christ her husband that is the Tabernacle of God shall bee with men and GOD shall dwell with them and they shall bee his people and God himselfe shall be their God and wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shall bee no more death sorrow crying or paine for the first things are past that is then there shall bee no more martyring persecuting mocking blaspheming and deriding of Gods Children In the tenth Verse an Angell shewes Saint Iohn a Vision of the glory that the Church then shall haue In that it is called a great Citie it shewes what a great number shall beleeue in that it is called holy Ierusalem it declareth the holinesse of their Faith Hope and Loue and other graces the descending of it from God out of heauen sheweth that God from heauen shall fill her with the riches of his graces and shee had the glory of God which made her shine like precious stones The three gates on euery side are the Trinitie without which there is no way to enter into the Church the Angels that are at these doores are the Preachers the twelue foundations of this Church is Iesus Christ which the twelue Apostles haue taught vs to build all our hope vpon in that the three gates were on euery side of the Church it sheweth that the doores of grace shall lye open and the Gospell be preached vnto all nations The twelue thousand furlongs the length the bredth and the height of it haue an allusion vnto the twelue thousand of euery Tribe that were marked for God in the seauenth Chapter the wals being an hundred forty foure cubits haue an allusion vnto the hundred forty foure thousand the whole number of them that were marked of all Tribes The stones of the wall signifie the faithfull in that they are precious stones it is by reason that the precious righteousnesse of Iesus Christ is imputed vnto them and of their precious Faith Hope and Loue and other graces giuen them of Christ In that they are a wall to the new Ierusalem that the Diuell nor any vncleane thing can come into it is declared how louingly they shall ioyne one with another as stones in a wall and how strongly they shall support one another to expell and to keepe out falshood and to defend the truth In that this Citie was of pure gold it sheweth the puritie of their Religion without any drosse of superstitions In that there was no Temple it sheweth that they shall truely serue God in spirit and truth and Christ shall bee their Temple in whom all their hearts shall meet and in him offer all sacrifices of prayer and praysing of God and of good workes which the Lord will accept for his Sonne Iesus Christ his sake In that it hath no neede of the Sunne nor of the Moone to shine in it the holy Spirit shall so illuminate their vnderstandings more then the light of naturall reason can teach them and there shall be no night for where the spirit of God is there is no darknesse In that the gates shall neuer bee shut it certifieth that none that come with a liuely faith shall bee shut from Grace and that Grace shall alwayes bee offered In that the glory and the honor of the Gentiles shall bee brought vnto it it sheweth that the Kings and chiefest of all Countries shall beleeue in Christ and there shall enter into it no vncleane thing that is wicked men nor whomsoeuer worketh abhomination and lyes such they shall hate and excommunicate but onely such shall enter as are written in the Lambes Booke of life CHAP. 22. THe pure riuer of water of life like Chrystall proceeding out of the Throne is the doctrine of the Gospell of Iesus Christ whosoeuer drinketh of him shall neuer thirst for any other meanes of saluation their thirst shall bee so fully quenched in him that they shall alwayes reioyce in their saluation Hee is the tree of life whosoeuer eateth of him with a liuely Faith shall haue eternall life and he shall neuer hunger that is doubt thereof Christ alwayes is fruitfull and the leaues of his righteousnes shall heale the imperfections and diseases of the faithfull in all nations There shall bee no curse but the throne of God and the Lambe shall be amongst the faithfull and they shall be his seruants and serue him and they shall see his face and his name shall be written in their foreheads that is they shall not bee ashamed to confesse his name and they shall reigne for euermore that is in the world to come Then S. Iohn concludes the truth of these Prophesies by the Angels testimony and his owne and lastly hee bringeth in Iesus Christ speaking for the testimony of the truth hereof I Iesus haue sent mine Angell to testifie these things in the Churches I am the roote and generation of Dauid the bright morning Starre The Spirit the Bride exhort men to come to me and let euery one that heares exhort men to come to mee and let all that thirst and will take of the water of life freely come for I protest that who so shall adde any thing to this Booke God will adde to him the plagues written in this Booke and if any diminish of the words hereof God will take away his part out of the Booke of life and the holy Citie he that testifieth these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Euen so Lord Iesus The grace of our Lord Iesus be with vs all Amen FINIS

of the destruction of Antichrist and such like and that whatsoeuer is written by his commandement we may be bold and ought to begge of Christ by prayer and by all meanes seeke for the vnderstanding thereof Saint Iohn his eating of the booke was his certaine vnderstanding of the things contained therein and the knowledge thereof was sweet to him at the first but when hee had well considered how the Diuell should haue such great power to persecure the Saints and to spill their blood in such aboundant manner the knowledge heerof was most bitter vnto him then St. Iohn is commanded of Christ to prophesie againe amongst the people Nations and Tongues and to many Kings according to which in the next Chapter Saint Iohn beginneth a new Reuelation of all things that hath beene reuealed touching Antichrist in a more large and ample manner then in this Reuelation already is declared CHAP. 11. IOseph telleth Pharoah Gen. 41 32. therefore the Dreame was do●bled vnto Pharoah the second time because the thing is established before God euen so because the Prophesies in this Reuelation are established and sure to be performed and to make them the more certainely and manifestly of vs to bee vnderstood beleeued all things that haue beene reuealed touching Antichrist are from this Chapter vnto the end of the Booke reuealed againe but farre more amply and plainely delared then in the former but in this is nothing prophisied but the things concerning Antichrist In the 8. Chapter Christ offereth the prayers of the faithfull to God and then filleth the Censor with coales of the Altar and threw them vpon the earth and there fell vpon the earth hayle and fire mingled with blood and it burnt the third part of Trees and greene grasse Wherein I shewed the great peace the Church enioyed by Constantine in which prosperity the Romish Church fell to superstitions and anger'd God wherefore hee gaue them ouer to their owne lustes vntill the Romane Church became the Synagogue of Sathan and Antichrist and they became as colde as hayle in true religion and as hot as fire euen to the shedding of blood to maintaine their superstitions In this Chapter they that trusted only vnto the blood of Christ by an allusion vnto the temple of Salomon are said to be the temple of God and Saint Iohn is commanded to measure them to God and the superstitious Romanes and those that tooke their parts are said to be the Courts because they make a shew of Religion but with superstitions prophane the truth therefore Saint Iohn is commanded to cast them out and not to mete them and these shall tread the holy Citty that is the Children of God vnder their feete 42. moneths this time is likewise set forth in this Chapter to bee 1260. dayes and also 3. dayes and a halfe these times are all one the three dayes and a halfe signifie three yeares and a halfe and in three yeares and a halfe there is iust 42. moneths and in so many moneths at 30. dayes to the Moneth which was the Iewes Computation there is 1260. dayes and it is common with the Holy ghost in Prophesies to set downe a day for a yeare so Antichrist must raigne 1260. yeares The two witnesses are the olde and new Testaments and all that preach and teach them all the time of Antichrist these shall bee two oliue trees spiritually to feede the soules of the Elect and to conuey the oyle of the holy Ghost into them and they shall be two lamps to lighten them in the wayes of saluation and they shall stand before the Pope the God of the earth and if any hurt the Preachers of them the Lord will send plagues from heauen vpon such In that they are said to be cloathed in Sackcloth it sheweth that the Professors of them shall be nothing regarded and shall haue all this time great cause to mourne for the little regard that the Gospell had and for the superstitions and sinnes of the people In the seauenth verse when they haue finished their testimony the Beast out of the bottomlesse pit shall make warre against them and ouercome them and kill them this is after the loosing of Sathan Their corpes shall be dead and vnburied in Rome that is as a dead carcasse long vnburied is noysome to bee seene or smelt euen so noysome was the word of God and the preaching thereof vnto them all the time of their superstitions yet they could not bury their corpes all this while that is they could not quite pur downe the preaching of the word but the Lord still stirred vp some yea though they dyed for it to tell them of their idolatries superstitions murther sorcery fornication and theft It sheweth what great power the Diuel hath ouer the vnregenerate that hee can make them reioyce and bring gifts one to another for ioy that the preaching of the word is supprest and the bookes of the word it selfe as the Papists haue done these many ages reioycing that their meanes of Saluation is taken from them and that they are not hindred from going headlong vnto eternall damnation Rome is called spiritually Zodome because they exceed Zodome in the sinnes therof and it is called Egypt because they haue oppressed the Children of God more then the Egyptians did the Israelites and Christ was slaine in Rome in that Pilate a Romane Iudge condemned him and the Romane officers crucified him That after the 1260. yeares God sent the spirit into the two witnesses wee see the truth of this Prophesie performed and we see them stand vpon their feet and the feare of them is vpon the Pope and all his Clergie and God hath taken them vp into Heauen and exalted and preserued them in the sight of their enemies and the Popedome by them hath beene shaken as with a mighty Earthquake that the tenth part haue become Protestants long agoe and dayly his Kingdome hath decayed and the Protestants increased In that it is said that 7000. were killed with this earthquake and the rest glorified God it sheweth that when Rome shall bee destroyed all the Papists that then remaine shall become Protestants When the seauenth Angell shall blow his trumpet the Pope shall bee quite destroyed and the Kingdomes of the world shall bee our Lord Christs and hee shall raigne for euermore and all in Heauen shal reioyce and say We giue thee thanks Lord God Almighty for thou hast receiued thy great power and obtained thy Kingdome the Gentiles were angry and thy wrath is come and the time that the dead shall bee iudged and that thou shouldest giue reward vnto thy Prophets and Saints and them that feare thy name and that thou shouldest destroy them that destroy the earth In that it is said then the temple of God was open and the Arke of the Couenant was seene and that there were lightenings and voyces thunder and great hayle it sheweth Gods anger against the disobedient to his word that then there shall