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A sober guess concerning several dark prophesies in the Revelation, especially the XI. chapter extracted out of several authors expositors on the Apocalyps / by T.P. Minister of the Gospel.
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Antichristian filth soil and stain them with Superstitious and false Worships thou mayst have thine close and clean upon thee having made them white in the blood of the Lamb so shalt thou be enabled comfortably to wait for the expiration of the Beasts 42. moneths and therewith the downfal of Babylon and the expiration of the Witnesses 1260 days and therewith their rising again the sounding of the seventh Trumpet the coming down of the New Jerusalem the solemnization of the Marriage between the Lamb and his Bride and bear a part with the Lambs triumphing followers in their rejoycings that the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth that he hath taken to himself his great power and that at last the Kingdoms of the World are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ FAREWEL ERRATA Gentle Reader THe Authors absence from the Press hath occasioned some Mistakes in the Printing Thou art desired to correct with thy pen these faults among others Page 10. line 7. r. Rev. 17. ll 17. r. this p. 11. l. 22. r. wâ— p. 20. l. 13. r. Genserieus l. 19. r. Almains p. 23. l. 7. add were p. 23. l. 4. r. these p. 24. l. 17. r Togrulbeck p. 34 l. 25. r. divided p. 45. l. 28. r promoting p. 46. l. 25. for his Bride r. hâ—s Lords and Cesers p. 47. l. 3. r. establish p. 52. l. 16. r. Jupiter as God p. 57. marg r. Aureuem p. 61. l. 20. â— â—â—â—tiâ—ation p. 66. l. 3. r. Rev. 21. p. 91. l. 20 r. successors p. 97. l. 26. r. diligent p. 107. l. 13. r. there p. 109. l. 18. r. secession p. 116. l. 20. r. sixty p. 117. l. 14. for was r. of p. 121. l. 9. r. And therefore p. 126. the Greek words in the marg place in the marg of p. 121. p 128. l. 6. r. Appiarius p. 130. l. 9. perception p. 169. in marg r. cure p. 19 q. l. 20. r. raised p. 176. l. 7. r. insurrection UPON THE APOCALYPS Anno. 1662. THis Book is called a Revelation because it makes known to us secret hidden mysteries and future events It is called the Revelation of John the Divine that is John the Apostle or Evangelist called John the Divine by way of peculiar emphasis because as an Eagle he soars aloft writes more sublimely of the Divinity of Christ Jesus as in his Gospel and First Epistle so in this Book where Pareus observes there are forty eight arguments of Christs Divinity This John the Evangelist and Apostle was Pen-man of this Revelation who wrote this book after all the books of the New Testament had been penned and published he surviving after all the rest of the Apostles and lived as Sophronius thinks to the third year of Trajan the Emperor which was in the one hundred and second year after Christs birth as Helvicus computes It compleats and seals up the whole canon of the Old and New Testament cap. 22. 7 14 18 19. The time when he wrote this Revelation was when he was banished into the Isle of Patmos for the Word of God and testimony of Jesus by that cruel persecutor Domitian in the fourteenth year of his Reign saith Hierem. Domitian raigned in all but fifteen years and his fourteenth year was the 96 year after Christ as Helvicus computes So that from Johns writing this Revelation suppose in the 102 year after Christ to this present year 1662 are 1560 years It is also called the Revelation of Jesus Christ because he is the author of it even Jesus Christ himself the faithful and true witness who sent his Angel to testifie the same to John the Apostle and by him to the Churches Rev. 11.22.16 And though it be called a Revelation and the Revelation of John and of Jesus Christ because it doth make known to us hidden mysteries and future events yet it s not without mixture of much intricateness and obscurity having as Hierom saith as many mysteries as words Sundry Books of Holy Scripture are hard to be understood especially those that are prophetical but among all the prophetical books chiefly this It is a book full of obscure and intricate visions making known abstruse and hidden mysteries most mysteriously and that in relation to future times And therefore the profoundest judgement of interpreters is here not onely excercised but puzled so that they must acknowledge here are many knots they cannot unty and mighty deeps through which they cannot fully wade The opening of the seven seals the sounding of the seven Trumpets the pouring out of the seven Viols who can fully comprehend Rev. 5.1.6.1.8.6.16.1 The profound Mysteries of the measuring of Gods Temple and Altar the Gentiles treading under foot the outward Court and holy City the two Witnesses and the time of their Prophesie Rev. 11.1 2 3. The battel between Michael and the seven headed Dragon the womans Travel bringing forth flight into the Wilderness Rev. 12.3 7. the seven-headed and ten-horned Beast blaspheming and prevailing over the Saints Rev. 13.11 c. The two horned beast repairing the former beast Rev. 13.14 The beasts Image Mark and number of his name v. 15. and the number of the beast 666. The Angels flying through the midst of Heaven with the everlasting Gospel Cap. 14.6 The casting the beast and false Prophet into the lake Cap. 19.20 The first resurrection and the reigning of the revived Martyrs with Christ a thousand years Rev. 20.4 5. The binding of Satan the mean while and loosing him afterward Rev. 2â— 2 7. The battel and ruine of Gog and Magog Rev. 20.8 And in a word the new Jerusalem comming down from God out of Heaven and the finishing the mystery of God Rev. 21.2 These and the like profound mysteries who can compleatly understand Yea I verily beleive no mortal creature on earth is able fully to understand and penetrate into all the profound depths and mysteries of this book which hath so exercised and puzled all interpreters Yet this I think if some things therein by help of divine light may be cleared though all cannot he that writes shall be a gainer and he that reads shall be no loser Therefore I write this that I may by Divine assistance give some light to the understanding of some things in this Divine and sacred Prophesie the mysteries therein being revealed that they might be understood the true understanding whereof so much concerns us and the Church of God in this last hour of the world Now that we may fadom and understand somewhat of this mysterious Book I will endeavour two things First To give some light into the main body or substance of this Book Secondly I will endeavour to open and explain some things in the 11. Chapter in the History of the two Witnesses because there are many particular and important things which do relate to our present times and are set down for the comfort of the Church which is now afflicted To begin with the first viz. to give some light into the main
body of this Prophecy now in order to this ponder and weigh advisedly two things First The Scope or Intent of the Book Secondly The Synchronisms or the contemporaneousness of the Prophesies therein how the Visions therein run parallel one with another and what an acurate harmony and sweet consent there is among them in respect of time First Eye and observe intentively the scope of the Book that is the common time and Period whereunto all the particular Prophecies and passages in the Revolation do joyntly run and wherein they do ultimately determine For this is the Pole-stâ—â— and compass we must steer by the chief mark or white which must be aymed and levelled at in interpreting this whole book and all the mysterious visions therein contained Like an accurate Archer therefore keep the eye of thy judgement fixed stedfastly on the Scope that so far as possible thou shoot not wide not short nor over Now the Scope or intent of the Revelation 1. Parts of the book is more generally to make known to the Apostle John and by John to the Churches the present things that then were when the Revelation was given and the future things that should be afterwards from Johns time to the end of the World as the title of the Book intimates Rev. 1.1.1.19 2. More particularly Jesus Christ intends in this Book to declare the future condition of the Christian Religion and Churches of the Gentiles especially the European Churches the remaines of the Roman Empire and the Tyrannical dominion of Antichrist those singular subject matters of this book extending themselves in Europe peculiarly or as another learned writer expresseth it to the same purpose Christ intends in this book to describe the state of the Church in the New â—â—â—ament The Arocal vp is a Prophefie of the destruction of the Roman Empire not only as Heathenish but as Christian when as it were it was paganised again and persecuting the Church Mr. Thomas Goodwin in his Sermon before the Parliament 1645. and also the things that shall come to pass in the Roman Empire or the fourth Monarchy under which the Church of God doth subsist and that in divers remarkable Periods of events Now this description comprehends three Periods or three sorts of times The first Period containes the time of the Dragon the time in which the seven Crowns stood upon the seven heads of the Dragon Rev. 12.3 when the Dragon himself under the heathenish Emperors was publiquely adored and worshiped but the Christians banished persecuted and put to cruel death till at last Constantine the great came to the Imperial Seat whereby the raign of the Dragon came to an end for he throws down all both Idol-worship and Princes that upheld it So the Dragon was cast out of the Church Heaven the whole Empire turning Christian though as one well said the Devil did not thâ—â— turn Christian for he stirred up thâ—â—â—â—rian Christian world to persecute the Orthodox Christians as much as Heathen Rome had done yet notwithstanding the Church prevailed was built up and triumphed until after the death of the good Emperor Theodesins at which time the Devil left his shape of a Dragon and resigned his Host his residence and seat with his great authority unto the beast with ten horns that rose out of the Sea Cap 13.1 2. The second period comprehends the time of Antichrists raign Period 2. or the time in which the Pope of Rome as the Antichrist and enstalled Leiutenant of the Dragon Blasphemeth God and his name and persecutes his Saints for the space of 1200 and 60 days Rev. 13. Which God hath permitted as a scourge to Arrian Rome when the Dragon was overcome and cast out of the Church Heaven he did cast out of his mouth Water as a flood after the Woman Rev. 12.15 i.e. he stirred up the Septentrional Nations to invade the Roman Empire So Brightman Deed. Piscator I unius intending thereby to root out and destroy the Church but the earth swallowed up the flood in regard these Nations embruned the Christian faith Some by the flood understand Heresies especially Arrianism overflowing the Christian world and so interprers the earth to be the multitude of Christians mer in general Councels who defending the true faith overthrew and drank up these heresies as dry ground drinketh up water remaining in the Roman Empire and erected several Kingdomes in it Seeing then the Dragon saw that he could not maintain the Heathenism wherein be was openly worshipped and served he resigneth to the Beast which riseth up out of the Sea Rev. 13.7 and is ridden and governed by the great whore of Babylon Rev. 133. c. that is to the Antichrist who in the time of these wars doth creep out in the Roman Empire his power and his seat and great authority Cap. 13. vers 2. And so makes him his Vicar and Lieutenant by giving over to him his Seat and Residence the City of Rome and the whole Roman Empire whence it came to pass that about the time the Bishops of Rome began to seek to have the primacy and preeminence both in Church and State as Innocentius the first did in the year say some 402. others 406. The Dragon doth resign to his Lieutenant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Dragons delegate or Inostirute Râ—â— his whole host for in this sence the seventy Interpreters do use this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Exod. 14.14 and 15.4 as Mat. 24.29.30 The Host of the Dragon are his Angels or Devils So Mede and the Idols in which the Dragon and the Devils are worshipped and served by the heathen These Idols the Anti-Christian Popedome hath received and worshipped under the name of Saints the Dragon and his Vicegerent as hereof the Text speak's Cap. 13.3 4. The whole earth did wonder at the beast and they worshipped the Dragon that gave power unto the Beast and they worshipped the beast The Dragon doth give also to him great authority and makes him a head over great countries whereof David did prophecy Psa 110.6 The time of his Lieutenantship shall continue forty two Months i.e. one thousand two hundred and sixty years Vpon this follows the third Period which bringeth Statum Ecclesiae tranquillum Period 3. as the pure so the peaceable and quiet estate of the Church upon earth Seeing at the found of the Trumpet of the seventh Angel the seventh plague or the third we do come upon the Roman Empire and at the same time the seventh Viol of Gods wrath is poured out â— wherewith the enemies of the Church are wholly cut off and destroyed yea even the Devil himself shut up in the bottomless pit Rev. 20.1 2 3. therefore there can nothing but a true and constant peace ensue whence it is that the Church of God rejoyceth with great joy with a great voyce saying as Rev. 11.25 The Kingdomes of this World are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of