to the end of the dayes wherein saith Daniel likewise Antichrists the wicked little Horns time as chap. 7. wherein he shall have accomplished to have scattered the power of the holy people at the end of his time times and the dividing of a time being the Clayie feet of the Iron legs chap. 12.6 and chap. 7.25 and till Michael stand up for the deliverance of Daniels people at that season chap. 12 1. And again when from Gods eminent making of publike Sacrifice and Oblation last to cease openly as is probable was in Julian the Apostate Emperors dayes there should from thence be fulfilled 1290 dayes of years even about these times when the Civil â—nd Spiritual Resurrection of all Israel should begin and to 1335 dayes of years or forty five years more it should be perfected and when Daniel should stand up in his Lot with the Fathers chap. 12.11 12 13. which continuance contains the times of the Roman Monarchy from the beginning of the opening of the first Seal when the Gospel of Jesus Christ began to be published through the whole World and so all along through the series of the Book of Revelations wherein are all things contained respecting the Civil State and the Affairs of Gods Church from thence during the time of the Roman Monarchie which should be accomplished as was foreshewed until the King of Kings with his Armies in white Rev. 19.11 12 13 c. should slaughter the Enemies and as Ezek. 38 39 chapters delivering all his people should set up his own and his Saints Kingdom Rev. 20. But in the mean time many by tryals and sufferings under the Roman Tyrannous yoke should be purified and made white chap. 12.10 having washed their Robes in the blood of the Lamb Rev. 7.14 as also those undefiled Lamb-followers redeemed from among men Rev. 14.4 which had his Fathers Name written on their foreheads be redeemed also from the Earth ver 3 4. So that the consummation and that determined to be p ured upon the desolate See Ireâ—ic pag. 27 28 c. Dan. 9.27 contained all the time of the six first Seals after Jerusalems destruction Rev. 6. and the six first Trumpets proceeding out of the sixth Seal Rev. 8.9 with the seven Vials under the sixth Trumpet or which is the same time the Churches Ten Persecutions till Coâ—stantine's time with the Arrian Persecutions afterwards until Antichrists forty two months were fulfilled together with the Womans Wiâ—derness condition a time times and half a time Rev. 12. and the Contemporarie two Witnesses prophesying in sackcloth 1260 dayes Rev. 11. and from thence through the seven Vials at the end of the Armageddon Battel Rev. 19.11 even to the beginning of the thousand years Rev. 20. Thirdly For the general temper and quality of the Roman Monarchy and the actings thereof suitable to its nature First the nature of it is described in the great Image to be of Iron strong and durable to the feet and toes wherewith a weakness of Myrie Clay was mixed in the Popes time chap. 2. where ver 40. the use of it is expressed namely that it should break and bruise all the other in pieces Again chap. 7. whereas the three preceding Kingdoms are set forth by several Beasts first the Caldean by its Lyon-like strength and by its proud high-soaring Eagles wings before they were pluckt and it made to stand on the feet as a man v. 4. 2dly The Persian by a ravenous devouring Bear with three ribs in the mouth of Babylon Media and Persia ver 5. 3dly The Grecian by a Leopard swift to snatch the prey with four wings upon the back and four heads under which it should afterwards rule v. 6. But the 4th viz. the Roman Monarchy Daniel saw in the night Visions a Monstrous Mysterious Beast divers from all others it was exceeding dreadful terrible and strong and it had great Iron teeth and devoured and brake in pieces and stamped the residue in pieces with the feet wherein is comprised the seven Heads of Government Rev. 17. with the Nayles of Brass the Senate destroyed by the Fourth Trumpet Rev. 8. all of them before the 8th which was also of the 7th and adjoineth that to them as the feet wherewith it at last stamped and that together with the ten Horns as the toes of the feet whereby the Body is enabled to walk upright saying in the end of the 7th v. And it had ten Horns wherewith to push and subdue and vvherein the stâ—ength and power of its so doing did consist by which ten Hoâ—â—s seem not onely to be understood the ten crowned Kings that gave their power to the beast as Rev. 17. but all such tens wherein the Roman Power before consisted as that Decem-virate till the Twelve Tables of their Laws were composed the Decuriones or Commanders of Tens ten of which were put under the Roman Centurions consisting of Ten times ten and so of all greater numbers of Ten and the Ten Provinces before they were crowned Horns and all Roman Power under the number of Ten as in their stories is observable of which it might be said it had ten Horns And it is observable that Daniel ch 2. 34 41 42 43. describes it that the feet and toes thereof were mixed with Myrie Clay which are the same with the ten Horns crowned in the Popes time which had much weakness in them and could not mix themselves with the Seed of men and they were so distinguished from such former strength of the Romans in that they were the last and the lowest part in that Image to help as was said for a time to make that Beast stand or go on the feet as the ten toes thereof though mixed with Myrie Clay and with these ten Horns or Toes the little Horn which Daniel observed came up amongst them or behind them at one hour with them as is explained Rev. 17. before whom there were three of the first Horns plucked up by the Roots viz. saith Mr. Mede the Lumbards Franks and Greeks which Horn had eyes as a man and a mouth speaking great things and that saith Dan. chap. 7.25 against the Most High by blasphemies and wicked errors and did think to change times and laws and have the Saints given into his hands for a time times and the dividing of a time or 42 months Rev. 13. Dan. 12.6 Again in chap. 11. v. 36. Daniel describes the proud Usurpation Blasphemy and Tyranny of the Roman Monarchy before Antichrists time and in his time v. 37 38 39. he more especially speaks of his neglect of the true God and his Institution of Marriage with all his errors in both respects with his Pride Idolatry and false Worship his wicked Usurpations and Persecutions to advance his Creatures to honor his Breaden God and do all for the advancing of his Worldly designs and outward glory Now in all these descriptions of the nature and qualities of the Roman Monarchy both from its rise under
An Additional Supplement to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR Peaceable Considerations of Christs peaceful Kingdome to come upon the Earth in the Thousand years Rev. 20. lately published 1665. The PREFACE Christian Brethren I Having in my late 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 2. declared my purpose to make some parallels of part of the Prophesie of Daniel with the things contained in the book of Revelations of Jesus Christ which is plainly a Divine Mystical Comment upon the particulars of the 4th and 5th Monarchies contained in Daniels Prophesie that is of what was more fully to be performed under the Roman and Christs Monarchy both before the Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands had so strucken the Image on the feet and toes thereof that it was wholly destroyed and also afterwards when the Stone was become a Mountain and filled the whole earth But by the hand of God upon me then shewing me my mistake in respect of the manner of Christs coming and of Christs Kingdome that it was not Mystical but personal as before I apprehended until I found that coming was the beginning of the day of Judgment and likewise upon occasion of those other parallels of the three Babels which I at first thought not of until by Gods guidance led unto them I was so far thereby taken off from my former purpose That onely in the 5th Chapter concerning those three Babels I did but briefly touch upon that intended parallel of the Books of Daniel and the Revelations But since through Gods merciful goodness having further discovery of the usefulness of such an endeavour I have accordingly by his grace set upon that business in this ensuing order First to set down a brief and plain Abridgment of the sum of the Prophetical Visions in Daniel contained First in Nebuchadnezzars dream of the great â—mage Chap. 2 and Daniels Vision of the same matter namely of four Earthly Monarchies under four Beasts to pass before Christs glorious Kingdom take place Chap. 7. wherein is shewed to Daniel a Jew the beginning of the Judgment at the destruction of the fourth Beast which was not shewed to Nebuchadnezzar a Gentile as Mr. Mede observe though he saw the Kingdome of the Stone A Second Prophetical Vision was given unto Dan. c. 8. of the subduing of the second Monarchy for the ruine f the first to wit of Babylon had been shewed before to Daniel chap. 7.4 namely of the Kingdome of the Medes and Persians by Alexander the Great the founder of the Grecian Monarchy with the dividing thereof to his four Captains jointly succeeding him towards the four winds as the Text speaketh where the Spirit of God passing by the Greek affairs for a long time unto that one King of fierce countenance Antiochus Epiphanes at last rising out of one of them whose wicked actings against the Church of the Jews is shewed should be short and his death terrible towards the end of that 8. chap. In chap. 9. Daniel had a third Vision of the 70 weeks of years till Christ had finished his work of Redemption and confirmed the Covenant with many both Jews and Gentiles for that time But his fourth and last Vision chap. 10.11.12 sets forth before him again the Persian the Greek and the Roman Kingdoms with the beginning of Christs Monarchy yet chiefly in the 11 chap. he speaks of the intestine wars and thereby the decaying of the Kingdome of Grecia under two principal heads of Egypt and Syria called the Kings of the South and North mutually battering down each other and yet both of them sadly oppressing â—he poor Jews that lay between them from v. 4 to 21. and from thence to 36. is set down a more full discription of that vile and wicked Antiochus Epiphanes before the Roman Kingdom took place who at last was said to come out of one of the four heads chap. 8.9 being that wicked little horn that probably may well be reckoned as a type of the great Antichrist in whose ruine the Grecian Kingdome and Javans rage together ended Now after the brief consideration of these Visions I shall endeavour in such a said Parallel respecting the 4th and 5th Monarchy in Daniel according as our blessâ—d Saviour by his divine wisdom hath been pleased to open and set them down for the use of his Christian Church in his very useful book of Revelations for these last times and leaving particular observations and applications to Christians in their private Meditations aiming herein at brevity and clearness I shall satisfie my self onely Thirdly To set down somewhat in general to those purposes if God will in the last place N w in considering of these I have to the said purposes or brevity and clearness profestedly avoided all those perplexing controversies whereby some have unhappily obscured both the scope and meaning of the Visions as likewise some commonly mistaken expressions as That the Thrones were cast down 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—onec throni eâ—ati sunt as Aâ—â—â— Moâ—â—nus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sept for the Thrones were set Chap. 7.9 having enâ—eavoured as God hath enabled me to seek out the most genuine sense and the most clear and evident drift of these Visions in the main of them with divers natural explications from the matter and subject of them which by the assistance of Gods spirit together with the Rule of his Word I either have or shall observe to be most consonant unto truth Yet in the intended Parallel between the Fourth or Roman and Christs Kingdom held out in Daniel and the Revelation ye may with me take notice of what Mr. Mede sets down of their different handling thereof namely that it is done in Daniel more darkly summatim in genere summarily and in general onely but in the Revelation Particulatim in specie more particularly and specially Or saith he in another place Daniel speaks of the Roman â—mpire in imaginè confusa But Christs Revelation contains the series rerum gerendarum the order of things to be done according to the diverse fates and states of the Church in which respect many things in Daniel were said to be sealed up and shut up till the time of the end as Ch. 12.9 till Christ Jesus the true and faithful Witness had so Divinely made them known for his Churches great advantage by his Servant John This further beloved Brethren I would advertise you of that besides Daniel's Visions we shall beyond former intentions endeavour to represent somewhat of Ezekiel's Visions and especially from Chap. 37. to the end of that Book who bâ—ing a Prophet of the same time of the Captivity though not in the same place with Daniel yet by the same Spirit was guided into the same truth then made known to Gods people for their comfort yet one explaining the other in some things Therefore after Ezekiel chap. 37. had the Vision of the Jews last and great Restauration when both they and the rest of the twelve
Tribes of Israel should be united into one stick that it might not be doubted how it should be done chap. 38 39. he shewed how the Gog and Magog of the preceding times then namely the Pope and the Turk should be destroyed and that the happy consequents of this might be known then to the faithful Jews he hath another Vision of the New-Jerusalem suited much unto the Jewish state but very excellent and in this especially that the Name thereof should be Jehovah Shamma the Lord is there chap. 40. to the end of the Book which our Saviour in a manner more suitable to the Christian Churches excellency sets forth as coming out of Heaven from God Rev. 21. which he shewed to Saint John was to succeed upon the destruction of Antichrist and his Complices in the Armageddon Battel chap. 19.11 to the end when so great joy had been v. 6 7 for that Brides making ready of Jews and Gentiles so largely celebrated in the beginning of that Chapter The like I may briefly hint of Christs Spouse in that Song of Songs which as Mr. Cotton judiciously observes all along to be Prophetical to the calling of the Jews with the Gentiles more abundant coming in at their rising as the Prophets phrase is Es 60.3 4 5 6 c. and whose fulness shall be the greatest riches of the Gentiles Rom. 11.12 which Spouse will then in the New-Jerusalem Rev. 21. be the Lambs Wife in that holy City where she and Christ will be made perfect in one and one member with another who since the Apostles believed through their Word till all these should so be perfect as our Saviour prayed John 17.20 21 23. that then in the time of the New-Jerusalem the whole world might both believe and know that God had sent him into the world when his glory in his Kingdom on Earth should be so eminently set up there which Kingdom at his death he willed to them as a Legacy or birth-right with his Fathers Consent and Grant the Apostles being Witnesses thereto as v. 24. of the same Chapter that they might all have their part with him there and that as our blessed Saviour further teacheth for a thousand years Rev. 20.4 to which purpose tends likewise the 45 Psalm Thus having briefly given you an Account of this my poor endeavour for the benefit of faithful Christians and for the greater evidence and clearness of these amongst many so little believed mysteries of such Christs coming to begin the Judgment and such manner of his raising up the Saints in the time of his said visible glorious Kingdom on Earth in the thousand years I shall endeavour by the further assistance of his Grace and Spirit and by the evidence of his Sacred Word of Truth and in the further explication whereof Christ Jesus himself hath above what was afforded Daniel in this Book as the true and faithful witness so unsealed and opened to his Church in that Divine Book which was so gloriously given unto him in that Vision which St. John saw Rev. 5. concerning things to come and hereupon in reference to such a future Parallel we have premised this ensuing short Abridgment of the whole that the particular branches thereof might the better be made use of to their several due intendments by such as are rightly conversant in them and the greater light of truth might so be made evident to all serious and impartial seekers thereof by the blessing of God thereupon as God may order their Meditations for their own and others edifying Now as that short comprisal in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the fifth Chapter of the Revelation pag. 27. as likewise in the Letter May 20. 1664. in the Fore-runner are as it were an A. B. C. for some Christians to learn to spell out the meaning of the substance of things contained in that Book of the Revelations which were to come So may the following short Abridgment of the Visions of Daniel be for this Book when they come to be a little acquainted with it and by the help of both which together I hope by Gods blessing both great clearness of the truth and of the necessity of the substance of the Doctrine of Christs Kingdom upon earth may unto many sorts of men in due time be undeniably made evident to be such Divine Truth as is both profitable and necessary appearing so infallibly and strongly grounded upon both those Divine and blessed Books of holy Scripture which being once rightly understood will manifest them to be as indeed they are the sure key for the right opening of many other Prophetical Scriptures in the Old Testament and sundry other pertinent Texts in the New which otherwise are little rightly understood by most sorts of men But after all such outward means to boused with humble and faithful prayer meditation and conference of them must then be likewise inwardly done by him who is said to open the understanding of his Disciples together after his resurrection Luk. 24.35 to make them understand the Scriptures To whose most gracious guidance and teaching I commend both you and all truly Christian and teachable Spirits seeking for a blessing to you and all such in my prayers upon this my poor and weak endeavours with all other good means to any like purpose Amen An. Dom. 1665. Therein remaining yours and their faithful Servant in him our great Lord in what I may be useful MVNVS An Endeavour of a short and plain Abridgment of the Prophetical Visions in Daniels Prophesie in reference to a Parallel of what is foretold of the 4th or Roman Monarchy and of Christs Kingdome on earth further explained by Christ in the book of Revelations for the use of the Christian Church IN the second Chapter Nebuchadnâ—zzars dreamexpounded Nebuchadnezzar a Gentile as Mr. Mede observes had in a dream represented unto him a great Image shaddowing forth tâ—e four worldly Monarchies the first of which was his own Caldean Kingdom whereof he was the head of gold to contirue after him in Evilmerodack his Son and Beishazzar his grandchild unto which was then to succeed the breast and arms of silver begâ—n by Darius and soon after by Cyrus in the Monarchy of the Medes and Persians to which succeeded the third of brass as Daniel expounded namely the Grecian Impire begun in Alexander the Great and the fourth after that of Iron stronger then all the former breaking all the other to pieces namely the Roman of long continuance under many forms of Government but especially long in the feet and toes thereof all the Popes time with the ten crowned horns as appeared more to Daniel a Jew Chap. 7. unto which the Kingdome which the God of heaven would set up in the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands should succeed which should never be destroyed but should break in pieces and contume the four former Kingdoms and then become a great mountain filling the whole earth it self and should
times from the Apostles before Antichrists Forty two Months or time times and half a time began namely That many should run to and fro and knowledg should be encreased which appears to be a Mark of those times wherein either the Apostles and other faithful Ministers of the Gospel by their travels and preaching and dispersions and persecutions and such like means then were successfully instrumental to cause the knowledge and profession of the Gospel of Christ to abound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by an Emphasis called Knowledg being not onely the principal but the onely necessary thing to be known by all men Or else that many that by such means took up the Profession of the Gospel having onely the light and the knowledg thereof but not the Grace of the Gospel might for a time hasten to take up that Profession but by tentations and persecutions be as hasty to run away from the owning of that Profession according to the changes and turnings of the Affairs of those Primative times And the second Note or Character is more clear which likewise gives further evidence to this in that it is of the times succeeding those primative times stamped with a very evident mark to discover them namely Antichrists time times and half a time or dividing of a time as in Rev. 12.14 which v. 5 6 7. is set forth to Daniel in a Vision and reserved as follows to be explained by Christ himself v. 8 9. in the time of the end which he hath done accordingly Rev 10.6 7. to which purpose Daniel saw two persons on each side of the River v. 5. and one enquires of the other for the end of those Wonders whereupon the man clothed in white Linen who probably is the same person as Rev. 10. utters in Daniels hearing the Oath that follows to the like purpose as we before noted But v. 11 12. he gives Daniel that beloved Prophet two other Marks of the times more discernable to him as having reference to his own people the Jews though then particularly hid to him since they were of things to come namely The continuance of the Jews dispersion and bondage after the last most remarkable taking away of Sacrifice and setting up the Abomination of Desolation most probably as we said before in Julian the Apostate Emperor's time about 366 from about which time the 1290 dayes of years are to be counted And ver 12. setteth forth the blessed condition of such faithful Jews or Israelites as waited on God in doing their duty and shall still remain so doing to the appearing of Christ at or about 1335 dayes of years after their first awakening or call from dispersion and bondage And the said man clothed in white Linnen having laid down some general consolations for the faithful Sufferers all along those evil times till the times of the end were past which he had before newly spoken of v. 10 he then concludes with a particular consolation to Daniel concerning his part and lot he was to receive when his people should be delivered and when Abraham Isaac and Jacob were to receive the Lot of their Inheritance in the Land of Canaan which God had sworn to give them and yet his Word witnesseth in the dayes of their Pilgrimage they possessed not a foot of even then Daniel is likewise informed from Christ that he should then have his own Lot there with them at the first Resurrection Rev. 20. or as our Saviour calls it the Resurrection from the dead Luk. 20.35 which here Daniel is taught by him as to his own Interest will then be fulfilled in the end of the dayes when the aforesaid evil times are past of which it is said Time should be no longer Rev. 10.6 The Parallel between Daniels Visions and the Book of the Revelations of Jesus Christ which is meerly a Divine Mystical Comment or Exposition of the two last Monarchies viz. the Roman Monarchy and Christs from the time the Revelation took place and first of the Parallel of what concerns the Roman Monarchy in both Daniel and Revelation IN order unto which said Parallel we must take notice that the greatest part of the Revelations of Jesus Christ from the beginning of the first chapter setting forth the glorious person whom then John saw who as he calls himself afterward and appears to be the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therein in whose second comeing the Prophesies respecting that Monarchy are to be fulfilled and compleated being then to be utterly and for ever destroyed and to go into perdition as Rev. 17 is said from which period he will set up his own Kingdom as chapt 20. and so forward except what is spoken briefly from v. 14. of Chap. 11. of the Revelation to the end of it where is set down a short Abridgment of the state of the World and the Church after the seventh Trumpet begins to sound onely many incouragements are intermixt all along for all sorts of faithful suffering Christians from the promises and encouragements referring to the thousand years ensuing the sounding of the seventh Trumpet which promises and incouragements are either contained in the first Vision respecting the times then present or past to the end of the third chapter concerning the seven Churches of Asia then in being or those that were to come in the following Visions from the 4th and 5th Chapters which Visions are contained first in the Seal-Prophesie chapters 6 7 8 9. and in the 11th from v. 14 to the end of that Chapter In the 6th chapter are the first second third fourth fifth and sixth Seals contained which last sets forth the Dragons casting down from his heaven of Paganish worship to the earth whereupon after the sealing of the first 144000 in the Eastern parts chap. 7. which were to arise there and be delivered from spiritual ruine as chap. 9.4 by Mahumetan impostures under the two first woe-Trumpets chap. 9. with the decyphering the innumerable companies of all nations to arise in the Church after the sounding of the 7th Trumpet in those peaceable times with palms in their hands Then in the beginning of the 8th chapter is the opening of the 7th seal out of which all the seven Angels with their seven Trumpets proceed and after intercession made by the Angel of the Covenant for the faithful sufferers under the four first Trumpets which blew out wrath for the most part upon the Western Empire till he that letted the coming of Antichrist there namely the Western Emperour was taken out of the way 1 Thes 2.7 By the incursions of the Barbarous Nations so making way for the man of sin and so by degrees to end that Empire there Then in the two first woe-Trumpets as we noted before was brought on the like wrath or rather much worse in bringing in that woful Mahumetan imposture by the Saracens and Turks in chap. 9. upon the Eastern Empire as before upon the Western both for their former
the first Heads of Government by Kings Consuls Tribunes Decemvires Dictators Coesars five of which were passed in a few years but even in them and more in the two longest and last have those qualities deciphered in general been very observable in their strength pride blasphemy tyranny idolatry persecution of Jews and Gentiles and actings against the God of gods as was hinted before in the Abridgment but might largely out of the Stories of them be set forth both from Heathen and Christian Writers before and since the Revelation was given by Jesus Christ but chiefly since their doings have been recorded by the Evangelists in the Gospels and the Apostles in all the New-Testament and above all in Christs infallible Prophesies concerning the Affairs of the Roman Monarchy in the greatest part of the Book of Revelations for after the Romans were at their height under the Emperors besides their Tyranny over the known parts of the world what persecutions were raised by their Emperors against the primative Christians executed in such Savage and inexpressible tortures all along in the primative times under most of the Seals those ages that suffered under them have had sad experience which hath since under the Trumpets procured that wrath of God upon the Empire both East and West that hath long since extinguished the Power and Authority of the Roman Emperours And though since that Roman Antichrist the Pope of the same fierce tyrannous and wicked nature and qualities by the Dragons Assignment did wind himself subtilly into their place under a Christian Visor to set up his new formed Idolatry yet he hath shewed himself their Successor in his kind in their wicked and abominable proceedings as well as in place as the large Comments witness that have been made by his persecutions as the Writers of them testifie according to what our Saviour foreshewed Rev. 13 17. of the Popes making War with the Saints and the Whores drunkenness with their blood and making the World and the Kings of the Earth drunk with the Cup of her spiritual Fornications and bewitching them with her Sorceries in such an evident manner as that the Mysteries of her iniquities are now in large Characters so legible to the whole Christian World and have been many ages that as the Prophets Visions of old who so runneth may read them and that in the long continued series of many hundreds of years past and which makes the horrid wickedness of these Antichristians so much the more abominable that under the Name of Christ they have all along fought against Christ while such horrid wickednesses of all sorts have been varnished over with pretences of Christianity Piety and Charity whereby they are the more ripened for heavier Judgments than fell upon their Heathenish Predecessors which could not be guilty of their hypocrisie and fighting against God and Christ in his Saints in so abundant clearness of light against all conviction of Conscience so that whether we consider the nature and quality of the Roman Monarchy in general or their several Heads passing in order to Antichrists the Popes forty two Months and weigh their actings and proceedings accordingly as in large Volumes might be made evident the descriptions of them are so natural which Daniel by the Spirit of Prophesie set down afore-hand of them as we say non ovum ovo similius nothing is more like then what their doings have proved them to be as all the Orders of times under the former Heads of the Roman Monarchy from the first Seals to the end of the Armageddon Battel Rev. 19.11 See Iren. p. 27 28 c. both have for the time by-past and will for what remains according to Gods Word abundantly make evident through all those Ages Fourthly Pass we then to the Fourth Head considerable in the Roman Monarchy and that is the several Statâ—s and Parts of it Many of these indeed are not so evident from Daniel being as Mr. Mede observes set down by him but in imagine confusa and not secundum series rerum gerendarum as they are by Christ in the Revelation yet the greatest things to be fulfilled after the Revelations took place which did concern the Christian churches since and present under this consideration of the states and parts of the Roman Empire are since the division thereof into the East and West whereof we have these distinct informations that the Pope arising with the ten Kings at one hour Rev. 17. are particularly decyphered Dan. 7.8 where the wicked little Horn is observed by Daniel to arise among the other ten before whom three of the first horns as was shewed were pluckt up by the roots in which Horn were eyes like a man and a mouth speaking great things and v. 25. against the Most High and shall wear out the Saints of the Most High and shall think to change Times and Laws and that the Saints should be given into his hand for a time times and the dividing of a time by Christ plainly expounded which the fulfilling of it hath plainly manifested to have been acted in the Western Empire many hundred years past of which chap. 2. of the feet and toes of the Image mixed with Myrie clay Daniel likewise speaketh and of the Pope and his scattering the Power of the holy people a time times and the dividing of a time ch 12.6 and what we observed to be spoken of him chap. 11.37 38 39. the like we have of the other part and state of the Roman Empire in the East when God raised those two Wo-Trumpets of Mahumetans the Saracens and Turks that by degrees first in the time of the holy War so called so pushed in the Eastern Empire and since the second Wo Trumpet by the Turks hath so utterly cast it down that nothing remains of it to the last Head now onely confin'd to the West and these Parts and States of it are manifestly explain'd in Rev. 9 and Rev. 13. and 17. chap. and many other places Fifthly It remains that we observe what Daniel informs us of the extent and largeness of the Roman Monarchy which as he observed had the strength of Iron to beat in pieces all other Metals chap. 2. and that of all the Beasts it was most dreadful terrible and strange chap. 7.7 and had teeth of Iron and nails of Brass to devour the whole earth and tear it down and break it in pieces so it hath appeared in actions accordingly as in part was shewed in the Abridgment and Stories may at large manifest till it grew to its height in Augustus his time when he Decreed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That all the world should be taxed by his Authority that is so far as his power extended and as far in a manner as we read the Apostles went their circuits in publishing the Gospel to Jews or Gentiles And as the former Monarchies subduing those they succeeded entred upon their Dominions and joined them to their own as the Persian Bear had the