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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26986	Pneumatou diakonia, or, Gospel-churches a standing ordinance of Jesus Christ to continue to his next personal glorious coming, plainly proved : objections particularly answer'd / by an unworthy servant ... R.B.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing B1348; ESTC R30216	105,872	154

which is to come ver 4.8 11. doth intimate that he is treating of what reaches from the beginning of the Church to the latest Ages thereof even to the coming of Christ ver 7. 4. The preamble into the Vision of the seven Churches ver 10. and that of the seven Seales is so like that it seems they are both of like extent and importance 5. Else no Reason can be given 1. Why after the Spirit had given notice that this Book is a prophesie of things to come he should presently start from the title and intended subject to write Seven Epistles that have nothing considerable of Prophesie in them and that he should do this with as great pomp and as high a preamble as when he begins the Prophesie of the Seals and the open'd Book 2. Why the Epistles should be writ to the Churches of Asia rather than to the Churches of Europe and Affrick 3. Why he gives the precedency to this Church rather than that 4. Why just Seven neither more nor less 5. Why these seven rather than any others which might have the very same Vertues and Vices 6. Why Christ is described holding the Seven Stars in his right hand in the Epistles to the Churches of Ephesus and Sardis 7. Why the Church of Ephesus of all others should be commended for their trying false Apostles 8. Why 't is said to the Church of Smyrna more than to any other Be thou faithful nnto Death and I will give thee a Crown of Life 9. Why such an Ataxy in the ranging of the Churches that the two irreprehensible Churches Smyrna and Philadelphia are not joyned together Ephesus Sardis and Laodicea against whom there is no complaint of eating things offer'd to Idols and then Pergamos and Thy●tira in which there is 10. Why Christ before the Epistle to the Church in Pergamos is set out by a two-edged Sword and in the Church of Thyatira by his feet like fine Brass as if they burned in the Furnace for that supplement must be added 11. Why Antypas should be named by name in a Book so full of aenigmatical involutions 12. Why Christ expresseth a greater disgust against the Church of Laodicea than that of Sardis which is said to be quite dead 13. Why in every Epistle that phrase is used I know thy works which is a thing of small importance in the literal sense but in the prophetical it seems on purpose so repeated to intimate an allusion in Asia to the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was intended to answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Asia may also be significant as well as the names of the Seven Churches 14. Why a particular Woman should be taken notice of by name in the Church of Thyatira more than others 15. Why the promise of ruling over the Nations and receiving the Morning-Star should be made to the Church of Thyatira more than others 16. Why the temptation that was to come upon all the World should be mention'd rather to the Church in Phyladelphia than others 17. Why upon her should be written the Name of the City of God c. 18. Why the Church of the Laodiceans should account her self so hugely rich increased in goods and to have no want in any thing 19. Why that phrase He that hath an ear to hear let him hear which our Saviour is found so often to add at the end of his Parables should be used in every Epistle they being no Parables but Epistles sent to each of those Churches in Asia respectively The sum is the seven Asiatick Churches were Types of the State of the Church or the Churches of Christ from that time to the end of all things There must then all along be Churches to answer to these Types Sometimes 't is true more Pure Spiritual Splendid Visible sometimes less as the Types of them represent but alwayes such as Christ ownes for his Churches and as such walks in the midst of them But further The State of the Churches as represented in the Book of the Revelation may be consider'd under a fourfold period of time I. The time of the Roman-Pagan Empire That then there were true Churches of Christ will not be denied Against them Satan the great red Dragon in that Pagan-state set himself with all the cruelty imaginable pouring out the blood of Myriads of the Lords faithful Ones These Churches wrestle with God night and day in Faith Prayer Supplication and at last the whole State as a just Judgment of God upon them for their cruelties exercised upon his Children passes away Rev. 6. These Churches are the Woman cloathed with the Sun having the Moon under her feet and upon her head a Crown of Twelve Stars Rev. 12.1 II. The time of the prophesying of the Witnesses which Synchronizes with the time of the Wild-Beast or Antichrist That during this time which is one thousand two hundred and sixty Dayes or fourty-two Months which according to the Grecian account thirty dayes to a Month is the same There were Gospel-Churches is evident For 1. The Witnesses themselves are such therefore call'd Two Candlesticks Rev. 11.4 These are the two Olive-Trees and the two Candlesticks standing before the Lord of the Earth Candlesticks Who or what are they The Palmoni wonderful numberer the interpreter one of a thousand shall answer for us and one would think the interpretation he gives should pass without question among those who call themselves by his name Rev. 1.20 The seven Candlesticks which thou sawest are seven Churches Object But why here but two Candlesticks Answ The Antichristian apostacy had now so far prevailed that Christ could own but a few as standing in such a relation unto himself 2. During this period there is a Temple of God an Altar and such as Worship therein which can denote nothing less than a Gospel-Church-state and Gospel-Worshippers therein in opposition to the Court without and Holy City which is given to the Gentiles or Antichristians to tread under foot Rev. 11.1 2. And this Temple c. is to be measured with a Rod ver 1. 'T will not be altogether impertinent to enquire what 's held forth by the Measuring of the Temple c. Five things I humbly conceive the Spirit of the Lord intends by it 1. The Churches of Christ that were in a Witness for him being reduced to more Purity and Scripture-simplicity than was with them a little before Through the cunning working of the man of Sin though then in a Mystery professors had not a little swerved from Scripture-rule The body generality of these are swallowed up in the Antichristian Apostacy a little remnant are awakened to stand up as Witnesses for Christ and they perceiving disorders amongst themselves reduce all to the Scripture-standard The only way to heal all the differences amongst Christians touching Worship at this day 2. The paucity of true sincere Worshippers so few that they might easily be Measured 3. The