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A54053 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. T. P. 1662 (1662) Wing P119; ESTC R22458 86,572 208

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Gospel going forth Rev. 14.15 should bring in a great Harvest to God and mightily increase the number of the Witnesses Shall see their dead bodies The word in the Greek doth import Rationem habere they shall have some cover over them as make their enemies affraid to proceed to great cruelties against them their enemies happily would starve them and their families but their friends will feed them their Enemies would banish them totally destroy them bury them under ground but the friends of the Witnesses will not suffer their persons nor names to be so dealt withal And their Enemies may see their interest so great in the hearts and affections of the people kindreds and tongues as may give some check to their violence for the wound being yet fresh and affayrs not well setled happily their Enemies would be loth to make them desperate or at least it may so come to pass by the secret favour and endeavour of some great person or persons things shall not be so carried against the Witnesses as there shall be no hope of a Resurrection Three days and an half i. e. three years and a half but here is to be noted the time here to be computed is not the killing but the time they shall iye dead and without life after they are killed but how long the war lasts Quam diu entem bellum ipsum durabit quantu ●●que tempus dabitur prophetis interficiendis non nisi vaticinii complementum docebit Mede and how long time shall be given for the killing of the witnesses the fulfilling of the Propehcy will best tell us Verse 10. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoyce ever them and make merry and send gifts one to another c. Of the manner of sending gifts in great rejoycings see Ester 9.19 20. They joy now they are rid of and avenged of these Witnesses who vexed and troubled their consciences As upon the news of the French massacre which begun on Bartholmew day a Jubilee was proclaimed at Rome the Cardinal of Lorain gave a thousand crowns to the messenger and the Pope caused the massacre to be painted in his Palace So no doubt such an eminent civil slaughter in Protestant Churches must needs fill all the Popish world with rejoycings and longs of triumph the Bestian party then accounting the day theirs and that they have obtained a compleat victory Further note the Beasts or Beastian parties triumph for three days and a half must necessarily be computed and estimated not from the end of the slaughter in all the Churches but from the slaughter that shall be in that Church wherein the Prophets shall be last slain Neither can we imagine it to be otherwise unless we should furmise the slaughter of the Prophets to end in all the Churches at once which to be done in so many several States and Nations at once is hardly possible But this joy of the Inhabitants of the earth i. e. the Antichristian world is but short for v. 14. there is a wo Trumpet co Antichrist and all his Creatures and Confederates and all the enemies of the Saints threatning the last and worst of woful destructions to them Wo saith Christ to them that laugh for they shall weep Thus much of the War against killing and the lying dead of the Witnesses Now of their Resurrection Ascention and the consequents thereof in the 11th and following verses Verse 11. And after three days and a half the Spirit of life from God entered into them c. Here beginneth now the third Period Period 3. where the enemies of the Gospel are quelled and therewith doth break forth the true peace and tranquillity of the Church When these three days or three years and a half come to an end then also together therewith do expire the forty two months of treading the holy City under foot ver 2. The 120 and 60 days of the Witnesses prophecying in sackcloth vers 3. The 1200 and 60 days of the woman in the wilderness chap. 12.6 the forty two months of the Beast and his blasphemies c. 13.5 The times time and half a time which is 1200 and 60 days of the Beast with ten hornes speaking great words against the most High and wearing out the Saints mentioned in the book of Daniel chap 7.21.12.6 But to come to the Text After three days and a half the spirit of life c. Such as the death of the Witnesses was such will be their resurrection from the dead viz. a restoring them to their former state and that not so much by any endeavour of their own or by any humane help as by the finger of God who is wonderful in all his works So much is intimated in these words The Spirit of life from God shall enter into them We have such an expression concerning the lews in the Captivity of Babylon I will put my Spirit within you and ye shall live and I will place you in your own land The same will befall he slain Witnesses God will lend them an unexpected help by such means as never entred into any mans mans thoughts God will revive them again And they stood upon their feet i.e. they appear again in the publick Congregations not as hearers onely but as Masters of the Assemblies and take possession of their places and publickly exercise their ministerial Office they are unbound and loosed from their grave-cloaths as Luzarus was when he came forth and stood upon their feet they are delivered from the bonds and cords and heavy yokes of humane laws and constitutions that killed them and kept them dead and hindred their resurrection And great fear fell upon them that saw them i.e. as there was great joy and exultation among the Beastian party at then killing and lying dead so there will be great terror when they shall fee this resurrection of the Witnesses to their former places and functions then will there be a lively example set before us of that which is written in the book of Wisdom chap. 5. Verse 12. And they heard a great voyce from heaven soying Come up hither That is The Witnesses are not onely restored to their former place and station but they are raised up to some higher degree of honour for so saith Mede their being taken up by a cloud into heaven signifies See Dan. 7.13 Isa 14.13 and 19. They shall be called up by the supreme Magistrate to higher honor and esteem then before And they ascend up to heaven i.e. they enter into their publick charges in the Church heaven and perform their ministry with great authority And their enemies beheld them i.e. they that did so before rejoyce at their sufferings wherein is verified concerning them what is threatned Jer. 50.11 to 13. Verse 13. And the same hour there was a great earthquake and the tenth part of the City fell and there were slain in the earthquake the names of men seven thousand At what time the Witnesses or Prophets ary
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. w● 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. h●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. ● ●●●ti●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. 2● 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