Iew paid him And Arias Montanus paid Erostratus All Doctors should bee readie in that to defend their ground wherevpon all their doctrine must stande Of Law vowelled and vnvowelled The Law Copies were some vowelled and accented the commune vnvowelled and vnaccented because the tongue may by vse be read reasonablie without them but in doubtes to small certeintie Rabbi Iacob the bringer of the Massoreth into a Dictionarie forme with notes sheweth that Moses gaue vowells but the people had few vowell'd copies till Ezra made them commune and Aben Ezra saith well He that set the vowells and accentes was a perfect wise man for He neuer missed of the best sense But the 70. translated by vnvowelled that they might hide their minde when dull heathen would quarrell with trueth Of the 70. differing thirtie sixe hundred of yeares from the strickt Ebrew Many blaspheme Gods worde by the 70. differing from it Gen. 5. and 11. in opusculis Patrum one worke blameth the Ebrew and all Grecia still followed the 70. so Arabia so Abyssini so Muscouia The text Gen. 5. faith Adam liued 130. yeares and begat Seth and liued afterwards 800. The Lxx. Adam liued 230. yeres and begate Seth and liued after that but 700. Our notes not well set 1603. haue this note Adam liued 230. yeares and begate Seth wherein Moses omitted 100. yea c. This note dasheth all Moses authoritie if he were not true in his narration S. Augustine could not tell the reason of the difference Ciuit. Dei I haue shewed it in Concent Scrip. Melchitzedeke though my recompense hath beene but vngratefull scophing of vncleane spirites DD. that know not a letter vowell or accent what authoritie they haue from God such vncleane spirites are good helpes for the king of Locustes when they hinder the grounds of all prophecying Of Perfection in Scripture The text hath perfect Diuinitie The holy in all their ages knew the Trinitie and that Christ would be made man of a woman according to our kinde as of Mary of Ely of Adam Heere Anabaptistes and Lutheranes are in an heauie case All the holy knew that mans soule returneth in death presently to God to receyue the Aboundance of grace of the gift of Iustice in Christ and ioy vnder Gods throne or Anger for their sin and contempt of Gods loue in Christ before Gods angrie face Leuit. 26. Apoc. 14. The ancients liued by the law grauen in all hearts some few they had deliuered tokens of redemption But for all life the heart lawes serued Ier. 31. Rom. 2. Iob telleth what store of lawes hearts helde Moses for an whole great nation gaue law written but the most bent to Leui imperfect without the Gospell Iob and the Apostles haue no Lawes but such as wise heathen all would commend Authores for tongue Christians may passe in Ebrew very rare Ebrewes because the Apostles translate much in speciall elegancie Besides they allow very much in the 70. What they handle not ancient Hebrewes make plaine And they who will expound Ebrew beyonde this warrant as some doe for Hell place and Hell torment in life do not well Prayer is our seruice of God Maymoni in prayer from all Rab. God forbid that any should pray but to God Menachen vpon Gen. and Deut. 6. Mat. 4. and 6. neuer any holy prayed to a Created Angell or man Men the best had great faultes as Abraham long worshipped creatures Philo and Maym. in Idoll Bechaia sheweth exceedeth sinne of his for Sarah for which his posteritie smarted in Egypt Of the New Testament The soundnesse of text playnenesse in foure Dialects I handled in our Lordes familie against which booke I hope none will raue but for Ioakims buriall Conclusion Poperie hath no defence by any sound groundes of studie not to any one article Blasphemous groundes of Popistrie 1. That they say the Scripture is corrupt in text The Massoreth or Dictionarie for euery letter prick and accent checketh that for the old Testament And the new Testamēt can none blame but to his shame as I haue shewed Princes in Latin 2. That they say the scripture is doubtfull no booke was euer penned so certeine for Lawes meaning Visions Allegories bring no new rules as Ezekiel and Cantica The New Testament hath not one phrase but the easiest to learned Iewes not one from the beginning to the end 3. That they say the scripture is imperfect they might as well say God made not the world perfect But the Pope can make moo Creatures and better as Archangelles and Purgatories and soules departed to vnderstand our heartes and bold to teach God whom he should pitie and to make Mary commaund Christ Satan in his owne person durst neuer be so bold 4. They plead from the Law of Sanedrin where a man must stand to their iudgement The Sanedrin might be without any Leuit as Ierusalemy noteth though the Law speak of that which most vsually falleth out that Leui should bee readie in his owne profession But Esay saith to them who was so blind and Mallachi speaketh to the same effect the Leuites whole condemnation of holy Ieremie where one of Israel cleared him But the Pope his Cardinalls Archbuishops haue no more to do with Leui then apes to stand for men 5. The Pope maketh a spiritualtie a Clergie to tie learning to them Dauid had his warriers the best learned in Moyses that by foresight of Christ thence one frighted 1000. and kill'd 800. And in Babel Iuda in Daniel Ananias Azarias and Misael before Ezechiel of Leui came thither were the glorie of men 6. All wealthy should be brought vp in the Bible in frame of art to know it throughly what lawes it hath what disputations are vpon those Lawes what stories and how the sentences of Iob Dauid and Salomon comment vpon the stories All our nation might haue seene this plaine if wicked had not hindred by their spirituall keyes And in Popes proceeding they make him knowne to be wicked 7. By Gods Law Ecclesia the Sanedrin court should rule in all matters And old Wicklife in Walsingham did hit the naile vpon the head saying That if the Commune Lawes of England might take place the Pope should haue no more to do with vs then any other Yet frō Satan he will rule all and make Ecclesia to be not ciuill courts but his courtes Our commune Lawes praemune that sagely and the lawlesse resist God 8. The Pope from Rome will rule and the Rome-free-borne Apostle after he taught the Thessalonians of Pope from Rome giueth a charge to the Romans to keepe euery soule in obedience to the ciuill gouernement and by Ciuill gouernement S. Paul escaped from death by Scribes traditions How yong men learned in liberall artes might be rarely exquisite in the greeke new Testament GOD perfect in wisedome knew that the Iewes would marueile why the New Testament should be all in Greeke and not any whitt in Ebrew Therefore to shew
and continually and all the praise of Christ and he is seene riding vpon his white horse and we follow in white linen of justice then Christ will make proclamation to all kites as in Ezekiel 39. concerning the Macedonians to devoure the flesh of Papists slaine and will cast the beast and false Prophet into a lake burning with fire and brimstone CHAP. XX. The tyme of the Popes absolut ripenes in Sathan to deceive generally shall not be till a thousand yeares when the smoke of his pit hideth sun and ayre and his locusts have lions teeth and iron brestplates and winges of Chariots and war horses Satan was tied among Papists elder prophane 1000. yeares that many reigned heere with Christ for a thousand yeares they of the first resurrection that is from sinne in this world vpon them the second death shall have no power but they shall reigne with Christ and such wil be for a thousand yeares But after a thousand yeares the darknes of the pit will so extend it selfe that the old serpent shall trouble all the holy Citie and besiege the faithfull every where as though old Gog and Magog were alive and the old Ierusalem were a new to be defended The Pope deceived all the Princes of West to send all their force for to recover Ierusalem and Antioch and 200. yeres the greatest warres that ever were were made there That the old war of Gog Magog was nothing like this And yet Christ had tolde that Ierusalem should be desolate vnto the worlds end Mat. 24. as he caused Moses to tell Deut. 28. But the false Prophet to weaken Princes who would be deceived and not excell in Gods word as they most of all might do he caused them to go for 200. yeares from England France and all the West men women and children to recover the cursed land And now God began new mercie now first Rabbines made Grammers for Hebrew and Iarky the great D. commenteth vpon the Bible at a thousand yeares now 600. agoe and Aben Ezra at 500. a very great Rabbin Rabbi Sadaias was afore him who turned Moyses into Arabique that Christians might follow the truth not the 72. which hid their minde for 1600. yeares change as I have shewed in Conc. and Meschisedek That hiding not spied hath deceived all Arabia Abyssions Graecia Moscovia Englande vnto 1603. to breach of all Moyses authority Rabbi Sadaias did enough to have holpen this Another Rabbin put forth a Greek translation in Ebrew letters Ramban who at the last became a Christian he wrote finely foure hūdreth yeres agoe Aruc a Dictionarie for the Thalmud is 600 yeares old Isaak Ben Arama and Bechaiah both overthrow their owne side and helpe vs to tye Satan againe so doth David Kimchi teach vs from much Thalmudique that the title of the 22 Psalme is the morning star a matter worth much gold for Apoc. 2. and 22. Briefly from after 1000. yeares God pitying vs stirred Iewes to teach vs Christ by their best cōmenting though them selves could not see him Al be godles that wish not all helpe to turne them and how hath Satan bound them that labour to hinder all the good of their commenting for Christians speciall vse and hope for them Satan raged loose 500. yeares But now we looke for his fall not fearing any deceit with strength Therefore the vision passeth vnto the resurrection CHAP. XXI Because the Church should be long in the wildernes and seeme black to men God sheweth the heavenly Ierusalem how goodly it is from Esay 25. and 54. and from sixtie to the end and Aggei 2. Exod. 28. Ezekiel 47. and all the Prophetes and how great it is 144000. furlongs square As a thousand miles high building and so long and broad that if all the elect since Adam came as beastes into Noes Arke a citie of this largenes would but hold them Here Papists should see antiquitie and vniversalitie CHAP. XXII The lawes are golden and streames of life in Christ the morning star But this I have in Concent of Script handled at large and elswhere The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ open our eyes to see that to morrow we shall die that to day we may heare his voice Coloniae Iu. 1610. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gentle Reader where you see this title THE ARGVMENTS printed above almost of every page there read OF THE REVELATION And where you see OF THE REVELATION there read THE ARGVMENTS Good Reader vnderstand that this larger Scholion following in order of time was written afore these Arguments as thou maist perceive in the reading AN EXPLICATION OR REVELATION OF THE HOLY APOCALYPS AFTER that the Romanes had killed Christ persequuted his servants stirred vp by faithles Iewes whose rebellion ouerthrew their City state Domitian raising a cruell persecution and banishing Iohn into Patmos Our Lord and Sauiour reueleth the state of the heauenly IERVSALEM how it shal be afflicted by the Prophane Caesares till they be taken away and when power of state returneth to Rome a policy all wicked should be set vp to deceiue if it were possible the very elect so mighty shall it be to deceiue because men would not receiue the loue of the truth The stile of the booke is taken all from the old Testament to be plaine for learned Christians and darke to wicked that they should not see Gods counsels In my booke of Scripture Concent I opened the tropes and in my Advertisement I applyed the XII pretious stones to their tribes whereof Iewes called vnto Christ in all Countries taught vs heathen the way of life Now my bent is to tell properly the summe of the booke And first generally who be the persequutores Heere as often as we read that Christ was kill'd as Chap. 1. and 2. and 5. we must sagely consider Pilate and the Romane policy where Christ was crucified That Rome must be the state heere damned first for Tyrannie when their Ciuil lawes were good that S. Paul by Lysias the humane Chiliarch and by Festus the Proconsul and Iulius the noble Captaine found Neroes auctority long a defense But afterwardes a state all sinfull should come to Rome and deceiue and vex the Church vnto the end That Domitian banished Iohn Eusebius writeth it That Satans throne by Rome tryed in the Churches who would in Christ ouercome the seauen Epistles teach And where God sitteth vpon a throne of iudgement to builde his Temple by S. Paul of Beniamin his Iasper in Beniamin the old Temple was buit to defend his folke like the ruddy Sardius of Reüben sett a frontier against the Hagarenes to teach by the rainebow of his couenāt the summe of Leuies Smaragd Law This description is for terrible might against Rome their Idolatry So the Lābe as killed to whom all creatures whom Rome made Gods promise seruice for his Christians He being the Lion of Iuda by that name telleth of warrs greater then Dauid
New Testaments elegancie The N. Testam in Greeke is so little that by one houre in the morning and euening in one weeke one may with ease and great delite read it ouer Yet this booke hath more seuerall wordes by the fishers of Galile and the Phisitian of Antioch and the tent-maker borne in Tarsus to be the first Apostle at Rome then 100. great Greek bookes aboue 4600. that all old Greekes haue some building in it and all extant now but for fragments kept cannot serue it More in mens names it learnedly openeth Ebrew to rare vse as Bosor for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Pet. 2. by Babels pronouncing not Italy that any maide of Chaldea might see by the speach whence the Galilean wrote So Talmud names come as Lazar for Eleazar whose natioÌ„ is fitt for any one that maketh God his strength to feast in Abrahams Bosom when the soule departeth hence Moreouer the Macedonians spake Greeke wordes in east south hardly found as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and such such from Thalmudiques of Babell the N. T. had and east termes for politique matters from Seleucidae as Angareum to postseruice It hath aboue 50. of Syriaque for rare vse And to shew in what age eueÌ„ vnder the Romans empire beginning Greekes end Iewes haue Greeke names and some Latin as Philip and Andrew and Marc Iustus such This checketh the Talmud which from the depth of Satan persuadeth his sonnes that Iesus our Lord his dayes were long before in the Maccabees gouernement Foure Dialests the Booke hath Attique or commune Greeke for matters knowen to heathen as Spermologos to Paul at Athenes the deadliest that Demosthenes there aboue 300 yeres afore bestowed vpon Aeschynes So from Diphilus and Philemon and Sophocles some for speciall vse and from Epimenides Aratus Menander knowen testimonies briefly from al eloquent some as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for any passage Haides to conteine heaueÌ„ Hell Luc. 16. 4. and in Act. 10. tymes Luke praeuented 15. foolish brawles by Greek But men care not kicking against the spurre Act. 9. is often in Aeschylus Euripides and names of maners from all so that one cuÌ„ning in the N. Testa Greekes should froÌ„ the one still runne to the other in memorie see better vse of both And though one had so many eyes as Argus in Aeschylus 10000. all would heer be well occupied Another Dialect is froÌ„ the 70. wheÌ„ the speach is most to Iewes as Iechonias begate Salathiel so Zedekiahs the vncle 3. yer elder is sonne and Ioachaz first king yonger 2. yeres Ioackim is eldest So Vzziah is sonne to Ioram his fathers great grandfather So our Lord is sonne to Ioseph as men thought to Ely ' c. to Adam to God as sonne of Dauid For some of these the heathen haue the like so Iulian calleth Romulus his Ancestor as S. Maâ—h speaketh of Iechonias and Salathiel so for the word vntill for a matter neuer done Math. 1. and 5. and Homers Ili 5. in Agamemnon to Chryses that he should not haue his daughter vntill she spent her age with him in Argos So a iudge giueth sentence for one that oweth 10000. talents and hath not a peny to pay nor can gett in prison that he shall be in prison till he pay the vttermost farthing The prisoner will not plead that in tyme he must come out Starres be darkened by ignorance of Greeke to put going to Hell for going to Paradise a breeding of Purgatorie which Grecia of 1200. yeares neuer held The 70. Greeke is notable in this whom God raysed vp disannulling the sorrowes or hurtes of death Act. 2. from Psal 18. he that would say Peter spake of the second death or of hell Torment deserueth small thankes Briefly many a thousand of wordes haue the Apostles from the 70. calling vs to remembrance of so many places in the old Testament of them I haue made an Ebrew Greeke dictionarie and my friendes haue it in London and they who will giue securitie for the copy may write it out The old Ierom Erasmus and Beza missed much of lightes by not expounding 70. Greekes from their Ebrew that sun and ayer were much darkened The 3. dialect is the Apostles owne often do they expresse Ebrew in a new manner and S. Paul the Orator of Tarsus borne to be first Papas or father in Praetorio at Rome brought vp at Gamaliels feete to shew in the Epist to the Heb. the best Thalmudique that euer the sunne saw the Ebrew of Ebrewes fathers side and mothers side and rediest in genealogies true and profitable for his sisters sonne and other cousins three Rom. 15. This Iaspar of Beniamin the first foundation of the heauenly Citie shall be cited for clearing Moses Deut. 30. the holy Gospell by expressing Ebrew in new Greeke What to goe vp to heauen to bring Christ downe meaneth What to goe downe to the deepe to bring Christ from the dead meaneth Moses of Leui grauen in the Smaragd and in his Law a sunne In solio Phoebus claris lucentis Smaragdis forbiddeth Israel to leaue studie of the Law as though it were high or farre fetched in speach and thus telleth what Smaragd-light it hath Deu. 30. 11. This commandement which I commaund thee this day is not a wonder for thee neither is it farre off it is not in heauen to cause speach who can goe vp vnto heauen to take it and preach it to vs that wee may do it neither is it beyond the sea to cause speach who shall goe for vs beyond the sea to take it for vs preach it to vs that we may do it But the word is verie near vnto thee for thy mouth for thy heart to do it Thus Moses sheweth that the Smaragd of the Law shineth in the Couenant of the Rainebow Isai 54. for the waters of Noah That Christ in Genesis was knowen to the Patriarkes and all the Ceremonies went no further and the Ciuill lawes were most sensible and all might be acquainted with it The Scribes do teach it sitting in Moses chaire without their owne workes of traditions and such as liued in trauaile of handes might be able to judge Now Saint Paul giueth such testimonie that for the Law they were exact as he yet was a Pharisee but they not knowing that God was in Christ reconciling the world vnto himselfe by the death of Christ and resurrection missed of the end of the Law that blinde zeale to it made them fall froÌ„ God Now S. Paul imitateth Moses whose whole doctrine coÌ„meth to this summe do not say who can goe vp to heauen in high conceite to bring Christ to dwell in our Tabernacle below or who can goe in beleef to the deepe of the earth to bring vp Christ from the dead But what saith hee The word is neere thee for thy mouth and for thy
contempt of Godly teaching Christ was great Noe Sem Arphaxad Selah Eber Phaleg brother to Ioctan hath cast thē of hitherto The West-Indians seeme to come of the East as both speake some Ebrew Now God driueth vs to both Indians not for Pepper and Tobacho but in tyme to shew his name And the Iesuites in teaching the holy Trinity Person and Iustice of Christ may saue many and the Pope shall haue an outward reward of longer successe and some hundreths of yeares must be spent this way Of the old opinion of 6000. yeares God hath cast old ages into a pleasant frame of measures of them for Iewes and from Iewes I dedicated an Ebrew worke to the Landtgraue of Hessia Now thousandes I will touch In 3000. exactly the Temple was fully furnished euen to the Arke In 4000. exactly the Romanes destroyed the seconde Temple if without it Messias dayes haue 2000. yeares from the yeare of Christ 1609. of Adam 5536. One as Heber may come to the worlds end by 464. yer The trueth God only knoweth reason telleth affaires in worke require such tyme But no particular person is sure of one day but all should watch when the Bridegrome commeth And to destroy them that destroy the earth Although no Creature but Angells and men know God yet the close bent of all Creatures is framed to serue man for Christ God bending them so And in that sense euery thing is weary of their toyle Eccl. 1. and groneth looking for the Redemtion of the Children of God Rom. 8. and being turned to seruice of Idolls grone in Gods estieme as corrupted such was the old world in corrupting their wayes such were Babel builders till heathen came to God and almost all to this day And Apoc. 5. All creatures giue glory to the Lambe in seruice of Christians But alas men to this day would neuer search Gods word the wealthie and principall of state but remit that ouer vnto others as a base worke for themselues to regard whereby God cast off the world And the Temple of God was open in the heauen and the Arke of his Couenant was seene in his Temple and there were lightnings voices thunders earthquake great haile After papistries ouerthrow Christ who is the Temple and the Arke who hath the Law within him is the mercy seat shall be opened to the few saued and God will pay Papists with warres for the haile and fire that they mixed with blood troublesome meteores eloquently expresse troubles of state as before our Lordes first comming the Romans miseries destroying themselues were a wonder to historiques because Crassus robbed the Temple and Pompei afore made Israel serue Rome and Brutus with Cassius and Antonius with Cleopatra and againe Iulius so Rome that still will crucifie Christ shall haue as great stirrs to warne them of vtter ruine But by warres profanesse breedeth to all sides that when the SON OF MAN commeth he shall scant finde faith vpon the earth The best way to keepe faith is to exercise our vniuersities in the Ebrew and Greeke Testament and to leaue ciuill gouernement to sage courtes fitt for it as Zuricke in Zuitzerland doth that Scholars tyrannie make not new papistrie And thus once all is reueiled vnto the end New visions tell the same matter for better clearnesse CHAP. XII A description of the Church AND a great signe was seene in the heauen a woman clothed with the sun With the moone vnder her feet and a crowne of 12. starres vpon her head and beeing with child cried in trauaile and peigned to beare child THE woman is the church through the song of songes and there pure as the sun heere clothed with Christ the Sunne of Iustice And the state of the faithfull is called through this booke heauen and they are a great signe to the profane world to wonder at The Moone and all vnder the Sunne is contemned of the faithfull and the doctrine which the 12. Apostles equall in knowled and authoritie deliuered to the world is the Crowne and they be 12 starres Iudas Iscariot fell a starre from heauen and Matthias became a sonne of consolation in his stead to keepe still the number of XII for the XII tribes and as S. Paul trauailed of the Galathians that is of Christ to be formed in them that they frustrate not the Gospell by holding circumcision nowe abrogated So the faithfull trauailed in soule to haue Christ brought forth to heathens knowledge that all might knowe that all this world was made obedient to a man At the first which man fell from God his first day and then God opened his Counsell that the Sonne Eternall would be made man of a woman to destroy the workes of the Angels that fell who all are collectiuely satan the enemie Satan brought Adam to lose the life of his soule and his body to death and dust and all this world to corruption Christ kindled light in Adams soule and after 930. yeares heauinesse for sin tooke it to his ioy and will raise vp the body and make a new world that all men who will receiue the abundance of grace of the gift of iustice may reigne by Christ and all who will not regard this mercy so cleare as the sunne they all by Adams fall dead in sin shal be damned for euer with the Diuils This is the trauaile of the Christian minde Speach of this is in all books of the Old Testament in Adams tongue in all the newe in Greeke made most common for this Gospell And Lawe with Gospell expounded by groundes of art which enemies grant should bee the trauaile of our minde And if Academies had brought vp their scholars in Ebrew and Greek exercises for the holy eternall Trinitie in Vnitie and for kissing the SON to happinesse Psal 2. By likely-hood of mans reason the world had benefull of true Christians where as now our Papes Archbuyshopps and Buyshopps know not one letter prick accent of the Law what authoritie it hath from God A pitifull matter that such blinde should bee leaders But the blinde will no other leaders So God cannot pittie them who will make knowen them that be his and despise them that despise him that they poore Caytifes shall perish for euer and feele the aeternall wrath of him whose mercy they haue despised while they counted the mercies offred in Christ to be but folly Of the Prophane Caesar and Pope reuiuing of him both comprised in the body and taile of one Dragon Another signe was seene in the heauen For beholde there was a great ruddie Dragon with 7. heades and ten hornes and vpon his heades seauen diademes And his taile draweth a third part of the Starres of heauen and cast them vnto the earth Iohn saw with his eyes in Vision that which hee and all the Apostles as S. Paul 2. Thess 2. saw in their minde That from Rome the Ruler should rule till hee were taken away After thence man of
they had coined Phrases to new vexation of our spirits and make the word seeme a nose of wax Thus we hinder our owne fight but some still hold the truth that the accusation cannot be generall The rest should be wise with them The Diuell and his Angels by MICAEL that standeth vp for his people who be his Angels are banished from the Church and knowen to be vnclean spirits A second and playner exposition of the Dragons warre And I heard a great voice saying in the heauen now is come the saluation and power and Kingdome of our GOD and the auctority of his CHRIST because the accusar of our brethren who accuseth them before GOD day and night is cast downe And they haue ouercome by the blood of the Lambe and by the word of his Testimony and despised their liues vnto death Therefore reioyce yee heauens and they who dwell in them wo be vnto them which dwell in the Land and the Sea because the Diuell is come to you hauing great wrath knowing that he hath but a litle while Where a company by Martyrdome shew that saluation commeth onely by the death of CHRIST and are constant in that Testimony then troupes that make the heauens kingdom heere protest they know how saluation cōmeth know Gods power that falleth the mighty state of the Pope and know wherein the Kingdome of God standeth And the auctority of Christ where the Pope had a Kingdome of Satan in his policy through all partes of all common weales euen from ruling Emperours to the poorest that had but a chimney to pay a Peter-peny The holy Testament playnelie shewing our Creatores And how the spirit of CHRIST flootereth vpon all the waters of both Testaments and cleared the holy story And cleareth our hearts to call vpon GOD with a good heart this sheweth in this plaine sum what the Kingdome of God and auctority of CHRIST is Gouernement standeth vpon plaine rules The wealthy that know CHRIST Kinges Dukes Earles Barons Knights will study to excell in Diuinity to be true Bishopps and Elders to eate vp the Booke of the Gospell and to see all miscariage sagely restreined being those that Saint Paul and the Talmudiques meant by Pastors And will see how by Church lands an infinite company may be made cunning in tongues and sense of both Testaments That the Angelos Ecclesiae and daylie Seniores may be so taught in Diuinity as men are in liberall artes to know the wholle facultie and the propre vse of euery holy booke And what concent all the scripture hath and where one error putteth all out of tune but may soone be remoued so a faithfull minde will often in a day runne ouer all the Bible and see all ages faithfull as trees planted by waters and all wicked as dust scattred by the winde And such will be true Bishopps as Cucullus non facit monachum so a courtiers fauor and title maketh not a Bishopp for saluation and power and kingdome of God and authority of Christ Buy-shopps mocke with GOD but all Mordecaies will vse them as Agagites and as leprous to the Church So when all Gouerners in state be learned Bishopps ioy will be in the Church that the Diuell must goe to Land or quiet state of the Pope or sea warres of Emperors bad to seeke whom he can deuour The learned dealers for the Church will finde for it meanes in persequution to be protected Yea and to make the Land or Papisticall state as King H. VIII did drie vp the riuers of the Popes persequution In the middle of Papistry he ouerthrew the Pope by Papistes Who were content to buy the Abbeies that fed Idolatrous Locusts could not for starke shame denie a common prayer booke made from the masse booke turned to English so so much was chosen from the masse booke to be in English as seemed not directly to fight with Gods trueth and subscription for allowance to that was no further meant but that the Papists could finde no fault with it Vnder K. E. 6. and Q. E. the best Bishopps allowed the communion booke no further and gaue others leaue to expresse that how they bare with it vntill fitt tyme of amendement Of the Dragons short tyme. This speach sheweth the tyme neere the seauenth trumpet for the worlds end by the Dragons tayle the Pope heere meant in his persecution that the Diuell is fierce knowing that he shall not be long the God of this world And the Pope feareth least his Kingdome shall soone fall And our Buyshopps that vrge his canons damned by our common Lawes are now in rumores that they incense some to begge all Buyshopps lands Leicester went farre to chaing 40000. lib. for rack rent but more harme is bred by Buyshopps tyranny now Bishopps vnder King Edw. haue beene such as none but of Satans spirite would deny them to bee lawfull Bishops And such as agreed well with Nobles Gentry and all The name troubleth none but the Barbarous They who hold the place without teaching the people the trueth and with tyranny breake the cōmon lawes of the realme which stand with reason that is the Law of God such should chainge their minde and obey the Gospell lest their short tyme be for Sarans seruice and for euer And when the Dragon saw that he was cast into the earth he persequuted the woman which brought forth the male child This common place toucheth all the Popes persequutions though it be vttered as at one tyme. The Pope had still ready cruell torment for all of his that descried wickednesse in his religion And to the woman were giuen two winges of an eagle to flee into the wildernesse into her owne place to bee nourished there a tyme and tymes and halue a tyme from the praesense of the Serpent The Pope driueth the Church into the Wildernesse as Pharaoh droue Israel Saul Dauid Antiochus the holy Iewes the Pharisees he Lord of glory for a tyme two tymes and halfe a tyme three yeeres and an halfe and as I shewed all tyme of persecution is called in remembrance of our Lordes a persecution of dayes 1260. as chap. XI or of a tyme two tymes and halfe a tyme As Beda and Carthusianus well noted In Exo. 19. God saith hee brought Israel from Egypt as with eagles winges so the persecutor heere is a newe Pharaoh and Rome is Egypt spiritually as in chap. XI And the Dragon Pharaoh is heere a new Dragon And the Pope which will bee worshipped for a God is as Darius Dan. 6. and in the fable vpon that as the Dragon which the Chaldeans worshipped The Phrase of the fable folowed a true storie Of the tyme of these persequutions And the Dragon did cast after the woman out of his mouth water like a riuer to make her riuer-caried But the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and dranke vp the riuer which the Dracon cast out of his mouth And the Dracon was angry with the
place gainesaid This sheweth that Peter was neuer at Rome And Saint Pauls iourney telleth Rome that God hated them If he had not beene sought to bee killed Lysias had not sent him to Caesarea and if the Iewes had not againe there sought to haue killed him hee had not appealed to Caesar God would not that hee should come to Rome but vpon extreamities So the iourney thither shewed that Christ hated the Citie that crucified him was strange in calamities and Paul was brought thither as a prisoner and kept in prison though somewhat free CHAPTER XIIII And I saw and behold a Lambe stood vpon mount Syon and an hundred fourty foure thousand were with him hauing the name of their father written in their forehead THEY which were called afore two Prophets are now 144000. hauing the name of God written in their forehead the same number is said before to be sealed ch 7. by a speach from Ezekiel ch 9. 4. There in the 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the terme of chap. 13. in Kimchy a signe or writing S. Paul expoundeth the speach that God will make them knowen who be his that they who professe the name of God shall depart from wickednesse So they who haue Gods name are made knowen who bee his and expound his word and follow trueth of worship due to him bearing a marke in open profession as sacrificers such as Aharon had In this sort the holy Church still had some nūber to professe the summe of saluation though on mount Sion a small hill for the mountaines of the world not one to a million of ADONIKAM and his Children of three fold as storie 666. that number chap. 13. to beare the number of his name was vsed for any number of Apostatique profession So heere the 144000. twelue tymes twelue is vsed for any Company that trusteth in Christ as the Patriarches did And I heard a voice out of heauen as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes and they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the foure liuely wightes and the Elders The heauen commonly in this booke is the Church waters voice is continuall so heere continuall singing is meant harpes signifie song with agreement the new song is for mans praeseruation euery day The foure wightes are the rare as Daniel Ananias Azarias and Misael and all the Euangelistes and S. Paul full of courage of Lions so were all the Apostles of rare patience ready to be sacrificed euery day and they were the true Philosophers thinking what should befall them after death and they were the Eagles of high flight sight The Elders are the Bishops or Teachers the sage in gouernement and skill in the holy Hebrew and Greek Testaments The song none could vnderstand but the 144000. as no Papist soundly thinketh of all things made for Gods glorie in Christ and how by him wholy iustice commeth and he onely must be worshipped When this is told them they are like vnto men that dreame and know not who they are that are bought from the earth not what their religion meaneth Thereupon it is written And none could vnderstand the song but the hundred fourty and foure thousand which were bought from the earth What this songe was Through the whole scripture this song is one and the same that IEHOVAH our GOD IEHOVAH is ONE The FATHER the SON the Holy Spirite be one Coaeternall and Coessentiall the SON is called the WORD by the WORD the Father made the World and by the Spirite beautified the heauens And because the WORD would become flesh the World was made to serue once Adam the first The Angells that grudged at that fell for euer and deceiued Adam and made him dead in sin and brought him to be turning dayly to dust vntill he dyed and for him the whole frame of the Creature was pronunced corrupt But he belieued that Christ made of a woman made vnder the Law God being in him to reconcile the World to himselfe should giue Adams soule iustice by faith should raise vp his Bodie and make a new World by his power whereby hee can subdue all things to himselfe This is the summe of the song tolde through all Bookes of the Bible A Digression to shew the Concent of all the holy Bookes Geneses sheweth how by the WORD of IEHOVAH the heauens were made and all the settled army of them by the Spirite of his mouth and when man fell the WORD telling that to destroy the workes of Satan he would be made flesh and haue a Tabernacle in vs. In which point the Fathers faith vnto the charge of Iosephs bones to bee caried vnto the Land wherein our Lordes resurrection should be a Testimony of a new World taught by Ioseph in his bones long after his death By faith he taught by his dead bones of the new world and therein Geneses end hath a new Geneses All simple should learne CHRIST from the Gospell of Geneses wher 's his Godhead so familiarly delited in the holy Prov. 8. and shewed in appearances that he would be man All yong men brought vp to be Bishops of the Kings armies or Church would reioyce to haue learned Geneses in Ebrew by heart In old age they should gather the fruit Obiection of them that are not bought from the earth S. Ierome saith Iewes read not the three first chapters of Geneses till they be 30. yeeres old Answere None should cite Ierome to make him a foole or to win the Whetstone Maymony in Morch Nebuchim hath this sentence that none did Darash read as a Doctor expoundeth Genes 1. and 2. and 3. and Ezech. 1. before he was aged 30. So S. Ierom meant Iewes all teach their Children from seauen to read all Moyses It were better that Rome were with Helice and Bura then Popes should be suffred so to bring most wickedly the word of life into a deadly hatred Of Iob. Iob is a booke for all holy to take notice of for instructing their families in the knowlede of Christ which Abraham carefully did as God testifieth the comfort of it their posterity shall finde as the booke setteth forth the faith and loue the effects of the Gospell 1. Thes 1. of his posterity euen before the Lawe was giuen to shewe that the godly had alwaies the Law written in their hearts 2. Cor. 3. Ier. 32. Rom. 2. Iob is a patron to all the faithfull in prosperitie for loue compassion iustice and equity c. in his afflictions his faith and hope in the Redeemer the seed promised whom he knew would take our nature vpon him to dy for him and by his Godhead rayse himselfe from death and that by his resurrection he should be raysed in the last day be made like his glorious body and that he euer liued to make intercession for him these thinges were his comfort in his greatest
miseries and patience and constancie the fruite of his hope he shewed Rom. 5. and commended to vs Iam. 5. And in Iob God describeth the state of the Church nowe florishing nowe wholly afflicted yet by faith in the Redeemer finde recouery vnto eternall life Briefly the whole booke is a diuine commentary on Geneses both for Creation and Redemption Of Exodus Exodus sheweth how God performed promisse to Abraham of multiplying his seed of their affliction in Aegypt for his hainous sin as Rabbi Bechai saith in giuing Sarah to Pharaoh of reuenging Aegypt of bringing Israel thence by the blood of the Lambe drowning Pharaoh wher they sang the song of the Lambe The Tables with letters 613. Vowels Accents as we haue this day in the same forme in the first Law teach how we come from the Aegypt of this World and the Tabernacle how the WORD would haue his Tabernacle in vs. Romes error against this song of the Lambe barbarous Their Latin sayth The dwelling of the Children of Israell while they dwelt in Egypt was 430. year yet Cohach came with Iacob Gen. 46. and liued but 133. year Amram 137. Exod. 6. Moses 120. Deut. 33. all in extremity maketh but 390. year So Moses must be buried 40. year before he receiued the Law So the Pope maketh all the Old Testam nothing worth Saint Paul maketh it but 430. year from the Promisse Gen. 12. vnto the Law Gall. 3. 17. So the Pope would make both Testaments of small force as his knightes in Gen. 3. say shee shall bruse thy head to be the ground of hope that so the Virgin Marie might lawfully be worshipped Error Athean The heauy Commandement Thou shalt not make vnto thy selfe any grauen Image in the Popes decalogue is left out The Chaldean who destroyed the Temple that all of Gold was caryed to Babel so the couering of the Arke and the rest of the Gold that the timber and Tables seeme broken by the wicked those wicked are not more wicked then the other Babylon in a mysterie which to receiue Idolatry would take away one commandement from the tenne Of Leuiticus When the Tabernacle was sett vp the voice of Christ which was terrible on the mountaine speaketh softly to Moses how Leui should cōtriue all the Law by sacrifice hither that when the Iewes had destroyed Christ his Tabernacle hee would rayse it againe the third day and end Leuies trade and the Angell commenting vpon Leuit. 26. telleth the very houre when Christ by death would end sacrifice and offring How the Pope disannulleth all Leuiticus The Pope will haue Priest Altar Cope Leuitique linnen flesh of Bread and Blood of Wine to be for sacrifice against all the light that Christ planted in soules for sense of eye sight tast feeling smelling and hearing of wordes and common reason when words of possessions must be expounded lawyerlike not in naturall sorte He that should vrge naturall proprietie in this Iechonias begate Salathiel should bring infinite absurdities vpon the genealogie He is more senselesse that knoweth not speaches of a couenant how the thing signifying hath the name of the signified Typus antitypus simbolon Icones old greeks Dionysius the forged Origen Eusebius Nazianzene Theodoret. c. could terme the Bread and Wine seales of ending Moses Policie which had the auctority of God equall in wisedome to his wisedome in the Creation of the World Now where God endeth all sacrifice and Moyses policie performing by our Lords death and testifying by S. Stephens martyrdome Thence the beast arising from the profane earth would with the mouth of the Dragon erect a policie ouer the World to make by Satan imitation of Moses policie to turne all Common weales to apish mockage of the sage wisedome in Moses vnto the deceite of Satan who transformeth him selfe into an Angell of light Thus the harpes on Mount Syon will not agree with the Popes Policy by Leuiticus Of Numery When Moses had shewed in figures that Christ was to suffer and being the first from the dead should shew light vnto the World the people were to trye whether by this faith they would conquer Chanaan not by mans strength They are numbred in persons a miraculous number to proceed in 215. yer whence onely 70. male soules arose in 215. yeares 603550. men of warre besides Women and Children But they misbelieue and so come short The Like Popery teacheth that merits of sainctes must be helpes to conquer the Land of Rest And trust not to the Promisse giuen to Abraham Of Deuteronomie Deuteronomie repeateth to the sonnes the fathers religion in an abridgement shewing that all ages should doe soe and giueth an expresse Law that fathers should teach their Children the Law And so many psalmes and many places of the New Testament abridge the heauenly wisedome of God for all former doctrine The Contrarie No Cardinales of Rome nor Princes that gaue them honor knew this much Therefore their gold is in high gilt Of Iesus The booke of IESVS sheweth how IESVS conquered the Land by a lesser number then the first that man should not haue the prayse but only God Psal 44. And their towns 324. as some reckon them in Chananean names shew all commodities of soyle for a land The Contrarie The Iewes were told by Dauid that IESVS settled not the people in the true rest but biddeth them enter into a Rest from mans Ceremonies where Baptisme for Circumcision and Bread with Wine tokens as stronge as the worlds frame vpon Gods word of life to faithfull receiuers are all that religious policie requireth that wee haue a Rest from the infinite toyle of Moses Policie But the City that crucified Christ denyeth this Rest and bringeth from mans wicked braine wicked toyes innumerable to be religiously obserued wherof the least were as bad as the strange fire that Aharons sonnes did kindle Of the Booke of the Iudges Ioseph in his Beryll bare the XI I. Patriarches names as a King and stay of the common Weale when the people fell away other tribes Iuda Beniamin Isachar Zabulon Nepthaly and Dan in part and Leui to alteration vpon ouerthrow in Elies sonnes The 70. for a speciall reason set in Greeke for Iosephs Beryll the Emerauld of Leui that heathen might not say the God of Israell did not foresee what would come to passe Ioseph bare the sway and Ephraim of Ioseph caried except Iuda all tribes landed away Vpon the Greek translation Chrysostome sharper witted then skillfull in the originall in Photius liberary would make the high sacrificer the stay of the state where his office was for the World to come and vpon this the Patriarkes would be checking not teaching the Emperor till both came to nought as Elie his sonnes ouerthrew all the glorie of the states vnder the Iudges The Pope passeth all Greeke Patriarches ouer Kings by whom they stand and by whose guiftes they had means to study the word
teach there the trueth of saluation That which Ierem. speaketh chap. X. of our Gods prayse against idolls is heere repeated That Egypt and Babel teach the Pope what to look for Thus the holy protest their honor to God and labor to increase the Church that all nations may come and worship him And afterwardes I saw and behold the Temple of the Tabernacle of Couenant was opened in the heauen and the seauen Angells came forth hauing the seauen plagues from the Temple and they were clothed with cleane and pure linen and girded about the breast with golden girdles As Angells help Gods seruants to victories so proper Angells considered with men whom they strengthen may heere be meant Their clothing signifie syncere holinesse which men should desire and the golden girdle about the brest signifieth the binding of the minde in golden syncerity of heart Maymo in Beth Bechira handling Aharons garment citeth traditions from them that saw the high sacrificers manner that Aharon was girded about the brest that sheweth Iohn to speake most learnedly chapter 1. and heere 15. and wiser then any who would forge a booke could doe And one of the foure liue-wights gaue to the seauen Angells seauen golden cupps full of the anger of God who liueth for euer and euer The liuely wight is heere as orator of the whole Church and after the acknowledging of Gods goodnesse by Gods charge the Angells take in hand to poure Gods wrath vpon his enimies visibly by men but vnseene as the armie that guarded Elisaeus So as I told the punishment of Nabuchadnezar Daniel chap. 4. commeth by the decree of the watchfull and the petition of the holy What the Angells desire in reuenge for the Church God appointeth them to help forward in assisting men that be the fighters So millions of millions waite vpon Gods throne to rule the foure beasts that the house of Zorobabell afflicted should know that the heauens ruled and tyrants should soone be tamed by them The Pope should from Dan. 7. learne this and from Apo. chap. 6. where the profane Caesares be destroyed and know that after long angring of God hee must haue full payment Mortall Princes soone fade as a floure But God is euerlasting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Daniel 7. 9. and liuing for euer Dan cha 12. and Apoc. X. and XV. who because men did not receiue the loue of the trueth to be saued sendeth workfull error that they belieue falshood that all may be condemned which belieue not the trueth but delite in badnesse This Booke was penned in such a style that it openeth not onely it selfe but also teacheth how all the old Testament belongeth to Christ And the Temple was filled with a smoke of the glory of God and of his power and none could goe into the Temple till the seauen plagues of the 7. Angells were finished When the Tabernacle of Moyses and the Temple of Salomon were consecrated then Moyses and the Leuites could not goe in while the glory of God filled them Here a cloud of Gods anger filled with defense the Church in the wildernesse that God will not giue the wicked grace to ioyne with them vntill they be cōsumed the sturdy wicked who fight against open light and be of the 666. sonnes of Adoni-kam which had rather haue 666. talents of Cethem from Ophir then all the knowledge of Iohns Reuelation such that striue against the light shall neither be forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come but heere haue a conscience stinged as by scorpions and in the world of soules death aeternall CHAPTER XVI As the Popes manner of rising plagued the World in a like manner God consumeth him As the Popes arisinge plagued the world vnder Angells Trumpets as 1. The earth 2. The Sea 3. Fountaines of waters 4. The Sun 5. By kingdom of Locusts 6. By raising vp the Turk 7. By earthquake So to him plagues come vnder the same terms but in another signification as 1. His earth hath boyles 2. Sea blood 3. Fountains blood 4. Susnn parching persecution 5. By darkned throne of spoile 6. By Euphrates by Turke 7. By whole earthquake And I heard a great voice from the Temple saying goe poure out the cupps of the anger of God into the earth In the heauen Christ is the Temple and the Church by him By his commandement and the Churches care the Popes world is plagued spirits being Gods messengers inuisiblie men visiblie And the first went and poured his cup into the earth and there came boiles sore and painefull vpon such as hath the marke of the beast and worshipped his image The plague of Egypt vnder Iannes and Iambres resisting Moyses is now vpon the minds of Papists which resist Law and Gospell the discouery of which Idolatry becommeth a sound meanes for Kings that made the beast a King of Locusts to eate vp the flesh of the beast The West Kings made the Pope mighty to ouerthrow the East weakned so that Machmad and Turcke ouerhtrew it And euer since the Pope came to be mighty he became auctor of haile and troubles and brought haile and fire of warre to be mixed with blood So now he looseth many Countreies vpon Martyrs telling that he held Satans throne and vpon diligent scholes detecting him in euery part bringing the Apocalyps to be dayly read and all the eloquent N. Testament in Greeke founteine of heauenly water to baptise the minde by the spirit into the kingdome of heauen And the second Angell poured his cuppe on the sea and it became blood as of the dead euery liuing soule dyed in the sea When the poore father of Rome forging S. Peters being there became by Saint Peters name of low and poore an high mountaine he became fiery and cast himselfe into the sea of Empires that by all his warres a third part of the liuing in one age were kill'd and destroyed Till a thousand yeeres hee became not a full mountaine till then Satan was tyed but in Ierusalems warre he was loose that 200. y. warres turned the third part of politicall sea and shipps into blood and destruction And what warrs haue bene since in Europe which the Pope hath not kindled So he payeth for it so hee looseth whole countreies as Netherland with the blood of 40. yeeres warres and wast of the Spanish nation That scant a third part escaped death in them that could warre for his killing of K. Philips sonne bent to heale the boyles of his religious This did they dead in blindnesse and known to be such And a third Angell poured his Cup into the riuers and fountaines of waters and blood came of it Heere lesser waters are lesse forces that continually he hath bad successe and great losse The yeare 1588. gaue him an open token of wrath in this sort and Flanders 1600. And if he had gone forward Venice had taught the same and Iuliaque will 1610. if he goe forward dayly litle riuers of 700.
so Princes seeing that the former age by the Pope brought in the Turke to the hazard of the West and see that he knoweth not one letter in the LAW and is blinde in euery part of it and cannot make his owne cause good against the Turke or Iew they forsake him the seruant of seruants as God left the Chananites to bee conquered of Dauid So he is Chanaan they be Dauid and in his warre he shall be Iabin and by Sisera fall at Mageddon and bee no more able to resist And the great Citie became into three partes and the Cities of the nations fell and Babylon the Great was remembred before God to giue her the Cup of the Wine of the heate of his anger and euery Iland fled and the mountaines were not found and great haile talent bigge descended from heauen vpon the men and men blasphemed God for the stroke of the haile because the stroke of it was exceeding great By the Citie meane the policie and by three partes great diuision that it hath but a third part because the policies of nations fall from it and God remembred his anger told chap. 14. and as vnder the Caesares Ilands and Mountaines were moued from their place that is into another policy so heere alteration of policie is meant haile of a talent is great ouerthrowes by Gods hand the allusion being taken from plaguing the Chanaanites Ios chapter 10. where haile killed more then sword So the Spanish fleete hath often had great shipwrake by the extraordinarie hand of GOD specially 1588. And what an infinite masse of money and millions of men hath Netherland consumed to him And lately Venice shewed his weaknesse that he durst not goe forward to warre and specially Iuliaque where Leopoldu◠Emperour Spanie Pope wish they had neuer begon Touching the quantity of haile in countreies neere the Alpes wee see this speach to keepe neere propriety without a great hyperbole At Zurick my learned friend M. Caspar Wesserus told me of haile lately there that one stone was brought from a field somewhat farre off to the Consull and must melt in cariage yet beeing weighed it peised a wax pound Chanaan and Egypt haue greater haile that trees and beasts be stricken to destruction by it And in all this the Papists repent not but thinke God to fauor the wicked side and so blaspheme and keepe their old Idolatrie and locusts of all professions as before It is hard for men to repent which will not learne from the word of God how their case standeth Their false ground that Peter was the chiefe Apostle and at Rome and the Rocke and that hee had auctoritie to binde and loose more then others and could leaue that to Doctores of the Citie which crucified Christ as though they best deserued that and the fables of their miracles as though they were true these harden them that they cannot come into the Church till the anger of God consumeth the Pharaohs as chap. 15. vers vlt. told CHAPTER XVII Iohn like Daniel And one of the seauen Angels which had the seauen Cupp◠came and spake with mee saying to mee come I will shew thee the Iudgement of the great Whoore which sitteth vpon many waters with whom the Kings of the earth committed fornication and they which dwelt in the earth were drunke by the Wine of her fornication THe wise God maketh the Cloud of his word light to Israel and darke to Pharaoh That the wicked shall not be ouer busie with it he speaketh to them in Visions that they cannot see whither they tend because they know not the ground Besides commorations seeme vnto them new matter and not a commentarie vpon former So to them that be out of the Church all things are in parables But they that know the grounds shall see all easie Ieremiah taught Israel in the playnest propriety of wordes that might bee Ezekiel sweetneth the same with allegories when both are compared together all is plaine Daniel telleth how Iudah should bee afflicted by enemies likened to the proportion of a mans body fist so generally that heathen would not marke the persecuted But the Iewes knew And if at the first they had bene told of great affliction they would haue gone before captiuitie into Countries of Grecia But when they were in Babel and neere returne their enimies are beasts comming out of the sea and terrible but yet reuenged as the image was by strok from a stone so they by fire But the persecuters and persecuted neither be named In a new vision they are expresly named what the Ram and Buck meane and the persequutour aboue all that should goe before him is plainely described And last of all a proper speach expoundeth the Image expoundeth the sea beastes expoundeth the Land beast That no booke was euer plainer then Daniel Iohn is like him He telleth chapter 6. of great plagues to a state but telleth not to what state Then he telleth of a falling away but telleth not by whose occasion Then he describeth the occasioner vnder seauen trumpets but hideth from the profane world what policie hee would haue marked After this he bringeth the old Caesares and Pope with late into one serpent After this he diuideth the serpent into two beasts with resonable plaine notes and sheweth that the former beast cōming out of the sea should be reuiued by that which came vp out of the Land Now that reuiued beast after his particular doings and suffrings is heere to bee seene with the reuiuer The Angell teacheth Iohn in vision the learned men be Angeli Ecclesiae The great whoore is the great Idolatrous City the many waters the harlot sitteth on be people troupes nations and tongues Kings society in Idolatry is the fornication the dwellers on the earth are the Idolous whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or cariage is not in heauen And he caried me into the wildernesse in the spirit As the Church was driuen into the wildernesse to haue a policie vnmixed with Rome so Iohn sheweth that they must not be of Romes part that will condemne her but absolute free from her In Aegypt God could not giue lawes for Israel but they must be separated from other policies so God brought them into the wildernesse And when God would teach Iuda that Moyses Ceremonies were but poore elements and to praepare them for the rest of Christ he carieth them into the wildernesse of the heathen And when Iohn Baptist praepared a way for the rest of Christ and calling of the heathen who in the dayes of Dauid and Salomon were not circumcised but baptized Rambam Asure Bia. Per. 13. So we must goe into a wildernesse simply iudge by Gods word not by rumors of antiquity and vniuersality what is to be iudged of Rome And I saw a woman sitting vpon a scarlat beast full of names of blasphemy hauing 7. heades and 10. hornes So Satan being incarnate in the Empire of Rome had seauen heades and tenne
comfort but the ioy of God As Iohn banished into Patmos hath in one day the Lordes day more ioy then all the world is worth when darkenesse couered Caesares and obscuritie nations But God shined ouer him and the glory of Christ was seene to him to shew him in wildernesse the state of the Church If he had not beene banished from Ephesus he should not haue had these visiones But now his comfort is the greater As one farre from his Countrey may study more in six yeeres then in 12. among much acquaintance at home and be lesse grieued from quarrelling of the wicked Now Iohn applying Esai vnto the LAMBE sheweth that all his comfortes cary vnto Christ And all the Prophets doe the same so this booke teacheth all the Myriades of Iewes that belieued to expound all the Bible So doe S. Pauls Epistles expounding all the Law and Prophetes how they speak of Christ And the chap. 61. ver 1. is plainly by our L. Luc. 4. of him selfe And the nations the saued shall walke in her light and Kings shall bring their glorie and honor into her Isai 60. And nations shall walke in thy light and Kings in thy brightnesse that ariseth to thee And her gates shall not bee shut in the day for night is not there that they may bring the glory honor of nations vnto her And they shall open thy gates continuallie day and night they shall not be shut that men may bring vnto thee the wealth of nations also their Kings shall be brought Thus God comforteth the xij Tribes from their knowen prophecies to goe forward to winne at the last so many as would furnish a Citie Fifteene hundred miles square in two thousand year Though the ten Tribes were scattred yet Hosea telleth them that as HE raiseth vp the dead so he can call them backe Cyrus called them from 120. nations vpon his owne charges and some of all Israel returned to haue hope in Christ at 490. yeares by holy Daniel And from all nations some were at Ierusalem the last yeare and men 120. receiued spirit to be sufficient to teach all nations many thousandes were turned and of them euery one would turne many thousand And Iohn stirreth vp their hope And there entreth not into it any common and practising lothsomenesse and lies But the written in the booke of life of the Lambe Prophane infidels vncleane in soule and lying in iudgements as all Papistes bee and old heathen estranged from Christ are not of this but they whom Christ hath chosen called and sanctified This matter is eloquently expressed by Manasses-saw-martyr chap 52. Arise arise put on thy glorie put on thy trimme apparell Ierusalem the holy Citie for no vncircumcised and vncleane shall come any more vnto thee This sheweth that they who be truely of the Church haue their minde brauely clothed and will haue none profane of their companie nor auctores of vntrueth vnfit for the Carbuncle walles of Ierusalem as the Apocrypha lies are with the Bible a meere leprous sorte whereby Papistes terme all the Bible lies yet they that can not read one word of the Law as a professor should will fight to keepe those wicked bookes with the holy and fight to hinder explaning of both Testaments in Saint Iohns Carbuncle veine and in Pauls Iaspers As none can be saued vnlesse hee be borne againe of water Isai chapter 55. so puddles of filthy pooles will marre those waters It is marueile that any dare chirpe to hinder the light of Gods worde seeing God is able and readie to reuenge The Pope putteth the wicked fable of Tobie in the heart of the holy Bible But it had beene better a milstone had beene hanged about his necke and that he had beene cast into the mayne Sea It is better to bee a dore-keeper in the holy Ierusalem then in Emperors Palaces in such mixture to the pure waters of Gods worde Iohn and Ezechiel shal be iudge CHAPTER XXII And he shewed me a pure Riuer of water of life so cleere as Christall issuing from the throne of God and of the LAMBE IN the song of songs liuely waters of CHRIST flow from Libanus they be waters of life Ioh. 7. to teach others life and the true MESSIAS commeth by waters blood and spirite 1 Iohn 4. Water of cleere doctrine blood of suffring and miracles of spirite And if a man bee not regenerated of this Water and Spirite he shall not see life And thus speaketh Ezekiel And he brought mee vnto the brim of a riuer and at the brim of the Riuer was much store of trees on both sides and hee said vnto mee these waters goe forth into Galile the first and descend to the plaine to sea of Tiberias then vnto another sea Lacus Asphaltites to the Ocean and those waters are made holesome And surely euery liuing soule which can creepe into any place where these Riuers come shall be liuely and the fish shall be great Thus Ezekiel telleth whence Christ shall begin to teach in Galilee And the Zohar vpon Geneses doth note that And Iohn saw the euent of this for at the sea of Galilee was hee and Iames and Peter and Andrew called to bee fishers of men And after the resurrection Ioh. chap. 21. at the sea of Tiberias Christ appeared to many of his Disciples fishing and all night they had taken nothing And in the morning the Lord commeth to the water side vnknowen and asketh whether they had any thing to eate they said No. Because they had taken nothing all night Then hee made them cast into the right partes and they make a draught of 153. great fishes whose spaume might match the 353000. Proselites in Chanaan Olde and late Prophecie and storie are thus contriued to make easie and sure the doctrine of life And God must needes hate the Pope that bent not all his wealth to haue so many as he could ready in the Law as were the Fishers of Galilee The Disciple whom IESVS loued hath now Apoc. 21. a third sight of Ezekiels prophecie In Iohn from the throne of God and the Lambe cometh the water In Ezekiel from the Temple so the Lord of Hostes and the Lambe bee the Temple In the middle of the streete of it and of the Riuer was a Tree of life bearing twelue fruites bearing his fruite euery moneth and the leaues of the tree did heale the nations Ezekiel chap. 47. And by the Riuer came forth at his brim on either side all kinde of trees for meate the leafe of none faded nor the fruite failed euery moneth they brought forth newe For the waters came forth from the Temple and the fruite was for meate and the leafe to heale The first psalme expoundeth this that the studie of the Law findeth Christ the tree of life and maketh others fruitfull trees to feede and heale An exposition followeth heere Chap. 22. And no Catanathema giuen ouer as cursed shall bee any more But
the throne of God and the Lambe shall bee in it and his seruants shall serue him and shall see his face and his Name shall be in their forehead They that were cursed are healed by the waters of repentance and by the leaues of the tree of life and their seruice to God only and sight of his fauor is meat and drinke to them and they haue Gods marke in forehead as Papistes haue theirs They Gods worde and Baptisme and breaking of bread Papist prayers to saintes and images and profaner theirs And night shall be not there neither shall they neede candle nor light of the Sunne for the Lord God lightneth them and they shall reigne for euer and euer They who know God in Christ shall not bee to fearch Philosophi for better happinesse in natiue studie nor Iewes Talmudique studie wherein they aduenture their soule But seeing Christ they see all and reigne with Christ first heere and shall reigne for euer The Epilogue The Angells speach And he saith vnto me These wordes be faithfull and true The Lord God of the holy Prophetes hath sent his Angell to shew what is to come quicklie Because this booke applieth all the Prophets vnto Christ and taketh away all couering from their meaning he calleth the Lord the God of the holy Prophetes This conuicteth all to be godlesse who contemne to know the Prophetes and to make them plaine by Iohn How the Reuelation would force any Iew or Gentile of learning without rancor to yeeld vnto faith First the learned stile of Iohn should be shewed and infinite fulnesse of eyes howe euery phrase from first to last is couched with circumspection admirable for common Greeke for readinesse in expressing the 70. for ouermatching Talmudiques in their kinde and prouing the Gospel by their grant and visions passing mans wit expressing plaine matter from 2. Thes 2. by all plainesse and maiestie that heauen can affoord This beeing granted the sequel foloweth The sequel by any Iewes grant When the visions are seene to passe the wit of men as Esai chap. 60. as Ezekiels as Daniels and Zacharies and all drawn to Christ with a commentary from God Iohn being a simple fisher and in transe no Iew nor Gentile could denie but that this booke hath Gods authoritie and expoundeth it selfe and sheweth how all the old Test speaketh of Christ A Digression to Iewes desire to know the proofe of the New Test by the Law Twentie yeeres ago I disputed in Francfurt Synagogue with a Rabbin the Iewes chosen for skill with this promise that I would make him confesse that Moyses draweth vnto Christ or speake against his conscience and we both agreed to call God to strike him presently that spake vntruely I requiring nothing of him but that which I well knew he perceived and might iudge all past denyall He was content and neuer crossed mee But desired a large treatise And ten yer agoe at Basill requested a full treatise and all the New Test translated in such Hebrew as I spake to him and the Apocalyps applied in order of bookes to all the old Test Also hee moued the Iewes of Germanie to request the same who haue made him their Orator they of Hanau that if hee yeeld they all will And the Iewes of Wormes and Mentz beeing commanded by the Bishops to read my Books said that they could deny nothing But requested Moyses the Prophets opened at large to full measure of their 613. Lawes shewing which stand still for all nations and ages and which were giuen as vnto children to be remoued in riper knowledge The Rabbi my friend chiefe requester of Catechese their Orator is called Rabbi Eliah Why nowe I accomplish not request I will tell omitting their particular iniuries because when all this age is dead this description of Ierusalem may stand The greatnesse of the Iewes request in due articles 1. The translating of the New Testament into Ebrewe should haue with it a Dictionary of foure Dialectes and I should haue many Scribes learned who by direction may helpe me much to speed 2. Faire Copiers of my translation and learned Printers will require States helpe 3. A treatise of MESSIAS from Gen. 3. to the end of Malachi from all Rabbins of whom often I neede but line out what I would haue copied that would require much money for learned Scribes 4. The comparison of all Moses 613. making a commentary from the New Testament vpon them and a table from them to the New Test this will bee of greater paynes then my goodly recompense can heartely take in hande 5. Iewes request me to require our owne side first to yeeld to mee which I could make them doe or refuse with shame enough But that I cannot force superiors to iustice 6. To these positions I must require consent that the text of both Test is pure that of the tongue the enemies may best be made iudges to their ouerthrow and our victorie For all speaches hard in the New Test to vs are easie to them That for gouernement of the Church to make many learned in the Law they and the Apostle haue yet to eye-sight the same rules 7. As the Iewes grant all that I haue yet printed in Ebrew I would request Princes to force their Scholars to yeeld from their crossing of their owne Gospell or to combat with me brieflie 8. Because vnlearned wightes shall not prate against any thing but that many nations may iudge I would haue abilitie for helpers to turne all that I doe into other tongues many Princes helping in this I would hasten the workes and till then I leaue all hinderers as murtherers of soules out of Ierusalem the holy Citie The speach of Christ Behold I come quickly c. vnto c. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ bee with you all Amen Chap. 1. 23. needed no comment nor the chap. 18. nor this Epilogue Therefore I may not with idle wordes weary the Reader ΤÎλος A BRIEFE TABLE FOR THE MORE READY FINDING of the Chapters in their pages and some principall matters in the same Chapters handled THE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Chapters are handled in the 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. pages The 8. Chap. beginneth to be handled in the 59. page conteyning these things principall as foloweth The sum of the Bible contempt of which caused God to cast off the open Church 59. Of the 7. Trumpets generally 60. The first Trumpet there handled ibidem Of the names Papas and Pope handled 61 The second trumpet expounding the first 62 The third trumpet expounding the second ibid. Articles of the Popes corruption of scriptures 63 The 4. trumpet expounding the third pag. 66. The occasions of the Churches fall from heauen ibid. How the old Testament came turned into wormewood 67 Of the new Testam 68 Of the new Testam elegancie 70 How the Papes of Graecia vsed the Bible and the Popes refused it pag. 76 A Cry expounding the first trumpets warning of fire
and blood by scholars made a mountaine of fire cast into the sea by the starr falne from his place c. 81 The 9. Chap. pag. 82. THe fift Trumpet sounding out the Popes cleerely ibid. Whence the Pope chalengeth keies pag. 83. A digression to shew a scandall laid to Iewes 84 Of the Locusts most liuely describing the Popes subiects to make him King of Locusts distinguished from all other policies that be c. pag. 86 A distinction of those Loc. from the proper Locusts in Ioel that these be as scorpions 87 A further illustration of distinction from naturall Locusts and scorpions ibidem A further distinction how their sting is not of naturall scorpions but of spirituall ibidem Of the scorpions stings 88 Of the Locusts strength and auctority 89 Of the Loc. King 90 Of Oathes ibidem Of the Popes aduancing learning pag. 91 Of Popes blindenesse in Ebrew easiest matters ibidem How blindely the Papists wrest Ieroms words that c. 92 Of the Popes names ibidem Of the Popes Greek name 93 A digression to our prayer booke made from the Popes 94 Of Antic his Chaldy name 95 The Epilogue for the description of the Pope 97 Of Machumed or Machmad or Moamed in Piel Hiphil and Hophal the participles three are vsed in Arabique and Rabbins 98 Chapter 10. ibid. HOw Christ helpeth his Church by ruling warr and guile not to passe boūds c. ibid. Of Angell Christ ibidem Comming downe from heauen 99 Of the cloud ibidem Of the rainebow about his head ibid. Of the face of Christ like the sunne pag. 100 Of his feete like a pillar of fire ibid. Of the litle booke opened ibid. Of the right foote set vpon the sea and the left vpon the Land 101 Of the little bookes eating ibidem The XI Chap. pag. 102. THe measuring of the Temple pag. 102 Of measuring the faithfull 103 Of the Court within the Temple to bee cast out in condemnation of Iudaisme 104 A digression to compare the old Temple or Tabernacle with the spirituall 105 Of the holy Synagogues 106 Of the Synedrion 107 Of Athean imitation of Aaron 108 How BB. were made in Israel ibid. Of Excommunication 109 A iust but strang doctrin ibidem A digression to expound the terme Bishop 110 Of the 42. mone 111 Of Prophecying 112 Of the Decalogoue ibid. Of the Popes theft 113 Grounds which all should know that soundly prophecie or expound scripture ibid. Of Arias Montanus works of diuers readings 115 Of Lindanus quarreling with the text and one Erostratus ibid. Of Law vowelled and vnvowelled ibid. Of the Lxxij differing 3600. yeares from the strict Ebrew 116 Of Perfection of script ibid. Autores for the tongue 117 Prayer is our seruice of God ibidem Of the New Testam 118 Conclusion ibid. Blasphemous groundes of Popery pag. ibid. How yong men learned in liberall artes might be rarely exquisite in the Greek N. Testam 120 Of Poper names 121 The Epilogue ibidem The restorers of the Gospell be as Elias 122 The Martyrs be as Moses 123 Of the Citie which crucified our Lord 124 Of all souls passage at death 128 Of Purgatorie ibid. Of the 2. Macca 129 Of Iudahs sacrifice 130 The Conclusion 131 VVhat the Greeke Fathers thought of Purgatorie ibidem Of the third wo and last trumpet pag. 133 The sum of the Bible 134 Of the worldes end 137 Of the Iewes calling ibid. Of our Kings rare bent to the honour of the Bible 139 Of the Popes scholars 140 Of Daniel 141 Of the poore Indians calling ibid. Of the old Opinion of 6000. yeares pag. ibidem Chap. xij pag. 143. A Description of the Church ibid. Of the profane Caesar Pope reuiuing of him both comprised in the body and taile of one Dracon pag. 145 Of the taile 147 The combat of the Romane Empire with the Church ibid. A Commentary of the former vision of MICA-EL defending the Church 148 Of MICA-EL 150. Of Tobies fable 151 Of Michaels Angels 152 Of wicked spirits names ibid. Of old Serpent 153 Of Diuel ibid. Of trapps laid by our selues 154 The Diuell and his Angels by Michael are banished from the Church pag. ibidem A plainer exposition of the Dragons war ibid. Of the Dragons short tyme 157 Of the tyme of the persecutions by the Dragon 158 Chap. 13. pag. 160. OF two speciall points to be noted 161 The second point 162 How the Romans armes are taken from the Kingdomes in Daniel pag. 163 A most plaine description of the Pope by the beast arising from the earth pag. 169 Of the Lambes two hornes ibid. Of one error in the Pope which maketh him next the Diuell where the Diuell would tremble to bee so impudent openly 170 Of the Dragons speach 171 Of the two hornes counterfaiting the Lambe 172 Of the Popes succession 173 Of the Ancient facility in teaching the Law 174 An application of the Popes calling to that 178 A doubt for the manner of policy now what way is best to be taken 179 The answere ibidem What may we thinke of BB. of which sort many Popes and Cardinales bee 180 Of the Pope King of Kings 181 How long the Popes the starres falling could not become mountaines of fire to cast themselues into the sea of Empire 182 By what Iudaique cursedly reuiued Ceremonie the chiefe Diuinitie D. of Rome bewitched Emperors 184 Of Papists Miracles 186 An oration of the Popes Legate very remarkeable 194 Of subiection in all matters to the Pope ibidem Of the marke in the forehead 196 Of the name of the beast and Number of his name ibidem A repetition of the terme Rock 199 A Digression to a disputation at Mentz 200. Chap. 14. pag. 205. THe heauen cōmonly in the Aposignifieth the Chruch 206 What the song of the rediemed was 207 A Digression to shew the Concent of all the holy bookes and first of Geneses 208 Obiections of them that are not rediemed from the earth against that ibid. Of Iob 209 Of Exodus ibid. Romes error against the song of the Lambe barbarous 210 Error Athean ibid. Of Leuiticus ibid. How the Pope disannulleth all Leuiticus 211 Of Numeri ibid. The Contradiction of the Pope against that book 212 Of Deutero ibidem The Contrarie also ibid. Of Iesus son of Num. ibid. The Popes contrarie 213 Of the booke of Iudges ibid. Of Samuel c. 214 The Popes Contrariety 217 Of the N. Testaments musique the Gospell ibid. Of the Acts 218 Of the Ep. Romanes 219 Of the 1. Corint 220 Of the 2. ibid. Against Purgatoris ibid. Of the Epist to the Galat. 221 To the Ephesians ibidem To the Philippians ibidem To the Colloss ibidem To the Thess 1. and 2. Epist. 222 To Timothie 1. and 2. Epist 213 To Philemon ibidem How the seruant of seruants is concordant to Onesimus 224 Of the Epistle to the Hebrews 225 The Popes contrarietie ibidem Of the Epist-Iames ibidem Of 1. and 2. Pet. 226 Of 1. 2. and 3. of
it Gods worke against whom none may plead he maketh one little booke exceed for varietie and elegancie of wordes aboue 4600. chosen wordes Thus the booke might be made easie 1. The wordes should be all in a table that all might read them quicklie 2. Appellatiues and propre should be sett in their colours 3. For Appellatiues all Attique and eloquent Speaches of them as Rom. 12. 3. Paul passeth all Athenes these should all come in their families 4. Next many thousand frō the 70. with Ebrew to them and in how many God followeth the 70. departing from the Ebrew This would carrie the Reader through all the old Testament 5. Thalmudique speaches be plentie and easie to a Rabbin as Forgiuenesse neither in this world nor in the world to come and girded about the brest second death and such these most trouble Greekes and would be easiest handled in their veines and they be very many 6. Sometimes the Apostles mende the 70. or speake more eloquently as in Iaspis Apoc. 21. vers 19 it is Beniamins stone after the Ebrew Exod. 28. But vers xj the Carbuncle Isai 54. So Sardonix for Zabulon and Chrysophrase for Nephtaly are the Apostle Iohns passing in Greeke skill And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eb. 1. 3. from Isai 4. Tzemach Lecabod and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From Exod. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these S. Paul bringeth All this kinde settled together would bring light and delight to all godly learned Of propre names Many propre names be taken from the old Testament wherein the 70. is communely folowed Sarra will try a scholar and Phanuel from the margine reading and Ionanan Luc. 3. and the names from Israell in Egypt being full many shew they knew Ptolomies Egypt should fall many cōteyne Psal 89. as Zorobabelidae Mat. 1. many other speciall stories chiefly Townes full many call to Seleucidae and Lagidae as Antiochia Seleucia Philadelphia such Many are cleared by Thalm. Ierusalemy as Lazar for Eleazar and Alphai for Chalphai a. s in the fathers stead and such The Greeke and Latin in one familie Alexander and Rufus shew that the Thalmud lieth bringing Iesus our Lord his dayes to the Maccabees tymes The name Marck and Paul and all the Latin termes shew that vnder the Romans Christ was on earth Epilogue Thus when euery word should be handled alone and wordes tossed in disputatiō handled alone the whole booke would be soone eaten and millions would be able to Prophecie and to defend the faith against the Beast that commeth out of the pitt of Sathans deepenesse to make Seniorie of true Bishopps that vnlearned pseudo-piscopi should no longer pine better learned in prison sage and learned be lawfull Episcopi bestowing reuenues aright but nobles ought and lower gentrie to be the best learned and to keepe all in sage dealing So the King of Locustes would soone loose his crowne The 2. oliue trees in Zacharie which poure oile into the golden Candlestick are they who not by might but by Gods spirit as they vnder Aggei and Zachary built the Temple The chiefe ruler was holden as anointed so King Iosias though none but the first of the house as Dauid or in stirre as Salomon for Adonias and Ioash for Athalia Ioachaz for elder Ioakim were annointed The high sacrificer was of course so both states were vnder the two oliues and whē all be sacrificers Apo. 1. Then the gouernor that prouideth for bread and they who labor in word are the two oliues that giue matter of light to the golden Candlestick Clothed in sackcloth in sadnesse of their minde considering how the gold is darkened The restorers of the Gospell be as Elias And if any man will hurt them fire commeth out of their mouthes and eateth vp their enimies yea if any man will hurt them so he must be killed These haue power to shut vp the heauens that raine raine not in the dayes of their prophecying Heere the kingdome of the beast arising from the darke pitt is closselie compared with Israell in Achabs dayes when Baal was worshipped by so many false prophetes And Elias knewe none but him selfe left of true religion in Israell and the Altars which GOD tolerated extraordinarie were all broken downe The Papistes damne themselues mightilie when they cast in our teeth That our companie had not open policie still Sigibertus complayneth that at 1200. England admitted not the Popes supremacie So hee answereth Papistes And still our commune Lawes made it treason to appeale vnto the Pope and holy Wickliffe condemned him as freelie as any in our tymes Wickliffe that set ouer the Bible into English Wickliffe that taught how the cōmune Lawes would vtterly fall the Pope Wickliffe whose Bible many yet haue the Copiers of which shew where the Church of God was Such had the spirit of Elias which called for fire from heauen into Bohemia and Prage and Saxonie to burne much of Rome as Elias called fire from heauen to burne two Captaines and two fifties so Eliseus called fire from Hazael that brent vp Israell And Iohn Baptist called for fire from heauen that brent vp all Herodes house And as Elias staide raine three yeares and an half so Eliseus spirit brought famine to Samaria and the Christians in Claudius dayes and the martyrs by the black horse bring corne to be weighed as spice for dearth so still God sendeth famine for his martyrs The Martyrs be as Moses These haue power to turne the waters into blood and to strike the earth with any plague so often as they will This sheweth Rome to be a new Egypt still rebelling against Moses and therefore hath plagues to the same effect 1. Egypt had waters turned to blood so Rome chap. 11. and 16. 2. Egypt swarmed with frogges so Rome chap. 16. 4. Egypt was plagued with serpents and all sauage so the Locustes had tailes like scorpions and their plaguers had horses with Lions mouthes and their tailes had heads like to serpentes and the Caesares people were spent by the beastes of the earth 5. A plague killed the beasts of Egypt so the Caesares people 6. 6. Boyles vexed Egypt so the marked of the beast Apo. 16 7. Haile Fire vexed Egypt so Rome haile and fire mixed with blood chap. 6. and chap. 16. great haile 8. Locustes ate the fruites of Egypt Locustes strangers swarme Apo. 9. 9. Darkenesse vexed Egypt the throne of the beast is darkned Thus God compareth propre Egypt and the king of Locustes Egypt how they that folow Moyses Law and Prophecie and bid the king of Locustes grant freedome to Israel still plague their Pharaoh And when they had ended their martyrdome the beast which ariseth out of the deepe shall make warre with them and shall kill them and their carcasses shall lie in the large Common weale which is called spiritually Sodoma and Egypt where also the Lord was crucified For doctrine of vncleane spirites they are termed