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A17307	The seuen vials or a briefe and plaine exposition vpon the 15: and 16: chapters of the Revelation very pertinent and profitable for the Church of God in these last times. By H.B. rector of Saint Matthews Friday-street.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1628 (1628)	STC 4155; ESTC S107076	109,578	162

THE SEVEN VIALS Or A briefe and plaine Exposition vpon the 15 and 16 Chapters of the Revelation very pertinent and profitable for the Church of God in these last times By H. B. Rector of Saint Matthews Friday-street Reve 19.19 20. And I saw the Beast and the Kings of the Earth ●nd their armies gathered 〈◊〉 to make warre against him that sate on the Hor●● 〈◊〉 against his army And the Beast was take● and with him the False Prophet that wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had the Marke of the Beast and them that worshipped his Image Th●se both 〈…〉 into a Lake of fire burning with 〈…〉 LONDON Printed by William Jones dwelling 〈◊〉 Red-crosse-street 1●28 TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES KING OF GREAT Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Dread Soveraine DIOGENES the more he was by Antisthenes the Philosopher threatned beaten from his schoole the more ardently he frequented it saying to his Master Do you but beat I will find you a head nor shall you find so hard a club as therewith to driue me away from your Philosophy What hee did suffered for Philosophy's sake the like or more am I ready to sustaine for the service and honour of Your Majesty No discouragements can beat me from this resolution no not death it selfe So prevalent i● my affection as my insufficiencies best knowne to my selfe cannot restraine it Yea though I was told Your Majesty was lately offended with me But I answered No J had no reason to belieue it For first J knew well the gentle disposition of your royall breast guided by such a dextrous iudgment is not easily incensed where there is no iust cawse And J am sure I daily inioy the influence of your favour though not the gratious aspect of your face for even the feet doe liue moue though remote by the Heads breathing You are the breath of our Nostrills And as J told my Lord of London at my first examination about Israels Fast All that I had done was for Gods glory the service of my King Country the Church of England whereof wee were members and for which I was ready if need were to lay downe my life And now gratious Soveraine J am bold to present Your Maiesty with such a peece as no Prince in Christendome but Your selfe can iustly challenge the dedication of it if the meannesse of the Presenter doe not extenuate the worth of the Present Jt containes a most divine Prophecy of the pouring out of the seven Vialls Revel 16 which according to that ability vouchsafed me of Christ the least and last of all his servants J haue indeavoured to open Jt pertaineth to Your Maiesty by a proper right The full accomplishment of this Prophecy is like to fall in Your gratious Raigne which God prolong to make it glorious to posterity And surely when J compare the fulfilling of this Prophecy with those many Princely indowments which Your God hath inriched Your Royall Person with J am so much the more confirmed in this my perswasion Such a zeale such loue of the truth such a peerelesse and Princely wisdome such a magnanimous spirit were not planted in Your noble breast for nothing So as I dare boldly conclude as was said to David Your Maiesty shal do great things and prosper Nor speake J by coniecture This Prophecy will clearly evidence the same Cleare it is though for the present it seeme cleane contrary that the destruction of Antichrist with his whole power and confederacy is now neere at hand And for proofe and perswasion thereof J wish it stood with Your Maiesties good pleasure and leisure to read over this Prophecy It is but the expense of a few howers but may exercise Your best meditations and noblest thoughts for many dayes many yeares after This whole booke of the Revelation is a Propheticall Chronologie t● the end of the world Of it Christ pronounceth Blessed is he that readeth and they that heare the words of this Prophecy and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand How much more is this verified of this last and most famous Prophecy in this booke towards the full consummation whereof these our present and last times draw on ●amaine Your Royall Father of blessed memory even in his youth wrote a most exquisite Paraphrase of this whole booke from whose bright torch all along I haue beene bold to borrow light for my dimme candle But me thinks I heare some suggest O Sir this booke is not licensed But whose fault is that The Authors Or the Licensers I could wish that such suggesters would confesse the true cawse why Orthodox bookes are so borne downe as they may not be licensed For Popish Arminian bookes are licensed but the contrary such as are writen in confutation of them are according to Gods word the doctrine of the Church of England may not be allowed So that I humbly submit it to your Maiesties vnpartiall iudgement to determine whether the Printer for printing such a booke as this without license or he that should license such Orthodox bookes will not according to authority in that behalf be more worthy of censure And certainly they that suppresse Orthodox bookes would they not also stop Preachers mouthes that they should not speake the truth Yes certainly● For may it please your Majesty to vnderstand how even your Majesties honour suffers in this case For whereas vpon a Proclamation published in your Highnesse name Iune 14. in the second of your Raigne expressely forbidding any preaching or printing of such Doctrines as were repugnant to the Doctrine of the Church of England established we all hoped that all Arminian Popish Doctrines would be husht silenced wee by experience find it quite contrary for the Arminians shamelesly alledging that all their doctrines are according to the Church of England vnder this pretence they wold suppresse all truth as forbidden by your Royall Proclamation Which if it were true it should not be lawfull any more to preach the Gospell then to print books in defence of it So that some are neither affraid nor ashamed to say in plaine termes that they must license no bookes against Arminius Good God what pittifull times doe we liue in how different from former as I was bold to tell my Lord of London But I trust your Maiesty will vindicate your honour herein Gods truth exprest in Scripture is no changeling This is that which wee call the Doctrine of the Church of England and no other This hath beene sealed by the blood of so many Martyrs witnessed by so many Worthies of our Church for almost this fourescore yeares without intermission whose writings no time shall blot out ratified by so many Acts of Parliament as not all the Devills in hell nor all the Arminians on earth shall be able to disanull it The Gospell shall flourish maugre all

happy memory in his Epistle to the Church Militant before his Paraphrase This booke I 〈◊〉 a special●● an● on against the haereticall wall of our common adversaries the Papists And least any s●ould obiect t●at 〈…〉 is so obscure and allegorique to vse the words of that royall Pen that it is in a manner vnprofitable to be taught or interpreted his Maiesty easily puts it by 〈…〉 that thi● booke of it selfe proves how profitable it is for this age seeing it is the last Revelation of Gods 〈◊〉 and prophe●y that euer was or shal be in the world Being 〈…〉 also saith he to comfort 〈◊〉 that might otherwise 〈…〉 becau●● of the greatnesse of temptation from the 〈◊〉 and his followers and therefore in the vision of the 〈…〉 declared saith the King what plagues shall light vpon the Pope and his followers Nor need we be dismayed with the ●eare of obscurity for the title of the booke is The Rev●l●tion of Iesus Christ. Nor neede we thinke it vnprofitable to be read or expounded for in the very front of the booke is prefixed Blessed is he that readeth and they that heare the words of this Prophecy and keepe those things which 〈◊〉 written therein for the time is at hand And if the time were at hand then how much more now This booke being written by the last surviver of all the Apostles and not revealed vnto him till the last of his old age which was neare vpon the hundreth yeare of Christ nor yet generally revealed vnto the Church till so 〈◊〉 time after all arguing that the principall vse of thi● booke was specially reserved for vs vpon whom the end of the world are come Now to pa●●e by all further circumlocutions or preambles come we directly to our matter intended where●of though the chiefe substance 〈…〉 comprise● in the 16. Chapter yet finding the 〈…〉 thereunto and to bee a● a key to 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 thereof it is requisite that we take this key along with vs. In the 15. Chapter verse 1. we haue certaine motiues vnto our better attention to this insuing Prophecy as first Iohns testimony I● and the evidence of it I ●aw the fairest witnesse thirdly the obiect a 〈◊〉 and what doth more affect mans curiosity at least then to see signes And this signe in heauen seemes to be that which Christ calleth the signe of the Sonne of man 〈…〉 Mat. 24.30 not only because it appeares after the generall darkening of the Gospell and the falling or Apostacy of many starres in the Church ver ●● but also because these vialls are the evident fore-runners of the second comming of Christ as will appeare more fully in this insuing treatise And fourthly the place where in heaven namely in the Church of God which both in this booke and throughout the new Testament is vsually vnderstood by heauen as the kingdome of heaven for the Gospell and ministry thereof in the Church And this signe in heaven may well be taken for the signe of 〈◊〉 Sonne of man mentioned Matth 24. as will more and more appeare in the progresse of this Prophecy Fifthly this sign is great and marvellous which if we apply to the admirable breaking forth of the Gospell in the beginning of these 7. Vials we cannot but be amased with the marvailous greatnes of it Sixthly this signe is more particularly described and set forth vnder 7. Angells who are the Ministers of God in his Church as Chap. 1. and 2. and 3. of this booke Ministers are Angells as much to say as Messengers so that the name of Angel and these 7. too may a little awaken our attention and raise the contemptuous world to a more high estimation of this sacred Calling of Gods Ministers lest the disesteeme of their persons may be a stumbling blo●k to men to fall fowle vpon a disrespect of the message it selfe Seventhly These 7. Angels bring with them the 7. last plagues because in them is filled vp the w●ath of God Extrem● malorum scire to know aforehand the last and worst of plagues is a good remedy against them if not altogether to prevent yet at least the better to brooke them In the second verse saith Iohn And I saw as it were a Sea of Glasse mingled with fire and them that had gotten the victory ouer the Beast and ouer his Image and ouer his marke and ouer the number of his name stand on the sea of Gl●sse● hauing the harpes of God And ver 3. they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lambe saying Great and maruailous are thy workes Lord God Almighty iust and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Who shall not feare thee O Lord and glorifie thy name for thou only are holy for all Nations shall come worship before thee for thy iudgements are m●de manifest In these words is plainly intimated the estate of the Church of God when once the 7. Angels begin to powre forth the last plagues Therefore they immediately follow vpon the vision of the 7. Angels vpon whose execution of their message great ioy is brought to the Church of Christ. The glassie Sea mingled with fire is a liuely embleme of this world whose glory is but as glasse bright but brittle dum spl●ndet frangitur and it is mingled with fire which signifies the consumption of the wicked world which as glasse is molten and melted with fire as Peter speaketh 2 Pet. 3.12 the elements melting with fervent heat Vpon this molten fiery glassy Sea do stand the servants of God who are Victors over the Beast and whereof we read Chap. 13.15 16 17. having the harpes of God to wit instruments of praise 〈◊〉 they sing the song of Moses and of the Lambe This spea●● as is very frequent in this booke 〈◊〉 and directeth our eyes to that solemne thanksgiving of ●ose● and Israell for their miraculous victory 〈…〉 and their deliverance fr● the captivity vpon the ●anks of the red Sea resembled here by the 〈◊〉 Sea mingled with fire which makes it appeare like the red Sea That the song of the Lamb is here added it teacheth vs to apply this to the spirituall-deliverance of the Ch●rch of God from that spirituall Aegypt to 〈…〉 that by the power of Christ the Lamb of God 〈…〉 that Paschall Lamb at th● sprinkling of whose blood 〈…〉 Israel● typicall deliverance from their corporall ●a●tivity And for this cause is this song sung to the 〈◊〉 of God Almighty by whose only power and mercy we with the whole Church reformed were delivered from and are conquerers of the Beast c. This may put vs in mind by the way that as we haue a great share in this deliverance and victory over Popery 〈◊〉 to be 〈◊〉 more carefull to keep this song of thanksgiving 〈…〉 and take those harpes into our hands which our forefathers most of them were faine to hang vp vpon the willowes in Babylon and in stead