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B09229	The apocalyps unveyl'd, or, A paraphrase on the Revelation of the holy apostle and evangelist John the Devine in which the syncronisms of Mr. Joseph Mede, and the expositions of other interpreters are called in question, and a new exposition given of the prophecies of the Revelation, never before extant in any author, from the 6th chapter to the 18th, with variety of reasons for the exposition / by An Orthodox Divine.	Hayter, Richard, 1611?-1684.; Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638. Clavis apocalyptica.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1224; ESTC R202384	176,063	254

in all the Revelation Read the Commission and consider of it Come out of her my People he doth not say begin a War with her my People but come out of her my People that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Rev. 18.4 12. And when the thousand years are expired Satan shall be loosed out of his Prison And shall go out to deceive the Nations which are in the four quarters of the Earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to Battle the number of whom is as the Sand of the Sea Revel 20.7 8. Therefore Satan is the procuring or fomenting cause of War and not the true Religion and sometimes he stirs up wicked men to begin a War against the Church as is evident in this place and in that other place Revel 16.13 14. And sometimes he excites the Church to begin a needless War against the enemies thereof as is plain in Ahabs Case 1 King 22.20 21 22 23. And which of these ways soever he takes his aim is to destroy the Church of God thereby And we may not think that God is the cause of War in any other sense then as he is the cause of death and that is only as the punishment or effect of sin and if there had been no sin there had been no death and because no Death no War for God made not death as the Wiseman saith Wisd 1.13 And Canonical Scripture saith so too Rom. 5.12 And because he made not death he made not War which brings death inevitable both on good and bad but ungodly men with their works and words have called it to them Here is the true cause of Death and of War too but God is the first original cause of neither but will destroy them both in his appointed time When Sin and Satan are destroyed then Death and War shall be destroyed together These are my Reasons for the Negative now let us see what may be said out of the Revelation for the Affirmative Object And I saw as it were a Sea of Glass mingled with fire and them that had gotten the victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his mark and over the number of his name stand on the Sea of Glass having the Harps of God And they sing the Song of Moses the servant of God and the Song of the Lamb c. Revel 15.2 3. Answ Suppose we that the Pope is the Beast which here is spoken of for so we must at this time yet this gratulation and rejoycing Song is not for the final overthrow of the Beast but for some particular victory which they obtained against him And this victory doth not import that they begun the War with him but that he begun with them and lost the day against them And so stands the case with us if the Papists begin a War with us we may defend our selves and if it please God to give us victory we may and must rejoyce and praise the Lord as these men did but to begin a War with them and expect to see an end of them and their Religion before the day of Judgment is more then can be gathered from this place Object And the sixth Angel poured out his Vial upon the great River Euphrates and the Water thereof was dried up that the way of the Kings of the East may be prepared Revel 16.12 Now what is meant by Euphrates But the Revenues of the Popedom And who be the Kings of the East but such Kings as God will stir up in these parts to be her ruine and overthrow the great defence which is in the River of worldly wealth being taken away as sometimes Euphrates was drained whereby Babylon was taken by Cyrus and Darius Eastern Kings And because the wealth of Spain is so great a means to strengthen this Kingdom yet I think it not amiss to bring that in also within the compass of this great River Dr. Mayer on the Revelation pag. 475. Answ Theologia symbolica non est argumentatio Mystical Theology is no sufficient argument for our faith and practice The literal sense of Scripture is That we must go and walk by that is the only rule both of faith and manners and it is the literal sense by which we must be judged at the last day Now what saith the literal sense of Scripture Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbors house thou shalt not covet thy Neighbors wife nor his man-servant nor his maid-servant nor his ox nor his ass nor any thing that is thy Neighbors Exod. 20.17 And who is our Neighbors Is not every man Though some be nearer Neighbors then other yet every man living is our Neighbor and we may not do wrong to any man whether he be within the Church or without 1 Thes 4.12 Yea Luk. 10.29 30 c. Christ shews by a Parable that a mans enemy is his neighbor 2. I say that by the River Euphrates is not meant the Revenues of the Popedom or the wealth of the King of Spain but by it is meant the River it self and by the Kings of the East is not meant the Kings in these Western parts but the Kings of the Earth spoken of Vers 14. which are beyond Euphrates They are much mistaken who think Euphrates was the strength of Old Babylon it was rather the nakedness of the City to have Euphrates pass through it then any way the strength thereof Cyrus found an easie way to drain away the Water and that being drained away he had an easie passage in whereby it doth appear that the Walls and Gates were the strength thereof and not the Water for the Walls and Gates kept him out but the Water being drained away let him have a passage in And the meaning of the Prophecy is that the Water of Euphrates shall be dried up by a special providence of God that the Kings which are beyond the River may pass over and help the Beast and False Prophet in their Wars So that here is no Commission for the Kings within the Church to begin a War with Papists and take away the Popes Revenues or the wealth of the King of Spain But here is a Prophecy That the Kings which are without the Church shall joyn with the Beast and False Prophet and war against the Church to their own undoing And this Church is not any Church in the Western parts but the Church of the Jews after their conversion So that this Prophecy shall be fulfilled then and not before Object And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the Beast these shall hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and naked and eat her flesh and burn her with fire Revel 17.16 Answ Suppose we the City of Rome to be the Whore that here is spoken of which is very uncertain as was said before yet we are to know that this destruction of the Whore who ever she be shall not come to pass in our days but in

be said to be crucified at Rome Ans I deny the sequele For Christ told Pilate thou couldest have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above Joh. 19.11 yet no man will conclude from thence that Christ was crucified in Heaven because Pilate had authority from Heaven no more ought any man to say that Christ was crucified at Rome because Pilate had authority from thence Herod had authority from the City of Rome yet the young children which were slain by him were slain at Bethlehem and not at Rome Mat. 2.16 Yea we may go a little farther and say that the City of Rome was not guilty of their death nor of Christs neither for the authority which Herod had was only in the general and that is not sufficient to make the City of Rome guilty of their blood it must be a special warrant order or authority from Rome that must do that and this Herod wanted and so did Pilate too Yea let us go a little farther and suppose that Pilate had a special order or authority from the City of Rome to put our Saviour Christ to death yet this will not suffice to make the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ubi or the where to be the City of Rome but Ierusalem alone and the reason of it is because the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ubi and the where do note the place where the thing was done and not the power or authority by which 't was done as when 't is said that Mary Magdalen and Mary the Mother of Ioses beheld where here he was laid Mark 15.47 it is not meant of the power or authority which they had from Pilate to lay his body there but of the place where they laid him And so give instance where you will it never fails See Ioh. 19.18.20.41 Ob. Christ was crucified not only by the Roman power but also for the Roman cause Ans It was a pretended cause and not a real for Pilate did acquit him and said he found no fault in him Luk. 23.4 and the reason why he put Jesus to death was for fear of the Jews and not for any other cause Mat. 26.27 Luk. 23.22 23. But secondly let the cause be what it will it is nothing to the purpose for the cause is not here spoken of but the place only and they which understand the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ubi or the where our Lord was crucified to be meant of the cause and not of the place are as far from the meaning of the Prophecy as Jerusalem is from Rome Ob. Christ was been crucified in his members at Babylon Ans Is this indeed the meaning Why Christ has been crucified in his members at Jerusalem as well as in his own body so that Ierusalem may be the City in that sense too 2. I deny that to 〈◊〉 meaning for it is not said in every City where our Lord was crucified but in the street of the great City pointing out but one City and no more 3. These words where our Lord was crucified were added to deelare what City 't is where the Witnesses shall be slain and if we understand them of the City where Christ was crucified himself we can quickly tell what City 't is that is meant in this place but if we understand it of the crucifixion of his members from time to time Christ has been crucified in so many places that we cannot tell by this description what City 't is is meant here 4. Who be the members in which you say Christ was crucified Be they the same with the two Witnesses Or be they other members of his If other members then unless you tell us who these other members be we cannot tell by this answer what the City is in which the two Witnesses shall be slain But if you say the members be the same with the two Witnesses what is this but a meer Tautology It amounts to no more than this the two Witnesses shall be slain in the City where they shall be slain That which makes men run into these errors and mistake the meaning of the Prophecy is because they put no difference between the seat of the Witnesses and the seat of the Beast in which respect the Protestants are as far remote from the meaning of the Prophecy as the Papists for the Papists make the seat of the Witnesses to be Ierusalem and the same the seat of the Beast too but the Protestants make Babylon the seat of both And both of them are out in this particular for Ierusalem is the seat of the Witnesses but not of the Beast and Babylon is the seat of the Beast but not of the Witnesses and it is altogether unlikely and inconsonant to reason that the Witnesses should Prophesie in Babylon where the Beast hath his Throne or that the Beast should let them Prophesie before his own door three years and a half before the War against them But it is very likely and consonant to reason that the Witnesses should Prophesie at Ierusalem some hundred miles distant from the City of Babylon for some space of time before the Beast hear thereof and it is also likely that as soon as he doth hear thereof he will send his Soldiers forth of Babylon to march unto Ierusalem to War against the Witnesses and put an end unto their Prophesying which Soldiers of his may come thither at that nick of time in which the three years and a half allotted for their Prophesying shall be ended So that the Witnesses are not slain within the compass of that time or before that time be ended as some would have it but immediately when that time is over This is my conception of this Prophecy which I shall adhere unto until a better shall be shewn me And here the Reader may perceive that I follow neither Papist nor Protestant in the exposition of this Prophecy but the truth only which if it please God to discover by my weak endeavours it is as much as I look after in writing what I do 4 Quest How long the six first Trumpets shall continue Ans The Plagues of Egypt did continue but a little while as the learned Bishop of Armagh hath proved in his Annals pag. 20 21. and most of these Trumpets are the same with them 2. The fifth Trumpet is to last but five months Rev. 9.10 which wants a month of half a year 3. The Sealed ones were Sealed before any of the Trumpets did begin Rev. 7.3 and the same persons are all of them alive after all the six Trumpets are ended and a good part of the seventh Trumpet also over Rev. 14.1 4. All the time from the sixth Seal unto the day of Judgment mentioned Rev. 19.11 c. is but a short time as hath been proved already ch 6. Disp 2. q. 5. CHAP. XII The Prophecy of the Woman and the great Red Dragon representing the conversion of the Jews and the opposition and persecution of