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A45517	The key of sacred scripture, and, leading to it first, an answer to some objections given to the author, by a person of great learning and piety : wherein many mistakes, by which most professors wound themselves, and strengthen the hands of the churche's adversaries, are clearly discovered, and the more invincible weapons of truth inviolable (tending effectually to refel errors, and reform manners) are tendred to them / by Tho. Harby.	Harby, Thomas.	1679 (1679)	Wing H683; ESTC R20417	31,658	56

10.6 It is done saith the Text expresly Chap. 16.17 And thus my Opponent's first Objection and in that all the rest falls to dust with one stroke from the very words of the Text besides those upon Oath by the Living God in the 10th Chapter expresly gainsaying it Nor is my Opponent herein faulty alone but all Writers and Teachers consentient with him must be like him at a loss in mistaking the Matter of sundry Texts ahd Chapters not knowing where it begins nor where it ends nor what they hold forthe Nor are such mistakes peculiar to him or them alone but incident as an Epidemick Disease almost to all Writers For the most able and Orthodox I can except very few are not free from many mistakes that work setled habits of Error against Truth and Reason My Progress theresom till such false Foundations be first removed may give great offence to such and satisfie few For so many misapprehensions work as it were an universal incapability and where the Subject is uncapable the Agent cannot operate I am driven therefore here by urgent constraint and unavoidably as the Reader may plainly perceive to a brief Digress that I may remove those mistakes that obstruct them in reading and my success in writing for otherwise they must needs read both the Scriptures and those Books that best unfold them with little profit if they are not first well informed where the Matter in the Texts and Chapters begins where it ends and what they hold forth These Remora's therefore must be first removed Such an Intendment provided it be effectual do all future Ages call for and the present claims to refel Errors to reform Manners to heal the Churche's almost deadly wounds made wide besides no few failings of her own by the perverse ignorance of sundry subdivisions and to procure the Peace Conversion and Reviction of all Sects and Nations Something hath often been pretended but not effectually and in earnest intended to these ends I shall therefore with humble submission to the Judgments of Men more able endeavour as a duty indispensable to God and to his Church to shew briefly what sundry Texts and Chapters not only in the Scriptures counted plain but in the Prophets and in this compendium of Prophesies the Apocalyps hold forth and where the Matter in them begins and where it ends I promised to explain more fully some Texts handled in my first Treatise and it falls in most fit here to perform my Promise Nor let any grudg at this brief Digress for it may perhaps prove not only useful but needful for all that read the Scriptures both the Prophetical and those called plain and for all that shall hereafter Preach or Write upon either Howbeit such as before they read it had rather omit it may pass it by though with mach less profit to themselves and proceed where I return to prosecute my Answers to these Objections THE DIGRESS MAN made last was the most perfect Creature God made on Earth So this last Book of Holy Writ the Apocalyps is sacrae caput culmen Scripturae the consummate perfection of all the Scripture and an Abstract of it 'T is true it 's most despised by Ideots and Hypocrites and that 's the praise of it But as all the Tribes of Israel had Jerusalem and the Temple as their Metropolis and Center so all the Scriptures concenter in this last Book and are perfected and explained by it Would any know what God hath declared to his Servants the Prophets Here he may find it and find the supream end and intent of it in order to God's Glory and the ineffable good of Men Rev. 10.7 Is or hath any Book of Sacred Scripture been sealed with seven Seals Here we may find the truth of it asserted and how its Seals were and may be opened Chap. 5th 6th to Chap. 10.2 8 9 10. The Church till this Work be well begun must needs wander in the Wilderness and find no way forth For this Book being sealed was the cause of her Ingress and it being opened must be the only means under God of her Egress or coming out of it The Serpent brought Sin and Death upon all Men by beguiling Eve That Cause and those Effects are since grown into an excess of greatness but we find in this last Book an undefiled Company that shall be without guile and without fault before the Throne of God and how that State may be attained Chap. 14.4 5. Without Guile That is Men shall not as they do and have done deceive and be deceived and Sin and Death shall not have dominion as now and heretofore they had That those deceits of the Serpent whereby he beguiles as he did from the beginning the whole World to bring it with speed to Perdition may by being made manifest miss of their end and his aim is the Subject principally intended in this Digress It 's the Opinion of some Professors that what is contained in this last Book of Holy Writ concerns Asia only without further extent because it 's written to the seven Churches of Asia and Babylon therein mentioned was and Euphrates therein also exprest is in Asia I Answer Sodom and Egypt are also therein mentioned and Sodom is not in being and Egypt is in Africa But Sodom and Egypt in Chap. 11.8 are spiritually so called saith that Text expresly That is they are such in substance as Sodom and Egypt were in a figure Babylon now in being is not that City formerly so called but another built in another place but the first of that name is not now nor was that we find in being when John wrote This City therefore so called in these Texts is also not that literal City but is expresly called Mystical Chap. 17.5 And so Euphrates on which this Spiritual City likewise stands and is supported by it is to be understood Spiritually also that is Euphrates was to prototype Babylon or the first forerunner of her Antitypes the many Waters of that literal River which denoted in the last City and last but one of that metaphorical name Rome literal and Rome Papal both called Babylon Peoples and Multitudes and Nations and Tongues Ch. 17.1 15. Ch. 11.9 We find in Chap. 17.5 Mystery Babylon the Great c. There revolted Rome Imperial ruling ten Nations is intended and her River her Euphrates is held forth in the same Chapter vers 15. And great Babylon came in remembrance before God Chap. 16.19 There Papal Rome containing ten Nations is intended Chap. 13.1 and her River her Euphrates is held forth in Chap. 9.14 Chap. 11.9 Chap. 16.12 So then not that literal City in Asia called Babylon but two spiritual Cities so called Rome Imperial and Papal Rome are intended in these Texts Here almost all Protestant Writers mistake and their mistake brings a multitude more with it for they take that City called Babylon in the 17th and 18th Chapters to be one and the same City with this in Chap.

c. That Lamb upon Mount Sion shall be this Antitype Mystery of God whom he declared to his Servants the Prophets And who shall that Lamb or so declared Mystery of God be I answer That Lamb shall be the Secular and Spiritual Representative of Christ Mystical the Gospel-Church revived and returned out of the Wilderness Chap. 11.9 11. Chap. 12.6 14. Ezek. 37.24 25. For the first Adam was the Mystery of God in a Figure who when God had formed him and breathed into him the breath of Life became a Prophetick Adumbration of the second Adam Christ Incarnate dead and risen from Death he was the Root of that first and of this Antitype-Mystery of God in the Text The first had and this shall have their being and denominations from him The first Man or Mystery of God was a Prophet The second Man was the Patriarch of all Prophets and both prophetically foretold the first by his Sleep the second by his Death and Resurrection this Antitype-Mystery of God who also lay dead and shall be revived by the breath of Life from God entering into him Chap. 11.9 11. Ezek. 37.14 And this Prefigured Mystery of God the chief end of Christ's coming and dying in order to God's Glory is the Mystery of God in the Text whom God declared to his Servants the Prophets and who is the principal subject of this sealed Book till he be finished and after shall be when the same Book shall be opened for evermore But Secondly If this Book be as the Text fully imports the Book of what God declared to his Servants the Prophets then it might seem to be the whole Scripture which also some of the best Expositors not rightly distinguishing say in effect as I noted before For the whole Scripture was given of God to his Servants the Prophets by Inspiration c. 2 Tim. 3.16 17. All the Scripture therefore might seem to be this sealed Book if it be the Book of What God declared to his Servants the Prophets which a Man may be the more apt to believe because Men Saints and Sects so live and so know and do as if there were no Scripture or as if all the Scripture were indeed sealed But in order to the opening of the Seals of this Book we must distinguish For Some Scriptures are not sealed in some respects and in others sealed Some are more some less sealed And In some respect the whole Scripture may be said to be sealed And first Some Scripture is not sealed in some respects and in other sealed For the Historical part of Scripture as Historical is not sealed But much of that that is Historical is also Prophetical And so it is or may be sealed For example The History of the Creation as it is Historical is not sealed But that History is also a Prophecy and holds forth the lost and supreme end of the Creation or the Antitype thereof which the Apostle calls a new Heaven and a new Earth 2 Pet. 3.13 A Man that is not unlearn'd may reade that God in the Beginning created Heaven and Earth and the things therein The History of them as it is Historical is not sealed But that History as also Prophetical points forth that promised new Heaven and new Earth and so it is or hath been sealed Isa 65.17 Chap. 66.72 Pet. 3.13 Rev. 21.1 5. So the History of the fall of the first Old World as it is an History is not sealed But that History is also a Prophecy and that World prefigured the fall of this present Old World The History holds forth the Causes of the fall of the first World and as that History is also a Prophecy so it foretells the same Sins in effect should be the Causes of the fall of this second Old World The Causes of the fall of the first were these in the History The wickedness of Man was great in the Earth and every imagination of the thoughts of his Heart was only evil continually All Flesh had corrupted his way and the Earth was filled with violence so that God repented that he had made Man and it grieved him at the Heart Mutato nomine tantum Change but that History as Christ himself doth into a Prophecy and the same Sins are the Causes but more redundant and dreadful in the Antitype of the fall of this present evil Old World As the days of Noah were so likewise shall the coming of the Son of Man be Matth. 24.37 Out Saviour adds that they knew nothing till the Flood came vers 39. Inadvertency was the Universal Flood-gate of all wickedness to that Old World and is to this That minded nothing and therefore knew nothing and this as much The History of the first we see is not sealed But as it is a Prophecy of this second it seems altogether sealed insomuch that Sects Saints and Professors rather say We are Rich and increased with Goods and have need of nothing than believe that the Sins of the Old World are devolved with advantage upon themselves The History of Type-primitive Israels flying from the Famine into the Wilderness and into her place there prepared of God literal Egypt where she was fed and nourished is not sealed Gen. 46.1 But the flight or the Gospel Church-Primitive from the face of the Serpent into the Spiritual Wilderness and into her place there prepared of G●d Spiritual Egypt the Papacy with her Sects where she was fed and nourished for 1260 years is prophetically held forth in the foresaid History And this Prophecy in that History is or hath been long sealed Rev. 12.6 14. Chap. 11.8 We find the same Prophecy further cleared in another History Exod. Chap. 14. Chap. 15. where the Jewish Church-Primitive fled from the face of Pharaoh and his Host through the Sea into the Wilderness where she was fed and nourished forty Years Pharaoh and his Host fell in the Sea and Moses and Israel sang a Song of Thankfulness to God Exod. 15. The History is not sealed but it shadowed forth prophetically the Gospel Church-Primitive when she fled from the face of Serpent into the Spiritual Wilderness for 1260 Years And then or soon after she having gotten the victory over the Beast and being returned out of the Wilderness shall also sing a Song of Thankfulness and Deliverance the Song of Moses and of the Lamb saith the Text Rev. 12.6 14. Chap. 13.18 Chap. 14.3 Chap. 15.3 That History is not sealed but this Prophecy therein is or at least hath been long sealed The History of the seven years Famine in Egypt and in all Nations denoted by seven lean Beasts is sufficiently legible but those seven Beasts held forth prophetically the seven Heads of the secular Beast-Papal Chap. 13.1 And those seven Years of Famine prefigured the superlative scarcity of Faith and Good Manners in all Nations for above 1260 Years whiles those seven Heads have preheminence For as Pharaoh's Dream was doubled to shew the certainty of it so seven Years