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A89026	The key of the Revelation, searched and demonstrated out of the naturall and proper charecters of the visions. With a coment thereupon, according to the rule of the same key, / published in Latine by the profoundly learned Master Joseph Mede B.D. late fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, for their use to whom God hath given a love and desire of knowing and searching into that admirable prophecie. Translated into English by Richard More of Linley in the Countie of Salop. Esquire, one of the Bargesses in this present convention of Parliament. With a præface written by Dr Twisse now prolocutor in the present Assembly of Divines.; Clavis apocalyptica. English	Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.; More, Richard, d. 1643.; Twisse, William, 1578?-1646.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing M1600; Thomason E68_6; ESTC R12329	241,145	298

knowledge thereof wherein I dou●t not ●ut any will be of the same minde with me who shall throughly consider the matter The Theater being prepared in th●s manner ●he which sate upon the throne reacheth forth in his right hand a book written Chap. 5. wi●hin and on the backside closed with ●●aven seals and therewithall Verse ●● 2 an Angel coming forth upon the stage with al●ud voice proclaim●th that ●f power were given to any to open it whereby those things might be seen and read that were therein contained he should take it i●to h●s hands and endeavour it a thing without doubt if he shall perform would be very acceptable to all that are enflam●d with a desire of secret things And in truth the book was most worthy that any one should strive with a●l the powers ●f his wisdom and industry to o●en it as a book of prophesies or of the the councells of God wherein is contrived the series and order of thi●gs to be done till that second and glorious c●mming of Christ For of such sorte certainly that double prophecie following of things to come which that booke did containe appeareth for to be which is the cause ●nles I be deceived why Iohn going about to set forth his visions prefixed in the fronte of ●is history the description of that gloriou● comming as ●t were the bond of the Apocalyptique race Behold Hypotyposi● Chap. 5. saith he chap. 1.7 he commeth with the cloudes of heaven and every eye sha●l see him they also which pierced him and all tribes of the earth shall waile over him as if he should say this is the scope his is the the bound of the visions which shall declare But wh●n no man in heaven nor in earth neither under the Verse 3 4 5 6 7. earth was able to open the book and ●he mat●er seemed now to be past help so that Iohn brake forth into weeping for griefe behold a Lambe seeming as it had be●n s●in that is bearing the signes and of his by past death rose up in the midst of the throne Skarts of elders and Beasts and took the book to unseal and open as who alone above all had deserved the power to do it Now this being seen forth with the Quire of Beasts and elders Verse 8. together with the Angels standing round about and all creatures in generall being full of joy sing a song of praise to the Lamb and to his father Wherein I thought good to observe that alone that they plainly refer the power of opening the book to the merit of the passion of the Lamb. Thou art worthy say they to open Verse 9.10.11 12.13 14. the book and the sea●s thereof because thou wast slain● and hast redeemed us to God with thy blood out of every tribe and people and tongue and nation Out of which perhaps light may come to the saying of our Saviour neither having as yet suffered nor entred into his glory of that day and houre suppose of his second Mat. 42. 36. coming whether it should b● sooner or later no man knoweth no not the Angels in heaven nor the Son but the father onely For why as yet the Revelation was not given to Christ of the father nor the order of things to be done un●ill his coming opened I affirme nothing rashly let the reader way the matter well with himselfe The Lamb thus opening the book at every severall seal thereof Chap. 6. singular types of things to come are exhibited the body whereof runneth through the whole Apocalyptique race and so concludeth Systema the first universall proph●cie The interpretation whereof now by the favour of him that sitteth on the throne and of the Lamb we will undertake Chap 6. Concerning the two Apocalyptique prop●eces The first prophecie of the seales comprehendeth the destinies of the Empire The other of the little book the destinies of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Church or of christian religion untill at length both shall be united in the Church raigning the kingdoms of this world becoming Chap 11. 15. our Lords and his Christ For as in the old testament Daniel did foreshew as well the coming of Christ as also did digest the destinies of the Iewish church according to the successions of Empires so it is to be conceived that the Apocalyps doth measure the state of Christanity by the affairs of the Romane Empire which should yet remain after Christ Neither doth the event crosse it For the interpretation of the first prophecie out of this generall supposition thus proc●ed●th Of the first prophecie which is of the seals and first of the things meant by the first six seals The s●ope of the seven seals in sum is that there might be shewed by the distances of ensuing time distinguished by the characters of events in what order of the chances of the Romane empire running out it should come to passe that Christ should vanquish the Gods of the world what whom he had begun war to wit in the sixt course or sixt seal the Gods of the Empire of Rome heathen but in the seventh when the course of the trumpets shall come to the last trumpet whatsoever else of the worship of idols and devils did after there a new or should as yet any where else in the world arise should be utterly destroyed For he must reign untill he have put all his enemies under his feet that is shall have abolished all contrary principality au●hority and power 1. Cor. 15. 25. Let us in the first place handle the first period as order requireth Chap. ● The first six seals therefore by a six fold character of events not much unlike to those which our Saviour also had foreset for the appointed time of the overthrow of Ierusalem do distinguish so many different times of the yet standing and flourishing Romane Empire untill at length in the sixt Christ should utterly overthrow the power of idols and heathen gods in that region Now characters I call the notable chances of the Romane Empire whereby as by certain emblems the different times are disce●ned and those in this first period not brought from without by the barbarous nations such as were of the Empire under the plagues of the seven rumpets afterwards falling but intestine chances and rising in the very Empire it selfe which difference certainly is therefore set by the holy spirit that by unlike markes the unlike times of the R●ane estate here flourishing there decaying may be described Moreover that commeth here to be observed Since these characters of ch●nces which I have named scarse or seldom go through the whole space of the seal and therefore no way by themselves avail for the limiting of their different times by any certain beginning and end therefore the holy Ghost in the four first seals where that should be most requisite as well for the cause aforesaid as for the in equality of the different times

Gods and indeed perceaving all further endeavour of resisting Christians would become lost labour And truely upon the matter all did conceave so but Galerius Maximinus Licinius even with open confession though against their will● gave glory to God For Eusebius with others is our Author that Galerius 〈◊〉 whom CHRIST began in this judgement being taken with a filthy and horrible disease whereby his body putrified Wormes crawling therein with an intolerable stinke at length being conscious of his wickednesses which hee had committed against the Church was smitten confessed his fault to God and left of his persecution against the Christians and by Lawes and Emperiall edicts hastened the building up of their Churches and commanded to offer accustomed prayers for him and a little while after yeelded his soule being guilty of as great crueltie as ever any against Christians Eus●bius de vita Constantini lib. 1. cap. 50. Maximinus a most cruell enemy of Christians r●lying upon witchcraft div●●ations of Idolls and Oracles of Devills for all things whatsoever hee went about neverthelesse being once or twise overcome by Licinius yet defending the Christian f●ith with Constantine his colleague throwing from him the ensignes of his Empire fled lay hidden in the Fields and little villages a certaine space in the habit of a servant and at length being shut up in Tarsus of Cilicia and kindled with rage slew many Priests and Prophets of the Gods by whose Oracles being perswaded he had undertaken the Warre as coseners false deceavers and to conclude as betrayers of his safetie afterward giving glory to the God of the Christians set forth a decree for their liberty but being suddainely smitten by God exacting punishment of so many wickednesses against Christians with a lamentable and mortall griefe and his flesh by little and little eaten out and wasted and at length his eyes starting out for hea●e wherewith hee burned all over a just talio of punishment which hee had devised for Christians hee ended his life confessing himsel●e to God and acknowledging that hee worthily suffered those things for his madnesse and rashnesse against Christ See the same in Histor Eccles lib. 9. cap. 8. 10. lib. 8. cap. 27. Also de vita Constantins lib. 1. cap. 51. 52. To conclude Licinius a forsaker of the Christians to whose part he had betaken himselfe a little while with Constantine and greatly boasting to his Souldiers of the multitude of his Gods against that one and that new and strange God of Constantin● for so he termed him being overcome in two great battailes in one whereof out of an Army consisting of 130000. scars● 30000. escaped at length when as yet hee would not rest being together with his confederates condemned by Consta●tine according to the Law of Armes was deservedly punished But when these men who had bin Authors of taking up Armes against God were brought together with the Tyrant to the place of execution as before they had carried themselves insolently having placed their confidence in vaine Gods so now they confessed that they understood in very deed what and how wonderfull Constantines God was and that they did acknowledge him to be the true and onely God De vita Constan lib. 2. cap. 4.5 18. A● appendix Out of the ancient monuments of the Aegyptians Persians and Indians the Authors whereof were Tarphan the interpreter of Phar●oh Baramus the interpreter of Saganissa the King of the Persians who was of one time with Dio●letian and Sy●bachamus the interpreter of the King of the In●ians Aposamar or according to others Achmetes the son of Seirim the Arabian gathered together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or interpretations of Dreames See Ier. 49. 7. But especially Baru●● ● 23. as that Nation was both most studious of such and the like arts now from furthest antiquitie and also while their Empire lasted desirous to translate the writings of all Nations wheresoever into the Arabian tongue This little booke long since in the Greeke tongue the Author being unknown Iohannes Leunclavius brought to light being by him turned into Latine in the former age out of the Liberarie of I● Sambucus the same Greek Copie afterwards in the yeare 1603. N●colaus Rigal●ius in his Onirocriticis did set forth out of the Liberary of the most Christian King supplying what was wanting in Sambuchus his Copie In this booke is to bee seene that very many of those propheticall representations which so much pull our men were familiar to the Easterne Nations at least not unusuall their di●mations But Tarphan the Aegyptian seemeth to bee the most ancient of all the Authors from whom the collection is made as who not onely calleth himselfe Pharaohs interpreter but every where in his interpretations useth the name of Pharaoh for King that it may seeme hee lived then when yet Aegypt had its Kings and them called Pharaohs The Per●●a● with his King Saganissa was of the same age with Di●clesia● as I have said The Indian is of a latter age as who sheweth himselfe a Christian every where but the consent of them both with the Aegyptian is wonderfull When therefore wee willingly learne the use of words and phrases in holy writ from these Nations in time past bordering upon the Hebrewes and more acquainted with their manners and Chap. 6. use of speech why should we disdaine the same here in the significations of propheticall figures and representations since according to the Masters of the Hebrews deciduum prophetiae sit somnium Let no man therefore blame me if I take out of this Authour Maiemonides More Neb. part 2. cap. 36. those things which seeme to make for the understanding of the Figures of the Seales now expounded the same I shall doe afterwards with the good leave of the Reader as occasion shall suffer in the Trumpets and the rest of the visions These therefore give light to the first Seale and partly to those following also Chapter 233. By the opinion of the Indians Persians and Egyptians a couragious horse called Pharas in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Arabique 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a horse hath reference in interpretations of dreames to eminencie and digniti● Hackney horses are taken for a certaine inferiour nobility and glory If any in his dreames shall seeme to be mounted upon a nimble and stirring horse he shall finde before the people renowne and ample estimation and eminencie and worship Also if any one armed shall seem to be mounted upon a couragious horse he shall attaine to authoritie with good renowne according to his armes Chapter 249. According to the interpretations of the Persians and Egyptians If any shall seeme to have held arrowes with bowes he shall with ioy insult over his enemies He hath more pertaining to the same purpose as Chap. 152. out of the learning of the Indians concerning the great and long tayle of a horse signifying the company and traine of authoritie concerning a curtall signifying the losse as well of liberty as

ancient dayes as in the generations of old Art thou not that arme of old that hath cut in sunder the pride of Egypt and wounded the Dragon So Ezek. 29.3 Pharaoh King of Egypt the great Dragon In all these places in Hebrew it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word the Seventie Symmachus● and Ierome doe translate Dragon and truely the Syriaque interpreter calleth the Dragon in the Revelation alwayes by that name The Arabian tongue saith Drusius is to confirme it wherein a Dragon is called Thennin And Exod. 7.10 And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and it became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Serpent or Dragon Surely sometimes it signifyeth a Whale or great Fish but as it were a Sea Dragon whereof doubtlesse it beareth a certaine resemblance But thou wil● aske wherefore is there so much adoe about this word Doubtlesse that I might shew that what shape Satan abused of old for the overthrow of the first Adam in the same type of that infamous and cursed living creature it is the manner of the holy Ghost to set forth the kingdoms possessed by the Devill and mortall enemies to his Church the seed of the woman And the Dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be Vers 4. delivered for to devoure her childe as it was borne Chap. 12. To wit as Pharaoh laid waite for old Israel borne in Egypt and as after Herod for Christ the sonne of Mary our Lord ●o the Roman Dragon laid waite for mysticall Christ which the Church was to beare that he might slay him presently after his birth And she brought forth a man childe who was to rule all nations Vers 5. with a rod or Scepter of iron That is she brought forth mysticall Christ or Christ formed in his members the sonne not of Mary but of the Church according to that of the Apostle to the Galat. Chap. 4. 19. My little children of whom I travell in birth againe untill Christ be formed in you For since the words are a periphrasis of Christ it must needs be that some Christ be set forth in them to wit as in propheticall Types best beseemeth not Christ verily but analogically so called Who saith he was to rule all nations with an iron Scepter that is authoritie being obtained by force of the sword or by warre seeing he was to have rule over them which from the beginning were not Citizens but either enemies or strangers he had need to subdue them before he should rule them The words are fetcht out of Psal 2.9 not according to the moderne reading of the Masoreth but the old reading of the 70. and the not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is not breake them but rule them Apostles Of which that this is the meaning I seeme to gather out of Chap. 19. vers 15. where in like manner as in the Psalme they are used of Christ our Lord to whom originally they agree Out of his mouth saith he went a sharpe sword that with it he should smite the nations for he shall rule them with a rod of iron But here they are attributed to mysticall Christ or a Christian man the birth of the Church among the Gentiles who is described according to the type of Christ his head to every such one of his the Lord promiseth that he at length will give the like power under the name of the Church of Thyatira He that overcommeth saith he and keepeth my works unto the end to him will I Revel 2. 26 27. give power over the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron and as the vessels of a potter they shall be broken to shivers even as I also received of my Father It will something helpe in this place to heare the words of Andreas where with he Commenteth upon the meaning of Methodius upon this place The Church saith he by those who are initiated by Baptisme without intermission begetteth Christ as being to be formed in them to the consummation of the fulnesse of their spirituall age A man childe Chap. 12. is the people of the Church by whom Christ in his Godhead as it were a sword in the strong hand of the Romans doth rule the nations He alludeth to the type of the fourth kingdome in Daniel concerning which I agree not with him for how could David allude to that otherwise it is not much from the scope as now shall appeare And her childe was caught up unto God and to his thro●● Vers 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for to the throne of God The sonne of the woman A figure when by two words one thing is signified was caught up to the throne of God that is lifted up to the Romane throne where he should rule the nations with that authoritie which was spoken of Surely Christ the sonne of Mary is properly lifted up to the throne of God but mysticall Christ or Christ formed whom the Apostolique Church brought forth is analogically lifted up For truely the throne of higher powers as the Apostle calleth them is the throne of God a terrestriall heaven There is no power saith he but of God Whence in the declarations of the interpretation of dreames If any shall seeme to Rom. 13.1 himselfe in his sleepe to be lifted up to heaven they doe interpret it of royall Soveraigntie It is also known that in the holy tongue the Magistrates are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Gods God standeth Psal 82.1 in the Congregation of * God the mightie he i●dgeth among the Gods Vers 6. likewise I have said you are Gods and all of you the children of t●e most High Therefore even as they are said to ●it in Moses chaire who teach the Doctrine given by Moses so in the Throne of God who are his Vicegerents upon earth That therefore the Childe of the Apostolique Church is said to be caught up or received to the Throne of God is all one as to be lifted up to that excellency as it may ●it as it were with God which I say is meant of regall advancement And this was then fulfilled when as Christians bore the sway under Constantine the Great and his successors the Dragon being throwne down But thou wilt say ●ince it was said that that mysticall Christ shall rule the Nations over whom he should raigne with an iron Scepter even as Christ the Lord should doe with what manner of warre and with what battels if this be the meaning of that iron Scepter hath that Childe of the Apostolique Church subdued the Romane Empire unto it selfe I answer by a double warre first spirituall wonderfull and divine against Devils the Princes and Gods of that world which certainly it stoutly waged Chap. 12. the Army of Coelestiall Angels ayding it against the enemies which afterward shall be handled but the other even corporall then when it had attained to the Throne which so

holy Ghost to the Systeme of the world whose parts are Earth Sea Rivers Heaven Lights So that the earth in the Popedome answereth to the earth in the natural World Sea to sea Rivers to rivers Sunne to sunne 6. To conclude as already I have once or twise shewed because God useth Angels as ministers of his providence for moving and governing of the motions and changes of humane affaires Chap. 16. therefore those things that are brought to passe by the the hands of many are notwithstanding attributed to an Angel as it were the ruler and guide of the thing to be done after the common manner of speaking The Exposition of the Phyals according to the rule of the suppositions The first Phyall powred upon the whole body of the Beast The Earth in the Antichristian universe doth signifie the people Vers 2. or the common sort of Christians the footstoole the more shame of Antichrist upon which as the Basis that vastnesse of Papall Hierarchie being 〈◊〉 like the Tower of Babel * Vertice ad auras aetherias tendit reacheth to the very skies The Phyall being powred out upon this Earth pertaining to the Beast it drew that disposition from the effusion that it filled the followers of the Beast with furie and madnesse as it were with ulcers and those so foule and malignant that they could not be healed nor be closed up by any Cicatrice but they would breake forth againe This was fulfilled when the Christian common people called the Waldenses Albigenses Wiclifists Hussites and by other names began every where to renounce the authoritie of the Beast calling Rome Apocaliptique Babylon and the Pope Antichrist with which blasting of its earth burning with the * Rom. 10.2 zeale of God the followers of the Beast being stricken they were wholly enflamed with the ulcers of griefe and indignation by which being enraged they for very many yeers wonderfully tyrannized with fire and Sword but in vaine for they were smitten with an evill and uncurable ulcer which the more they bestirred themselves the more it grew worse and worse with them Exod. 9.8 9. So in times past the Land of Egypt being sprinkled from Heaven with dust like ashes it filled all the Egyptians and their cattell with ulcers Now the world of the Beast is called * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spirituall Egypt Chap. 11. 8. and thereupon the ulcerous sore here is to be interpreted * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spiritually that is mystically and by analogie which is diligently to be observed in the figures of the two following plagues also taken from the same history The second Phyall upon the Sea of the World Chap. 16. of the Beast The Sea in the Antichristian world is the whole compasse of Vers 3. the Papall Society wherein not onely severall Christians but whole Nations People Kingdomes Provinces Diocesses otherwise among themselves dis-joyned and severed are gathered together in one or thus the Antichristian Sea is the compasse of the Popes jurisdiction or dominion compassing and enfolding as the Sea doth the Land men and Nations worshipping Christ The second Phyall being powred out upon this Sea presently it became as the blood of a dead body or cold and congealed blood such as is wont to be of those that are dead and slaine or of a member cut off seeing it is destitute of the influence of spirit and heat the entercourse with the fountaine of life being dissolved The sense is The Pontificiall Sea was slaine as it were with death beheading or slaughter Now this was fulfilled when by the labour of Luther and other famous reformers of the Church of that Age God wonderfully blessing their undertakings not now some single persons onely of the common people of Christendome but even whole Provinces Diocesses Kingdomes Nations and Cities renounced communion with those of the Beast and there being made a great dismembring of the dominion which was so large in times past they departed from the body of the Beast By which event the Sea of the Popes Dominion became dead for a great part of it like the blood of a dead body in which the Popes creatures could no longer breathe and live The third Phyall upon the Rivers and Fountaines of the world of the Beast The Rivers and Fountaines of waters of the Bestian world are Vers 4 5 6 7 the ministers and defenders of the Antichristian jurisdiction whether Ecclesiasticall as Iesuites and other Emissary Priests or even Secular and Lay as the Spanish champions to both of which as from that jurisdiction is committed a charge of solliciting and advancing the cause which they call Catholique in Chap. 16. like manner as the rivers derive their originall out of the Sea so also they bestow their labour and cost to the enlarging and preserving of it even as also the rivers returne to the Sea Now these Rivers whilest they at randome runne through their Channels wherein now there was no more safety for them by Gods just judgment by the effusion of the third Phyall are turned into blood in like manner as even they had heretofore imbrued the Saints of God and his Prophets with blood For from this Phyall the state of the Beast came to that passe that the ministers and defenders thereof now changing course are compelled to suffer the same slaughters wherewith they had beene accustomed to slay the Saints and Prophets of God while their government flourished as it is plainly set sorth vers 5 6. as it were a Key for the opening of the parable Which thing concerning the Ecclesiasticall Emissaries with their attendants I thinke was fulfilled when in our ENGLAND in the reigne of ELIZABETH of famous memory and also afterwards those bloody Proctors for the authoritie of the Beast were according to the lawes made for that purpose punished with death which had never before sobefallen them for solliciting the Papall cause And not they alone but the Spanish champions for the cause of the Beast who were much more to be feared then they going about to recover by force of armes the dominion of the Church of Rome thirsting for blood drank blood by full draughts especially in that memorable overthrow of the yeere 1588. and some yeers following the English and the Dutch by Sea and Land abundantly powring out the Cup of the mightie hand of God So that wonderfull great praise was given to God for his just and true judgements upon them both not onely of the Islanders themselves revenging their blood now long since shed but also of the neighbouring French groning yet under the Crosse and the Altar yea even then the Massacre of the yeere 1572. being fresh And thus far the Phyals seeme to have gonne on the rest remaine to be powred out yet The fourth Phyall upon the Sunne of the Beastian heaven What the Sunne is in the world of the Beast that we may Vers 8 9. search out first it is throughly

whole world These things Reader I have thus discussed not rashly affirmed I leave the whole matter to the Church to be determined by the word of God to the iudgement whereof as it is meete I do● willingly submit mine opinion concerning this mysterie IN THE DIALOGVE OF IVSTINE MARTYR WITH TRYPHO THE IEW there is a notable place concerning the thousand yeers Raign of Christ TRYPHO BVt tell me the truth doe you confesse the restauration of Ierusalem and doe ye expect the gathering together of your people that they triumph together with Christ and the Patriarchs and the Prophets and our Tribes or those also who before your Christ came were Proselytes or doe you grant those things that you may seeme to get the better of us in dispute IVSTINE Trypho I am not brought to such a pinch that my words and thoughts should differ I confessed to you heretofore that not only I but many besides me doe verily thinke as you well know will come to passe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. But contrariwise I have signified to thee that many who are not Orthodox and pious Christians deny this I pointed out those to thee who are in name Christians but indeed Atheists and prophane heretiques because what they teach is altogether blasphemous wicked and foolish But that I may manifest to the world what I speak● to you I will collect all our disputations into one body wherein I will set down in writing what I hold in this point agreeable to what I professe to you my determination with my self is to follow neither men nor their opinions but God and his word For although ye have conferred with some who beare the name of Christians but are not so indeed but dare blaspheme the God of Abraham of Isaac and of I●cob and who say that there is no resurrection of the dead but that presently after death their souls are received into heaven yet you must not thinke that those are Christians as neither any man if he judge aright will acknowledge the Sadduces or such like heretiques as those of the Genists M●rists Galil●ans Hell●nians and Pharisees who are Baptists to be I●ws not to trouble you with the expression of all that is in my minde they be called Iews and the children of Abraham and confesse God with their mouthes but their heart as God himself complaineth is farre from him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But I and all entirely Orthodoxe Christians doe both know the future resurrection of the body and the thousand yeers in that Ierusalem that shall be reedified adorned and enlarged as the Prophets Ezekiel and Esay and others doe declare For so Esay of the time of those thousand yeers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esa 65.17 For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth and the former shall not be remembred neither shall they come into their mindes but they shall finde joy and rejoycing in those which I create For behold I make Ierusalem to triumph and my people to rejoyce and so forth to the end of the Chapter But of that for the dayes of my people shall be as the dayes of the tree of life he addeth In these words we understand that the thousand yeers are impli●itely pointed at For as it was said to Adam in that day thou eatest of the tree in that same day thou also shalt die we know he did not accomplish a thousand yeers we know also saith he that saying that a day with the Lord is a thousand yeers is to our purpose Moreover a certaine man with us whose name is John being one of the twelve Apostles of Christ in that Reve●ation which was shewed to him prophesied that our faithfull members of Christ should accomplish those thousand yeers at Ierusalem and then the generall and in a word the everlasting resurrection and last judgement of all joyntly together even that whereof also our Lord spake wherein they shall neither marry nor be given in marriage but shall be equall with the Angels even sonnes of the resurrection of God For the gifts of prophesie are extant with us even till this time c. There is another place to this purpose in the same book After the discourse of the great Day of judgement which he calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the Iews should lament Christ whom they have crucified and Christ himselfe inaugurated after the order of Melchisedech should be the Iudge of quick and dead presently he addeth At whose second coming thinke not ye that Esay or other Prophets warned us to offer up sacrifices of blood or drinke offerings but true and spirituall sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving THE OPINIONS OF THE LEARNED HEBREWS CONCERNING the great Day of Judgement and the Kingdom of CHRIST then to be CArpentarius in his Commentary upon Plato his Alcinous pag. 322. affirmeth That the seventh Millenary is called by the whole Schoole of the Cabalists The great Day of Iudgement because then saith he they suppose that God will Iudge the souls of all men By the name of the Cabalists if I be not mistaken he pointeth at the Doctors of the Talmud with many of whom it is manifest this tradition was frequent for we reade in Gemara Sanedrin Perek Chelek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 R. Ketina said The world doth continue sixe thousand yeers and Esa 2.11.17 in one it shall be destroyed Of which it is said And the Lord only shall be exalted in that day But he understandeth that destruction which shall be by fire whereby the world shall be purified as gold and shall be freed from the servitude of the curse under which it groaneth by reason of mans sinne into the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God Rom. 8. 22. It followeth a little after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is Tradition agreeth with R. Ketina Even as every seventh yeere of seven yeers is a yeere of release so of the seven thousand yeers of the world the seventh thousand yeere shall be the thousand of release as it is said And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day Likewise in the 92 Psalme the title is said to be A Psalme or song for the Sabbath day that is the day that is nothing else but rest Againe it is said in the 90 Psalme For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday Here let the Reader note two things First that the ancient Iews did understand that Prophesie in the second of Esay where these words And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day are twise taken for the day of the great judgement and the kingdom of Christ whose steps our later Rabbins have seemed to imitate R. Schelomo saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In that day that is in the Day of iudgement Againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when he shall arise to shake the earth terribly that is saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the day of iudgement when the Lord shall breake the wicked of the Earth Rabbi