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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

from whence they derive their pedegree who are marked therewith As the number of twelve and the number made out of the multiplication of twelve virgins as in the structure and dimensions of now Ierusalem is a symbole of the Apostolicall linage and off-spring But that we may stay no longer upon these generall things let us see at length what may be that Name of the Beast wherein also his Number noted by the holy Ghost is contained It is indeed that which even then when the Revelation was newly written some supposed that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in so many mens mouthes For by this name after the division of the Empire and the ten Kings risen in the Provinces thereof and not before the Romane false Prophet with the rest of the inhabitants of the West for distinction sake was called and that even of those to whom the Revelation was written the seven Churches of Asia For the Greeks the other Eastern people w th whom the name abode in that division of the Empire would have themselves only called Romans they termed us with our Pope and under him the Bishops Kings and Rulers Latines by a certaine fatall instinct And this very name the letters thereof being subducted after the manner of the Greeks and Hebrews maketh up the number noted by the holy Ghost but a mysticall number wherein is shewed of what progenie the Beast is and how falsly he braggeth himself to be a successour of the company of the Apostles when as in truth he is of the ●ragon For the number of the Name of the Beast is 666. which if thou strive to derive out of the number of twelve the symbole of the Apostolique linage thou shalt bestow thy labour in vaine for from thence howsoever thou s●●lt multiply it thou shalt never bring it to 666 but surely from the number of Sixe which is the number of that red Dragon to wit of the Beast of the 〈◊〉 head very ●asily for the whole summe how great soever it be is compact out of the numbers of sixe by unites tennes and hundreds as if the whole seed of that Dragon had diff●sed it self through the body of this last Beast and all his members Here is wisdome saith the Spirit let him that hath understanding Vers 18. count the number of the Beast for it is the number of a man and his number is 666. Which surely that it ought to be accounted after the same manner as I have said I seeme to gather out of the Analogie of the company of virgins whose number 144 contrary to the Beast is altogether Apostolicall begotten of twelve multiplyed by it self For the reason of contraries is contrary And there indeed both as well the Name written as the Number of the company written upon the holy Ghost hath expressed but here he hath left the Name to be conjectured out of the Number That therefore I may comprehend the matter in few words to receive the Marke of the Name of the Beast is to subject himself to his authoritie and to acknowledge him to be his Lord but to receive the Number is to imbrace his impietie derived unto him from the Dragon to wit the Idolatry of the Latines Whence that happily will not be unworthy consideration although no man can receive the marke of the Name of the Beast or be subject to his authoritie but together also he must receive his Number that is he must needs be partaker of his impietie yet it may be that one may admit the Number or impietie of the Beast but yet refuse the Marke or Name That which now long since is true of the Greeks who howsoever they imbrace the same forme of impietie derived from the Dragon or Idolatry of the Latines and the same established at the first in that second Nicene Councell by the authoritie of the Latine Pope who earnestly laboured even there also to set up the Image of the slaine Dragon yet notwithstanding to be subject to the Latine Pope or to beare his Name as in times past before they departed asunder a Schisme being made they have refused now for about 700 yeers Concerning the company of 144000 sealed virgins of the Lambe THE Company of virgins the followers of the Lambe standing At the 14. Chapter on mount Sion and the same select company out of the Gentiles put in the place of Israel of which mention is made at Chap. 14. the beginning of the seventh Seale for it is described as there we observed in a double vision for to joyne the prophesie of the Seales with the prophesie of the Little booke doth signifie the Church which in the midest of the Papacy continued faithfull to the Lambe and a Virgin under Babylon the native and not degenerate progenie of the twelve Apostles Apostolically multiplyed and which likewise alone was taught after the example of the heavenly Quire purely and rightly to honour the Lambe and his Father with the Evangelicall song Which none of the followers of the Beast as ill hap was theirs could learne Also a people not addicted as the followers of the Beast to any one Sea but accompanying the Lambe whither soever he was to go And to conclude often and sharply admonishing the worshippers of the Beast concerning the Evangelicall worship prescribed and Gods severitie manifested against Idolaters and warning all at length to withdraw themselves with speed from commerce therewith except they will perish eternally This is the summe of the vision Now let us open the text according to the rule thereof And I looked and loe a Lambe stood on mount Sion and with Vers 1. him an hundred forty and foure thousand By the number an hundred forty and foure thousand or twelve times twelve thousand it appeareth that the same company is here described which was sealed at the beginning of the seventh Cap. 7. v. 4. seale to wit that legitimat● not degenerate off-spring of the Apostles bearing this number of twelve as the Ensigne of their pedegree Let the Reader remember what we have there noted Mount Sion also was the throne of the Kingdome of David and the same is called the Citie of David because having taken it from the Jebusites he had built it without with new wals within with a royall tower streets and courts Therefore here parabolically used it will signifie that part of the earth which Christ having vanquished the Dragon had made the habitation of his Church that is the Christian world In this world the Virgine Church hath her mansion and even there she keepeth her faith and undefiled chastitie with the Lambe when the Beast seemed to have polluted and trodden all under foot with adulteries and slaughters and to have left nothing sound and untainted Chap. 14. Having the name of the Lambe and the name of his Father written in their foreheads These words the name of the Lambe are ill left out in some copies which the Vulgar Primasius Andreas Aretas the