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A65195	Two treatises ... both written by Sir Henry Vane, Knight in the time of his imprisonment.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. Epistle general, to the mystical body of Christ on earth.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. Face of the times.	1662 (1662)	Wing V80_PARTIAL; Wing V67_PARTIAL; ESTC R7026	96,369	132

is sealed on the back-side do intimate the dark and mystical movings or dispensations of Gods Providence that the seven-fold distinction of time under the seven Seals and Trumpets should produce as the method and way that Christ would take to open and make known the inward writing and to give so plain a Vision of it that he that runs may read it The matter of this Prophecy as it peculiarly relates unto the Church contains in it the Church's progress and growth up in all things into Christ her Head according to the purpose of the Father which he purposed in Christ Jesus before the World was and this in despite of all contradiction or opposition from the Serpent and his Seed In this respect it is that chap. 12. the Man-child with which the Woman was in Travel comes at last to be born and seated on high above the reach of Satan as to any hurt that he could do unto it In the end it becomes a Mountain filling the whole Earth As the matter of this Prophecy doth more generally relate unto the World that lies in the wicked one and holds of the Serpent as of its universal Head and Ruler it contains the wonderful workings and contrivances of God's Providence in favour of his Church and in rendring to every one according to their works filling those that are of the World with the wayes of their own chusing By this means his worst enemies are taught and made to acknowledge his Justice and long-Suffering towards them in and under all His steady Counsels lead to the certain and final treading of all his Adversaries under foot and to the exalting of the horn of his Anointed who is both Lord and Christ 5. By the Temple of God and the Altar and them that Worship therein appointed to be measured chap. 11. 1. is to be understood the right Worship of God as well with respect to the object of it shining forth in the Person and Spirit of Christ inwardly known and conversed with as with respect to the worshippers themselves who are such only as are qualified with spiritual senses rendring them meet for such Duty and Service which they are called to the performance of in their Spirits and with their inward man But that which consists in the outward and bodily exercise described by the outward Court is given up to be suppressed and troden under foot by the Gentiles for 1260 years vers 2. 6. By the Holy City is meant Jerusalem the City of the great King and Living God the incorporated Society of Inhabitants or Citizens that stand in relation to Christ as his Subjects and Servants under the obligation of one or other Covenant that is conditionally or absolutely Those that are his Subjects but in the conditional Covenant are Citizens whose Names are only written in the Earth who upon tryal and proof do not remain so Though they say they are Jews they are not but do lie Yea they evidently discover themselves in the end to be the very Synagogue of Satan But those that are the Subjects of Christ absolutely or in and by the new and everlasting Covenant established in all things and sure they are such Citizens whose Names are written in Heaven among the living in Jerusalem where they become Pillars in the House of God never to go out more being found in a state of Life and way of converse with and worshipping of God in Christ wherein they are secured from final Apostacy and Defection 7. The Earthly Citizens or the Inhabitants and Children of the Jerusalem on Earth do prove at last to be as great enemies to their King as any among the heathenish and prophane World when once they revolt from his Scepter disjoyn and separate from the spiritual and better part of the Citizens whose Names are written in Heaven or in the Lamb's Book of new-creature Life in a character that is indeleble and by vertue of that Covenant which cannot be broken And their great Design when once actually separated from the true spiritual Worshippers is by the calling in of strength and aid from the prophane World to tread under the holy City even the very Heavenly Jerusalem and so to keep it under that it may never come to have any Credit Authority or Power in the World These Citizens and Inhabitants of the Heavenly Jerusalem are described chap. 7. by those that are sealed with the Seal of the Living God and are either a Company certain and numbred making up the 144000 there mentioned or else a Company and Society of sealed ones that in comparison of the former are numberless and of a more large and universal extent called by way of distinction Palm-bearers The first sort of these sealed ones do answer to the 24 Courses of the Levites of old who were given unto God instead of the first-born They stand in a peculiar relation to and dependance upon the great High Priest as their Head and do properly constitute and make up that Assembly of the first-born whose Names are written in Heaven These are a Kingdom of Priests represented before the Throne by the four and twenty Elders The second sort of these Citizens and sealed ones do answer to the whole Congregation of Israel distributed into their four parts and stations round about the Ark at a greater distance from the Throne a Kingdom of common Subjects and less priviledg'd Children than the former Yet these latter sort of men shall be recounted as well as the former to have been born in her whom the Most High doth establish Psal 87. 5. Thus Psal 49. there is notice taken of high or noble men and of low or common men These two Orders are eminently found in a state of perpetuity and continuancy in Christ's own Kingdom Both of them have their original and foundation in the Manhead of Christ who is one manner of man as he bears the form of a Servant like unto us earthly men in all things sin only excepted In this capacity he is constituted King over the whole Earth But he is another manner of man as he is called and made an High Priest after the Order of Melchisedec without Father without Mother without Pedigree or Descent having neither beginning of dayes nor end of life It is therefore said of him in this second sense Consider how great this man is unto whom even the Patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of his spoyls And again the same Apostle Heb. 5. 11. testifies that of him he had many things to say that were hard to be uttered seeing they were dull of hearing and slow to discern the distinction of that excellency and perfection which shines forth in Christ's own humane nature in the twofold respect which we have mentioned 8. By the Two Witnesses then we are hereby taught to understand those two sorts of Citizens or Inhabitants of the Heavenly Jerusalem the word of whose Testimony is according to this their twofold and distinct birth which makes them Kings

continuance is measured out by the time of the six Trumpets that is to say in the exercise of these three distinct Powers under the Name Christian the one Imperial and Magistratical the other Spiritual and Ecclesiastical in the two Horns and branches of it pretended unto of Divine Right and Institution or whether it be more diffusive in a Collective Body of Church-Rulers and as more particularly it is expressed to last twelve hundred and sixty Prophetical dayes that is to say years in the 11 12 and 13 Chap. of the Revelations and by comparing what is spoken and described in the foresaid Chapters with Chapter 17 concerning this Constitution and Face of the Christian Church and State that was fore-seen to rise up out of the dissolution of the Heathenish Roman Empire and the driving into the Wilderness the Spiritual part of the Church made up of those who are said for the heavenliness of their Principles and Converse to be those that dwell in Heaven chap. 12. vers 12. and chap. 13. 6. It seems very plain that upon the Disputes that was likely to arise in the Christian Ecclesiastical State and Government upon the bottom of the Papacy and Rule in the Church by one universal visible Head under Christ here upon Earth as one of the Horns belonging to the second Beast by Daniel called the Little Horn mentioned single because he was most Potent and for a long time was able to uphold his Authority without any considerable cruelty and division that was visible But in process of time the separation and division happened as John in mentioning of the two-horned Beast did fore-tell there would alwayes be within the bowels of the visible Church of the outward Court-worshippers a more and a less corrupted and backsliden part the one of which compared with the other would or might be likened to the earthly Jerusalem in the temper it was in when Christ was upon Earth for persecuting the Prophets and killing the Heir himself when he came amongst them As the other might be to Samaria and the worshippers of Jeroboams Calves after that he had headed the ten Tribes in their defection not only in the Civil State but from the Purity of God's visible Worship kept up according to God's Ordinances This latter being the lively resemblance of the Papacy and all that acknowledge the Papal Authority as the chief Ruler and Head of the visible Church throughout the several States and Dominions of the Christian Empire the other figuring out the Jerusalem that now is and is in bondage with her Children distinguishing her self from Popery on the one hand and from them that dwell in Heaven as the true Citizens of the Jerusalem that is above the Mother of all those that are Heirs according to the Promise on the other hand accounting the one Babylonish Antichristian and Heretical and the other Schismatical and Erroneous Fanatical and Blasphemous And because the Woman as the Apostle calls the earthly Jerusalem which was amongst the Galatians in his dayes as being in bondage with her Children to the Law and worldly Rudiments that perish in the using Touch not taste not handle not as Objects of Divine Worship which feed most the outward senses doth make a very fair shew in the flesh having the Form of Godliness but denying the Power of it and withdrawing from and disowning the Children of the Promise that are of a more heavenly birth and of the free Woman Therefore we shall find this sort of Professors described by John in his 1 Epist 2. 19. They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us and not have made a manifest distinction of themselves from us that is to say from being followers 1 Thess 2. 14 15. of the Churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus that are the Circumcision in Spirit and have no confidence in the flesh For which cause sake the Thessalonians in adhering to the primitive pattern which shewed it self in those Churches did suffer the like things from their own Country-men the Jews among whom they lived as those Churches of God in Judea did from the Jews there who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and chased out the chiefest of the Apostles from amongst them and they pleased not God and are contrary to all men forbidding under pretence of too much familiarity with the Heathen and prophane World that the Gospel should be preached unto the Gentiles whereby they might be saved every way filling up their sins and bringing wrath upon themselves to the uttermost This is the Woman which John saw in Rev. 1. that was drunk with the blood of the Saints ver 6. and with the blood of the choicest Martyrs of Jesus at which he wondred with great admiration as little expecting to find what he saw or to reade that name written upon her forehead which he did of Mystery Babylon the great the mother of Fornications and Abominations of the Earth with whom the Kings and Inhabitants of the Earth commit Fornication and have been made drunk with it For at last her false unchaste whorish spirit to her Lord and Husband is discovered and made manifest by the open rejection of him in his Members and by the Combination and Conjunction which she is found in with the seven-headed and ten-horned Beast and his Adherents under the Papacy thereby to make War with his Witnesses and slay them and expose their dead bodies to shame and reproach in the streets of this earthly Jerusalem who for her exceeding Apostacy and fierce Enmity against the true Temple-worshippers is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified and though she have strengthened her self as one that sits upon many Waters and who is the City that reigns over the Kings or chief eminent Persons men of Name of the Earth which the Children of the earthly Jerusalem are yet sayes he God determines to bring her to Judgment and in order thereunto the Instruments he will employ therein are the several Potentates and Kingdoms that have given their Power to the Papacy who at the time appointed shall find it their Interest to agree and become of one mind in hatred of this Whore or unchaste Spouse of Christ that sitteth upon Peoples and Multitudes and Nations and Tongues and shall therefore combine together to make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire For God hath put it into their hearts to fulfil his Will in this Judgment which they are to execute as Nebuchadnezzar formerly did upon the earthly material Jerusalem in his days until which be fulfilled they shall agree and hold together giving joyntly their Counsel Authority and Strength in support and maintenance of the Beast that is the first and chief Horn of the two-horned Beast which is the Papacy And how to give a right interpretation of the things in

Power and Authority The outward and inward Court The Floud issuing out of the Dragon's mouth The distinguished Inhabitants of the Heavens of the Earth and of the Sea The 144000 sealed Virgins The Palm-bearers The Remnant of the Womans Seed that keep the Commands of God and have the Testimony of Jesus The seven-headed ten horn'd Beast The Beast's Image The two horn'd Beast The false Prophet The Whore Mystical Babylon The great City that rules over the Kings of the Earth The Number of the Beast's Name The two Witnesses their hidden or obscure Prophesying in Sack-cloth their glorious Appearing and Prophesying in Power and in a Wonder-working Ministry like to that of Moses and Eliah The Kingdom of the Beast and his ascent out of the bottomless pit The slaying of the Witnesses at the finishing of their Testimony or perioding of their Sack-cloth-Prophesying and their lying Dead in the streets of the great City spiritually called Sodom and Egypt The Witnesses rising and ascending up into Heaven The coming of the Wrath of the Lamb The sight of Heaven opened with the Temple and Ark therein contained The Harvest and Vintage The marriage of the Lamb The coming down of the new Jerusalem out of Heaven to be as a Tabernacle of God amongst men on Earth all the Kingdoms of this World becoming the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ The Charge given John by him that was dead and yet liveth for evermore the Amen or everlasting Truth of God Rev. 1. 18 19. was to write First The things which he had seen in the description of the fulness and excellency of Christ's Person exhibited to him vers 12 17. Secondly The things which are or the state of the Church in his time as it had for its chief places of abode those principal Cities in Asia by name expressed chap. 2 d. 3 d. together with the Representation in them as in Type and Figure of the state of the Universal Apostolick Christian Church which was to continue under the seven distinctions of time contained under the seven Seals under the last whereof six of the Trumpets were as 't were included There was that also found in those seven Asiatick Churches that did typically represent the decrease and sinking down of a great Party in the visible Christian Church into the Apostasie foretold in this Book of the Revelation until the very time of the rising of the Witnesses Thirdly and lastly John was Commanded to write the things which shall be hereafter or which were to succeed that present state in which the then seven Churches were at that time respecting as well the Corruption and Apostasie coming upon the face of the Primitive Church as the continuance of it with countenance and support from worldly Powers till the sounding of the seventh Trumpet These things that shall be hereafter when time shall be no longer or when the Mystery of God shall be finished and all persons and things shall appear plainly and manifestly as they are amount in general to the Constitution and Concerns of that glorious state of the Church which is to be from thenceforth for evermore To proceed then to the Explicating of many of the chief Allegorical Expressions in this Book of Revelations 1. By the seven Churches in Asia let us understand as in type the state of the Christian Church characterized and described as Brightman intimates under the distinct periods of time held forth by the things done during the seven Seals which reach to the sounding of the seventh Trumpet 2. By the Angels of the seven Churches are to be understood not only or principally the Officers or Persons ministring but rather the Light of the Gospel in its distinct measures and degrees administred according to the nature of the times and seasons which the things done under the first six Seals did occasion For upon the rejecting of that there was caused a gradual and successive removing of each Candlestick out of its place and the Church sinks down at length into an universal Defection and Apostacy as to the visible part of it This renders it in its concluding and final state so naucious and loathsome to God that he resolves to spue them out of his mouth and reject them for ever To confirm this we find each Church to consist of two very different sorts of Members one that are spiritual prepared with spiritual senses or eares to hear what the Spirit sayes to the Churches the other though they have the name and credit of Church-members yea and in process of time the greatest visible Power and Sway in it saying they are Jews or right Heirs of Promise yet are they not so but do lie They are indeed of the Synagogue of Satan They came out from the spiritual and better part of the Church as no longer able to joyn and go along or keep pace with them in their heavenly Life and Conversation Being sensual and having not the Spirit they separate from the true spiritual worshipper seeking their upholding and maintenance in this or that Form and Way from the Powers of the World And having once got worldly Power and outward strength and force on their side they resolved to persecute and make War upon the better and more spiritual part of the Church with earthly Weapons and by compulsion of the Civil Sword 3. The Throne in Heaven described in the fourth Chapter is the Seat which God hath made for himself in the Creature-being of Christ the Mediator as his own Sanctuary from whence to issue forth all his Authority and Power decreed to be by him exercised whether in Heaven or on Earth in the capacity of Head and universal King over all the works of God's hands He that sits on this Throne is the same that chap. 19. is cloathed with a Vesture dipt in blood and whose Name is called the WORD of God He is said chap. 5. vers 6. to have seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the Earth and this by his being made flesh and by his Death and Resurrection in which he shewed himself the true Sanctuary which God pitch'd and not man This had been in type from the beginning a most glorious high Throne Jer. 17. 12. designed from all Eternity to be the Throne and the place of the soals of his feet whose Name is the WORD of God in order to dwell in the midst of the Children of Israel for ever and bear unto their sight and enjoyment the clear and compleat vision of the invisible God 4. The Book chap. 5. written within and on the backside sealed with seven Seals as it is part of the Vision given to John is a description of the inward and hidden meaning of the matter of this Prophecy whether as to that which more especially concerns the Affairs of the Church or that which more generally relates to the Affairs of the World and the Empire thereof The seven Seals with which it