Rome the great whore that sitteth vpon many waters and sheweth that all Kings and Nations of the earth are drunken with the wine of her fornication In the vision Saint Iohn saw a woman sit vpon a skarlet coloured beast full of names of blasphemy which had seauen heads and tenne hornes and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and guilded with gold precious stones and pearles and had a cup of gold in her hand full of abominations and filthines of her fornications and in her forehead was a mystery written Great Babilon the Mother of whoredomes and abhominations and the woman was drunken with the blood of Saints and martyrs of Iesus and he wondred with great maruell then the Angell told Saint Iohn he would shew him the mystery thereof The Beast which thou hast seene was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse pit and shall be destroyed and all that are not written in the booke of life shall wonder at it that hee being so mighty could be destroyed this Beast is the Emperour which was before the Reuelation it seemeth at the time thereof the Emperour was dead and no other then chosen and the Pope should ascend out of the bottomlesse pitte and be aboue the Emperour and for all his greatnesse yet hee shall goe into perdition The Angell declareth the seauen heads to signifie seauen mountaines wheron the Whore sitteth which plainely sheweth the Citty of Rome to bee that Whore for that is builded vpon seauen Mountaines and so is no other Citty Againe the Angell interpreteth the seauen heads to bee seauen Kings that is seauen kinds of gouernment in Rome of which fiue were fallen and the Idolatrous Emperours did then raigne but Constantine should quite alter the gouernment of Rome from idolatry to Christianity and hee and the Emperours following him was the seauenth King and the Beast in this vision which is the Pope is one of the seauenth gouernment in name because he professeth the name of Christ but indeed he is the eighth gouernment for hee hath quite changed the gouernment of Rome from Christianity to Popery The Angell interpreteth the ten hornes to be ten Kings which at the time of the Reuelation had not receiued a kingdome but shall receiue power at one hower with the Pope and they shall be all of one minde and giue their power and authority to him and fight with Christ but hee shall ouercome them Then the Angell interpreteth the waters where the Whore sitteth to signifie people multitudes Nations and tongues which plainely declareth the Citty of Rome to bee the Whore for no Citty from Christ to this day hath so many Countries and People vnder her dominion as that Citty and in the eighth verse the Angell interpreteth the woman to be the great Citty which at the time of the Reuelation raigned ouer the Kings of the earth and then was the Emperours seate there In that the woman sitteth vpon a scarlet coloured Beast it is because the ordinary attire of the Pope and Cardinalls is scarlet and his fulnesse of names of blasphemy is because most blasphemously he attributes vnto himselfe all Christs names In that Saint Iohn saw the woman so richly arrayed in purple scarlet and guilded with gold and precious stones and pearles thus were the Popes Cardinalls Bishops Prelates Churches and Idolls arrayed and doth most euidently declare that these Prophesies are of Rome The golden Cuppe that she holdeth in her hand is her golden name that shee stileth her selfe withall calling her selfe the Catholique Church but her doctrines which shee teacheth are filthy and abhominable blasphemies Idolatries superstitions which are the wine of her fornication wherewith shee made all Nations of the earth drunken and shee is called the great Whore in that shee is departed her selfe and hath carried so many from Christ our Spowse and from his word and committed fornication with the Diuell and his wicked doctrines and for this cause it is that the mystery Great Babilon is written in her forehead because shee is the mother of whordomes and abominations of the earth as Babilon was If there were no other note wherby it might bee knowne that these Prophefies are of Rome this were sufficiēt to declare the same in that she is said to be drunken with the blood of Saints and Martyrs of Iesus for the Romane Gouernours crucified Christ and the Romane Emperours made the tenne persecutions and the Romane Popes haue slaine more Martyrs Saints of Iesus then euer were slaine in the world before The Angell telleth vs in the 16. verse that the ten Kings which did with one consent giue their Kingdomes vnto the Pope vntill the wordes of God which hee foretold were fulfilled are they that shall hate the Whore and make her desolate and naked and shall eate her flesh and burne her with fire and the performance heereof is contained in the two next Chapters CHAP. 18. AN Angell from Heauen cryeth mightily with a loud voyce Babilon that great Citty it is fallen it is fallen and nothing shall inhabite there but Diuels wilde Beasts and foules because all Nations haue drunken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication And there came a voyce from Heauen saying Goe out of her my people that you bee not pertakers of her sinnes and that you receiue not of her plagues rewarde her as shee hath rewarded you giue her double according to her workes because shee hath glorified her selfe and liued in pleasure and saith in her heart I sit being a Queene and am no widdow and shall see no mourning therefore shall her plagues come at one day death and sorrow and famine and she shall be burned with fire for strong is the Lord God which will condemne her And the Kings that haue committed fornication with her and the Merchants that haue beene made rich by her and euery ship Maister and all that occupie ships and ship-men shall stand a farre off for feare of her torments and cry when they see the smoake of her burning saying What Citty was like to this great Citty and they shall cast dust on their foreheads and cry Alas alas the great Citty wherein were made rich all that had ships on the Sea by her costlinesse for in one hower shee is made desolate O heauen reioyce of her and ye holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath giuen your iudgement on her and an Angell tooke a great Mill-stone and cast it into the Sea saying With such violence shall the great Citty Babilon bee cast and bee found no more and there shall bee no more Musicke nor Tradesmen nor Mill heard to grinde nor candle shine nor Bridegroomes voyce bee heard there any more CHAP. 19. IN this Chapter is declared the praysing of God in Heauen and Earth for the finall destruction of Antichrist but I will first make an end of the destruction thereof In the eleuenth verse Saint Iohn saw Heauen open and Christ riding vpon a white horse and
of the destruction of Antichrist and such like and that whatsoeuer is written by his commandement we may be bold and ought to begge of Christ by prayer and by all meanes seeke for the vnderstanding thereof Saint Iohn his eating of the booke was his certaine vnderstanding of the things contained therein and the knowledge thereof was sweet to him at the first but when hee had well considered how the Diuell should haue such great power to persecure the Saints and to spill their blood in such aboundant manner the knowledge heerof was most bitter vnto him then St. Iohn is commanded of Christ to prophesie againe amongst the people Nations and Tongues and to many Kings according to which in the next Chapter Saint Iohn beginneth a new Reuelation of all things that hath beene reuealed touching Antichrist in a more large and ample manner then in this Reuelation already is declared CHAP. 11. IOseph telleth Pharoah Gen. 41 32. therefore the Dreame was doâ—bled vnto Pharoah the second time because the thing is established before God euen so because the Prophesies in this Reuelation are established and sure to be performed and to make them the more certainely and manifestly of vs to bee vnderstood beleeued all things that haue beene reuealed touching Antichrist are from this Chapter vnto the end of the Booke reuealed againe but farre more amply and plainely delared then in the former but in this is nothing prophisied but the things concerning Antichrist In the 8. Chapter Christ offereth the prayers of the faithfull to God and then filleth the Censor with coales of the Altar and threw them vpon the earth and there fell vpon the earth hayle and fire mingled with blood and it burnt the third part of Trees and greene grasse Wherein I shewed the great peace the Church enioyed by Constantine in which prosperity the Romish Church fell to superstitions and anger'd God wherefore hee gaue them ouer to their owne lustes vntill the Romane Church became the Synagogue of Sathan and Antichrist and they became as colde as hayle in true religion and as hot as fire euen to the shedding of blood to maintaine their superstitions In this Chapter they that trusted only vnto the blood of Christ by an allusion vnto the temple of Salomon are said to be the temple of God and Saint Iohn is commanded to measure them to God and the superstitious Romanes and those that tooke their parts are said to be the Courts because they make a shew of Religion but with superstitions prophane the truth therefore Saint Iohn is commanded to cast them out and not to mete them and these shall tread the holy Citty that is the Children of God vnder their feete 42. moneths this time is likewise set forth in this Chapter to bee 1260. dayes and also 3. dayes and a halfe these times are all one the three dayes and a halfe signifie three yeares and a halfe and in three yeares and a halfe there is iust 42. moneths and in so many moneths at 30. dayes to the Moneth which was the Iewes Computation there is 1260. dayes and it is common with the Holy ghost in Prophesies to set downe a day for a yeare so Antichrist must raigne 1260. yeares The two witnesses are the olde and new Testaments and all that preach and teach them all the time of Antichrist these shall bee two oliue trees spiritually to feede the soules of the Elect and to conuey the oyle of the holy Ghost into them and they shall be two lamps to lighten them in the wayes of saluation and they shall stand before the Pope the God of the earth and if any hurt the Preachers of them the Lord will send plagues from heauen vpon such In that they are said to be cloathed in Sackcloth it sheweth that the Professors of them shall be nothing regarded and shall haue all this time great cause to mourne for the little regard that the Gospell had and for the superstitions and sinnes of the people In the seauenth verse when they haue finished their testimony the Beast out of the bottomlesse pit shall make warre against them and ouercome them and kill them this is after the loosing of Sathan Their corpes shall be dead and vnburied in Rome that is as a dead carcasse long vnburied is noysome to bee seene or smelt euen so noysome was the word of God and the preaching thereof vnto them all the time of their superstitions yet they could not bury their corpes all this while that is they could not quite pur downe the preaching of the word but the Lord still stirred vp some yea though they dyed for it to tell them of their idolatries superstitions murther sorcery fornication and theft It sheweth what great power the Diuel hath ouer the vnregenerate that hee can make them reioyce and bring gifts one to another for ioy that the preaching of the word is supprest and the bookes of the word it selfe as the Papists haue done these many ages reioycing that their meanes of Saluation is taken from them and that they are not hindred from going headlong vnto eternall damnation Rome is called spiritually Zodome because they exceed Zodome in the sinnes therof and it is called Egypt because they haue oppressed the Children of God more then the Egyptians did the Israelites and Christ was slaine in Rome in that Pilate a Romane Iudge condemned him and the Romane officers crucified him That after the 1260. yeares God sent the spirit into the two witnesses wee see the truth of this Prophesie performed and we see them stand vpon their feet and the feare of them is vpon the Pope and all his Clergie and God hath taken them vp into Heauen and exalted and preserued them in the sight of their enemies and the Popedome by them hath beene shaken as with a mighty Earthquake that the tenth part haue become Protestants long agoe and dayly his Kingdome hath decayed and the Protestants increased In that it is said that 7000. were killed with this earthquake and the rest glorified God it sheweth that when Rome shall bee destroyed all the Papists that then remaine shall become Protestants When the seauenth Angell shall blow his trumpet the Pope shall bee quite destroyed and the Kingdomes of the world shall bee our Lord Christs and hee shall raigne for euermore and all in Heauen shal reioyce and say We giue thee thanks Lord God Almighty for thou hast receiued thy great power and obtained thy Kingdome the Gentiles were angry and thy wrath is come and the time that the dead shall bee iudged and that thou shouldest giue reward vnto thy Prophets and Saints and them that feare thy name and that thou shouldest destroy them that destroy the earth In that it is said then the temple of God was open and the Arke of the Couenant was seene and that there were lightenings and voyces thunder and great hayle it sheweth Gods anger against the disobedient to his word that then there shall
is the second starre in the ninth Chapter which is Hildebrand which ioyned the supremacie vnto the Popedome that is temporall iurisdiction ouer the Emperour and the ten Kings to place them and displace them at his pleasure which is manifested in that hee is said to haue two hornes like the Lambe Christ that is to bee King of Kings and Lord of Lords as well as Ruler ouer soules Whereas his Predecessors had the Emperours power and iurisdiction but by permission and fauour hee and his Successors claymed the supremacie of duty giuen vnto them of God alleadging all those places of Scriptures which declareth what supremacie God hath giuen vnto Christ ouer all in heauen and earth for his proofes thereof and so made the image of the first Beast that is like as the first beast had the power of the Emperour but in fauour hee annexed the power and supremacie aboue all Emperours and Kings as an appertinent and duty vnto the Popedome for euer and he spake as presumptuously as the Dragon did execute his power in the Emperors sight that is as not hauing his power from him but from God This Beast did great signes so that hee made fire to descend vpon earth in the sight of men but these signes were done by Nigromancy wherefore after Pope Hildebrand was condēned by a general Councell and for coniuration and dealing with the Diuell many other grieuous offences hee was by the said Councell depriued from being Pope but his Successors vnto this day still maintaine the doctrine of his vsurped Supremacie ouer all Princes And this Beast made a law that whosoeuer would not worship the Image of the Beast should bee slaine The number of the beasts name is 666. this is to shew that at that time the first beast beganne to corrupt the Church with superstitions and false doctrines as is declared in Chap. 8. of the first Starre In that in the fift verse of this Chapter there is a mouth giuen vnto the beast to speak blasphemies 42. moneths which is interpreted Chap. 11. to be 1260. yeares so that iust this time was appointed vnto the People Emperour and Pope and it sheweth that they all this time ioyned together to tread downe the holy Citie the true Church all this while CHAP. 14. NOw Antichrist is reuealed in such liuely colours that none except the diuell blinde his eyes but may see the Pope to bee Antichrist now in this Chapter begins to be declared his destruction Christs standing vpon mount Sion signifieth his presence with his children the 144000. that were with him which were sealed in the 7. Chapter a certaine number for an innumerable number declaring that all the Saints who all this time of 1260. yeares were martyred or persecuted by Antichrist were with him in glory and none of them lost In that the sound of their voices was like the roaring of many waters and like thunder it declareth what a multitude of them there be In that they played vpon harps and sung a new song which none could learne but themselues their harping sheweth how ioyfully they praised God that none can sing such new songs and so much praise God as those which haue suffered for standing faithfully in the truth and haue beene deliuered In that they are commended for not being defiled with women it is not onely meant of their bodily chastity but also of their spirituall chastitie in that Antichrist had not made them commit spirituall fornication by following his idolatrous doctrines but they were virgins that did onely cleaue vnto their Spouse Christ and his word In their mouthes was found no guile they taught onely the truth they were without spot before the throne of God that is in the righteousnesse of Christ Now the 1260. yeares of Antichrist appeare plainely to bee finished in that the Gospell doth so plentifully flourish and in that wee see Christ vpon mount Sion that is defending his Church And here wee haue a promise that this shall be an euerlasting Gospell that is to indure vnto Christs comming as which so great a grace was neuer shewed vnto former ages therfore the Angell that brings vs these glad tidings exhorts vs to feare God giue glory vnto him for the houre of his iudgement is come and worship him that made heauen and earth and the fountaines of water Then is prophesied that Rome shall bee destroyed called by the name of great Babylon because as the Babylonians destroyed the materiall Temple so haue they of Rome the spirituall Temple the faithfull the cause of her destruction followeth Because shee hath made drunken all nations with the wine of the wrath of her fornications that is of her idolatrous and false doctrine Therefore there followes a warning that whosoeuer shall worship the Image of the Beast that is the Pope and receiue the print of his name that is make holinesse in crossing himselfe and in other superstitions hee shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God and bee tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy Angels and before the Lambe and the smoake of their torments shall ascend euermore and they shall haue no rest day nor night In that the destruction of Antichrist followeth the preaching of the Gospell it declareth that by it Antichrist shall bee destroyed and that the suppression of the preaching of the word was the cause of the growth of it and therefore it is that the diuell puts into the heads of Papists to keepe all people from the reading hearing and preaching of Gods word The voyce from heauen that bad Iohn write Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their workes follow them ought to incourage vs to preach the Gospell to the beating downe of Antichrist though we suffer neuer so much for our labour After the fall of Antichrist by the preaching of the Gospell and that the Lord hath fulfilled the number of the elect then shall Christ come vpon a white cloud wearing a golden crowne in his hand a sickle and because the haruest of the earth is ripe heeshall thrust in his sickle and the earth shall be reaped that is by an allusion to husbandmen in haruest is declared how Christ shall gather his Saints to him into heauen And by the Angell that with a sharp sickle cut vp the vineyards of the earth because her grapes were ripe and cast them into the great winepresse of the wrath of God the winepresse was trodden without the Citie the bloud or wine of the grapes was vnto the horse bridles by the space of 1600. furlongs By an allusion to grape-gatherers is declared how Gods Angels shall cast the reprobate into eternall torments and in that the winepresse is without the Citie it sheweth that the place of the damned shall be separated from the Elect and in that there was such plenty of grapes that the wine or bloud of them was vp to the horses bridles that trode
the presses for the space of 1600. furlongs it sheweth the multitude of the number of the damned CHAP. 15. IN this Chapter begins the manner of the destruction of Rome and the Popedome by the seauen last plagues which vision S. Iohn cals a great and meruailous signe The glassie sea in the 4. Chapter is interpreted the soules of the faithfull there it was like Christall but here like fire shewing that the soules of the faithfull burned in zeale for the martyrdomes and persecutions of Antichrist and when they saw these 7. plagues goe forth they reioyced especially the soules of those whom Antichrist had martyred and persecuted Their ioy is signified by their harps and they sung the new song of Moses when he was deliuered from Pharao and the song of Christ when hee was raysed from death that is Great meruailous are thy workes Lord God Almighty iust and true are thy wayes King of Saints who shall not feare thee O Lord and glorifie thy name for thou onely art holy and all nations shal come and worship before thee for thy iudgments are made manifest The Tabernacle in heauen that S. Iohn saw open is the Church of the faithfull which by preaching opens a doore for all by beliefe to enter into the kingdome of heauen In that the 7. Angels with the vials of Gods wrath came out of the Tabernacle to wit the Church it sheweth that they were sent at the prayers of the faithfull their long white roabes is the righteousnes of Christ their golden girdles signifie the gloriousnesse and purenesse of their loue to God and his children for loue is the band of perfection In that the Angels poure out the vials of Gods wrath it shewes that God vseth them as instruments to punish the wicked and though Antichrist is and shall be destroyed by men they are but the instrumentall cause of God and his Angels CHAP. 16. THe first second third plagues are that there fell a grieuous and noysome sore vpon them who had the mark of the Beast and worshipped the image of the Beast in that the sea and waters became bloud it signifieth that many of thē should be slaine These seeme to prophesie the victories that the Turks other the Popes enemies haue had against the Papists the slaughters they haue committed vpon them which was the iust iudgement of God as appeares ver 5. in that an Angell saith Lord thou art iust because thou hast iudged these things for they shed the bloud of the Saints of the Prophets therfore hast thou giuen them bloud to drinke for they are worthy And another Angell said Euen so Lord God Almighty true and righteous are thy iudgements The fourth plague poured vpon the Sunne seemes to bee vpon their clergy this was the ouerthrow of the Cardinals Bishops Abbots Monks Friers Nuns and all their houses and dens in England Scotland other reformed countries this plague tormented them with heate of fire and made them boyle in great heate and blaspheme the name of God yet they repented not to giue God glory The fist viall fell vpon the throne of the Pope this was the cutting off of his reuennues which were infinite out of all countries and England was the most profitable in reuennues vnto the Pope of all countries and therefore was called the Popes Asse for bearing all taxes impositions that the Popes Cardinals laid vpon it but now the Pope is faine to allow maintenance for vpholding of Popery in al countries this hath wonderfully darkned the brightnes of his glory and kingdome and this makes them gnaw their tongues for sorrow and to blaspheme the God of heauen for their paines and their sores and yet they repent not of their works The sixt plague is the drying vp of the waters of Euphrates that the way of the Kings of the East should be prepared this is an allusion to the destruction of the temporall Babilon the meaning is that as the Medes and Persians turned the Riuer Euphrates out of his course whereby they went ouer destroyed Babilon so the Lord will take away all impediments that the ten King domes that haue hitherto taken part with the Pope may destroy Rome the spirituall Babilon as the Angell interpreteth it in the next Chapter The three vncleane spirits that came out of the mouth of the Pope for now the Pope is the Dragon in that hee is aboue the Emperour and as mighty and full of venome and as ready to sting and poyson Gods children as any Dragon and he is the Beast in respect of his beastly conditions and the false witnesse in respect of all his false doctrines These vncleane spirits are the Iesuites for they are sworne at the Popes command to goe into any Countrey and spend their liues for the vpholding of the Popedome these are the rotten pillers which proppe vp the falling tower of Babell the Popedome they are called three in respect of the triple diuision of the Popes Dominions to wit into the land the sea Riuers They are compared to frogges to shew they doe as much hurt all Countries as the frogs did Egipt and they are as lothsome in the sight of God and men as frogs are in our sights as frogs turne all things that they eat to poyson so doe they all Scriptures to the poysoning of soules and their study is nothing but treasons poysonings and murders of protestant Kings Princes and Countries but according to this Prophesie at the time that God hath appointed their wicked practises shall open the eyes of all Kings to see the vildnes and horrible wickednes of Antichrist and bee prouoked against that great day of the Lord to congregate themselues in Arma Geddon which may be interpreted a house or temple falling meaning Rome and the Popedome being now ready to fall The seauenth Angell powreth out his viall into the ayre that is sets the ayre against Antichrist which is the breath of Gods Ministers and their preachings vexed and tormented him like thunders and lightenings and shooke the Popedome like the greatest earthquake that euer was and made the greatest part of the Popedome to fall and become Protestants which the Lord be praised for it wee see already to bee performed and their preaching was like vnto the greatest hayle that euer was euery haylestone as big and heauy as a talent weight by which figuratiue speeches is signified the vtter destruction of Rome as the Angell interpreteth it saying It is done and in that it is said The Citty of the Nations fell and great Babilon came in remembrance before God to giue her the cup of the fiercenesse of his wrath and that the Iles that is them of the Iles and the mountaines that is the great ones fled away that is departed from the Popes false doctrines CHAP. 17. IN this Chapter an Angell sheweth St. Iohn Rome in a vision and interpreteth all the hardest things to bee vnderstood in this Reuelation He calleth
blessed are they that are called vnto the Lambes Supper In that there shall bee then a new heauen meaning the Church and a new earth meaning temporall gouernment and the old is passed away it sheweth that things touching the Church and Common wealth shall bee wholly ruled according vnto the Word of God and that all Popish and Iewish lawes which are contrary to the Word of GOD shall bee no more And there shall be no more sea that is ignorant and vnconstant men carryed away with euery wind of false doctrine as the waues of the sea are tossed with the winde Then the Church shall be prepared as a fit Bride for Christ her husband that is the Tabernacle of God shall bee with men and GOD shall dwell with them and they shall bee his people and God himselfe shall be their God and wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shall bee no more death sorrow crying or paine for the first things are past that is then there shall bee no more martyring persecuting mocking blaspheming and deriding of Gods Children In the tenth Verse an Angell shewes Saint Iohn a Vision of the glory that the Church then shall haue In that it is called a great Citie it shewes what a great number shall beleeue in that it is called holy Ierusalem it declareth the holinesse of their Faith Hope and Loue and other graces the descending of it from God out of heauen sheweth that God from heauen shall fill her with the riches of his graces and shee had the glory of God which made her shine like precious stones The three gates on euery side are the Trinitie without which there is no way to enter into the Church the Angels that are at these doores are the Preachers the twelue foundations of this Church is Iesus Christ which the twelue Apostles haue taught vs to build all our hope vpon in that the three gates were on euery side of the Church it sheweth that the doores of grace shall lye open and the Gospell be preached vnto all nations The twelue thousand furlongs the length the bredth and the height of it haue an allusion vnto the twelue thousand of euery Tribe that were marked for God in the seauenth Chapter the wals being an hundred forty foure cubits haue an allusion vnto the hundred forty foure thousand the whole number of them that were marked of all Tribes The stones of the wall signifie the faithfull in that they are precious stones it is by reason that the precious righteousnesse of Iesus Christ is imputed vnto them and of their precious Faith Hope and Loue and other graces giuen them of Christ In that they are a wall to the new Ierusalem that the Diuell nor any vncleane thing can come into it is declared how louingly they shall ioyne one with another as stones in a wall and how strongly they shall support one another to expell and to keepe out falshood and to defend the truth In that this Citie was of pure gold it sheweth the puritie of their Religion without any drosse of superstitions In that there was no Temple it sheweth that they shall truely serue God in spirit and truth and Christ shall bee their Temple in whom all their hearts shall meet and in him offer all sacrifices of prayer and praysing of God and of good workes which the Lord will accept for his Sonne Iesus Christ his sake In that it hath no neede of the Sunne nor of the Moone to shine in it the holy Spirit shall so illuminate their vnderstandings more then the light of naturall reason can teach them and there shall be no night for where the spirit of God is there is no darknesse In that the gates shall neuer bee shut it certifieth that none that come with a liuely faith shall bee shut from Grace and that Grace shall alwayes bee offered In that the glory and the honor of the Gentiles shall bee brought vnto it it sheweth that the Kings and chiefest of all Countries shall beleeue in Christ and there shall enter into it no vncleane thing that is wicked men nor whomsoeuer worketh abhomination and lyes such they shall hate and excommunicate but onely such shall enter as are written in the Lambes Booke of life CHAP. 22. THe pure riuer of water of life like Chrystall proceeding out of the Throne is the doctrine of the Gospell of Iesus Christ whosoeuer drinketh of him shall neuer thirst for any other meanes of saluation their thirst shall bee so fully quenched in him that they shall alwayes reioyce in their saluation Hee is the tree of life whosoeuer eateth of him with a liuely Faith shall haue eternall life and he shall neuer hunger that is doubt thereof Christ alwayes is fruitfull and the leaues of his righteousnes shall heale the imperfections and diseases of the faithfull in all nations There shall bee no curse but the throne of God and the Lambe shall be amongst the faithfull and they shall be his seruants and serue him and they shall see his face and his name shall be written in their foreheads that is they shall not bee ashamed to confesse his name and they shall reigne for euermore that is in the world to come Then S. Iohn concludes the truth of these Prophesies by the Angels testimony and his owne and lastly hee bringeth in Iesus Christ speaking for the testimony of the truth hereof I Iesus haue sent mine Angell to testifie these things in the Churches I am the roote and generation of Dauid the bright morning Starre The Spirit the Bride exhort men to come to me and let euery one that heares exhort men to come to mee and let all that thirst and will take of the water of life freely come for I protest that who so shall adde any thing to this Booke God will adde to him the plagues written in this Booke and if any diminish of the words hereof God will take away his part out of the Booke of life and the holy Citie he that testifieth these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Euen so Lord Iesus The grace of our Lord Iesus be with vs all Amen FINIS