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A43131	The meaning of the Revelation, or, A paraphrase with questions on the Revelation of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Divine in which the synchronisms of Mr. Joseph Mede, and the expositions of other interpreters are called in question, and a new exposition given of the prophecies of the revelation, never heard of before, nor extant in any author whatsoever, from the sixth chapter to the eighteenth, with variety of reasons for the exposition / by Richard Hayter ...	Hayter, Richard, 1611?-1684.; Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638. Clavis apocalyptica.	1675 (1675)	Wing H1225; ESTC R21644	180,756	260

they come to pass as appears not only vers 7. 8. 10. but also Rev. 7. 2 3. 7. Where shall we find in all the Scripture that by Fire is meant sedition I find it sometimes taken for affliction persecution and temptation Psal. 66. 12. Zach. 13. 9. Mal. 3. 2. 1 Pet. 4. 12. but for sedition never 8. If by Fire 〈◊〉 these Trumpets be meant sedition what is meant by Hail in the first Trumpet is that sedition too where have they a president for that How is it that men interpret Scripture and have no Scripture for what they say To which may be added that Fire is hot and dry but Hail is cold and moist and how can these two be symbols of the same thing in one and the same Prophecy surely if the Fire be sedition the Hail must be some other thing 9. If by Fire be meant sedition what is meant by Trees and green Grass which the Fire burnt up v. 7 Here they tell us that by green Grass is meant the righteous but what is meant by Trees they do not tell us perhaps they think that by Trees is meant the righteous too but this is not so for but the third part of the Trees was burnt up but all the green Grass was burnt up and none left and therefore the Grass is one thing and the Trees another thing 10. Where shall we find in all the Scripture that by green grass is meant the righteous True it is that green trees are sometimes taken for the righteous Luk. 23. 31. but green Grass never 11. The green Grass is opposed to those which have the seal of God in their foreheads Rev. 7. 3. Rev. 9. 4. now by the latter is meant the righteous therefore by the former is meant some other thing 12. If by Fire be meant sedition what is meant by Sea in the second Trumpet where 't is said that a great Mountain burning with Fire was cast into the Sea here they tell us that by Sea is meant the Land of Galilee why do they not also say that by the earth in the first Trumpet upon which also Fire was cast is meant the Sea of Galilee If this be not to wrest the Scripture I know not what is for if by Sea be meant the Land why may they not as well say that by Land is meant the Sea 13. If by Sea be meant the Land what is meant by Ships when 't is said the third part of Ships were destroyed be there any Ships upon the Land Here they tell us that by Ships is meant the Cities why do they not also say that by Cities in the Revelation is meant the Ships And when 't is said Rev. 16. 19. the great City was divided into three parts why do they not say the meaning is the great Ship was divided into three parts And when 't is said Rev. 17. 18. the woman which thou sawest is the great City which Reigneth over the Kings of the earth why do they not say the meaning is the woman is the great Ship which Reigneth over the Kings of the Sea But let them tell me indeed be Cities meant by Ships then when 't is said v. 9. the third part of Ships were destroyed the meaning is the third part of Cities were destroyed but History will tell us that not Jerusalem only but all the Cities were destroyed by the Romans except some few only which yielded to them of their own accord and there was not one of three much less two of three left remaining which was not destroyed by them and the time when this was done was after the siege of Jerusalem by Gallus whenas 't is here according to their exposition of the Trumpets set before it for they will have the destruction of the Cities be the meaning of the second Trumpet and the siege of the City by Gallus the meaning of the fourth Trumpet which cannot be because Ierusalem was besieged first by Gallus and the Cities were destroyed afterward of which see Bishop Ussers Annal. p. 691 692. 14. If by Sea be meant the Land and by Ships the Cities what is meant by the Rivers and Fountains of Waters in the third Trumpet Here they tell us that by Rivers and Fountains of Waters is meant the Towns and Villages Alas wit whither wilt thou go From Sea to Land from Ships to Cities from Rivers and Fountains of Waters to Towns and Villages and when all this is done the Text will not bear it for men died in the Towns and villages but not of the Towns and Villages but in the Text it is said men died of the Waters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Waters not in the Waters and the death which they died was a sickly death as they that drink poisoned water do but the death which the Jews died was a bloody death 15. What is the meaning of the fourth Trumpet Here they tell us that the fourth Trumpet is a Prophecy of the siege of Jerusalem by Gallus but the time doth not agree with their exposition of the Trumpets for this siege of his was before the War began in Galilee when as by their exposition of the Trumpets it is made to succeed it 16. The smiting of the Sun Moon and Stars are used in Scripture to prefigure an utter desolation of a City or Country and not a bare siege and no more Ezek. 32. 7. Esa. 13. 10. Joel 2. 10. 31. Joel 3. 15. but here they make the smiting of the Sun Moon and Stars to denote a bare siege of Jerusalem by Gallus without the taking and destroying of it 17. If the fourth Trumpet be a Prophecy of the siege of Jerusalem by Gallus what is meant by the Sun Moon and Stars which that Trumpet speaketh of Here they tell us that by the Sun is meant the Temple by the Moon the City and by the Stars the People but by their leave the Sun Moon and Stars are said to be smitten in the Prophecy so was not the Temple City nor People by Gallus but rather as when the Syrians left the siege of Samaria and fled Israel had the Victory against the Syrians so when Gallus raised the siege of Jerusalem the Jews had the Victory against the Romans But why may not these things be understood literally Do not they themselves understand the day and night in the fourth Trumpet literally Why not the Sun and Moon and Stars also But of this more in the next Questions 2 Quest. Whether the Prophecies of the seven Trumpets be literally to be understood Ans. 1. What necessity is there to understand them otherwise We may not forsake the literal sense of Scripture except necessity do enforce us 2. How is this a Revelation if all the Prophecies of the seven Trumpets be mystically to be understood 3. Where have we an interpretation of the mystery as we have in other places where things are mystically delivered as Rev. 1. 20. Rev. 17. 7 8. Is there not as much need

mystically Shew me this he that can 2. The same things for kind were fulfilled in the Land of Egypt and that in a literal sense But if the Question be whether these Trumpets in particular be fulfilled already my answer is they are yet to be expected and I prove it thus The sixth seal is yet to be expected therefore the seventh seal succeeding it in which the Trumpets are must be expected also Again the sealing of the Servants of God in their foreheads is yet to be expected therefore the Trumpets which follow after it are to be expected also And if we can have Faith to expect our Saviours Prophecy Mat. 24. 29. Mark 13. 24 25. Luk. 21. 25 26. which is the same in special if not in particular with the sixth seal and shall be fulfilled in a literal sense why can we not have Faith to wait on God for the fulfilling of the Trumpets also CHAP. IX The Prophecy of the fifth Trumpet 1. AND the fifth Angel sounded and the Prophecy of his Trumpet was that an Angel shall descend from Heaven to the earth and the Key of the bottomless Pit shall be given into his hand 2. And he shall open the bottomless Pit and upon the opening of it shall come a great smoak out of the bottom of the Pit like the smoak of a great Furnace and the air shall be darkned with the smoak and it shall be so thick that the Sun shall not be able to break through to give light upon the Earth 3. And out of the smoke shall come Locusts into the Land of Asia of a most horrid shape and form never the like seen before and they shall have power to sting the Inhabiters of that Land as the Scorpions of the earth have power 4. And it shall be given them in charge that they shall not hurt the Grass of the Field nor any green Herb nor any vegetable Tree but sting the Men only which shall not have the Seal of God in their Forehead 5. And their Commission shall be not to kill the Men out-right but torment them only five Months and no more and the pain of these Men shall be as grievous as the pain that cometh of a Scorpion when he hath stung a Man 6. And all the time of these five Months shall Men wish for Death thinking to end their pains thereby but shall not find it and shall desire to die rather than to live in such woful pain and torment but Death shall flee away from them 7. And the bodies of these Locusts shall be in shape like to Horses prepared unto Battail and they shall have on their Heads the shapes of Crowns like Crowns of Gold and their Faces shall be in shape like the Faces of Men but the matter of them shall be such as insects have 8. And the hair which they shall have shall be in shape like the hair of Women and the teeth which they shall have shall be in shape like the teeth of Lyons but the matter shall be such as insects have 9. And the Brest-plates they shall have shall be in shape like Brest-plates made of Iron and the dreadful noise of their Wings shall be as the noise of Chariots drawn with many Horses running furiously unto Battail 10. And the tayles which they shall have shall be like the tayles of Scorpions and they shall have stings in their tayles like the stings of Scorpions and their Commission shall be to sting the Men of Asia five Months literally to be understood 11. And they shall have a King or Ruler over them to guide them and direct them in this Work so that they shall not sting every one they meet but whom the Angel of or over the bottomeless Pit will have them and this Angel is not an evil Angel but a good Angel of the Lord whose Name in Hebrew is Abaddon in Greek Apollyon and in English a Destroyer not of the Saints and People of God but of the Enemies of God and of his Church 12. The first Woe is past when these things shall be fulfilled and behold there be two Woes yet to come after these things are ended The Prophecy of the sixth Trumpet reaching from the thirteenth Verse of this Chapter to the fourteenth Verse of the eleventh Chapter or the first part thereof 13. And the sixth Angel sounded and the Prophecy of his Trumpet was that a Command should come from God from the four Corners of the Altar upon which the Angel offered Incense before the Throne of God 14. Saying to the sixth Angel which did sound the sixth Trumpet that he should go and loose the four Angels which should be then bound or restrained from doing Hurt at the great River of Asia called Euphrates but now they should be loosed to execute God's Judgments on the people that dwell there 15. Then the sixth Angel shall go and loose the four Angels which before were bound at Euphrates but ready upon Command to slay the third part of Men that shall be dwelling there and that in as little time as an hour or in as little time as a day or in as little time as a month or in as little time as a year waiting for a Command to put their power in Execution 16. And the number of the Army of Horse that under these four Angels shall be imployed in this Work shall be two Hundred thousand thousand for the number of them was related unto me 17. But these Horses shall not be usual Horses nor their Riders Men properly so called but either Angels or strange kind of Creatures newly created for this purpose and never known in the World before and thus I saw the Horses in the Vision and they that sat on them what ever they be shall have Corslets of a fiery colour and of a blew jacinth colour and of a pale Brimstone colour and the heads of their Horses shall be in shape like the Heads of Lyons and out of the mouths of every one of them shall come forth fire smoak and brimstone literally to be understood 18. Of these three shall the third part of Men be killed which shall be dwelling at Euphrates at that time some shall be killed by the fire and some by the smoak and others by the brimstone which shall come out of the Horses mouths 19. For the power of these strange Beasts shall be in their mouths and which is yet the more strange they shall have mouths in their tayles for their tayles shall be like a Serpents body and have Heads at the end of them and in their Heads a mouth with which they slay the third part of Men which be dwelling at Euphrates at the Execution of the Prophecy 20. And the two other parts of Men which shall escape from these Plagues and not be killed by them shall not for all this repent of their former wickedness that they should not worship Devils nor