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A51309	Paralipomena prophetica containing several supplements and defences of Dr Henry More his expositions of the Prophet Daniel and the apocalypse, whereby the impregnable firmness and solidity of the said expositions is further evidenced to the world. Whereunto is also added phililicrines upon R.B. his notes on the revelation of S. John; Apocalypsis Apocalypseos. Supplement.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.; More, Henry, 1614-1687. Plain and continued exposition of the several prophecies or divine visions of the Prophet Daniel.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2669; ESTC R490816	301,149	543

the Feast of Expiation though it was not fit nor could be that Aaron who yet doubtless was a Type of Christ should dye and rise again and ascend into Heaven of which the Sanctum Sanctorum is a Type even of the highest and purest part thereof yet instead of his own Blood he entred into the Sanctum Sanctorum with the blood of a Bullock and Goat which was a Type of the Bloodshed of Christ of whom Aaron was also a Type which therefore plainly implies the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ who out-did the Type and with his own Blood entred into the Holy of Holies And whereas both the Spiritual or Immortal Nature of Christ and his Terrestrial and Mortal could not be set out by one thing two Goats are made to typifie them the sacrificed Goat his crucified Flesh or Body on the Cross which likewise lay dead in the Grave while the Scape-Goat an Emblem of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Plotinus somewhere calls it his Immortal part was sent free into the Wilderness the Won of Spirits and Ghosts to Azazel if that be a proper Name a mighty Prince in those Regions of the Dead according to that Clause in the Creed if rightly understood He descended into Hell Or that of the Apostle 1 Pet. 3.18 Being put to death in the flesh but alive in the Spirit by which he also went and preached to the Spirits in prison These were the weighty Negotiations of the Scape-Goat the Immortal part of Christ till his visible Resurrection by resuming his Body out of the Grave And there is the like reason of the two Birds one killed and the other let fly into the fields Levit. 14.4 These the more we search into them the more easie and natural Types they will be found of those Passages touching Christ his Death and Resurrection as the entring of Aaron with the blood of the Goat a Type of Christ as to his Suffering as well as Aaron was a Type of him into the Sanctum Sanctorum is a plain Type of his Ascension into Heaven and Intercession there in virtue of his own Blood shed on the Cross in his Crucifixion But it is besides my present Scope to insist on these things I will only give one Instance more and that is of Aaron in his Priestly Habiliments In which Spectacle we may so plainly read not only those three Offices of Christ whose Type he is King Priest and Prophet his golden Diadem denoting the first his Vestments in common with other Priests the second and his Urim and Thummim the last The durable effect whereof is discovered in those Visions especially of Daniel and the Apocalypse that run through all the conditions of the Church to the End of the World but there is yet a further Mystery discernible viz. the Divinity of Christ in that he is cloathed with the Universe which is a Vestment cannot belong to Aaron as a man but as he is a Type of the Eternal Logos that made the World See the Appendix to the Defence of my Philosophick Cabbala Chap. 5. Sect. 3 4. And the Name Jehovah viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 engraven on his golden Diadem an Orthodox Cabbalist will be prone to conceive and not without better reason perhaps than any can bring to the contrary that the Triplicity of those Letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 denote the Trinity of Hypostases in the Godhead 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Platonists also term 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and we Christians call Father Son and Spirit Which Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is set after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if we were to be instructed thereby that the Spirit proceedeth as well from the Son as from the Father Though I do not hope that such a Cabbalistical Notion will suddenly end the Controversie betwixt the Greek Church and the Latine But I must beg my Reader 's pardon for this not altogether I hope useless Digression I had before made a competent Supply for my not bestowing one entire Chapter in my Paralipomena to prove the Intelligibleness of the Visions of Daniel and the Apocalypse without which all endeavour to interpret them is ridiculous and vain And I need the less here expatiate on this Argument Phililicrines Parrhesiastes in his Reflexions on R. B. having done so much of that work to my hand but in a way that partakes much of Mirth and Satyr for which he may haply incur the Censure of the more grave and sowre and it may be more for being merry than Satyrical And the first I must confess is the greatest infirmity I have observed in that Party But it is a sign he has all this time served a good Master and that it is not the deepness of Melancholy as some superficial Souls may be prone to phansie that has plunged his mind into such serious studies as the searching out the right sense of inspired Visions and Prophecies and the like but that there is such a Life and Spirit in him that loves the exercise of Reason Wit and Divine Speculation at once And if by that of Satyr any contempt fall upon R. B. for his contempt of the ancient Primitive Times of the Church and for his presumption of making himself a Guide to People upon his private Spirit against the wholesom Instructions of the Homilies of the Church of England and Authority of both Crown and Mitre and for his foul slurring as much as in him lyes the peculiar Priviledge and Glory of the Christian Religion as to have its state from the beginning to the end so certainly prefigured by Divine Visions and Prophecies he hypocritically pretending the Apocalypse to be altogether unintelligible now it is so clearly to be understood against Fanaticism and Bloodshed thus cancelling the seasonable usefulness thereof and casting dirt upon the pious and learned Labours of the best Writers of our Church I say if any contempt fall upon him from what of Satyr is found in those Reflexions of Phililicrines Parrhesiastes he may as I conceive fairly thank himself there being nothing I dare say intended by that free Satyrist but the peace and good of the Church and the reducing of R. B. to a better Judgment and exposing the profane and frivolous Spirit of those that pride themselves in a boastful profession that to them forsooth great Wits as they are the holy Visions of the Divinely inspired Prophets are altogether Unintelligible Books written by the same Author and printed for Walter Kettilby at the Sign of the Bishop's Head in S. Paul's Church-yard HEnrici Mori Opera Theologica Philosophica 3. Vol. Fol. His Exposition on Daniel Quarto His Exposition on the Apocalypse Quarto His Answer to several Remarks on his Expositions on Daniel and the Apocalypse His Illustration of those two abstruse Books in Holy Scripture the Book of Daniel and the Revelation

the thousand years were finished may be understood of the wicked's reviving Politically after the expiration of the Millennium and the rather because the sense of the place carries it for those that at the Millennium were heretofore dead either naturally or Politically and so Judgment proceeds upon them Apoc. 20.4 which the wicked were not in a Political sense and therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they lived not again must refer to that Physical Resurrection we contend for Add to all this that if the first Resurrection were understood in a Political sense and meant in general as well of them that were beheaded as those that worshipped not the Beast and in no other sense than so there is no reason why S. John should use the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at first and then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And we might demand if that be the first Political Resurrection which is the second unless we will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And how it can be appropriated to this first Resurrection as a special Priviledge of the partakers thereof that the second Death shall have no power over them this by promise belonging to all true Believers though not Martyrs from the beginning of the Church to the end of the World But to obtain a glorified body before the second Death or the Lake of Fire be in being which by its own Nature exempts from the harm thereof or of any thing like it in being this is a peculiar Priviledge indeed And blessed and holy and peculiarly happy is he that has his share in such a first Resurrection as this for he is actually out of the reach of all harm that may come from the Lake of Fire the being within the reach of whose power is to be obnoxious to the second Death and according to the Apocalyptick Antithetical implications or intimations he is possessed already of everlasting life in a glorified body whenas others are but Candidates for the same I hope by this time you perceive how easie smooth and natural my Exposition of the first Resurrection in a Physical sense is and how intricate harsh and perplex the contrary way would be c. CHAP. XX. That the Description of the New Jerusalem is a Description of a state of the Church on Earth The high expressions therein but such as are used in the Prophets touching the people of the Jews The Plea of those that will have it merely a Description of the Church Triumphant in Heaven consisting of seven Arguments out of Alcazar An Answer to those seven Arguments A more moderate way betwixt them that hold the Description of the New Jerusalem the one to signifie merely such a state of the Church on Earth the other the state of the Church in Heaven viz. That though it be a Prophecy of an excellent state of the Church on Earth yet the Description of that state is an intended Type also of the state of the Church Triumphant in Heaven THERE is a wide difference betwixt some Interpreters touching the Description of the New Jerusalem Apoc. 21. some understanding it to be a Description of the State of the Church here on Earth others of the State in Heaven Amongst these latter is S. Augustine especially and after him Ribera Alcazar Pareus and others Amongst the former Justin Martyr Grotius Dr. Hammond Brightman with others And I must confess I am altogether of that Opinion that it is the Description of the State of the Church on Earth after the ruine of Antichrist and so have expounded it continuedly throughout in my Exposition of the Apocalypse and have carefully suggested Arguments all along from the Text it self that it is so to be expounded So that there wants nothing for any further confirmation thereof unless I should take notice how there are no expressions so high in this Description but what are in other places of the Prophets and generally understood by Interpreters of the State of the Church on Earth namely such expressions as these In that Prophetical Thanksgiving of Tobit Chap. 13. Jerusalem shall be built up with Sapphirs and Emeralds and precious Stones thy Walls and Towers with pure Gold And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with Beryl and Carbuncle and Stones of Ophir In the Prophecy of Isaiah Chap. 65. v. 17. Behold I create new Heavens and a new Earth and the former shall not be remembred nor come into mind But be you glad and rejoice for ever in what I create for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy See also Chap. 66.22 In the Prophecy of Ezekiel My Tabernacle also shall be with them yea I will be their God and they shall be my people Again Isa 25.8 The Lord will wipe away tears from all faces And 54.11 Oh thou afflicted tossed with Tempests and not comforted behold I will lay thy stones with fair colours and thy foundations with Sapphirs I will make thy windows of Agates and thy gates of Carbuncles and all thy borders of pleasant stones And Chap. 60.19 The Sun shall be no more thy light by day neither for brightness shall the Moon give light unto thee but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory Thy Sun shall no more go down neither shall thy Moon withdraw it self for the Lord shall be thine everlasting-light and the days of thy mourning shall be ended What more exalted expressions than these are there in the Apocalypse in the description of the New Jerusalem All which places notwithstanding are understood of a state of the Church on Earth And so the City which Ezekiel describes by which is understood the Church on Earth the twelve Gates the River Trees and Fruit they are all transcribed into the Description of this New Jerusalem in the Apocalypse So assured a thing is it that the Apocalyptick Description of the New Jerusalem does denote a state of the Church here on Earth Wherefore it were a more fit thing to bring into view the Plea of the other Party who are so confident that it is a description of the state of Heaven than to concern our selves in any further proofs that it is a state of the Church on Earth that we may give a right judgment of the matter Alcazar who is very stiff for this Opinion produces no fewer than seven Arguments for the same The first is the Authority of S. Augustine who bluntly says in his De Civitate Dei lib. 20. cap. 17. That it is mere impudence to assert otherwise because it is said Absterget Deus omnem lacrymam ab oculis eorum mors jam non erit neque luctus neque clamor sed nec ullus erit dolor And at the end of that Chapter he says That these things are so clearly spoken of the World to come and the Immortality and Eternity of the Saints that we must not pretend that any thing is manifest in Scripture if this place be obscure The second is taken

Prophetick Henopoeia that embellishes the RIND of the Prophecy Which consideration destroys also all the force of the fourth and fifth Particulars For there was a successive Political and sometimes Natural death inflicted on the Witnesses in a manner all along the three days or three times and an half or twelve hundred and sixty Prophetical days There was tormenting with their Testimony and suffering a political Death at least in a large sense for their Testimony and rejoicing at their suffering all along in a manner nor was the Beast any long time provoked till he took his revenge in some degree or other These are intangling Inferences from the blending or confounding the Pulp with the Rind And to the sixth I say That during the time of their Prophecy they might be dead according to that 〈◊〉 the Prophecy intimates them to be so namely politically as having no power or stroke to reform things amiss in the Church and God's Worship and yet in the mean time though at their own peril might prophesie and testifie against the miscarriage of things and might in that sense which is intended be Olive-trees Candlesticks and in a mystical sense do such Wonders as relate to Elias and Moses methinks there is no difficulty at all in this And now to the last Their political Death and sometimes being martyred is an effect of their Prophetick Testimony but both the Cause and the Effect is successional through many Ages and one did not begin considerably later than the other their political Death later than their Testimony but went on continuedly and repeatedly in a manner hand in hand though by a Prophetick Henopoeia in the Rind the Death seems inflicted at the end only and at once Wherefore if the Objector consider well what is said hitherto he will easily find it possible that the Witnesses should be as dead Carcasses as to any political Power or Efficacy and yet as to another life of Spirit and Prophecy as occasion required be in action all the while they were politically dead and lay as Carcasses in the street As a man may be dead as to this World but alive to the other according as I noted above If we but heed not to confound the Pith and the Rind these things will appear as clear as the Sun Consider the latter part of Chapter the twenty sixth where we define what is the fullest and largest sense of the Witnesses political Death CHAP. XL. Whether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apoc. Chap. 11. may signifie the sacred Revenue of the City of Babylon How far the Woman was helped from being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Spue of the Dragon through the Nicene Council Of the dead dying in the Lord Apoc. Ch. 14. and of the Harvest and Vintage And whether the Prophecy of the destruction of Babylon Chap. 17 and 18. imply the ruine of the Material City of Rome in Answer to three more Objections from the same hand in the abovesaid Letter OBjection the first upon pag. 108. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seems not to bear the Exposition of Tythe if we consider the sence of Language and no more But Earthquakes shake Cities and ruine them Wherefore an Event analogous thereto must come to pass in this great Earthquake and another correspondent to the slaying of seven thousand Names of men consequent thereupon These things naturally cohere And it seems to be upon the account of these Events that those words are immediately subjoyned The second wo is past It seems Sir a great force upon the Text to make seven thousand Names of men signifie no more than Estates of men belonging to the seventh Head of the Beast Answ That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may not signifie Tythe and that the sacred Revenue of the Church I see no Reason For the same Tythe may be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in reference to the Substantive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Neuter Gender as well as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in reference either to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Feminine Nay we may see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 promiscuously used in one and the same Verse Levit. Chap. 27. v. 32. And concerning the Tythe or Tenth of the Herd of the Flock even of whatsoever passeth under the Rod the tenth shall be holy to the Lord. In the first place it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in the latter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in both places by Vatablus rendred Decima And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the same that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 occurs frequently in the Books of Moses Numb Chap. 18. v. 24 26 28. Deut. 12. v. 11. and Chap. 26. v. 12. Also 2 Chron. Chap. 31. v. 6 12. and elsewhere So that about 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there can be no scruple But now these Tythes or sacred Revenues could not fall from the Pontifician Party but that part of the City where they fell would fall with them and the Earthquake requires it should as the ingenious Objector well observes and I will allow that it chiefly implies the Ruine of the tenth part of the City it self or Roman Polity being an analogous effect to that of the Earthquake But this Fall of the City being nothing else but the dissolution of such a share of the Papal Hierarchy which was not by killing of men but dissolving that Pontifician Power to such an extent under the seventh Head of the Beast nothing can be more natural than the expounding the seven thousand Names slain of extinguishing those several Orders and Offices of men and nulling their power in such and such Kingdoms or Countries so that they were only Politically slain as the Witnesses most-what were before This is extremely congruous and natural Consider what is said on the Text in Apocalypsis Apocalypseos Object 2. Upon pag. 120. It ought to be considered how much the Council of Nice help'd the Woman Rev. 12.16 who was never in so much danger and distress as after that time all the World almost turning Arian and Christendome was made a Cock pit of fighting Rage and all manner of Enormities What if we should wave the Council of Nice with their term of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may be of good Interpretation but it may be also of bad Interpretation and refer this help that was afforded the Woman to Julian's defeat by the Persians Which was a signal help to the Woman indeed Answ This is a material Objection But I answer That the Dragon spuing out such a Floud of Heresie and Contention that the Woman might be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereby that is might be carried away drowned and lost the most proper means to obviate this Evil was an Oecumenical Council And though the Council of Nice did not so far absorb this Floud as that the Heresie and Contention utterly ceased