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A04976 An exposition of the XI. XII and XIII. chapters of the Revellation wherein most of the matters of greatest moment contained in the booke of the Reuelation are vnfolded / by a late writer, whose certaine name is not knowne to the publisher hereof, onely these two letters T.L. are in his aduertisement to Queene Elizabeth ; the contents whereof are in the next page. T. L. 1623 (1623) STC 15113; ESTC S1101 40,586 118

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or the number of the man is nothing else but the period and finall determination of the vsurped tyrannie and domination of Antichrist which the Lamb the Lord and preseruer of Israel for the glorie of his name consolation of his Church and confusion of her foes with a mighty and outstretched arme shall bring to passe in the yeare which shal be 666. Forasmuch as the egge of Antichristianisme was laid in the dayes of Innocent the first successor to Anastasius the first also of that name in the yeare of saluation 406 as is before declared and that by expresse commission there was furthermore granted to the Beast his heires and successors 1260 yeares for the hatching fostering and perfecting this child of perdition and mystery of iniquitie which being added to 406 by rule of true audite must needs verifie this admirable iudgement which the Spirit of God hath here denounced and determined to make good vpon him in the yeare which shall be 1666. In which account and discouery of his end the holy Ghost of purpose leaueth out the millenarie number as not onely knowne perfect and immutable for that these vile and euill dayes shall not exceed more thousands then one but as respecting also the common vse of all nations as well Hebrewes as Gentiles who in their stiles for breuitie sake do no lesse often speak Vide Calendarium He●raieum Sebastianl Munsteri and write by the imperfect number omitting the millenary then after the perfect adding the millenary as Munster well obserueth And in that yeare my Lord of Rome shall lay downe his proud waues and although he fortifie neuer so strong and lay his foundation as low as hell and build his turrets as high as heauen and place his Miter aboue the starres yet in that day he shall die the death of the vncircumcised and perish like the Amorite whose fruit is destroyed from aboue and roote from beneath and the multitude of his offences shall consume the multitude of his forces and it shall be more possible for him and easie vnto him to weigh the fire or measure the wind or call againe the day that is past or recouer the verdure of the withered grasse as a holy one saith then to auoide this counsell and decree of his downfall here determined by the Spirit against him saying and the number of him is 666. And then all kingdomes and people shall see the eternitie of that eternall citie as one of her owne calleth it and the immortalitie of her soule meaning the soueraigne power and supremacie of her Cesars and high Priests to wither die and forsake the earth for euer and as Babylon her mother left vnto her the inheritance of her pride and prophanations so shall she also leaue vnto her the heritage of her death and iudgements for as her glorie hath been great so shall her dishonour when all her excellencie shall be translated into shame and sorow Now therefore as King Baltasher cried aloud when he saw the hand-writing against him that they should bring the Caldeans Astrologians and Inchanters to reade and interpret so thou that once and long before our dayes hast been deemed by lawes of all nations a power so soueraigne holy call now about thee thy Councell and thy Clergie who call themselues Good men learned and wise whose onely grace is to loue antiquitie grauitie wisedome and constancie call them I say cloath them with purple and chain them with gold yet shall they not deliuer thee frō this iudgement to come but as the mill-stone which the mightie Angell took and cast into the sea which may not rise and floate againe with such violence thou and thy Church in that houre shall be throwne downe and shall be found no more And all such Kings on earth or rather Kings of earth whose loue thou hast stolen to the losse of their soules that haue liued in drunkennesse delights and wantonnesse with thee shal weep and waile for thee as for their first borne when they shall see the smoake of thy torments ascend and the apples which thy soule lusted after to depart from thee and no man to buy thy trasn and commodities any more for that God which iudgeth thee is a strong Lord and thy derision shall be the ioy and Alleluia of Sion But her faire and halcyon day may not long endure before the Lord that with iustice iudgeth and fighteth shall come in the clouds of heauen to render vnto euery man according to the ways wherein his heart hath walked as more directly is reuealed in the 20 Chapter following But as cōcerning the day houre of the coming of that Lord who for the glorie of his name shall bring these things to passe it is fast sealed vp in the treasurie of God far beyond the aime of all his seruants in earth or Angels in heauen and yet his beloued seruant Daniel is bold in spirit and layeth downe the yeare to be the fiue and fortith yeare according to his Caldaicall supputation after the consumption and extermination of Antichrist that it may be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet Verily the Lord of hoasts will doe nothing but he reuealeth his secrets vnto his seruants the Prophets Amos 3. 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of the Prince of the Couenant to their charge also as cunningly as they thinke to conuey his murder and post it ouer to Ierusalem For as the Lord doth lay the blood of his seruant Abel to the charge of the Scribes and Pharises of his owne time although hee were slaine long before those Pharises were borne or Ierusalem builded because they were the very image and liuely imitation of his brother that murthered him so the holy Ghost doth here lay the innocent blood of the Lord of glory to the charge of this crucifier and his citizens because they are the children and generation of that high Priest and those murderers which cried Away with him crucifie him crucifie him And that wee should not maruell thereat the holy Ghost in another place goeth further and saith In her shall be found the blood of the Apostles and Prophets also and all that euer for the testimonie of the truth were slaine on earth Verse 9. And there shall of the tribes and people and Gentiles see their dead bodies three dayes and a halfe and shall not suffer their corps to be layed in monuments ANd all nations and kingdoms where the Beast is worshipped whom the holy Ghost for their prophanation in life and religion calleth Gentiles shall haue handle and gaze vpon the letter and corps of his two witnesses three days and a halfe that is to say the time times and halfe a time wherein the Beast shall reigne and persecute euen three propheticall yeares and a halfe accounting as in Ezekiel all dayes for yeares Neither shall they suffer the word of their prophecie to be read opened vnderstood and laid vp in the hearts of the people the true and natural monuments and sepulchers wherein the testimonie of their words ought to be interred Verse 10. And the inhabitants of the earth shall be glad ouer them and shall send gifts one to another because these two Prophets tormented them that dwell vpon the earth ANd all the worshippers of the Beast here noted for their number by the inhabitants of the earth shall clap their hands ouer their owne inuentions and reioyce in the death of the truth and make merry with bonefires Vigils Festiuals Processions and in token of ioy they shall send as the Spirit saith gifts one to another Kings and Princes and people shal present and endow the Beast and his Church with donations immunities possessions gold and siluer offerings and the Beast on the other side shall requite their kindnesse with titles bels pardons buls and such like and the Spirit yeeldeth a reason of this their wicked and vngodly comfort because they had put out the eyes of his two Prophets that their whoredomes and prophanations might not be reproued then which nothing can be greater torment to the wicked nor more vnsauory to them that perish Verse 11. And after three dayes and a halfe the spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood vpon their feete and great feare fell vpon all that saw them ANd forasmuch as in the death and extermination of Antichrist by way of dependancie consisteth the life and resurrection as it were of the Scriptures the Spirit foresheweth that after the reigne and persecution of the Beast which here as in the ninth verse is determined by three dayes and a half God will raise vp faithfull prudent Priests Shepherds of vnderstanding hearts who shall rightly diuide the words and testimonies of his two witnesses which the holy Ghost signifieth in saying that the spirit of life from God entred into them for as the letter and text of the Scripture is the corps thereof so their true intent and meaning is the spirit and life of them and by the faithfull ministery of such as the Lord shall raise in and about that time and for that purpose the testimonie of his two Prophets shall be restored to their strength and as it were to their walking againe which the Spirit signifieth in saying they stood vpon their feete as well to the terror and astonishment of all lying and stipulous expositors as to the feare and admiration of the children and iustifiers of wisedome as the holy Ghost concludeth saying And great feare fell vpon all that saw them Verse 12. And I heard a loud voice from heauen saying Come vp hither and they went vp into heauen in a cloud and their enemies saw them ANd the restauration of the true meaning of the Scriptures which their enemies so long kept vnder by all vniust and cunning shifts shall be more famously knowne and published then that they may any longer hinder or stop the glorious course of their wonderfull instauration which the Spirit intendeth in saying that he heard a voice from heauen saying Come vp hither meaning that it should be more possible for their enemies to stay Elias chariot from ascending or pull the wind backe from pursuing his point then to resist the wisedome of the same the which shall vindicate the abuse of the Scriptures and by the power of their ministery as in the strength of a cloud shall hold them vp and restore them to their spirituall and heauenly meaning againe and the Beast with all his sorcerers and liers which haue been their long and ancient enemies shall see the glorie of their regeneration and wonder and die Verse 13. And in that houre there was made a great earthquake and the tenth part of the Citie fell and there were slaine in the earthquake names of men seuen thousand and the rest were cast into a feare and gaue glorie to the God of heauen ANd at such time as it pleased God to begin his worke of instauration and to cause the dayspring of his Gospel to shine out of the night of Antichrists darknesse the abominable and desolate prophanation of the Beast which had so long time ouercast the earth was in such sort discouered that the very roote of his throne and vsurped authoritie was dangerously shaken which the holy Ghost closely foldeth vp in saying there was made a great earthquake And further foresheweth that out of this concussion there should arise so great defection that the tenth part of his worshippers should reuolt from him and that this reuolt and defection must cost the liues of many thousand men which the Spirit vttereth in a maner of speech strange to vs but vsuall with the Scriptures calling men names of men as Chap. 3. 4. and meaning by seuen thousand many thousand vsing the determinate number of seuen indefinitely and for a number indeterminate as it is also in Scripture often Which broiles and bloodshed concerning the institution of religion are so sufficiently reported in the Commentaries of Bohemia and Germanie and in the troubles of France and Flanders and other nations as if it were purposely registred in proofe of this prophecie Lastly the Spirit concluding foretelleth that many kingdomes in this defection should quite forsake the Beast and haste them out of Babylon home againe to build