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A89026	The key of the Revelation, searched and demonstrated out of the naturall and proper charecters of the visions. With a coment thereupon, according to the rule of the same key, / published in Latine by the profoundly learned Master Joseph Mede B.D. late fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, for their use to whom God hath given a love and desire of knowing and searching into that admirable prophecie. Translated into English by Richard More of Linley in the Countie of Salop. Esquire, one of the Bargesses in this present convention of Parliament. With a præface written by Dr Twisse now prolocutor in the present Assembly of Divines.; Clavis apocalyptica. English	Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.; More, Richard, d. 1643.; Twisse, William, 1578?-1646.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing M1600; Thomason E68_6; ESTC R12329	241,145	298

last course or seventh head therefore he was his last predecessour or a Beast of the last head save one Neither let that move any man that yet under the course of the sixt head this Beast did notwithstanding appear seven headed there in the vision ●or although the heads kept their courses not together but in order and one after another yet notwithstanding the Beast with all the furniture of his heads and hornes is presented under any State to the end that one and the same Romane kingdom might be every where signified although sometime by some sometimes by other courses of governments But let us return to the text where the Complutense edition Irenaeus Aretas the Siriaque Paraphrast lately set forth and among the Latines Primasius consenting doth not allow the word vidi I saw but joyneth the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it were to this purpose The Dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authoritie and one of his heads wounded with a mortall stroke that it might be healed I suspect that also the vulgar Latine anciently reade it so because of that de capitibus suis for otherwise it would seeme it should have been said de capitibus eius But whether this reading be to be preferred before the other I will not rashly affirme only this it seemeth to be so very ancient that I marvell it is not marked by R. Stephanus But whatsoever it be the reading received if we interpret it rightly and as the matter it self altogether requireth it will come plainly to the same sense I saw saith he one of his heads 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is as if it had been wounded to death to wit not then the Apostle looking on but before it rose out of the Sea in this forme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or in a preterpluperfect sense even as before Chap. 5.6 he said he had seene in the midsts of the Elders and Beasts a Lambe standing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is as it had Chap. 13. been slaine not slaine then while he looked on But that which is added concerning the curing of the wound that either he saw done while yet the Beast rose out of the Sea or as soone as he rose thence Neither was this healing any later destinie which notwithstanding is beleeved of the most hitherto but the very nativitie of the last Beast There was a passage from every of the other heads to the course of the succeeding head without a wound but in the passage from the sixt to the last the Beast fell down with the deadly wound from the healing whereof I say neither sooner nor later the ten horned Beast or the Beast of the last head tooke his beginning neither fetcht he his originall higher Which that it is so the whole order of the following narrat●on proveth For whatsoever evill the Beast is mentioned to have committed whatsoever worship and adoration is done unto him by the inhabitants of the earth all that is said to come to passe after the curing of that wound I saw saith he one Vers 3. of his heads as it were wounded to death and the wound of his death or deadly wound was healed and the whole earth wondering followed the Beast to wit now healed and they worshipped the Dragon c. Then also there was given unto him a mouth speaking grea● things Vers 4. and blasphemies c. And he opened his mouth against God c. Vers 5. All these things came to passe after the healing but before this Vers 6. none of the hainous acts of the Beast are reported no mention of any subjection or honour conferred upon him by the Nations Whatsoever before is mentioned pertaineth partly to the forme of the Beast partly to the occasion and manner of his rising And wherefore I pray you should we frame unto our selves an Ante-christian Beast whereof for sometime no actions are related no persecution mentioned yea if we follow the reading of Iren●us and the Complutense leaving out the word vidi I saw there will be no place more left for such interpretation And all the world wondered after the Beast Vers 3. That is with full approbation and consent they tooke part with the Beast And they worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the Beast and they worshipped the Beast saying who is like unto Vers 4. the Beast who is able to make warre with him That is then worshipped not the Beast simply as the Beast but Chap. 13. also as the substitute of the Dragon and therefore they worshipped not the Beast only but under the maske of the Beast the Dragon himself also For to worship the Beast except as an Idolater the Dragons Vice-gerent in which sense it is here spoken had been no more impious then to yeeld obedience to any worldly authoritie Doubtlesse the Beast doth signifie the kingdom Now to worship the Beast out of the use of the Hebraisme and the East is no other thing then to be subject to the same Which that * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 explication added to the word of worshipping doth not obscurely shew they worshipped saith he the Beast saying who is like unto the Beast who is able to make warre with him As if he should have said they did freely yeeld themselves in obedience to the Beast as to one who so farre excelled in power that none was able to make resistance or to wage warre with him In which same sense Vers 12. the earth it self and not alone the inhabitants thereof is said to have worshipped the Beast that is to have yeelded to his dominion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. And ca●seth the Earth and them that dwell therein to worship c. So in the blessing of Iacob Gen. 27. 29. Let people serve thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and nations bowe down to thee be lord over thy brethren 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and let thy mothers sonne bowe down to thee Moreover ●oncerning this acception of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See Gen. 37. 7. and 49. 8. in the blessing of Iuda also Esa 45. 14. But to be subject to the Beast according to his r●ligious constitution as he resembleth the seven headed Dragon that truly is blasphemy and impious against God Whereupon who doe so worship the Beast are said to worship the Dragon in worshipping the Beast And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and Vers 5. blasphemies and power was given unto him to * Fa●iendi of doing continue fourtie and two moneths Hitherto of the constitution and state of the Beast Hereafter is expounded in what matters he exercised his power committed to him by the Dragon that is to say in two in blasphemy against God and persecution of the Saints But the whole description is taken out of the prophesie of Daniel Chap. 7. where is handled the

to make the contemporation a full and entire contemporation for they may all consist even with a contemporation but in part I thus therefore demonstrate the company of the sealed of the Lambe wholly and exactly to contemporize with the Beast That company of the sealed being an opposite with the Beast or of the whole company of the 〈◊〉 followers of the Beast is of the same time with them to wit the bands of the holy souldiers even then persevering in their alleagiance to the Lambe when other inhabitants of the world as revolters and Apostates had taken the marke of the Beast It is plaine out of the text whence as in times past according to the ancient custome servants and souldiers were wont to be branded and marked with the name of him to whom they had given their Faith even so these are shewed to beare the name of the Lambe and of his Father in their fore-heads Since this is so it followeth that either holdeth equall proportion with other and altogether answer in a like distance of time For the state of such opposition doth require that the company of the Sealed of the Lambe for as much as is intended by that vision be wholly esteemed of an opposite estate of the Beast For besides such opposition it hath no estate by the meaning of this vision and therefore with the same beginning beginneth and ending endeth 5 Furthermore concerning the finall contemporation that also may be proved by that mark out of the 7. Chapter Because the period of both aswell of the tyranny of the Beast as of that company of the sealed is the multitude of the palmebearers of the Beast because it is there said of the palm-bearers These are they which came out of great tribulation but out of what tribulation except of the Beast persecuting the Saints Therefore they leave the tyranny of the Beast behinde them of the companie of the sealed because the multitude of the palm-bearers immediately follow as by that transition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after Chap. 7. 1. these things I saw is manifest 5. A Consectarie of the generall Synchronisme of all hitherto mentioned So the Beast restored to life again or the ten horned hath contemporized with the woman in the wildernesse the treading under foot the holy City and the witnesses in the mean time mourning in sackcloth Synch 1. The two horned Beast with the ten horned Beast Synch 2. The whore with both Synch 3. The companie of the virgines sealed with the whore and the Beast Synch 4. Therefore all Synchronize with all The sixth Synchronisme Of the inward court measured with the reed of God of the lying in wait and the battaile of the seven headed Dragon with 〈◊〉 Michael concerning the child-birth For they are the immediate antecedents of those things which formerly were shewed to be contemporaries the battaile of the Dragon and the child-birth of the woman of the habitation of the woman in the desert and of the ten horned Beast the inner court for that which is said concerning the temple of God the 〈◊〉 altar and the priests worshipping there according to custome is the Periphrasis thereof of the outer court or people where the Gentiles without right or reason are said to be harboured For first both of them as well the child-birth of the woman as the battail of the Dragon with Michael doth altogether pitch upon the same period that is the flight of the woman into the wildernesse which is said immediately to have followed the designe of them both For the woman as soone as she had brought forth flieth into the wildernes there to be nourished 1260 dayes chap. 12. verse 6. Likewise the Dragon being throwen downe the woman flyeth into the wildernes there to be nourished from the presence of the Serpent or Dragon for a time times and halfe a time ver 13 14 wherefore the title of the Synchronisme doth cast both these as you see into one time as it were visions of the same time and altogether of the same thing and which there was no such need to sever in this matter Furthermore that same duell wherein Michael overcame the Dragon did goe next before the seven headed revived or ten horned Beast for the Dragon forthwith as soone as hee was throwen downe unto the earth standing upon the sea sand for the time to come delivereth his place that is his power throne and great authoritie to the Beast rising up thence and as the Complutense edition which Irenaeus hath it one of his heads as it were slaine to death whose wound being healed the whole Lib. 5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an● the text in ●he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 asse●●●h to this reading as also the Syriaque interpreter which is lately set forth yea among the ●a●●e 〈◊〉 Pri●as●● doth not read that word vidi I saw although he take it so by adding the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was This deceived ●im ●hat in latine one of the heads c. concerning the case is 〈…〉 the Greek world wondring followed the Beast chap. 13. verse 1 2 3. And thus far the matter is plaine and cleare but the antecession of the inner court to the outward court which is the onely thing that remaineth to perfect this Synchronisme is a little harder taske to prove because the matter is otherwise taken and therefore hindred with prejudice yet thus I shew it The inner court according to the building of the temple in situation and order is before the outer court being neerest to the thro●e of God or the temple which was the principall part of the whole structure 〈◊〉 Therefore if the things signified be of divers times for it is no new thing that the order of situation should expresse the order of time as it is to be seen in the Statua in Nebuchadnezzars dream surely it is agreeable to reason that the thing signified by the inner court should bee in time before the thing signified by the outer But that the things meant by the courts are of divers times and so that which is meant by the inner court more ancient and before the other I thus farre demonstrate because this vision of the measuring of the court of the temple and altar or the inner court is the beginning to the prophesie repeated which as anon more at large shall be shewed doth from the originall and very first beginning rehearse the times of the prophesie of the seales the beginning whereof no man doubteth to be fetcht from the very Epoche of the time of the Revelation Thou must saith he prophesie againe for so he expoundeth the mysterie of the eaten booke to many people nations tongues and kings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Again that is to say the order of times concerning which he had prophesied before being repeated For he beginneth from that measuring of the temple and altar and them that worshipped therein If therefore the vision of the woman bringing forth the childe and the war of

Za● 6.12 here in the Revelation chap 19.13 so that to have the name of Death is no other thing in this place then singularly and notoriously to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Mortiferum the bringer of Death To which purpose is that also that Hell as a surveyer of funeralls accompanieth the same Libitindrius Now let us look into the event And surely never since the seals began did these three joyntly and in so notable a manner rage I will begin at slaughter and I omit the things which this age suffered from a ●orraine enemy truely most grievous things the Of the sword Barbarians with rapines and murders wasting almost the whole Empyre under the Emperours Gallus and Volusianus But those things come not ●n to this reckoning we look after intestine and Domestique Ten therefore more or lesse Emperours and C●sars Chap. 6. which are counted lawfull in the compa●●e of this seal that is the space of three and thirty yeeres or few more did the sword not of their enemies but their own Subjects take away In the same space under the Empyre of Gallienus alone those thirty tyrants which Pollio mentioneth or perhaps one or two lesse rose up in divers parts of the Romane Empire and almost all these slain either by their own or by another or were put to death by the lawfull Emperours So that Orosius said not without cause of this plague that it was made famous not by the slaughter of the common The sword people but by the woundes and deathes of princes To conclude the Emperours themselves and first Maximinus and last of all Gallienus how cruell were they Maximinus Iulius Capitolinus being witnesse was so cruell that some named him Cyclops others Busicis others Sciron some Platar● many Typhon or Gyges The Senate so feared him that they prayed in the Temples publikely and privately even the women with their children that he might never see the city of Rome For they heard that some were cruci●ied others enclosed in Beasts newly killed others cast to wilde Beasts others bruised with cudgells and all these without regard of dignity The same man goeth forward He slew all that knew his discent to hide the basenesse of his birth yea and some of his friends who for pity and affection had often given him many things Neither was there a more cruell Beast upon the Earth To conclude saith he without judgement without accusation without an accuser without defence he ●lew all of the ●action of some great one which had been Consul took away the goods of all and could not satisfie himselfe with the slaughter of above four thousand men Heare also what Trebellius Pollio in the book of thirty tyrants saith of Gallineus Inge●us saith he being slain who was n●med Emperour of the Masian legions he bitterly shewed his Chap. 6. cruelty u●on all the Moesi●ns aswell souldiers as citizens neither did any of them wholly escape his cruelty and was so sharpe and cruel that he left most of the cities void of the male sexe The same Author upon the life of Gallienus The Seythians saith he ●oing through Capad●cea the souldiers thought againe of making a new Emperour all whom Gallienus after his manner slew Head●eth in the end He was t●o ●oo cruell to the souldiers for he slew 3000. or 4000. every day Pellio also on the same life of Gallienus re●orteth a very memorable example of the Bizanti●e slaughter executed partly by the souldiers partly by Gallienus himselfe That no evill should be wanting saith he in the times of Gallienus the city of the Birantines renowned for Sea fights and the place which barreth in the Euxine Sea was so wholly C●anstrum panti ●●m destroyed by the souldiers of Ga●●ienus that there was not a man left For revenge of which destruction Gallienus being againe received to Biza●tium he slayeth all the souldiers unarmed being compassed round with the armour breaking the covenant which he had made So much for slaughters I come to Pestilence which here according to the Easterne custome is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Death So the ●f ●●stilence Chalde Paraprast for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pestilence liketh to pu● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Death and the Septuagi●ts for the most part translate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 death and in the like notion it is wont to be called mortality by Eclesiasticall writers which now hath passed into many mother tongues But concerning the pestilence it is a thing so notorious and manifest that i● i● not needfu●l to heap arguments to make good the truth of the pr●phecie I will dispatch it in a word Zonaras ●s my Author neither have others been si●ent under the Emperours Gallus and Volusianus the pestilence arising from Ethiopia went through all the provinces of Rome and for fifteene yeers together incredibly Lips●us de Constant 2 23. Chap. 6. Of famine wasted them Neither did I ever read of a greater pla●ue saith an eminent man in our age for that space of time or land There rem●ineth yet famine of those three calamities which surely could not be wanting from this age although ●one of the ancients had brought it to light any man may thence gather that Chap. 6. almost all the Empire through these times was so polled and consumed by the rapines and wastes of the Scythians that no Nation if credit be given to Zosi●us of the Roman dominion remained free almost all the townes deprived of wals and being deprived of them the greatest part were taken How could it come to passe but that the fields should be forsaken in such wastes plowing neglected and whatsoever provision there was any where for food spoiled And that in truth it came so to passe is manifest by the Epistle of Dyonisius Alexandrinus who the● lived to his brethren ●pud E●seb Hi●●or lib ● c●a 17 wherein he testifieth that that fearefu●● pestilence which wee mentioned succeeded the war famine After these things saith he that is the persecution which was under Decius for he meaneth that which went before the pestilence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both war and famine followed which wee suffered together with the Heathen and a little after But when saith hee both we and they had had a little respite that pestilence came upon us a thing more terrible to them then any terror and more lamentable then any calamitie and to us an exercise and triall inferiour to none of the rest Cyprian confirmeth it in his Apologie to Demetrianus When saith he thou sayest that very many complaine that it is imputed to us that wars arise oftner that the pestilence and famine do rage and that it is such stormie and ra●nie weather we ought not any longer to be silent c. That which is further added in the text concerning the Beasts if it be divers from the former and do not rather signifie that the Tyrants were the cause of these calamities who like wilde

highest in situation the last in time which beareth the hornes I now therefore proceede to expound the remaining Effigies of the same last Beast And this Beast in the feete by which the body is supported with which it moveth and goeth and the former of which in Beasts are in stead of hands and armes for handling snatching and fighting in feet I say doth exceedingly resemble the Empire of the Persians since as they did relye upon the Councels of their * Magi Wisards Wise men in managing their affaires so the Romane Kingdome of the last state is governed by the authoritie of the Monks and Idolatrous Clarkes like to those Wise men Whether that belongeth which afterwards shall be said of that other Beast the Vers 12. false Prophet that he exerciseth all the power of this tenne horned Beast before him For feet here are to be considered not as the basest and more unworthy members of the body but as they are in Beasts not onely instruments of going but also of fighting and Chap. 12. catching their prey in which of Beares I speake of the former feet the principall strength of the body consisteth Neither are feet here to be understood that part onely which maketh the tract upon the ground but which as the foresaid part comprehendeth the thighs and armes also To conclude the tenne horned Beast maketh Edicts with a Babylonian mouth to wit commanding the worshipping of Idols and Images denouncing the penalty of death and burning alive against those that refuse in like manner as that Nebuchadnezar against the Iewes refusing to worship the golden Image which he had erected to his Bel of sixty cubits long Dan. Chap. 3. Notwithstanding I would not that the interpretation of others should receive any prejudice by this of mine theirs I meane who conceive it rather respecteth the naturall disposition of these three Beasts the nature or crueltie of all which the tenne horned should expresse Let every one use his owne judgement And the Dragon gave him he that was cast down who stood Vers 4. upon the Sea sand his power that is his strength or forces 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his seat and great authoritie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the Seventy signifieth forces or an Army out of the use as it seemeth of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Hebrewes whereby both as well strength power as also an army is signified the Seventy Exod. 14. 28. concerning the Army of Pharaoh drowned doe thus translate The waters covered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the Host of Pharaoh and 15. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Host hath he cast into the Sea and so in many places not onely with them alone but also with prophane writers From this notion are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Lord of Hosts And Mat. 24. 29. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the powers or Hosts of the heavens shall be shaken likewise in the next vers it is said The Son of man shall come in the clouds of the heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in the Chapter following is expounded 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his glory and with all the holy Angels with him So in this place The Dragon or Satan gave to the tenne horned Beast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is his forces or his Host Now the forces of Satan are his Angels or * Daemons Devils and Idols the receptacles of * Daemons Divels To wit these forces he gave to this last Beast to be garnished and adorned together with his seat and great authoritie that is in one word that universall authoritie Chap. 13. from which lately he had fallen being overcome and vanquished by Michael and the holy Martyrs and Confessors of Christ So that the Dragon or Satan in this Beast of the last state did in a certaine manner recover his ancient dominion which he had exercised in the state of the Red Dragon but in a representation so unlike the former that the Seed of the woman in the Wildernesse did for the present little observe it For now the Dragon did not behave himselfe like a Dragon as before that is he professed not himselfe to be what he was the sworne enemie of the Christian profession for if he had done this the Seed of the woman would presently have knowne him and would have taken heed of him as of a most cruell enemie to wit out of that inbred antipathy which God even from the beginning of the world had ordained should be between them I will put saith he enmitie betweene thee and the woman and betweene thy seede and her seede But surely when as he had transfigured himselfe into the Gen. 3.15 shape not of a Serpent but of another Beast having no affinitie with a Serpent it was not so hard a matter for him to deceive the seede of the woman that is the Christian Church being joyfull for the late victory and now secure from the Dragon and to allure it to obey him Which the false deceiver did so cunningly and secretly under the maske of a Beast which he himselfe did hate that not till it was too late the Church did know her selfe to be deceived by the old enemie and to worship the Dragon under this maske For who would have suspected that under the representation of a Leopard or of a Panther which is the same there had lyen hid the Dragon that is under the shape of that Isidor lib. 12. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so called because he is the friend of all other Beasts excepting the Dragon Beast which when as other Beasts being allured either by the beauty of the skinne or the sweetnes●e of the smell love to come neere unto and looke upon onely the Dragon is said to abhorre and to flie from Or that I may a little more cleerely unfold the matter who would have judged that under an Empire pretending the worship of Christian Religion demolishing Idols horrible idolatry and lately abolished heathenisme should be mainly set up and promoted by lawes and Edicts And I saw one of his heads to wit the sixt as it were wounded Vers 3. to death this came to pas●e in the battell with Michael and the holy Martyrs and his deadly wound was healed to wit by the medicine of this substituted authoritie Chap. 13. Now that the seven headed Dragon I meane the Romane Empire upon which the old Serpent did sit that is to say Rome heathen was the Beast of the fixt head may as well appeare out of that which is said afterward concerning those heads Chap. 17. that five were already fallen in Iohns time one which is the sixt governed the Romane State at that time as also chiefly because that this Beast of the last course succeeded him next in the same seale The Dragon I say is said here to have given his seat to the Beast of the