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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

the kindreds and people and nations shall see their dead bodies three dayes and an halfe and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves Or and there shall be of kindreds and people and nations which shall see their dead bodies c. Whether this be to be taken for a part of crueltie or benefit it is doubtfull nor is it to be determined but by the fulfilling of the prophesie For it may be taken either as proceeding from enemies adding this disgrace to the great slaughter which they had made the deniall of buriall to the dead bodies of the slaine or as from friends and favourers of the Witnesses to wit by this means providing for them as it were by and by to rise againe For howsoever it was otherwise a part of a great crueltie not to bury the dead and to be cast out unburied was esteemed especially among the Ieues for an exceeding ignominy yet those which were so slaine that they were not plainly in despaire but that they might be restored to life againe it is to be accounted a benefit to hinder them a little while from close buriall If we must hold the first to be determined by this Type seemeth to be intimated some note of Infamie or Ignominy wherewith all the followers of the Beast not contented to have slaine the Witnesses will moreover punish them If the latter some rescue from the reformed people for feare of whom as being in multitude the greatest part by farre and therefore the wound being yet fresh Chap. 11. and things not as yet settled not to be provoked to desperation without danger or at least by secret meanes and favour it should come to passe that the Witnesses should not be so dealt with that there were no hope of reviving Achmetes out of the learning of the Indians Apotel 130 If any in his sleepe shall seeme to himselfe to be buried that buriall tendeth to the full certaintie of his ruine If he shall seeme to see some defect of things pertaining to his buriall that defect is referred to hope If thou now enquire whether any thing in the Text appeare which inclineth more to this interpretation then the other I truly should draw this for an Argument of this matter that since here he declareth the subject in manner and words different from that when he speaketh of enemies in the verse following he would not have the same to be understood here as there but divers there certainly enemies but here friends of the Witnesses For of the enemies in the verse following rejoycing and sending gifts one to another he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And they that dwell upon the earth But of those that will not suffer the dead bodies of the Witnesses to be put into graves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations partitively as if he would note some certaine ones of a divers disposition from the rest Let the Reader judge Three dayes and an halfe That is as it seemeth three yeere and an halfe For those things that are foretold to be done then do argue that they cannot be understood of dayes in proper sence For can any man beleeve that the small space of three dayes and an halfe is sufficient either for spreading the fame of the death of the Witnesses or for the sending of messengers with gifts to and fro among the Nations Nay it were not indeed sufficient for the providing of them Adde hereunto that the halfe of a day properly so taken or twelve houres were altogether unfit for determining of such acts For such matters are not wont to be observed by houres but by moneths at least by whole dayes In the meane time it is to be observed that the time here is computed not of the killing of the Witnesses but wherein they lay dead and without life now after they were slaine But how long the warre it selfe shall last and how long time shall be given for the killing of the Prophets nothing but the fulfilling of the prophesie will teach Chap. 11. And they that dwell upon the earth shall re●oyce over them and Vers 10. shall be glad and shall send gifts one to another because these two Prophe●s tormented them that dwelt on the earth Concerning the manner of sending gifts in a publique joy or in great gladnesse See Esther 9. 19. 22. But after three dayes and an halfe the spirit of life from God entered into them and they stood upon their feet and great feare fell Vers 11. upon them which saw them Such as the death of the Witnesses was such shall be their raising up or resurrection from the dead to wit a restitution to their former estate and that not so much by any humane power or ayde as the finger of God who is wonderfull in his works For these words the spirit of life from God entered into them intimateth this Achmetes apotelesm 6. and 7. out of the learning of the Egyptians and Persians If any shall seeme to see in a dreame the raising of the dead that matter signifyeth the delivery of those that be bound and an end of warres Apot. 7. a freedome from calamities You may see Ezek. chap. 37. And they heard a great voyce from heaven saying unto them Vers 12. Come up hither and they ascended up to heaven by a cloud or in a cloud and their enemies beheld them The witnesses shall not only be restored to their place and former station but shall be even advanced into some more excellent degree of honour and power For to be carried in a cloud and to ascend into heaven doth signifie that See Dan. 7.13 Esay 14. 13. and 19. Whereupon in the declarations of dreames which Apomasar or Achmetes that Arabian whom I have so often cited hath gathered out of the ancient monuments of the Egyptians and Fersians it is read if a King shall seeme to himselfe to have sitten in the clouds and to be carried whither soever he would the Barbarian enemies shall become his servants over whom he shall raigne with authoritie A●so if a King shall seeme to himselfe as it were to have ●lowen to heaven where the starres should be he shall obtaine eminency and fame above other Kings Likewise if a King being ascended up shall seeme to himselfe to be set in heaven he shall reduce a countrey greater then that which he possesseth under his power Apotel 162. and 164. These things I bring in to this purpose that I may shew that this parable was used in that meaning which I say by Chap. 11. the Prophets of God according to the custome of the East The ministery therefore of the witnesses sha●l not be despicable as before neither shall they be reckoned among the abject and contemptible sort of men So that that which our Saviour said of himselfe Luk. 24. 26. Did it not behoove Christ to suffer these things and afterward to enter into his glory shall