contempt of Godly teaching Christ was great Noe Sem Arphaxad Selah Eber Phaleg brother to Ioctan hath cast thē of hitherto The West-Indians seeme to come of the East as both speake some Ebrew Now God driueth vs to both Indians not for Pepper and Tobacho but in tyme to shew his name And the Iesuites in teaching the holy Trinity Person and Iustice of Christ may saue many and the Pope shall haue an outward reward of longer successe and some hundreths of yeares must be spent this way Of the old opinion of 6000. yeares God hath cast old ages into a pleasant frame of measures of them for Iewes and from Iewes I dedicated an Ebrew worke to the Landtgraue of Hessia Now thousandes I will touch In 3000. exactly the Temple was fully furnished euen to the Arke In 4000. exactly the Romanes destroyed the seconde Temple if without it Messias dayes haue 2000. yeares from the yeare of Christ 1609. of Adam 5536. One as Heber may come to the worlds end by 464. yer The trueth God only knoweth reason telleth affaires in worke require such tyme But no particular person is sure of one day but all should watch when the Bridegrome commeth And to destroy them that destroy the earth Although no Creature but Angells and men know God yet the close bent of all Creatures is framed to serue man for Christ God bending them so And in that sense euery thing is weary of their toyle Eccl. 1. and groneth looking for the Redemtion of the Children of God Rom. 8. and being turned to seruice of Idolls grone in Gods estieme as corrupted such was the old world in corrupting their wayes such were Babel builders till heathen came to God and almost all to this day And Apoc. 5. All creatures giue glory to the Lambe in seruice of Christians But alas men to this day would neuer search Gods word the wealthie and principall of state but remit that ouer vnto others as a base worke for themselues to regard whereby God cast off the world And the Temple of God was open in the heauen and the Arke of his Couenant was seene in his Temple and there were lightnings voices thunders earthquake great haile After papistries ouerthrow Christ who is the Temple and the Arke who hath the Law within him is the mercy seat shall be opened to the few saued and God will pay Papists with warres for the haile and fire that they mixed with blood troublesome meteores eloquently expresse troubles of state as before our Lordes first comming the Romans miseries destroying themselues were a wonder to historiques because Crassus robbed the Temple and Pompei afore made Israel serue Rome and Brutus with Cassius and Antonius with Cleopatra and againe Iulius so Rome that still will crucifie Christ shall haue as great stirrs to warne them of vtter ruine But by warres profanesse breedeth to all sides that when the SON OF MAN commeth he shall scant finde faith vpon the earth The best way to keepe faith is to exercise our vniuersities in the Ebrew and Greeke Testament and to leaue ciuill gouernement to sage courtes fitt for it as Zuricke in Zuitzerland doth that Scholars tyrannie make not new papistrie And thus once all is reueiled vnto the end New visions tell the same matter for better clearnesse CHAP. XII A description of the Church AND a great signe was seene in the heauen a woman clothed with the sun With the moone vnder her feet and a crowne of 12. starres vpon her head and beeing with child cried in trauaile and peigned to beare child THE woman is the church through the song of songes and there pure as the sun heere clothed with Christ the Sunne of Iustice And the state of the faithfull is called through this booke heauen and they are a great signe to the profane world to wonder at The Moone and all vnder the Sunne is contemned of the faithfull and the doctrine which the 12. Apostles equall in knowled and authoritie deliuered to the world is the Crowne and they be 12 starres Iudas Iscariot fell a starre from heauen and Matthias became a sonne of consolation in his stead to keepe still the number of XII for the XII tribes and as S. Paul trauailed of the Galathians that is of Christ to be formed in them that they frustrate not the Gospell by holding circumcision nowe abrogated So the faithfull trauailed in soule to haue Christ brought forth to heathens knowledge that all might knowe that all this world was made obedient to a man At the first which man fell from God his first day and then God opened his Counsell that the Sonne Eternall would be made man of a woman to destroy the workes of the Angels that fell who all are collectiuely satan the enemie Satan brought Adam to lose the life of his soule and his body to death and dust and all this world to corruption Christ kindled light in Adams soule and after 930. yeares heauinesse for sin tooke it to his ioy and will raise vp the body and make a new world that all men who will receiue the abundance of grace of the gift of iustice may reigne by Christ and all who will not regard this mercy so cleare as the sunne they all by Adams fall dead in sin shal be damned for euer with the Diuils This is the trauaile of the Christian minde Speach of this is in all books of the Old Testament in Adams tongue in all the newe in Greeke made most common for this Gospell And Lawe with Gospell expounded by groundes of art which enemies grant should bee the trauaile of our minde And if Academies had brought vp their scholars in Ebrew and Greek exercises for the holy eternall Trinitie in Vnitie and for kissing the SON to happinesse Psal 2. By likely-hood of mans reason the world had benefull of true Christians where as now our Papes Archbuyshopps and Buyshopps know not one letter prick accent of the Law what authoritie it hath from God A pitifull matter that such blinde should bee leaders But the blinde will no other leaders So God cannot pittie them who will make knowen them that be his and despise them that despise him that they poore Caytifes shall perish for euer and feele the aeternall wrath of him whose mercy they haue despised while they counted the mercies offred in Christ to be but folly Of the Prophane Caesar and Pope reuiuing of him both comprised in the body and taile of one Dragon Another signe was seene in the heauen For beholde there was a great ruddie Dragon with 7. heades and ten hornes and vpon his heades seauen diademes And his taile draweth a third part of the Starres of heauen and cast them vnto the earth Iohn saw with his eyes in Vision that which hee and all the Apostles as S. Paul 2. Thess 2. saw in their minde That from Rome the Ruler should rule till hee were taken away After thence man of
New Testaments elegancie The N. Testam in Greeke is so little that by one houre in the morning and euening in one weeke one may with ease and great delite read it ouer Yet this booke hath more seuerall wordes by the fishers of Galile and the Phisitian of Antioch and the tent-maker borne in Tarsus to be the first Apostle at Rome then 100. great Greek bookes aboue 4600. that all old Greekes haue some building in it and all extant now but for fragments kept cannot serue it More in mens names it learnedly openeth Ebrew to rare vse as Bosor for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Pet. 2. by Babels pronouncing not Italy that any maide of Chaldea might see by the speach whence the Galilean wrote So Talmud names come as Lazar for Eleazar whose natioÌ„ is fitt for any one that maketh God his strength to feast in Abrahams Bosom when the soule departeth hence Moreouer the Macedonians spake Greeke wordes in east south hardly found as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and such such from Thalmudiques of Babell the N. T. had and east termes for politique matters from Seleucidae as Angareum to postseruice It hath aboue 50. of Syriaque for rare vse And to shew in what age eueÌ„ vnder the Romans empire beginning Greekes end Iewes haue Greeke names and some Latin as Philip and Andrew and Marc Iustus such This checketh the Talmud which from the depth of Satan persuadeth his sonnes that Iesus our Lord his dayes were long before in the Maccabees gouernement Foure Dialests the Booke hath Attique or commune Greeke for matters knowen to heathen as Spermologos to Paul at Athenes the deadliest that Demosthenes there aboue 300 yeres afore bestowed vpon Aeschynes So from Diphilus and Philemon and Sophocles some for speciall vse and from Epimenides Aratus Menander knowen testimonies briefly from al eloquent some as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for any passage Haides to conteine heaueÌ„ Hell Luc. 16. 4. and in Act. 10. tymes Luke praeuented 15. foolish brawles by Greek But men care not kicking against the spurre Act. 9. is often in Aeschylus Euripides and names of maners from all so that one cuÌ„ning in the N. Testa Greekes should froÌ„ the one still runne to the other in memorie see better vse of both And though one had so many eyes as Argus in Aeschylus 10000. all would heer be well occupied Another Dialect is froÌ„ the 70. wheÌ„ the speach is most to Iewes as Iechonias begate Salathiel so Zedekiahs the vncle 3. yer elder is sonne and Ioachaz first king yonger 2. yeres Ioackim is eldest So Vzziah is sonne to Ioram his fathers great grandfather So our Lord is sonne to Ioseph as men thought to Ely ' c. to Adam to God as sonne of Dauid For some of these the heathen haue the like so Iulian calleth Romulus his Ancestor as S. Maâ—h speaketh of Iechonias and Salathiel so for the word vntill for a matter neuer done Math. 1. and 5. and Homers Ili 5. in Agamemnon to Chryses that he should not haue his daughter vntill she spent her age with him in Argos So a iudge giueth sentence for one that oweth 10000. talents and hath not a peny to pay nor can gett in prison that he shall be in prison till he pay the vttermost farthing The prisoner will not plead that in tyme he must come out Starres be darkened by ignorance of Greeke to put going to Hell for going to Paradise a breeding of Purgatorie which Grecia of 1200. yeares neuer held The 70. Greeke is notable in this whom God raysed vp disannulling the sorrowes or hurtes of death Act. 2. from Psal 18. he that would say Peter spake of the second death or of hell Torment deserueth small thankes Briefly many a thousand of wordes haue the Apostles from the 70. calling vs to remembrance of so many places in the old Testament of them I haue made an Ebrew Greeke dictionarie and my friendes haue it in London and they who will giue securitie for the copy may write it out The old Ierom Erasmus and Beza missed much of lightes by not expounding 70. Greekes from their Ebrew that sun and ayer were much darkened The 3. dialect is the Apostles owne often do they expresse Ebrew in a new manner and S. Paul the Orator of Tarsus borne to be first Papas or father in Praetorio at Rome brought vp at Gamaliels feete to shew in the Epist to the Heb. the best Thalmudique that euer the sunne saw the Ebrew of Ebrewes fathers side and mothers side and rediest in genealogies true and profitable for his sisters sonne and other cousins three Rom. 15. This Iaspar of Beniamin the first foundation of the heauenly Citie shall be cited for clearing Moses Deut. 30. the holy Gospell by expressing Ebrew in new Greeke What to goe vp to heauen to bring Christ downe meaneth What to goe downe to the deepe to bring Christ from the dead meaneth Moses of Leui grauen in the Smaragd and in his Law a sunne In solio Phoebus claris lucentis Smaragdis forbiddeth Israel to leaue studie of the Law as though it were high or farre fetched in speach and thus telleth what Smaragd-light it hath Deu. 30. 11. This commandement which I commaund thee this day is not a wonder for thee neither is it farre off it is not in heauen to cause speach who can goe vp vnto heauen to take it and preach it to vs that wee may do it neither is it beyond the sea to cause speach who shall goe for vs beyond the sea to take it for vs preach it to vs that we may do it But the word is verie near vnto thee for thy mouth for thy heart to do it Thus Moses sheweth that the Smaragd of the Law shineth in the Couenant of the Rainebow Isai 54. for the waters of Noah That Christ in Genesis was knowen to the Patriarkes and all the Ceremonies went no further and the Ciuill lawes were most sensible and all might be acquainted with it The Scribes do teach it sitting in Moses chaire without their owne workes of traditions and such as liued in trauaile of handes might be able to judge Now Saint Paul giueth such testimonie that for the Law they were exact as he yet was a Pharisee but they not knowing that God was in Christ reconciling the world vnto himselfe by the death of Christ and resurrection missed of the end of the Law that blinde zeale to it made them fall froÌ„ God Now S. Paul imitateth Moses whose whole doctrine coÌ„meth to this summe do not say who can goe vp to heauen in high conceite to bring Christ to dwell in our Tabernacle below or who can goe in beleef to the deepe of the earth to bring vp Christ from the dead But what saith hee The word is neere thee for thy mouth and for thy
place gainesaid This sheweth that Peter was neuer at Rome And Saint Pauls iourney telleth Rome that God hated them If he had not beene sought to bee killed Lysias had not sent him to Caesarea and if the Iewes had not againe there sought to haue killed him hee had not appealed to Caesar God would not that hee should come to Rome but vpon extreamities So the iourney thither shewed that Christ hated the Citie that crucified him was strange in calamities and Paul was brought thither as a prisoner and kept in prison though somewhat free CHAPTER XIIII And I saw and behold a Lambe stood vpon mount Syon and an hundred fourty foure thousand were with him hauing the name of their father written in their forehead THEY which were called afore two Prophets are now 144000. hauing the name of God written in their forehead the same number is said before to be sealed ch 7. by a speach from Ezekiel ch 9. 4. There in the 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the terme of chap. 13. in Kimchy a signe or writing S. Paul expoundeth the speach that God will make them knowen who be his that they who professe the name of God shall depart from wickednesse So they who haue Gods name are made knowen who bee his and expound his word and follow trueth of worship due to him bearing a marke in open profession as sacrificers such as Aharon had In this sort the holy Church still had some nūber to professe the summe of saluation though on mount Sion a small hill for the mountaines of the world not one to a million of ADONIKAM and his Children of three fold as storie 666. that number chap. 13. to beare the number of his name was vsed for any number of Apostatique profession So heere the 144000. twelue tymes twelue is vsed for any Company that trusteth in Christ as the Patriarches did And I heard a voice out of heauen as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes and they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the foure liuely wightes and the Elders The heauen commonly in this booke is the Church waters voice is continuall so heere continuall singing is meant harpes signifie song with agreement the new song is for mans praeseruation euery day The foure wightes are the rare as Daniel Ananias Azarias and Misael and all the Euangelistes and S. Paul full of courage of Lions so were all the Apostles of rare patience ready to be sacrificed euery day and they were the true Philosophers thinking what should befall them after death and they were the Eagles of high flight sight The Elders are the Bishops or Teachers the sage in gouernement and skill in the holy Hebrew and Greek Testaments The song none could vnderstand but the 144000. as no Papist soundly thinketh of all things made for Gods glorie in Christ and how by him wholy iustice commeth and he onely must be worshipped When this is told them they are like vnto men that dreame and know not who they are that are bought from the earth not what their religion meaneth Thereupon it is written And none could vnderstand the song but the hundred fourty and foure thousand which were bought from the earth What this songe was Through the whole scripture this song is one and the same that IEHOVAH our GOD IEHOVAH is ONE The FATHER the SON the Holy Spirite be one Coaeternall and Coessentiall the SON is called the WORD by the WORD the Father made the World and by the Spirite beautified the heauens And because the WORD would become flesh the World was made to serue once Adam the first The Angells that grudged at that fell for euer and deceiued Adam and made him dead in sin and brought him to be turning dayly to dust vntill he dyed and for him the whole frame of the Creature was pronunced corrupt But he belieued that Christ made of a woman made vnder the Law God being in him to reconcile the World to himselfe should giue Adams soule iustice by faith should raise vp his Bodie and make a new World by his power whereby hee can subdue all things to himselfe This is the summe of the song tolde through all Bookes of the Bible A Digression to shew the Concent of all the holy Bookes Geneses sheweth how by the WORD of IEHOVAH the heauens were made and all the settled army of them by the Spirite of his mouth and when man fell the WORD telling that to destroy the workes of Satan he would be made flesh and haue a Tabernacle in vs. In which point the Fathers faith vnto the charge of Iosephs bones to bee caried vnto the Land wherein our Lordes resurrection should be a Testimony of a new World taught by Ioseph in his bones long after his death By faith he taught by his dead bones of the new world and therein Geneses end hath a new Geneses All simple should learne CHRIST from the Gospell of Geneses wher 's his Godhead so familiarly delited in the holy Prov. 8. and shewed in appearances that he would be man All yong men brought vp to be Bishops of the Kings armies or Church would reioyce to haue learned Geneses in Ebrew by heart In old age they should gather the fruit Obiection of them that are not bought from the earth S. Ierome saith Iewes read not the three first chapters of Geneses till they be 30. yeeres old Answere None should cite Ierome to make him a foole or to win the Whetstone Maymony in Morch Nebuchim hath this sentence that none did Darash read as a Doctor expoundeth Genes 1. and 2. and 3. and Ezech. 1. before he was aged 30. So S. Ierom meant Iewes all teach their Children from seauen to read all Moyses It were better that Rome were with Helice and Bura then Popes should be suffred so to bring most wickedly the word of life into a deadly hatred Of Iob. Iob is a booke for all holy to take notice of for instructing their families in the knowlede of Christ which Abraham carefully did as God testifieth the comfort of it their posterity shall finde as the booke setteth forth the faith and loue the effects of the Gospell 1. Thes 1. of his posterity euen before the Lawe was giuen to shewe that the godly had alwaies the Law written in their hearts 2. Cor. 3. Ier. 32. Rom. 2. Iob is a patron to all the faithfull in prosperitie for loue compassion iustice and equity c. in his afflictions his faith and hope in the Redeemer the seed promised whom he knew would take our nature vpon him to dy for him and by his Godhead rayse himselfe from death and that by his resurrection he should be raysed in the last day be made like his glorious body and that he euer liued to make intercession for him these thinges were his comfort in his greatest
Vbiquitie and others iourney to hell be great spotts yet many are free from these and mo wil be in tyme. And out of his mouth commeth a sharpe sword to strike the nationes with it and hee shall bruise them with an yron Sceptre The sword of his word hath in all ages told that euery trespas should receiue iust recompence and by stories past wee should assure vs of them that be to come and the yron Sceptre taught by Dauid how Christ his enemies should fall And the Image beaten to dust Dan. 2. and the Romane ciuill warres taught them what it was to meddle with the Iewes and with Tully to say Barbara Iudaeorum superstitio Gens nata seruituti So Diui Caesares for 300. yeares were brused and now the Pope for 400. to come may still looke to bee plagued that by 6000. yeeres of the world he shall be as the Macedonians at our Lords birth voyd of all authoritie This short vision may endure a long time as that in Ezekiel of Gog and Magog 38. and 39. contayned matter of 300. yeeres And hee treadeth the presse of the wine of the anger and indignation of God of hostes and hee hath vpon his garment and vpon his thigh a name written KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS Esay 63. telling of the winepresse teacheth now by story of old euents and the other Attributes Nabuchad Dan. 2. giueth to Daniels God and the stories shew the works And students of iudgement would bee ready in heathen which open the holy Bookes from the first Greek stories to the last By garment and thigh written vpon open dealings of Christ teach men to contemne his mediation and to feele that hee ruleth all An open proclamation of the Popes destruction And I saw an Angell standing in the sun and hee cried with a great voice saying to all the birds that flee in the ayer come and assemble vnto the supper of the great God to eate the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Coronels and the flesh of the Mighty and the flesh of horses and of their Riders and the flesh of all free and bound This speach Ezekiel vsed ch 38. speaking of Macedonians that should afflict Iuda specially vnder Antiochus Epiphanes after whom that Kingdome fell dayly more and more with horrible destruction And as the speach in Ezekiel is caried hither so the names of Gog and Magog be in the next Chapter where the Popes chiefe ripenesse commeth to let Satan loose And I saw the beast and the Kings of the earth and their armies to make warre with him that sate vpon the horse and with his armie This short prophecie telleth that the Pope and Empire shall fight against the Restorers of the Gospell and still haue the worse Albion and Ierne haue shaked him off and much of Germanie and Netherland and halfe Zwitzerland and all Denmarke and his murthering of the French King will haue reuenge In Ireland his stirring of Papists vnder Desmond to rebell made greater death then kites wolues doggs could deuoure or men bury or riuers wash without poysoning their fish And Brabant now 40. yer hath seene great slaughters and the Kinges putting of his owne son to death was more losse to his house then many millions And his owne death was of a strange sicknesse So many French that persecuted the Gospell had strange death And one after another while they fight against Christ shall haue strange successe as the Popes haue strange deaths and boyles at home An abridgement of all Gods iudgements in one And the beast was caught and with him the false prophet which worketh signes before him by which he deceiueth them that receiue the marke of the beast and worshippeth his image Both were cast aliue into the lake burning with fire and brimstone Andreas vpon chap. 13. teacheth plainely that Antichrist setting vp the Empire is there meant So Pope Emperor must needes be meant heere to as euident destruction as if they were cast aliue into eternall flames this should be a faire warning for men to come out of Babel to vse no garments no prayers no lawes of the Popes making And the rest were killed with the sword of him which sate vpon the horse which went out of his mouth and all the foules were filled with their flesh The principall had open terrible miserie the others in vision had but death So in Daniel chap. 7. the fourth beast was cast into the fire and the common sort in Ezek. are eat of foules CHAPTER XX. The Diuells are not simply bound And I saw an Angell comming downe from heauen hauing the key of the Pit and a great chaine in his hand and he laid hold vpon the Dracon the old Serpent which is the Diuell and Satan and he bound him a thousand yeeres and cast him into the Pit and shut him vp and sealed vpon him that he should not deceiue the nations any more vntill the thousand yeeres were ended Afterwards he must be loosed a litle while THAT the Diuels are not simply bound one houre Iob. 1. and 1. Pet. 5. teach vs when they fell the sixt day misliking the charge of care ouer man the darke ayer wherin we breath a black Tartarus without starre-light is their lodging in chaines of Gods prouidence as if they were in prison So wee may not thinke that the Diuels were euer simply bound but they were in the Pit whence at the last the locusts came foorth among the company of the profance that they deceiued not the great number sealed chap. 7. and former martyrs ch 6. But for a thousand yeeres some reigned in all ages with Christ and many were martyred and moo vndeceiued to worshippe the beast and his Image to take the marke in the forehead or hand They liued the true life by the Gospell where all faithlesse aliue be dead in sinne as S. Peter saith and Zeror Hamor infinitely The Apostles in their ages liued reigned with Christ and Iustine Martyr and Athenagoras and such in their ages Athanasius and many of his tyme and so others in their ages liued heere the Christian life and reigned as Kinges sacrificing their owne affections chap. 1. Some in all partes of the thousand yeeres not altogether a thousand yeeres The rest of the dead did not reuiue vntill the thousand yeeres were ended as the profane Caesares and Idolatrous Locusts who had great occasion offred to the first resurrectiō with Christ Rom. 6. Eph. 2. But they being dead in sin despised the truth and reuiued not The first resurrection is by faith to be risen with Christ He is happy and holy that hath his portion in the first resurrection The second death shall haue no power ouer them but they shal be sacrificers of God and of Christ and there shall be such to reigne with him for a thousand yeares From Adam of 1000. yer Satan deceiued not generally while the Fathers liued that the flood was denounced in the old world
in the world now of 900. Chanaans sinne was growing to ripenes Amalek of 1000. came not to Amans pride as Israel bred not Sadducees of 1000. yer nor Rome gate rule to deceiue whole states of a thousand yeres Now the text will be cleare The Pope deceiued not generally till 1000. yerees And I saw thrones on which men sate and iudgement was giuen to them and the soules of them that were beheaded for the testimony of IESVS and for the word of God and which worshipped not the beast nor his Image nor tooke the marke in their forehead or vpon their hand but they liued and reigned with CHRIST the 1000. year The rest of the dead did not reuiue of the 1000. year This is the first resurrection Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection The second death hath no power ouer them but they shal be sacrificers of GOD and CHRIST and reigne with him a 1000. year Heere then be martyrs and holy for 1000. year But the starre-worme-wood and the darkened starres and the locusts they continued in profane heathen lot and the Diuels were in their pit helping them to sett him loose to vex the holy Church for the old Ierusalem which Christ pronunced that it should be Iebus or troden downe for euer And when the thousand yeres are finished Satan shall be let loose out of the Prison and shall goe foorth to deceiue the nations ouer the foure corners of the earth Gog and Magog togather them vnto warres whose nūber is as the sand of the sea The Pope to weaken Princes did set them on to recouer the holy land which God would haue to abide cursed that Iewes might see their sinne killing Christ this would the Pope haue recouered and Rome in a thousand yeeres could not learne this one chapter nor remember old Gog and Magog how the Pope now reuiueth that warre in my Concent I haue shewed the termes meaning Thence the Reader may fetch it The Iewes Ierusalem was holy but now the Christian Church is the beloued Citie and the tents of the holy which to besiege and weaken hee stirred this warres for desolate Ierusalem The Pope weakened the West in superstition prouoking to warre for as he termed it the holy Land And they ascended ouer the breadth of the earth and compassed the Tent of the holy and the beloued Citie All the strength of the West was deceiued by superstition to goe fight in the East for Antioch in the land of Magog and other soiles neere Ierusalem and all the force of Machmad from the East assembled and 200. yea the poore Church was afflicted that afterwards Popes might set Kings vp and down as they would And Machmad still since hath vexed the West and the king of Locusts now hath 300. yeares beeing a new Gog and Magog vexed the Church And a fire came downe from heauen and ate them vp As Satan dealth with Iobs sheepe he dealth with the Popes sheepe to eate them vp with fire Euen thence to the worlds end chap. 19. which matter is heere briefly repeated and in that which followeth The Pope is a Beast of Empire by his might And the Diuell which deceiued them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast and false prophet and they shall be tormented day and night for euer and euer The Pope is a Beast of Empire by his might and so the eight is also the seauenth and hee with his Clergie is also the false prophet Heere Papists may see what shall become of them A liuely description of the latter Iudgement And I saw a great white throne and one sitting vpon it from whose presence the Earth and the Heauen fled and no place was found for them and I saw the dead small and great standing before God and bookes were opened All mens doings are in record before God as written in bookes the like speech is in Daniel chap. 7. And another Booke was opened which is of life and the dead were iudged by the things written in the bookes according to their workes All that put not on Christ are condemned for their works Now the sea had giuen vp her dead and death and the graue had giuen vp her dead And they were iudged euery one according to his workes and death and Haides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death Death and Haides are expounded in Arethas sensible Men which commit matter worthie of death destruction And if any were not found written in the booke of life hee was cast into the lake of fire This sheweth that only the chosen in Christ haue life euerlasting and what there companie is euen the heauenly Ierusalem in this world the chapters folowing doe shew And I saw a new heauen and a new earth for the first heauen and the first earth passed and the sea is no more This speach may well be referred to the new world which for vs to search of what sort it shall bee the Law Deut. 29. to leaue hid things to the Lord our God forbiddeth vs to search curiously Of the heauenly Ierusalem I haue made a treatise in Greeke alone at large which I made turne to other tongues This worke is made to conuict Rome to be damned through all and I hastened in the beginning to that and I would not draw the Readers minde from that The last end may bee handled best seuerally So this paines shall heere haue an end AN EXPLICATION OF THE HEAVENLY IERVSALEM SHEWED APOCAL. CHAPTER 21. AND 22. BEING of larger discourse then the former Commentarie made by the same auctor to shew Romes condemnation and with small strife against Rome and such as Rome will not refuse to reade By H. B r. After the destruction of Babylon Let vs behold the saluation of Sion A Commentary vpon the Apocalyps Chapter 21. and 22. CHAPTER XXI The second discourse of 21. and 22. Chapters And I saw a new heauen and a new earth for the first heauen and the first earth passed away and the sea was no more ISAIAH chap. 66. compareth the Gospell hauing the rest of Christ for the Iewes Ceremonies vnto a new heauen and the earthly heathen state called to the church a new earth as God will make indeed a new world And ioyneth the doctrine of both together So heere after mention of heauen and earth passed the wordes import the new world and praesentlie turne to the Gospell in saying the sea shall be no more that is a troubled state shall be no more For the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding guardeth our heartes in the loue of Christ that no sufferings for him is a griefe or trouble and we read chap. 16. that his Angels haue seauen cups of wrath to poure vpon the helhounds that bite his seruants they shall not care for the sea whence the Romane beast ariseth And I Iohn saw the holy City Ierusalem new comming downe from God
great asseueration that if I went to Zwitzerland I should remoue war I went presently to Basil and Zurick and Berne heard and vsed me with all kindnes Mine host of Basil a D. of Law D. Iacobus Henric-petri had occasion to goe to Friburge to D. Pistorius and on a thursday at Supper spake much of me to him Then D. Pistorius sayd The scholers of England be learned in the tongues but it were better they knew the Fathers better On Fryday my Doctor telleth me what he sayd On Saterday I gaue a Greek reply to the Post as Pistorius triumphed in Greek to this summe The Greek Fathers were in eloquence vnmatchable and in handling of the Trinity and Incarnation of Christ and Iustification by faith and of holy soules passage hence to heauen and of wicked to Gehenna they all agreed and none euer of 1400. yeares thought of Purgatory as their oration in the Synode of Basil shewed 160. yeares ago which D. Iacobus Zwinger yet hath And so much learning as their age could vse against eloquent heathen God gaue them But they had no occasion to deale much for text of scripture with such and therefore lesse studied it But for the Lords Supper This was their common opinion that the Bread and Wine were Icones and Symbola Images and Tokens of the body and blood of Christ As Origen spake the consent of his age and Eusebius from his great Librarie the recorder of common graunts And eloquent Nazianzen and others by Typi and Antitypa and as the most sage Theodorite in sad disputation to clear other matters bringeth the same as a graunted common matter to proue douted so Macarius Monachus sheweth his dayes opinion calling the bread Symbolon of the body And none wise could doubt marking vpon what prophecy the Lordes Supper stood The Angell Gabriel told holy Daniel that after 490. yeeres Christ the King by his death would end sacrifice and offrings And the Iewes dated all dayes in common Epistles and conueyances the yeares since the returne from Babel as wee the yeres of our Lord in whose last yeare they By Daniel looked the Kingdome of heauen should appeare Luc. 19. though they knewe not in what manner Nowe when sacrifice was to end at the Supper of the Lambe our Lord to seale the end of sacrificing gaue for beasts flesh and blood which figured his body and blood bread and wine to bee in couenant speach his Body and Blood All Graecians knewe proper speach and civill that hee should bee bad that knew not the place of both In proper speach a Father begetteth his Son in ciuill speach Romulus was ancester to Iulian Apostata Baasa to Achab Iechonias Salomontiades to Salathiel Nathanides So the token of a Kings seale is called his seale This all the Greeke Fathers knewe and tottering Theophylact your onely turneth to this And the taking of the Lords Supper is our oth that wee beleeue hee died in due tyme to bury Moses by his buriall and that by grace his spirit is with vs to sure saluation as mighty as by his word it made the world More is needlesse and cannot bee but is wickedly forged So farr the Fathers were rare not alwayes in commenting vpon the Byble But extremely deceiued almost all in honouring the Apocrypha which Iewes kept to play for Iosephus against Appiones that denyed all the Iewes story Therefore not to plead with them from the Law full of paradoxes they object failes and humane workes to busy them for all And they meant litle further great matter in them The Greeke Fathers sawe not this much though Eusebius told the true law had but 22. bookes Nazianzen agreeth for the number but misseth in regarding one Apocryphon for holy Iudith as I remember and Athanasius casteth out holy Hester So we like of the fathers for learning controverted in their age not aey for comment And these groundes ye shall graunt me or combat The Hebrew text is kept by the Massorites so that nothing can be corrupted to alter one wordes signification The Iewes knew their owne tongue and teach vs the native of it In honour of the two tables of 613. letters they bring all speches of lawes bidding or forbidding into 613. And hold that all which faith or life may think of is in them And the New Testament never goeth further And no one syllable helpeth Rome but Italy is expresly cursed by your owne translation as by all Iewes exposition Numb 24. vpon which all the Apocalyps maketh a reuelation This England holdeth and will not give place to Rome but will dispute with D. Pistorius Protonotary of the Pope at Basil one day in Hebrew an other in Greek with penners of every syllable of our speach Protonotarius is stout in these tongues as he hath written de arte Cabalistica though he hath missed altogether and sayth all Rabbins say Melchisedek sacrificed bread wine where none ever thought so but all hold it offred to Abrahams souldiers to eat and drink as he was a King and blessed Abraham as a sacrificer And for Greek Protonotarius and Pope are yet to learne how to defend the purity of the New Testament and to see Antique Septuagint Thalmudique and Apostolique dialects And no Papist ever could speak or write Ebrew Greek as coūtrey speach Thou knowest if thou dare dispute I may overthrow the Pope Therefore tell thine own hart and write to him that an English man wrote to thee that the chalenger will give over his chalenge or hee bee counted a shamelesse lier To this effect I wrote to him a Greek oration and sent R. Rubens Chananean epistle which honoured England above all nations that he might see he had not to deale with a Thraso Three dayes after he wrote to Zurick great commēdations of my poor studies specially of Greek eloquēce as native Attique And at three monethes end after much combat in all Greek he writeth thus I will not dispute nor have our old Religion to be called into question Then both sides Cantones showted that the feare of war was gone seing the Popes chalenger putteth vp this that the Pope hath not one syllable in the Bible for his defence But is vnvinciblie accused and hath none that dare dispute in the holy tongues for his defence Now he dareth not for stark shame require supremacie being so broken After this what Basil spake to English of me how for one all England should heare better while Basil stood one M r Brand of Londen and M. Ward of Cornewall they told me and belike at home How they told Netherlanders that this combat ended warres and sware so they will never deny it noble Danes know and doubtlesse told their K. how they staying for me at a ferry neare Leopoldus buriall which they had seen and I would see a Zurick hearing my name sayd wee were in great feare of war till the Englander brake Pistorius I would gladly see his countenance which argueth the mind that in
and cast him into a Lake burning with fire and brimstone which is the second death Chapter 19. But the Romane Dragon shall be tyed 1000. yeeres before the King of Locusts deceiveth generally But then hee makes a new Gog and Magog for the old Ierusalem and thereupon shal be destroied as the old was by the first coming so he by the second of CHRIST from a throne of iudgement as the old Gog and Magog was Chapter 20. As Iohn in Patmos saw the heavenly Ierusalem so Patmos the Church tossed with Aegean waves shal be in Gods fight such as Isaiah Ezechiel Aggei and Zacharie spake of CHRIST saluteth vs poore heathen with his owne most gracious voice To him that loued vs and hath washed vs from our sinnes by his blood be all honour glory for ever Amen Isaie 25. And hee the ETERNAL will destroy in this mountaine the covering that covereth all people and the vaile that is spread vpon all nations THE ARGVMENTS OF THE REVELATION THe Apocalyps may be divided into speach vnto the present age and into prophecies for time to come Common to both are the nations and places and the times The nations to whom the book is commended are cities of old Gyges kingdome called the Land of Gog where the Lagidae and Seleucidae had parted Asia the lesser betwixt them Ezechiel told that when they were overthrowen for scattering his people into all quarters God would be glorified over them and in wrath remember mercy As over Antiochos in that the Land of Magog Antiochia first bare the name of Christians Over both in these seven townes whereof Philadelphia beareth plainly the name of Ptolomie Philadelphus Sardis was the Court of rich Craesus whose wealth God gave to Cyrus the great that sent Israell home from 120. nations and built the temple vpon his owne charges In it the old memory of Ggy or Gog is continued The nations called are from all people The damned for deadly hinderance of the Gospel is Rome plainly described by full many arguments vndeniable The whip of Romes Idolatrie be the Saracenes The time in trope is taken from the time of Christ his persecutions three years and an half But therein is meant the qualitie of state not length of yeres that men should be afflicted the afflictions of Christ So the Dragon Caesars afflict a yeare two yeares and halfe a yeare and the Dragons tayle the Pope and the old Romane Empire monethes 42. and the Vicar of the Lambes hornes the king of Locustes dayes 1260. They who thinke to get any certeyntie hence deceyve them selves and the truth is not in them The allusion is most heavenly calling Christ still into mind The thousand yeares come neare proprietie telling when the Popes authoritie should come to the highest These points may commonly be considered CHAP. I. The present age is saluted with narration of particular place and day and vision of Christ and in seaven epistles the partes of it be applied vnto playne experience CHAP. II. Ephesus learneth how remission of studie loseth the Church Rome continually practised that still shaking off Greek and Hebrew and skill in Gods word Smyrna is told that Iewes not right Iewes whose praise is of God would seeme to be Iewes but should bee found lyars So Rome would chalenge the true Iew. Rom 2. but they that seemed to stand shall fall Pergamus heareth of idolatrie and fornication Rome and Venice be deaf Thyatira hath a new Iezabel with witchcraft and whoredome and Baal Papists are full of charming Nunnes full wanton and Goddes of their owne making CHAP. III. Sardis the court sheweth how the pompe of court hath hardly lively religion yet still some be there So Rome the court towne seemed vnder Iohn alive but had forgotten S. Paul Rom. 11. 13 2. Thes 2. Philadelphia had true love and tryeth who be the sound Iewes and shal be as Salomons pillers in the heavenly Ierusalem Such were full many Monasteries of learned men which knew well what S. P. Q. R. meant when stultus populus quaerit Romam Laodicea followeth the common maner neither hoat nor cold but holdeth on what negligent custome hath once brought in So antiquitie and vniversalitie are the Papistes answer They never plead better skill in the Ebrew Law and Greek Gospell so thar Turkes and Iewes may see how they build not vpon a rocke by sure grounds but flee to custome never allowed of God This from obscure Patmos on the Lordes day Iohn teacheth that the base corners shall have truth when they receive the holy banished and Rome the banisher shal be left in Satans throne to pester the yeare with Popes holy dayes honouring creatures with religion of dayes as Rome did to Iulius and Augustus and as ill in March May Ianuary and February and in all Ovids fastis The stories of times which God writeth be more then yet men would ever learne The Lords resurrection day is surely taught vs and that wee should keepe But his birth day he would not have vs to know and when men would after three hundred yeeres seeke it out God gave them over into a deceived minde to misse 3. moneths that of 1300. yeres that dotage was not espied vntill this age searched about found better matter Yet Laodicea will follow custome and cared not for grace from him who was and is wil be and from the seaven spirits the one Eternall that giveth seaven lampes of oile to his servants and from Iesus Christ that is above all the Kings of the earth Psal 89. Dan. 2. 7. Apoc. 6. and 19. whom Rome pearced with spear and nailes But they shall feel whom they pearced and whom they crucifie agayne to have him counted a base and bare man not as on Tabor when the Godhead made the humanitie shinelike the Sunne Now for times to come CHAP. IIII. When the voyce of Christ like a trumpet making them happy which know the sound Psal 89. behind vs calleth vs from our owne course we shall see God in the heaven of the Church like Beniamins Iasper building his Church in Paules Shebet and like Rubens red Sardius fighting against Hagarenes for the Tribes with the Rainebow of the covenant like Levies Smaragd teaching the brightnes of the Gospell Thus we shall see God sitting vpon a throne whē Christ from obscure Patmos sheweth that heaven is not best seene from great cities which alwayes overflow in wickednes but from place where fewest be to disturbe So shal be seene 24. Bishops or Elders that can apply the Patriarkes storie vnto the Apostles Gospell all these clothed with the iustice of Christ being to the soules as white linen is to the body Seven lampes of oyle grace beatē with much affliction as beaten olive the seven graces of the spirit make this and the whole company be afore the throne a sea cleare and blameles iustified freely by the grace of God And the Church shall not want rare wightes full of
Now this false Prophet forging himself taught by the Angel Gabriel taketh Daniels terme in the highest sense Machmad delite it self Rashi telleth that because he humbled himself before GOD in fasting and prayer he was so called But Turk and Pope will have the holynes of Apollo past repentance CHAP. X. Now commeth a most lively description of Christ opening himself from Esa 19. and 54. and Genes 9. and Apoc. 4. Daniel 10. and Exod. 14. and Dan. 12. and Es 31. and Iob for the thunder of his power which is past vnderstanding and shall not be perceived of the Pope till the next trumpetter or common place teacher soundeth and endeth the world Now the Angel biddeth Iohn take from Christ the litle book of the Gospell and to eat it which was sweet in his mouth in preaching but bitter in affliction and to the enemy also as Ezekiels book CHAP. XI Iohn sheweth that the Church shall be built as Ierusalem freed from Babel vnder Zorobabel and Iesus when Zachary seeth an Angel with a reed meating the length breadth So Iohn hath a reed to meat the tēple and altar that is from the litle book to shew the breadth and length and depth and height of the love of God in Christ Christ himself is the temple Therefore to check Thalmudiques which to this day look for a third temple as sheweth Rambam whom vpon Koheleth Salomon the oratour I have cited and translated to check them he sheweth court of sacrificing is geven to the heathen and Ezekiels goodly citie is a city of affliction as Christ was afflicted 42. monethes Zacharies olive trees Zorobabel with Israel and IESVS with Levi and candelstick of Gods fauour Churches Chapter 1. revived Here is a new Elias a new Moyses to call fyer from heaven and to stay all dew of grace and successe and to turne their waters of armies into blood to plague their enemies with all kind of plague The experience followeth The combat of the King of Locusts with the Martyrs When the Martyrs begin to revive the Gospell the city which is called for spiritual vncleannes of religion spiritually Sodoma for cruelty against Israel Aegypt setteth fourth the King of Locustes who commeth with his Locustes winges of chariots and warre horses and fighteth in all nations with these two captaynes of Martyrs and killeth them and their case is playne how they are murthered as if a Crowners quest went vpon the policy that crucified Christ after his preaching 42. moneths or dayes 1260. or yeares three and an half Now as Beda and Carthusianus well note in three yeares and an half all time of preaching Christ in memorie of his preaching so long so the time of their noted death while their ashes may be seen and they are not put in grave is in a proportion called three dayes and an half Now that all may know that two yeare is not proper twise one but as all the returned from Chaldea Babylon be two Zach. Ch. 4. and 5. So the witnesses of truth that leave spirituall Babel all are in that sense called two and the citie which killeth them in peoples tribes tongues and nations is not a building of houses but a building of policie So the two be not two men but two companies and the dwellers in earth would not reioyce and send giftes one to another as Iewes against Haman in Ester for two but for the companies of two sorts rare wightes full of eyes 24. Bishops and the troupes that give glorie to God and the Lambe and pray onely to the Lambe the great God and Saviour these in all nations where the king of Locustes tyranny reacheth are the two Prophets who vexe them whose mindes dwell on earth and cannot see the heavenly policy of Christ In that sense after three dayes an half spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood vp and feare fel vpon their enemies and they heard a great voice from heavē saying vnto them come vp hither and they ascēded vnto heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw it Iohns vision went vpon two and vpon one city one beast But Romes policy the king of pit keyes with his Locustes and the states that write and fight against them must be meant of whom when one is dead an other is alive iump in the same veine as though it were the same man and their enemies see they goe vp to heaven and the beast which is ascended out of Abyssos that is all his corporatiō millions of millions these visions represent corporations and vnder one millions of men be told all Papistes goe from their Abyssos of black ignorance vnto Abyssos Luke 8. and Zohar vpon Genes 1. 2. whither the Divels shall come in their time but are yet in this world to be tormented for ever and ever After this teaching and fighting a great earthquake shaketh a tenth part of the king of Locusts city which crucified Christ and prayeth to the virgin Mary to commaund her sonne the Eternall God by the right of a mother as though she were mother to the godhead because shee was mother to the Person one of two natures And they are very wise who thinke the mother of God in schoole phrase can finde no better speculation in heaven then to listen to the Citie that crucified the Lord of glory Iscariot the traitour confessed his fault yet Christ gave him over to hang him selfe Rome that kild Christ after justifying him sinning so against the holy Ghost and sinning more then if they had kild all the men in the world yet is worse then Iscariot and wil not cōfesse sin but clayme right to rule the world because once they durst crucifie the maker of the world and pray to the Virgin Marie to forgive the Popes holynes the Vicar of Pilate In Elias 7000. bowed not the knee to Baal and live In this Citie 7000. that bow the knee to Baal dye are kild in vision 7000. in storie seaventie millions of thousandes with this 120. yeares of the Gospell revived And full many give glory to God and leave the virgin Mary alone to be happy as other faithfull Bathshebagh Ruth Thamar and Sarah al her mothers and who more in sin yet stayed vpō her sonne who was then in their loynes Thus the second woe is past The Popes fall the seaventh trumpet of common place Since Kingdomes match the Pope in strength and have brought him that he dare not queck but be content to hold his owne An open voice is in kingdomes that whereas the Pope hath been once cast out and now God reigneth wee looke for no chaunge till the resurrection at 6000. by old guesse Hence at 463. For our Lord was borne at 3927. adde 1610. then now Adams soule and dust hath 55 37. at 463. the gesse will shew it self At 3000. the Arke was brought into Salomons Temple at 4000. exactly the Romanes destroyed Zerobabels temple And as the Pope falleth by steppes as he
and continually and all the praise of Christ and he is seene riding vpon his white horse and we follow in white linen of justice then Christ will make proclamation to all kites as in Ezekiel 39. concerning the Macedonians to devoure the flesh of Papists slaine and will cast the beast and false Prophet into a lake burning with fire and brimstone CHAP. XX. The tyme of the Popes absolut ripenes in Sathan to deceive generally shall not be till a thousand yeares when the smoke of his pit hideth sun and ayre and his locusts have lions teeth and iron brestplates and winges of Chariots and war horses Satan was tied among Papists elder prophane 1000. yeares that many reigned heere with Christ for a thousand yeares they of the first resurrection that is from sinne in this world vpon them the second death shall have no power but they shall reigne with Christ and such wil be for a thousand yeares But after a thousand yeares the darknes of the pit will so extend it selfe that the old serpent shall trouble all the holy Citie and besiege the faithfull every where as though old Gog and Magog were alive and the old Ierusalem were a new to be defended The Pope deceived all the Princes of West to send all their force for to recover Ierusalem and Antioch and 200. yeres the greatest warres that ever were were made there That the old war of Gog Magog was nothing like this And yet Christ had tolde that Ierusalem should be desolate vnto the worlds end Mat. 24. as he caused Moses to tell Deut. 28. But the false Prophet to weaken Princes who would be deceived and not excell in Gods word as they most of all might do he caused them to go for 200. yeares from England France and all the West men women and children to recover the cursed land And now God began new mercie now first Rabbines made Grammers for Hebrew and Iarky the great D. commenteth vpon the Bible at a thousand yeares now 600. agoe and Aben Ezra at 500. a very great Rabbin Rabbi Sadaias was afore him who turned Moyses into Arabique that Christians might follow the truth not the 72. which hid their minde for 1600. yeares change as I have shewed in Conc. and Meschisedek That hiding not spied hath deceived all Arabia Abyssions Graecia Moscovia Englande vnto 1603. to breach of all Moyses authority Rabbi Sadaias did enough to have holpen this Another Rabbin put forth a Greek translation in Ebrew letters Ramban who at the last became a Christian he wrote finely foure hūdreth yeres agoe Aruc a Dictionarie for the Thalmud is 600 yeares old Isaak Ben Arama and Bechaiah both overthrow their owne side and helpe vs to tye Satan againe so doth David Kimchi teach vs from much Thalmudique that the title of the 22 Psalme is the morning star a matter worth much gold for Apoc. 2. and 22. Briefly from after 1000. yeares God pitying vs stirred Iewes to teach vs Christ by their best cōmenting though them selves could not see him Al be godles that wish not all helpe to turne them and how hath Satan bound them that labour to hinder all the good of their commenting for Christians speciall vse and hope for them Satan raged loose 500. yeares But now we looke for his fall not fearing any deceit with strength Therefore the vision passeth vnto the resurrection CHAP. XXI Because the Church should be long in the wildernes and seeme black to men God sheweth the heavenly Ierusalem how goodly it is from Esay 25. and 54. and from sixtie to the end and Aggei 2. Exod. 28. Ezekiel 47. and all the Prophetes and how great it is 144000. furlongs square As a thousand miles high building and so long and broad that if all the elect since Adam came as beastes into Noes Arke a citie of this largenes would but hold them Here Papists should see antiquitie and vniversalitie CHAP. XXII The lawes are golden and streames of life in Christ the morning star But this I have in Concent of Script handled at large and elswhere The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ open our eyes to see that to morrow we shall die that to day we may heare his voice Coloniae Iu. 1610. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gentle Reader where you see this title THE ARGVMENTS printed above almost of every page there read OF THE REVELATION And where you see OF THE REVELATION there read THE ARGVMENTS Good Reader vnderstand that this larger Scholion following in order of time was written afore these Arguments as thou maist perceive in the reading AN EXPLICATION OR REVELATION OF THE HOLY APOCALYPS AFTER that the Romanes had killed Christ persequuted his servants stirred vp by faithles Iewes whose rebellion ouerthrew their City state Domitian raising a cruell persecution and banishing Iohn into Patmos Our Lord and Sauiour reueleth the state of the heauenly IERVSALEM how it shal be afflicted by the Prophane Caesares till they be taken away and when power of state returneth to Rome a policy all wicked should be set vp to deceiue if it were possible the very elect so mighty shall it be to deceiue because men would not receiue the loue of the truth The stile of the booke is taken all from the old Testament to be plaine for learned Christians and darke to wicked that they should not see Gods counsels In my booke of Scripture Concent I opened the tropes and in my Advertisement I applyed the XII pretious stones to their tribes whereof Iewes called vnto Christ in all Countries taught vs heathen the way of life Now my bent is to tell properly the summe of the booke And first generally who be the persequutores Heere as often as we read that Christ was kill'd as Chap. 1. and 2. and 5. we must sagely consider Pilate and the Romane policy where Christ was crucified That Rome must be the state heere damned first for Tyrannie when their Ciuil lawes were good that S. Paul by Lysias the humane Chiliarch and by Festus the Proconsul and Iulius the noble Captaine found Neroes auctority long a defense But afterwardes a state all sinfull should come to Rome and deceiue and vex the Church vnto the end That Domitian banished Iohn Eusebius writeth it That Satans throne by Rome tryed in the Churches who would in Christ ouercome the seauen Epistles teach And where God sitteth vpon a throne of iudgement to builde his Temple by S. Paul of Beniamin his Iasper in Beniamin the old Temple was buit to defend his folke like the ruddy Sardius of Reüben sett a frontier against the Hagarenes to teach by the rainebow of his couenāt the summe of Leuies Smaragd Law This description is for terrible might against Rome their Idolatry So the Lābe as killed to whom all creatures whom Rome made Gods promise seruice for his Christians He being the Lion of Iuda by that name telleth of warrs greater then Dauid
knowen to God a company innumerable shal be witnesse to the truth martyrs in hartes sadnesse as if they had shead their blood Why Dan is omitted is shewed in Scripture Concent Thence they that despise not the work wil fetch a resolutiō How in the West the Church falleth Six seales shewed the Romans violence against CHRIST his seruants plagued with warres death pestilence and ouerthrow of Empire The seauenth sheweth a sinful state in al Satans might deceiuing the West wherof 7. trumpets giue warning which the sealed before will take others will not CHAP. VIII AS Daniel Chap. 4. was amazed a while that Nebuchadnezar a starre should be 7. yeres a beast so the Church the Heauen on Earth is amazed as half an houre to what passe badnesse of scholars in vnlearned ambition will come 7. trumpeters standing before God will sound that vnto the world that the world shall haue a warning long afore the matters come in practise The summe of the Gospell contempt of which causeth God to cast off the open Church CHRIST a sacrificer for euer the Angel of the couenāt maketh his humanity the golden Altar vpon which he layeth the incense of our prayers receiued in a golden censor of his pure mercy they come before the Father for the 144. thousand Iewes innumerable heathen whereof the trumpeters for 7. commune places compaines of holy Doctores be the principall Now because Rome would teach with forcefull deceit not to receiue the abundance of the grace of the gift of iustice of Christ that by faith we should be iustified to haue peace with God to reigne with his Sonne but must seeke helpe from our selues who bee children of wrath Christ turneth his mediation into wrath against the seed of the serpent whose City pierced his handes and feete and by their occasion made others fall As the loue of God in Christ for bredth length depth and height passeth all knowledge so the contempt of the tree of life and of the man a little inferior to Angels in death but after ascention crowned with glory as to the rebellious Angels disdayning mans glory it gaue eternal woe it giueth to men that follow that company called Satan the old serpēt The anger of Christ is heare voices thunderings lightnings earthquake in states as at the Law-giuing Because Christ the end of the Law is contemned This could neuer haue fallen out if the Ebrew Bible with the Massoreth orthographie dictionarie for accents vowels had beene vsual in churches ouer the earth and the N. T. the marrow of all Greeke and sunnes bringhtnesse to the old had beene scholes studie also in all nations But slothful contempt to make translations from translations bred vncertainti and it disdaine it blindenesse it contempt of Christ it reiection Machmad soone turned away all the East whereof old GOD was knowen and God hath for that cast them of for euer The Grecians were so proud of Greeke brauery that of Origens Octaplun of Ebrew in Ebrew letter in Greeke letter in the 70. in Aquilas Symmachus Theodotion and other two vncertaine translations they little cared for the Ebrew but from Greek vncertaine they marred their commenting and gaue Arrius great aduantage And when Arabians Aethiopians and Muscouites translated the 70. not the Ebrew the difference of 1500. and more yeares excesse aboue truth by the 70. in Genes 5. and 11. caused Greece and the other and much of Romish soyles to blaspheme the Ebrew as corrupt so disdayning bitter rootes they missed to gather fruit of nourishment This bred the thundering anger of the Eternall Word which was with God aey and made all things and gaue words Ebrew and Greeke each as pearle and shyning Iewels Hence vnlearned scholars turne all to Ambition and Heresie polititians to profanenesse Of the VII Trumpets As one trumpeter telleth of a kinges power in milliones so heer 7. represent 7000. as might fall out still learned men gaue warning but when the roote of Iessai was contemned the waters of grace were not sent into vncleane hearts The first Trumpet Buishopps stroue for superioritie Monachi fall to idlenesse and extolling of Sainctes Princes giue wealth that way painefull scholers be hated and persequuted their voices make alowd trompet Athanasius Chrisostome Basill Nazianzene sound out matter against herefies and forged Monastiques and contempt of scripture and how the possessor of the West Empire should be taken away and a policy all sinfull should be erected in Rome Andreas Caesariensis doth more plainly shew that being at the rising of it about the 600. yeares of Redemption Patriarches affected supremacy but the city that crucified Christ and now plagued Christians was to afflict in the end and to be a trapp for all coastes to fall The contempt of learned warnings Romes supremacie made east south north fear least old tyranny from Rome should be reuiued So Machmad turned much of the world to fall away that haile of state as in Esai and fyer and blood of warrs come to the world And most of all Popes supremacie challenging Empire raineth haile fyer and blood to this day that men grounded as trees for the third parte and all the weake as grasse fell into Gods anger So this is a commune place of the Popes supremacy The next trumpet soūdeth that poinct more fully The scholars that inueighed against Phocas the murderer for erecting Boniface 3. supreme Papes or Father Of the names Papas and Pope The name Papas in the Greek fathers epistles is from one to another this much Right Reuerend father But when one would haue all to himselfe not by learning in Ebrew or Greeke for Gods worde but for strong hand in supremacy then the name rested in him but turned into Pope which in Homer as Eustachius well noteth is Damon a Deuil The Prouidence of God in mens tongues for names fitted vnto matter is to be regarded much That Pope and Daemon is all one Add vnto this that the Pope is called holines Marke for this S. Paul THE SINFVL MAN THE WHOLE ENEMIE HE THAT EXALTETH HIMSELFE ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD OR WORSHIPPED A NEWE ANTIOCHVS EPIMANES SETTING FORTH HIMSELFE IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD AS IF HE WERE GOD. THIS AND POPE OR DAEMON GONCVRRE The second Angell or Company of Scholars sheweth howe hee commeth vp for the Emperour The second blast expounding the first A Mountaine an huge one burning with fire is cast into the sea Mountaine signifieth an Empire as Babylon is a mountaine destroying Burning with fire is causing hoate warres as in taking the Empires land to become a Mountaine and casting himselfe into the sea of kingdomes to be to this day a firebrand of all our warres The sea is politique states for this sea of our troublesome life as Tully translateth Euripides Si mihi nunc primum tristis illuxisset dies Nec tam arumnoso nauigassem salo esset dolendi caussa c.
wickednesse as high as the Diuels can goe Yet all that goe vnder Papists names are not of this minde nor Giltinesse but all well charged with error here are gilty without good change of mind While this standeth honor to Mary aboue her place The Popes throne Satans be all one For this maine poinct would I gladly haue a learned Papist to reply that all might see what can be spoken against the trueth Of the Dragons speach Lawes be the speach of a Policy and the Popes decretals ouerruling states are wicked commonly though all cannot be senslesse yet by vnlawfull men vrged they are all wicked Seeing the Pope can haue no more right thē a Teacher if he were learned al frō him is like an hand blackened with pitch And S. Paul taught the Romans that euery soule should submitt himselfe to the higher power Nero was then in place and S. Paul appealed vnto him And Nero the wicked man in politie sensible from natiue witt was S. Pauls gard the good of the world against the Scribes Synedrion to which all must stande Deut. 17. prouided alwayes that they speake sensibly from the Law otherwise all their right was lost and when they persequuted Christ He gaue the Romanes their auctority for life and death that Iewes might not kill any 40. yeares before Ierusalem fell So the heathen Lawes giuen for mans ciuill good be the earth that drinketh vp the riuer cast out of the Dragons mouth to drowne the Church Of the two hornes counterfaiting the Lambes The Pope praetendeth to folow Aharon and the Leuites and thence commeth his spirituall sword and he will without all color of warrant be a King of Kings and Lord of Lords His wickednesse in the first being detected should shew that the Dragon speaketh in him Aharon had no more to doe with gouernemēt then any other man nor any of his sonnes and it was death for any to meddle with his trade that was not of his seede that his house should be distinct till Christ of Iudah sacrificed himselfe through the veile of his flesh went not into the Limbum as the deceiued hold but into the very heauens after this Leuies office was wholly ended though M r. Eduward Liuely be commended for his Persian Chronologie Which maketh sacrifices of Gods house hindred in Emporour Vespasians dayes that they could not be done by whom they ought to be done or not so diligently as they ought He and his commēders missed strangely of Christianity vnto the depth of Satans badnesse and next them the Pope Aharons sonnes for strange fier were presently killed and were not forgiuen in this world but were in the world to come But the Pope blaspheming the Holy Ghost and the plaine trueth of Gods spirite shall neither be forgiuē in this world nor in the world to come but as Iscariot in this world is giuen ouer from sin to sin that he cannot come to the iustice of God and is expresly condemned to aeternall flames for the world to come Chap. 19. Of the Popes succession The Popes brag of succession euer since S. Peters dayes in vaine S. Peter was no Priest nor of Leui But an Elder 1. Pet. 5. and hauing no more honorable faith then those Elders Elders neuer had particular succession though he Thalmud in Aboth to proue wicked traditions feigne succession howe one deliuered ouer Lawe by mouth May. praef Tom. 1. Gamaliel had S. Paul S. Paul Timothie and millions who kept the Bible to this day And Christian Princes who truely knew God left succession in some of their policie and still there were some Apostolie or Angelie Ecclesiae that sagely read the Bible and Baptized and brake bread the Communion of the body of Christ and gaue the Cupp his New Testa blood The high Councill made Doctores and they were all either learned in Diuinitie or in great blame before God and one skilfull might make thousandes in few year that men should not brag of succession from one to know both Testaments pure in write sure for meaning by auctores of the tongue where enimies and friendes vse language alike and praeceptiue for all that ought to bee knowen this dutie a Doctor should performe to shew the face of Christ to shine like the sunne through all the Bible But neuer Pope to this day could doe this much Therefore they should not clayme the spirituall horne As holy Paul wished K. Agrippa and all the assemblie equall to himselfe sauing his bondes And S. Luke ioyed to pen S. Paules infinite witte therein and what an Asse he made of Tertullus so true Papae would haue reioyced to haue made all Princes that gaue them reuerence perfect in the word of God But they had not S. Ieromes spirite to goe by might to learne of a Iewe the Ebrew tongue and to write till 91. to open Gods worde Hee alone did more then euer were in Rome Papae Therefore hee deserued more reuerence then they all and the slow bellies should be ashamed to be such Kinges of Locusts in the world and all Cardinals Buyshopps that crosse that crosse the common Lawes of nations And People must needes be wicked that honor the prelate in Iudgement Esai 32. repeteth Moyses law and saith for the Gospell that vnder it Nabal shall not be called Nadib The foole shall not be called most reuerend or right reuerend But hee shal be such whose studie standeth in most reuerend or right reuerend matters I now translate Nadib a generall terme of high title Isai 13. to particular speciall vse euery commandement of God hath his Maiestie which created the World and they breed Monsters that make crosse lawes Of the ancient facilitie in teaching the Law The holy Iewes did as all men should honor the finger of God in the two tables wherein all wisedome of faith manners is conteined And a late worke Tiphereth glory of Israel telleth that Ebrew letters vowels prickes accents are at this day as God set in the two tables All Popes Academies deny this their owne glory and would make mans witt auctor of these three that all should bee accursed who make man their strength So wise is the Church that cannot erre as to deny the pillar of truth But still God kept in the company of some that belonged to the Church the ground of trueth This being setled wee may go on to shew how the godly did honor the tables of God There they reckon letters 613. And because the ten Commandements for faith and workes conteine all Diuinitie the holy Scribes drew all Lawes of Moses into the number of 613. They might haue made them moo or fewer But by Gods spirite in honor of Gods writing they bring them to his letter 613. to shew Gods care in the Law that one Iod or prick should not perish so wee see that God honoreth the Alphabet order psalmes 25. 34. 37. 111. 112. 119. 145. Prou. 31. Lam. 6.
of Iohn These be wholy for contempt of this world and cleane contrarie to the Popes doctrine as his Apocalyps Of Iude. Hee in teaching of Iewes fall by the Rebels in the wildernesse by the Angells that fell and by the vncleane Cities brent from heauen warneth not to bragg that the Church cannot erre And where Iewes thought gouernement a tyranny he sheweth from Talmudique vpon Moses Buriall Midras Rabba Aboth Rabbi Nathan and others that MICHAEL the Archangell could not suffer Satan to speak slander of king Moyses So hee will not suffer Popes to blaspheme Kinges But the Popes vnderstand not so much as Iudes text to know MICHAEL to bee IEHOVA but make him a created Spirit such blinde batts they be And thus all the scripture agreeth as harpes to follow the LAMBE whose doctrine the Pope stayneth by idolatrie that none can vnderstand the drift of the Scripture but the hundred forty and foure thousand These be they which haue not beene defiled by women For they bee Virgins This speach is taken from the song of songes which saith O that he would kisse mee with the kisses of his lippes for thy loue is better then wine Thy name is oynctment poured out therefore the Virgins loue thee Draw mee and wee will runne after thee None may thinke that mariage is a pollution But this speach is a trope for the virginitie of the minde free from Idolatry which is spirituall whoordome These follow the LAMBE which way soeuer hee goeth being the first fruite for God and the Lambe and there is no guile found in their mouth for they are syncere before God and the Lambe They follow the warrant of Gods word for euery thing and bee bought from men the first fruites for God and the Lambe which was a small part of the whole and they hold no haeresie but hold them only happy whose sinne is forgiuen and whose iniquitie is couered as Psal 32. be iust before God in the iustice of Christ The Combat of the 144000. And I saw another Angell fleeing in the sky hauing the aeternall Gospell to preach to them that dwell vpon the earth euery nation and tribe and tongue and people Saying with a great voice Feare God and giue him glory for the houre of his iudgment is come worship him which made the heauen and the earth the sea and the fountaines of water In the seuenth chap Martyrdome was shewed but without telling by whom In chap. XI the Persecuter was told and the persecuted were called two prophets and chap. 12. the Persecuter is double the vpper part of the Dragon and the taile and the persecuted is the woman clothed with the sun but the cause of persecution is not told chap. 13. describeth the Dragon by sure state specially in the Empire reuiued by the Pope and how no man could liue in the Empire without his profession Now that it standeth manifestly in Idolatrie that is heere told and persecution is for preaching that God onely must be worshipped and not the Empire or Pope and Idolls For now God will defend his flock which of long tyme he suffred to be deceiued Now he will iudge and defend their cause The Popes Idolatry is in worship to Mary and creatures called saintes and in prayer to them due only to God creator of all things of whose power creatures put vs in minde and he will not our inuention Now of Idolatry the next Angell telleth how God will reuenge the Citie And another Angell followed saying BABYLON the great City is fallen is fallen Because she hath made all nations drinke of the Wine of the anger of her fornication The old BABYLON now had no auctority to force Idolatrie while it was vnder the Greeke Empire or Turke which hateth Idolls But now Rome beareth sway so shaken from tongue of scripture as old Babylon from Adams tongue which remayned in the house of Heber and farre passed the old Babel in Idolatrie Therefore ruyne is spoken to be sure for it as fell by Isaiah 21. and Ierem. 51. vpon the old Babel And a third Angell followed them saying with a great voice if any worship the beast and his Image that is taketh a marke on his forehead or hand he also shall drinke of the Wine of the anger of God the Wine mixed in the cuppe of his anger and shal be tormented in fire and brimston before the holy Angells and before the Lambe and the smoke of their torment ascendeth for euer and euer And they haue no rest day nor night if any worship the beast and his Image that is if any take the marke of his name Heere is the pacience of the saintes tried heere are they tryed which keepe the commandements of God and the faith of IESVS Patience in this sorte heere and faith of the sainctes was equally spoken of in the profane Caesares dayes heere greater terror is set downe and fit warning against the subtile work of Satan by man of sin to deceiue if it were possible the elect One poinct heere is to be noted that Gehenna is on high no lesse then Paradise as in Leui. cha 26. before the angry face of God So the Iewes in Cether Malcuth folio 11. hold that on high place of torment is no lesse then place of ioy They who thinke that soules descend and that the holy were in Hell and after warning hold this should feare the punishment heere described And the reformed Churches as Zurick take the wisest order that destroy all the Popes markes and most straitly looke to scholars cariage twise in the yeare and referre all punishments to the Consul and Synedrion such was the Apostles doctrine and the Synagogues of old Great reuenues are now most needfull to breede learned to deale with Papist and Iewes But Simon Magus Buyshopps should haue no place in the Church following the Buy-shopps of Rome As Ananias the painted wall and Eleazar his sonne in Raba caused Ierusalem to bee destroyed So one like may bring an whole nation vnder curse And I heard a voice from heauen saying to mee write Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from this praesent Euen so saith the Spirit to rest from their labours and their workes follow with them Because in tyme of blindnesse none could buy nor sell in Popes Kingdome but of his profession other were killed heere is a sure comfort to strengthen the martyrs God who knoweth all being the speaker from heauen that praesentlie after death they are fully happy which dy for Gods truth or in faith to rest from the labours of this life and their workes follow with them their open profession that God onely is to be worshipped and their carefull life teaching all to consider still as all must dy so praesently followeth iudgement Comparisons of phrases for holy soules departed When the fift seale was opened chapter 6. Iohn saw the soules of them which were killed for the Word
of GOD and for the testimonie which they had he saw them vnder the Altar who is Christ. The Thalmud of Rabbi Nathan in Moyses saith that his soule and all the iust are vnder the throne of God So as Saint Paul saith Rom. chap. 10. The Apostles doctrine is confirmed by Thalmudiques directly in all thinges sauing the Person and office of Messias Chap. 7. The martyrs haue white garments and palmes in their hands they be before the throne of God c. Chap. 11. They are called vp into heauen and their enimies see them going vp in a cloud Hence purgatorie is confuted which hath no ground from the old Testament as any Talmudique did euer expound it For Leuit. 26. telleth that hence men goe to Gods tabernacle to ioy or before his throne to feele aeternall anger Reuenge for Christ his Iustice And I saw and behold a white Cloud and one rode on the Cloud like the SON OF MAN hauing on his head a Crowne of gold and in his hand a sharpe sickle The cloud is Gods chariot Isaiah 19. as I told chap. 1. and this place telleth what Person was there described Heere he hath a crowne of gold as in Psalm 20. a token of victorie by death so chap. 6. In Maym. Poenit. the iust haue Crownes in the World of soules So to Talmudiques the New Testam would bee cleare The sharp sickle in Ioel is Gods vengeance vpon Iudahs enimies Assur the Image yea and the Image of the beast heere For he speaketh of all enimies The roaring like a Lion and the 7. thunders tell the same thing and chapter X. and the earthquake and destroying of them that destroyed the earth Reuenge for the prayers of the Church Another Angell came forth from the Temple crying with a great voice to him that road vpon the Cloud cast fourth thy sickle and reape tyme is come to reape for the haruest of the earth is ripe The Church be the faithfull the Angell is the representer of their state So Nebuchadnezar saw one watchfull and holy Who telleth that his punishment of 7. yer beastlinesse came by the prayers of the iust Spaine perceiued in the Low Coūtries the force of this is like to feele as good at home What shall befall our Buuy-shop that vrgeth better learned to othe then himselfe neuer heard of in Iuda by either Testament and imprisoneth better learned then himselfe that will not profane the name of God pineth vnto death in cruel prison them who deny him to be lawfull Buy-shop and put by Teachers of saluation from their maintenance 400. What shall become of this man from whom the heart of a man hath bene taken 7. yer Nabuchad dyed two yeares after hee came to himselfe so may this man How prayers of the iust be heard the next verse telleth And he that roade vpon the cloud cast forth his sickle into the earth and the earth was reaped So the crye of the poore ascendeth into the eares of the Lord of Hostes Reuenge by the iniuried themselues And an other Angell came out of the Temple which is in heauen hauing also a sharpe sickle The faithfull heere haue equall strength and try combat with Pope as this yeare for Clieue and Iuliaque All the Protestāts against the Pope Oh that our Albion would thrust in the sickle of good Laws against those Popoi lest they be still prickes in our eyes thornes in our sides as they haue bene And an other Angell came forth from the altar hauing authoritie vpon the fire and cried with a great voice to him that had the sharpe sickle saying Cast forth thy sickle cut the clusters of thr earth for her grapes be ripe In Daniel the Angell telleth chap XI that in the first yeere of Darius the Mede chap. 5. hee was a strength and might to him Iacob had a campe of Angells which story Dauid turneth to all faithfull One paid Sanacharib one strengthneth our Lord One saued Peter Act. 12. So heere the liuely speach of the Angell is an open token of assistance from the Angells of Christ as they be all ministring spirites sent foorth to seruice for them that shall inherite saluation Angells rule fire as that which brent Sodom Gen. 19. and Babel in Xenophon compared with Dan. XI And water in S. Pauls voiage So all anger from God is fire and Angells his seruants The sure euent So the Angell did cast his sharpe sickle into the earth and snapt off the Vine of the earth and cast it into the great wine-presse of the anger of God and the wine-presse was troden out of the Citie and the blood came forth from the wine-presse vnto the horse bridles ouer stadia furlongs a thousand six hundred The Citie is the assembly of the holy the place out of it is the dwelling of the faithlesse The stadia or furlongs 1600. are taken from the quantitie of Chanaan which Talmudiques calling to a square make Ris that is Stadion euery way The place I haue cited in my Concent where I abridge the Apocalyps CHAP. XV. A plaine exposition of the Womans fleeing into the wildernesse And I saw another great and maruelous signe seauen Angells hauing seauen the last plagues for in them the wrath of God is finished Chap. 6. expoundeth this and how when the Church hath a seate in the wildernesse and their Citie there they make the wine-presse of Gods anger out of the Citie And I saw as it were a sea of glasse mixed with fire and them which ouercome from the beast and from his image and from his marke and the number of his name standing by the sea of glasse hauing the harpes of God and they sing the song of Moyses the seruant of God and the song of the Lambe saying great and wonderfull are thy workes O ETERNAL the God of Hostes iust and vpright are thy wages O King of saints who would not feare thee O Lord and giue glory vnto thy name for thou only art gratious for all nations shall come and worship before thee for thy iudgements are manifested Sea signifieth troubles as Dan. 7. glasse clearly considered of God the allusion is to the Red sea at which Israel was persequuted by Pharaoh The addition by fire is an open distinction for the Popes sea of fire and faggott the song of Moyses Exod. 15. is a thankesgiuening for deliuerance from Pharaoh by the blood of the Lambe and the songe of the Lambe conteyneth all the songes in the Bible But most directly they of his incarnation and soules passage from the body to heauen and resurrection and sitting on the right hand of God The workes of God be great and wonderfull that the wicked whom he hath sett vnto wrath beare sway heere for a tyme but soone come to aeternall flames And they who in short affliction professe his name cary away an aeternall peise of glory wicked Babel worshipping creatures had a great reigne that Gods seruants might
no studie so good as this nor so much desired of all sortes Hee knew neither the Low nor High Ierusalem that would threaten to hinder this studie and is worthy to be recorded foreuer for an example to others The treatise of Dauids family and Nathans comforted through all Daniel of the Rome-Beast one made of foure sauage vnto Constantinus the great This shewed more thē any Academique in Ebrew and Greek or either euer the way to the heauenly Ierusalem The right honorable S r. Iohn Fortescue reading the workes told the bearer thus Tell the auctor I will obtaine of the King a very great stipend for him The honorable Gentleman knew what a priuy Counsellor should doe death praeuented him yet as it seemeth from his motion the Kinges kingly promise came and for Ierusalem his memory shall not die Dressed as a Bride trimmed for her husband The Citie for a ruler is trimmed as a Woman to be married for her husband Esai 52. Rules of saluation are a greater trimming for the minde then any outward trimming can bee for the body The holy Prophets wordes haue all trimnesse that speach can conteyne in language The promises of Christ all trimnesse of sharpe wisedome the stories of contemners endlesse to destruction and of Embracers few to saluation all trimnesse of storie and so the New Test for the age heere meant all trimnesse of wisedome and learning and cariage rules of faith haue wisedom passing all heathen and Christian true policie is more ciuill then all heathens So the Citie is trimmed for a Citie as a bride for the bridegrom And I heard a great voice from the heauen saying Beholde the tabernacle of God is with men he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himselfe will bee with them their God and God will wipe all teares from their eyes and death shall be no more nor mourning nor crye nor paine shall be any more for the first thinges are past In Leuiticus 26. God telleth that if they keepe his Lawes God will haue his Tabernacle with them and they shall be his people and he shall be their God So before the captiuitie of Babel they that conquered the lande with Iosuah and the Iudges and vnder Dauid and his house many were And Ezekiel telleth that after they haue bene in Babylon to teach the Creation of the world and returne from Babel in the hope of Messias they should be the people of God and the same is heere spoken for vs heathen comming vnto CHRIST And now that men be taught of Christ plainly no affliction will make them weepe as in Babylon they wept at the Riuer sides Psal 137. not knowing cleerly Gods counsel how the Lord sent them thither to teach by Babels punishment that ONE the God of heauen ruled all and when men see the death of Christ to giue life that they who belieue in him die not but passe from death to life then death mourning cry paine will be nothing as the first case is altered Andrew was Petros before Symeon in Photius because he first acknowledged Petram all who do so are sure that the courtes to kill Christians the gates of Haides shall not preuaile against them When they knew that in Haides God hath Paradise for the Godly So Athanasius telleth that the Martyrs feared not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The going to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And he that sate vpon the throne said Behold I make all things new Isai 43. and 2. Cor. 5. Turne this to a new life heere and in that sense Christ about fourteene yeares after Ierusalems fall spake to Iohn in this vision that although the Church in the sight of the world should be base it should be a new heauē The Iewes see a new light in Moyses and the new Testament calleth vs from the toile of Moses to the rest in Christ that Daniel chap. 9. 24. shineth as Saint Stephens face as the face of an Angell and the minde which by the new Testament doeth see the old seeth a new world aboue that which was seene in Poperie Where Bellarmine and his labor to disgrace the scripture the waters from which they that be not baptized by the spirit shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen And he saith vnto me write for these wordes bee true and sure When the Apostles were all dead but Iohn and the Disciples were in great affliction and the God of this world was mightie in persequution the naturall man would thinke it harde to looke that the Bible should bring a new world Therefore the WORD who made this worlde and will make a new world would haue this written that in this world first he will make a new world And he saith vnto mee it is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end The learned note Ebrewes as Kimchi and Greekes as Eusebius that the Prophets spake in the praeterperfect temps for things to come because with God all is praesent and as sure as thinges past So should men haue regarded this booke that all in it though strange should come to passe That the Romane Emperours should bee plagued to ouerthrow that a new Rome should bee built for Empire neere old Troy that a beggerly scholar by lies and false miracles should set vp an Empire making himselfe as if he were God and deceiue the world men feared not this But Christ what hee spake in the beginning bringeth it to passe in the end Of ALPHA and OMEGA In that Christ nameth himsefe by the Greeke letters the first and the last he giueth great honor to the Greek tongue that they who seeke not from his words but from barbarous Latin his wisedome should be guilty Many Latin termes haue greatly deceiued as sacramentum for mysterion dispensator for Oeconomus Descendere ad inferos for Cateltheim eis Haidon and such hence come seauen sacraments dispensing with Gods word and going downe to Hell Briefly the smoke from the Pit is bred by wrested Latin as that an Image may be worshipped not an Idoll When Papae Cardinales Arch-buyshopps and Buyshopps rule the sheepe ignorant of Gods words they become wolfes and the most deadlie enimies to the truth The Pope hath an auctor in opusculis patrum which by the LXXII reiecteth the Ebrew truth adding an hundred of yeeres more then Moyses gaue at Seths birth and he allowed this blasphemie That Moyses omitted an hundred of yeeres His notes for soules 75. Act. 7. teach by Gregorie Martyn that either the old Testament or New faileth and his translation not the Septuagint taught that the dwelling of Israel which they dwelt in Aegypt was 430. year And their translation checking S. Pauls Greeke for 450. after a sort made Beza and our BB. after Bibliander and others hold the text corrupt and their rude translation made Achaziah two yeeres elder then his father and 20. yeer elder then himselfe And their barbarousnesse not knowing