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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25568	An answer to several remarks upon Dr. Henry More, his expositions of the Apocalypse and Daniel, as also upon his Apology written by S.E. Mennonite, and published in English by the answerer ; whereunto are annexed two small pieces, Arithmetica apocalyptica, and Appendicula apocalyptica ...	S. E., Mennonite.; More, Henry, 1614-1687.	1684 (1684)	Wing A3379; ESTC R10256	245,076	439

as the Beast was revived when the former Politick state of the Empire was restored in the Ten-horned Beast so when the Pope created a new succession of Emperours it then became a complete Image of the former Beast So that the Beast and his Image are not so denominated from the affairs of Religion but from the Civil state of the Empire yet so as to include Religion as it is complicated with the civil affairs Ans. Here the Remarker again misseth the mark quite by not taking heed to that inviolable Rule in expounding the Opened-book-prophecy viz. that it sets out the state of the Empire in reference to matters of Religion and the pure worship of God and Christ and that these Expositions are the surest that respect that For what cares the Spirit of Prophecy for taking notice of the changes of secular States and Kingdoms but so far as God's true Church and the Purity of his Worship are concerned and consequently those that worship him according to the Laws he has appointed The Pagan Emperours of Rome were Pontifices Maximi as well as Emperours and the Pagan Religion part of the Laws of the Empire it being enacted and ratified by the Supreme Powers thereof as the civil Laws were Wherefore the Pagan Religion equally if not more being the very life and soul of the seven-headed red Dragon that is of the Pagan Empire which would cease to be the red Dragon if the Pagan Religion ceased than the Civil Laws themselves when the Pagan Religion was in a sort abolished by the sixth head of the red Dragon his turning Christian namely the Emperour Constantine c. Certainly that was the Head and then that was wounded to death and wounded to death in the fullest sense that the Opened-book-prophecy can be truly thought to take notice of as chiefly to aim at For what is the Church concerned in the affairs of Kingdoms but so far as they either hinder or further the pure worship of God and Christ And in the same sense that the Head was wounded to death is the Beast said to be wounded in this verse by the sword namely in the red Dragon's fight with Michael and the Martyrs the battel being described in the immediately foregoing Chapter and therefore where should he get his wound but there For the Martyrs sticking close to the truth of the word which is the sword of the spirit got the victory over the Beast they loving not their lives unto the Death Add unto all this that the Beast could not revive before his head wounded to death was cured Neque enim sanatio istaec factum aliquod posterius fuit sed ipsa Nativitas Bestiae novissimae as Mr. Mede judiciously concludes from the genuine sense of the Text of the Prophecy But in this civil or secular sense that the Remarker drives at his head was not cured till Carolus Magnus was made the Western Emperour But he is represented in this Vision in the beginning of it as with ten crowned Horns so with his head cured Such he was when he emerged out of the Sea he was revived again from his deadly wound Therefore the Epocha of this Vision as I noted before commenceth as low as the reign of Carolus Magnus according to the Remarker and the 42 Months of the Beast must end after two thousand years after Christ. And besides this according to the Remarker's sense of the reviving of the Beast and Beast's Head will continue dead near three hundred years after the body of the Beast was revived This it is to attempt to unlock the Apocalypse without that excellent Key the Rule I have so often mentioned Chap. 14. Vers. 7. IF the zeal of those Greek Emperours named were not a sufficient fulfilling of the monition of the first Angel the overrunning of the Empire by the Saracens would be far more proper to make it up both in regard of time and other respects than the subduing by the Turks But neither of them are signified being Visions belonging to the sealed Book Nor needs there any farther fulfilling than what was by those Greek Emperours Ans. The Expositor's words on this verse are these That this Angelical Monition was the most loudly and earnestly urged upon the Christian World at the dreadfull siege and storming of Constantinople and subduing the whole Eastern Church and Empire to the Turk Which makes neither the plague of the Saracens nor Turks to belong to the Opened-book-prophecy but lets them keep their place in the Prophecy of the sealed Book But implies onely that the voice of that Angel is not confined to the Greek Emperours onely but may be stretched to as many either secular Potentates or Prelates or other eminently zealous men and observant of the severe judgment of God against the Idolatrous Greek Church For ought I know those early Evangelici may come in for a share here who were Preachers of the everlasting Gospel that which was purely contained in Scripture and declared against the Idolatries and Superstitions of the Church of Rome and sealed their Testimony with their bloud I mean the Waldenses and Albigenses Who if they made any use of the judgments of God by the Saracens on the Empire as well as others might do of his judgments by the Turks and it can be made out I am not against it And from the end of the Albigensian War which was finished Anno 1242 to the taking of Constantinople which was in the year 1453 in that Interval there were many famous men declaring for the everlasting Gospel against the Antichristian doctrines and practices and they making the Pope of Rome the Antichrist could not but denounce this approaching judgment You may see their names in Alstedius and David Pareus And upon the taking of Constantinople by the Turk the voice of this first Angel would be louder in preaching the everlasting Gospel and denouncing the fall of Antichrist or Babylon till the second Angel could tell the news that it was done See Alstedius his Chronologia testium veritatis where you may easily make Collections to this purpose Vers. 8. The fall of Babylon viz. the commencement of it is most aptly applied to the separation of the Albigenses and Waldenses from the communion of it to which may be added the separation of the Greek Church from it before the subduing of the Empire by the Turks But to apply this to the Reformation will clash with the admonition of the third Angel Ans. The Waldenses and Albigenses could not be the Angel that declared that Babylon was fallen but were a people that were aggrieved that it stood but were an holy good people and truly Evangelical and preachers of the Everlasting Gospel and denouncers of the judgments of God against Babylon predicting that it would fall and therefore belong to the first Angel And though Mr. Mede would draw the affairs of the Waldenses and Albigenses to the voice of the second Angel yet he has not the confidence to say