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

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

other Magistrates there yet remained But these being all taken away which commeth to passe in this Trumpt what was there but darknesse and a totall eclipse of the light aswell of the day as the of the night to wit which appertained to her to whom the third part of the light of heaven was due The representation of the sun the moone and stars in this understanding is most usuall with the Prophets as Esay 13 10. also 60. 20. Where for thy Sunne shall set no more and thy Moon shall not be in the waine c. The Targum hath Thy kingdom shall never cease he speaketh to Ierusalem and thy glory shall not be taken from thee Also Ier. 15.9 where concerning Ierusalem The sunne thereof hath set whilst it was yet day The Targum turneth Their glory departed in their life time And Ez●k 32. ● That concerning Pharaoh when I shall put thee out I will cover the heavens and make the stars thereof dark The same Paraphrast turneth it Tribulation shall cover thee when I shall put out the Splendour of the Glory of thy Kingdome c. Let the Reader transferre hither also those things which I have noted before out of Achmet●s to give light to the sixt Sea●e which it is admirable to see how they agree Of the thr●e Woe Trumpets There remaineth yet three trumpets the greatest of all and the most grievous and therefore differenced from the former by the title of three Woes For after the * 〈…〉 explanation of the 4th trumpet I beheld and heard saith hee a certaine Angell flying thorow the midst of heaven saying with a loude voice Woe woe woe to the inhabitants upon the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpets of the three Angels which are yet to sound Also ●ha 9 12. and 11.14 Doubtles when the inhabitants of the Christian Roman Empire in the mean space while the former Trumpets sounded had defiled themselues with the worship of new idols the trumpets which remained are increased for the punishing now of a double sin For that that sin also of the Roman Empire came moreover into the reckning of a crime to be punished with the former of the death of the Martyrs it appeareth in that to the second Woe is conjoyned this Elogie to wit the rest of the men that were not killed by these plaguer that is as I conceive Chap. 9. ver ●● truly by that Woe and the former repented not of the workes of their handes that the should not worship Divils and Idols of gold and silver and brasse and stone and wood which can neither see nor here to walke The first Woe Trumpe● OR The Fifth Trumpe● The first Woe trumpet is long since past That hath sent out to Chap. 9. ver 1● destroy the world horrible bands of Locusts issuing out of the hellish smoke of the bottomlesse pit now by the helpe of Satan opened that is the Sara●ens or Arabians a nation populous and innumerable like Locusts stirred up by the horrible false prophecy of Muhamed to the ruine of so many nations For the smoke ascending out of the infirnall pit is Muhamadisme which the Muhamadan imposters call Gslanis●e this newly Verse 20 obscured the world lately inlightned with the Gospell of Christ the son of righteousnesse the darknesse of the heathenish errours Chap. 9● being dispelled And surely the type of Locusts is the more apt because the Egyptian Locusts also came out of the same Arabia to wit bordering upon Egypt eastward For so Exodus 10. 13. 14. The Lord brought an Eastwinde upon the land and it brought the Locusts and the Locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the coasts of Egypt Besides the Arabians are likened to Locusts for the huge multitude of the nation Iudg. 7. 12. The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the Sonnes of Kedem or the ●ast lay in the valley like grashoppers for multitude c. Where is to be observed that the Arabians in holy writ are peculiarly named Sonnes of the east as is Arabia it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the east as in respect of Egypt where the Israelites learnt so call it you may see Gen. 10. 30. and 25. 6. 1. Kings 4. 30. Esay 11. 14. Ier 49 28. perhaps also Mat. 2.1 the same reason plainly for which Asia the lesser is called at this day Natotia and Arabia faelix seated southward from the rest of the Arabiaes Ayaman that is the south When the Queene of the south Matth. 12. 42. But these things by the way The like represeination of Lo●●●● concerning the A●●yrians and Babilonians about to destroy Iude● is to be s●●●e in ●oell in the two first Chapters from whence he will not deny that this type is borrowed who shall compare the description of them Chap. 9. both But that the interpretation thereof is to be ●●ferred to hosti●e bandes Ac●metes showeth out of the use of the East whose words I have thought sit to be inserted in this place For so hee ●hap 300 out of the learning of the Indians Persians and Egyptians Loc●sts without doubt are referred generally to the multitude of enemies for so it is registred in holy writt that Locusts goe forth by divine commandement for the destruction of Kingdoms like some Armie This of holy writt is meant of the holy writings of the Indians onely as also whatsoever in this booke rellishet● of the knowledge of Christian Religion as will appeare to the Reader He goeth on If any either King or endned with Authority shall seeme to see Locusts going forth against any region in that place let him expect a multitude of enemies with great power and how much damage the Locusts shall doe so much shall they h●●t Now therefore the repres●●ntation being con●ir●●d we shall see of the rest of the deseription There was given to them saieth he verse 3 power such as the Scorpions of the earth have for they had v●rse 10. tayles like unto Vers. 3. Scorpions and in them stings with which they might hort and ve 5 their torment is as the torment of a Scorpion when he striketh a man That is they had not onely power proper to Locusts of consuming and wasting the regions over which they swarmed but like monsters tayles as scorpions by the stroke whereof they also diffused their venome An admirable thing A Locust scorpion but what manner of evill he meaneth the symbole of a serpentine kinde seemeth to declare since ● scorpion is a kinde of serpent But by this kinde wher with the devil first deceived ma●k●nde and alienated it from God the Spirit of God liketh to bring him in who was ●urther to seduce men whence that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the serpent the old one which deceiveth the world Chap. 12.9 ad 20.2 The taile therefore of the Scorpion with a stinge doth set ou● the propagation of that diabolicall Mu●amme●●n false prophecie with its whole

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