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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42409	An essay upon the fourth and fifth chapters of the Revelation shewing that the Church of England B.L.E. is particularly describ'd in those chapters / by Walter Garrett ...	Garrett, Walter.	1690 (1690)	Wing G269; ESTC R6105	15,525	19

upon the Throne ver 7. that is he came and took the Regal Power to which it peculiarly belongs to DEFEND the FAITH of that Book out of the Hand of him or them who at that time were in Possession of it And it evidently appears yet further that this Lamb cannot be Christ in Person taking any Book out of the Father's right Hand 1. Because St. John did not see him all the while till now 2. Because it is expresly said that he CAME and took the Book whereas if he had been all the while at the Sitter's right Hand before it could not have been said that he CAME and took the Book out of it 3. Because upon the Lamb 's taking the Book the Elders who are certainly Mortals upon Earth the word never having been us'd to express any other sung a new Song ver 8 9. which shews that they saw the doing of it and consequently that it was done on Earth and therefore not by Christ in Person All which I here offer besides eight Arguments in my Resolution c. to prove the Throne to be an Earthly Throne It remains therefore that all these things were suffer'd and done by Christ in King Charles the First and Second and in the Church in their times since every thing agrees thereto so exactly and is not applicable to any other King and Church in the whole World I have here given only a taste of my intended Exposition but such a one as is sufficient to convince any Man that is not hardned against Conviction For he that can think so many wonderful things to have happen'd by chance and in such order too as to favour my Hypothesis but not at all respected by the Spirit in the Prophecy is in a very hopeful way of believing the World it self to have been made by a fortuitous concourse of Atoms and that it is not rather the Contrivance of an Infinite Wisdom and the Workmanship of an Almighty Hand Altho to note this also by the by the Hypothesis I have here laid down leads me not only through the Chapters now before us as shall be seen hereafter if God will but as easily and as certainly through the whole Book of the Apocalyps In fine I crave no favour for this Notion if it be false let it not want the Censure it deserves but if true as I am certainly perswaded and as he will find that gives himself the trouble to consider it it must needs be joyful News both to the Church of ENGLAND and to all others that she holds Communion with For in a word the Church and Kingdom describ'd in the fourth and fifth Chapters of the Revelation since it is certain that they are a Body or Society of Believers Militant in this World and not Triumphant in the other must needs be that Church or rather State of the Church which was to succeed the fourth Monarchy and is commonly known by the Name of the Fifth Because the supream visible Head of it is likened to God not at large or with respect only to his Power Goodness Wisdom Majesty and the like but with particular relation to his living for ever and ever And so likewise when the King and Church restor'd are set forth by that glorious Type of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Lamb looking as if he had been slain and were reviv'd again and exalted to the right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty on high the very same thing is intimated to wit that the Kingdom and Church signified by the revived Lamb should never die Death should no more have Dominion over them like as it is noted of the true Lamb after his Resurrection Rom. vi 9. For this Reason I say the Kingdom of the fourth and fifth Chapters of the Revelation must needs be the fifth Monarchy because the King thereof is likened to God and the Lamb with particular respect to their living for ever and ever For as every King resembles God in his Power so none resembles God in his Truth but a Lover and Defender of the Truth none in his Mercy and Goodness but a Merciful and Good King none in his Immortality but a King or which is all one in Prophecy a Succession of Kings that shall never have an end Now there never was nor ever will be any such Succession but only that of the fifth Monarchy And this is call'd a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed neither shall it be left to other People but it shall break in pieces and consume all the other Kingdoms and it shall stand for ever Dan. ii 44. The like is said Dan. vii 27. And the Kingdom and Dominion and the Greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the People of the Saints of the Most High whose Kingdom is an Everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him If it be said That the Kingdom of England was destroy'd by the Rebellious Parliament in Forty Eight I answer A Kingdom is not said in Scripture to be destroy'd unless it be seiz'd by another People And this is abundantly evident in the Roman Kingdom which running through so many Changes of Kings Consuls Decemvirs Tribunes Dictators Emperors and Popes is yet reckoned but as one and the same Kingdom as will not be denied by any Man The Church indeed is not like a Kingdom in this respect for even English-Men if of a different Communion may destroy the Church of England For in spiritual things there is as much difference and more between an Orthodox English-man and an English-man that is an Heretick or a Schismatick as there is in Civil Matters between a Native of England and of another Country And as no Man would say that the Church of England was destroy'd when only some Members of that Church are remov'd and others of the same Communion put in their places which yet I pray God may never be so the Scriptures do not reckon a Kingdom to be destroy'd no not altho the very Form of Government be subverted the Case of Kingdoms being not so tender in this Point as that of Churches whose Government seems to be unalterable as being of Divine Appointment while it continuces in the hands of the same People And therefore the Perpetuity of the fifth Monarchy is remarkably describ'd in these words amongst others afore-quoted that it shall not be left to other People as all the other Monarchies were to be And then as for the Church of England tho that was to die together with the Person of the King that was then Head of it yet since the King together with the Church restor'd again in 1660 is compar'd to the Lamb slain and risen again and exalted to the right Hand of God Rev. v. 6 7. there seems to be no fear that the Church of England should ever be destroy'd another time since it is so remarkably said of Christ himself who in this is made a Figure of his