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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

applied but only to the Saints Besides particularly as to Horses of a white Colour a Type which tho perhaps translated from the Romans as some others are observ'd to be whose Triumphs us'd to be perform'd with white Horses yet in this Prophecy they are so appropriated to the successes of the Gospel that let any Man read but Rev. xix 11 14. and he will be afraid to interpret them to any other purpose than Mr. Mede has done For it is a very dangerous thing to give away the peculiar Badg and Livery of the Servants of Jesus Christ to Pagans tho Emperors For indeed the Colour of the Roman Conquerors was not White but Red that is bloody and expresly so call'd Rev. xii 3. as the Divines aforesaid own upon the place But if any Conquests were of a deep Crimson they were the Victories they atchieved over the Saints of which yet the Divines do not blush to expound the White Horse and his Rider as the more probable Opinion Lastly it ought also to be consider'd that the Rider in the first Seal went forth CONQVERING AND TO CONQVER which is no Tautology tho the Divines are pleas'd to over-look it nor is the like Expression us'd that I remember any other where But it is very apposite to express the going forth of Jesus Christ in his blessed Apostles to establish such a Kingdom as should never be destroy'd but should subdue all other Kingdoms to it self for ever Whereas if we apply it to the Roman Emperors it is both frivolous and false The former because the Conquests of Rome were in a manner finished before the Times there referr'd to It was Senectus Imperii the old-Age of the Empire as Florus calls it And the latter because Rome never could be said to go forth CONQVERING AND TO CONQVER unless we will make the Repetition to signify just nothing but rather conquering for a while that afterwards she might tumble down and break in pieces with her own weight Thus much I thought good to say upon this occasion in Vindication of Mr. Mede that it might not appear strange if we fix upon him for the Elder predicted in Rev. v. 5. that gave the first notice to the Church of Christ's having prevail'd to expound the sealed Book for Christ was pleas'd to use him as his Instrument in expounding it And this Exposition was set forth Anno 1632 that is in the Reign of King Charles the First of blessed Memory which is signified by that Elder 's being here made to give Christ the Title of the Lion of the Tribe of Juda the Root of David For Christ is set forth according as he appears in his Church sometimes as a Great Conqueror otherwhiles in great Distress Now in King Charles the First Christ appear'd as the Lion of the Tribe of Juda the Root of David For by the Tribe of Juda so famous in the Scripture for their Loyalty and constant adhering to David and his House when the rest of the Tribes rejected him are signified the Loyal Party in King Charles his time that serv'd him faithfully and followed his Fortunes These own'd him when the rest made it their constant business to oppose him and at last depriv'd him not of his Kingdom only but his Life Well therefore is he likened to the Lion of the Tribe of Juda. And he is call'd the Root of David as being when Mr. Mede put forth his Exposition the Father of that afterwards so Glorious Monarch K. Charles the Second who carried in his Life and Reign so intimate a Resemblance to the Patriarch David For which it may suffice to refer the Reader to the Service of the Church set-forth upon Occasion of his Majesty's most happy Restauration for there the Parallel is conspicuous Only one thing may yet further be observed that as David so K. Charles II. also brought in again the Ark of the Lord and set it in its place Which is a thing so remarkable that it might justly prejudice the whole Hypothesis I here proceed upon if after the said Year 1632 wherein came forth Mr. Mede's Exposition there be no notice taken of the various fortunes of the Church of England which happened to her to the amazement of the World within the space of eight and twenty Years extfollowing For any one will be apt to think that the subverting of the Church and killing of the King for standing by it and usurping his Son's throne for twelve Years time on the one side and then the wonderful Work of God in restoring both King and Church in the Year 1660 on the other side are things as worthy to be made the subject of this Prophecy as any thing that has or can be said of any of the former Princes Let us therefore see what follows in the Prophecy Vers 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And I looked and lo a Preface which is never us'd to any ordinary matter in the midst of the Throne and of the four 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in the midst of the Elders a Lamb standing as if it had bin slain i. e. a Lamb revived after having been slain having seven horns and seven Eyes which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which had been sent forth tho now returned into all the Earth That by this Lamb is meant the Church appears not only by his Horns which constantly in Daniel and in this Prophecy signify Kingdoms and we know the Kingdom of the Lamb is his Church and by his Eyes which are expounded the Spirits Angels or Ministers of God that had been sent forth into all the Earth or expos'd as we say to the wide World during the King's exile but were now restor'd to their rights again but also from an unquestionable place in Rev. xvii 14. where it is said of Antichrist and his Complices that they should make War with the Lamb and the Lamb should overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings c. Now it is evident that Antichrist neither did nor could make War against the Person of Christ but only against his Church whence it undeniably follows that by the Lamb is meant the Church of Christ or rather Christ victorious in his Church for it could not else be said of the Lamb that he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings Let us therefore in the Verse we are upon understand by the Lamb slain Christ in the Church of England naturally slain in the Person of his Representative King Charles I and politically slain in the King his Son and in the Church which ran the same fate with them and then by the Lamb looking as if it had been slain that is revived after Slaughter and standing in the midst of the Throne c. must needs be signified the Restauration of the King and Church who came and took the Book out of the right Hand of him that sat

Church that being raised from the Dead he dieth no more Death hath no more Dominion over him If it be said That the Church of England is too small and inconsiderable for the Accomplishment of the things spoken of the fifth Monarchy I answer the fifth Monarchy is compar'd but to a Stone cut out of a Mountain Dan. ii 34 45. and such is the Stone of the Church of England to the Mountain of the Church of Rome out of which it was cut and that without Hands too So that if the Church of England in the beginning of its Reformation had been vast and mighty in Extent and Numbers it could not possibly have been the fifth Monarchy but being but a Stone to a Mountain it may very well be it which shall become it self in time a great Mountain and shall fill the whole Earth Dan. ii 35. The like is foretold of this State of the Church Isa lx 22. A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in its time Since therefore there is no question but the fifth Monarchy was to begin in a small People and as little that God can bring his Purposes to pass whenever he pleases the Littleness the Smallness the Inconsiderableness of the Church of England can be no just Prejudice against its being the fifth Monarchy but is rather an Argument to evince it But enough of this and perhaps too much For what will it all signify I cannot believe it says one it is impossible says another To these I say I cannot help their not believing it and we know with God nothing shall be impossible But if any one of them will give himself the trouble of a diligent and serious search into the Business to such a one I dare aver that he will find it a far more easy and compendious way to disbelieve than to disprove it May the God and Father of Lights so illuminate all our Minds and sanctify all our Hearts with his holy Spirit that both the erroneous may come over to the Communion of this excellent Church the wavering may be establish'd in it and the stedfast may walk worthy of it Amen FINIS SOLI TRIUNI GLORIA * Thus our Common-Prayer-Books are called Rev. v. 8. * See Resol of three Questions pag. 15 16 17 c. * Pag. 4. of the Preface before cited * Thus the seven Seals of the Book Chap. V. 1 c. are but one continued Seal or Mystery running through the whole Book And this Seal is called seven Seals only in respect of the Division of the Book into seven Parts For if the Spirit had been pleas'd to consider the Book without respect to any division he would have mention'd but one Seal And again if he had pleas'd to divide the Book into seven times seven Parts he would have made so many Seals The like may be understood of the seven Lamps here and the seven Horns of the Lamb Chap. V. 6. denoting the Church consider'd as divided into seven Intervals and of the seven Lights in the Lamps here and the seven Eyes of the Lamb there denoting the seven Spirits of God that is Angels or Ministers of his Church or the Holy Ghost that influences and inspires them For one Spirit or Angel of a Church signifies the whole Succession of its Pastors during any one Interval And again one Holy Ghost is call'd seven Spirits with respect to the seven Intervals of the Church that he presides in † Rev. iv 5. * That by Spirits in this Prophecy are meant Ministers appears from Rev. xvi 13 14. where the Spirits of Devils working Miracles must needs be the Ministers of Anti-Christ Consequently the Spirits of God must needs signify the Ministers of Christ 1 Holy 1 Lord 2 Holy 2 God 3 Holy 3 Almighty 4 which was 5 and is 6 and is to come † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if it had been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus the Prepositive Article is expounded Joh. xi 51 52. 2 Cor. v. 4. vii 11. Gal. v. 8. 1 Thess v. 27. 2 Thess i. 11. iii. 14. 1 Tim. vi 14. Col. iii. 8. Rev. xix 20. Heb. v. 4. ‖ Isa xli 20. xlv 8. lxv 17 18 19 20 c. Eph. ii 10. iv 24. 2 Cor. v. 17. Gal. vi 15. * It is usual for the Prophets Actions to represent the Peoples For which see the whole fourth Chapter os Ezekiel Also Chap. xxiv from ver 15 many other places of that Prophecy Also Isa xx 2 3 c. xxii 4. Jer. iv 19 31. † Accomplishment of Scripture-Prophecies Par. I. Chap. 8. * So Liv. v. 28. 1. triumphantem albi per urbem vexerant equi Ovid. de Ponto II. 8. 49. Claudian de bello Getico v. 127. Plin. Paneg. 22. 1. And Apuleius in his Apologia Peram Baculum Philosophis exprobrares Igitur triumphantibus quadrigas albas c. † Dan. vii 27. Rev. xi 15. ‖ Proaem ad lib. 1. * So the Author himself dates his Episte to the Reader † Rev. xvii 14. ‖ Rev. xvi 1 c. * See 2 Sam. ii 4 7 8 9 10 c. xv 10 13. xviii 6 7. xix 9 10 41 42 43 1 King xii 16 17 18 19 20. † 2 Sam. vi 17. * So just before in this very Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the Lamb which had been slain but is now revived † They are the same Spirits i. e. Ministers of the same Church which was establish'd by Qu. Eliz. that are spoken of here and in Rev. iv 5. only here they are said to have been sent forth or driven from their Residencies in the Sectarian Persecution which had never happen'd before to the Church by her establish'd And note that as the Lamb signifies Christ or his Church so the seven Spirits signify the Holy Ghost or his Ministers indifferently as the Sense requires * See the Resol of three Quest † Rev. iv 9 10. v. 14. * Rev. v. 6 7.