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A16853	A revelation of the Apocalyps, that is, the Apocalyps of S. Iohn illustrated vvith an analysis & scolions where the sense is opened by the scripture, & the events of things foretold, shewed by histories. Hereunto is prefixed a generall view: and at the end of the 17. chapter, is inserted a refutation of R. Bellarmine touching Antichrist, in his 3. book of the B. of Rome. By Thomas Brightman.; Apocalypsis Apocalypseos. English	Brightman, Thomas, 1562-1607.	1611 (1611)	STC 3754; ESTC S106469	722,529	728

and wee must either thinke forthwith of the remedy or some great and lamentable calamity is to be expected shortly And it is to be observed that he doth rebuke and chasten that is convince and punish These two thinges are to be ioyned togither Punishement is unprofitable where wordes are silent stripes are fierce From whence chastisement is well called discipline wherein the offender feeleth paine and learneth togither But what shall then be the fruict of so longe and spitefull contention when the convinced and chastised sonne shal be compelled will he nil he to singe a contrary songe Were it not better to give now eare to learne then to expect that sorowfull chaunging of our iudgement Although Christ in deede hath convinced already seeing nowe by the space of many yeeres many notable men doe labour in this thing that the brethren may understand the trueth What remaineth now but that at length he fetch out his roddes and chastise those whom he hath rebuked so longe time without fruict ¶ Be hotte therfore Straine therefore thy zeale to the utmost The translation persisteth in the former metaphore but the Spirit speaketh now properly teaching that the former heate was nothing else then zeale Forsake saith he thy lukewarmnes purge out all the Romish leaven that thou mayest hange no longer in the middes betweene the reformed and the Anti-Christian Church cast away for his sake honours riches who for thy sake was most despised most poore Let faithfull Pastours be appointed for the severall congregations let them that have charge rule be compelled unto deligence let the chaungers corrupters of the doctrine be repressed let the censures be restored to the Pastors over their flocke And dispute not with Christ how profitably the Politie used of the enemy may be ioined with the Gospell He that reproveth in his people the manners of the East would not have his to be shorne after the similitude of the Gentiles will not easily suffer this society with Antichrist which our carnall wisdome mindeth This is the force of this zeale which unlesse wee shall receive forthwith wee shall undergoe some sharpe chastisement ¶ Andrepent Repente of the iniuries which thou hast done to the brethren in casting some into prison in turning others out of their goodes in depriving many of the power to preach the word in reproching traducing all with the odious name of Anabaptists Thou knowest that they have no fellowship with them in any of their errours They that reproove thy superstitions teach most purely holily cōcerning the Magistrate whō they honour no lesse faithfully reverently then any other whatsoever Yf I should say that he were esteemed more holily religiously of them then of all other I should not ly For they that cleave to God with most firme mindes are such as observe most his decrees in all true obedience yeelde up themselves to him whō they acknowledg to be ordained of God among men in his feare That was a notable calumnie wherby both thou hast deceived the Prince also hast procured hatred to thy brethrē But thou sawest that this weapō was most ready at hād to thē hurtfull above al other Repēt wash a way thy former offēces with teares forget thy riches which the more thou lovest the more payne shalt thou feele It is forsaken with much adoe where it cleaveth so neare the heart But Christ is determined unlesse thou repent betime to spue thee out of his mouth 20 Beholde J stand at the doore A second reason persuading to use the remedy takē from the readines of Chr. to dwell with thē that shall receave him which belōgeth to every one of the mēbres that former respected properly the Ang. but why doth he say that he stādeth at the doore knocketh Why openeth he not the doore goeth straite in especially seeing he hath the key of David wherewith he openeth no mā shuteth above in ver 7. These things are spoken most elegātly most significātly in respect of the Laodiceā Church ours in which Christ stādeth at the doores an entry in some sorte stopped up against him The Philad Chur. in which once flourished Gods ordināce in whose Antitype it is force at this day all the reliques of Antichrist being thrust forth hath the doore unlocked opened especially because of the true use of excōmunication restored wherby the gates of heaven are both shut opened also the doores of every on s conscience are opened that Chr. may passe in without any tarrying For where good heede is taken to every on s manners according to the present occasion men are admonished reproved cut of received againe the other things are performed faithfully diligently with the regard had of every on s salvation all doores barres of the harte are cast downe removed in very truth the gates then lift up their heades that the King of Glory may enter in But when as England is lukewarme because of the contagion of the Romish government as once Laodicea for some such like mixture hath not any administration of the censures graunted unto lawfull Pastors as Christ hath appointed as often as the word is preached Christ standeth knocking as it were at the doores shut to whom no other way is open into mens hart thē by the worde whose power wee read to have bin great once whē in one sermon three thousand were converted Act. 2.41 Neither is it at this day of it selfe lesse mighty yet there is a diverse raison of a Church to be gathered one gatthered God sheweth himselfe extraordinarily bountifull in inviting his people which after he hath gathered togither he will have them to grow by the way appointed As touching the fruit of the Gospell therefore the people receaveth no lesse losse of so excellent an ordināce thē the Angell doth acknowledge himselfe maimed lame being spoiled of his lawfull power This key is wanting to our Church therefore it is noe mervayle if Christ be hindred that he cannot enter in readily seeing the doores are shutte But are wee thē destitute of every good thing in no wise but wee enioy still a double good thing wholsome to the elect the first of which is the going in of Chr. unto those that doe open to him The 2 is their most sweete setting downe with Christ That is the most sweete solace of receiving Christ which the Saints perceive as often as at the word preached they feele their harts to be opened by faith by the worke of the Spirit For then he entreth in suppeth with us in imperting himselfe most beningly and sweetly even as he bad Zacheus desiring to see him clyming up on a wilde figge tree to come downe to make ready for him entertainment at his house Luke 19.5 And he suppeth not going awaye scotfree who doth give them that thus embrace him that they be made the sonnes of God

your selves not to be Ministers of Christ And in this weise is the first calling of the Iewes that shal be now shortly which Daniel describeth by a certen pointing out of the time chap. 12.12 c Ezechiel saw it shadowed out by the dry bones moving themselves with an exceeding great noise shaking and by and after covered with sinewes flesh chap. 37.78 as wee shal heare afterward God willing more fully 11 Then J saw heaven open It being declared how Euphrates must be dried up or rather to what ende that is to say that nothing may be an impediment to the Iewes returning into their owne countrey now he proceedeth to the other part of the sixt vial the preparation for warre the Captaine wherof is first described And such a forme of him is exhibited not onely as is needful for this warre but also which declareth the whole state of things from that instant moment even to the end of al things It is no new thing that under the person of Christ a short and brief Prophecy of the whole state of his spouse should be delivered He is not chāged unlesse in so much as it is convenient for his Church Therfore in this new shape as in a glasse we ought to behold the face of the spouse by how much it is to be considered the more diligently This wonderfull sight is seen in heavē open that is in the holy Church whose most bright glory now most of all shal be made manifest to al men as before by a dore open in heaven the notable dignity and excellency of the first Church as it was in the Apostles daies and by and by after chap. 4.1 But this is more ample glory that heaven is opened not by some little dore but by a whole gate ye whole walles that I may so say nothing letting but that her full maiesty now may be seen of men as farre as is granted on earth ¶ And behold a white horse We may not suppose that Christ shal come forth in any visible shape these things are farre from his last comming as those things which follow wil manifest but he wil shew forth openly and evidently such a force in the administration of things as this figure representeth The whole description consisteth of foure parts In every one of which is to be considered the preparation and name In this first part the furnishing is a white horse the name faithful and true The similitude of which things with that in chap. 6.2 hath caused that some did thinke this to be the same vision by which errour they confound all things They differ much in times and in argument That white horse belonge to the first lists But this to the last goale That former went forth by and by after Iohn when Traiane flourished and his next successours This last is not seen but after the destruction of Rome There the confused multitude of all the beleevers was respected Here the conversion of the nation of the Iewes onely is intreated off Yet herin they agree that the white horse in both places signifyeth Christ triumphing by his truth but thē the Gentiles being subdued now at length a stubburne people being reconciled unto him To which thing he carried a name fitted wherby he sheweth that he wil now at last manifest to the whole world how faithfull true he is in performing his promises and that not any thing even the least shal be frustrate which once he foreshewed by the Prophets concerning the restoring of this nation in the last times Such a one therfore shal Christ be notable by these marks when he shal beginne the conversion of this people His promise shal seeme to have bin forgotten through long delay which at length he shal performe with most plentiful increase of new joy ¶ And who jugeth and fightest iustly So Theod. Beza translateth a relative being put between as though these things togither with the former should constitute the name it selfe which in the rest is wonte to be shorter but the sense is al one seing it is in likeweise whither a man be counted such by his name or found to be of this sort in very deed The worde have this force properly and he iudgeth and fighteth in righteousnesse where the coniunctiō copulative may be a causal as though these words should render a reason both of the white horse and also of the name should be added to the same in stead of an interpretation He sitteth upon a white horse because he fighteth righteously His name is faithful and true because he iudgeth righteously Which words are spoken in respect of his own people taken as they seem out of Psal 96.10.13 where to iudge in truth and righteousnes signifyeth to rule and moderate his people in framing and ordering their life according to truth and righteousnes that not onely as touching their outward actions but also in respect of inward newnesse of the heart which dependeth upon the regeneration of the Spirit wherby we are reformed after the Image of God as Calvin hath written very wel These words therfore declare the effectual power of calling which Christ shal now bestow aboundātly upō his and moreover safety from their enemies with whom he wil make warre and render them a reward meet for their deserts 12 And his eyes The second part of the description where his eyes are as it were a flame of fyre and on his head are many crownes but a name unknowne to all men but to himselfe alone As touching his eyes they are most sharpe pearsing al things which as flames of fyre consume whatsoever letteth the sight make lightsome the darkenesse it selfe and set most hidden things in the light What cā hide it selfe from such eyes Such an one shal Christ shew himselfe in drawing out his people into the light of truth from the hidden dennes and darkenesse whersoever they lurked so as this sharpnes of sight shal be very admirable to the world I wil say to the North saith the Lord give and to the South keepe not backe bring my sonnes from farre and my daughters from the endes of the earth Isay 43.6 The crownes are many because of the many singular victories which the Iewes shal get when first they shal give their name to Christ from those sundry nations among which they live dispersed striving as much as they can against their conversion But why is his name unknown that here we may know that great mystery to be wherat Paul cryed out O the deepnesse of the richesse both of the wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearcheable are his iudgements and his waies past finding out Rom. 11.33 c. There he speaketh of this same thing of the hardening of the Iewes for a time calling at length in their time which whole matter he concludeth with an admiratiō of Gods wisdome affirming that no wit of any creature can comprehende the infinitnesse of the mystery So this vision foreshewing in the

the continued quantity now followeth of that which is severed and first of the city whose dimension is about twelve thousand furlongs which it is doubtful whither they belong to the whole plat of ground or onely to the compas There is nothing that can be determined certenly and distinctly touching this thing If we say the first it is a huge city every side of which shal be an hundred and nine furlongs and more lacking a very little of the old Babylō which conteined a hundred and twenty furlongs in every side as Herodotus in Clio sheweth But if the compas alone receiveth this measure there was never any city to be compared with this in greatnesse every side wherof shal be three thousād furlongs in lenght and the whole plat of ground nine times tenne hundred thousand The Complutent edition whom Montanus and Plantins Bible follow reade these things otherweise thus about twelve furlongs of twelve thousand that is as I suppose about twelve times twelve thousand furlongs as if the whole largenesse were so many furlongs as many as wer sealed of every tribe ch 7. to weet an hūdred fourty foure thousād furlongs Which agreemēt causeth to doubt that this reading is the truer both because it declareth the great similitude of this the old Church of the Gētils also because it retaineth the proportion of the wal in ver following By this meane the city is made of the mutual increase of the cityzens ministers as the wal of the nūber of the ministers multiplyed in it selfe for 12 tims 12 thousād of which that multiplying signifieth the ministers this to be multiplyed the citizēs do mak this nūber whose side shal be of 379 furlōgs above But here it may be asked why Iohn maketh this city much larger thē Ezech. seing it is the same in both For he rehearseth the measure of ech side 4500 cubits ch 48.30 that is 12 furlongs onely and some what more Iohn which reading soever we folow whether we esteeme the measure of the circuit or the plat of ground assigned a farre greater magnitude Ezechiel was a minister of the Law Iohn of the Gospel from whence ariseth a difference of amplenesse according to the allowed portion of light which alwayes was greater the nigher men approached to the times of Christ Wherfore the Temple of Salomon was built with la●ger dimensions then the Tabernacle and the Temple of Ezechiel with farre greater than that of Salomon but this ciry of Iohn with a great deale larger than of Ezechiel For after Christs comming there came a very great light according to which increase of knowledge ther is used an answerable magnificence of the building ¶ And the length and bredth and height of it are equall Even now we said that the length is continuance of time the bredth the present face of every time which shal be no lesse faire and beautiful then that glory of continuation Now first mention is made of height which serveth to betokē and excellent glory of this city to be extolled by the speach and praises of al men Things are set on high by commendations wherby as it is much used in common speach they are lifted up to heaven Therfore this city shal be no lesse famous among al then durable in time alwayes flourishing in a great multitude of citizens For this city is solid not superficiary proportionable foure squarre on every part which consisteth of al her measures and al of them equal It is perfect every way to which nothing can be added The former wanted solidity whose bredth moreover was so narrow that it could scarce be seen What marveile therfore if they were shaken with every tempest This more firme shal stande with so great strength on every side that it cannot feare any stormes 17 And he measured the wall of it Such then is the forme of the city The quantity of the wall a part is of an hundred fourty foure cubits Frō whēce is this number From the nūber of the Apostles multiplied in it selfe for twelve times twelve doo make this number VVherfore the Apostles and the Ministere of the word who are propagated from them shal compasse the holy city round about and shal keepe it safe from al invasion of the enemy and from al the fraud and deceit of Heretiques But this measuring is onely the height that of the length may be known well ynough being shewed by the measure of the city which the wal compassing the same doth exceed because of the territories ¶ The measure of a man which is of the Angell As though he should say Though the Ministers shal make this description with their cubite yet they shal doo nothing at their owne pleasure but as the Angels of God shal respect Gods wil in al things and shal follow the same most happilye having the Spirit for their guide but what should the measure of a man doo in heaven observe therfore what city he describeth unto us 18 And the building of the wall was Thus farre of the forme now he speaketh of the matter and first iointly of the matter of the wall togither of the city The frame of the wall is of Iasper This stone both lyeth in the foundation and is used chiefly in the rest of the building perhaps because endomesis in greeke is the stuffing of the wall filling up the space between the fronts that it may signify the frame to be no lesse pretious within then without the stopping which the word noteth seemeth to signify some such thing or rather seing procumation is also a pile or dam laid for to repell and breake the waves the building is chiefly made of Iasper because those teachers which are signifyed by this gemme shal endure the chiefe violence and first assault of the adversaries being in stead of a fortresse to the rest ¶ But the city it selfe was pure gold The matter in summe of the city is pure golde which the fire consumeth not but maketh it more bright neither weareth away with use neither is defiled by the rust neither is overcome either by the juices of salt or vineger which doo overcome other things Plinie giveth those praises to gold Why should not this city be perpetual which is made of matter so invincible and is free from all corruption But beside it is like to cleare glasse that is not loathsome to looke on by the deformity of any filth even in the most secret corner So wholly clear it shineth through that in it and through it every one may beholde the most favourable face of God For hereunto tendeth this shining clearenesse that God himselfe may be considered and seen through it whom as strangers on earth we behold through a glasse and riddle 1 Cor. 13.12 Therfore this city is not as at this day Rome the whore gilded with golde wholly without and within full of filthinesse and al manner of corruption but it hath exceeding great purity and holinesse ioyned