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A45517	The key of sacred scripture, and, leading to it first, an answer to some objections given to the author, by a person of great learning and piety : wherein many mistakes, by which most professors wound themselves, and strengthen the hands of the churche's adversaries, are clearly discovered, and the more invincible weapons of truth inviolable (tending effectually to refel errors, and reform manners) are tendred to them / by Tho. Harby.	Harby, Thomas.	1679 (1679)	Wing H683; ESTC R20417	31,658	56

14.8 Chap. 16.19 whereby they run quite contrary to the intent of the Texts and subvert the sence of at least two whole Chapters I need not I suppose proceed further upon this Subject to prove that this last Book of Holy Writ wherein mention is sometimes made of the the whole World Chap. 16.14 c. was not intended to the seven Churches of Asia only I therefore desist from further enlargement upon the first three Chapters whose Prophesies had respect chiefly to the seven Churches of Asia and were long since fulfilled and come to the fourth Chapter CHAP. IV. THis Chapter holds forth an Historical Description of the Primitive Church chiefly in the Apostle's Times That Church as here described was a transient adumbration or figure of the Gospel-Church revived and returned after the 1260 years of the last grand Apostacy out of the Wilderness For we find in this Chapter a Throne and a Sea of Glass like unto Crystal before it vers 6. That Throne and Sea of Glass was the Primitive Church And we find her returned-Antitype the Church in future set forth by a Sea of Glass mingled with Fire Chap. 15.2 That is the Primitive Saints and Professors were a knowing and discerning People and so shall their Antitype the Gospel Church convinced and returned be much more for ever For the Primitive Church soon in about 400 years passed away and fled into the Wilderness into secret subterfuges of obscure latency for 1260 years Chap. 12.6 14. But the Gospel returned Church by her prefigured shall not pass away Isa 65.17 Chap. 66.22 Pet. 8.13 Rev. 21.1 to the end Ch. 22.5 That Throne in this fourth Chapter was the Superintendents of the Primitive Church whereon God sat supream And the Sea of Glass before it was that Church So by the Sea of Glass in the 15th Chapter is meant the Church in future times and those Victors born up by it and standing upon it shall be under God the Supervisors over it CHAP. V. THe Prophetick Visions in this Chapter that are most obvious to my Observation are two The first is The Book sealed with seven Seals in the hand of him that sat upon the Throne Vers 1. The second is a Lamb as it had been slain the Lion of the Tribe of Judah that prevailed to open the Book and to loose the Seals thereof and took the Book and of the right hand of him that 〈◊〉 upon the Throne vers 5.6 7. We must here inquire in the first place what this Book was or is Secondly How it 〈…〉 could open them nor reade it 〈◊〉 look thereon vers 3. 4. Thirdly How long it was so to be Fourthly What the causes of its being sealed were and are And first What is this Book I answer It must be the whole Scripture or else which is little less an abstract of it If an abstract then it must be this last Book of holy Writ for that 's the abridgment of all the Scripture and explains of di●●ci●ates the whole if that be sealed it ●enders thereby the rest much more dark For if any part of the Body the Head especially be wounded all the Body must needs sympathize therewith and partake thereof So if any part of abstract of Holy Writ this part especially He sealed it cannot be but that the whole Scripture must be theirby greatly obscured and very much sealed and that undeniably denotes that most dangerous and 't is most like general mistake in Men Sects and Saints that calls for all possible and speedy care to remove it For all Saints Sects and Professors do not in the least dream that I observe of any such thing as a Book or any abridgment of Holy Writ being sealed especially in such manner aforesaid The opening therefore of the Seals thereof must be the greatest most needful Mercy that hath come to Men in Many Ages Many Expositors say This sealed Book is the Book of things concerning the Church till Christ's second coming But the things of this Book concern not the Church only but all Nations and not only until the time of Christ's second coming but in all after-times Rev. 11.15 Chap. 12.5 They therefore might perhaps have said better That it is the Book of the Presages of Events that should respect the Church and all Nations for above fifteen hundred ninety 〈…〉 beginning about the Year 70 when 〈…〉 began to Reign And of things that should concern the Church and Nations after those 1597 years aforesaid Pool saith It is the Book of the Old and New Testament especially as it concerns the Mysterious of Christ What Mysteries of Christ he means he does not distinctly declare threfore I pass by this account of this Book But That we may more certainly know what Book this is and how long it was to continue sealed we must search what God declared to the Prophets concerning the Antitype Mystery of God and the Mystery of Iniquity then opposite thereunto is the time of the last grand Apostacy and their Prophetick Figures and Fore runners in the Primitive Times For this is the Book of what God declered to his Servants the Prophets concerning the two first and those two last Rev. 6. to Chap. 8.7 Chap. 10.6 7. And first This Book began to be sealed in the Primitive Times about the Year 70 when Flavius Vespasian began to Reign the Jews to be rejected and Jerusalem to be destroyed It continued sealed from that time to 407 when the Primitive Church fled into the Wilderness and the Orthodox but Apostate Empire departed or began to pass away Then the Papal grand Apostacy succeeded and the Book became doubly Sealed This Book therefore beginning to be sealed in the Year 70 contains the Presages of the state of the Primitive Church and of the Bloody proceedings of her proper Antichrist or Mystery of Iniquity from that time to 407 when she 〈◊〉 as aforesaid Then the Antitype Mystery of his Iniquity or Papal grand Apostacy invaded the Christian World for 1060 Years before any effectual means of its discontinuance was made manifest And this last grand Mystery of Iniquity with its effects and the time of its continuance and the deplored state of the Wilderness-Church under it is also much more the Matter of this sealed Book which God declared to his Servants the Prophets But How does it plainly appear That the Mystery of God and the Mystery of Iniquity in the time of the Primitive Defection and in the time of the Papal Apostacy with what one did and the other suffered is that in this sealed Book which God declared to his Servants the Prophets I answer though more fully afterwards That we must mind what the chief Matter in the Mystery of Iniquity was and what its Prefigurations were For the Mystery of God was passive under them whiles they were in Power and therefore in that time did not or not much appear The chief Matter or Substance prefigured was the Secular Power of the

Papacy it was shadowed forth by its first Figures and its immediate fore runner And first There were many first figures of the Matter of this sealed Book I shall here briefly instance but in one which is that of the four Beasts in Daniel the 7th By which four by what they did and by the state of the Church under them God did declare to Daniel the Prophet his Servant what the Matter of this sealed Book should be in the Primitive Times and in the time of the Papal grand Apostacy And Secondly God declared to his Servant John the Evangelical Prophet by four Beasts also by their bloody Practices in the Primitive Times and the Churches Persecutions by them what the matter of this sealed Book should be in the time of the Papal grand Apostacy Rev. 6. to the end of the Chapter And Thirdly God declared to his Servant John by the express signatures of those four Beasts in Daniel set upon the secular beast Papal and by the unparallel'd evil practices of that Beast what the Matter of this sealed Book was to be under the Papacy for 1260 Years Rev. 13.2 3 4 5. to the 9th verse Those four Beasts in Daniel succeeded each worse and less Noble than his Predecessor Those four Beasts in Rev. 6. succeeded also one worse than another And Those four Signatures upon the secular Beast Papal were the Marks of the four Beasts in Daniel that succeeded each worse than other which also undeniably denotes that Papal Beast to be the fifth Monarch and the Papacy to be the fifth Monarchy I might give many other Instances but this in this place is sufficient and clearly demonstrates That this sealed Book in its Antitype or Substance prefigured is the Book of what God hath declared to his Servants the Prophets concerning the finishing of the Mystery of God and the suppressing and final subverting of the Mystery of Iniquity and shews how both must be effected But that this Book is so and what the time of its continuing sealed is is confirmed by Christ upon his Oath By the Living God Chap. 10. For. When the first six Angels had sounded their six Trumpets for 1260 Years which time runs parallel with the Witnesses Sackcloth Prophesie Chap. 11.3 then we find the Angel of the Covenant who took this Book sealed out of his right Hand that sate upon the Throne Chap. 5.7 having it open in his Hand Chap. 10.2 And then he having declared before the meaning of the Prophecies of the seven seals in the Primitive Times by showing what their performance should be and having shown their fulfilling also in the time of the Papacy till about the end of the sixth Trumpet Swore by him that liveth for evermore that ●hen● should be no longer 〈◊〉 But in the days of the seventh Angel when he shall begin to sound the Mystery of God should be finised as he hath declare to his Servants the Prophets Chap. 10.6 7. And immediately thereupon we find this Book open in John's hand Ver. 8.9 10. But what time was that which should be no longer I answer it was the same 1260 Years aforesaid of this Book bring sealed after the Primitive Times to 〈◊〉 The time of the last grand Apostacy prevailing of the Mystery of Iniquity being masked of the Mystery of God his Church being tradden under foot by the Gentiles and not finished not effectually reformed not returned out of the Wilderness not revived as evidently appears from the Texts aforesaid from chap. 11.2 from chap. 12.6 14. from chap. 11. ●● 11. from Ezek. 37.2 3. For we find the seventh Seal opened in chap. 7.1 The Prophecies under that Seal are held forth to the 7th verse of that Chapter and their performances extend to the Year 407 when the Church fled for 1260 Years and the Empire fell began to fall for ever But we find no mention at all of this Book being opened when that seventh Seal was opened nor until 1260 Years after when the first six Trumpets had founded the first six Vials were poured forth and when the Witnesses had finished the 1260 years of their Sackcloth Prophecy as we have proved sufficiently before in the Texts aforesaid There shall be no longer time There 's the first part of Christ's Oath by the living God But in the days of the seventh Angel when he shall begin to sound the Mystery of God shall be finished There 's the second part of Christ's Oath by the Living God The first part terminates the time of this Book being sealed or until it should begin to be opened For we find it open in Christ's Hand immediately before he made this Oath and open in John's hand immediately after he had made it This first part of Christ's Oath terminates also the progress of the Apostacy of Antichrist or until there should be some thing materially tending to its discontinuance which might be as will after appear about the year 1666 or soon after The second part of Christ's Oath states the beginning of the Antitype-Mystery of God to be finished or till something should effectually tend to the finishing of it which might appear at the same time aforesaid or soon after Thus Christ himself upon his Oath by the Living God fully confirms the Terminus ad quem of the Mystery of Inquity or the time when it should begin to fall And likewise the Terminus a qus of the Mystery of God or the time when it should begin to be finished and therefore he must of necessity confirm also by the same Oath the duration of this Book being sealed and state the time when it should begin to be opened For it were absurd to think and a thing impossible that the Mystery of Iniquity can begin to fall and the Mystery of God begin to be finished till this Book the only means under God to those ends shall begin to be opened For All the powers of the Sword and policies of Church and States the wisest Counsels and most careful circumspection of Men and Saints without that means to those ends signifie nothing Therefore the time of all the three of the first beginning to fall of the second to be finished and of the beginning of this Book to be opened is fully confirmed notwithstanding the insedulity of sleepy Inadvertists that mind nothing by the Testimony of Christ upon his Oath by the Living God But If this Book be the Book of what God declared to his Servants the Prophets concerning the Mystery of God prefigured and the means to the finishing of it what then is meant by that by the Prophets foretold Mystery of God How or where shall we find it or know what it is I answer This last Book of holy Writ holds forth that also and further declares the time when it should begin to be finished For we find after 666 Chapter 13. the last Verse and in the first Verse of the 14th these words Then I looked and lo a Lamb stood on Mount Sion