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A57095	The Revelation reveled By two apocalyptical treatises. Shewing. I. How neer the period of the time is, wherein the mysterie of God shall bee fulfilled. II. What things are already fulfilled, and what shall shortly follow thereupon, as they are foretold in the Revelation. Translated out of High-Dutch. With an introductorie preface, shewing that besides the accomplishment of the particular historical events, spoken of in the Revelation, which are com, ... there is a deeper mysterie, and matter of more necessarie and profitable knowledg, to bee reflected upon in the words of this prophesie; whereof also a summarie and a key, ... to bee thought upon by all the Godlie-wise in the three nations.	Dury, John, 1596-1680.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1651 (1651)	Wing R1190A; ESTC R220789	91,312	257

return into their land and furnished them with monie handie-craftsmen workmen materials and other helps and commanded them to build up the Temple again and re-establish the Levitical service And the Jews had imbraced such offers of assistance laid the foundation and begun the building thereof God himself did destroie their work by thunder and lightning from Heaven with terrible earthquakes and fire-bals and totally overthrew the foundation of the Temple insomuch that Cyrillus then Bishop at Ierusalem was forced to confess and to acknowledg that now the words of Christ which hee spoke of the Temple unto his disciples Matthew 24. vers 2. were fulfilled That there shall not bee left one stone upon another that shall not bee thrown down Hereof may bee further read Ammianus Marcellinus lib. 23. Socrates lib. 3. c. 17. Theodoretus lib. 3. c. 17. a● the end Sozom. lib. 5. cap. 21. Tri ●●rt lib. 6. cap. 44. and others more 7. The one thousand two hundred sixtie ●●ars must for the space of thirtie years bee ●●otracted and begin later and at lest ●●th the year of our Lord three hundred ninetie five becaus they expire together ●●th the one thousand two hundred ninetie years Here wee must observ and look whether the Characters and Tokens which are set upon the beginning of the one thousand two hundred sixtie years may bee applied to the three hundred ninetie fifth year Wee have three several Characters 1. The Division of the Romane Empire into two parts Revel chapter 12. vers 14. 2. The beginning of the treading underfoot of the holie Citie Chap. 11. vers 2. 3. The rising of the Beast out of the Sea chapter 13. vers 2. The first Character is described in the Revel 12. vers 14. in these words And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle that shee might flee into the wilderness into her place where shee is nourished By the great Eagle is understood the Romane Empire by the two Wings is meant the division of the same into two parts Constantine the great though hee removed the Imperial Seat from Rome to Byzance or Constantinople yet hee reteined to himself the Government over the whole Empire during his life after his death it wa● divided among his three Sons into three parts But this Division did no● last long but did soon determine fo● Constantius did reign after his Brother's death over the whole Romane Empire himself alone as also after hi● Iulian and other Emperors following But after the death of Theodose th● Great who died the 17. of Ianuari● 395 the Romane Empire was divided between his two sons Arcadius and and Honorius so that Arcadius reigned ●● the East and Honorius in the West And thus this Character may bee well applied to the three hundred ninetie fifth year 1. Becaus of the division of the Romane Empire into two parts whereby ●e wings of the Eagle are spread 2. Becaus the Barbarous Nations ●●d invade and over-run the Romane Empire on all sides in the verie same ●ar whereby the holie Citie was ●●rribly trodden under foot and the ●oman put to flight in the wilder●ss The second Character is expressed in the ●velations 11. vers 2. in these words ●is given unto the Gentiles that they shall ●ad the holie Citie under foot By the Conversion of Constantine the ●eat was the Child which the Woman the christian Church had ●ught forth established upon the ●t of God and by that means the ●hristian Emperors came to the Go●●●nment and the Heathenish service of the Dragon got thereby a huge grea● downfal But in the daies of Theodosius the Great the great Dragon in the Romane Empire was quite overthrown and ca● to the ground At that time the Church of God did triumph and was gloriously built and propagated But afte● Theodosius in the year of our Lord three hundred ninetie five in Ianuarie w● dead and his two sons Arcadius and Honorius had entred into the Government the treading under foot of the ho 〈…〉 Citie did soon begin when the Goth● Huns Alans with other barbarous Nations under the Command of their King Alaricus invaded first the Oriental other made an irruption into th● Occidental Empire and took the Citie of Rome in the year four hundred ten Now by these desolations how th● Christian Churches were destroied the Countries spoiled the Christian persecuted and reduced to a most pit● ful condition may bee gathered from ●●e lamentation of the old Father Ie 〈…〉 me whereof you may read in his first 〈…〉 om the Epist 3 d pag. 18. and Epist ●1 pag. 44. Likewise Augustine in his ●ooks of the Citie of God doth give ●further information hereof and espe 〈…〉 ally Ludovicus Vives in his Preface up 〈…〉 the same 3. The third Character is set down in 〈…〉 e Revelation chap. 13. vers 2. in these 〈…〉 ords And a beast rose up out of the Sea 〈…〉 ving seaven heads and ten horns and 〈…〉 on his horns ten Crowns The Old Heathenish Empire is com 〈…〉 red to the red Dragon which hath 〈…〉 ven heads seven Mountains in the 〈…〉 itie of Rome and ten horns Pro 〈…〉 nces and upon his heads in the Ci 〈…〉 e of Rome seven Crowns seven 〈…〉 rts of Government namely Reges 〈…〉 ns●les Dictatores Decemviros Tri 〈…〉 nos militum Caesares 10. Reges Here the new Romane Empire under the Christian Emperours and Kings is brought in which hath not seven Crowns upon the seven heads upon the Mountains in the Citie of Rome but hath ten Crowns upon the ten horns that is in the Kingdoms into which the Romane Empire is divided But wee must not seek the beginning of this beast in the time when it had already fully his horns Kingdoms but but when it rose up out of the Sea that is when it invaded the Romane Empire by force of Arms and made such a progress in it that it subdued the Citie of Rome And although the Barbarous Septentrional Nations have manie times invaded the Romane Empire with great power yet they could never so far prevail that they could take Rome Alaricus was the first who as was mentioned already in the second Character in the year of our Lord three hundred ninetie five made an irruption into the Romane Empire with two hundred thousand Goths Huns Alans prevailed against the Romans and at length ●ook Rome in the year four hundred ●●n About the same time som other Nations invaded the Romane Empire which they tore into so manie pieces ●●at in the year of our Lord four hundred fiftie five and also sixtie years af●●r the first Invasion ten Kings each by ●imself reigned in the Romane Empire Wherefore the beginning of the Beast 〈…〉 i th ten horns or the rising of the ●ame out of the Sea is referred to that ●ear when Alaricus with his Nations invaded the Roman Empire name●y to the three hundred ninetie fifth ●ear since the birth of Christ Wee see also that all the three

our lawful Calling which is our white ●●ors and with an holie blameless personal ●onversation towards all men which is our ●ne linnen white and clean for herein doth ●●ie our whole strength and what application soëver wee make to other weapons which the powers of darkness can make ●se of aswel as wee they will but weaken ●s and in the encountring with the In●abitants of the earth wee shall finde ●●em stronger at those weapons then wee ●n bee so that by such means I exspect ●ot that they shall fall before us although ●●r victories bee never so great therefore 〈…〉 for mine own part till I can perceiv ●●at wee who pretend to bee in the first ●●nk of the Lamb's followers can make ●●tter use of these spiritual weapons then therto wee have don and can in the ●ommunion of Saints join our forces ●●gether otherwise then now wee do 〈…〉 imitate the Captain of our Salvation I shall bee a man of no great exspectation yet becaus I believ that these things shall com to pass and that by the armor of light the Children of light will at last prevail therefore I do speak and because I both believ and speak therefore I am no● inclined to make haste as som who take the shadows of their own conceits for the substance of Christ's Kingdom a●● inclined to do for this caus although 〈…〉 will not contradict the appearances o● Hopes which the autor of this Treati●● doth give unto the Protestant Caus to rise within a few years in a considerable Posture against Poperie yet I must take l●●● to confess that although the splendor o● the Whore and her influence upon th● Kings of the Earth and the power of the Papal Sea as it is Hierarchical were utter●● consumed and abolished by the brightnes● of Christ's appearing in the Spirit on th● one hand and by the hatred of the whore Lovers and the turning of their hearts ● gainst her on the other hand yet that t●● war with the beast aud with the fals Prophet and with the Kings of the Eart● shall continue and that the beast and th● ●als Prophet with the Kings of the earth will bee found to have their friends not onely amongst those who are called Papists but even amongst those that are most ●erce enemies to Poperie and count themselvs the best of Christians and reformed Protestants It is one thing to bee no friend ●● the State and predominant power and ●●aftiness of the Whore as shee appear's ●●om without and in another place at a 〈…〉 istance from us and another thing it is 〈…〉 renounce the beastlie nature and the de●eitfulness by which wee are led to embrace the Image the mark the name and 〈…〉 e number of the name of the Beast within ●ur selvs that is for our own interest and ●e concernments of flesh and blood I ●o not finde in the last battel the Whore ●amed at all I finde onely as leaders of ●he partie opposite to Christ the Beast and ●he Kings of the earth which I take to bee ●he Beast with his horns for the Horns which are in the heads of the Beast are the Kings of the Earth which ●ake use of the Bodie of the ●east and of her strength and ●re made use of by the heads of the Beast to war against the Lamb and I finde that these horns although they fight against the Lamb yet that they are not alwayes friends with the Whore and for their own interest 's sake not onely rob her of her ornaments but feed upon her flesh although for a season whiles it was their supposed advantage they suffered her to ride upon them aud govern them with the bridle of her autoritie but when shee is cast off from the beast's back the Beast and his horns are as strong as ever and more fit to fight in their brutal waie against the Lamb then before I believ therefore that the Whore as shee is alreadie little considerable in comparison of what shee hath been may vanish and bee made desolate by her own beastlie complices before the last battel but I believ not that wee shall have anie great earthlie Potentates at all ever to appear for the Lamb in this battel but that they shall all join alwayes with the beastlie nature of men against the Lamb-like holie nature of the Saints to discountenance to oppose and to destroie it but wee have a promise that although the two Witnesses of the Lamb shall bee killed by the Beast when they have finished their prophesying in Sackcloth yet that the Lamb when hee shall com in his own appearance with more witnesses then two or three even with a whole armie of witnesses not in Sackcloth upon earth but in their fine linnen white and clean and upon their white horses in their spiritual emploiments as Citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven following their leader against the powers of the earth when I saie the Lamb shall ●om thus attended the promise is that the Beast and all his horns shall bee over●om by him for there is no power in the world able to resist the united strength of the holie ones and the dints of the sword which hath two edges which ●eeing able to divide between the soul and the Spirit and to discern the ●ubtilest thoughts and the deceitfullest ●ntents of the beastlie heart of man it shall ●ndoubted slaie them therefore although ● finde not the fals Prophet here menti●ned as active in leading on the war whereunto certainly for the contrivance of it on the Beast's part hee cannot bee wanting yet hee is found to bee taken prisoner with the Beast and with him cast into the Lake which burneth with fire and Brimstone The Whore and the fals Prophet are cleerly distinct Mysteries and have their several waies of Acting though with a concurrence for so long as the Mysterie of the Whore doth last which the fals Prophet who is the intellectual subtiltie of the Serpent's nature in man as the Beast is his brutish sensualitie and strength fed with prosperitie and delicacies did beget and set upon the beast's back the said fals Prophet doth make use of her that by her baits and allurements hee may draw the Inhabitants of the earth to drink out of the cup of her fornications but when prosperitie and delicacies ceas by reason of the Phials of God's wrath upon the Beast and the distress of Nations then shee is not of use any more but the fals Prophet which begat her will to serv the Beast's interest destroie her also and will bee active in another waie against the Lamb without her And thus I conceiv the battel will bee or is alreadie formed on the side of the beastlie partie which fight 's onely to maintein the interest of flesh and blood which is self-greatness and the conveniences of pleasure with all outward force and deceit against the interest of the Spirit which is self-denial and the conveniences of serving others in the Kingdom of Christ

Rider the woman sitting upon the Beast which John seeth in a vision Chapter 13. vers 3. doth govern the civil State in the divided Romane Empire as the Beast with ten horns and this is the seventh sort of Government and withal the Ecclesiastical Popish Government also which is the eighth sort But becaus the Woman sit's up on the Beast and both doth make one Complexum or a Rider And the Woman doth after her pleasure ride and govern the Beast therefore both the last forms of the Romane Common-wealth the Ecclesiastical and Political Government in Poperie are counted for One wherefore the Angel saith The eighth is of the seven Whence wee conclude that by the Beast which ascended out of the bottomless pit is understood the Popish Ecclesiastical Government which useth the Temporal sword and the power of worldlie Potentates as a Rider maketh use of the power and and strength of his hors Of this Beast is said here that it shall make war against the two witnesses and shall overcom them and kill them That is there shall bee in the Romane Empire a persecution set a foot against the Evangelical Protestants by the instigation of the Pope and the Prelats towards the end of the appointed time in the last sixtie years from the one thousand five hundred ninetie fifth until the one thousand six hundred fiftie fifth year The two Witnesses shall bee overcom and killed That is they shall bee removed and thrust out of all Ecclesiastical and Political Offices and imploiments Vers 8. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great Citie which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified Here is the place described where the persecution shall happen It is not an universal persecution which goe's throughout the whole Romane Empire but a particular Act becaus the dead bodies of the two Witnesses do not lie in all the streets but onely in One in the street of the great Citie By the great Citie is understood the Citie of Rome of which the Angel saith in the 17. chapter vers 18. The Woman which thou sawest is that great Citie which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth Which is called in the 14. chapter vers 8. Babylon the great Citie And that by Babylon is meant the Citie of Rome is granted by the Jesuits themselvs as Blasius Viegas in cap. 17. Apoc. sect 3. Remacius de Vaulx in Harpocrate divino part 1. fol. 235. Bellarm. lib. 2. Pontif. Rom. c. 2. lib. 3. c. 5. But by the Citie with the streets is the whole Romane Popish Empire set forth as it is elswhere compared unto a Beast with ten horns chap. 13. and 17. and unto the Sea with rivers and fountains Chapter 16. Compare also Luc. 14. vers 21. 23. The Citie of Rome is called spiritually that is the Citie of Rome or the Romane Papacie Is among the Hebrews especially the Prophets to bee called signifieth as much as to bee and that in a singular high manner and waie as appeareth by Isaiah chapter 1. vers 26. chapter 7. vers 14 chapter 9. vers 6. chapter 56. vers 7. chapter 60. vers 14. chap. 26. vers 4. Ierem. 3. vers 17. chap. 23. vers 6. Ezech. 48. vers 35. Zach. 6. vers 12. chap. 8. vers 3. Finkius Can. 49. Cent. 11. Spiritually that is Mystically in a mysterious sens and resemblance Another Sodom becaus of their Paederastia and other horrible Sodomitical Abominations and sins which not onely are committed but commended there As Sleidan lib. and Balaeus in Catalogo do write concerning Ioannes de la Cata Archbishop of Benevent that hee published in print a Treatise to commend Sodomie so that this is fully agreeable to that which the Prophet Isaiah saith chap. 3. vers 9. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them and they declare their sin as Sodom they hide it not Shee is another Egypt becaus of the great blindness and hardness of heart as also becaus of the Tyrannie and grievous bondage wherewith shee doth afflict the people of God driving and compelling them to a slavish servitude of Poperie Shee is also a true likeness of Ierusalem becaus shee like the Iews doth despise God and his word killeth the Prophets nay refuseth to hear and to receiv the Son of God himself blaspheming calumniating persecuting and crucifying him in his members as by experience is cleerly seen And their dead bodies shall lie in the street These words are spoken as it were with som amazement abruptly and without the concluding word to make up the sens The dead bodies of the Witnesses in this street But which street A Citie hath manie streets and so hath the papal State which is here called the great Citie having under it manie streets and Kingdoms in subjection those wee must reflect upon to discover where such wars and persecutions in these years from the one thousand five hundred ninetie fifth of our Lord are hapned Three principal streets or Kingdoms hath the Oriental Antichrist the Truth in his subjection hee hath not used anie such persecution against the Christians in his Dominions Seven are under the Occidental Antichrist In Italie France Spain and the British Kingdoms no such remarkable persecution did happen within this time nor also in Poland The attempt which was made in Prussia in the one thousand five hundred ninetie fifth year of our Lord was of no long continuance What came to pass in Hungarie and Transylvania in the year one thousand six hundred two and som following was quieted by the Putshkeyish insurrection and cannot bee referred to this The tenth Horn yet remain's Germanie or the Germane Empire which in the whole Beast or Empire cannot bee counted otherwise but one horn and a Kingdom by it self in the whole bodie of the fourth Monarchie This is the principal street in the great Citie the principal horn of the Beast the principal Kingdom in the fourth Monarchie whose head is represented by the Citie of Rome This Germane Empire is here called the street per excellentiam becaus it is the principal street in the Empire which doth appear hence 1. By reason it is called the Romane Empire 2. By reason it is as it were a figure and Image of the old Romane Empire having seven heads in regard of the seven Princes Electors and ten Provinces in respect of the ten Circles into which it is distributed 3. By reason that the head of the Germane Empire hath still the name of a Romane Emperor and hath the the preeminencie above all other Kings adhering to the Papal State Now in this street wee must seek the warr and wee shall also finde it if wee consider what is passed from the one thousand fiue hundred ninetie fifth year until this present hour against the true Professors of the Gospel The Pope indeed hath from the beginning of the Reformation which hapned by Doctor Luther alwaies aimed at this how hee might wholly