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A51309	Paralipomena prophetica containing several supplements and defences of Dr Henry More his expositions of the Prophet Daniel and the apocalypse, whereby the impregnable firmness and solidity of the said expositions is further evidenced to the world. Whereunto is also added phililicrines upon R.B. his notes on the revelation of S. John; Apocalypsis Apocalypseos. Supplement.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.; More, Henry, 1614-1687. Plain and continued exposition of the several prophecies or divine visions of the Prophet Daniel.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2669; ESTC R490816	301,149	543

expired So inauspicious an Epocha every way is the 326. year of our Lord for the time of the Witnesses till their Rising CHAP. XLIII Certain odd Glosses on v. 8 v. 10 and v. 11. of the seventeenth Chapter of the Apocalypse Vpon v. 8. That was is not and yet is with an Answer thereto How Dr. More according to his Sentiments disposes of the Arrian Emperours and of Julian the Apostate Vpon v. 10. And there are seven Kings An Answer to the Gloss Vpon v. 11. He is the eighth The Gloss and the Answer thereunto THE Text and Gloss on v. 8. That was is not and yet is The same Empire was before Augustulus was not under the Ostrogothian Kings and was recovered again by Justinian This Exposition does not exclude an Ecclesiastical sense of Rome as Pagan Christian and Re-paganized But it is not so proper to substitute a Body mystical or a Quality instead of a Body Politick as Rome was under the rest of the Heads And so for the Ecclesiastical sense or pure Caesar the time of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must be short indeed viz. confined to some part of Constantine's Reign Nor do I see how Dr. More according to his Sentiments can well dispose of the Arian Emperours and Julian the Apostate Answ I say 1 That the Beast that was is not and yet is is the same that ascends out of the bottomless Pit and whom the Inhabitants of the Earth shall wonder after whose names are not writ in the Book of life Which therefore plainly concerns Religion not the Civil State And besides it is the whole Roman Empire as appears by the Ten Horns of which the Ostrogothian Kings are one in a new disguise 2 We cannot say under the Ostrogothian Kings the Roman Ten-horned Empire was not for it was then as before Augustulus Nor after the Recovery by Justinian that the Empire is not as then and yet is viz. as to Civil Constitution which the Glosser aims at For the Roman Laws and Magistrates were supported by the Ostrogothian Kings as you may see in Carolus Sigonius De Imperio Occidentali lib. 15 16. 3 The true Exposition does not only not exclude the Ecclesiastical but shows that it alone is the right meaning this other being so exceeding weak and vain For can it be said of that Civil Recovery by Justinian that all the Inhabitants of the Earth whose Names were not writ in the Book of life would wonder after it or after that Civil Beast of Justinian's Recovery 4 The Ecclesiastick sense does not put a Quality instead of a Body Politick but shows the Qualifications of the Body Politick and the Head And it is further observable That the Red Dragon quatenus wounded in the Head by the Conversion of Constantine was in the Glosser's sense a Mystical Body that is a Religious Body Paganly Religious and in that sense wounded in his Fight with Michael and in his Head mystically also Constantine turning Christian Who therefore is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a quite different King from the seven Kings that answer to the seven Heads of the Beast 5 And this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his time indeed is short according to the Text. But I deny that it is confined to some time of Constantine's Reign but reaches to the succession of the Head of the Beast that was is not and yet is Which is the Time of the Empire 's Division into ten Kingdoms For they receive their Kingdoms at the same hour with this Beast This is inevitably plain from which there is no subterfuge and is an undeniable Testimony for the Symmetricalness of the Church for about four hundred years after Christ 6 Dr. More according to his Sentiments can dispose very dextrously both of the Arians and of Julian the Apostate For first for Julian the Apostate his time was exceeding short so that after the deadly wound of the Pagan Head by Constantine's Conversion this little short Reign of Julian a Pagan Emperour was but as it were a short Throb or gasp of the mortally wounded Head after which it quite dyed till it was healed by the Apostasie into a kind of Pagano-Christianism 7 And lastly for the Arian Emperours they kept this Head in death sufficiently in that they were zealous Christians not Pagans nor Pagano Christians by worshipping Daemons and Images of those Daemons or Saints And as for that gross Arianism which when it was at grossest worshipped no Object but what they conceived the Maker of Heaven and of Earth it was hufft off the Stage betimes And none of these Arians denied the first Chapter of S. John's Gospel where the Deity of the Logos was expresly signified only their weakness could not reach the full sense of so deep a Mystery as it proved to them And those more refined Arians how near they were to the Truth or how near they might be understood to have come to the Truth and that it might be proved to be rather a frabble of words than a distinct disagreement of senses it were too operose a matter to declare here How much some Fathers have cryed out against the over-much curiosity of Definitions by Councils History will teach us See what is attempted Chap. 40. The Text and Gloss on v. 10. And there are seven Kings This is in effect to say The seven Heads are seven Kings and but seven Kings That as the first Head is the first King so is the seventh Head the seventh King Answ The seven Heads indeed are seven Kings that is the seven Heads of the Beast are so and also but seven Kings And as the first Head is the first King that answers to that first Head of the Beast so is the seventh Head of the Beast the seventh King that answers to the seventh Head of the Beast But there being a time when the Empire was not Idolatrous and consequently not a Beast but having then also a King or Head but not of the Beast the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being a King the seventh King of the Roman Empire though no King or Head of the Beast and numbred expresly in the Text in the seventh place and the succeeding King called the eighth it is manifest there are eight Kings though but seven Heads of the Beast What can be more plain The Text and Gloss upon v. 11. He is the eighth He does not say the eighth King or Sovereign but by reason of the sixth Head reviving he is as it were an eighth King or an eighth Head but not otherwise For there were but seven Heads and seven Kings and that this Beast redivive was not the eighth King and seventh Head as Dr. More saith I have proved before And it is further proved by the following words viz. And is of the seven which was not proper if he was not the seventh Answ You say he does not say the eighth King 1 What does he say then He says five Kings are fallen one King is and another