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A43131	The meaning of the Revelation, or, A paraphrase with questions on the Revelation of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Divine in which the synchronisms of Mr. Joseph Mede, and the expositions of other interpreters are called in question, and a new exposition given of the prophecies of the revelation, never heard of before, nor extant in any author whatsoever, from the sixth chapter to the eighteenth, with variety of reasons for the exposition / by Richard Hayter ...	Hayter, Richard, 1611?-1684.; Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638. Clavis apocalyptica.	1675 (1675)	Wing H1225; ESTC R21644	180,756	260

Beast Rev. 12. 17. Rev. 13. 7. 6. The first Fruits are less than all but these sealed ones are the first Fruits and no more Rev. 14. 4. 7. It may well be thought that these sealed ones be men and not women and that for these reasons 1. Because it is not usual in Scripture to count the number of men and women but of men only thus when they went into Egypt the men are counted and not the women Gen. 46. 8 9 c. and again when they came forth of Egypt the men were counted and not the women Numb 1 2. 20 21. c and so the like in other places the males are counted and not the Females Ezra 2. 2 3 c. Nehemiah 7. 7 8 9 c. and therefore these that are counted here be only Males and not Females 2. The first Fruits that were dedicated to God of men and of Beasts were the Males only and we may not think that the first Fruits were only of vegetables for then these sealed ones could not be first Fruits as they are said to be Rev. 14. 4. but the first born of men and Beasts were first Fruits as well as vegetables Exod. 22. 29 30. and such were males only Exod. 34. 19 20. Exod. 13. 2. 12. 15. Now these sealed ones are called the first Fruits of God and to the Lamb Rev. 14. 4. not in respect of sanctification as all believers are Iam. 1. 18. but by peculiar dedication to God and to the Lamb as the first born were and therefore they be Males only 3. Because these are said to be redeemed from among men Rev. 14. 4. Now what redemption is this not the common redemption by the blood of Christ from sin and condemnation which belongs to all the elect in general but the peculiar redemption of the first born which belongs to the Males only Exod. 13. 2. 12. 13. 15. Exod. 34. 19 20. Lastly because it is said Rev. 14. 4. These are they which were not defiled with Women and therefore they be men and not women and what kind of defilement doth he mean not a spiritual defilement with Idols which is as much as to say that these men be not Idolaters nor yet a carnal defilement with Harlots which is as much as to say that these men be not Adulterers but a ceremonial defilement with VVives which is as much as to say that these men be Virgins and unmarried persons and had not known a woman of which kind of defilement see Exod. 19. 15. 1 Sam. 21. 4 5. 1 Cor. 7. 5. 4 Quest. VVhat kind of Seal is meant in this place whether the Seal of Sanctification or of corporal preservation Ans. 1. The seal of sanctification is not committed to the Angels but to the Spirit of God Eph. 4. 30. but the seal here spoken of is committed to the Angels v. 2 3. 2. The seal of sanctification is chiefly inward in the heart but this here spoken of is only outward in the forehead v. 3. 3. They are called the Servants of God before that they be sealed v. 3. and therefore they are sanctified before this seal is given unto them 4. The seal of sanctification is a common seal and doth belong to all believers but this is peculiar to the persons here spoken of 5. The seal of sanctification doth not exempt from bodily danger Rev. 11. 7. Rev. 13. 7. But this is therefore given them that their bodies might not be hurt Rev. 9. 4. see the like Ezek. 9. 4 5 6. Exod. 12. 13. Gen. 4. 15. 6. The seal of sanctification is given successively in all ages of the World but these are sealed all at once in one day 7. The seal of sanctification is given by degrees to some more to others less but these are all sealed alike one as far forth as another 8. The seal of sanctification doth admit degrees after it is given and a man is sanctified more at one time than another 2 Pet. 3. 18. but these were sealed as much at one time as another and as the mark which Cain had Gen. 4. 15. and which the men in Ierusalem had Ezek. 9. 4. did not diminish or increase so the seal which these men had continued in the same condition all their life afterward 5 Quest. VVhether the great multitude mentioned v. 9. were sealed Ans. 1. It is not said that they were sealed and therefore we may not think they were unless we have some reason for it 2. They are a distinct company from the sealed v. 4. 9. 3. They are more in number than the sealed and therefore they could not all be sealed for the number of the sealed is but finite one hundred fourty and four thousand and no more but this great multitude were so many that no mortal man could number them v. 9. 4. Iohn knew the sealed who they were and what their number was v. 4. but he knew not these who they were nor the number of them v. 9. 14. 5. The sealed were preserved from destruction and the seal was therefore given that they might be secured v. 1 2 3. Rev. 9. 4. But these are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb v. 14. and therefore these be Martyrs but the others are not 6. The sealed be the men which are to live in the time of the seven Trumpets but are not to suffer under them Rev. 9. 4. Rev. 14. 3 4. but these latter be the men which shall suffer for the Faith of Christ before the Trumpets shall begin and the reason why they are introduced in this place is not to shew the time or causes of their sufferings but to shew the blissful state and happiness which they have in Heaven at this very time when the other shall be sealed upon earth 7. The sealed be the men which are to get the Victory over the Beast and over his mark and over the number of his name Rev. 14. 2 3. Rev. 15. 2 3. but these latter be the men which shall die for the Faith of Christ before the Beast begins his Reign and shall be then in Heaven in unconceiveable bliss and happiness when the other shall be sealed upon earth 8. The sealed be some eminent members of the Church Militant which shall be in jeopardy of their lives in the time of the ensuing Prophecies but are therefore sealed that they might be preserved from suffering in the time of those dangers the latter be some eminent members of the Church Triumphant which suffered while they lived but when the sealed ones are sealed they shall be in Heaven secured from suffering any more CHAP. VIII The Prophecy of the seventh Seal divided into seven Prophecies called seven Trumpets 1. ANd when he had opened the seventh Seal it did not immediately appear what the Prophecy of that Seal should be there came nothing forth of that Roll as there did out of the other Rolls

a short time as hath been proved already ch 6. Disp. 2. q. 5. CHAP. XII The Prophecy of the Woman and the great Red Dragon representing the conversion of the Jews and the opposition and persecution of the Devil 1. AND I saw a great wonder in the Starry Heaven prefiguring what should be done upon the earth and the wonder which I saw was a woman representing the Nation of the Iews cloathed with the Sun in token of her future Glory and the Moon beneath her Feet in token she should change no more and a Crown of twelve Stars upon her head which are the twelve Tribes of Israel 2. And their conversion shall be like the pains of a woman in Travel which hath hard labour and strong pains and throws before she be delivered even so they of this Nation that be converted first shall have hard labour and Travel to convert the rest 3. And I saw another wonder in the Starry Heaven and it was a great Red Dragon representing the Devil and his mighty Agents upon earth which shall oppose the Church of Israel in her Travel and hinder their conversion what they can and they be seven Heathen Kings which shall have Crowns upon their Heads and ten Heathen Kingdoms which shall have no Kings of their own in them at this time 4. And he shall be in a great rage to hear of the conversion of this Church and Nation and in this rage of his shall with his tail in which as some say his main strength doth lye seek to overthrow the frame of nature and had rather Heaven and Earth should have an end than the conversion of that Church be brought to pass Or else his tail may represent the vulgar people that be in his Kingdoms as his seven heads do represent his Kings and by the help of this vulgar people he shall turn aside some part of that Nation from minding their conversion at the present and draw their hearts away from Heavenly things to earthly or else do some other hurt unto them and he himself shall stand before the Church of Israel now ready to be converted to the Faith of Christ threatning to devour them and their Children so soon as they become Christians 5. Yet for all this they shall be converted to the Christian Faith and the Child that shall be born of them is Jesus Christ who is then said to be born spiritually whenas a Church or Nation is brought to believe in him and after their conversion he shall subdue all Nations that War against them with the Sword but he himself shall sit in Heaven at Gods right hand and on his Throne 6. And when they be converted a great part of that Nation shall flee into the Wilderness especially they that be instrumental to convert the rest where they shall have a place prepared for them by the Lord their God as their forefathers had when they came forth of Egypt that they may be nourished and preserved there three years and a half from the fury of the Devil and his Agents 7. But before that this is done there shall be a great battel in the Church Michael and his Angels shall fight against the Devil in behalf of the Church of Israel that they may be converted to the Christian Faith and the Devil shall fight against Michael and his Angels against the others Angels that they may remain in unbelief 8. But Michael and his Angels shall prevail and the Devil and his Angels shall be overthrown and there shall be no place for them any more in the Church of Israel 9. And the great Red Dragon that old malicious Serpent otherwise called the Devil and Satan who deceived our first Parents at the first and the whole race of mankind ever since shall be cast forth of the Jewish Nation and all his evil Angels cast forth with him 10. And there shall be great joy in the Church of Israel and loud acclamation and Thanksgiving saying Now is salvation come to the Church of Israel from the Lord our God he is the Author of it and to him be it ascribed for evermore And the might and Kingdom of our God shall now be seen and made known unto the World and the power of his Christ for the accuser of that Church and Nation is cast forth who before their conversion accused them of their unbelief before our God day and night but from henceforth shall accuse them of that crime no more 11. But they shall overcome him by the merits of his blood who died for them and by their Faith which they have in him and the open profession of the same and they shall not love their lives more than they love their Christ but expose them unto death rather than remain in unbelief and deny their Faith in him and for this it is that Satan shall be cast forth of that Nation 12. Rejoyce ye Church of Israel because Satan is cast forth of your Nation and from ruling any more therein but wo be to the unbelieving Gentiles after this is done for the Devil will be among you altogether and have great wrath as knowing he hath but a short time to stay among you 13. And when Satan shall perceive that he is cast forth of the Jewish Nation he shall set himself to persecute that Church and Nation especially those members of them which were converted first and shall be instrumental to beget the rest to the Faith of Christ. 14. But power and opportunity shall be given to those members of that Church to fly into the Wilderness to the place prepared for them where they shall be nourished and preserved three years and a half from the power of the Devil and his Angels 15. And when the Devil shall perceive that they are fled into the Wilderness he shall send a flood of Water after them to drown them in the Wilderness or drive them out from thence 16. But God shall cause the dry and thirsty earth to open her mouth and swallow up the flood of Water which the Devil shall send after them and the Water thereupon shall do them no hurt 17. At which the Devil shall be very wroth and thereupon shall leave the Wilderness where they be and make War with the remnant of that Church and Nation which shall not flee into the Wilderness as the other shall but keep the commandments of the Lord their God and profess the faith of Jesus Christ in their known and open dwellings 18. And to accomplish this design of his he shall stand upon the sea shore representing the heathen people and Nations of the World out of whom he shall raise a beastly Tyrant to make War against that part of the Church of Israel which shall flee into the Wilderness as hereafter followeth Disputation VIII 1. Quest. Whether this Prophecy doth belong to the seventh Trumpet and be a part thereof Ans. 1. The seventh Trumpet doth not end with the former Chapter

if a mystical year be a thousand years two mystical years must be two thousand years and half a mystical year half a thousand years and then we are gone beyond the number but if by a mystical year be meant a hundred years then two mystical years must be two hundred years and half a mystical year half a hundred years and then we are far short of the number Such inconveniences do they fall into which turn the Scripture into mysteries and make a mystical sense of a Revelation Lastly a thousand years and upward is a long time but by 1260 days is meant a short time yea the whole time of Satans abode upon the earth from the time he is cast out of Heaven is but a short time as appears v. 12. and yet that time is much more than the 1260 days we speak of 3. Quest. Whether this Prophecy were fulfilled in the Reign of Nero Ans. 1. This Prophecy was not revealed to John till after Nero's Reign in the time of Domitian one of his successours as hath been proved ch 6. q. 1. therefore it doth not prophesie of what was done in his Reign 2. This Prophecy doth belong unto the seventh Trumpet in which the mystery of God shall come to pass as hath been proved q. 1. but Nero's reign did not reach unto the seventh Trumpet 3. This Prophecy shall succeed the Prophecy of the two witnesses as hath been also proved q. 2. but that Prophecy of the two witnesses is long after the Reign of Nero as they with whom I dispute in this Question do confess for they say it came to pass in the Reign of Adrian 4. By the parturition of this Woman is meant the national conversion of some people or other Now there were some persons converted to the Faith in the Reign of Nero but what is that to the national conversion of a people The national conversion of the Romans came not to pass till the days of Constantine which was long afterward 5. The first general persecution of the Church was in the days of Nero and if this Prophecy should be meant of it the persecution spoken of in this place should be the first but the persecution in the fifth Seal was before this Rev. 6. 9 10 11. 6. In Nero's persecution many were slain for professing of the Faith and amongst them Peter was one and Paul another but in the persecution here spoken of not any one was slain the Dragons power was too weak as appears vers 4 5 6. 13 14 15 16. Lastly after the parturition of this Woman the Dragon knowes he hath but a short time but since the days of Nero to this day the Dragon hath had a long time and how much more is yet to come before the day of Judgement who can tell 4. Quest. Whether this Prophecy be meant of the conversion of the Jews Ans. 1. The Woman here spoken of had upon her head a Crown of twelve Stars and who should they be but the twelve Tribes of Israel 2. The national Church of Rome which some suppose to be the Woman here meant was not converted till the days of Constantine all the time before that she was in Travail and when she was converted in his time she did not flie into the Wilderness as the Woman here doth but was advanced to great honour and prosperity in the World and the head of that Church was the Emperour himself 3. The Dragon with seven heads and ten horns which some suppose to be the Pagan Roman Empire did no more persecute the Roman Church after she was converted in the days of Constantine but as soon as that Church was converted that Empire wholly ceased as Pagan and became Christian and persecution ceased with it but here the case is otherwise for as soon as the Dragon is cast forth of Heaven to the Earth the persecution of the Woman doth begin 4. We read Dan. 12. 1. And at that time shall Michael stand up the great Prince which standeth for the Children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered c. Now who be meant by Daniels people but the Jews and who is meant by the Woman here spoken of but Daniels people whom Michael standeth for 5. What doth the Angel mean by the mystery of God Rev. 10. 7. but the conversion of the Jews And when shall that mystery be finished but when the seventh Angel begins to sound And when doth this Woman fall in Travail but at the same time too And if it be said that by the mystery of God is meant the end of the world and the second coming of our Lord as Doctor Mayer doth expound it To this I answer 1. That the mystery of God there spoken of is the conversion of some Church or other and wha● Church can we imagine is left unconverted till the seventh Trumpet but the Jews only 2. The conversion of the Gentiles is called a mystery Eph. 3. 3. 4. 6. Col. 1. 26. and so is the conversion of the Jews too Rom. 11. 25. But now the conversion of the Gentiles is already and the Apostle speaks of it in both those places as a thing then in being but the conversion of the Jews is yet to come and when shall it be finished but at the beginning of the seventh Trumpet which is the time the Woman here spoken of falls in Travail 3. The conversion of the Jews goes before the coming of our Lord and that which hinders or keeps back the coming of our Lord is the non-conversion of that Nation and that which expedites and hastens the coming of our Lord is the conversion of that Nation as St. Peter saith in two places Act. 3. 19 20 21. 2 Pet. 3. 12. and seeing in this Prophecy of the seventh Trumpet is mention made of the coming of Christ Rev. 19. 11. c. We may well conclude the conversion of the Jews to be meant in this place which is to go before it 4. Where shall we find the end of the world or the second coming of our Lord called a mystery The Incarnation is so called 1 Tim. 3. 16. but where the end of the world or the second coming of our Lord is so called it concerns them to shew which do affirm it 5. The mystery which the Angel meant is declared by God to his servants the Prophets in the Old Testament and what do they speak of more than the conversion of the Jews Esa. 11. 11 12. Esa. 14. 1 2 3. Esa. 27. 12 13. Jer. 23. 7 8. Jer. 31. 27 28. Jer. 32. 37 38. Jer. 46. 27 28. Ezek. 37. 16 17. Hos. 3. 4 5. Joel 3. 1. Amos 9. 11. 14 15. Zach. 8. 20 21 22. with many more the like 6. The Objection doth suppose the seventh Trumpet is to sound but one day and that one day is to be