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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42409	An essay upon the fourth and fifth chapters of the Revelation shewing that the Church of England B.L.E. is particularly describ'd in those chapters / by Walter Garrett ...	Garrett, Walter.	1690 (1690)	Wing G269; ESTC R6105	15,525	19

of which our Parliaments consist And it is further observable that a great many Witnesses of the Truth such as the Parliament we speak of was are remarkably call'd a Cloud Heb. xii 1. So that the Rain-bow here may very well be expounded of the Parliament in the first of Queen Elizabeth For that incomparable Princess coming after the Deluge of Popery that her Sister had brought upon the Church and like the Sun in the Firmament darting her bright Beams of Gospel-Light upon her Parliament that attended on her Throne how could it more fitly be represented than by a Rainbow Which also is a happy Omen that our Church should never more be drown'd in Popish Superstitions The 24 Elders sitting on so many Thrones or Seats and crowned are the inferior Clergy by whom the Reformation was begun while the Bishops all of them almost adher'd to Popery These Elders therefore now as having obtain'd so signal a Victory are represented with golden Crowns and white Robes the constant Emblems of Success to the Evangelical Party The Thunders Lightnings and Voices from the Throne are the Laws then made for dispossessing the Romanists The seven Lamps of Fire are a Type of the Church divided according to the solemn use of this Prophecy into seven Intervals the Lamps answerable to the Candlesticks Rev. i. 20. denoting the Church consider'd as seven Churches with respect to the said Intervals and the Fires in the Lamps resembling the Spirits Angels or Ministers of the Church as the seven Stars are expounded in the place just now quoted The Sea of Glass ver 6. is a Type of the People for so the Sea almost always signifies in this Prophecy and this Sea is said to be of Glass like Crystal to denote at once their Clarity in respect of their abhorrence of Popish Superstition and their Brittleness in respect of their proneness to Faction By the living Creatures are meant the Protestant Bishops soon after the first sitting of this happy Parliament consecrated and settled in their respective Sees These are said not to rest day and night saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come Whereby is intimated that a pure Liturgy was now establish'd in honour only of the Holy Trinity and not as formerly of Saints and Angels whose constant Morning and Evening-Services are full of Doxology to the blessed Trinity like that in the Prophecy And such is ours exactly Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost as it was is now and ever shall be I know Interpreters are wont to content themselves with expounding this Doxology Holy holy holy c. in general terms of the Honour that is given by the Church to the blessed Trinity But I desire it may be consider'd that no account can be given in this way of the Addition of those words which was and is and is to come This Passage whoever rightly weighs will easily conclude with me that since it is no where found in Scripture but only in the Revelation it is us'd here with particular respect to that celebrated Form of Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be The Church and constant Liturgy being thus establish'd they all joyn in solemn Thanksgiving prescrib'd by the living Creatures or Bishops for so great a Blessing ver 9 10 11. in these words Thou art worthy O Lord to receive Glory and Honour and Power for thou hast created all these things and for thy Pleasure they are and were created They who think the Creation of the World 4000 Years before and for which the whole Church hath ever since given Glory and Praise to the great Creator is here the thing the Church gives Thanks for must needs be guilty of a very great Impertinence for no such thing is once hinted in the whole Relation This therefore is a Thanksgiving for a New Creation as the Scripture is wont to call it that is a Restitution or Reformation And yet not that Reformation neither which was made in the World by the first preaching of the Gospel which may be gathered from the very Title in ver 1. where these things are all call'd Things that must be hereafter So that it cannot possibly be the Church that was establish'd in St. John's time but must be that which was reform'd according to the Primitive Patern afterwards Thanks therefore is here given to God for bringing in the Reformation by Queen Elizabeth Which Exposition is exactly answerable to that which has been given at first of Rev. v. 1 2. where it appear'd that the Sitter on the Throne and the strong Angel proclaiming was King James the First For if that be granted as it needs must be who can his Predecessor be that establish'd the Reformation but Queen Elizabeth And thus much of Things before Let us now see what follows upon the Angel 's proclaiming The next Verses tell us that No Man was found viz. in K. James's Reign able to open the Book to the great grief of the People of God sollicitous of these Mysteries whose Person in this St. John himself sustains ver 4. At length to wit Anno 1632 appears Mr. Mede being one of the Elders of this Church with an admirable Explication of the Book And he is the first that ever hit upon the way of it Which as it is easily defended and is actually done by Dr. H. More in a little Treatise he calls Appendicula Apocalyptica so is it openly confess'd by Mr. Jurieux a learned Writer of the French Church in these words Joseph Mede in my Opinion is the first that understood any thing of the Sealed Book And it is evident that Mr. Mede has got the Name of expounding the sealed Book from all Interpreters whatsoever there being no Man that has expounded any one Seal to purpose but he is a professed Follower that I may not say Admirer of Mr. Mede Insomuch that even those Judicious and Learned Divines for in this Stile their Title-page speaks them the Continuators of Mr. Pool's Work tho they shew themselves very loth to follow him as being perhaps of a different Communion yet are they forc'd to do it almost all along with frequent Elogies of his Fame and Learning And where they venture to dissent from him they are very unhappy of which this Paper will admit of but one Instance which is this Mr. Mede expounds the first Seal containing a Vision of a White Horse whose Rider went forth conquering and to conquer of the wonderful success of the Preachers of the Gospel This the Divines think to mend by expounding it of the Victories of the Roman Heathen Emperors But they consider not that Whiteness tho it be used in the Revelation twenty times if I have rightly computed them yet it is never