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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

theirs 6. From the mystical interpretation of the Vials many absurdities will follow As 1. It makes the Prop●ecy but a common Prophecy and to speak of things ordi●ary and accustomed when as the literal sense makes it a Prophecy extraordinary and to speak of things not usual nor accustomed such as never were but in the Land of Aegypt and they that were in Aegypt though the same for kind were not so grievous as these Vials are like to be 2. It makes the Scripture a nose of Wax which a man may turn which way he will one may turn it one way and another may turn it another way and there be well nigh as many interpretations of the mystical sense as there be writers on the Revelation 3. It subjects the Scripture to our vain lusts and humours and gives every one liberty to interpret it as his humour leads him 4. It makes the Scripture mean not what it speaks but what men would have it mean 5. It makes men interpret the Revelation of themselves or of their own party and of the times wherein they live and the good things they think are spoken of themselves and the evil things of their enemies 6. It turns the Scripture into nonsense what sense is it to say that by the earth in the first Vial is meant the lowest of the People as if an Ulcer could not fall upon the highest as well as upon the lowest What sense is it to say every living soul died in the Sea that is in the extent and compass of the Papal power and Jurisdiction when as there be five Vials to fall upon some men afterward What sense is it to say that the darkness in the fifth Vial is meant of spiritual darkness as if they were not spiritually dark before that or any other of the Vials did begin What sense is it to understand by the Kings of the East in the sixth Vial the Kings of the West and by the River Euphrates which is a River in the East to understand the Popes revenues in the West and by the drying up of that River to understand the draining away the Popes revenues in the West these and many more absurdities do follow from the mystical interpretation of the Vials Ob. If we take the Earth Sea Rivers and Fountains of waters c. in a literal sense how should a Vial of wrath poured out on these be any 〈◊〉 more prejudicial without a miracle to Gods enemies then his Friends who partake of the benefit of these in common with the other Ans. 1. Did not Moses sprinkle the ashes of a Furnace towards Heaven and it became dust upon the Earth and after that a boyl breaking forth with blanes upon man and Beast Exod. 9. 10. and was not this more prejudicial to Gods enemies then his Friends Again did not Moses smite the waters in the River and they became blood Exod 7. 20 21. and was not this more prejudical to the Aegyptians then to the Israelites So thirdly did not Moses stretch forth his hand toward Heaven and there was a thick darkness in all the Land of Aegypt three days Exod. 10. 22 23. and was not this more prejudicial to Gods enemies then his Friends And Lastly did not Moses stretch forth his hand toward Heaven and the Lord rained hail upon the Land of Aegypt Exod. 9. 23. and was not this more prejudicial to the Aegyptians then the Israelites And if God could do all this and much more in Aegypt in a literal sense why can he not do the like in other Countries without prejudice to his own People 2. Whereas 't is said without a miracle we say that God in every one of these Vials works a miracle as he did in Aegypt and we further say that God hath promised to do the like again in other Countries According to the days of thy comming out of the Land of Aegypt will I shew unto him marvellous things the Nations shall see and be confounded c. Micah 7. 15 16. 3. Whereas 't is said that they partake of the benefit of these in common with the other it is nothing so at this time for the Saints do not live in the Beasts Dominions at this time or in that part of them where the Vials f●l for they were either slain or fled out of his Dominions before any of the Vials did begin Rev. 12. 6. 14. Rev. 13. 7. Rev. 16. 6. Rev. 18. 4. Ob. Did ever Rivers and Fountains of waters literally shed the blood of Saints or did God ever in way of revenge give them blood to drink Ans. Did men never read the Book of Exodus Did ever the Rivers and Fountains of Aegypt literally shed the blood of the Israelites Yet God turned them to blood as a Plague on the Aegyptians Exod. 7. 17 18 19 20 21. and no other is the meaning here The third Angel poured out his Vial on the Rivers and Fountains of Waters and they became blood v. 4. and wherefore is this done but in way of revenge upon the men that they might not have the benefit of the waters as heretofore they had and that because they that is the men which drank of those waters shed the blood of the Saints and the Prophets and thou hast given them that is the men blood to drink Ob. The Book of Exodus is a History but the Revelation is a Prophecy and therefore may not be compared each with other Ans. A Prophecy may be compared with a History in respect of the matter though not in respect of the time for the matter of a Prophecy may be the matter of a History when it is fulfilled like as the matter of a History was the matter of a Prophecy before it was fulfilled the difference many times is not in respect of matter but in respect of time A Prophecy is the relating of a thing to come and a History is the relating of a thing past but the thing related may be materially the same in both 2. The Book of Exodus is both a History and a Prophecy for the words in Exodus 7. 20 21. are a History of turning the waters into blood but the words v. 17 18. are a Prophecy of it before hand So again the words in Exodus 9 10 11. are a History of the Boyl which fell upon the Aegyptians but the words v. 8 9. are a Prophecy of the Boyl before it came to pass So thirdly the w●rds in Exodus 10. 22. are a History of the darkness that was 〈◊〉 Aegypt but the words v. 21. are a Prophecy thereof and therefore the comparison in all the three places with the Vials of the Revelation is very fit and suitable each to other Ob. How can a Vial be poured on the Sun and not on the Saints which live under it or how can the Sun torment men with fervent heat and the Saints not be tormented by it Ans. 1. The fire which flew the men which-cast the

joyn or go along with these men to his own destruction 16. So these unclean Spirits shall prevail with these Kings and Nations of the East Country and perswade them to pass over Armed to the other side of Euphrates and go along together to this great Battel and they shall gather themselves together to a place which at the accomplishment of this Prophecy and for ever afterward shall be called in Hebrew Armageddon where what shall become of them and what shall be the issue of this matter shall be declared in the next Vial. The Prophecy of the seventh Vial. 17. And the seventh Angel shall pour out his Vial into the aire and all that is to be done shall now be done before this Vial endeth 18. And first of all there shall be thunders and lightnings and a great earth-quake the like was not known before since men were upon the earth so mighty an earthquake and so great 19. And the great Imperial City of the Beast shall be divided into three parts and the Cities of the Nations fall and great Babylon shall come into remembrance before God that he may give her to drink of the bitter cup of the fie●ceness of his wrath which shall now and not till now be put in execution 20. And every Island in the Sea shall be removed out of his place and the Mountains in the main Land shall not be found 21. And a great hail shall fall from Heaven upon men and every stone thereof shall be about the weight of a Talent and yet for all this they shall not repent them of their wicked deeds but increase their sins the more and blaspheme the God of Heaven because of the hail for the Plague thereof shall be exceeding great Disputation XI 1 Quest. Whether the Prophecy of the seven Vials shall succeed the Prophecy of the Harvest and the Vintage in the fourteenth Chapter Ans. 1. The last Plagues succeed the first but the seven Vials are the seven last Plagues Rev. 15. 1. and therefore the Harvest and the Vintage of the fourteenth Chapter are the first 2. The Virgin Company obtain Victory over the Beast before any of the Vials do begin Rev. 15 2. and therefore the seven Vials do not begin the ruin of the Beast but it was begun before and the seven Vials are added to it to bring up the rere and put a final end unto him Ob. The sixth Trumpet puts an end unto the Beast Rev. 11. 13. and therefore the seven Vials which put an end unto him too do contemporate with it Ans. I deny the Antecedent for the seventh Trumpet puts an end unto the Beast and not the sixth Rev. 11. 18. Rev. 19. 19 20 21. Secondly that destruction ch 11. v. 13. is but of 7000 men and no more and therefore 't is but a partial destruction of the Beast and not a total Ob. But whether it be total or partial it is before the Harvest and the Vintage of the fourteenth Chapter and therefore the Harvest and the Vintage are not the first Plagues Ans. This is very true if the Beast be the same and the heads the same in both places but it may be questioned whether the Beast ch 11. be the same with the Beast ch 14. v. 9. and if they be yet the destruction ch 11. may befal the Beast in the time of one head and the Harvest and the Vintage ch 14. in the time of another head Ob. The wound which the Beast received ch 13. v. 3. is before the Harvest and the Vintage ch 14. and therefore they be not the first Plagues Ans. That wound doth not belong to the ruine of the Beast but was a stop and a hinderance to his setling for a time but no part of his destruction after he is risen 2. That wound is before the 42 months of his prosperity but after they are ended the first beginnings of his ruine are the Harvest and the Vintage ch 14. and the seven Vials which follow after are the consummation of it Ob. The Harvest is the end of the World Mat. 13. 39. Ans. The general Harvest at the day of Judgment is the end of the World and that is the Harvest Christ means Mat. 13. 39. but the Harvest Rev. 14. 15. is a particular Harvest of the Beasts men and no more Ob. The Harvest and the Vintage are both one and therefore they succeed not one another Ans. The general Harvest and the general Vintage are both one and the reapers are the Angels in general Mat. 13. 39. but the Harvest ch 14. is a particular Harvest and the Vintage a particular Vintage and one Angel has a hand in reaping of the harvest and another in gathering of the Vintage Rev. 14. 14. 17. 2 Quest. Whether the Prophecy of the seven Vials be literally or mystically to be understood Ans. 1. A Revelation cannot be a mystery for a Revelation is a manifestation of things that before were hidden and secret but a mystery is when things are hidden and secret still but the Prophecy of the seven Vials is a special part of a Revelation 2. Where there is a mystery in the Revelation it is usually interpreted as the first Chapter and the seventeenth do demonstrate but here is no interpretation of any mystery in the Vials 3. No Scripture is mystically to be understood sine evidente necessitate without evident necessity but here is no necessity much less an evident one so to understand it 4. Where a literal sense may stand that which is furthest from the letter is the worst but here a literal sense may stand For 1. It is not repugnant to any Text of Scripture 2. It is not contrary to any Article of the Christian Faith 3. There is no iniquity therein 4. There is no absurdity at all doth follow therefrom therefore it is literally to be understood 5. The Plagues of Aegypt are literally to be understood but the seven Vials are for the most part the same for kind with the Plagues of Aegypt The first Vial answers to the Boyl breaking forth with blaines upon man and Beast throughout all the Land of Aegypt and what man will say that that Boyl is mystically to be understood The second and third Vials answer to another Plague of Aegypt where all the Water in the River was turned to blood Exod. 7. 20 21. and what living soul will say that that is mystically to be understood The fifth Vial answers to the darkness which fell upon the Land of Aegypt for three days together Exod. 10. 21 22 23. and what understanding is so dark as to understand that darkness mystically The last Vial answers to the hail which fell upon the Land of Aegypt Exod. 9. 22 23 24. and who will say that that hail is mystically to be understood only the fourth and sixth Vials differ in kind from the Plagues of Aegypt but the rest that are mentioned in this Chapter are the same with

Jews but they rather be the Kings of the earth and of the whole world or some of them whom the Frogs are sent unto to gather them to the Battel of the great day of God Almighty And it is likely that the case may stand thus The Armies of the Beast and false Prophet being overthrown in two onsets which they made against the Sealed Jews in the latter end of the fourteenth Chapter they know not how to raise another Army to make a third onset but by calling other Kings to help them therefore as soon as they have notice that the waters of Euphrates are dried up they send in all hast to the Kings of the East which are beyond Euphrates to assist them who finding a commodious passage throug● Euphrates the waters of the River being dried up they consent unto it and joyn with the Beast and false Prophet against the Jews in this last expedition Ob. But against this exposition of the Kings of the East one objection may be made and it is this the Prophet Esai saith that they which pass over Euphrates be the Jews Esa. 11. 15 16. And the Lord shall utterly destroy the Tongue of the Aegyptian Sea and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over t●e River and shall smite it in the seven streams and make men go over dry shod And there shall be a high way for the remnant of his People which shall be left from Assyria like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the Land of Aegypt Now is not this Prophecy the same with St. Johns Is not this River which Esai speaketh of the River Euphrates Be not the men which shall pass over dry shod the remnant of his People that shall be left from Assyria And who be they but the Jews Ans. This Argument were something worth if this Prophecy of Esai were the same with St. Johns Or if the River which Esai speaketh of were Euphrates but we have cause to think that that River is not Euphrates but the River Nilus as may appear partly from the seven streams which Nilus is known to have and partly from joining it with Aegypt where 't is known that River is so that the meaning of the Prophecy is that the River Nilus shall be dried up in the seven streams thereof which run through the Land of Aegypt and the Tongue of the Aegyptian Sea that is of the Red Sea near unto the Land of Aegypt shall be dried up too as it was in the days of Moses Exod. 14. 29. to this end and purpose that the Jews which are in those Countries may pass into Judaea without impediment so that this Prophecy is not the same with St. Johns but is very likely to come to pass before St. Johns doth and before any of the Vials shall begin 4 Quest. Whether Babylon and the Throne of the Beast be all one If they be whether the Beast be in possession of it at the time of the destruction of it Ans. 1. The Throne of the Beast came in remembrance before God at the execution of the fifth Vial but Babylon came not in remembrance before God till the execution of the seventh Vial. 2. The words in the seventh Vial. And great Babylon came in remembrance before God to give unto her the cup of the VVine of the fierceness of his wrath v. 19. imply that no Plague fell on Babylon till the seventh Vial and the words Rev. 18. 7 8. imply the same but a Plague falls on the Throne of the Beast in the time of the fifth Vial v. 10. and therefore Babylon and the Throne of the Beast be not the same 3. The great City mentioned in the seventh Vial and Babylon there mentioned likewise are two distinct places and it is very likely that the great City is the Throne of the Beast mentioned in the fifth Vial and Babylon is some other place 4. The Beast that is mentioned in the fifth Vial and the Beast that is mentioned c. 17. are not the same Beast as hath been shewed by probable Arguments c. 13. q. 1. pag. 16● and therefore it is likely that their Thrones are not the same 5. But suppose the Beasts be the same and their Thrones the same yet a Question may be made whether Babylon be in the Beasts Possession at the time of the destruction of it and that for these reasons 1. The Friends of a King are not enemies to the Kings Throne and Possessions but the ten Kings who are the Beasts Friends are enemies to the City of Babylon Rev. 17. 16. 2. The Friends of a King do not War against the Kings Throne and destroy it but the ten Kings who are the Beasts Friends shall make War against the City of Babylon and destroy it Rev. 17. 16. For answer whereunto I think the case may be determined thus The Beast may be considered in three distinct points of time was is not and shall ascend Rev. 17. 8. Now in the first point of time when the Beast was it is likely or rather out of Question that Babylon is in the Possession of the Beast mentioned c. 17. in the second point of the time when the Beast is not Babylon is not in the Possession of the Beast while he is not in the third Article or point of time when the Beast shall ascend out of the bottomless Pit the Beast shall seek to have his Throne again but the City shall oppose it and by that means shall be destroyed of which more largly in the next Chapter 5 Quest. How long the Vials shall continue Ans. 1. The Vials be the last Plagues of all Rev. 15. 1. therefore they be long in comming and quick in going away 2. All the time of the Dragons abode on earth after his casting forth of Heaven is but a short time Rev. 12. 12. and the Vials are but part of that short time 3. The Plagues of Aegypt were of short continuance and were all executed in a month as Bishop Vsher hath shewed in his Annals pag. 20 21. and Doctor VVillet on Exodus c. 7. q. 29. p. 72. Now the Vials for the most part are the same in kind with the Plagues of Aegypt and therefore are of short continuance as the Plagues of Aegypt were 4. Miracles are but for a short time but in every one of these Vials God doth work a Miracle 5 The men which were Plagued with a noisome sore in the first Vial are alive and complain of the pain of that sore in the time of the fifth Vial. 6. The last Seal is the longest Seal of all for it contains under it all the Prophecies in the Revelation from the beginning of the eighth Chapter to the end of the Book so the seventh Trumpet is the longest Trumpet and comprehends under it all the Prophecies in the Revelation from the fifteenth verse of the eleventh Chapter to the end of the Book and so thirdly the last Vial is