hee was called faithfull and hee that iudgeth and fighteth righteously his face like a flame of fire and vpon his head many Crownes hee had a name written that none knew but himselfe hee was cloathed in a garment dipped in blood and his name was the word of God and the warriers in Heauen followed him vpon white hories these are the Preachers of the Gospell their pure white linnen is the righteousness of Christ out of his mouth wenâ— a sharpe sword that he might smite the Heathen for hee shall rule them with a rodde of Iron for hee it is that treadeth the wine-presse of the fiercenes of Gods wrath and hee hath a name written the King of Kings and Lord of Lords all these figuratiuespeeches haue beene sufficiently declared heeretofore And an Angell cryed to the fowles of Heauen these are the tenne Kings and their armies to gather themselues vnto the supper of the great God to eate the flesh of Kings Captaines and of mighty men and of horses and of them that sit on them and of free-men and of bond-men and of small and of great And the Pope and Kings and Warriours gathered themselues together to make Batraile against Christ that sate vppon the Horse and his Soldiours but the Pope the false Prophet that deceiued them that receiued his marke and worshipped him these were aliue cast into the Lake burning with fire and brimstone and the remnant were slaine with the sword that came out of Christs mouth and all the foules were filled with their flesh that is the tenne Kinges and their Captaines and Soldiours had a most rich and full booty of the destruction and sacking of Rome When Rome was destroyed Saint Iohn heard a great voyce of a great multitude in Heauen saying Halaluiah that is Praise the Lord saluation and glory and honour and power bee to the Lord our God for true and righteous are his iudgements for hee hath condemned the great Whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and hath auenged the blood of the Saints shed by her hand And againe they said Halaluiah and her smoke rose vp for euermore and the Elders and foure Beasts said Amen Halaluiah Then came a voyce out of the throne saying Praise our God all yee his seruants and a great voyce as of many waters and as thunder said Halaluiah for our Lord God Almighty hath reigned let vs bee glad and reioyce and giue glory to him for the marriage of Christ is come and his wife that is the faithful hath made herselfe ready This sheweth that the Gospel shall flourish more when Rome and the Popedome is destroyed then euer it did And to Christs wife was granted that shee should bee cloathed in pure fine and shining linnen that is in Christs righteousnesse and Saint Iohn was bid to write blessed are they that are called vnto the Lambs supper saying These words are true Saint Iohn was so rauished with the ioy of this vision that hee worshipped the Angell that shewed it but hee forbad him and bad him worship God saying I am but one of your brethren which haue the spirit of Prophesie which is the testimony of Iesus CHAP. 20. IN this Chapter is declared the history of Sathan the Authour of the first tenne persecutions but when as Constantine had ouercome those persecuting Idolaters Saint Iohn seeth in a Vision that God bound the Diuell for a thousand yeares that is from generall martyring and deceiuing of the elect and chosen Children of God Yet in this time Sathan brought in all popish blasphemies Superstitions and Idolatries and grieuously persecuted those that stood to the puritie of the word against Antichrist The Seates that Saint Iohn saw and them that sate vpon them was Christ and the faithfull and gaue Iudgement and condemned the idolatrous and superstitious Papists who these thousand yeares persecuted the faithfull And Saint Iohn saw the soules of them that were persecuted for the witnesse of IESVS and the word of GOD and did not worship the Pope nor had taken his marke on their fore-heads or on their hands and they liued and reigned with Christ To arise from popish errours sinnes and superstitions is the first resurrection on such the second death shall haue no power but they shall bee the priests of God and Christ and reigne with him for euer After the Diuell had bin bound a thousand yeares from the time of Constantine as an Angell in the first Verse had the key of the bottomlesse pit and bound Sathan then the Pope had the key of the bottomlesse pit to loose the Diuell as appeareth in the ninth Chapter and when hee was loose hee went out to deceiue the people in the foure quarters of the earth Gogge and Magogge that is the open and the secret enemies of the faithfull which are in the ninth Chapter shewed to bee the Locusts and their tayles that is the popish Cardinals Bishoppes Abbots Fryers and such like to gather them together to battell against the faithfull and the number of them was infinite as the sands of the Sea but as they compassed the beloued Citie that is the faithfull fire came downe from heauen and deuoured them that is the Lord in his wrath destroyed the popedome and the Diuell that deceiued them and the Pope the false prophet were cast into a Lake of fire and brimstone where they shall bee tormented day and night for euermore After all these things it is prophesied that Christ shall come vnto iudgement sitting vpon a great white throne from whose face fled away both the earth and the Sea and their place were no more found And Saint Iohn saw the dead both great and small before God the Bookes were opened and another Booke was opened which is the Booke of life and the dead were iudged of those things which were written in the Bookes this is a Vision according to our capacitie for Gods wisedome is his Booke whereby hee alwayes seeth all things that euer were are or shall bee and Death and Hell that is the Diuell the cause of them were cast into the Lake of fire which is the second death and so were all that were not found written in the Booke of life CHAP. 21. IN these two last Chapters is declared how flourishing the Church shall be after the destruction of the Popedome vnto the end of the world This is declared in the tenth Chapter and the second Verse In that Christ is said to set one foote vpon the sea and the other vpon the land that all Countries shall confesse Christ and hee shall haue of his elect in all places As Mahomet rose iust with Antichrist in the yeare 666. so no doubt but the example of the destruction of Rome and the Popedome shall make the Turkes Iewes and them of other Nations to become Christians This is declared likewise in the 19. Chapter Let vs be glad and reioyce for the destruction of Rome because then the Lambs wife shall be made ready and
vs or take vs from him S. Iohn at the first sight did think him to be like Christ but lest hee should be deceiued Christ telleth him that He is he that was dead is aliue and bade him behold him and told him that he liued for euer and had the keyes of hell and of death In that Iohn is commanded to write these things it sheweth how necessary they are to be read of his Children and in that Christ interpreteth the hardest things to be vnderstood in these visions it certifieth vs that wee may attaine vnto the meaning of all the rest by earnest prayer CHAP. 2. 3. IN that Iesus Christ commands Iohn to write seauen Letters vnto the seauen Churches and indites euery Epistle with the words of his owne mouth wee are assured that hee is the only head of the Church and that his care and loue vnto the Church is no lesse then when hee was vpon earth and that hee seeth whatsoeuer is done whether it be good or bad Therefore let euery one of vs in his calling serue the Lord Iesus as walking alwayes before his face for such an high Priest it behooued vs to haue which is holy harmelesse vndefiled seperated from sinners and made higher then the heauens and which once hath offered himselfe a sufficient sacrifice for all the elect and is consecrated for euermore All Ministers must striue to serue Christ in those things which hee commends in the Ministers for they concerne all Ministers to the end of the world The Minister of Ephesus is commended for his workes his labour his patience his zeale that he cannot forbeare the euill but examines false Apostles findes them lyars and for suffring patiently for his name and not fainting for hating the workes of Seducers as the Nicholaitans Hee saith to the Angell of the Church of Smyrna I know thy workes and thy labour and pouerty but thou art rich He saith vnto the Angell of the Church of Pergamus I know thy workes and where thou dwellest euen where Sathans throne is and thou keepest my name and hast not denyed my faith when Antipas my faithfull Martyr was slaine amongst you He saith to the Angell of Thyatyra I know thy workes thy loue and seruice and faith patience and thy works are more at last then at the first If we follow these things vnto the end we shall ouercome then shall wee eat of the Tree of life in the midst of Paradice which is Christ wee shall eate the Manna that is hid which is the ioy of the holy Ghost and peace of conscience wee shall haue a white stone and a new name that wee are Christs written on it which none can read but them which haue it that is the Spirit shall assure vs that wee are Gods Children and none but our selues can know the assurance of our hope then shall we haue power to rule the Nations with a rod of Iron that is we shall ouercome the Diuell and sinne and his instruments and in the world to come breake them in pieces like a Potters vessell As Christ receiued the morning starre of his father so he will giue it vs that is the spirit of wisdome wee shall be clothed in white that is with his righteousnesse and not bee put out of the booke of life but Christ will confesse our names before his father and his Angells we shall be made pillars in the temple of God and goe out no more and wee shall haue the name of our God and the Citty of our God and Christs new name written vpon vs Christ will grant vs to sit in his throne as hee sits in his fathers throne In that the aduersaries vnto the truth vnto Gods Ministers are in the letter vnto the Smyrnians in that to Philadelphia called the synagogue of Sathan in the letter to Pergamus their dwelling is called the dwelling of Sathā the throne of Sathan and in the letter to Thiatyra their false doctrine is called the deepenesse of Sathan let all such know of whom they are and call to God for his grace in Christ that they may repent with Saint Paul and be translated from the power of Sathan into the Kingdome of Christ neither needs Gods Ministers and Children bee afraid of them their lies subtile practises or persecutions for he that is with vs is greater then he that is against vs. Likewise let all Gods Ministers and Children marke what things the Ministers are blamed for that they may be wary not to offend in the same Christ remembers the Angell of Ephesus that hee is fallen from the loue he had at the first belike because hee reaped vnthankfulnesse and ill will for his labour this must not discourage vs wee must looke for our reward of God and if wee had neuer so many afflictions they are not worthy of the great glory wee shall haue in Christ Christ threatneth him to come against him shortly and remoue his Candlesticke out of his place if he amend not and surely this want of loue was it that remoued all these Candlestickes out of their places and long time these places haue beene inhabited of Idolaters See what a many of commendable vertues euen of Christ himselfe the Minister of Ephesus had and lost the reward of them all by loosing his loue if hee did not amend Christ findes fault with the Angell of Pergamus for suffering the doctrine of Balaam and of the Nicholaitans to be maintained there and threatneth to come against him for it this must make vs wary not to suffer false doctrines to bee maintained The Angell of Thiatyra is found fault with for suffering Iesabel to intise Christs seruants to sinne we must take heed of such Christ findes fault with the Angell of Sardis that hee had a name that he liued but he was dead let vs therefore examine our selues well whether wee liue in the spirit or be dead in any sinne and let vs awake and repent else Christ will come vpon vs suddenly and destroy vs. Christ findes fault with the Angell of Laodicea because hee was neither hot nor colde and threatens to spue him out and in that he boasted of his riches and trusted in them saying that hee lacked nothing and telleth him that hee was poore and councelleth him to buy heauenly treasure and that hee was blinde and willeth him to buy the eye salue of the spirit that he might see the riches of Christ and therefore for the want of Christs righteousnesse imputed vnto him was naked and miserable Christ telleth him that as many as hee hath he rebuketh and chasteneth and telleth him that he stands at the dore and knocks that is at the heart and if any heare and open hee will come in and suppe with him and he shall suppe with Christ that is Christ will reioyce to saue him and hee will reioyce that he is saued of Christ In that Christ from heauen stileth the seauen Ministers and in them all other Minsters
bee no interruption of the preaching thereof and that the Lord will hinder and punish such as offer to hinder and will not obey it CHAP. 12. AS in the eighth Chapter is a vision of a great Mountaine that fell burning into the Sea which there is interpreted to bee the Emperour taking the part of the superstitious Romanes against the faithfull in Christ Heere the Emperour is called a great red Dragon which sheweth the fiercenesse of his persecution against Gods Children for resisting superstitions The woman that was cloathed with the Sunne and the Moone vnder her feet and vpon her head a Crowne of twelue starres sheweth the flourishing estate of the Church by Constantine the Gospell shined from them as the Sun and Moone and the testimony of the twelue Apostles was their Crowne and reioycing and as twelue starres to direct them her trauelling with child was the increase of the faithfull which the Dragon the Emperour sought by all meanes to deuoure they are called a Man child because Christ the Man-child and they are but all one their taking vp into Heauen sheweth their preseruation of God In that it is saide they shall rule the Nations with a rodde of Iron it is because Christ their head shall doe so for them The Dragons Taile that drew the third part of the starres of heauen and cast them to the earth his taile signifieth his edicts and the executioners therof the starres are the faithfull Children of God which shine like starres in respect of Infidells the third part signifieth all the Popes iurisdiction for he neuer had dominion but in the third part of the World and the Heauen heere is the Church I leaue the interpretation of his 7. heads and ten hornes vnto the 17. Chapter where the Angell interprets them The flying of the woman into the wildernes sheweth what feare the faithfull were put in that they were faine to haue priuate meetings as if it were in a wildernes and this continued 1260. yeares concerning the battell in Heauen Michael and his Angells are Christ and his Preachers against the Diuell and Papists his Soldiers and Christ and his Children gatte the victory in the end and Christ and his shall raigne in inspeakeable glory when as the Diuell and all that tooke his part in resisting the Gospell shall inherit eternall paine and torments When this victory was Saint Iohn heard a loud voyce saying Now is Saluation in Heauen that is the Church and strength and the Kingdome of our God and the power of Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast downe there was neuer any that so falsly accused the faithfull as the Papists haue and still doe like vnto the Diuell their Captaine which accuseth vs day and night before God but they ouercame him by the bloud of the Lambe and the word of their testimony and they loued not their liues vnto death this certifieth vs who were Christs Angells that fought against the Diuell Reioyce yee Heauens and they that dwell therein meaning the faithfull in the true Church woe to the Inhabitants of the earth and and sea The earth is often interpreted great men and the sea the common people meaning carnall men for the Diuell is come downe vnto you hauing great wrath knowing he hath but a short time this is since the 1000. yeares that the Diuell is let loose When the Dragon saw that hee was cast into the earth that is ouercome hee persecuted the woman but God preserued her as an Eagle saueth her selfe with flying aloft and as one that saueth himselfe by hiding in the wildernes and the Dragon cast out water after the woman like a flood that he might carry her away but the earth helped the woman that is God prouided men of the earth euer all this 1260. yeares to defend and succour his children by the Dragon is meant not only the Emperours but the Popes for since the Emperors power decaid the Popes were as Emperours Then the Dragon made warre with the seed of the woman which keepe the Commandements of God and haue the testimony of Iesus Christ these are the warres that long haue beene and now are betwixt the Papists and the Protestants CHAP. 13. THe two Beasts in the Prophesies of this Chapter are the two starres that the Prophesies are of in the 8. and 9. Chapters and both set out vnto vs the Popes The first Beast is said to arise out of the Sea that is from amongst the lower sort of men which is when Phocas had slaine his Maister Mauritius the Emperour all his Children and made himselfe Emperour he gaue Boniface Bishop of Rome preheminence to be highest aboue all other Bishops and sole ruler of them In that he is said to haue seauen heads and tenne hornes with Crownes vpon them the reason is set downe in the second verse because the Dragon gaue him his vertue and his throne and his great power to enable him to fight against the Children of God In that there was set vpon his head the name of blasphemie is because the Pope taketh to himselfe that which onely belongeth to Christ to haue all power in Heauen and Earth and whatsoeuer prerogatiue the Scripture attributeth to Christ the Pope most blasphemously taketh to himselfe In that he is like the Leopard no Beast is so beautifully spotted as the Leopard is so no Emperour or King was euer so richly or gloriously decked with gold and precious stones as the Popes haue beene In that his clawes are like the clawes of a Beare which hath the strongest pawes of all Beasts to catch and to hold withall it sheweth that neuer any Emperour or any else hath been such an exactor of the riches of all Lands as the Popes haue beene as Ecclesiasticall Histories make mention In that his mouth was as the mouth of a Lyon it sheweth his tyranny cruelty and mercilesnes in deuouring Gods children and well may the holy Ghost stile him a Beast that hath these beastly qualities his head that was wounded to death was the Emperour when Mauritius and his Children were slaine But Hiraclius the Emperour killed Phocas that slew them and restored the Empire againe And the superstitious gloried in the Pope being made so great by the Emperour and worshipped the Dragon that gaue power vnto him and they worshipped the Beast saying Who is like vnto the Beast Who is able to warre with him And the Beast blasphemed God and his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in Heauen that is his faithfull Children and hee warred against the Saints and ouercame them and power was giuen him ouer euery Kingdome and tongue and Nation therefore all that are in the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Booke of life But heere is the benefit of the patience and faith of Saints if any lead into Captiuity he shall be led into Captiuity and whosoeuer killed them by the sword shall bee killed by the sword This second Beast
Rome the great whore that sitteth vpon many waters and sheweth that all Kings and Nations of the earth are drunken with the wine of her fornication In the vision Saint Iohn saw a woman sit vpon a skarlet coloured beast full of names of blasphemy which had seauen heads and tenne hornes and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and guilded with gold precious stones and pearles and had a cup of gold in her hand full of abominations and filthines of her fornications and in her forehead was a mystery written Great Babilon the Mother of whoredomes and abhominations and the woman was drunken with the blood of Saints and martyrs of Iesus and he wondred with great maruell then the Angell told Saint Iohn he would shew him the mystery thereof The Beast which thou hast seene was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse pit and shall be destroyed and all that are not written in the booke of life shall wonder at it that hee being so mighty could be destroyed this Beast is the Emperour which was before the Reuelation it seemeth at the time thereof the Emperour was dead and no other then chosen and the Pope should ascend out of the bottomlesse pitte and be aboue the Emperour and for all his greatnesse yet hee shall goe into perdition The Angell declareth the seauen heads to signifie seauen mountaines wheron the Whore sitteth which plainely sheweth the Citty of Rome to bee that Whore for that is builded vpon seauen Mountaines and so is no other Citty Againe the Angell interpreteth the seauen heads to bee seauen Kings that is seauen kinds of gouernment in Rome of which fiue were fallen and the Idolatrous Emperours did then raigne but Constantine should quite alter the gouernment of Rome from idolatry to Christianity and hee and the Emperours following him was the seauenth King and the Beast in this vision which is the Pope is one of the seauenth gouernment in name because he professeth the name of Christ but indeed he is the eighth gouernment for hee hath quite changed the gouernment of Rome from Christianity to Popery The Angell interpreteth the ten hornes to be ten Kings which at the time of the Reuelation had not receiued a kingdome but shall receiue power at one hower with the Pope and they shall be all of one minde and giue their power and authority to him and fight with Christ but hee shall ouercome them Then the Angell interpreteth the waters where the Whore sitteth to signifie people multitudes Nations and tongues which plainely declareth the Citty of Rome to bee the Whore for no Citty from Christ to this day hath so many Countries and People vnder her dominion as that Citty and in the eighth verse the Angell interpreteth the woman to be the great Citty which at the time of the Reuelation raigned ouer the Kings of the earth and then was the Emperours seate there In that the woman sitteth vpon a scarlet coloured Beast it is because the ordinary attire of the Pope and Cardinalls is scarlet and his fulnesse of names of blasphemy is because most blasphemously he attributes vnto himselfe all Christs names In that Saint Iohn saw the woman so richly arrayed in purple scarlet and guilded with gold and precious stones and pearles thus were the Popes Cardinalls Bishops Prelates Churches and Idolls arrayed and doth most euidently declare that these Prophesies are of Rome The golden Cuppe that she holdeth in her hand is her golden name that shee stileth her selfe withall calling her selfe the Catholique Church but her doctrines which shee teacheth are filthy and abhominable blasphemies Idolatries superstitions which are the wine of her fornication wherewith shee made all Nations of the earth drunken and shee is called the great Whore in that shee is departed her selfe and hath carried so many from Christ our Spowse and from his word and committed fornication with the Diuell and his wicked doctrines and for this cause it is that the mystery Great Babilon is written in her forehead because shee is the mother of whordomes and abominations of the earth as Babilon was If there were no other note wherby it might bee knowne that these Prophefies are of Rome this were sufficiēt to declare the same in that she is said to be drunken with the blood of Saints and Martyrs of Iesus for the Romane Gouernours crucified Christ and the Romane Emperours made the tenne persecutions and the Romane Popes haue slaine more Martyrs Saints of Iesus then euer were slaine in the world before The Angell telleth vs in the 16. verse that the ten Kings which did with one consent giue their Kingdomes vnto the Pope vntill the wordes of God which hee foretold were fulfilled are they that shall hate the Whore and make her desolate and naked and shall eate her flesh and burne her with fire and the performance heereof is contained in the two next Chapters CHAP. 18. AN Angell from Heauen cryeth mightily with a loud voyce Babilon that great Citty it is fallen it is fallen and nothing shall inhabite there but Diuels wilde Beasts and foules because all Nations haue drunken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication And there came a voyce from Heauen saying Goe out of her my people that you bee not pertakers of her sinnes and that you receiue not of her plagues rewarde her as shee hath rewarded you giue her double according to her workes because shee hath glorified her selfe and liued in pleasure and saith in her heart I sit being a Queene and am no widdow and shall see no mourning therefore shall her plagues come at one day death and sorrow and famine and she shall be burned with fire for strong is the Lord God which will condemne her And the Kings that haue committed fornication with her and the Merchants that haue beene made rich by her and euery ship Maister and all that occupie ships and ship-men shall stand a farre off for feare of her torments and cry when they see the smoake of her burning saying What Citty was like to this great Citty and they shall cast dust on their foreheads and cry Alas alas the great Citty wherein were made rich all that had ships on the Sea by her costlinesse for in one hower shee is made desolate O heauen reioyce of her and ye holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath giuen your iudgement on her and an Angell tooke a great Mill-stone and cast it into the Sea saying With such violence shall the great Citty Babilon bee cast and bee found no more and there shall bee no more Musicke nor Tradesmen nor Mill heard to grinde nor candle shine nor Bridegroomes voyce bee heard there any more CHAP. 19. IN this Chapter is declared the praysing of God in Heauen and Earth for the finall destruction of Antichrist but I will first make an end of the destruction thereof In the eleuenth verse Saint Iohn saw Heauen open and Christ riding vpon a white horse and
blessed are they that are called vnto the Lambes Supper In that there shall bee then a new heauen meaning the Church and a new earth meaning temporall gouernment and the old is passed away it sheweth that things touching the Church and Common wealth shall bee wholly ruled according vnto the Word of God and that all Popish and Iewish lawes which are contrary to the Word of GOD shall bee no more And there shall be no more sea that is ignorant and vnconstant men carryed away with euery wind of false doctrine as the waues of the sea are tossed with the winde Then the Church shall be prepared as a fit Bride for Christ her husband that is the Tabernacle of God shall bee with men and GOD shall dwell with them and they shall bee his people and God himselfe shall be their God and wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shall bee no more death sorrow crying or paine for the first things are past that is then there shall bee no more martyring persecuting mocking blaspheming and deriding of Gods Children In the tenth Verse an Angell shewes Saint Iohn a Vision of the glory that the Church then shall haue In that it is called a great Citie it shewes what a great number shall beleeue in that it is called holy Ierusalem it declareth the holinesse of their Faith Hope and Loue and other graces the descending of it from God out of heauen sheweth that God from heauen shall fill her with the riches of his graces and shee had the glory of God which made her shine like precious stones The three gates on euery side are the Trinitie without which there is no way to enter into the Church the Angels that are at these doores are the Preachers the twelue foundations of this Church is Iesus Christ which the twelue Apostles haue taught vs to build all our hope vpon in that the three gates were on euery side of the Church it sheweth that the doores of grace shall lye open and the Gospell be preached vnto all nations The twelue thousand furlongs the length the bredth and the height of it haue an allusion vnto the twelue thousand of euery Tribe that were marked for God in the seauenth Chapter the wals being an hundred forty foure cubits haue an allusion vnto the hundred forty foure thousand the whole number of them that were marked of all Tribes The stones of the wall signifie the faithfull in that they are precious stones it is by reason that the precious righteousnesse of Iesus Christ is imputed vnto them and of their precious Faith Hope and Loue and other graces giuen them of Christ In that they are a wall to the new Ierusalem that the Diuell nor any vncleane thing can come into it is declared how louingly they shall ioyne one with another as stones in a wall and how strongly they shall support one another to expell and to keepe out falshood and to defend the truth In that this Citie was of pure gold it sheweth the puritie of their Religion without any drosse of superstitions In that there was no Temple it sheweth that they shall truely serue God in spirit and truth and Christ shall bee their Temple in whom all their hearts shall meet and in him offer all sacrifices of prayer and praysing of God and of good workes which the Lord will accept for his Sonne Iesus Christ his sake In that it hath no neede of the Sunne nor of the Moone to shine in it the holy Spirit shall so illuminate their vnderstandings more then the light of naturall reason can teach them and there shall be no night for where the spirit of God is there is no darknesse In that the gates shall neuer bee shut it certifieth that none that come with a liuely faith shall bee shut from Grace and that Grace shall alwayes bee offered In that the glory and the honor of the Gentiles shall bee brought vnto it it sheweth that the Kings and chiefest of all Countries shall beleeue in Christ and there shall enter into it no vncleane thing that is wicked men nor whomsoeuer worketh abhomination and lyes such they shall hate and excommunicate but onely such shall enter as are written in the Lambes Booke of life CHAP. 22. THe pure riuer of water of life like Chrystall proceeding out of the Throne is the doctrine of the Gospell of Iesus Christ whosoeuer drinketh of him shall neuer thirst for any other meanes of saluation their thirst shall bee so fully quenched in him that they shall alwayes reioyce in their saluation Hee is the tree of life whosoeuer eateth of him with a liuely Faith shall haue eternall life and he shall neuer hunger that is doubt thereof Christ alwayes is fruitfull and the leaues of his righteousnes shall heale the imperfections and diseases of the faithfull in all nations There shall bee no curse but the throne of God and the Lambe shall be amongst the faithfull and they shall be his seruants and serue him and they shall see his face and his name shall be written in their foreheads that is they shall not bee ashamed to confesse his name and they shall reigne for euermore that is in the world to come Then S. Iohn concludes the truth of these Prophesies by the Angels testimony and his owne and lastly hee bringeth in Iesus Christ speaking for the testimony of the truth hereof I Iesus haue sent mine Angell to testifie these things in the Churches I am the roote and generation of Dauid the bright morning Starre The Spirit the Bride exhort men to come to me and let euery one that heares exhort men to come to mee and let all that thirst and will take of the water of life freely come for I protest that who so shall adde any thing to this Booke God will adde to him the plagues written in this Booke and if any diminish of the words hereof God will take away his part out of the Booke of life and the holy Citie he that testifieth these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Euen so Lord Iesus The grace of our Lord Iesus be with vs all Amen FINIS