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Apocalypsis Apocalypseos, or, The revelation of St. John the Divine unveiled containing a brief but perspicuous and continued exposition from chapter to chapter, and from verse to verse, of the whole book of the Apocalypse / by Henry More ...
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More, Henry, 1614-1687.
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the Vials must be after the rising of the Witnesses and the rising of the Witnesses the Protestant Reformation when so many Provinces and Principalities had cast off the Yoke and freed themselves from the sad bondage of that Roman Pharaoh the Papal Hierarchy as the Israelites of old were delivered from the slavery of Aegypt And therefore it follows 2. And I saw as it were a Sea of glass mingled with fire This seems to have a double allusion either to the Sea of Glass like unto Crystal before the Throne Chap. 4. vers 5. which the light of the seven Lamps there shined upon or else to the Red Sea congealed as it were into two walls of Glass or Ice on which the Angel in a pillar of Fire going before the Israelites shined also and the redness of the sand of the Sea made the mixture more like fire And them that had gotten the victory over the Beast and over his Image such as had got free from both the Sacerdotal and Secular Idolatrous Power that they could not longer persecute them for not submitting to their Pagan-like Abominations And over his mark and over the number of his Name that is That now could neither be forced to swear into the forms of that false Church by a slavish implicite faith nor to profess himself a Latin or Roman Catholick but a free Apostolick Christian Stand on the sea of Glass on the shore of that Sea that was converted into Glass or Ice when they passed through it as newly escaped the persecution of that Roman Pharaoh who was overthrown Horse and Man in the Red Sea that is by the Protestants profession that they were only justified by the blood of Christ and the sanctification of his Spirit which is resembled by fire Having the Harps of God that is Holy or large Harpe 3. And they sing the Song of Moses the Servant of God and the song of the Lamb that is They sing the Song of the Lamb of which the Song of Moses was but a Type but the occasions so like one another that the Song may indifferently serve both But in the mean time it is plain here that Rome is that Spiritual Aegypt wherein the Witnesses were slain and the Bishop of Rome the Pharaoh thereof Saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways O King of Saints 4. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou only art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgments are manifest Shall come and worship before thee which implies that this first victory is but the first-fruits of that elargement God intends for the Kingdom of his Son Christ. 5. And after that I looked namely after this Triumphal Song of the Harpers that had gotten the victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his Mark and over the number of his Name For it is absurd to conceive a triumphal Song before the victory or this victory to be of the Primitive Christians over the Pagans because of the Image of the Beast and his Mark and the number of his Name And therefore it must be the victory of the Protestants over the Paganochristians Whence it is impossible that the first Vial and the first Trumpet should contemporize And behold the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Heaven was opened Which answers to that Chap. 11. vers 19. And the Temple of God was opened in Heaven which again assures us that the effusion of the Vial is after the rising of the Witnesses namely out of what follows 6. And the seven Angels came out of the Temple having the seven plagues that is designed to that Office Cloathed in pure and white linnen and having their Breasts girded with golden girdles that is being clothed in priestly attire as being heavenly Priests belonging to that Heavenly Temple that is to say as being so represented 7. And one of the four Beasts the Lion haply it being the most military Beast and a Beast of anger and courage Gave unto the seven Angels seven golden Uials full of the wrath of God who liveth for ever and ever Whence it is intimated that these Ministers were to be actuated not by any private spleen but by the just wrath of God which burneth only against obstinate Hypocrites and Sinners 8. And the Temple was filled with smoak from the glory of God and from his power that is to say from the glorious power of God in taking vengeance of the Beast or false Prophet in reference to whom chiefly is the pouring out of the Vials till he be taken and cast out into the lake of fire and brimstone and so all Idolatrous and Tyrannical power be abolished No settlement till then but all filled ever and anon with confusion dust and smoak And no man was able to enter into the Temple till the seven plagues of the seven Angels were fulfilled that is there is no recovery of the Church into that state thereof which is decyphered by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Temple of God Chap. 11. vers 1. till the seven plagues of the seven Angels be fulfilled accordingly as has been signified Then will the Temple become symmetral again and commensurable not only to the Reed of a Man but of an Angel nor to a Reed any way combustible but to a Golden Reed This is to be under the second Thunder that immediately follows the last Vial at the descent of the New Ierusalem from Heaven of which state it is said Lo the Tabernacle of God is with men and they will become his Living Temple pure and undefiled otherwise There is no Temple there but God Almighty and the Lamb is the Temple thereof This setled state of the Church which is the Temple of God will not appear till after the effusion of the Vials CHAPTER XVI SOme strictures there were and glances at the things that appertain to the Vials after the Rising of the Witnesses Chap. 11. and after the fall of Babylon Chap. 14. but hinted very maimedly obscurely and interruptedly But the Vials in this Chapter are more fully and orderly set down as we shall see by perusing the Chapter 1. And I heard a great voice out of the Temple out of which the Angels had come forth Chap. 15. vers 6. saying to the seven Angels Go your wayes and pour out the Uials of the wrath of God which ye received from one of the four Beasts upon the Earth that is upon this Terrestrial or Terraqueous Globe 2. And the first went and poured out his Uial upon the Earth viz. in that sense of Earth that was intimated before for it means no more than on this Terraqueous Globe unless there be an allusion to the ashes of the furnace from which the Aegyptian blains and boiles did arise as certainly there is an allusion to those Aegyptian plagues both in this and in other Vials whereby we may be assured that
and such things as these Dissenters suffering for which are against common Sense Scripture and Reason and against the honour and Institutes of Christ and only make for the interest of the Antichristian Hierarchy to enrich and magnify their Priesthood as if they were more Omnipotent than God Almighty who according to their own Schools can do nothing that implies a contradiction to be done whenas Transubstantiation is nothing but a fardle of flat contradictions it may justly amaze any considering person that the Civil Powers in this long Reign of Antichrist have been so little sensible of their own Secular Interest For in the multitude of People is the Kings honour but in the want of people is the destruction of the Prince as Solomon speaks as to have suffered so many thousands of their useful innocent Subjects to be sacrificed to the lust and ambition of that proud and bloody Hierarchy to say nothing of that great guilt of blood that lay upon the Civil Powers themselves for listening to the counsels of that Iezebel The account that lay upon them in those times was heavy enough when the earth was as well full of darkness as of cruel habitations as the Psalmist speaks But now the fuller light of the Gospel being so manifestly dispread through so great a part of Christendom and the gross Idolatries Impostures and Cruelties of the Roman Church so generally known which cannot but take hold of the consciences of them that have the greatest sense and fear of God and the most sincere inclinations to approve themselves the faithful servants of Jesus Christ and therefore will be the most certain to suffer by the barbarous suggestions of that Woman that is said to be drunk with the blood of the Saints and the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus what a vast weight of guilt will lye upon such Civil Powers of Christendom as at this time of the day shall listen to the wicked suggestions of the abovesaid Iezebel for the destroying of the Prophets of the Lord and whither and how far it will sink them I dread to think and am afraid to speak out But it may be easily collected from the voice of that Angel Rev. 14. vers 9. If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone and the smoak of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever And if this be the fate of those that suffer themselves through fear and violence to be thus debauched what will be the fate of them that force them and debauch them The mighty shall be mightily tormented Wisd. 6. vers 6. Such things as these being exhibited to the view of all men in this admirable Looking-Glass of Providence the Apocalypse which doth so fully and faithfully set forth the state of the Church and how necessary it is to reform from the Roman Impurities rather than to have an hankering again after the fleshpots of Egypt their gross Superstitions and Idolatries hath made me with all possible care and diligence unfold the continued sense thereof with an unexceptionable coherence of things from the beginning to the end of the Interpretation And in this Epilogue thus industriously to confute any thing that might seem to have any shew of argument against the truth of my Exposition And that the Reader may be less prone to sleight my pains herein I give him to understand that nothing but the clear evidence of the truth hath driven me this way things manifestly appearing to me thus 1. Against my natural inclination which disposeth me to make the best of the Phaenomena of Providence which I meet with in the world and to interpret them with all imaginable favour and advantage out of that love and honour I bear to that Holy Godhead that is at the Helm and steers all And yet let me look never so earnestly upon things and never so favourably I cannot perceive otherwise than that the Church of Rome is very grosly guilty of Idolatry and consequently of most barbarous Murthers of conscientious men that cannot comply with her in that hainous sin against God 2. Against my repute and estimation in the World the pretending to understand the Apocalypse seeming a fanciful ridiculous thing to the Wits of this age that are ready to snear and flear at any such profession and indeed at the serious profession of any Religion at all as if it were an indication of but mean parts and wit and of great ignorance in matters of Philosophy 3. Against the civility of my nature thus to declare in such harsh terms as they cannot but seem to more courtly ears That so great a part of the Christian Church as the Roman Hierarchy is the Whore of Babylon which yet closely and impartially attending to the Interpretation of the Angel Revel Chap. 17. vers 8 9 c. I am as well assured of and as little doubt of as I do of any demonstration in Euclid 4. And lastly Against all my worldly Interest and the safety of my person as is plain I think to any one that considers the circumstances of things of late There being therefore thus many clogs in my way I think any man may be well assured as well as I am my self that it is merely the Evidence of the truth that has driven me to assent thereunto But they that are of another mind from me I will leave to themselves and others to consider whether some carnal sense or worldly Interest hath not swayed their judgments For as for prophane Wits and impatient of considering any thing that is weighty and serious I will only say to them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 while my self in the mean time am so well assured of the Truths I stand for that I hope I shall not stick if Providence call me forth to it through the assistances of the promised Spirit of our Lord Jesus for our strength is not of our selves rather than to sin against God and my own Conscience to Seal the said Truths with my Blood FINIS A Catalogue of all the Treatises contained in D r H. More 's Philosophical and Theological Volumes many whereof having been originally writ in English are with the rest now published in Latin by the same Authour PRaefatio generalissima in qua nonnulla obiter de Vita Authoris habentur de Scriptorum verò occasionibus ac stylo generalÃque universorum scopo fatìs fusè agitur Enchiridium Ethicum praecipua Moralis Philosophiae Rudimenta complectens c. Scholiis subinde illustratum Enchiridium Metaphysicum sive De Rebus Incorporeis succincta luculenta Dissertation c. Scholiis multò jam auctior facta Ubi inter caetera Objectionibus respondetur Viri Clar. I. C. Sturmii Math. Phys. P. P. Altdorffini Philosophematum eruditi Authoris Difficilium Nugarum de Principiis Motuum Naturalium sive de Essentiis mediis de modo Rarefactionis