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A51286 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 ... More, Henry, 1614-1687. 1680 (1680) Wing M2641; ESTC R7100 230,692 425

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I have given of this Chapter here is true and that the Roman Hierarchy is that Great Whore riding the Beast that was and is not and yet is viz. The Empire since it was corrupted from pure Christianity and relapsed again to a kind of Idolatrous Paganochristianism For what Roman Polity can rule this Empire but what is contemporary to it Wherefore the Woman that rides the Beast is not Pagan but Paganochristian that Paganochristian Hierarchy of Rome NOTES CHAPTER XVII Vers. 8. His Name is c. This I intersert because it is a Prophetical Ellipsis which is one of the Figures that make up the artifice of Concealment in this Book of Prophecies But such an Ellipsis is so natural that it is used where there is no such design as Exod. chap. 3. vers 13 14. And Moses said unto God Behold when I come to the Children of Israel and shall say unto them The God of your Fathers hath sent me unto you and they shall say unto me what is his Name What shall I say unto them And God said unto Moses I am ●hat I am Where there is plainly an Ellipsis instead of My Name is I am that I am as is obvious at first sight But in this place of the Apocalypse such an Ellipsis is made use of but purposely in such a way as that it is not obvious to discern there is an Ellipsis the sense seeming so perfect and running so glibly without one which therefore is the artifice of concealment in this place and without which it had not been a Prophetical Ellipsis but a common one See Synops. Prophet chap. 4. sect 6. and chap. 13. vers 8. sect 13. Whence you may more fully understand how certain it is that such an Ellipsis is to be acknowledged in this place and that there is to be interserted His name is c. CHAPTER XVIII 1. THe Arraignment and Accusation of the Great Whore was in the preceding Chapter now follows her doom or Condemnation And after these things I saw another Angel come down from Heaven having great power which intimates that those Agents that are prefigured by him and are to effect what he predicts are Persons of high place And the Earth was lightened with his glory that is the Earth was enlightened with his brightness which signifies that these great persons being themselves fully illuminated through the Spirit by the light of the Gospel did most effectually enlighten others of the meaner sort by their example and godly profession of the pure Apostolick Faith 2. And he cryed mightily with a strong voice He predicts the doom or pronounceth the sentence against the great Whore with a strong and strenuous voice in token of the assuredness and certainty of the execution thereof saying Babylon the Great is fallen is fallen which words though they be the same with those Chap. 14. vers 8. yet they are not to be restrained to that time which was but the partial fall of Babylon in the first Reformation at the Rising of the Witnesses but to be extended further to the final destruction of the Whore and the Beast under the seventh Vial when the Beast is to go into utter perdition which time of his final overthrow is not limited in Chap. 17. as it is in the Vision Chap. 13. of his partial overthrow viz. to the seventh Semi-time of the forty two Prophetical months And therefore this doom of Babylon contains both her partial and final destruction And is become the habitation of Devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird The desolation and destruction of Babylon which is the Roman Idolatrous Hierarchy or Polity not a City of Stones or Brick a thing childish to be conceived is set out by the description of ruined and desolate Cities and particularly of Babylon literally understood Isai. 13.2 And their houses shall be filled with dolefull Creatures and Owles shall dwell there and Satyrs that is shaggie-haired Devils shall dance there c. But the mystical meaning of this place as I conceive is that when the power of this Hierarchy is utterly destroyed yet in the ruines thereof there will be lurking assemblies of such kind of persons as are deciphered by Devils or foul Spirits in that sense that unclean Spirits are said to come out of the mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet and by hateful and unclean Birds The character of whom and who are said to be without the Holy City which appears after the destruction of this Babylon is set down chap. 22. vers 15. For without are Dogs and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth or maketh a lie This is the Cage of unclean Birds or impure Spirits that the ruines of Babylon are the habitation of who having now no power over others will exercise a power amongst themselves And one Aethiopian or Leopard will wash and absolve another 3. For all Nations have drunk of the Wine of the wrath of her fornication that is of her poisoned Philter or love-Love-Cup whereby they have been intoxicated And the Kings of the Earth have committed fornication with her She has corrupted the Ten Kings of the Empire with the Abominations of her Idolatry And the Merchants of the Earth that is the Ecclesiastical Merchants that prog'd for great Dignities and Preferments under her which she chaffered for the maintaining or advancing her own interest and greatness who are here called Merchants of the Earth in reproach to their false pretense of spirituality and of acting still in behalf of Holy Church when their designs are really sensual worldly and earthly Are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies that is from the luxuriancy of her wealth and from their accustomed luxury the later an incitement to get wealth that they may be in the mode and the other a supply to their desire 4. And I heard another voice from Heaven saying which therefore is a commission nay a command from Heaven to the first Reformers and all others after to forsake the Communion of the Church of Rome Come out of her my people that you be not partakers of her sins by being at her Masses and other Idolatrous worship And that you receive not of her plagues Whether in this world or in the world to come 5. For her sins have reached unto Heaven and called for vengeance there in the ears of God And God hath remembred her Iniquities and will repay her in part at the Rising of the Witnesses but pay her home under the seventh Vial when her power shall be utterly abolished as it follows 6. Reward her even as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double that is spare her not but punish her severely for all her abominations and wickednesses which is a prediction of what will come to pass notoriously under the seventh Vial. 7. How much
they who are only led by his Word and Spirit not by a blind and implicite Faith in a Church not only fallible but fallacious or deceitful most of their corruptions both in Doctrine and Worship being upheld for their own worldly interest These were redeemed from among men were rescued from being carried away with the stream of the rest of the Superstitious and Idolatrous Rabble hood-winked and captivated by the false showes and subtil enticements of the most cunning Polity in the world Being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb namely the first pure Apostolick Christians after the Apostasie and but an handful in comparison of those multitudes that will appear after the dissolution of the Papal Tyranny 5. And in their mouth was found no guile that is there was no hypocrisie nor dissembling in them but they professed the Truth from their hearts and concealed it not For they are without fault before the Throne of God that is in the judgment of God they are holy and upright men though at the Tribunal of Antichrist they are condemned for Hereticks and deemed men not worthy to live or dye an ordinary death Nay besides what they call Heresie in them though according to that they do worship in purity the God of their Fathers as S t Paul speaks even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ they add a multitude of abominable lies to make them odious to the people but the God of Heaven knows they are guiltless whence it is said They are without fault before the Throne of God 6. And I saw another Angel distinct from that Quire of Angels taken notice of before fly in the midst of Heaven that he may be seen and heard over all the Christian world as well the Western as Eastern Empire as is intimated in what follows Having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the Earth and to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and People that is to preach the Everlasting Righteousness Law or Religion that Christ according to Daniel was to bring in Which is the pure and Apostolick Doctrine unsophisticated with the Superstitions and Idolatries of either Greek or Roman Church which hay and stubble is to be burnt up but that Apostolick Gospel to be Eternal never to fail and to spread over all 7. Saying with a loud voice Fear God and give Glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come And worship him that made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and the fountains of waters And therefore none but God the Father and the Son with the Spirit who Created all things is to be worshipped The Gods that have not made the Heavens and the Earth they shall perish from the Earth and from under the Heavens as the Prophet Ieremiah foretells This is a plain declaration against giving any Religious Worship to any but God alone And therefore a commination against all Saint-worshippers and Image-worshippers or whatever other Idolatry in the Greek or Roman Church That this voice of the Angel respects the Edicts and Degrees of those Greek Emperours that protested so zealously against Saint-worship and Image-worship namely the Decrees of Leo Isaurus Constantinus Iconomaches Leo Armenius Michael Balbus and Theophilus I do not deny but this Angelical Monition was the most loudly and earnestly urged upon the Christian World at the dreadfull siege and storming of Constantinople and the subduing the whole Eastern Church and Empire to the Turk This was a plain manifestation that the hour of his judgement was come against such gross Idolaters And yet though his judgements flew so high and sounded so loud as to give notice to all Christendome yet the Western Church would take no notice thereof as it is predicted Chap. 9. vers 20. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues from the Euphratean Horsemen which are the Turks yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship Demons and Idols of Gold and Silver c. And therefore if we hear news of the hand of God upon the Western Church also I mean upon the Idolatrous Hierarchy thereof which is more particularly stiled Babylon we need not be much surprized And thus we read in the next verse 8. And there followed another Angel saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great City or Polity bicause she made all Nations the Eastern as well as the Western Church as may be observed in the Popes activity at the second Nicene Council and in excommunicating the Iconoclast Emperours drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication of the Philter she had mingled for them the Love-poison or Love-potion of her fornication by which is plainly understood Idolatry To the voice of this Angel belongs the Reformation when so many Provinces and Principalities fell off from the Church of Rome and was a pledge of her further ruine Here therefore ends the Thyatirian Interval and that of Sardis begins in which is contained the effusion of the Vials all but the last 9. And the third Angel followed them saying with a loud voice If any man worship the Beast and his Image that is give obedience to the Secular and Spiritual Power in such things as are Idolatrous and are the very strokes and lineament of the Image of the Beast and receive his the Beasts mark in his forehead or in his hand that is make profession of or promote and countenance the Romish Idolatrous Religion 10. The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation He shall drink of the cup of bitterness and malediction from the Lord. And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever that is all they shall be condemned to those infernal and eternal flames who under the voice of this third Angel shall persist in the gross Idolatries and other foul corruptions of the Church of Rome For under the voice of this Angel the abominations of that Church will be so fully discovered and convincingly that the adherers thereto will be generally deemed uncapable of salvation with any that have any remainders of judgment and conscience in them And they have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his Name Truth against the Church of Rome will be then so dear that no man that has any Conscience can be of that Religion and Profession but it will lye exceeding unevenly in his mind it will put him in restless and unsatisfied condition it appearing so manifestly against all sense all reason all honesty and loyalty and against all those sound and sacred Principles that God hath implanted in the nature of man Wherefore in those dayes no honest-hearted man can endure to submit to the Church