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A68061	An exquisite commentarie vpon the Reuelation of Saint Iohn VVherein, both the course of the whole booke, as also the more abstruse and hard places thereof not heretofore opened; are now at last most cleerely and euidently explaned. By Patrik Forbes of Corse.	Forbes, Patrick, 1564-1635.	1613 (1613)	STC 11149.3; ESTC S102414	192,912	300

may looke in the midst of most desperat calamities The other againe endeareth the particular gift and should greatly stirre to study as whereof with good reason it was said in the beginning Blessed are all that read and obserue c. 8 In this type of the Church in this Chap. her gracefull state is shewed first in the presence of her King euen God himselfe dwelling and ruling in the midst of her secondly in her dignity which she hath of her Lord thirdly in God his dispensation for and towards her fourthly in her dutifulnesse againe to her Lord in al true worship and hearty praise 9 God is described from his office and from his nature His office in that as onely King Lord and Head of his Church he ruleth therein and steadfastly fixeth his habitation in the midst thereof as which he hath chosen to be the place of his feet euen the mountaine wherein hee delighteth to dwell yea wherein hee will dwell for euer This is shewed by one onely throne set in heauen and one onely sitter thereon the other thrones being in the circle but His onely in the center His nature more to our capacitie then as it is in it selfe incomprehensible is shadowed by three iewels all of great worth a Iasper Sardine and Smaragde the Smaragde hath this singular that ●t is diffundit in manner of a Rainebow about the throne Now albeit I am perswaded that the perfit knowledge of the natures and vertues of these iewels would giue a sight of some analogy to God his nature so farre as earthly and senselesse things may expresse him to whom nothing is like and that some thing also might be pretily spoken hereof yet in so high a matter beeing my selfe in expert in the nature and qualities of pretious stones I dare not be bold and what others perhaps vpon more knowledge deliuer I rather it bee sought in themselues then I should speake in such matters vpon any man his credit This seemeth certaine that heerein the holy Ghost giueth vs to take vp the trinity of that one who accordingly after of the beasts is praised thrice holy Wherein as the Father by the Iasper and Sonne by the Sardine so the holy Ghost by the Smaragde is signified Whose singular note of beeing diffundit about the throne as a rainebow hath a sweet analogy both to his procession and name particularly giuen him by the Lord of Comforter Neither is this to bee esteemed a vaine speculation because in this same Chap. the holy Ghost is set out in seuen burning lamps and the Sonne at length in the next for the consideration is much diuers and no lesse necessary for a distinct vnderstanding of the persons as in them and each of them one and the same deity subsisteth according to their inward relation so sitting in the throne and for the knowledge of them according to the outward oeconomy or dispensation towards vs. For hereafter in this Chap. the holy Ghost is described more according to his graces and vertue in vs then in the former consideration and the Sonne in the next Chapt. is described as Christ and Mediator betwixt God and man in the first consideration both being one with the Father sit in the thron in the second for expressing God his outward dispensation of grace in the Mediator by the spirit of sanctification they are described before the throne 10 Thus is the presence of God the King of his Church Now her goodly and graceful state herethrough is set out in the type of twenty foure elders whose place number and dignity are to bee obserued Their place is round about the throne noting their attendance open sight and easie accesse Confer with this whole type the forme of the campe of Israel Nomb. 2. Their number is twenty foure for all elect for this is the type of the true Church according to the purpose of grace who are of Israel his twelue and Israelites indeede and who are builded on the foundation of the lambe his twelue Apostles for these are the first borne written in heauen to whom we all come For as none had lot of inheritance in Canaan who could not deduce his pedigree from one of the Patriarchs so the new Ierusalem is builded on twelue foundations bearing the names of the twelue Apostles This Church is larger then that of Israel properly And as of Christ and his Church Dauid and his state was a type so accordingly hee not onely distributed all the Priests singers and porters of the Temple in twenty foure orders but also the King his seruants monethly were twenty foure thousand Such a diuine harmony is in the word of truth Now the dignity of these is first in their venerable and respectfull maiesty through the image of their Lord and ripe knowledge beeing no more children but all Senators Secondly they are all Kings by their thrones and crownes of gold For there are thrones set for iudgement the thrones of the house of Dauid Thirdly they are all priests as clothed in long white robes 11 In this Church the dispensation of her God in her is twofold The one terrible against her enemies for her protection the other gracious towards the saints The first is expressed by lightnings thundrings and voices comming out of the throne as in Scripture commonly his terror in iudgement is by these expressed At the giuing of the law God gaue out his terrour in a mount that could not bee touched in blacknesse darknesse sound of trumpet and in voice of words which they who heard besought they should heare them no more But specially when his iudgements are set forth in deliuery or auenging of his Church thus they are described Psalm 18. and 46. and almost euery where This is the more to be aduerted for the oft occurring of these words in this Prophesie and alwaies in this sense His lightnings are his swift consuming punishments compared to arrowes Psal 18. His thundring is his horrible terror as blacknesse darkenesse and tempest with which thunder ordinarily is ioyned His voice is his fearefull rebuke when he speaketh in displeasure Psalm 2. and 9. 5. the Lord speaketh fearefull things in his wrath but hee will speake peace to his people Psalm 85. For wee are not come to the mountaine which cannot be touched nor to the sound of words c. but to the bloud of the Couenant that speaketh good things Now these are said to come out of the throne for that as he sheweth saluation out of Sion so is he zealous for her and all men heere-vpon feele either mercy or wrath as they are of her or fight against her For in the palaces of Ierusalem God is knowne for a refuge Psal 48. 61. There is he great there hee breaketh the Bow the Speare the Sh●eld the Sword the battell He is terrible out of his holy places He roareth out of Sion and vttereth his voice from Ierusalem This protection made Dauid

Whoore. 181 The E●●s of Christ as a flame of fire 212 Elders Throne and Beasts 202 Romane Emperors bloody persecuters and how some were forced to honour the Saints 48 The Germaine Emperors 175. 179 The Graecian Emperors 178 The Enemies of the Church in the old and new Testament 104. 145 Example 193 F HOw to iudge of our Fathers in time of Antichrist 136 141 Fire from the Altar of a double effect 60 Fire of Gods spirit of loue and the fire of contention the different companions and effects of the two fires 62 The Fire of Ambition 63 Fire Brimstone and Iacinthe 83 The Fire of Christs feet 86 To haue power ouer Fire 146 How the Fire is mingled with the Sea 150 Christ his eies a flame of Fire 212 The Flood cast out of the Dragon his mouth 109 Flying through the middest of heauen 68. 134. 187 Frogges comming out of the mouthes of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet 161. 162 Their properties 164 Who they are 165 Fulminatrix legio 43 G CHrist his Garment dipt in Blood 214 His neme written on his Garment 216 Our Gate and onely doore to God is lesus Christ 259 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 254 God his seate in his Church his nature and Trinity of that one shadowed by three Iewels 12 His patience 82 Gog and Magog 233 That they are not particularly the Turkes who they are 242. 243. 244. 245 Golden Vials 27. 153 The three Graces of God towards his Church 15 Pope Gregory the seuenth 229 H THe mourning of Hadadrimon 167 Haile for cold preaching 62 For iudgement 99 Heretikes their disposition 66 Haleluiah 200 Harpes 27. 148 Haruest 145 Heauen in opposition to earth throughout this Prophecie is taken for the true Church in opposition to the worldly sort 10 Heauen put for the glory and honour of the great men of the earth 40 Amultitude in Heauen 200 The Heauens cast wide open 211 Hornes 26 Why the Beast is said to haue two hornes like the Lambs seeing to the Lambe are attributed seuen 115 Tenne hornes of the Dragon and of the Beast 123. 179 The difference betweene the tenne hornes Daniel 7. and the tenne hornes Reuel 13. and 17. 179 Why the hornes of the Beast haue crownes and not the hornes of the Dragon 113 Horses 33 The Host of heauen 215 I ALlusion to the fall of Iericho to the fal of Babel 100 Iesuits the origine their busie endeauours their date they are the last puffe of Satan his mouth and of the Vicar of his throne 165 The conuersion of the Iewes 80. 164. 167 But most euidently 168 139 Whether they shall inhabit their owne Landagaine 168 How great a way the Popes fall shall make to their conuersion 169 Their conuersion and ioy vpon his fall 201. 206 Iohn disposed the Canon before his death 269 The Impenitency and Induration of Papists 160. 161 The ordinary degrees of true Illumination 25 How we should looke on the condition of the Church of Israel in the old Testament 245 What is requisite to Iudge righteously 212 A description of the last Iudgement 234. 235 The manner of processe in the last Iudgement how it shall be ledde by that which is written in the bookes and yet according to our workes set foorth not for it selfe or time thereof but to shew the continuall recurelesse and finall destruction of the enemies and goodly state of the Church thereupon holding still one to the last Iudgement and so eternall 236. 237 The yeere or age of that day cannot determinatly bee gathered vpon any ground in Scripture 241 Iulian. 229 K KIngs 194 King of Kings and Lord of Lords 215 The Keies which the Popes haue to wit of the bottomlesse pit 70 Christ and his Ministers haue these same Keies in a farre different sense 221 L THe Lambe of God 27 In what respect the Lambe his slaughter is the reason of his worthinesse 28 The Lambe his mariage 206 Seuen burning Lamps 15 Legio fulminatrix 43 Lightnings thundrings and voices 14 True Light bringeth euer true ioy 24 White Linen apparel 153 Where our Church was before Luther 140 Lions Buls and Cherubins in Salomon his Temple types of the Ministers of the word 18 Two Lions of diuers qualities 24 M MAgeddon or Megiddon 165. 166 Mahomet his time of rising by what meanes he spred his doctrine the swift course of the victories of his successors 82 A Man 42 The face of a Man 17. 78 A Man-childe 106 The number of a Man 126 The measure of a Man 257 Of an Angel 258 The Marriage of the Lambe 206 The soules of the Martyrs cry 77 The Merchants and Merchandize of Rome 195 God euen in wrath remembreth Mercy 60 Ministers of God his word are necessary for begetting in vs the life of God 16 The properties requisite in them 17 The light and feeling that ought to be in them 88 They are the light of the world 188 The degrees of a true inward calling of a Minister 91 The type of the Ministers who were first open contesters with Antichrist in three rankes 133. 134. 135 How they were persecuted 141 True Ministers haue power ouer fire 146 Myracles 151 Christ is our Morning starre 267 Why the Church is called a Mountaine 166 Mourning must goe before ioy 23 The Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Mageddon 167 The Mystery of God the finishing thereof 88 89 99. 155 What is requisite for the perception of Mysteries 173 A Mystery where of the Author in sobernesse confesses bee dare not determine 12. Another 232. Another 258. N ANtichrist his Name 79 Christ hath a Name which none knoweth but himselfe 213 His Name King of Kings 215 His Name the Word of God 214 To haue the Name written on the garment and one the thigh 216 A New World 241 How Christ reneweth the world 252 The Night for humane sciences 68 Noah his flood semblable to the euil of Antichrist 77 Number of the Elders twenty foure the reason thereof 13 The Number of foure 17. 49 In an other respect 81 The Number of twelue 120. 128 The Number of the name of the Beast 124 The Number of the name of God 125 O VVHat makes the Obduration of Papists 173 Odoacer King of the Heruls 17 Our praiers are Odours 27 How and in whom they are Odours 59 The Order of the Reuelation 32. 142. 153. 232 The great artifice thereof 48. 90. 94. 98. 100. 101 P HOw to iudge of Papists 136. 137. 141 The cause why Papists be so obdured 147 Their vnity 180 Papisticall seducers may be iustly punished by death yea and should be 159 Their impenitency 160. 161 Their desperate sorrow because of the light of the Gospel 161 Christ his feete are Pillars 86 Pharao a type of the Dragon 104 That the Pope is Vicar of Satan his throne 112 That he is the Beast that Antichrist 113 It is also proued by three infallible tokens 183 And by a plaine and forcible argument euinced 185