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A42411	A paraphrase upon Rev. I. The plain meaning of the first chapter of the Revelation, set forth in way of paraphrase, and notes. Being also an exhortaion , not to rest in the literal sense of the epistles; but to seek out for such a one, as may be answerable to the stateliness of their common frontispeice, I know thy works.	Garrett, Walter.	1699 (1699)	Wing G270; ESTC R217952	9,414	8

LXXIX 5. c. which was the great Offence that still exercis'd the Patience of the Faithful all along till in the Latter times of that Church for Rome is not reckon'd as a Church in this Prophecy after the Reformation which are signified by the Feet of this Appearance for which comp Dan. II. 33. c. Burning the servants of Christ alive became the Stated Revenge of their Opposing Idolatry And therefore were the Feet of the Son of Man represented like unto Fine Brass as if they burned in a Furnace and his Voice was as the sound of many Waters that is Peoples and Nations of which the Church of Rome the great Metropolis of the Empire all along but especially since the Constantinian Revolution has consisted V. 16. And by Miracles Signs and Mighty Deeds and Extraordinary Providences as with his Right Hand he still Supported his Faithful servants the Preachers of his Word and for the more effectual Enlargement of his Kingdom rais'd up Emperors and other Potentates to joyn their Temporal Power with the Spiritual of his Priests which like a Two-edged sword might Cut Both ways And the splendor of his Countenance whereby he brought Men under his Obedience Acts. IX 3.4 XXVI 13.14 Psal LXVII 1 2. and signifies here the Light of his Glorious Gospel was as the San shineth in his Strength Which being both the Uppermost or First part of the Image and yet the Last thing I was directed to take Notice of is a sign That it ought to be referr'd both to the First and Last Times of the Church signified by the Image to wit That as she was at first Converted and Particularly her first Bishop St. Paul by such a Glorious Light so she should be at Last Reform'd by such a nother Spiritually understood Notes The Right Hand of God is used in Scripture 1. For Gods Miraculous Power Exod. XV. 6. Acts. 11.33 V. 31. 2. For Regal Power God's Peculiar Blessing and Direction Isal XVII 7. XVIII 5. Rev. V. 1. 3. For Both Psal XLIV 3. LXXVIII 54. And thus also Christ or any Good King that fights his Battels may be call'd The Man of God's Right Hand Psal LXXX 17. wherefore by its Place in the Image before us where the Voice as the sound of many Waters on the one side has a Manifest Aspect upon the Mighty Encrease of the Church of Rome upon Constantine's coming to the Empire and the Two-edged Sword on the other side to the Two-fold Power that the Church thereby attain'd I cannot but think that the Right-Hand ought to be referred Principally to that Notable Deliverance of the Church by Constantine the Great and to the Favour of many Pious Princes afterwards consequent thereupon who shew'd themselves Nursing Fathers to the Family of Christ V. 17. Whereupon I fell at his Feet as Dead and was therein a Type of the Reformation that is of those who by the Zealous Preaching of Wickliff Luther Calvin and many other Godly Ministers of the Gospel the Light of Learning also breaking-out with a surprizing Lustre at the same time were brought-off to Purity of Religion from the Romish Superstitions Notes The Feet of Christ are very fitly set to denote the Stanch Stable and suffering part of his Church by reason of that Ancient Prediction which they manifestly allude to concerning the Serpents bruising the seed-of-the-Womans Heel Gen. III. 15. Now there is in this Hieroglyphic a three-fold mention of Christ's Feet One in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Garment down to the Foot in the First part of the Description Which may be referr'd to the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul the Basis or Foundation of this Church of Rome as the Apostles are call'd Eph. 11.20 The next just after the Description of his Fiery or Jealous Eyes which is very appositely seconded with that of his Feet like unto Fine Brass as if they burned in a Farnace For they that could not endure to see the True God dishonoured by Idolatry were sure to be cast into a Burning Fiery Furnace This therefore signifies the Fiery Trials of that Church both before Constantine and also before the Reformation It signifies those before Constantine by vertue of its place in the Description For it is follow'd by that Voice like the sound of many Waters which refers as has bin observed already to that Vast Augmentation of the Churches Numbers made by Constantine's coming to the Roman Throne which Advancement of his came just to Close-up the Hottest of all the Ten Persecutions And it signifies also the Persecutions that immediately Preceded the Reformation in vertue of the place that the Feet have in the Body which is the Last and Lowest of all whereby are signified the Last times of that Church that is represented by the Image Dan. 11.33 The third mention of Christ's Feet is in the words we are now upon to wit next after that of the Glorious Light whereby the Reformation was effected When I saw his Countenance so exceeing bright and dazling I fell saies the Prophet at his Feet as dead Whereby is implied That the Reformation was to be brought in immediately upon that horrid Burning of the Faithful in Queen Mary's days for their constant Profession of the Faith Which is here expressed by the Feet of Christ like fine Brass as if they Burned in a Furnace And he laid his Right hand upon me that is And by the Ministry of Kings particularly of the English he laid as it were his Right hand upon me see the Notes on the former verse and bid me not to Fear for He would certainly stand by me in the Profession of his Holy Truth For says he again to me I am the First and the Last am Present with my Church throughout All Ages both with the Primitive and the Reformed both with the Church of Rome and with the Church of England c. I am he that liveth and was dead both in my own Person and in the King and Church of England Chap. V. 6. and behold I am now alive again in both respects for evermore it being not possible that either I or the said Church should suffer Death again a second time Amen And have the Keys of Hell and of Death whereby I am empour'd to destroy all Enemies and am now about to put in use the Power I am invested with Notes These Keys are an Emblem of Christ's Kingdom which when he comes to settle in the world he brings in his hand the Key of the Bottomless Pit to shut Satan up into it that he may no longer have his Liberty to deceive the world Chap. XX. 1 3. And thus we see in this Hieroglyphic a Notable Representation of the Church and of the Lord Jesus in it and with it all along from First to Last In the Church of Rome first and upon her Rejection whereof more in the Epistle to Laodicea see also Rom. XI 20 21 22. in the Church of England But here we