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B09229	The apocalyps unveyl'd, or, A paraphrase on the Revelation of the holy apostle and evangelist John the Devine in which the syncronisms of Mr. Joseph Mede, and the expositions of other interpreters are called in question, and a new exposition given of the prophecies of the Revelation, never before extant in any author, from the 6th chapter to the 18th, with variety of reasons for the exposition / by An Orthodox Divine.	Hayter, Richard, 1611?-1684.; Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638. Clavis apocalyptica.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1224; ESTC R202384	176,063	254

same Request again and their fellow Servants and their Brethren joyn with them therein and the Angel offers Incense upon the Altar at the same time 4. And the Incense which the Angel offered was added to the prayers of the Saints so that the prayers of the Saints which were under the Altar did not ascend alone but the smoke of the Incense which the Angels offered ascended with them and both of them made a sweet perfume before Almighty God 5. And when the Incense was consumed the Angel took the fire which remained upon the Altar and filled the Censer with it and cast it to the ground in token that the Offering of the Incense with the prayers of the Saints was ended and presently after that there was a great Noise of Thundering and Lightning and a very great Earth-quake denoting God's heavy Judgments which were now to fall upon the World for the wrong they did to his Saints and for the bloud of his Saints which they had shed till this time and many Years before The Prophecy of the first Trumpet 6. Then the seven Angels prepared themselves to sound their Trumpets successively one after another 7. So the first Angel sounded and the Prophecy of his Trumpet was Exod. 9.22 23 24 25. that it should rain Hail and Fire Ps 105.32 33. and Blood upon the Land of Asia as heretofore there rained Hail and Fire upon the Land of Egypt so that the third part of Trees should be burnt up and all the green Grass should be burnt up and this is to be done not in Europe but in Asia The Prophecy of the second Trumpet 8. And after the first Angel the second Angel sounded and the Prophecy of his Trumpet was that a Sulphureous Mountain burning with Fire should be cast into the Sea of Asia Exod. 7.19 20 21. and the third part of that Sea should be turned into Blood as the Waters of Egypt sometimes were 9. And thereupon the third part of the fish that shall be in the Sea shall die and the third part of the Ships shall be destroyed The Prophecie of the third Trumpet 10. And after him the third Angel sounded and the Prophecy of his Trumpet was that a great blazing Star should fall from Heaven burning and flaming like a Torch and that in burning it should part asunder and fall into the third part of the Rivers and into the third part of the Springs of waters throughout the Land of Asia 11. And the Name of the Star from that day forward shall be called Worm-wood and the third part of the waters shall be as the juyce of Worm-wood and many men shall die by drinking of the Waters Exod. 15.23 because they be made exceeding bitter as the juyce of Worm-wood is and as the waters of Marah were The Prophecy of the fourth Trumpet 12. And the fourth Angel sounded and the Prophecy of his Trumpet was that the third part of the Sun should be smitten with darkness and the third part of the Moon and the third part of the Stars and the day should want the third part of that Light it had before and the Night likewise 13. And before the fifth Angel sounded I saw an Angel flying through the midst of Heaven and I heard him say as he fled along Wo wo wo to the Inhabitants of the Land of Asia by reason of the plagues of the three other Angels which are yet to sound their Trumpets more grievous and calamitous than any of the former were Disputation IV. Quest 1. Whether the four first Trumpets were fulfilled in Judaea before the Siege of Jerusalem by Vespasian and be meant of the Seditions and Slaughters that were there Answ 1. No Prophecy is fulfilled before it be revealed but these four Trumpets were revealed to John in the Reign of Domitian therefore not fulfilled in Judaea before the Siege of Jerusalem by Vespasian 2. No Prophecy is fulfilled before it be written by the Prophet and made known unto the people for then it is a History and not a Prophecy but these Visions in their Opinion were written in the Reign of Vespasian therefore not fulfilled before the siege of Jerusalem which began in the Reign of Nero. 3. The seventh Seal is not fulfilled before the sixth but if these four Trumpets be meant of the seditions and slaughters in Judaea before the siege of Jerusalem a good part of the seventh Seal even so much of it as is comprized in the four Trumpets will be fulfilled before the sixth for the sixth Seal in their opinion is a Prophecy of the siege of it self and by the Kings and the great Men and the rich Men which hid themselves in Dens they understand the men that hid themselves in Caves at the taking of the City 4. If these Trumpets be meant of the seditions and slaughters of the Jews before the siege of Jerusalem what is the difference between these Trumpets and the second Seal For they say the second Seal is meant of the slaughters and seditions of the Jews by one another before the siege of Jerusalem and if these Trumpets be meant of them too what difference is between them 5. If these Trumpets be a Prophecy of the seditions of the Jewes why do they not tell us what sedition is meant by the first Trumpet what sedition by the second and what sedition by the third And if it be said that they are meant of the seditions of the Jews in grosse what is this but to make a Chaos of the Revelation To which may be added that they told us before Chap. 6. vers 1. that the things which Christ foretold concerning the Jews Mat. 24. are set down in gross in the sixth Chapter and more particularly as they have their Execution in the Chapters following and now I am come to the eighth Chapter here be no particulars neither but the seditions of the Jews in gross what is this but to gain-say here what they said before 6. The Angels be not the Authors or Executioners of sedition but four Angels be the Authors or Executioners of the four first Trumpets and the prime Agents under God whereby they come to pass as appears not only vers 7.8.10 but also Rev. 7.2 3. 7. Where shall we find in all the Scripture that by Fire is meant sedition I find it sometimes taken for affliction persecution and temptation Psal 66.12 Zach. 13.9 Mal. 3.2 1 Pet. 4.12 but for fedition never 8. If by Fire in these Trumpets be meant sedition what is meant by Hail in the first Trumpet is that sedition too where have they a president for that How is it that men interpret Scripture and have no Scripture for what they say To which may be added that Fire is hot and dry but Hail is cold and moist and how can these two be symbols of the same thing in one and the same Prophecy surely if the Fire be sedition the Hail must be some other thing 9. If

therefore these that are counted here be only Males and not Females 2. The first Fruits that were dedicated to God of men and of Beasts were the Males only and we may not think that the first Fruits were only of vegetables for then these sealed ones could not be first Fruits as they are said to be Rev. 14.4 but the first born of men and Beasts were first Fruits as well as vegetables Exod. 22.29 30. and such were males only Exod. 34.19 20. Exod. 13.2.12.15 Now these sealed ones are called the first Fruits to God and to the Lamb Rev. 14.4 not in respect of sanctification as all believers are Iam. 1.18 but by peculiar dedication to God and to the Lamb as the first born were and therefore they be Males only 3. Because these are said to be redeemed from among men Rev. 14.4 Now what redemption is this not the common redemption by the blood of Christ from sin and condemnation which belongs to all the elect in general but the peculiar redemption of the first born which belongs to the Males only Exod. 13.2.12.13.15 Exod. 34.19 20. Lastly because it is said Rev. 14.4 These are they which were not defiled with Women and therefore they be men and not women and what kind of defilement doth he mean not a spiritual defilement with Idols which is as much as to say that these men be not Idolaters nor yet a carnal defilement with Harlots which is as much as to say that these men be not Adulterers but a ceremonial defilement with VVives which is as much as to say that these men be Virgins and unmarried persons and had not known a woman of which kind of defilement see Exod. 19.15 1 Sam. 21.4 5. 1 Cor. 7.5 4 Quest VVhat kind of Seal is meant in this place whether the Seal of Sanctification or of corporal preservation Ans 1. The seal of sanctification is not committed to the Angels but to the Spirit of God Eph. 4.30 but the seal here spoken of is committed to the Angels v. 2 3. 2. The seal of sanctification is chiefly inward in the heart but this here spoken of is only outward in the forehead v. 3. 3. They are called the Servants of God before that they be sealed v. 3. and therefore they are sanctified before this seal is given unto them 4. The seal of sanctification is a common seal and doth belong to all believers but this is peculiar to the persons here spoken of 5. The seal of sanctification doth not exempt from bodily danger Rev. 11.7 Rev. 13.7 But this is therefore given them that their bodies might not be hurt Rev. 9.4 see the like Ezek. 9.4 5 6. Exod. 12.13 Gen. 4.15 6. The seal of sanctification is given successively in all ages of the World but these are sealed all at once in one day 7. The seal of sanctification is given by degrees to some more to others less but these are all sealed alike one as far forth as another 8. The seal of sanctification doth admit degrees after it is given and a man is sanctified more at one time than another 2 Pet. 3.18 but these were sealed as much at one time as another and as the mark which Cain had Gen. 4.15 and which the men in Ierusalem had Ezek. 9.4 did not diminish or increase so the seal which these men had continued in the same condition all their life afterward 5 Quest VVhether the great multitude mentioned v. 9. were sealed Ans 1. It is not said that they were sealed and therefore we may not think they were unless we have some reason for it 2. They are a distinct company from the sealed v. 4.9 3. They are more in number than the sealed and therefore they could not all be sealed for the number of the sealed is but finite one hundred fourty and four thousand and no more but this great multitude were so many that no mortal man could number them v. 9. 4. Iohn knew the sealed who they were and what their number was v. 4. but he knew not these who they were nor the number of them v. 9.14 5. The sealed were preserved from destruction and the seal was therefore given that they might be secured v. 1 2 3. Rev. 9.4 But these are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb v. 14. and therefore these be Martyrs but the others are not 6. The sealed be the men which are to live in the time of the seven Trumpets but are not to suffer under them Rev. 9.4 Rev. 14.3 4. but these latter be the men which shall suffer for the Faith of Christ before the Trumpets shall begin and the reason why they are introduced in this place is not to shew the time or causes of their sufferings but to shew the blissful state and happiness which they have in Heaven at this very time when the other shall be sealed upon earth 7. The sealed be the men which are to get the Victory over the Beast and over his mark and over the number of his name Rev. 14.2 3. Rev. 15.2 3. but these latter be the men which shall die for the Faith of Christ before the Beast begins his Reign and shall be then in Heaven in unconceiveable bliss and happiness when the other shall be sealed upon earth 8. The sealed be some eminent members of the Church Militant which shall be in jeopardy of their lives in the time of the ensuing Prophecies but are therefore sealed that they might be preserved from suffering in the time of those dangers the latter be some eminent members of the Church Triumphant which suffered while they lived but when the sealed ones are sealed they shall be in Heaven secured from suffering any more CHAP. VIII The Prophecy of the seventh Seal divided into seven Prophecies called seven Trumpets 1. ANd when he had opened the seventh Seal it did not immediately appear what the Prophecy of that Seal should be there came nothing forth of that Roll as there did out of the other Rolls to shew the Prophecy thereof whereupon there was silence in Heaven for the space of half an hour every one expecting what would happen and shew the Prophecy of this seventh Seal 2. And after the space of half an hour I saw there were given to the seven mighty Angels which stood before the Throne of God seven Trumpets whereby I understood that these seven Trumpets contain the Prophecy of the seventh Seal 3. And when they had received their Trumpets another Angel came and stood at the Altar where the Souls were that prayed to God for Vengeance of their bloud with a Golden Censer in his hand and much sweet Incense in it that he might add it to the prayers of the Saints which were under the Altar that as they prayed for Vengeance of their bloud before their fellow Servants and their Brethren were slain so now they being slain take up the

God for the fulfilling of the Trumpets also CHAP. IX The Prophecy of the fifth Trumpet 1. AND the fifth Angel sounded and the Prophecy of his Trumpet was that an Angel shall descend from Heaven to the earth Rev. 20.1 and the Key of the bottomless Pit shall be given into his hand 2. And he shall open the bottomless Pit and upon the opening of it shall come a great smoak out of the bottom of the Pit like the smoak of a great Furnace and the air shall be darkned with the smoak and it shall be so thick that the Sun shall not be able to break through to give light upon the Earth 3. And out of the smoke shall come Locusts into the Land of Asia Wisd 11.18 of a most horrid shape and form never the like seen before and they shall have power to sting the Inhabiters of that Land as the Scorpions of the earth have power 4. And it shall be given them in charge that they shall not hurt the Grass of the Field Rev. 7.3 nor any green Herb nor any vegetable Tree but sting the Men only which shall not have the Seal of God in their Forehead 5. And their Commission shall be not to kill the Men outright but torment them only five Months and no more Luk. 1.24 and the pain of these Men shall be as grievous as the pain that cometh of a Scorpion when he hath stung a Man 6. And all the time of these five Months shall Men wish for Death thinking to end their pains thereby but shall not find it and shall desire to die rather than to live in such woful pain and torment but Death shall flee away from them 7. And the bodies of these Locusts shall be in shape like to Horses prepared unto Battail and they shall have on their Heads the shapes of Crowns like Crowns of Gold and their Faces shall be in shape like the Faces of Men but the matter of them shall be such as insects have 8. And the hair which they shall have shall be in shape like the hair of Women and the teeth which they shall have shall be in shape like the teeth of Lyons but the matter shall be such as insects have 9. And the Brest-plates they shall have shall be in shape like Brest-plates made of Iron and the dreadful noise of their Wings shall be as the noise of Chariots drawn with many Horses running furiously unto Battail 10. And the tayles which they shall have shall be like the tayles of Scorpions and they shall have stings in their tayles like the stings of Scorpions and their Commission shall be to sting the Men of Asia five Months literally to be understood 11. And they shall have a King or Ruler over them to guide them and direct them in this Work Gen. 19.13 Exod. 12.23 2 King 19.35 so that they shall not sting every one they meet but whom the Angel of or over the bottomeless Pit will have them Mat 13.41 42 49 50. 1 Cor. 10.10 Hcb. 11.28 and this Angel is not an evil Angel but a good Angel of the Lord whose Name in Hebrew is Abaddon in Greek Apollyon and in English a Destroyer not of the Saints and People of God but of the Enemies of God and of his Church 12. The first Woe is past when these things shall be fulfilled and behold there be two Woes yet to come after these things are ended The Prophecy of the sixth Trumpet reaching from the thirteenth Verse of this Chapter to the fourteenth Verse of the eleventh Chapter or the first part thereof 13. And the sixth Angel sounded and the Prophecy of his Trumpet was Rev. 8.2 that a Command should come from God from the four Corners of the Altar upon which the Angel offered Incense before the Throne of God 14. Saying to the sixth Angel which did sound the sixth Trumpet that he should go and loose the four Angels which should be then bound or restrained from doing Hurt at the great River of Asia called Euphrates but now they should be loosed to execute God's Judgments on the people that dwell there 15. Then the sixth Angel shall go and loose the four Angels which before were bound at Euphrates but ready upon Command to slay the third part of Men that shall be dwelling there and that in as little time as an hour or in as sittle time as a day or in as little time as a month or in as little time as a year waiting for a Command to put their power in Execution 16. And the number of the Army of Horse that under these four Angels shall be imployed in this Work shall be two Hundred thousand thousand for the number of them was related unto me 17. But these Horses shall not be usual Horses nor their Riders Men properly so called but either Angels or strange kind of Creatures Wisd 11.18 19. newly created for this purpose and never known in the World before and thus I saw the Horses in the Vision and they that sat on them what ever they be shall have Corslets of a fiery colour and of a blew jacinth colour and of a pale Brimstone colour and the heads of their Horses shall be in shape like the Heads of Lyons and out of the mouths of every one of them shall come forth fire smoak and brimstone literally to be understood 18. Of these three shall the third part of Men be killed which shall be dwelling at Euphrates at that time some shall be killed by the fire and some by the smoak and others by the brimstone which shall come out of the Horses mouths 19. For the power of these strange Beasts shall be in their mouths and which is yet the more strange they shall have mouths in their tayles for their tayles shall be like a Serpents body and have Heads at the end of them and in their Heads a mouth with which they slay the third part of Men which be dwelling at Euphrates at the Execution of the Prophecy 20. And the two other parts of Men which shall escape from these Plagues and not be killed by them shall not for all this repent of their former wickedness that they should not worship Devils nor Idols which are the work of Mens hands and are made of Gold and of Silver and of Brass and of Stone and of Wood and are such stupid Figments that they neither see what Men do unto them nor hear what they pray unto them for nor do them any good at all 21. Neither shall they for all this repent of their other sins which before these Plagues they committee as of their Murthers nor of their Sorceries nor of their Fornication nor 〈◊〉 their Thefts but persist in them as they did before Disputation V. 1 Quest Whether the Locusts in the Prophecy of the Fifth Trumpet be literally to be understood Answ 1. All the reasons in the former Chapter Quest 2. may be reduced

the Lord therewith 3. And they shall sing a song of praise for their Victory over the Beast after the Pattern of the song which Moses and the Israelites did sing upon their Victory over Pharaoh and his hoast and they shall add to that song the song of Jesus Christ in which they shall praise God to this effect Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy dealings with the Sons of men thou King of Saints 4. Who shall not fear thee and give Glory to thy name for thou only art holy and none besides thee therefore all Nations shall come and worship thee for thy Judgments are manifest and all the world may see that they proceed from thee 5. And after this I looked and behold the Temple of the Tabernacle of Testimony the Holy of Holies the special place of Gods presence in Heaven shall be opened 6. And out of it shall come the seven Angels which have the execution of the seven last Plagues very gloriously apparelled with pure and white linnen and girt about the paps with Golden Girdles 7. And unto the seven Angels shall be given seven Golden Vials full of the Plagues and wrath of God which liveth for evermore 8 And the Temple it self shall be filled with smoak in token of Gods heavy wrath and vengeance which shall be so terrible and unsupportable that none shall be able to enter into the Temple where the representation of Gods wrath shall be until the seven Plagues of the seven Angels shall be executed to the full CHAP. XVI The Prophecy of the first Vial. 1. THEN the seven Angels shall have Commission from God to pour out the seven Vials of his fierce wrath upon the people of the earth successively one after another 2. And the first Angel shall pour out his Vial upon the dry Land and thereupon a very grievous noisome painful malignant ulcerous sore shall fall upon the men which shall take the oath of Allegiance to the first Beast and receive his mark or yield obeysance to his Image as heretofore there fell a grievous sore upon the Aegyptians Exod 9.8 9 10 11. Deus 28.35 but this which shall fall upon the Beasts obsequious Servants shall be far more grievous painsul and malignant then that which fell upon the Aegyptians The Prophecy of the second Vial. 3. And the second Angel shall pour out his Vial upon the Sea and it shall be turned into blood Exod. 7.17 18 19 20 22. Rev. 8.8 and that blood shall be like the putred blood of a dead man after it hath been for certain days out of his body and every creature which liveth in that Sea shall dye The Prophecy of the third Vial. 4. And the third Angel shall pour out his Vial upon the Rivers Exod 7.17 18 19 20 21. Ps 105.29 Rev 8.10 Rev. 14.17 and Fountains of Waters which run through the Beasts Dominions and they shall be turned into blood as the Waters of Aegypt were 5. And the Angel which hath power over the Waters hereupon shall say righteous art thou O Lord and holy because thou bringest such Judgments on them as are suitable to their sins 6. For they shed the blood of thy Saints and Prophets and thou shalt give them blood instead of Water to be their drink 7. And another Angel shall also say right so O Lord right so it is and ought to be just and righteous are thy Judgments very fit and suitable for such bloody persons be thy Plagues The Prophecy of the fourth Vial. 8. And the fourth Angel shall pour out his Vial upon the Sun and yet the Sun shall not be the object of Gods wrath but the instrument thereof and it shall be given to this Angel or to this heavenly body to torment men with fiery heat and they shall be the objects of this Vial and the Plague thereof is burning heat 9. And they shall be tormented with scorching heat from the influence of the Sun and blaspheme that potent God who hath power to inflict such exquisite Plagues as these upon them and shall inflict them at this time and yet their hearts shall be obdurate as the heart of Pharaoh was and shall not repent them of their sins and give God glory as by these Plagues they should have learned to do The Prophecy of the fifth Vial. 10. And the fifth Angel shall pour out his Vial upon the imperial Seat and Throne of the Beast and his Kingdom shall be full of darkness Exod. 10.21 as the Land of Aegypt was and it shall be such a darkness as shall be felt and they shall gnaw their tongues for the grievous pain thereof 11 And blaspheme the God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores so exquisite vehement and malignant shall they be and yet for all this repent not of their deeds The Prophecy of the sixth Vial. 12. And the sixth Angel shall pour out-his Vial upon the great and famous River Euphrates and cause the Water of the River to be dried up as the River Jordan and the red Sea heretofore were and this shall be done for this end and purpose that a broad and dry way may be made and prepared for the Kings which be on the East side of Euphrates to pass over to the West side thereof to their own destruction 13. And when the Devil and the first Beast and the second Beast Act 13.6 the false Prophet or Magician shall perceive that a broad and easie way is made for them to pass over they shall call for three unclean Spirits which shall be ready at their call and come as easily unto them as 't is for them to speak and call for them 14. And these unclean Spirits be in truth the Spirits of Devils and very Devils indeed working miracles as they go to perswade men the better to do what they would have them do and they be to go to the Kings of the earth and of all the Country and Nations Eastward that be up in Armes to this end and purpose that they may gather them together to destroy the Jews at one blow but God shall turn it to their own destruction and they shall all of them be overthrown themselves in the last Battel they shall fight which hereupon is and shall be called the Battel of the great day of God Almighty 15. Now look unto your selves ye People of the East Country that ye joyn not with these War-like men against the Jews to your own undoing for behold what Christ faith unto you I will come suddenly upon you as a Thief commeth suddenly on a man when he least of all thinketh on it blessed is he that looketh to himself 2 Chren 19.2 2 Chron. 20.39 36 37. and doth not joyn or go along with these men to his own destruction 16. So these unclean Spirits shall prevail with these Kings and Nations of the East Country and perswade them to pass over Armed