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A43131	The meaning of the Revelation, or, A paraphrase with questions on the Revelation of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Divine in which the synchronisms 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 heard of before, nor extant in any author whatsoever, from the sixth chapter to the eighteenth, with variety of reasons for the exposition / by Richard Hayter ...	Hayter, Richard, 1611?-1684.; Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638. Clavis apocalyptica.	1675 (1675)	Wing H1225; ESTC R21644	180,756	260

theirs 6. From the mystical interpretation of the Vials many absurdities will follow As 1. It makes the Prop●ecy but a common Prophecy and to speak of things ordi●ary and accustomed when as the literal sense makes it a Prophecy extraordinary and to speak of things not usual nor accustomed such as never were but in the Land of Aegypt and they that were in Aegypt though the same for kind were not so grievous as these Vials are like to be 2. It makes the Scripture a nose of Wax which a man may turn which way he will one may turn it one way and another may turn it another way and there be well nigh as many interpretations of the mystical sense as there be writers on the Revelation 3. It subjects the Scripture to our vain lusts and humours and gives every one liberty to interpret it as his humour leads him 4. It makes the Scripture mean not what it speaks but what men would have it mean 5. It makes men interpret the Revelation of themselves or of their own party and of the times wherein they live and the good things they think are spoken of themselves and the evil things of their enemies 6. It turns the Scripture into nonsense what sense is it to say that by the earth in the first Vial is meant the lowest of the People as if an Ulcer could not fall upon the highest as well as upon the lowest What sense is it to say every living soul died in the Sea that is in the extent and compass of the Papal power and Jurisdiction when as there be five Vials to fall upon some men afterward What sense is it to say that the darkness in the fifth Vial is meant of spiritual darkness as if they were not spiritually dark before that or any other of the Vials did begin What sense is it to understand by the Kings of the East in the sixth Vial the Kings of the West and by the River Euphrates which is a River in the East to understand the Popes revenues in the West and by the drying up of that River to understand the draining away the Popes revenues in the West these and many more absurdities do follow from the mystical interpretation of the Vials Ob. If we take the Earth Sea Rivers and Fountains of waters c. in a literal sense how should a Vial of wrath poured out on these be any 〈◊〉 more prejudicial without a miracle to Gods enemies then his Friends who partake of the benefit of these in common with the other Ans. 1. Did not Moses sprinkle the ashes of a Furnace towards Heaven and it became dust upon the Earth and after that a boyl breaking forth with blanes upon man and Beast Exod. 9. 10. and was not this more prejudicial to Gods enemies then his Friends Again did not Moses smite the waters in the River and they became blood Exod 7. 20 21. and was not this more prejudical to the Aegyptians then to the Israelites So thirdly did not Moses stretch forth his hand toward Heaven and there was a thick darkness in all the Land of Aegypt three days Exod. 10. 22 23. and was not this more prejudicial to Gods enemies then his Friends And Lastly did not Moses stretch forth his hand toward Heaven and the Lord rained hail upon the Land of Aegypt Exod. 9. 23. and was not this more prejudicial to the Aegyptians then the Israelites And if God could do all this and much more in Aegypt in a literal sense why can he not do the like in other Countries without prejudice to his own People 2. Whereas 't is said without a miracle we say that God in every one of these Vials works a miracle as he did in Aegypt and we further say that God hath promised to do the like again in other Countries According to the days of thy comming out of the Land of Aegypt will I shew unto him marvellous things the Nations shall see and be confounded c. Micah 7. 15 16. 3. Whereas 't is said that they partake of the benefit of these in common with the other it is nothing so at this time for the Saints do not live in the Beasts Dominions at this time or in that part of them where the Vials f●l for they were either slain or fled out of his Dominions before any of the Vials did begin Rev. 12. 6. 14. Rev. 13. 7. Rev. 16. 6. Rev. 18. 4. Ob. Did ever Rivers and Fountains of waters literally shed the blood of Saints or did God ever in way of revenge give them blood to drink Ans. Did men never read the Book of Exodus Did ever the Rivers and Fountains of Aegypt literally shed the blood of the Israelites Yet God turned them to blood as a Plague on the Aegyptians Exod. 7. 17 18 19 20 21. and no other is the meaning here The third Angel poured out his Vial on the Rivers and Fountains of Waters and they became blood v. 4. and wherefore is this done but in way of revenge upon the men that they might not have the benefit of the waters as heretofore they had and that because they that is the men which drank of those waters shed the blood of the Saints and the Prophets and thou hast given them that is the men blood to drink Ob. The Book of Exodus is a History but the Revelation is a Prophecy and therefore may not be compared each with other Ans. A Prophecy may be compared with a History in respect of the matter though not in respect of the time for the matter of a Prophecy may be the matter of a History when it is fulfilled like as the matter of a History was the matter of a Prophecy before it was fulfilled the difference many times is not in respect of matter but in respect of time A Prophecy is the relating of a thing to come and a History is the relating of a thing past but the thing related may be materially the same in both 2. The Book of Exodus is both a History and a Prophecy for the words in Exodus 7. 20 21. are a History of turning the waters into blood but the words v. 17 18. are a Prophecy of it before hand So again the words in Exodus 9 10 11. are a History of the Boyl which fell upon the Aegyptians but the words v. 8 9. are a Prophecy of the Boyl before it came to pass So thirdly the w●rds in Exodus 10. 22. are a History of the darkness that was 〈◊〉 Aegypt but the words v. 21. are a Prophecy thereof and therefore the comparison in all the three places with the Vials of the Revelation is very fit and suitable each to other Ob. How can a Vial be poured on the Sun and not on the Saints which live under it or how can the Sun torment men with fervent heat and the Saints not be tormented by it Ans. 1. The fire which flew the men which-cast the

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 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 that it should rain Hail and Fire 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 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 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 〈◊〉 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

the longest Vial and all the Prophecies in the Revelation from the seventeenth verse of the sixteenth Chapter to the end of the Revelation belong unto it and when I say the Vials are of short continuance it is to be understood of the six first Vials and of so much only of the seventh as reacheth from the seventeenth verse of this sixteenth Chapter to the beginning of the twentieth CHAP. XVII The Prophecy concerning Babylon and the destruction of it 1. AND one of the seven Angels which had the effusion of the seven Vials in my Vision and shall have the execution of them when they are to be executed came unto me in my Vision and talked with me saying come hither and I will shew thee the destruction of the great Whorish City which at the commencement of this seventh Vial shall rule over many Nations and who they be that shall destroy her 2. With whom the Kings of the earth shall commit Idolatry and the Inhabiters of the same shall be made drunk with her spiritual and also with her corporal Fornication 3. So he took me aside and carried me in a Vision of my mind into the Wilderness where I saw a woman representing not what was then in being but what shall be hereafter sitting upon a Scarlet coloured Beast full of names of Blasphemy many ways committed against God and Jesus Christ and the Beast had seven heads and ten Horns representing what should be hereafter 4. And the woman which I saw was arrayed in costly apparel of Purple and Scarlet colour and decked with Gold and pretious Stones and Pearls and she had a cup of Gold in her hand representing still what should be hereafter full of abominable sins and wickedness and also most grievous and loathsome Fornication 5. And in her forehead she had a name written declaring what manner of City she should be not perspicuously but in a mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Whoredoms and vile abominations of the earth 6. And besides all this I saw the Woman exceeding drunk with the blood of the Saints of God and of the Martyrs of Jesus Christ and when I saw she was such a one I wondred greatly with exceeding admiration what this Woman should mean 7. And as I was thus wondring in my mind the Angel said unto me wherefore didst thou wonder and continue in so doing I will tell thee what is meant by this wicked woman and what is meant by the Beast that beareth her which hath seven heads and ten Horns 8. The Beast which thou sawest is a King which shall have a Crown and loose it and obtain his Crown again and then go into Perdition and never have a being any more he shall have a Crown before the seventh Vial shall commence he shall loose it a little after the commencement of it and obtain the same again and go into Perdition too before this seventh Vial shall be ended and all the Inhabitants of the earth which were not elected to Salvation shall wonder at it when they see the Beast which shall have a Crown and loose it to obtain his Crown again 9. And this is the sense and meaning of the Vision the seven heads be seven Mountains upon which the City shall be built 10. And they do also signifie seven Kings five of them shall fall and be dead and gone before the seventh Vial shall commence the sixth shall be alive at the commencement of that Vial and the seventh is then to be expected and when he cometh to the Crown he shall enjoy it but a little while 11. And the Beast which shall have a Crown and loose it he shall be the eighth King and succeed the seventh and yet be of the number of the seven too and go into Perdition and be no more forever 12. And the ten Horns which thou sawest the Beast to have do also signifie ten Kings which as yet have not received a Kingdom nor shall have any one before the Beast hath lost his and recovered it again and then they shall receive power to Reign as Kings in one Kingdom one hour with the Beast and this shall be when the seventh Vial shall commence and in the time of it and not before 13. And though they be ten yet they shall have but one mind and adhere unto the Beast with one consent and give their Warlike power and strength to the assistance of the Beast till the rebellious City be destroyed 14. And yet we may not think that they be Christian Kings for after this is done they shall fight against the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them in the War and though they be Kings themselves yet he is a greater King then they even the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and they that be with him and on his side be chosen and better Souldiers then any the ten Kings have and also Faithful to him too 15. And the Angel also told me what is meant by the waters upon which the woman sitteth and he said unto me that they do signifie multitudes of People and Nations of divers Languages 16. And the ten Horns which thou sawest the Beast to have be they which shall hate the Whore not for her Religion but for her Rebellion against the Beast and make her desolate and naked without Inhabitants and slay her People with the Sword and burn her Houses with fire 17. And that which shall make them do it is because God shall put it into their hearts to fulfill his mind and will and agree together to give their Kingdom to the Beast until the City be destroyed and no longer 18. And the woman which thou sawest doth signifie the great imperial City which at the commencement of this seventh Vial shall have Dominion over the Kings and Nations of the earth and then it shall be known by name what this wicked Idolatrous and Blasphemous City is Disputation XII 1 Quest. Whether Babylon be the City of Rome Arguments for the Affirmative §. 1. 1. The City which sits on seven Hills is Babylon as appears v. 9. but Rome and no other City in the World sits on seven hills the names of them are these the Capitoline Palatine Caelian Aventine Esquiline Viminal and Quirinal therefore 2. The City which hath seven heads that is seven kinds of Governours successively one after another is the City Babylon mentioned in this place v. 10. but Rome and no other City in the World hath seven heads that is seven kinds of Governours succeeding one anther First Kings Secondly Consuls Thirdly Dictators Fourthly Decemvirs Fifthly Military Tribunes Sixthly Emperours Seventhly Popes therefore 3. The City whose five first heads were fallen in the Apostles time one then was and the other not then come is the City mentioned in this place v. 10. but Rome and no other City in the World had five heads fallen in the Apostles time First Kings Secondly Consuls Thirdly Dictators Fourthly Decemvirs Fifthly Military Tribunes one then in

the end of the world but the Angel saith the seventh Trumpet is to sound more days than one and the mystery of God is to be at the beginning of them Rev. 1● 7. Lastly it is not sense to say the end of the world shall be finished for then an end shall have an end but it is good sense to say the conversion of the Jews shall be finished or shall have an end that is an end of consummation not of annihilation as the world shall Rev. 20. 11. CHAP. XIII The Prophecy of the first Beast and his rising and success against the Jewish Nation 1. THEN I saw a wild Beast representing a new Empire which shall be raised by the Devil out of the people and Nations of the world which shall be then in arms consisting of the same seven Kingly heads that the Dragon had and the same ten horns but with Crowns added to them which they had not before 2. And this Empire shall be as cruel against the Christian Jews as ever the Greek or Persian or Babylonian Empires were heretofore to that Nation and cannot sufficiently be deciphered by one cruel Beast alone but by variety of cruel Beasts made up together in one for it shall have the body of a speckled Leopard as the Greek Empire had and the feet of a cruel Bear as the Persian Empire had and the mouth of a devouring Lion as the Babylonian Empire had and to the making up of this Empire the Devil shall resign unto him his Militia his Imperial Throne and secular authority 3. But before he be established in his Throne there shall be some opposition made against the setling and uniting of this Empire and in the opposition one of his seven heads shall receive a wound by a sword to all mens thinking unto death but his deadly wound shall be healed and after that there shall be no more opposition but all the Country far and near shall admire at it and yield subjection to the Beast without resistance 4. And they shall worship the Beast as the substitute of the Dragon and in so doing they shall worship not the Beast only but the Dragon also and in worshipping of him they ascribe unto him titles of transcendent honour saying who is so potent as the Beast who is able to war with him 5. And he shall take upon him and it shall be permitted to him to speak great and proud things amounting to blasphemy and he shall have power to continue three years and a half in great prosperity and after they are past he shall decay from day to day and never come into prosperity any more 6. And he shall open his mouth wide unto blasphemy and shall not be afraid to blaspheme the God of Israel and his name and his Church and the Jewish Nation 7. And he shall be permitted by God to make War against the remnant of the Church of Israel that shall not flie into the Wilderness with their brethren and to overcome them in the War and he shall have power over all kindreds and tongues and nations far and near to make them joyn with him and assist him in this War 8. And all the Inhabitants of the Earth both far and near shall worship him and yield subjection to him and they that shall so do are such whose names were never written in the Book of life which Jesus Christ hath purchased by his Blood for all that believe in him 9. Let every man take heed how he joyneth with the Beast and taketh part with him against the Saints whom he warreth with 10. He that leadeth any of Gods Saints into captivity shall himself go into captivity he that slayeth any of his people with the sword shall himself be slain by the sword which maketh much for the patience and the Faith of the Saints and is a great encouragement thereunto and they need not use unlawful means for their deliverance or renounce their Faith to save their lives let them believe and trust in God and wait with patience for his help and he will surely visit them and work Deliverance for them The Pr●phecy of the second Beast and his Actings and Atchievements for the settling of the first Beast 11. And I saw another Beast which shall arise from among the people of the Earth which live a civil life as the other did from the men that were in Arms and he shall have but one Head and on that one Head but two Horns of no great strength and magnitude but very small short and feeble and can do no hurt therewith but he shall speak like a Dragon and be a false Prophet or Magician as wicked Balaam was and shall do more Mischief by his Witch-craft than the other by his Arms. 12. And he shall be a chief Officer of the first Beast to manage his Affairs in his behalf and he shall execute all the secular or civil Power and Authority of the first Beast in his behalf and he shall cause the Inhabitants of the Earth where the Beast doth live to worship and yield Obeisance to the first Beast who received a deadly Wound at his first arising and was healed thereof 13. And he shall do great signs and wonders and one of those wonders is that he shall cause fire to come down from Heaven in the sight of men as the true Prophets 〈…〉 Lord have done and as the Devil himself hath also done 14. And he shall deceive the Inhabitants of the earth through the signs and wonders which shall be given him to do in behalf of the other Beast and one of these wonders whereby he shall deceive them shall be this that he shall say to the Inhabitants of the earth where the Beast doth live that they should make a Molten or a Carved Image in honor of the Beast which had the mortal wound of a Sword and did live 15. And he shall have power to give not life but breath to the graven or molten Image of the Beast in so much that the Molten or Graven Image of the Beast shall speak and cause and appoint and command that as many as will not fall down and worship it shall be killed 16. And he shall cause all both small and great rich and poor bond and free to take an engagement or an oath to be true and faithful to the other Beast and receive a visible mark in their right hand or in their foreheads whereby it may be known that they have so done 17. And he shall take special order with the Inhabitants of the earth that no man shall buy or sell any victuals or commodities save he that hath taken the engagement or the oath to be true and faithful to the first Beast and hath received a visible mark in his right hand or in his forehead in token that he hath so done and this mark which he shall receive is nothing else but the name of the first

unto it mingled with fire and the 144000 that obtain Victory over the first Beast and over his Image and over his mark or which is all one over the number of his name stand at the Glassie Sea as the Israelites heretofore when they had gotten Victory over Pharaoh and his hoast stood at the red Sea with the harps of God in their hands to praise 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 but this which shall fall upon the Beasts obsequious Servants shall be far more grievous painful 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 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 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 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 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 saith 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 and doth not