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B03979	Apocalyptical mysteries, touching the two witnesses, the seven vials, and the two kingdoms, to wit, of Christ, and of Antichrist, expounded. Wherein is contained some things necessary for the saints in this present generation to know ... By H.K. a servant of Jesus Christ.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1667 (1667)	Wing K704; ESTC R225382	40,331	114

Ecclesiastick Government and Kingdom give their power and strength unto the Beast chap. 17.12 13. And to his Councels Synods Courts c. which is the River into which these Fountains run and so into the Sea of Rome Canterbury c. The great Monarchs of this World and Kings of the Earth are said in Scripture to be the Head of their Rivers Ezek. 29.3 4. 32.2 6. I will also water with thy blood the Land wherein thou swimest c. Again as the Fountains do signifie Kings c. so by the Rivers into which their streams do continually run and are filled and influenced by them is meant the Antichristian Hierarchy Popish Clergy and all the false Prophets Teachers and Priests and upon all that are in holy Orders as they speak who preach the Doctrine of the Beast and worship his Image such as these are called Wells though without any living and refreshing Water 2 Pet. 2.1 17. And they are here fitly resembled unto Rivers of Waters in the Beasts Kingdom This Antichristian Monarchy Hierarchy Popish Clergy Priests and Prelates like the Rivers and Fountains in and about a great City Isa 18.27 Ezek. 32.2 though they spoil the Land and waste the City and foul the Waters for as a Fountain casteth out her filthy Waters so do these corrupt Fountains cast out their wickedness Jer. 6.7 yet that great City Mystical Babylon is made very great and like the Assyrian of old Ezek. 31.3 4 5. her height is exalted and she is enriched because of the multitude of these Waters and Fountains of hers whose Nurseries and Seminaries like the deep with her Rivers running round about their Plants send out their little Rivers unto all the Trees of the field and into the deep Sea The effect of this Vial is their own blood which God in his righteous Judgements gives those Monarchs Kings Prelates Priests and all the Popish Church and Clergy-men to drink as a just Retaliation of the blood of the faithful Saints and Sackcloath Witnesses which this Scarlet Beast and bloody Whore of Rome hath shed by persecuting and killing them chap. 13. ●7 11.7.17.4 5 6. 18.20 24. For which Judgments the LORD is acknowledged by all his Saints and holy Angels in Heaven and on Earth to be Righteous and his Judgements also are acknowledged by them to be true and Righteous verse 5 6 7. The fourth Angel poured out his Vial upon the Sun of the Beasts Kingdom vers 8. That is to say Upon the Emperour of Germany the King of Spain c. with respect to the Temporal and Political part of the Beast's Kingdom and upon the Pope of Rome the Popish Cardinals and Arch-Bishops c. with respect to the Spiritual and Ecclesiastical part of the Beast's Kingdom those Antichristian Emperors Kings Popes and Prelates like the Sun in the Firmament of Heaven Gen. 1.16 17 18. are most eminent and chief Lights and have the most eminent Grandeur Rule and Dominion in the Firmament or Fabrick 〈◊〉 the Beast's Politick and Ecclesiastick Government and Kingdom and are fitly resembled by the Sun and other Lights 〈◊〉 Heaven Isa 13.9 10 11. The effect of this Vial is the scorching of men with great heat vers 9. By th● power that was given unto this Angel so t● do vers 8. The men that are scorched with fire and with great heat vers 8 9. are those men of the Beast's Kingdom who worship the Beast and his Image chap. 14.8 9 10 11. who are tormented with Fi●● and Brimstone which causeth them to blas● pheme the Name of God who hath powe● over these Plagues And they repented n● to give him glory vers 9. The Fire an● Heat are the burning Heat and devouring Fire of the fierceness of God's great wrat● poured out of this Vial upon the Sun which causeth those dreadful Effects Rev. 18 8● And she shall be utterly burnt with Fire fo● strong is the Lord that judgeth her And the fifth Angel poured out his Vi● upon the Seat of the Beast vers 10. Who this fifth Angel is the Expositio● of the first verse gives us to understand viz. Some of those Magistrates into whos● hand God will commit the Government of the Kingdom of Christ as was proved before And some of those Ministers of his Churches who shall come out of the Temple even such of his Saints as our Lord Jesus Christ hath redeemed and made Kings and Priests unto God who shall reign on Earth assisted by Christ the Angel of the Covenant and his Heavenly Angels to execute the righteous Judgments of God as was also proved before by pouring out of the Vials of the wrath of God This Vial is one of those seven golden Vials which was given unto the seven Angels which were full of the wrath of God and contained the last Plagues which are to be poured out upon Mystical Babylon to her utter destruction as hath been proved before and chap. 16. vers 19. and all them that worship the Beast and his Image chap. 14.8 9 10 11. These Vials are called the Cup of Gods Indignation and the Cup of the Wine of the fiercenesse of his wrath The Beast is the Object of the Wrath of God even of the fierceness of his great Wrath upon whom the LORD will pour out all his Plagues first and last and Babylon shall drink the Cup of his Indignation chap. 14.10 and the nineteenth verse of this Chapter Beast in this Prophesie of the Revelation is sometimes named without any distinction and then by Beast we are to understand the whole Complex Body of the Antichristian Politick and Ecclesiastick State of the Roman Kingdom Church and Government as chap. 11.7 13.18 14.9 11. and sometimes the Beast is named with distinction chap. 13.11 12. as if there were two Beasts both which is but one Beast distinguished by his twofold Power and Dominion to wit Political and Ecclesiastical as doth appear vers 1. 4. So chap. 17.3 the Beast and the Woman that is to say the Political Government and the Ecclesiastick State likewise chap. 16.13 and 19.20 the Beast and the false Prophet also the Beast and his Image chap. 13.14 By the Beast we are to understand the Roman Antichristian Political State Power and Dominion By the Woman wh● is the Whore the Image of the Beast and the false Prophet in divers respects w● are to understand the Roman Antichristian Ecclesiastick State Church Worship an● Government The Reason of this distinction is the two-fold Authority and Jurisdiction which the Beast exerciseth in the World and in the Church and therefore the Beast is said to rise from two places to wit out of the Sea Chap. 13.1 and out of the Earth vers 11. and to have two Horns like the Lamb chap. 13.11 that is to say a two-fold Power Political and Ecclesiastical both which was given unto the Beast by the Dragon chap. 13.2 And the Dragon gave him his Power and his Throne and great Authority

Apocalyptical MYSTERIES Touching the Two WITNESSES the Seven VIALS and the Two KINGDOMS to wit of CHRIST and of ANTICHRIST EXPOUNDED Wherein is contained some things necessary for the Saints in this present GENERATION to know And therein is also shewed what the ISRAEL of God ought to do in this DAY By H. K. a Servant of Jesus Christ Isa 26.20 21. Come my people enter thou into thy Chamber and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment until the indignation be overpast For behold the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the Inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity The earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no more cover her stain London Printed in Year 1667. To all the Saints that in every place call upon the Name of the LORD Jesus Christ My Brethren THey that would serve God in their Generation according to his Will ought to inquire diligently into the particular Truths of the Age they live in which are Recorded in his Holy WORD The dayes wherein we live being not onely the latter Times of the first Apostasie prophesied of by the Apostle 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. but the last dayes of those perilous Times mentioned by him 2 Tim. 3.1 5. I conceive that the last part of God's revealed Will to wit the Book of the Revelation hath in it those Truths which more peculiarly belonged unto this Age wherein we live which consideration hath made me willing as my occasions and daily Imployment would permit to be searching them out And though I cannot say that I have in all things found the Truth which principally and above others may be called the Truth of this Age and of our Generation Yet being incouraged by that Blessing promised Rev. 1.3 I have crouded my self into the number of those that run to and fro to find it And have by searching the Prophesies of this Book of the Revelation found three Mysteries wherein are some things that seem to relate unto this Age and Generation wherein we live viz. That of the two Witnesses of the seven Vials and of the two Kingdoms to wit of Christ and of Antichrist Which I have made the Subject of this little Treatise in the reading whereof I doubt not but you will find some Truths that are necessary for the Saints in this Age and present Generation to know and also some duties which the ISRAEL of God ought to do in this DAY and Age wherein we live Dear Brethren How ever others may censure me for presumption in offering my Opinion in those things that are in their judgment too high and deep Mysteries for me to meddle with Yet you that are Saints know how to bear those infirmities and weaknesses of your unworthy Brother which happily you may discern in reading this Treatise And notwithstanding them all may receive any glimmerings of light that is held forth to you in the Exposition of these Prophesies that so you and I who have our Fathers Name written in our Foreheads may go hand in hand like loving Brethren about our Fathers WORK following our LORD the Lamb wheresoever he goes The Divisions Contentions and Separations that to this Day remains among the Professors of this Age causeth me to think That God hath not done all his WORK upon Mount Sion There are some sufferings yet behind which will purge away that dross by the Spirit of Judgment and by the Spirit of Burning And this is one Reason among others which makes me think the two Witnesses are not yet slain And though many of Gods Servants have suffered for the Testimony which they held yet there remains a Remnant of their fellow Servants and Brethren which shall be killed as they were and this must be fulfilled For as there was such a Dispensation under the seven Seals Rev. 6.9 10 11. before God would avenge their Blood so there shall be such a Dispensation under the seven Trumpets before the seven Vials of Gods last Plagues be poured out Rev. 11.7 18. And when I consider the Congregations of Saints Churches of several perswasions in this Age how unlike they are to the Churches of God recorded in the Scripture with respect unto Ministry Gifts and Discipline or Government besides what is amiss in the Worship of God It makes me think That the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Heaven is not opened out of which Temple John saw the seven Angels come who had the seven golden Vials of the seven last Plagues of God Rev. 15.1 5 6. And if so then the seven Vials are not yet any of them poured out upon Mystical Babylon for those seven golden Vials were given them after they were come out of the Temple Rev. 15.5 6 7. and they had not a command to pour out any of the seven Vials till after that Rev. 16.1 2 3. Lastly The late Apostacy of some who have fallen in with the corrupt self-seeking interests of this sinful and superstitious Generation and the Zeal of others who have separated themselves from their Brethren judging them to be defiled with the sins of the times and therefore dare not have and hold Communion with them though they hope they are Saints and the dear Chilaren of God hath given me occasion to publish my Testimony at this time for the Kingdom of Christ and against the Kingdom of Antichrist wherein I have said some things that may by the blessing of God tend unto the recovery of some backsliders and to the rectisying of the Judgments of my zealous Brethren and to the reducing of those Saints unto repentance who have been defiled with any sins of this Age or Generation not of wilfulness but through weakness and that either for want of light or through the strength of some temptation who being overtaken with a fault should be restored in the spirit of meekness Gal. 6.1 2. Which blessings of God shall please to effect by these my poor endeavours and labour of love as I know he will not forget it so I pray for you and beg your prayers for me that neither I nor you may forget to give him the glory This done I remain your Brother in the best Bonds H. K. Apocalyptical MYSTERIES The First Part Touching the two WITNESSES Rev. 11.3 14. And I will give power unto my two Witnesses and they shall prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore days cloathed in sack-cloth The second Wo is past and behold the third Wo cometh quickly IT is not my intent to expound every verse and interpret each particular thing therein contained but to offer my Opinion briefly touching some things which I conceive are of more general concernment and may be of more special use unto the Saints at this DAY The Particulars which I have thought most necessary to treat of touching this Subject are principally these 1. Who are the two Witnesses and what is their Testimony 2. What is their Power and the time of their

The Beast that WAS and IS NOT th●● is to say the fourth Monarchy or Roman Kingdom in its mixt State of Politick-and Ecclesiastick Government coercively exercised over the Consciences of men in an● Place or Case whatsoever IS NOT God●● ORDINANCE For the Dragon which is the Devil Chap. 20.2 gave this Bea●● his Power and his Seat and great Authority chap. 13.2 The Beast that WAS and IS NOT an● yet is chap. 17.8 that is to say the fourth Monarchy or Roman Kingdom which w●● a Power ordained of God with respect unto its meer Political Government but I● NOT God's Ordinance in its mixt State 〈◊〉 Politick-and-Ecclesiastick Power and Government Yet IS a Power and hath a Throne chap. 13.2 Yea and exerciseth great Authority over the Bodies and Consciences of Men coercively and causeth both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive his Mark in their right hand or in their foreheads and causeth that as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed chap. 13.15 16 17. And the Beast that WAS and IS NOT even he IS the EIGHTH chap. 17.11 that is to say the eighth Head of the Beast and IS of the SEVEN which Mystery of Iniquity that we may with more clearness understand the Angel told John that the Beast that carrieth the Woman had seven Heads chap. 17.7 which he saith are seven Kings verse 10. that is to say seven kinds of political Governours and forms of Government in the fourth Kingdom whereof FIVE are fallen or were past and gone before John's time namely 1. Kings 2. Consuls 3. Decim-vers 4. Tribunes and 5. Dictators ONE is to wit Emperors who being the sixth head of the Beast rused and exercised their Dominion over the whose Roman Kingdom in the dayes of our Saviour and his Apostles the OTHER is not yet come to wit the seventh Head of the Beast that is to say the seventh King or kind of Government was not yet in being when John writ this book of the Revelation which seventh Head is Popes for they succeeded the Emperors in the Kingdom and Government of the Roman Empire as all Historians testifie and have ruled and reigned as Kings And this Beast is the EIGHTH viz. the eighth Head with respect of his Ecclesiastical Power mixed with his Political-Authority And is of the SEVEN that is to say he is one of the seven to wit the seventh Head or King with respect of his Political-Power-and-Authority And this mixed Politick-and Ecclesiastick Power is signifyed by his two Horns chap. 13.11 12. And shall ascend out of the bottomless PIT chap. 17.8 c chap. 11.7 The Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit viz. the Hellish Apostacy of the latter times foretold by the Apostle Paul 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. which is contemporary with the opening o● the bottomless Pit chap. 9.1 So is th● falling away or Apostacy with the revealing of the man of Sin this son of Perdition 2 Thes 2.3 this King is the Ange● of the bottomless Pit chapter 9.11 And go into Perdition chap. 17.8 and verse 11. goeth into PERDITION The man of Sin Antichrist is called the SON of PERDITION 2 Thes 2.3 and it is twice affirmed chap. 17.8 11. that he goeth and shall go into PERDITION because the thing is certain And the meaning is that the BEAST of the eighth Head that is to say the Roman-Antichristian-Pollitick-and-Ecclesiastick-Power Dominion and Government together with the Antichristian POWERS Potentates Kings and Governours who exercise that Antichristian-power and dominion coercively over the Bodies Estates and Consciences of men shall be utterly destroyed which utter Destruction and PERDITION will be fully effected and compleated by pouring out of the seven VIALS of the last Plagues for in them is filled up the wrath of God chap. 15.1 16.1 10 19. 18.2 8. 19.19 20 21. 14.9 10 11 12. And the third Angel followed them saying with a loud Voice If any man shall worship the BEAST and his IMAGE and receive his MARK in his Forehead or in his Hand the same shall drink of the Wine of the WRATH of God which is poured out without MIXTVRE into the CVP of his Indignation If it be enquired how the BEAST doth kill the Witnesses I answer The BEAST shall 1. make WAR against them 2. He shall OVERCOME them and 3. He shall KILL them vers 7. The Beast cannot overcome them as Witnesses for so they Overcome him and the Dragon also chap. 12.11 And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb and by the Word of their Testimony but as Warriours chap. 13.7 And it was given to him to make War with the Saints and to overcome them This WAR is a more open and visible Opposition between the Witnesses the BEAST then formerly though the two Witnesses had opposed the Beast and born their Testimony against his mixt Antichristian Power and Idolatrous Worship from the beginning of the 1260. dayes of their Sackcloath-condition which they did more privately And though the Beast had persecuted the two Witnesses for the Testimony which they bare against him from the beginning of the 42. months of his Power Yet now at last and toward the end of their 1260. dayes the two Witnesses bear a more manifest Testimony and make a more open and Visible Opposition y against both the Tyrannical Power and Idolatrous Worship of the Beast and therefore the Beast now at last and toward the end of his 42. months begins to rage and maketh a greater and more cruel Opposition both against the Churches and Prophets of the LORD who are the two Witnesses and all the Saints by exercising his Power more tyrannically against them which is the WAR here mentioned vers 7. as that was chap. 13.7 In the time of Charles the fifth in Germany France Scotland c. and in Queen Maries dayes in England c. In this WAR the Beast overcomes the Witnesses vers 7. as in that he overcame the Saints chap. 13.7 Some of the Witnesses are overcome by fear and others by flattery some by his alurements and preferments others by his threats and confinements are overcome for a time so far as to cease from bearing their Testimony against him so openly and vigorously as they did before In which respect the Beast is here said to overcome them But this will not appease the rage and great wrath of the Beast for he perceives that the Testimony which the Witnesses bear in their more private Retirement and Conventicles as they are called or Meetings will like a Moth waste secretly consume his Power and Dominion and at last if let alone and suffered to enjoy any liberty to meet together to worship his Power and Dominion will be utterly destroyed as is Prophesied Dan. 7.26 And therefore the Beast will take Councel together with his chief Priests to KILL the Witnesses of the LORD as the high Priest the chief Priests and Elders did to put our Saviour

to death John 11.47 to 53. And KILL them vers 7. The killing of the two Witnesses doth not signifie a Corporal death only nor principally for such a killing doth not agree with this Prophesie but it is rather a Metaphorical Expression which signifies a two-fold Death partly Civil whereby the Witnesses shall be deprived of their civil Liberties and the Exercise of their Religion their Estates confiscated their Persons confined Imprisoned Banished and some of their Lives or all their livelyhood taken away by the tyrannical Power of the Beast and partly yea principally Spiritual whereby the Witnesses shall be deprived of that Zeal Vigor and Courage which with all boldness they had formerly manifested in bearing their Testimouy openly for Christ his Kingdom his Church his Worship and his Government against the Antichristian Beast his Kingdom Church Worship and Government The darkness and blackness of the DAY of the Witnesses death will principally consist in their being deprived of that Spirit of Life that sometimes they had received from God and had formerly exercised in bearing their Testimony which Spirit of Life the Witnesses lose by cooling in their Spiritual affections unto Christ and by their sinning against the LORD for usually when Ministers or Members of Churches fall from their first Love they fall in with the Apostacy of the time and so lose that life and courage which they formerly had and manifested with great boldnesse for Christ against Antichrist This Spiritual kind of death is most agreeable unto their Resurrection that is effected by that Spirit of Life from God which vers 11. after three dayes and an half shall enter into them Now such as is the Resurrection of the Witnesses such is their death But their Resurrection is Spiritual for vers 11. the Spirit of Life from God entred into them therefore their death is Spiritual viz A depravation of that Spirit of Life that is to say the loss of that courage boldness zeal vigor and life which they formerly had and manifested in their Testimony for Christ against the Beast This kind of death is also most agreeable unto the Witnesses lying dead after they were killed in respect both of the place which is Spiritually called Sodom and Egypt ver 8. and of the time when they lay unburied which is Prophetically said to be three dayes and an half vers 9. Touching the fourth Particular viz. What is the Street of the great City in which their dead Bodies lie The Answer unto this Particular is Mysteriously given in the 8 9. verses of this Chapter And their dead Bodies shall lie in the street of the great City c. The great City is that mentioned chap. 17.8 Which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth to wit the WOMAN that sits upon a Scarlet-coloured BEAST chap. 17.3 which is the great WHORE chap. 17.1 whose Name is Mystery BABYLON the Mother of HARLOTS chap. 17.5 viz. the whole Antichristian Kingdom of the Beast all Mystical Babylon The Street of the great City is some noted Street as a Market-Street or some eminent Street as Cheap-side or some open Street or place as Smithfield within or without the great City under the Dominion and Government thereof By this Street we are to understand some ●minent Part of Mystical Babylon and Kingdom of the Beast viz. some of the ten Kingdoms which appertain unto the Dominion of the Beast and not his whole Kingdom ●or the whole City It is not said in the Streets of the great City but in the Street to wit the most eminent Kingdom for the Testimony of Jesus Christ even that Nation where the Witnesses have most eminently born their Testimony against Antichrist The place being spoken of by way of eminency must be understood either in relation ●o the Witnesses or in respect unto the Beast that kills them or to both Now take either of these or both together and it signifies not the whole Witnesses nor the whole Kingdom of Babylon but a part thereof Not the whole Kingdom of Babylon because ●pon the rising and ascending of the Witnesses there is but a part of the Kingdom of Babylon falls And the tenth part of the City fell vers 13. which is that part here meant by this Street Nor all the VVitnesses of Christ in all the WORLD no nor in all the Kingdoms of Babylon because there are some Witnesses remain alive when these two are killed who shall call upon them to come up to them when the Spirit of Life from the Lord doth again enter into them and cause them to stand upon their feet vers 12 And they heard a great Voice from Heaven saying unto them Come up hither Which Voice from Heaven is the call of those Angels who have the seven last Plagues and come out of the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Heaven when i● is opened to come up to Mount Zion to them where they and other Saints stan● with the Lamb and to see the Judgement of the great WHORE which will appe● by comparing chap. 11.12 19.14.1 5● 15.1 2 5 6.17.1 And the Temple o● God was opened in Heaven and there were voyces chap. 11.19 And the seven Angels came out of the Temple in Heaven chap. 16.6 And one of the seven Angels which had the seven Vials said Come up hither and I will shew thee the judgment of the great Whore c. As touching the fifth Particular viz. What time is to be understood by the three days and an half vers 9. The knowledge of the time when the Witnesses shall be killed and rise again is very desirable unto the Saints in this GENERATION many godly and learned Men have laboured studiously in searching out this time and have communicated their understanding about this Matter whose labours have been profitable unto the Lords people and unto me also who having read their Opinions about the ending time of the Witnesses Sackcloath-condition and of the troubles of the Lords People I have been much comforted by several precious Observations which they have made touching this matter But not being fully satisfied with their Determination of the period of that ending time I have also addicted my self to search the holy Scriptures touching such Prophetical Numbers as seem to contain the ending time And I shall take liberty to give my Opinion also and the grounds thereof viz. 1. The three dayes and an half are three years and an half each day for a year according to the prophetical Account of Mystical dayes Numb 14.34 and Ezek. 4.5 6. 2. The three dayes and an half are those three years and an half which do immediately succeed the killing or death of the Witnesses for after they are killed their dead Bodies are seen three dayes and an half chap. 11.9 and they do immediately preceed their Resurrection for after three dayes and an half the Spirit of Life from God doth enter into the Witnesses and they stand upon their feet chap. 11.11 So then The three