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A42415	Theorems evincing, that the subject of the fourth and fifth chapters of the Revelation, is the Church of England, B.L.E. With answers to objections. Humbly offered to the serious consideration of all enemies of the Church of England, dissenters and separatists. By Wal. Garrett, rector of Everly in Wiltshire: sometime fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge.	Garrett, Walter.	1700 (1700)	Wing G271C; ESTC R218820	7,586	9

such as Earnestly Desir'd it Weep not sa●s one of the Elders Behold the Lion of the Tribe of Juda c. hath Prevail'd to Op'n the Book that is He hath Op'n'd it by Mee For if he meant Only That Christ Could Do it if he Would it is Gratis Dictum And one might as well say of the hitherto-Unintelligible Parts of Ezekiel That Christ hath Prevail'd to Op'n Them too But we are ne'er the Wiser for it Yet The Elder 's Meaning therefore must be This Behold The Lion of the Tribe of Juda c. hath Instructed ME to Op'n the Book and Loose its Seals XI Mr. MEDE is the Pers'n that gave the First Notice of the Book 's Op'ning Anno. 1632. and made a very Considerable Progress in it And is Consequently That Elder Spok'n of Rev. v. 5. For This we have the Testimony of Mons Jurieu Accomp of Scrip. Proph. Part. I. Chap. VIII Joseph Mede in my Opinion is the First that Vnderstood Any thing of the Sealed Book We have also the Concurrent Evidence of All Protestant Interpreters excepting H. Grotius and Dr. Hammond Deserted by All Protestants and Rejected ev'n by Monsieur de Meaux Himself in his Explication of the Apocalyps Pref. pag. 62. that have Joyn'd their Suffrage with him But This Proposition can be No Otherwise Demonstrated than by Aswering Any Man's Objections that Dissents from us which he will find Enow that will be Ready to Engage in But Thus much is Certain That if Mr. Mede be not the First Whoever Is or shall be the First is the Elder There Mentioned I Mean in Rev. v. 5. And Consequently of the Number of the 24 Elders Rev. iv 4. And the Church he is a Member of is That whose Establishment is Predicted Rev. iv XII Before the Reformation No Man Understood the Book This is So Apparent that the Contrary is not I believe so much as Pretended by Any Man whatsoever XIII The Sealed Book therefore whose Op'ning is Prefigur'd Rev. v. Said to be Writt'n Within and on the Back-side is a Book in the Form We Now have them and Not in a ROLL as Books were Wont to be Made-up in S. John's time Of which Book the Outside-writing is the Text as it lies before Us in These Days and is Read by Every Child at School as soon as he can Speak But the Sense contained Under That is the Inside-writing which is Found Only in the Skilful Interpreter The Seal is the Mysterious Expression And whereas the Whole Book is indeed but One Continued Mystery All along the Holy Spirit by Dividing it as his Usual Manner is into Sev'n Parts makes as it were Sev'n Mysteries of it which He Calls according to the Use of Scripture in Such Cases Seven Seals This I Observe with respect to the Learned and Ingenious but yet Needless Fancy of those who have tak'n the Pains to Excogitate a Way How a Roll might be Seal'd with Sev'n Seals so that the Op'ning of the First might not at the Same Time Disclose the Vision of the Second As if at the Time when the Vision was to be Explain'd the Fashion for Books was to be in Rolls XIV The Lamb Revived after Slaughter Standing in the midst of the Throne who Came and Took the Book out of the Hand of the Sitter on the Throne Chap. v. 6 7. Cannot be Christ in Pers'n who Comes not to Any Earthly Throne as the Throne we Speak of is but it is Christ in Some Good King who was to be Slain as was his Master and to Rise again in a Figure as Isaac is said to have Done Heb. xi 19. and as our Good King Charles the Martyr Did in his Son of the Same name when he was restor'd as it were to Life again Anno 1660. Such kind a of Resurrection is No Stranger to the Prophets for which see Ezek. xxxvii 11 -14 Rom. xi 15. Now Whoever First was to Op'n the Book his Performance was to be Seconded with such a Resurrection Rev. v. 5.6 Which as it Never Happen'd in the World Before So we may Hope that there will Never be Occasion for Such Another And if there should Not the Book must have been Op●n'd Before the Restauration of King Charles The Second XV● Also Before the Op'ning of the Book there was to be a Loud Proclamation by a Strong 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mighty or Powerful Angel for Any one to come and Op'n the Book that Could Which Before Mr. Mede's Op'ning it was made by King James I. According as I have Shew'd at large in my Exposition of Chap. v. All which things with a Great Many More Conspire to Fix the Honour of Shewing the Way to Op'n It upon Mr. Mede and Consequently That of being the Church Prefigur'd in Rev. iv and v. upon This Church of Ours For indeed to Sum-up All in short upon This Hypothesis not only the Exposition of the said Two Chapters but also of the Three Foregoing ones and of Every Particular in them Runs Strangely Smooth and Natural and Ev'ry way Unexceptionable as I have made Appear by a Thorow-Exposition I have Publish'd of them Which if the Hypothesis had been Wrong would have been As Impossible at least for Me to have done as it has been for All Other Interpreters Men of as Great Learning Wit and Fancy as the World afforded who have Proceeded on a Wrong Hypothesis But instead of That I have Shewn the Sev'n Epistles and the Fourth and Fifth Chapters to be a Prophecy of the Church from the Beginning to the Times We live in by Such a Clear and Solid Explication of Ev'ry Type and Passage in them as may Defie All Opposition and which Cannot Reas'nably be Ascrib'd to Any thing but its TRUTH The Only Objections worth the Mentioning that are come to My Knowledge are These Obj. 1. We have No Nocturnal Service and therefore cannot be said not to Rest Day and Night Saying Holy H H c. Ans 1. We account as from Midnight to Noon Morning So from Noon to Midnight again Night Thus at Any Time After Noon we are Taught to Pray Light'n our Darkness c. and Defend us from All Perils and Dangers of This NIGHT. Ans 2. By Day and Night as by Ev'ning and Morning Gen. i. 5 8 c. in sensu Conjuncto by a Hendiadis may be Meant a Natural Day of 24 Hours Call'd also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. xi 25. And so the Sense will be That Every 24 Hours or Every Day they Fail not Oft'n to Rehearse the said Hymn Obj. 2. Neither is England Large enough nor the Pers'ns I mentioned as Concern'd in the Prophecy of Eminent Regard enough for Grandeur Fame or Piety for the Spirit to Intend in This Admirable Vision Ans Then Ought it to be shown That I have either Misinterpreted or Misappli'd the Words or some Considerable Part of them For if Without Either of These Faults the Words be Granted to be Well Adapted to a