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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73707	A plaine explanation of the vvhole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable in these dayes of trouble and affliction in the church. Penned by a faithfull preacher, now with God, for more priuate vse, and now published for the further benefit of the people of God.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.	1622 (1622)	STC 4710.5; ESTC S124379	79,172	144

to it and their robes were thus white because they were dipped in the blood of the Lambe Then hee answereth to the other question viz. who they be namely Those that stand alwaies before the Throne that is in the presence of God to serue him with praises for euermore being such as are deliuered from all euils and from all teares that is all sorrowes griefe shall be taken away and they shall be led to the sweet waters and tender grasse and continually deliuered and preserued from all perils Apoc. Cap. 8. 1. And when he had opened the seauenth Seale there was silence in heauen about halfe an houre THe Apostle S. Iohn doth recontinue his purpose begun in the fift Chapter being omitted in the sixt and seauenth Chapters for these two Chapters were put in for the comfort of Gods children and to preserue them against the troubles afterwards to befall Now he commeth to the opening of the seauenth Seale whereat there was silence in heauen for the space of halfe an houre signifying that all the Saints and Angels were amazed at the opening of it marueiling at the Iudgements which followed it more then at the other wonders which before were receiued albeit they also were very marueilous The like speech is vsed in Iob for when his friends comming to visite him saw what a miserable case he was in they were so appalled thereat that they could not speake to him for three dayes This is to set forth vnto vs the wonderfulnesse of the iudgements contained in the opening of the seauenth Seale After this is a preparation vnto the Iudgement to come vnto the sixt Verse where it is said that Trumpets are giuen to the seauen Angels that is to a perfect and competent number fit for such a worke and for the executing of that seruice ouer all the world Then he speaketh of another Angell viz. another in nature as being both God and man another in office as being the Angell of the euerlasting Couenant And he is said to stand before the Altar that is in his office of Mediation betweene his Father and his Church And therefore it is after said that to him was giuen sweet Odors that is there was in him things acceptable to God to wit his perfect obedience wherein was an acceptable receiuing and perfuming of the praiers of the Saints vnto God So that we see that God accepteth of our prayers at the hands of Christ which at ours he will not By the Censor in his hand hee alludeth to the custome of the Priests in the ceremoniall Law In that hee taketh coales from the Altar and casteth them on the earth it signifieth the denouncing of his iudgements against the wicked on the face of the earth shewing that as he is the meanes of mercy vnto the Godly so hee is the executioner of the iudgement on the wicked At the greatnesse of which his iudgements there were Voices and Thunders and Lightnings and Earth-quakes Afterward followeth the execution of the iudgments wherof foure Trumpets of iudgements are sounded in this Chapter performed by the foure first Angels The first Angel bloweth his Trumpet then it is said there was hayle and fire mingled with blood and these did destroy the trees and euery greene thing By this he seemeth to allude vnto that in the ninth of Exodus where it is said that in one of the Plagues of Exod. 9. 24. Egypt was Haile mingled with Fire the like is here mentioned but in this place there is an addition of blood noting that all should be consumed namely that there should not onely be a destruction of the trees and greene things but of the men also which came to passe euen among the Egyptians for those that were in the fields were consumed by the tempest After in the second place it is said that the second Angell did blow his Trumpet whereupon there was a mountaine burning with fire cast into the Sea being set on fire by the wrath and anger of God signifying the iudgements to be executed on the Earth and then vpon the Sea Seeming to allude to that place in the Psalme where the Prophet saith that though the Psalme 46. 2. Mountaines should fall into the midst of the Sea yet I will not be remoued And this iudgement should be executed vpon the Sea on the Fishes and also vpon the Ships so that not onely the Earth but euen the Sea should haue iudgements executed vpon them At the blast of the third Trumpet it is said that a starre fell from heauen into the third part of the fresh waters and Riuers signifying Gods iudgements vpon them also whereupon the third part of men died The name of this Starre is Worme-wood from the effect to wit the bitternesse which it should cause in the fresh waters Where wee see albeit the certainty of the time is not knowne nor any set time wherein this shall be effected yet the Lord doth sometimes poyson and infect the Aire sometimes the Earth and sometimes the Sea and Waters whereby infection ariseth to man and hereby it is said that the third part of men should dye that is the liues of many men should be shortened And these all seeme literally to be vnderstood sauing that the Mountaine and the Starre which fell into the waters doe signifie that the heauens should be so infected that they also by their infectious disposition should corrupt and infect the waters and thereby cause death to men The fourth Angell hauing blowne his Trumpet it is said that the third part of the Sunne of the Moone and of the Starres was darkened which seemeth to be meant of the spirituall darkenesse should be vpon the Earth For hitherto the Plagues that haue beene set downe haue beene corporall to wit either pertaining to the things of the nourishment of the bodies of men or vpon the bodies themselues those that follow in the rest of this and the next Chapter seeme to be vnderstood of the spirituall Plagues of the soule that the light thereof in the middest of men should very much be darkened for I cannot see how those words concerning the darkening of the Sunne and Moone and the Starres can literally be vnderstood but rather by some Allegory because in the next Chapter verse 2. it is spoken of the darkenesse of the Sunne that it was altogether darkened noting the depriuation of all the light and knowledge of the soule And therefore this is to be vnderstood of the darkenesse of the minde through want of knowledge by taking away of the truth in part as appeareth by the histories for since that Popery came in by meanes of Antichrist Sathan had wonderfully darkened the light of the Gospell yea euen before Antichrist was at his full height Then hee setteth downe that he saw an Angell flying through the middest of heauen which cryed with a loud voice Woe Woe Woe to the Inhabitants of the earth for the plagues which were to come for albeit those that