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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45748	Clavis apocalyptica, or, A prophetical key by which the great mysteries in the revelation of St. John and the prophet Daniel are opened : it beeing made apparent that the prophetical numbers com to an end with the year of our Lord, 1655 : in two treatises: 1. Shewing what in these our times hath been fulfilled, 2. At this present is effectually brought to pass, 3. And henceforth is to bee expected in the year neer at hand : with an introductorie preface / written by a Germane D. ; and now translated out of High-Dutch.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1651 (1651)	Wing H979; ESTC R30751	90,414	256

waie to accomplish his design according to the Scriptures is and will bee the communion of Saints in the mysterie of Godliness when everie member acted by the same Spirit towards God and each to other shall draw from him and supplie one to another that which hee will give to everie one for the edifying of the whole in love and although they have not such an exact contrivance of correspondencie setled one with another as the politick Jesuits have in their waie yet the Spirit by which they are led acting the same thing in them all will make the effect of their counsels and actings to correspond without anie special contrivance of their own that the work in the issue may appear to bee of God and not of men for Sion asso●● as shee travelleth nay before shee travelleth and her pain come's shee shall bee delivered and bring forth a Nation at once Isa 66. 7 8. God by the Communion of Saints in one and the same spirit shall do this by his contrivance of his own waie amongst them Nor shall anie gathering together of enemies which shall not bee wanting nor anie violent attempts or destructive weapons and endevors which will bee set afoot bee able to obstruct the effect of this communion which will bring the Bodie of Christ to to the stature of a perfect man Our dutie in subordination to this waie of God is cleerly this that wee should with all readiness of minde applie our selvs to entertein all spiritual motions tending to mutual and universal edification not onely by praiers to strive for all the Saints and with them to stand stedfast in the fight against all spiritual adversaries but by counsel and endevors as the occasion is offered to reciprocate with those that provoke us to love and to good works and to react with mutual zeal towards them by imparting unto them the Manifestations of the Spirit and the fruits of all the grace which God hath bestowed upon us wee know not how much an occasional and small concurrence may do in God's waie when hee is pleased to make it seasonable and bless it one single act of correspondence at an adventure will do more to make his design effectual then a whole years contrived and setled intelligence and agencie of manie Statesmen for politick designments The third thing which the sending of this book from Poland hither to bee translated and the calling upon us to communicate our thoughts to them concerning it doth signifie unto mee is a warning unto us as from the Spirit of God to waken us from securitie and to move us to exspect as those of Poland saie they do both a further trial of our faith and patience and also a gracious deliverance to follow thereupon whereof wee shall partake if wee hold fast the beginning and confidence of our hope firm unto the end with joie Wee know that no man shall bee crowned but hee that first strive's lawfully and that none shall reign with Christ but hee that suffer's with him as for mee I cannot see that our warfare is yet as som would have it and to their own particular Station think it to bee at an end those upon that account having embraced the pleasures of brutishness and sensualitie in this present world have also made it a part of their happiness to dethrone God and Christ in their ranting and blasphemous Imagination and so are justly given over unto a Reprobate minde but as I have caus to griev at the dishonor which they do to God and to the Holie profession and at the certaintie of their endless miserie under the notion of a present perfection and felicitie so I am awakened thereby to wait for the overflowing scourge and the storm of Hail which shall sweep away the refuge of such lies and the flood of waters which shall drown the hiding places thereof I am therefore inclined to exspect still before the times of refreshmentt which shall com from the presence of the Lord the last assault of the power of darkness and of this world against the Saints which shall bee of all other the heaviest and fiercest and this I am induced to believ from the Analogie which is to bee between the sufferings of Christ in the flesh and the sufferings of his members under the power of Antichrist before hee com's to his end Christ's last sufferings immediately before his unchangeable state of glorie were the greatest which befel unto him in all his life nor was hee raised by the power of God to sit at his right hand till hee was first laid in the grave so must it also fare with his Bodie the Church it must bee conformable to him in his death as it shall bee in his resurrection therefore the last conflict which it shall have with the Beast shall bee the most grievous and before it can bee raised to sit in glorie it must in som sort bee triumphed over and trampled upon by the world Let us therefore not deceiv our selvs with carnal fancies as the humor of those is who feed greedily upon present enjoyment and make themselvs drunk therewith but beeing watchful and sober let us take this call from our brethren as a warning to prepare to suffer with them the last encounter of our and their enemies and readily to communicate unto them at their desire the graces of the spirit which are given to us to profit withal that wee may bee all fitted for the comming of the bridegroom and the wedding of the Lamb. These observations upon the passages of Comenius's letter in reference to this book are uppermost in my thoughts and obviously incident to the contemplation of our present condition and of God's counsel manifested unto us in the Revelation Now to speak somwhat of this Exposition of the Apocalyptical Prophesie I shall confess that it come's neerer to my sens then anie which I remember I have read upon that part of God's word And to us I conceiv it ought to bee the more commendable and of better acceptance by how much it come's neerer to that which God hath heretofore made known to our own men before others for in effect I finde that it is an abridgment of our friend Mr Mede now with God his interpretation of the Revelation with som additions confirming the truth thereof and applying the same to the present State of affairs in Europe and in Asia more closely and circumstantially then hee did to shew the distinct events which are shortly to bee fulfilled hee hath grounded all upon the Synchronisms which God directed Mr Mede to observ which certainly are demonstrable and a true keie to the opening of the Mysterie and hee hath taken from him all along the chief heads of interpretations concerning the opening of the Seals and the sounding of the Trumpets but withal hee hath somthing of his own which is considerable as a more special keie which I have not found in others with so much perspicuitie applyable