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A57095	The Revelation reveled By two apocalyptical treatises. Shewing. I. How neer the period of the time is, wherein the mysterie of God shall bee fulfilled. II. What things are already fulfilled, and what shall shortly follow thereupon, as they are foretold in the Revelation. Translated out of High-Dutch. With an introductorie preface, shewing that besides the accomplishment of the particular historical events, spoken of in the Revelation, which are com, ... there is a deeper mysterie, and matter of more necessarie and profitable knowledg, to bee reflected upon in the words of this prophesie; whereof also a summarie and a key, ... to bee thought upon by all the Godlie-wise in the three nations.	Dury, John, 1596-1680.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1651 (1651)	Wing R1190A; ESTC R220789	91,312	257

of Christ and in him the Mysterie of Godliness doth fill not onely the Churches on Earth but the Church also in Heaven and that God by him as hee is in the Church both in heaven and earth doth govern the world for Christ's interest towards the fulfilling of his own counsel which tend's mainly to reveal the glorie of Christ over all and the felicitie of those that partake with him in his glorie as also by what means the world is subdued under him and conquered by him for the good of his Church for this is the issue of all as in the close of this Prophesie doth appear by the coming down of the New Jerusalem from Heaven and the making of all things new to give unto the Saints their inheritance The second vision then doth shew distinctly four things First what the frame and constitution of the Church in Heaven is How it is ordered round about the throne of God and set in his presence that it should take notice of the passages of his glorie to acknowledg and declare the same chap. 4. Secondly what the administration of affairs in heaven and Government of the Church is over the world how the decrees and counsels of God and by whom they are brought to an issue Here it is shewed unto the Prophet that the whole administration of the government is put into the hand and upon the shoulder of Jesus Christ alone who by the Sacrifice of himself as of a lamb without spot did meritoously purchase to himself this honor and by his seven eies of wisdom and seven horns of almightie power is alone able to discharge so great a Trust as to open all the Seals of God's decrees in their due times and seasons concerning the government of the whole world for the good of his Church chap. 5. Thirdly what changes are brought forth in the affairs of the world and what the condition of the Church and Saints is therein by the opening of six of the Seals where is shewed how after the preaching of the Gospel through the world great troubles and terrible wars arise in the earth amongst men in which the witnesses of Christ are slain and lie as sacrifices at his Altar but they are comforted with the hope of just vengeance to bee executed upon the earth for their sakes after a season and the enemies of Christianitie are terrified at the beginning of the execution of Christ's wrath against them chap. 6. And lest the Judgments which were to bee executed against the enemies should take hold of the friends of Christ there is a careful Provision made for the preservation of these from danger and the Hopes of future glorie are assured unto them by the first fruits thereof chap. 7. Fourthly what the destruction is which at the opening of the seventh Seal is brought upon the world and what the glorie and settlement is which is brought unto the Church of Saints therein for the seventh Seal doth contein and produce all what ever doth follow till the end of the Revelation Here then seven Angels with seven Trumpets are appointed to sound and declare the Judgments of God over the Earth which accordingly are executed where the four first trumpets are remarkably distinguished from the three last becaus to the last three a warning of great wo is promised by an Angel over the inhabitants of the Earth As or the four first they all tend to deprive the world of the third part of the Creatures which are great comforts to the life of mankinde as of trees the third part and of all green grass which in proportion may bee the third part of ●esser plants the third part of the Sea and of Creatures living therein and of the ships that sail t●ereon the third part of the Rivers and ●ountains of waters and the third part of the ●un Moon and Stars and of the light of the ●aie and night where wee may take notice of a ●radual progress from the lesser to the greater ●udgments from earth rising up to heaven and from the effects to the causes Chap. 8. As for ●he woes the first of them by Locusts is a tor●enting judgment not putting men to death out vexing them so that they should seek death and not finde it and the second of them by hors●en is a destroying judgment by which the third part of men on earth are cut off Chap. 9. Thus then by the second vision is shewed what in heaven is sealed in the hand of God and what from thence is published to all the world by the progress of the Gospel by the sufferings of the Saints and their comforts and by the Judgments befalling to the world for their hatred to the Gospel for their Idolatrie and for their other sins of Murder witchcraft fornication and theft of which they repented not and therefore the third wo is to bee brought upon them when the seventh Angel shall sound for at the time of his sounding there shall bee no time of forbearance of anie more but the full mysterie both of wrath against the wicked and of Mercie to the godlie shall bee fulfilled towards the world and towards the Church both in heaven and earth Here then to shew this the third and last vision is given to the Prophet which hee again receiveth on earth by the hand of the mightie Angel which come's from heaven with the open book and stand's both upon the Sea and upon the earth where I observ First for a Translation from the two former to this last vision that as there are but three substantial differences of things revealed to the Prophet so there are but three substantial diversities of places mentioned where they are revealed and three main changes in the frame of his Spirit in receiving them The first substantial matter of vision is Christ's administration of his offices on earth amongst his Churches The second is his administration of his offices in Heaven over all the world to propagate and preserv his Church And the third is his administration both in Heaven and earth to make an end of all wickedness in the world and to perfect the glorie and happiness of his Church each of these matters are shewed to the Prophet in the places where they were chiefly to bee translated for to leav the sight of the first hee was on earth as amongst men at the sight of the second hee was in Heaven as in the presence of God and of the Saints perfected and of Angels At the sight of the third hee is on earth again but so as communicating still with Heaven and looking into it back again as one com down from thence and having still a relation to it The frames of his spirit appear to mee diversified sutably unto these matters and places For in the first vision hee is meerly passive as a dead man to bee quickned In the second hee is Actively passive as I may so say that is as one concerned in the businesses which

also see it herein manifest that the Spirit of the Lord according to his promise is preparing to lift up a Standard against him Secondly this Call which is given to us from so far doth signifie unto mee two things First somwhat of God's waie to accomplish his design Secondly somwhat of our dutie in subordination thereunto God's 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 assoon as shee travelleth nay before shee travelleth and her pain come's shee shall ●ee 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 areuppermost 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 M r 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 M r Mede to observ which certainly are demonstrable and a true

Interpretation are generally known to bee these The first that wee must prophesie according to the Analogie of Faith Rom. 12. v. 6. The second that wee must keep the form of sound words delivered in the Scriptures 2. Tim. ● 13. The third that wee must analyse that is resolv and divide the text aright 2 Tim. 2. 15 an● to the effect that wee may bee able to do this according to the minde of the Holie Ghost the Apostle Peter tel's us 2 Petr. 1. 20. that we 〈…〉 must not make the Scriptures speak in a privat● 〈…〉 sens that is wee must not analyse and interpret them so as if the Prophesies thereof did relate onely to the particular occasions and circumstances of times of places and of persons in by and to whom they were at first uttered and the ground why they may not bee so taken but must bee understood in a more publick common and general sens is given by the Apostle vers 21. becaus saith hee the Prophesie came 〈…〉 by the will of man that is it was not anie particular chois or inclination of humane reasoning which brought forth the prophetical that the scriptural word but they were moved by t●● Holie Ghost that is the universal Spirit who wisdom is above all private concernments an● doth penetrate through all beeing from the center to the circumference did put words in the mouth which they did utter and therefore the words must bee understood as universally an● abstractedly from particular concernments ● they were meant by the Spirit who delivere● them unto the Prophets as for instance whe● a Law was given for oxen that did tread out th● Corn that they should not bee muzzeled t 〈…〉 Apostle tel's us 1 Cor. 9. 9 10. that the meaning of the Law-giver was not to take care fo● Oxen but that this was said for man's sake S● the Apostle Gal. 4. vers 21. till the end doth according to this Rule interpret the Historie of the Son of the bondwoman who was to bee cast out with her Son who could not bee heir with the son of the free woman and by this Rule the dark speeches I have called my son out of Egypt and hee shall bee called a Nazareth c. will becom plain These Rules in their use are complicated and becom one prospective of the sens although their Notions bee thus distinguished therefore in their applications to the Scriptures if they do not go hand in hand together wee shall never reach ●he sens thereof nor bee able to divide the word according to the spiritual rationalitie thereof ●or to shew the division thereof demonstrably either to our own or other's just satisfaction and truly the want of humilitie and ingenuitie ●o seek after the full knowledg of these Rules and the neglect of the right use of them in the knowledg which wee have thereof together with the presumptuous rashness and confidence by which wee are hurried to determin all things according to our own self-conceited notions and knowledg which wee ambitiously strive with tooth and nail to maintein is the caus of all our darkness and confusion in matters of Divinitie Here again if I should enter upon this Subject to shew how a demonstrative scriptural Anaysis by the spiritual use of right reason i 〈…〉 atteinable and will bee the onely waie nex 〈…〉 to the gracious and immediate illumination 〈…〉 the spirit writing the Law in the hearts t 〈…〉 compose our controversies to end our needles● and sinful waies of disputing and to banish o 〈…〉 of Christ's Church the high conceit of our D● ctoral school-Divinitie if I saie I shoul● enter upon these thoughts you see that not 〈…〉 Treatise onely but a volume should bee written thereof to do it satisfactorily but I am resolve● not to ingulf my self beyond the scope of this present discours which tend's onely to point 〈…〉 matters that you may bee stirred up to thin● upon them by your self therefore thus mu●● shall suffice for the finding of the universal ke● of all prophetical Mysteries as they are rationally discoverable in the Scriptures yet abov● this though not without it there is a neerer prospect to bee had of the Myster● in the Spirit which without such a disquirie doth lead us there into This neerer prospect is th● inward Testimonie of Jesus i● whom as in the fountain are hidden all the treasures of wisdom an● of knowledg and who is to al● that believ in him the immediate wisdom and the power of God Therefore the Angel who brought the great vision of the Marriage of the Lamb unto John who thereat was s● ravished that hee intended to have worshipped the Angel put 's him in minde to take him off from giving him anie divine worship that hee was no more but one of his equals who had the Testimonie of Jesus for saith hee the Testimonie of Jesus is the spirit of Prophesie Such then as have this Testimonie dwelling in them have this Spirit and by this Spirit they may bee 〈…〉 ed if God bee pleased so to carrie them a 〈…〉 erer waie then this is to see in Jesus himself the whole Mysterie and to partake of it as from him in the wisdom and power of God yet this must bee noted that although they should bee admitted to this neerer waie for som special ●its nevertheless they shall st●ll bee led so as that their Testimonie must bee liable in case of doubt proposed by others or incident to themselvs to bee examined by the Testimonie of the Apostles and ●heir Spirit must bee subject to ●ee tried not onely by the Spirit which was in the Apostles Prophets and Evangelists 1 John 1. 3. and chap. 4. 6. and John 17. 20 but by the spirit which is in their brethren the Prophets of these times who have the testimonie of Jesus no less then they ● Cor. 14. 29 30 31 32. Here then to com neerer by the address of these Rules to the prospect of the Mysterie of the Kingdom as it is represented in the Revelation let us make use of the keie which the Angel hath given us which is that wee should observ in the peculiar circumstances of the matter and scope thereof and in all the characters of each manifestation the special relation which they have to Jesus to bear witness of him for so much as each dispensation by it's peculiar Characters shall bee found to speak of this testimonie so much it doth reveal unto us of the Mysterie of godliness If then wee ought not to proceed without an eie to our fore-mentioned Rules for although as I have already hinted the testimonie of Jesus in our Spirit is the Spirit of Prophesie which may somtime in the enlightned frame of a believing soul swallow up all the rational Acts of contemplation by a direct intuitive representation of the light of lif● in Christ yet that Testimonie is neither in it self inconsistent with nor in the orde●lie waie 〈…〉 declaring it unto others to bee

dried up c. By Euphrates are understood the Nations which border thereupon that is the Turks But by the drying up of the water is meant the ruine and overthrow of those Nations as it is evident out of the Prophets as Isaiah chapter 19. vers 5. chap. 44. vers 27. Jeremiah chap. 48. vers 34. chap. 50. vers 38. chap. 51. vers 36 Ezekiel chap. 30. vers 12. chap. 31. vers 4. The Application of this text to the ruine of the Turkish Empire doth agree with the eleventh chap. of Isa vers 13. 14. whereupon soon followeth the destruction of the Citie of Rome The second Wo that is the Turkish Empire is past Moreover the drying up of Euphrates is a preparation for the great work which shall bee performed at the pouring out of the seventh Vial. For as in times of old the red Sea was divided to make a drie waie for the Children of Israël when at their going out of Egypt they were pursued by Pharaoh to the end that they might pass thorough safe and Pharaoh should bee drowned Exodus 14. vers 12. until the twentie ninth And as God did drie up the river of Jordan and made a waie thorough it so that Israël could go through it on drie Land and enter into the promised Land so is here Euphrates spiritually dried up and the Turkish Empire ruined That the waie of the Kings of the East might bee prepared By this the conversion of the Jews is intimated which immediately after the destruction of the Citie of Rome shall bee advanced as also may ●ee seen by the 19. chapter vers 6 7. whereunto may bee referred what Isaiah writeth chapter 14. vers 10. until the sixteenth Zach. chap. 10. vers 11. 4. Esr chap. 13. vers 47. Hereupon followeth the pouring out of the seventh and last Vial of the wrath of God wherewith also the seventh Angel soundeth and the seventh plague and the third and last Wo over the Papacie of Rome and the fourth Monarchie doth take effect bringing with it the total ruine and destruction thereof The preparations of this are described before hand thus Vers 13. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs com out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the fals Prophet The Dragon the Beast and the fals Prophet are three companions and fellow-Commoners who from the beginning of the demutation as it appeareth by the thirteenth chapter have stuck close one to another and have been equally honored and worshipped by those that were under their power Now at the end of their reign they also agree and need requiring it they send their Ambassadors and Agents abroad unclean talkative Spirits Spirits of Devils working Miracles c. That is when the Citie of Rome shall bee destroied and the Papal seat overthrown the Turkish Empire ruined and the Jews converted unto Christ The Devil the Romane Papacie and the whole Clergie shall not bee able to conclude anie thing els but that their end is now at hand and that they will bee utterly destroied Therefore they trie their utmost endevors and call together the best men of their orders and such as are most fit for this work chiefly those that have made profession in the eleventh Classis these they send to the Courts of all Catholick Potentates throughout the whole Romane Popish Empire persuading them and the Professors of their Religion to stir up the utmost of their power and to join and offer themselvs together with others to the war against the Professors of the Gospel In that great daie of God Almightie at the pouring out of the seventh Vial. The time when Constantine the great destroied the Empire of the Dragon and overthrew the Dragon with the heathenish worship of the same is called the great daie of his wrath Rev. c. 6. V. 17. But the time here when the Beast and the fals Prophet shall bee cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and the Dragon shall bee shut up in the bottomless pit is called That great daie of God Almightie Above in the 11. ch V. 18. at the sound of the Trumpet of the seventh Angel it is called the time of the dead that they should bee judged and to give a reward c. By the Prophets in the Old Testament and by Christ and the Apostles in the New Testament it is frequently called that daie But to shew what properly is meant and understood by this great daie of God would require a large and particuliar exposition And becaus the Holie Scripture especially the Revelation of St John and the Prophets do not agree with the common opinion usual to prove and to make out at large at this time is contrarie to the scope and intention of this present Treatise Therefore it is is thought expedient to defer it till another time Vers 15. Behold I com as a thief Blessed is hee that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest hee walk naked and see his shame Here is declared the sudden and unexspected pouring out of the seventh Vial and plague which unawares and suddenly shall light upon the Papal State Therefore the Son of God himself doth exhort all men to watch and to stand continually in readiness by serious repentance and a godlie conversation And hee gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon In these words is described the place in which the Papists shall have the Rendez-vous of their Armies which they shall have gathered against the Professors of the Gospel The place is called Harmageddon Mountain of Lamentations whereby is intimated the place where King Josiah fought a battel unhappily where hee was slain 2 Chron. chapter 35. vers 24 25. For which the Jews made manie and great lamentations and at last it became a custom that when they would mourn for som extraordinarie sad accident they used to make mention of this defeat given at Megiddo Upon this lamentation of the Jews and Custom doth St John here point shewing thereby that the Papists will lament and mourn over the issue of this war as the Jews did mourn for the death of King Josiah and the great overthrow they received at Megiddo Vers 17. And the seventh Angel poured out his Vial into the Aër The aforegoing Vials have been poured out upon particular places The first upon the Ecclesiastical State and Popish Religion in common The second upon the Political State by the means of this Germane war The third upon the particular Popish Kingdoms and their Heads The fourth upon an High-head a strong pillar of the Papacie The fifth upon the Citie of Rome The sixth upon the Turkish Empire which keep 's a great part of the old Romane Empire in subjection and as an open Antichrist sit's in the seat of the Dragon Now followeth the seventh Vial which is poured out upon the Aër And as the Aër doth contein all things so likewise this pouring out