His Spouse from under the Power of his Death which is the scattering of his People among the Nations and under the rage of Anti-christ who sits in the sides of the NORTH driving his people into the wildernesse of the Nations then will our Lord Iesus after this manner take vengeance of all the Nations among which they have been scattered and bewildred 2. Observation Iesus Christ as He is the Glory of God comes riding in the midst of this whirle-wind cloud and fire He taketh up his Saints also whose Hearts are upright with the Father as his heart is into His Chariot They also though in their flesh they melt away with the servent heat of this fire yet in their Spirituall Man they come riding on upon the Third Heavens together with their King The Lord my God thus comes and all the Saints with thee While a cloud of darknesse covers the whole World you O ye Brethren of the Great King sit in the secret of this Darknesse upon a Thâ—…one of Light you lâ—…e in the midst of this cloud upon a Bed of Love in fellowship with your beloved Iesus Christ While the Tempest tears up this Creation from the very Roots of it you sit within it as above it as ruling it as flying upon the Wings of it you see a new Heaven and a New earth in the midst of it as in a womb from which they together with your selves are ready to spring forth Fear not you O ye meek ones when the storm rageth most violently they are the Swift motions of your Chariot-wheels which now make haste that raise this Storm Fear not you when the starry Roofe of the Kingdome of this World shall drop like melted Lead upon the Heads of the Inhabitants of it when the Foundations of it laid in the Dark parts of the Earth shall be devoured by fire While all this is working you have the firmamen of the third heavens the True Mercy-Seat for a Pavement under your feet 3. Observation When Iesus Christ shall have sufficiently avenged himself of his Enemies then shall the Whirl-wind cloud and fire altogether vanish in a moment as by a Divine Appointment The old heavens and the old earth shall vanish in the midst of this storme Then shall the Lord appear on his Chariot and fill All The bright Wheels with their high and dreadfull Rings full of eyes shall shine out as the New Earth of this visible frame made all of One Precious stone The Living Creatures which draw those wheeles shall sparkle forth as the New Heavens of the Elect and Holy Angels who are burnish'd Brasse in respect to their Naturall Angelicall Glory but flaming Lampes fill'd with the Oyle and fire of the Spirit in respect to their New State in the Kingdom of Christ But above the Heads of these in that Day shall discover themselves the Third heavens which are that firmament that expansion of Divine Glory These Heavens shall be seen onely as a floore or Ground for the Throne the New Ierusalem the city of the Great King Then shall the Heavenly man and the Glorious Trinity standing each in other God and Lamb appear as the Temple in this heavenly Ierusalem In the midst of this Temple are seen all thy Saints O GOD Here they have their Mansions as the Priests and Levits had their Chambers round about in the Temple of old Here they live continually with GOD as Kings and Priests never to go forth more From hence they extend the Line of their Divine Priesthood the Scepter of their Everlasting kingdom all over the New heavens and the New Earth From hence they sow themselves over all things as a seed they grow up out of all things as the fruit of joy glory and immortality O! who is there now among all the Saints that can forbear to cry Blow ye Whirl winds fly ye clouds thou fire make haste and bring my Beloved come thou come quickly Lord Iesus As surely as the Lord liveth and hath of old brought up the Children of Israel out of Egypt so surely will our Lord Iesus thus come and bring his Saints with Him out of the NORTH But why do I say that he shall come thus Ezekiel saith in the last verse of his first chapter that all this is but the Likenesse of the Appearance of the Glory of God As much as Earthly similitudes fall short of heavenly things as much as fleshly shadowes and Types fall short of Spirituall Substances and Truths so much doth all the Glory that can be now exprest or thought fall short of the Glory of the Appearance of our heavenly Bride-groom All former glories shall be remembred no more for ever A new a New glory shall fill thine Eyes thine Eares thy heart O thou the Lambes Bride even such a Glory as thine Eyes never saw any Image of thine Ears never heard any Tydings of thine Heart never took in any Degree of untill that Day Right Honourable I shall not conclude untill I have endeavoured to raise your joyes and your Praises yet higher by setting before you a Double interest which to say no more you seem to have in This comming of the Lord Iesus with his people out of the NORTH One is the interest of this Common-wealth The Other is the interest of this Age and time of the World in which you live 1. Interest Of this Common-wealth in the comming up of the People of GOD out of the NORTH I shall take the Boldnesse here to Propound to you severall considerations which may be all put together the Ground of a Modest Hope to a Sober Christian that the LORD JESUS intends that Honour to this Nation that it shall be said to it first of all the Nations concerning the heavenly Bride-groom that he was born here here he first of all appeared in an Eminent and signall Manner to bring his People up out of a fleshly servitude and Death into a Spirituall Glory and Immortality 1. Consider This is one of the Remotest Parts of the world to the NORTH whether the Rule of Hierusalem and Rome Christ and Anti-christ hath extended it self It is Master Brightmans observation in his Commentary upon the Revelations that Among the Seven Churches of Asia the Sun of Righteousnesse after his withdrawings began to return from that Church which stood most NORTH to make a Spring upon the Earth 2. Consid. I have heard it often observed by Judicious Christians who have travelled over Books Countreys and Spirits of men that no where upon the face of the Earth do there appear to be any Number of hearts Spiritually Acquainted Spiritually conversing with our Lord Iesus in any Degree of Heavenly Purity and Power save in this Poor small spot of Ground This looks as if Christianity and Spirituality were driven hither as to the Outmost Bound of the Habitable World here to make a Stand here to gather Head from hence to re-inforce it self upon
ENGLAND'S DELIVERANCE From the Northern Presbytery COMPARED With its Deliverance from the Roman Papacy BY PETER STERRY Once Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge now Preacher to the Right Honorable the Councell of State sitting at WHITE-HALL Printed at Leith by Evan Tyler 1652. To the SUPREME AUTHORITY Of the COMMON-WEALTH of ENGLAND The High Court of PARLIAMENT RIGHT HONORABLE IT may seem strange that in the Thanksgiving on this Day I have exalted the praises of the present season above the head of this Ancient Mercy If I deceive not my self I have not done this to the disadvantage of those old loving kindnesses nor without great Examples Is not this the beaten way of JESUS CHRIST with his Church to make succeeding visits and loves by being a grave to those that have been already to become a Resurrection to them giving them a more Excellent Being in this Relative State and Subordination than they had in their absolutenesse Did John the Baptist encrease his glory by any thing more than by that sweet readinesse to decrease before JESUS CHRIST How do the holy Pen-men in all their Prophesies or Praises frequently make every present subject but as a sight to direct their eye while their spirits fly to this mark the Heavenly glory of CHRIST in this last Appearance which is now from the midst of its Thunders Lightning upon the Earth Right Honourable I hambly intreat your Patience a little further while I present you faithfully with my Sense in the Comparison which I make between the Papacy and Rigid Presbytery I shall do this in three words spoken to three things Forms Persons Principles 1. As to Forms I grant some to be purer than others I allow the Church-form of Presbytery to excell the Papacy as the fairnesse of the Moon doth the darknesse of the Night I allow it to be in the first Rank of the purest outward Forms although not the first of that Rank I believe it the duty of every Christian to follow after the best Forms Yet is there a more excellent way which is that of Love My Brethren our Joseph our Jesus chargeth us not to fall out on the way though we walk in different paths We are Brethren let no outward Forms divide us one from another if they divide us not from CHRIST if they have not in their own nature an enmity to the naturall Image of CHRIST which is Civility Morality or the Heavenly Image which is Spirituality Let us receive one another into the Glory of GOD as CHRIST receiveth us though that Cloathing of the outward Form be not of the same fashion upon all nor on some so well shap'd as on others to the Proportion of the Body which is CHRIST The Lord JESUS hath his Concubines his Queens his Virgins Saints in Remoter Forms Saints in Higher Forms Saints unmarried to any Form who keep themselves single for the immediate embraces of their Love But CHRISTS Dove in all these is One the New Creature in CHRIST the spirituall birth of the Spirit the only One of her Mother that Hierusalem above which is the City compact that Band of Peace that Unity of Saints the Holy Ghost 2. As to Persons Fathers and Brethren of the Presbytery You together with me desire after sit drwn under the shadow feed upon the sweet fruit of the same Apple-tree in the midst of the trees of the Forrest though not of the same Arm and Bough of that Tree I would not in any thing offend you who are in the number of the excellent Ones in which is all CHRIST'S Delight on earth If I grieve you what shall make me glad There are of you who are ready to answer this government of JESUS CHRIST as Peter did CHRIST Thou knowest that I love thee Feed then the sheep feed the Lambs in those fresh Pastures into which He now leads you You who are of another mind appear to me like good old Zachary Though an Angel from Heaven witnesse that the things now come to passe are the very answers to those prayers which your selves put up many years agone yet you cannot believe because the way is not in the ordinary track of your Principles and Expectations Therefore are you struck dumb for a season that you cannot make a good confession of these Appearances of GOD But when the Child shal be born the Glory perfectly brought forth then your selves shal name it John which being interpreted is Grace then shall even your tongues be loosed to praise this Day-spring from on high which hath visited us then shal you acknowledg that this was the gate of heaven though you were not aware of it Now the Lord himself bring it to pass that all you who in your pâ—…st dispensations have been fathers to these present discoveries may suddenly turn your hearts to your children lest he come and for your sakes smite the earth even all flesh with a curse 3. As to Principles The marriage between our Saviour and the Soul is a marriage of Spirits a marriage in one spirit No union with any form makes this Marriage or dissolvs it That which alone stands in enmity to these Heavenly Espousals is union with a strange spirit This strange spirit is the Great Whore Babylon Mother of fornications One of her names is Mystery because she puts her self into all forms from the lowest to the highest from the most outward to the most inward from the darksomest among men to the lightsomest amongst Angels This is the great work of a Saint to watch to watch the Spirit of CHRIST as be makes his removes out of one Appearance into another to watch the spirit of Antichrist as that also shifts its forms Right Honorable For this I have desired in my Preaching in my Prayers to work with GOD even for the opening of the eyes of men to see that the same spirit which lay in the polluted Bed of Papacy may meet them in the perfumed Bed of Presbytery that the fornications and sorceries of this Whore are then greatest when they are most Mysterious that she is able by her sorceries to bewitch those that have attained to a great degree of spirituality as the Galatians To this purpose have I in my Sermon represented the same spirit which dwels in the Papacy when it enters into the Purer form of Presbytery as fuller of mystery so fuller of despight of danger not to make the form or persons but that Principle that spirit unfit to be cherished by any Person in any foâ—…m The Highest Godlinesse and the Highest Wickeanesses are those which are most Spirituall Now O Christians you fight not with Flesh and Blood but Principalities and Powers spirituall wickednesses in Heavenly forms But this is your comfort spirituall wickednesses ascend as high as the Heavens even into Angelical forms but spiritual Godlinesse goes up above all Heavens together with CHRIST into the bosome of the Eternall Spirit from whence it looks down upon the Angels
farre beyond the Papacy my Prayer is that being un-inhabited by the Lord Iesus there be not found the more divels in it besides the re-entry of the first-divel as to his inward principles though in a more specious form 4. Difference The Popish plot by Gun-powder would have taken away our Governours onely and those as they sate on that old seat in that old form of government which had framed those Laws which had shed the blood of so many Saints by Martyrdome which had laid so many bonds upon the Gospel But this Zeal-Plot laid more deeply more dangerously than the Powder-plot even in the hearts of our Brethren which dwelt in the midst of us this aim'd at the Ruine of Governours Government People and all by an Army made up of Highlanders who never knew Christianity or Civility whose rage would have blown up have torn in pieces all before it with a greater fury than that of Gun-powder All this was intended upon this Government as it came forth new washt in the blood of many precious Persons who sought it with the losse of their lives as it was busie in taking away the lives of those lawes which had shed the blood of the Saints and in taking off all bonds from the Gospel that it might runne freely and be glorifyed That former Treason was against an old power founded upon old principles concerning which as once before the destruction of Hierusalem a voice was heard which was the voice of Angels as is supposed saying Let us be gone from hence so the voyce of Good men Good Angels God himself was heard saying Let us be gone But this later Conspiracy was against a new power built upon new principles concerning which if I do not deceive my self and I comfortably hope that I do not deceive my self I have heard in my spirit the voice of Iesus Christ and his Spouse with the Angels attending speaking after this maner one to another Let us make our abode here Let us go forth into these fields to see how the Fig-tree puts forth its green figs and the vine her tender grapes Here will we give one another our loves Thus Right Honourable you have seen your two enemies compared You see how much the later exceeds the former in enmity opportunity design I shall now compare the manner of your deliverances in two things and so conclude this Use 1. In the powder plot all was ready brought within a very few houres of execution the train laid the Match lighted yet all vanished without giving any blow or making any noise In the Scotch plot long and mighty preparations were made a great Army formed every thing brought to maturity and ripe for action the design it self put furre into motion like a Granado shot up and falling into the very midst of us Yet these Preparations Armies Actions scatter in a moment like a Mist The way of the Papacy and of the Presbyterie in both these attempts against us hath been through the Blessing of our God like the way of a serpent upon a stone rising up out of his nest in the Earth sliding back into his first darknesse and leaving no track or impression behind him Secondly The LORD first delivered us from the Romish Papacy by a Child Edward the sixth But this proved like the Flower a fading Mercy When we were relapsed into Popery we were again raised out of it by the Hand of a Woman Queen Elizabeth We had been of late retrived and brought back under the Power of the same Principles cloathing themselves with the New Garment of Presbytery if that our God had not again delivered us by those of the New Modell who were in scorne esteemed as Children in the Eye of flesh who in simplicity behaved themselves as Children to GOD Right Honourable I humbly beseech you whose Hearts Heads Hands as Saints Counsellors Souldiers the LORD Iesus hath made use of to bring great things to passe do not I perswade my self that you do not think it your disparagement but your Glory rather to be accounted as children and women in these Mighty Works as children who have been led all along in the Hand of their Father who have been altogether guided by His Eye as Women who have had a Covering upon your Heads a vaile upon your wisdoms your worths that Iesus Christ alone may be seen as your Head the Power of GOD the Wisdome of GOD to you the Glory upon you If this also prove not a fading mercy as GOD hath founded his Praise and our Peace so will he also perfect it in the Mouths by the Hands of Babes and Sucklings such as shall hang wholly upon the Brests of His Consolations and draw in for nourishment only the sincere and unmixt milk of the Immortall Word But to finish this Use Right Honourable Hath the LORD made former mercies as seed out of which Later Mercies have sprung up as the Ripe fruit O then let our present Praises and Graces be to those of Former Seasons as Ripe fruit to the seed Let them not still be in the Earth of a fleshly Manifestation but let them come up to a Maturity a Spirituality Former mercies stand in the brightnesse of our later mercies as the Moon in the Light of the Sun They have no glory by reason of that Glory which excels If the Holinesse the Rejoycing of your Former Thanksgivings have been as the Moon Legall Litterall let the Holinesse the Ioy of your present Thankâ—…givings shine out as the Sun having an Evangelicall a Spirituall Glory in the face of them Doth our GOD come forth in New wayes to save us and shall we serve him still in the Old way Let us also lay aside the Oldnesse of the Letter and answer him again with the Newnesse of the Spirit Let us sing to him the New song of Moses and the Lamb now that he pipes to us the New Tunes of more Transcendent more spirituall more Heavenly salvations 2. Use A second Exhortation It is the way of the LORD to make his Last Mercies better than the Former The Present Salvations of our GOD in the midst of us have exceeded all that ever were to this day Let us raise up our expectations Let us lift up the Eyes of our Spirits unto Loving kindnesses which shal be yet much more glorious then these which are at this present come down from Heaven upon us in so Glorious a manner If we have seen Great things which we could not have believed now that the LORD hath brought us up out of Egypt what Wonders what Glory shall our eyes behold when the Lord shall bring up his People out of the NORTH For the more clear prosecution of this Use and explication of my intent in it I must propound and answer Four Questions First What is signified by Egypt as to the Iews Secondly What by the NORTH Thirdly what by Egypt to Christians Fourthly What by the NORTH 1. Question What
is signified by Egypt to the Iews and what by their being brought up out of it Ans. This is plain in the Letter of the Scriptures and needeth no answer to those who have read Moses and his Book of Exodus 2. Question What is meant by the NORTH as to the children of Israel Answer Babylon stood NORTH to the Holyland and the Return from the Captivity at the end of the seventy years was a Bringing up of the People of GOD from the NORTH But that cannot be the Meaning here for Three Reasons 1. Reas. The Return from Babylon was not with such an out-stretched Arm with such a Glory of Miracles of the Divine Presence it was not to such a Rest as the comming up out of Egypt had been 2. Reas. The Children of Israel were not all brought back from the NORTH at that time only Two Tribes and these but in part 3. Reason My Text joyns with the bringing up of Israel from the NORTH the bringing of them from all places into which they have been scattered which was never yet done These two universalities of the Promise for all Israel and from all places remain unaccomplished to this day When GOD brought up Israel his son out of Egypt He planted him as a vineyard with a Legall Dispensation with fleshly Ordinances a Tabernacle a Temple a VVorship a Presence a Glory appertaining to these But Ieshurun waxed fat with these fleshly VVorships He kick'd the Heel against his Master that fed him his Father that brought him up He set up the Temple above the LORD of the Temple he holds up the Ordinances against him when he came who was Greater then the Ordinances and the End of them all Then did God thunder from Heaven against his Holy Things and consume them with his Lightnings Then did he scatter Israel into a Dispersion a Desolation where he wanders abides shut up without Priest or Teraphim even untill now When the Nation of the Iews was taken away Christians in the Letter immediatly succeed into their place They sit down at a Table of fleshly Ordinances They also are in snared by their Table Their Hearts grow fat their Eyes are closed up with flesh They see not to the End of the Letter and therefore cannot own the Lord that Spirit when He comes to those who are under the Letter as to his own Christians succeeding the Iews in Ordinances in Idolizings of the Letter in rejection of the Lord the life of the letter for the leter's sake succeed them also in their desolations dispersions and shall at last accompany them in their return to their everlasting rest 3. Question What Egypt signifies in the state of Christianity Answer Egypt is Sodome the Mother of fornications and Witchcraft Antichrist is Egypt and Sodome Spiritually as Iesus Christ is Goshen and Canaan the land of light of rest There are many Anti-christs but two principle ones 1. The Anti-christ to the letter 2. The Anti-christ in the letter to the Spirit 1. The Anti-christ to the letter This is like the Samaritans of old a spirit of Heathenism and profanenesse bringing forth it self into a loose profession of Christianity that it may oppose it self to the purity of holinesse according â—…o the letter and perseeute Iesus Christ in the fleshly maniâ—…estations of himself This is that spirituall Egypt which will not suffer the people of God to go forth three dayesâ—…ourney into the VVildernesse to worship on Mount Sinai 〈◊〉 the outward purity of ordinances and legall cleansings of â—…e flesh 2. The Anti-christ in the letter to the Spirit through an annoynting in the flesh with many heavenly gifts unto the illumination and sanctification of the flesh unto tasts of touches of a Spirituall a Heavenly sweetnesse and power becometh an enemy to the Heavenly substance to Jesus Christ as he is a Quickning Spirit This is that Spirituall Egypt which will not suffer the people of God to go forth free from Mount Sinai three dayes journey further through the Wildernesse through the death of Christ to worship on Mount Sion This is the Abomination of desolation set up in the Holy Place or where it ought not to be of which JESUS CHRIST speaketh It is the ordinary phrase of Scripture to call an Idol an Abomination Now this is the setting up of an Idol where it ought not to be even in the Holy place The spirituall whore cloathes her self with the ordinances of Christ she washes and bathes her self in the letter of the Scriptures untill her flesh shine with the exact purity of an outward holinesse she perfumes her self with the sweet savours of the oyntments of the spirit decks her self with the fleshly manifestations of the Heavenly Bridegroom as with Jewels When she hath done all this she shews her self for the Ierusalem above the true Mother of all the Saints she persecutes the Free-woman out of the world into the Wildernesse that she may with the more ease and quiet passe for her The lovers of this whore cry up the glory of Christ in the flesh his ordinances his outward word his appearances to his impressions on the earthly man foâ—… a pretence that they may cry down Iesus Christ as hâ—…comes in the glory of the Father as he is the new and heâ—…venly man This is the Highest Abomination being thus set up in tâ—…holie Place in the Sanctuary it self to maintain an oppâ—…sition to the invisible glory of the most Holy Place whiâ—… is within the vail As this is that highest Abomination so it brings tâ—… greatest desolation along with it It makes desolate that hâ—…ly Place those holy things in which it is set up Ordinances Qual fications Manifestations the Flesh of CHRIST the letter of the Scriptures it scatters the flock of CHRIST one from another into the Wildernesse it brings the death of JESUS CHRIST as a sign upon them it drives them out into a Cold Frozen Barren Dark Desolate state as into the Corners of the NORTH Right Honourable Twice have those Two Spirituall Egypts when you have been carryed forth from the midst of them with a mighty Arm followed you with Mighty Hosts to bring you back again into a Land of darknesse and House of Bondage Twice hath the LORD over-whelmed them in the Red Sea of their own Blood Two severall Quarrels have you had with these two Egypts Your first Quarrell with the one was for the Purity of the Letter and Ordinances against a Spirit of Profanenesse and Superstition Your second Quarrell with the other was for the freedom of the Spirit in his holy his heavenly Outgoings goings before you both as to Religion and Civill Rule against the Letter and Ordinances perversly opposed to the Spirit which is the Light Life Truth End of both Two severall Testimonies hath the LORD given on your side against your Enemies in these two quarrels as for your Enemies He hath made
of God in Greek according to the most frequent use of it in the sacred Writings {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifies Iudgement Both together represent the Iudgement of the people of God or the people of God in Iudgement How is this Laodicea interpreted by the Angels that poure the fifth viall upon the Seat of the Beast the sixth viall upon the River Euphrates the Defence of the Great Babylon These Angels are described Rev. 15. ver. 6. The seven Angels came out of the temple having the seven plagues cloathed with white linnen and having their brests girded with golden girdles As the seven Churches had their severall Angels Rev. 1. v. 1. so have severall Dispensations of God to the Saints whether they be at once or in Different seasons Angels are the Ministers of the Divine dispensations as they descend from the Spiritual unto the natural man of a Saint These seven Angels powring forth these vials do upon this account denote seven dispensations or Appearances of JESUS CHRIST coming forth from the secret of the spirit into an outward manifestation through the flesh of the Members of Christ These poure forth the vials of Wrath upon the children of Wrath by the pouring forth of Grace upon their lips as the LORD consumes the Man of sin by the brightnesse of his coming But you have this Laodicea these Angels from the Temple plainly discovered by Daniel 7. 9. The Ancient of Dayes did sit whose garments was white as snow Behold One in the same Raiment with the Angels of the Vials ver. 22. Untill the Ancient of dayes came and judgment was given to the Saints of the most High v 26. The judgment shall sit and THEY shall take away c. Behold the Angels in white Behold the judgment and Judges in Laodicea The Ancient of Dayes coming forth appearing in his Beloved These are his judgment Seat his Iudges This is the sitting of the judgment 2. A Party judged The sixth vial falls upon the River Euphrates which encompasseth Babylon mystery the mother of fornications Waters hold forth a Spirit in which the flesh or letter stands lives and flourisheth as the Earth in the Waters A River is a Spirit either having the power or putting on the form of Light and Purity Under the same Vial is made mention of the false Prophet out of whose mouth an unclean spirit yet a spirit of miracles goes forth See the River which defends the spirituall Egypt and Sodome Is not this false Prophet he who would seem to be the River of Iordan making glad the City of Laodicea with his pleasant stream when he is as the dead Sea in the midst of her who saith I am rich and want nothing and knowes not that he is miserable poor blind and naked This is he who falls in to uphold the Dragon and the Beast who summons all the Kings of the Earth to battell in this common Quarrel against the Saints Is not this that very little horne of which Daniel speaks Dan. 7. vers. 8. There came up another little horne and behold in this horne eyes like the eyes of a man a show of divine Light a plain character of the River Euphrates the false Prophet and a mouth speaking great things that is I am rich and need nothing This little horne had a look more stout then his fellows vers. 20. He makes warre with the Saints vers. 21. He speaks great words against the most High GOD the Father and our LORD JESUS as he is in the most High the most holy place of Spirit and Truth above Flesh above Types he wears out the Saints untill this Iudgement sits ver. 25. This is the party judged 3. The Kingdom sinking is the Seat or Throne as it is in Greek of the Beast filled with Darknesse Revel. 16. vers. 10. The drying up of Euphrates by the Beams of a spirituall Glory vers. 12. The Battel of the great Day of God Almighty against all the Kings of the Earth v. 14. The spuing of the false Prophet out of the mouth of Christ Revel. 3. 16. The Thrones cast down Dan. 7. vers. 9. The Beast slain for the great words which the Horn spake vers. 11. The taking away of his Dominion consuming destroying it unto the end 4. The Kingdom springing is the everlosting dominion given to the Son of man by the Ancient of dayes Dan. 7. vers. 13 14. This everlasting Kingdom is given also to the Saints who must reign together with their Saviour vers. 27 Sweetly harmonious with this is that pleasant melody in the eares of Laodicea At the beginning of the Epistle our glorified Iesus is held forth to be the beginning the Head the Principle of the creation of God the New and Eternall Dominion Revel. 3. vers. 14. At the end of the Epistle He promiseth his Saints that they shall sit with Him in His Throne as He sits down with his Father in his Throne Thus the Ancient of dayes gives the Kingdom to the Son of man The Son of man gives it to his Brethren All Three raign each in other are Thrones and Kings each to other These are the Kings of the East for whom way is made by the drying up of Euphrates Revel. 16. vers. 12. These Kings from the East bring into my minde a place of Ezekiel to which St Iohn seems to relate as pointing at the same Time and Thing It is chap. 43. vers. 2 3. And behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East and his voice was as the voice of many waters the Kings of the East which come with him and the Earth shined with his glory And it was according to the Vision which I saw when I came to destroy the City the vision that I saw by the River Chebar vers. 4. The glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose Prospect is to the East Ezekiel in his first chapter saw the glory of the Lord come from the North with a dreadful tempest He saw it come to destroy the City He saw it remove from the old temple and City of fleshly Administrations Here he sees it come from the East with a most blessed Serenity and Sunshine which cloathes the whole Earth he sees it enter into the New-built Temple to take up Its rest there for ever Remember O Christians to distinguish between these two commings of the LORD Iesus at the end of dayes 1. From the North 2. From the East 1. When your Saviour comes from the North he comes upon his chariot He comes in the glory of the Father with all his holy Angels Thus he comes unto your inward man But he comes flying upon the wings of a VVhirle-winde Ezek. 1. 4. He comes upon wheeles of Fires with a flame of fire issuing forth from him Dan. 7. 9. 10. He comes with rebukes and chastenings Rev. 3. 19. He comes as a thief in the Night covering himself with a