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A68061	An exquisite commentarie vpon the Reuelation of Saint Iohn VVherein, both the course of the whole booke, as also the more abstruse and hard places thereof not heretofore opened; are now at last most cleerely and euidently explaned. By Patrik Forbes of Corse.	Forbes, Patrick, 1564-1635.	1613 (1613)	STC 11149.3; ESTC S102414	192,912	300

here a speciall treasure is meaned of the meanes whereby as Antichrist is ouerthrowen and drowned so God his Church is saued And this is the treasure of the pure word of God and power of his spirit mingled therewith For we must all be begotten of the word and of the spirit and be baptized with water and with fire And by this word and spirituall vertue thereof must Antichrist bee foiled As in the red Sea the people of Israel were baptized 1. Cor. 10. wherein Pharao was drowned And as Israel was baptized vnder the cloude which to them was a pillar both of a cloud and of fire of refreshment and light but to the Aegyptians a pillar of darkenesse In which respect the red Sea wherein and the pillar vnder which they were baptized were types of the true word and spirit whereby the true Israel of God are begotten to immortality and the enemies ouerthrowen So by allusion thereto the Churchâ—victorious ouer Antichrist and that great City which spiritnally is called Aegypt is said to stand at a glassie Sea mingled with fire that is in the cleare light of the word mingled with the vertue of the holy Ghost whereby they are victorious and furnished with the harpes of God but Antichrist therein is drowned 2. Thess 2. From this Sea they labor to diuert vs to cisternes of their own digging which are full of bloude But heere is our victory and wisdome whereby to count the number of the Beast his name and so to ouercome him his image his character name and number The Sea of the Fathers in a third part is bloud Chapt. 8. So as thence wee may if wee bee not wise to discerne draw death al 's well as life The Sea againe of the Church of Rome in latter state is all bloudy worsum Chap. 16. This Sea hath this different note from that Chapter 4. that this is mingled with fire The fire is there also but set out in seuen burning lampes distinct from the Sea heere the fire is mingled therewith and that of purpose to leade vs to take vp a great point of wisdome in the diuersity of God his dispensation in this last cleare light of the Gospell for Antichrist his ouerthrow from that first in the Apostolike times for casting the Dragon on the earth At the first going out of the Gospell to conciliat thereto the more credit and to shew plainly whence the vertue accompanying it came there was then a distinct dispensation of the spirit in outward visible signes as clouen tongues and fire extraordinary effects and operations as gifts of tongues healings and working of miracles and by a singular and visible manner of donation as imposition of hands of the Apostles But in this last reuiuing of the Gospell the word should be cleare and pure as at the first and accompanied with the force of the spirit yet the dispensation donation and operation of the holy Ghost should not bee in that manner but should bee mingled with the word the spirit and vertue thereof accompanying the preaching of the Gospell yet so as no visible or distinct symbol thereof should bee as at the first for now the preachers are feated by swallowing of the little booke Chapt. 10. no miraculous operations finallie no donation but such as with the word and by the word preached the spirit should worke in the Saints So as miracles in these last times are no notes of true preachers And this diuersity of dispensation is exceeding wise and requisite for the times At the first the Gospell was not onely to bee opened to the world lying in darkenesse but also confirmed to be from God Now it hath that credit with all but beeing buried in ignorance was to bee cleared Neither must wee take this so as if at first the preaching of the Gospell had wanted that accompanying vertue For euen then it was not in words but in power and was mingled with fire No doubt but Iohn his doctrine and baptisme had with it the vertue of the spirit in those that beleeued for faith is the effect of this fire And out of all question Apollos had the spirit in some good measure when hee knew but the baptisme of Iohn And these Samaritanes who by the preaching of Philip receiued the Gospell and were baptized had the spirit before the downe-comming of Peter and Iohn But at the beginning were ioyned the visible symboles donation and miraculous effects of the holy Ghost to procure reuerence and credit to the Gospell and to shew whence commeth all spirituall vertue to faith or conuersion and the outward healing of diseases to lead vs to know the power of the word and spirit in the quickning and life of the inward man and curing spiritual diseases of the Soule Neither must wee imagine that now the spirite is so tyed to the word as who euer heareth it receiueth necessarily the spirit For many heare whom it profiteth nothing because it is not mixed with faith but the gift of the holy Ghost is now no other way dispensed but by the word preached wee feeling the force thereof but neither seeing whence it commeth nor whither it goeth So whatsoeuer spirit one pretend without the word it is the spirit of errour 5 Now how these Ministers of the last wrath are feated and prepared to this great execution is shewed from the fifth verse to the end And first whence they are 2. How disposed 3. Wherewith instructed and by whom 4. By what power it is that so great a worke is effectuate They come out of the Temple of the Tabernacle of Testimony in heauen now opened that is out of the true Church militant this is implyed in the word Tabernacle now made patent and visible This first note sheweth both what they are and of what time They are members of the true Militant Church who by the light of the Gospell the Church being reformed and opened are stirred to the worke For God turneth the hearts of Kings who earst gaue their Kingdomes to the Beast and were his hornes to hate now the Whore and eate her flesh Chapter 17. For her fall shall not be by Kings of the East or Mahometans but by reformed Christians whereof wee see already good degrees praised be the King of Saints This note also pointeth the time of this execution to be in the dayes of the seuenth Trumpet according to the Oath Chapter 10. Vpon the sounding of which Chapter 11. followed the opening of the Temple in heauen and cleare sight of the Arke of the Testimony and thereupon lightnings thundrings c. Now here these seuen Angels Ministers of God his last wrath come forth of the Temple opened and goe to execution Thus the spirit by cleare notes leadeth vs to couple rightly the course of this Prophesie Which from the beginning hath so plaine a way as all being comprehended in seauen Seales sixe thereof bring the first sorrowes the seuenth opened yeeldeth seuen trumpets

righteousnesse now so shining as in place of glorifying God by repentance and acknowledging of their errors and workes of darkenesse they as the Children of darkenesse and hating the light whereby their workes are reproued boile in despitefull rage and are burnt vp with enuie and malice as were the Pharisies at Christ his cleare doctrine and euident myracles and that Stephen hauing his face like the Sunne And they blaspheme God in blaspheming his truth and true Church speaking euill of the way of righteousnesse their desperate rage still increasing as the light groweth because induration in impenitency is a common effect of all these plagues In that showsoeuer God hath his owne single ones to pull out of that Kingdom yet the body is not reclamable but must goe to destruction Compare this with the fourth Trumpet The light of the Gospel is a plague and torment to the reprobate world as the two witnesses Chapter 11 were a vexation Here the first effect of this Vial is rage the second blasphemy 7 The first is on the throne of the Beast that is on his Kingdom as the next words interpret and as the whole frame of Scripture speech euinceth The throne of Dauid is for his Kingdome The Throne is established for the Kingdome is established Satan his throne Chap. 2. 13. for his kingdome The first effect heere of is their kingdome loseth the glory lustre pompe and wonted estimation and becommeth contemptible Whereupon the secundarie effect followeth in them of desperate sorrow expressed by a gesture of men extremly grieued Gnawing their tongues and obdnration in impenitency and blasphemy theirâ—ores by the light of the sunne being more and more laid open and thereby their sorrow augmented For their workes see Chapter 9. And withall consider what a wise and iust retribution As by falling from heauen to the earth and from being starres of light to become ministers of darkenesse they opened the bottomlesse pit and let out darkenesse by the smoake thereof eclipsing all true light and so erecting the kingdome of darkenesse So heere by the cleere arising light of the sunne of righteousnesse all the earthly and worldly account of their Kingdome becommeth contemtible and is darkened And as by the doctrine of darkenesse they like Scorpions stinging men tormented their consciences so the light opâ—ned and discouering their treachery tormenteth them with anguish and sorrow This effect both first and secondary we see already in great part but shall yet see more For albeit these plagues heere haue their owne degrees for order of working yet still the former hold on with the subsequent till all together in the ende bring finall destruction 8 The sixth viall is notable in many circumstances It is poured on Euphrates the effect is drying the waters thereof This effect is for a speciall end that the way of the Kings of the East may be prepared Against this effect and apparent sequell thereof a great endeauour is shewed and the euent thereof The endeauour is of the principals Dragon Beast and false Prophet by their instruments a pestilent broode and well resembling their origine foule spirits and spirits of Diuels so is their qualitie Their dealing is to goe to the Kings of the Earth strangers from heauen whom they may perswade importunely cronting like frogges night and day in their eares Their force of perswasion is by working signes thus to shew them to bee fase Prophets seducing The ende of this their endeauour is to gather these earthly Kings together in their purpose to vphold their tottering Kingdome now threatning a fall and to impede the apparant effect to which this Viall maketh preparation but which God shall turne to an other fine then they purpose euen to be glorified in their iust destruction as the euent prooueth Now both in respect of the great danger to be deceiued and misled by these frogs and of the great day of God his wrath to come on them so much the more perrilous as it should come like a thiese in the night warning is giuen to watch and hold the true faith whereby putting on Christ and girding him to vs as with a golden girdle we be not found naked and so ashamed but blessed through our garment The euent of all this their busie trauell is expressed in this that they gathered them to a place called in Hebrue Armageddon 9 Now because for the most part the effect and sequels of this Viall are yet to come in seeking the accommodation we must walke warily as the light of holy writ may leade vs. Euphrates properly is that great Riuer whereon Babylon properly so called did stand and wherto it serued for beauty commodity and fortification It was also the march bordering Dauid his kingdome on the East separating and in a manner debarring the Easterne peoples therefrom To both these considerations in this allusion the spirit hath respect In the 51. of Ieremy prophecying the destruction of Babylon hee threatneth that he will dry vp her waters Thence hither to the destruction of the mysticall Babylon the speech is brought In the next Chapter the whore Babylon is said to sit on many waters Which are interpreted Kings Nations Peoples and Tongues To shew in great dominion and authority great dignity and strength The drying vp then of her waters is the decay of her authority dominion glory and power by the substraction of these from her obeience in whom was her strength and fortification Euen that same which Chapter 17. is expressed by eating her flesh and making her naked Thus fitly for this respect and yet more for the second the drying of Euphrates is heere mentioned in a depth of wisdome to shew how that Riuer bordering the kingdome of Dauid on the East and set betwixt the Easterne Kings and the blessed land being dried vp the Kings of the East should therethrough haue easie accesse thereto the debarring impediment being remoued The sense is As Antichrist his rising was the occasion of darknes and defection from the Gospell to Mahometisme in the East and of the obstinate abiding of Iewes who are most part in the East and whom specially heere the spirit pointeth at as the euent cleareth in their infidelity and as the greatnesse and power of Antichrist still debarreth both from embracing the Gospell as Euphrates flowing ouer all his bankes and so letting all free passage to the Kingdome of Dauid both Iewes and Mahometans through the superstition idolatry and corruption of the Romish Church abhorring Christianity so now her waters being with the heat of the sunne of righteousnesse dried vp an open way shall bee prepared for them to receiue the Gospell I know how some from the story of Cyrus and Darius King of the East diuerting the course of Euphrates and so surprising Babylon thinke this allusion taken to shew how mysticall Babylon shall in like manner be destroied by Easterne Kings But the spirit of God fetcheth nothiug from Xenophon or Herodotus but all his allusions

are to holy writ As this speech is plainely from Ieremy And the Prophets who in respect of Media by whose forces specially Babel was taken denounce her ruine from the North shew the weakenesse of that coniâ—cture And this Prophesie cleereth euidently that her destruction shall be by Westerne Kings euen the hornes of the Beast who hauing long drunke of her cup and giuen their Kingdomes to the Beast at last haue their hearts turned by God to hate the Whore eate her flesh make her naked and burne her with fire and so shall make way for the Kings of the East that is whole States that particular persons be not thought heere to bee designed as were the Sages who at the natiuity of Christ vpon sight of his star came from the East to worship him whil Priests and Phariseis abode in blindnesse which by Babels fall the cleare starre of Christ shall bring to bowe vnto him Whereat Herod and all Ierusalem shall bee troubled As their endeauour heereupon well sheweth Now heere a great wisdome and delightfull congruity in the order of God his working is to be obserued and admired By Antichrist his vsurpation and darkenesse preuailing on the fifth trumpet as by the swelling of Euphrates the East was alienated debarred from the Kingdome of Dauid God in his iustice losing thereafter in the sixth Trumpet from Euphrates these Armies of desolation poisoning error So heere in the fifth Viall the kingdome of Antichrist becomming darke and contemptible and in this sixth Viall all beauty strength and fortification being dried vp the East shall come againe to the Gospell and Iewes â—epent from their obstinate blindnesse and induration God thus wonderfully and to the high praise of his wise grace bringing a more ioâ—full effect from Euphrates in Antichrist his fall then hee brought a heauy woe in his rising And consider how wonderfully heereupon the case varieth In the sixth Trumpet out of the mouthes of these destroiers from Euphrates came Three things Fire Brimstone and Smoake By which three the third part of men were destroied Here to disturbe al 's ioifull an effect from the East â—uâ— Of the mouthes of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet three foule spirits euen spirits of Deuils That is men led with the spirit of Satan lyers and murtherers like their Father and accompanied with the effectuall deceiuablenesse of his working authorised by Antichrist his state and in speciall by the false Prophet head thereof are sent abroad as crouting froggs to bestirre themselues Who these are the state of our time and practise of Iesuites and Seminary Priests compassing Sea and Land specially busie about Kings maketh more then manifest They beginne to see their waters drinking in and Euphrates earst so great a riuer now running in a narrow channell and this setteth them madlings a worke Besides their origine they haue a speciall note of distinction whereby to discerne them that they are workers of miracles so to shew them false Prophets to whose begetting authorizing and setting a worke all the power of the kingdome of darkenesse Dragon Beast and false Prophet haue iointly bended all their malice force and intising hypocrisie as to the last puffe of Satan his mouth and of the Vicar of his throne for vnderpropping Babilon But shee can not be cured For the Beast goeth to destruction Heere the Beast and false Prophet are distinguished as the first and second Beast Chap. 13. That heere may bee shewed a ioyned endeauour of the head and whole body of the state See vpon the next Chap. Sect. 11. 18. and vpon the 19. Sect. 27. 10 The vnlucky euent of this their endeauour to themselues and happy to the Church specially these to whom by this viall the way is prepared is shewed in these words that they gathered them to a place called in Ebrew Armageddon Wherein much matter is comprised and offered to our consideration partly in the name of the place but specially in that it is so called in Hebrew The place is Armageddon a word composed of Har a Mountaine and Mageddon a plot of ground in the of lot Manasse famous in Scripture for two notable euents the one of great ioy the other as sorowful The first is in the 5. of Iudges where a great victory is obtained against Iabin and Sisera at the waters of Mageddo when the Kings fought and were swept away This was so noble a victory to the Church as the Psalmist maketh it the measure of his wish against the enemies The other al 's mournfull is when Iosias by Necho is slaine at Mageddo Whereupon to the Iewes insued most bitter mourning To both these euents the spirit heere alludeth yet with this remarkable point of difference that where the first of them was at the waters the second in the valley of Mageddo Heere the place is Armageddon that is the mountaine of Mageddon This difference is purposelie put of the spirit to shew that the enemies heere should bee in some great indeauour against the Church of God in all the old Testament bearing the name of a Mountaine Not onely for God stablishing her against all assailers and for her eminencie but also in respect of her type in Mount Sion and land of promise which is a land of Mountaines and for the Church her abode therein called of Daniel Hartsebikadosh This is the Mountaine of Mountaines wherein the Lord will destroy death and thresh Moab as straw is threshed in Madmena in which the Lord will destroy all that rise against her Heerein then is implied that this great destruction of Antichrist and his aiders by perswasion of the frogges shall bee in a high enterprise against the true Church as God foiled Gog vpon the Mountaines of Israel And the King of the North entring in the pleasant Land and planting the Tabernacles of his Palace in the glorious and holy Mountaine Now as for this their purpose causing their destruction the place is called Har a Mountaine So to expresse a double euent of this their enterprise it is called Megiddon by allusion to the two stories before mentioned To that in the 5. of Iudges to shew that the same shall befall all these enemies assembled by the frogges which did befall Iabin and Sisera at the waters of Megeddo And thereupon such a like song of ioy to the Church as is that of Deborah and Barak To the other story of Iosias slaughter the allusion is to shew that vpon this victory should arise such a mourning and that proper to the Iewes as they had for the slaughter of Iosias in the valley of Mageddo but of a much different kind Euen that mourning whereof Zachary prophecieth in his 12. Chapter When by this victory the way beeing prepared for them to come and see him whom they pearced they shall bee sorry for him as one is sorry for his first borne and when in that day there shall bee a great mourning in Ierusalem as the mourning of

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