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A54053 A sober guess concerning several dark prophesies in the Revelation, especially the XI. chapter extracted out of several authors expositors on the Apocalyps / by T.P. Minister of the Gospel. T. P. 1662 (1662) Wing P119; ESTC R22458 86,572 208

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Gospel going forth Rev. 14.15 should bring in a great Harvest to God and mightily increase the number of the Witnesses Shall see their dead bodies The word in the Greek doth import Rationem habere they shall have some cover over them as make their enemies affraid to proceed to great cruelties against them their enemies happily would starve them and their families but their friends will feed them their Enemies would banish them totally destroy them bury them under ground but the friends of the Witnesses will not suffer their persons nor names to be so dealt withal And their Enemies may see their interest so great in the hearts and affections of the people kindreds and tongues as may give some check to their violence for the wound being yet fresh and affayrs not well setled happily their Enemies would be loth to make them desperate or at least it may so come to pass by the secret favour and endeavour of some great person or persons things shall not be so carried against the Witnesses as there shall be no hope of a Resurrection Three days and an half i. e. three years and a half but here is to be noted the time here to be computed is not the killing but the time they shall iye dead and without life after they are killed but how long the war lasts Quam diu entem bellum ipsum durabit quantu ●●que tempus dabitur prophetis interficiendis non nisi vaticinii complementum docebit Mede and how long time shall be given for the killing of the witnesses the fulfilling of the Propehcy will best tell us Verse 10. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoyce ever them and make merry and send gifts one to another c. Of the manner of sending gifts in great rejoycings see Ester 9.19 20. They joy now they are rid of and avenged of these Witnesses who vexed and troubled their consciences As upon the news of the French massacre which begun on Bartholmew day a Jubilee was proclaimed at Rome the Cardinal of Lorain gave a thousand crowns to the messenger and the Pope caused the massacre to be painted in his Palace So no doubt such an eminent civil slaughter in Protestant Churches must needs fill all the Popish world with rejoycings and longs of triumph the Bestian party then accounting the day theirs and that they have obtained a compleat victory Further note the Beasts or Beastian parties triumph for three days and a half must necessarily be computed and estimated not from the end of the slaughter in all the Churches but from the slaughter that shall be in that Church wherein the Prophets shall be last slain Neither can we imagine it to be otherwise unless we should furmise the slaughter of the Prophets to end in all the Churches at once which to be done in so many several States and Nations at once is hardly possible But this joy of the Inhabitants of the earth i. e. the Antichristian world is but short for v. 14. there is a wo Trumpet co Antichrist and all his Creatures and Confederates and all the enemies of the Saints threatning the last and worst of woful destructions to them Wo saith Christ to them that laugh for they shall weep Thus much of the War against killing and the lying dead of the Witnesses Now of their Resurrection Ascention and the consequents thereof in the 11th and following verses Verse 11. And after three days and a half the Spirit of life from God entered into them c. Here beginneth now the third Period Period 3. where the enemies of the Gospel are quelled and therewith doth break forth the true peace and tranquillity of the Church When these three days or three years and a half come to an end then also together therewith do expire the forty two months of treading the holy City under foot ver 2. The 120 and 60 days of the Witnesses prophecying in sackcloth vers 3. The 1200 and 60 days of the woman in the wilderness chap. 12.6 the forty two months of the Beast and his blasphemies c. 13.5 The times time and half a time which is 1200 and 60 days of the Beast with ten hornes speaking great words against the most High and wearing out the Saints mentioned in the book of Daniel chap 7.21.12.6 But to come to the Text After three days and a half the spirit of life c. Such as the death of the Witnesses was such will be their resurrection from the dead viz. a restoring them to their former state and that not so much by any endeavour of their own or by any humane help as by the finger of God who is wonderful in all his works So much is intimated in these words The Spirit of life from God shall enter into them We have such an expression concerning the lews in the Captivity of Babylon I will put my Spirit within you and ye shall live and I will place you in your own land The same will befall he slain Witnesses God will lend them an unexpected help by such means as never entred into any mans mans thoughts God will revive them again And they stood upon their feet i.e. they appear again in the publick Congregations not as hearers onely but as Masters of the Assemblies and take possession of their places and publickly exercise their ministerial Office they are unbound and loosed from their grave-cloaths as Luzarus was when he came forth and stood upon their feet they are delivered from the bonds and cords and heavy yokes of humane laws and constitutions that killed them and kept them dead and hindred their resurrection And great fear fell upon them that saw them i.e. as there was great joy and exultation among the Beastian party at then killing and lying dead so there will be great terror when they shall fee this resurrection of the Witnesses to their former places and functions then will there be a lively example set before us of that which is written in the book of Wisdom chap. 5. Verse 12. And they heard a great voyce from heaven soying Come up hither That is The Witnesses are not onely restored to their former place and station but they are raised up to some higher degree of honour for so saith Mede their being taken up by a cloud into heaven signifies See Dan. 7.13 Isa 14.13 and 19. They shall be called up by the supreme Magistrate to higher honor and esteem then before And they ascend up to heaven i.e. they enter into their publick charges in the Church heaven and perform their ministry with great authority And their enemies beheld them i.e. they that did so before rejoyce at their sufferings wherein is verified concerning them what is threatned Jer. 50.11 to 13. Verse 13. And the same hour there was a great earthquake and the tenth part of the City fell and there were slain in the earthquake the names of men seven thousand At what time the Witnesses or Prophets ary
particulars of the Text I refer the Reader to Mr. Joseph Mede in his Commentary upon the Apocalyps whose application is very orderly proper and articulate in the explication of the four first Seals where the lion on the east side of the Israelitish camp is applied to Christ the Prince from the East the nature of the lion being sutable to the thing signified in the vision viz. victory to him on the white horse and the like in the rest For so the Ox on the West side of the camp is applied to Trajan from the west the man on the South side to Septimius from the South and the Eagle on the North side to Maximinus from the North The natures also of the visions are sutable to the things that came to pass under those Emperors The mighty slaughters under Trajan and Adrian his successor are indigitated by the Oxe The exactness of administring justice and careful provision of Septimius and Alexander Severus by a man to whom numbring and measuring and administration of justice is so proper The extraordinary raging of the Famin Sword and Pestilence under Maximinus by the carnivorous Eagle that feeds upon dead Cakasses All which applications as they are easie natural and distinst so they are very weighty and worthy the Spirit of God and his holy Prophets to predict 2. In the second Period the seventh Seal is opened and seven Angels by seven Trumpets declare to the Roman Empire by seven judgements its ruine Cap. 8. Which plagues have been fulfilled The first Trumpet Trump 1. the Vision of it is hail and fire mingled with blood Rev. 8.7 which Haylstones and fire are symbols of hostile vengeance executed upon enemies this was fulfilled in the infestation of the Roman Empire from the year 395. to 406. partly by Alaricus and the Goths and partly by the Barbarous Nations under Ruduguisus and partly by the Vandals and Alans these are the Northern stormes of Hailestones with blood and fire that fell upon the Empire The vision of the second Trumpet Trump 2. is the burning mountain cast into the Sea which was sulfilled by Alaricus his taking and firing of Rome vers 8. upon which followed a continual spoyl of the Empire till it was dilacerated into ten Kingdoms for the Text saith the third part of the Sea became blood i. e. the extent of the Roman Dominion and the collection of the people therein which was a third part of the world was destroyed the head City being wasted the Barbarians at their pleasure wasted her Provinces deviding them into new Kingdomes The third part of the Creatures died i. e. the Armies of the Empire for its defence were irreparably ruined and the third part of the Ships destroyed i. e. all helps and means of traffique of supporting the power of the Empire being wofully lost Rome being first taken by Alarieus King of Goths Anno. 410. and after that the Roman Dominion was still miserably dilacerated till Anno. 445. Rome was taken again and spoyled by Genserius King of Vandalls and next year after the Kingdom as it were divided into ten Kingdomes foretold by Daniel and John viz. 1. Brittons 2. Saxons 3. Francks 4. Burgundians 5. Wisigoths 6. Sueves and Alans 7. Vandals 8. Alemuners 9. Ostrogoths 10. Grecians Trump 3. vers 10. The third Trumpet Vision is the great Star falling into the third part of the River burning like a Lamp the Comet Lampadius suppose properly so called This was fulfilled upon the Roman Empire in the extinction of the Western aesariate which was grown very low and obscure in those inconsiderable Emperors Avitus Majoranus Severns Authemius Olybrius Glycirius Nepos the immediate predecessors of Augustulus but fell quite and was extinct in this prince of sorrow bitterness and sad misfortunes whom Odoacer King of Heruli pulled out of his Throne 476. The fourth Trumpet Vision Trump 4. vers 12. is an Eclipse of the third part of the Sun Moon and Stars which proceeds further concerning Rome for this Trumpet exceeds the former and signifies that that light she shone with under the Ostrogoth Kings should be extinct and she should be dispoiled of Royal Majesty yea of Consulship and Authority of Senate which ill fate is very properly prefigured by the obscuration of Sun Moon and Stars for by these lumina●ies the Scripture sets out the power and Government of Cities or Kingdomes Esaia 13.10 60.20 Jer. 15.9 Ezek. 32.7 The fift Trumpet Vision is Trump 4. Cap. 9.1 2 3. the Key-bearer of the bottomless Pit and the Locusts this was fulfilled upon the Roman Empire by Mahom●t and the Saracens In the Application of which Vision Learned Mede is admirably critical and punctual The plague therefore of the fifth trumpet is that false light or pseud oprophet Mahomet sent down upon earth by the vengeance of God The star fallen from heaven is that false light or prophet Mahomet sent down upon earth by the vengeance of the God of heaven By the star here is meant say the Annotators upon the Bible Some Apostate Minister that fell from the true religion to Mahometism such as Sergius of Constantinople the Nestorian Monk and John of Antio●h the Arrian who are said to affist Mahomet in composing the lying Alcoran And so this Trumpet is expounded of Mahomet and the Saracens Vide Ann●t on cap. 9. of Apo●alyps whose doctrine is the fume of the bottomless pit and his followers the Saracens the locusts here spoken of as 1. Comming out of Arabia as the Aegyptian locusts did that plagued the literal Aegypt 2. And then hugely numerous as the company of locusts use to be 3. And also making their stay fo which you may turn menses quinos by five moneths which is an allusion to the usual continuance of locusts Plin. 11.29 and answers in the prophetical sense to five moneths of years that is 150 years that these locusts infested Italy and to the twice 150 years that the Saracenical kingdom continued so properly are the five moneths applicable to them 4. As also their golden crowns to the multitude of their conquests they having subdued Palestine Syria both the Armeniaes the lesser Asia Persia India Aegypt Numinia Portugal Spain within the space of fourscore years 5. The Arabians whence the Saracens wore their hair tied up like women 6. The sound of the wings of their locusts Rev 9.9 which was as the sound of chariots and many horses running to battel doth fitly signifie the mighty and swift victories of the Saracens 7. As also their poisonous Scorpions tails do the venom of the old Serpent under the false religion of Mahometism For all those powers that are not under the kingdom of light are part of the powers of the prince of the dark kingdom the Devil 8. As is here intimated very clearly the King over them being the Angel of the bottomless pit vers 1● though they pretend to be such zealous worshippers of that one true God