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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42409	An essay upon the fourth and fifth chapters of the Revelation shewing that the Church of England B.L.E. is particularly describ'd in those chapters / by Walter Garrett ...	Garrett, Walter.	1690 (1690)	Wing G269; ESTC R6105	15,525	19

Church that being raised from the Dead he dieth no more Death hath no more Dominion over him If it be said That the Church of England is too small and inconsiderable for the Accomplishment of the things spoken of the fifth Monarchy I answer the fifth Monarchy is compar'd but to a Stone cut out of a Mountain Dan. ii 34 45. and such is the Stone of the Church of England to the Mountain of the Church of Rome out of which it was cut and that without Hands too So that if the Church of England in the beginning of its Reformation had been vast and mighty in Extent and Numbers it could not possibly have been the fifth Monarchy but being but a Stone to a Mountain it may very well be it which shall become it self in time a great Mountain and shall fill the whole Earth Dan. ii 35. The like is foretold of this State of the Church Isa lx 22. A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in its time Since therefore there is no question but the fifth Monarchy was to begin in a small People and as little that God can bring his Purposes to pass whenever he pleases the Littleness the Smallness the Inconsiderableness of the Church of England can be no just Prejudice against its being the fifth Monarchy but is rather an Argument to evince it But enough of this and perhaps too much For what will it all signify I cannot believe it says one it is impossible says another To these I say I cannot help their not believing it and we know with God nothing shall be impossible But if any one of them will give himself the trouble of a diligent and serious search into the Business to such a one I dare aver that he will find it a far more easy and compendious way to disbelieve than to disprove it May the God and Father of Lights so illuminate all our Minds and sanctify all our Hearts with his holy Spirit that both the erroneous may come over to the Communion of this excellent Church the wavering may be establish'd in it and the stedfast may walk worthy of it Amen FINIS SOLI TRIUNI GLORIA * Thus our Common-Prayer-Books are called Rev. v. 8. * See Resol of three Questions pag. 15 16 17 c. * Pag. 4. of the Preface before cited * Thus the seven Seals of the Book Chap. V. 1 c. are but one continued Seal or Mystery running through the whole Book And this Seal is called seven Seals only in respect of the Division of the Book into seven Parts For if the Spirit had been pleas'd to consider the Book without respect to any division he would have mention'd but one Seal And again if he had pleas'd to divide the Book into seven times seven Parts he would have made so many Seals The like may be understood of the seven Lamps here and the seven Horns of the Lamb Chap. V. 6. denoting the Church consider'd as divided into seven Intervals and of the seven Lights in the Lamps here and the seven Eyes of the Lamb there denoting the seven Spirits of God that is Angels or Ministers of his Church or the Holy Ghost that influences and inspires them For one Spirit or Angel of a Church signifies the whole Succession of its Pastors during any one Interval And again one Holy Ghost is call'd seven Spirits with respect to the seven Intervals of the Church that he presides in † Rev. iv 5. * That by Spirits in this Prophecy are meant Ministers appears from Rev. xvi 13 14. where the Spirits of Devils working Miracles must needs be the Ministers of Anti-Christ Consequently the Spirits of God must needs signify the Ministers of Christ 1 Holy 1 Lord 2 Holy 2 God 3 Holy 3 Almighty 4 which was 5 and is 6 and is to come † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if it had been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus the Prepositive Article is expounded Joh. xi 51 52. 2 Cor. v. 4. vii 11. Gal. v. 8. 1 Thess v. 27. 2 Thess i. 11. iii. 14. 1 Tim. vi 14. Col. iii. 8. Rev. xix 20. Heb. v. 4. ‖ Isa xli 20. xlv 8. lxv 17 18 19 20 c. Eph. ii 10. iv 24. 2 Cor. v. 17. Gal. vi 15. * It is usual for the Prophets Actions to represent the Peoples For which see the whole fourth Chapter os Ezekiel Also Chap. xxiv from ver 15 many other places of that Prophecy Also Isa xx 2 3 c. xxii 4. Jer. iv 19 31. † Accomplishment of Scripture-Prophecies Par. I. Chap. 8. * So Liv. v. 28. 1. triumphantem albi per urbem vexerant equi Ovid. de Ponto II. 8. 49. Claudian de bello Getico v. 127. Plin. Paneg. 22. 1. And Apuleius in his Apologia Peram Baculum Philosophis exprobrares Igitur triumphantibus quadrigas albas c. † Dan. vii 27. Rev. xi 15. ‖ Proaem ad lib. 1. * So the Author himself dates his Episte to the Reader † Rev. xvii 14. ‖ Rev. xvi 1 c. * See 2 Sam. ii 4 7 8 9 10 c. xv 10 13. xviii 6 7. xix 9 10 41 42 43 1 King xii 16 17 18 19 20. † 2 Sam. vi 17. * So just before in this very Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the Lamb which had been slain but is now revived † They are the same Spirits i. e. Ministers of the same Church which was establish'd by Qu. Eliz. that are spoken of here and in Rev. iv 5. only here they are said to have been sent forth or driven from their Residencies in the Sectarian Persecution which had never happen'd before to the Church by her establish'd And note that as the Lamb signifies Christ or his Church so the seven Spirits signify the Holy Ghost or his Ministers indifferently as the Sense requires * See the Resol of three Quest † Rev. iv 9 10. v. 14. * Rev. v. 6 7.