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A45748	Clavis apocalyptica, or, A prophetical key by which the great mysteries in the revelation of St. John and the prophet Daniel are opened : it beeing made apparent that the prophetical numbers com to an end with the year of our Lord, 1655 : in two treatises: 1. Shewing what in these our times hath been fulfilled, 2. At this present is effectually brought to pass, 3. And henceforth is to bee expected in the year neer at hand : with an introductorie preface / written by a Germane D. ; and now translated out of High-Dutch.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1651 (1651)	Wing H979; ESTC R30751	90,414	256

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 wee must not make the Scriptures speak in a private 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 not by the will of man that is it was not anie particular chois or inclination of humane reasoning which brought forth the prophetical that is the scriptural word but they were moved by the Holie Ghost that is the universal Spirit whose wisdom is above all private concernments and doth penetrate through all beeing from the center to the circumference did put words in their mouth which they did utter and therefore these words must bee understood as universally and abstractedly from particular concernments as they were meant by the Spirit who delivered them unto the Prophets as for instance when a Law was given for oxen that did tread out the Corn that they should not bee muzzeled the Apostle tel's us 1 Cor. 9. 9. 10. that the meaning of the Law-giver was not to take care for Oxen but that this was said for man's sake So 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 the sens thereof nor bee able to divide the word according to the spiritual rationalitie thereof nor to shew the division thereof demonstrably either to our own or other's just satisfaction and truly the want of humilitie and ingenuitie to 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 is atteinable and will bee the onely waie next to the gracious and immediate illumination of the spirit writing the Law in the hearts to compose our controversies to end our needless and sinful waies of disputing and to banish out of Christ's Church the high conceit of our Doctoral school-Divinitie if I saie I should enter upon these thoughts you see that not a Treatise onely but a volume should bee written thereof to do it satisfactorily but I am resolved not to ingulf my self beyond the scope of this present discours which tend's onely to point at matters that you may bee stirred up to think upon them by your self therefore thus much shall suffice for the finding of the universal keie of all prophetical Mysteries as they are rationally discoverable in the Scriptures yet above this though not without it there is a neerer prospect to bee had of the Mysterie in the Spirit which without such a disquirie doth lead us thereinto This neerer prospect is the inward Testimonie of Jesus in whom as in the fountain are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledg and who is to all 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 so 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 led if God bee pleased so to carrie them a neerer 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 fits nevertheless they shall still 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 their Spirit must bee subject to bee 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 1 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 life in Christ yet that Testimonie is neither in it self inconsistent with nor in the orderlie waie of declaring it unto others to bee separated from the prospective of the Mysterie which is atteinable by the Rules of scriptural Interpretation if then I saie wee ought not to put these Rules out of our eie then let us take up and carrie along with us as the ground of our faith the Rule unto which in our apprehension all these Prophetical visions in their Mystical circumstances are to bee made proportionate which

by anie square root without a fraction and in it self six is but the half of twelv which is the number of the Tribes of Israël but upon these numerical Mysteries I love not to stand I shall therefore conclude with this one word that all who pretend to have a mission from the Lamb and think themselvs his true Prophets should do well to examine by these characters the ground whereupon they stand and the waies wherein they walk lest they mistake themselvs in their account of themselvs and bee found in the end the Prophets of the Beast and not of Christ As for the two Witnesses they are set forth as opposites unto the Beast for it is said that the Beast doth make war with them Chap. 11. 7. their Character is that they prophesie in Sackcloth as mourners that their design is nothing els but to bear witness unto Christ by the manifestation of the Truth without humane Interests and consequently that they studie not by outward means to set up themselvs or gain followers who should bee in subjection to them and under their spiritual jurisdiction nor do they applie themselvs to the fancies of their hearers to work som strange impressions upon them by raising them to the admiration of their Notions of their Eloquence or parts but speaking the plain truth in love a word of fire to melt the Conscience of sinners doth go out of their mouth which doth slaie the wicked spirits who set themselvs against them and according to their word the Heavens are shut up in the daies of their Prophesie from sending anie shewers of blessings upon men's souls and the earthlie and outward estate of men is smitten with all manner of plagues for not receiving the word of their testimonie as Egypt was by Moses and Aaron These two Witnesses are said to bee the two Olive trees and anointed ones who stand before the God of all the Earth Chapter 11. vers 4. which beeing compared with Zach. chap. 3. and 4. tel's us who are meant by these two Witnesses for there Jehoshua and Zerubbabel are anointed and established to bring back the captivitie of Judah and Jerusalem out of Babylon which they were to do not by the might and power of men but by the Spirit of the Lord and the efficacie of his grace The difference then of these two Witnesses from the fals Prophet is in this First that hee is but one who doth exercise a twofold power that of the Beast and that of his own devising which is a pretended one of Miracles these are two whose testimonie is one and the same and the effect thereof towards men but one from them both Secondly that hee taketh upon him a Coërcive power and to bring people under his yoke hee set's up differential tokens viz. the Beast's Image his mark and name but these make use of none other power but of that which is properly prophetical nor do they press anie distinct and particular notes of subjection to themselvs upon anie coërcively but have power onely to plague such as receiv not the Testimonie of Jesus Thirdly hee doth work upon the ignorant imaginations of sillie people strange impressions of admiration concerning the Divinitie of his own waie by deceitful persuasions which are a kinde of witch-craft whereby people are made to cleav unto his worldlie interest as a slave unto the same but these labor not to gain to themselvs the affections and fancies of people but to gain their understandings to the knowledg of the Truth and their consciences to the Subjection which is due to Christ Jesus without partialitie So then fourthly the fals Prophet in a word exalt's and seek's to set up himself in the spirits of men but the two Witnesses humble and denie themselvs that the Cross of Christ may bee exalted over their spirits and hee onelie set up in the hearts of men Fifthly and lastly the fals Prophet medling with State-matters take's both the Ministerie and Magistracie upon him making the one subordinately to serv the other's turns in reference to men but the two Witnesses who are faithful Magistrates and Ministers join their Testimonies in their places coordinately to make out one waie of righteousness and truth to the consciences of men in reference to God in Christ And this much concerning these The third thing to bee spoken of is the Mysterie of the Whore and of the Bride The Angel telleth John plainly chap. 17. vers 18. that the woman which hee had seen rideing upon the scarlet-colored Beast with a name written on her forehead Mysterie Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the earth was that great Citie which reigneth over the Kings of the earth Now it is evident that Rome alone as Papal hath reigned in a Mysterie over the Kings of the Earth ever since heathenish Rome determined which reigned not in a Mysterie but with outward force over these Kings and in that respect was the fourth Beast seen by Daniel therefore if wee can observ what the Properties of her whorish nature and practice hath been and how shee hath brought forth Harlots and all abominations in the earth wee shall discern this Mysterie and discover those that partake therein with her The text saith Chapter 17. vers 4. that shee was arraied in purple and Scarlet and decked with Gold with precious stones and pearls and that shee had in her hand a Cup full of abominations and filthiness of her forninications and chapter 14. vers 8 It is said shee made the Nations drink of the wine of these fornications and Chapter 18. vers 3. that the Kings of the Earth have committed fornication with her By the woman is understood the Romane Hierarchie which hath born Rule over all the world and rid in triumph upon the mindes of all men as upon Beasts Her decking and raiment of purple of Scarlet of Gold of precious stones and of Pearls is the outward visible magnificence of that worship which shee set's up which hath none other beautie but such ornaments to amuse the Imaginations of foolish people and bewitch them with the formalities of Ceremonies Her Fornications are the love of this present world whereunto shee doth allure men to commit Whoredom with her by the enjoiment of power of profit and of pleasures which shee studieth to furnish her lovers withal and to deprive other men off Her abominations are all manner of sinful and unconscionable practices which shee doth allow of in all who serv her ends thereby whereof shee make's a trade although they bee never so abhorrent from the light of Christianitie and of Nature these abominations are the Idolatries which shee hath set up and the dispensations which shee hath given to all unnatural sins and unjust practices as Sodomie Incest Murther Breach of Covenant and oath in all manner of Contracts Rebellion of Children to Parents and of Subjects to Magistrates all manner of fraudulent circumventions and oppressions of the innocent and such

of the Woman in the wilderness chap. 12. vers 6. The fortie two moneths of the Beast and of his blasphemies chap. 13. vers 5. The time of the Image of King Nebuchadnezzar Dan. chap. 2. The determined time of the four Monarchies Dan. chapter 17. vers 12. 25. The one thousand two hundred ninetie daies of Dan. chap. 12. vers 11. c. The spirit of life from God entered into them In the chapter 37. vers 14. of Ezekiel God in the behalf of the Jews in the Captivitie of Babylon doth use such an expression saying I will put my spirit in you and yee shall live and I shall place you in your own Land c. The same will befal to the exiled and oppressed Evangelical Professors God will send them an unexspected help by such means which never entred into anie man's thoughts God will revive them again bring them into their own Land re-establish them in their dignities and publick functions and give them greater and higher Privileges and Liberties then they ever had before And they stood upon their feet The Exiled Evangelical Professors do appear again and take possession of their Land and places The oppressed also com forth again and are delivered from their heavie yoak And great fear fell upon them which saw them As now there is great joie and exsultation amongst the Papists about the issue of this war so there will bee great terror when they shall see the Exiled return into the hereditarie Provinces again and the Oppressed take possession of their former dignities and honorable functions Then will bee a livelie example set before us of that which is written in the book of Wisdom chap. 5. Vers 12. And they heard a great voice from Heaven saying unto them Com up hither c. By the Heaven the Church is understood By the great voice is signified that after the end of three years and an half a great and chief Instrument an high Potentate amongst the Evangelical Professors shall rise and bee exalted who to the great fear and terror of Papists shall open again a free cours to the Gospel and Call with a great voice upon the exiled and oppressed re-establish them into their publick imployments and possessions and saie unto them Com up hither This is the Divine Diploma or Letters Patents the vocation or calling which is published by that High Potentate The exiled do obeie They ascend up to Heaven that is they enter into their charges again and perform that in the Church which is committed to their trust In a Cloud that is with great autoritie respect power and glorie Isa 14. vers 13. 14. And their enemies beheld them namely those that formerly did rejoice at their afflictions and miseries 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth signifie contemplari ludos spectare vel celebrare to see a Comedie or plaie The Papists had hitherto acted as it were a Comedie with the Euangelical Professors and tormented them with all sorts of plagues Now they see the event and issue thereof wherin doth befal unto them what is threatned Jer. 50. vers 10 11 12 13. Vers 13. And the same hour was there a great Earth-quake All the Peace which the Papists do imagine to themselvs is now at an end For immediately the reformation of this Evangelical Potentate causeth an exceeding great insurrection and combustion in the Romane Empire And the tenth part of the Citie fell By the Citie is here meant 1. Either the whole Papacie and thus one of the ten streets hath its fall Namely the Germane Empire which is the street where the dead bodies of the two Witnesses had lien who are now standing again upon their feet 2. Or the Citie of Rome it self which in regard of the old Citie of Rome when shee was in her florishing condition is counted this daie but the tenth part As the same is proved by Lipsius lib. 3. admirand And there were slain That is cut off and destroid In the Earthquake That is in this war Seven thousand That is a great number or multitude Of men That is high and great persons chief heads and noble families And the remnant were affrighted and gave glorie to the God of Heaven The rest of the Papists stand amazed and do acknowledg the just judgments of God which hee poured out over them Vers 14. The second wo is past These words do not import that by the destruction of the Citie of Rome and the other things which have been set down in the aforegoing words the second wo is brought to an end but the overthrow of the Turkish Empire is thereby especially intimated Revelations 8. vers 13. St John beheld and heard an Angel flying thorough the midst of Heaven saying with a loud voice Wo wo wo to the inhabitants of the Earth by reason of the other voices of the Trumpet of the three Angels which are yet to sound The first Wo hapned by the Saracens and Arabians whereof in Revel 9. vers first till the twelfth The second Wo hapned by the Turks Revelations 9 vers 13. till the 19. Hereunto do agree almost all the Expositors and refer this second Wo unanimously to the Turkish Empire And do infer from thence becaus it is said here the second Wo is past that immediately after the destruction of the Citie of Rome and these Revolutions in the Germane Empire the Turkish Empire shall have it's fall Vers 14. Behold the third Wo cometh quickly All the three Woes are poured over the Popish Romane Empire But the third Wo is the last and beginneth at the sound of the seventh Trumpet Wherefore these words do immediately follow Vers 15. And the seventh Angel sounded Wherewith beginneth the seventh and last plague poured out over Babel And withal is briefly described 1. The great joie which ariseth in the Evangelical Church 1. Becaus they have gotten an Evangelical head Vers 11. 2. Becaus the Citie of Rome is destroied and Germanie is fallen away from the Papal State vers 13. 3. Becaus the Turkish Empire is com to an end Vers 14. 4. Becaus the Son of God hath taken possession of the Kingdoms of this world and useth his great power and reigneth vers 15 16 17. This joie is also described in the 19. chapter vers 17. And upon this joie did David in the spirit reflect In the 93. Psal The Lord reigneth and is cloathed with Majestie c. In the 97. Psal The Lord reigneth let the earth rejoice And in the 99. Psal The Lord reigneth bee the people never so impatient 2. The wrath of the Heathen That is the furie and rage of the Papists against these the Lord riseth becaus the daie of his wrath is com utterly cutting them off and destroying them vers 18. This Act is with a double sign confirmed 1. The Temple of God is opened and there was seen in his Temple the ark of his Testament 2. There were lightnings and voices and thunderings and an Earth-quake and great