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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38634	An Essay to the explaining of the Revelation wherein amongst other things of great moment, is proved, that by the beast is meant an universal monarch which shall hereafter arise out of the Roman empire : that there shall be a fifth kingdom upon the earth, (namely that of the saints) together with the manner thereof, and that the New Jerusalem is a city properly so called, which God hath reserved in heaven for the saints.		1661 (1661)	Wing E3294C; ESTC R36197	107,276	171

the time for God to take the business into his own hands and to put forth the power of his Wrath by heavenly Instruments for as much as the earthly ones had proved ineffectual Which Observation is of good use teaching us to depend upon God for the avenging of his People even when all humane ability to perform it is quite vanished Vers 2. And I saw as it were a Sea of Glass mingled with Fire and them that had gotten the victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his Mark and over the Number of his Name stand on the Sea of Glass having the Harps of God The prosecution of the Preparative aforesaid is interrupted by a Representation of their glorious Estate who chose rather to suffer Death than to worship the Beast and his Image and to receive his Mark. For all that so suffer shall have a part in the first Resurrection as I have before touched in the Exposition of the 14. Chapter Now the place where the glorified Saints do stand to praise God is said to be a glassy Sea mingled that is filled with fire Of which Sea we read Chap. 4.6 Where John saith that before the Throne was a Sea of Glass like to Crystall Wherefore the Sea here mentioned is a large transparent Vessel made of a glassie or crystalline matter and set before the Throne of God in Heaven not having Water in it as that of Solomon's Temple 2 Chron. 4.6 which was made after the Patern of this Sea in Heaven but filled with fire And the Use is that the glorified Saints standing not upon as the English Translation hath it but by it may sing the Praises of God with Harps And in likelihood it is filled with fire to set off the terrible Majesty of God and the fire of his Jealousie wherewith he is wont to consume his Enemies according to that Description of him Psalm 50.3 Our God shall come and shall not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and burnup his Enemies round about Finally that they which are said to have gotten the victory of the Beast are rightly by me interpreted to be such as suffered death rather than they would yield to him is evident from the notion of overcoming or getting the victory elsewhere found in the Revelation Thus is it said by the Saints triumphant in Heaven concerning their deceased Brethren Chap. 12.11 that they overcame him that is Satan by the Blood of the Lamb and by the Word of their Testimony and loved not their Lives unto Death And Christ himself saith Chap. 3.21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his Throne But it is certain that our Lord Christ overcame by suffering Death for the Truth Vers 3. And they sing the Song of Moses the Servant of God and the Song of the Lamb saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways thou King of Saints Vers 4. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy Judgements are made manifest The Song which these heavenly Harpers sing is called the song of Moses and of the Lamb not that they ever used the very words thereof as far as we can judge by what is recorded of them in the Scripture but because it is conformable to the doctrine of them both Howbeit were the Hymn extant with Christ according to the prophecie that went before concerning him did sing in the midst of the Church Heb. 2.12 as well as the song of Moses Exod. 15. we should no doubt perceive that the song here set down was in effect the same with that of Christ as it apparently is with that of Moses Now the contents of this song are first the great and wonderful works of God shewing themselves in nothing more then in the preservation of these Saints from the worship of the Beast when all the world ran headlong to that impiety Secondly the righteousness and truth of his ways in making these Saints according to his promise partakers of the first resurrection because they had for him and his Gospel hated their lives in this world And this God whose ways are so righteous and so true is very significantly here stiled the King of the saints because to reign is properly to govern by Laws But there not are any that submit to the laws of God given by the hands of Christ and so are governed by them but the Saints all others being either ignorant of them or disobedient to them Thirdly It is intimated that it would be altogether unreasonable for any particular man to refuse to fear God and glorifie his name when there are so many notable arguments compelling thereunto as in the first place the unparallelled holiness of God For seeing he is holy of himself and all others by the participation of his holiness he is rightly here said to be holy alone Again the example of all Nations who come and worship before God is another inducement to the performance of the duties aforesaid Lastly the righteous deeds of God are alledged to this purpose partly shewed forth in the glorification of his Saints that died for his sake of which we spake before and partly in the destruction of the Beast and his followers Vers 5. And after that I looked and behold the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened After that notable digression touching the Saints that are to be partakers of the first resurrection John returneth to the great wonderful sign aforesaid which is ushered in with the opening of the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in Heaven By which words it appeareth not only that there is a temple in Heaven whereof mention was made formerly Chap. 14.17 but also a tabernacle containing it and a testimony therein This tabernacle I have already proved in the exposition of Chap. 13.6 to be the holy City the Heavenly Jerusalem Wherefore the temple belonging to it must needs be a more Sacred portion thereof where the glorified Saints do serve God according to that passage Chap. 7.15 Therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple Now lest any one should put off what is here said concerning a Tabernacle and Temple in Heaven by turning it into an allegory as men are too apt to do when they expound the book of the Revelation we ought to consider that even the Author to the Hebrews who uttereth neither Prophecies nor Parables but plainly delivereth the Doctrine of the Gospel doth also make mention of a tabernacle in Heaven stiling it The true tabernacle yea of a Sanctuary or Holy of Holyes which he in like maner calleth the true Sanctuary For thus he saith Chap. 8.1 2. We have such an high Priest who is set down