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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

first two For the voice of the Lord is mighty the voice of the Lord is glorious it breaketh the Cedars and maketh the wildernesse to tremble But in his Temple only men speake of his glory Psalm 29. This gracious dispensation incredible and vnseene to the world which could not therefore learne the song of praise thereupon was in the 11. Chap. expressed by two witnesses which for dispensing grace and light were two oliue Trees and two Candlestickes in the Temple while it seemed impossible that any such could bee Antichrist brooking City and Court and for force and power fire went out at their mouths and they did strike the earth with all manner of plagues Now these comparisons of the voice of waters thunder and harping as they expresse fitly what I haue told so in them is implyed a sure prognostick and argument of the next insuing estate in the Angels breaking forth and crying For albeit this sound of water thunder and harping the world in this lurking condition of the Church perceiued not yet they could not still remaine vnheard Who can restraine the breach of great waters what congealed cloude can keepe in thunder and excessiue ioy a heart of any thing can least hold vp Forth therefore this hid Church behoued to come The bellies made bitter with eating the little booke behoued to burst or breake out according as we see in the three Angels following who come forth like the swelling of Iorden like sonnes of thunder according as Christ Chapt. 10. preparing for this outbreake his roaring voice was seconded with seuen thunders and like the bursting out of a blythe heart which cannot hold vp a surfet of ioy 4 This second condition of the Church breaking forth hath the velitation or skirmish and a coincident case with it The velitation I call it so in comparison to the great battell in the seuenth trumpet and seuen vials thereof summarily proponed in the end of this Chap. and exponed largely thenceforth according to the first degrees of the light of the Gospell reuiuing is set downe in three Angels types of these Ministers whom God stirred vp to bee the first open contesters with Antichrist to the 12. verse The coincident case is in the 12. and 13. verses 5 The first ranke of Preachers are expressed by an Angel fleeing thorow the mids of heauen c. for open and swift course which notwithstanding was yet farre remoued aboue the perception of men of the earth whereof few vnderstood or imbraced the first warnings and light arrising it being but yet obscurely preached like as few vnderstood the warning of Antichristian darknesse comming on Chap. 8. and in respect of that Angel there it is that this is called an other Angel as who is the next vsing his forme See a contrarie dispensation to this which cleareth this sense Chap. 18. His doctrine is set downe first in generall and to whom he preached and secondly the speciall points thereof In generall it is an euerlasting Gospell euen that truth which was from the beginning and which when heauen and earth passeth away shall abide for euer the immortall seede and begetting to immortality So it is called against the calumnies of nouelty and in opposition to the doctrine of men Hee preacheth to them who dwell on the earth euen in Antichrist his darkenesse aboue whose reach it is lesse maruell that this first light was yet farre remoued as a fleeing flash thorow the mids of heauen He preacheth to all Nations Kinreds Tongues and Peoples who had worshipped the Beast and of whom by restored light of the Gospell an infinite number was now to be brought out of great tribulation to sing with Palmes in hand and hauing washed their garments in the bloud of the Lambe Saluation is of our God and of the Lambe and to be made partakers of the first resurrection the thousand yeeres being expired Chap. 20. Now the hid ones beginne to breake out and the song vnheard to bee tuned vp loudlie in the eares of all the earth therefore this Angel is said to cry loude In his speciall doctrine is the substance thereof and his manner of teaching The substance is that all feare glory and worship bee giuen to God onely and that both for auoiding his iudgements neere to bee executed and because he is creator of all things A doctrine exceeding fite for that time His manner is to bee marked in that hee vrgeth onely true worshippe not bold yet to challenge directly the Antichrist as the succeeding Angell doth roundly but more the third so wisely and plainely as the Spirit sheweth the course and the accommodation of Story is euident Now as this was the first degree of the conflict with Antichrist so accordingly in the song of victory God is praised for these same points Chapter 15. 3. 6 The second Angell roundly denounceth the fall of Rome that spirituall Babell Sodome and Egypt and that because shee had not onely beene an Idolatresse her selfe but as Ieroboam made Israel to sinne shee is the mother of Whoredomes through the world making men drinke vp superstitious worshippe greedily as wine and so to be besotted therewith To the which God both gaue ouer the world iustly in his wrath that they who would not beleeue the truth should be taken with deceiueable illusions and for which now againe the world iustly feeleth the cuppes of the last wrath As hee gaue to Israel Kings in his wrath and tooke them away in his displeasure 7 The third Angell yet more vehemently toucheth neerer Warning all to leaue the Beast his worshippe and character either in worke or profession vnder paine of eternall damnation Wherein they against whome the iudgement is denounced are exactlie noted and twise set downe in the beginning and in the end of the denunciation for speciall purpose and the quality durance and continuance of their iudgement expressed In the quality of iudgement are two First as they dranke greedily the Whores Wine so get they to drinke the pure vnmixed wine of God his wrath and next they get it in the cup of his wrath God sometimes giueth a bitter cuppe to his owne children but as strong wine for mitigation is tempered with water or sugar so are all God his chasticements to his owne mixed with mercy but to the wicked is powred out mercilesse iudgement Next the Cuppe propined to the Saints is not the Cup of wrath but of loue and medicinall but the wicked drinke out of the cuppe of wrath Lord reproue mee not in thy wrath Psal 6. 8 Now this iudgement is denounced against such as worshippe the Beast and receiue his Character c. And they are twice repeated as I haue said wherein is no Tautologie but diuine wisdome for to make vs take vp a great point In the 13. Chapter all the Beast his followers haue his Character or his name or his number whereof as I shewed there the difference is ill obserued For many haue his

of Scripture Ego Scriptur is non crederem nisi me ecclesiae commo●eret authoritas Yet in this degree albeit of great moment the soule resteth not but hath next to aduert not onely what but also whence the Church speaketh neither in this yet canst thou acquiesce till besides both these degrees God by his spirit open thine eies to see and behold so as now thou beleeuest not onely for that the Church so saith but because by her testimony out of the word God hath lightned thy minde to see and know Non iam hominibus sed ipso Deo i●trinsecus mentem nostram firmante atque illuminante as saith the same Augustine In the sight then of this person priuiledged aboue all creatures as Iohn seeth him are first his place and gesture in it and next his description The place is betwixt the throne and the foure beasts and twenty foure elders his gesture is that hee stood In both which is expressed his administration betwixt God and his Church towards both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His description is that he is a lambe but of strange note Hee is the lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world and our true passeouer His notes are first that he stood as though he were killed not that so it was in apparance and not in truth but this form of speech is put to shew the continuall recent vertue of his death eternally effectuall before God as whereby once for all hee hath purchased eternall redemption His second note are his seuen eyes and seuen hornes the seuen spirits of Iehouah euen that full perfection of wisdome and power wherewith hee is annointed aboue his fellowes hauing receiued the spirit without measure to rule all things according to the high authority giuen him of the Father of whom hee hath receiued all power in heauen and earth ab●●dantly so instructed with all that serueth for perfect execution of his royall priestly and Propheticall offices Thus is the knowledge which Iohn had of this personage followeth his fact which is that hee went and tooke the booke out of the hand of him who sate vpon the throne c. for as by him onely wee haue all blessing from the Father whom none knoweth but the Sonne so particularly this diuine reuelation 5 Thus is his fact and performance of that which no Creature was able to looke vpon Followeth the euent ensuing hereon in all which the dignity of this Reuelation appeareth clearely And this euent is much different from that which despaire of getting the book opened wrought in Iohn For now vpon cleare sight and assurance of one taking the booke and worthy to open the same is raised an excellent ioyfull song of praise wherein fall to bee marked first the occasion 2. The Singers 3. The quality and tenor of the song And 4. the order of singing That they see the Lambe take the Booke it occasioneth the song The Singers are the 4. Beasts the twenty foure Elders the Angels And lastly all Creatures Of these the foure beasts and with and following them the twenty foure Elders raise the song the Angels in course succeed and sing their part then all Creatures Lastly these who raised the song sing the last passage and so close it The quality and tenor will appeare through all in the parts thereof In the foure Beasts and twenty foure Elders who are Precantors are noted first their disposing of themselues to sing 2 the quality of their song and 3. the tenor or substance of it They dispose themselues by conuenient gesture by fitte instruments of praise Their gesture is falling downe and that before the Lambe as before they did before the throne for hee is to bee honoured as the Father and such is the Father his will that who honoreth the Father they honour the Sonne also Their Instruments of praise are th●●● Harpes golden Vialls full of odours and voice ioyned therewith Harps are known Instruments of praise through all the Psalmes The Odours are interpreted praiers of Saints powred out of golden Vials that is faithfull and pure hearts the speech is from the Leuiticall Ministery wherein Incense was offered on the golden Altar and had a typicall relation to our Christian sacrifices of prayer and thanks giuing which Dauid sought that they might bee directed before God as incense the golden Vials of the Legall worship being types of faithfull and cleane hearts for faith is more precious then gold and our prayers are odors and smell sweetely through Christ the golden Altar Now with both these the voice is ioyned to shew all earnest endeuour to magnifie the gift of God in this benefite euen with instrument heart and voice as Dauid in the Psalmes often For God will haue all outward and inward Here is no ground for praier to Saints departed an Idolatrous errour fondly builded here on Scripture mistaken and yet euen in their sense giuing thereto no warrant for giue that here the Saints departed were said to offer vp praises to God as no doubt they doe alwaies what reason is that for vs to pray to them but as I haue shewed all this is of the Church Militant here spoken Thus they dispose themselues to sing The quality of their song is that it is a new song which sort ordinarily is of most account the destruction of Sathan his workes ●estitution of all things redemption of man is a new worke Behold I make all things new In Christ Iesus wee must all become new Creatures for old things are past away These same Chapter 4. did sing a song to him that sate on the throne but it was the old song for the old worke of Creation here is a new song so much the more magnifically set forth and sung as the worke of Redemption that is the new work in all degree of comparison passeth the old 6 The tenor or substance of their song hath first the praise of the Lambe his worth●nesse to take and open the booke and next the reason thereof The praise for the forme whereby in ●maeb●an manner they answere to the Proclamation of the strong Angell is exceeding delightfull shewing now al 's triumphing ioy as before the sight of impotency in all creatures bred to ●ohn a dumpish sorrow For where the Angell proclamed Who is worthy to take the booke and loose the seuen Seales thereof These now in exulting ioy answer Thou art worthy to take the Booke and loose the seuen seales thereof The reason of this the Lambe his worthinesse and merite is his slaughter and the great effect fruit thereof Where take heed wee esteeme not this to bee the reason of his worthinesse absolutely but in relation onely to this fact and all grace procured to his Church For that we haue any accesse to God or that any blessing is obtained to vs from God it is through the slaughter of the Lambe and merite thereof

large explication Chapter 15. As is most cleere by comparing the Angell stirring this to execution with that one of the foure beasts furnisher of the Vials to the seuen Angels Chapter 15. This last inciter hath this common note with the former two Angels that he commeth out of the Temple but this he hath singular that he came from the Altar So then he is a minister of the Altar by allusion still to the Temple and Legal worship Next he hath power ouer fire as Christ who came to send fire in the earth as the two Witnesses Cha. 11. and Elias out of whose mouthes fire proceeded to deuoure their aduersaries and who had power to plague the earth with all manner of plagues al 's often as they would as hauing vengeance in readinesse against all disobedience Now then as by the Angell out of the Temple armed with the sikle are expressed heere generally and summarily in this summary propositiō all faithfull Christians of whatsoeuer calling instructed with power from God to execute his wrath against the enemies which executors are more largely expressed in the seuen Angels Chapter 15. So this comming from the Altar is the type of true pastours by whose plaine and powerful preaching the other are informed and stirred to consecrate their hands to the Lord. Euen to serue Babel as shee hath serued vs. As accordingly Chapter 15. The seuen Angels receiue the vials of wrath from one of the foure beasts Of whom Chapt. 4. CHAP. XV. HEnce is the story of the last wrath for finall destruction of the enemies to the peace of the Church that the kingdoms of the world may be Gods and Christs Vpon obstinate impenitency against sixe trumpets Chapt. 9. 21. The fulfilling of this wrath was sworne to come in the daies of the seuenth trumpet Chap. 10. Vpon sounding of the seuenth trumpet summarily denounced Chap. 11. And summary executing thereof proponed Chap. 14. in the end Whereof here the larger narration hath the executers Chap. 15. Their execution in order Chapt. 16. Cleared more largely Chapters 17. 18. 19. and 20. Whereupon the gracefull condition of the Bride victorious is magnifickly set downe Chapt. 21. and 22. This whole matter is that other great signe seene in heauen to distinguish this part of story from the preceding in the last three Chapt. called also a signe in heauen This is that which Mat. 24. is called the signe of the sonne of man For hee and his iudgements now are made manifest As not inconueniently the other might be called the signe of the Dragon 2 In this Chapter from the beginning to the fifth verse is set downe the greatnesse of the erand thence to the end the disposing of the instruments for execution thereof the greatnesse of the matter is first summarily proponed in this that hee saw a signe a great yea a maruellous signe and in heauen That Chap 12. was a great signe but this is both great and wonderfull euen the signe of the sonne of man in heauen This great wonderfulnesse is shewed in the Ministers Angels their number seuen their imployment to bee executors of God his last wrath for finishing of the mysterie Chapt. 10. For his spirit would no longer striue with men vers 1. Next in the effect and end of their worke to the 5. verse Which are the destruction of Antichrist that the Saints victorious ouer him may praise God and by the greatnesse equity and truth of his iudgements manifested all men may feare glorifie and worship him who onely is holy For expressing of this effect and end the Church and her condition in and vpon this execution to follow ioyfully vpon sight of the instruments prepared precōceiuing the certaine euent is set down in the victory and song thereof In the victory are the meanes whereby and the party ouer whom The meanes are a glassie Seamingled with fire the pure word of God mingled with the vertue of the holy Ghost Chap. 4. The victory is ouer the Beast his image his marke and number of his name to shew it now full and perfit In their song are first the quality that it is a song of praise for a maruellous deliuerance and ouerthrow of a great enemie such as Moses vpon such a case did sing at the red Sea Exod. 14. Secondly it is in praise of the Lambe through whom they obtaine this victory and in whom the Father is glorified and not in praise of Moses who is the seruant of God Heb. 3. 3. Chapt. 22. 9. and 19. 10. Thirdly their disposition is noted in that they haue the harpes of God giuen by him for his praise that is well tuned hearts filled with ioy and loue in conscience of his benefits and bursting out in thanksgiuing For hee onely putteth a new song in the mouthes of his seruants Lastly the tenor of their song is in two the praise of God his works and waies and the sequell therof The praise of his workes is that they are great and maruellous according whereto hee hath a competent title Lord God almighty The praise of his waies is that they are iust and true and competently thereupon he hath the title of King of Saints In infinite authority and power yet to hold euer a iust and true way is a great praise Now the sequell hereof is that he onely be feared glorisied and worshipped of all And that for two reasons First because he onely is holy and not the Beast who sacrilegiouslie busketh his head with that blasphemie Next his iudgements are now made manifest to all so as who before worshipped and wondered after the Beast as hauing none equall or able to fight with him now in his iust and manifest ouerthrow may know and praise God only holy For Christ now sitteth on a white cloude iudging him Compare this 4. verse with the 7. of Chap. 14 and see what wisdome 3 Before wee enter in the second part in the disposing of the instruments for this great execution the interpretation giuen of the glassie Sea mingled with fire is to be cleared 4 That the glassie Sea is the type of the pure word and pure worshippe according thereto see vpon the 4. Chap. Heere the allusion is to that storie Exod. 13. and 14. When Moses and Israel with him hauing past the red Sea standing on the shore thereof and seeing Pharao and his host drowned therein they praise God singing the song of Moses c. Of this allusion while men marke not narrowlly all the points of conueniencie the place is diuersly mistaken Some taking this Sea mingled with fire to be but the type of great troubles thorow which the Church now hath escaped according to the speech Psalm 66. Thou hast brought vs thorow water and fire But this is not all whereto heere the spirit will lead vs. Others take it for the treasure of meanes which God hath euer in readinesse as before his throne to destroy his enemies But this is too generall For