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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

Lord alwaies armed his Church but most carefully in these last times vnder the Gospell Which albeit it might appeare to haue beene lesse needfull for the huge measure of light and gracefull dispensation therein beyond all former ages yet in respect that Satan seeing his time to be short then chiefly bended his whole rage and full force of deceit specially in that huge mystery of iniquity growing on so in all effectual working with al power signes and lying wonders in all deceiueablenesse of vnrighteousnesse and such strong delusion the sonne of perdition sitting as God euen in the Temple of God that if it were possible the very elect might haue beene deceiued therefore the Lord himselfe in the daies of his flesh gaue hereof not obscure warnings his Apostles diuersly thereafter and lastly in this prophecie is the whole mischiefe in the parties their practises the Church her condition thereby God his manifold wrath thereupon to the full ouerthrow at length of all the enemies and deliuerance of his Church so at large and cleerely set forth as we are not onely now to beleeue the things told vs before because they are alredy in a great part come to passe but also by the cleere light here opened to see what yet resteth to be performed with calme and ioifull minds in a most delightfull light to behold and dispise all this present terrible and restlesse endeauour of Dragon Beast and false Prophet by their emissary frogs as where by they are but hastening on to themselues such a foile as the wonderfulnesse thereof shall make the place to bee called euen in Ebrew Harmageddon and shall giue matter euen of an Ebrew song When thereupon not onely a great multitude in Heauen the foure beasts and twenty foure Elders but by a powerfull voice from the Throne all God his seruants al that feare him both small and great as the voice of many waters and as the voice of strong thunderings shall sing together Halleluiah Now the golden programme blessed is he that readeth c. set ouer the gate of this goodly edifice as it giueth to conceiue and both wakeneth and warranteth to search after some rare insight so did it chiefly incourage me to step in and much stirred in sobernesse to suruey the singularities Wherein as the Queene of Saba seeing Salomon by helpe of God and to the praise of his truth in this I found so much more then I presumed as no spirit was left in mee Now here withall the earnest petition of Saints poussing thereto and after the story of Christ in the flesh and of his Church raised by Apostolike labors this falling in fitly in the course of my trauels to bee handled yet nothing so much carried me to the publike reading thereof as a holy indignation at the dealings of Romanists in our quarters too carelesly exposed to their seduction They had nothing more frequently in mouth then the antiquity glory multitude of their Church the consent of Nations Counsels and succession of many Ages with disdaineful demands where our Church was before Luther and whether we esteemed all our Forefathers so many ages past to bee condemned who liued and died all in the faith and Communion of the Church of Rome with such speeches largely amplified and cunningly coloured amongst a simple people as sheepe for the most part without shepheards I found by experience and credible information that not onely many altogether ignorant were corrupted but euen diuers instable soules who had shewed some beginnings of learning and louing the way of truth were rather quite alienated therefrom or cast in dangerous doubts so as oftner then once men otherwaies well stablished haue euen with sollicitude both by word and writ required of mee how the hearts of the weake might be staied against these obiections To whome as both waies in the time I gaue satisfaction so it hasted me to the publike interpretation of this prophecie whereby euen the most simple not wilfully shutting their eies against an ingyring light may cleerely see how that whereof they glory most turneth most to their shame and that wherwith they most reproch our Church speaketh strongly for vs. If this seemeth strange to any they haue not yet learned that as great is the mistery of godlinesse so also is that of iniquitie and to know the hid secrets of either none euer shall attaine who by the heauenly light of the word goeth not higher then all authority multitude custome or consent of men Now albeit at first I minded nothing lesse then to write any further thereon but some short note for mine owne vse of such things wherein my iudgement did vary from most part or all enterpreters yet cloied with continuall requests to write at large what by voice I deliuered I was induced to take a mid course neither to write so shortly as I intended nor at such length as they required but so as who were my auditours reading it might remember what further they had heard and others might so farre bee set in way as by their owne easie paines to find out what for more cleere explication is requisit I haue labored though not so farre as my owne disposition would haue carried mee yet so farre as giuing to suiters some contentment I could to be short and not burthen the reader with any tedious discourse of commonly knowne matter On the first three Chapters to busie my selfe except so farre as was necessary for coupling them with the rest of the prophecy I thought it needlesse so much being already written thereon and by so many both learned and godly men Whose trauels on the rest of this prophecie by this my doing I am so farre from either despising or condemning that from my heart I both reuerence their godly and learned labours and sincerely acknowledge my selfe to haue beene much helped thereby But this being such a worke as wherein one wrong stich will carry thorow all the seame a sensible errour and being of such inestimable worth as meriteth still to be wrought on till in whole and each part it keepe sentence I haue hereto in all singlensse and sound affection contributed my sparkle expecting and hartily wishing others after me to doe the like for more and more cleere light till the Whore bee euidently set naked before the eies of all the World and the Bride in her vpright beauty be discerned of all men Vse it therefore with such heart as thou hast it of me praising God for that which is cleerely from him and in Christian compassion excusing what is of mine infirmitie IOANNIS FORBESII filij Epigramma de scopo Authoris FOrbesius Româpompam iactante dolebat Vno orbem obtundi nocte dieque sono Ostenditque feram hoc signo ac Babylonanotari Inunc consensum maecha molesta crepa Eiusdem ad Zoilum CAece Theonino quid dente incognita mordes Non tibi sed doctis Zoile scriptalegis Eiusdem ad beneuolum lectorem NEleuiter summam solum bone

it might bee presumed that no true Church could bee before seeing that where no prophesie is the people perish and this doubt might greatly trouble the resolution of a godly soule for clearing this doubt and shewing how alwaies euen in the midst of Antichristian darkenesse when no such thing appeared to the eies of men yet the rodde rightly applyed made the applyers to see that God alwaies had a true Church in which was a dispensation of grace though vnseene And this Church breaking out first in few and outwardly weake persons albeit it receiued so hard entertainement by Antichrist as it seemed euen vtterly extinguished in the rising yet still it preuailed by euident degrees till manifestly at last the Temple was opened in heauen and the Arke of the Testimony seene The accommodation hereof sheweth it self and the two last cases are so much the more cleare as they were seen and are of recent memory To cleare the first state and secret dispensation of grace and light when it appeared impossible a speech is taken from Zacharie and hauing allusion to the Temple of Ierusalem as hath all this Allegory For as light in the Temple by burning lampes of the Candlesticke was ordinarily entertained through bringing in oyle dayly to keepe them burning so the Temple being closed and not onely the City but euen the Court of the Temple except through which no passage was thereto being possessed and trod downe so long of the Gentiles it might appeare impossible that any light could hee preserued in the Temple thus closed and compassed Therefore in this estate God compareth the Ministers of grace to two oliue trees growing vp by the sides of the Candlesticke within the Temple and letting drop from their branches oile in the lamps Oh how sweetly the spirit expresseth that which the foolish world can neuer learne while still they cry where was your Church Neither by an Armie neither by strength but by my spirit saith the Lord. 3 For more clearing of this matter as before Chapter 9. in the time of fiue Monethes the state of the Locusts and their working was much cleared so here to the whole rage of Antichrist during which the Lord had still his owne witnesses a time is attributed that by comparing the places and cases from which this time is taken and to which the holy Ghost here purposely all●●●th wee may learue great wisdome And to leade vs hereto wee haue not onely the like time but also the like speeches the spirit as it were pointing to vs whither hee will haue vs to goe The time then attributed to Antichrist his whole rage is forty two monethes all one with the 1260. dayes of the two Witnesses prophesying to shew that all that time God had them and continually therefore is the time counted by dayes and all one with the time times and halfe a time of the woman her abode in the wildernesse Chapter 12 all alike making vp halfe a weeke of yeeres or three yeeres and a halfe And thus the spirit counting one and the same time by all the spaces of time yeeres monethes and dayes to shew euidently that the yeeres are of monethes and both yeeres and monethes are of dayes as also that the dayes are properly to be taken it is wonder how learned men could haue so farre mistaken them Now in all the Scripture wee shall not find a condition of the Church with any circumscription of time answerable in condition and points of Antichrist his dealing here pointed at that is wherin the true worship is so defaced as in place thereof a false worshippe is erected and truth trod vnder foot but the two here alluded to as in the speeches brought hither from both is more then manifest of treading vnder the holy City prophesying in sacke killing with fire shutting of heauen that it raine not c. The one is of the time of Elias his lurking and famine vpon Israel three yeeres a halfe when God his worshippe was ouerthrowne his Prophets killed and worshippe of Baall erected no true Church appearing to bee left in Israel euen to the Prophet who yet all the while tormented the aduersaries no rain comming but at his word The other is that of remouing the dayly sacrifice by Antiochus Epiphanes and the abhomination of desolation set vp in place thereof for a time times and halfe a time Dan. 7. 25. so long our Sauiour vnder great affliction and contempt preached in the dayes of his flesh euen halfe a weeke and was ●ast out of the Synagogue the Priests Scribes and Pharisees all the while obtaining the name and account of the true Church To the second condition of these witnesses in this whole rage of Antichrist are attributed three dayes and a halfe that is halfe a weeke of dayes as the whole is of yeeres onely to keepe thus the allusion to the halfe weeke but so as therein to imply this consolation that howsoeuer the whole time of Antichrist were long which yet should haue an end as had these miserable times of Iez●bel and Antiochus and that all that long time the true witnesses should bee in affliction and heauinesse yet that time of cruell and open murthering and barbarous ferity should bee but short as is halfe a weeke of dayes in comparison to half a week of yeeres And this in story is most cleare For as their cruell and open murthering beganne with the reuiuing and new breaking out of the Gospell what time Sathan was loosed the second time Chapter 20. And the beast became of his colour Chapter 17. So as the truth preuaileth by increase of light they are faine to relent though nothing in malice and rage which groweth more and more they euen blaspheming and gnawing their tongues for sorrow yet from vnbrideled libertie in murthering the Saints in this degree To the last condition is attributed no circumscription of time because it is the beginning of that victory to the Saints fall to Babell which shall haue no end of time For right vnderstanding of these times see more Chapt. 9. Sect. 5. as likewise for this that here is said The second woe is past see there Sect. 8. Now here is well to bee considered that what in this Chapter is shewed of Antichrist his rage against the Church and her suffering by him is here handled but by the way and not of purpose to shew that Story which commeth in the 12. 13. and 14. Chapters but onely so farre as was requisite for clearing the story of the witnesses how the world is plagued by them which is here the scope of the spirit See vpon Chap. 14 Sect. 10. 4 Thus was the sixth Trumpet and the second great woe followeth the seuenth to which we see how faire a way is made in the sixth to make vs vnderstand that euen in time of the second woe and greatest height thereof by the Mahometanes let loose againe from their binding this last woe was working in such