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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07226	A revelation of the Revelation wherein is contayned, a most true, plaine, and briefe manifestation of the meaning and scope of all the Reuelation, and of euery mystery of the same : whereby the pope is most plainely declared and proued to bee Antichrist / by Thomas Mason ...	Mason, Thomas, 1580-1619?	1619 (1619)	STC 17623; ESTC S1299	31,570	120

blessed are they that are called vnto the Lambes Supper In that there shall bee then a new heauen meaning the Church and a new earth meaning temporall gouernment and the old is passed away it sheweth that things touching the Church and Common wealth shall bee wholly ruled according vnto the Word of God and that all Popish and Iewish lawes which are contrary to the Word of GOD shall bee no more And there shall be no more sea that is ignorant and vnconstant men carryed away with euery wind of false doctrine as the waues of the sea are tossed with the winde Then the Church shall be prepared as a fit Bride for Christ her husband that is the Tabernacle of God shall bee with men and GOD shall dwell with them and they shall bee his people and God himselfe shall be their God and wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shall bee no more death sorrow crying or paine for the first things are past that is then there shall bee no more martyring persecuting mocking blaspheming and deriding of Gods Children In the tenth Verse an Angell shewes Saint Iohn a Vision of the glory that the Church then shall haue In that it is called a great Citie it shewes what a great number shall beleeue in that it is called holy Ierusalem it declareth the holinesse of their Faith Hope and Loue and other graces the descending of it from God out of heauen sheweth that God from heauen shall fill her with the riches of his graces and shee had the glory of God which made her shine like precious stones The three gates on euery side are the Trinitie without which there is no way to enter into the Church the Angels that are at these doores are the Preachers the twelue foundations of this Church is Iesus Christ which the twelue Apostles haue taught vs to build all our hope vpon in that the three gates were on euery side of the Church it sheweth that the doores of grace shall lye open and the Gospell be preached vnto all nations The twelue thousand furlongs the length the bredth and the height of it haue an allusion vnto the twelue thousand of euery Tribe that were marked for God in the seauenth Chapter the wals being an hundred forty foure cubits haue an allusion vnto the hundred forty foure thousand the whole number of them that were marked of all Tribes The stones of the wall signifie the faithfull in that they are precious stones it is by reason that the precious righteousnesse of Iesus Christ is imputed vnto them and of their precious Faith Hope and Loue and other graces giuen them of Christ In that they are a wall to the new Ierusalem that the Diuell nor any vncleane thing can come into it is declared how louingly they shall ioyne one with another as stones in a wall and how strongly they shall support one another to expell and to keepe out falshood and to defend the truth In that this Citie was of pure gold it sheweth the puritie of their Religion without any drosse of superstitions In that there was no Temple it sheweth that they shall truely serue God in spirit and truth and Christ shall bee their Temple in whom all their hearts shall meet and in him offer all sacrifices of prayer and praysing of God and of good workes which the Lord will accept for his Sonne Iesus Christ his sake In that it hath no neede of the Sunne nor of the Moone to shine in it the holy Spirit shall so illuminate their vnderstandings more then the light of naturall reason can teach them and there shall be no night for where the spirit of God is there is no darknesse In that the gates shall neuer bee shut it certifieth that none that come with a liuely faith shall bee shut from Grace and that Grace shall alwayes bee offered In that the glory and the honor of the Gentiles shall bee brought vnto it it sheweth that the Kings and chiefest of all Countries shall beleeue in Christ and there shall enter into it no vncleane thing that is wicked men nor whomsoeuer worketh abhomination and lyes such they shall hate and excommunicate but onely such shall enter as are written in the Lambes Booke of life CHAP. 22. THe pure riuer of water of life like Chrystall proceeding out of the Throne is the doctrine of the Gospell of Iesus Christ whosoeuer drinketh of him shall neuer thirst for any other meanes of saluation their thirst shall bee so fully quenched in him that they shall alwayes reioyce in their saluation Hee is the tree of life whosoeuer eateth of him with a liuely Faith shall haue eternall life and he shall neuer hunger that is doubt thereof Christ alwayes is fruitfull and the leaues of his righteousnes shall heale the imperfections and diseases of the faithfull in all nations There shall bee no curse but the throne of God and the Lambe shall be amongst the faithfull and they shall be his seruants and serue him and they shall see his face and his name shall be written in their foreheads that is they shall not bee ashamed to confesse his name and they shall reigne for euermore that is in the world to come Then S. Iohn concludes the truth of these Prophesies by the Angels testimony and his owne and lastly hee bringeth in Iesus Christ speaking for the testimony of the truth hereof I Iesus haue sent mine Angell to testifie these things in the Churches I am the roote and generation of Dauid the bright morning Starre The Spirit the Bride exhort men to come to me and let euery one that heares exhort men to come to mee and let all that thirst and will take of the water of life freely come for I protest that who so shall adde any thing to this Booke God will adde to him the plagues written in this Booke and if any diminish of the words hereof God will take away his part out of the Booke of life and the holy Citie he that testifieth these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Euen so Lord Iesus The grace of our Lord Iesus be with vs all Amen FINIS