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A42415 Theorems evincing, that the subject of the fourth and fifth chapters of the Revelation, is the Church of England, B.L.E. With answers to objections. Humbly offered to the serious consideration of all enemies of the Church of England, dissenters and separatists. By Wal. Garrett, rector of Everly in Wiltshire: sometime fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge. Garrett, Walter. 1700 (1700) Wing G271C; ESTC R218820 7,586 9

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THEOREMS Evincing That the Subject of the Fourth and Fifth Chapters of the REVELATION is the Church of ENGLAND B. L. E. With ANSWERS to OBJECTIONS Humbly offered to the Serious Consideration of All ENEMIES of the Church of England DISSENTERS and SEPARATISTS By Wal. Garrett Rector of Everly in Wiltshire Sometime Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge Who hath Believed our Report and to whom is the Arm of the Lord Revealed Esai liii 1. The Harvest is Plenteous but the Labourers are Few Mat. ix 37. I Have Already by God's Assistance Giv'n-forth an Exposition of Every Particular in the Fourth and Fifth Chapters of the Revelation and now come to Evince the CERTAINTY of it by laying down such Theorems or Propositions of Unquestionable Verity as will serve at Once both to Establish my own Exposition and to Refell All Others Whatsoever I. The Church Describ'd in Rev. iv and v. was not in Being when St. John Receiv'd the Vision For the Vision is Expresly Entitl'd by the Spirit Himself Chap. iv 1. Things that must be HERE AFTER II. The Throne in those Chapters therefore is not the Throne of God in the Highest Heav'n nor the Sitter on the Throne God Almighty Himself in Person for These were not Things to Come but have been the SAME from All Eternity but the Sitter on the Throne is God Ruling in and by some Earthly Potentate and his Throne is a Throne on EARTH And Consequently The Church in which this Throne is Set and over which the Sitter on it does Preside is a Church on Earth III. Whereas they are said Not to Rest Day and Night saying Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty Which Was and Is and is to Come It cannot hence be Concluded That they should Never take any Rest in Sleep nor that Always when Awake they should be saying Holy Holy Holy c. but that they should Say it Every Day and Every Night or Every Morning and Every Ev'ning and That Often at Every Time and very Observably or to Some Such Sense as That is As when S. Paul enjoyns Every Christian to Pray without Ceasing 1 Thess v. 17. So Eph. vi 8. Act. xx 31. Rom. i. 9. 1 Thess i. 3. For it is a very Common Phrase and Can Mean no other but Constantly at certain Returns of Time or some Such Thing IV. Neither ought it hence to be Inferr'd That this Church was to make use of No Other Words in her Addresses but Holy H H L G A c. But only That she was to Use a Constant FORM of Prayer and Praise in which One of the most Remarkable Things should be her Glorifying the Blessed Trinity Only For that this Church is here set forth as Using a FORM is Undeniable And therefore No Church that does not use a Form of Glorifying the Blessed Trinity Nay that does not use it Much and very Observably can be the Church here Describ'd For How Odly would it look to pretend to Give an Idea of a Church that is a Profest Enemy of Forms or that hardly Ever Mentions the Trinity Distinctly in their Prayers by telling us That they Rest not Day and Night Saying Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty which Was and Is and is to come As on the Other side it is the Very Characteristic of Our Church's Service Insomuch that I cannot Forbear to say That to him that is in Search after the Church here Prefigur'd That One Circumstance is Sufficient to Fore-stall his Judgment for the Church of England V. There is No Necessity That they should use Those Very Words neither It is Enough if the Words be LIKE them For Identity is not Requir'd in Visions but Likeness Only Thus a City in Prophecy is call'd a Woman a Tyrant a Beast c. Because of their Near Resemblance as to those Things the Prophecy Respects in them as the Parturiency of the One and the Savageness of the Other It is therefore for the Fulfilling of the Prophecy we are Speaking of Sufficient if the Church gives Glory to the Blessed Trinity in Words LIKE These Holy H H L G A Which Was and Is and is to Come Such for Example as are These of Our Church Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it Was in the Beginning Is Now and Ever shall be World without end Where we see the Words As it Was Is now and ever shall be Perfectly to Correspond to Those in the Type Which Was and Is and is to Come And in the Former Clause Father Son and H. Ghost Answer as Directly to Lord God Almighty and Glory to Holiness For God is said to be Glorious in Holiness Exod. xv 11. For as the Usual Notion of Holiness in Scripture is Separation So the Glory of God is that Nothing can be Compar'd to him Esai xl 18. xlvi 5. VI. The Sealed Book is That whose Visions are Distinctly Set-down in the Sixth and Following Chapp This is Plain to Sense VII By Op'ning the SEALS of this Book is Meant Explaining it There is No Other Sense of Op'ning the Seals of Any Book throughout the Scripture For Sealing Always singnifies Concealing the Sense of a Mystery and Op'ning is Explaining it For which see Dan. ix 24. and xii 4. Esai xxix 11. Luk. xxiv 32. Acts xvii 3. And I am very well Assur'd there is No One Place to the Contrary I do not say That Barely to Op'n a Book is to Explain it but to Op'n the SEALS of a Book or to Op'n the Text or Writing of a Book for the Seals are Always upon the Text and Not upon the Cover Paper or Parchment of a Book And if the Book we are speaking of had been Sealed only with Wax Lead or Ir'n c. What Needed All That Ceremony Setforth so Particularly and Pompously in the vth Chapter about the Loosing of its Seals when Every Mechanic could have done it But it is There Affirmed That No one in Heav'n nor in Earth nor Vnder the Earth could do it What Not Break or File or Cut or some way or other Get-off a Seal from a piece of Parchment That 's strange indeed VIII It is not God's Giving his Son the Revelation that is Describ'd in Rev. v. For That was Done Before the Vision was Exhibited to S. John But the Vision of Rev. v. is Manifestly a Part of those things which the Spirit Entitles Things that were to come to pass AFTER Chap. iv 1. IX The Vision therefore of Rev. v. is a Prefiguration of the Circumstances that were to Accompany the Explaining of the Said Book when the Time was Come for it Which is an Indisputable Result from the Two next-foregoing Theorems X. The Precise Time for the Fulfilling of Rev. v. 5. is That wherein the First Notice was to be giv'n of the True Way of Expounding the Book For when upon Loud Proclamation made No One in All the World was Found Able to Do it to the Great Grief of