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A86457	An exposition, or, A short, but full, plaine, and perfect epitome of the most choice commentaries upon the Revelation of Saint John. Especially of the most learned and judicious authors, as Bullinger of Helvetia, Francis Iunius, Thomas Brightman, Aug. Marlorate, Aug. de Civitate dei, but especially (among many) the excellent and learned David Pareus. With severall remarkable notes, observations, and doctrines very profitable. / As it was for the most part delivered by way of commentary in the parish-church of Sutton-Valence, Kanc [sic]. By Hezekiah Holland Anglo-hibernus, Minister of the Gospell at Sutton-Valence.	Holland, Hezekiah, fl. 1638-1661.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2426; Thomason E606_1; ESTC R5543	143,079	206

the overcommers chap. 2.28 as is expounded he being the morning starre Vers 17. And the Spirit and the Bride say come That is the Spirit in every Saint sayes come Every Saint having the Spirit longs after Christ so David Psal 42.2 As the heart pants after the water brookes that hot and therefore dry or thirsty creature so doth my soule after thee O God And the Bride or Church longs after Christ to be fully gloryfied by him and to live ever with her husband the Church Militant Cant. 8. vers last cals for Christ saying be like the Roe that nimble creature and come in haste The coming of Christ is fearfull to the wicked but the regenerate long for him Let him that heareth say come As the Bride doth Truly the reading and hearing this book will make every spiritual man say come Lord Jesus such sweetnesse is here Let him that is a thirst come That is the qualification required in the commers come to me for redemption salvation glory if athirst for a thirsty man is fit to drink of the fountain of water of life Now he that is athirst is he that has the Spirit crying to Christ to come to perfect him and the Church in glory And whosoever will Being qualified and a thirst none else can come these the father draweth Let him take the water of life freely Being a thirst and drawen by the Father The invitation is generall Isa 55.1 Hoe all but note the qualification that thirst come ye to the waters but note God worketh in us to will and do Phil. 2.13 whosoever commeth then God draweth Vers 18. For I testifie This depends upon vers 7. blessed are they that keep the words of this Prophecy now he threatens those who any way corrupt or abuse it Sure Antichristian falsifyers of the truth are here meant For I also testify or testifie together sayes the Greek Because the Angel had spoken now Christ confirmes the Angels testimony witnessing also with the Angel Vnto every man that heareth Not the Pope excepted If any man shall adde By false interpretations as 2 Peter 3.16 adulterating the Text. Let the Papists take heed how they mingle traditions and lyes with the Text. Vnto him God shall adde the plagues To wit not only the seven last plagues but to be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone for ever with the dragon and false Prophet chap. 19 20. O Arrius and Engedinus where are ye O Popelings and Hereticks take heed Vers 19 If any man shall take away from the words of this Prophecy God shall take away his part out of the Book of life c. To the adders he will adde plagues to the takers away he sayes hee 'll take away his part out of the book of life That is what part he seemes to have or will utterly condemne him one day Indeed they may be said to take away from the Book that deprave it allow not of it sleight it or the like The overcommers were promised choyce rewards in the seven Churches these deprayers shall have no share with them nor with the glorious Bride in heaven Some have denyed Saint James his Epistle some this book through mistake not malice being otherwise true Christians and are not to be comprehended here Luther doubted of James many ancient Christians through weaknesse of the authority of this most Divine book on whom I dare not doubt but God had mercy But note not only the integrity but perfection of Scripture is hence proved since nothing is to be added away then with traditions the written word is perfect and only to be followed to salvation Deut. 4.2 Moses gives the same command let no man adde by which it is plain the holy Scriptures of the Old-Testament were full enough and perfect to salvation Now our Saviour not John takes this passage from Moses and other things in this book are taken from the Prophets everywhere To note the perfect agreement of the New-Testament and Old and also to shew how this Book sayes my Pareus is a summe of holy Scripture Well we must not depend upon Revelations but the written Word By this Christ proved himself and his death to his disciples Luke 24.27 see my Glimps of Christs Love pag. 57. Vers 20. He that testifieth these things saith surely I come quickly c. They be the words of Christ not of Iohn who testified and revealed this Prophecy to Iohn being the true and faithfull Witnesse chap. 3.14 who promises to come quickly to confute those who make a mock of his coming to judgment 2 Pet 3.2 3 4. and to stirre us to patience and watchfulnesse And truly if when Iohn writ this book Christ promised to haste then now he is even at the door many Jews are daily converted the Gospel much spread Antichrist manifested and spiritually killed by the Witnesses forsaken by the Kings of the earth or many of them nay and Christ has powerfully reigned by the Reformation of many Kingdomes in matters of Religion We expect to hear of Romes literall desolation but the utter ruine of Turke and Pope we expect not till the seventh Viall be poured out into the aire or the seventh Angel sound at the last day other things are most fulfilled and we hope God for the Elect sake will hasten his coming Surely I come 'T is an asseveration confirming his promised coming to comfort the godly and to stir them up to watchfulnesse and patience in well doing and ill suffering Vers 21. Even so come Lord Jesus Sayes Iohn after all the most joyfull glorious things in the Prophecy the Beast and Dragon in the Vision cast into the lake of hell longing for the consummation of glory Indeed Christ is the good Ahimaaz 2 Sam. 18.27 that brings true and good tydings here in this life but cheifly hereafter of perfect redemption which all the creation groanes for and perfect glory for the Elect. Or Iohn may be understood to desire Christ to hasten Antichrists destruction to hasten comforts to Syon and lastly to come to judgment to condemne the Dragon and Beast and deliver the Saints redeeming their bodies out of their graves consummating them in glory Thus the Spirit in all the Saints teaches to long after Christ and say come Lord Jesus come quickly even so Amen Hanc epitomen praecipuorum Commentariorum supra Revelationem JOHANNIS unàcum annotatiunculis quibusdam feliciter peregi 30 Martii 1650. Ann aetat meae 31. Trinitati gloria sempiterna Amen FINIS

Meaning seven Churches vers 20. called Candlesticks because as they hold light in them to wit Candles so the Churches had or ought to have the light of the Gospel in them golden notes the choycenesse of the light of the Gospel in respect of any other light Vers 13. In the midst c. Christ is in his Church among his Ordinances among his members even where two or three are met together in his name Like the Son of Man 'T was Christ as appears by vers 8. who is like us in the truth of our nature Clothed with a garment down to his foot 'T was the custome of the Easterne countryes to go so it notes Christs righteousnesse which was enough for himself and all his members Men are one the other part corrupt from the head to the sole of the feet Esay 1. vers 6. A golden girdle Alluding to the custome of the Easterne countryes who because they wore long garments used to girt them up that they might not hinder them it notes Christs care and diligence A golden girdle Notes Christs Majesty and divine nature it alludes to Esay 11. vers 5. and righteousnesse shall be his girdle About the paps not the ordinary way shewes Christs love to the Church because the heart which is the seat of love is between the breasts Vers 14. His head and his haire white as wool and as snow It notes five things 1. White haire notes wisedom it usually doth accompany them 2. It shews Christ is the ancient of dayes in Dan. 7. nay from eternity as the Father 3. It shewes Christ ought to be reverenced gray haries are venerable 4. As wool notes Christs innocency such is the creature from whence wool 5. As snow notes Christs pure nature See Isa 1.18 His eyes a flame of fire Because in his wrath he will consume the wicked as the fire doth the chaffe it notes likewise the searching peircing knowledge of Christ Vers 15. His feet like unto fine brasse It notes the divine power of Christ his strength constancy or his humanity tryed as in the furnace of sufferings His voyce as of many waters It notes the efficacy and terrour of his voyce For waters run violently none can hinder their course Also they make a terrible noyse the wicked tremble at the voyce Vers 16. He had in his right hand seven starres Being the Angels or Ministers of the seven Churches vers 20. This commends the dignity of Teachers who ought to shine in life and doctrine they are in Christs hand 1. Because he giveth them to his Church 2. Because he preserveth them ruleth them with his Word and Spirit 3. Because as he worketh by starres on this lower world he worketh salvation for his Church through them Out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword It shewes either the power of his Word which is of a peircing nature Heb. 4.12 or as in chap. 19. vers 15. it notes his readinesse and power to take vengeance His countenance was as the Sunne it notes either Christs divine nature or his humane nature glorified Vers 17. And when I saw him I fell down as dead It notes the weaknesse of man before the Majesty of God how then shall the wicked stand before him He laid his right hand upon me See Christs readinesse to help also learne by whom all the faithfull are upheld Feare not For fear might unfit John to understand the Vision what need the Saints fear since Christ who is with them bids not fear I am the first and the last This teacheth John that he saw no fancy but 't was Christ who spake Vers 18. I am be that liveth and was dead The Jewes and Hereticks scoffe at us for trusting in a crucified God in the mean time wo to them that CHRIST dyed not for I have the keyes of hell and the grave by keyes power is understood so that CHRIST is Lord of hell and grave I am alive for evermore It notes Christs eternity and God-head Let the Jewes scoffe we are herein comforted Vers 19. Write the things which That is all the Revelation T is requisite for us to read what Christ so carefully commands to be written Vers 20. The mystery of the seven starres The seven starres signifie the seven Angels of the seven Churches but they were not properly seven Angels so the Rock is said to be Christ That is signified Christ so the seven lean kine Gen. 41. v. 27. are said to be seven years that is signifie seven years So Christ sayes the bread is his body that is signifies his body Now the Ministers are called Angels because they act by commission because they are imployed about the Kingdom of Heaven because they should be somewhat unspotted as they are because they aime at mans good Concerning the candlesticks See vers 12. CHAP. II. Vers 1. Vnto the Angel of the Church of Ephesus write JOHN writ to this Church first either because it lay next to Patmos or because of its eminency and greatnesse To the Angel That is the Pastor it notes both the dignity and authority of the calling for Angels are in commission extraordinary Some would perswade that Timothy was this Angel if so it shewes that in many things we all erre Write No doubt Christ told John word for word what he should write and it shewes the authority of the book These things saith he This answereth the title of the Prophets who to stirre up attention in the people use the expression of thus saith the Lord. Who holds c. None can destroy the Ministry or 7. Starres unlesse their sins cause God to destroy them Who walketh in the midst of the seven golden Candlesticks John saw our Saviour in another posture before This notes Christs activenesse that he is present by his providence in his Church Vers 2. I know thy Works Christ knowes our good works and acknowledges them and rewards them he knowes our bad actions to punish them without repentance it shewes Christs deity being omniscient Thy labour and patience That is thy unwearyed paines in Preaching the Word t is an office of much paines patience in induring all affliction hee was exercised in by Jewes or Heathens for the Word of the Crosse as our Apostle therefore calls it herein may a Minister be comforted because Christ takes notice of his works And canst not bear them that be evill It shews the Pastors zeal in observing Church discipline 1 Cor. 1.18 and executing censures against scandalous persons And hast tryed them which say they are Apostles c. Meaning Ebion and Cerinthus with others who boasted themselves to be Apostles but were indeed enemies oppugning the deity of Christ Now t is the Pastours duty as to defend the purity of doctrine so to oppose such devouring wolves Vers 3. And hast borne c. Christ points at some particular kind of affliction as stripes or imprisonment which he had sustained And for my names sake hast laboured c.

inhabitants of the earth but Saints as they have their Original from so their conversation in heaven CHAP. IX Act. 1. continued NOw follows the fift and sixt Trumpets the fift prefiguring the dissipation of the Western Europian Churches by Antichrist The sixt the destruction of the East by the means of the false Prophet Mahomet and the Turks after him these began to blow together as it were of which histories sufficiently testifie Vers 1. The first Angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth who this Angel or Minister was is not certainly known perchance the said Gregory upon whose preaching this starre fell but the star notes some notable Bishop falling from the heavenly truth to earthly traditions and doctrines of divels certainly as Christ did not signifie the divel by this starre fallen long since of which therefore Iohn needed not to be informed so certainly 't was not Luther a poor Monk who had little and left nothing behind him except footsteps of Reformation The starre notes some notable Prelate long before him who began to ruine the West as Mahomet did the East and 't was none but the Pope of Rome signified by the star chap. 8. ver 10. who burning as a Lampe that is clearly and gloriously as the Bishops of Rome did at first yet did fail at last and together with Arrius not Mahomet who neither was one of the stars of heaven that is of the Ministers of the Church nor did ever shine being a wretched villain always imbittered the waters by falfe doctrines traditions heresies Now to whom or what Ecclesiastical person can this be applied but to the Anti-christian Apostacy of the Bishops of Rome Gregory as all know makes him to be Antichrist that should affect the title of Universal Bishop Boniface the third his successor three years after his decease was declared by Phocas the intruder as all agree universal Pope chief Priest or Bishop of Bishops Behold the Star though this is not to be applied to Boniface alone who sate not on the chayre scarce a yeare but to his Successors the whole Series of Popes The Key of the bottomlesse pit by Key power is meant for he that hath the Key of the house hath the power of the house Now the Pope says he hath the power of hell or the bottomlesse pit to damn whom he will and to deliver whom he will thus he is the Angel of the bottomlesse pit ver 11. God permitting the divel tempting Phocas gave him this power behold the man Christ then though he gave the first Bishop of Rome and all other the Key that is power of binding and loosing casting forth and receiving in according to the word yet the Pope having thrown away Christs Key he makes use of Satans usurped one This his triple Crown can prove whereby his power over heaven earth and hell is meant but enough his practice makes him known Where note Christ hath the Key properly as head of the Church and Mediatour the Pope usurpingly and deceitfully as Angel of the bottomlesse pit not of the Church or sinke of hell also God suffers the sin by it to punish another sinne to wit for not receiving the knowledge of the truth see 2 Thes 2.10 11. and Rom. 2.24 26. Vers 2. And he opened the bottomlesse pit and there arose a smoke out of the pit Hell and the doctrine thereof was shut up by the Prophets and Apostles who led men to the true fountaines out of the snares of Satan but the Pope has opened it to the destruction of poore souls behold the smoke of the pit I mean the Popes black divinity worshipping of Images forgivenesse of sins by Masse Pennance Almes Pilgrimages of which the Volumes and practice of Papists sufficiently testifie Now as smoak doth hurt the eyes darken the aire cause things not to be seen as they are so doth the doctrine of Papists And the Sun and the Aire was darkned by reason of the smoke of the pit Christ the Sun of righteousnesse was obscured formerly in part by Hereticks but after the fall of this star much more as the times after Boniface the third make known the Aire signifying the Church as receiving light from the Sun as the Church doth from Christ was darkned and no wonder for if the doctrine of Christ be darkned how shall the Aire or Church have light Thus 't is plaine though the Papists professe they know God yet in works they deny him Note that some by Aire understand the Scripture which conveys the light of the Sunne as the Scripture doth the light of Christ which was much darkned by Popish doctrines and expositions If the Aire signifie the Church yet Christ had the sealed ones and consequently a Church notwithstanding this darknesse among the Papists Vers 3. And there came Locusts out of the smoke After the falling of the Star First the bottomlesse pit was opened there the Angel of the bottomlesse pit takes the Keyes to wit absolute authority upon him Secondly there followed smoak to wit divellish doctrines Thirdly the darkning of the Sunne and Ayre Christ and the Church Fourthly follows the generation of the locusts they are small creatures having little wings by which they lift up themselves a little from the earth and seem rather to leap then to fly but in some parts of the world there be some have bigger bodies God plagued Egypt with an Army as it were of locusts John the Baptist did eat them as well as wild honey Pray mark do not the Monks Fryeryes and religious Orders as they call them come out of the gulfe of the sea of Rome sure not by Christs authority or his word the opening of the pit brought them so then the Goths army cannot be here understood which came not out of the pit but the Popish Clergy who seem to be holy to fly a little from the earth but indeed are as the locusts gorbellied devourers and earthly some are greater behold the Bishops and Cardinals And as the Baptist did eate locusts so some have fed on those as I may so say but with this difference to their destruction Who as locusts skip in the Summer sing and delight in ease but the Romish Clergy where are greater troops then of Locusts Where then of Fryers What creatures destroy more then the Locusts Who more then the Romish Clergy who devoure widowes houses gather infinite riches without labour build Colledges palaces but as the Locusts do good neither to God nor man If it be objected that these cannot be understood of the Romish Clergy because vers 4. these cannot hurt the sealed ones but Antichrist and his instruments shall kill the two Witnesses Chap. 11. ver 7. I answer they may kill them yet not hurt them in this sense the outward killing of which in its place may befall the Saints not the inward hurting of the soule for they are sealed by election redemption And power was given them as the