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A43131	The meaning of the Revelation, or, A paraphrase with questions on the Revelation of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Divine in which the synchronisms of Mr. Joseph Mede, and the expositions of other interpreters are called in question, and a new exposition given of the prophecies of the revelation, never heard of before, nor extant in any author whatsoever, from the sixth chapter to the eighteenth, with variety of reasons for the exposition / by Richard Hayter ...	Hayter, Richard, 1611?-1684.; Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638. Clavis apocalyptica.	1675 (1675)	Wing H1225; ESTC R21644	180,756	260

the beginning of the sixth Chapter to the middle of the tenth shall come to pass in order as they were Revealed but the grand Question is of those which follow after Now that the Prophecies which follow after from the beginning of the eleventh Chapter to the end of the Revelation shall come to pass in order as they were Revealed shall be proved severally of them all when I come to write on those Chapters see Ch. 11. q. 1. ch 12. q. 1 2. ch 13. q. 1. ch 16. q. 1. 5. First second third fourth c. are all of them ordinal numbers and not cardinal and they are so called because they shew not only the number of things spoken of but the order also Now the Prophecies of the Revelation do all of them consist of these numbers seven Seals seven Trumpets seven Vials consisting all of them of ordinal numbers whereof the seven Trumpets are the issue of the seventh Seal and therefore shall come to pass in order after the sixth Seal is ended and the seven Vials are the issue of the seventh Trumpet though not the immediate nor the adequate issue of it and therefore they shall come to pass in order after the Prophecy of the fourteenth Chapter doth determine and not before 6. What Man will say that King Henry the seventh was before Henry the sixth such an absurdity do they run into which interpret the sixth Seal of the day of Judgment and make the seventh Seal which contains the seven Trumpets to be before it It is as if a Man should say that King Henry the seventh was before King Henry the sixth and the reason why King Henry the sixth is set before King Henry the seventh in the English Chronicles is because he was first revealed unto the Writer but in order of Reigning King Henry the seventh was before him 7. If the seven Trumpets shall come to pass before the sixth Seal what 's the reason that the sixth Seal was revealed to Iohn before them And so of other Prophecies if that which was revealed first shall come to pass after that which was revealed afterward why was it revealed first and not afterward God could have revealed to Iohn the seven Trumpets before the sixth Seal and doubtless would have done so if the seven Trumpets were to come to pass before it but now we find 't is otherwise the sixth Seal was revealed to Iohn before the seven Trumpets were and what was the reason of it but because it shall come to pass before the seven Trumpets shall and no other reason can be given for it But if any one think otherwise that the sixth Seal shall come to pass after the seven Trumpets let him tell me why was it revealed before the seven Trumpets were and not tather after them And so of other Prophecies it may be asked if that which was revealed first shall come to pass after that which was revealed afterward why was it revealed first Give an answer he that will 8. Unless the Prophecies of the Revelation shall come to pass in order as they were revealed what a confused Chaos is the Revelation It is as if a man should write a History of the affairs of England but in such a mingled and confused manner that no man can find any order in it no man can tell by reading of it whether such a Parliament were in such a Kings Reign and such a Parliament in another Kings Reign nor which King did Reign first and which next the Book is such a mingle mangle a mess of altogether that no man can tell what Accidents were in one Kings Reign and what Accidents in another Kings Reign Such a confused Chaos do they make of the Revelation no man can tell by reading of it where to begin nor where to end nor where to find the middle of it whether the Seal shall come to pass first and the Trumpets next and the Vials next or whether some of the seven Seals shall come to pass first and some of the seven Trumpets next and some of the seven Vials next or in what order things shall come to pass in the Revelation no man can tell 9. Where no instance can be given to the contrary there things shall come to pass in order as they were revealed and such are the Prophecies of the Revelation no instance can be given of any Prophecy that shall come to pass before or after the order of its Revelation and therefore they shall come to pass Prophecy after Prophecy as they were revealed and presented unto Iohn in Vision Ob. But Mr. Mede in his Synchronisms hath given divers instances to the contrary Ans. Every one of those instances do fail as shall appear by the answers which I give to every Synchronism in order An Answer to the Synchronisms of Mr. Mede The first Part. The first Synchronism of the woman remaining in the Wilderness of the seven headed beast restored of the outer Court troden under foot by the Gentiles of the witnesses in the mean time Prophecying in Sackcloth All which he will have Synchronise because they be of equal times To which I answer that the month of April hath as many days as the month of Iune and the month of Iune hath as many days as the month of September yet these three months succeed one another and no other is the case here The Prophecying of the witnesses in Sack-cloth hath as many days as the woman hath in the Wilderness and that is 1260 days and the woman hath as many days in the Wilderness as the 42 months of the Beast amount unto yet they succeed one another as the month of Iune succeeds the month of April and the month of September succeeds them both But as for the conculcation of the outer Court 42 months and the Prophecying of the witnesses in the mean while 1260 days I confess that they Synchronise but none of the other do Mr. Mede saw the weakness of his first Argument and in the close thereof confesseth that it is not necessary that equal times should Synchronise howbeit for confirmation of it he adds in his Parenthesis that in Visions shewed at the same time it is very likely that they do To which I answer that this doth no way strengthen nor add any confirmation to his Argument for equal times presented all at once at one view may and do succeed one another as appears in a leafe Almanack wide open where all the months of the year many of which are equal one to another and have as many days one as another are presented to my eye all at once at one view yet they succeed one another the month of March succeeds the month of Ianuary though equal in duration to it and the month of May though of equal duration too succeeds them both So put the case that these Prophecies were presented unto Iohn the same time at one view yet may they succeed one another for all that But the case is

and the seventh Trumpet doth not end with the eleventh Chapter for if it did a close would have been put unto it at the end of that Chapter to distinguish it from the Prophecies that follow but there being no period put unto it there as there is to the former Trumpets where they end it is an Argument sufficient that it doth not end there but is to be extended farther even to the twelfth Chapter and to all the Chapters following inclusively until a Period be put unto it which is no where to be found so that the seventh Trumpet hath no end at all nor any close put unto it as the fifth and sixth Trumpets have Rev. 9. 12. Rev. 11. 14. and seeing the seventh Trumpet doth belong unto the Book with seven seals the Prophecy of the twelfth Chapter and of all the rest that follow doth belong unto that other Book also 10. If the little Book had the following Prophecies written in it from the eighth verse of this Chapter to the end of the Revelation what 's the reason that the Angel doth acquaint John with them afterward A man would think that after he had taken the Book and eaten it up he should have known what the Prophecies had been which were contained in it without any further help or any further Revelation but we find that in the next Chapter after this the Angel doth acquaint John with the Prophecies of that Chapter and tells him what they be from point to point and therefore the little Book though eaten up by him did not acquaint him with them before nor tell him what they were Ob. But why was John commanded to eat the little Book if it had no Prophecy written in it Ans. 1. To acquaint him with the sweetness and the bitterness of the Prophecies which follow for by eating of the Book which was sweet in his mouth and bitter in his belly he thereby knew that the Prophecies which follow should be be sweet in the beginning but bitter afterward 2. To signifie unto him that he had not made an end of Prophecying and in particular that the Prophecy of the sixth Trumpet was not fully ended there was a little more behind not yet revealed to him which he was to add to the former part thereof and therefore it is said thou must Prophecy again not begin a new Prophecy ab ovo from the first Original but Prophecy again that is of the other part behind belonging to the sixth Trumpet which was not spoken of before but what that other part was was not written in the little Book but reported to him by word of mouth and it belongs all of it to the sixth Trumpet and the little Book it self to boot From hence it follows 1. That the whole Prophetical part of the Apocalypse doth not consist of two main Prophecies both of them beginning their race at the same Epoch● or terminus à quo of time and concluding together likewise at the same goal or terminus ad quem The first of these as Mr. Mede would have it is prophetia sigillorum reaching from the fourth Chapter unto almost the end of the tenth The second is prophetia libri beginning at the eighth verse of the tenth Chapter and reaching to the end of the Book But herein Mr. Mede is exceedingly out for there is but one Prophetical Book of the Apocalypse as hath been proved in this Question and this Book is Prophetia sigillorum the Prophecy of the seals reaching from the fourth Chapter or rather from the sixth Chapter to the end of the Revelation 2. That the Prophecies of the Revelation shall come to pass in order as they came forth out of the sealed Book seal after seal Trumpet after Trumpet Vial after Vial and so of all the rest in order as they were presented unto Iohn in Vision of which more in the next Question 2 Quest. Whether the Prophecies of the Revelation shall come to pass in order as they were revealed to John Ans. 1. Things revealed at once and not at several distant times come to pass in order as they be revealed as for instance The Prophecy of the four Monarchies Dan. 7. was revealed to Daniel all at once and it did and shall come to pass in order as it was revealed so the Prophecy of the Ram and Hee-Goat Dan. 8. was revealed to him all at once and it came to pass in order as it was revealed and so give instance where you will it never failes But now the Prophecies of the Revelation were revealed to Iohn all at once and not at several distant times as was proved at large Disp. 1. q. 2. therefore they shall come to pass in order as they were revealed It is otherwise where things are revealed at several distant times here no such order is observed as for instance The Prophecy of the fourth beast Dan. 7. was revealed to him above a year before the Prophecy of the Ram and Hee-Goat mentioned Dan. 8. but yet the Prophecy of the Ram and Hee-Goat came to pass before it In like manner had the Prophecies of the Revelation been revealed to Iohn at several distant times as some of Daniels Prophecies were we could not conclude from thence that they shall come to pass in order as they were revealed but in regard they were revealed to him all at once or at one continued time without ceasing or intermission of his ecstasie we may and must conclude from thence that they shall come to pass in order as they were revealed and presented unto Iohn in Vision 2. The Prophecies of the Revelation were written all of them in one Book and not in two and that was the Book sealed with seven seals c. 5. But as for the little Book c. 10. it had not any Prophecy written in it as was proved at large in the former Question Now had the Prophecies of the Revelation been written in two Books and not in one it might be possible that the Prophecies of these two Books might begin their race at the same Epoch● or terminus à quo of time and conclude together likewise at the same goal or terminus ad quem but in regard they were all of them written in one Book and not in two here is no colour at all for such a groundless imagination 3. Histories write of things in order as they come to pass as if a man were to write a Chronicle of the Kings of England he would not put King Henry the eighth and his Reign before King Henry the seventh but set down the Kings in order as they Reigned And no other is the case here the prophetical part of the Revelations is a History of things to come as a Chronicle is a History of things past and therefore it sets down things in order as a Chronicle doth 4. It is acknowledged by Mr. Mede and others of his mind that all the Prophecies in the Revelation except that of the Palm-bearers Rev. 7. 9. from

THE MEANING OF THE REVELATION OR A PARAPHRASE With Questions on the Revelation of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist JOHN the DIVINE In which the Synchronisms of Mr. Joseph Mede and the Expositions of other Interpreters are called in Question and a new Exposition given of the Prophecies of the Revelation never heard of before nor extant in any Author whatsoever from the sixth Chapter to the eighteenth with variety of Reasons for the Exposition By Richard Hayter of Salisbury Grotius de Antichristo pag. 59. Multùm autem interpretes hìc in aliis Prophetiis explicandis dissident ita ut consensu hìc non urgeamur ut in dogmatibus Et in Prophetiis explicandis semper patuit patere dibet omnibus Dei honorem amantibus campus liber LONDON Printed by J. R. for John Williams in Cross-Keys Court in Little-Britain 1675. ὈΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΤΑΤΩ PIISSIMO Et DOCTISSIMO Ecclesiae Anglicanae Clero PARAPHRASIN Suam cum Quaestiunculis IN APOCALYPSIN Sancti Apostoli Evangelistae JOHANNIS Theologi Dat dicat Consecrat Richardus Hayter Salisburiensis TO THE READER Christian Reader THis exposition of the Prophecies of the Revelation is my own invention thou shalt not meet with it in any other Writer whatsoever All that I intended at the the first was to read over those few Books which I had in my study upon the Revelation which I did for my own satisfaction contentation and delight to see what Men did say on that Subject And I did read of some which held Babylon to be the World the City of the Devil or the City of wicked Men but all others held it to be Rome and some would have it to be Heathen Rome and others to be Papal Some have found the Revenues of the Popedome and others the wealth of the King of Spain in the Revelation and if that were once taken away the fall of Babylon would not be long after which perhaps might give incouragement to Oliver Cromwell to send a Navy to Hispaniola to fetch it away Some have found Gustavus Adolphus the victorious King of Sweden and the house of Austria there and to come nearer home some have found our renowned Queen Elizabeth King James of blessed memory yea and men of meaner rank Mr. Burton Mr. Prinne and Dr. Bastwicke there and which I count as senseless as any of the rest Laodicea England as they call it and Philadelphia Scotland there And if men will give their minds to mystical interpretations and believe the common saying quot verba tot mysteria that there be as many mysteries as words in the Revelation what is it that one may not find there Some forsake our Church Assemblies and judge them to be Antichristian and fetch a warrant for their separation out of the Revelation Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Rev. 18. 4. Yea a great in-let to our late Civil Wars hath been the misinterpretation of the Revelation and some men did believe that that War was Prophesied of Rev. 17. 16. When I found that men were of this mind my spirit was moved within me not only to read what men did Write but to study the Prophecies of the Revelation as the men of Berea did the Scriptures of the Old Testament to see whether those things which they did write upon this subject were so or no. And upon serious examination of the point I call in question all the mystical interpretations of the Revelation excepting those few which John himself hath delivered for such or are so obvious that he that runs may read them as when 't is said When the Lamb ha● opened the first Seal every Child can tell that by the Lamb is meant Jesus Christ and such as these are mystically to be understood but all others that be not of this nature are called in question by me And I put it out of question that our Church Assemblies be not Antichristian nor our Bishops Babylonians A man may frequent our Church Assemblies or be a Minister of the Church of England and not partake of Babylons sins and receive not of her Plagues Yea I make a question what the City of Babylon is and whatever mystical interpretations have been made of that and other Prophecies besides those which the Holy Ghost hath made himself or are so apparent that every one at first sight may know them to be such are called in question by me whether they be the true meaning of the Prophecies and I give a new interpretation of the Prophecies of the Revelation which former Writers knew not of nor ever came into their minds And this I do first by way of Paraphrase wherein I deliver the true sense and meaning of the Prophecies without giving reasons for my exposition and next I add divers questions wherein I first dispute against the false opinions and conceits of other men and demonstrate by divers arguments and reasons that the Prophecies have not such a meaning were not fulfilled in such a way such a manner at such a time and in such a place as they say they were and after this is done in some question or other I give the reasons for my own exposition In a word the main points wherein I differ and dissent from other men may be reduced to four Heads 1. Whereas other men expound the Prophecies of the Revelation mystically according to the common saying quot verba tot mysteria as many mysteries as words making them symbols types and figures of other things I for the most part and so far as lawfully I may expound the words literally without making them symbols types or figures of any other things than what their usual signification will afford 2. Whereas others will have the accomplishment of the Prophecies to be in England Scotland and other parts of Europe I make the Scene in which the Prophecies shall be acted and fulfilled to be Judea and other parts of Asia 3. Whereas other men will not have the Prophecies commence in order as they were revealed to John I make them all come to pass in order as they were revealed to him and I make the order give light to the exposition and not the exposition to the order and I say the order teacheth how the Prophecies are to be explained and interpreted and not the exposition in what order they shall come to pass 4. Whereas others are of the mind that the Prophecies which I write upon are for the most part fulfilled already I am of opinion that all and every one of them are yet to be expected If I discover the truth unto thee as I believe I do in most things if not in all give God the glory and not me but if thou find that I am in an errour as none that have written upon this Subject before me are without convince me of my errour by sound reasons for bare votes will not do it and I will be of thy