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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91429	The mystery of the vialls opened: being a short exposition upon the pouring out of the four last vialls, mentioned in the 16 chapter of the Revelation: wherein divers things relating to times present, past, and to come, are discovered: as the ruine of Antichrist, and the severall degrees thereunto; and the shadowing out these times wherein we live, are generally surveyed.	Parker, John, 1564-1614.	1650 (1650)	Wing P451; Thomason E609_19; ESTC R16504	12,065	15

made true the River became their enemy and made a way for this Persian Prince Thus wee see what Euphrates was by which wee may be warranted to think that by Euphrates here is meant some State or Kingdome which is to Rome as Euphrates was to Babylon a supporter and defence Now when I thought of all the States and Princes in this Western world I see none a greater supporter to the seat of Antichrist or more stands for him then doth the Catholique King as the Popelings call him I conjecture therefore that by Euphrates in this verse is meant the Kingdome and State of the King of Spain for doe but weigh them and you shall see how fully they agree First Euphrates is a great River in Caldea and Spain is a great Kingdome in Europa Secondly Euphrates did convey maintenance to Babylon and so did uphold the City and it is notoriously remarkable that Spain is the sole nourisher and upholder of the Popish Kingdome Thirdly Euphrates was a defence to Babylon and who knowes not that the Beast of Rome doth acknowledge the Spanish forces to be the only supporters of his credit the bar that keeps his enemies from trampling his triple crown in the dust Fourthly Babylon could not be won nor Cyrus have any way into that City till the water of this River was dryed up and may wee not well thinke that the only cause that stayes the fift Angel and other Easterne Princes from an Expedition against Rome is the power of Spain for they shall stand waiting till this current of supportation that runs from Spain to Rome bee dryed up and Spain enforced to bestow their strength elsewhere perhaps in their owne defence But who shall bee this sixt Angell that shall poure his Viall upon Euphrates Why surely I think this will give a great probability to my former conjecture To poure out the Viall in all this Revelation doth signifie to lay affliction upon and bring misery unto and most usually the plague of War some Prince therefore or State shall fall at oddes with Spain and hold her play at home that shee shall not attend to succour her ancient friend the Beast and his followers And if I should think that this State or sixth Angell shall bee the Kingdome of England or the Low countreys or both jointly with their friends one peradventure would think it unlikely and yet the next age or perhaps this will it may he make it appear that they shall have a principall hand in pouring out this sixth Viall But who are those Eastern Kings whose way by this meanes shall bee prepared and what is this preparation of their way to doe I answer Even the same men that are afterwards called the Ten hornes prepared in a readinesse to sack Rome who are both here and there called Kings and yet chap. 17. are said to have no crownes which in my conceit doth most admirably shadow out the German Princes every of which is an absolute Prince in his owne territory and therefore may well be called a King yet are not crowned they have not the name of Kings but have a head as these horns had which bears the crown the name over them all even the Emperour which at this time shall bee Angell of the fifth Viall for these Princes and their head is it that this way is prepared for they seeing that Romes Euphrates her supporter is dryed up shall presently joine in an Expedition which shall bee the finall desolation of this purple Whore wee see now the meaning The sixt Angell poured out his Viall upon Euphrates and the waters thereof were dryed up that the wayes of the Kings of the East might be prepared i. e. England or the Low countries or some other Prince enemy to Spain doth fall at oddes with Spain by which Spain is enforced to imploy his forces for his own defence and suffereth his aid which he was used to send to Romes help to bee dryed up which occasion the Germane Princes and their Head laying hold upon and finding their way fitly prepared because Rome is now left destitute of forrain help execute that for which they were kept to be ready at a day or an houre when the Lord should call where by the way we may note how the Lord makes all things admirably concurre to his own ends The Jars betwixt this sixt Angell and Euphrates is for this end to make a way open for the Germane Princes to sack Rome Whereupon I conjecture and verily think that all the troubles that shall happen in this Western world in these times are only to make way for the ruine of Rome upon whose head and in whose ruine they shall at the last all fall and end now let us in a word look upon that which followes And I saw three unclean spirits c. That which remains of this Viall in the three next verses is only thus much That the Pope perceiving his estate to decline his Kingdome and authority to totter himselfe left destitute and forsaken of his dearest and only son the King of Spain his fierce enemies now sometimes his vassalls plotting imagining affecting his overthrow shall by the instigation of the great dragon the devill and the perswasion of the false Prophets his flattering crew of Cardinalls Friers and the rest of that Antichristian building send forth his croaking Jesuites who shall by their crafty subtilnesse goe forth unto the Kings of the earth incite and stir them up to take in hand the defence of their master Antichrist whose ruin then is coming and shall fall unexspectedly and suddenly upon him as by that sudden digression and exclamation Behold I come as a thiefe c. may be gathered when these frogs have gathered what Kings they can together by whose strength their master this beast expects a restauration at least a prolongation of his former glory hee shall unlooked for receive his fatall wound which shall make him irrecoverably expire for then Vers 17. The seventh Angell pours out his Viall upon the aire and a great voice comes forth of the Temple saying It is done c. Here is the utter desolation of Rome and the tyranny thereof presaged and not of Constantinople which shall come to his finall period in the overthrow of Gog not now In the mean space let us with our prayers cry mightily unto God that this Man of Sinne may not long oppresse Which God grant FINIS