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A89026	The key of the Revelation, searched and demonstrated out of the naturall and proper charecters of the visions. With a coment thereupon, according to the rule of the same key, / published in Latine by the profoundly learned Master Joseph Mede B.D. late fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, for their use to whom God hath given a love and desire of knowing and searching into that admirable prophecie. Translated into English by Richard More of Linley in the Countie of Salop. Esquire, one of the Bargesses in this present convention of Parliament. With a præface written by Dr Twisse now prolocutor in the present Assembly of Divines.; Clavis apocalyptica. English	Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.; More, Richard, d. 1643.; Twisse, William, 1578?-1646.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing M1600; Thomason E68_6; ESTC R12329	241,145	298

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Altarium the Altar place Sacrarium the holy place and changing the order the Glossary of Philoxenus hath it thus Sacrarium Chap. 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the holy place of the Gods is Thysiasterium But this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 together with the Court-yard of the Temple that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I learne out of the description of the Tabernacle to be comprehended rightly by the name of the Inner Court where likewise all that inclosure which compassed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Tabernacle and the Altar of Sacrifice is reckoned by the name of one Court as it appeareth Exod. 40. 33. So much of the first Court which Iohn was bidden to measure But the later Court is set forth plaine enough by the name thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is by the defect of the former substantive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The court which is without the enclosure of the Temple and Altar In this since the Gentiles being admitted without right or reason were harboured it is commanded at no hand to be measured but to be cast out and accounted for prophane But thou wilt say that not the outer court is said to be troden under foot by the Gentiles but the holy citie I answer that the outer court and the holy citie doe mutually expound themselves since the outer court is the place of assembly for divine exercises for the holy citie or for the people of Israel yea in the desert the Tabernacle having only one court into which it was not lawfull for any but the Priests and Levites ordinarily to enter there was no outer court but the campe of Israel or the holy citie Thereupon therefore the sence is as if he should have said The court which is without the Temple cast out and measure it not for it is given to the Gentiles and they shall tread that underfoot 42. moneths But for the relative that there is placed a substantive and surely the same which declareth the thing designed by the antecedent the holy citie saith he they shall tread underfoot fortie two moneths For the enallage of the substantive for the relative is very usuall as well in this booke as else where to wit when either the substantive which went before is repeated instead of the relative or the Synonimie thereof is put instead of the relative An example of the later manner thou hast here and Acts 25. 21. And surely what else shall we say is it to be given to the Gentiles that is leave to be given them to take it then to be trodaen under foot and what at length should the Gentiles tread under foot except that which was given them that these words also no lesse then of the Court and of the holy Chap. 11. Citie may seeme mutually to expound themselves A plot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is of the Temple and the Courts thereof The plot The Inner Court The outer Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Temple The Holy of Holies The Holy Place The offering Altar Thysiasterium the Altar place To these two Courts which and no more the Scripture mentioneth a third was added in after ages to wit in the Herodian Temple by the building of another wall more compassing the Temple which was called the court of Gentiles or of those that were uncleane but was not accounted for holy Moreover there was written upon pillars there set as well in Greeke as in Latine letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Atrium sanctum Chap. 11. transire alienigenam non debere that a stranger ought not to enter into the holy Court Iosephus de bello Iudaico lib. 6. Graec 18. The mysterie of the two witnesses prophesying in sackcloath The Gentiles taking up their standing in the Court of the people of God or the holy Citie two Witnesses or Prophets from God preach mourning and being cloathed in sackcloath These are the Interpreters and Defenders of the Divine Truth which should bewaile with continuall complaints that filthy and lamentable pollution of the Church of Christ and whom God should stirre up continually to be monitors to the Christian world idol●zing with the Gentiles and guides to his Saints keeping the faith To wit according to the patterne of those famous payres under the Old Testament Moses and Aaron in the wildernesse Elias and Elisaeus under the Baaliticall apostasie Zorobabel and Iesua under the Babylonian captivitie To wit those witnesses of the Revelation are manifestly described by their number condition power and acts even as also the state of the Church wherein they prophesied answerable to that of Israel is figured by the representation of Babylon the wildernesse and Gentilisme or Baalisme What I have said of the description of the witnesses that behold with thine eyes Reader in the Table following Moses and Aaron Elias and Elisaeus Zorobabel Iesua 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 6. Having power over waters to turn thē into blood to smite the earth with every plague Vers 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 6. Having power to s●●t heaven that it raine not Vers 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 4. These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks which stand before the Lord of the earth Vers 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Vers 5. Whom if any will hurt Vers 4. fi●e proceedeth out of their mouth c. Vers 5. Of Moses and Aaron you may see Numb 16. of Elia a Kings Chap. 1.   Now let us come to the text And I will give saith he unto Chap. 11. my two witnesses that they shall prophesie a thousand two hundred Vers 3. and threescore dayes cloathed with sackcloth Where this cometh first to be observed that the whole prophesie which followeth from this verse to the sounding of the seventh trumpet the nature of the matter so requiring is exhibited not in a vision but was dictated to Iohn by an Angel personating Christ the observation whereof is of no small consequence for the better perceiving of the nature of the allegory or type To my two witnesses he calleth them two in regard of the type which as I said is of paires as if he should have said I will give to my Zorobabel and Iesua to my Eliah and Elisaeus to my Moses and Aaron To which is added that he calleth them witnesses now by the Law there ought to be two witnesses to confirme every word Add that they may be called two in regard of the number of the Tables of God which they used in their prophesie of the Old and New Testament as it were witnesses of two Testaments That they shall prophesie cloathed with sackcloth to wit mournfully be wayling the trampling under foot of the holy Citie by the bringing in of the Idolatry of the Gentiles giving testimony to the truth of God and exhorting to repentance 1260 dayes as many to wit as are contained in 42 moneths Which that they are not naturall

dayes it appeareth as well out of those three dayes and an halfe parts of these dayes a little after to be assigned to the death of the witnesses which that they cannot be taken for naturall dayes those things which are foretold to be then done doe prove as also out of that that the Beast the measure of whose time they also doe containe contemporized with the company of the 144000 sealed and the company of the sealed with the sixe first trumpets but the matters of the trumpets could not be run out in so little time as in 1260 naturall dayes or in the space of three yeere and an half But thou wilt aske why is the prophanation of the Gentiles measured by moneths and the prophesie of the witnesses defending the pure worship of God by dayes Forsooth because the worshipping of idols and every sinne and errour is of the power of darknesse and night wherein the Moon ruleth contrariwise true Religion is compared to the light and to the day of which the Sunne is the ruler Therefore the sending of Paul to convert the Gentiles Chap. 11. from id●ls is said Acts 26. 18. To turne them from darknesse to light from the power of Satan to God The same meaning hath that What fellowship hath light with darkenesse Now then the 2 Cor. 6.14 Moneths are directed by the motion of the Moone which ruleth the night dayes and yeeres by the motion of the Sunne which ruleth the day For the same cause as afterwards we shall see the blasphemy of the Beast will be reckoned after the motion of the Moon by moneths but the abiding of the woman in the wildernesse by yeers and dayes after the motion of the Sunne These are the two Olive trees and the two candlesticks standing Vers 4. before the God of the Earth That is they are like Zorobabel and Iesua whom God in times past had anoynted to restore againe the Iewish Church destroyed under the captivitie of Babylon and by these witnesses to take the charge of it in like manner under the servitude of the Gentiles For the allusion is to those two olive trees which Zacharias saw growing on either side of the golden candlestick and supplying the light thereof with oyle Zach. 4. of which the Angel being demanded what they meant saith These are the two anoynted Vers 14. ones standing before the Lord of the whole Earth pointing at the two heads of the Church then under the servitude of the Gentiles Zorobabel the Captaine and Iesua the high Priest of whom he had prophesied a little before For the Candlestick there of seven lights did signifie the Temple and in the type thereof the Church of that time whose restoring and preservation those two anoynted ones should procure not by power not by strength or by any humane helps but by the power of God alone working after a certaine invisible and wonderfull manner Even as those two olive trees standing on each side the Candlestick did supply the lights thereof with oyle in a certaine way extraordinary and not perceiveable But thou wilt say wherefore is there not mention here in Iohn of one as in Zacharie but of two Candlesticks to which likewise and not to the olive trees only those two Prophets seeme to be resembled I confesse I am here at a non plus neither have I yet found out a reason of this difference apt and evident enough In the meane while I thinke there lyeth hidden in the words an Hebraisme and it is as if he should have said These are those two olive trees at or besides the two Candlesticks standing before the Lord Chap. 11. of the Earth 〈◊〉 that the comparison is made onely of the witnesses with the olive trees and the addition of the Candlesticks may be judged to belong but to the description of the olive trees ●or the copulative with the He●re ws is sometime in stead of the praeposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is for with besides at as 1 Sam. 14. 18. Because then was the Arke of God and the children of Israel that is with the children of Israel See Schindlers Lexicon But the difficultie concerning the two Candlesticks will remaine neverthelesse Whether therefore it be to be said that that one Candlestick with Zacharie is here to be accounted for a double one in regard to wit of the double order of the lights from either part of the shaft and the two olive trees powring oyle into each of them severally There is also with Zachary mention of seven and seven that is of twice seven * Infusoriorum pipes but whereto it tendeth is not manifest enough Or whether shall we thinke that that paire appertaineth secretly to set out the condition of the Christian Church that is to say either as it were consisting of two people the iews and the Gentiles or which is happily neerer the truth because in the time wherein the witnesses should mourne it was to be divided together w th the Roman Empire into the Eastern Western Howsoever it be it is certain that the Candlesticks set out not the Prophets or Bishops of the Church but the Chuches themselves which appeareth out of that that the Angel before Ch. 1. 20. doth interpret the seven Candlesticks to be so many Churches the seven Candlesticks saith he which thou didst see are seven Churches When if any man will hurt fire proceedeth out of their mouth Vers 5. and devoureth their enemies and if any man will hurt them he must so be killed The witnesses doe not revenge themselves by strength of hand not with sword or poyniards if at any time they shall be hurt by their enemies but the revenge proceedeth out of their mouthes that is they pierce their enemies with weapons of their mouth to wit whil they denounce the anger of ●od hanging over the heads of those that abuse his Ministers or by their imprecations and groans obtaine revenge For this 〈◊〉 w●ich is shewed to proceed out of the mouth of the witnesses is a 〈◊〉 of revenge according to that o● the Lord to Ieremiah Chap. 5. 14. Behold I make my words in thy mouth Fire and this people wood and it shall devoure them For Moses and Aaron and afterward Chap. 11. Elias they upon the confederates of the conspiracy of Korah and he upon the servants of King Ahaziah a worshipper of Baal did bring down fire properly so called from heaven but the Fire of our witnesses is to be interpreted mystically since that the holy Ghost telleth us anon that our Egypt and likewise the wildernesse are taken * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spiritually Furthermore that which the Prophets doe denounce in the name of God the same it is said they accomplished as that which the Lord saith to the same Ieremiah doth shew Chap. 1. 10. I have set thee saith he over the nations and kingdoms to root out and to pull down and to spoyle and to everthrow