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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42409	An essay upon the fourth and fifth chapters of the Revelation shewing that the Church of England B.L.E. is particularly describ'd in those chapters / by Walter Garrett ...	Garrett, Walter.	1690 (1690)	Wing G269; ESTC R6105	15,525	19

AN ESSAY UPON THE Fourth and Fifth Chapters OF THE REVELATION SHEWING That the Church of ENGLAND B. L. E. Is particularly describ'd in those Chapters By WALTER GARRETT Vicar of Titchfield in Hampshire sometimes Fellow of Trinity-Colledg in Cambridg LONDON Printed for the Author and sold by Israel Harrison at Lincolns-Inn-Gate in Chancery-Lane 1690. To their Most Excellent Majesties WILLIAM and MARY Our most Gracious King and Queen May it please your Majesties THese Papers are not prostrate at your Royal Feet for Patrociny they beg nothing of your Majesties but Pardon and Acceptance They need no Shelter the Winds never hurt such Shrubs as these but if they need it they deserve none This Address therefore is purely the Result of a certain rapturous Excess of Joy and Gratitude for that late wonderful Deliverance of this Church and Nation which it has pleas'd Almighty God to give us by your Sacred Majesties unparallel'd Vertue and Conduct Such elevated Affections will be offering something even tho they have nothing fit to offer I only say that my Design is good which is to make it evident to your Majesties and to all the World in my way that is by Scripture-Prophecy what a Heavenly Church even in the Esteem of God himself your Majesties have sav'd from Ruin May your Reign be made as glorious and as prosperous in protecting it And let it not be imputed to me as a Crime if in my Zeal for my Holy Mother I assume the Freedom for this once to declare to your Majesties what I seem to have learn'd from the Word of God That in covering the establish'd Church your Reign will be truly glorious and prosperous Your Majesties may also have the satisfaction here to see how highly God has own'd your Royal Protestant-Predecessors and Progenitors And as my Method leads me to it I doubt not but by God's Assistance to shew as great Things of your Majesties when once I have prepar'd the way for it In the mean time the whole World is Witness that You are the chosen Servants of Jesus Christ Chosen I mean not by Man but by God only For how can that Act of Man be call'd a Choice that was so apparently over-rul'd by an Almighty Hand justified by so unquestionable a Right extorted by so irresistible a Merit I conclude with my hearty Prayers for the best of Princes in the best of words which are those of our Common-Prayer-Books so We call them but God calls them Golden Vials full of Odors which are the Prayers of the Saints That the King of kings and Lord of lords the only Ruler of Princes would so replenish You with the Grace of his Holy Spirit that You may always incline to his Will and walk in his way Endue You plenteously with Heavenly Gifts grant You in Health and Wealth long to live strengthen You that You may vanquish and overcome all Your Enemies and finally after this Life grant that You may attain Everlasting Ioy and Felicity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen I am Your Majesties most Obedient Subject and Servant in the Lord WAL GARRETT An ESSAY upon the Fourth and Fifth Chapters of the Revelation shewing from the principal Characters of the Vision that the Church of ENGLAND B. L. E. is particularly described therein MY Design at present is not to give an Explication of this Vision 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they call it but only to represent the main Strokes of it And because I intend to be very short I shall forbear all prefacing and content my self with only minding the Reader That in a late Book entitled A Resolution of three Questions c. I have clearly prov'd for ought I find to the contrary 1. That the fourth and fifth Chapters of the Revelation are properly a Prophecy of things to come to pass after St. John 's receiving the Vision of them 2. That by Opening the sealed Book Rev. v. is meant or prefigur'd the Explaining of it 3. That by the Throne in both those Chapters is meant a Throne of God on Earth and not his Throne in the highest Heaven From these Principles which I take to be evidently and demonstrably certain for which I refer my self to the afore-said Book I now come to give some general Account of the meaning of the Vision And since it appears that the said Chapters are a continued orderly Relation of Things seen by St. John as Types of Things to come to pass after and which were not in being at the time of his receiving the Vision if in looking forward from that time we could but pitch upon any one remarkable Passage in the Vision and apply it certainly to its proper Event we should be in a very fair way of expounding the whole Prophecy so far as it is fulfilled it being no very hard matter for those that have any skill in the Prophetic Stile to apply Prophecy to History when they know whereabouts to seek for it Now if I be not very much mistaken the second Verse of Rev. v. is of that Nature I mean such as may certainly and irrefragably be applied to its proper Event Here therefore we must fix our Engine to wit upon the Point of Time referr'd to in that Passage if e're we hope to move this dark Prophetic World which like the Natural one consists of Heaven Earth Sea and Creatures in them into some better Light than it has yet been view'd in The words of Rev. v. 2. are these And I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loud Voice Who is worthy to open the Book and to loose the Seals of it That by Angels in the Vision are meant Men in the Completion there needs no other proof than the unanimous Consent of all Interpreters whatsoever who thus expound the Angels of the seven Churches But I have more particularly prov'd as to the Prophecy we are now upon that it concerns only things that were to come to pass on Earth and consequently this Angel must be some mortal Man But it cannot be any Man of an ordinary Character forasmuch as he is set forth to be a strong Angel and said to have proclaim'd with a loud Voice The Substance of his Proclamation we have in these words Who is worthy to open the Book and to loose the Seals of it The Book is the same which the Lamb takes out of the Hand of the Sitter on the Throne Rev. v. 7. and opens Rev. vi 2 c. where also we have the Contents of each Seal set down in order By Opening its Seals is meant Explaining it and by being worthy to open them is meant being able to do it as it is expounded in the very next Verse viz. Rev. v. 3. Let us see now if we can find in all the time from St. John's receiving this Vision downwards any such Person being a Man of extraordinary Quality to have made a publick and solemn Proclamation in the hearing of the whole World as it were