was subdued and uâ—teâ—ly destroyed by the Franks in the yeer 526. But for the making up of the number of ten fitly the dominion of the Ostrogothes at the same time was parted into two kingdoms Panonia which â—itherto had obeyed them taken by the Longobards and Italy only left to thâ— Kings of the Ostrogothes 5 Wisigothes In Aquitane and part of Spaine Theodorick 6 Swedes Alanes In that tract of Spain which is contained in Galaecia and Lusitania Riciarius 7 Vandales In Africa but a little befoâ—e in Spain Gensericus 8 Allmanes In that tract of Germany which was called Rhetia Sumanus 9 Ostrogothes In Panonia the Huns being vanquâ—shed neither was this age past but they enlarged their kingdom into Italy also Theodomirus The kingdom of the Alemans from the yeer 475 became one with the kingdom of the Heruli so long as they reigned in Italy to wit 16. yeers 10 Grecians In the residue of the dominion of the Empire For the Empire of the ancient Rome being dissolved the Empire of the Grecians is to be accounted one of the kingdoms into which the dominion of the citie reigning sometimes largely was divided Marcianus The â—ongobards succeeded the Ostrogothes also in Italy being called out by Narâ—etes after he had destroyed the kingdom of the Ostrogothes in the yeere 567 but then delivered their seats in Paâ—onia to the Huns Avares to be enjoyed afterwards And at length after this manner these tenne Kingdomes into Chap. 8. which the holy Ghost had foretold as well by Daniel as by Iohn the Romane Empire at the last should be divided seeme to be reckoned and not at all to be esteemed according to so many bare names as usually is done of so many regions or tracts of land but rather Kingdomes into which the Dominion and Lordship of the Empire should be rent Yet notwithstanding let us not thinke that the limitation of this number of tenne is to be so strictly construed that it excludeth at any time more Kingdomes or any manner of governments but that the Empire should be severed into ten at the least or into ten principall Kingdoms That which even from that originall rending which we have set forth untill our age under so many fates and alterations I think to have been alwaies the truth although it were sufficient for confirmation of this truth if onely in the beginning it had been divided into so many Kingdomes howsoever happily afterwards the number were diminished But the like prophesie concerning the rending of the Monarchie of Alexander may teach us that so as I have said and not otherwise that limitation of the number of ten Kingdomes is to be understood in which although besides these foure principall Kingdomes of Macedonia Asia Syria and Egypt a fift also Thracia was added Lysimachus being the founder yet the holy Ghost bounded that multiplicitie in a number of foure Reckon them to be so many at the least or so many principall Kingdomes For there was no succession in the Kingdome of Thracia though it began together with the rest and endured forty yeeres but it ended with the first King Lysimachus and therefore not to be brought into the number The like hereunto is to be judged of this ten fold Romane division Wherefore let it move no man if besides the Kingdomes reckoned up in France he shall happily finde there the Kingdome also of the Alanes of Orleance and also the dynastie of the Cities of Baitaine continuing from the Empire of Honorius untill these times For he shall finde the latter to be but of a very meane Dominion the other to have from thence endured but a small time to wit tenne yeeres at the most Neither of them therefore to be reckoned with the rest for like place and order nor if any be to be found of the same sort otherwhere The third Trumpet Chap. 8. The third Trumpet did utterly throw downe and extinguish Vers 10. the shining starre to wit the Romane Hesperus or the Western Caesar even now from the time that Gensericus the King of the Vandals had spoyled Rome being taken falling headlong and as it were struggling a little while with death under these names of Caesars of no account Avitus Maioranus Severus Anthemius Olibrius Glycerius Nepos dying with mutuall treasons and slaughter at length in the yeere 476 fetching his last breath under the fatall name of Augustulus and pulled from the heaven of his authoritie by Odoacer King of the Heruli sent against him this being the most bitter fate of the Rivers and Fountaines that is of the Provinciall Cities and Magistracies The Hesperian Caesar here I call him who after the division of the Empire into East and West established even from the death of Theodosius the first remained as yet Emperour of ancient Rome and the West but of a very short continuance as who should utterly fall from his heaven at the sound of this Trumpet after the yeere 91. For whereas the Bishop of Rome more then 320. yeers after that this Hesperian Caesar had set in Augustulus did anew surrogate the Kings of France who were afterwards of Germany into that name and title he brought no other thing to passe but that by this coverture of Caesar revived or of the sixt head of the Beast yet reigning he himself might not at length be so apparently accounted for the last head that is Antichrist by men of ordinary understanding But this papall Caesar pertaineth not to the heads of the Roman Beast but to the hornes or Kingdomes into which the Empire of the sixt head now about to yeeld his roome to the last head was to be rent Neither indeed after so great a space of time as is of 325. yeeres for so many they are from Augustulus to Charles the Great could there be a succession as it were of a continued series of Hesperian Caesars But goe to let us give further light to the Text of Iohn that the reason of the interpretation may be manifest And there fell saith he a great Starre from Heaven burning like a Lampe He seemeth to descâ—ibe a blazing Starre or Comet amongst the kinds of which reckoned by Pâ—iny Lampadias is one specially so called And surely not unfitly is Caesar of the West figured by such a starre Chap. 8. for short duration Concerning whom therefore it will be said Chap. 17. When he cometh he must continue but a small time But the Starre was a great one as the fitter to resemble a Supreme Majestly Vers 10. whose excellency the Sunne otherwhere in Prophetique parables doth represent And surely it is knowne there have been Comets which have seemed to equall even the Sunne in magnitude of which sort that this Starre was happily he shall not erre who affirmeth it Now the like parable of a falling Starre least thou doubt of the application Esay useth Chap. 14.12 of the fall of the King of Babylon How saith he art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer
Mountaine anciently threatning it but now burning turneth it all bloody with a great destruction as well of living creatures or fishes living therein as also of the navy That is the destruction of Rome the great Citie once or twice taken spoyled and burning with hostile flames brake out to the ruine of the largenesse of the Romane iurisdiction the Barbarians now at their pleasure fiercely entering into the Provinces thereof by reason of the weaknesse of the head so afflicted and dividing them into new kingdoms with an irreparable slaughter both of the legions there abiding for defence as also with losse of all aydes of retaining and upholding as of traffique the authoritie thereof The Sea of the politique world as I have said is that fulnesse of dominion compassing all the inhabitants in the communion of the same politique right By this representation the Dominion of Babylon is expressed Ier. 51. 36. where the Lord threatneth that he will dry up the Sea thereof and make the spring thereof dry which vers 44. is expounded holding the same Metaphor the nations shall flow no more unto her The amplitude also of the Assyrian kingdom is so described Ezek. 31. 4. The waters made her to wit the Assyrian Cedar to grow the deep or the sea hath exalted her Happily also the dominion of Pharaoâ— is the Sea Esa 19.5 where concerning the destruction of his kingdom it is said the waters shall faile from the Sea thereof that is his Dominion shall be taken away Whereupon those great Empires in Daniel are beheld to ascend out of the Sea that is to arise out of the largenesse of Dominion Now that the third part of the Sea that is the Romane sea is said to become blood we must know that blood first is take for slaughter then for Death also without blood but that Death in a manner is taken for ruine even of a thing wanting life see Ezec. 14.19 3.18.20 ct 18.13 Amo. 2.2 Rom. 7.9 whereupon to become bloody is a representation of a thing that suffereth ruine to wit as it were like a living creature slain or butchered bleeding That therefore here the Sea is said to become bloody by the fall of a great Mountaine it sheweth nothing else but that it suffered by that fall a certaine Death or a violent Ruine That which in the phyals where the same representation is is a little more plainly said * Chap. 16.3 that it became as the blood of a dead man that is of one slaine the Romane Dominion or fulnesse was overthrown cut in pieces rent destroyed Chap. 8. The like mysterie of a Mountaine signifying a Citie is found of old Babylon Ierem. 51. 25. Behold I come unto thee ô plague-bringing or destroying Mountaine which destroyest the whole Earth and I will stretch out mine hand c. and I will make thee a Mountaine of burning where the Septuagint have it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a mountaine on fire in the same sence wherein Iohn here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a mountaine burning with fire Concerning the same Esay 13. 2. upon the high Mountaine lift up a Standard Targum upon the Citie dwelling without feare The like Chap. 37. 24. to Senacherib King of Assyria Thou hast railed saith he on the Lord and said by the multitude of my chariots I have ascended the height of the mountains Targum I have ascended into the defence of their Cities but whether rightly I doubt Furthermore that a Mountaine is here said to be put or cast into the Sea it is the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 elegancy of the figure since a Mountaine can no otherwise hurt the Sea then by being thrown into it And remember that this hath place in the following Trumpet also concerning the falling Starre Vers 10. As concerning the History Rome was first taken in the yeere 410 and that by the same Alaricus King of the Gothes who had brought in as it were the entrance of the destinie in the former Trumpet but now after the death of Stilichâ— making new stirres and preparing a new and fatall expedition into Italy whereby he brought Honorius into such streights that the Barbarian himselfe could make a new Emperour of Rome namely Attalus with whom he besieged Houorius Augustus at Ravenna now in despaire of his estate thinking to flye into the East leaving the West But the enemy repenting himselfe wholly restored Honorius Attalus being deposed from the Empire The rending of the Romane Dominion immediately followed this destruction of the Citie of Rome I call Sigonius to witnesse The miserable destruction saith he of Italy the continued warres of France and Spaine and the new Empires now at last of the Barbarian Kings in both the Provinces have succeeded the Romane overthrow For first Honorius that he might recover Rome with the Empire having made a league with Alaricus was constrained to yeeld the Countries and Kingdom in France to the Gothes Two yeers after in the yeere 412 the Hâ—nnes running over Chap. 8. Panonia which the Gothes had left the same Honorlus being destitute of power to make resistance in so great difficulties made a league with them giving and receiving Hostages Afterwards in the yeere 413 Constantius Captain of the same Honorius least happily he should fall into any streights of warre did willingly receive into friendship and seated upon the Rhone the Burgundians who in these former yeers the Estate being so disordered together with the Vandales had betaken themselves into France To conclude in the yeere 415 the same Honoriuâ— as Procopius delivereth when the Gothes a little after had passed over into neighbouring Spaine he granted to the Vandales also with their King Gundericus being lately driven out of Gallia by the Frankes the places which they had entered to be inhabited upon condition of making warre upon the Gothes He that desireth to know more let him reade the forementioned Sigonius concerning the Westerne Empire lib. 10. 11. whence we tooke these things And so thence forward the largenesse of the Romane Dominion is daily more and more rent and cut off untill again in the yeere 455 Rome being taken and spoyled by Gâ—nsericus the Vandale the whole Body of the Empire the next yeere or not much after appeared to be divided into ten kingdoms which together with the names of the People and of the Kings and the Provinces over which they reigned and moreover certaine things noted out of the History to give greater light the following Table will shew A type of the rending of the Empire or Romane Dominion in Chap. 8. the yeer of Christ 456 and so forward The Kingdoms The Provinces wherein they reigned The names of the Kings reigning in the yeer 456 Certaine things to be observed 1 Of the Brittones In Britaine Vortimer  2 Saxons Hengist  3 Frankes First in Gall. Belg. shortly in Celt ca also Childerick  4 Burgundians In Gall. Sequan and Lions Gunderick The kingdom of the Buâ—gundians
the foure Angels signifie so many Sultaniâ—s or Kingdomes into which the Turkes were dâ—vided when first having passed over Euphrates they had spread themselves into the neighbouring coasts of A … a and Syria These Christopher Ricâ—erius concerning the originall of the Turkes doth thus reckon up out of Scilix a Greeke author the first of Asia the second of Alepo the third of Damascus and of Antioch the fourth The first of which the Asian or of Asia the lesse had its beginning in Câ—tlamusus otherwise called by Elmachinus except I be deceived Sedyduddrulas allyed to that Tangrolipix who first tooke Bagdad He began his Kingdome in the parts of Asia bordering Chap. 9. upon Euphrates Caesâ—ria or Capadocia being conquered and taken from the Romanes to him and his posterâ—ty about the yeere of Christ 108. as the same auther witnesseth The borders whereof afterward Solyman his successor enlarged as farre as Nicaea of Bithynia but being vanished by ours in that renowned expedition unto Jerusalem he was constrained to leave the whole region which he had gotten and to retire to Euphratâ—s And the seat of this Tetrarchie though in the beginning it were else where yet for the most part was at Iconium in the same Caâ—adocia The second was the Tetrarchie of Alepo the city thereof being Alepo which is watered with an arme of Euphrates brought thither by one of the Sultanus Siarsud aulas was the first king hereof as witnesseth Elmachinus having obtained Alepo in the yeere 1079. whose successor was Râ—duwanus Salghâ—â—ides in the yeere 1095. The founder of the third Tetrachie whose chiefe city being Damascus by the testimonie of the same author was Tagiuddaulas Nisus the nephew of Togrulbâ—cus or Tangrâ—lipix who subdued Damascus in the same yeer 1079. His successor was Ducathes or Decacus the brother of Râ—duwanus the Sultan of Alepo in the yeere 1095. Whom saith Scilix all the region of Dâ—capâ—lis obeyed But this reached to Euphrates To these Scilix reckoneth the Antiochian â—oâ— a fourth contained within moderate boundes For saith he the Calipha of Egypt out of the Saracenicall stock possessed the regions of Syria unto Laodicea But forasmuch as that Antiâ—chean Kingdome as it was a little remote from Euphrates so it endured not but fourteene yeeres Antiâ—chia being presently taken by ours under the conduct of Bâ—â—mund happily it were better leauing out Antioch to adde for the making up of the number of fourâ— the Bagdad or Persiaâ— Empire upon the other side of Euphrates for Scilix had onely respect to the Turkes who had passed Euphrates that so the whole Turkish Empire beyond and on this side Euphrates may be understood to be devided into those foure Sultanies which with the course of the Kings or Sultans for a certain time see Reader described in the following figure for thy more distinct Diagraâ—mate contemplation A Diagramme of the Tâ—â—kish Kingdome parted in Foure Partes at Euphrates from the yeere 1080. and so forth out of Elmachinus the Arabian and Sâ—ilâ—p a Greeke Author Beyond Euphrates on this side Euphrates Of Bagdad Togrulbecus Orbarsalanus Of Cesaria Capadocia I. conium c in Asia the lesse Of Alepo Of Damascus Ghelaluddaulas in the yeâ—re 1071 Barkyaruens Mâ—hammâ—dus Mahmudus began in the yeâ—re 1117. c Seijdudâ—aulâ—s by surname Cutlumusus Sâ—limanus Tâ—nismanius Masutus Calisastlanus c Sjarâ—uddulas Roduwanus Tagjudâ—aulas his sonnâ— Bulgarus begaÌ„ in the yeere 1117 Tagjuddaulas Decacus Ababacus then alive in the yeere 1115 Sanguinus Noradinus And this was the state of the Turkish affaires when first they passed Euphrates and as it were making a shew of their breaking in upon the Romane territories they were restrained in their limited prison at Euphraâ—eâ— But howsoever this quaternion of Sultans remained not entire till the the time of their loosing but underwent divers changes yet the Holy Ghost esteemeth the nation according to the state of the first irruption wherein having passed Euphrates they are bound untill an appointed time And those foure Angels were loosed being prepared for an houre and a day and a month and a yeare that they might slay the third part of men This loosing of the Turkes happened a little before the yeare 1300 the Caliphatship of Bagdad with which the first Woe utterly expired being now extinguished by the Tartars in the yeere 1258 and the remnant of the Turkes who on the other side of Euphrates hitherto raighned in Persia being cast by the same in the yeare 1289 as it were out of a sâ—â—ng into the countries belouging unto the Romane Empyre on this side of Euphrates For things thus framing it happened also that at the same time the Latines who had hindred and staied the irruptions of the Chap 9. Turkes now almost 200. yeares were driven out of Syria and Palestina in the yeare likewise 1291. In the meane time the Turks although as yet devided into severall provinces invaded almost all the lesâ—er Asia parted it among themselves to be possessed by right of inheritance and at length uniting themselves under the sole conduct of my Othâ—man without any restraint cruelly raged and passed over into Europe ne ther could they any â—ore bee restrained with any force untill tâ—ey had destroyed the whole Constantinopolitan Empire with miserable slaughters But unlesse I be deceaved the Oracle designeth the time also of this overthrow of Câ—nstantinople to wit that it should come to passe a day a month and a yeare that is 396 yeares afâ—er the Turkes the Saracenicall Empire being given them dâ—gan to be made ready by God that is from the time that Bâ—gdad was taken by them For this was the beginning of the breaking of the Turks when the Empyre of the Saracens began to be subverted and the dominion of the Romanes to be afflicted yet so as the force of the cvill was to be restrained until the appointed time of setting them loose Certainly the space of time agreeth to an inch For Almachinus the Arabian Historian whom we haue sometimes cited then whom none hath more accurately noted the moments of times reporteth that Zâ—grulbecus Salghucides the Prince of the Turkes whom we cal Tangrolipix of the Zelzucâ—ian family the royall city of Bagdad being taken was clothed with the Imperiall robe by Caliphâ— Caâ—inus Biamrilla and enstauled in the kingdome in the yeare of the Hegira 4.9 that is 1057 of Christ then sayeth he was the kingdome stablished to him From this time therefore the Turkes having the principall seate of the Sarecenicall Empire with the whole dominion beyond Euphrates are prepared that after a propheticall day month and yeare they should kill the third part of men that is in the yeare of Christ 1453 they should utterly cut of the rest of the Romane Empire in the East the royall city of Constantinople being taken Fro the space from the yeare 1057 to the yeare 1453 wherein Constantinople was taken is precâ—â—ely 396 yeares whereof the day maketh one the Month 30 the yeare
whether those elogies of the Angel of the bottomlesse pit and Abaddon can agree with any other besides him Howsoever it is certainly Satan was not then bound the bottomlesse pit as there it is said was not shut upon him and sealed up but as you may see chap. 9. 2. open and that so that the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a great furnace and the sunne and the aire was darkned by the smoke of it To conclude but that this libertie of the Dragon or Satan in deceiving the people continued even to the very destruction of the Beast and therefore was altogether of one time with the six first trumpets I thinke no man can doubt which shall well mark what is read to be done from the effusion of the sixt Viall to wit that when the seventh that is the last by and by was to be pouâ—ed out and therefore the finall ruine of the Beast was even then at â—and out of the mouth of the Dragon and the Beast and false prophet his Vicars three uncleane spirits spirits of devils working miracles shall goe out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battell of that great day of God Alâ—ightie Chap. 16. 13. 14. So the 1000. yeeres of Satans being bonnd that he should not â—eceive the people any more can have no place neither under the six first seales noâ— under the six first trumpets therefore they are â—o be left in the sevenâ—h trumpet 2 Arg. After a thousand yeers being fulfilled Satan being let loose cut off his prison for a short time hee had raised new stirs the scum of the deceived people which hee had gathered together being conâ—uâ—ed with fire fallen from heaven the deceiver himselfe being taken and arrested is said to be sent into the lake of fire and brimstone * Chap. â—â— 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where were both the Beast and the false prophet Marke here reader the chronicall caracter by which is intimated that this whatsoever it is concerning Satan being taken and condemned after his second loosing it succedeth the vision of the former Chapter concerning the Beast and the false prophet being vanquished taken and thereupon cast into the lake burning with fire and brimstone by him which sate upon the white horse as in order of narration so also in the time of the thing done For otherwise it should not have been said that Satan was sent thither where both the Beast and the false prophet were except both the Beast and the false prophet had been sent thither first Neither can any man of judgement say by way of evasion that this war after a thousand yeeres of this 20th chapter is not differing from that of the former chapter when as not onely the character already brought but also all the circumstances on both sides are repugnant the parties the battell and the manner of the slaughter there with the sword here with fire yea and the event of either war unlike as anon the matter being demonstrated shall be made plaine there the binding of Satan onely for a time but here a condemnation to eternall fire The war therefore wherein the Beast and the falsâ— prophet being taken are sent into the lake of fire seeing that it is different from this last to which Satan at length to be cast into the same lake had stirred up the nations presently after his loosing either it must needs be waged within the very same thousand yeeres or els when they were not yet begun It couâ—d not be waged within the thousand yeeres because so long Satan is said to be bound and shut up in the bottomlesse pit that he should not deceive the people any more untill the thousand yeeres should be consummate chap. 20. vers 3. But in the war wherein at length there is triumph over the Beâ—st and the false prophet and their companions if ever at any other time hee was most free and loose to deceive as appeareth by those things which even now wee have alleadged out of the sixteenth chapter concerning the preparation of this war to wit that from the effusion of the sixt Phiall when as now the seventh wherein the Beast was utterly made an end of was ready to be poured out out of the moâ—th of the Dragon out of the moâ—th of the Beast and of the false prophet * Chap. 16. 13. 14 three uncleane spirits the spirits of devils shewing wonders went forth to the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them together to the battell of the great day of God Almightie Because therefore the * Raâ—â—â— state of the thousand yeeres doth no way admit such Satannicall troubles and stirs it must needs be that this warre of the Beast shall in time goe before them and so at length the 1000. yeeres of Satans binding shall contemporize with the space from the slaughter of the Beast which was to be demonstrated 3. Arg. To conclude since through those thousand yeeres wherein Satan is kept in prison Christ is said to have reigned in that Emperiall and Magnificent Kingdome with his thereupon by the same arguments and marks by which the Synchronisâ—e of either is established the other also will be confirmed Therefore that that Emperiall Kingdome of Christ doth begin with the seventh trumpet or from the destruction of the Beast is now for us to shew The fifth Synchronisme Of the 1000. yeeres of Christ his Emperiall raigne and of the seventh trumpâ—t or the space from the destruction of the Beast 〈…〉 1 The excellent and Emperiall Kingdom of Christ often and again mentioned in the Revelation and upon the coming whereof the quire of the Beasts and triumphant elders are wont to sing hymnes and thanksgivings to God every where succeedeth in order the conquest of and the triumph over the Beast and Babylon For first where this reign of a thousand yeers is proâ—erly handled in chap 20. of the number of those which reign with Christ are 〈◊〉 4. they who had not worshiâ—ped the Beast nor his image nor had received his marke in their foreheads or in their hands doe not these words sufficiently shew that this reign of Christ succeeded the reign of the Beast his image and his stigmatized followers For wherefore should this elogie be given to those sons of the kingdome that they had not worshipped the Beast c except the Beast had now gone before For certainly the desert in time goeth before the retribution and reward But now this kingdom is given as the order of the narration sheweth to the Saints as a reward of their faith and constancie and that after their cause was first discussed in open Court of which Session as iâ— were there is a description in these words * Veâ—â—e 4. And I saw thrones and they sat upon them and judgement was given to them that is to say to them was given authoritie of judging c. Therefore the time
of the context of the repeated prophecie and what wee have further formerly declared at the sixt Synch Part. 1. and in the entrance to the second part shall not have sufficiently perswaded any he shall be at length enforced thereto by the very necessitie of the Synchronisme if according to the demonstrations now made hee shall assay to dispose the severall prophecies in their ranke and place The close of the Synchronismes and of the Apoâ—alyps After the 1000. yeers reigne and condemnation of Satan doth â—ollow the universall resurrection of the dead and the last judgement and hell chap. 20. from verse 11. to the end After new Ierusalem described chap. 21. followeth Paradise which having the tree of life in the middle like Eden a river doth environ on this side and that side for so I take the words chap. 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to wit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the midst of the street and of the river which was on this side and on that side to wit of the street was the tree of life And this is the end of the world and of the Revelation Moreover Reader behold here is the order and course of all the prophecies in the Revelation according to the things therin to be done in this figure drawne before thine eye and â—o be viewed at once which I have framed by the exact rule of the Synchronismes already demonstrated EPOCHA OR THE BEGINING OF THE APOCALIPS MEDE his booke sealed HAYDOCK his booke sealed The first prophesy beginneth The latter prophesy beginneth MEDE his booke opened HAYDOCK his booke opened How longâ— Lâ—â—◠〈◊〉 thou not 〈…〉 booke written within and on the backside sealed with 7 seales Ap. v. 1 the six first seales 1 victory 2 slaugher 3 â—â—â—â—ances 4 death 5 the 〈◊〉 6 earthquake 〈…〉 of the 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 〈…〉 with Michaell about the childe birth Trumpet I haile falleth upon the earth Trumpet II the burning hill 〈◊〉 the sea Trumpet III the starr falling into the riuers Trumpet IIII the eclipse of the lights Trumpet V I. WOE LOCVSTES Trumpet VI II. WOE THE EVPHRATEAN HORSEMEN The 7 phyalls destroying the Easte 1 2 3 4 5 6 The company of 144000 seruantes of god out of all the tribes of Israel are fenced to the seale of the liuing God The outer court or holy citty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 for to be 〈◊〉 of the gentiles 42. 〈◊〉 The two wittnesses of god at length to be killed by the beast doe prophesy clothed in sackcloth 1260 days The woman in child birth the dragon being cast out flyeth into the desert there to bee nurished 1260 days or for a time 〈…〉 The beaste w th 7 heades and ten hornes after the deadly wound cured vnder the course of yâ— last 〈◊〉 blasphemeth overcometh the Saints 42 moneths The two horned beast or false prophet the restorer of the ten horned beast exerciseth all his power in his sight The company of virgins 144000 sealed of the lambe to whome alone the 〈◊〉 songe is giuen to be sunge warneth the worshipers of the beast of the Judgment of God The 〈◊〉 city Babilon the 〈…〉 vpon the seven headed Beast now in the course of the last head being tenne horned and maketh the inhabitants drunken w th the wyne of her fornication Trumpet 7 III WOE The misterie of god is fulfilled As he declareth to his prophetes The palme bearing multitude of innumerable rejoycers out of all nations kendreds people THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD ARE BECOME OVR LORDES AND HIS CHRISTES The 7 phyalls destroying the Easte 7 Satan is bound and the saints raigne with Christ a thousand yeares The wife of the lambe New Ierusalem into the light wherof the gentiles shall walk desendeth from heuen SATAN IS LOOSED THE GENERAL RESVRECTION the paradise of the iust the Lake of Fier THE ENDE Know thou who voutchsafest to meditate vpon this Apocalyptik Type that the archinge lines meeting in the same begining and ende shew contemporary prophesies to wit of the seales and of the litle booke the same things is demonstrated by the bounds of the lines and circumferences answering each other And to conclude which of the Visions goeth before or foloweth after thou maiest behold by the order proceeding from the left hand to the right At the 27. 28 and 29th pages of the key the reader may finde a more full direction for the vse of this scheme Place this betwixt pag. 26. 27 for mine own and if thou please for thy use Lord open the eyes of the understanding of either of us that we may behold his marvellous workes Amen A Corollarie concerning the use of the Key 1. Out of what hath been said I suppose it appeareth that the Revelation considered according to the letter only as if it were a certain bare â—â—story of things done and not a prophecie involved with mysticall allegories and types yet to be furnished by the holy spirit with such signes and characters through the whole narration that thence the right course order and Synchronismes of all the visions according to alâ— things done in their time may be found out composed and demonstrated and that without the supposition or help of any interpretation granted 2. Then furthermore as is the manner in histories that many and divers things done by many and divers together and at the same time yet cannot be declared together but severally and one after another so also in these prophecies and visions of things done howsoever revealed in the most aptest and wisest order by far it falleth out that they labour in vain that so go about to interpret the Revelation as if the events every where should succeed one after another in the same order and course as the visions are revealed 3. For truely he that will endevour with successe to finde out the meaning of the Apocalyptique visions must first of all place the course and conneâ—ion of them one with another according to things done being thorowly searched out by the foresaid characters and notes and demonstrated by intrinâ—icall arguments as the basis and foundation of every solid and true interpretation Therefore which we see to be done amisse by very many the order it self is not to be conformed to every aptnes of interpretation according to the will of the interpreter but according to to the Idoea of this chronicall order framed before hand by the characters of Synchronismes is every interpretation to be tryed as it were by a square and plumb-rule 4. For without such foundation thou shalt scarce draw any thing out of the Revelation that will soundly assure the interpretation and application thereof and which resteth upon divine authoritie but upon begged principles and meere humane conjectures on the contrary side this being admitted for a foundation when as now the pales of time and order shall not suffer the aâ—plication to rove at randome and according to pleasure thou wilt presently admire the many wayes of so many different
surniture where with the Aralin Lâ—custs did harme whereâ—oever they came a horrible thing as Chap. 9. much as by force of armes yea the Saraâ—ens were the first from the creâ—tion of manâ—inde that drew after them this traine of most â—â—â—thy erâ—o â—â—â—ither doe I beâ—eeve ever any nation before these attained the Monarchâ— of the world by the like imposture concerning Religion and pretence of destroying idoll worship But it is â—aid to them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That they should not hurt tâ—e graâ—â—e of the earth Neither any greene thing neither any tree but those men onely who had not the seal of God â—o their fore heads For the signification of the particâ—e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sense is either exceptive that they should hurt none neither grasse for this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the 70. â—â—r greene thing nor tree except those herbes onely trees and greâ—ne things which were not marked with Gods seal to wit that as men and grasse trees and greene things mutually expound themselves or it may be expounded not exceptively but adversetively after the use of the particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the * Mâ—â— 12.4 Râ—â—â— 14.14 and 〈◊〉 hâ—â—c sacred Greeke dialect for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To wit that it is said to them they should not after the manner of common Locusts â—eed upon either grasse or trees or any thing at all thot is greene but that such things passed by they should destroy men onely to wit of the number of them whom the seal of the Angel had not freed in the beginning of the trumpets from the plagues of them Whether way soever it be taken it were in vaine to trouble our selves about the signfication and disterence of grasse greene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thing and trees as which are to be referred to thed corum of the â—igure wherein a mysteriâ— is not to be sougâ—t For so concerning the Egyptian Locusts Exodus 10. 15. They covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was daâ—kened and they did consume every herbe â—eptuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of tâ—e land and all the fruit of the trees and there remained not any greene thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on any tree or in the herbes of the field through all the land of Egypt But that our Locusts should aâ—â—â—ct men iâ— appearesh hence that they are not of the kinde of vermine to wit naâ—â—rall Locusts but symbolicall upon oâ—â—asion whereof it will be worth our labour once to set this rule when any thing is attributed to a propheticall type which by nature cannot complie with the same that leadeth to the understanding of the thing signified in the type and teacheth that the interpretation is to be made according to the condition thereof Which thou mayest observe to be done foure times at the least in this vision as when there is attributed to Locusts not only power to set upon men but also the face of a man the haire of women golden crownes brest-plate Verse 7.8.9 of iron by all which is meant that not vermine but men are meant and those not clergie men as many guesâ—e but altogether war destroying soudiers of which Locusts it is further said It was not given to them that they should not kill men but they Verse 5. should torment them five moneths To wit in this the Arabian Locusts differ from the Euphratern horsmen of whom in the following trumpet It was given to the Saracens that they should long and cruelly torment the nations of the Romane Empire but it was not at all given to them any way to bereave the very Romane trientall that I may so call it of life For since in the meane space while the former trumpets sounded a new pontificiall Kingdome had grown up out of the ruines of the politique state of old Rome as it were on the same pace with the ruine of the other the Saracens could neither extinguish the kingdom of this nor of that new Rome Constantinople Contrariwise the Turkes the royall city being taken utterly subuerted the Constantinopolitan Kingdome as in the following trumpet we shall heare But of the five moneths in the compasse whereof that tormenting by the Locusts is limitted we shall more aptly speake where it commeth to the petition of them in the tenth verse In those days men shall seeke death shall not finde it and shall Chap. â— desire to die death shall fly from theÌ„ that is the calamity of those Verâ—e 6. times should be so great that men should be weary of their lives For that thou mayest nor thinkâ— they dealt by bare perswasions or wiles of deceipts they caried the matter by force of armes and that by the instruction of Muhamed himselfe whose propagation certainely terrible enough together with largenesse of gaâ—ning dominion and habit of a warlike nation is set forth in a most lively manner The warlike preparation thus And the shapes of the â—ocusts like unto horses that is horsmen prepared to bartail Their tâ—eth as the teeth of Lions that is they were strong to devoure Ioel 1. 6. Dan. 7. V. 7. 23. And they had brestplates of iron and the sound of their wings as the sound of charets with many horses running to battel The whole descriptioÌ„ is taken out Chap. 9. Ioel whence is that very representatioÌ„ of locusts as I have said see cha 2 4 câ—a 1. 6. cha 2. 5. The successe and largenes of seeking dominion Verse 7. The crownes as it were like gold set upon their heaâ—s do shew and that not unfitly Never was the dominion of any nation so far â—pread nor in so short a space were there ever so many kingdoms so many regions brought under the yoke It is incredible to be spoken yet it is most true In the space of fourescoâ—e yeers or not many more they subdued added to the diabolicall kingdom of Muhamed Palestina Syria both Armeniaes almost all Asia the lesse Persia India Egypt Numidia all Barbarie even to the river Niger Portugall Spaine Neither stayed their fortune or ambition here till they added also even a great part of Italy as far as unto the gates of Româ— as also Sicily Canâ—y Cyprus the other Islands of the Mediterranian Sea Good God what a huge tract of the world is this how many crownes here whence it is worthy of observation also that there is no mention madeof a third part as in other trumpets For this destruction fell no lesse without the bounds of the Roman Empire then within it extending even to the farthest Indians It remaineth we speak of the habit of the warlike nations And the faces of them saith he were as the faces of men These locusts were with a humane face that is indeed men lest any happily should conceive that it was meant of vermine having hair as the hair of women that is by nation Arabiaâ—s
who saith Pliâ—ie use long hair and after the manner of women wear head tiers Pliny lib. 6. cha 28. with whom it is the manner even to this day as travellers affirme that going into battell they make themselves horns and curled locks of their own hair Cam rar operum subâ—is tom 1. c. 39. whence it will be evident that the place cited by our Brightm in out of Herodotus in Thâ—lia as iâ— were for the polling of the Arabian is to be taken not of polling the head but either some custome of cutting the beard used by the Arabians in imitation of Bacchus of which Plinie maketh some mention when he â—aith their beard was wont to be shaven saving on the over lip or of the rounding of the ends of their haire without the whole polling of the head Both which happily because it was an ensigne of the worshippers of Bacchus their neighbouâ— idoll God forbade his people Levit. 19. 27. and 21. 5. Howsoever it be I doubt not but Plinie had seen Arabians at Rowf It followeth of the continuance of the Plague which surely Chap. 9â— is determined in the compasse of five moneths according to the type of locusts which continue so many moneths to wit from Verse 5. the rising of the seaven stars by the ancient called * Abeâ—â—â—â—â— vergâ—ttarnm the going out of the spring about one moneth after the vernall Aequinoctium when they are hatched of egges left iâ— the earth all the winter unto the beginning of Autume when leaving other egges upon the earth for an increase of the next yeere they presently die you may see Plinie lib. 11. chap. 29. Yet God would have this notation of time agree not onely with the type but with the antitype also when as hee delivered to be vexed with invasions by the Saracenicall locusts Italy the chiefe of lands and the most eminent for sinne which caused the plague from the yeere 830. to the yeere 980. that is 150. yeeres or five moneths of yeeres The Plague in truth rested upon other countreys longer but in a certaine course for severall spaces of time some shortâ—r some longer chiefly upon the Easterne regions of Syria Egypt and Asia the lesse which bordering upon the head of that Empire which first was Damascus after Bagdad became for many ages as it were the foreparts of the Saracenicall body And that I may note this although what countreyes soever they possessed they tormented the Inhabitants thereof with that venemous stroke of the Scorpions taile as I have said yet the Italians seemed to have felt the stroke of the taile of the locusts after another I know not what singular manner For the whole swarme being compared to a body and the former parts as it is meet assigned to the East what shall the Affrican troupe be reaching so farre from the head into the West but the tail But from these is all the calaâ—ity of Italy which they did strike without intermission with a by blow see the subtiltie of Scorpions through the Mediterranian sea and the Islands thereof Sardinâ—a and Sicilia as if the holy Ghost had pointed his finger hither when as by an itterated mention of moneths he said And 〈◊〉 10. they had tailes like Scorpions and stings and in their tailes they had power to hurt men five moneths For so the Complutense book readeth Syras Primasius Andreas and Aretas agreeing therewith Such interpretation although it be not unproper for declaring of the time yet that there is another significatiâ— of that serpentine trayne and extending it selfe much further I have already said neither doe I here alter if any shall suffer himselfe to bâ— perswaded to admit of some secondary sence besides this primarily intended such as I am not easily wont to admit let him for me And this is one way how the five Monthes of type of Locusts may be fitted to the thing it selfe acted There is also another if because these five monthes are twice sett downe the account be Ver. 5 10. therefore dou led as if forsooth the Holy Ghost would use the number of five for the analogie and decorum of the type but doublee it that it might answer the antitipe in some more large space For wherefore otherwise should he iterate the mention of these monthes almost â—n the same wordes Is there not some mistery in this iteration I doe not râ—member the like to be any where else in the continued deâ—cription oâ— the same type If therefore this shall please three hundred yeares for so many doe twice five monthes of yeares make will comprehend that noble space of the kingdome of the Saracâ—ns which is drawne from the beginning of the Calipâ—ate of the Apasidâ— who first made Baâ—daâ— heir Imperiall seate to the taking of the same Bagâ—ad by Togrul ecus King of the Turks whom we call Taâ—grolipix that is from the yeare of Christ 750 to the yeare 1055. This space truly is larger about five yeares but since the account is made by Monthes there is no greater care to be taken of a few dayes then is wont to be of houres where the account is by dayes This also may be added that this space may begin fitly from the taking away of the yoke of the Exarchate from the city of Rome wherin the calamity of the former trumpeâ— ceased For this happened at the same time happily also the same yeare If thou enquire yet wherefore the Holy Ghost did not comprehend the whole continuance of the Saracenicall plague in these nâ—bers Chap. 9. since the principality of the Abiâ—die to wit from the yeare 630 the Saracens by continued successe had so inlarged their Empyre that now it was come to its perfection it may be answered because this number of five Monthes was rather of the type of Lâ—cust◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then of the Antitype of the Saracens And therefore what did properly comply with them was sufficient if in these it should be set forth by some more remarkeable space of time although it did not perfectly measure it Notwithstanding I determine nothing here but leave it to others to whom God shall have given more abiâ—itie to be further searched out In the meane while this difficulty doth nothing prejudice the interpretation concerning the Saracenâ— For whatsoever interpretation thou shalt follow the same difficultie will presse thee It remaineth yet to treate of the King anâ— his name They Verse 11. had saith hee over them a King thâ— Angel of tâ—e bottomâ—esse pit whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon but in Greeke Aâ—ollyon that is a Destroyer The Holy Ghost seemeth in that he calleth the Angell of the bottomlâ—sse pit a King to intimate that these Locusts shall bee a Nation not Christian but Infidell which had not given their name to Christ For the Children of unbeliefe or Pagans are sayd by Paul Ephes 2.2 to bee subject to the Prince whose power is of the ayre who is none other then the Angell
365. The exactnesse of the account is such that any one may easily imagine that even the howre which according to the proportion of the rest should make fifteen dayes agreed in like manner with the event if the month of the inauguration of Togrulbecus had beene declared as well as in the yeare is In the meane while untill that appeare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an houre may he taken here not for thâ— twentieth part of the day but for a fit time and the coniunctionkâ—â— and to be expounded declaratively as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prepared for a fit time to wit for a day a month and a yeare to slay the third part of men But how many yeares after wardes should runne till the ruine of the Turkish kingdome is no where had only it is said that it shall come to passe at the end of the times of the Beast to wit the second Woe shall passe when the third Woe should be at hand for the abolishing of the kingdome of the Beast chap. 11 v 14.15 But before I depart hence I shall not unwillingly confesse this that except so exact an agreement of the prophesie with the thing done did as it were enforce mee another interpretation should no way have displeased mee to wit this that those Angels were prepared and furnished for every occasion whether need shall require for an houre or a day or a month or a yeare to take the matter in hand But whether it bee like that so accurate answering of time as here the event sheweth should have happened by chance let others judge Some one perhaps there will be who will make conscience so to thinke It followeth of the quality and number of the Armies And the number saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Army of horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand Hee â—ameth an Army of horsemen and no other Armies in the whole description of the plague as if this enemie from Euphrates should be wholly an Army of Horsemen Whether because in the Turkish warre the horsemen so farre exceed the foote men in number that this is of no account in respect of that rather which I beleeve the Holy Ghost especially respected because this is the very character already consecrated by Ezechiel of the Nation of Magog of whom the Turkes are derived For so hee describeth that Nation by warrfare on horse-back in that famous prophesie concerning Gog this in the same age of Ezekiel was the * Râ—b Moses Bar. Naâ—hman upon the Pentatench Gog. saith he is a generall name by which every Prince of Magog is called the same saith Iohannes Baptista of a lew becomming a Christian in the prologue of the second part Leunclavius in the Pandicts of the Turkish Hâ—story p. 186. Gog at this day by the Turkes is called Giok or Kâ—oc with one only syllablâ— whence Kioc Can whâ—ch otherwhere is Gog Can c. Gog Eâ—p which also is Gug Elp. common name of all the King of Magog as Pharaoh was of the Aegyptians Chap. 38. 4. And I will bring thee forth saith he and all thins army Horses Chap. 9. and Horse men and all of â—hem clothâ—d with armour Againe verse 15. And thou shalt come from thy place out of the North-parts thou and people with thee all of them Riders on horsâ—s c. furthermore this Gog is called the chiefe Prince of Meshek and Tubal That is who going out of his coasts commanded both the Armeniaes beyond and on this side Euphrates I comprehend here under the name of the hither Armenia the Capadocians anciently called Meschim and Moschi and where the chiefe towne Mazaca is afterwards called aesarea and in the same Coast the Moschi mountaines being no obscure tokens that the Inhabitants are derived from Meshek The further or greater Armenia is that which is called at this day Turcomania from the habitation of the Turkes wherein in time past the City Thelbalana was the Tibarenian and Balbitenian people the river Teleboas and other marks of the name Tubal Yet notwithstanding the Warre which Ezechiel declareth is not to be taken for this irruption of the Turkes which Iohn describeth this only he seemeth to intimate bee understood of another the last under the returne of the Jews and that if a man may conjecture this which now is something before departing But of the type of the Armie of the Horse-men there is another thing which with the good leave of the Reader I will adde but on this condition that no man thinke mee over much to regard the deceitfulnesse of names and eâ—ymologies Even solid and well cooked meates are wont to taste more deliciously with saucâ— Let not the Reader therefore disdaine that I set such before him To wit that the Turkes before the loosing now by long habitation have beene Perfians and by that name called every where in the Byzantine Historians Certainely Nicetas who in a History comprehended the most part of the time wherein they were restrained at Eupbrates almost alwayes calleth them Persians verily rarely Turkes Now the Persians if thou marke even by the very sound of the name are Harse men since 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paras by which name Persia is called in sacred writt with which Parthia is the same onely otherwise Chap. â— pronouned in the three Easterne languages the Hebrew Chaldean and Arabâ—an dothsignifie a Horse or Horse-man Therefore by this reason the Euphratean Horse-men are Turcoperâ—ians that is the borderers of Euphraces by a namâ— of their Nation are called Horse-men Neither doth example of such allusion if any shall object dispose seeme to bee wanting in Daniel chapter 8. where the Macedonians who at that time were called Aegeades that is to say Goatish are signified by a type of Goates and the King is set forth by the representation of a hee Goate Behold saith hee Hircus Caprarum that is the Male of the Goates commeth Verse 5. from the West c. for hee meaneth Alexander the great the KING of the Aegeans They are the Macedonians For so that Nation was called where the first seate of the kingdome was from Caramos the Founder about two hundred yeares before Daniel The occasione of the name the Epitomizor Iustinus reporteth out of Trogus lib. 7. whose words I will not sticke to mention Caranus saith he with a great multitude of Grâ—cians being commanded by an answer of the Oracle to seeke places of habitation in Macedonia when he had comâ—into Emathia he possessed himselfe of the Citie Aedessa following a stocke of Goates flying from a shower the Citizens not perceaving by reason of the greatnesse of the showres and fogge and calling the Oracle to minde whereby he was bidden to seeke an Empyre by the conduct of Goates he appointed it the State of the Kingdome and afterwards religiously observed whethersoever hee removed his Army to have the same Goates his ensignes using those as guides for his enterprises which he had for authors of his
be effectually verified also in his Prophets And who knoweth whether or no the reformed Church shall be worthily punished for the reproach offered Christ in this behalfe by the taking away of the witnesses for a time because they reverenced them not according to the dignitie of their embassage while they enjoyed them It is too well knowne what offence the reformed Churches commit in this behalfe and that while the Prophets of Christ mightily bestirred themselves in reforming of the Church of God others in the meane while disgraced that most sacred worke by pillaging and interverting the maintenance thereof not leaving in some places so much as food to the great disgrace of true Religion whereby the Ministers thereof might be honestly sustained and according to the dignitie of their calling much lesse that any thing should abound which they might set aside for the enlarging of the reformation the necessities of the holy warre the reliefe of afflicted brethren and other pious uses Was not that praevarication of this kinde for which the Iewish Temple was given to Antiochus Epiphanes to be prophaned and the Religion of the true God likewise to be troden down for the space of three yeers An Hoast saith Daniel shall be given to him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression and it shall cast down the truth to the ground and shall doe it and prosper Chap. 8. 12. See also the history in the second book of the Macchabees from the beginning of the third Chapter to the Saint and Iudge But I will touch upon this sore no more This only I will adde Happily this encrease of honour and power shall happen to the witnesses after their resurrection by the command of the Supreme Magistrate which seemeth to be that voyce from heaven as in recompence of that infamy and ignominy wherewith the followers of the Beast did punish them being dead if so be that were signified by that prohibition of buriall And the same houre there was a great earth-quake and the tenth Chap. 11. part of the citie to wit that great one fell and there were slaine in Vers 13. the earth-quake seven thousand names of men At what time the Witnesses or Prophets returned to life and ascended into heaven there was a great earth-quake that is a great commotion of the Nations and alteration of Politique affaires whereby indeed a way is opened for the Witnesses and power given them of reviving with so great increase of dignitie and authoritie In that stirre of Nations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the tenth part of the citie is overthrowne and there are killed seven thousand names of men Of which words that as farre as may be possible in a future thing we may attaine the neerest meaning to the truth two things are by us to be premised and proved First since there is no fall of the decaying Beast but is contained in some of the phyalls therefore the samâ— destruction of the Beast is here described which belongeth to the powring out of the fift phyall For proofe there is the same subject of the plague in both there the seate or throne of the Beast here that Great Citie For that that Great Citie to wit Rome is the seat of the Beast is so evident that there needeth no proofe Further it is confirmed because the destruction which is here described doth so neerely goe before the utter abolishing of the Beast at the seventh trumpet that nothing is shewed to have come betweene but the departure of the second woe And now the utter abolishing of the Beast is the worke of the last phyall the departure of the second woe or of that plague from Euphrates is of the sixt phyall Therefore the destruction of the great Citie which next preventeth that departure falleth into the fift phyall The other thing by us to be premised is that the fall of the great Citie is the very same destruction of Babylon which is sung Chap. 18. It is proved because it is certaine out of the same Chapter that that destruction of Babylon or of the Citie Vers 2. of Rome was to goe before the full destruction of the Beast and the Emperiall Raigne of Christ to be begun with the seventh trumpet But now the destruction of the same Citie which is here declared doth so neerely goe before that same kingdome that the spirit presently passeth to that kingdome and the description of the seventh trumpet without mentioning any other destruction besides It must needs therefore be that the same destruction of that Citie is described in both For who can be perswaded to thinke that the holy Ghost should altogether let slip that Chap. 11. great destruction interposing the mention of some lesse destruction and with it no way to be compared These things being thus it followeth that the interpretation of this place is to be directed by the rule thereof and as it were to be tryed by the same touchstone and so such a meaning of these words to be sought as may agree with the description of that destruction of Babylon Which how it may be done let us now see Philippus Nicolas a Divine of the Augustine Confession a learned and acute man thinketh that by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is understood the Decharchie of the Citie or the ten kingdoms subject to the dominion thereof which forsooth in this stirre of the Nations should fall away from Rome to the Empire whereof they had been subject so many yeers not obeying the command thereof any more To wit the very same which is in another place said The ten Kings which had delivered over their power to the Rev. 17. 16. Beast then when the word of God shall be fulfilled shall hate the Whore shall make her desolate and naked shall eate her flesh and burne her with fire But such understanding of the word â—EKATON howsoever it first offered it selfe even to me thinking of the meaning of this place and by reason of the concinnitie of the matter it selfe did like me very much yet afterwards considering it better it seemed somewhat harsh and unusuall that I feare it will not easily be approved by those who desire a plaine and genuine interpretation I seeke therefore another interpretation And first it cometh into my minde that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is happily a name of tribute either of that which the Pope receiveth out of the whole kingdome of the Beast or of that which the Citie it selfe receiveth out of her large possessions by right of Lordship That tenth of the Citie shall fall in that great commotion of affaires that is shall cease and thereby is intimated that the principalitie of the Citie shall be utterly extinguished to wit deprived of the ground allotted for her patrimonie and the Pope thence driven by force loosing the prerogative and dominion which she was wont to have over Cities and People farre and wide when that Prerogative and Dominion which she had gotten shall continue
no longer to wit the Metropolis of the Kingdome of the Beast or Seat of the false Prophet For it is knowne that tribute is the Symbole of Dominion and by that name the most Provinces under Chap. 11. the Empire of ancient Rome payed yeerely the tenth part of all their fruits Which that it was usuall also in the Eastern kingdoms may be proved as well out of 1. Maccaâ— 10. 31. and 11. 35. as also out of that briefe of all the power of a King 1 Sam. 8. but take heed thou take not that which is said there of tythes to be meant of sacred tythes they were the Kings and used to be payed to Kings as to Gods Vicegerents which also Aristotle confirmeth in the second Book of his Oeconomicks Therefore it ought not to seeme strange if any man should here affirme that by the name of tenth a kinde so commonly used there may be meant any kinde of tribute in generall belonging to the Citie But there is no need to come to that sith in Italy that manner of tribute hath not yet worne out of use and furthermore the Pope of Rome in his Ecclesiasticall Empire now long since hath imitated the same by exacting yeerely the tenth part of all Ecclesiasticall Benefices But one thing hindreth this interpretation namely that then it should rather have been said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Furthermore the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fell whereby it must needs be that some effect agreeable to an earthquake is signified is not plyant enough to such interpretation Yea if it could stand yet it should seeme to expresse the ruine of Babylon wherewith we presuppose it to be the same too obscurely and weakely and not answerably to so great a ruine At length therefore untill some one shall enforme something more certainly and more agreeable to the Text I fall to this that I conceive by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the tenth part of the Citie is understood truly a part of the Citie but not any part of the Citie as it is at this day but the whole I say the whole Pontificiall Rome which is the tenth part of that ancient Rome Which that it is so and that it is not at this day more then a tenth part of that old Rome such as it was in Iohns age may be perceived by the demonstration following For truâ—ly Lipsius affirmeth * Or maintaineth that old Rome such as it was in Iohns age as touching the forme was in a manner round but not exactly that the Semidiameter thereof from the * A milliario aâ—reo golden pillar standing in the head of the Market place of Rome to the utmost of the buildings was reckoned for seven miles to conclude that the compasse of it was fortie two miles Since therefore it was not exactly round for the measuring of the plot thereof let us Chap. 11. lessen the Semidiameter one mile to wit so much as in a sixe angled figure should be lessoned in the side for the Perpendicular line there will be sixe which multiplied with 21. the halfe of the circumference it will give the plot of the Citie to be 12â— But now the present or Pontificiall Rome hath not in compasse but thirteen or fifteen miles as they know saith Lypsius who have measured it the forme as may be seene by the plot thereof next to a foure-square somewhat long as it were in a double proportion For the measuring of which therefore let there be placed a draught of paralell lines right angled whose perimeter may be fifteen the longitude double to the latitude such doubtlesse as will be out of the sides 2½ and 5 which being multiplyed between themselves a plot 12½ will be the product Now the number 126 doth comprehend the number 12½ ten times Therefore the later plot is of the former and consequently Rome at this day of that ancient Rome the tenth part which was to be demonstrated Who so is not so well accustomed to this manner of demonstration let him use the judgement of his eyes in the following plots Ancient Rome in compasse 42 miles Rome at this day in compasse 15 miles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The tenth part of the Citie We cannot certainly here examine all things exactly but it is wonderfull that that which we are able is so agreeable I define the circuit of the Citie at this day by the walles wherewith Chap. 11. now it is compassed for without contrary to that of old it is not at this day inhabited but the whole how great soever it is is enclosed with wals and wals which the Popes Hadrianus the first and Leo the fourth as it were by fatall instinct made the utmost bound thereof being now become the Seat as it were of the Pontificiall kingdom for so Blondus delivereth that the wals which are now extant were built by Hadrian 1 by gathering 100000 crounes out of Thuscia Those afterward as it is known out of others Leo 4 either repaired or finished about the yeere of our Lord 850 and by adding that part which is beyond the river or builded by Leo made up the Citie in that forme and circuit wherein it is now seene And although it hath much of the space enclosed within the wals voide and not inhabited yet since wals are to be reckoned amongst the chiefe works of the Citie the Citie it self cannot be thought lesser then the wals larger indeed it might be if it were as in times past that old one was extended every way without the wals with continued buildings That I may now at length make an end the summe commeth to this the holy Ghost would say or intimate this that so much of the great Citie as had remained to this earthquake was at that time ruined to wit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the tenth part of the Citie neither was there any more to be standing at that time Nine parts many ages before were to fall and truly we see they are fallen partly by destructions and ruines which the Barbarians so many times brought upon it partly decaying with overmuch oldnesse partly also as at the fourth trumpet we have shewed thrown down with thunderbolts the Tenth was reserved by destine for the Pope of Rome which was to be ordained head of the new Empire and mother of the Christian harlots This by that earthquake which shall be joyned with the rising of the witnesses shall be utterly demolished Yet notwithstanding happily it was not necessary that we should interpret the speech of the holy Ghost concerning the tenth part of the Citie so strictly as we have done according to Geometricall rules it would have been sufficient if as in times past when â—andling the destruction of the Iewish people he said by Esay the tenth thereof shall be reserved and shall returne into Esay 6. 13. their land so here we may understand not so exactly the tenth Chap. 11. as some least part
the Apostle Peter teacheth 2 Pet. 2. 6. that God hath ordained that burning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is by * Ellipsis defect of the former substantive usuall in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an example of their punishment that after should live ungodly And Iâ—de delivering the meaning of Peter here more plainly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to beare the likenesse or type of eternall fire or to resemble the pain of eternall fire For that the words of Iude are so to be interpreted or in a like sense the comparing of the words of both the Apostles together and the nature of the thing it self will perswade the considerate Reader Vpon which occasion give me leave to adde this also because it was wonderfull memorable and a sorrowfull â—men of the Iews now rejected of God which Iosephus reporteth befell them in De bello Iudaicol 5. c. 3. according to the distinction of 〈◊〉 the very beginning of that fatall warre the overthrow being received at the passage of Iordan from the countrey of Iericho to wit when some were by the enemy throwne into the river others not being able to withstand their force leapt into it of their own accord the lake Asphaltites was filled with the dead bodies Chap. 13. tumbled down with the streame of the river by which accident saith he the affliction though in it self most grievous yet to the Iews seemed to exceed itself But as touching the event of the prophesie concerning the wonders it is notorious that that universall Idolatry which hath raigned in the kingdome of the Beast for about 1200 yeers as well that first begotten consisting in the worship of Saints departed Reliques and Angels as the worshipping of Images in the next place and in conclusion that last bâ—asphemy of the breaden God at first was commended to poore Christians afterwards they were perswaded to it and confirmed in it by an abundant company of wonders to wit by cures and miraculous visions restraining of Devils at least in shew and other effects to be admired and that not of one kinde All which the two horned Beast or the Pope of Rome with his guard of false prophets is said to have done as farre forth as they themselves have â—eigned or being seigned by others they have approved by their authoritie or those things which in truth were the works and delusions of Devils they have obtruded for true and divine miracles to seduce the Christian world Doubtlesse this is that very same thing which the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians foretold That the coming of the man of Sin shall be after the working of Satan with all power 2 Thess 2.9 and signes and lying wonders and with all deceiveablenesse of unrighteousnesse Now examples of the Popes lightening or Anathema whereby he hath vindicated his authority in determining and commanding they surely are so obvious to every one that my labour of citing them out of the Annals of the Church here may be altogether spared One thing very notable I will call to remembrance and which so neerely toucheth the Image the framing whereof we now deale with that it alone may suffice to confirme the truth of this prophesie To wit in that controversie with the Greeks concerning the * Iconomachica oppugning of Images which arose about the yeere 720. and was agitated with great heate and persecution of Idolaters for 120 yeers it can scarcely be told into what danger that Image of the slaine Dragon as then yet rude and unperfect nor as yet complete was brought Neither the worshipping of Images alone as it is commonly beleeved but also of Saints departed and reliques Chap. 13. was strongly opposed in that controversie Leo Isaâ—rious saith Theophanes hist Miscol lib. 21. cap. 23. did wickedly erre not only For his is the History called Miscella from the 17. booke which is falsly spread abroad in the name of Pauluâ— Diaconus traâ—slated out of Greeke by Anasiasius the Library Keeper he flourished under Nicephorus and Eeâ— the 〈◊〉 Seâ— Baron anâ— 7.17 20. 813. 8 9 10. about the relative adoration of venorable Images 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but also about the intercessions of the most chaste mather of God and of all Saints whose reliques that most wicked vaâ—let as his masters the Aâ—â—bians that is the Muhamedans detested The same he saith of Constantine whom the Patrons of Idols called in disgrace Copronymus in the same book the last Chapter This most pernicious saith he and 〈◊〉 fierce man c. first indeed dâ— parted from God and his unâ—â— filed Mother and all Saints So this base Grâ—cian Idolater doth revile the godly Emperour Againe lib. 22. cap 42. Every where he resisted in writing and without writing the intercessions of the holy Virgin and Mother of God and of all the Saints as unprofitable by which all succour stoweth unto us exsting out their reliques and making them odious and wheresoever there was report of any notable relique to remaine for the health of souls and bodies or as the custome is to be honoured of the godly disposed presently he threatened death against such as evill doers or else proscriptions banishments torments but there-lique most acceptable to God as a certaine treasure kept by the owners was taken away to be made odious afterward Let the Reader see the 54. Chapter The same Chap. 48. Wheresoever any one distressed or griâ—ving should pray the accustomed prayer of Christians Mother of God helpâ— or should be taken celebrating the vigils c. he was condemned as the Emperours enemy and pronounced notworthy to be remembred Yea it appeareth that the worship of Saints was opposed yet under Theophilus the last of the five Emperours oppâ—gners of Images by that Hymne of Theodorus wherein the Church of Constantinople was wont every yeere Apud Baron aâ— 842. 28. oh wickednesse and griefe to celebrate the memory of Idolatry having at last gotten the victory There it is in the â—â—ode 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is That savage Leâ—ius together with Iohn he was Patriarch of Constantinople under Theophilus having forsaken pieâ—ie did wickedly affirme that the holy reliques of Saints and their Images were aâ— no hand to be worshipped What therefore herein doth the Pope of Rome he succoureth the Image of the Beast incredibly in danger of ruine and when Chap. 13. he could doe no good by letters and threatnings he betaketh himself to his thundering craft He striketh Leo of Isaura the ringleader of Image-oppugners with Anathema he absolveth his subjects in Italy from the Oath of Alleageance and as much as lay in him he bereaved him of his Exarchatship of Ravenna and the rest of his Dominion in that place By which act as he gave courage to the Idolatrous faction in the East so he seasonably skared the Kings of the West that they should not undertake the like With the same lightening he ordained that the Albigenses their defenders and
â— Heb. 3. 8 9. 13. c. likewise Chap 4 to conclude 2 Pet. 1. last vers where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for ever a Day I say first to beginne at the particular and as it were morning Iudgement of Antichrist and the rest of the living enemies of the Church by the glorious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appearing of our Lord in flaming fire and then at length to determine after the reigne of the thousand yeeres granted to new Ierusalem his most Chap. 20. holy Spouse upon this earth and after the utter destruction of new enemies yet to arise the great Day waxing toward evening and Satan being againe loosed at the universall resurrection and judgement of all the dead Which things being finished the wicked shall be cast into Hell to be tormented for ever but the Saints shall he translated into Heaven to live with Christ for ever This indeed is that time of the wrath of God upon the Gentiles and of judging the cause of them that died for Christ for which the triumphing Eldâ—rs give thankes at the sound of the seventh Trumpet Chap. 11. 18. For that then God would give reward to his servants the Prophets and Saints and them that feare his name small and great and would destroy them which destroy the earth This is that Day of Iudgement and perdition of wicked ones of which Peter 2 Epist Chap. 3. vers â— speaking presently addeth but be not ignorant of this one thing beloved to wit the day which I even now spake of that one day is with the Lord as a thousand yeeres and a thousand yeers as one day In which same day indeed the Apostle with his brethren of the same kindred the Iewes to whom he writeth expecteth that new forme of things to come of which by and by he saith vers 13. But we looke for new heavens and a new earth according to his promise wherein dwelleth righteousnesse Observe according to his promise But where was this promise of new heavens and a new earth extant when Iohn had not yet seene the Revelation except that of Esay Chap. 65. 17. and 66. 22. which promise surely whosoever shall read I should marvell if he should judge that it shall be fulfilled elsewhere then on earth This also is that Kingdome joyned with the appearance of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ ready to judge the world of which Paul to Timothy 2 Epist Chap. 4. vers 1. I charge thee before our Lord Jesus Christ who shall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdome For after the last and universall resurrection according to the same Apostle 1 Cor. 15. vers 24 25 26 27 28. Christ the last enemy being destroyed that is death shall deliver up the Kingdome to his Father that he may be subiect to him who subdued all things to himselfe so farre is he from being said then to enter upon any new Kingdome That Kingdome therefore which neither shall be before the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appearance of our Lord nor after the last resurrection Chap. 20. is necessarily to be concluded between them This is that Kingdome of the Sonne of man which Daniel saw who when the times of the horne of Antichrist were fulfilled or the times of the Gentiles come to end Luk. 21. 24. shall appeare in the clouds of Heaven when there shall be given him power glory and a Kingdome that all People Nations and Languages should serve him or when as the Angel by and by expoundeth it a Kingdome power and greatnesse of Kingdomes under the whole Heaven marke it well shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High Dan. 7. 13. 14. Also the 18.22 â—6 27. Neither yet as I said even now shall this Kingdome be after the last resurrection since the Sonne of man is not to enter upon a Kingdome then but as Paul witnesseth to lay it downe and deliver it to his Father Now that the same Kingdome is handled in both places as well by Iohn as Daniel may be proved by these two Arguments First that both begin at the same terme to wit the overthrow of the fourth or Romane Beast that of Daniel when the Beast governing under that last regiment of the horne with eyes was slaine and his body given unto the burning flame Dan. 7. 11. 2â— 27. That of the Revelation when the Beast and false Prophet that wicked Vers 10. horne in Daniel having mouth and eyes as a head are taken and both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone Secondly from the same session of Iudgement premised to both For it will appeare that the one is borrowed from the other and altogether tend to the same purpose by comparing the words of the description of both Dan. Chap. 7.  Vers 9 I beheld till the thrones were set For so it is to be rendered with the Vulgar 70. and Theâ—d and so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a throne is used in Targum at the 15. v. of the 1. cap. of Jer. And I saw Thrones Rev. 20. 4. Vers 10 And the iudgement was set That is the Iudges as in the great Sanedrin of the Iewes to the rule whereof the whole description is framed And they sate upon them  And iudgement was given to the Saints on high that is power of judging Hence is that of Pâ—ul the Saints shall iudge the world And iudgement was given unto Chap. 20. them Vers 22. Chap. 20 Vers 22  And the Saints obtained the kingdom that is to say with the sonne of man who came in the clouds of heaven And the Saints lived and reigned with Christ a thousand yeers Furthermore I would have the Reader understand this Whatsoever almost is found from the Iews whatsoever is delivered by the Lord in his Gospel or any where in the new Testament by the Apostles concerning the day of the great judgement that is taken out of this vision of Daniel to wit that judgement to be accomplished by fire Christ to come in the clouds of heaven to come in the glory of his Father with multitude of Angels the Saints with him to judge the earth Antichrist to be abolished 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the brightnesse of his coming c. So that they goe about wholly to undermine the pillar of the Evangelicall faith concerning the glorious coming of Christ who neglecting the ancient tradition of the Church endeavour to turn this prophesie to another end Lastly that I may conclude this is that most ample kingdom which by Daniels interpretation was foreshewed to Nebuchadnezzar in that Propheticall Statue of the foure kingdoms not that of a Stone cut out of a Hill whiles yet the Series of Monarchies remained for this is the present state of the kingdome of Christ but of the Stone when they were utterly broken and defaced to become a Mountaine and to fill the
man comming in a cloud c. And that of Tertullian against Marcion in his fiâ—t Book and tenth Chapter Christ the high Priest of the Gentiles will vouchsafe to accept and blesse the Circumcision the posteritie of Abraham at his last coming when they shall know him With this agreeth that which we finde thus written in the Book Berachoth Chapter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if we dare trust Petrus Galatinus Ben Zuma saith It shall come to passe that Israel shall not remember their departure out of the Land of Egypt in the world to come and in the dayes of Messiah And how doth this appeare That which is written in Ieremie the 23. will prove it Behold the dayes come and they shall say no more the Lord liveth which brought the children of Israel up out of the Land of Egypt c. which wise men interpret thus not as if the name of Egypt should be blotted out or forgotten but because the wonders which shall be effected in the dayes of the kingdome of Messia that is when he shall destroy the Kingdomes of the world shall principally be remembred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and their dâ—parture out of the Land of Egypt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is shall be lesse spoken of By these and the like let the Reader learne why Saint Ierome doth so much charge the Millinaries with Iudaisme whereon he so earnestly insisteth that this may seeme to be his prime argument whereby he may convince that erroneous opinion But howsoever that opinion be true or false whether those Fathers were in an error or no to be of the same minde with the Iewes is not alwaies culpable But if otherwise why doe we not explode the world to come Gehenna and Paradise Doe not we Christians consent with the Iewes in these things Have not we the names likewise of the Kingdome of Heaven and the Day of Iudgement from the Iewish Robbins For where are those things read in the Old Testament which yet are very frequent among the Iewish Doctors Moreover who hearing the opinion of the ancient Iewes touching the one thousand yeeres of the day of Iudgement cannot but thinke with himselfe that he is moved to beleeve it the Apostle Peter with them for both his Epistles are directed to the Iewes speaking of the Day of Iudgement and presently after the mentioning thereof adding You are not ignorant that one day with the Lord is as a thousand yeeres would confirme the tradition of the Rabbins touching that matter Especially when those words doe not seeme to be taken out of the Psalme as the common opinion is but out of the Vulgar forme and manner of the Iewes making mention of the Day of Iudgement Yea he will further think unles Christ the Lord and his Apostles had used the name of the Day of Iudgement being derived from the Rabbins in the same sense with them why have they not some where declared it Is it not a dangerous matter yea the high way to deceive men to use in doctrine the words and phrases of such as are erroneous without all caution and note of dissent Seeing these things are so I leave it to the judgement of learned men and great Divines to judge whether this be not the best and easiest way to deale with the Iewes not to wrest those plaine Prophesies touching things appertaining to the last and glorious coming of Christ to his first coming but to perswade them that they expect none other Messiah who can fulfill all those things namely changing those things that are to be changed for a Christian must consent no further with the Iewes in any thing then his profession doth give him leave then that Iesus of Nazareth whom their Fathers have crucified That which the Relation in so many places and so carefully doth inculcate Behold saith it not farre from the beginning Iesus Christ the first begotten from the dead who loved us and washed us from our sinnes in his blood cometh in the clouds and every eye shall see him even they that have crucified him and all Tribes of the Earth shall mourne before him I am Alpha and Omega the first and the last saith the Lord which is which was and which is to come Likewise whilest it giveth that royall Kingdome to the Lambe namely to Iesus that was slaine as in the seventh Chapter concerning the multitude with Palmes in their hands The Lambe shall feede them c. in the seventeenth Chapter the fourteenth vers The Lambe shall overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings Chapter 19.7 The Marriage of the Lambe is come Chapter 21.9 speaking of the New Ierusalem I will shew thee the Bride of the Lambe And in the 23. vers The Lambe is the light thereof c. For whilest that we wrest those plaine Prophesies touching things which shall be at the second coming of Christ to his first the Iewes laugh at us and they are hardned in their infidelitie The Apostle Peter useth this meanes to convert the Iewes unlesse I be much mistaken Acts 3. 19. Repent saith he and be converted that your sinnes may be blotted out when the times * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord and he shall send IESUS CHRIST which was preached unto you whom the Heavens must receive untill the times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets 1 Thess 5. 21. Prove all things hold fast that which is good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ be glory both now and for ever Amen FINIS A COMPENDIVM OF Mr. Mede his Commentary upon the REVELATION containing two Prophesies FIrst the sealed booke or Seale Prophesie Secondly the Prophesie of the little booke open In the Seale Prophesie is described the imperiall Chap. 4. Session conformable to Israels encamping in the wildernesse The twenty foure Elders signifying Vers 4. the Bishops and Prelates answering the Levites and Priests in so many courses The foure Beasts by tradition of the Elders of the Hebrewes were 1. A Lion An Ensigne Vers 6 of the Host of Ezek. 1 14. Israel 2. A Bullock An Ensigne of the Host of Israel 3. A Man An Ensigne of the Host of Israel 4. An Eagle An Ensigne of the Host of Israel They were full of eyes signifying sharpe sightednesse Vers 6. Their wings agilitie Vers 8. Wings full of eyes zeale ioyned with knowledge Ibid. Sixe winges most ready to execute Gods Commandement Ibid. In the same Seale Prophesie is set forth the destâ—nie of the Empire Chap. 5. The first Seale the opener is a Lion shâ—wing a white horse Chap. 6. and his rider signifying Christ the Emperour from the East Vers 1 2. laying the foundation of the conquest of the Dragon i. the Devill and all the Oracles became silent through the World The Second Seale a Bullock shewing a red horse and his rider Vers 3 4.
signifying Trajan from the West whose reigne with Hadrian his successour was full of blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The third Seale a Man shewing a blacke horse and his rider signifying Septimius Severus from the South and by the ballances Vers 5. 6. in his hand Iustice and carefull provision for the Common-wealth in his time and Alexanders The fourth Seale an Eagle shewing a pale horse and his rider signifying Maximinus from the North in his time and Gallus Vers 7. 8. Volusianus and Decius the sword famine and pestilence met together therefore called Mortifer The fifth Seale no beast horse norrider entereth from Aurelianus Vâ—â—â— 9 10 11 in Anno 268. wherein is set forth the tenne yeeres persecution under Dioclesian The sixth Seale an admirable shaking of Heaven and Earth Vers 12 13 14 15 16 17 signifying the change and subversion of the state of Rome heathen by Constantine the Great Before the entrance to the seventh Seale which is a seale of Chap. 7. Trumpets there is care taken for the Church set forth by a company of 144000. to be sealed of every Tribe of Israel 12000 in Vers 4. 5. reckoning of which there is an unusuall order yet in that Type such as might best represent the profession of pure Religion miraculously in the bosome of the Empire to be preserved in the midst of the combustions of the World polluted with idolatrous worship and conspiring the ruine of the Church and therefore it is fenced with the Seale of God The twelve Apostles aptly answering the Type of Israel the number 12. being the Ensigne of the Apostolike race and by multiplying expressing the Apostolike pregenic To which is added by the representation of innumerable Palme-bearers 〈◊〉 a most ample estate of every Nation People Tribe and Tonâ—ue â— praising God The seventh Seale containeth seven Trumpets sounding the Chap. â— allarâ—e to the ruine of the Empire by a seven-fold order of plagues the foure first of lesse extent The first Trumpet wasteth the Territorie of the Romane Empire with a terrible breaking in of the Northerne Nations for by the third part of the Earth is meant the people or politicall Vers 7. Vniverse of the Romane Empire it being the third part of the then known habitable world This happened from the death of Theodosius Anno 395. by Alaricus and the Goths and by the Barbarians Radagaiso being their Captaine Anno 404. and by the Vandales and Alanes c. Anno 405 6. The second Trumpet assaileth the dominion of the Romane Vers â— 9. Empire expressed by the Sea Rome being taken by Alaricus Anno 410. After which the largenesse of the Romane dominion was daily cut off untill Anno 455. that Gensericus tooke and spoiled Rome againe after which the whole body of the Empire was divided into tenne Kingdomes Anno 456. The third Trumpet utterly throweth downe the Romane Hesperus or Westerne Caesar Anno 476. fetching his last breath under Vers 10 11. the fatall name of Augustulus a Prince of bitternesse and sorrowes therefore resembled by a falling Starre called Wormewood The fourth Trumpet taketh away the light of the Romane Vers 12. Maiestie shining till then under Ostrogothean Kings when the Consulship of Rome failed Anno 542. The three woe Trumpets Vers 13. The fifth or first woe Trumpet sendeth the hostile hands of Chap. 9. Saracens and Arabians in the Type of Locusts not onely to destroy Vers 3. and waste from the yeere 830 to 980. that is 150. yeeres or five moneths of yeeres but also to poyson with the venemous doctrine of Muhamedisme The Locusts had a King over them whose name was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Destroyer Vers 11. The sixth or second woe Trumpet loâ—seth the foure Angels Vers 13 14. that is the foure Sultanies or Kingdomes into which the Turkes were parted being before restrained at Euphrates which loosing happened a little before the yeere 1300. uniting themselves under the conduct of one Othoman which should come to passe after a propheticall day a moneth and a yeere being 396. yeers to wit from the yeere 1057. wherein Tangrolipix had taken the royall Citie Bagdad from which time the Turkes are prepared to kill the third part of men that is in the yeere 1453. Constantinople Vers 15. being then taken The number of the horsemen are two hundred Vers 16. thousand thousand their Munition Gunnes and Ordnance expressed Vers 17. by Fire Smoake and Brimstone The seventh or third woe Trumpet is put off to the prophesie Chap 10. of the Little Booke It containeth the consummation of the Vers 7. Mysterie of God which event is declared in an Oath taken by an Angel and a Crie upon which seven thundâ—rs utter their Vers 6. Vers 3. voices which Iohn is forbidden to write Verâ— 4. The Prophesie of the Little Booke wherein the destinie of the Church is contâ—ined followeth to which the Apostle is fitted by Vers 8 9 10. taking the Booke and eating it which was sweet in his mouth but bitter in his belly The measurâ—d court setteth forth the Primitive state of the Christiâ—n Church conformable to the rule of Gods Word shortly after to ensue and contrary to which is the Court not to be measured it not being Gods workmanship but to be prophaned by idolatrous worship renewed or Antichristian Apostasie to reigne fortie two moneths of yeeres While this Court is prophaned two Witnesses bewaile the prophanation Veâ—s 3. give testimonie to the truth of God and exhort to repentance 1260. dayes answerable to the fortie two moneths of prophanation denouncing Gods iudgements which beganne to be executed at the Phyalls and debarring the new Idolaters from the hope Vers 5. of eternall life Vers 6. The destinie of these Witnesses is when they have finished their testimonie to be made conformable to Christ in suffering to be Vers 7. inâ—licted upon them by the Romane seven-headed Beast these shall in the end suffer a mysticall death and lye unburied three Vers 8 9 10 11. yeeres and an halfe after which they shall be restored to their former estate or to a more excellent dignitie And upon a commotion and alteration of politicall affaires the Citie of Rome as Vers 12 13. now it is being but a tenth part of the old Citie shall be overthrowne at the fifth Phyall wherein shall be slaine â—000 men of Name or of the Clergie or Companies of men This is the ending of the second woe or sixth Trumpet at which time the Kings from the East or the Iewes shall beginne as it were a new Kingdome or the Beast i. the Pope shall change his forme being driven from his Metropolis Rome by the overthrow thereof So this Vision Chap. 11. of the open Booke goeth through the whole course of the Revelation to shew the connexion of it with the Seales and Trumpets THe Romane Empire worshipping the Dragon that is the Chap. 12. Devil in Idols persecuted the Church of God represented Vers 3 4. by the woman in travell to bring