of glorie both in himself and in all his members Wee conclude therefore that the whole Mysterie of Godliness is intended here to bee manifested in respect of the waie by which it is to bee carried on unto the end of the world and fully accomplished at the end thereof by the destruction of the enemies of that Kingdom which hee erected in the nature of man over the whole Creätion by the renewing of all things for the elect's sake to put them in full possession thereof as is promised Revel 21. 5 6 7. and by uniting them to God for ever Revelations 22. 4. 5. This beeing the full intent and purpose of the Prophesie let us now briefly look upon the heads of matters handled therein to see how suitable the particulars are to reach this main aim and bow this design is thereby made known to bee carried on The things handled in the Prophesie are of three kinds as they are in the first vision by Christ himself commanded to bee written chap. 1. vers 19. Write saith hee the things which thou hast seen and the things which are and the things which shall bee hereafter The things which hee had seen are written Châ—p 1. The things which then were are written in chap. 2. and 3. And the things which should bee afterward are from chap. 4. till chap. 22. vers 6. The things which John saw in chap. 1. are Christ's presence with his Churches revealed in the first vision whereof the properties shew him to bee First the Mediator and High-Priest of the Churches administring the affairs thereof in things perteining to God by his walking in the midst of the golden Candlesticks Secondly the King who hath all power to support the Rulers thereof as holding the seven Stars of the Churches in his right hand Thirdly the Prophet of the Churches who dispenseth the word of God unto them which as a two-edged sword com's out of his mouth chap. 1. vers 12. till 17. These are the chief properties of his presence relating to the Churches which are heightned with other circumstantial perfections of his head eies feet and whole countenance c. and withal there are other properties of glorie expressed which relate to his person in himself considered by which hee is manifested to bee the first and the last hee that was dead and is alive and living for evermore and having all power of hell and death vers 11. 17 18. This vision then tend's cleerly to set him forth in his Mediatorie office by the properties of his inherent and relative glorie The things which then were are the seven Churches under Christ's What Christ's intent in the seven Epistles written to the Churches is and how it is gathered from the matter and words of them care and administration which are set forth in the seven Epistles which by Christ's appointment and inditement are written unto them in Chap. 2. 3. wherein I conceiv that under the Characters of perfection and imperfection given to the Churches and under the threatnings and promises together with the admonitions reproofs exhortations and commandements annexed thereunto all the degrees both of the defection from Grace and of the progress in Grace which our nature is capable of together with the changeable conditions under which the Churches should bee till the Marriage of the Lamb com to pass are set forth For if wee should call to minde the Rule of scriptural interpretation heretofore mentioned that no Prophesie is of private interpretation it will appear from the words of the text that these Epistles are by Christ intended not onely to those particular Churches or to the Angels thereof alone which are named but to all the Churches which then were elswhere in the world and which should bee in all ages till his second comming and to all the men of any spiritual understanding that should hear thereof till the end of the world Becaus it is not onely certain that Christ still hold's the seven Stars in his right hand and walk's between the seven Candlesticks and speak's unto them but it is evident by the matter of the promises that they are universally appliable unto all the professors in all ages who shall overcom and bee faithful unto the end and the peculiar admonitions at the close of everie Epistle do intimate no less for to my understanding these words Hee that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches doth speak this much that others even all who ever should hear the tenor of these Epistles ought to think themselvs spoken to and concerned therein although they should bee no visible members of these particular Churches For what els can bee the meaning of that expression hee that hath an ear but that everie one should take that to himself which is said of and to these And then if wee observ the expression to run in the plural number what the Spirit saith unto the Churches this will make it yet more manifest that these seven are here put in stead of all for no doubt the Spirit then spake effectually and doth still speak to more Churches then to these and therefore wee may conclude that the things spoken off to them are taken as relative unto all both men and Churches not at that time onely but at all times so long as the seven Candlesticks should bee on earth and the Spirit hath a voice to speak unto them for to daie if you will hear his voice out of Psal 95. was not onely meant for that daie but for this also as the Apostle make's it plain Heb. 3. If then the narrow limits of this discours would give mee leav it might bee made out that in the cases of these seven Stars and Churches as here they are described all the varieties of the conditions of Professors and all the fundamental defects of Church-societies in all the Churches which have been since the Apostle's times are set forth and that in the promises made unto them all the degrees of perfection atteinable in this life by single believers or Societies are expressed but this would bee a matter of inlargement beyond my present purpose I shall therefore leav it till another season onely this may bee further observed as a translation from this first to the second vision that in the first John saw the Administration of Christ's Kingdom as then it was on earth but in the following vision which begin's chapter 4th hee is taken up from earth into Heaven to see the administration of the Kingdom there also and from thence how it should bee managed over the whole world for the Churche's sake in time to com So that wee ought to take notice that the Manifestation of Christ and in him the Mysterie of Godliness doth fill not onely the Churches on Earth but the Church also in Heaven and that God by him as hee is in the Church both in heaven and earth doth govern the world for Christ's interest towards the fulfilling of his
administration which is revealed In the first as a Man in dealing with men in the second as a Lamb offered up to God in dealing with God and in the third as a mightie Angel in dealing with Satan and his Angels and with the powers of darkness in the world Secondly for the opening of the matter of this vision I observ that the summe of all is to shew when and how the Mysterie of God which hee hath spoken by the Prophets should bee finished and to shew this First two means are used to lead John to the knowledg thereof then secondly the thing it self is summarily related by word of mouth unto him and afterward thirdly it is represented in several visions The means leading to the knowledg of the finishing of the Mysterie are two First an open little Book inable's him to prophesie Chap. 10. Secondly a Reed given him like unto a Rod to measure the Temple the Altar and those that worship therein The summarie relation of the whole business by word of mouth doth concern the time of the treading of the utter court under foot the power of prophesiing given to the two Witnesses during that time the war which the Beast shall make with them while 's they prophesie and the issue of that war set forth in the circumstances of their death and resurrection and that which immediately doth follow thereupon both in earth and in Heaven In earth there was an earthquake which made the tenth part of the Citie to fall and killed seven thousand men and frighted the rest The second wo doth pass and the seventh Angel doth sound his Trumpet In Heaven there is great joie and and thanksgiving offered unto God becaus hee hath taken the Kingdom to himself and doth reign over the Kingdoms of the world to give rewards unto his servants chap. 11. Hitherto the whole Series of matters concerning the Mysterie of God hath been related in plain terms to shew the things by which it should bee accomplished now followeth the description of the visions by which the particulars of the things summarily mentioned in this Narrative are more at large reveled whereby the Prophet is made to understand concerning the Mysterie of God which is Christ in the Church Ephes 5. 32. or which is all one Christ in us the hope of glorie Colos 1. 27. what the state of the Church was in Heaven at that time and what it should afterward bee on earth during the time of the Churche's abode in the Wilderness during the time of her comming out of the wilderness and during the time of her Reign over the earth as the Spous of the Lamb with her bridegroom At that time the temple of God in Heaven beeing opened and the Ark of the Testament therein beeing seen the Church as shee was constituted by the Apostles appeared and brought forth a Man-child against whom the Dragon did set himself to devour it but the child was to bee caught up to Heaven and the Dragon to bee cast out of Heaven upon the earth where hee set's himself to persecute the woman which fled into the Wilderness and to make war with the remnant of her seed chap. 12. During the time of the Churche's abode in the Wilderness the mysterie of iniquitie is set up and come's to it's perfection in the earth God send 's his judgments upon it when it is com to it's height c. 13 till 19 This Mysterie of Iniquitie hath two parts the Mysterie of the Beast and the Mysterie of the Woman riding upon the Beast The Mysterie of the Beast ruling over the earth is seen in one Beast coming out of the Sea with ten horns and another coming out of the earth with two horns Chap. 13. during the time of the rising and reigning of these Beasts over the earth the state of the Church upon Mount Sion and God's administrations for the knowledg of his will thereby unto the world concerning the everlasting Gospel concerning the future fall of Babylon and concerning the punishment of those that adhere unto the Beast and for the waie of gathering up the harvest and vintage of the earth are revealed chap. 14. God's Judgments upon the Beast are poured out in the Phials of his last wrath whereunto seven Angels are appointed and prepared Chap. 15. and commanded to put the Judgments in execution Chap. 16. The Mysterie of the Whore of Babylon riding upon the Beast is shewed to the Prophet chap. 17. and the Judgment which befalleth unto her for her destruction is described chap. 18. The state of the Church in her comming out of the Wilderness is described in the congratulatorie acclamations given to God in Heaven at the destruction of Babylon and at the preparations of the wife of the Lamb for the Marriage-Supper and in the war which the Armies of Heaven under Christ's conduct do make against the Beast the fals Prophet and the Kings of the Earth For by this means the power of all her adversaries beeing destroied shee is fitted to appear visibly upon the stage of the world Chap. 19. The state of the Church during her Reign with Christ on earth is before the last Judgment a thousand years and after the universal Resurrection both in Heaven and earth for ever and ever Chap. 20. 21. and 22. till vers 6. Thus wee see the contexture and coherence of the matter and parts of the whole Book if then wee should consider how these particulars relate unto the main scope of the Prophesie which is to reveal Jesus Christ unto us in the Mysterie of his Kingdom wee see that everie thing is most directly subordinate thereunto and that the whole doth most completely reach a full discoverie of the accomplishment of the Mysterie whereof the brief summe is this That the professors of the name of Jesus Christ by their sufferings for his sake by their testimonie of him in opposition to the Dragon to the Beasts and to the Whore by the Judgments of God against all these to destroie their power by the war of the Saints against them by the setling of the Kingdom of Christ in the hands of his Saints and by the Manifestation of the Glorie of the heavenlie Jerusalem comming unto them from Heaven to earth whereinto the Kings of the earth shall bring their glorie shall get the full victorie over the world and with the purchase of the Inheritance of all things in the New Heavens and the New earth they shall have the enjoiment of the presence of God for ever In all which at this time as to our present condition the opposition which the Beast hath to the Lamb the fals Prophet to the two Witnesses and the Whore to the Bride and the manner of their warfare is most considerable for in the opposite properties of their Natures and waies the Mysteries of Iniquitie and of Godliness are most completely revealed and by the manner of the war which is between them and the issue thereof the state and
OF St JOHN DEscribeth the State of the Christian Church in the New Testament and also the things which shall com to pass in the Romane Empire or in the fourth Monarchie under which the Church of God doth subsist This description comprehendeth three periods or three sorts of times The first Period containeth Regnum Draconis Ethnicum the time of the Dragon until the three hundred nintie fifth year of our Lord. This is the time in which the seven Crowns stood upon the seven heads of the Dragon Revelations 12. vers 3. and the Dragon himself under the Heathenish Emperors was publickly adored and worshipped but the Christians persecuted banished and put to death till at last Constantine the Great came to the Imperial seat whereby the reign of the Dragon came to an end the Dragon was cast out of the Church Heaven the Church prevailed and triumphed until the death of the Emperor Theodosius at which time the Devil left his shape of a Dragon and resigned his Host his residence and seat with his great autoritie unto the Beast with ten horns when it rose up out of the sea Revel 13. vers 2. The second Period comprehendeth vicariatum Draconis Antichristianum or the time from the three hundred ninetie fifth until the one thousand six hundred fiftie fifth year of our Lord in which the Pope at Rome as the Antichrist and installed Lievtenant of the Dragon blasphemeth God and his name and persecuteth his Saints for the space of one thousand two hundred sixtie years Revel 13. vers 2. when the Dragon was overcom and cast out of the Church-Heaven hee did cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman Revel 12. vers 15. that is hee stirred up the Septentrional Nations to invade the Romane Empire intending thereby to root out and destroie the Church But the Earth swallowed up the flood in regard these Nations imbraced the Christian Faith remained in the Romane Empire and erected several Kingdoms in it Seeing then the Dragon saw that hee could not maintain the Heathenism wherein hee openly was worshipped and served hee resigneth to the Beast which riseth up out of the sea Revelations 13. vers 1. and is ridden and governed by the great Whore of Babylon 17. vers 3. c. that is to the Antichrist who in the time of these wars doth creep out in the Romane Empire his power and his seat and great autoritie chapter 13. vers 2. and so make's him his Vicar and Lievtenant by giving over to him his seat and residence the Citie of Rome and the whole Romane Empire Whence it came to pass that about this time the Bishops of Rome begun to oppose the marriage of Priests and to seek to have the Primacie and preeminencie both in Church and State The Dragon doth resigne to his Lievtenant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his whole Host for in this sens the LXX Interpreters do use this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Exodus 14. vers 14. and 15. vers 4. and in other places as Matthew 24. vers 29 30. c. The host of the Dragon are his Angels or Devils and the Idols in which the Dragon and the Devils are worshipped and served by the Heathen These viz. Idols the Antichristian Popedome hath received and worshipped under the name and shape of Saints the Dragon and his Vicegerent as hereof the text in the words following vers 3. and 4. doth speak The whole Earth did wonder at the Beast and they worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the Beast and they worshipped the Beast c. The Dragon doth give also unto him great Autoritie and make's him a Head over great Countries whereof David did prophesie in the Psal 110. vers 6. The time of this Lievtenantship shall continue fortie two moneths that is one thousand two hundred sixtie years since then it did begin in the three hundred ninetie fifth year of our Lord therefore it doth end in the one thousand six hundred fiftie fifth year shortly to com Upon this followeth the third Period which bringeth Statum Ecclesiae tranquillum the true peace and quiet condition of the Church here on earth Seeing at the sound of the trumpet of the seventh Angel the seventh plague or the third woe doth com upon the Romane Empire and at the same time the seventh Vial of God's wrath is poured out wherewith the Enemies of the Church are wholly cut off and destroied yea even the Devil himself shut up in the bottomless pit Revel 20. vers 1 2 3. therefore now nothing but a true and constant peace can ensue Whence it is that the Church of God rejoiceth with a great voice Revel 11. vers 15. saying The Kingdoms of this world are becom the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Church and hee shall reign for ever and ever And in the v. 17. Shee giveth also thanks to the Lord God Almightie because hee hath taken to himself his great power and reigneth Unto these three times all the three parts of the Revelation of St Iohn are directed For the Son of God describeth in this Revelation the state of the Christian Church and the things befalling to the Romane Empire in a threefold manner as 1. By seven Epistles chap. 2. and 3. 2. By a book sealed chap. 4 5 6 7. 3. By a little book open chap. 10. And following Hee doth appear also to John everie time in an other shape As 1. In the likeness of a son of man chapter 1. who suffereth in the first period 2. As a Beast in the shape of a Lamb having seven horns and seven eies ch 5. which doth fight in the second period 3. As a mightie strong Angel clothed with a cloud chapter 10. who in the third period hath all things put under his feet and reigneth 1. In the likeness of a Son of man in the midst of the seven Candlesticks c. chapter 1. vers 12 13 14 15 16. Hee declareth the condition of the Church in general by seven Epistles whereof the first and second belong to the first period the third fourth fifth sixth and seventh to the second and the promises chap. 2. and 3. to the third 2. As a beast in the shape of a Lamb with seven horns and seven eies hee openeth the book sealed the secret and hidden Decree of God and intimateth thereby the things befalling to the Romane Empire under which the Church is built up and preserved chap. 4 5 6 7 8 9. and distinctly how things shall bee carried In the Political State In the first Period until the three hundred ninetie fifth year of our Lord which by opening of the first six seals is performed chapter 6. where in the first five seals the condition under the heathenish Emperors but in the sixth the fall of Heathenism under the Christian Emperors from Constantine the Great until the death of Theodosius who died the 17. of Ianuarie Anno three hundred ninetie five fifteen prefigured In
29. these spirits do expostulate with the Lord Jesus saying What have wee to do with thee art thou com hither to torment us before the time At the pouring out of this Vial upon the Aër no expostulation will serv tnrn for the time is at hand and shall bee accomplished what the Son of God saith Matthew 24. vers 29. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The mightie Host of Devils which dwell under the Heaven in the Aër shall bee moved with a terrible nois and tumult Then their torments shall begin when they shall bee cast down from the aër and their Head the Dragon shall bee shut up in the bottomless pit as beneath in Revelations chapter 20. vers 1 2 3. at the issue of this war may bee seen And there came a great voice out of the Temple of Heaven from the throne saying It is don Here sit's the Ancient of daies upon the fierie flaming seat Daniel chap. 7. v. 9. and pronounceth the sentence against the fourth Beast and becaus the measure is full and the determined time over him is run to an end hee break 's the rod and denounceth the irrevocable judgment saying It is don The Beast shall bee slain and bee cast into the burning flame as in the said place followeth Dan. 7. ver 11. Vers 18. And there were voices and thunders and lightnings and there was a great Earth-quake such as was not since men were upon the earth so mightie an Earth quake and so great Now beginneth the Execution Upon the Devil and his whole Armie Upon his Vicar and what dependeth on him Upon the whole Romane Papacie and it's Kingdoms Now Heaven and earth are shaken for the second time and the mightie Kingdoms of the Heathen are destroied Hagg. chapter 2. vers 22 23. In the Aër are heard dreadful thunders and lightnings terrible voices lamenting and crying of the Devils Upon the earth will bee nothing but war and rumor of wars In all parts shall bee heard tumults seditions insurrections terrible distractions and grievous bloodsheds such as never were since the beginning of the world to this time nor ever were heard of Daniel chapter 12. vers 1. Matthew 24. v. 21. Vers 19. And the great Citie was divided into three parts By the great Citie is understood either the Citie of Rome as the seat and Citie of residence for the Beast and his rider Or the whole Papal State the Citie together with the streets The Citie of Rome was already by the fifth Vial darkned and ruined Wherefore it is spoken here of the whole Papacie which is divided into three parts By the accomplishment of these words it will appear that the Pope doth not wear his triple Crown in vain for under the same do sit and reign 1. The Dragon 2. The Beast 3. The fals Prophet Under the Command of these three Generals shall on the Popish side the battel bee set in arraie and led forth For these three eaâ—h of them have raised their men severally ver 13. 14. They stand all three in battel-arraie and are readie to fall on But what success have they The Beast is taken and with him the fals Prophet and both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone Revelations chapter 19. vers 20 21. But the Generalissimus the Dragon is laid hold on and cast into the bottomless pit and shut up Chap. vers 1 2 3. And the Cities of the Nations fell The Heathenish life and conversation the Heathenish Idolatrie Sodomie and other Heathenish sins and abominations which hitherto have been practised in the Popish State are at once altogether abolished and utterly removed as that nothing more is heard thereof And great Babylon came in remembrance before God to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath God sate still hitherto and seemed as if hee knew nothing of the Beast's blaspheming and persecution But when the determined time of the fortie two moneths were exspired hee remember's Babylon fill's unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath and punishing her hee doth reward her according to her deserving Vers 20. And everie Island fled away and the Mountains were not found All whatsoëver had anie relation or dependance on the Papacie even the remotest pleces and all whatsoëver was highly exalted therein is not seen any more whereby the total ruine and destruction of the Papacie is signified Vers 21. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven everie stone about the weight of a talent and men blasphemed God becaus of the plague of the hail for the plague thereof was exceeding great By the great hail-stones are understood the great punishments of God's wrath and by the words about the weight of a talent are meant the heaviest and most dreadful Judgments the weight of a talent beeing the heaviest and greatest weight yet all this notwithstanding men will not know the righteous judgment of God but by their blasphemies of the name of God are cast into everlasting perdition Hitherto the sixteenth Chapter AGainst this plain and cleer exposition manie will have different apprehensions and esteem these things impertinent and incredible Paradoxes To these is opposed 1. That the cleer text not beeing forced but as it is literally or figuratively referred to the times so it hath been explained 2. That the figures and Images which make this work difficult and dark are cleered out of other places of the Revelation or out of the Old Testament especially the Prophets from whom the whole Revelation of St John is taken and are applyed to the civil and Ecclesiastical State as the text and the time doth require 3. That what is past or is now in full action cannot bee overthrown by a bare contradiction or doubt but search should bee made in the Acts of the Romane Empire to see what things may bee more sutably applyed another waie Yet so that the Method and Harmonie may nâ—t bee disturbed or rather that a better waie may bee shewed and offered 4. That the Text and Method doth shew what is shortly to bee exspected especially the end of the determined time by God over the fourth Monarchie wherein the Romane Papacie shall blaspheme God and make war against the Saints for the space of fortie two moneths that is one thousand two hundred sixtie years Hereupon ariseth the greatest and principal scruple or doubt Whether the Epocha or the beginning of the Apocalyptical one thousand two hundred sixtie years bee rightly referred to the three hundred ninetie fifth year of our Lord In the Prophetical keie certain characters and marks have been set down and applied whereby the certaintie doth appear which wee shall here repeat and confirm with more proofs As 1. First becaus the Epocha of the one thousand two hundred ninetie years of the Prophet Daniel chapter 12. vers 11. is exactly incident into the three hundred sixtie fifth year it followeth that the one thousand two
11 12 15 16. Whom the Armies which are in heaven follow upon white-horses cloathed in fine linnen white and clean vers 14. These are the Martyrs to everie one of whom are given white robes chapter 6. vers 11. Nay These are they which came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes chap. 7. vers 14. These are they that are called and chosen and faithful Chap. 17. vers 14. Against these are gathered the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their armies to make war against them The end and issue of this war is that the Beast and with him the fals Prophet that is the Romane Empire and Popedom shall bee taken and both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone chapter 19. vers 19 20. But the Dragon as their General hath quarters given him in this war hee is laid hold on and cast into the bottomless pit and shut up wherein hee remain's bound a thousand years that hee should deceiv the Nations no more nor bee able to stir them up against the Church Chapter 20. vers 1 2 3. In the mean while the faithful Children of God have their rest Hebr. 4. vers 1. like as God did rest the seventh daie from all his works vers 4. But the last Judgment and the end of the world is afterwards described chap. 20. vers 11. till the 15th Hereunto agreeth the Prophesie of Daniel chap. 2. vers 34 35. where the Image which representeth the four Monarchies is seen so long till the stone smite's the Image upon his feet not at the beginning of the fourth Monarchie for then the feet and toes were not as yet but at the end thereof and break 's it to pieces But the stone that smite's the Image becom's a great mountain after the breaking and grinding of the four Monarchies to dust that is a Kingdom that shall break to pieces and grinde to dust all these Kingdoms which are represented by the great Image vers 44 45. And in the 7th chapter vers 1. till the 8th by the four Beasts are described the four Monarchies which Daniel beheld vers 9. till the thrones were cast down as the words are in the Original For the ancient of daies did sit vers 9. not for the universal and last judgment which hath been committed unto the Son Iohn Chap. 5. v. 22. but for the particular judgment over the enemies of the Church in the fourth Monarchie over the fourth Beast of the Romane Popedome which Daniel beheld even till the Beast was slain and his bodie destroied and given to the burning flame and the power of the other beasts came to an end vers 11 12. For a set time was determined over them how long each of them should last The Saints shall bee given into the hands of the fourth Beast so long as the Woman rideth on the Beast until a time and times and the dividing of time vers 25. And when these 3 ½ times Anno 1655 shall com to an end the Judgment of the judgment of the Ancient shall sit and then his power is taken away so that it wholly is abolished and come's to an end Vers 26. But the world therewith is not destroied but the Kingdom and dominion and the greatness under the whole Heaven shall bee given to the people of the Saints of the most High whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and all dominions shall serv and obeie him Vers 27. compare vers 13 14. The words of St Paul 2 Thes chap. 2. vers 8. where hee writeth And the Lord shall destroie him with the brightness of his coming are expounded in the Revelations chap. 19. vers 11. till 21. But what may bee the true meaning and sens of these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I leav to the consideration of judicious Divines It seem's they do not speak of the universal and last Judgment which St John describeth in his Revelation chap. 20. vers 11 12 13 14. Nay the text doth not bear that the two Acts in the said 19. chapter vers 11. till 21. and chapter 20. vers 11. till 15. shall bee counted for one or reduced together to one and the same time Becaus it appeareth that one thousand years are interposed For the two great Guests the Beast and the fals Prophet are one thousand years before lodged in the Inn in the Lake of fire burning with brimstone then the Hoast the Devil come's who after the one thousand years is associated to them at the end of the world chapter 20. vers 4. Whereupon immediately vers 11. the last Judgment is held Wee are here led into the Mysteries of God into which wee will not too much presume to penetrate nor search too far into them but wee turn and address our selvs both with ears and hearts to the Son of God who standeth at the door knocketh and calleth If anie man hear my voice and open the door I will com into him and will sup with him and hee with mee To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with mee in my Throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne Revelations c. 3. vers 20 21. Blessed is now hee that readeth and they that hear the words of this Prophesie and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand Chap. 1. vers 3. Elessed is hee that keepeth the sayings of of the Poophesie of this book c. 22. v. 7. Nay blessed are they that do his Commandements that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in thorow the gates into the Citie v. 14. To him which is and which was and which is to com the Almightie bee glorie and dominion for ever and ever Amen Revel chap. 1. v. 6. 8. A List of the things which are shortly to com to pass collected out of the XI and XVI Chapters of the REVELATION 1. THe last Actus reformationis sive evacuationis of the Evangelical Protestant Churches which will appear in Silesia chap. 11. v. 7. 2. The 3 ½ years following thereon when the dead bodies of the two Witnesses lie in the street v. 9. till 11. 3. The continuance of wars in those Kingdoms wherein the innocent blood of the Martyrs is avenged chap. 16. v. 4. 4. The sudden fall of the strong pillar of the Papacie vers 8. 5. The exaltation of an Evangelical Protestant head chap. 11. v. 12. 6. A Reformation in Germanie v. 11. 12. 7. The destruction of the Citie of Rome chap. 11. v. 13. c. 16. vers 10. 8. The end of the Turkish Empire chap. 11. v. 14. c. 16. v. 12. 9. The controversie of the Jews c. 16. v. 12. 10. The great endevors of the Papists and gathering of all their utmost power c. 16. vers 13. c. 19. v. 16. 11. The ruine of the whole Papacie chap. 16. vers 18. till the 21. c. 19. v. 20. 21. 12. The accomplishment of the Mysterie