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A45748	Clavis apocalyptica, or, A prophetical key by which the great mysteries in the revelation of St. John and the prophet Daniel are opened : it beeing made apparent that the prophetical numbers com to an end with the year of our Lord, 1655 : in two treatises: 1. Shewing what in these our times hath been fulfilled, 2. At this present is effectually brought to pass, 3. And henceforth is to bee expected in the year neer at hand : with an introductorie preface / written by a Germane D. ; and now translated out of High-Dutch.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1651 (1651)	Wing H979; ESTC R30751	90,414	256

of the Woman in the wilderness chap. 12. vers 6. The fortie two moneths of the Beast and of his blasphemies chap. 13. vers 5. The time of the Image of King Nebuchadnezzar Dan. chap. 2. The determined time of the four Monarchies Dan. chapter 17. vers 12. 25. The one thousand two hundred ninetie daies of Dan. chap. 12. vers 11. c. The spirit of life from God entered into them In the chapter 37. vers 14. of Ezekiel God in the behalf of the Jews in the Captivitie of Babylon doth use such an expression saying I will put my spirit in you and yee shall live and I shall place you in your own Land c. The same will befal to the exiled and oppressed Evangelical Professors God will send them an unexspected help by such means which never entred into anie man's thoughts God will revive them again bring them into their own Land re-establish them in their dignities and publick functions and give them greater and higher Privileges and Liberties then they ever had before And they stood upon their feet The Exiled Evangelical Professors do appear again and take possession of their Land and places The oppressed also com forth again and are delivered from their heavie yoak And great fear fell upon them which saw them As now there is great joie and exsultation amongst the Papists about the issue of this war so there will bee great terror when they shall see the Exiled return into the hereditarie Provinces again and the Oppressed take possession of their former dignities and honorable functions Then will bee a livelie example set before us of that which is written in the book of Wisdom chap. 5. Vers 12. And they heard a great voice from Heaven saying unto them Com up hither c. By the Heaven the Church is understood By the great voice is signified that after the end of three years and an half a great and chief Instrument an high Potentate amongst the Evangelical Professors shall rise and bee exalted who to the great fear and terror of Papists shall open again a free cours to the Gospel and Call with a great voice upon the exiled and oppressed re-establish them into their publick imployments and possessions and saie unto them Com up hither This is the Divine Diploma or Letters Patents the vocation or calling which is published by that High Potentate The exiled do obeie They ascend up to Heaven that is they enter into their charges again and perform that in the Church which is committed to their trust In a Cloud that is with great autoritie respect power and glorie Isa 14. vers 13. 14. And their enemies beheld them namely those that formerly did rejoice at their afflictions and miseries 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth signifie contemplari ludos spectare vel celebrare to see a Comedie or plaie The Papists had hitherto acted as it were a Comedie with the Euangelical Professors and tormented them with all sorts of plagues Now they see the event and issue thereof wherin doth befal unto them what is threatned Jer. 50. vers 10 11 12 13. Vers 13. And the same hour was there a great Earth-quake All the Peace which the Papists do imagine to themselvs is now at an end For immediately the reformation of this Evangelical Potentate causeth an exceeding great insurrection and combustion in the Romane Empire And the tenth part of the Citie fell By the Citie is here meant 1. Either the whole Papacie and thus one of the ten streets hath its fall Namely the Germane Empire which is the street where the dead bodies of the two Witnesses had lien who are now standing again upon their feet 2. Or the Citie of Rome it self which in regard of the old Citie of Rome when shee was in her florishing condition is counted this daie but the tenth part As the same is proved by Lipsius lib. 3. admirand And there were slain That is cut off and destroid In the Earthquake That is in this war Seven thousand That is a great number or multitude Of men That is high and great persons chief heads and noble families And the remnant were affrighted and gave glorie to the God of Heaven The rest of the Papists stand amazed and do acknowledg the just judgments of God which hee poured out over them Vers 14. The second wo is past These words do not import that by the destruction of the Citie of Rome and the other things which have been set down in the aforegoing words the second wo is brought to an end but the overthrow of the Turkish Empire is thereby especially intimated Revelations 8. vers 13. St John beheld and heard an Angel flying thorough the midst of Heaven saying with a loud voice Wo wo wo to the inhabitants of the Earth by reason of the other voices of the Trumpet of the three Angels which are yet to sound The first Wo hapned by the Saracens and Arabians whereof in Revel 9. vers first till the twelfth The second Wo hapned by the Turks Revelations 9 vers 13. till the 19. Hereunto do agree almost all the Expositors and refer this second Wo unanimously to the Turkish Empire And do infer from thence becaus it is said here the second Wo is past that immediately after the destruction of the Citie of Rome and these Revolutions in the Germane Empire the Turkish Empire shall have it's fall Vers 14. Behold the third Wo cometh quickly All the three Woes are poured over the Popish Romane Empire But the third Wo is the last and beginneth at the sound of the seventh Trumpet Wherefore these words do immediately follow Vers 15. And the seventh Angel sounded Wherewith beginneth the seventh and last plague poured out over Babel And withal is briefly described 1. The great joie which ariseth in the Evangelical Church 1. Becaus they have gotten an Evangelical head Vers 11. 2. Becaus the Citie of Rome is destroied and Germanie is fallen away from the Papal State vers 13. 3. Becaus the Turkish Empire is com to an end Vers 14. 4. Becaus the Son of God hath taken possession of the Kingdoms of this world and useth his great power and reigneth vers 15 16 17. This joie is also described in the 19. chapter vers 17. And upon this joie did David in the spirit reflect In the 93. Psal The Lord reigneth and is cloathed with Majestie c. In the 97. Psal The Lord reigneth let the earth rejoice And in the 99. Psal The Lord reigneth bee the people never so impatient 2. The wrath of the Heathen That is the furie and rage of the Papists against these the Lord riseth becaus the daie of his wrath is com utterly cutting them off and destroying them vers 18. This Act is with a double sign confirmed 1. The Temple of God is opened and there was seen in his Temple the ark of his Testament 2. There were lightnings and voices and thunderings and an Earth-quake and great

it bee matter of theorie or of affection or of Practice that the all-sufficiencie of the anointing of Christ in his Saints may appear and bee found alone effectual without the tricks of Humane Philosophie of Policie and of power to slaie the wicked and to direct the Spirit of man to all the secrets of Divine and Humane wisedom which shall bee found nothing but meer fallacies further then it hath a direct relation and subordination to manifest the life and glorie of Christ Jesus when I saie this Sword shall bee thus made use of and applied then and not till then shall I exspect that the Beast and the fals Prophet shall bee taken alive and destroied and till this bee don Satan cannot bee bound up from seducing the Nations of the Earth Thus you see the grounds of the Hopes of Your friend in Christ John Durie At my Chamber Novemb. 28. 1650. Clavis Apocalyptica OR A Prophetical KEY BY WHICH The Great Mysteries in the Revelation of St John and in the Prophet Daniel are opened It beeing made apparent That the Prophetical Numbers com to an end With the year of our Lord 1655. Judicious Reader I Doubt not but there bee manie especially those who have anie Interest in the condition of Common-wealths that are desirous to know what at length may bee the end and issue of this present Combustion and Continuance of Wars that are spread over the face of Europe Whereof the Revelation of St John doth give information But in respect it is commonly held and reputed a Mysterious and dark book I offer here a Key Whosoëver doth well applie the same and observeth the Method and Harmonie of the Revelation and also diligently pondereth and considereth the second and seventh chapter of the Prophet Daniel hee will finde his desire satisfied and easily discover the Event of these wars Farewel Wel-meaning Reader and bee patient for a short time thou shalt see the end of these distractions in great Revolutions both in Church and State within and without Europe Clavis Apocalyptica THe eternal and true God to manifest his Fatherlie and faithful Providence which hee without intermission dispenseth to his People hath severally in the Old Testament for the comfort of the godlie and warning of the wicked set and prefixed certain times how long hee would connive at the distresses and persecutions of his own and when hee would deliver and punish the wicked 1. Before the Flood hee gave to them who would not anie more hearken to the reproof of his Spirit a hundred and twentie years respite Genes 6. v. 3. When this time was exspired God came with the punishment of the Flood and destroied all that was living upon the face of the Earth except Noah and what was with him under God's protection in the Ark. Gen. 7. v. 23. 2. God did declare to the Patriark Abraham that his seed should bee a stranger in a Land that was not theirs and should serv them and they should afflict them for four hundred years But that Nation whom they should serv hee would judg and afterwards they should com out with great substance Genes 15. ver 13 14. Which promise God did faithfully perform and after the time was exspired hee brought forth his people by a strong and mightie hand out of the Egyptian bondage and drowned Pharach with his Host in the Red Sea Exod 12. v. 13 14. 3. To the Captivitie of Babylon was set a period of seventie years Ierem. 29. 10. When the time was accomplished the Lord stirred up the Spirit of Cyrus King of Persia to the end that hee might let his people go up again to Ierusalem 2 Chronic. 36. v. 22 23. 4. To Daniel shewed God that seventie weeks which are annual or yearlie weeks or four hundred nintie years were determined upon the Iewish people in which time the Messiah should com and bee cut off and at length the Citie of Ierusalem bee destroied Daniel c. 9. v. 24 25 26 27. How truly all these things were accomplished is sufficiently evident In like manner there is a certain time set and determined upon the Church of God in the New Testament how long shee shall bee subject and exposed to persecution and when shee shall bee delivered from it as it doth appear by the Prophet Daniel and by the Revelation of St Iohn Whereof these Positions or Aphorisms may bee collected 1. This determined time is expressed in these following places of the Holie Scripture Daniel 7. v. 25. They the Saints shall bee given into his the fourth beast's hand until a time and times and the dividing of time And in the 12. Chapt. v. 7. An Angel doth ask the question How long shall it bee to the end of these wonders Another returneth this answer That it shall bee for a time times and a half Revelat. 12. v. 14. The Woman which is the Church of God shall bee in the wilderness for a time times and half a time which is to saie as it is expressed in the sixth vers of the same Chapter a thousand two hundred and threescore daies Chapter 11. v. 3. The two witnesses shall bee clothed with Sackcloth one thousand two hundred sixtie daies Chapter 11. v. 2. The Gentiles shall tread under foot the holie Citie fourtie two moneths Chap. 13. vers 5. The blasphemies of the beast shall continue fourtie two moneths 2. These three sorts of numbers and times as a time times and half a time one thousand two hundred sixtie daies and fortie two moneths are of one and the same kinde and correspondent one to another None would bee able to understand what a time times and half a time is which are determined for the fourth beast Dan. 7. vers 15. For the wonders Dan. 12. vers 7. And for the woman in the wilderness Revelat. 12. vers 14. unless it had been said also of the Woman that shee shall bee nourished there one thousand two hundred sixtie daies which doth explain the other So that the Woman's 3 ½ times are equivalent to one thousand two hundred sixtie daies Likewise because the 3 ½ times of the Beast mentioned in the Prophet Daniel are declared by fortie two moneths in the Revelation of St Iohn 13. vers 15. it doth of necessitie follow that the fortie two moneths are equivalent to one thousand two hundred sixtie daies which maketh up the accompt thirtie daies beeing computed for a moneth as is usual amongst the Hebrews 360 daies are 1. year or time 12 moneths 720 2. years 24. 180 ½ year 6. 1260 daies 42. moneths 3. These one thousand two hundred sixtie daies do signifie one thousand two hundred sixtie years Manie are of this opinion that here are meant natural daies and consequently but 3 ½ years But experience doth contradict the same in regard the Holie Citie hath been trodden under foot the two witnesses clothed with sackcloth the woman continued in the wilderness and the Beast with ten horns spoken blasphemies and

hundred sixtie years must com thirtie years later and so begin Anno three hundred ninetie five becaus they end together 2. Secondly becaus by the division of the old Romane Empire into two parts in the three hundred ninetie fifth year the Romane Eagle got two wings and becaus in the verie same year the Septentrional Barbarous Nations invaded the Romane Empire whereby the Woman the Christian Church fled into the Wilderness wherein shee should bee preserved and nourished during the space of one thousand two hundred sixtie years or 3 ½ times chap. 12. vers 6. till the 14. 3. Thirdly Becaus with the beginning of the invasion of these Barbarous Nations in the three hundred ninetie fifth year the treading under foot of the holie Citie begun which should continue fortie and two moneths Revelations 11. vers 2. 4. Fourthly becaus by this invasion the Beast with ten horns rose up out of the Sea That is becaus by this war which began in the three hundred ninetie fifth year the Romane Empire was by little and little so divided that in the four hundred third year alreadie som horns and in the four hundred fiftie fifth year fully ten horns or Kingdoms appeared in it 5. All the Historians generally do agree that the ruine of the Romane Empire did begin in the three hundred ninetie fifth year as som of them were quoted in Clavi Apocalypt Now both the antient and later Teachers of the Church do conclude by the words of the Apostle Paul 2 Thessalonians 2. vers 6 7 8. That the Antichrist should then com when the Romane Empire should begin to fall As wee read in Tertulliano in Apologetico c. 32. Item de resurrect carnis Irenaeo lib. 5. adversus Haereses Hieronymo quaest 2. ad Algasiam Chrysost Homil. 4. in Thes 2. Hence it is that Joannes Cluverius in Comentario posthumo in Apol. Tom. 111. writeth thus Totius Negotii cardo versatur in inveniendo exordio Antichristi quod in ruinam Imperii Romani incidere ostendimus 6. The Beast with two horns the Antichristian Pope of Rome came out of the Earth quietly about the time of the three hundred ninetie fifth year Revelations 13. vers 11. when hee arrogated unto himself the Primacie and preeminencie over the Ecclesiastical and civil State Before the Nicene Synod which was held in three hundred twentie fifth year of our Lord the preeminencie of the Bishop of Rome over other Churches was not known Wherefore Aeneas Sylvius in Epistola 288. writeth Ante Nicaenum Concilium quisque sibi vivebat ad Romanam sedem parvus habebatur respectus Besides the succeeding Popes Liberius I. Felix II. and Damasus did not seek anie such matter Nay in the three hundred ninetieth year in the third Council of Carthage Can. 26. this Canon was made Ut primae sedis Episcopus non appelletur Princeps Sacerdotum aut summus Sacerdos aut aliquid hujusmodi sed tantùm primae sedis Episcopus Tom. Concil p. 544. Innocent the first who in the four hundred second year of our Lord succeeded Anastasius at Rome was the first that made an Act that the Hereticks should bee compelled to imbrace the Catholick faith And hath also attributed unto himself Autoritie and power not onely over the common people but also over the Highest Civil Autoritie in Christendom in that hee excommunicated Arcadius the Emperor at Constantinople when hee removed Chrysostome from his function In like manner hee did vehemently bestir himself to obtain the Primacie for the Romane Church and especially hee endevored to get the Government of the Bishops and Churches in Africa The like was practised also by Zosimus Bonifacius 1. Celestine 1. whereof Daniel Paraeus in Medullâ Hist Eccles universali pag. 200. Whence it is that Socrates lib. 7. Hist. Eccles cap. 3. where relating how in the time of Celistine the 1. it fared with the Novatians hee addeth these words Episcopatus Romanus non aliter atque Alexandrinus quasi extra Sacerdotii fines egressus ad secularem Principatum jam antè delapsus erat In like manner Sericius who after Damasus from the three hundred eightie fifth until the three hundred ninetie eighth year was Bishop of Rome was the first who held the Priests who companied with their married wives uncapable of the Ministerie As wee read hereof in his first Epistle chap. 7. and Epist 4. c. 6. Tom. 1. Concil page 530. 534. In Jure Canonico Distin 82. And in concilio Taurinatensi in the three hundred ninetie seventh year of our Lord was determined chap. 7. qui in Ministerio genuerunt filios nè ad majores gradus ordinum permittantur Synodi decrevit autoritas In Concilio Carthaginensi in the three hundred ninetie eighth year sub Anastasio was concluded on Cap. 3. Placuit Episcopos Presbyteros Diaconos secundùm propria priora vel prima statuta etiam ab uxoribus continere Quod nisi fecerint ab Ecclesiastico removeantur officio Tom. 1. Concil p. 517. Vid. Distinct 84. cap. 3 4 5. 7. In the eleventh chapter wee have seen that the two Witnesses at the end of the one thousand two hundred sixtie years shall bee fought against overcom and killed which as hath been proved above is hitherto com to pass The last Act is now shortly to bee exspected in the Province of Silesia Whether now this bee performed in this or in the next following year thereupon their raising again will follow after 3 ½ years And becaus the seventh Trumpet shall sound in the one thousand six hundred fiftie fifth year and between it and the raising again of the two Witnesses two accidents happen as 1. The destruction of the Citie of Rome 2. And the ending of the second Wo therefore the two Witnesses may well bee raised again before the one thousand six hundred fiftie fifth year shall begin For Modicum nec Praetor curat nec Propheta Unto this may also bee added these following reasons as secondarie Arguments 1. The Prophesie of the Apostle Peter whereof Augustin lib. 18. c. 53. and 54. de Civit. Dei. writeth That the Gentiles in his time did report that the Apostle Peter had thought that the Christian Religion should continue but three hundred sixtie five years Which Augustine holdeth to bee a Fiction wherewith the Heathen would cast a reproch upon the Christian Religion But if this bee well considered it may well prove so indeed that Peter did declare that the Christian Religion should for three hundred sixtie five years without interruption bee propagated untill the three hundred ninetie fifth year of our Lord in which the Antichrist should com who should suppress the same For in the thirtieth year of his age was the Son of God baptized whereon hee entred into the Ministerie and began to preach These thirtie years beeing added unto the three hundred sixtie five years make up the three hundred ninetie fifth year in which the Antichrist came forth the holie Citie was trodden under foot the two

and dependance upon the Popish Romane Empire as Spain France England Poland Hungarie c. For the greatest Whore sit's upon manie waters Revel chap. 17. vers 1. aud reigneth over the Kings of the earth vers 18. The fountains of water are the Kings their Roial Council is Parlaments and other great and prime Lords in those Kingdoms who are interessed in the Government How this Vial of the wrath of God hath been poured out over great Brittanie and the well thereof and how the river and the head-Spring there became blood and doth yet sprout out is alas evident to all the world And although those who are the Fax and Clamor sive Tub● in these proceedings wee know not how to excuse yet wee must by virtue of this cleer text saie with the Angel Lord thou art righteous becaus thou hast judged thus How France doth feel the pouring out of the wrath of God out of this third Vial and how much more it will bee sensible of it in time to com time will discover The caus which the Angel maketh mention of here in the sixth vers saying For they have shed the blood of the Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthie concerneth France more particularly becaus there was so much innocent Christian blood shed therein in these hundred years last past How the other Kingdoms in this Classis shall fare time will shew chiefly that whose head-spring did flow out the eighth of April Anno one thousand six hundred five The Ecclips of the Sun which on the seventh of April one thousand six hundred fiftie two will darken the locum Hylegialem thereof whereupon within a short time it may stop happily the flowing out of the same and change it's river into blood Vers 7. And I heard another Angel out of the altar saie c. A voice is heard out of the Thysiasterion or place of Sacrifices where the souls of them that were slain did lie whereof wee may read in the sixth chapter vers 9 10. that they crie to the Lord for vengeance The sens and meaning of which words is this that the Martyrs prais God for the hearing of their praiers and the execution of vengeance applauding the Angel saying Even so Lord God Almightie true and righteous are thy Judgments Hence also may bee concluded that this vengeance shall then begin when the last war against the two Witnesses shall bee finished whereof hath been spoken in the 11. chap. Vers 8. And the fourth Angel poured out his Vial upon the Sun c. By the Sun all the Expositors commonly understand the Sun of righteousness Mal. 4. vers 2. Jesus Christ wherewith the Woman is clothed Revel chap. 12. vers 1. But this is repugnant to the scope and intention of these plagues which are poured all over the earth that is upon the Systema mundi Papistici over the Popish world which is opposed to the Church-Heaven of the faithful Children of God wherein the Lord Jesus is the Head Therefore wee must seek this Sun in the popish Heaven and search what in the Revelation of John is represented by the Sun in other places The Sun became black as a sackcloth of hair Revelations 6. vers 12. whereby the ruine of the Imperial dignitie in the Heathenish Church-heaven which happened in the time of Constantine the great is intimated The third part of the Sun was smitten according to the prophesie of the fourth Trumpet Chapter 8. vers 12. That is The smal remainder of the greatness and brightness of the old Romane Empire shall wholly bee abolished and pass away An Angel did stand in the Sun Revelations 19. vers 17. That is a great Potentate an Evangelical valiant Prince gathered together a great Armie against the Papists The Citie hath no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it chap. 21. vers 23. That is hath no need of anie Temporal Potentate to govern it If wee compare these texts with the Sun upon which the Angel poureth out the fourth Vial wee finde that thereby a great and high head of the State is signified who in Systemate Mundi Papistici doth uphold all and by his splendor and government giveth strength unto all like as the Sun Systemate Mundi Physico by it's light and motion doth guide and move the forces of nature And power was given unto him to scorch men with fire And men were scorched with great heat c. When the Head which hath been a mightie support hitherto to the Papal State shall lie down and rest then the fire of God's wrath will extremely scorch the Papists The Lord will make them like a fierie oven Psal 21. vers 9. But for all this they will not amend nor repent and give God the glorie but rather continue in blaspheming the name of God and grow more and more obstinate Vers 10. And the fifth Angel poured out his Vial upon the seat of the Beast and his Kingdom was full of darkness Assoon as the Beast with ten horns was risen up out of the Sea Revelations 13. vers 1. the Dragon immediately gave him his power and his seat and Citie of residence the Citie of Rome Which the Beast hath possessed hitherto without beeing disturbed from thence and reigned over the Kings of the earth chapter 17. vers 18. Now the Angel poureth out the fifth Vial of the wrath of God upon this seat the Citie of Rome as mention hath been made hereof above in the 11th chap. vers 13. that after the two Witnesses were ascended up there was a great Earth-quake and the tenth part of the Citie fell and was destroied And the Kingdom was full of darkness c. By the distruction of the Citie of Rome shall the Government and power of the Pope which hitherto hee hath used bee made extremely void and all his dispatches or commissions suspended But the Papacie shall not yet by this means bee utterly dissolved and taken away For this doth follow afterwards at the pouring out of the seventh Vial in the last war in a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon vers 16. Whereof i● spoken more at large in the 19. chapter vers 17. until the 21. by this plague the Papists are yet more embittered and more and more hardned Vers 12. And the sixth Angel poured out his Vial upon the great river Euphrates and the water thereof was dried up c. By Euphrates are understood the Nations which border thereupon that is the Turks But by the drying up of the water is meant the ruine and overthrow of those Nations as it is evident out of the Prophets as Isaiah chapter 19. vers 5. chap. 44 vers 27. Jeremiah chap. 48. vers 34. chap. 50. vers 38. chap. 51. vers 36. Ezekiel chap. 30. vers 12. chap. 31. vers 4. The Application of this text to the ruine of the Turkish Empire doth agree with the eleventh chap. of Isa vers 13.