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A86457	An exposition, or, A short, but full, plaine, and perfect epitome of the most choice commentaries upon the Revelation of Saint John. Especially of the most learned and judicious authors, as Bullinger of Helvetia, Francis Iunius, Thomas Brightman, Aug. Marlorate, Aug. de Civitate dei, but especially (among many) the excellent and learned David Pareus. With severall remarkable notes, observations, and doctrines very profitable. / As it was for the most part delivered by way of commentary in the parish-church of Sutton-Valence, Kanc [sic]. By Hezekiah Holland Anglo-hibernus, Minister of the Gospell at Sutton-Valence.	Holland, Hezekiah, fl. 1638-1661.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2426; Thomason E606_1; ESTC R5543	143,079	206

brethren for so much the Greek word signifies Satan because an adversary and hater of mankind Lastly he is called the Seducer of the whole earth c. for he hath deceived mankind generally now this shews the greatnesse of the benefit obtained by the victory since such an enemy and his Angels whereof Baalzebub is Prince should be spoyled signified by his being cast out of heaven in the Vision How Christ by his birth and death spoyled Satan see farther my quoted book p 48. Vers 10. And I heard a great voice in heaven c. Here follows the Song of the Church The great voice notes the multitude of rejoycers and the greatnes of their joy The cause because the accuser is cast out neither our sin ill conscience the law nor Satan can cast those out of favour who are in Christ Jesus I mean their former sinne and ill conscience of which 1 John 3.20 If our heart condemne us God is greater then our heart and knows all things if we can truly say we love the brethren to wit as the preceding verses speak Now concerning Satans accusing see Iob 1. from vers 7. forward These things being easie to ver 13 I passe them for brevity sake with these notes 1. The heavenly host call us brethren the accuser of our brethren a great dignity 2. They rejoyce because we shall not be accused see their love to us for Satans accusation could not hurt them but us who have not finished our warfare but now by Christs victory there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8. Of which very largely see my Glimpse of Christs love pag. 60 67. Where the particulars life death are examined 3. Christ manifested his love power salvation when he drew us as a lost prey out of the Dragons jaws Of which see the quoted book everywhere 4. Though Satan cannot prevail with God by his accusation yet he stirs up many adversaries in the world against us therefore we should walk very carefully for Satan is not dead though overcome 5. The blood of Christ is the cause or means of our victory by the blood of the Lamb they overcome the Lamb and Michael you see are the same by whose death passion resurrection the victory is obtained 6. Since Satan cannot prevail with God but is cast out of heaven and the Church hee 'l domineer the more over the nations the inhabitants of the earth by making them idolatrous and bringing woes and miseries on them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth 7. Satans greatest malice is against the manchild the Church and Saints whose happinesse he envies but hee 'l play at smal game rather then sit out disturb the earth rather then do no hurt This Prophecy concerns the times of Antichrists rising Anno Dom. 606. and after when Satan by Antichrist and his Locusts troubled sea and land Priests and people of Antichrists Church known by the name of Inhabitants of the earth Vers 13 And when the Dragon saw he was cast unto the earth he persecuted the woman c Here the persecuting of the woman is renewed by the Dragon notwithstanding the Church had got Constantine the Emperour that man-child in some sense to profect her for his excessive bounty to the Church did much hurt as I noted chap. 6. v. 7 8. about the pale horse by which meanes the venome of Pride Ambition Coveteousnesse Luxury was breathed into the Clergy which ministred occasion of new persecution Now also Arrrius whose name is enough to tell the misery of that age most beyond thought vexed the Church here the Dragon persecuted the woman for oft times the Emperours were Arrians Vers 14. And to the woman were given two wings of a great Eagle c. The Church after her many battles with hereticks and Tyrants obtained Constantine to defend her but by means of that peace brought to the Church by Constantine many sins reigned in the Clergy and the Church then began to take her flight into the Wildernesse by that time Antichrist arose she was gotten thither Anno 606. for her flight was long therefore she is said to have Eagles wings which Fowle flies longest and strongest So that Church which formerly was the woman cloathed with Christ having as it were a Crown of Apostolical faith to adorne her is now fled into the Wildernesse by it we are not to conceive any local flight as into Arabia deserta or the like But the wildernesse here is opposed to heaven now when the woman cast off the graces of Christ and his robes wherewith she was clad and put on the whorish attire she so altered her visage that she seemed not the same thus she became invisible more and more true there were many that feared God in every Age but they as the Church in Elias time were contemned and invisible or unknown rather keeping private in Families then publike in Congregations Now as we say in our proverbial speech of any thing that is confused or unweeded or overgrown as a neglected garden it is a meere wildernesse so the Church by reason of her spiritual confusion is said to be a wildernesse though formerly a chaste Virgin Note the Popish Church hath ever been visible and flowrishing but not this woman therefore that Church is not this woman for she became by little and little to live as those seven thousand in Israel in the time of Idolatry private and retired hating the whore and her poluted Garments Doctrine Worship and wayes though she were perchance in the literal or local Rome or that spiritual Wildernesse Eagles wings Note the power of her deliverance for they have strong wings not as a small bird By wings then I understand not so much the two Testaments by which she preserved her selfe but an allusion to that foule who by her strong wings flies far and strongly out of danger so the Church by faith flies toward heaven or out of danger into some private retiring place like Elijahs where she is to be spiritually fed as he was literally A time and times and halfe a time So Antichrist shall triumph not for ever yet not a very small time neither but a time yea and times known to God not to us I conceive as my Paraeus by this time the same space is noted as formerly to wit of 1260. yeares which time is given to the reigne of Antichrist So this Antichristian Church of Rome succeeded in the roome of this chaste woman who was fled into the wildernesse or gotten out of sight by that time he arose and abode and is to abide there till Antichrist leaves off treading down the holy City God be thanked she hath been in some measure visible a good while and Antichrists daies are partly expired when their date is quite out we doubtlesse shall see the woman much more glorious and visible for the time of Antichrist reigning is her hiding and as he decreases she increases Thus we have heard of Romes corruption

second death shall have no power of them that is eternall death the first is that of the body which passes on all See my Glimps of Christs love concerning temporal death and its benefit now through Christ pag. 61 c and the impossibility of falling pag. 57. to 60. and 75. c. 2. They shall be Priests unto God here chap. 1.6 and for ever hereafter But all the Saints shall be so as well as these Martyrs and confessours having part of the first resurrection and living the life of faith therefore that resurrection is but a spirituall one of which all the elect shall partake 3. Shall raigne a thousand years not the thousand past but another thousand even for ever and ever Thus the Millenarian or Papian errour is confuted which some in the primitive times not being able to answer denyed the authority of the book This Act will be plainer if the reader conferre it with the 144000. chap. 14. standing on Mount Syon and with them in chap. 7. who were sealed and with the harpers chap. 15.2 upon the sea of glasse who were preserved and sealed or as it is here quickened by grace and faith in the midst of Tyrants Hereticks and Antichrist raging against them and the Gospel Act 3. Vers 7. And when the thousand years are expired Satan shall be loosed Here follows the Churches calamities under both Antichrist Turk and Pope to last till the end of 1260 years for so long though with diminished forces and power the holy City may be encamped and trod under by them After those thousand years To wit of the Martyrs and confessours living and raigning with Christ being the same which is past and Satan let loose So Papias his Millenarian dream is ended Out of his prison Either hell or deserts whether he was banished and frightened the nations He has been let loose neer 600 years and was bound about Jerusalems sacking by Titus and the Jews dispersing who formerly hindred the Gentles imbracing the faith of Christ Vers 8.9 And he shall go out to deceive the Nations Formerly Satan was cast out of heaven now though loosed yet in a great measure is restrained from hurting the Church but may deceive the Nations Gog and Magog Now what is this but the loosing the four Angels or Nations bound up by the means of the great River Euphrates from Christendom now or the Roman Empire as formerly See chap. 9.14 and the exposition upon it so that I need seek no other meaning of Gog and Magog for according as this Vision agrees with the former So the four Angels in Euphrates formerly were Arabians Tartarians and here they are understood by Gog and Magog Here is an allusion to Ezek. 38. and 39. about Gog and Magog all the open and secret enemies of Gods people who after the captitive and before the Messias comming were to oppose the Jews to wit in the latter dayes Chap. 38.8 Meaning after the captivity not towards the end of the world as the Papists affirme supposing this to be the army of their Antichrist Now these nations sayes Iunius and Tremelius were those of the lesser Asia and Syria called Gog from Giges King of the Lydians who under the cruell Antiochus Nicanor oppressed Gods people but by the valour of the Macchabees were oft miraculously discomfited of which see the Historie For the things are accomplished partly Yet doubtlesse those chapters of Ezekiel allegorically seem to aime at a slaughter from heaven So then Iohn alluding to that as he oft does to the Prophets foretells of some grievous wasters of the holy land or Church or Christendom by some cruell enemies under the name of Gog Magog who shall have many overthrows as the former had by the Macchabees but shall finally be destroyed by fire from heaven at the last day where observe that Turk and Pope though Rome shall be burnt before shall remain warring against Christ till the last day To deceive the Nations But how by the spirit of Devils or three unclean spirits chap. 16. who came out of the mouth of the Dragon to gather the Kings of the earth to Armageddon ver 13.16 So Satan deceives the Nations making them Heathens again for many had embraced the faith and Gog and Magog in hope of overcoming the holy City Church or Christendome which in relation to Jerusalem a type of the Church is called holy because it ought so to be and in respect of the Nations and their Idolatry is so 't is plain Satan hath been let loose for not only the secret and mysterious enemies Antichrist and his worshippers have wasted the Church but the four Angels or Gog and Magog with their innumerable army as chap. 9.16 have furiously raged and conquered what they listed so that the name of Mahometism is larger then that of Christianity but Satan deceives Gog and Magog and under hope of victory shall lead them to Armageddon Which are in the foure quarters of the earth c. Magog son to Japhet Gen 10. from him came the Scythians now Tartars from them the Turks to whom the Arabians Armenians Saracens are joyned wasting for a long time farre and neer Gog meanes the people of lesser Asia called from Giges to whom the Macedonians and Egyptians of old joyned against Israel these as from the four quarters of the earth now under the name of Turk and Pope Gog and Magog destroy the holy City the one openly thirsting after the Empire of the world the other more cunningly and Ecclesiastically traducing the Church drawing them to Idolatry Now Satan deceives the Nations and Gog and Magog Turke and Pope as Leaders of these seduced Nations And they ascended c. Noting the base original of these Nations and their sudden rising to honour On the breadth of the earth For their conquests are large of which see Knolls Turkish History And they compassed the Camp of the Saints about Christendom And the beloved City The Church alluding to Jerusalem see how Christ loves his Church the word compassing notes the many irruptions into Christendom and cruel attempts against the Churches therein How the Gogish war began I just named chap. 9.3 4. Perchance we encreased their fury when Gregory the seventh alias Hildebrand sollicited Emperours and Kings to regaine the Holy Land by force of armes and after him Vrbanus second Pope of Rome who indeed prevailed so that mighty forces and vast summes of money was sent and great were their conquests for awhile the Christians subduing Saracen and Turk but through discord among Christians they won all and have followed hard upon Christendom by a war which sprung out of this and of which perchance the Christians were partly occasioners see the sweet tongued Master Fuller his Holy Warre on this subject most satisfactorily The summe is those thousand yeers of Satans binding and the Saints reigning being the same is past in which time the Pope as his Vicar took up his power in Anno 606. in

the overcommers chap. 2.28 as is expounded he being the morning starre Vers 17. And the Spirit and the Bride say come That is the Spirit in every Saint sayes come Every Saint having the Spirit longs after Christ so David Psal 42.2 As the heart pants after the water brookes that hot and therefore dry or thirsty creature so doth my soule after thee O God And the Bride or Church longs after Christ to be fully gloryfied by him and to live ever with her husband the Church Militant Cant. 8. vers last cals for Christ saying be like the Roe that nimble creature and come in haste The coming of Christ is fearfull to the wicked but the regenerate long for him Let him that heareth say come As the Bride doth Truly the reading and hearing this book will make every spiritual man say come Lord Jesus such sweetnesse is here Let him that is a thirst come That is the qualification required in the commers come to me for redemption salvation glory if athirst for a thirsty man is fit to drink of the fountain of water of life Now he that is athirst is he that has the Spirit crying to Christ to come to perfect him and the Church in glory And whosoever will Being qualified and a thirst none else can come these the father draweth Let him take the water of life freely Being a thirst and drawen by the Father The invitation is generall Isa 55.1 Hoe all but note the qualification that thirst come ye to the waters but note God worketh in us to will and do Phil. 2.13 whosoever commeth then God draweth Vers 18. For I testifie This depends upon vers 7. blessed are they that keep the words of this Prophecy now he threatens those who any way corrupt or abuse it Sure Antichristian falsifyers of the truth are here meant For I also testify or testifie together sayes the Greek Because the Angel had spoken now Christ confirmes the Angels testimony witnessing also with the Angel Vnto every man that heareth Not the Pope excepted If any man shall adde By false interpretations as 2 Peter 3.16 adulterating the Text. Let the Papists take heed how they mingle traditions and lyes with the Text. Vnto him God shall adde the plagues To wit not only the seven last plagues but to be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone for ever with the dragon and false Prophet chap. 19 20. O Arrius and Engedinus where are ye O Popelings and Hereticks take heed Vers 19 If any man shall take away from the words of this Prophecy God shall take away his part out of the Book of life c. To the adders he will adde plagues to the takers away he sayes hee 'll take away his part out of the book of life That is what part he seemes to have or will utterly condemne him one day Indeed they may be said to take away from the Book that deprave it allow not of it sleight it or the like The overcommers were promised choyce rewards in the seven Churches these deprayers shall have no share with them nor with the glorious Bride in heaven Some have denyed Saint James his Epistle some this book through mistake not malice being otherwise true Christians and are not to be comprehended here Luther doubted of James many ancient Christians through weaknesse of the authority of this most Divine book on whom I dare not doubt but God had mercy But note not only the integrity but perfection of Scripture is hence proved since nothing is to be added away then with traditions the written word is perfect and only to be followed to salvation Deut. 4.2 Moses gives the same command let no man adde by which it is plain the holy Scriptures of the Old-Testament were full enough and perfect to salvation Now our Saviour not John takes this passage from Moses and other things in this book are taken from the Prophets everywhere To note the perfect agreement of the New-Testament and Old and also to shew how this Book sayes my Pareus is a summe of holy Scripture Well we must not depend upon Revelations but the written Word By this Christ proved himself and his death to his disciples Luke 24.27 see my Glimps of Christs Love pag. 57. Vers 20. He that testifieth these things saith surely I come quickly c. They be the words of Christ not of Iohn who testified and revealed this Prophecy to Iohn being the true and faithfull Witnesse chap. 3.14 who promises to come quickly to confute those who make a mock of his coming to judgment 2 Pet 3.2 3 4. and to stirre us to patience and watchfulnesse And truly if when Iohn writ this book Christ promised to haste then now he is even at the door many Jews are daily converted the Gospel much spread Antichrist manifested and spiritually killed by the Witnesses forsaken by the Kings of the earth or many of them nay and Christ has powerfully reigned by the Reformation of many Kingdomes in matters of Religion We expect to hear of Romes literall desolation but the utter ruine of Turke and Pope we expect not till the seventh Viall be poured out into the aire or the seventh Angel sound at the last day other things are most fulfilled and we hope God for the Elect sake will hasten his coming Surely I come 'T is an asseveration confirming his promised coming to comfort the godly and to stir them up to watchfulnesse and patience in well doing and ill suffering Vers 21. Even so come Lord Jesus Sayes Iohn after all the most joyfull glorious things in the Prophecy the Beast and Dragon in the Vision cast into the lake of hell longing for the consummation of glory Indeed Christ is the good Ahimaaz 2 Sam. 18.27 that brings true and good tydings here in this life but cheifly hereafter of perfect redemption which all the creation groanes for and perfect glory for the Elect. Or Iohn may be understood to desire Christ to hasten Antichrists destruction to hasten comforts to Syon and lastly to come to judgment to condemne the Dragon and Beast and deliver the Saints redeeming their bodies out of their graves consummating them in glory Thus the Spirit in all the Saints teaches to long after Christ and say come Lord Jesus come quickly even so Amen Hanc epitomen praecipuorum Commentariorum supra Revelationem JOHANNIS unàcum annotatiunculis quibusdam feliciter peregi 30 Martii 1650. Ann aetat meae 31. Trinitati gloria sempiterna Amen FINIS