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prince_n	door_n	east_n	inner_a	45	3	16.3760	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68061	An exquisite commentarie vpon the Reuelation of Saint Iohn VVherein, both the course of the whole booke, as also the more abstruse and hard places thereof not heretofore opened; are now at last most cleerely and euidently explaned. By Patrik Forbes of Corse.	Forbes, Patrick, 1564-1635.	1613 (1613)	STC 11149.3; ESTC S102414	192,912	300

the waters making accordingly the trees which grow thereby good or bad Trees are men of whom such as are planted in the courts of God are alwaies fresh and flourishing like these of paradise Christians good and bad are in Scripture so ordinarily called trees as it were a vaine thing to heape testimonies This euill then was to ouergoe the whole visible Church doctrine worshippe and professours therein 4 Against this danger the care of Christ is shewed ordering the state of his elected ones by imprinting on them such a marke with the seale of God as thereby they should escape the euill Herein come to be obserued the person actor and the number sealed The person is of great note as being an Angel but of singular quality euen the Angel of the couenant This is cleare by his notes and by his action His notes are two His comming vp from the East and hauing the seale of God In the first are notable the quarter whence he commeth the East and that he ascendeth therefrom He commeth from the East not onely as our day starre and Sunne of righteousnesse by frame of speech from naturall lights which all arise from the East and heere conuenientlie sheweth him to bee the light and life of his sealed ones when spirituall darkenesse should possesse all but this hath also a speciall allusion to the last Chapters of Ezechiel wherein the goodly state of the Church vnder the Gospell being described vnder legall types not only is the glory of the God of Israel seene enter into the Temple by way of the East and the forefront of the house noted to be towards the East and the land so diuided amongst the Tribes as one end of each portion should reach to the East but also at the east doore of the inner court of the Temple so situated as to each doore thereof men behooued ascend by degrees as this Angel ascendeth from the East none were permitted to enter or come foorth but the Prince All both Prince and people worshipped before that doore but the Prince onely went in and out thereat Neither might the people come in the Temple at all to worship but when the Prince was in the midst of them they came in together and went out together yet at the East doore none but hee And out of the East doore came the waters which did grow to a Sea All no doubt to shew that no light ought to come in God his house but the Prince his light neither any Doctrine flow from the Temple but his who onely entreth and commeth foorth at the East doore in his light all must walke and worship and therefore no entry but when hee entreth no worship but when hee is present as in whom and for whom onely it is accepted and from whom onely wee are to take the rule thereof His light riseth on all his owne children hauing all their portions reaching to the East That this Angel then commeth from the East it sheweth him to be the Prince that he ascendeth it noteth his cōming to be into his temple to bee life and light to his sealed ones in the midst of this darknesse euen that lambe vpon Mount Sion in the midst of those 144000. Chap. 14. when all the earth followed the beast Chapt. 13. Consider well for this state of Christ his Church and his manner of presence in it the 11. Chapt. His second note is that hee hath the Seale of the liuing God This seale he hath essentially as he is the Image of the inuisible God and ingraued character of the Father his person hauing life in himselfe as the Father hath life in himselfe And he hath this seale to seale others therewith giuing life to whom he will as the Father quickneth whom he will for him hath the Father sealed All faithfull haue this seale that is are sealed therewith But to haue it in this degree as therewith to be the sealer of God his Saints it is aboue the dignity of all creatures Hee onely is the Master of God his great Seale sealing all God his children with the holy Spirit of promise The foundation of God abiaeth sure and hath this seale the Lord knoweth wh are his And this also he sealeth vp in vs by his spirit of sanctification so as who call on the name of the Lord depart from iniquity Hauing this Seale wee need not feare any darkenesse of Antichrist for our annointing teacheth vs all things and the honour of our God so requiring wee haue our Seale in our foreheades ready to giue account of our hope to all that aske vs. 5 Thus are the notes of his person His Action is that he cryeth with a loud voice c. His loude crying sheweth the greatnesse of the mischiefe for preuenting whereof as men in such cases doe he is said to cry with a loud voice so bewraying care The Substance of his cry is in a commandement and the end thereof The commandement is not to hurt c till we haue sealed c. His commandement sheweth authority whereby he ruleth all things in heauen and earth both in mercy and iustice As our brother God is his God I go to your God and my God your father and my father Iohn 20. 17. The end of the commandement is that the seruants of God may bee in suretie through his Seale in their fore-head The speech is from the 9. of Ezechiel where vpon the destruction of Ierusalem Temple and all to ensue by the state of Babell such a type of caution is put for preseruation of such as mourned and sighed for the iniquities committed in that City so here a spirituall desolation and Captiuity being to come on the visible Church by mysticall Babylon the like Caution is prouided for the like sort The marking on the fore-head is put but according to the manner of men who imprint a conspectible mark on what they wold haue easily discerned from common so as the beholders cannot misse to see it Not that this Seale was perceptible to Antichrist or Ministers of his deceit and cruelty For the world saw not these sealed ones neither could learn their Song Chapter 14. 3. but as I haue said by this frame of speech to shew their sure protection by the prouidence of their God 6 In the number sealed consider of whom it is and what it is It is of all the Tribes of Israel that is of all true Israelites the Elect of God and Israelites indeede Gal. 6. 16. For properly it cannot here bee taken but the speech is from the Church of Israel and the ordinary manner of the Propheticall denunciations for as when the Church consisted onely of Israel properly the same was little in comparison to that time when by the Gospell the Gentiles ioyne thereto and as euen of the Church of Israel though their number were as the sea-sand yet but a remnant was saued euen so in time of Antichrist his darkenesse the true