put them into raging tumults against the Church of Christ. Thus Sathan did when he stirred vp many people to persecute the Christian Church euen in her Infancy and Cradle Reuel 12 15. The Serpent Cast a Water out of his mouth after the Woman Some by these Waters vnderstand great store of Heresies lies slanders reproaches wherewith the Serpent sought to drowne the poore Church to Cast out sig To bee refused as prophane Reuel 11 7. The Court which is without the Temple Cast out great chain sig The doctrine of the Gospell and namely that part of it which concernes Christian liberty whereby as it were by a Chaine and fast bound Christ kept Sathan fast bound for a long time Reuel 20 1. And a great Chaine in his hand C. H. Chalcedone sig A rich pretious pure and glorious Stone and Pearle representing the spirituall purity of the holy Church on earth and the Caelestiall glory of the triumphant church in heauen So much is meant also by the Iasper Chrysolite c. Re. 20 19 20. Childe or man-childe sig Either Christ alone or ioyned to the Church hi◠body to which he communicateth his owne power according to his promise Reuel 2 27. Reuel 12 5 She brought forth a Man-Child Chrystall sig pro A most cleere Glasse through which our eye-sight may runne to espy euery the least spot 2 Either the whole World through which Gods sight pierceth seeing euery thing more cleerly then we see a spot in a Chrystall or as some Diuines thinke the most holy and pure doctrine of the Gospell in which as in a Chrystall-Glasse or Mirrour we see the glory of God with open face and not darkly as the Iewes did before vnder shaddowes of the Law Reuel 4 6. And before the Throne was a Sea of Glasse like to Chrystall Cléere as Chrystall sig The Water heere spoken of not to be foule and troubled like muddy Water and puddle of Mans inuentions but most pure and of excellent cleerenesse Reu. 22 1. Church sig A company of Men. called out of the World by the voice of Christ to know and worship one true God according to his word Reuel 1 20. Seauen Stars are the Angels of the seauen Churches Church of Ephesus Pergamus c. sig That particular company gathered at Ephesus Pergamus c. vnto the Faith and Religion of Christ. Reu. 2 1. Unto the Angell of the Church of Ephesus C. I. Citty beloued sig The holy Church here Militant vpon Earth which because it is loued of God through Christ therefore neither the Turk from the East nor Antichrist from the West shall vtterly destroy it howsoeuer they fiercely assault it Reuel 20 9. And they compassed the Tentes of the Saintes about and the beloued Citty Some Diuines vnderstand this not of the whole Church but by an excellency of the company of beleeuing Iewes which toward the end◠of the World shall be gathered and ioyned to the Church of beleeuing Gentiles holy Citty sig Hierusalem which is aboue or the Caelestiall Church whereof Hierusalem that holy Cittie in earth was a figure Reu. 22 19. He shall haue no part in the holy Citty 2 The Church of Christ heere on earth consisting of holy members sanctified by the blood Spirit of Christ. Reue. 21 2. Citties of Nations sig The company of such people as ioyne to Antichrist and fight against Christ. Reuel 16 19. The Citties of the Nations fell These Citties some others expound to be the whole regiment of wicked men as of Turkes Iewes Barbarians and others that embrace false and strange Religions All which it is certaine that they must perish at the second comming of Christ though all be not alike Christs aduersaries that great Citty sig Not any one Towne inuironed with Wals the people whereof are linked together by bonds of the same Lawes but the intire and full iurisdiction of some one Town as namely of Rome the seat and place of Antichrist together with the whole Company of them that are subiect to the proud power of Antichrist Reu. 16 19. And the great Citty was deuided into three parts C. L. Cloudes sig Powers Dignities Honours Principalities in high place yet not Supreame as Cloudes which be placed high yet are vnder the Heauens Reuel 11 15. The Angell cryed to him that sate on the Cloud Cloathed with a cloud sig One full of Maiesty A Cloud in Scripture being a visible signe to represent Diuine Maiesty As Exod. 33 9. 1. King 8. Reuel 10 1. I saw another mighty Angell Cloathed with a Cloud Some other Diuines expound this Cloathing with a Cloud to signifie the obscure knowledge of Christ being yet not so fully knowne as afterward The former is the more receiued exposition Cloathed in sackecloath sig Men full of griefe and lamentation as if they did alwaies fast and mourne Also stirring vp others to repent and be sorrowfull for their Idolatry and other workes of darknesse whereof wearing Sackcloath is a signe and token Finally this Cloathing his Witnesses with Sacke admonisheth that Christ would call men to repentance euen by very meane and contemptible Seruants couered not with Purple but with Sacke Reu. 11 3. They shall prophesie 1260. daies Cloathed in Sacke-Cloath This alludeth to the fashion of the olde Prophets who were thus apparrelled to come with clouds sig To returne as Christ shall doe with great glory to iudge the Worlde hauing ready before him Storme Tempest and Thunder to reuenge himselfe vpon the wicked his enemies Reuel 1 7. But commeth with Clouds and euery eye shall see him In this speech there is an allusion vnto the praise of the Prophets who thus describe the notable iudgements of God vsing the Clouds and all other creatures for the good of his owne and destruction of the vngodly Sée Dan. 7 13. Also Psalme 18 5 6 7 8 9 c. sitting on a Cloud sig A glory peculiar to Christ who as he ascended sitting on a Cloud so at his second comming hee shall returne gloriously a Cloud beeing to him in stead of a Chariot or Throne rather As in Acts 1. and Reuel 1 7. Reuel 14 15. Crying to him that sate on the Cloud Some Diuines not without great shew of reason Interpret this Cloud heere spoken of of ciuill powers lifted vp as Clouds in the Aire and him who sate on it to be such Rulers and Princes as Christ did vse for the furthering of his Church and hindering the Kingdom of Antichrist the reason is because the Sonne of Man who sate vpon this Cloud doing all at the commaundement of the Angell as appeareth in the wordes of this Text cannot be Christ Iesus who is subiect onelie to his Father and that as hee is Mediatour This latter exposition seemeth for this reason to be the better white cloud sig The vprightnesse and integrity represented by White of Christ the Iudge not miscarried in his sentence by ignorance or crooked affections in their opinion who vnderstand this Text of the last
wel-nie of a God was no more as a dead person but began to speake to command to forbid to blesse to curse to boast and bragge themselues Lord of Kings and Emperors as Pope Adrian did when he saide By vs the Emperor raigneth Spirite of prophesie sig All which spake by the Spirite of Prophesye These shot at Iesus as at a common marke to set forth him as onely Redeemer and perfect Sauiour Reu. 19 10. The Testimony of Iesus is the Spirite of prophesie that is such as testifie of Christ by prophesying him or preaching him their function is equal to the office of Angels reuealing him Therefore Iohn may not worship the Angell being a fellow-seruant three vnclean spirits sig Most wicked men carried and led by the diuel and being his Ministers to do his wil as Iesuits c. Reuel 16 13. Three vncleane Spirits without Spot sig Pure and without blame euen before God by the imputation of Christ his perfect righteousnesse to them wiping away all spots of sinne and cloathing them with innocency Reuel 14 5. They are without spot before the Throne of God S. T. to Stand before the God of the earth sig To Minister as Instruments vnto him who as God ruleth not in heauen onely but also in earth euen when Satan and wicked men seeme to haue their ful swinge and to put all out of order Reuel 11 4. Standing before the God of the earth It is a speech borrowed from seruants and such as attend vpon Princes and Rulers to Minister to them and execute their Commandements Thus also Reu. 8 2. Seauen Angels are said to stand before God because they appeare before him to minister to him to Stand a farre off sig To refuse and be affraide to approach to rescue Rome and Romish Hierarchie and Monarchie in the day of Gods horrible vengeance vpon her Reuel 18 15. The Merchants shall stand farre off to Stand vpon earth and Sea See Sea to Stand vpon their feete sig To reuiue after one is dead as the two witnesses did after a sort when God raised vp others in their roome mightily to defend their Doctrine cause by the word of God by giuing their liues to death for that trueth Such were Luther c. Also Wicliff Hierom of Prage Huss c. Reuel 11 11. And they shall stand vp vpon their feete to Stand before the woman sig To be ready at hand watching narrowly to destroy the blessed seede of the woman Reuel 12 4. And the Dragon stood before the woman Starre sig A Minister of the word which giueth light to the flocke by Doctrine and good example Reuel 1 20. The seauen Starres are the Angels of the seuen Churches morning Starre sig Christ Iesus who is himselfe the bright morning Starre hauing receyued fulnesse of true glorious light to communicate it to all the faithfull Reuel 2 28. As I receiued of my Father so will I giue him the Morning Starre great Star sig Many Pastors of the Church declining togither but amongst them some one Minister of especiall account and anthority drawing downe others by his corrupt teaching Reuel 8 10. And there fell a great Starre from heauen This great Star some do vnderstand of degenerating Byshops who thorow Pride and ambition fell into Haeresie Impiety Others do interpret it of Constantius Valens other wicked Emperors which fauored the Arrian Haeresie and molested Orthodox Christians And surely the word Starre though it often signifie Teachers yet somtime it noteth such as shine aloft in high place as it were in the ayre as Nebuchadnezar is compared by the Prophet Esay chap. 14 12. Starres fallen from heauen sig Ministers and Pastors of the Church who as Stars did shine by sincere Doctrine and now thorow tentation and force of Persecution declined and turned from the truth to errors and lies which is meant by falling from heauen Reuel 6 13. And the Starres fell from heauen to earth 12 Starres sig The Doctrine of the twelue Apostles as the Crowne and glory of the Church which they borrowed from the most bright Sun that Fountain of heauenly wisedome and preached to the Worlde afterward writing it in Bookes called Scriptures Reuelat. 12 1. Upon her head a Crowne of twelue Starres Stones precious sig The excellent and rare guifts wherein namely the Pastors of the Church shal shine before others Reuel 21 19. With all manner of precious Stones Stings sig Powwer to hurt vex and annoy others bodily as Sarazins Spiritually as Popish Monkes and Friars which are the tailes heere spoken of Reue. 9 10. And there were stings in their tailes Streets sig Some part of the Romish iurisdiction wherein this cruell spectacle was exhibited to be seene Reuel 11 8. And their corpes shall lye in the Streetes of the great Citty 2 A place where the multitude of Cittizens doo dwell properly and figuratiuely a liberty which all the Cittizens of heauen do enioy Reuel 22 2. In the middest of the Street of it S. U. Sunne sig The light of trueth obscured or extinct rather by Haeresie in Doctrine and by superstition in the worship of God Reuel 9 2. And the Sunne and the ayre were darkened Reuel 18 8. 2 Christ Iesus the Sunne of righteousnesse Reuel 12 1. Cloathed with the Sunne Sun black sig The prosperity and peace of the Christian church eclipsed and taken away for a time by most cruell persecutions and bloody extreamities exercised as at other times yet especially in the dayes of Dioclâ—sianus and Maximiniaâ—us Emperors Reuel 6 12. And the Sunne was blacke as Sackcloath Here is an allusion to the Prophets Ier. 4 23 28. Chap. 32 7. 8. Esay 50 3. S. W. to swallow sig To sinke in and cause to vanish as the earth or Land dooth to the flouds of Water which it drinketh in so did the earth that is men of earthly Religion and affections swallow and drinke iâ— as it were the rage and persecution intended by the Diuell and his Instruments against the Church of Christ in earth Reuel 12 16. The earth opened her mouth and Swallowed vp the floud This was verified in the Vandals Gothes and other barbarous people who comming to dwel in ciuillized countries and being turned in shew at least to Christian Religion did much helpe the true Church by stopping and allaying the furious minds of her aduersaries Sword sharp sword of his mouth sig The word of God the force whereof is mighty for the cutting downe sinne in the repentant for cutting a pieces spiritually and destroying the impenitent Reuel 2 12. Which hath a sharpe Sword with two edges Reuel 1 16. With the Sworde of my mouth This signifies the same thing with sharpe Sworde vnlesse happily some greeuous Iudgement of Warre be meant which being pronounced by the word is therefore called the Sworde of his mouth 2 Warre and battell or slaughter of men in warre executed by the sword Reu. 6 8. Power was giuen to kill with the Sword Wound of
goods whence our liueli-hood ariseth as Water springes out of a Fountaine Prouer. 5 10. Let thy Fountaines flow forth c. 7 Eyes which as a Spring or Fountaine sends forth teares as a witnesse of hearts griefe Iere. 9 1. Mine eyes a Fountaine of Teares For. sig Euery thing that hurteth the Inheritance or vineyard of the Church be it false doctrine or corrupt manners Cant. 2 15. Take away the Foxes 2 False Prophets which craftily vndermine the safety and state of Religion and of the Church Ezec. 13 4. O Israell thy Prophets are as Foxes in the wast places 3 All crafty and guilefull persons which with their carft and cunning seeke to deceiue and hurt others Luke 13 32. Tell that Foxe little Foxes sig All occasions and appearances of euils Cant. 2 15. These little Foxes to be a portion for Foxes sig To be cast out vppon the Mountaines without buriall that Foxes and Beastes may feede vppon them Psalme 63 10. They shall bee the portion for Foxes F. R. Frame of the hart sig The inward secret thoughts inclinations and purposes of the Soule as it is expounded by Moyses himselfe Gen. 6 5. The whole Frame that is the thoughts of mans hart are euill continually according to the Translation of Tremellius it should thus be read Free sig pro Such as bee Bond-men but are exempt from the yoake of slauery 1 Cor. 7 22. 2 Beleeuers whom Christ hath set free and deliuered from the Curse and rigor of the Law and not onely from yoake of Legall Ceremonies also froÌ„ the â—yâ—anny of sinne by his death and spirit so as they are no more vnder the bondage of sin though sinne be still in them nor neede feare the condemnation due to it also they serue God with a free ingenious spirit as Children their Father Rom. 5 7. He that is dead is Free from Sinne. Rom. 7 6. Free from Sinne that is from the Dominion of Sinne verse 14 Rom. 8 2. Free from Sinne and Death that is from the condemnation due to it as verse 1. Psalme 51 11. Iohn 8 38. This Freedome is wholy of Grace not at all of Nature Sée Will. Beleeuers are Free and not Free therefore they cry both who shall Free me from Sin Rom. 7 24. and also they tryumphantly say Christ hath freede me from the Law of Sin Rom. 8 2. They are freed wholy from the guilt and punnishment of Sinne but from corruption of sinne they are freed in part onely so farre as that it doe not raigne ouer them the Lords Frée man sig A true Christian who though he bee bond and Seruant vnto man is yet set Free by the Lord Iesus from thâ— seruitude of Sathan and Sinne. 1 Corin. 7 22. Frée from all men sig One that is not beholden vnto other men to liue at their cost 1 Cor. 9 19. Though I bee Free from all men Frée among the dead sig One separate from the liuing left for dead Psal. 88 5. Free among the dead like to the slaine which lie in the Graue Friend sig pro One whom we do entirely loue aboue others and vse more familiarly and priuately then we doe others as Dauid did Ionathan Pro. 18 24. A friend is neerer then a Brother 2 One to whom God imparteth his minde and secrets so familiarly and fully as one Friend dooth to another Genesis 18 17. Shall I hide this thing from Abraham Hence it is that Iames 2 29. calleth Abraham the Friend of God also the Apostles are called Christs Friendes Iohn 15 15. You I haue called Friends because what I had of my Father I haue made knowne to you Friendship of yâ— world sig The loue and vnmeasurable desire of carnall and worldly things Iames 4 4. The friendship or the Amity of the Woâ—ld is the enimity with God Frozen in their dregs sig Stubborne Sinners which obstinately sticke in their sinnes mocking both God and Man Zephe 1 12. I will visit them that be frozen in Dregges Ier. 48 11. Fruit. sig pro The encrease which commeth of the Land of Trees of Cattle and of other Creatures Deutro 28 4. Blessed shall bee the fruit of thy Ground and of thy Cattle 2 The couersion of men to God by the ministry of his Seruants Iohn 15 16. I haue appointed that ye go and bring forth Fruite and verse 2. 3. He that abideth in me bringeth forth Fruit. In this sence the Gospell was fruitfull in all the World Coloss. 1 6. Conuersion of Sinners to the Faith is as delightful to God as sweete Frâ—â—â— is to men A Metaphor 3 All and euery one of Gods Graces works in his Children because they come from his spirite as Fruite from a Tree and doe so please him as good Fruit is pleasing to vs. Gal. 5 22. The fruits of the Spirit is loue peace ioy c. Phil. 1 11. Filled with the Fruits of righteousnesse A Metaphor 4 The due recompence and merite of our euill workes Micha 7 13. For the Fruits of their inuentions Prouerb 31. They shall eate the Fruite of their workes 5 False doctrine the proper Fruit of a Falfe Prophet Math. 7 16. By their Fruits ye shall know them 6 The profit and commodity that comes of well doing Prouer. 31 31. Giue her of the Fruite of her hands Rom. 6 22. Ye haue your Fruit in holinesse 7 Any godly deede tending to the spirituall profit of others Phil. 4 17. I desire the Fruit c. eyther speech it selfe or the reward which comes of good or euill speech Prouer. 12 14. A man shall be filled with good thinges by the Fruit of his mouth Fruits of righteousnesse sig All good works done by iustified and righteous persons Phil. 1 11. Aboundiug with the Fruites of righteousnesse fruits worthy of repentance sig A godly and iust life meete for such as haue repentance Mat. 3 8. Bring forth Fruits worthy of repentance Fruit of the wombe sig Children Deut. 28 4. Blessed shall be the Fruite of thy womb Psal. 127 3. and 132 11. Gen. 30 2. and in Deut. 28 4. Children be called the Fruit of the body being deriued from the body of their Parents as Fruit springs from a Tree Also delightful vnto them as Fruit to our mouth Fruitfull sig Profitable as vnfruitfull signifies vnprofitable Titus 3 14. Colo. 1 6. And is Fruitfull 2 Abundant Col. 1 10. Fruitfull in good workes F. U. Full. sig The proud and such as bee swollen with high conceite of their owne sufficiencie and woorth so as they feele no neede of Christ. Luke 6 26. Woe vnto them that are Full. Reuel 3 17. affords vs an example heereof 2 Much or abundantly rich and plentifull Acts 6 5. Stephen Full of the Holy Ghost and of faith that is endued with a great portion of faith In Luke 1 28. it would not bee read Full of grace but Freely beloued as the Greek word signifies and Chrisost expounds it 3 That which is perfect or hath no want 2.
Satan euen whatsoeuer by counsell or force hee is able to do Math. 16 18. The Gates of Hell shall not preuaile against them 5 That godly conuersation whereby an entrance as by a Gate is ministred into the Kingdome of heauen Math. 7 13. Narrow is that Gate that leadeth to life 2. Pet. 1 11. 6 The Iudges and Princes which sat in the Gate to exercise Iudgement Esay 3 26. Then shall her Gates mourne and lament that is the Gouernours and Rulers Ier. 14 2. Gate of heauē or house of God sig A place worthy and fit to be consecrate and set apart for Prayer and the seruice of God Gen. 28 17. It is the house of God and the Gate of heauen Gates of Sion sig The open assemblies of the Church where the publicke ministry is exercised Psal. 9 14. Within the Gates of the Daughter of Sion Gates of righteousnesse sig The Temple which is called the Gate of righteousnesse either because only iust and righteous persons were to enter there to worship the righteous God or else because by the Doctrine and Religiō there taught an entrance was made to come vnto God and to attaine true righteousnes Psal. 118 19 20. Open vnto me the Gates of righteousnes Gate of death sig Death itselfe or grieuous daungers threatning Death Psal. 9 13. Psal. 107 18. broad Gate narrow Gate sig The enterance and passage to destruction to bee very easie but very hard to life and glory Math. 7 13 14. Broad is the Gate and narrow is the way Gates of brasse sig The strongest helps and defences Psal. 107 16. He hath broken the Gates of Brasse to raise one in the gates sig To commend one publikely in the open meetings amongst the Elders Pro. 31 31. Her workes praise her in the Gates to Gather sig pro To bring or bind together things which are scattered Leuit. 19 9 10. 2 Cor. 8 15. 2 To collect for the poore when the guiftes of many do meet together to help one 1 Cor. 16 1 2. Concerning the Gathering for the Saints 3 To bring elect Sinners like stragling sheepe into the Folde of the Church that they may at length meete altogether in Heauen Ephe. 4 12. For the Gathering of the Saints Also to call the reprobate by the outward ministry Mat. 23 37. How often would I haue Gathered thee and thou wouldst not 4 To destroy and ouerthrow Psal. 26 9. Gather not my soule with the Sinners 5 To search and examine our hearts prouoking our selues vnto repentance Zeph. 2 1. Gather your selues c. to Gather with Christ sig To further and aduance true Religion Gods kingdome Mathew 12 30. He that Gathereth not with me scattereth Gazing-stocke sig A publike reproach 1 Cor. 4 9. Wee are made a Gazing-stocke to the world Nahum 3 5. G. E. Genealogy sig A pedigree linage stocke or race 2 Vaine and vnprofitable questions and things 1 Tim. 1 4. Giue no heede to Genealogies Generations sig A History or Narration of things which happen vnto any persons Gen. 6 9 25 19. 2 The Originall or first beginning of a thing Gen. 2 4. These are the Generations c. 3 Ancestors and Forefathers Math. 1 1. The Booke of the Generation of Christ. 4 Persons or people which liue in some one age Heb. 3 10. I was grieued with that Generation Mat. 11 16. Eccle. 1 4. Math. 23 36. also 24 34. For an age or men of that age 5 A kinde of men Luke 16 8. Wiser in their Generation from Generation to generation sig In all times both past and to come for euer and without end Psal. 90 1. Thou hact been our refuge from Generation to Generation 2 For a long time Exod. 1◠16 The Lord sware I will haue warre with the Amalekites from Generation to Generation Genesis sig Birth Originall or first beginning of any thing Hence the first Booke of Moyses is called Genesis because it describes both the beginning of the World and the Church of God Gentile or Gréeke sig Euery one who is not a Iew. Rom. 2 28. Rom. 9 30. 2 One who being a Iew by Nation was a Gentile in behauiour being full of impiety and vnrighteousnesse Psal. 59 5. O Lord awake to visite all the Gentiles or Heathen 3 The Iewes which were scattered amongst the Greekes Iohn 12 20. There were certaine Greekes amongst them which came for to worship Gentlenes sig That gift which makes vs curteous and tractable ready to giue milde words and with reason to yeeld others easie to be spoken to and to bee entreated apt to please loath to displease with reason Gal. 5 22. The fruits of the Spirit is Gentlenes long suffering Faith c. G. H. holy Ghost sig The third person in Trinity proceeding from the Father and the Sonne being himselfe most holy the worker of holinesse in all Angels and good Men. Math. 28 18. Baptizing them in the Name of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Iohn 15 20 Rom. 8 9. G. I. Gift sig Euery good thing which is giuen vs of GOD. Iames 1 17. Euery good Gift is from aboue 2 Christ who by an excellency is called that gift worth all other Gifts being the head and cause of them all Iohn 4 10. If thou knowest the Gift of God 2 Cor. 9 15. 3 Patient suffering for Christ. Phil. 1 19. It is giuen you to suffer with Christ. Where suffering for Christ is called a Gift 4 Gods eternall election and such spirituall good thinges as flow from thence to wit Remission of sinnes Faith Sanctification perseuerance in grace and eternall life Rom. 11 29. The Gifts of God are without Repentance 5 An almes or reliefe bestowed vpon the Saints 2 Cor. 8 7. That ye may abound also in this Gift 6 Iustification or imputed righteousnesse Rom. 5 16 17. The Gift of that righteousnesse 7 The Holy Ghost and his miraculous Giftes Acts 8 20. That the Gift of God may be obtained by many 8 A thing giuen from man to man eyther to testifie good will and loyall affections then it is taken in good part as 1 Sam. 19 27. or to gaine good will from some Ruler to helpe our suit then it is taken in ill part Exod. 23 8. Thou shalt take no Gift to neglect a Gift sig To suffer it to l◠idle and vprofitable as a sword that rusteth in a sheath Timo. 4 14. Neglect or despise not the Gift in thee the gift of ones hand sig That which is in ones power to giue or the giuing after ones ability Deut. 16 17. Euery Man shall giue according to the Gift of his hand to giue sig To elect or in his decree of election to giue Iohn 6 37 37. All that the Father giueth me c. 2 Actually to bestow and franckly Psalme 2 8. Iohn 3 16. That he gaue his Sonne 3 To consecrate and offer vp 2 Cor. 8 5. These gaue themselues to the Lord. Exod. 22. Girdle sig pro That which
32. This is a great Mistery but I speake of Christ and his Church Foolishly then and ignorantly do Papists hence gather their Sacrament of Marriage For not the coniunction of man and wife but of Christ and his Church is a Mistery Mistery of iniquity sig False Doctrine and corrupt worship cloaked couered with the name of Christ and of Christian Religion 2. Thes 2 7. The Mistery of Iniquitie doth already worke Misterie of godlinesse sig The Doctrine of free saluation through faith only in the blood of Christ or the whole Doctrine of Christianity 1. Tim. 2 16. Great is the Mistery of Godlinesse 1. Cor. 〈◊〉 Math. 11 25. 1. Cor. 2 10 14. M. O. Mocke sig A bitter taunâ— or scornfullieast either for some naturall infirmity or for piety sake In the former kind the children Mocked Elizeus 2. Kings 2 23. Câ—â—e vp Bald-head In the latter kinde Isâ—aell Mocked Isaac Gen. 21 19. Sarah sawe Ismaell mocking This is called persecution Gal. 4 29. Thus Iewes and Gentiles mocked Christ. Modestie sig That grace of the Spirite which enableth Christians so to moderate their affections as that they keepe a comely meane in all parts of their behauiour Actes 20 19. Seruing the Lord with all modestie Moloch sig An Idoll of the Ammonites shaped like to a man being made hollow within hauing seauen Clossets It was made of Copper and the Israelites offered their sons and daughters vnto it Leuit 18 21. Offer not thy children to Moloch See Bible-note vpon this place 2 Any kinde of Idoll whatsoeuer by a Sinecdoche Leuit. 20 2. Moone sig That great light which puts difference between nights and dayes and bounds yeares and months by her course Psal. 121 6. Nor the Moone by night Gen. 1. 2 The world and all earthly thinges which for their changeablenesse are likened to the Moone Reuel 12 1. The Moone was vnder her feete A Metaphor to turne the moone into blood sig To giue some fearefull token of diuine wrath as if the course of Nature should be altered Acts. 2 10. The Moone shall be turned into blood The same thing is meant by the darkening of the sunne and Moone A Metaphor Morning sig That part of the day which is first after the rising of the Sun Marke 16 2. 2 An whole Artificiall day Sinechdoche Gen. 1 5. Morning Euening sig A naturall day consisting of day and night A Sinecdoche Gen. 1 5. The Morning and the euening were the first day in the Morning sig The time of the Resurrection when Christ the Sun of righteousnesse shall arise to the ful comfort of the chosen Psal. 49 15. euery Morning sig Daily or from one day to another Lament 3 23. Thy mercies are renewed euery Morning early in the morning sig Seasonably and in due time Psalme 5 3. Earely in the Morning O Lord thou shalt heare my voice 2 Quickly speedily and in short time Psal. 30 5. Ioy comes in the morning Psal. 90 5. 3 Diligently with great study and care 2. Chro. 36 15. Rising Earely c. the out-goings of the mornings Euenings sig The whole course of the day and all things that fall out in it Psal. 65 8. The out-goings of the euenings and the Mornings praise thee More abundantly sig More then was needefull were it not for the wickednesse of men who will not beleeue God Heb. 6 17. God willing More abundantly c. from Morning to euening sig Euery houre moment and minute of time Iob 4 20. From morning to Euening they be destroyed that is euery moment they hasten to death to take the wings of yâ— Morning sig To vse exceeding great speede and celerity doing a thing so suddainely as the beames of the Sunne are scattered thorough the Ayre Psalme 139 8. to Mortifie sig To kill and to breake the strength and rage of sinne by the spirite Rom. 8 13. Ifye Mortifie the deedes of the body by the spirite you shall liue Colos. 3 5. Mortification what it is It is that work or action of the spirit of God in the heart of a sanctified man enabling him by little little to crucifie and destroy the Old-man with al his affections and lusts which be either in his reason or will till they bee wholly abolished and taken away at the time of our death Seâ— Rom. 6 5 6 7. Mortality sig An estate subiect to death 1. Cor. 15 53. This Mortall must put on immortality Moses sig pro A person so called being a singuler Prophet by whom the Law was giuen 2 The Bookes and writings of Moyses Luke 16 29. They haue Moyses and the Prophets Iohn 5 45. Mote sig pro A thing so small that it cannot be deuided into parts 2 Either some small sinne espied and resisted or some great sinne vnknowne and hidden from our sight Math. 7 3. Let mee pull the Mote out of thy eye A lesser sinne willingly and wittingly continued in is a beame when a great sinne as Polygamie of the Fathers not disceâ—ned to bee a sinne is but a Mote Mother sig pro One that beareth children naturally Thus was Sarah Isaacks Mother and Marie Christes Mother 2 One that bringeth forth children spiritually Thus Ierusalem which is aboue is saide to bee the Mother of vs all Gal. 4 26. 3 One that careth for instructeth and defendeth others as a Mother her children Thus is Deborah called a Mother in Israel Iudg. 5 7. That is a Gouernor which bare a Motherly affection 4 Ancient women which excell in years 1. Tim. 5 2. The elder women as Mothers 5 A Step-mother and one that is to be honoured loued and cherrished as a Mother The fifth Commandement Honor thy Father and thy mother Iohn 19 27. Behold thy Mother 6 One that is neere and deere vnto Christ as a Mother to the childe Math. 12 50. They that doo the will of my Father they are my mother and my brethren Mother of vs all sig The holy inuisible Catholicke Church which as a commoÌ„ Mother bringeth forth children into the Christian world Gal. 4 26. Nurcing Mothers sig Queenes and Princesses which like Nurcing Mothers foster and maintaine the Church of God by their authority and good Lawes Isai. 49 23. the Mother of whoredomes sig The Author inuenter and cherrisher of superstitions and Idolatries which are spirituall whoredomes Reuel 17 8. Mother of whoredoms and abhominations Mountains sig pro The highest places of the earth Prou. 8 25. Ere the Mountaines were Mountaines haue eminencie and firmenesse they be high and vnmooueable or lasting 2 Great men and Rulers Ps. 72 3. The mountaines may bring peace Esay Tell the Mountaines c. Potentates of the earth are exalted as Mountaines and thinke themselues strong 3 Arrogant and proude Tyrants swollen like Mountaines with ambition Iob. 9 5. God translateth Mountaines and ouerthrowes them in his wrath 4 The invisible euen the holy Catholick Church eminent and dureable as a Mount Psal. 15 1. 1 25 1. 5 The visible Church Esay
refuge Psal. 59 16. Thou art my refuge in the time of trouble Psal. 32 7. Regeneration sig New birth after we are once born naturally to be borne againe spiritually Titus 3 5. By the Lauer of Regeneration or by the washing of New-birth 2 The day and time of the last Iudgement when our whole Nature being perfectly restored both body and Soule shall enioy the heauenly inheritance Mathew 9 28. You which haue followed mee shall in the Regeneration sit vppon Thrones c. Regeneration is commonly put and vsed by Diuines for Sanctification and Renouation and then it imports and signifies as much as the reformation of a Man which consists in the Mortification of sinne and newnesse of life Whereas if we speake exactly and as the thing is this renewing of our Nature is but an effect and fruit of our Regeneration which properly is our incorporation and ingrafting into Christ by Faith whereby wee haue our spirituall being of Children in the Kingdome of grace as by Carnall generation we haue Naturall being in the Kingdome of this world Sée Iohn 1 12 13 14. Regeneration may therefore thus be defined Regeneration what Regeneration is a worke or act of Gods wonderfull power begetting the elect againe to himself by the ministry of the word through the spirit that of the Children of wrath by the desert of sin they might bee made by grace through faith in Christ the Sonnes and Daughters of God Iames 1 18. Of his owne will begat he vs by the word of truth Titus 3 4 5 6. Therefore the confounding of Regeneration with Sanctification I doe take to bee an ouer-sight but I iudge it a grosse errour to thinke our selues to haue any stroke in our New-birth so much as to assent to it til of vnwilling we be made willing to be Regenerate sig To be borne againe by the Spirit that we may be the Children of God Iohn ◠3. Unlesse a Man be Regenerate and borne againe he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God Reioyce sig To take comfort and be made glad by the opinion presence or hope of some good thing earthly or heauenly 1 Thess. 5 16. Reioyce euermore Lu. 1 58. They Reioyced with her to reioyce in Christ. sig To rest wholy in him and his sufferings with full comfort and contentment of minde Gal. 6. 14. Phil. 4 4. Reioyce in the Lord. Religion sig Godlinesse euen that inward pietie of the heart whereby God is truely acknowledged and farred Iames 1 27. Pure Religion and vndefiled is this 2 The outward lawfull worship and seruice of God prescribed in his worde and professed by men Iames 1 26. That mans Religion is vaine 3 The Doctrine which teacheth Religion Acts 25 19. 4 The whole Iewish external worship of God as it was corrupted by the Tradition of the Pharisees Acts 26 5. I liued a Pharisie after the perfect Sect of our Religion 5 Superstition Col. 2 18. By the Religion of Angels verse 23. In voluntary Religion Religious sig A worshipper of God outwardly Iames 1 26. If any among you seeme Religious 2 A true worshipper of God or a godly person Acts 10 5. A Religious or deuout man one that feareth God 3 A person deuoted to Religion and studious to know better the way of Gods worship Actes 2 5. There were dwelling at Ierusalem Iewes Religious men 4 Superstitious hypocriticall persons which would seeme to be louers of Religion and be not Acts 13 50. They stirred vp certaiue Religious or deuout women against Paule to Remember sig Either to call to minde something past or to keepe in minde something for the time to come Exod. 20 8. Remember thou keepe holy the Sabaoth Math. 26 75. Then Peter Remembred the wordes of the Lord. 2 To make mention with liking to praise commend and celebrate a thing Psal. Remember the wonderous thinges that he hath done Psa. 6. 5. In death there is none Remembers thee Esay 26 8. Eccl. 1◠1. Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth that is worship and praise him 3 To trust or put confidence in another Psal. 20 7. Some trust in horses but we Remember thee O Lord. In this sence wee are commanded to eate the Lords Supper in Remembraunce of his death and passion For we are warned thereby stirred vp both to call to minde his sufferings and to trust in them for saluation 1 Cor. 11 25. to Remember as it is referred to God sig To care for one to deliuer succour and saue him God Remembred Abraham or thought vpon him Gen. 19 29. Also in Luke 23 41. Lord Remember me when thou commest into thy Kingdome Heb. 13 4. And in all places of the Psalmes where the Prophet prayeth to be remembred it hath this meaning to be blessed cared for and comforted If we speake properly there fals into God no forgetfulnesse but as men vse to helpe such as they remember and think vpon so the helpes blessings and comforts which God doth afford to his people shewes and makes it knowne that he Remembers them 1 Sam. 1 19. And the Lord Remembred Hannah 2 To punish or correct sinne Psal. 25 7. Remember not the sinnes of my youth that is Remember them not to punish me for them Iere. 31 34. I will not Remember your Iniquities 3 Graciously to accept and fauourably to fulfill Psal. 20 3. Let him Remember all thy burnt Offerings Rembrance sig A calling to minde or keeping in mind This is the proper signification 2 Memory good name and report Eccl. 9 5. Their Remembrance is forgotten Exod. 17 14. 3 Hauing in minde with faith and loue 1 Cor. 11 25. Do this in Remembrance of me Remission of sinnes sig Forgiuenesse of sinne when both the guilt and punnishment are freely pardoned for Christ alone to such as beleeue in him Acts 10 43. All that beleeue in him shall receiue Remission of their sinnes These are our spirituall debts which being wholy pardoned by Christ onely what place is there for Popish satisfaction 2 All the merits and benefits of Christ by a Sinecdoche of a part for the whole Math. 26 28. Which is shed for many for Remission of sinnes Vnder this one benefit is comprehended the whol Masse of his merits to Remit or forgiue sig To forgiue or not to require the paiment or debt of sinne at our hands Iohn 20 23. They are Remitmitted Thus God alone Remitteth authoratiuely 2 To declare and pronounce sinne to be forgiuen to such as shewe their faith by true Repentance Iohn 20 23. Whose sinnes ye Remit Thus Ministers are saide to remit declaratiuely as witnesses onely 3 To put wrong done vs out of our Rememberance Math. 18 21. And I shall forgiue or Remit him Thus one man forgiues another 4 To receiue an excommunicate person into the Church vpon his Repentance 2 Cor. 27. Yee ought rather to forgiue him And verse 10. Thus the Church forgiues scandalous liuers Sée Forgiuenesse Remaining sig A portion of
wholesome Wordes as sharpe Arrowes are sent to pierce euen the hearts of men Reuel 6 2. Had a Bowe to Boyle in great heate sig To feele great distemper and torment in the body vpon the extreame heat of the Sun scorching and drying vp the fruits of the earth and all greene things whereof commonly followes greeuous diseases as burning pestilences hot Agues with other noisome paines which cause Idolaters though not openly and directly yet obliquely and secretly to blaspheme God Euen as Herodotus reporteth of the people Athlantici that they vse to ban and cursse the Sunne because it broyles them with the too much and immoderate heate thereof Reuelat. 16 9. And men boyled in great heate and Blasphemed God B. R. Bright morning Starre sig Christ Iesus who to vs being couered with the night of spirituall darkenesse is the beginning of all Light both of Holynesse and Happinesse euen as the Morning Starre is to the day and at length all Darkenesse both of Sinne and Misery being vtterly dispersed hee shall bring vs to the full brightnesse of heauenly glory where there shall be no night but a perpetuall and most cleere light of blessednesse Reuel 22 19. I am that Bright morning Starre In the same sence he is called Iohn 1. The Light of the world and by the Prophet the Sonne of Righteousnesse See Reuel 2 28. Brimstone sig The extreame cruelty of the bloudy enemies of Christ and his Church in terrible manner destroying mens bodies with death and their soules with false Religion Reuel 9 17. And of Brimstone Also verse 18 19. 2 The sharpe and bitternesse of helpaines Reuel 21 8. With fire and Brimstone to Bring forth sig To beget children spiritually vnto God as the Church doth by the Ministry of the Gospell thorough the power of the Spirit Reuel 12 3. To deuour her childe when she had brought it forth B. U. to Buy and sell. sig To exercise Artes belonging to the sustentation of this life or to haue Trafficke and enter-course of Merchandise with men which was denyed to al saue such as were subiect to the Romaine Popish power Reuel 13 17. That no man may buy and sell c. whereof we read in their Decrees that no man might haue to doo with him to whome the Pope was enemy to Buy ware sig To entertaine the Doctrine and superstitions of Rome and all meanes which serued outwardly and pompously to decke the Church of Rome and to set forth her Idolatry All these shall waxe vile no man shall giue any more price for them after the full fal of the Romish Citty and impiety Reuel 18 11. For no man buyeth their ware any more Burthen sig Affliction and Tribulation by exile imprisonment c. for the Gospell Reuel 2 3. Thou wast Burdened and hadst patience 2 Prophesie of calamity Reu. 2 24. I will put vpon you no other burthan that is I will speake to you no worse thing but onely to require what to doo no Calamity I will Prophesie and denounce against you as against other Churches In this phrase there is allusion and respect vnto the forme of speech vsed by the olde Prophets who vsed to call the propheticall predictions of publick calamities by the name of Burden as the burden of Babell the Burden of Moab of Egypt c. Esay 13 6 15 1 19 1. C. A. Cage of vncleane birds sig NOt a place commonly called a Cage wherein Birds are so kept as they cannot flye out but some hollowe vast ruinous place wherein rauenous and ill-fauoured Birdes as Vultures Owles Kites Rauens c. vse to nestle and abide 2 A seat of fierce cruell sauage and vncleane men which liue by spoile and violence of which kinde of men Rome the Westerne Babell is as full as Eastern Babell was of vgly horrible Birds when it was desolated whereof we read in the prophets Esay 13. Ier. 51. vnto which places Iohn alludeth Reuel 18 2. Babilon is a Cage of euery vncleane and hatefull Bird. Calfe sig Strength because among Beasts Calues Oxen be strong and because the Oxe is profitable therefore some Diuines think that vnder this one kinde by a Sinecdoche are meant al Beasts which are for vse and profit Reuel 4 7. The second Beast like a Calfe Candlestick sig An Instrument to beare a Candle representing the Church wherein the eternall light of truth shineth Reuel 11 20. Carkases or Corps sig The dead bodies of the Saints but especially of the Prophets of God exposed and laid forth to opprobry and the scorne of the World by the followers of Antichrist Reuel 11 8. And the Carkases shall be in the streetes of the great Citty Verse 9. And they shall not suffer their Karkases to be buried Hereby is expressed the great cruelty of the Papists not content to kill the Seruants of God and that with torment but dishonour their dead bodies by casting them in the streetes and denying buriall to them Also by a proportion these Carkases may be expounded of the holy Scriptures whereof the Papistes haue but as it were the bare and naked Corps hauing by their Glosses and Interpretations of the falsly so called Apostolique Sea corrupted the sence and true meaning of them which is the life and Soule of the Scriptures which consist in sense not onely in Letters and Sillables Carried away of the floud sig To bee ouercome and maistered with grieuous persecutions as a House drowned and carryed away with a violent floud Reuel 12 15. That hee might cause her to be Carried away of the floud to be carried by the spirit sig To be rauished after a Diuine extraordinary sort as the Prophets were when Visions were shewed vnto them Thus was Iohn rauished here when he must see the Vision of the great Whore Reuel 17 3. So he carried me away in the Spirit to be carried into the wildernesse sig Eyther the place where Iohn must see this Vision to be solitary as aptest for contemplation or that this great Whoore was seated in the Visible Church being novâ— laid wast and desolate as a wildernesse or else that the manifestation and knowledge of this Whore and her Dominion must bee fetched from men liuing in some obscure place as it were in a desert from whence there was no such matter to be looked for Reu. 17 3. He Carried me away into the Wildernesse to be Cast into the earth sig To be throwne out of the bounds of the true and holie Church to exercise his rage among the Reprobates both Heathen and all others seeming godly yet strangers from true godlinesse Reu. 12 9. He was euen Cast into the earth to be Cast into the lake of fire c. sig To be tumbled and throwne downe into Hell which is heere called a Lake of fire and bottomlesse pit to signifie the horror and sharpnesse of infernall paine Reuel 20 14. Death and Hell were Cast into the Lake of Fire to Cast out water sig To inflame the Nations and
Iudgement But such Diuines as referred this text to things done betweene the first and second comming of Christ doe Interpret this White Cloud of courteous louing beneficiall and healthfull Princes and Estates as Saxony Hassia Prussia the free Citties of Argentorate Tiguris Berne c. With their good and religious Gouernours as they expound the Angell comming out of the Temple to be Iustus Ionas Phillip Melanâ—thon Bucer Zuinglius and others which stirred vp good Rulers to abolish Popery and erect the Faith and Religion of the Gospell in their Iurisdictions and Dominions the Clusters of the Uineyard sig The wicked Men of the World which are compared to Clusters because they grow so thicke euen on heapes like Grapes Do but consider how many renounce the Name of Christ as Turks c. How many are Idolators amongst such as acknowledge his Name how many Hyppocrites and wicked men euen where the Gospell is maintained and this will appeare a meete comparison Reuel 14 18. Thrust in thy Sickle and gather the Clusters of the Vineyard Some very learned restraine these Clusters vnto Popish religious buildings and persons which did abound and flourish euen as a vine spread full of Clusters and that in this our Kingdome till the daies of Henry the eyght when thorough the zeal and courage of Cranmer and Crumwell two great men this Popish Vine was lopped and cut yea rooted out C. O. to Come down from heauen sig To haue God for the Authour and founder not men of anything or to haue an heauenly originall and beginning Reuel 21 2. And I saw new Ierusalem come downe from heauen 2 To bee deputed and assigned to some great seruice and worke about the ruinating of Babylon by the appointment of God Reuel 18 1. I saw an Angell come downe from Heauen Thus also is the Deuill said to come downe into the Earth Reuel 12 12. To signifie that hee was sent amongst the Reprobate the Children of this World by the iust iudgement of God to execute his vengeance on their Soules and bodies to Come sig To inuade and take vppon him the tyrannicall gouernment and power ouer Gods people as Antichrist shall doe Reuel 17 10. Another is not yet come but when he commeth c. Some vnderstand this of the Emperour Nerua and his short and cruell raigne but the former is better and fitter to Come a. none sig To follow or fall out shortly within a small time Thus the Scripture vseth to speake of the last day when aeternall Woe heere called the third Woe shall be executed vpon Reprobates as the end at hand the Iudge is at doore these bee the last daies c. because in Gods account a thousand yeares to bee but as a day Reu. 11 14. The third Woe shall Come anone Other learned men thinke the meaning to be that the calamities which shall happen to Gods Enemies afore the comming of Christ shall bee but short in comparison of some miseries which shal happen vnder the second trumpet Both expositions may stand well together to Come sig To approach draw neere or be present so doe the whole Church present and that which is to succeede and euerie true member in whom Christ his Spirit dwelleth all and euery one earnestly desire the full accomplishment of good thinges promised and prophesied of in this Reuelation to bee present and to draw neere especially the marriage of the Lambe Reuel 22 17. The Spirit and the Bride say Come and let him that heareth say Come c. to Commit fornication sig To pertake with the Romish Church in her spirituall Woredome namely in the corruption of true Faith and Religion by Heresie and Idolary This is one cause of Babylons Downe-fall that she was not content onely to adulterate and depraue Gods worship but drew people yea Kinges and Princes into society of her errors and superstition Reuel 18 3. The Kings of the earth haue committed Fornication with her to compasse the Saints sig To bring the Church into a narrow streight being beset with the Deuils Army on euery side Reu. 20 9. And they Compassed the Tents of the Saints about to Conquer sig To ouercome the Enemies of God by Arrowes of Pestilence as some thinke shot out of the Bow of Gods wrath but as it is more reasonable to thinke by the glad tydinges and promises of the Gospell shot as Arrowes out of the tongues of the Apostles and other Ministers of the word as out of a Bow whereby the Nations were speedily subdued vnder Christ. Reuel 6 2. Hee went forth Conquering that he might ouercome to continue sig To last remaine or abide Reu. 17 10. He must Continue a little space to corrupt the earth sig To defile and pollute men of earthly minds both with bodily and spirituall Adultery whereinto the great Whore to wit the Romish Sinagogue hath led Nations and Kingdomes Reuel 19 2. Hee hath Condemned the great Where which hath corrupted the Earth with her Fornication Of their bodilie Fornication their Vaults Priuies were witnesse and their Temples of Spirituall to Count. sig To reckon or to make a Computation of a number Reuel 13 18. Let him that hath wit Count the number of the Beast C. R. Crowne sig Victory Triumph and heauenly glory which shall bee giuen to faithfull Ministers at the end of their labours as a Crowne or reward Reue. 3 11. Holde that which thou hast that no Man take thy Crowne Some doe refer this Crowne not to the reward of aeternall life but to that honour mentioned in verse 9. It may be both the one a fore-runner and pledge of the other 2 A signe or token of Conquest and victory Reuel 6 2. And a Crowne was giuen vnto him Crowne of twelu stars vpon her head sig The bright shining and glorious Ministers of the Gospell to wit the twelue Apostles cheefely and other Apostolical men which all receiued from that same most bright Sunne the Fountaine of all Diuine Wisedome the heauenly doctrine as their chiefe ornament and Crowne euen as the Stars do borrow their light from the Sunne Reuel 12 1. And vpon her head a Crowne of twelue Starres Crucified sig Slaine and put cruelly to death eyther by the death of the Crosse or any other kinde of violent death Reuel 11 8. Where our Lord also was Crucified Christ our Lord was not slain at Rome whereof this Text speakes by the figure of Sodome and Aegipt otherwise then in his members according to that which is said Acts 9 5. Saul Saule why persecutest thou me C. U. Cup. sig A portion or measure of Vengeance and Iudgement allotted vnto Romish Babylon by the seuere Iustice of God Reuel 16 19. To giue vnto her the Cup of Wine of the fiercenesse of his wrath Cup of gold sig The Title of the Catholique Church of Peters Chaire of Christs Vicar and the whole externall profession of Christian Religion whereby as by a fine goodly Cup both people and Princes of the
World haue beene entised to drinke vp and draw in most abhominable filthy superstitions Idolatry and Heresies which the Romish Church offered vnto them in that golden Cup of faire goodly Titles and shewes Reue. 17 4. And had a Cup of Gold in her hand full of abhominations Cursse sig Separation and casting foorth from Heauen or any other danger or euil whatsoeuer Spiritually or bodily Reuel 22 3. And there shall bee no Cursse there D. A. day smitten sig THE light of Diuine truth obscured and darkened by a most thicke Cloud of filthy ignorance sent by the iust iudgement of God to punish such as were willingly blind at the shining foorth of the Gospell Reue. 8 12. And the Day was smitten Some other by the Day smitten doe vnderstand the taking away of the gladnesse and ioy which men had in the fruition and inioying of the light of the Gospell These two senses though they seeme to differ yet they doe after a sort meete in one the latter being as the effect and the former as the cause For the darkning of the truth of God must needs diminish the ioy of Gods people Dayes sig A certaine compasse and space of time appointed of God for certaine purposes Reuel 10 7. In the Daies of the voices of the seauenth Angell Day and night sig Continually or time without any end or any ceasing euen for euer and euer Reue. 20 10. And shall be tormented euen Day and night for euermore Day nor night sig Neuer at no time ceasing to praise God but keeping on there in a perpetuall tenour Reue. 4 â—8 And they ceased not Day nor night saying Holy Holy c. D. E. Death sig A most grieuous plague more speedily bringing Death then the other plagues fore mentioned and vexing by more sorts of killing then one Reu. 6 8. And his Name that sate thereon was Death A Metonimie of the effect for the cause Sée the like Reue. 18 8. Death beeing there put for the plague or Pestilence hapning in Rome during the siedge thereof as the cause of ensuing Death 2 Persons Men and Women guilty of the sentence of the second Death which is aeternall torment in Hell Reuel 20 14. Death and Hell shall be cast into the Lake of Fire Others in a good sense doe expound it thus after the vocation of the Iewes there shall be no torment of Death and Hel sauing in the burning Lake where Death shall for euer feede vpon the Reprobate But the first exposition is best in my iudgement 3 Dissolution of Soule from body and separation of both from God for euer Reue. 21 4. There shall be no more Death nor crying nor paine c. second death sig The aeternall separation of Soule and Body euen of the whole Man from the glorious presence of God to bee deliuered vnto endlesse paine and torment in Hell Reuel 2 11. He that ouercommeth shall not be hurt of the second Death Reue. 20 6. On such the second Death hath no power to Deceiue sig To lead into errour by making men beleeue they see true Miracles and signes when they see onely a shewe and false appearance or by some signes which be not fained and false to establish mens minds in false Doctrine and Idolatry therefore called by the Apostle 2 Thess. 2 9. Lying wonders Such are all the wonders done in Popery Reu. 13 14. And Deceiued them which dwell on the earth by signes and wonders which were permitted them to doe to Deceiue no more sig Not to bee able to seduce and mislead men so strongly and openly as had beene suffered Sathan to doe by that we read Chap. 12. But now beeing fast Chained vp and mightily by the power of Christ restrained hee had no might for a thousand yeares so to preuaile Reu. 20 3. He should Deceiue the people no more Déepnesse of Sathan sig Either the vaine bragging as of some which boasted of great and plentifull knowledge in the secrets and Mysteries of God which yet in truth deserued to be called no better then the deepenesse of Sathan or else the sleightes and subtilties of Sathan which certaine Men presumed alone to be priuy too and of the manner how they were to be resisted vnder which pretence they permitted the promiscuous and common vse of Women in the Church of Thyatira esteeming all other Teachers as simple fellowes in comparison of themselues This latter exposition is very probable but the former is more receiued Reuel 2 24. Neither haue knowne the Deepenesse of Sathan as they speake not to deny Christes name sig Not to giue place to the punishments and threatnings of Tyrants as by the feare thereof to be moued to forsake the truth Reuel 3 8. Thou hast kept my word and hast not Denied my Name Desolation sig Want pouerty emptinesse and extreamity of need Reue. 18 16. How are such great Riches come to Desolation to Deuoure by fire sig By some extraordinary iudgement to destroy as God did the Turkish Armies when hee powred out his wrath from Heauen vpon them according to that which is written Reuel 16 21. and Ezekiell 38 19. Reue. 20 9. Fire came downe from Heauen from God and Deuoured them to Deuoure the Enemy sig By feruent Prayer and publishing the iudgements of God to threaten and procure Gods vengeance vpon their heades that maliciously resist the truth spoken by his Witnesses Reuel 11 5. If any Man will hurt them fire proceedes out of their mouthes to Deuoure their Enemies In this there is an allusion vnto that which was doone by Moses Numb 16. And by Elias 2 Kings 1. to Deuoure her Child sig To take out of the way and destroy eyther by fraud or open face all that should spiritually be begotten of the Church especially such as shuld stand vp to maintaine the Religion of Christ. Thus hath Sathan alwaies attempted to doe but especially in the first age of the Church Reuel 12 4. The Dragon stood before the Woman to Deuour the Child Deuill sig An egregious and notorious Calumniatour delighting exceedingly in accusing and detracting others Thus hath Sathan done from the beginning accusing God to man of Enuy. Gen. 3 3 4 And Men to God of Hypocrisie As Iob. Chap. 1. Hence he is called the Deuill Reuel 12 9. That old Serpent called the Deuill Reue. 20 10. D. O. to Doe his commaundements sig To endeuour obedience vnto the voyce of Christ by keeping his praecepts and beleeuing his promises according to the measure of grace receiued Reuel 22 14. Blessed are they that Do his Commandements Doctrine of Balaam sig That which the Nicholaitans taught after the example of Balaam touching the common vse of Women and that all things offered to Idols without difference might lawfully be eaten Reuel 2 14. That maintaine the Doctrine of Balaam Sée Balaam Dogges sig Obstinate and impudent Sinners which like Dogges barke against the truth Reu. 22 15. Without shall be Dogs Doore sig The conscience and heart of Sinners whereby
the Pillar of truth out of which there is no saluation yet indeed approues her 〈◊〉 to be that Step-Mother of all those superstitions and impieties which of long time haue been deriued and spread abroad into the Westerne and Eastern Churches vnder the appearance of Piety the title of the holy Church Reuel 17 5. That great Babilon that Mother of Whoredomes and the abhominations of the earth This is that Mysticall name which Iohn in a Vision saw written in the fore-head of the great Whore and it is of great force to serue vs how to finde out who that Antichrist is euen such an one as dooth not openly and professeoly but secretly and in a Mystery fight against Christ his truth al Religion and honesty which how it dooth fit Papifme one with halfe an eye may easily see For Heathenish Rome which Papists would haue to be this Mother did not put her superstitions vppon other Citties and Countries which they conquered but left them to their owne Religion neither were their superstitions any Mysteries to sée no Mourning sig To taste or feele any want or calamity which may cause men to mourne and to greeue Reu. 18 7. I shall see no Mourning Mount Sion sig The true Church of Christ in this worlde prefigured by Mount Sion and like to it for firme stablenesse being vnremoueable inuincible by any assaults of afflictions Reuel 14 8. A Lambe stoode vpon Mount-Sion Mountaine burning with fire sig Proud Tyrants and arrogant Princes swollen with ambition and lust of honour like Mountains also eagerly and feruently studying and striuing as men set on fire with desire of Dignities forgetting and maintaining their pomp and promotion Reu. 8 8. A great Mountaine burning with Fire was cast into the Sea It is vsuall in Scripture by Mountaines to describe mightie Kingdoms Empires Principalities Also haughty and high-minded Princes as in I say 2 14 15. To what kingdome dooth this so fitly agree as to that proud kingdome of Antichrist aduauncing it selfe not onely ouer earthly Emperors Kings and their Empires and Kingdomes but euen aboue Heauen 2 Great and strong hils which by Gods horrible Indgement shall bee so swallowed vp as they shall be seene no more or be any more extant Reuel 16 20. And the Mountaines were not found Mountains sig seauen Names of the 7. Mountains 1 Palatinus 2 Quirinalis 3 Auentinê° 4 Coeluis 5 Viminalis 6 Aesculinê° 7 Ianicularis Lege virg Geor. 2. Ouid lib. 2. Ouid. Tristum Eleg. 4. lib. 3. eleg 7. Romane vrbs vbi tipa manent capita Antichri gone sedes Antichristi Those seauen Hils on which Olde Rome was built hauing iust seauen Mountaines neither more nor lesse whose Names are knowne to this day when that Citty was called Septiceps and Septicollis Orbis and by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These hils are inhabited to this day and neuer a one of them but either a Monastery or a Church or some other Religious house stands vpon it Therefore the Papistes cannot auoide but the seat of Antichrist of the Beast and the Whore is at Rome there being no Citty in the world that was known to be scituated vpon seuen hils when the Apostles wrote this Booke neither more nor fewer Reuel 17 9. The seauen Heads are seauen Mountaines In S. Iohns time of all Citties in the world Rome onely was built on seuen hils it only raigned ouer the Kings of the earth it onely had seuen formes of gouernment it onely compelled other people to their Idolatry and such a Citty must be the seate of the Whore Mouth of the Dragon sig The Commission authority and commaundements of the Deuill and his administers called heer the Beast and the false Prophet Reu. 16 13. I saw three vncleane Spirites like Frogges come out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the Mouth of the Beast and out of the Mouth of the false Prophet 2 Rayling slaunderous speeches and wicked blasphemous calumniations and reproches wherewith the deuill as with a floud endeuoured to bring the Christian Church into great hatred and danger among worldly men Reu. 6 12 and 16 Which the Dragon had cast out of his mouth A Mouth was giuen him sig Power of blaspheming with reproachful words was by Gods iust iudgement permitted vnto him for the iust punishment of the wicked world Reu. 13 5. A Mouth was giuen him to speake great thinges and blasphemies to open his Mouth to blaspheme sig To spread abroad and cast out by speeches execrable contumelies and reproaches against the Diuine Maiesty his religion his true Church in which he dwels by his spirit and against all the true members of his Church the Saints of God Reu. 13 6. And he opened his Mouth against God to blaspheme his name his Tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen How iustly may this be verified vpon the Pope and his creatures boasting himselfe as God reproching the Christian Church as a Couenticle of heretickes and with their vnpure Mouths traducing all for Haereticall Scismaticall and most wicked men which seperate them-selues from their Synagogue A plentifull proofe of these blasphemies is extant in one Bull of Leo the tenth against Luther Out of his Mouth went a sword sig The Doctrine of the word of God which is as a spirituall sword and proceedeth from the mouth of Christ the sonne of God subduing al people to the obedience of his Ordinances and Lawes Reuel 19 5. And out of his Mouth went there a sharp sword that with it he might smite the Heathen N. A. Naked sig ONE exposed laid open to shame reproach and contempt For Garments are vsed to hide shame Reue. 3 17. Poore Naked Name sig Opinion report or account of Men. Reuel 3 1. Thou hast a Name to liue that is thou art thought to liue to God in the opinion and account of men but art not indeed what thou seemest to be 2 The truth of the Gospell or Faith of Christ. Reuel 3 8. Thou hast not denyed my Name 3 God himselfe who is become through Christ a Father of the faithfull Reuel 14 1. Hauing his Fathers Name written in his Fore-head Reuelation 22 4. 4 Persons of the elect and Reprobates Men and Women so perfectly knowne to God as Souldiours to their Captaine who hath mustered theyr Names in a Booke Reuel 13 8. Whose Names are not written in the Booke of life Name of Blasphemy sig The arrogant boasting and Titles ful of reproch to God to Christ and the Christian Church For example In that the Pope is entituled to be neither God nor Man but one betweene both Also our Lord God the Vicar of Christ vpon earth the vniuersall Bishop the Head of the vniuersall Church Also the particular Church of Rome which vanteth herselfe to be the foundation of other Churches the Mother-Church from whence Peters Chaire cannot be sundred that she cannot erre and all to bee Heretiques who in Articles of the Faith and
Sacraments thinketh otherwise then she doth besides innumerable more blasphemous names which that Beast beares in his Fore-head Reuel 13 1. And vpon his heads the Name of Blasphemie N. E. New Jerusalem sig That Citty wherein the Saints shall liue blessedly after this life Reue. 2 12. and Reu. 21 2. Some by New Hierusalem vnderstand a Church in earth towardes the end which for purity of doctrine and manners shall exceede all Churches that euer were being a liuely Image of Caelestiall purity New name sig The Title and Name of the Children of God by grace of Adoption Reue. 2 17. In the Stone a New name written 2 The society of that glorious Kingdome which Christ shall in this Worlde commâ—icate to his as farre as they be capable of it Reuel 3 12. I will put vpon him my New Name Name of my God sig A manifestation to the World that God will take his chosen ones vnder his speciall protection Reuel 3 12. I will write vpon him the Name of my God N. O. Noise of thunder sig A mighty and glorious voyce like to the noyse of Thunder Reuel 6 1. As it had beene the noyse of Thunder N. U. Number of a man sig Such a number as a Man may bee able to finde out not infinite and vnsearchable but which the wit of a Man endowed with wisedome may finde Reuel 13 18. For it is the Number of a Man Others interpret the Number of a Man to be such a Name of a Man as by the Numerall Letters whereof this Number of sixe hundred sixty sixe will arise yet meaning not the proper Name of any particular person but Nomen Gentile as it is called of Grammarians the Name of Nation or Country passing from the head to the rest of the people Number is six hundred sixty sixe sig A Name consisting of so many and such Numerall Letters as beeing counted and summed vp doe make the Number of 666. which is the Number of the Beast both the first Beast to wit the Romaine Emperour and Empire and the second Beast to wit the Romain Pope and Papacy for vnder the Beast is comprehended no one particular Man but an order and succession of Men euen a Kingdome Irenaeus who liued neere the Apostles time hauing seene and heard Polycarpus who was one of the Disciples of Saint Iohn the Pen man of the Apocalipse doth report that before this time this Name out of whose Numerall Letters should arise 666. was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and hee himselfe iudged it likely to be so indeede because saith he the most true Kingdome hath that name For they be Latines which now doe raigne as hee writeth Lib. 5. Cap. 29. Aduersùs Haereses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nomen sex centorum sexaginta sex Numerum continet Now the Pope is head of the Latine Church as the Emperour was of the Latine Empire Therefore if the Emperour with his Empire by Irenaeus indgement might be called Latinos much more the Popedome and the Pope who is so much a Latine as hee will allow no exercise of Religion but in Latine He compels all to pray in Latine He hath the Bible of the Latine Translation which he prefers before the Byble written in the Haebrew and Greeke tongues by the Prophets and Apostles His Lawes decrees and people are all Latine His Church Latine and all condemned as Schismaticks which will not bee subiect to his Latine Law and his Latine Faith The Greekes being odious to Papists vntill they consented to submit themselues to the Latine Byshop as Primate and chiefe and his Latine seruice May not then the Name Latinâ—s well agree to Popish Hierarchy and better thenâ—… the Heathenish Empire And that this should bâ—… the very Name howsoeuer the iudgements of mâ—… much differ and the Name may bee fitted to othâ—… words which hath the Number of a Man contaâ—ning 666 is apparant by these presumptions First because the Name here spoken of was such as wise men might finde and it was a Name which then might bee found when Saint Iohn wrote else in vaine had an Exhortation beene to study and search it had there beene no hope to finde it Also by Irenaeus himselfe and afore him it was receiued by common consent Lastly the Greek Letters of this Name being Numbred amounteth to 666. as may be perceiued in this which followeth His Number is six hundereth threescore and six Reu. 13 18. λ 30 666. Doth not this direct vs by the finger to the seat of Antichrist α 1 Ï„ 300 ε 5 ι 10 ν 50 ο 70 Ï‚ 200 O. D. Odours sig THe merits of Christ our Mediatour which as sweete odours make the Prayers of the Saintes pleaâ—ing to God Reue. 8 3. Much Odours was giuen him O. L. Old serpent sig The Deuill or Sathan which thorough long experience euer since the Creation of Man is wonderfull deep in manifold crafts and subtilties Reu. 12 9. The Dâ—â—ill that Old Serpent O. N. One of the Angels sig That Angell or Messenger of God which was last of the seauen Angels that had the seauen viols mentioned before Chap. 15. Reu. 21 9. And there came vnto me One of the seauen Angels one consent sig The agreement of minde and of affections which shall bee by Gods spirit wrought in such Kinges as shall execute his deepe decreed iudgement vpon the Whore the Romish Hierarchy for her vtter ruine and wasting The Kings did at the first 〈◊〉 more certainely consent for the exalting then at length their Successours shall agree to pull her downe Reuel 17 17. To doe with One consent c. at One day sig Suddenly in short space at an instant as yee would say after the Whore hath long flourished and tyrannized she shall bee by a strange and suddain calamity destroyed both the people by death sorrow and famine and the Citty of Rome it selfe by Fire being burnt vp by the Besiedgers and turned into Ashes This shall be the perfit fall of Babylon which is already much decayed and hastning to ruine Reu. 18 8. Her plagues shall come at One day One houre sig The suddennesse of the iudgement which should crush Rome and make her fauourites mourne and dye for sorrow Re. 18 10. In One houre that iudgment shall come 2 Either a short time or at and about the same time Reu. 17 12. Shall receiue power as Kings at one houre with the Beast One mind sig One Counsell consent or purpose which all the ten Kinges had with their vnited forces and power to defend the tyranny of that Beast the Roman Byshop Reu. 17 13. These haue One mind O. P. to Open the Booke sig To vnseale the Booke by declaring and reuealing vnto Iohn and by him to the Church such secrets and Mysteries as were before hidden in Gods counsell This no Creature could doe Christ the Mediatour he onely was able for he came out of the bosome of the Father to declare him to vs hauing all power Reu. 5 2 3 5. Who is
a Sword Sée Wound S. Y. Synagogue of Satan sig A Company or assembly of men indeede worshipping and seruing the Diuell by errors and prophanenesse yet pretending themselues to bee the holy people of God Reu. 2 9. Which are not Iewes but are the Synagogue of Satan T. A. Tabernacle sig THe dwelling of God or as some other Learned Diuines Iudge the whole worship of God which vnder the Law was exercised in the Tabernacle Reuel 21 3. Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men 2 The Church of God in her pilgrimage or wayfaring heere in earth especially when it is most obscure and least knowne of the world Reu. 13 6. To blaspheme the Tabernacle of God Taile sig Temptation by Ambition Vaine-glory Couetousnesse or by feare of persecution whereby as by a Taile the Starres or Pastors of the Church were stricken and pulled downe from their brightnesse of Doctrine and life into errors prophanenesse Reuel 12. 4. And his Taile drew down the third part of the Stars of heauen for the fulfilling heerof Sée Euseb. lib. 6. cap. 41. 2 The basest of any society as begging Friers in Popery c. Amongst the Turkes the Dregs of the Sarazins Instruments of cruelty Reu. 9 19. to be Taken vp to God sig To be myraculously protected of God as Christ the sonne of Mary was by warning giuen to the Wise-men and willing Ioseph to flie when Satan by Herod would haue destroyed him Mat. â—2 and afterwards strangely kept against the subtle cruell practises of the Herodians Pharisies Iewes and Gentiles If this Text be meant of Constantine the Great because the Reuelation speakes not of things past but fore-speakes things to come Reu. 4 1. Then to be taken vp signifies to be placed in height of earthly honour and Maiesty being made Emperor when he lookt not for it and with more large power and dominion vppon earnest request of the Romans burthened and wearied with the tyranny of Maxentius being assured of victorie against his enemies by voice and token from Heauen as Stories report Reuel 12 5. And hee was taken vp of God and to his Throne Talents sig A Stone or other thing of very great waight such as we read of Ioshua 10 11. to haue bin cast vppon the accursed Canaanites and such as heere are threatned to bee cast vppon the Antichristian route to breake them in peeces withall Reuel 16 21. There fell a great Haile like Talents T. E. Teares sig Calamity and sorrow the cause of Teares As Esay 25 8. Reuel 21 4. And God will wipe away all Teares Temple sig The worship of God freed from Legall or Mosaicall Rites and all humaine inuentions Reuel 21 22. No Temple there 2 The Holy of Holies or most Holye place where were the Mercy-seate and Cherubims and the Arke kept in time of the Lawe as a Figure and signe of Gods presence Reuelat. 15 5. And I saw the Temple open c. And afterward in verse 8. The Temple is sayde to bee filled with smoake to signifye a manifest Token of Gods presence such as was in the Tabernacle Exo. 40 34 35. 3 Heauenly Kingdome of Glorie Reuel 11 19. And the Temple of GOD was open in Heauen Ten horns sig Great strength power and might to do much hurt Reuel 12 3. He hath Ten hornes 2 The first ten Christian Emperours in whose dayes and raigne the beast encreased in dignity and power greatly Reuel 13 1. I saw a Beast rise out of the Sea hauing Ten hornes 3 Ten Kings which had not begun to raigne when Iohn wrote the Booke of Reuelation Reuel 17 3 12. Seauen heads and Ten hornes the Tenne hornes are ten Kings ten crowns sig Great and many victories got by mighty force and power Reuel 13 1. And vpon his horns Ten Crownes ten Thousand Thousand sig An inumerable company or infinite multitude of Angels Reuel 5 11. There were Ten thousande times ten Thousand c. Tenth part sig A verie great portion of the Popish Kingdome and superstition Also diminished by the falling away of sundrie Nations especially of the Germans Reuel 11 13. The tenth part of the Citty fell to Testifye sig To beare witnesse as Christ did both in respect of the whole Gospell generally and of this prophesy particularly Reuel 22 20. Hee which testifieth these Things Testimonie of Jesus sig The Faith and Doctrine concerning saluation by Iesus Christ. Reuel 12 17. And haue the Testimony of Iesus Christ. 2 The preaching of Christ and saluation by him Reuel 19. 10. The Testimony of Iesus is the spirit of Prephesie that is they which haue the function to reach Christ are equall to such as haue the guift to reueale things to come By which reason the Angell disswades Iohn from worshipping him T. H. That beast and That false Prophet sig The chiefe Instruments of the Deuill Heathenish and Turkish Emperours together with Pope and Popish Cleargy who with their cheefe Captaine the Deuill shall be cast into Hell Reuela 20 10. With the Beast and that false Prophet as a Thiefe sig Suddenly when he is not looked for for beside all mens expectation will Christ come to be reuenged on the vngodly for the wronges done to his Church Reuel 16 15. Behold I come as a Thiefe Thigh sig Properly the inferior part of the body from the belly downe to the feet 2 Mystically and figuratiuely the meanest and lowest things in Christ our K. which shall be in the glorious restoring of Religion to be performed toward the end of the World superior and more excellent then that which is highest and most supreame in the Monarches of the earth Reuel 19 16. Vpon his Thigh a Name written King of Kinges c. Third part sig The greatest part or a very great part Reuel 8 7. And the Third part of Trees was burnt vp Third Beast Sée Beast Third part of Creatures sig All that liue in Europe the third part of the World so vnderstand ver 12. also Reu. 8 9. The Third part of Creatures dyed Third part of Starres sig Very many Pastors of the Church sometime shining like Stars Reue. 12 4. Strike downe the Third part of the Stars to Thirst. sig To desire earnestly the graces of Christ out of a feeling of our want Reu. 22 17. Let euery one that Thirsteth come Throne sig The glorious Maiesty of God whereof the visible Thrones of Kings and earthly Iudges beares a certaine representation Reue. 1 2. 2 Dominion and glory of Christ and his members in Heauen Reue. 3 21. T. O. Torch sig A Lampe or great light which giueth forth apparantly a very cleere and shining fiery brightnes which yet lasteth no longer then it hath nourishment which once failing the Lampe is extinguished Such were certaine Pastours of the Church which fell from the Doctrine of Faith through ambition or feare Reu. 8 10. A great Starre burning like a Torch to be Tormented sig To be most extreamely pained and vexed with most horrible and neuer-ending