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A80630	The powring out of the seven vials: or An exposition, of the 16. chapter of the Revelation, with an application of it to our times. Wherein is revealed Gods powring out the full vials of his fierce wrath. 1. Upon the lowest and basest sort of Catholicks. 2. Their worship and religion. 3. Their priests and ministers. 4. The house of Austria, and the Popes supremacy. 5. Episcopall government. 6. Their Euphrates, or the streame of their supportments. 7. Their grosse ignorance, and blind superstitions. Very fit and necessary for this present age. Preached iu [sic] sundry sermons at Boston in New-England: by the learned and reverend Iohn Cotton BB. of Divinity, and teacher to the church there	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6449; Thomason E145_1; ESTC R22938	145,386	230

such an earthquake as this will be so mighty and so great that will blast not Popery alone but all the Hotamocks in this countrey and all that are found among other Indians in other parts of the world an Haile storme shall fall upon them all and blast all their green groves and arbours wherein they were wont to be worshipped Thus have you seen as the Lord hath been pleased to help the meaning of these words Let us now gather one note from them For I would not long dwell upon there Aenigmaticall I meane Parabolicall Scriptures The Doctrine is That when the darknesse of Popish and hellish Doct. ignorance is dispelled so that a man may clearely see heavenly light and breath in heavenly knowledge then It is done That is to say then all the mystery of iniquity is abolished and the mystery of God is fulfilled For thus you see it is evidently here expressed in the Text. The seventh Angel did poure out his Vial upon the Antichristian ayre and that was such an ayre as was darkened with the smoake of the bottomlesse pit as with a foggy mist Now when this ayre shall againe bee cleared and the foggy darknesse thereof dispelled so that men may have the true use of it to see through it those heavenly bodies which were darkened by that smoake Rev. 9.2 then shall men see Jesus Christ to be all in all unto Justification Sanctification Consolation which in Popery you could not then shall the true Church be seen which like the Moon borroweth all the light it hath from the Sun true indeed if the Moone be taken for the world then she treadeth it under her feet Rev. 12.1 In Popery you could not see what a true Church was they will tell you of this and that Church but they are no true Churches But when this vaile shall be removed then shall you clearely know that the true Church is not a Catholike visible nor a Cathedrall nor a Diocesan nor a Provinciall Church Then shall you see the Stars of heaven you shall know who are the true officers of the Church not Paratours and Proctours Deacons and Archdeacons Bishops and Archbishops over many Churches they are not the lights which the Lord hath set therein And you shall then see who were the true members of the Church Not the Canonized Saints not such as Saint George who was an ancient Heretick but you shall see them to be such as are spoken of Phil. 2.15 blamelesse and harmlesse the Sons of God without rebuke shining as lights in the world then shall you see the Scripture more clearely true doctrine and worship and government as it is held forth in the Gospell of Christ and when you shall see these things then It is done Even all that God hath to do in the world for any further Reformation expect it not Rev. 10.7 when the time is come that the seventh Angel hath blowne his Trumpet the Lord will not delay but it shall then be fulfilled and the Lord will clearely manifest to all Nations the great grace which he hath to show to the sons of men and this is long agoe foretold Esay 25.6 7 8. In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things a feast of wines on the Lees of fat things full of marrow of wines on the Lees well refined And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people and that is the pouring out of this Vial upon the ayre for the face of the covering is the ayre in my Text Then will the Lord make a feast of fat things then will he swallow up death in victory and wipe away teares from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall be taken away from off all the earth this is also prophesied of Esay 11.6 7 8 9. They shall not hu●t nor destroy in all mine holy mountaine and the reason is for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea and then It is done The mystery of iniquity is abolished there is no more darknesse nor destruction and the calling of the Gentiles which was a mystery to the Jewes shall be then fully accomplished and the calling of the Jewes which the Apostle calleth a mystery to us Gentiles Rom. 11.25 shall be then fulfilled and so the mystery of God is finished Reas 1 Three Reasons doth the Text give us hereof 1. First from the manner of the entrance of this heavenly glory into the hearts of men whether it come into private persons or publique States It commeth terribly with lightnings and thunderings the which comming from God doe so terrifie the hearts of men and the state of the world that they shall see plainely how they have beene deluded with desperate follyes and when men are put unto such an earthquake in their spirits this will be the point they come unto Men and brethren what shall we doe to be saved as did the Jaylor when he had been soundly shaken with the earthquake Acts 16.26.30 and so it will be with Kingdomes when God hath in like sort shaken them they will contend for true Religion and will not then be baffled out and deluded with vanities as now they be when the spirits of men are terrified and they feele no salvation in their Religion they know not what shall become of their precious soules this will set all the world on worke to looke about them for upon this ground you shall see Indians and Jews and Pagans gaping after salvation when they see by these terrible stormes and thunders that all their Religions are but so many refuges of lies then is there worke in hand indeed which when God hath begun hee will also finish it unto the day of Christ and it will be such an earthquake as was never heard of in the world Heretofore so long as this worke was found among poore Christians the great Lords of the world persecuted them and devised all manner of cruell torments for them but when they felt that the wrath of God was kindled against them then their hearts fell and they were all in a combustion for the state of their soules before the Lord now they were glad to renounce their Jupiters and Junoes and to embrace Christianity and to hearken to a better Covenant this is the effect of thunderings and lightnings and voyces it soone blasteth Idolatry and forceth man to seeke after a clearer passage to heaven The second Reason is taken from the power of the saving knowledge Reas 2 of Christ to dispell this Popish ignorance and to carry an end the heart of a man with such power that he can no longer lie at quiet in his naturall estate but it worketh in men these foure effects 1. It subdueth and tameth the hearts of men that now they will joyn themselves unto the people of God Esa 11.6.7 8. the Wolfe shall lie with the Lambe the Leopard

God assist the servants of God in this glorious work but they are sent forth indifferently to protect Gods servants by sea or by land And I finde no Scripture to shew that they are more particularly sent to the sea or to the earth but indifferently to protect Gods servants in their out-goings and in-commings Vse 7 Lastly it may serve to teach us a true estimation of Ministers If Popish Priests be rivers and fountaines of waters drinking bloud because they have made Gods servants and Prophets drink bloud then it shews what place other Ministers be in where the sea is cleare as glasse like chrystall where you may see the face of Christ as in a glasse 2 Cor. 3.18 what then where the sea is pure all Ministers of the Countrey and Elders of Churches carry forth the doctrine and worship of Christ they are as rivers and fountaines and being living water rivers of fresh water and water all the Countrey This is the office of of them in opposition to those in 2 Pet. 2.17 that are wells without water without sweet water Godly Ministers therefore are fountaines of sweet water and from them issue forth streames of living water In Psal 88. ult All my fresh springs are in thee I would onely apply it thus and leave it and the Text with the time That therefore looke as a man when he would goe forth to a new Plantation or sit downe in any place or if he would set his dwelling house in a place he would wisely fore-cast to have a fountaine of living water a living spring neere to his house or some sweet spring run neere him Why If he be without fresh water it is a great want for the provision of his houshold Water they must have either a fresh tiver or a fresh spring the one of the two if they can have both they covet both and there is great need of both not onely to quench fire and water gardens c. but for boiling of meat and drink washing of cloathes and sundry victuals Water is ever necessary as any thing nothing more This is mens care when they goe about Plantations or whether they plant townes or villages or their owne dwelling houses they have a care to provide for fresh water All I would say is this Take heed you doe not provide for fountaines of ordinary water and neglect rivers of sweet water That is beware of going about such work without carrying such fountaines with you as may from the sea of pure Religion pure doctrine and pure worship carry forth some such sweet streams as may make glad the hearts of your families and Church of God where you goe But you will say Have not Christians so much liberty a Ob. company of godly men liberty to enter into covenant and make some beginning of things and so call some or other whom they know are well gifted men furnished with gifts may we not call them to come and help us and have we not that liberty purchased by the bloud of the Lord Jesus All this is true brethren I would infringe no part of it Onely Answ this let me say you would be loth to provide no better for temporals you would be loth to set a towne where there are no rivers nor fountaines and if you doe sit downe where there are no fountaines yet you have liberty to fetch water from other places Christ hath purchased it True he hath purchased all liberties for his Church but you will not think it wisdome to sit downe where there are no rivers because you have no right to them by the bloud of Jesus that would not be a sufficient reason in things concerning this naturall life why then doe not build further on the bloud of Christ for spirituall rivers then you will doe for naturall but rather prize spirituall rivers above naturall as more worthy then all naturall comforts to be looked after Therefore when ever you are about such a work as this take the Lord Jesus Christ along with you and take rivers and fountaines of waters that as you look for rivers and fountains for the refreshment of your cattle and servants and children you may finde a living fountaine of the bloud of Christ conveighed and running in the plantation where you intend to sit downe otherwise you will finde the springs there and the fountains and rivers you sit downe by rise up in judgement against you that these are the things you sought for and out of regard to these you left the fountains and rivers of Gods house the ordinances of God behind you and goe and live in the outmost corners of a countrey or in some other countrey all is one Therefore sit downe no where without good Ministers if it be possible and sure possible it is else Christians may resolve to tarry where they are as Ezra tarried by the river Ahava in the 8. of Ezra 15. till he had got some Levites to goe with them that they might goe and make a comfortable worke of it that they might not leave the Ordinances behind them and yet there were some there before whither they went It is true some may goe and make a beginning but yet never make a beginning but where you may come and partake of the waters of Gods house every Lords day and let them that cannot so travell let them continue where they are and drink of the waters of eternall life rather then run such hazards You have seene when some have made a beginning without Ministers they have staid three or foure yeeres before they have got any help and when they have got them they have had much adoe to settle they have been suddenly unsettled though they have not gone rashly about it but with good advice but for want of this there not taking these rivers and fountaines with them they have been at a losse and therefore in such a case let it be the wisdome of sincere hearted Christians that come from old England for liberty and purity of Ordinances not to leave them now for fresh medows and fountaines and for want of planting ground and the like it will not be suitable to these ends for which you left your native Countrey The Fourth VIAL Revel 16.8 9. And the fourth Angel poured out his vial upon the Sun and power was given to him to scorch men with fire And men were scorched with great heat and blasphemed the name of God which had power over these plagues and they repented not to give him glory ALl the seven Angels that are described to pour out the seven Vials of the last fierce wrath are all of them said to come out of the Temple of the Tabernacle opened in heaven in the 5 Verse of the 15 Chapter That is to say all of them to proceed and to come forth out of reformed Churches such as had gotten the victory over the Beast and his Image and his Name and the number of his Name In the 6 Verse of this

have bin such bloudy Butchers of him as that they shall be swallowed up in the sence of such unspeakable grace Conviction for sin doth greatly help forward legall humiliation but for a kindly and spirituall mourning men must looke upon Christ not only as killed by them but as killed for them Thus shall it be with them according to what is foretold Mat. 24.30 When the signe of the son of man shall appeare in heaven then shall all the Tribes of the Earth mourne speaking of the twelve Tribes of Israel who shall mourne because of him that commeth to shew such mercy to them who have dealt so unworthily with him This is the mourning which will befall this people like that of Megiddon when this great battell shall be fought Vse 1 For use in the first place were I to speake to such people as were likely to be insnared with these Froggs and spirits of Divells This might teach them diligently to beware of such and in case any of them should come over into this Country Iesuits or Cardinalls or Bishops doe not hearken to their whisperings whatsoever they shall present unto you for this will bee the issue of it whosoever they be that hearken unto them they w ll never leave them till at length they have brought them to this field of destruction they will goe forth to gather the Princes of the Earth and whither will they gath●r them even thither where will be the Fatall ru●ne of them all And therefore let all Christian Princes understand it that they cannot listen unto these Froggs Popish Bishops or Cardinalls or Iesuites or who ever they be that come unto them on this errand but they will by this meanes bring their Kingdomes to utter destruction Be wise now therefore O yee Kings be instructed yee Judges of the Earth you see what wofull worke will be made at length by these Froggs they will bring you into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon King James who made a Paraphrase upon it doth interpret it to signifie destruction by deceit as if it were compounded of two Hebrew words which may so hold it forth But oh that it had beene as well beleeved as told how many sad changes and Agitations throughout all Christendome might have bin prevented that have risen upon hearkning to these Froggs destruction and Calamity are in their wayes keepe your selves therefore farre from all fellowship with them that will be your wisedome In the second place this may teach us to rejoyce at home Vse 2 though wee doe not live to see these victories obtained I know not what you that are young may live unto for the neerer these things come unto their accomplishment the swifter their motion will be as it is with all naturall motions but however let us rejoyce together in beholding them by Faith although they bee yet to come when David rejoyced in Christ Psal 16.9 10. and faith therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope for thou wilt not leave my dead body in the Grave neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see Corruption this David in spirit ●eeth long before and looketh at his owne Resurrection as sea●ed up unto him in the Incorruption of the body of Iesus Christ If David can rejoyce so long before in beholding this then ought wee to rejoyce in beholding before-hand the destruction of Gods Enemies and his gracious deliverances of his people for wee may see it before-hand by Faith and behold it with confidence in the truth of him that hath promised it for so also did Abraham Iohn 8 56. Your Father Abraham rejoyced to see my day and he saw it and was glad and why should not the Fa th of Christians bee now more cleare eyed then at that time it was to behold the truth of his promises and rejoyce in the accomplishment of them Thirdly we may from hence gather some ground of Faith to Vse 3 beleive that there will come a time when the Iewes will generally mourne for the sight and death of Christ as much as ever they mourned of old for the death of Iosiah and least you should say that Parabolicall Scriptures are not Foundations of Faith and yet any Scripture truely expounded is ground sufficient for the truth it holdeth forth yet you may find sundry other Scriptures that speake expressely to their Conversion Rom. 11.12.15.25 26. I would not Brethren that yee should be ignorant of this mystery that blindnesse in part is happened unto Israel untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in that is untill men turne backe from Antichrist unto Christ untill they see Christian Princes more sincere in the worke of God and then all Israel shall be saved for though they were cast off for their own sakes yet are they beloved for their Fathers sake v. 28. For if thou wert cut out of the Olive Tree which is wilde by Nature and wert grafted contrary to Nature into a good Olive Tree how much more shall these which are the naturall branches bee graffed into their owne Olive Tree for saith he God is able to graffe them in againe and he will doe i● or else the Apostles Argument will not hold Also that of the Apostle to the Corinthians 2. Cor. 3.14.15.16 Even unto this day when Moses is read the Vayle is upon their heart but when it that is Israel shall turne unto the Lord the Vayle shall be taken away this is not spoken of two or three sprinklings of Israel that doth not make up an Israel much lesse all Israel as Paul speaketh in the place forenamed and what mystery were it if it were meant onely of those that were brought home by Peters Ministery But that blindnesse is come upon them till the fulnes of the Gentiles be come in and that then all Israel shall be saved this is indeed a Mystery to the Gentiles as the calling of the Gentiles was a Mystery to the Iewes Thus wee see there are cleare Scriptures for it which when we doe see we may more freely take up parabolicall Scriptures perceiving what they worke upon and build our Faith on them thereby to be strengthned in Prayer for such a blessing that they may come and sing Hallelujahs with us and wee may sing prayses with them Fourthly wee may learne from hence the true nature of Vse 4 Godly sorrow both in the cause of it and in the measure of it For the cause of it wee must see him from whom all saving repentance doth flow even Christ whom we have pierced and then indeed we mourne aright when we mourne over him It is not saving Repentance that which the Law worketh though it doth indeed make way for it but they see him and mourne over him the sight of him worketh godly sorrow in the heart And what is the measure of it it is even such as for the losse of a mans onely Sonne and his first borne the staffe and