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

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

or the Gospel which Christ held open ver 2. in all the time of the hereticks tyrants and the kingdome of the locusts that within the Revelation This eating the book is a Preparation to the act of the two witnesses fighting with Antichrist of which in ch 11. which in some sort is acting in this age Hence observe that the open book doth manifestly set forth the mysteries of God not the canons or traditions of Papists Vers 9. And eat it up c. So John did however in the vision to eat it is to read preach meditate digest so all ministers should be devourers of books understand them before they preach Christ bids Iohn eat the book and then prophecy We must not then presumptuously relie upon the extraordinary revelation of the spirit without reading Vers 10. And I took the little book c. 'T was foretold Iohn it should be in his belly bitter yet he readily takes the book So the bitternesse of the events should not dishearten us from preaching now the word in it selfe is most sweet comfortable bringing peace but in the event it brings by accident bitternesse gripings hating the world fighting with sinne nay and persecutions banishments martyrdomes This bitternesse to follow in the third act of this vision is foretold Iohn that he might not be thereby troubled being already an exile Vers 11. And he said to me thou must prophesie againe c. The true pteaching of the Gospel was destroyed by Antichrist but now to be renewed purged from the dregs of Antichrist And the locusts reformed meant by Iohns prophesying again Thou must prophecie hence I beleeve John was restored in time and performed his office ministring to the Churches but this proves not that Iohn is alive and reserved to preach towards the end of the world for Iohns prophesying again did not so much concern himself as other witnesses to be raised up to reform religion as he tels us in chap. 11. for since the seven thunders wrought little on the enemy Christ raises up his two Witnesses as defenders and maintainers of his truth CHAP. XI Act. 3. 4. Vision 3. Vers 1. And there was given me a rod like a reed HEre Reformation is treated of This rod was a measuring staste such as builders use to mete ground with when about building to which the reed was like Of this rod see Ezech. 40.5 by it is meant the Word of God by which the Temple that is the Church of Christ was to be reformed and t is the very little book of which before Now the Word as a rod chastiseth sinners and reforms them Here observe that the Temple or Church was ruined and wasted then observe that the visible Church could erre since it wanted this reed Lastly observe the Word is the best means and rule for Reformation And the Altar The Altar is Christ as is said now Christ needed to be reformed how because under the pretence of the name of Christ he was thrown out of doors and the true doctrine of Christ as the Sun was darkned before Now by the Altar the whole worship of Christ is to be understood which by the corruption of hereticks and Antichrist needed measuring rebuilding or reformation And them that worship therein meaning the true worshippers of God in the midst of Antichristian defilements now to measure them is to sever them as chosen members or to seale them as t is said of them ch 7. for these are the very sealed ones Therein Though none but the chief Priest worshipped in the Temple other worshippers stood in the Court yet here the true worshippers because of their coming near to Christ are said to worship in the Temple being indeed the very Temple of the holy spirit Concerning the Temple Altar and Courts to which here is a plain reference see 1 Kings 6. and Ezek. 40. where the Temple is described Vers 2. The Court which is within cast forth and measure it not The inner Court in the time of the Law was holy and for the Priests and sacrifice the outward was common and therefore not to be cast out now the Masle-priests have an inner room hallowed in allusion to the old in the law into which the common People are not to come Iohn must not mete this Court but cast forth certainly by the Court the People are meant So those seemingly holy Priests of Rome are not to be measured or reformed but to be declared as cast out by the word as none of the Church For 't is given to the Gentiles Antichrist and his ministers are Gentiles to whom the inner Courts are given to possesse and pollute Thus those seemingly holy Priests are Antichrists servants nay are Gentiles being as idolatrous almost as they worshipping images and are cast out in the sight of God and counted as heathens though they colour and cover their idolatry It is given God hath given this inner Court of Priests to Gentilisme and Idolatry by a just judgement And the Holy City shall they tread underfoot fourty two moneths Ierusalem who should have been holy and was by the Jews esteemed so was a type of the Christian Church which was by the Romanes burnt and destroyed which nation now again under Antichrist was to tread under foot Christs Church Nay thus the man of sin in particular hath exalted himself to be the Temple of God trampling under foot the Church of Rome making himself king of it Fourty and two moneths God be thanked 't will not last always Doubtlesse by fourty two moneths a shorter time then to the end of the world is meant else what needed the limitation at all yet I confesse Antichrist after Romes burning of which chap. 18. shall survive and not be fully destroyed nor his false Church till Christs coming for he must destroy him with the brightnesse of his coming 2 Thes 2.9 11. yet his tyrannizing shall end before that indeed if I may be allowed my judgement I conceive the fourty two moneths shall expire when Rome shall be litterally burnt which we expect daily Though I confesse to the praise of God be it spoken Antichrist hath in a great measure ceased to tread underfoot the holy City or Church in England Scotland Ireland France Germany Sweethland long since and perchance can't last but to the firing of Rome which if wise men conjecture aright will be 216 years hence Doubtlesse here is a definite number of moneths laid down for an indefinite certain to God but unknown to us Learned men resolve the fourty two moneths into years each moneth containing thirty years and the whole to arise to 1260 years begin then at the time when the Gentiles began to trample underfoot the Church or holy city which was when Boniface usurped the chayre An. 606. from what time to this the Romane Antichrist and his Gentiles have trodden underfoot the Church or holy City the space of 1044 years this being the yeare of our Lord 1650. So there remains 216