Pagan part, the Evangelical part, and the Antichriſtian part, (faith Dr. Moor) the three Parties that made up the Armies that fought 1n Armageddon : Or elſe this added as the Effet of-the great Earth- quake. 7 God now took Vengeance on the Papacy,and all their Ad-. herents, though he had for 1260 years ſpared them, notwithſtanding their Idolatries and Perſecutions, and behaved himſelf toward them as if he had forgot them.
20 And every ifland fled away, and the mountains
ere not found /. M \ Theſe are the -M of great Earthquakes, ſee chap. 6. 14. Some, by Iſlands and Mountains, underſtand the Inhabitants of both, I know not whether thoſe Reycrend Authors, who by this term un- derſtand their 1dol-worſhip and Superſtition, (I ſuppoſe becauſe the Heathens, and Fews in imitation of them, committed Idolatry on Mountains, and high Hills) or Eccleſiaſtical Dignities be not here
too critical.
21 * And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven 7, every ſtone about the weight of a ta- +ver..11. lent: and F men blaſphemed God becauſe of the
plague of the hail ; for the plague thereof was ex-
ceeding great z.
t The Hail was another of the Egyptian Plagues, Exod. 9g. 22, 23, 24, 25- The Allufion alſo may be to the Hail-ſtones, 7oſh, 10. 11. by which God fought againſt the five Canaanitiſh Kings. It ſignifies only further great Judgments with which God will pur- ſue the Beaſt and his Party, until they all be deſtroyed. « The latter words only ſhew the continued Hardneſs of the Heart of the Beaſt, and all his Party; wherein alſo they anſwered Pharaoh and the Egyptians (their Type) who would relent with no ſteadineſs and certainty, until they were all ruined by the Waters of the Red- Sea. In all this Predi&ion of the final Ruine of the Papacy, Pha- ravh and the Egyptians are apparently made the Type of the Pope and all his Party: 1. As to their Sins, which vere Idolatry, and the Oppreſſion of God's 1/rael. 2. In the Plagues by which they were deſtroyed gradually ; turning Waters into Blood, Biles and Blans, Darkneſs, Hail. 3. In their Impenitency, and Hardneſs of Heart; only with theſe two Differences by which the Antitype ex- ceeded the Type in Wickedneſs, 1, We read of Pharaoh oft re- lenting, though his goodneſs was like a Morning-Dew, and he re- turned to his former Stubbornneſs, 2. We read nothing of the E-:yptians Blaſpheming God, becauſe of their Plagues, which is of- ten ſaid of theſe Fgyptians.
*ch.11.19.
CHAP. XVIL
One of the jeven Angels ſheweth John the Great Whore, 1, 2, 3. Her Apparel, Ornament, Titles, and Blood-thirſtineſs deſcribed, q———6, The Angel ſheweth unto John the MyKery of the Woman, and Beaſt, 8c. 7——13-. The ten Kings make War with the Lamb, -but are overcome, 14. What the Waters are on which the Whore ſitteth, 15. The ten Kings ſhall hate the Whore, and burn her with Fire, 16,17. TheWoman ts the Great City, 18.
N D there came one of the ſeven angels which had the ſeven vials,and talked with me, ſaying unto me, Come hither, I will ſhew unto thee the judg-
REVELATION.
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WATCETS a.
had ; tho' not new, -as to the matter revealed in it ;»for it pjain- ly revealeth matters relating to Antichriſt ; and the matter of it con- temporizeth with the three laſt Vials, about the final ruine of A4ntj- chriſt, who was betore deſcribed under the Notion of a Beaſt,here un- der the Notion of a great Whore. A Whore properly fignities one that 15 married, and is falſe to her Husband's Bed ; and ſo very well ſuits the Church of Rome, (it they yet deſerve that Name) whoſe Faith was formerly ſpoken of throughout the World, Rom. 1. 8. but is long ſince turned Idolatrous (7dolatry in the Prophetick ſtile, being quite through the Scripture called Whoredom.) She is faid to fit upon many Waters, either becauſe ſhe exerciſeth a Juriſdition over much Peo- ple, or with Alluſion unto old Babylon (which gave her her Name): which was ſcituated near Euphrates, a River in which there was 2 great colle&ion of Waters. Fohn 15 called to hear the Counſels of God concerning her Deſtruftion, which tho' more generaliy and ſhortly revealed before, yet God here detigns to reveal to Fohn more fully, particularly and plainly,
2 * With whom the kings of the earth have com- * ce... mitted fornication 6, and the inhabitants of the earth Jer.s1.7. T have been made drunk with the wine of her forni- + Ch.14.8,
Cation c.
b With which great Whore, ſeveral Princes of the World have committed Spiritual Fornication, receiving her Idolatrous Worſhip, yielding to her Authority, and following her Example. c And not the Kings only of the Earth, but the generality of the People, have been intluenced with a mad heat, and with the Wine of her Fornica- tion ; that 1s, with that Wine by which ſhe enticed them to commit Idolatry with her : By this Wine are meant Honours, Riches, Pre- terments, Pleaſure, the gaudry of her Worſhip, the magnificence of the Apoitolick See, their pretended Antiquity, Unity ; in ſhort, whatſoever ſpecious Arguments Papiſts uſe to entice Perſons into the Idolatrous Communion of their Church.
3 vo he carried me away in the Spirit d into the wilderneſs e : and I ſaw a woman fir upon a ſcarlet co- loured beaſt f, tull of names of blaſphemy, having ſeven heads and ten horns g.
d That is, being in an extafie; fee chap. 4. 2. whether in the Body or cat of the Bocy, he could not tell, as Paul expreflcth it, 2 Cor, 12.2, e A place not, or not much inhabited, either as fit- teſt for Contemplation ; or to ſignifie that this great Whore which had driven the Spouſe of Chriſt into the Wilderneſs, ſhould ſhortly her 1elf come into her State ; according to the fate of old Babylon, Fer. 50.13. f The great Whore mentioned, ver. 1. upheld by the Roman Emperors. g The ſame which is mentioned, chap. 13. I. ſee the Notes there. Here is a great Queſtion ariſeth who this Wo- man 15, or {which is the ſame, as appeareth by ver. 5.) what City 1s meant by Babylon mentioned wer. 5 ? a Queſtion, (as Mr. Pool noteth) of high concernment ; for whoever this Woman is, or what- ſoever this Baby/on fignificth, the People of God are upon pain of Damnation admoniſhed, to avoid any Communion with her, and to come out of her, chap. 14. 9, 10. Mr. Pool hath diligently colle&ted into his Latin Synopſis all Opinions about it, and ſheiwved what it is to be ſaid for or againſt them ; I will give my Reader the ſum of what he ſaith.