. ! £ S more great Armies, with whom the Jews and Gentiles (now united in one Church) ſhall fight under the Condu& of Chriſt, as the Captain-General of his Church, by whom they ſhall be overcome : and that this ſhall be the great Battle in Armageddon, mentioned chap. 16. 16. :
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falſe prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of
+ch.15-15. the beaſt, and + them thar worſhipped his image 4.
Theſe both were caſt alive into the lake of fire,* burn-
'Ch.20.10. | . 6 5a Dan, ing with brimſtone b6. ; 7.1. z The Iflue of this great Battel will be the total ruine of all the
YCh.14.10 Enemies of the Church, their Bodies being made meat for the Fowls of the Heaven, their Souls caſt into the Bottomleſs Pit of Hell. The Secular part of Antichriſt 1s here meant by the Beaſt, a The Eccleſiaſtical Antichriſt by the falſe Prophet, that had cheated cre- dulous Princes, and credulous People, with his pretended Miracles, into an Idolatry, that was but the Image of the old Idolatry of the Eeathens, in worſhipping Demons, and the Images of ſuch as were in great Eſtimation amongſt them while they were alive. 5 Both theſe, the Laick and Secular Popiſh Party, and all their Church-Party, that ſhould be left to this Day, ſhall all now be deſtroyed. In a matter of Fa&, not likely to appear in the World yet of two hun- dred Years or more, and thus darkly foretold, who can be poſitive and particular? But this ſcemeth the ſenſe of it upon the former Zy- potheſes : That the Beaſt with the ſeven Heads, and ten Horns, men- tioned chap. 13. 1. and the Beaſt with two Horns, alſo there men- tioned v. 11. are Antichriſt, beginning with thoſe Roman Emperors, that favoured the Idolatry introduced by the Biſhops of Rome, and ending in the Univerſal Biſhop, or Popes of Rome, and their Clergy, who quickly wormed out the Emperor's Power, and for 1260 Years reizned, ſetting up Idolatry and Superſtition, and corrupting the Dottrine of Faith, and for the latter ſix hundred Years of time, perſecuting the true Church of Chriſt more notorioully. After which God will begin to reckon with him, gradually. pouring out five Vials upon him. I am very inclinable to think, that we 1n this Age are yet under the pouring out of the ſecond of theſe Vials, ſceing little yet effe&ed towards the ruine of the Papacy, more than the expoſing of their Idolatries and Cheats to ſeveral Princes and States, and to the generality of thinking People ; nor hath the Providence of God proceeded far in that as yet. The three other Vials are yet fo be poured out upon the Papacy, beſides that upon Euphrates, and then this laſt upon all the Enemies of the Church together : And who ſhall live when God ſhall do theſe things ?
21 And the remnant were flain with the ſword of him that fat upon the horſe, which ſword proceeded out of his mouth c, and all the fowls were filled with
their fleſh d.
c In a!l Armies there are common Souldiers, as well as Officers. What the Iflue of this Batte! ſhall be, as to the Leaders in 1t, the former Verſe told us : This tells us how it ſhali fare with thoſe
* under the Command of them. ft ſeems they ſhall not be excuſed becauſe they followed their Leaders, and did only what they bad them ; Chriſt commands that they alſo ſhould be {lain. 4 And thus bloody Day (whenever it comes) will be a Day of great [laughter ; for the dead Bodies will be enough to ſup and fill all the Fols of
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An Angel cometh djwn from Heaven, and bindeth the Devil fr Thouſard Tears ; then to be lovjed for a little ſeaſon, They that were beheaded for the Witneſs of Jeſis and worſhipped nor the Beaft, lived and reigned with Chriſt a thouſand Vears, þo Others alide in Death, 5. They who have pare in she firft Reſur- reetion are bleſſed, 6. Satan let love again, 7. Seluceth the Na- tons, and ſtirreth up Magog to the War, 8. Fire from Heaven d- voureth them, 9, The Devil caſt into the Lake of Fire, to. Tix Throne eretted, the Dead ariſe, and whoever was not fourd writ - ten in the Book of Life thrown into the Lake, Lows t
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We are not» come tothe darkeſt part of the tehole Recs lation, what is meant by the thouſand Years, and 1! firſt and ſecond Reſurreition,and by Gog and Mag»; ch. 20. or the new Heavens and new Earth. and the Jeruſalem coming down from Heaven, diſcourſed on ch.21.22. zs very hard to ſay, and joiſibly much mor + cannot with any probability be conjedtured as to they. than hath heen already faid. I hill on:y tell my reader that, leaving him, to judge that is moſt p10 bable, and leaving it tothe Divine Providence : grve us a certain and infallible Expoſition of © 141t rs contained in theſe three laſt Chapters.