A
DISCOURSE
OF
THE
Nature
,
Series
,
and
Order
of
Occurrences
,
&c.
FOR
our
better
understanding
the
nature
and
order
of
the
things
prophetically
represented
in
the
11th
of
the
Revelation
,
the
first
thing
observable
is
,
the
Order
of
Time
,
in
which
the
Occurrences
mentioned
from
ver
.
1.
to
ver
.
14.
of
that
Chapter
,
were
show'd
unto
St.
John
in
Vision
,
and
there
placed
in
their
Order
:
And
that
Time
is
between
the
beginning
and
ending
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
.
In
Chap.
9.
v.
13.
the
sixth
Trumpet
sounded
;
and
a
considerable
part
of
the
Event
of
that
Trumpet
is
set
down
in
the
following
Verses
to
the
end
of
that
Chapter
,
which
Expositors
understand
to
be
meant
of
the
Turks
Conquering
and
possessing
themselves
of
the
Eastern
part
of
the
Roman
Empire
:
and
the
Calamities
caused
thereby
were
a
great
part
of
the
second
wo
,
which
was
the
wo
of
that
Trumpet
.
The
design
of
which
Judgment
of
God
upon
the
Empire
,
was
to
awaken
the
Inhabitants
thereof
,
and
especially
those
of
the
Western
Empire
(
upon
whom
that
storm
had
not
fallen
,
or
but
very
little
of
it
)
and
to
excite
them
to
repent
of
the
work
of
their
hands
,
such
as
was
their
worshipping
of
Devils
or
Demons
,
and
Idols
of
Gold
,
Silver
,
Brass
,
Stone
and
Wood
,
and
of
their
Murders
,
Sorceries
,
Fornications
and
Thefts
,
ver
.
20.
But
this
Judgment
produced
no
such
good
effect
,
for
they
repented
not
,
as
appears
,
ver
.
21.
Whereupon
in
Chap.
10.
1.
another
mighty
Angel
comes
down
from
Heaven
with
a
little
Book
open
in
his
hand
:
and
he
cryed
with
a
loud
Voice
as
when
a
Lion
roareth
.
And
when
he
had
so
done
,
seven
thunders
uttered
their
Voices
.
But
St.
John
was
forbidden
to
write
what
those
thunders
uttered
.
But
in
as
much
as
this
Lion-like
roaring
of
the
Angel
,
and
also
these
thundering
Voices
fall
in
here
,
upon
the
declared
impenitency
of
the
Western
Empire
,
upon
whom
the
former
plague
,
which
had
befallen
the
Eastern
,
had
not
much
lighted
;
it
is
highly
probable
,
that
those
thundering
Voices
contained
matter
of
dreadful
import
against
the
Western
Empire
especially
.
And
it
seems
likely
by
what
next
follows
,
that
the
reason
why
those
terrible
things
uttered
by
the
thundering
Voices
,
were
at
that
time
sealed
up
,
might
be
,
because
the
execution
of
them
was
not
to
fall
out
under
this
sixth
Trumpet
,
but
under
the
seventh
;
and
therefore
not
so
proper
to
be
declared
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
otherwise
than
by
hints
and
intimations
in
general
.
And
indeed
Biblia
Regia
,
Andreas
,
and
others
,
render
the
Angels
words
from
the
Original
thus
:
Seal
up
those
things
which
the
seven
thunders
have
uttered
,
and
thou
shalt
write
them
hereafter
(
not
,
and
write
them
not
)
as
the
Author
of
the
Notes
,
framed
out
of
the
Expositions
of
Dr.
H.
More
,
has
observed
upon
the
place
.
Some
lighter
Plagues
were
to
befal
this
Empire
,
under
this
sixth
Trumpet
,
in
order
still
to
their
amendment
,
if
possible
;
But
those
failing
of
that
end
,
the
greater
stroke
which
will
make
an
end
of
that
power
by
which
the
Church
had
so
long
suffered
,
is
reserved
to
the
times
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
.
And
therefore
under
that
Trumpet
it
is
more
particularly
and
expresly
declared
to
St.
John
by
Vision
,
That
the
time
of
Gods
wrath
will
then
be
come
,
in
which
he
will
destroy
them
which
had
destroy'd
the
earth
:
Which
Visional
Prophecy
is
accompanied
with
Voices
and
thunders
as
here
,
and
with
lightning
,
and
Earthquake
and
great
hail
,
Chap.
11.
18
,
19.
And
that
the
things
here
uttered
by
the
thunders
and
the
execution
of
those
things
did
appertain
to
the
time
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
is
still
the
more
likely
,
not
to
say
apparent
;
because
that
which
next
and
immediately
follows
upon
those
seven
thunders
and
the
sealing
of
them
up
,
is
a
most
solemn
Oath
which
the
Angel
took
,
That
there
should
be
delay
of
time
no
longer
for
execution
of
those
things
,
but
only
until
the
days
of
the
seventh
Angel
when
he
should
sound
,
but
that
then
the
Mystery
of
God
shall
be
finished
which
had
been
declared
to
the
Prophets
concerning
the
full
and
final
destruction
of
the
Enemies
of
the
Church
,
and
the
glorious
enlargement
and
exaltation
of
the
Church
it self
,
as
is
further
to
be
shewn
when
we
come
to
the
seventh
Trumpet
.
I
here
make
use
of
that
reading
[
there
shall
be
delay
of
time
no
longer
]
because
I
find
several
Expositors
prefer
it
before
that
other
reading
[
there
shall
be
time
no
longer
]
and
because
also
it
best
suits
with
the
scope
of
the
place
,
and
the
coherent
Verses
.
Though
't
is
true
,
the
common
reading
duly
considered
,
signifies
the
same
thing
the
other
does
,
though
it
does
not
so
plainly
express
it
.
For
according
to
that
reading
,
the
time
when
God
will
finish
his
mystery
declared
to
the
Prophets
,
shall
be
no
longer
but
till
the
days
of
the
seventh
Angel
,
when
he
shall
sound
.
After
this
St.
John
is
bid
to
take
the
little
Book
out
of
the
Angels
hand
,
and
to
eat
it
;
and
when
he
had
done
so
,
the
Angel
told
him
he
must
prophesie
again
,
to
wit
,
what
should
further
befal
the
Empire
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
and
the
seventh
also
,
besides
what
he
had
prophesied
of
already
.
And
accordingly
the
very
next
things
he
prophesied
of
after
he
had
eaten
the
little
Book
,
are
the
Occurrences
set
down
between
the
first
and
14th
ver.
of
Chap.
11.
Which
things
were
to
fall
out
in
whole
or
in
part
,
in
the
times
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
:
Which
appears
in
that
the
period
of
those
times
falls
after
those
Occurrences
,
as
we
find
at
the
14.
ver
.
the
second
wo
is
past
,
meaning
then
,
and
not
till
then
.
And
therefore
though
the
first
Vision
we
meet
with
after
it
was
said
to
St.
John
,
thou
must
prophesie
again
,
which
concerns
the
measuring
of
the
Temple
,
the
leaving
unmeasured
the
outward
Court
thereof
,
and
concerning
the
prophesying
of
the
two
Witnesses
1260
days
,
does
commence
as
high
as
from
the
first
stated
defection
,
corruption
and
degeneracy
of
a
great
part
of
the
Church
;
yet
this
Vision
being
seen
by
St.
John
,
under
his
Vision
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
(
as
it
is
manifest
it
was
)
that
Visional
Prophesy
must
in
all
reason
receive
its
fullfilling
and
accomplishment
in
part
,
in
times
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
.
For
this
I
take
as
a
sure
rule
,
That
the
fulfilling
the
Visions
in
whole
or
in
part
,
received
under
each
of
the
seven
Trumpets
,
does
belong
to
the
times
of
those
Trumpets
under
which
St.
John
had
those
Visions
,
unless
there
be
some
plain
intimation
to
the
contrary
.
As
there
was
when
St.
John
had
a
Vision
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
concerning
the
finishing
of
the
mystery
of
God
under
the
seventh
;
for
the
nature
of
the
Vision
was
an
express
Declaration
of
it
,
Chap.
10.
7.
And
the
nature
of
the
Vision
of
the
holy
Cities
being
trodden
under
foot
42
prophetical
Months
,
and
the
Witnesses
Prophesying
in
Sack-Cloth
1260
prophetical
days
,
will
not
admit
of
a
compleat
fullfilling
of
them
in
less
time
than
six
of
the
seven
Trumpets
will
take
up
,
or
very
near
it
;
and
therefore
could
be
fullfilled
but
in
part
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
;
and
in
part
they
were
fullfilled
under
each
of
the
five
former
Trumpets
.
Under
these
limitations
I
think
we
may
take
it
for
a
general
rule
which
will
always
hold
true
,
That
the
several
Visions
of
the
Trumpets
will
be
fullfilled
in
the
times
of
those
Trumpets
under
which
they
were
seen
.
To
deny
this
is
to
deny
the
proper
end
and
use
of
the
seven
Trumpets
,
which
are
as
so
many
signs
by
which
to
know
the
succession
,
place
and
order
of
the
several
Events
of
the
several
Visions
under
those
Trumpets
.
Without
which
we
should
be
at
a
loss
to
know
what
time
or
age
of
the
World
the
things
signified
by
such
or
such
a
Vision
might
be
expected
,
or
to
understand
when
such
Visional
Prophecies
were
fullfilled
when
they
are
past
.
I
have
said
thus
much
to
show
why
we
should
not
think
that
the
reason
why
St.
John
was
told
by
the
Angel
that
he
must
prophesie
again
,
was
because
those
prophetical
Visions
contained
in
the
11
Chap.
from
ver
.
1.
to
ver
.
14.
though
they
were
the
very
next
he
received
after
he
received
the
open
Book
from
the
Angel
,
were
such
a
new
sett
of
Prophecies
as
that
the
fullfilling
of
them
did
not
at
all
belong
to
the
times
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
or
as
if
they
contained
no
part
of
the
wo
of
that
Trumpet
.
But
now
I
shall
show
why
,
as
I
conceive
,
St.
John
might
be
said
to
prophesie
again
in
those
very
Prophecies
,
though
the
fulfilling
of
them
were
part
of
the
Event
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
and
part
of
the
wo
of
it
.
And
the
reason
respects
partly
the
nature
of
the
wo
to
be
further
brought
upon
the
Empire
as
corrupt
and
impenitent
,
as
different
from
what
had
been
Prophesied
of
,
and
brought
upon
it
before
,
both
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
as
also
under
the
five
precedent
Trumpets
:
and
partly
in
respect
of
the
Agents
by
whom
this
latter
part
of
the
wo
of
this
sixth
Trumpet
was
to
be
brought
on
the
corrupt
Empire
,
as
different
from
those
by
whom
the
former
part
of
that
wo
was
brought
upon
it
,
and
from
those
also
who
were
Executioners
of
the
Plagues
of
the
former
five
Trumpets
.
The
Visions
of
the
five
precedent
Trumpets
,
represented
so
many
hostile
Calamities
,
which
were
to
befal
the
Empire
successively
for
their
Idolatry
,
and
Cruelty
to
the
Church
of
God
,
with
other
their
abominations
.
And
although
the
wo
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
began
thus
likewise
by
the
Turkish
Invasion
and
Conquest
;
Yet
the
other
part
of
that
wo
which
was
to
follow
,
was
quite
of
another
nature
.
For
although
the
wo
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
in
its
beginning
as
well
as
the
Plagues
of
all
the
former
Trumpets
,
was
brought
upon
the
Empire
by
those
who
were
Enemies
to
the
Church
of
God
as
well
as
to
the
Empire
it self
,
yet
the
other
part
of
that
wo
contained
in
Visions
in
the
11
Chap.
was
to
be
brought
upon
the
Empire
,
the
Popedom
especially
(
continuing
still
impenitent
)
by
those
of
the
Church
of
God
.
And
this
not
in
an
hostile
manner
as
the
former
part
of
the
wo
was
,
but
by
the
Witnesses
Prophesying
,
and
by
the
Reformation
,
and
by
pouring
out
several
of
the
Vials
of
God's
wrath
,
of
a
more
spiritual
nature
than
the
Calamities
of
War
,
as
is
described
and
represented
by
the
Visions
in
the
11th
Chap.
The
Visions
then
in
the
11th
Chap.
though
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
differing
so
much
as
they
do
,
both
from
the
Visions
of
the
former
Trumpets
,
and
from
the
first
Vision
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
it self
,
representing
as
it
were
a
new
Scene
of
Affairs
,
might
well
be
a
reason
,
not
only
of
the
Angels
saying
unto
S.
John
,
Thou
must
Prophesy
again
,
but
also
of
such
a
solemn
preparation
to
it
as
is
contained
in
the
10th
Chap.
And
yet
since
in
the
12th
Chap.
there
begins
a
new
sett
of
Prophecies
commencing
from
the
first
state
of
the
Christian
Church
,
it
s
possible
the
Angel
in
saying
,
Thou
must
Prophesy
again
,
might
have
respect
to
that
also
.
But
this
was
not
until
St.
John
had
done
with
his
Visions
of
all
the
seven
Trumpets
.
And
indeed
it
is
in
it self
a
very
unlikely
thing
,
that
before
he
had
done
with
those
Visions
of
the
Trumpets
,
the
thing
he
had
in
hand
,
he
should
break
off
from
them
to
begin
a
new
sett
of
Prophecies
,
and
finish
them
,
and
after
all
to
return
again
to
the
Visions
of
the
last
Trumpet
,
to
make
an
end
of
his
prophetical
Visions
under
all
the
Trumpets
.
Having
thus
prepared
the
way
,
I
shall
come
now
briefly
to
consider
the
Visions
and
Prophecies
themselves
as
they
are
orderly
represented
in
this
11
Chap.
and
I
shall
begin
with
the
Vision
of
measuring
the
Temple
,
with
which
that
Chapter
begins
.
Ver
.
1.
And
there
was
given
me
a
reed
like
unto
a
Rod
;
and
the
Angel
stood
,
saying
,
Rise
,
and
measure
the
Temple
of
God
,
and
the
Altar
,
and
them
that
worship
therein
.
This
,
we
must
note
,
is
not
a
History
of
things
then
done
,
but
a
Visional
Prophecy
of
what
was
to
be
done
in
time
then
to
come
.
The
Temple
,
Altar
,
and
Worshippers
in
old
Testament
time
,
did
summarily
comprize
God's
publick
worship
:
for
the
publick
worship
was
performed
by
the
Worshippers
in
the
Temple
and
at
the
Altar
.
And
by
these
may
be
here
meant
the
Christian
Church
worship
,
it
being
frequent
in
this
Book
to
shadow
out
the
Antitype
by
an
Old
Testament
Type
.
Measuring
when
apply'd
to
Temple
and
Altar
,
as
here
it
is
,
is
wont
to
be
in
order
to
the
building
or
rebuilding
of
them
;
it
being
a
metaphor
borrowed
from
the
custom
of
Architectors
who
use
to
measure
the
dimensions
of
ground
,
and
of
the
materials
of
an
Edifice
to
be
erected
.
And
by
it
may
be
signified
and
meant
in
this
place
the
rebuilding
or
re-establishing
a
Christian
Temple
,
or
a
pure
and
undefiled
Church-worship
and
Worshippers
,
according
to
the
first
Institution
of
these
.
But
for
our
better
understanding
the
matter
of
this
Vision
,
we
must
consider
from
what
time
the
thing
signified
by
this
Vision
did
commence
;
and
that
was
from
the
time
in
which
the
gross
corruptions
in
worship
(
such
as
was
the
Invocation
of
Saints
,
and
the
giving
that
honour
to
Creatures
which
is
due
only
to
God
)
which
had
crept
into
the
Church
by
degrees
,
had
got
such
an
Head
,
as
to
be
owned
and
maintained
by
the
Sovereign
Powers
in
the
Empire
.
For
this
measuring
of
the
Temple
,
and
the
beginning
of
the
Beasts
42
Months
reign
,
synchronize
,
as
I
shall
show
on
the
next
Verse
:
and
so
does
the
measuring
of
the
Temple
,
and
the
leaving
the
outward
Court
of
it
unmeasured
.
And
the
leaving
the
outward
Court
which
was
much
larger
than
the
Temple
,
unmeasured
at
the
same
time
the
Temple
was
measured
,
argues
plainly
,
that
the
greatest
part
of
the
Church
,
as
it
had
been
reputed
,
was
at
that
time
grown
very
corrupt
,
as
the
reason
given
in
the
next
Verse
,
why
the
outward
Court
should
not
be
measured
,
does
likewise
show
.
And
by
this
defection
the
sound
Christains
were
reduced
to
much
the
same
necessity
of
abstaining
from
Communion
in
the
publick
worship
of
the
Empire
,
though
called
Christain
,
as
they
had
been
in
of
forbearing
Communion
in
the
Pagan
worship
,
before
Christianity
became
publickly
owned
for
the
Religion
of
the
Empire
.
And
therefore
as
they
were
obliged
to
hold
and
practise
the
Communion
of
Saints
in
Church
worship
;
so
they
were
,
by
way
of
necessity
,
obliged
to
hold
and
practise
that
Communion
more
privately
and
a
part
from
the
more
publick
Assemblies
.
Now
this
being
the
state
and
condition
of
the
Church
,
at
the
time
to
which
this
Vision
of
measuring
the
Temple
,
Altar
and
Worshippers
,
did
primarily
refer
,
it
fairly
intimates
,
that
Almighty
God
,
in
his
Providence
,
would
at
this
time
begin
to
set
on
foot
a
reformed
worship
among
a
reformed
people
,
or
such
as
had
not
been
corrupted
,
as
differenced
from
the
people
and
worship
which
continued
still
corrupt
,
and
which
were
likely
still
to
continue
so
.
And
this
was
as
it
were
a
rebuilding
of
the
Christian
Temple
,
the
Christian
Church-worship
,
and
Worshippers
:
being
much
of
the
same
nature
,
and
carried
on
much
after
the
same
manner
,
and
under
the
same
difficult
circumstances
as
it
was
at
the
first
,
while
Paganism
was
professed
as
the
publick
Religion
of
the
Empire
.
And
this
new
reformed
state
of
the
Church
and
of
its
worship
,
having
the
Sovereign
Powers
of
the
Empire
against
it
,
and
far
the
greatest
part
of
the
people
likewise
:
it
did
subsist
and
was
carried
on
in
a
more
private
way
and
manner
than
the
corrupt
worship
by
a
corrupt
people
was
,
and
that
all
along
until
the
time
of
Reformation
;
and
the
difference
between
the
Inner
Temple
and
the
Outward
Court
,
may
be
a
fair
indication
of
it
.
And
to
this
pure
and
reformed
Estate
of
the
Church
,
that
Vision
seems
to
refer
,
which
is
set
down
in
the
five
first
Verses
of
the
14th
Chap.
of
the
Revelations
,
where
St.
John
looked
,
and
lo
a
Lamb
stood
on
Mount
Sion
,
and
with
him
144000.
having
his
Fathers
name
written
in
their
Foreheads
—
These
are
they
which
were
not
defiled
with
Women
,
for
they
are
Virgins
.
These
are
they
which
follow
the
Lamb
whithersoever
he
goeth
:
These
were
redeemed
from
among
men
,
being
the
first-fruits
unto
God
,
and
to
the
Lamb
.
1.
This
Vision
is
next
adjoined
to
the
Vision
of
the
Rise
of
the
first
and
second
Beast
,
the
ten
Horned
,
and
the
two
horned
,
related
in
the
former
Chapter
.
And
that
the
rise
of
the
Beast
,
and
the
leaving
the
outward
Court
of
the
Temple
unmeasured
at
the
same
time
the
Temple
it self
was
measured
,
do
synchronize
,
I
have
been
shewing
already
,
and
shall
further
show
.
2.
The
place
where
the
Lamb
and
his
Company
are
here
seen
apart
from
the
Beast
and
his
Followers
,
is
Mount
Sion
,
the
very
place
where
the
measured
Temple
stood
,
in
which
the
true
Worshippers
worshipped
.
3.
The
difference
between
the
two
Parties
is
made
visible
and
notorious
,
by
the
different
marks
of
them
to
whom
they
do
belong
;
The
Lambs
Followers
having
his
Fathers
Name
written
on
their
Forehead
,
and
the
Slaves
of
the
Beast
,
his
mark
in
their
Forehead
or
right
hand
.
4.
These
were
not
defiled
with
Women
,
to
be
guilty
of
spiritual
Fornication
in
worship
,
as
those
enticed
by
the
Mother
of
Harlots
were
;
but
were
Virgins
,
chast
in
their
worship
,
not
giving
out
themselves
therein
to
more
than
one
object
of
worship
.
5.
These
were
redeemed
from
among
men
;
that
is
,
they
were
rescued
from
among
the
multitude
and
rabble
that
followed
the
Beast
,
and
were
the
First-fruit
to
God
and
to
the
Lamb
,
to
wit
,
the
first
pure
Worshippers
that
followed
the
Lamb
after
the
Apostasie
came
to
be
a
stated
business
.
These
things
are
great
Signs
,
that
the
Vision
of
them
belongs
to
the
same
times
in
which
the
restoring
the
Christian
worship
to
its
purity
,
first
began
after
the
Apostasie
,
and
which
was
signified
by
measuring
the
Temple
and
Worshippers
.
And
as
I
do
not
doubt
but
that
this
state
of
the
Church
,
from
the
time
aforesaid
down
to
the
Reformation
,
was
the
fullfilling
of
this
prophetical
Vision
to
a
degree
,
and
in
the
first
instance
of
it
;
so
I
as
little
doubt
but
that
the
more
compleat
,
and
in
some
respect
the
more
eminent
accomplishment
of
it
was
brought
to
pass
by
the
Reformation
begun
by
Luther
,
when
the
Publickness
of
the
true
Christian
worship
was
restored
in
several
Kingdoms
,
States
and
Principalities
in
the
Empire
,
and
became
owned
,
maintained
and
defended
by
the
Sovereign
Powers
in
them
.
For
as
this
Vision
was
seen
by
St.
John
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
or
among
the
Visions
of
that
Trumpet
,
and
not
before
;
so
the
compleat
fullfilling
of
it
must
needs
reach
down
to
the
times
of
that
Trumpet
,
and
be
effected
by
the
Reformation
which
was
brought
to
pass
in
those
times
.
The
reason
of
this
I
have
already
shown
,
and
shall
now
proceed
to
some
other
reasons
which
may
facilitate
our
belief
,
that
the
former
Reformation
begun
about
the
beginning
of
the
Beasts
42
Months
Reign
,
and
the
latter
begun
by
Luther
,
were
the
fullfilling
of
this
Vision
and
Prophecy
of
measuring
the
Temple
,
Altar
and
Worshippers
.
1.
Such
Visional
and
Prophetical
measuring
as
this
here
is
,
has
been
wont
in
other
of
the
Prophets
to
prognosticate
and
foreshow
by
way
of
sign
the
Restauration
of
God's
publick
worship
,
after
it
has
for
a
time
been
supprest
.
Thus
the
measuring
of
Jerusalem
,
and
the
Temple
,
after
some
of
the
Jews
return
out
of
their
70.
years
Captivity
,
was
a
sign
to
assure
them
,
that
their
City
and
Temple
should
be
rebuilt
,
and
their
publick
worship
restored
.
Zech
.
2.
1
,
2.
I
lift
up
mine
eyes
again
and
looked
,
and
behold
a
man
with
a
measuring
line
in
his
hand
;
Then
said
I
,
whither
goest
thou
?
And
he
said
unto
me
,
to
measure
Jerusalem
,
to
see
what
is
the
length
thereof
,
and
what
is
the
breadth
thereof
.
And
Chap.
1.
16.
Therefore
thus
saith
the
Lord
,
I
am
returned
to
Jerusalem
with
mercies
;
my
house
shall
be
built
in
it
,
saith
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
and
a
line
shall
be
stretched
forth
upon
Jerusalem
.
The
measuring
of
the
Temple
of
Jerusalem
described
in
Ezek
.
40.
3.
and
the
Chapters
following
:
prefigure
and
foretel
a
far
more
famous
restauration
of
God's
publick
worship
among
the
Jews
at
last
,
than
what
was
vouchsafed
them
after
their
return
from
Babylon
,
and
after
a
far
longer
Captivity
.
The
erecting
the
holy
City
,
the
new
Jerusalem
Church
state
,
as
excelling
all
that
had
been
before
it
,
and
this
after
the
destruction
of
the
City
of
Babylon
,
or
corrupt
Church
state
,
is
signified
and
foreshow'd
by
its
being
measured
with
a
golden
reed
,
Rev.
21.
15.
The
restitution
then
of
God's
publick
worship
being
usually
the
thing
intended
to
be
foreshown
in
other
Prophets
,
by
a
Vision
of
measuring
the
wonted
places
of
God's
publick
worship
,
after
they
have
long
lain
desolate
,
is
a
very
good
reason
why
we
should
understand
the
same
thing
to
be
prefigured
by
this
Visional
measuring
of
St.
John
.
This
Harmony
in
prophetick
Schemes
of
this
nature
,
is
such
a
reason
and
ground
of
fixing
upon
this
sence
of
this
Vision
of
St.
John
,
as
no
other
interpretation
of
it
can
,
I
presume
,
pretend
to
.
2.
The
Reformation
begun
by
Luther
,
by
which
God's
publick
worship
was
restored
in
many
Kingdoms
,
States
and
Principalities
,
is
most
likely
to
be
the
final
Event
of
this
Visional
measuring
the
Temple
and
Altar
,
because
it
fell
out
at
such
a
time
as
did
exactly
correspond
with
,
and
answer
to
that
order
of
time
in
which
St.
John
had
this
Vision
.
And
I
have
show'd
before
,
that
the
Events
of
Visions
seen
by
St.
John
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
were
in
whole
or
in
part
,
to
fall
out
in
the
times
of
that
Trumpet
at
least
,
if
not
in
the
same
order
they
were
seen
,
as
this
we
are
upon
seems
to
have
done
.
For
St.
John
had
this
Vision
not
only
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
but
also
after
that
Vision
of
the
Euphratean
Horsemen's
over-running
the
Eastern
Empire
.
Now
that
the
Reformation
was
the
next
great
Event
of
Providence
which
fell
out
in
the
Western
Empire
,
after
the
ruine
of
the
Eastern
by
the
Turks
,
appears
plainly
in
History
.
For
the
Turks
had
prevailed
so
far
in
that
Conquest
,
as
that
in
the
year
1453.
they
had
made
themselves
Masters
of
Constantinople
,
the
Capital
City
of
the
Eastern
Empire
.
And
after
this
the
time
ran
on
for
more
than
50.
years
in
completing
their
Conquest
,
by
subduing
Syria
,
Palestine
,
and
part
of
Egypt
,
and
some
other
places
which
had
escaped
them
before
.
And
that
which
followed
a
little
after
these
things
,
was
the
Reformation
begun
by
Luther
in
the
year
1517.
So
that
this
exquisite
agreement
in
time
and
order
,
between
the
Vision
and
the
Event
of
measuring
the
Temple
,
is
little
less
than
a
demonstration
,
that
the
Vision
was
as
it
were
the
Type
,
and
the
Reformation
the
Antitype
of
it
.
It
must
be
remembred
that
it
is
much
more
easie
for
us
who
come
after
the
time
to
which
the
place
and
order
of
this
Vision
points
,
to
understand
with
some
certainty
,
what
occurrence
is
,
or
has
been
the
fullfilling
of
it
,
than
it
was
for
those
who
lived
before
it
to
determine
what
occurrence
should
afterwards
be
the
proper
event
of
it
.
For
when
we
have
several
events
of
Providence
before
us
which
have
fallen
out
in
the
time
of
this
sixth
Trumpet
,
we
may
the
better
judge
which
of
them
best
answers
to
the
nature
of
the
Vision
that
was
to
be
fullfilled
in
that
time
.
The
fullfilling
of
Prophetical
Visions
do
in
a
great
measure
expound
them
.
To
these
reasons
I
might
add
3.
That
it
may
farther
appear
,
that
the
Reformation
was
prefigured
by
measuring
the
Temple
,
by
the
two
Witnesses
(
by
whose
prophesying
it
was
brought
about
)
being
represented
by
three
pair
of
famous
Reformers
under
the
Old
Testament
,
to
wit
,
Moses
and
Aaron
,
Elias
and
Elisha
,
Zerubbabel
and
Joshua
the
High
Priest
.
For
the
two
Witnesses
here
spoken
of
,
are
made
the
Antitype
in
their
reforming
work
,
to
Moses
and
Aaron
in
bringing
the
people
out
of
the
bondage
of
mystical
Egypt
,
as
they
had
Israel
out
of
the
bondage
of
literal
Egypt
,
and
to
them
they
are
compared
,
ver
.
6.
In
this
work
also
they
resembled
Elias
with
Elisha
in
recovering
the
people
from
Antichristain
Idolatry
,
as
they
had
Israel
from
Baalish
Idolatry
,
and
to
them
they
are
compared
,
ver
.
6.
But
the
pair
of
Old
Testament
Reformers
,
to
which
the
two
Witnesses
are
first
compared
,
ver
.
4.
are
,
we
see
,
Zerubbabel
and
Joshua
,
under
the
Symbol
of
two
Olive
Trees
,
and
two
Candlesticks
.
Which
seems
to
be
a
fair
intimation
,
that
what
was
foreshow'd
by
measuring
the
Temple
and
Altar
just
before
mentioned
,
should
be
brought
to
pass
by
the
two
Witnesses
resembling
therein
Zerubbabel
and
Joshua
,
in
their
rebuilding
the
Temple
,
and
restoring
God's
publick
worship
.
And
that
it
was
an
intimation
of
such
a
thing
is
the
more
likely
,
because
this
pair
of
Old
Testament
Reformers
,
though
last
in
order
of
History
of
the
three
made
use
of
in
this
Chapter
,
are
yet
first
in
the
comparison
here
made
between
them
and
the
Witnesses
.
And
why
so
?
But
because
this
pair
of
Reformers
in
their
rebuilding
the
Temple
,
and
restoring
God's
publick
worship
in
their
time
,
did
best
serve
to
exhibit
in
a
figure
what
the
two
Witnesses
were
to
do
in
restoring
God's
publick
worship
by
the
Reformation
.
This
reason
shows
the
sence
given
of
measuring
the
Temple
and
Altar
,
to
be
agreeable
to
the
general
scope
and
design
of
the
following
Visions
as
well
as
this
,
which
all
run
upon
Reformation
work
to
be
brought
about
by
the
Witnesses
.
This
consideration
,
together
with
the
agreeableness
of
this
sence
,
with
other
prophetick
Schemes
concerning
the
restitution
of
God's
publick
worship
,
prefigured
by
a
like
measuring
the
Temple
,
do
render
the
sence
given
to
be
the
most
natural
,
and
the
most
easie
.
Ver
.
2.
But
the
Court
which
is
without
the
Temple
,
leave
out
and
measure
it
not
,
for
it
is
given
to
the
Gentiles
;
and
the
holy
City
shall
they
tread
under
foot
42
months
.
This
seems
to
be
a
Visional
Prophecy
,
that
the
Reformation
and
restauration
of
God's
publick
worship
,
signified
by
measuring
the
Temple
,
should
be
brought
to
pass
but
in
part
of
the
Western
Empire
,
and
that
in
the
rest
of
it
,
the
former
corruptions
which
had
been
brought
into
the
Church
,
should
still
prevail
until
the
42
Months
of
Years
shall
be
run
out
.
Which
42
Months
are
to
be
reckoned
to
commence
from
the
time
in
which
those
corruptions
having
crept
into
the
Church
more
privately
and
by
degrees
had
got
such
an
head
,
and
had
so
far
prevailed
,
as
to
be
owned
and
maintained
by
the
Sovereign
Powers
of
the
Empire
.
This
appears
in
that
the
ten
horned
Beast
had
power
given
him
,
as
to
make
War
with
the
Saints
,
and
to
overcome
them
,
so
to
continue
42
Months
,
Chap.
13.
5
,
7.
So
that
the
beginning
of
this
42
Months
is
to
be
dated
from
the
beginning
of
this
Beasts
Reign
,
and
to
last
no
longer
than
till
the
Reformation
first
took
place
:
for
this
outer
Court
was
not
to
be
measured
in
order
to
its
being
rebuilded
as
the
Temple
was
.
I
cannot
but
take
notice
here
,
that
this
measuring
the
Temple
and
Altar
cannot
refer
to
the
pure
state
of
the
Church
before
it
fell
into
gross
corruption
,
as
some
would
have
it
,
who
suppose
this
measuring
to
import
the
Church
at
this
time
to
be
commensurate
to
the
divine
rule
.
But
if
by
the
outward
Court
of
the
Temple
,
and
the
Gentiles
which
were
to
tread
the
holy
City
under
foot
,
be
meant
the
corrupt
and
degenerate
part
of
the
Church
as
is
generally
held
it
is
;
Then
the
measuring
of
the
Temple
here
cannot
refer
to
such
a
time
or
state
of
the
Church
in
general
,
wherein
it
continued
as
yet
pure
and
uncorrupt
,
and
commensurate
to
the
holy
rule
.
And
the
reason
is
,
because
at
the
same
time
to
which
the
measuring
the
Temple
and
Altar
do
refer
,
the
outward
Court
of
it
was
incommensurate
;
that
is
,
the
greatest
part
of
the
Church
was
so
corrupt
,
as
made
them
uncapable
of
being
taken
into
the
number
of
the
Worshippers
in
the
Inner
Temple
which
was
measured
.
And
thus
it
was
with
that
part
of
the
corrupt
Church
which
continued
still
unreformed
in
the
time
of
that
Reformation
begun
by
Luther
,
when
this
Visional
Prophecy
was
compleatly
fulfill'd
,
and
eminently
also
,
in
that
the
pure
and
uncorrupt
worship
was
restored
to
an
open
and
publick
enjoyment
of
it
.
Ver
.
3.
And
I
will
give
power
to
my
two
Witnesses
,
and
they
shall
prophesy
a
thousand
two
hundred
and
threescore
days
clothed
in
sackcloth
.
The
time
of
these
Witnesses
prophesying
we
see
is
equal
to
the
time
of
the
Gentiles
prophaning
the
holy
City
:
their
prophesying
began
with
that
,
and
runs
parallel
with
it
to
the
end
of
its
race
.
They
bare
their
Testimony
for
God
and
for
his
truth
and
pure
worship
,
and
against
the
contrary
corruptions
which
had
got
into
the
Church
.
And
this
prophesying
of
theirs
all
along
from
the
beginning
of
the
Beasts
reign
,
produced
at
last
the
happy
Reformation
and
Restitution
of
Gods
publick
worship
in
many
Kingdoms
,
States
,
and
Principalities
,
within
the
Western
Empire
,
and
is
still
carried
on
by
their
prophesying
.
Which
Reformation
was
a
great
Victory
obtained
over
the
Beast
,
wherein
he
lost
a
great
part
of
his
Dominions
and
of
his
power
,
and
was
celebrated
with
a
Triumphant
Song
called
,
the
Song
of
Moses
and
of
the
Lamb
,
Chap.
15.
2.
And
this
Victory
and
the
loss
sustained
by
it
,
was
one
considerable
part
of
the
wo
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
upon
the
Bestian
Party
in
the
Western
Empire
,
as
the
Turkish
Conquest
was
another
on
the
Eastern
.
For
it
was
and
has
been
a
sore
cut
to
them
,
being
no
less
than
a
partial
downfal
of
the
Kingdom
of
the
Beast
.
And
unto
this
part
of
the
second
wo
has
been
and
will
be
added
under
this
Trumpet
,
a
great
part
of
the
plagues
of
the
Vials
,
called
the
seven
last
plagues
.
Ver
.
4.
These
are
the
two
Olive
Trees
,
and
the
two
Candlesticks
standing
before
the
God
of
the
Earth
.
Meaning
that
these
two
Witnesses
in
their
work
were
like
unto
Zerubbabel
and
Joshua
in
theirs
,
who
strengthened
the
hands
of
the
Jews
in
their
rebuilding
their
City
and
Temple
in
a
troublous
time
,
and
under
very
great
opposition
;
upon
account
whereof
they
were
represented
to
the
Prophet
Zachary
in
a
Vision
,
as
two
Olive
Trees
,
and
in
the
midst
a
Candlestick
with
two
Branches
receiving
Oyl
from
the
Olive
Trees
;
by
these
in
feeding
the
Lamps
,
the
Tabernacle
in
the
Wilderness
was
made
lightsome
in
the
darkest
night
,
Zech
.
4.
Ver
.
5.
And
if
any
man
will
hurt
them
,
fire
proceedeth
out
of
their
mouth
,
and
devoureth
their
Enemies
:
and
if
any
man
will
hurt
them
,
he
must
in
this
manner
be
killed
.
This
seems
to
set
forth
in
general
,
the
effect
which
the
prophesying
of
the
two
Prophets
,
after
the
Reformation
,
should
have
upon
their
Adversaries
;
they
should
be
devoured
by
the
fire
which
proceeded
out
of
their
mouths
.
Not
that
it
should
make
an
end
of
them
presently
;
such
prophetick
Schemes
are
not
so
to
be
understood
.
But
the
meaning
rather
is
,
that
the
word
of
their
Prophecy
,
which
is
the
fire
which
proceedeth
out
of
their
mouth
,
should
seize
on
their
Adversaries
and
arrest
them
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
,
from
which
they
should
never
get
themselves
discharg'd
until
it
should
bring
them
into
utter
ruin
,
they
continuing
impenitent
.
Thus
the
word
of
the
Prophets
of
old
was
said
to
take
hold
of
the
Sinners
against
whom
it
was
denounced
,
Zech
.
1.
6.
But
my
words
which
I
commanded
my
Servants
the
Prophets
,
did
they
not
take
hold
of
your
Fathers
?
Yes
most
certainly
they
did
,
so
that
they
were
never
discharged
after
,
until
the
evil
denounced
against
them
was
actually
brought
upon
them
,
as
it
there
follows
.
Thus
again
;
I
have
hewed
them
by
the
Prophets
,
I
have
slain
them
by
the
words
of
my
mouth
,
saith
God
,
Hos
.
6.
5.
Fire
as
here
proceeding
out
of
the
Mouth
of
the
Witnesses
,
and
devouring
their
Adversaries
,
is
to
be
understood
as
that
in
Jer
.
5.
14.
Behold
,
I
will
make
my
words
in
thy
mouth
fire
,
and
this
people
wood
,
and
it
shall
devour
them
.
And
whereas
it
is
added
here
,
with
a
redoubling
of
words
,
if
any
man
will
hurt
them
,
he
must
in
this
manner
be
killed
,
it
affords
us
a
good
reason
why
we
should
the
rather
believe
what
I
hinted
formerly
,
which
was
that
the
latter
part
of
the
wo
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
is
of
a
much
different
nature
from
the
former
part
of
it
.
The
former
part
of
it
consisted
in
a
plague
of
War
,
as
I
show'd
:
but
this
latter
part
of
it
of
a
torment
and
vexation
of
a
more
spiritual
nature
,
such
as
is
the
proper
effect
of
the
Witnesses
prophesying
,
or
a
being
devoured
by
fire
proceeding
out
of
their
mouth
.
And
in
saying
if
any
man
will
hurt
them
he
must
in
this
manner
be
kill'd
,
he
seems
thereby
to
describe
the
nature
of
the
plagues
of
those
Vials
,
or
of
most
of
them
which
were
to
be
poured
out
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
upon
the
Enemies
of
the
Witnesses
.
Now
that
the
prophesying
of
the
Witnesses
against
their
Adversaries
,
has
been
and
is
matter
of
present
wo
and
torment
to
their
minds
,
and
such
as
has
greatly
inraged
them
from
time
to
time
,
may
easily
be
conceived
.
For
the
Witnesses
are
wont
to
denounce
from
the
word
of
the
Lord
the
approaching
ruine
and
utter
destruction
of
mystical
Babylon
,
with
all
its
pomp
and
glory
:
And
not
only
so
,
but
also
,
that
whoever
they
be
that
worship
the
Beast
and
his
Image
,
and
receive
his
mark
in
their
forehead
or
in
their
hand
,
the
same
shall
drink
of
the
Wine
of
the
wrath
of
God
which
is
poured
out
without
mixture
into
the
Cup
of
his
indignation
,
and
shall
be
tormented
with
Fire
and
Brimstone
,
in
the
presence
of
the
holy
Angels
,
and
of
the
Lamb
,
and
the
like
.
Now
this
and
such
like
Fire
which
proceedeth
out
of
the
Witnesses
mouth
,
will
be
apt
more
or
less
to
kindle
in
the
minds
of
their
Adversaries
,
and
to
flash
like
lightening
into
their
Consciences
,
as
not
knowing
whatever
Face
they
set
upon
it
,
but
that
these
and
such
like
threatnings
belong
to
them
.
They
may
,
as
there
is
the
greatest
reason
they
should
,
be
jealous
whether
there
be
not
some
smell
of
the
fire
of
Hell
in
their
Consciences
,
when
that
Fire
is
darted
into
them
which
proceedeth
out
of
the
mouth
of
the
Witnesses
,
and
whether
it
may
not
prove
a
savour
of
death
unto
death
to
them
.
And
if
such
prophesying
of
the
Witnesses
produce
any
such
fears
and
jealousies
in
their
Adversaries
,
it
must
needs
make
their
lives
very
uneasy
to
them
:
For
fear
hath
torment
,
saith
St.
John
,
and
a
wounded
spirit
who
can
bear
?
saith
Solomon
.
And
that
the
prophesying
of
the
Witnesses
is
wont
to
torment
their
Enemies
,
is
very
evident
from
the
10.
ver
.
of
this
Chap.
where
it
's
said
,
these
two
Prophets
tormented
them
that
dwelt
upon
the
Earth
.
Ver
.
6.
These
have
power
to
shut
heaven
that
it
rain
not
,
in
the
days
of
their
prophecy
,
and
have
power
over
waters
to
turn
them
to
blood
,
and
to
smite
the
earth
with
all
plagues
,
as
often
as
they
will
.
In
this
Verse
we
have
some
instances
of
the
way
and
manner
of
the
Witnesses
tormenting
their
Enemies
:
As
first
in
shutting
Heaven
that
it
rain
not
in
the
days
of
their
prophecy
.
Herein
alluding
to
what
Elias
did
in
the
days
of
Ahab
,
in
causing
it
not
to
rain
in
three
years
and
six
Months
.
But
the
Witnesses
thus
shutting
Heaven
that
it
rain
not
in
the
days
of
their
prophecy
which
lasteth
three
years
and
a
half
also
of
prophetical
years
,
is
not
to
be
understood
literally
as
that
was
,
but
mystically
.
And
by
the
rain
here
said
to
be
restrained
by
the
Witnesses
,
is
probably
meant
the
great
and
rich
consolations
of
the
Gospel
,
which
revive
and
refresh
penitent
Souls
,
as
rain
from
Heaven
doth
the
parched
and
thirsty
ground
when
it
falls
upon
it
.
And
the
Witnesses
restrain
this
rain
from
falling
upon
the
followers
of
the
Beast
,
as
Elias
did
the
other
from
falling
upon
the
followers
of
Baal
,
by
testifying
and
pronouncing
from
the
word
of
the
Lord
,
that
the
Heavenly
and
Evangelical
Consolations
do
not
at
all
belong
to
them
while
they
continue
in
their
Idolatrous
,
and
other
enormous
practices
.
But
if
they
would
once
cease
from
destroying
the
Lords
Prophets
,
and
put
away
Baal's
Priests
,
and
return
to
worship
the
true
Eternal
God
only
,
they
might
expect
aboundance
of
this
rain
from
Heaven
,
as
the
Israelites
had
of
the
other
as
soon
as
they
became
reformed
.
And
have
power
over
Waters
to
turn
them
to
Blood
.
This
power
of
the
Witnesses
in
bringing
these
plagues
upon
the
great
City
spiritually
called
Egypt
,
v.
8.
is
in
allusion
to
one
of
the
Egyptian
Plagues
by
the
hand
of
Moses
.
But
it
is
not
literally
to
be
understood
,
as
the
art
of
Moses
is
,
but
spiritually
,
or
mystically
,
as
the
great
City
is
when
spiritually
called
Egypt
.
And
it
contains
two
of
the
seven
last
Plagues
,
called
the
Plagues
of
the
Vials
,
to
wit
,
the
second
and
third
of
them
,
as
we
may
see
by
comparing
these
words
with
those
in
Chap.
16.
3
&
4.
Ver
.
And
the
second
Angel
poured
forth
his
Vial
upon
the
Sea
;
and
it
became
as
the
blood
of
a
dead
man
;
and
every
living
Soul
died
in
the
Sea
.
And
the
third
Angel
poured
out
his
Vial
upon
the
Rivers
and
Fountains
of
Waters
,
and
they
became
blood
.
But
we
are
not
to
understand
waters
here
in
a
proper
sence
,
as
those
in
Egypt
were
,
but
in
a
spiritual
and
mystical
sence
,
as
Egypt
it self
is
here
,
as
was
but
now
show'd
.
And
by
waters
in
a
mystical
sence
,
we
can
understand
nothing
more
properly
than
doctrines
concerning
spiritual
things
,
things
which
concern
the
life
of
the
Soul
,
if
sound
and
wholsom
,
or
the
death
and
destruction
of
it
,
if
corrupt
.
Even
as
the
waters
in
Egypt
concerned
the
life
and
health
of
the
body
before
they
became
blood
,
but
afterwards
tended
to
the
destruction
of
both
,
if
any
were
so
mad
as
to
drink
of
them
.
I
need
not
give
instances
to
show
how
frequently
in
Scripture
we
are
to
understand
Doctrines
and
Ordinances
of
worship
,
covered
with
the
metaphors
of
water
,
it
being
a
thing
so
well
known
.
Here
we
see
are
two
sorts
of
water
turned
to
blood
,
the
waters
of
the
Sea
,
and
the
waters
of
the
Rivers
and
Fountains
:
The
former
as
the
effect
of
the
effusion
of
the
second
Vial
,
and
the
latter
as
the
effect
of
the
effusion
of
the
third
.
By
the
waters
of
the
Sea
may
be
understood
the
corrupt
Doctrines
of
the
Council
of
Trent
,
imposed
upon
men
to
be
received
as
waters
of
life
drawn
out
of
the
Wells
of
Salvation
,
as
things
necessary
to
be
believed
and
practised
,
in
order
to
the
obtaining
Salvation
.
The
Sea
in
a
proper
sence
,
is
a
Collection
of
many
waters
flowing
into
it
,
into
one
Body
:
All
the
Rivers
run
into
the
Sea
,
saith
Solomon
.
And
thus
the
Council
of
Trent
might
be
a
Sea
in
a
mystical
sence
,
because
of
the
flowing
of
Bishops
and
Doctors
into
it
,
from
all
popish
quarters
to
bring
into
one
body
a
multitude
of
corrupt
Doctrines
and
Positions
which
were
ratified
and
confirmed
by
their
authority
,
as
if
they
had
been
indeed
waters
of
life
,
and
such
as
whosoever
should
drink
should
live
for
ever
.
And
the
Witnesses
,
Bishops
,
Doctors
and
other
of
the
Reformation
,
turned
these
waters
into
blood
,
like
the
corrupt
blood
of
a
dead
man
,
not
by
making
them
such
,
but
by
discovering
and
proving
them
to
be
such
by
preaching
and
writing
,
and
that
men
could
no
more
live
eternally
by
drinking
those
waters
,
than
Fish
can
live
in
the
Sea
,
in
case
it
were
turned
into
blood
,
like
the
blood
of
a
dead
Man
.
And
by
doing
thus
they
justified
the
work
of
Reformation
,
and
their
own
separation
from
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
strengthened
the
Reformed
interest
more
and
more
,
to
the
great
vexation
and
torment
of
their
Adversaries
.
But
then
hereupon
,
the
choicest
of
the
men
of
learning
and
parts
among
the
unreformed
Party
,
undertook
the
vindication
and
defence
of
the
corrupt
Doctrines
of
the
Council
of
Trent
against
our
reformed
Divines
.
And
these
were
but
as
Rivers
and
Fountains
,
deriving
their
streams
from
their
Sea
,
and
returning
them
back
again
into
it
.
But
then
our
Reformed
Authors
did
most
effectually
confute
them
,
and
thereby
turned
those
waters
into
blood
also
in
the
sence
aforesaid
.
These
transactions
falling
out
in
the
times
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
under
which
Trumpet
the
Vision
of
these
things
was
seen
,
and
that
in
course
after
the
Vision
of
the
Reformation
also
;
it
may
incline
us
the
rather
to
think
this
event
of
Providence
to
be
the
proper
event
and
fullfilling
of
this
Vision
.
The
interpretation
of
the
third
Vial
concerning
the
turning
the
Rivers
and
Fountains
into
blood
,
others
carry
another
way
,
who
would
have
the
shedding
the
blood
of
some
few
Jesuits
and
Priests
,
by
virtue
of
some
sanguinary
Laws
made
against
their
labouring
to
seduce
Subjects
to
own
a
foreign
superiour
power
over
their
lawful
Sovereigns
,
to
be
meant
by
turning
the
Rivers
and
Fountains
into
blood
.
To
which
they
add
the
overthrow
and
destruction
which
the
Spanish
Armado
received
in
attempting
to
reduce
this
Nation
to
the
Romish
Yoke
.
Which
interpretation
seems
to
receive
countenance
from
the
saying
of
the
Angel
upon
the
Rivers
and
Fountains
becoming
blood
:
Thou
art
righteous
,
O
Lord
,
which
art
,
and
wast
,
and
shalt
be
;
because
thou
hast
judged
thus
:
For
they
have
shed
the
blood
of
Saints
and
Prophets
,
and
thou
hast
given
them
blood
to
drink
,
for
they
are
worthy
.
Chap.
16.
5
,
6.
But
this
sence
does
not
seem
to
agree
with
the
mystical
nature
which
has
been
observed
in
these
Visions
all
along
.
And
besides
,
the
foresaid
saying
of
the
Angel
is
capable
of
a
mystical
sence
as
well
as
all
the
rest
which
were
before
it
.
For
it
is
just
with
God
,
after
all
the
means
used
,
to
bring
those
to
repentance
who
still
persist
in
their
malicious
shedding
the
blood
of
Saints
,
when
they
have
opportunity
,
to
give
them
up
to
such
an
injudicious
mind
,
as
to
drink
down
those
corrupt
Doctrines
,
as
believing
them
to
be
Waters
of
Life
,
when
indeed
they
are
destructive
of
the
health
of
their
Souls
.
It
's
foretold
of
the
followers
of
the
man
of
sin
,
that
because
they
received
not
the
love
of
the
truth
,
that
they
might
be
saved
,
that
for
this
cause
God
shall
send
them
strong
delusion
,
that
they
should
believe
a
lie
;
that
they
all
might
be
damned
who
believed
not
the
truth
,
but
had
pleasure
in
unrighteousness
,
2
Thess.
2.
10.
And
whether
of
these
sences
is
most
likely
to
be
the
right
,
or
whether
both
may
not
be
intended
,
I
leave
to
be
considered
.
And
to
smite
the
Earth
with
all
Plagues
as
often
as
they
will
.
These
words
contain
another
part
of
the
power
of
the
two
Witnesses
;
they
have
power
not
only
to
turn
waters
into
blood
,
but
also
to
smite
the
Earth
with
all
Plagues
as
often
as
often
as
they
will
.
Which
argues
still
,
that
the
latter
part
of
the
wo
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
consisteth
much
in
such
plagues
as
the
Adversaries
of
the
Witnesses
suffer
by
their
prophesying
,
rather
than
from
any
hostile
attempts
,
either
from
them
,
or
from
any
others
.
For
with
this
sort
of
plagues
it
may
most
properly
be
said
,
they
had
power
to
smite
them
as
oft
as
they
have
a
mind
to
it
.
This
general
assertion
touching
their
power
of
smiting
the
Earth
with
all
plagues
,
following
immediately
upon
that
particular
assertion
of
their
having
power
to
turn
Waters
into
Blood
,
the
words
seem
to
intimate
,
that
as
they
have
power
to
inflict
those
two
plagues
of
the
second
and
third
Vial
,
by
turning
the
Waters
into
Blood
,
so
they
have
power
also
to
smite
the
Earth
with
the
rest
of
the
plagues
of
the
Vials
in
course
,
though
they
be
not
here
particularly
named
.
For
if
they
have
power
to
smite
the
Earth
with
all
plagues
,
then
the
plagues
of
the
Vials
must
needs
be
included
in
that
all
,
if
not
only
meant
by
it
.
Besides
,
if
we
compare
Chap.
16.
1.
with
the
Text
in
hand
,
it
may
further
incline
us
to
think
the
plagues
of
the
Vials
were
the
plagues
wherewith
the
Witnesses
had
power
to
smite
the
Earth
.
For
it
's
said
there
,
I
heard
a
great
Voice
out
of
the
Temple
,
saying
to
the
seven
Angels
,
Go
your
ways
and
pour
out
the
Vials
of
the
wrath
of
God
upon
the
Earth
.
For
to
smite
the
Earth
with
plagues
,
and
to
pour
out
the
Vials
of
wrath
upon
the
Earth
,
seem
to
signifie
the
same
thing
.
This
has
respect
to
the
plagues
of
the
Vials
in
general
.
But
more
particularly
,
by
the
smiting
the
Earth
by
the
Witnesses
here
,
the
effusion
of
the
first
Vial
may
be
hinted
at
,
which
was
poured
out
upon
the
Earth
,
Rev.
16.
2.
Upon
which
there
fell
a
grievous
and
noisome
sore
upon
the
men
which
had
the
mark
of
the
Beast
(
as
they
especially
have
who
are
in
Orders
under
the
Beast
,
and
have
the
indelible
Character
)
and
upon
them
that
worshipped
his
Image
.
By
which
may
be
meant
not
only
their
envy
and
exulcerated
fury
against
the
Witnesses
;
but
also
the
uncleanness
and
other
lewdness
of
those
men
,
together
with
their
gross
Hypocrisy
,
which
upon
discovery
thereof
then
made
by
the
Witnesses
,
appeared
as
so
many
foul
botches
upon
them
,
to
their
great
shame
and
horrible
vexation
,
and
to
the
weakening
of
their
interest
;
so
that
they
could
no
more
stand
before
the
Witnesses
,
than
the
Magicians
of
Egypt
could
stand
before
Moses
when
the
boyl
was
upon
them
.
If
it
be
matter
of
doubt
to
any
whether
those
evils
I
have
mentioned
can
be
the
proper
effect
of
the
Vials
,
since
they
are
of
so
spiritual
a
nature
,
and
so
little
affect
and
strike
the
senses
.
Let
such
consider
,
That
there
is
a
great
difference
between
the
plagues
of
the
Trumpets
,
in
their
first
appearance
,
and
those
of
the
Vials
that
follow
,
as
we
find
under
this
sixth
Trumpet
.
The
plagues
of
all
the
Trumpets
which
have
yet
been
blown
,
have
been
ushered
in
,
and
made
their
entrance
with
an
awakening
noise
and
observation
,
making
themselves
to
be
taken
notice
of
by
all
.
For
they
have
rushed
in
upon
the
Empire
by
six
successive
Judgments
of
War
,
as
the
common
interpretation
of
the
events
of
those
Trumpets
show
.
And
indeed
the
very
sounding
of
a
Trumpet
,
is
very
significant
of
such
a
thing
.
The
blowing
of
a
Trumpet
is
frequently
used
in
Scripture
,
as
an
Alarm
of
War
approaching
,
and
of
the
Calamities
which
usually
attend
it
.
But
the
plagues
of
the
Vials
which
have
been
already
poured
out
,
have
fallen
in
a
more
silent
way
,
and
less
discernable
by
most
,
being
of
a
more
spiritual
nature
.
For
as
I
formerly
observed
,
when
the
dreadful
judgment
of
the
conquering
War
of
the
Turks
,
by
which
the
wo
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
made
its
entrance
into
the
Empire
,
did
not
work
repentance
in
the
degenerate
Christians
of
their
Idolatries
and
other
enormous
practices
:
then
there
followed
other
means
of
Conviction
and
cure
of
a
more
spiritual
nature
,
such
was
the
Reformation
,
the
Witnesses
prophesying
and
pouring
out
some
of
the
Vials
and
the
like
.
Which
proving
ineffectual
,
as
to
their
cure
,
through
their
own
obstinacy
,
became
so
many
tormenting
plagues
to
them
,
but
not
so
visible
to
all
as
the
Turkish
conquest
was
.
But
when
I
say
this
has
been
the
nature
of
the
Vials
already
past
,
I
dare
not
say
but
those
to
come
may
be
of
somewhat
a
different
nature
in
whole
or
in
part
,
especially
the
last
of
them
,
which
is
like
to
produce
both
great
and
visible
Judgments
.
The
things
hitherto
insisted
on
,
considered
,
do
I
conceive
afford
us
a
sufficient
ground
to
conclude
that
part
of
the
Vials
(
and
probably
the
greatest
part
of
them
)
were
to
be
poured
out
between
the
time
of
the
Reformation
and
the
ending
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
.
For
the
order
of
time
in
which
the
Visions
of
these
Occurrences
were
seen
,
and
the
order
and
succession
of
the
Occurrences
themselves
direct
us
to
this
conclusion
,
according
to
the
rule
formerly
laid
down
for
the
understanding
the
proper
time
and
order
of
events
,
and
fulfilling
prophetical
Visions
,
by
the
time
when
and
under
what
Trumpet
they
were
seen
.
And
the
Vision
of
the
Witnesses
turning
the
Waters
into
Blood
,
and
of
their
smiting
the
Earth
with
all
plagues
as
often
as
they
will
,
is
next
or
near
next
the
Vision
of
measuring
the
Temple
,
and
the
other
parts
of
that
Vision
,
and
of
the
Reformation
signified
thereby
;
and
yet
is
before
the
ending
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
which
comes
not
to
a
period
till
after
the
slaughter
and
resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
which
follow
after
that
of
the
Witnesses
turning
the
Waters
into
Blood
.
Besides
,
we
may
see
that
the
beginning
of
the
effusion
of
the
Vial
,
does
presently
follow
upon
the
Victory
obtained
over
the
Beast
,
by
comparing
Chap.
15.
with
Chap.
16.
and
yet
that
Victory
(
as
is
granted
)
was
obtained
by
the
Reformation
.
Since
then
this
Reformation
fell
out
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
and
the
turning
Waters
into
Blood
,
followed
presently
upon
the
Reformation
,
and
yet
before
the
ending
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
it
is
a
plain
and
pregnant
intimation
that
those
Vials
were
poured
out
in
the
times
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
by
the
effusion
of
which
the
Waters
were
turned
into
Blood
.
But
it
may
be
it
will
be
said
,
that
if
this
Vision
of
the
Witnesses
turning
Waters
into
Blood
was
seen
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
and
that
the
second
and
third
Vial
were
thereby
meant
,
and
that
this
Vision
and
Prophecy
was
accordingly
to
be
fulfill'd
in
the
time
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
Then
why
are
they
not
here
mentioned
by
their
name
Vials
,
as
they
are
in
Chap.
16.
which
is
their
proper
place
.
To
this
I
answer
,
It
was
not
necessary
,
nor
indeed
convenient
,
to
have
them
described
by
their
name
in
this
place
,
because
if
they
had
,
we
should
have
had
them
but
in
piecemeal
;
for
they
were
not
all
to
take
place
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
and
therefore
not
to
be
all
mentioned
in
this
Vision
,
which
was
a
Vision
,
or
part
of
a
Vision
of
that
Trumpet
.
It
was
most
meet
to
reserve
the
name
and
number
of
the
Vials
unto
the
time
and
place
where
they
are
all
set
down
in
their
proper
order
,
to
the
end
it
might
be
the
better
known
which
was
to
take
place
first
,
and
which
next
,
and
so
on
to
the
last
.
The
16.
Chap.
does
not
at
all
acquaint
us
under
what
Trumpet
,
or
about
what
time
this
or
that
Vial
was
to
be
poured
out
;
that
is
,
to
be
learned
from
the
Visions
of
the
Trumpets
themselves
.
How
should
we
have
known
for
instance
,
that
the
second
and
third
Vials
,
besides
others
,
were
to
be
poured
out
in
time
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
if
we
had
not
met
with
their
Character
in
a
Vision
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
by
which
they
are
described
in
the
16.
Chap.
If
it
were
any
good
argument
to
prove
that
none
of
the
Vials
were
to
be
poured
out
in
the
time
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
in
as
much
as
they
are
not
mentioned
by
their
name
and
title
in
any
of
the
Visions
under
that
Trumpet
,
it
would
as
well
be
an
argument
to
prove
,
that
none
of
them
will
be
poured
out
in
the
time
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
neither
,
and
consequently
,
that
there
shall
be
no
effusion
of
the
Vials
at
all
.
For
there
is
not
any
one
of
the
Vials
mentioned
by
name
in
the
Visions
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
.
But
if
the
mentioning
of
the
last
Vial
under
its
proper
Character
,
in
one
of
the
Visions
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
be
an
argument
to
prove
,
that
the
last
Vial
will
be
poured
out
in
the
time
of
the
last
Trumpet
,
as
most
certainly
it
is
(
Chap.
11.
19.
with
Chap.
16.
18.
)
Then
the
mentioning
the
second
and
third
Vial
under
their
proper
Character
,
in
one
of
the
Visions
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
must
needs
be
a
good
argument
to
prove
,
that
those
Vials
were
to
be
poured
out
in
the
times
of
that
Trumpet
.
I
do
not
mention
the
second
and
third
Vial
here
,
as
if
there
were
no
more
to
be
poured
out
in
the
time
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
;
but
I
mention
these
only
,
because
the
Character
of
these
is
express
and
unexceptionable
,
though
there
is
sufficient
intimation
of
more
of
the
Vials
in
the
same
Vision
,
though
not
so
express
.
I
add
yet
farther
,
that
to
have
described
the
seven
Vials
,
by
their
name
,
number
and
order
,
as
in
Chap.
16.
before
the
Visions
of
the
seven
Trumpets
had
been
brought
to
an
issue
,
and
the
rehearsal
of
them
finished
,
would
have
been
a
confounding
one
seven
with
another
,
the
seven
Trumpets
with
the
seven
Vials
,
and
a
breaking
the
line
of
discourse
concerning
the
Trumpets
.
For
the
avoiding
of
which
perhaps
it
was
,
that
when
in
the
time
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
seven
thunders
uttered
their
Voices
,
the
Angel
would
not
suffer
St.
John
to
write
them
,
and
to
set
down
in
particular
what
each
Voice
declared
:
he
would
not
have
the
things
of
the
seven
thundering
Voices
mingled
with
the
things
of
the
seven
Trumpets
,
no
otherwise
than
by
some
hints
in
general
.
There
is
another
objection
which
is
levied
against
any
of
the
Vials
at
all
,
being
poured
out
in
the
times
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
;
and
the
reason
and
ground
on
which
it
is
founded
,
is
this
.
The
seven
Vials
are
called
the
seven
last
Plagues
,
which
yet
they
could
not
be
unless
the
first
plagues
,
which
are
the
plagues
of
the
Trumpets
,
were
to
take
place
before
them
.
But
I
answer
,
That
the
seven
Vials
are
not
said
to
be
the
seven
last
plagues
for
that
reason
,
because
they
succeed
the
plagues
of
the
Trumpets
,
but
for
another
reason
,
which
the
Text
it self
assigns
,
in
which
they
are
stiled
the
last
plagues
,
and
that
is
,
because
in
them
is
filled
up
the
wrath
of
God
,
Rev.
15.
1.
And
I
saw
another
sign
in
Heaven
great
and
marvellous
,
seven
Angels
having
the
seven
last
plagues
;
for
in
them
is
filled
up
the
wrath
of
God
.
They
are
called
the
last
plagues
therefore
,
because
no
more
shall
succeed
them
,
but
they
shall
finish
the
work
designed
to
be
done
by
plagues
;
in
them
is
filled
up
the
wrath
of
God
,
or
in
them
is
finished
the
wrath
of
God
;
so
Doctor
Hammond
reads
it
.
And
accordingly
upon
the
pouring
out
of
the
last
of
the
seven
Vials
,
it
s
said
,
There
came
a
great
Voice
out
of
the
Temple
of
Heaven
from
the
Throne
,
saying
,
it
is
done
.
Rev.
16.
17.
The
Vials
then
are
not
called
the
seven
last
plagues
,
because
other
plagues
went
before
them
,
but
because
no
other
shall
follow
after
them
for
the
finishing
the
work
,
for
which
the
plagues
both
of
the
Trumpets
and
the
Vials
were
designed
.
And
indeed
if
any
other
plagues
had
been
to
succeed
them
,
they
could
not
have
been
the
last
.
Which
still
shows
,
that
the
proper
reason
why
they
are
called
the
last
plagues
,
is
because
no
more
are
to
follow
:
in
them
will
be
filled
up
the
wrath
of
God
to
the
full
.
But
having
said
this
in
way
of
answer
,
I
shall
now
show
,
that
the
plea
for
placing
all
the
Vials
under
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
in
opposition
to
Mr.
Mede
,
who
placeth
most
of
them
under
the
sixth
;
is
built
on
a
great
oversight
,
or
mistake
.
For
though
the
Author
of
the
plea
makes
two
Setts
of
plagues
succeeding
one
another
,
that
of
the
Vials
to
follow
that
of
the
Trumpets
,
yet
he
does
not
make
that
of
the
Trumpets
to
consist
of
seven
plagues
answerable
to
the
seven
Trumpets
(
which
he
ought
to
have
done
,
if
he
would
make
one
entire
sett
of
them
)
but
only
of
six
of
them
.
For
in
one
place
he
saith
,
the
Trumpet
plagues
are
just
six
as
well
as
the
Vial
plagues
seven
.
And
again
he
saith
,
the
whole
set
or
number
of
the
la●●
plagues
of
the
Vials
,
are
so
called
,
in
respect
of
the
whole
s●tt
,
or
number
of
the
plagues
of
the
six
Trumpets
.
And
then
in
another
place
he
argueth
to
this
effect
.
For
it
being
said
of
every
one
of
the
seven
last
plagues
,
that
it
is
the
last
,
it
must
be
so
in
respect
of
all
the
foregoing
plagues
in
the
former
conceived
Series
,
else
it
will
be
falsly
called
the
last
,
nor
would
there
be
seven
last
plagues
in
number
.
For
no
more
of
the
seven
can
be
said
in
respect
of
the
precedent
plagues
to
be
the
last
,
than
such
as
follow
all
the
plagues
precedent
,
after
they
have
expired
,
that
is
to
say
,
unless
the
first
of
the
last
plagues
expire
after
the
last
of
the
former
Series
,
the
enunciation
is
false
.
Again
,
he
says
,
It
is
plain
to
every
one
at
first
sight
,
that
is
not
blinded
with
prejudice
,
That
every
one
of
the
seven
last
plagues
must
be
later
than
any
one
of
those
plagues
,
in
respect
of
which
they
are
termed
the
last
.
This
arguing
seems
plausible
upon
supposition
,
that
the
plagues
of
the
Trumpets
had
been
but
six
,
and
the
plagues
of
the
Vials
,
called
the
seven
last
plagues
for
that
reason
,
because
they
succeed
the
plagues
of
the
six
Trumpets
.
But
supposing
what
will
presently
be
proved
,
that
all
the
seven
plagues
of
the
seven
Trumpets
make
but
one
intire
sett
of
plagues
,
as
the
Vials
do
another
,
the
foresaid
reasoning
,
if
grounded
thereon
,
would
be
most
absurd
and
false
.
For
then
to
say
,
that
every
one
of
the
seven
last
plagues
must
be
later
than
any
one
of
those
plagues
,
in
respect
of
which
,
they
are
termed
the
last
,
would
be
to
say
,
that
every
one
of
the
plagues
of
the
seven
Vials
must
be
later
,
and
follow
after
the
plague
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
it self
,
which
to
affirm
,
what
can
be
more
absurd
,
or
more
untrue
?
And
should
we
instead
of
the
Authors
calling
the
Trumpet-plagues
the
foregoing
plagues
,
but
call
them
the
seven
foregoing
plagues
of
the
Trumpets
,
the
consequence
of
the
reasoning
here
used
,
would
sufficiently
evince
it
impossible
,
that
the
seven
last
plagues
are
so
called
,
because
they
follow
the
seven
plagues
of
the
Trumpets
.
As
for
Example
;
It
being
said
of
every
one
of
the
seven
last
plagues
,
that
it
is
the
last
,
it
must
be
so
in
respect
of
all
the
seven
foregoing
plagues
of
the
Trumpets
,
else
it
will
be
falsly
called
the
last
.
For
no
more
of
the
seven
can
be
said
in
respect
of
the
seven
preceding
plagues
of
the
Trumpets
to
be
the
last
,
than
such
as
follow
all
the
seven
precedent
plagues
of
the
Trumpets
after
they
have
expired
;
that
is
to
say
,
unless
the
first
of
the
Vial
plagues
expire
after
the
last
of
the
seven
Trumpetplagues
,
the
enuciation
is
false
,
viz.
in
saying
,
it
is
one
of
the
last
plagues
.
This
way
of
reasoning
we
see
,
if
it
proves
any
thing
,
proves
,
that
none
of
the
plagues
of
the
Vials
are
to
take
place
till
after
the
last
of
the
seven
Trumpet-plagues
are
expired
.
Which
is
a
thing
I
know
the
Author
himself
does
not
believe
,
who
holds
that
the
times
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
will
last
not
only
to
the
final
overthrow
of
all
Antichristian
Powers
,
and
to
the
bringing
in
the
blessed
Millennium
,
but
also
to
the
end
of
the
World
.
The
absurdity
then
of
the
opinion
,
that
the
seven
Vials
are
called
the
seven
last
plagues
for
that
reason
,
because
they
follow
after
all
the
plagues
of
the
seven
Trumpets
,
is
argument
sufficient
,
if
there
were
no
other
,
to
show
that
they
are
not
said
to
be
the
last
plagues
upon
that
account
.
And
if
not
upon
that
account
,
I
know
not
for
what
other
reason
they
can
be
called
the
seven
last
plagues
,
but
only
that
which
the
Angel
has
given
,
and
I
have
already
named
,
to
wit
,
because
in
them
is
filled
up
the
wrath
of
God
.
For
the
Particle
[
for
]
in
that
place
carries
the
force
of
a
reason
—
the
seven
last
plagues
,
[
for
]
in
them
is
filled
up
the
wrath
of
God
.
Now
that
the
entire
sett
or
number
of
the
Trumpet-plagues
were
seven
,
is
so
plain
,
that
nothing
can
be
plainer
,
if
we
suppose
the
first
six
to
be
Plague-Trumpets
;
for
the
fifth
,
sixth
and
seventh
,
are
in
special
called
wo
Trumpets
.
And
therefore
by
what
Warrant
the
Author
(
who
ever
he
is
)
hath
limitted
them
to
six
,
he
doth
not
acquaint
us
,
nor
can
I
imagine
.
Only
he
strongly
conceives
,
but
does
not
prove
,
that
the
effusion
of
all
the
Vials
follows
after
the
sixth
Trumpet
.
And
the
reason
he
alledges
for
it
is
,
because
the
Vials
follow
after
the
Victory
got
over
the
Beast
,
they
being
set
down
in
the
16
Chap.
but
the
Victory
over
the
Beast
in
the
15th
.
But
this
is
far
from
proving
,
that
the
effusion
of
all
the
Vials
must
needs
follow
the
ending
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
because
the
Victory
over
the
Beast
was
obtained
by
the
Reformation
,
between
which
and
the
ending
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
we
have
notice
of
several
of
the
Vials
by
their
proper
Characters
,
as
I
have
showed
before
:
So
that
the
Vials
might
well
enough
follow
that
Victory
over
the
Beast
,
and
yet
take
place
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
.
Two
things
may
be
said
in
favour
of
Mr.
Mede's
Judgment
in
holding
six
of
the
Vials
have
and
will
be
poured
out
under
the
sixth
Trumpet
.
First
that
the
wo
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
which
at
first
fell
on
the
Eastern
Empire
by
the
prevailing
power
of
the
Turks
,
continues
still
and
lies
heavy
upon
it
unto
this
day
,
after
three
or
four
of
the
Vials
have
been
poured
out
.
In
respect
of
that
as
well
as
in
other
respects
,
it
cannot
yet
be
said
the
second
wo
is
past
.
Nor
will
it
be
past
until
the
effusion
of
the
sixth
Vial
,
if
by
pouring
out
that
Vial
upon
the
great
River
Euphrates
,
and
the
drying
up
the
Water
thereof
,
be
meant
the
dissolution
of
the
Turkish
Monarchy
,
as
it
is
thought
it
is
,
when
compared
with
the
latter
end
of
the
11th
of
Daniel
.
Secondly
,
When
we
consider
,
that
the
proper
Event
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
will
be
the
finishing
the
mystery
of
God
declared
to
the
Prophets
,
we
have
reason
to
think
we
are
not
yet
in
the
Times
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
because
we
have
reason
to
think
nothing
of
that
which
will
be
properly
the
finishing
of
that
Mystery
of
God
,
is
yet
brought
to
pass
,
such
as
will
be
the
last
and
irrecoverable
overthrow
of
the
power
and
rule
of
the
Churches
Enemies
,
and
the
great
enlargement
and
overspreading
power
of
the
Church
.
But
of
this
more
will
be
said
when
we
come
to
the
Vision
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
.
Thus
far
we
have
seen
what
the
Witnesses
were
to
do
against
the
Beast
:
But
that
which
next
follows
,
shows
what
the
Beast
will
do
against
them
.
Ver
.
7.
And
when
they
have
finished
their
testimony
,
the
Beast
that
ascendeth
out
of
the
Bottomless-Pit
,
shall
make
War
against
them
,
and
shall
overcome
them
,
and
kill
them
.
Although
the
Witnesses
shall
have
much
weakened
the
Kingdom
of
the
Beast
by
the
Reformation
,
their
prophesying
and
pouring
out
most
of
the
Vials
,
and
shall
thereupon
be
almost
ready
to
throw
off
their
Sackcloth
,
the
days
of
their
mournful
Prophecy
being
near
expiring
:
yet
it
seems
Almighty
God
,
either
to
awaken
his
people
to
repentance
for
some
general
declining
,
or
to
make
himself
the
more
known
in
the
World
by
their
speedy
deliverance
when
brought
very
low
by
their
Enemies
,
or
for
some
other
reason
will
suffer
their
Enemies
to
prevail
against
them
,
and
to
triumph
over
them
for
a
short
time
.
The
time
when
this
War
shall
be
made
against
the
Witnesses
,
is
here
said
to
be
when
they
shall
have
finished
their
testimony
;
or
according
to
Mr.
Mede's
reading
,
when
they
shall
be
about
to
finish
it
;
that
is
,
when
the
1260.
prophetical
days
of
their
mournful
Prophecy
are
expired
,
or
near
expiring
,
Then
it
is
,
that
the
Beast
shall
make
this
War
;
for
so
long
they
were
to
prophesie
clothed
in
Sackcloth
.
But
there
are
some
who
would
have
the
Text
run
thus
;
not
when
they
have
finished
,
or
be
about
to
finish
,
but
when
they
shall
be
finishing
,
performing
,
or
declaring
their
testimony
,
this
War
shall
be
made
against
them
.
And
so
they
understand
their
finishing
their
testimony
to
import
no
more
than
their
performing
or
declaring
their
testimony
against
the
Beast
and
his
followers
all
along
their
1260.
years
prophecy
.
And
accordingly
they
understand
by
the
War
here
said
to
be
made
against
them
,
to
be
none
other
than
what
the
Beast
has
been
making
against
them
all
along
their
1260.
days
Prophecy
,
nor
their
slaughter
any
other
than
what
they
suffered
in
that
length
of
time
.
But
that
this
cannot
be
the
sence
and
meaning
of
the
place
,
consider
1.
That
it
is
disagreeable
to
the
general
and
common
signification
of
the
word
finish
,
or
to
have
finished
,
as
it
is
used
in
Scripture
,
and
against
the
common
use
of
it
in
speech
and
other
writings
.
It
would
be
tedious
to
show
by
particular
instances
in
Scripture
,
how
the
word
finishing
almost
every
where
signifies
to
bring
the
things
to
which
it
is
applied
,
to
an
issue
,
to
an
end
,
to
a
close
,
to
a
point
,
and
to
consummate
,
perfect
,
and
compleat
them
.
And
to
force
an
unusual
signification
upon
a
word
,
where
the
scope
of
the
place
,
and
nature
of
the
matter
where
it
is
used
,
does
not
necessarily
require
it
,
has
little
authority
in
it
to
procure
assent
.
2.
This
War
and
this
slaughter
of
the
Witnesses
here
spoken
of
,
according
to
the
Order
and
succession
of
Occurrences
represented
before
in
this
Chapter
,
are
such
Events
as
were
to
follow
after
the
Reformation
,
at
a
great
distance
,
yea
which
were
to
follow
after
such
other
things
as
were
to
follow
after
the
Reformation
it self
;
such
as
was
the
effusion
of
several
of
the
Vials
:
And
if
so
,
then
not
any
War
against
the
Witnesses
,
nor
any
slaughter
of
them
preceding
the
Reformation
,
can
be
that
War
,
or
that
slaughter
here
spoken
of
.
But
it
is
objected
,
That
if
the
War
here
spoken
of
,
by
which
the
Witnesses
are
said
to
be
slain
,
were
not
meant
of
that
War
by
which
the
Witnesses
had
suffered
a
political
death
,
all
along
the
time
of
their
mournful
Prophecy
,
and
many
times
a
violent
death
in
a
proper
sence
;
but
of
a
War
at
the
end
of
it
only
,
Then
there
is
nothing
in
the
Vision
here
which
represents
any
War
at
all
of
the
Beast
against
the
Witnesses
,
nor
any
political
death
they
suffered
by
it
all
along
their
1260.
years
mournful
Prophecy
,
though
there
is
a
clear
account
of
both
in
History
.
Answer
;
And
what
if
there
be
no
such
former
War
represented
in
this
Vision
?
Is
it
not
enough
,
that
it
is
represented
elsewhere
in
this
Book
?
as
it
is
Chap.
13.
7.
Besides
other
places
.
He
shall
make
War
with
the
Saints
,
and
overcome
them
.
And
the
History
of
the
Witnesses
suffering
all
along
before
the
Reformation
,
will
well
enough
answer
to
this
Prophecy
,
though
the
War
of
the
Beast
against
them
in
this
place
respects
but
a
War
which
the
Beast
will
raise
against
them
long
after
the
time
in
which
the
Reformation
first
began
.
And
when
the
Beast
shall
have
suffered
so
much
from
the
Witnesses
as
is
represented
,
he
shall
in
the
former
part
of
this
11th
Chapter
;
it
falls
in
naturally
,
that
he
in
revenge
should
make
a
new
attempt
against
them
,
as
here
't
is
foretold
he
will
.
But
it
is
further
objected
;
What
greater
over-coming
of
Witnesses
by
the
Beasts
War
can
we
conceive
should
befal
them
now
at
the
end
of
their
1260.
years
Prophecy
,
than
had
befallen
them
all
along
before
?
Answer
,
It
is
not
pretended
that
any
greater
over-coming
of
the
Witnesses
,
by
the
Beast
,
shall
befal
them
at
the
end
of
their
mournful
Prophecy
,
than
had
befallen
them
before
the
Reformation
.
But
for
our
better
understanding
this
matter
in
hand
,
it
is
to
be
considered
,
That
the
former
prevailing
of
the
Beast
against
the
Witnesses
,
and
their
great
sufferings
thereby
,
were
in
a
great
measure
,
and
to
a
good
degree
,
taken
off
by
the
Reformation
,
by
which
Reformation
the
Witnesses
got
a
great
Victory
over
the
Beast
and
his
Party
.
By
which
and
by
what
followed
thereupon
,
by
the
Witnesses
prophesying
,
and
by
their
pouring
out
a
great
part
of
the
Vials
,
they
had
disabled
the
Beast
,
for
some
Ages
,
from
overcoming
them
in
any
such
hostile
manner
as
he
had
done
before
the
Reformation
,
and
became
able
to
secure
themselves
in
a
great
measure
,
and
to
make
their
part
good
against
him
.
By
the
Beasts
former
War
,
the
Witnesses
had
for
a
long
time
been
deprest
and
kept
out
of
all
publick
imployment
in
Church
and
State
.
But
the
Witnesses
were
in
great
part
restored
to
these
priviledges
in
the
times
of
the
Reformation
,
and
in
the
Countreys
that
have
been
reformed
,
and
will
have
kept
possession
of
them
for
a
long
time
before
this
last
War
of
the
Beast
takes
place
.
But
after
all
this
,
and
about
the
time
in
which
the
Witnesses
mournful
prophecy
should
come
to
an
end
,
Almighty
God
(
as
this
Prophecy
does
inform
us
)
will
permit
unto
the
Beast
an
opportunity
of
renewing
his
old
War
against
the
Witnesses
,
and
with
such
success
as
that
the
Beast
shall
repossess
himself
of
his
former
power
over
them
,
and
shall
deprive
them
again
of
their
publick
power
and
privileges
for
some
little
time
.
As
it
behoved
our
Lord
Christ
first
to
suffer
,
and
then
to
enter
into
his
glory
of
high
exaltation
;
so
it
seems
probable
,
that
his
Church
in
this
will
be
made
something
conformable
to
him
;
that
is
,
in
being
humbled
and
brought
very
low
for
a
little
season
,
but
a
little
before
her
highest
exaltation
in
this
World
.
The
next
three
Verses
8
,
9
,
10.
contain
a
prophetical
representation
of
the
disgrace
the
Beast
and
his
party
will
put
upon
the
Witnesses
after
they
have
overcome
them
,
and
how
they
will
rejoice
and
triumph
over
them
.
But
then
in
the
11
and
12
Verse
,
we
have
the
Resurrection
of
these
slain
Witnesses
prophetically
set
forth
.
And
after
three
days
and
an
half
,
the
Spirit
of
Life
from
God
entred
into
them
,
and
they
stood
upon
their
feet
.
And
they
heard
a
great
Voice
from
Heaven
,
saying
unto
them
,
Come
up
hither
.
And
they
ascended
up
to
Heaven
in
a
Cloud
,
and
their
Enemies
beheld
them
.
This
Resurrection
is
to
be
understood
only
of
those
who
escaped
the
loss
of
their
natural
lives
in
the
War
,
by
which
the
Beast
overcame
the
Witnesses
and
kill'd
them
,
and
consequently
of
a
political
Resurrection
.
The
political
death
they
suffered
,
though
they
escaped
a
natural
death
,
was
their
being
cast
down
and
deprived
of
all
publick
power
and
imployment
,
both
in
Church
and
State
:
and
therefore
by
their
Resurrection
in
a
political
sense
,
we
are
to
understand
their
being
restored
to
the
publick
power
,
liberty
and
priviledges
,
which
before
they
had
lost
.
As
their
death
signified
a
being
reduced
to
a
kind
of
servile
state
,
a
state
of
Slavery
,
so
their
Resurrection
implies
their
being
restored
to
a
state
of
liberty
and
power
again
.
And
to
call
this
a
Resurrection
,
is
but
according
to
the
prophetical
stile
of
old
.
The
great
change
which
God
purposed
to
make
in
the
condition
of
the
whole
House
of
Israel
,
by
delivering
them
out
of
Captivity
,
Slavery
and
a
servile
state
,
and
by
restoring
them
to
their
own
Land
,
and
to
their
ancient
Liberties
and
Priviledges
,
is
described
as
if
it
were
a
Resurrection
from
Death
to
Life
.
When
he
promised
to
do
this
for
them
,
it
is
by
promising
to
open
their
Graves
for
them
,
and
to
bring
them
out
of
their
Graves
,
Ezek
.
37.
11
,
12
,
13
,
14.
This
I
doubt
not
is
the
general
meaning
of
this
Parable
touching
the
Resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
,
in
which
Expositors
do
accord
.
But
the
great
question
is
,
to
what
time
this
Resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
does
belong
:
and
whether
by
it
we
are
to
understand
the
Witnesses
,
being
by
the
Reformation
restored
to
those
liberties
of
publick
worship
and
those
publick
Offices
and
Imployments
,
both
in
Church
and
State
,
out
of
which
they
had
been
forceably
kept
above
a
thousand
years
;
or
whether
by
this
Resurrection
of
theirs
,
is
not
meant
their
being
restored
to
those
Liberties
,
Priviledges
,
and
publick
Offices
and
Imployments
which
they
had
held
and
enjoyed
a
long
time
,
by
vertue
of
the
Reformation
,
until
they
shall
be
forceably
deprived
of
them
by
a
new
attempt
,
hostilely
managed
by
the
Beast
,
to
recover
what
he
had
lost
by
that
Reformation
.
This
is
the
true
state
of
the
question
.
And
that
we
are
to
understand
this
Resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
in
this
latter
sence
,
and
not
in
the
former
,
will
appear
by
this
.
The
Reformation
fell
out
long
before
the
time
prefixed
for
the
Witnesses
finishing
their
testimony
:
But
their
Resurrection
here
spoken
of
is
not
to
fall
out
till
after
they
have
finished
their
testimony
,
or
are
about
to
finish
it
.
The
War
of
the
Beast
against
the
Witnesses
,
by
which
they
will
be
overcome
,
is
said
to
be
when
they
shall
have
finished
their
testimony
;
and
yet
this
Resurrection
is
not
to
be
till
three
prophetical
days
and
an
half
after
they
are
overcome
and
kill'd
by
that
War
.
And
though
we
should
begin
the
account
of
the
Witnesses
twelve
hundred
and
sixty
years
mournful
Prophecy
,
so
early
as
the
year
397.
yet
the
Reformation
would
be
found
to
fall
out
140.
years
before
the
Witnesses
were
to
finish
that
prophecy
of
theirs
.
But
if
we
begin
not
that
account
until
the
year
457.
or
till
some
years
after
(
which
upon
several
account
I
take
to
be
the
truer
Epocha
,
the
time
of
the
Witnesses
Prophecy
,
and
the
times
of
the
Beast
,
being
some
time
since
expired
,
according
to
the
first
account
,
which
I
think
shows
it
not
to
be
right
)
we
shall
find
,
that
the
Reformation
has
fallen
out
200.
years
or
more
before
the
end
of
the
time
of
their
mournful
prophecy
.
Either
of
these
computations
make
too
great
a
distance
between
the
time
in
which
the
one
did
fall
out
,
or
the
other
is
to
fall
out
,
for
any
Man
,
on
any
probable
ground
to
conclude
the
Reformation
and
this
Resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
to
be
one
and
the
same
thing
.
As
for
that
Plea
(
which
is
made
use
of
to
avoid
the
force
of
this
Argument
)
which
would
insinuate
as
if
the
Witnesses
,
finishing
their
testimony
,
signifies
no
more
than
their
performing
or
declaring
their
testimony
,
in
which
sence
they
have
been
finishing
their
testimony
all
along
their
1260.
years
Prophecy
,
I
have
answered
it
before
.
And
indeed
it
looks
but
oddly
to
say
they
were
finishing
their
testimony
as
soon
as
they
began
it
.
But
another
argument
which
does
notably
evince
,
that
neither
the
War
of
the
Beast
,
nor
the
death
of
the
Witnesses
,
nor
their
Resurrection
here
spoken
of
,
did
precede
or
go
before
the
Reformation
,
or
accompany
it
,
but
that
they
all
are
to
follow
after
it
,
is
taken
from
the
little
or
short
time
here
set
down
,
between
the
death
of
the
Witnesses
by
the
War
,
and
their
Resurrection
after
it
.
It
is
said
of
the
Witnesses
,
Ver
.
9.
That
their
dead
Bodies
should
be
seen
three
days
and
an
half
,
and
not
suffered
to
be
put
in
Graves
.
And
then
in
Ver
.
11
,
12.
It
's
said
,
that
after
three
days
and
an
half
,
the
Spirit
of
life
from
God
entred
into
them
,
and
they
stood
upon
their
feet
.
Upon
which
a
great
Voice
from
Heaven
said
unto
them
,
Come
up
hither
,
and
that
they
ascended
in
a
Cloud
.
So
that
between
their
Death
and
Resurrection
,
we
see
there
is
to
be
but
three
dayes
and
an
half
.
Now
then
,
if
we
understand
the
Death
of
those
that
shall
rise
,
and
their
Resurrection
it self
in
a
political
sence
,
as
it
's
agreed
we
must
,
Then
it
follows
necessarily
,
that
these
Witnesses
were
by
their
political
death
,
deprived
of
their
Liberties
,
Priviledges
,
and
publick
Offices
,
but
three
days
and
an
half
before
they
were
restored
to
them
again
by
their
Resurrection
.
And
if
so
,
then
the
War
and
the
political
Death
of
the
Witnesses
here
spoken
of
,
cannot
be
that
War
,
or
that
political
Death
the
Witnesses
suffered
by
it
before
the
Reformation
.
For
by
that
War
and
Death
the
Witnesses
were
kept
out
of
their
Liberties
,
Priviledges
,
and
publick
Offices
for
a
thousand
years
before
the
Reformation
:
Whereas
by
this
War
and
Death
the
Witnesses
are
to
be
deprived
to
those
Liberties
and
Offices
but
three
years
and
a
half
from
the
time
they
had
enjoyed
them
under
the
Reformation
.
This
is
all
plain
,
easy
,
and
unforced
.
But
to
evade
the
force
of
such
like
reasoning
,
some
would
perswade
us
to
understand
by
the
three
days
and
a
half
here
,
three
times
and
an
half
,
or
the
time
,
times
and
half
a
time
in
Daniel
,
though
they
grant
the
three
days
and
an
half
thus
understood
,
would
be
equal
in
length
of
time
to
the
1260.
days
Prophecy
of
the
Witnesses
.
But
to
make
three
days
and
a
half
to
signify
such
a
length
of
time
as
we
understand
by
a
time
,
times
,
and
half
a
time
,
and
by
1260.
dayes
of
the
Witnesses
prophesying
,
is
quite
beside
the
prophetick
stile
of
this
Book
,
which
never
uses
to
signifie
more
than
so
many
years
by
so
many
days
.
And
it
is
moreover
a
way
of
interpretation
which
cannot
be
justified
by
any
one
like
instance
or
example
throughout
the
whole
Bible
:
and
therefore
to
be
looked
upon
as
wholly
precarious
.
But
to
have
said
either
here
or
elsewhere
for
a
Time
,
and
Times
and
half
a
Time
,
Three
years
and
a
half
,
had
been
quite
out
of
the
road
of
the
prophetick
style
which
never
names
a
year
for
a
year
of
years
,
saith
Dr.
H.
More
,
Arith
.
Apoc
.
p.
367.
And
if
the
prophetick
stile
never
names
a
year
for
a
year
of
years
,
much
less
as
every
ones
reason
will
suggest
,
does
it
name
a
day
for
a
year
of
years
;
and
if
it
never
does
so
,
then
it
does
not
so
in
this
place
.
It
would
have
sounded
harsh
to
the
common
sense
of
men
to
have
said
the
Bodies
of
the
slain
Witnesses
lay
three
years
and
an
half
unburied
in
the
street
of
the
great
City
,
which
yet
is
the
inward
sense
of
this
parabolical
Vision
.
And
therefore
we
see
the
same
prophetick
figure
in
speaking
is
here
made
use
of
as
it
is
in
other
places
in
this
Book
,
when
so
many
years
are
signified
by
so
many
days
.
But
who
would
ever
imagine
,
that
the
pith
or
pulp
contained
should
as
much
exceed
the
rine
,
containing
it
in
measure
,
as
1260.
years
exceeds
three
days
and
a
half
?
And
therefore
that
so
many
years
of
years
should
be
signified
by
so
many
days
,
exceeds
all
Example
in
Scripture
,
and
consequently
all
rational
belief
.
Such
a
sense
then
put
upon
the
Witnesses
lying
unburied
three
days
and
a
half
,
which
cannot
be
maintained
but
upon
the
authority
of
such
an
incredible
Paradox
,
does
sufficiently
evince
that
not
to
be
the
true
sence
and
meaning
of
the
words
.
But
besides
,
if
it
could
be
granted
(
which
it
cannot
)
that
the
three
days
and
a
half
here
signifies
the
same
length
of
time
,
which
a
time
,
times
,
and
half
a
time
does
,
or
which
1260.
days
in
the
Witnesses
Prophecy
does
;
yet
this
would
not
prove
the
Reformation
to
be
at
the
same
in
the
which
the
Witnesses
are
said
to
rise
,
or
to
be
one
and
the
same
thing
with
their
Resurrection
,
but
a
long
time
after
it
,
and
at
a
great
distance
from
it
.
For
it
is
after
the
three
days
and
an
half
in
which
the
Witnesses
are
said
to
lie
dead
,
that
they
are
said
to
rise
;
and
so
it
will
be
after
the
three
times
and
a
half
,
before
they
shall
rise
,
though
the
three
days
and
a
half
should
signifie
such
a
length
of
time
.
And
if
so
,
the
Reformation
would
be
so
far
from
being
after
the
time
times
,
and
half
a
time
,
as
that
it
would
be
200
years
before
the
end
of
them
,
or
according
to
their
own
account
140.
years
before
it
,
as
I
have
show'd
before
.
And
this
distance
between
the
one
and
the
other
,
is
too
great
ever
to
reconcile
them
,
and
to
make
them
meet
in
one
point
of
time
.
And
to
think
to
solve
this
difficulty
by
saying
the
half
time
became
current
before
the
Reformation
,
and
that
therefore
the
Reformation
may
be
said
to
be
after
it
,
is
to
prove
one
doubtful
thing
by
another
as
doubtful
as
it self
.
For
I
take
what
has
been
said
,
and
may
further
be
said
to
prove
,
that
the
Reformation
began
a
considerable
time
before
the
half
time
became
current
,
is
of
much
more
weight
than
what
is
argued
to
the
contrary
.
But
if
it
were
not
,
yet
if
the
Reformation
were
but
140.
years
before
the
end
of
the
time
,
times
,
and
half
a
time
,
it
would
be
too
long
in
all
reason
to
hold
true
,
in
saying
it
was
after
it
.
This
small
wire
is
too
weak
for
the
weight
of
the
whole
matter
in
question
to
be
hung
upon
it
,
which
yet
as
we
see
in
the
issue
it
is
.
For
to
assert
the
Prophecy
of
the
rising
of
the
Witnesses
after
three
times
and
a
half
,
was
fulfilled
by
the
Reformation
,
though
that
took
place
140.
years
before
the
end
of
the
three
times
and
a
half
,
and
to
do
it
upon
this
ground
,
because
the
rest
of
the
time
was
then
running
on
,
is
all
one
in
reallity
,
as
to
say
,
the
Prophecy
of
the
holy
Cities
being
trodden
under
foot
42.
Months
was
fulfilled
,
when
it
had
been
so
but
37.
Months
and
10.
Days
,
or
as
it
would
be
to
say
,
the
Vision
of
the
Witnesses
prophesying
in
Sackcloth
1260.
days
,
was
fulfilled
,
when
they
had
done
so
but
1120.
days
;
for
the
full
time
of
these
was
at
these
times
running
on
as
well
as
the
full
time
of
the
other
was
at
the
Reformation
.
And
if
to
assert
the
latter
would
be
highly
unreasonable
,
then
to
assert
the
former
cannot
be
less
.
We
may
notionally
divide
three
times
and
a
half
into
seven
semi-times
;
but
when
we
have
done
so
,
we
cannot
upon
any
good
grounds
,
improve
such
division
to
any
other
use
than
the
phrase
three
times
and
a
half
serves
to
.
For
I
could
never
understand
,
that
the
three
times
and
an
half
in
the
prophecies
,
were
designed
to
set
forth
the
several
different
events
which
were
to
fall
out
in
those
different
parts
of
time
;
but
only
to
show
for
how
long
time
in
the
whole
the
things
to
which
those
times
relate
,
should
continue
.
As
for
dividing
the
three
times
and
half
a
time
into
seven
half
times
,
and
then
to
make
half
a
time
a
unite
,
it
is
incongruous
to
the
Text
,
in
which
if
we
will
find
an
unite
,
one
of
the
three
times
must
be
it
.
For
half
of
one
of
these
times
will
no
more
make
an
unite
,
than
half
of
one
will
make
one
.
I
might
observe
,
that
to
make
the
three
times
and
an
half
in
Daniel
to
be
a
more
authentick
rule
of
computation
than
the
Beasts
42
Months
,
or
the
Witnesses
mournful
prophecy
1260.
days
,
which
are
all
synchronal
,
is
contrary
to
a
received
rule
for
interpreting
Scripture
,
which
is
to
interpret
passages
in
the
Old
Testament
by
what
is
said
of
the
same
things
in
the
new
.
It
is
usually
God's
method
in
revealing
his
mind
to
proceed
from
that
which
is
less
perfect
to
that
which
is
more
so
.
And
how
should
we
have
been
sure
that
Daniel's
time
,
times
,
and
half
a
time
,
had
not
signified
four
or
five
prophetical
years
and
an
half
;
if
that
of
the
Beasts
42.
Months
,
and
the
Witnesses
1260.
days
,
had
not
enlightened
it
,
as
synchronizing
with
it
.
It
is
yet
once
more
objected
,
That
if
the
Church
of
God
shall
at
any
time
be
reduced
to
so
very
low
a
condition
as
is
represented
by
the
Witnesses
being
slain
,
and
lying
three
days
and
a
half
unburied
,
it
is
no
ways
likely
it
should
recover
out
of
it
again
in
so
short
a
time
as
three
years
and
an
half
;
and
for
that
reason
,
we
may
well
think
a
longer
time
is
intended
by
three
days
and
an
half
in
this
place
.
To
which
I
answer
,
That
if
we
were
assured
,
that
Almighty
God
in
effecting
this
alteration
,
were
likely
to
proceed
in
such
a
leisurely
motion
of
providence
as
he
is
wont
to
do
in
ordinary
cases
,
this
objection
would
be
considerable
.
But
since
it
is
said
,
that
in
the
same
hour
in
which
the
Witnesses
are
said
to
arise
and
to
ascend
,
there
was
a
great
Earthquake
,
and
a
tenth
part
of
the
City
fell
,
and
seven
thousand
men
,
or
names
of
men
,
were
slain
in
the
Earthquake
;
and
that
the
remnant
were
affrighted
and
gave
glory
to
the
God
of
Heaven
,
as
it
follows
,
ver
.
13.
it
argues
,
that
God
will
bring
this
sudden
and
great
alteration
to
pass
in
some
extraordinary
way
.
For
an
Earthquake
is
not
ordinary
and
common
,
much
less
a
great
Earthquake
,
which
yet
is
to
fall
out
at
the
same
time
.
By
which
probably
less
cannot
be
meant
than
great
shakings
,
if
not
over-turnings
in
the
Nations
and
places
where
the
Witnesses
shall
then
be
.
And
more
particularly
the
Text
tells
us
,
that
in
this
Earthquake
a
tenth
part
of
the
City
fell
,
viz.
of
that
City
which
in
ver
.
8.
is
spiritually
called
Sodom
and
Egypt
.
Which
must
denote
doubtless
the
falling
off
of
a
considerable
part
of
the
Beasts
Dominion
from
him
;
or
the
fall
of
Rome
it self
,
as
Mr.
Mede
thinks
,
as
being
now
but
a
tenth
part
of
what
it
was
when
St.
John
had
this
Vision
.
And
if
so
,
this
fall
of
a
tenth
part
of
the
City
,
may
be
the
same
with
the
pouring
out
the
fifth
Vial
upon
the
Seat
or
Throne
of
the
Beast
.
However
let
this
fall
of
a
tenth
part
of
the
City
signifie
what
it
will
,
the
Earthquake
,
with
its
Concomitants
will
produce
these
two
effects
.
First
,
the
slaying
of
7000.
names
of
men
,
or
men
of
name
,
which
can
signifie
no
less
than
a
political
death
of
great
numbers
of
such
men
,
that
is
,
the
loss
of
their
Offices
and
dignities
;
for
in
such
a
sence
the
Witnesses
had
been
slain
.
Secondly
,
This
Earthquake
and
the
concomitants
and
effects
of
it
,
will
so
affect
the
remnant
of
the
people
which
were
not
politically
slain
,
as
to
cause
them
to
give
glory
to
the
God
of
Heaven
;
that
is
,
by
their
repentance
and
conversion
,
as
may
probably
be
presumed
,
and
by
acknowledging
Gods
special
hand
,
showing
it self
in
such
great
and
sudden
turns
in
publick
affairs
,
in
favour
of
his
Church
.
These
extraordinary
actings
of
the
Divine
Providence
considered
,
it
is
not
so
difficult
a
thing
to
conceive
how
so
great
a
deliverance
may
be
wrought
for
the
Church
in
so
short
a
time
,
as
the
objection
represents
it
.
Sure
I
am
it
's
a
very
easie
thing
with
God
to
accomplish
so
great
a
work
in
so
little
time
,
if
he
intends
it
.
And
what
does
he
less
than
tell
us
he
intends
it
by
this
prophecy
concerning
it
?
Besides
,
when
it
's
said
of
the
Witnesses
,
that
their
dead
Bodies
should
lie
in
the
street
of
the
great
City
,
spiritually
called
Sodom
and
Egypt
,
and
which
after
three
days
and
an
half
,
should
there
rise
again
,
it
begets
a
question
,
whether
the
slaughter
and
resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
here
foretold
,
should
be
general
,
and
in
all
places
of
the
Empire
where
any
good
Christians
are
,
or
whether
only
in
some
eminent
place
or
part
of
it
;
for
we
see
it
is
to
fall
out
but
in
the
street
of
the
great
City
;
and
it
may
well
be
thought
such
a
great
City
as
this
,
has
more
streets
than
one
in
it
.
And
if
this
slaughter
and
resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
should
prove
to
fall
out
but
in
some
one
eminent
place
or
part
of
the
Empire
,
or
Papal
Jurisdiction
,
then
it
will
be
yet
more
easie
to
conceive
how
so
great
an
alteration
in
the
outward
condition
of
the
Church
,
as
the
Resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
imports
,
may
possibly
be
brought
to
pass
in
so
short
a
time
as
is
signified
by
three
days
and
an
half
.
It
is
foretold
,
that
the
ten
Horns
of
the
Beast
,
or
the
ten
Kings
signified
thereby
,
shall
hate
the
Whore
,
and
make
her
desolate
and
naked
.
And
who
knows
but
that
this
Prediction
may
in
great
part
be
fulfilled
in
this
juncture
of
time
,
as
well
,
if
not
rather
,
than
at
any
other
:
especially
considering
,
that
a
tenth
part
of
that
great
City
is
to
fall
at
the
same
time
.
And
if
these
things
should
chance
to
fall
out
but
in
some
eminent
place
of
the
Empire
,
we
cannot
reasonably
conceive
otherwise
than
that
such
an
alteration
in
the
Empire
it self
,
must
needs
make
a
sudden
alteration
in
the
Witnesses
Case
and
in
the
state
of
the
Church
.
After
the
Protestant
Party
in
Germany
had
been
brought
into
a
very
low
condition
in
the
beginning
of
the
year
1547.
there
was
such
a
wonderful
alteration
of
it
in
three
years
and
an
half
,
as
tempted
Mr.
Brightman
to
take
that
for
the
fulfilling
of
this
prophecy
of
the
Witnesses
Resurrection
,
after
they
had
been
made
a
mocking
stock
by
their
Enemies
three
years
and
an
half
.
This
instance
however
shows
how
possible
it
is
for
a
wonderful
alteration
to
be
made
in
the
state
of
the
Church
in
three
year
and
an
halfs
time
.
When
the
great
Harlot
shall
say
in
her
heart
,
I
sit
as
a
Queen
,
and
shall
see
no
sorrow
,
it
's
said
,
therefore
shall
her
plagues
come
in
one
day
,
Rev.
18.
7
,
8.
Nay
at
v.
10.
in
one
hour
is
thy
Judgment
come
,
v.
17.
for
in
one
hour
so
great
riches
is
come
to
nought
,
and
v.
19.
for
in
one
hour
is
she
made
desolate
.
These
passages
bespeak
great
alterations
to
be
made
in
a
little
time
in
its
season
.
It
follows
Ver.
14.
The
second
wo
is
past
,
and
behold
the
third
wo
cometh
quickly
.
The
second
wo
is
past
,
that
is
,
the
wo
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
for
the
sixth
Trumpet
is
the
second
wo-Trumpet
.
And
in
saying
this
wo
is
past
just
upon
the
close
of
the
foresaid
Vision
of
the
Resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
and
its
concomitants
,
it
s
plain
this
Trumpet
,
and
the
wo
of
it
,
were
not
past
till
these
were
past
.
And
if
this
last
Vision
of
the
Resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
,
and
what
fell
out
with
it
the
same
hour
,
were
part
of
this
second
wo
,
as
undoubtedly
they
were
,
Then
so
were
all
the
foregoing
Visions
which
contain
matter
of
wo
to
the
Bestians
;
they
were
so
many
bitter
ingredients
,
which
with
the
first
and
these
last
,
do
constitute
and
make
up
this
second
wo
,
which
began
Chap.
9.
13.
and
ends
at
the
13.
ver
.
of
this
Chap.
The
principal
parts
of
which
wo
,
as
relating
to
the
Western
Empire
,
are
the
Reformation
,
the
plagues
of
many
of
the
Vials
,
the
Resurrection
of
the
Witnesses
,
the
Earthquake
and
fall
of
a
tenth
part
of
the
City
.
And
to
think
what
befel
the
Eastern
Empire
by
the
Turkish
Conquest
,
did
contain
all
the
second
wo
,
and
that
little
or
none
of
it
was
to
fall
upon
the
Western
Empire
,
Rome
,
and
its
Territories
,
which
was
as
deeply
Criminal
as
the
Eastern
,
and
probably
much
more
,
is
to
fancy
a
very
unlikely
thing
.
And
yet
in
defence
of
it
it
is
said
that
the
five
former
Trumpets
had
but
one
Vision
a
piece
belonging
to
them
;
and
why
then
should
we
think
any
more
belongs
to
this
?
To
which
it
's
answer'd
;
The
reason
why
we
should
think
more
than
one
Vision
,
and
so
more
than
one
Vision
belongs
to
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
is
because
it
is
near
,
if
not
altogether
,
as
visible
in
Scripture
,
that
more
than
one
belongs
to
it
,
as
it
is
that
one
does
.
The
Vision
of
measuring
the
Temple
,
of
the
Witnesses
prophesying
,
of
their
smiting
the
Earth
with
Plagues
,
of
their
Resurrection
after
their
slaughter
,
of
the
Earthquake
and
fall
of
a
tenth
part
of
the
City
:
if
all
these
should
make
but
one
Vision
,
as
doubtless
they
do
more
,
yet
this
would
prove
more
than
the
Vision
of
the
Euphratean
Horse
to
belong
to
the
sixth
Trumpet
.
For
all
these
things
were
show'd
St.
John
after
his
Vision
of
the
Euphratean
Horsemen
,
and
before
the
ending
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
which
is
not
till
Ver
.
14.
of
this
Chap.
Again
,
it
is
insinuated
,
as
if
the
particulars
forenamed
should
appertain
to
somewhat
else
than
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
because
those
make
many
woes
;
whereas
the
wo
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
is
but
one
,
it
is
the
second
wo
in
three
.
The
answer
to
this
is
,
That
though
the
wo
of
this
Trumpet
be
but
one
general
wo
,
yet
it
is
such
as
contains
several
particular
ones
in
it
.
The
men
that
were
killed
by
this
Turkish
Hostility
,
were
killed
by
these
plagues
,
in
the
plural
number
,
v.
20.
For
first
,
if
the
Turkish
Conquest
by
the
Euphratean
Horsemen
,
had
been
the
whole
of
the
wo
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
yet
that
consisted
of
several
distinct
woes
;
as
the
loss
of
estate
,
the
loss
of
liberty
,
the
loss
of
Power
and
Government
,
the
loss
of
Religion
in
great
part
,
and
the
loss
of
Life
it self
,
as
to
very
many
.
Secondly
,
The
seven
plagues
of
the
Vials
fall
under
the
sixth
or
seventh
Trumpet
,
or
both
:
and
though
they
are
more
than
one
,
yet
they
do
but
contribute
to
the
making
that
one
general
wo
of
the
Trumpet
under
which
they
fall
,
they
being
both
wo-Trumpets
.
Again
,
they
distinguish
between
the
Time
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
,
and
the
wo
of
it
,
and
insinuate
,
as
if
when
it
's
said
the
second
wo
is
past
in
this
14.
ver
.
the
meaning
were
only
to
show
,
that
the
Time
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
is
but
then
past
,
when
as
the
wo
of
that
Trumpet
was
past
long
before
,
when
the
Euphratean
Horsemen
were
brought
on
the
Eastern
Empire
.
But
in
express
contradiction
to
this
insinuation
,
it
is
said
,
not
the
Time
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
is
past
,
but
the
second
wo
is
past
:
though
it
's
true
it
implies
,
that
the
Time
of
that
Trumpet
was
then
past
also
.
But
however
we
see
all
of
the
second
wo
was
not
past
till
the
Time
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
was
past
with
it
.
And
for
what
end
can
we
imagine
the
Time
of
the
sixth
Trumpet
should
be
continued
to
its
due
length
,
but
to
attend
the
finishing
and
compleating
the
woful
Event
of
that
wo-Trumpet
?
Proceed
we
now
to
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
ver
.
15.
But
before
we
come
to
the
words
in
which
the
Vision
of
this
seventh
Trumpet
are
exprest
,
it
will
be
of
great
use
to
prepare
our
way
thereto
,
and
for
the
better
understanding
the
parts
and
the
whole
of
the
Vision
it self
,
to
consider
what
the
mighty
Angel
,
in
Chap.
10.
ver
.
7.
hath
foretold
concerning
the
proper
Event
of
the
Vision
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
.
The
words
are
these
.
But
in
the
days
of
the
Voice
of
the
seventh
Angel
,
when
he
shall
begin
to
sound
,
the
Mystery
of
God
shall
be
finished
,
as
he
hath
declared
to
his
Servants
the
Prophets
.
In
which
words
,
I
conceive
,
that
Angel
hath
foretold
,
That
the
proper
Event
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
will
be
the
finishing
of
the
Mystery
of
God
,
according
to
what
he
had
before
declared
to
his
Servants
the
Prophets
.
If
then
we
can
understand
what
this
mystery
of
God
is
here
spoken
of
,
and
what
the
finishing
of
it
is
,
we
may
then
know
what
the
Event
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
will
be
.
The
mystery
of
God
here
mentioned
,
and
which
has
been
declared
to
his
Servants
the
Prophets
,
in
all
probability
will
consist
mainly
in
these
two
things
.
First
in
bringing
down
the
Enemies
of
Christ
,
and
of
his
Church
:
or
the
taking
the
power
of
ruling
and
bearing
sway
in
the
World
,
wholly
and
irrecoverably
out
of
their
hands
,
and
the
putting
it
into
the
hands
of
those
who
shall
then
be
of
the
Church
.
Secondly
,
In
the
great
enlargement
of
the
Kingdom
of
Christ
in
the
World
,
by
the
Conversion
of
the
Nation
of
the
Jews
,
and
by
bringing
in
the
fullness
of
the
Gentiles
.
For
these
two
things
have
been
abundantly
declared
by
God
to
the
Prophets
,
and
to
us
by
them
,
and
that
in
somewhat
a
mysterious
stile
too
:
for
which
reason
the
more
obscure
revelation
of
these
things
may
well
be
called
the
mystery
of
God
.
These
two
things
were
revealed
unto
the
Prophet
Daniel
,
by
revealing
to
him
Nebuchadnezzar's
Dream
,
concerning
the
Image
,
Chap.
2.
34
,
35.
Thou
sawest
till
a
stone
was
cut
out
without
hands
,
which
smote
the
Image
on
his
feet
that
were
of
iron
,
and
clay
,
and
brake
them
to
pieces
.
Then
was
the
iron
,
the
clay
,
the
brass
,
the
silver
,
and
the
gold
,
broken
to
pieces
together
,
and
became
like
the
chaff
of
the
Summer
threshing-floors
,
and
the
wind
carried
them
away
,
that
no
place
was
found
for
them
:
and
the
stone
that
smote
the
Image
,
became
a
great
Mountain
,
and
filled
the
whole
Earth
.
This
is
afterwards
interpreted
,
Ver
.
44
,
45.
In
the
days
of
those
Kings
shall
the
God
of
Heaven
set
up
a
Kingdom
which
shall
never
be
destroyed
;
and
the
Kingdom
shall
not
be
left
to
other
people
,
but
it
shall
break
in
pieces
and
consume
all
these
Kingdoms
,
and
it
shall
stand
for
ever
.
For
as
much
as
thou
sawest
,
that
the
stone
was
cut
out
of
the
Mountains
without
hands
,
and
that
it
brake
in
pieces
the
iron
,
the
brass
,
the
clay
,
the
silver
,
and
the
gold
;
the
great
God
hath
made
known
to
the
King
what
shall
come
to
pass
hereafter
,
&c.
The
like
we
have
in
another
of
daniel's
Visions
,
Chap.
7.
26
,
27.
and
in
many
other
places
in
other
of
the
Prophets
.
And
the
finishing
this
mystery
of
God
is
,
that
which
is
like
to
be
the
Event
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
;
which
finishing
will
probably
consist
in
the
total
accomplishment
of
the
Prophecies
touching
this
Mystery
of
God
.
Not
the
fulfilling
them
in
part
,
as
before
they
had
been
fulfilled
;
but
it
is
the
finishing
the
consummation
of
this
mystery
that
will
be
the
Event
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
.
For
otherwise
this
mystery
hath
already
been
accomplished
to
a
degree
in
the
Conversion
of
many
of
the
Gentiles
,
and
joining
them
to
,
and
making
them
one
body
with
the
believing
Jews
which
first
received
the
Gospel
.
For
the
doing
of
this
was
a
mystery
foretold
by
the
Prophets
,
as
St.
Paul
calls
it
,
Eph.
3.
4
,
9.
that
is
,
it
was
a
thing
understood
but
by
few
till
it
was
accomplished
.
But
this
was
not
the
finishing
this
mystery
of
God
,
that
being
reserved
to
the
Times
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
as
it
's
probable
,
when
the
Nation
of
the
Jews
which
has
long
been
rejected
,
shall
be
converted
to
the
Christian
Faith
,
and
be
brought
into
the
Church
.
And
then
the
Nations
of
the
Gentiles
in
their
fullness
will
also
be
brought
into
the
Church
.
This
is
yet
a
mystery
as
St.
Paul
calls
it
,
Rom.
11.
25
,
26.
But
the
bringing
these
things
to
pass
will
be
the
finishing
of
this
mystery
.
And
the
Prophecies
likewise
of
taking
the
power
of
Rule
and
Government
out
of
the
hands
of
the
Churches
Enemies
,
and
putting
it
into
the
hands
of
the
Church
,
has
in
several
Nations
been
fulfilled
already
in
part
;
as
in
the
days
of
Constantine
the
first
Christian
Emperous
,
and
of
his
Successors
;
and
likewise
by
the
happy
Reformation
begun
by
Luther
.
But
all
this
has
not
yet
been
the
finishing
this
part
of
the
mystery
of
God
declared
to
the
Prophets
,
but
the
finishing
of
this
is
reserved
to
the
Times
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
when
the
Times
of
the
Gentiles
will
be
fulfilled
,
as
our
Saviour's
phrase
is
,
Luke
21.
24.
that
is
,
when
their
time
of
Ruling
shall
have
an
end
.
The
same
thing
which
St.
Paul
calls
the
putting
down
all
Rule
,
all
Authority
and
Power
;
meaning
of
the
Enemies
of
Christ
and
his
Church
;
for
of
those
he
there
speaks
,
1
Cor
.
15.
24.
Having
premised
these
things
from
the
Angels
words
in
Chap.
10.
7.
we
are
,
I
hope
,
the
better
prepared
to
consider
and
understand
the
Vision
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
it self
,
as
agreeing
with
what
the
Angel
has
foretold
concerning
it
.
Ver
.
15.
The
seventh
Angel
sounded
,
and
there
were
great
Voices
in
Heaven
,
saying
,
the
Kingdoms
of
this
World
are
become
the
Kingdoms
of
the
Lord
and
of
his
Christ
,
and
he
shall
reign
for
ever
and
ever
.
Behold
here
an
exact
agreement
between
what
is
here
declared
in
Vision
to
have
come
to
pass
upon
the
sounding
of
the
seventh
Angel
,
and
between
what
the
mighty
Angel
foretold
would
be
finished
in
the
days
of
the
seventh
Angel
,
when
he
should
begin
to
sound
,
to
wit
,
that
part
of
the
mystery
of
God
which
consists
in
the
last
and
greatest
enlargement
of
the
Church
and
Kingdom
of
Christ
upon
Earth
.
For
the
first
thing
we
meet
with
after
the
seventh
Angel
has
sounded
,
is
we
see
a
Declaration
by
great
Voices
from
Heaven
,
saying
,
The
Kingdoms
of
this
World
are
become
the
Kingdoms
of
the
Lord
,
and
of
his
Christ
.
And
I
have
formerly
show'd
,
that
the
Eventual
accomplishment
of
the
Visions
of
the
Trumpets
,
belong
to
the
times
of
those
Trumpets
under
which
the
Visions
are
show'd
or
seen
.
And
I
the
rather
take
notice
of
it
again
here
,
to
show
,
that
the
conversion
of
the
Kingdoms
of
the
World
here
spoken
of
,
cannot
be
meant
of
any
former
conversion
of
them
,
before
the
times
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
as
the
Conversion
of
Nations
by
the
Reformation
was
.
Ver
.
16
,
17.
And
the
24.
Elders
which
sate
before
God
on
their
Seats
,
fell
upon
their
Faces
,
and
worshipped
God
,
saying
,
We
give
thee
thanks
,
O
Lord
,
God
Almighty
,
which
art
,
and
wast
,
and
art
to
come
;
because
thou
hast
taken
to
thee
thy
great
power
and
hast
reigned
:
That
is
,
his
Ruling
or
Governing
Power
,
his
Power
of
Reigning
.
And
his
taking
this
unto
himself
at
this
time
,
implies
,
that
until
then
he
had
in
great
part
suffered
others
,
such
as
were
his
Enemies
,
to
exercise
that
Power
,
and
to
make
use
of
it
against
him
,
and
against
his
faithful
Subjects
.
But
upon
this
seventh
Angels
sounding
,
the
time
will
be
come
when
he
will
wholly
take
it
out
of
their
hands
into
his
own
,
and
will
thenceforth
Reign
himself
by
betrusting
the
exercise
of
that
power
only
in
such
hands
as
will
use
it
for
him
,
and
for
the
good
of
all
his
good
and
Loyal
Subjects
.
This
other
part
of
the
mystery
of
God
will
at
this
time
be
finished
,
which
had
been
begun
long
before
.
Ver
.
18.
And
the
Nations
were
angry
,
and
thy
wrath
is
come
,
and
the
time
of
the
dead
that
they
should
be
judged
,
and
that
thou
shouldest
give
reward
to
thy
Servants
the
Prophets
,
and
to
the
Saints
,
and
them
that
fear
thy
name
,
small
and
great
,
and
shouldest
destroy
them
that
destroy
the
Earth
.
The
Nations
,
(
or
Gentiles
,
as
others
read
it
)
were
angry
;
they
were
sore
vexed
,
exasperated
and
enraged
,
to
find
themselves
thus
going
down
,
and
those
exalted
into
power
and
dignity
,
over
whom
they
had
been
wont
contemptuously
to
domineer
.
And
thy
wrath
is
come
:
that
is
,
the
time
of
showing
his
wrath
will
be
then
come
,
by
removing
those
Rulers
,
and
breaking
their
power
to
pieces
,
by
which
they
had
oppressed
,
persecuted
,
yea
Martyr'd
Christ's
best
Subjects
.
And
the
time
of
the
dead
that
they
should
be
judged
.
That
is
,
the
time
of
judging
their
Cause
will
be
then
come
,
whose
blood
had
been
unjustly
and
cruelly
shed
,
and
of
calling
their
Enemies
to
account
for
it
.
And
that
thou
shouldst
give
reward
to
thy
Servants
the
Prophets
,
and
to
the
Saints
,
and
them
that
fear
thy
name
,
both
small
and
great
;
to
wit
,
in
their
Successors
,
who
shall
then
reap
the
fruit
of
the
labours
and
sufferings
of
those
their
Predecessors
in
the
same
Cause
,
who
transmitted
down
to
them
that
Truth
which
now
will
exalt
them
,
even
in
this
World
,
who
shall
imbrace
it
.
And
indeed
the
honour
and
renown
of
those
who
had
suffered
as
evil
doers
,
as
their
Adversaries
would
needs
have
it
,
will
now
at
this
time
have
a
kind
of
Resurrection
,
when
their
cause
,
for
which
they
suffered
,
is
Crowned
with
a
lasting
Victory
and
Honour
.
The
holy
Apostles
and
Prophets
,
though
so
long
since
dead
,
will
be
avenged
by
God
at
last
on
Babylon
in
her
downfall
.
Rejoice
over
her
thou
Heaven
,
and
ye
holy
Apostles
and
Prophets
,
for
God
hath
avenged
you
on
her
,
Rev.
18.
20.
And
if
it
be
matter
of
rejoicing
to
them
in
being
done
on
their
account
,
and
for
the
sake
of
their
sufferings
,
then
it
will
be
matter
of
reward
to
them
.
God
will
then
bring
forth
their
righteousness
as
the
light
,
and
their
judgment
as
the
noon
day
:
which
till
then
had
been
obscured
and
kept
under
a
dark
Cloud
by
the
Adversaries
,
by
representing
them
as
evil
doers
,
and
as
having
deservedly
suffered
what
they
had
inflicted
on
them
.
And
shouldst
destroy
them
which
destroy
the
Earth
,
or
corrupt
the
Earth
,
as
it
is
in
the
margin
.
That
is
,
by
an
utter
and
final
destruction
of
that
power
of
theirs
by
which
they
had
corrupted
the
World
by
abominable
Idolatries
,
Superstitions
,
and
damnable
Doctrines
,
and
destroy'd
it
by
unjust
Wars
,
Massacres
,
and
cruel
Slaughters
of
Innocent
Men
.
Ver
.
19.
And
the
Temple
of
God
was
opened
in
Heaven
;
and
there
was
seen
in
his
Temple
the
Ark
of
his
Testament
:
and
there
were
lightenings
,
and
voices
,
and
thunderings
,
and
an
earthquake
,
and
great
hail
.
The
very
same
five
things
here
mentioned
,
are
to
fall
out
upon
the
pouring
out
the
seventh
Vial
,
viz.
Voices
,
Thunders
,
Lightnings
,
a
great
Earthquake
,
such
as
was
not
since
men
were
upon
the
Earth
,
and
great
Hail
,
every
Stone
about
the
weight
of
a
talent
,
Ch.
16.
18.
21.
Which
argues
,
that
the
effects
of
the
seventh
Vial
will
accomplish
and
bring
to
pass
this
part
of
the
Event
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
.
And
as
upon
the
sounding
the
seventh
Trumpet
the
Mystery
of
God
will
be
finished
,
so
upon
the
pouring
out
the
last
Vial
a
Voice
out
of
the
Throne
says
,
It
is
done
,
which
signifies
the
same
thing
,
Ch.
16
,
17.
And
that
these
Voices
,
Thunderings
,
&c.
are
indications
of
the
great
mutations
that
will
then
be
in
the
World
in
Kingdoms
and
States
,
and
the
terrible
overthrow
and
downfal
of
the
Enemies
of
Christ
and
his
Church
,
appears
by
what
is
said
to
follow
upon
them
,
Ver
.
19
,
20.
to
wit
,
the
falling
of
the
Cities
of
the
Nations
,
great
Babylon's
coming
in
remembrance
before
God
,
to
give
unto
her
the
Cup
of
the
Wine
of
the
fierceness
of
his
wrath
,
the
Islands
flying
away
,
and
the
Mountains
being
not
found
.
And
thus
we
see
it
here
plainly
represented
in
Vision
,
that
the
subject
matter
of
the
Event
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
or
that
of
which
it
will
consist
,
is
the
last
the
great
and
full
enlargement
of
the
Church
,
and
the
final
and
total
subduing
the
power
of
her
Enemies
,
by
which
it
had
been
hindred
.
All
which
,
as
now
it
more
fully
appears
,
was
signified
by
the
finishing
of
the
Mystery
of
God
in
the
days
of
the
seventh
Angel
,
when
he
should
sound
his
Trumpet
,
as
was
foretold
by
the
mighty
Angel
,
Ch.
10.
The
most
famous
enlargement
of
the
Church
,
in
the
which
the
Kingdoms
of
this
World
will
become
the
Kingdoms
of
the
Lord
,
and
of
his
Christ
,
is
we
see
first
represented
in
the
Vision
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
:
Not
perhaps
because
this
will
first
take
place
in
its
perfection
,
before
the
power
of
the
Churches
Enemies
is
fully
broken
and
subdued
;
but
because
that
is
the
main
and
principal
thing
designed
under
this
Trumpet
,
and
the
extraordinary
and
total
subduing
of
the
Enemies
of
Christ
but
as
subservient
thereunto
.
And
in
all
probability
the
visible
and
notorious
appearance
of
the
hand
of
Almighty
God
out
of
favour
to
his
Church
,
in
breaking
in
pieces
all
the
power
of
her
Enemies
by
extraordinary
acts
of
Providence
,
will
be
one
special
means
of
bringing
in
the
Nations
of
the
World
into
the
Church
,
as
I
have
showed
elsewhere
.
FINIS
.