Ouranonn Ourania, the shaking and translating of heaven and earth a sermon preached to…Ouranōn Ourania, the shaking and translating of heaven and earth a sermon preached to…

1. Real, the Great River Euphrates, the strength and fullness ⟨p. 26⟩of whose streams doth yet rage so high, that there is no passage for the Kings of the East to come over;¹ wherefore this must be dried up as other waters were for their forefathers in days of old.² Revel. 16. 12. doubtless this is spoken in allusion to Abraham's coming over that River into Canaan when the Church of God in his family was there to be erected;³ whence he was called the Hebrew, that is, the Passenger, to wit, over that River, Gen. 14. 13. and then it may well enough denote the Turkish Power, which proud as it is at this day, possessing in peace all those Regions of the East, yet God can quickly make it wither, and be dried up: or to the deliverance of the Jews from Babylon, when it was taken and destroyed by the drying up of the streams of that River, and so the yoke of her tyranny broken from the Churches neck,⁴ and so it can be no other but the power of the Romish Babylon supported by the Kings of the Nations, which must therefore be shaken and dried up.

1. Reall, the Great River Euphrates, the strength and fulnesse ⟨p. 26⟩of whose streames doth yet rage so high, that there is no passage for the Kings of the East to come over;¹ wherfore this must be dryed up as other waters were for their forefathers in dayes of old.² Revel. 16. 12