A plain explanation of the whole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable…A plaine explanation of the vvhole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable…

He is a created Angel, not the Angel of the Covenant, as appeareth in that he is said to be like a man; and also for that he is commanded by another, which was the Son of God: And he is commanded to put in his sharp Sickle, (which is the word of God, being the power of God unto destruction to all those that believe not) into the world, because the time is come, for (saith he) the harvest is ripe, and the corn, (that is, the world) is dry. Where the world is compared to dry Corn, for as Corn when it is dry, is then ready for the Sickle; so when the wicked are come to their full ripeness in sin, they are then ready to be cut off by the Sickle of Gods vengeance: And as dry sticks are fit for the fire, even so they that are dried and dead in their sins, are fit matter for Gods judgements to burn to destruction; which noteth the fearful judgement to be executed on the ungodly for worshipping the Beast.

He is a created Angell, not the Angell of the Couenant, as appeareth in that he is said to be like a man; and also for that he is commanded by another, which was the Sonne of God: And hee is commanded to put in his sharpe Sickle, (which is the word of God, being the power of God vnto destruction to all those that beleeue not) into the world, because the time is come, for (saith he) the haruest is ripe, and the corne, (that is, the world) is dry. Where the world is compared to drye Corne, for as Corne when it is dry, is then ready for the Sickle; so when the wicked are come to their full ripenesse in sin, they are then ready to be cut off by the Sickle of Gods vengeance: And as dry stickes are fit for the fire, euen so they that are dried and dead in their sinnes, are fit matter for Gods iudgements to burne to destruction; which noteth the fearefull iudgement to be executed on the vngodly for worshipping the Beast.

Another judgement followeth, more fearful, albeit in show it be like the former, and that is of the other Angel that hath a sickle, wherewith he is bidden to cut the Grapes down: He is not bidden to cut them with a little knife (as is the use of pruning the Grapes) but with a Sickle; noting a more fierce destruction. And when he had cut them, he is bidden, he should press them in the Vine-press of Gods wrath: A similitude taken from the use of those, who when they have gathered their Grapes, cast them into the Vinepresse to be trodden and pressed out, even so should