Dear Brethren, How ever others may censure me for presumption, in offering my Opinion in those things, that are in their judgment too high and deep Mysteries for me to meddle with; Yet you that are Saints, know how to bear those infirmities and weaknesses of your unworthy Brother, which happily you may discern in reading this Treatise; And notwithstanding them all, may receive any glimmerings of light that is held forth to you in the Exposition of these Prophesies; that so you and I, who have our Fathers Name written in our Foreheads, may go hand in hand (like loving Brethren) about our Fathers WORK, following our LORD the Lamb wheresoever he goes. The Divisions, Contentions, and Separations that to this ⟨image 4⟩Day remains among the Professors of this Age, causeth me to think, That God hath not done all his WORK upon Mount Zion; There are some sufferings yet behind, which will purge away that dross, by the Spirit of Judgment, and by the Spirit of Burning: And this is one Reason among others, which makes me think, the two Witnesses are not yet slain; And though many of Gods Servants have suffered for the Testimony which they held, yet there remains a Remnant of their fellow Servants and Brethren which shall be killed as they were, and this must be fulfilled: For, as there was such a Dispensation under the seven Seals, Rev. 6.9, 10, 11. before God would avenge their Blood; so there shall be such a Dispensation under the seven Trumpets, before the seven Vials of Gods last Plagues be poured out, Rev. 11.7, 18. And when I consider the Congregations of Saints, & Churches of several persuasions, in this Age, ⟨image 4⟩how unlike they are to the Churches of God recorded in the Scripture, with respect unto Ministry, Gifts, and Discipline or Government, besides what is amiss in the Worship of God; It makes me think, That the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Heaven is not opened, out of which Temple John saw the seven Angels come, who had the seven golden Vials of the seven last Plagues of God, Rev. 15.1, 5, 6. And if so, then the seven Vials are not yet any of them poured out upon Mystical Babylon; for those seven golden Vials were given them after they were come out of the Temple, Rev. 15.5, 6, 7. and they had not a command to pour out any of the seven Vials till after that, Rev. 16.1, 2, 3.
Dear Brethren, How ever others may censure me for presumption, in offering my Opinion in those things, that are in their judgment too high and deep Mysteries for me to meddle with; Yet you that are Saints, know how to bear those infirmities and weaknesses of your unworthy Brother, which happily you may discern in reading this Treatise; And notwithstanding them all, may receive any glimmerings of light that is held forth to you in the Exposition of these Prophesies; that so you and I, who have our Fathers Name written in our Foreheads, may go hand in hand (like loving Brethren) about our Fathers WORK, following our LORD the Lamb wheresoever he goes. The Divisions, Contentions, and Separations that to this ⟨image 4⟩Day remains among the Professors of this Age, causeth me to think, That God hath not done all his WORK upon Mount Sion; There are some sufferings yet behind, which will purge away that dross, by the Spirit of Judgment, and by the Spirit of Burning: And this is one Reason among others, which makes me think, the two Witnesses are not yet slain; And though many of Gods Servants have suffered for the Testimony which they held, yet there remains a Remnant of their fellow Servants and Brethren which shall be killed as they were, and this must be fulfilled: For, as there was such a Dispensation under the seven Seals, Rev. 6.9, 10, 11. before God would avenge their Blood; so there shall be such a Dispensation under the seven Trumpets, before the seven Vials of Gods last Plagues be poured out, Rev. 11.7, 18. And when I consider the Congregations of Saints, & Churches of several perswasions, in this Age, ⟨image 4⟩how unlike they are to the Churches of God recorded in the Scripture, with respect unto Ministry, Gifts, and Discipline or Government, besides what is amiss in the Worship of God; It makes me think, That the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Heaven is not opened, out of which Temple John saw the seven Angels come, who had the seven golden Vials of the seven last Plagues of God, Rev. 15.1, 5, 6. And if so, then the seven Vials are not yet any of them poured out upon Mystical Babylon; for those seven golden Vials were given them after they were come out of the Temple, Rev. 15.5, 6, 7. and they had not a command to pour out any of the seven Vials till after that,
