B03979:141
Apocalyptical mysteries, touching the two witnesses, the seven vials, and the two kingdoms, to…
Apocalyptical mysteries, touching the two witnesses, the seven vials, and the two kingdoms, to wit, of Christ, and of Antichrist, expounded. Wherein is contained some things necessary for the saints in this present generation to know ... By H.K. a servant of Jesus Christ.
London : s.n., Printed 1667
Part 2: Apocalyptical MYSTERIES. The Second Part, Touching the Seven VIALS.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The effect of this Vial is their own blood, which God in his righteous Judgements gives those Monarchs, Kings, Prelates, Priests, and all the Popish Church and Clergy-men to drink, as a just Retaliation of the blood of the faithful Saints, and Sackcloth Witnesses, which this Scarlet Beast and bloody Whore of Rome hath shed, by persecuting and killing them, chap. 13.•7. & 11.7.17.4, 5, 6. & 18.20, 24. For which Judgments the LORD is acknowledged by all his Saints, and holy Angels in Heaven and on Earth, to be Righteous; and his Judgements also are acknowledged by them to be true and Righteous, verse 5, 6, 7.
The effect of this Vial is their own blood, which God in his righteous Judgements gives those Monarchs, Kings, Prelates, Priests, and all the Popish Church and Clergy-men to drink, as a just Retaliation of the blood of the faithful Saints, and Sackcloath Witnesses, which this Scarlet Beast and bloody Whore of Rome hath shed, by persecuting and killing them, chap. 13.•7. & 11.7.17.4, 5, 6. & 18.20, 24. For which Judgments the LORD is acknowledged by all his Saints, and holy Angels in Heaven and on Earth, to be Righteous; and his Judgements also are acknowledged by them to be true and Righteous, verse 5, 6, 7.
The fourth Angel poured out his Vial upon the Sun of the Beasts Kingdom, vers. 8.
That is to say, Upon the Emperor of Germany, the King of Spain, &c. with respect to the Temporal and Political part of the Beast's Kingdom, and upon the Pope of Rome, the Popish Cardinals, and Arch-Bishops, &c. with respect to the Spiritual and Ecclesiastical part of the Beast's Kingdom; those Antichristian Emperors, Kings, Popes, and Prelates, (like the Sun in the Firmament of Heaven,