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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.
This Vial is one of those seven golden Vials which was given unto the seven Angels, which were full of the wrath of God, and contained the last Plagues, which are to be poured out upon Mystical Babylon, to her utter destruction, as hath been proved, before, and chap. 16. vers. 19. and all them that worship the Beast and his Image, chap. 14.8, 9, 10, 11. These Vials are called the Cup of Gods Indignation, and the Cup of the Wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
This Vial is one of those seven golden Vials which was given unto the seven Angels, which were full of the wrath of God, and contained the last Plagues, which are to be poured out upon Mystical Babylon, to her utter destruction, as hath been proved, before, and chap. 16. vers. 19. and all them that worship the Beast and his Image, chap. 14.8, 9, 10, 11. These Vials are called the Cup of Gods Indignation, and the Cup of the Wine of the fiercenesse of his wrath.
The Beast is the Object of the Wrath of God, even of the fierceness of his great Wrath, upon whom the LORD will pour out all his Plagues first and last, and Babylon shall drink the Cup of his Indignation, ⟨p. 20⟩chap. 14.10. and the nineteenth verse of this Chapter.
Beast in this Prophecy of the Revelation, is sometimes named without any distinction; and then by Beast we are to understand the whole Complex Body of the Antichristian Politic and Ecclesiastic State of the Roman Kingdom, Church, and Government, as chap. 11.7, 13.18, 14.9, 11. and sometimes the Beast is named with distinction, chap. 13.11, 12. as if there were two Beasts, both which is but one Beast distinguished by his twofold, Power, and Dominion, to wit, Political and Ecclesiastical, as doth appear, vers. 1. & 4. So chap. 17.3. the Beast and the Woman, that is to say, the Political Government, and the Ecclesiastic State; likewise chap. 16.13. and 19.20. the Beast, and the false Prophet; also the Beast and his Image, chap. 13.14. By the Beast we are to understand the Roman Antichristian Political State Power and Dominion. By the Woman, wh is the Whore, the Image of the Beast, and the false Prophet, (in divers respects) w are to understand the Roman Antichristian Ecclesiastic State, Church, Worship, an Government. The Reason of this distinction is the two-fold Authority and Jurisdiction