B03979:67
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 1: Apocalyptical MYSTERIES, The First Part, Touching the two WITNESSES.
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But this will not appease the rage, and great wrath of the Beast, for he perceives that the Testimony which the Witnesses bear in their more private Retirement, and Conventicles, (as they are called) or Meetings, ⟨p. 20⟩will like a Moth waste, & secretly consume his Power and Dominion, and at last (if let alone and suffered to enjoy any liberty to meet together to worship) his Power and Dominion will be utterly destroyed, as is Prophesied, Dan. 7.26. And therefore the Beast will take Council together with his chief Priests to KILL the Witnesses of the LORD, (as the high Priest, the chief Priests and Elders did to put our Saviour to death, John 11.47, to 53.) And KILL them, vers. 7. The killing of the two Witnesses doth not signify a Corporal death only, nor principally, for such a killing doth not agree with this Prophecy; but it is rather a Metaphorical Expression, which signifies a two-fold Death, partly Civil, whereby the Witnesses shall be deprived of their civil Liberties, and the Exercise of their Religion; their Estates confiscated, their Persons confined, Imprisoned, Banished; and some of their Lives, or all their livelihood taken away by the tyrannical Power of the Beast; and partly, yea principally Spiritual, whereby the Witnesses shall be deprived of that Zeal, Vigour, and Courage, which with all boldness they had formerly manifested, in bearing their Testimony openly for Christ, his Kingdom, his Church, his Worship, ⟨p. 21⟩and his Government; against the Antichristian Beast, his Kingdom, Church, Worship, and Government.
But this will not appease the rage, and great wrath of the Beast, for he perceives that the Testimony which the Witnesses bear in their more private Retirement, and Conventicles, (as they are called) or Meetings, ⟨p. 20⟩will like a Moth waste, & secretly consume his Power and Dominion, and at last (if let alone and suffered to enjoy any liberty to meet together to worship) his Power and Dominion will be utterly destroyed, as is Prophesied,