faints and prophets, and thou haft given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7. And I heard another out of the altar fay, Even fo Lord God almigh ty, true and righteous are thy judgments. 18. And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the fun; and power was given unto him to fcorch men with fire. 9. And men were fcorched [Or, burned] with great heat, and blafphemed the name of God, which hath power over thefe plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. 10. And the fifth angel poured out his vi al" upon the feat of the beaft; and his kingdom was full Rev. 11. 18. That thou 10 fhouldft give reward unto thy Seryants the Prophets, and to the Saints. Rev. 18. 20. Rejoice over her, thou Heaven, and ye holy Apoftles and Prophets, for God 15 hath avenged you on her. 7. Rev. 15. 3. P. Rev. 13. 10. 10. Rev. 19. 2. 15.3. • Rev. 14. See on Rev. 8. 4. Rev. 9. 17, 18. Thus I faw Horfes in the Vifion, and them that fat on them, having Breastplates of Fire, and of jacinet, and of trefpafs yet more against the Lord; this is that King Ahaz. Ifa. 8. 21. They fhall pafs through it hardly beftead and hungry; and it 5 fhall come to pafs, that when they fhall be hungry, they fhall fret themfelves, and curfe their King, and their God, and look upward. 5. Dan. 5. 22, 23. And thou his Son, O Belshazzar, haft not hum bled thine Heart, though thou knewest all this; but haft lifted up thy felf against the Lord of Hea ven, and they have brought the Veffels of his Houfe before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy Wives and thy Concubines, have drunk Wine in them, and thou haft praised the gods of Silver and 20 Gold, of Brafs, Iron, and Wood, and Stone, which fee not, nor know; and the God in whofe Hand thy Breath is, and whofe are all thy Ways, haft thou not glorified. Men which were not killed by thefe Plagues, yet repented not of the Works of their Hands, that they fhould not worship Devils, and Idols of Gold, and Silver. Brimftone; and the Heads of the 25. Rev. 9. 20. The reft of the Hories were as the Heads of Lions ; and out of their Mouths iffued Fire, and Smoke, and Brimstone. By thefe three was the third part of Men killed, by the Fire, and by 30 the Smoke, and by the Brimftone, which iffued out of their Mouths. 9. Ver. 11, 21. 2 Kings 6. 33. Behold, this evil is of the Lord, what should I wait for the 35 Lord any longer ? 2 Chron. 28. 22. In the Time of his Diftref did he 10. ". Rev. 1-3. 2. The Beat which I faw, was like unto a Leopard, and the Dragon gave him his Power, and his Seat, and great Authority. * Rev. 9. 2. He opened the but b f darkness, and they gnawed their tongues for pain, . And blafphemed the God of heaven, becaule of eir pains and their fores, and repented not of their eds. 12. And the fixth angel poured out his vial upthe d great river Euphrates; and the water therewas dried up, that the way of the kings of the ft might be prepared. 13. And I faw three unclean fpirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the h draon, and out of the mouth of the beaft, and out of the outh of the false prophet. 14. For they are the fpirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth to the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, gather them to the battle of that great day of God Hh:2 almighHereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every Spirit that confeffeth that Jefus Chrift is come in the Flefh, is of God. And every Spirit that confeffeth not that Jelus Chrift is come in the Flesh, is not of God and this is that Spirit of Antichrift, whereof you have heard i that it should come, and even now alteady is it in the World. " ottomless Pit, and, there arofe a с ત " II. See on Ver. 9. are bound in † See Jer. 50. 38. A Drought upon her Waters, and they fhall e dried up. f Jer. 51. 32. The affages are ftopped, and the eeds they have burnt with Fire, nd the Men of War are affrighted. Rev. 17. 5. f 5 15 Ifa. 412, 25. Who raised p the righteous Man from the East, alled him to his! Foor, gave the Vations before him, and made him ale over Kings? he gave them s the Duft to his Sword, and as riven Stubble to his Bow. 25 have raifed up one from the Vorth, and he fhall come: from he rifing of the Sun, he fhall call ipon my Name, and he fhall come pon Princes as upon Mortar, and as the Potter treadeth Clay. g.. ht Rev. 12.9. The great Dragon was caft out, that old Serpent called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the wholeWorld. Rev. 19. 20. The Beaft was taken, and with him the falfe Pro-: phet that wrought Miracles before him. Rev. 20. 10. The Devil; that deceived them, was cast into, the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where the Beaft and the falfe Pro: phet are. - 14. k 1 Tim. 4 I. Giving heed to feducing Spirits, and Doctrines of Devils. Jam. 3. 15. This Wif dom defcendeth not from above, but is earthly, fenfual, devilijb. t2 Thef. 2.-9. † Rev. 13. 13. + Rev. 19. 20. See on Mat. 1·3024. 24.. Rev. 17. 2. There went out a Decree from Cefar Auguftus, that all the World fhould be 13. 1 Joh. 4. 1, 2, 3. Beloved, believe not every Spirit, but ry the Spirits whether they are of 35 taxed. God: because many false Prophets are gone out into the World. • Ver. 16. Rev. 17.14. Thefe fhall a almighty. 15. Behold, I come P as a thief, Bleffed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, left he walk naked, and they fee his fhame. 16. And he gathered them together into a place, called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. 17. And the feventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, faying, It is done. 18. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, fuch as was not fince men were upon the earth, fo mighty an earthquake and fo great. 19. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fiercenefs of his wrath. f 25. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21. And there fell upon men a 8 great hail out of heaven, every Stone about the weight of a talent: and men: h blafphemed God, becaufe of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. A ત CHA P. XVII. a ND there came one of the feven angels which had the feven vials, and talked with me, faying anto me, Come hither, I will fhew unto thee the judgment of the great whore, that fitteth upon many waters: 2. With whom the e kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabiters of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3. So he carried me away in the fpirit into the wilderness: and I faw a woman fit h upon a fearlet-coloured beaft, full of names of blafphemy, having feven heads, and ten horns. 4. And the woman was "arayed in purple, and fcarlet colour, and decked [Or, guilded] with gold and precious ftone and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations, and filthinefs of her fornication. 5. And, upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABY 0 Hh 3 1 Ver. 5. King. 9. 22. It came to pafs when Joram faw Jehu, that he faid, Is it Peace Jehu? 5 And he anfwered, What Peace, fo long as the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jezebel, and her Witchcrafts are fo many? Nah. 3. 4. Becaufe of the multitude of the Whore- 10 doms of the well favcured Harlot, the Miftrefs of Witchcrafts, that felleth Nations through her Whoredoms, and Families through her Witchcrafts. Rev. 19. 2.15 -He hath judged the great Whore, which did corrupt the Earth with her Fornication, and hath avenged the Blood of his Servants at her Hand. d † Jer. 51. 13. O thou that dwelleft upon many Waters, abundant in Treafures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy Covetoufnefs. Ver. 15. 2. e 20 LON Fornication. Rev. 18. 3. 3. Rev. 12.6, 14. And the Woman fled into the Wilderness, where the hath a Place prepared of God. And to the Woman were given two Wings of a great Eagle, that he might fly into the Wil derness. h Rev, 12. 3. There appeared another Wonder in Heaven, and behold, a great red Dragon, having feven Heads and ten Horns.it Rev. 13. I. I faw a Beaft rife up out of the Sea, having feven Heads, and ten Horns, and upon his Horns ten Crowns, and upon his Heads the Name of Blafphemy. k † Ver. 9. 4. † Rev. 18. 12, 16. Dan. II. 38. But in his Eftate fhall he honour the God of Forces and a God whom his Fathers knew not, fhall he honour 25 with Gold and Silver, and precious Stones, and pleasant things. † Rev. 18. 3. f tJer. 51.7. Babylon hath been a golden Cup in the Lords Hand, that made all the Earth drunken: the Nations have drunken of her. Wine, therefore the Nations are mad. Rev. 14. 8. -Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great City, becaufe the made all Nations drink of the Wine of the Wrath of her 35 Jer. 51. 7. . Rev. 18. 6. See on Rev. 14. 8. 5. Pt 2 Thef. 2. 7. For the 39 Mystery of Iniquity doth already work only he that now lertech, will let, until he be taken out of the Way. LON 4 OF r b THE GREAT, THE MOTHER HARLOTS [Or, FORNICATION S] AND ABOMINATIONS OF OF THE EARTH. 6. And I faw the woman drunken with the blood of the faints, and with the "blood of the martyrs of Je fus and when I faw her, I wondred with great admira tion. 7. And the angel faid unto me, Wherefore didft thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the wo man, and of the beaft that carrieth her, which hath the feven Leads and ten horns. 8. The beaft that thou faweft, was, and is not; and fhall afcend out of the bottomlefs pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth fhall wonder (whofe names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 9. And here is the mind which hath wifdom. The feven heads are feven mountains, on which the woman fitteth. 1o. And there are feven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a fhort space. 11. And the beaft that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the feven, and goeth into perdition. 12. And the ten horns which thou faw d h eft † Rev. 13. 1. I-faw a Beaft rife up out of the Sea, having f ven Heads and ten Horns, and upon his Horns ten Crowns, and upon his Heads the Name of Blaf phemy. 3 10. Rev. 8. 10. The third Angel founded, and there fell a 10great Star from Heaven, burning as it were a Lamp.— bt Rev. 13. 10. He that leadeth into Captivity, fhall go into rs Captivity с † Rev. 13. 3. -All the World wondred after the Beaft. 11. Ver. 8. 12. i† Dan. 7. 20, 21. And of the ten Horns that were in his Head, and of the other which came up, Iand before whom three fell, even of that Horn that had Eyes, and a Mouth that spake very great things, whofe look was more flout than 20 his fellows. I beheld, and the fame Horn made war with the Saints, and and prevailed again them. |