Revelation 11

Resp. 1. Be holy persons: in the sacrifices of thanksgiving, whoever did eat thereof, with their uncleanness upon them, were to be cut off (Leviticus 7:20), to typify how unpleasing their praises and thank-offerings are who live in sin. 2. Praise God with humble hearts, acknowle…

Again (Revelation 18:16) it is said, that the ten horns, which be ten kings, shall hate the whore, and make her desolate and naked, which must not be understood of heathenish Rome, but of popish Rome: for whereas in former times all the kings of the earth did submit themselves t…

And (Isaiah 9:6) it's said, that "The government shall be upon his shoulders, and of the increase of his government there shall be no end". And (Revelation 11:15) it is proclaimed, "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ". All these, and…

This Blood therefore cries from Heaven, it is next to God who sits Judge there, it cries in his very ears; whereas the cry of blood from the ground is further off, and so though the cry thereof may come up to Heaven, yet the blood itself comes not up there, as Christ's already i…

Thus a time, or Jewish year, stood for three hundred and sixty years; times, or two Jewish years, stood for seven hundred and twenty years; and half a time, or half of a Jewish year, stood for one hundred and eighty years; so that the time, times, and half a time, (Daniel 7:25;…

2. He has a crown and glory as Mediator, in respect of the power, authority and glory with which he is invested, as God's great deputy, and anointed upon the holy hill of Zion, having power and a rod of iron, even in reference to enemies; and seeing this is not of his mother's p…

This also is exactly fulfilled in the same church. — It was foretold, that Antichrist would not suffer the bodies of God's people to be put into graves: Revelation 11:8-9. "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, — and they — shall not suffer their dead…

The Man whose Name is the Branch--He shall build the Temple of the Lord, even he shall build the Temple of the Lord--And what the Temple that Christ builds, is, the Apostle tells us, Heb. 3:3, 6. The Temple that Ezekiel in his vision was bid to observe the measures of, as it was…

Heaven is ready, but we are not fully ready; the barn is fit to receive the corn, but the corn is not yet fit to be gathered into it. But for this self same thing God is now working us (2 Corinthians 5:5), he is every day at work, by ordinances, and by providences, to perfect hi…

I know and am persuaded that Christ shall again be high and great in this poor withered and sunburned kirk of Scotland, and that the sparks of our fire shall fly over sea and round about to warm you and other sister churches, and that this tabernacle of David's house that is fal…

God has set us out to be men of contention to the whole earth: those that are censors of morals, whose office is to tax public abuses, will be looked upon as men of strife — we might justly suspect ourselves if this were not the portion of our cup. This spirit certainly acts man…

Why did Ahab hate Micaiah, and call Elijah his enemy but because they were the faithful reprovers of his wickedness, and never prophesied good concerning him, but evil (1 Kings 22:8; 21:20)? Why did the inhabitants of the earth rejoice when the witnesses were slain, but because…

There is in the life of a Christian a convincing light, that shows the deformity of the works of darkness, and a piercing heat, that scorches the ungodly, which stirs and troubles their consciences, and this they cannot endure, and hence rises in them a contrary fire of wicked h…

A wicked man is loath to be troubled. God's witnesses are the world's torment (Revelation 11:10): They tormented them that dwelt on the earth. A man that is bodily blind, would have a fit guide; but these wretchedly blind sinners, nothing so troublesome and hateful to them, as o…

(Acts 7:54) When they heard these things they were cut to the heart. Because it is a witness to accuse, a judge to condemn, an executioner to torment such poor creatures, as I might make all these good in particulars, it's said (Revelation 11:10) that when the two witnesses were…

There was an [illegible] for the space of two hours: Great is Diana of the Ephesians. So they dealt with the two [reconstructed: witnesses] (Revelation 11:10) — they were never content before they were removed; they could not have their [reconstructed: hearts] in quiet, as long…

Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hand (Isaiah 19:29). All the Kingdoms of the world are the Lord's, and his Son's, and he reigns in them by his Word and Gospel, as the seventh Angel sounds (Revelation 11:15). All the Gentiles are his (Isaiah 60:1-4, Malachi…

(3.) From Covenant prayers and church prayers — contrary to (1 Samuel 12; Psalm 28:9; Psalm 67:1-2; Psalm 103:4-5). (4.) From the blessing of the Lord's Covenant-presence, who dwells in the Nation, in the Kingdom (Psalm 135:21, Psalm 132:13-14, Revelation 11:15, Isaiah 19:25, Is…

Q. 1. If multitudes and people externally covenanted with God, though not internally, whom the Lord calls his people and chosen by him (Deuteronomy 7:6, Deuteronomy 10:15), be the rightly constituted and visible church, as Mr. Thomas Hooker grants, then kingdoms must be his visi…

2. The Anabaptists from these places say none are to be baptized, but such as are so in Covenant, and as have these promises fulfilled in them, in whom the Lord has wrought a new heart, and a new spirit; and that there is no external covenanting under the New Testament. But then…

The Chaldean Paraphrase expounds his hand to be his power and command, which extends to the Euphrates, as is promised (Exodus 23:31; Numbers 34:3), but fulfilled in David and Solomon (1 Kings 4:8). Solomon reigned from the Sea of Sodom, the Red Sea, to the Mediterranean Sea, and…

But on the supposition, that forever and ever refers to the punishment of the wicked in common, the Doctor thinks that that phrase is obviously capable of being understood of a limited duration. His reasons are, That [in non-Latin alphabet] in the singular number almost perpetua…

But it may be observed that if any appeared to oppose God's work in those great temporal deliverances; or if there were any of his professing people, that on such occasions lay still, and stood at a distance, and did not arise and acknowledge God in his work, and appear to promo…