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…

After the great abuse of the Lord's Supper in that Church, the Apostle recalls them again to the observation of it, according to the institution of Christ. And after the defilement of all the ordinances of the Gospel, under the Anti-Christian apostacy, yet the Temple and the Alt…

Know (worthy Sir) that the departure from the faith of Jesus the Christ, is a cause of so many Schisms, and Heresies maintained in the earth. Disdain not therefore to read a little Treatise, called the Difference between the Christian, and Antichristian Church, Delineated accord…

2. That we may not hazard the Truth: When Errors go away without control, 'tis a mighty prejudice both to the present and the next age. The dwellers upon Earth rejoiced when God's Witnesses were under hatches, and there was none to contest with them (Revelation 11:10). Fools mus…

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 wo to that man, whoever he be, upon whom the prayers of New-England shall fall, it were better for that man that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck, and he thrown there with into the midst of the sea. It is said concerning the Witnesses (Revelation 11:5), if any man hur…

It is foretold that God shall do this great and good work, even by those Kings, who have before subjected themselves to Antichrist. 5. That which I now draw from Ezekiel's vision, is no other but the same which was showed to John (Revelation 11:1-2), a place so like to this of E…

Neither must we think that all the calamities of the Church are now overpast. Who can be assured that that hour of greatest darkness, the killing of the witnesses is past, and all that sad prophecy (Revelation 11) fulfilled. And if some be not much mistaken, it is told (Daniel 1…

Hence Rome is styled Sodom, Egypt, Babylon, as being indeed the very sea that receives into her channel all the filthiness of all the Pagans that were before. Hence the Scripture calls the Papists Gentiles (Revelation 11:4): the outward court, the visible Church is given to the…

Hence the fourth doctrine is this: that the rule of Reformation in religion, is the will and Word of God. He that will reform aright, must reduce, and bring all things back to that rule: when John was to measure the Temple, and to reform the Church, there was a Reed given to him…

Although that which is foretold in these two chapters, and namely in the fourth and fifth verses of this chapter, was in part fulfilled when the people of God returned from captivity in Babylon at the end of seventy years: yet we must not limit the place to that time only, but m…

2. The future promised advancement of the Kingdom of Christ is an event unspeakably happy and glorious. The Scriptures speak of that time, as a time wherein God and his Son Jesus Christ will be most eminently glorified on earth; a time, wherein God, who till then had dwelt betwe…

What they evidently seek, is to bring to pass as general a compliance as possible of Christians of all denominations, intreating that the desire of concurrence and assistance, contained in the Memorial, may by no means be understood, as restricting to any particular denomination…

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;…

Oppressors, and hypocrites, enjoy many rights of the Church, which must be taken from them: Rome and her adherents, shall not have so much left, as the name or title, appearance or show of a Church. The outward court they have trodden down and defiled, shall be quite left out, i…

And the ministering Angels shall come and perfuming his body shall lay it up with the ancient Fathers; where it is to be kept many days without putrefaction, as Hector's Body was (in Homer) after he was slain by Achilles. And it is not unlikely but that they may allude somewhat…

All streights and destructions have somewhat alike in them, wherein they may seem to agree; but it does not from there follow, that one is intended in the Prediction of another. It is further urged, The effects of the last weeks, are parallel with the Antichristian Persecution d…

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…

He sends his Spirit to convince even the perishing world of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8). He sends sharp arrows into the very hearts of his enemies (Psalm 45:5), making them stoop, bow, and fall under him: so bounding their rage, overbearing their lusts, leaving…

And surely the matter of Moses' Song (Exodus 15) might justly yield fit matter for the like doxology (or thanksgiving) upon the like occasion: as the like did fall out in the year 88. Rome being spiritual Egypt (Revelation 11:8), and the Pope with his prelates resembling Pharaoh…

(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…

There you have the rochets of the prelates of this land, hung up of late with other garments of their adherents rolled in blood. There is a place reserved for the remaining spoils of the great whore, when she shall be burned and made naked, and desolate (Revelation 11). Never an…

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…

And a Day of Judgement must come that so the Lord's faithful ones may be rewarded for all that they have done or suffered for God and for the Lord Jesus Christ. For then God will give reward to them that fear His Name, small and great (Revelation 11:18). And they that have suffe…

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…

Revelation 12:16. The Earth helped the woman against the flood of the Dragon, which that it was the multitudes of earthly people, none doubts. That an earthquake or shaking of the Earth, are popular commotions, is no less evident from Revelation 11:13. where by an earthquake gre…

And among other mercies he stirs up the spirits of his servants to write many precious truths and tractates to further the everlasting good of his beloved ones. If the bottomless pit be open, and smoke rise from there, to [reconstructed: darken] the air, and obscure the way of t…

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…