Revelation 14

In Deo quadam dulcedine delectatur anima, imo rapitur, Aug. Now the saints spend their years with sighing, they weep over their sins and afflictions; then their water shall be turned into wine; then the vessels of mercy shall be filled and run over with joy; they shall have thei…

Ecclesiastes 1:8: all things are full of labour. Some labour in the mine, others among the muses: God has made a law — in the sweat of your brows you shall eat bread: but death gives a believer a Quietus est; it takes him off from his day-labour (Revelation 14:13). Blessed are t…

The enemies may set up their standard, but Christ will set up his trophies at last. Revelation 14:18, 19: And the angel gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine-press of the wrath of God, and the wine-press was trodden, and blood came out of the wine-press…

The breath of the Lord kindles that fire; and where shall we find engines or buckets to quench it? And the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever, and they have no rest night nor day (Revelation 14:11). Thank original sin for all.

1. In riches (Revelation 21:21): the gates of pearl, and the streets of pure gold, and as it were transparent glass. 2. In tranquility; it is peaceable, the white lily of peace is the best flower of a prince's crown: Pax una triumphis innumeris melior — No divisions at home, or…

The devil is full of spite against mankind: this red dragon will spit fire in men's faces. 3. The torment of hell abides forever (Revelation 14:11). The smoke of their torment ascends up forever and ever (Mark 9:44).

Affliction is the iron shoe, but mercy is mixed with it; here is the foot dipped in oil. But the torments of the damned have no mixture (Revelation 14:10): They shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture. No mixture of mercy.

Popish teachers teach the people nonsense and blasphemy; they cause the people to pray without understanding, to obey without reason, to believe without sense; it is a damnable religion. Therefore worshiping the beast, and drinking the cup of God's indignation are put together (…

Our heavenly Father will love for ever, but he will not contend for ever. The torments of the damned are for ever (Revelation 14:11). The smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever: the wicked shall drink a sea of wrath, but God's children only taste of the cup of affli…

Unsubmissiveness is a reproach, but a cheerful resignation of our will to God sets a crown of honor upon the head of religion, it shows the power of the Gospel, which can charm down the passions, and melt the will into God's will. Therefore in Scripture submissive patience is br…

A man that is dead, knows what shall be his estate eternally: if he died a wicked person, that is, an unrepentant sinner, his state shall be according in eternal torment: if he died having repented of his sins, then he shall rest with God in his kingdom. Revelation 14:13. Blesse…

The world cries out, Glorious times! but a righteous man has an eye of discerning, he can see when the wicked [reconstructed: make void] God's law, and when religion is crucified by such as cry Hosanna to it. He is wise to keep from the contagion of the times (Revelation 14:2).…

Luke 16:25-26; John 3:36; Revelation 22:14-15; Revelation 21:7-8; Matthew 8:11. Nay, we find the contrary: Revelation 14:13 says that they that die in the Lord are said to rest from their labors, which cannot be true if any of them go to purgatory. And to cut off all evasions, i…

Argument 4. Further, it may much conduce to your willingness to die to consider that by death God often times hides his people out of the way of all temptations and troubles upon earth. Revelation 14:13: 'Write: from henceforth, blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.' It is…

I say, it either has in it, or appertaining to it, all that has been wrought for it, either in it, or by it. (Revelation 14:13) Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord: [And their works do follow them] — they go to Heaven with them, and after them. And in what subject else is…

And (Hebrews 5:7), he offered prayers, and [illegible], humble supplications of the poor, or oppressed, that make their address to one who can help them: he put in to God a humble petition, and a bill to his Father, as an overwhelmed man, and he offered this bill, [illegible], w…

All these say Christ is no niggard of grace. And 4. can they not wear and out-spend their harps, who fall down before the Lamb (Revelation 14) and (Revelation 5:8) who with a loud voice, praise the grace of God. Verse 12: For ever and ever?

Hebrews 11:13: All these [in non-Latin alphabet], died in the Faith, they are named and told by the head. Revelation 14:4: [in non-Latin alphabet], these are three times in one verse — these are they that are not defiled with women, — these are they that follow the Lamb, whereve…

And is it not a far more bitter death to be dead in sin, than to be dead in the body, when it is a living soul in God's sight? Then, blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, for even so says the Spirit, that never spoke words of falsehood (Revelation 14:13). I say therefore, i…

For it is the privilege, yea the happiness of a righteous man, so to have his sins covered with the robes of Christ his righteousness, as that they shall never be uncovered to his shame (Psalm 32; Isaiah 43:25). Again, it may hence be proved; in that sanctification in death, is…

Christians are the Followers of Christ: And they are so, as they are obedient to that Call of Christ, 'Matthew 11:28, 29. Come to me, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of Heart. They follow him as the Lamb; 'Revelation 14:4. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoe…

1 John 2:28: And now little children abide in him; that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. In order to persons being blessed after death, it is necessary not only that they should once be in him, but that they should die in…

All other people are miserable, but that people whose God is the Lord. The world is divided into two societies: there are the people of God, the little flock of Jesus Christ, that company we read of in Revelation 14:4; and there are those that belong to the kingdom of darkness,…

Fourth, this is still manifest in his acts, in his present state of exaltation in heaven. Indeed in his exalted state he most eminently appears in a manifestation of those excellencies on account of which he is compared to a lion; but still he appears as a lamb (Revelation 14:1)…

Every Believer (take it in which sense you will,) has his Watch-Tower as well as Hbbkuk: and give me leave to say, it's an Angelical employment to stand upon it, and behold the consent of Gods Attributes, the accomplishment of his Ends, and our own happiness in the works of Prov…

Such a total rest is the sole privilege of the saints. Thus only blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth, indeed says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them (Revelation 14:13). When the saints die, they rest from their l…

The second thing we are to observe for use, is from the commendation of this Song, being for its excellency A Song of Songs: and it is this, that, the Believer has the choicest [reconstructed: Song], and most excellent mirth in the world; not such songs or joy as the world has,…

7. Thus also the Lord makes the study of his Word delectable, when both the judgment and affections, are jointly wrought upon: and to show that all the believer's conditions may be matter of a sweet song to him, whereas some things, if plainly laid down, would not be so cheerful…

When the day of God's indignation does come, and he makes such slaughter among his enemies, that the earth does stink with their carcasses, and the mountains do melt with their blood (Isaiah 34:2-3). When God treads the winepress of his wrath without the city, and the blood come…

The delightful rolling of these divine truths in the mind, help the soul to walk in the sweetest paradise of contemplation. These mysterious marrow-rich truths are like that song that none could learn but the 144,000 that are redeemed from the earth (Revelation 14:4). Or like th…

The people being settled there, their posterity continued there from age to age afterwards: and being, as it were, by natural walls, as well as by God's grace, separated from the rest of the world, never partook of the overflowing corruption. These especially were those virgins…

The meek and quiet soul is through grace a conqueror over these enemies, their fiery darts are quenched by the shield of faith, Satan is in some measure trodden under his feet, and the victory will be complete shortly, when he that overcomes shall sit down with Christ upon his t…

Christ rides prosperously, because of meekness (Psalm 45:4). Now it is the character of all the saints, that they follow the Lamb (Revelation 14:4), as a lamb, they follow him in his meekness, and are therefore so oft called the sheep of Christ. This is that part of his copy whi…

We have cause to bless God that we might be with Gods people, though in caves, and woods, and banished from all; we have much more cause to bless God when we can be with them thus publiquely, and peaceably, and can go from Gods house, to our own houses, and have communion there;…

Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11:2-3: I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ; and I fear, lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. An…

I will not Pity, nor spare, nor have Mercy, but destroy them. 'Tis sad, when the Prisoner begs of the Judge to spare him, but the Judge will shew him no favor. Gods cup of wrath is unmixed, Revelation 14:10. Yet it is said to be mixed, Psalm 78:5.

All other people are miserable, but that people whose God is the Lord. The world is divided into two societies: There are the People of God, the little Flock of Jesus Christ, that company that we read of Revelation 14:4. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they…

They think it to be an acceptable service to God to molest and trouble those that are indeed his people. Those princes that sat and spoke against David, were not pagans and men of another religion, but of Israel; and it is often the lot of God's people to be persecuted not only…

4. If the world increase upon us, we should take the more care that we may have the comfort of it in the world to come. (Revelation 14:13) "Their works follow them." (Luke 16:9) "Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when you fail they may receive you…

The will will be vexed that it had its will so long; here men think it a princely thing to have their will, but there they'll find it a devilish thing. 3 Yet further, these torments will be without intermission; they shall be tormented day and night (Revelation 14:11), and have…

1. They are called Virgins] now this is a name given in the Scripture, both in the Old Testament, and New, to the saints of Christ (Song of Solomon 1:3). The virgins love you, so (Revelation 14:4) the one hundred forty and four thousand that stood with the Lamb on Mount Zion, ar…

And [illegible] when justice is satisfied neither of them has right [illegible] power to retain the soul. Therefore the Scripture styles them redeemed from [illegible] earth (Revelation 14:3). And he gave himself that he [illegible] deliver us from this present [illegible] world…

4. Let us carry ourselves as the children of God in diligence; we must be diligent in our calling. Religion does not seal warrants to idleness; it was Jerome's advice to his friend, to be always well employed: six days shall you labor; God sets all his children to work, they mus…

There is a time when God says, My Spirit shall no longer strive. The angel cried, The hour of his judgment is come (Revelation 14:7). Perhaps the next sin you commit, God may say, Your hour is now come.

It will not be destruction but deliverance; death, like a whirlwind, may blow down the tree of the body, but it cannot blast the fruit of our graces. The trees of righteousness carry their fruit with them (Revelation 14:13): their works follow them. The Christian who abounds in…

As Gospel-light ascends, so Satans shady Kingdom of darkness vanishs. Revelation 14:6. there one Angel comes forth to preach the everlasting Gospel, and another Angel followes at his back, verse 8. crying Victoria, Babylon is fallen, is fallen. The very first charge the Gospel g…

4. The believers are blessed through Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:10, 13; Psalm 32:1-2; Romans 4:6; Psalm 2:12; Psalm 119:1). Their afflictions and death are blessed, precious in the eyes of the Lord, not qualified with any law-curse (Job 5:17; Psalm 94:12; Matthew 5:6; Luke 6:22;…

Men contravene a law to be so and so born, to wit, in sin, for it is forbidden by a law: but to be born and live, is no sin, but by order of nature, before original sin. Nor is it forbidden more to man to be born and live, than it is forbidden to beasts, nor to eat, sleep, wake,…

It is but a while when the Saints shall lie together in Christ's bosom, that hive of sweetness, that bed of perfume. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, Revelation 14. 13. Why should we mourn excessively for them who are blessed?

6. The torments of Hell have no period put to them. Origen fancied a fiery stream, in which the souls of sinful men, yea, Devils and all, were to be purged, and then pass into Heaven: but the Scripture asserts, that whosoever are not purged from sin by Christ's blood, are to lie…