Revelation 17

He has a golden scepter to rule his people, but an iron rod to break his enemies. Revelation 17:12, 14: The ten horns you saw are ten kings; these shall make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is King of Kings. The enemies may set up their standard, but…

Q. Who are the members of that Church? A. Only they and all they that are effectually called to be true believers in Christ (Revelation 17:14; John 15:19). Q. What are the parts of the catholic Church?

First on carnal reason, on which he chiefly works in this sort of temptations, the strength whereof lies in false reasonings, wherein, if in anything, he has the advantage. First, his abilities to forge and invent false reasonings and arguments to overthrow our faith are (as the…

Among which marks of the Beast, Is not the decree of Pope Innocentius the third? (Decret. Gregor. lib. 3. tit. 42. cap. 3.) as Doctor Willet in his Synopsis Papismi de baptismo infantium citeth: That whereas Circumcision (by the commandement of God) was conferred upon the infant…

He has mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens: 'tis not from the fore-sight of our wills receiving or rejecting grace proposed, for then man's will would be made a superior cause to an act in God. 4. In this matter of Reprobation, Preterition, and Praedamn…

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…

But I ask, have not the Kings of the earth hitherto for the most part, set themselves against the Lord, and against his Christ? And how then shall all those prophecies hold true, except they be co-incident with (Revelation 17:16-17), "And that time is yet come, when God shall pu…

And if you look into our own histories of England, how few shall you find! It was prophesied of them, that they should give both [in non-Latin alphabet] both their force of arms, and their power of laws to the Beast, to serve the Pope's interest (Revelation 17:13). And according…

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…

And (Revelation 12:7), "And it was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them." But in the issue of that last and great battle, which the Church shall have with her antichristian enemies, the Church shall OVERCOME THEM, AND KILL THEM; (Revelation 17:14), "The…

The same figure of speech is by no means unusual in the New Testament: "Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them" (Matthew 28:19); and the opposite form, "O namely [illegible] Homer — "He has a way beside the road, and the birds of heaven devoured it" (Luke 8:5); and, "I am…

He persecutes the woman that brought forth the man-child (Revelation 12:13). He goes forth in his instruments to gather the kings of the earth, and the whole world, to the great battle of that great day of God almighty (Revelation 16:14), and makes war with the Lamb (Revelation…

Others to some carnal, fraudulent, oppressive course, whereby they are spotted by the world. The whore of Babylon propounds her abominations in a golden cup (Revelation 17:4), and the great motive here is, "All this will I give you." Though the Devil comes not in person to us wi…

The like was done in other cases, as to Ezekiel in his trance (Ezekiel 2:1): Son of man arise, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you. So to the apostle John (Revelation 17:18): When I saw him, I lay at his feet as dead; and he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not,…

Such was the mighty power and deep policy used by Pharaoh to destroy Gods Israel, that to the eye of reason, it was as impossible to survive it, as for crackling thorns to abide unconsumed amidst devouring flames; by which Emblem, their miraculous preservation is expressed, Exod…

That 1. He was designed to (Psalm 89:27). And accordingly he is 2. Made Lord of Lords and King of Kings (Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:16; 1 Timothy 6:15). And 3. He exercises dominion answerable to his title (Revelation 6:16; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 18:16, 17, 18, 19, 20…

4. Gold and all external riches, are empty things to a spiritual discerner of Christ's worth; as it were, a new sort of gold must be invented, or imagined, to shadow forth the excellencies of Christ, gold itself is but an insufficient and dark shadow to represent him; whoever lo…

See (Jeremiah 52:12-13). But the most fearful instances of God's terrible voice by fire are yet to come: Thus God will speak by fire to Spiritual Babylon, which may easily be proved to be Rome, from (Revelation 17:18). She being the then great city, which reigned over the kings…

The persecutions with which the Protestants in one kingdom and another have been persecuted by the church of Rome, have in many respects been far beyond any of the Heathen persecutions which were before Constantine the Great, and beyond all that ever were before. So that Antichr…

3. Puts him to learn by experience new things to day, and to will and decree them fixedly in time, concerning which yesterday and before the world was, he was not fixed in his will to do determinatly any thing, for fear of fatal necessity. For 4. God had either fixed a decree co…

Wars, tumults, confusions, blood, destruction, desolation, were the seeds of their greatness (vastitiem ubi-fecerunt, pacem vocant Galgac. apud Tacit.). Seas and great waters do in the Scripture represent people, and nations (Revelation 17:15), the waters which you saw, where th…

What floods of heresy have been poured out in city and country, which have overflowed the banks, not only of religion, but civility. Ignatius calls error, the invention of the devil; and Bernard calls it a sweet poison: Men's ears like sponges have sucked in this poison: Never w…

He comes forth of the Myrtle trees in the bottom (his lowly people, in a low condition) with the Red horse following him (Zechariah 1:8). Upon this account he [illegible] broke the old Roman Pagan Empire (Revelation 6:13, 14, 15, 16, 17), and will as fearfully destroy the Antich…

Now that which is the end of prayers poured out for magistrates ought to be the end propounded by the magistrate in his duty, but the Apostle commands prayers to be made for magistrates for that end, ergo it lies upon the magistrate to see to it, of which the reader may see more…

Its body was like a dragon, and it had seven heads and ten horns. It made great havoc of children, and yet it was governed by a woman (Revelation 17:3). This monster propounded conditions to men; and such men as loved their lives more than their souls, accepted of those conditio…

If [in non-Latin alphabet] here mean all men, the apostle in direct contradiction to himself in this very expression, means that he himself, and all the other apostles, as well the rest of mankind, did corrupt the word of God. Revelation 17:1: I will show to you the judgment of…

This then is the [in non-Latin alphabet] of the Heaven and Earth of the nations. Now this is evident, from that full prediction which you have of the accomplishment hereof (Revelation 17:12, 13, and 16). Verse 12: the kingdoms of the West receive power at one hour with the Beast.

Compare with this (1 John 4:1, 2, 3). For confirmation, consider what is foretold by John; (Revelation 17:12, 16, 17), that the kings of the earth, shall eat the flesh of the whore, and burn her with fire. All which are foretold, as blessings to be conferred upon the Church.

(5) Because, the Lord has promised, that Magistrates under the Gospel, shall be nursing fathers to his Church (Isaiah 49:23). And shall make the Whore desolate, naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire (Revelation 17:16). Quest. 4.

(2) His coming is after the manner of Satan (2 Thessalonians 2:9). (3) As to his name, he calls himself a Christian, but in very truth is an adversary to Christ, and by consequence one who denies Jesus to be the Christ (Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:19; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; 1…

Q. 3. Wherein chiefly consists the outward providence of God towards his Church? A. In three things, first, in (a) causing all things to work together for their good; secondly, in (b) ruling and disposing of kingdoms, nations, and persons, for their benefit; thirdly, (c) in aven…

Q. 3. Wherein chiefly consists the outward providence of God towards his Church? A. In three things, first, in (a) causing all things to work together for their good, secondly, in (b) ruling and disposing of kingdoms, nations, and persons, for their benefit; thirdly, (c) in aven…