Revelation 6

Jesus Christ is of mighty renown, he is a King; he has a kingly title, High and mighty (Isaiah 57:15). 2. He has his Insignia Regalia, his ensigns of royalty, Corona est insigne Regiae potestatis; His crown (Revelation 6:2), his sword (Psalm 45:3), Gird your sword upon your thig…

This is the Grand Assizes; the greatest appearance that ever was: now Adam shall see all his posterity at once. We must all appear; the greatness of men's persons does not exempt them from Christ's tribunal; kings and captains are brought in trembling before the Lamb's throne (R…

Why what shall we be? Every son of God shall have his crown of glory (1 Peter 5:4), and white robes (Revelation 6:11). Robes signify dignity, and white signifies sanctity.

But God's word says to the contrary. For the souls of the godly lie under the altar, and cry, How long Lord Jesus (Revelation 6:9)? Dives in soul did suffer the woe and torments of hell: and Lazarus had joy in Abraham's bosom (Luke 16:23).

11. God calls them a kingdom of priests (Exodus 19:6). 1. They are kings, they have their throne (Revelation 3:21) and white robes (Revelation 6:11). Robes signify their dignity, and white their sanctity.

The saints departed pray generally for the state of the whole Church. Revelation 6:9-10: I saw under the altar the souls of them that were killed for the word of God, and they cried: How long, Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the e…

The first chapter of Ezekiel contains an admirable scheme of providence; there you may see the living creatures who move the wheels — that is, the great affairs and turnings of things here below — coming to Christ, who sits upon the throne to receive new orders and instructions…

It abides not with him all that dark and lengthy night, or space after death, in which their bodies rest in the grave, which is termed man's long home: and, The days of darkness are many (says Solomon); no, he rewards them in the evening of the day, besides what he will add to i…

Worldly sorrow, says the Apostle, works death. And if it works your death, it works your damnation also; for Hell follows that pale horse (Revelation 6:8). If a believer dies, there is no danger of Hell to him, the second death has no power over him; but woe to you if it overtak…

Use, 1. It may make us wonder that men and women think so little of sin; there are many that will scoff at a challenge or threatening for sin; but let me say it, that mountains of lead, yes, though all this world were turned into one mass, or lump of lead, it should not be so he…

Yet suppose the hardest befall me, I know what to do; as the unjust steward resolves on a way, beforehand, how to swim through his necessities (Luke 16:4). The Lord acts judgment and what they shall pray in the time of their extremity, who now spit at all praying and religion; t…

Christ riding on his horse of the Gospel, and strength of free grace, is swift and speedy, and has excellent success. (Revelation 6) He went out 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, both conquering, and that he might conquer. Christ shoots not at the rovers, to come short, or beside the m…

To illustrate this by the help of the former comparison begun; If as Abel's blood cries, so also it proves that Abel's soul lives to cry; that both his cause cries and himself lives to follow it: So that the cry of Abel's blood is seconded with the cry of Abel's soul that lives,…

And seeing this whole man both body and soul was tempted, and that (as the Text says) he is touched with a feeling in that nature which is tempted, it must therefore be in the whole man, both body and soul. Therefore when as we reade of the wrath of the Lambe, as Revelation 6:16…

So when God glorifies his wisdom and power, in delivering his people from their Enemies, and ensnaring them in the works of their own hands, a double note of attention is affixed to that double work of Providence, Psalm 9:16 higgaion slah. So at the opening of every seal which c…

God leaves not either the measure or the time, the degree or the continuance of any affliction in the hand of Satan or his adherents. We read (Revelation 6:10) that the souls under the Altar cry, 'How long, Lord, how long?' They cry to God how long — they knew that he only had t…

While it's said, he has a crown, hereby is not signified any material crown, but majesty and glory, as Psalm 21:3, You set a Crown of pure Gold on his head, etc. And so Christ conquering on the white horse (Revelation 6:3) is said to have a crown: And (Revelation 19:12) it's sai…

This is a long time of the church's trouble and affliction, and is so spoken of in scripture, though it be spoken of as being but for a little season, in comparison of the eternal prosperity of the church. Hence the church, under the long continuance of this affliction, cries ou…

As to those prayers against his enemies, which we find in some of his Psalms, and which sometimes sound a little harsh, surely they did not proceed from any such irregular passion, as did in the least clash even with the evangelical laws of meekness: we cannot imagine, that one…

But Christ's holy religion, though for some ages it was utterly destitute of all secular supports and advantages, and was assaulted on all hands by the most vigorous attacks of its daring and most implacable enemies, yet it has strangely weathered its point, and is in being, and…

It's appointed for all men once to die, and after that the Judgment. Revelation 6:8. And I looked, and behold a pale Horse, and his name that sat on him was Death: and Hell followed him. Ah it makes a sudden and strange alteration upon mens conditions, to be pluckt out of house,…

1. Temporally upon persons, kingdoms, nations and countries, a type whereof you have (Isaiah 63:1-6). As he did it upon the old Roman world (Revelation 6:16), and this also he does two ways. 1. By calling out here and there an eminent opposer, and making him an example to all th…

He endures the vessels of wrath with much long-suffering (Romans 9:22). While the gospel is administered in the world, he is patient toward the men of it — until the saints in heaven and earth are astonished and cry out 'How long?' (Psalm 13:1–2; Revelation 6:10) — and those men…

As his law binds all, so all that continue in impenitency, and the neglect of his grace, are subject to the curse of the law: It is general to all transgressors; Cursed is every one, etc. And if God should lay their sins home to their consciences, and speak to them in his wrath,…

If the righteous be scarcely saved, or with difficulty, where shall the sinners and ungodly appear? (1 Peter 4:18). See how they run away, and would fain hide themselves (Revelation 6:15), etc. In the day of eternity, (that long, everlasting day) then when they are in hell, they…

1 They will be exceeding great and terrible, such as will make the stoutest hearts to quake and tremble: If the writing of Mene, Mene, Tekel, etc. made a change in Belshazzar's countenance, and trouble in his thoughts, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees s…

1. Every saint shall be a King: There are some that aspire after earthly scepters, as if here were the place of the saints' reign: then surely, the Church of God should not be militant upon earth, but triumphant. But, behold the honor of the saints, they shall be all Kings! (tho…

This Resolution will vanish. 2. Resolution against sin may arise from fear of future evil; an apprehension of death and Hell, (Revelation 6:8). I looked, and behold a pale horse,and his name that sate on him was death, and Hell followed after him?

And do you think he would let his Inheritance be wrested out of his hands? A godly man will not only dispute for the Word, but die for it, Revelation 6. 9. I saw under the Altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God. 6. He shows his love to the Word by preferring…

His eyes will be as a flame of fire, Revelation 1.14. Christ is represented with a bow, and a crown, Revelation 6.2. Give me leave to allude.

There are many that cannot be awakened by the most solemn warnings, and awful threatenings of the word of God; the most alarming discourses from the pulpit, and the most awakening and awful providences; but all will be thoroughly awakened, by the sound of the last trumpet, and t…