Revelation 9

Ejus adesse intolerabile, ejus abesse impossibile: To bear it will be intolerable, to avoid it will be impossible. And these hell-torments are for ever; have no period put to them (Revelation 9:6). They shall seek death and shall not find it.

Eternity is a sea without bottom and banks. After millions of years there's not one minute in eternity wasted; and the damned must be ever burning, but never consuming, always dying, but never dead (Revelation 9:6). They shall seek death, but shall not find it.

Peccatum transit actu manet reatu — sin at first shows its color in the glass, but afterwards it bites like a serpent. Those locusts (Revelation 9:7) were an emblem of sin: on their heads were crowns like gold, and they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the…

1. It may administer matter of wonder to us how any soul is saved. How may we admire, that Satan, this Abaddon, or Angel of the Bottomless Pit (Revelation 9:11), this Apollyon, this Soul-devourer, does not ruin all mankind? What a wonder is it that some are preserved, that neith…

In all false worships the Devil is served either directly, or obliquely, either by consequence or in the intention of the worshippers, from there those expressions, table of Devils (1 Corinthians 10:21), they sacrificed to Devils and not to God (Deuteronomy 32:17). You gratify S…

Persecutors are murderers. Bloody Papists are in the Scripture charged with Murder on this account: it is said of them, they repented not of their murders (Revelation 9:21), namely of their murdering the saints of God for their religion, for the truth's sake; and because they wo…

And as they are in equipage with former Pagans, so likewise with all modern aliens. The Turk himself being not excepted, who is loosed from the east, to punish them (Revelation 9:13, 14, 15), and is not half so much aimed at in the book of God's counsels, which the Lamb has unse…

Jeroboam ordained priests for the Devils which he had made (2 Chronicles 11:15). And so the Papists in like manner, it is said, they repented not of worshipping Devils (Revelation 9:20). Hence Rome is called an habitation of Devils, and foul spirits (Revelation 18:2), and their…

Secondly, it must be remembered also (which was intimated before) that if fundamental corruptions be professed in with impenitency and obstinacy, then God may disannul the covenant on his part, and give a bill of divorce to such a people (Jeremiah 3:8). Now experience and the Sc…

There is nothing so fearful as the wrath of God: one would think that that which these poor people should desire here should be dreadful enough, to have the mountains fall upon them, and the hills to cover them: Oh! but 'tis not so dreadful as God's wrath; take all the terrors i…

He is the accuser of the brethren (Revelation 12:10). The king of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue has his name Apollyon (Revelation 9:11). He is the Arch-destroyer, and destroys all in relation to the man Christ and his Chu…

And it may be this is he who is called [in non-Latin alphabet] (Job 18:13), the first-born of death, or he that has right to the administration of it. They term him also [in non-Latin alphabet], that is, [in non-Latin alphabet], the waster or destroyer: and [in non-Latin alphabe…

What, is Satan become a savior? What salvation can we expect from him, whose name is Apollyon, and Abaddon (Revelation 9:11), both which signify a destroyer. Shall we send to the wolf to save the sheep?

Has their cup of wrath one drop of honey in it? Oh remember, after the golden crowns, and women's hair, come the lion's teeth (Revelation 9:8). Thus I have answered the first part of the objection: I shall lose all my pleasures in sin.

Their preachings, sermons, and books of devotion, they look all this way. Hence those who interpret the locusts that came out of the bottomless pit (Revelation 9:2) to be the friars of the Romish Church, who are said to torment men, so that they should seek death and not find it…

That which check'd Ioseph, was the Thoughts of a Sin-revenging God. When the delights of sin Tickle, let the Thoughts of God come into mens Minds, that he is both the Spectatour and the Iudge, and after the Golden Crowns and Womens Hair come the Lions Teeth, Revelation 9:8. This…

I have forgotten the Minister's answer, but I am sure in these complaints you go not alone: I have lately known one very able, wise, and godly, put upon the rack in these kinds of thoughts by him, that envying God's people's peace, knows how to change himself into an Angel of li…

Christians, search where you will, there is no serious answer to that grand question, which is the great scruple of the fallen creature (Micah 6:7): how to appease angry justice. And we are told of those locusts who are seducing spirits which come out of the bottomless pit (Reve…

Prisons, common jails, are the worst places to live in ('tis a noisome pestilential air) but hell is worse than the worst of prisons. 2 Hell is called the bottomless pit (Revelation 9:11), and elsewhere frequently: The Devil is the Angel of the bottomless pit; 'tis a pit into wh…

He sinned from the beginning, and continues sinning to this day; and they that do imitate him in his work are his children as much as if they were begotten of him (John 8:44) — you are of your father the devil, and his works, his lusts, you will do. He was and is a murderer; he…

This made their drudges even weary of their lives, as never seeing an end of their misery, nor knowing what would become of their souls. And it is that which is called by John in the [illegible], the torment of a scorpion when he stings a man (Revelation 9:6): that men shall see…

He showed Judas first the silver bait, and then struck him with the hook. This is the reason why sin has so many followers — because it shows the best first; first the golden crowns, and then come the lions' teeth (Revelation 9:7-8). But God shows the worst first; first he presc…

Incense is prayer (Psalm 141:2): Let my prayer come before you as incense. Jesus Christ is the Golden Altar, whereon that incense is offered (Revelation 8:3, 4), even that Altar which is always before God (Revelation 9:13). As by being the former, he makes our persons accepted;…

3. Heretics and false teachers who yet profess to believe in God Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, to hold also the Scriptures the word of God, may yet teach such doctrines that they may be justly styled false prophets, apostates, idolaters, blasphemers, as diver…

Sin first courts, and then kills: 'Tis first a Fox, and then a Lion: Whomsoever sin kisss, it betraies. Those Locusts in the Revelations, are the perfect Hierogly phicks and emblems of sin; On their heads were as it were Crowns like gold, and they had hair as women, and their te…

This word ever burns hotter than the Fire. At death all our worldly sorrows die; but the torments of Hell are as long-lived as Eternity, Revelation 9.6. They shall seek death, and shall not find it.

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…

He turns the heart whichever way it pleases him; Men may change our minds, by giving us better reasons for things than we discerned before, and may alter our judgments and opinions by strength of reason, or affection to the contrary, but no man is able to change the heart but on…