An exquisite commentarie vpon the Reuelation of Saint Iohn VVherein, both the course of the whole booke, as also the more abstruse and hard places thereof not heretofore opened; are now at last most cleerely and euidently explaned. By Patrik Forbes of Corse.

A TABLE CONTAI∣ning the most notable things in this booke.

• A Rule for right Accommodation of Story to the seuen seales of this booke. 41
• The wrong ground whereby men marre the Accommodation. 46
• How farre time must bee lookt to in the Accommodation. 89
• The Aire. 170
• Our Altar Christ. 37. 60. 81
• The Ambition of the Romane Bishops. 65
• Angels are about the Church for two respects, to protect her and to learne wisdome by her. 29. 30
• Angels are not to be worshipped. 210. Angels put for the name of office not of nature. 59. The Angel of the coue∣nant. 50, 59
• Antichrist his beginning. 70, Whence, and in what man∣ner hee arriseth. 118, 119. 120, 175. The mischiefe comming by him compared with the floud of Noah. 77. His name. 79. The number of his name. 124. What sort of enemie he is. 137, 140. That he is the Pope. 113, 183 185. Acommon deceiuer of alboth Iewes and Gentiles. 80. How he hath not power to slaie men, and yet with him is found all the blood shed on the earth. 72. 84. How farre he did preuaile. 139. How to iudge of his followers. 136, 137, 141. The first and second degrees of his fall. 157. The third degree of his fall. 158. The fourth, 160 The fift, wherein is a wise and iust retribution. 161. The

• sixth, 163. His destruction irrecouerable and vtter ruine. 78, 89, 165, 177, 218. His vnexpected foile. 218. His irrecouerable fall compared with the fals of the Beasts in Daniel. 219.
• Armageddon. 165
• Christ his Arrowes kill all but differently. 34
• A diuine Artifice of the spirit 160
• The Attire of the Bride 208

B

• BArbarous nations ouerturners of the Romane Empire, although Satan his intention in spewing them out of his mouth was farre other. 110
• A great Battell in heauen 103, 108
• Why men are named Beasts. 123
  • That the first Beast is the state of Rome, not vnder the persecuting Emperours (as the common opinion is) but of the same time and condition with the second Beast, that is, vnder the Popedome, it is prooued by foure cleere notes of the first Beast, proper to the Popedome: The first note 113. The second, the third, and the fourth note cleerest of all, 114. How the same Antichrist (to wit, the Popedome) is set fourth in both the Beasts, 118. 121. What reason the Beast and false Prophet be distinguished, seeing they are but one. 121. 177. 178, ••18. What the wound in the sixth head of the Beast was, and the curing of it. 116. 117. In what respect but seuen heads are attibuted to the Beast, albeit in number they bee eight, 118. 176. Who is the seuenth head of the Beast, 122. 177. The Beast is the eight head and one of the seuen, to wit, the sixt. 116. 122. 176. Who the Beast is, 123. 178. His seuen heads. 175. How he had beene, and then in Iohn his daies was, and how hee was to come: and what bee the Kings, called his Heads. 176. The hornes of the Beast. 179. Why to this Beast is attributed not only hornes as to that in Daniel 7. but further also, heads. 179
• ...

• The Beast in comparison set against Christ. 217
• Beasts throne and elders. 20. 202
• Christ his garment dipt in Blood. 214
• Pope Boniface the eight. 231
• The Bookes opened in the last iudgement. 235. 236
• The Bride her preparation. 206. Her attire. 207. 208

C

• THe degrees of a true inward Calling to the ministry. 91
• The length of the Land of Canaan 144
• The Captaine of the Lord his Host. 214
• His power to doe all things, 213
• The Character of the Beast. 124. 136. 219
• Christ in diuers respects is both God sitting on the throne, and also the Lamb standing betweene the throne and the Beast and Elders. 13. He is dispenser of all both mer∣cy and wrath. 60. His comming downe from heauen. 85 He is Lord of Sea and Land. 87. Hee commeth in his Kingdome with power. 107. 110. His garments dipt in blood. 214. He is our Garment. 162
• The Church her constant gracefull state, in the presence of God in her. 12. In her goodly state heerethrough 13. In God his dispensation; terrible for her. 14. And graci∣ous towards her, in three graces. 15. Her happinesse by this state. 20
• Without the true Church is neither saluation nor any true knowledge. 24
• The true Church preserued euen vnder Antichrist. 53. 71
• Her case vnder him. 93. 137. And it is shewed in three di∣stinct speeches. 138
• The Church her enemies and sufferings after what manner they be described in this Prophecie. 104
• The primitiue Church her habit and her trauelling in birth 105. Her flight to the wildernesse. 190. Why she is cal∣led a mountaine. 166

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• The Church her estate in the last daies. 261
  • That the last two Chapters of the Reuelation must bee vnderstood of the Church militant 264
• The Roman Clergy. 70. 196
  • Their properties. 78
• A Cloud a note of diuine maiesty. 86
• A delightful Cōgruity in the order of God his working. 164
• Conscience: the twofold state thereof; the intollerable tor∣ment thereof comming by Popish Doctrine 72. 73
• Constantine the great 44. 109
• Contention set foorth by fire; the effects thereof 62
  • How it was among the Churchmen 63
• The Course of the Reuelation. 32. 101. 142. 153. 232
  • And of the Trumpets. 61
  • The Artifice thereof noted. 84. 90. 100. 101
• The Cry of soules of Martyrs 37
• The Dragon his Crownes are vpon his heads, but the Beast his vpon his hornes 113
• Christ hath many Crownes 213
• The Cup. 135. 136

D

• THe Day of Iudgement shall come on a secure world. 169
• Death of two kinds. 64
• Of a third ki••de. 67
• Death first and second, 223, 224
• To Dye in the Lord. 142
• Desire of further k••owledge. 49
• The threefold Dignity of God his Saints. 14
• Dioclesianus a cruel persecuter. 43
• What Disposition is requisite for the perception of Diuine Mysteries 173
• A Doore open in heauen 9. How wee must enter thereat; and the necessity and fruit of entring. 10
• Our Doore to God is Iesus Christ. 259
• ...

• The Dragon who, and of what time he is. 105
• His binding and to whom he is bound. 222. 228

E

• THat great Eagle 109
• The Earth in opposion to heauen for the earthly sort. 10
• For the place of the visible Church 49
• The Earth in an other third sense. 156
• The loue of the Earth; the effect thereof. 70
• A great and strange Earthquake 170
• The East, a pleasant discourse vpon the comming of the An∣gel from the East. 50
• The occasion of the falling away of the East from the truth: and their con••ersion againe 163
• To Eate the word of God. 91
• To Eate the flesh of the Whoore. 181
• The E••••s of Christ as a flame of fire 212
• Elders, Throne and Beasts. 202
• Romane Emperors bloody persecuters; and how some were forced to honour the Saints. 48
• The Germaine Emperors. 175. 179
• The Graecian Emperors 178
• The Enemies of the Church in the old and new Testament. 104. 145
• Example. 193

F

• HOw to iudge of our Fathers in time of Antichrist. 136, 141
• Fire from the Altar of a double effect. 60
• Fire of Gods spirit, of loue, and the fire of contention; the dif∣ferent companions and effects of the two fires 62
• The Fire of Ambition. 63
• Fire, Brimstone and Iacinthe 83
• ...

• The Fire of Christs feet 86
• To haue power ouer Fire. 146
• How the Fire is mingled with the Sea. 150
• Christ his eies a flame of Fire. 212
• The Flood cast out of the Dragon his mouth. 109
• Flying through the middest of heauen. 68. 134. 187
• Frogges comming out of the mouthes of the Dragon, Beast and false Prophet. 161. 162
  • Their properties. 164
  • Who they are. 165
  • Fulminatrix legio. 43

G

• CHrist his Garment dipt in Blood. 214
• His neme written on his Garment. 216
• Our Gate and onely doore to God is lesus Christ 259
• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. 254
• God his seate in his Church, his nature, and Trinity of that one shadowed by three Iewels. 12
  • His patience 82
• Gog and Magog. 233
  • That they are not particularly the Turkes: who they are. 242. 243. 244. 245
• Golden Vials. 27. 153
• The three Graces of God towards his Church 15
• Pope Gregory the seuenth. 229

H

• THe mourning of Hadadrimon 167
• Haile for cold preaching. 62
• For iudgement. 99
• Heretikes their disposition. 66
• Haleluiah. 200
• Harpes. 27. 148
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• Haruest. 145
• Heauen in opposition to earth throughout this Prophecie is taken for the true Church in opposition to the worldly sort. 10
• Heauen put for the glory and honour of the great men of the earth 40
  • Amultitude in Heauen 200
  • The Heauens cast wide open. 211
• Hornes. 26
  • Why the Beast is said to haue two hornes like the Lambs, seeing to the Lambe are attributed seuen. 115
  • Tenne hornes of the Dragon and of the Beast. 123. 179
  • The difference betweene the tenne hornes Daniel 7. and the tenne hornes Reuel. 13. and 17. 179
  • Why the hornes of the Beast haue crownes and not the hornes of the Dragon 113
• Horses. 33
• The Host of heauen. 215

I

• ALlusion to the fall of Iericho to the fal of Babel. 100
• Iesuits the origine, their busie endeauours, their date, they are the last puffe of Satan his mouth and of the Vicar of his throne. 165
• The conuersion of the Iewes 80. 164. 167
  • But most euidently. 168, 139
  • Whether they shall inhabit their owne Landagaine. 168
  • How great a way the Popes fall shall make to their con∣uersion. 169
  • Their conuersion and ioy vpon his fall. 201. 206
• Iohn disposed the Canon before his death 269
• The Impenitency and Induration of Papists. 160. 161
• The ordinary degrees of true Illumination. 25
• How we should looke on the condition of the Church of Israel in the old Testament. 245
• ...

• What is requisite to Iudge righteously. 212
• A description of the last Iudgement. 234. 235
• The manner of processe in the last Iudgement, how it shall be ledde by that which is written in the bookes, and yet according to our workes: set foorth not for it selfe or time thereof, but to shew the continuall, recurelesse, and finall destruction of the enemies, and goodly state of the Church thereupon, holding still one to the last Iudgement, and so, eternall. 236. 237
  • The yeere or age of that day cannot determinatly bee ga∣thered vpon any ground in Scripture. 241
• Iulian. 229

K

• KIngs. 194
• King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 215
• The Keies which the Popes haue, to wit, of the bottomlesse pit. 70
• Christ and his Ministers haue these same Keies in a farre different sense. 221

L

• THe Lambe of God. 27
• In what respect the Lambe his slaughter is the reason of his worthinesse. 28
• The Lambe his mariage. 206
• Seuen burning Lamps. 15
• Legio fulminatrix. 43
• Lightnings, thundrings and voices. 14
• True Light bringeth euer true ioy. 24
• White Linen apparel. 153
• Where our Church was before Luther. 140
• Lions, Buls and Cherubins in Salomon his Temple, types of the Ministers of the word. 18
• Two Lions of diuers qualities. 24

M

• MAgeddon or Megiddon. 165. 166
• Mahomet his time of rising: by what meanes he spred his doctrine: the swift course of the victories of his suc∣cessors. 82
• A Man. 42
• The face of a Man. 17. 78
• A Man-childe. 106
• The number of a Man. 126
• The measure of a Man. 257
  • Of an Angel. 258
• The Marriage of the Lambe. 206
• The soules of the Martyrs cry. 77
• The Merchants and Merchandize of Rome. 195
• God euen in wrath remembreth Mercy. 60
• Ministers of God his word are necessary for begetting in vs the life of God. 16
  • The properties requisite in them. 17
  • The light and feeling that ought to be in them 88
  • They are the light of the world 188
  • The degrees of a true inward calling of a Minister. 91
  • The type of the Ministers who were first open contesters with Antichrist in three rankes. 133. 134. 135
  • How they were persecuted. 141
  • True Ministers haue power ouer fire. 146
• Myracles. 151
• Christ is our Morning starre. 267
• Why the Church is called a Mountaine. 166
• Mourning must goe before ioy. 23
• The Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Maged∣don 167
• The Mystery of God; the finishing thereof. 88 89 99. 155
• What is requisite for the perception of Mysteries. 173
• A Mystery where of the Author in sobernesse confesses bee dare not determine. 12. Another. 232. Another. 258.

N

• ANtichrist his Name. 79
• Christ hath a Name which none knoweth but himselfe. 213
• His Name King of Kings. 215
• His Name the Word of God. 214
• To haue the Name written on the garment and one the thigh 216
• A New World. 241
  • How Christ reneweth the world. 252
• The Night for humane sciences 68
• Noah his flood semblable to the euil of Antichrist. 77
• Number of the Elders twenty foure, the reason thereof. 13
• The Number of foure 17. 49
  • In an other respect. 81
  • The Number of twelue. 120. 128
  • The Number of the name of the Beast. 124
  • The Number of the name of God. 125

O

• VVHat makes the Obduration of Papists 173
• Odoacer King of the Heruls 17
• Our praiers are Odours. 27
  • How and in whom they are Odours. 59
• The Order of the Reuelation. 32. 142. 153. 232
  • The great artifice thereof. 48. 90. 94. 98. 100. 101

P

• HOw to iudge of Papists. 136. 137. 141
• The cause why Papists be so obdured 147
• Their vnity. 180
• Papisticall seducers may be iustly punished by death, yea and

• should be. 159
  • Their impenitency. 160. 161
  • Their desperate sorrow because of the light of the Gospel. 161
• Christ his feete are Pillars. 86
• Pharao a type of the Dragon. 104
• That the Pope is Vicar of Satan his throne. 112
  • That he is the Beast that Antichrist. 113
  • It is also proued by three infallible tokens. 183
  • And by a plaine and forcible argument euinced. 185
  • The shifts of the Papists for exempting the Pontificality from this blot. 183
  • Whence he arriseth. 175
  • His fall irrecouerable. 78. 89. 165. 177
  • His presumption, obstinacie, and vnexpected foile. 218
• Aplaine crossing of all Popery. 54
• An incouragement to Praier. 60
• The false Prophet all one with the Beast; and for what cause they be distinguished. 121. 177. 178
• The Lord God of the holy Prophets. 254. 265

R

• RAine twofold. 62
• The Rainebowe about Christ his head. 86
• All Religion. 19
• The first Resurrection. 224
  • Who they are that are said Chap. nineteenth, to rise the first Resurrection. 224. 225
• The Reuelation worthy of our study. 11. 265
  • The dignity thereof shewed in two great points. 21
  • The course thereof. 32
• Riches and authority without wisdome are but the weapons of a foole 30
• The Riches of Christ. 30
• Riders on Horses. 33
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• Christ his Riding on a white horse. 212
• White Robes in Scripture haue a triple signification. 38
• Rome her presumption. 192. 218
• The Renting of her in three. 171
  • By whom shall her fall bee. 152. 163. 182
  • The first and second degrees of her fall. 157
  • The third degree of her fall 158
  • The fourth. 160
  • The fifth. 161
  • The sixth. 163
  • What her fall shall be. 181
  • It is irrecouerable. 165. 177
  • And vnexpected. 192
  • The certainety and greatnesse thereof. 188. 191. 198
  • The equity thereof. 189. 198. 205
• Yet in considering the equity, a diffeerence is to bee put be∣twene the state & euery particular mēber of that state. 193

S

• TO the Saints is giuen a kingdome euen heere. 107
• Satan his twofold dealing against the Church. 105. 106
  • What is his first attempt alwaies. 106
  • How he is said to be in heauen, to fight there, to bee cast downe out of heauen into the earth. 107
• The Scripture is onely to bee heard and no voice else in the Church of God. 25
• In what respect it is a little Booke. 86
• It is kept secure by the Pope. Ibid.
• It must be eaten. 91
• In the Scripture all is reuealed requisite for light or man∣ners. 266. 267. 268
• To couplerightly the parts thereof. 268
• The glassie Sea a type of the Word. 15. 149
• The Sea for the common worship. 49. 64
  • For that which is below. 120
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• The Red Sea and pillar of fire, types of the Word and Spirit 150
• For what reason the Sea is said Chap. 15 to be mingled with fire. 150
• There was no more Sea. 120. 250
• Seamen. 196
• The Seale of God. 51
• Seducing of two sorts. 228. 233
• The twofold Seed of the Church. 130
• Seuen Lamps 15
• Seuen hornes and seuen eies of the Lambe. 26
• Seuen points of his praise. 30
• Seuen heads. 118. 175
• Seuen Seales, Seuen Trumpets, Seuen Vials. 153
• Seuen, diuers times recorded in all this booke, and concer∣ning this number Seuen. 232
• The Shining of the Bride her attire. 208
• Showers twofold. 62
• Two great Signes in heauen 100
• The Signe of the Dragon. 102. 147
• The Signe of the Sonne of Man. 147. 212
• To Sit. 191
• The Slaughter of the Lambe the reason of his worthinesse, and in what sense must thinke so. 24
• Sobriety. 88. 211
• Example of Sobriety in the Author 12. 232. 258
• Solitary places 188
• The Holy Spirit his procession and name of Comforter signi∣fied by the Rainebow diffunded about the Throne 12
  • In a diuers consideration he both sitteth in the throne, and also is before the throne set foorth in Seuen burning Lamps. 13
• Starres, for great men of the earth. 40. For Pastors. 67
  • And in that case how they are to be considered. 68
• To stand in the Sunne. 216

T

• The Tents of Saints 233
• Theodoricus the Ostrogoth, the seuenth head of the Beast. 122
• Thrones. 161
• Thrones, Beasts, and Elders. 202
• Thrones set for saints. 228
• Christ his white Throne. 235. 240
• Seuen Thunders. 87
  • Why their speeches were vttered and yet not written. 88
• The Times recorded in the Reuelation. 73
  • A refutation of Propheticall yeeres (as they call them. 74. 96
• How to vnderstand the Times of the Reuelation. 76
• The Time of tenne daies. 76
• The Time of fiue monthes. 77
• How the Trumpets beginne and ende in respect of time. 80. 89. 90.
• The Time of fourty two monthes, and of 1260 daies, and of Time, Times, and halfe a Time. 96. 231
• The Time of three daies and a halfe. 97
  • Which also is the space that the Dragon is let goe loose after his first binding. 222
  • The effects of that his loosing 203
• The Time of a thousand yeeres. 226
• It is the onely Time in all this prophesie to be taken definit∣ly. 230.
• The Thighi; to put the hand vnder the thigh: Christ his name written on his thigh. 216
• Tragicall times of some Emperours. 43
• Treasons of Papists: by whom they are atchiued: how good and worthy works they doe esteeme them. 72
  • And what setteth them so madlings a worke. 165
• The Tribes of Israel. 53

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  • Why they are recorded but to be twelue seeing they were thirteene. 127
• Trumpets. 58
• Twelue. 120. 128
• Turkes, their heades, terrible Army, the great desolation they make.

V

• GOlden Vials types of faithfull and pure hearts 27
• Golden Vials cups of wrath. 153
• The reason why they come in place after the trumpets. 154
• On whom they are powred out. 156
• Vintage. 146
• Of the Visibility of the Church. 138. 139
• The Vnity of the Church of Rome. 180
• The Voice of Christ is bold as a Lion, and powerful as thun∣der: How to know if the Ministers speake his voice.
• Pope Vrbane the second, and his successors, kindlers of the holy warre for recouery of Ierusalem▪ 229

W

• LOue of the Wages ofvnrighteousnes 196
• The Warre proclaimed in Paradise. 102. 105
• Christianity is a Warfare: against whom it is: and how to fight it out. 108
  • And ouercome. 180
• Counsel and strength are for the Warre 213
• The holy Warre. 229
• Waters of two sorts. 67
• Many Waters. 162
• The drying vp of many Waters 162. 173
• White colour, White horses. 33. 145. 212
• White robes. 38
• ...

• ... White linen apparell. 153
• A White throne. 240
• Windes for influence of spirituall graces. 49
• Deepe Wisdome. 204
• The Whoore described. 174
  • Who shee is. 182
• How the restoring of Prophesie and dispelling of darkenes is a Woe. 98. 160
• Two great Wonders in Heauen 100
• Wondring of two sorts. 174
• The Word compared to water, figured by the Lauer in the Tabernacle, and by the brasen Sea Temple: and in this booke Chap. 4. set foorth vnder the type of a glassie Sea before the throne. 15. 16
• The Word contemned, of a blessing becommeth the first of plagues. 34
• The Word is the weapon of Christ his victorie. 86. 88. 215
• Three degrees of operation which the Word of God hath in the hearts of his owne 132
• Our Worship to God must proceed of knowledge. 20
• The Wound of the Beast in his sixth head 117
• How Works doe follow the dead. 142

FINIS.