The sealed book opened. Or, A cleer explication of the prophecies of the Revelation. Together with the lessons that are to be observed from every chapter thereof, being cleerly explained. Intended chiefly for the discovery to all of that Roman antichrist, and that Rome her final destruction is surely at hand, by that blessed work of reformation happily begun in the several churches and kingdoms of Europe. / By William Guild D.D. and preacher of Gods word.

Ver. 12. And they heard a great voice from heaven, saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them.

These words have either a relation to these who were killed, or else to these whom God raised in their places: if to the first, then after the killing of their bodies is shewn here the blessed estate of their soules, which upon Gods calling of them himselfe, ascended up to heaven, as their Head and Savi∣our after he was crucified, and his body lay three dayes in the grave, rose again gloriously, and ascended to heaven in a cloud, in the view of all who beheld him, Act. 1.9. being so (like these his servants) out of the reach of any more suffering by his enemies.

If the relation be to these whom God raised in their places, then hereby their heavenly calling is to be understood to such a high and eminent a work, as the reforming and re∣edifying of Gods Temple and Worship, and ruine of Anti∣christ. Which heavenly calling to such a work, is no lesse glo∣rious

then if they were seene to ascend to heaven in a cloud; and which by the wonderful effects thereof, their very ene∣mies should be forced to acknowledge, as if they saw the, same with their eyes, and as the Centurion by what he saw, was forced to confesse that Christ was the Sonne of God, Mat. 27.54.