The key of the Revelation, searched and demonstrated out of the naturall and proper charecters of the visions.: With a coment thereupon, according to the rule of the same key, / published in Latine by the profoundly learned Master Joseph Mede B.D. late fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, for their use to whom God hath given a love and desire of knowing and searching into that admirable prophecie. Translated into English by Richard More of Linley in the Countie of Salop. Esquire, one of the Bargesses in this present convention of Parliament. With a præface written by Dr Twisse now prolocutor in the present Assembly of Divines.

The sixt Synchronisme. Of t••e new Jerusalem the bride of the Lamb with the seaventh * 1.1 trumpet, or the space from the time of the destruction of the Be••st.

1. The marriage of the Lamb, and that Emperiall kingdome of the Almighty Lord God, both begin after the destruction of Babylon, where the seaventh trumpet beginneth, this appeareth out of the h••mne of the Elders and Beasts, which in the former Synchronisme we have commended out of the nineteenth chap. vers. 6.7. Hallilu••ah, for our Lord God Almightie reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoyce, and give honour to him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made her selfe ready. But the new Jerusalem is that bride of the Lamb, adorned and pre∣pared for her husband: chap. 21. verse 2. And I saw (saith he) the holy City, new Jerusalem, coming downe from God out of hea∣ven as a bride adorned for her husband: and verse 9. Come and I will shew thee the bride the Lambes wife, &c. Therefore even she shal begin and contemporize with the seventh trumpet.

2. Now Jerusalem is the beloved citie; but that beloved citie, forthwith after the 1000. yeares are ended, is said to be compas∣sed about by those last troopes of Satan then let loose, chap. 20. ver. 9. And they compassed the tents of the Saints and the be∣loved citie: therefore it must needs have beene extant before, while Satan was yet bound. I have thought fit to adde two other, either for confirmation, or illustration, and setting forth of these two arguments.

3. The seventh Viall being poured out, wherewith the Beast is dispatcht and abolished, there came a loud voice from the throne, saying, TETONE, It is done; chap. 16. vers. 17. So also, He that sat upon the throne saith to Iohn (beholding new Jeru∣salem descending from heaven) chap. 21. verse 5, 6] Behold, I make all things new TETONE, It is done, I am * 1.2 A, and ••, the beginning and the end: therefore new Jerusalem the bride of the Lamb beginneth at the last terme of the Vials TETONE the whore being already dispatcht; and so it contemporizeth with the space of time, which insueth the destruction of the Beast.

4. One of the Angels of the Vials [Chap. 17.] sheweth unto Iohn the condemnation of the whore, even while the Vials are in pouring out, and at least by one of them to be executed. And the same Angel of Vials [chap. 21. vers. 10.] sheweth to the same Iohn the bride of the Lambe the great citie, holy Jeru∣salem, to become glorious even when the Phials are now ended, that is, the Beast and Babylon being destroyed.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Chap. 21.2. Chap. 11 1.
• * 1.2

  Alpha •• Omega.