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.

A sentence for memory compact of the signification of the names, by which the Tribes are called: wherei•• are declared as well the order of the Tribes sealed, as also the disposition of the same company, the wrestling, and the reward from God.

Juda	Confitetur Deo	Confession is made to God looking upō his Son by the com∣pany of the blessed	C••ltus puru•• & rite Chri∣stianus. Pure & truly Christian worship.
Re••ben	intuendo filium
Gad	Coetus
Aser	benedictus
Nephthalin	Luctantur cum	they wrestle with those that forget obedience	Lucta. Strife or wrestling.
Manasses	obliviscentibus
Simeon	obedientiam.
Levi	Adhaesio scil. Christo	by cleaving (to wit) to Christ	Praemium. The reward.
Isacher	mercedem	a reward
Zabulon	habitaculi, sc. aterni	of habitation (to wit) eternall life
Joseph	adiici••t	shall be added
Beniamin	filio dextr••.	to the Son of his right hand

Confesseth or praiseth God, beholding his Sonne (that is, Christ the onely Mediatour) the blessed company (the company of the sealed.) They strive with those that forget obedience (that is, with Antichristians.) Cleaving to Christ a reward of habitation (to wit, eternall) he shall adde to the Sonne of his right hand, (that is, to him whom God accounteth great) or otherwise. To them that cleave to God a reward of habitation (that is, life eternall) shall be added by the Sonne of the right hand, that is, Christ.

To this contracted and afflicted estate of the Church in the type of the sealed of Israel, the state thereof most ample and most happy succeedeth, in the representation of innumerable palme∣bearers, out of every Nation, People, Tribe, and Tongue. After these things, saith he, I saw, and loe a great multitude, which n••

man could number, out of every Nation, and People, and Tribes, * 1.1 and Tongues, standing before the Throne, and before the Lamb••, * 1.2 clothed with white garments, and Palmes in their hands. And they * 1.3 cryed with a loud voyce, saying; salvation to our God who sitt••th upon the Throne, and to the Lambe, &c. But this vision seeing it belongeth to the seventh Trumpet, neither can be elsewhere fitly and cleerely unfolded by reason of so many things to be fore-knowne, we will deferre the exposition thereof thither. For the present let that suffice which now hath beene said in generall, and let the Reader remember, that both these Visions certainly doe joyntly goe through the whole space of the seventh Seale or of the Trumpets; but that the company of the sealed doth severally synchronize with the six first Trumpets: the Palme bearing multitude with the seventh trumpet. And so having done with the interpretation of the interposed Vision or Visions, let us take in hand againe the intermitted series of the Seales.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Chap. 8.
• * 1.2

  Vers. 9.
• * 1.3

  Vers. 10.