Commentary Upon Revelation, Index – Errata
A TABLE CONTAIning 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 couenant. 50, 59
Antichriſt his beginning. 70, Whence, and in what manner 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
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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 vnderunder the perſecuting Emperours (as the common opinion is) but of the ſame time and condition with the ſecond Beaſt, that is, vnderunder 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
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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 mercy 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 gracious 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 vnderunder Antichriſt. 53. 71
Her caſe vnderunder him. 93. 137. And it is ſhewed in three diſtinct 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 called a mountaine. 166
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 torment 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 vponupon his heads, but the Beaſt his vponupon his hornes 113
Chriſt hath many Crownes 213
The Cup. 135. 136
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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
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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 louelove of the Earth; the effect thereof. 70
A great and ſtrange Earthquake 170
The Eaſt, a pleaſant diſcourſe vponupon the comming of the Angel 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
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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 louelove, and the fire of contention; the different 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 hauehave 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
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CHriſt his Garment dipt in Blood. 214
His neme written on his Garment. 216
Our Gate and onelyonly doore to God is leſus Chriſt 259
foreign. 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
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THe mourning of Hadadrimon 167
Haile for cold preaching. 62
For iudgement. 99
Heretikes their diſpoſition. 66
Haleluiah. 200
Harpes. 27. 148
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 hauehave 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 hauehave crownes and not the hornes of the Dragon 113
Horſes. 33
The Hoſt of heauen. 215
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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 conuerſion. 169
Their conuerſion and ioy vponupon 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 gathered vponupon any ground in Scripture. 241
Iulian. 229
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KIngs. 194
King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 215
The Keies which the Popes hauehave, to wit, of the bottomleſſe pit. 70
Chriſt and his Miniſters hauehave theſe ſame Keies in a farre different ſenſe. 221
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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
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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 ſucceſſors. 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 vsus 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 hauehave 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 Mageddon 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.
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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 hauehave 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
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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
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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
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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
Chriſt his Riding on a white horſe. 212
White Robes in Scripture hauehave 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 betwene the ſtate & eueryevery particular mēber of that ſtate. 193
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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 onelyonly 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 manners. 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
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 concerning 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 ſignified 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
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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 onelyonly Time in all this propheſie to be taken definitly. 230.
The Thighi; to put the hand vnderunder 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
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.
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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 thunder: 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
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LOueLove 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 vnderunder 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
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Faults eſcaped.
Page 8 Line. 1 Fault. Affliction that Correction. Affliction them that
Page 8 Line. 29 Fault. ſex. Correction. ſtep.
Page 27 Line. 12 Fault. three Harps Correction. their Harps
Page 31 Fault. laſt Correction. of ingratitude Correction. of our ingratitude
Page 42 Line. 2 Fault. oft Correction. of
Page 42 Fault. 32. Correction. vncouch Correction. vncouth
Page 43 Line. 10 Fault. Antonio Correction. Antonino
Page 43 Line. 30 Fault. Antonius. Correction. Antoni…us
Page 44 Line. 26 Fault. while Correction. which
Page 46 Fault. laſt Correction. bewhiche Correction. bewitch
Page 56 Line. 14 Fault. indure Correction. indeare
Page 60 Line. 29 Fault. God euen Correction. God is euen.
Page 91 Line. 16 Fault. beget them of the world great. Correction. beget them, of the world, great trouble.
Page 158 Line. 16 Fault. ſailed. Correction. failed
Page 160 Line. 34 Fault. firſt Correction. fift
Page 188 Line. 33 Fault. damoniak Correction. daemoniak
Page 239 Line. 2 Fault. Daniel 2. Correction. Daniel 12.
Page 212 Line. 26 Fault. Chap. 4. Correction. Chap. 6.
Page 219 Line. 20 Fault. there Correction. thereto
In page 104. in the marge…t aboue the antepenult line, adde Micah 7. 15
In page 219 line 20. after theſe words, for thereto is the alluſion, inſert theſe words, as alſo Dan 2. the Image whereby theſe ſame kingdomes were typically ſhewed, is then ſaid to be deſtroied when the ſtone falleth on the feete thereof.
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