Chapter VI
The killing of the witnesses, ver. 7-10 of the llth chapter,
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SECT. I. The time of their three years and a half not yet come A reconciliation of this and Mr Brightman s opinion, in a double fulfilling of it, ... 153
SECT. II. The allusion unto Christ s last passion, in this last
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slaughter of the witnesses, explained,
SECT. III. That this killing of the witnesses is to be executed
by and under the power of the beast of Home; and so could
not be meant of any of the former persecutions in the re formed churches, which were from among themselves, 160
SECT. IV. The time of the beast s enjoying this full victory but three years and a half The timo of obtaining it, and of
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killing the witnesses, may be longer,
SECT. V. The sharpness and the extent of this victory, how great ; whether unto death natural or martyrdom discussed, . 164
SECT. VI. Of that concomitant of the witnesses killing
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nations seeing their dead bodies, and not suffering them to be put in graves Several senses given of it : whether taken
as an office of favour or an injury; and whether to be un
derstood of friends or enemies, discussed, . 1 70
SECT. VII. Of the universality of this slaughter Whether reach
ing to all churches reformed, and in them to all professors, or
only to eminent witnesses That some one may be more emi
nently designed What is meant by the street of the city, &c., 17-5
Vlll CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VII. PAGE The rising of the witnesses, from ver. 11 to ver. 15 of the llth chapter, 180 SECT. I. Three things in general observed Christ s resurrection the pattern of this The proportions between their killing and
rising This resurrection a shadow of that to come, . 180 SECT. II. The several steps and degrees of their resurrection and ascension, . . . . . .181 SECT. III. The events that accompany their resurrection, . 183 SECT. IV. The fall of the tenth part of the city, what ? Whether
thereby be meant the ruin of Rome, the fifth vial ? .184 SECT. V. More particularly, that by a tenth part of the city is meant one of the ten kingdoms of Europe How it is said to
fall The earthquake in it, what 1 The names of men, what ? and their killing,
. . . . . .185 SECT. VI. What tenth part of Europe, or which of the ten kingdoms, it is most probable that this earthquake and re surrection of the witnesses shall fall out in, . . 188 SECT. VII. How this their resurrection and ascension is a fore running shadow of the restitution of all things at the coming of Christ s kingdom, . . . . .192 SECT. VIII. An interpretation of that clause, ver. 14, The second woe is past A reconciling some difficulties about it, . 193 SECT. IX. The conclusion of this discourse The conjectures of some about the time when this killing and rising of the witnesses shall be, . ... 195
A BEIEF HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST, EXTRACTED OUT OF
THE BOOK OF THE REVELATION, . 207
A DISCOURSE OF CHRIST S REWARD ; OR, OF THE GLORY WHICH HE RECEIVES IN HEAVEN (REV. V. 12), . . . 219
CERTAIN SELECT CASES RESOLVED,
DEDICATION, .... 231 TRANSLATION OF DEDICATION, ... 232 To THE READER, . . 233
I.-A CHILD OF LIGHT WALKING IN DAEKNESS.
PART I. A PARAPHRASE UPON THE WORDS (ISA. L. 10, 11), . . 235
CHAPTER I. The first and main observation : That a child of God may walk in darkness, .... 237 What it is to walk in darkness, . 237
A CHILD OF LIGHT WALKING IN DARKNESS. IX
That thereby here is not meant
First, In sin ;
Secondly, In ignorance ; but
Thirdly, In sorrow and discomfort, . . , .237
favour,....... Proved by three reasons,
Fourthly, Of what kind of sorrow, and for what ?
First, not of outward afflictions only ; but
Secondly, chiefly inward, from the want of the sense of God s