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4 Monarchies. the Revelations &c
The ancientapt
& in their language to introduce the qualities of things & the substances
of things inanimate
So they
wealth & love
of evil spirits to diseases & to vices & of Sephiroths to the attributes
of the Deityrepresents speaksp Person
& Orpheus Plato & Philo e
of God considered as a Person & the Ca [And the Sephiroths of the And the Ideas of the Platonists
Cabbalists & Aeons of the Gnosticks are nothing else supposed qualities
into the souls of dead men.]
Sephiroths of the Cabbalists & Æons of the Gnosticks are nothing
else then the thoughts notions actions powers or
Deity turned into persons & sometimes into the souls of men.
For the ancient Heresies consisted chiefly
Moses commanded the people of Israel that they should make Iudges
& Officers in all their Gates (that is, in the Gates of all their cities) to judge
the people with just judgment Deut. 16.18. These judges sat in the Gates of
the City & were called the Elders of the city, & judged of capital causes
& much more of smaller matters
of Moses in execution Deut 21.19, 20, 21: & 22.15, 16, 17, 18, 21 & 25.7, 8. &
Ruth 4.1, 2, 9, 11 & Amos 5.14. And this sort of government by Elders
the laws of God in execution continued in Israel till the Captivity & then
was abolished by the Chaldeans (Lament 5.14) & at length restored by the
Commission of Artaxerxes given to Ezra (Ezra 7.25, 26 & 10.14.) And in
the Gate of e
Elders & their Officers & such of the people as came together. There publick prayers
were put up & Moses was read & expounded. &
they did it on the next hill, erecting there an Altar & a place for eating
the sacrifices, ch
2 King. 17.29, 32. But these High places were not according by the Law of Moses
All Israel was to sacrifice in the Tabernacle & Temple. And as this was the
place of worship for all Israel so a court of seventy Elders sitting in the
eastern Gate of the Temple was over all Israel. And In the reign of the
Greeks this Court was called the Sanhedrim, & the lesser Courts th
of worship in every city were called Synagogues & the Elders were by the Greeks
calledsAnd sometimes Synagogues
The Iews also who were dispersed among the Gentiles erected Syna
gogues in every city where they were sufficiently numerous to incorporate
themselves into a religious body for worshipping God & putting his
laws in execution amongst themselves. And the Christians of the circum
cision did the like both in Iudea & in other places. ffor
In ed page of ethe uncircumcised read tho un
circumcised
Ch. 1. v 4 in the Notes. r.
ib. v 3. Paraphrase. May not eword accounted be better omitted sense be clearer
by writing instead of eaccounted as these words as he was accounted
ib v. 3, 4 Is not this the sense. Who was made of ein being born of a woman
ding to the flesh in being born of a woman being ornexpressed shewed declared
with power in beingthe first begotten from according to eehis resurrection hebegotten e& appearing to many after witnesses after his
resurrection of whose resurrection from echfrom again as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee Act XIII.33.
Ch Icreature thing read creature, a thing
ib p 26 use even into. Blot out even
ib p 27 leaving also the. Blot out also
Ch. II v 1. Notes. ✝ In the words more free but less offensive then some word
seems to be wanting.
Ch III Contents pag 2 of ewho to y eeefor the word r read add for and
Ch III. v. 5 Paraphr. and cast we off. read and cast us off.
Ib. appositively read appositely.
Ib. Notes on v. 24. for metaphor, must be read metaphor, it must be
Paraphrase Ch. IV. 12. The words [but to them of it. i.e. to to such of the Iews
as did also walk in the steps of ee
sense is [but to such ofwho of were ebut
the steps of ee
Ib. v 15 Instead of [this] read [there is]
Paraph
Notes on Ch VII. 6 * ThLaw for &c.
Notes on Ch. VIII. 3 appensities, so to. should it not be appetites & so to
Ib. v. 4. if we make it choise. should it not be if we make it or
Ib. v. 7. the law w. read the law chch
OO. p 2. l. 9. I have struck out eby his spirit, I think rightly.
Par. Ch IX 4. particular manner the sons of God.
QQ. p. 2. l. 24manner the sons of God.
YY p. 2. l 11 be come for become
ZZ p 4 l ult. givenemies. perhaps it should be called enemies.
CCC p 3 l 21. either the interpretation explaining. read and explaining
CCC p 4 l 11. The words sentence, That no one should go beyond that w, seems imperfect.ch
GGG p 1. l 4 & balanceth.
Ib p 3 l 4 & friendly [manner]
Th Except a man be born again he cannot see et of water in baptism the symbol of echche
As ee
Iohn III.3, 6, 8. It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption, it is
sown in weakness it is raised in power, it is sown a natural body it
is raised a spirituall body. There is a natural body & there is a spirituall
body. – Flesh & blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth
corruption inherit incorruption. 15 XV.42, 43, 44, 50, 53. The children
of this world marry & are given in marriage, but they who shall be
accounted worthy of that world to obtain that world & the resurrection of
they dye any more: for they are equal unto the Angels & are the children of God, being the children of the Resurrection. Luk. 20.
34, 35, 36. They desire a better country that is an heavenly. Wherefore
God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city
I will be his God & he shall be my son Apoc 21.3, 7. They shall be his people
& God shall be their God ib v. 3.
The sacred History from 2 Chron 35.1 to eEsdras Ezra agrees with e
first book of Esdras if you omitt the story of Ahasuerus & Artaxerxes in
Ezra 4 & the same story in 1 Ezdras 2. & also ee
in 1 Esdras 3,
If you would have eee
order of time you must read first from ee
of the seventh verse of the third chapter, then the 8th 9th 10th & 11th
chapters of Nehemiah, then from the beginning of eth verse of ed
chapter of Ezra to eet verse of the 4th chapter, then
from the beginning of the last verse of the 4th chapter to e
end of the sixt chapter. Then the sixt verse of the 4th chapter
Then the 7th 8th 9th & 10th chapters. Then from ee
seventh verse of the 4th chapter to eeth verse of that
chapter. Then from eeth
verse of eth chapter. Then And lastly the 12 12th & 13thth & 13th
chapters of Nehemiah.
But if you would understand e
in the books of Ezra & Nehemiah th
books: [by [Cyrus Ahasuerus & Artaxerxes in eth chapter of Ezra
you must understand Cyrus, Xerxes & Artaxerxes e
&]e
& were ing that city were joyned the foundations Ezra 4.12
ons who after Zerubbabel had finished the temple came to Ierusal
in eth year of this King as if is afterwards declared Ezra 7.7, 8
& restored the Iewish polity. ffor the Temple was finished before the Iews
began to build the City & its walls set up its walls. And when Ezra
came from Artaxerxes th
& polity set up Iudges Magistrates & Iudges over the People th
life & death & by consequence had power sufficient to set on foot
the rebuilding of the city, yet he was
in great affliction & reproach & the ee
gates burnt with fire untill the 20 Nehemiah obteined a th yearto rebuild Nehem 1.3 & 2.3, 8.e
When therefore in eth Chapter you
read that eeded year
of Darius understand not ch
the same Darius chthe words
had run ereign
the work of ebefore) above)e
reign of Darius King of Persia.
Afterwards in reading the book of Nehemiah understand all from Ne
hemiah
ah originally but by him extracted
as that book was extant before the warrs of the Maccabees
that book Priesthood of reign of
Iohanan the son of Eliasib or rather t
rius Codomannus Nehem 12.22, 23. But in the warrs Persecution e
books were rent
untill Iudas became victorious & recollected the sacred writings. 2 Mac. 2.14.
After eeadd transcribe
what is material of e
Gog is said to be prophesied of in old time by e
is of the same kind out of Ioel 2. & 3. Mica 4 & 5. Isa
29, 30, 31, 32, 33. & 30.
1.7. & 3.6, 8, 9, 13, 19, 20 Haggai 2.6, 7, 9, 22
Then shew that these speak all of the same thing in that they agree th
one another vizt
ductionem filiorum Israel de captivitate Ezek 38.8, 11, 12 & 39.23. 24 Ioel 3.1, 7.
Mica 3.12 & 4.1, 3, 7, 10. & 5.3, 8, 9. Isa 66.8, 16,
& 24.23. & 25.8, 9 & 26.20, 21. & 43.5 & 51.11, 22, 23. Ier 30.
Ezek 28.25, 26. Zeph 3.8, 9, 10, 11.
tentis collectis
3.2, 12, 13, 16. Mica 5.15 Isa 66.15, 16 Isa 34 2 & 35.4. & 30.27, 28, 30.
10, 11, 31 & 3.14 Isa 34.4, 8 Isa 2.12, 19
Deus regnabit in Sion Ioel 3.17, 21. Ezek 39.7, 22, 29. Mica 4.7 Isa 66.20 Isa 66.20 & 24.23 & 33.20, 21, 22
20, 23 Isa 2.3, 4, 12
2.19, 20,26, 27 & 3.17, 20 Mica 4.7. Isa 66.22. Isa 34.17 & 35.10
Isa 66.12
ne
21, 26, 27, 28. Ioel 2.2, 17, 20 & 3.18, 19 Micah 4.2, 3, 4 Isa 66.19, 20, 23. & 35
Bellum
Gente Dei
& 14.2.
These then belonging all to e
agree thTo
mifera incidere potest. In ejus finem incidit eorum tribulatio et collectio gentium om
nium ad prœlium magnum Dei omnipotentis. Locus in quem congregantur dicitur Ar-ma
gadon id est exercitum omnis perditio tum perditio
ut ex lingua locus innotescat. Gentiùm collectio maxima est perduntur partim
in lacu ignis Isa 66.24 & 30.33.
sancti resurgunt
Apoc. 10.6, 7 & 16.14, 17 allude to Ezek 38.17 & 39.8 Hos 2.11 & the like.
The supper of et
They that dwell in ee
The harvest & vintage Ioel 3.13.
The reign & kingdom of Christ Mica 4.7, 8.
The images & Idolaters then cease.
After many generations e
The tribes mourn look on him whom they have pierced & mourn Zach. 12.10 Apoc. 1.7.
Treading e
Tormenting in ee
He trode e
After these prophesies of e
Lamb. Matt 25.10, 13. Mark 22 & Luc 14.16. The two last places
servants sent out were the first Christians till e
ing multitude. The arain slaying of his servants e
of ech
ways all good & bad, the people in e
the streets of e
gathered & compelled to come out of the high ways to fill up the vacant room
the multitudes in the millennium to make up ee
dom of heaven. All this is done on e
The figtree frutiless three years Luc 13.6 is the Apostate Church during Da
niel's three times. The digging about it & dunging it in eth year till it & be cutten down then cutting it down, the recruit of the gospel in the 4th time
After the first discourse on eexpound & apply
say how this is a key to all e
help thereof expound first eth chap of Matthew vizt vers 9 of eeeth. vers 14 of e
bearing multitude. vers 15 of e
of desolation in eee
bearing multitude see Dan 12. Fals Christs & fals prophets e
spirits out of eecovering eof man ee
heathen kingdoms at ee
all ee
& 14.15, 16 & 19.7, 15 & 1.7. This generation (e
not pass till all these things are fulfilled vers 34 because their fulfilling
on eechtill they a [eternal] till they see e
in his kingdom Matt 16.28 theet in this earth burning 2 Pet. 3.7
Matt 25.10, 13. The millennium e
great multitudes even all that are met with are good or bad are com
pelled to come in to fill up ee
22.10 Luc. 14.23. Of the kingdom of Christ in this earth Matt 13.41, 42.
19.28 & 22.32. & 22.10 & 25.31, 32, 40. & 26.29. Luc. 22.16, 18, 29, 30 com
pared with Luc 24.30, 43 & th
Of the reign of Antichrist Luck. 13.6. 2 Thess. 2. 1 Tim 4. 2 Tim 3. & 4. & 2 Pet.
3.3, 4, 8 Iude
After the new testament pass to e
Dacia was a large country bounded on the south by the Danube
on the east by the Euxine sea &
the river Neister & mountain Crapac & on the west by the river Tibesis or
Teis which ran into e&separated Dacia from ancient
Germanythe country of the the e
Valacchia. Its anciently called Daci by the Latines & Getæ by
the Greeks, & from Getæ came the name Goths.
their country into a Province of the Roman Empire: whereby the propa
gation of the Christian religion amongst them was much promoted. Some time
after they revolted & lived under their own kings & by successive conquests
grew into a large & potent Empire composed of many nations. the continued united to the Church of the Roman Empire as well The Church of Dacia after the revolt of the Province of Dacia from the Romans as before. ffor Theophilus Bishop of the Goths was at the Council of Nice A.C. 325 & his successor Vlphilas was at the Councill of Constantinople A.C. 360.
one of their kings conquered the Gepides, Geberich another the Vandals
& Ermaneric another the Heruli, Veneti, Antes, Sclavi & many other
warlike northern nations of Germany Scythia & Germany, as Iornandes
informs us, & particularly the Æstri
the German ocean Coverland on eched
Mordensimni, Cari, Rocæ, Tadzans, Athual, Navigo, Bubegentæ &
Coldæ. From which conquests some have compared him to Alex
ander the great. e
376 being 110 years Gothic Empire may Three or four years eighty thousand Burgundians 8000 eighty thousande
the Rhene in the lower Palatinat. Vpon his death his kingdom became
divided into the amongst several successors, & was at the same time Goths Huns, & many of the people for
to seek new seats: which commotion gave occasion to the division of the western Empire of the Romans into ten kingdoms. The eastern part of the The western part
Goths called Ostrogoths under several kings e
Huns & so did the Gepides.of the Goths called Visigoths
under the conduct of Fridigernus, Alatheus & Safrac fled to e
the Danube th
Valens desiring seats in the Roman Empire. The chhim amongst cht Winithar the western his army & slew him in battel & gave his kingdom to Hunnimund. Yet a great part of his people fled to the Danube under the conduct of Alatheus & Saphrax the Guardians of Videric the young son of Winithar. And so did Fridigern with his people. And Athanaric being pursued by the Huns, a great part of his people deserted him & under the conduct of Ahaverus fled also to the Danube
The head of theB the Bishop or
Patriarch of the Goths. He
& Visigoths ch
He was at the Council of Nic Constantinople A.C. 360 & his predecessor
Theophilus was at the Council of Nice A.C. 36communion
shews that the communion between echch
began in matters of religion while Dacia was a Province of the Roman
Empire, was not interrupted by the revolt of the heathen Goths from e
Roman Empire but continued still entire, the G Romans & Goths being
being still still
one & the same Church catholick of Christ been still been but one Empire
very proper person to be sent upon this Embassy. He had invented the
Gothic letters & translated the scriptures into the language of the scripture
Goths & very promoted the Christian religion much among the Goths of both
nations so that Fridigern
Christian. & Athanaric And this was another argument to incline the
Emperor in favour of the Goths. They had therefore seats granted to
them in Thrace. But upon their coming thither
Roman commander Lupicinus exacting upon them & deceitfully inviting
Fritigern their king to a feast with a designe to assassinate him & his
retinue & killing some of them: Fritigern took up arms against the Romans
Ostrogotha conquered the Gepides, Geberic the Vandals & Hermaneric the Heruli Veneti,
Antes, Sclavi & many other warlike nations of Scythia & Germany as Iornandes
informs us & particularly the nations ch
rens, Mordensinni, Cari, Rocæ, Tadzans, Athual, Navigo, Bubegentæ &
Coldæ, & the Æstri or Estij seated upon a long tract of the German or
Baltick Sea in Livonia. So that the kingdom this this time to have
comprehended the
as Revet & Narva
red this king to Alexander the great.
He reigned long & died 140 years old about the same time th
Valentinianin the year 367 or 368 in the fift year of the reign of Valentinian & Valens A.C. 368At ch[About the same time 80000 & at his death or soon after his kingdom became Goths Burgundians (a
fleDanub Rhene above
Ments, & the Huns or Massagetæ a fierce & brutish nation seated upon the eastern
side of the lake Mæotis &
divided amongst many successors, Hunnimund, Winithar or Vithimar, Athanaric,
Fridigern, Box & perhaps some others. Hunnimund was his son,
the eastern Goths called Ostrogoths. W Vithimar
called Gruthungi by A. Marcelline & Gothunni by Claudian tgreat& & Fridigern over another called
days eighty thousand Burgundians (a Gothic nation) fled fl to the side of the
Danube & the
the lake Mæotis rose from their seats & invaded chwestward between them & the Dacia & soon after the death of Hermaneric made
the Ostrogoths submit. Winithar was warlike, conquered the Antes & slew their
king Box, & resisted resisted Huns mHuns in one or two battles but was slain
by them in the third battel
the son of Hunnimund had assisted the Hunns in this war with an army of Ostrogoths.
Then the Hunns purused Athanaric & the greatest part of his people th
Fridigern with his people the Visigoths: & these nations sent sent
to the Emperor Valens obteined leave to pass the Danube & seat them
selves in Mœsia in the northern & Thrace.
Gruthingi under the conduct of Alatheus & Saphrax the guardians of Videric the
young son of Winithar (now their king,) fled
same petition but were rejected, & not long after passed the Danube without
leave while the Roman army was detained in Rhætia in a war against the
Alemans & Sweves. All this rout was in the year 376.
The Goths were no sooner seated in the Empire but being prest with famin
& grosly abused by the Roman governours they took up arms invaded Thrace, called
to their assistance Athanaric with his forces & some Huns & Alans from beyond
the Danube routed the Roman army slew the Emperor Valens & spread them
selves into Greece & Pannonia as far as the Alps, Alatheus & Saphrax going
westward. But in the years 379 & 380 they were checkt by the arms of the
Emperors Gratian & Theodosius & made made
their seats in Mœsia as subjects of the Empire, the Huns retired over the Danube
& the Alans retired over th Athanaric this peace was much promoted by the honourable reception &
ple, ffor he died there in Ianuary A.C. 381 after a reign of 13 years, & the Ther
vingi remained thhis funeral Whereupon his people submitted to live under the Romans without any other king the next year
& Videric king of the Gruthungi
died there in Ianuary 1681 after a reign of 13 years & was very honourably interred by the Roman
thereupon his people submitted to live under the Romans without a king. But Fridigern king of the
Visigoths was succeeded by Alaric & Videric king of the Gruthungi by Radagaisus
The author who continued the history of Annals of Eutropius, a Greek by nation,
tells us that the
Goths or Ostrogoths, the Hypogoths or Visigoths, the Gepides & the Vandals,
in name & in nothing els, using all the same language & being all of the
Arian faith. And that in the reign of Arcadius & Honorius they passed
the Danube & were seated in the Roman territory of ee
Gepides, from whom the Lombards & Avares were afterwards divided, inha
bited the towns about Singidonum & Sirmium. The
& went thence into Gallia, the Ostrogoths inhabited Pannonia & in eth
yeare of Theodosius junior went thence into Thrace, & after 58 years
more obteined e
& Germans passed the Rhene under the conduct of Godedisalus Mogodisclus.
Procopius tells us that eee
Visigoths invaded Italy & the Vandals passed the Rhene into France, But seing
they & the Gepides& by consequence
between the years 395 & 407, it seems to me that this passage was about the time
that
from beyond the Danube to his assistance, that is about e
The Visigoths & e
Vandals to be a branch of the Gepides, but when they separated is un
certain. – – – – – in Pannonia by that Emperor. Perhaps But its probable t
by this conquest they grew into one body
Iornandes tells us that e
Procopius in his first book of the Vandalick history ch
& the Gepides [called anciently Sauromatæ & Melanclœni & Getæ,] that these four nations differed only
in name beautiful & handsome, using the same languagecalled the Gothic Gothic, & the same laws, & being of e
same religion called
doubt they had their common language & laws & religion from being subjects of one
& the same kingdom till the death of Hermaneric.
But the Hunns might enter Pannonia in ewhen called invited
the other nations from beyond the Danube & the Vandals & Alans left their & then the Vandals & Alans left Pan
seats in Pannonia to new For I reccon
nonia & went
The Ostrogoths & Gepides first in Dacia & then in Pannonia continued
subject to the Hunns till the death of Attila A.C. 454 & the They warred
under him against the Romans & after his death the Gepides returned to their
seats in The Gepides The e
Pannonia & shook of the dominion of the Hunns.
when the main body of the Ostrogoths came over is uncertain,
uncertainthe At the main body of the Ostrogoths was
brought over the Danube by Attila when he made war upon the Romans
A.C. 444.
The Hunns came over the Danube into Pannonia the Gouthungi under Radagaisus invaded Italy rising from their seats in Pannonia wer & being strengthened th
of barbarians from beyond the Danube invaded Italy with a numerous army; the Visigoths were marched from Pannonia against the Greek Emperor; the Vandals & other ba Alans quitting
their seats in Pannonia to the Huns, marched westward & taking the
ans & iansundians who rose from their seats in Suebia & the lower Palatinate. And
these nations under their several kings, the Vandals under Resplendial, the Alans in two bodies
one under Goar &c – – – advanced passed & the Rhene at Mentz on the last day of December A.C. 406 passed the Rhene at Mentz
diffused themselves into Germania prima. &
I date this kingdom in Pannonia from the time that eleft their seats to them
Sigonius from the time that the Visigoths relinquished Pannonia A.C. 408
at
And when
fending Rhetia against the Suevians, ch
as Claudian thus mentions.
And when Alaric went into Italy some other ch
as the same Claudian thus mentions.
winter next after the death of Theodosius
Quades & Marcomans. For they were all in arms at this time & the Quades & Marcomans
were Suevian nations & now united under one common king who soon after led them into Gallia
The Vandals & Alans might also about his time extend themselves into Noricum. Also Vldin
with another great body of Hunns – – – – invaded the eastern.
Gundicar ruffled the
Francs beyond the Rhene & on the first day of last day of December
A.C. 406 passed the Rhene at Ments, & diffused themselves into
Germania prima & the adjacent regions & amongst other actions the
Vandals take Trevirs . . . . . . to their assistance.
the I think & amongst them
as Claudian thus mentions – – – –
Among these nations I reccon the Suevi for they were very ]
& 396, Goths Alans Goths . . . . . . & all Pannonia. And when
Alaric went into Italy
& there united with the Suevians. For the Quades & Marcomans were Su Suevians were very
prone to invade those countries, as being next to them, & [the Quades & Marcomans were were let loose when
Suevian nations & there united with the Suevians under Gundaric their one common King]
the Romans were defending Rhætia against them when Alaric invaded Pannonia & went
thence into Italythe Alaric's invasion of Italy called away the
Roman army from the defence of Rhetia, & the Quades & Marcomans invaded were Sue
vian nations, & there united th
them into Gallia. The Vandals & Alans also might about this time begin to extend
themselves into Noricum. Also Vldin tha
Af And Radagaisus king of the Gruthungi calling inviting over more
barbarians from beyond the Danube invaded Italy with an army of above
200000 Goths, perished th
was overcome by Stilico & perished with his army.
And now Sti
[He had seats granted him in Pannonia.] In the winter after these the invasion of Thrace, (anno 396
devastationsDalmatia Epire Dalmatia
a great body of Hunns, Alans,
by Ruffin Guinas Also Guinas a Goth a Also Vldin with a great body of Hunns passed the Danube
about the time of Chrysostoms banishment, that is A.C. 404, & wasted Thrace & Mœsia. And in
the thof Arcadius & Honorius (A.C. 404) or rather in Radagaisus with a e
conquered by Stilico. And now Stilico purposing to make himself Emperor, procured a military
Prefecture for Alaric & sent him into the east in the
Emperor, committing some Roman troops to his conduct to strengthen his army of Goths
& promising to follow soon after with his own army. His pretence was to recover some
regions of Illyricum ch
the western but his secret designe was to make himself Emperor by the assistance
of the Vandals & their allies: for he himself was a Vandal. For facilitating this
designe he invited a great body of
Empire while he & Alaric invaded the Eastern. Among thesenations were the
Vandals, Alans, Sarmatans Quades & Marcomans whom the barb
the years 395 & 396 & from that time
the Empire between the alps & the Hellespont. Whether the Vandals at this
time came over the Danube thbut
other barbarous nations or had been seated in Pannonia from the days of Con
stantine e& upon the passage of those the took up
seats & took up arms much material. These nations therefore under
several kings, the Vandals under Godegisilus & the Alans in two bodies one
under Goar the other under Resplendial, being mixed with
left Pannonia to the Hunns & Goths
gundians under Gundicar rising from their seats in Suabia & the lower Palati
nate
Rhene & on the last day of December
&
Goths & other northern nations came over the frozen Danube, being invited
by Ruffin, [& invaded Thrace, Macedon, & their brethren
Illyricum
Quades & Marcomans.]
& Pannonia took up arms. & invaded
the Hellespont. all places between the alps & the Hellespont.all this multitude invaded all this multitudeall the Empire depopulating
says that they invaded all places between Constantinople & e
alps, wasting Scythia Thrace Macedon Dardania Dacia Thessaly Achaia
Epire Dalmatia & all Pannonia. And about the year 403 when Alaric was wasting Italy the Suevians invaded Vindelicia & Noricum
passed the Danube in the year 395 about e
mt
Radagaisus thth
army, being beaten by Stilico . . . . . . . invaded the eastern. [Among them were the These nations, under their several kings, the
Vandals, Alans Sarmatans Quades & Marcomans who had been har
nia rose from their seats in Suabia Noricum & mixed th
who in eGermany the lower Palatinate
neare th
Vandals under Godegisilus, the Alans in two bodies, the one under Goar, the
other under Resplendial, & the Suevians & the Burgundians under through to the
side of the Rhene joyned the Burgundians under Gundicar, ruffled the Franks Gundicar
At the opening of the seventh seale the separation becomes more perfect
The woman a& the ten
horned beast ro&
& the two horned Beast ro
Woman in the earth east. And The Dragon makes war with the
remnant of the Womans court outward Court of the first
Temple
Beast & receive his mark except 144000 ch
of God in their foreheads & retiring into the inner Court stand
on the sea of glass on mount Sion with the Lamb. And a second
Temple is built with two Candlesticks of olive tree for those thy fly , the Gentiles ing under foot the holy
city & worshipping in & the two of this two Witn
Temple &
great city Babylon & worship in the inner
ple & with the saintseGrea Whore of Baby
lon is drunken,
of olive tree & in this Temple & by the two eyes & two
leggs of the son of man. burning
secution of his people. When the Woman fled
from the Dragoned with her being a of her d in external commu
nionwings two wings. But afterwards tAnd from the number of her wings from which they arose & separated they are ever after called two.waa
the saints in both Empires wer a
to worship apart, the seven Churches on mount sion & on the
sea of glass in the Temple of the Tabernacle, & the two witnesses in the measured Courts of the second Temple. And the
Woman being now no longer the Church of Christ the he
writes no more Epistles to her.]
of the two churches persecuted by the Dragon && Afterwards she
separates from them in external communion & remains the woman
with two wings & they remain
dead & deified & all are forbidden to buy & sell & men begin to ch
worship him & his image & are initiated in that worship by receiving his
mark
in the outwards Courts while the saints worship within, to in the
inner Courtsinto
made before this separation they retain the name of the seven Churches
& the two Churches, the seven Churches
sticks & the seven horns of the Lamb
sented by the two leggs of the son of man & the two candlesticks
of Olive tree in the second Temple. the seven Churches & seven candlesticks
this division represent the Church Catholick & so do the two Chur
ches the s after the division, & the building
of a second Temple the seven
represent those that worship in that Temple with respect to the
into the seven Churches of Asia, & Ch Candlesticks
Temple represent those that worship in that Temple with respect
to the division of the Church catholick into two Churches represented the woman when the which or Church cath
of a great eagle that she might fly into from the persecuting Dragon, & from this e
these two
persecution the two churches receive the name of the two witnesses
before the division separation & having once received this name they
keep it ever after.
See the mystery. 1 +