the four horsemen wchwhich appear at the opening of the first four seales have been well explained by Mr Mead excepting that------& reigning over the whole Roman Empire.

About one half of the Roman Empire turned Christians in the reign of Constantine the great & his sons. After Iulian had opened the Temples & restored the worship of the heathens, the Emperors Valentinian & Valens tollerated it all their reign & therefore the prophesy of the sixt seal was not fully accomplished before the ----- So long the four winds were held, & so long there was silence in heaven. And the seventh seal was opened when this silence began.

The affairs of the Church are not considered during the opening of the first four seals. They begin to be considered at the opening of the fift seale, as was said above & arte fur & the epistles to the Angels of the seven churches contein admonitions against the great apostacy which commenced at the opening of the seventh seale, & therefore were written to the Angels of the churches in the times of the fift & sixt seales.

When Eusebius had brought down the ecclesiastical history to the times reign of Dioclesian, he thus describes the state of the Church. Iam vero quis innumerabilem hominum quotidie ad fidem Christi confugientium turbam, quis numerum ecclesiarum in singulis urbibus, quis illustres populorum concursus in singulis urbibus adibus sacris cumulate possit describere? Quo factum est ut ------ But this thou hast that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, wchwhich I also hate. The Nicolaitans are the Continentes above described, who placed religion in abstinence from marriage & abandoned their wives if they had any. These are here called Nicolaitans from Nicolas one of the seven Deacons of the primitive church of Ierusalem, who having a beautiful wife & being taxed with uxoriousness abandoned her & permitted her to marry whom she pleased, saying that we must disuse the flesh; & thenceforward lived a single life in continency; & so did his children. But the Continents afterwards embraced the doctrine of Æons & Ghosts male & female, & were avoyded by the churches till the fourth century: & the Church of Ephesus is here commended for hating their deeds.

The persecution of Dioclesian began in the year of Christ 302 & lasted ten years---------She is therefore spewed out of Christs mouth at the opening of the seventh seal. And this puts an end to the times of the first Temple.

About one half of the Roman Empire turned Christians in the reign of Constantine the great & his sons. After Iulian had opened the temples & restored the worship of the heathens, the emperors Valentinian & Valens tolerated it all their reign; & therefore the prophesy of the sixt seal was not fully accomplished before the --- ----So long the four winds were held, & so long there was silence in heaven. And the seventh seal was opened when this silence began, A.C. 379 or 380.

This silence ended when the Angel which offered the incense took the censer & filled it with fire of the altar & cast it unto the earth without the temple for sacrificing the Goat wchwhich was Gods lot. For then there were voyces & thundrings & lightnings & an earth quake. the trumpets & musick of the temple sounding thrice ats the sacrifice. This Goat was principally the remnant of the Womans seed who kept the commandments of God & had the testimony of Iesus in the war wchwhich the Dragon then went to make upon them. Out of these were sealed 144000, & the rest received the mark of the Beast. This was in the reign of Theodosius the great. And now at his death the seven Angels wchwhich had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

The wars to wchwhich the first four trumpets sound are represented by four winds to the four corners of the earth. The first was an east wind, the second a west wind, the third a south wind & the fourth a north wind with respect to the city Rome, the metropolis of the old Roman Empire. These four warrs fell upon the third part of the earth, sea, rivers, Sun Moon & stars that is, upon the earth, sea, rivers, Sun Moon & stars of the third part of the whole scene of these prophesies of Daniel & Iohn.

The war of the eastern wind at the sounding of the first trumpet fell upon the earth ---------Olybrio et Probino Coss. A.C. 395.

The war of the northern wind at the sounding of the fourth trumpet, caused the sun moon & stars, (that is, the Emperor Empire & princes of the Latines) to be darkened --- ----- subordinate to Ravenna the seat of the Exarchs