e before God; and a to them were given feven trumpets. 3. And another angel came and ftood at the altar, having a golden cenfer, and there was given unto him much incenfe, that he fhould offer it with the prayers [Or, add it to the prayers] of all faints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne. 4. And the f fmoke of the incenfe which came with the prayers of the faints afcended up before God, out of the angels hand. 5. And the angel took the cenfer and filled it with fire of the altar, and caft it into [Or,upon] the earth: and there were voices, and thundrings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. 6. And the feven 1 angels which had the feven trumpets, prepared themselves to found. 7. The firft angel founded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were caft1 upon the earth and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grafs was burnt up. 8. And the fecond angel founded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was caft into the fea; and the third part of the fea became Jer. 51.25. Behold, I am against thee, O deftroying Mountain, faith the Lord, which deftroyeft all the Earth, and I will 15 ftretch out mine Hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the Rocks, and will make thee a burnt Mountain. Amos 7. 4. Thus hath the Lord God fhewed unto me, and behold, the Lord God called to contend by Fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a Part. 20 Jer. 51. 36, 44.- Behold, 25 I will plead thy Caufe, and take Vengeance for thee, and I will dry up her Sea, and make her Springs dry. And I will punith Bel in Babylon, and bring forth out of 7. . Ezek. 38. 22. I will plead against him with Peftilence, and with Blood, and I will rain upon him, and upon his Bands, and upon the many People that are 30 his r u REV. VIII. P became blood: 9. And the a third part of the crea tures which were in the fea, and had life, died; and the third part of the fhips were deftroyed. 10. And the third angel founded, and there fell a great ftar from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of wa ters: 11. And the name of the ftar is " called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 12. And the fourth angel founded, and the third part of the fun was fmitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the ftars; fo as the third part of them was darkned, and the day fhone not for a third part of it, and the night likewife. 13. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midft of heaven, faying with a loud voice, d Wo, wo, to the inhabiters of the earth, by reafon of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to found. his Mouth that which he hath fwallowed up, and the Nations fhall not flow together any more unto him, yea, the Wall of Babyfon fhall fall. Rev. 16.3. The fecond angel poured out his Vial upon the Sea; and it became as the Blood of a dead Man: and every living Soul died in the Sea. с CHAP. Behold, I will feed them, even this People, with Wormwood, and give them Water of Gall to drink. Jer. 23. 15. Thus faith the 5 Lord of Hofts concerning the Pro phets, Behold, I will feed them with Wormwood, and make them drink the Water of Gall: for from the Prophets of Jerufalem is profanenefs gone forth into all the Land. Amos 8. 10..I will turn your Feafts into Mourning, and all your Songs into Lamentation, and I will bring up Sackcloth upon all 15 Loins, and baldness upon every Head and I will make it as the Mourning of an only Son, and the end thereof as a bitter Day. P Ezek. 14. 19. Or if I fend 10 Peftilence into that Land, and pour out my Fury upon it in Blood, to cut off from it Man and Beaft. 9. 9. Rev. 16. 3. The Words under ver. 8. 10. . Ifa. 14. 12. 1. See on Rev. 6. 13. Rev. 9. · Rev. 16. 4. The third Angel poured out his Vial upon the Rivers and Fountains of Waters; and they became Blood. 20 CHAP. IX. ND the fifth angel founded, and I faw a aftar fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was givthe key of the bottomless Pit. 2. And he opened e bottomlefs pit, and there arose a smoke out of the , as the smoke of a great furnace; and the fun and e air were darkned, by reafon of the fmoke of the pit. And there came out of the fmoked locufts upon the th; and unto them was given power, as the fcorons of the earth have power. 4. And it was commandthem that they fhould not hurt the grafs of the th, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but onthose men which have not the feal of God in their reheads. 5. And to them it was given that they should t kill them, h but that they fhould be tormented five onths: and their torment was as the torment of a fcoron, when he ftriketh a man. 6. And in those days all men feek death, and fhall not find it, and fhall fire to die, and death fhall flee from them. 7. And e fhapes of the locufts were like unto horfes prepa Luk. 8. 31. They befought im that he would not comand them to go into the deep. Rev. 17. 8. The Beast that thou weft, was, and is not; and fhall cend out of the bottomless Pit, and o into Perdition. Rev. 20. I, I faw an Angel come down Com Heaven, having the Key of k red 3. Judg. 7. 12. The Midianites and the Amalekites, and all Io the Children of the Eaft, lay a long in the Valley like Grafhoppers for Multitude. 15 that afcendeth out of the bottom he bottomless Pit And caft him 20 lefs Pit, fhall the Devil] into the bottomless Pit, C them, and fhall make War against overcome them, Ver. 10. 6. it Job 3. 21. + Ifa. 2. 19. † Rev. 6. 16. See on Luk. 23. nd fhut him up.- k 7. tJcel 2. 4. The appearance of red unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and m their faces were as the faces of men. 8. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9. And they had breaft-plates, as it were breaft-plates of iron; and the • found of their wings was as the found of chariots of many horfes running to battle. 10. And they had tails like unto fcorpions, and there were ftings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 11, And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomlefs pit, whofe name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name * Apollyon [that is to fay, a destroyer]. 12. One s Wo is paft, and behold, there come two woes more hereafter. 13. And the fixth angel founded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden-altar, which is before God, 14. Saying to the fixth angel which had the trumpet, Loofe the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15. And the four angels were loofed, which were prepared for [Or, at] an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to flay the third part of men. 16. And the a number of the army of of them is as the appearance of Horfes, and as Horfemen, fo fhall they run. Nah. 3. 17. Thy crowned are as the Locufts, and thy Captains as the great Grafhoppers, which camp in the Hedges in a cold Day, but when the Sun arifeth they flee away, and their Place is not known where they are. Dan. 7. 8.-Behold, in this Horn were Eyes like the Eyes of Man, and a Mouth fpeaking great things. 5 ΙΟ the their Face the People fhall be much pained all Faces fhall ga ther blackness. They fhall run like mighty Men, they fhall climb the Wall like Men of War, and they fhall march every one on his Ways, and they fhall not break their Ranks. JO. P⚫ Ver. 5. 12. 31. See on Jch. 12. See on Rev. 8. 13. u 14. . Rev. 16. 12. The fixth 8. nt Joel 1. 6. A Nation is 15 Angel poured out his Vial upon come up upon my Land, ftrong, and without Number, whofe Teeth are the Teeth of a Lion, and he hath the Check-teeth of a great Lion. 9. Joel 2. 5, 6, 7. Like the 20 noife of Charis on the Tops of Mountains hall they leap, like the noife of a flame of Fire that devoureth the Stubble, as a strong People fet in Battle-aray. Before 25 up, the great River Euphrates; and the Water thereof was dried that the Way of the Kings of the Eat might be prepared. 16. a. Pfal. 68. 17. + Dan.7. See on Rev. 5. II. Ezek. 38. 4. I will turn thee [Gog] back, and put Hooks, into thy Chaws, and I will bring the the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and heard the number of them. 17. And thus I faw the horfes in the vifion, and them that fat on them, having breaft-plates of fire, and of jacinct, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths iffued fire, and smoke, and brimftone. 18. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the fmoke, and by the brimftone, which iffued out of their mouths. 19. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto ferpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. 20. And the reft of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented ot of the works of their hands, that they fhould not worship devils, and idols of gold and filver, and brafs, and ftone, and of wood: which neither can fee, nor hear, or walk: 21. Neither repented they of their murders, or of their forceries, nor of their fornication, nor of heir thefts. f hee forth, and all thine Army, Torfes and Horfemen, all of them lothed with all forts of Armour, ven a great Company with Bucklers nd Shields, all of them handing Swords. 17. he is the Tail. e CHAP. 20. Deut. 31. 29. Evil will befal you in the latter Days, because ye will do Evil in the 5 fight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the Work of your Hands. f t Lev. 17. 7. + Pfal. 106. 37. 1 Chron. 12. 8. Of the Gadites there feparated themselves nto David,- Men of Might, and Men of War fit for the Battle, that 10 10. 20.. ould handle Shield and Buckler, hofe Faces were like the Faces of ions, and were as swift as the Roes pon the Mountains. .. Ifa. 5. 8, 29. Whofe Arrows are fharp, 15 nd all their bows bent, their Hor hoofs fhall be counted like Flint, nd their Wheels like a whirlwind. Their roaring fhall be like a Lion, ey fhall roar like young Lions: 20 a, they fhall roar and lay hold of me Prey, and fhall carry it away fe, and none fhall deliver it. d 19. Ifa. 9. 15. The ancient Deut. 32. 17. See on I Cor. 8 * Pfal. 115. 4. Their Idols are Silver and Gold, the Work of Mens Hands. * Pfal. 135. 15. The Idols of the Heathen are Silver and Gold, the Work of Mens Hands. Dan. 5. 23- Thou haft praised the Gods of Silver and Gold, of Brafs, Iron, Wood, and Stone, which fee not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whofe Hand thy breath is, and whofe are all thy Ways, haft thou` not glorified. 21. h Rev. 22. 15. Without nd honourable, he is the Head: 25 are Dogs and Sorcerers. d the Prophet that teacheth lies, |