And as the Revelation of John hath involved the three records in earth to agree in one; that is to say, the water, blood, and spirit; or the commission of the law, and commission of the gospel, and commission of the spirit. These three being several, and a great distance of time between every one of them, as they were acted upon this earth; yet all but one record; so is it with the Revelation of John in his vision, he hath joined the sounding of the seven trumpets of the seven angels, as if they did relate to no other but to the seven churches of Asia. When as the same spirit did sound in the time of the law, and so it doth now in these last days in the commission of the spirit. For some of those plagues that were upon the earth at the sounding of those four angels, they were acted in the time of the record of the law, which signifies the water, yet seen in the vision by John, as if they were all acted and performed by the seven churches of Asia.

So likewise the seven churches of Europe were included in the vision also, for there is a remnant of the seed of the woman, in all the seven churches of Europe that will be saved, through the ministry of them be anti; they being non-commissionated angels, yet called angels who sound their trumpets.

And at the sounding of these anti-angels, great plagues hath followed, as I have shewed before.

Now the Quakers being the seventh and last antiangel that will sound, in resemblance of the angel of Laodicea; there will fall great plagues upon the earth at the sounding, and in the sounding of this seventh and last anti-angel.

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For there are no more angels to sound after the Quakers ministry; for this ministry will last to the end of the world. For there will never come no better nor higher ministry while the world doth last; for the Quakers ministry is the seventh and last anti-angel that will sound, and as the mystery of God was finished in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when it did begin to sound, as in Revel. x. and as I have declared in The Interpretation of the eleventh of the Revelation.

So likewise when this angel hath sounded outright; the world will be at an end, and the kingdoms of this world will become our Lord Christ's and he shall reign for ever and ever, Revel. xi. 15. And this plague will be the greatest plague of all the other six plagues unto the seed of reason, who have persecuted the innocent, and killed the just. But how long time it will be when these things shall come, it is not revealed to me, nor no man else. Only this by revelation I know, that the last or third commission of the spirit is now extant upon the earth. And that the Quakers ministry, is the seventh and last angel that will sound; but how long time it will sound, is not yet revealed to me.

But this I know, that they are the last, and being the last, they may last a pretty while. Neither would I have the reader to think, that the ministry of the other six angels will be extinguished, for they will last to the end of the world also. Only this I would have the reader to understand, that all sects and opinions in matter of religion, are comprised in these seven churches of Europe.

So that these seven churches are the root and and body; and the other opinions in religion, though seemingly they differ from them, yet I say they are but branches that are sprouted forth from some of these seven churches of Europe. Though they seem very great branches, yet they are but branches, as doubtless there were many differing opinions in the seven churches of Asia, yet all are comprised by the Revelation and vision of John, in the seven angels ministry of Asia.

So all sects and opinions are comprised in the seven anti-angels ministry of Europe. And the Quakers ministry it being the seventh and last antiangel that will sound the trumpet, in regard there will come, nor arise no higher, nor better things in matter of religion, to the eye of reason. So that men and women who do not know truth, when they want satisfaction in their minds, they must fall into the Quakers.

And as the plagues and judgments upon the earth, are greater at the sounding of the trumpet of the seventh angel of Asia, it being no less plague than the end of the world; which plague is far greater than those six plagues which were at the other angels sounding; so likewise there will be greater plagues upon the earth, at the sounding of the trumpet of the seventh and last anti-angel, than there hath been at the sounding of the other six angels; for no more will come to the end of the world; and the nearer it grows to the end, the greater plagues will be upon the earth; for is not almost all the world in an uproar, killing and destroying one another, ever since

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the seventh anti-angel did begin to sound? And yet greater plagues than have been, or is now, will ensue upon the sounding of this angel.

But I shall leave it to what providence and time will bring forth, only this to let the reader see and know what a resemblance there is between the seven churches of Europe, and the seven churches of Asia. And how that the seven anti-angels were included in the vision in the seven angels of Asia, and plagues on the earth in like manner.

And as the Revelation of John in his vision did see, that the end of the world would be at the sounding the trumpet of the seventh angel, the anti-angel being included in the vision, it will so come to pass; but what day, hour, or year, is not known to any'

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Therefore I shall leave it unto God, who hath appointed an end in his own secret decree, and hath declared it by his servants the prophets and apostles; therefore ought to be believed by all that do expect eternal life, by God's putting an end to this world. Neither can there be any satisfaction to the mind of man, except it be believed. It is that which satisfies me, so that I do not question the thing, though the time when is uncertain; an end there will be, as certain as there was a beginning.

So I shall leave it unto God, that made a beginning of this world unto man, and according to his own appointment there will be an end. So that I need not say any more concerning the seven churches of Europe, there being a likeness and resemblance of their ministry, unto the ministry of the

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seven churches of Asia; and so may be called seven angels that sounded their trumpets; and plagues did, and doth fall upon the earth, at the sounding of every one of the anti-angels, as aforesaid.

Now I have given the interpretation of the seven anti-angels, I shall pass by the tenth, eleventh and twelfth chapters, as I said before, and proceed to interpret the chief things of concernment in the thirteenth chapter.

CHAP. XXXII.

IN chap. xiii.1. John saith, he stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads, and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

I would not have the reader to understand, that John did stand upon the sand of the sea with the feet of his body, when he saw this beast to arise out of the sea; but the meaning is, the revelation of his spirit it was carried in the vision by the revelation of faith, as if he had stood upon the sand of the sea shore; for the revelation of the spirit can stand upon the sand, or upon the sea, though the body of a man be many miles distant from it. Likewise it is not to be understood, that this beast which he saw did arise out of the sea; but, as I said before in another case, this beast with seven heads and ten horns, he did arise out of those islands which did border about the sea, or lands that are environed about with the sea and other great rivers of waters, as some places of this earth is, as that of Jordan and other places;

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