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Chap. XXXIV. The interpretation and distinction why men may

be called a dragon, devil, or serpent; and how the seed of reason

may be said to be in heaven.

Chap. XXXV. How the beast may be said to be like a leopard;
what is meant by his feet being like the feet of a bear; and his
mouth like the mouth of a lion; and what is meant by his deadly
wound being healed.

Chap. XXXVI. What is meant by the tabernacle in heaven; and
by those that dwell in it; how the saints are not called the world;
and how they may know their names are written in the book of life.

Chap. XXXVII. What is meant by the beast out of the earth

with two horns, like a lamb; and what the two horns do signify;

and how those miracles he wrought were counterfeit, and meer

shadows.

Chap. XXXVIII. What is meant by the image; and how the
image may be said to speak.

Chap. XXXIX. What is meant by receiving the mark of the
beast in the forehead, and in the right hand; and how they may be,
said to have the name of the beast; and the number of his name.

Chap. XI. The interpretation of the number of the beast; and how

he may be said to be six hundred three score and six, and yet but

the number of a man.

Chap. XLI. What is meant by the Lamb that stood upon Mount
Sion; and what those hundred forty and four thousand were who
stood upon Mount Sicn with him; and how the voices of the saints
are called the sound of waters, and as the noise of thunder.

Chap. XLII. The interpretation how men and women may be said

to be not defiled with women; and in what sense they may be call-

ed virgins; and why the Jews are called the first fruits unto God;

and who the angel was that did fly in the midst of heaven; and how

the everlasting gospel was preached to every nation, and kindred,

and tongue, and people.

Chap. XLIII. The difference between the temporal Babylon, and

the spiritual Babylon expounded; and how men may be said to

drink the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Chap. XLIV. How Christ is called by the spirit the Son of Man;

and what is meant by the white cloud; and the Crown of gold upon

his head; and what is meant by the sharp sicle in his hand; and

what is meant by reaping the earth; and how the wine press of

God's wrath is troden without the gates, or city of Jerusalem; and

what the city is.

Chap. XLV. How the saints of God are capable to stand upon a sea
of glass in heaven, as men may upon this earth, they being spiri-
tual bodies.

Chap. XLVI. What is meant by the seven vials of God's wrath
poured out upon the earth; and what angels they were that poured
them out; and why they are called seven angels; and how the angel
of the gospel doth pour out his plagues, as the angel of the law did.
Chap. XLVII. The interpretation of the waters being turned into
blood; and how the waters of the soul of man are turned into blood
in the spiritual, as the natural waters of Egypt were.
Chap. XLVIII. How the seed of reason did drink the saints blood;
and how they must drink their own blood; and what is meant by
pouring out the vial upon the sun; and by scorching men with
fire,

Chap. XLIX. The interpretation of the kingdom of darkness in the
temporal; and what that darkness signifies.

Chap. L. How the spirit of Cain doth run through all wicked
Herods; and how the land of Goshen doth signify true light; and
the land of Egypt, hell, death, and darkness.

Chap. LI. What is meant by the great river Euphrates in the na-
tural, and in the spiritual; and how it may be said to be dryed up;
and who they are that are called kings of the earth.

Chap. LII. How these three unclean spirits, like frogs, proceeded
from one spirit, and yet by their several operations and workings,
they may be called three,

Chap. LIII. A further interpretation of the dragon, beast, and false
prophet; and how all the worship set up by them is false.

Chap. LIV. An interpretation of the operation of that wisdom that
cometh out of the dragon's mouth; and why it is called by the spirit,
an unclean spirit, like a frog.

Chap. LV. What the unclean spirit is that came out of the beast's
mouth; and how they are cloathed in scarlet.

Chap. LVI. What is meant by the false prophet; and how he came
to be cloathed in sheep's clothing; and how these three unclean
spirits like frogs deceive one another, and all people else.
Chap. LVII. What is meant by the great earthquake, and by that
great hail; and how every stone may be said to weigh a talent; and
how mingled with fire and brimstone.

Chap. LVIII. How the spiritual Babylon is compared unto the
temporal; and how false worship may be, and is called mystery
Babylon, in opposition to the mystery of God; with many other

Chap. LXI. The interpretation of the beast that was, and is not, and
yet is; and how he may be called the eigth, and is of the seven ;
with other deep secrets.

Chap. LXII, How the woman may be said to sit upon seven
mountains; and what the mountains are.

Chap. LXIII. The interpretation of the ten horns; and what is
meant by their having power one hour with the beast; and how
they make war with the Lamb; and what weapons they fight with;
and with what weapons the Lamb doth overcome them.
Chap. LXIV. How the ten horns received power from the beast to
persecute the saints and how the same ten kings received power
from God to make thn whore desolate, to fulfil God's will; yet all
but wicked kings, yet they did his will.

Chap. LXV. How all this seventeenth chapter was shewed unto

John by vision, and none could interpret it, but he that hath a com-

mission from God.

Chap. LXVI. The difference between the temporal Babylon, and

the spiritual Babylon; and how this spiritual Babylon is called an

habitation of devils, and a cage of every hateful bird, and a hold of

every unclean spirit; and how the kings of the earth and all nations

commited fornication with her.

Chap, LXVII. How the saints may be said to come out of her;
and how she must drink her own blood; and what is meant by fill-
ing her cup and giving it her double to drink ; and what manner of
famine and fire she shall be destroyed with.

Chap. LXVIII. What is meant by the merchant's standing afar off,

for fear of her torment.

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What is meant by the voice of many waters; and

the voice of mighty thunderings; and how the saints are married

unto God.

Chap. LXXIII. What is meant by the white horse; and by the
many crowns that he had on his head; and of the difference of glory
between the work of creation, and the work of redemption; and
how it may be said that no man knew his name but himself.
Chap. LXXIV, The interpretation of the garment of Christ down
to the foot; and his vesture dipt in boold; and what is meant
by treading the wine-fat.

Chap, LXXV. What is meant by the armies in heaven that fol-
lowed Christ; and how they all sat upon white horses and how
Christ trod the fierceness of the wine-press of Almighty God, and
yet not his father's wrath.

Chap. I.XXVI. The interpretation of the name of Christ writ-
ten upon his thigh; and how he may be called King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords, in respect of the power of his creation and the
power of his redemption; and how his death got power over sin,

death, and hell, so that he can dispose of death now as he pleases,

for his own glory.

Chap. LXXVII. What is meant by the fowls of heaven; and what

the supper is they are invited unto; and what it is they must have

to supper; and how the saints may be said to eat the flesh of kings,

and of captains, and of mighty men.

Chap. LXXVIII. How ihe temporal power signifies the beast, and

the spiritual power signifies the false prophet; and how they are

both cast alive into a lake of file and brimstone; and what is

meant by the remnant that were slain with a sword that came out

of his mouth; with the end of the nineteenth chapter.

Chap. LXXIX. The prophet's prayer and thanksgiving unto Jesus

Christ,

Christ, the only God, who became very man, and yet was very God
at the same time.

Chap. LXXX. What is meant by Gog and Magog; and how the

camp of the saints may be said to be compassed about in all the four

quarters of the earth; and what that fire is that came down from

heaven.

Chap. LXXXI. How non-commissionated men are those that do
add unto the prophesy of this book of the revelation, and to all the
scriptures; and how the plagues written in that book will be added
unto them, for going before they were sent of God.

Chap. LXXXII. How men are said to diminish, or take away

from this book; and how he hath his part taken out of the book

of life.

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