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Beafts food a Lamb as it had been flain, having feven Horns and feven Eyes, which are the feven Spirits of God And he came and took the Book out of the Right-hand of him that fat on the Throne, (Allegor. Moral. fuper Apocalypf. p. 240. John had heard the Lion and faw the Lamb: The Lamb was flain: the Lamb open'd the Book, and the Lion open'd it. At length, the Lamb who was flain (fay the Elders) is worthy to receive Strength; not to lofe his Meakness, but to receive Strength, that he might continue a Lamb and be a Lion.") And when he had taken the Book, the four Beafts and four and twenty Elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them Harps and golden Vials full of Incenfe, which are the Prayers of Saints. And they fung a new Song, faying.

For thou waft flain, and haft redeemed us to God by thy Blood, out of every Kindred, and Tongue, and People, and Nation; and haft made us unto our God Kings and Priests, and we shall reign on the Earth (though haft redeemed us has been apply'd to the four Beafts, yet 'tis only to them who were of Kindreds, Tongues and People, which three of the

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Beafts were not, fo haft made us (MS. A. ET AUTOV) Kings and Priests. Yet ideally speaking, the hieroglyphical Reprefentations, and the Priests had been Refidentiaries, Hoftages pawn'd to every Tribe, &c. for Chrift's Performance; and when Christ discharged himself, and the other Aleim,, from the conditional Execration, he alfo redeemed the hieroglyphical Pledges, and the Priefs; paid what their Inftitutors and they were pawn'd for, and thereby freed them, and proved them to be what they really were, Reprefentatives of a King and a Prieft; befides redeeming the Pricfts, among other. Men, from their Sins, &c.) V. 13. which the Obfervator cites, And every Creature heard I faying, Bleffing, and Honour, and Glory, and Power, be unto him that fitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever, and the four Beafts faid Amen. 6. 1. And I faw when the Lamb opened one of the Seals, and I heard as it were the Noife of Thunder, (Voice of God) one of the four Beafts, Saying, Come and fee. 7. 9.ftood before the Throne and before the Lamb -cryed- Salvation to our God, which fitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb. 11. And all the Angels flood round

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round about the Throne, and the Elders, and the four Beasts, and fell before the Throne (which had the new emblematical Exhibition upon it) on their Faces, and (as predicted) worshipp'd God-15. And he that fitteth on the Throne fhall dwell among them. 17. For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the Throne, fhall feed them. viii. 3. And another Angel came and food at the Altar, having a golden Cenfer, and there was given unto him much Incenfe (which the four Beafts and the Elders had before) that he should offer it with (add it to) the Prayers of all Saints upon the Golden Altar which was before the Throne; and the Smoke of the Incenfe, with the Prayers of the Saints, afcended up before God, out of the Angel's Hand. Vid. Pf. 141. 2. Jer. 17. 26. Rev. v. 8. al. cited Glory or Gravity, p. 167. The Ufe of Reafon Recovered, p. 259.

As the four Beafts and Elders had preferved the Incense, or Prayers of Believers; fo fome had preferved the Wrath of God against Unbelievers. Rev. xv. 7. xvi. 1. For one of the four Beafts gave unto the Seven Angels (a fufficient Number of Agents, or &c.) feven golden Vials to in

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Lamb ftood on the Mount Sion. 3. And they fung as it were a new Song before the Throne and before the four Beafts and the Elders-The first Fruits unto God and to the Lamb. xix. 4. And the four and twenty Elders and the four Beafts fell down and worshipped God that fat on the Throne, faying, Amen, Alleluja. The Reasons why there were two Cherubs upon the Mercy-feat are given. Those in the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Temple are not explained. In the firft Exhibition of this Manifeftation, in Ezek. Ch. i. The Man, as a Prophet, and the Lion joined with him, was plac'd foremost, then the Bull, then the Eagle. The next Exhibition, Ch. x. the Bull firft, when he was to take Vengeance on the Man, next after the Bull the Man, who was to act and fuffer the Part of the Pricft, next the Lion; fo there their Faces are not exhibited united, and laftly the Eagle. The next Exhibition, Ch. xli. only the Man and the Lion, when they contended for, or were poffeffed of, the Palm. The next in Revelations, when the Lion had conquered, and the Man was fuffering, the Lion was firft, then the Bull, then the Man, and laftly the Eagle. After that the Lion and

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the Lamb had the Throne, to the End of the Revelations. In Heaven the Man is defcribed, Pfal. cx. 1. The Lord I. faid unto my Lord, fet thou on my Right-hand, until I make thine Enemies thy Footstool. ver. 5. by On thy right hand fhall fubdue Kings in the Day of his Wrath; fo between these two till 1 Cor. xv. 28. But to return, Revel. xix. 9.—Blessed are they which are called unto the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. xxii. 14. And the Wall of the City had twelve Foundations, and in them the Names of the twelve Apoftles of the Lamb. 22. And I faw no Temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it. Here all emblematical Temples were at an End, when he that had all Power dwelt in the Lamb. 23. For the Glory, (his Name) of God did enlighten it, and the Lamb the Light thereof. 27. But they which are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. xxii. 1.-Proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb.

3. But the Throne of God and of the Lamb fhall be in it. I must add a few Queries.

The Apoftates make the Cherubim the Throne. St. John places the four Beasts upon the Throne. If they were CreaCc 2 tures,

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