World are become the Kingdomes of our Lord,
and of his Christ, and he shall Reign for ever and ever._ 'Tis a
Commentary on what had been written by _Daniel_, about, _The fourth
Monarchy_; with some Touches upon, _The Fifth_; wherein, _The greatness
of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven, shall be given to the people of
the Saints of the most High:_ And altho' it have, as 'tis expressed by
one of the Ancients, _Tot Sacramenta quot verba_, a Mystery in every
Syllable, yet it is not altogether to be neglected with such a Despair,
as that, _I cannot Read, for the Book is Sealed._ It is a REVELATION,
and a singular, and notable _Blessing_ is pronounc'd upon them that
humbly study it.

The Divine Oracles, have with a most admirable Artifice and Carefulness,
drawn, as the very pious _Beverley_, has laboriously Evinced, an exact
LINE OF TIME, from the first Sabbath at the _Creation_ of the World,
unto the great Sabbatism at the _Restitution_ of all Things. In that
famous _Line of Time_, from the Decree for the Restoring of _Jerusalem_,
after the _Babylonish_ Captivity, there seem to remain a matter of _Two
Thousand and Three Hundred Years_, unto that _New Jerusalem_, whereto
the Church is to be advanced, when the Mystical _Babylon_ shall be
_fallen_. At the Resurrection of our Lord, there were seventeen or
eighteen Hundred of those Years, yet upon the Line, to run unto, _The
rest which remains for the People of God_; and this Remnant in the _Line
of Time_, is here in our _Apocalypse_, variously Embossed, Adorned, and
Signalized with such Distinguishing Events, if we mind them, will help
us escape that Censure, _Can ye not Discern the Signs of the Times?_

The Apostle _John_, for the View of these Things, had laid before him,
as I conceive, a _Book_, with leaves, or folds; which _Volumn_ was
written both on the _Backside_, and on the _Inside_, and Roll'd up in a
Cylindriacal Form, under seven _Labels_, fastned with so many _Seals_.
The first _Seal_ being opened, and the first _Label_ removed, under the
first _Label_ the Apostle saw what he saw, of a first _Rider_
Pourtray'd, and so on, till the last _Seal_ was broken up; each of the
Sculptures being enlarged with agreeable _Visions_ and _Voices_, to
illustrate it. The Book being now Unrolled, there were _Trumpets_, with
wonderful Concomitants, Exhibited successively on the Expanding
_Backside_ of it. Whereupon the Book was _Eaten_, as it were to be
Hidden, from Interpretations;