A KEY TO THE APOCALYPSE,

DISCOVERED AND DEMONSTRATED

FROM THE INTERNAL AND INSERTED

CHARACTERS OF THE VISIONS.

FOR THE USE OF THOSE

WHOM GOD HAS ENDUED WITH THE LOVE AND DESIRE OF KNOWING

AND INVESTIGATING THAT WONDERFUL PROPHECY.

FROM THE. LATEST EDITION, REVISED BY THE AUTHOR,

THE REV. JOSEPH MEDE.

Blessed Is he that readeth, (or Interpreteth) and they that hear, (or listen to him that Interpreteth) the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein, for the time is at hand."APOCALYPSE chap 1. ver. 3.

That is, the time is even now come, when these things have begun to be fulfilled, and they will be fulfilled more and more from day to day.

TRANSLATION of MEDE'S CLAVIS APOCALYPTICA.

By R. BRANSBY COOPER, EsQ.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

AND WATERLOO PLACES FALL MALL.

1833.

THE APOCALYPTICAL KEY; OR,

The synchronism and order of the Apocalyptical prophecies, according to the things transacked, on no hypothetical interpretation, nor preconjectaure about the events; but firmly demonstrated from the very characters of the visions themselves, purposely inserted by the Holy Spirit, and offered to examination according to a self evident scheme: so that it may prove, as it were, a Thesean claw to those who are involved in this sacred labyrinth, and a Lydian stone to discover the true, and to refute every erroneous interpretation.

PREVIOUS REMARKS.

1. I CALL a synchronism of the prophecies a concurrence of events predicted therein within the same time; which may be called a contemporary or coetaneous period; for prophecies of contemporary things synchronize.

2. The order of the seals and of the trumpets included under them, is certain namely, that which the number points out from and indubitable; I. to. VII. When the rest of the prophecies are compared with one another, and then with the seals by synchronism, the order of the whole Apocalypse will be manifest; and this, with God's assistance, we now proceed to exhibit.

O thou that sittest on the throne, and thou, O Lamb, the root and the offspring* of David, who alone wast worthy to receive and open the book, open the eyes of thy servant, direct his hand and his mind, that in these thy mysteries: he may discern and disclose something to the glory of thy name, and to the advantage of the Church !

* Stirps may imply both.