Revelationist

Otherwiſe, by this plea of an unction from the Spirit, you may take upon you the function of Kings in the world, as well as of Prieſts in the Church; for the Revelationiſt joyns them both together, ſaying, He hath made us Kings and Prieſts.

Such were thoſe that preſented to be inſpired with ſome divine Fury, or ſtrange Rapture, called Lymphatici, q. d. Νυμφόληπτοι, And the Enthuſiaſts, or pretended Revelationiſts.

However, it is melancholy to obſerve, that many of theſe Revelationiſts, with all their boaſted Intercourſe with Heaven, live upon Earth with leſs Order in their Lives, and with more Slavery to human Paſſion, than even ſome decent People, who make no Pretences to Religion at all.

Athens had to climb its Mount Zion foot by foot, yard by yard, up to its top; but the Christian revelationist came down upon it from the clouds, stood upon it for a moment, and reduced it to contempt by the eloquence of an infinite contrast.

That John the gospel writer could have arrived at the same theological conclusions as John the Revelationist and John the epistle writer constitutes a huge (and even unreasonable) leap in theological understanding by two or three different men at about the same time.