Yez evelation`[theApòcaIypre.. C p. 3. Hyic_ filch as theeves ufe in robbingofhoufes.Who do often times not on- critical! ly rob the owners of their goods , but they do defloure their yin- Sardis. gins, and commit villany with their wives , and compeli themwith tortures toconfeffe where their money is hidden;whichhaving once gotten thy flay all without differenceoffcx or age,that their villany be not bewrayed. Chriff therefore feemethhere to threatenthe like mad cruelty offome favage enemy. Concerning whofe coming we mutt not determineby the judgement of fence , . feeing itfhall not be known What hourhefhallcome. Neither ought wemuch to labour tofearch.out who this enemy fhouldbe. The.:holy CJhoft who fetteth it down that his comming (hall, befuddain, would not have him to beknown whohe fhould be. It may it is the Tkrkf, to whom the rains ihail be loofed, till Godby hismeans,fhall have punifhed thofc that are to be chaftened. But whither-it be this or fume other enemy,; you muff not sleep in fecurity !till, and let Reformation go, becaufe you fee nodanger at hand, but you muff bethink you how he may break in upon you in a moment, And it is to be feared,that this-which is here threatned !hall noo more be avoided, then that of the candle= f iclee to beremovedfrom the, Church of Ephefiu, Chap 2. :c Theo things depend upon the condition ofpepentance,to which the carsof men for the moft part are deaf. 4. Ter thou haft afelt, names. That is, a frI' me,, as A.i.i 5'e and after in this Book, Chap. i t , 13.. Inthefe words he cometh to the other part of the Narration, which is ofpraife, whichwas wont alwaies elfewhere to have the firft place but this new difpo%g _of nutters is not without ground, but teacheth that in the latter daycs there (hall be force, who rejefting errours , fhould imbrace the trueth ; as weknow it hath come to paffe, feeing that upon ;this occafionthe bookof the Concord was made, and fo many Yifältat6 +ons were kept that the Calvinifis, as they, call. them,.-might be suite rooted out.For fuch kinde ofmen, that be the followers ofthe true Opinion, and fuch as keep and love true Piety, ;do-cònverfe in the innermof} bowels ofthis ftateofSardis; Befdes many free cities, .1' Strasburg, Heydelber6Marpurg, :NfWtad, Brense, the people of 1lnlsalt, .dre. Whichdid oppofe thenafelves totlae:forgeries of the Tefidue. In. every one ofthcfe places there.fhined ever and anon ex- cellent lights,who chafing far from them this darkneffe,brought a.joy- full day to their flocks arid- people. Which have not eirfiled their garments: This 'garment is Chrifg hind-elf, the. corn, on;Veftùre- of all the Faithful! ; of which we tread in the. Pa abk ; Friev4 how came,t thon iii hither, not having ®,t
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