io6 ebelationtftheApoca1ypfe. C A fl.3 }typo WhomWe have redemption by hid blood,&c.Thus fpeakeththe Apo(tle of crAtIcall the common multitude ofthe Collofrian Church ; Chap. i,i2,&e.And Sa dis. after the fame manner elfewhere commonly, yet enay men be rated out of this book :Fos many are called,few are chofen,Mat.22. i 4.And it isdeclared by an example afterwards, in this Book,Chap.7. Where .Dan and Ephraim are palledby in the reckoningup of the Trlber, as ifthey were fouldiers put out ofpay, and cut out ofthe Rolls. For the Lord togive us a certain vihble refemblance of this Book, coxt- mañdad of old, that the Genealogies ofevery one of the Tribes fhould be diligently preferved among the people of Ifrael. Whi- ther alto belonged that law for railing up feed to the deceafed, lea' h namelhouldbe cat offfrom hitpeoplo, Deut.2s.6. For which eaufe alfo the P curfeth certain Reprobates, that held a place in the Church, as if they had been true Citizens, walling, that God would at leaa feparate them from the A(fembly of theSaints, and that he would openly (hew them to be meer hypocrites. Pfal. 69. 29. Wherefore all thofe are rafed out of the Bookof life, which forfake the focietyof the holy Church, whither it be byerror & herefie,orelfe by tomewicked fa,t,orfor anyother caufe;not that they are therfore put out ofthe Book of Elel-tion, but that they do this way make it ma- nifefF, thatthey were never billed in that Book, as john faith : They Went outfrom us, but they Were not of us, I John; 2. 19. Now the other Book of Elclilion is never blemifhed with any blotting and daftingout,but the names that are once written in it, remain con- ftantly in it without any rating our. And yet thefe Books are not fo open, that they can be read promifcuoutly ofall men, but it is declared kty,, the Spirit to every one feveràlly, that is found in this Regifter, in wha.t place, and number he ig. 'But IWillprofef e hit name. The third reward is,that he will pro- fefÌe his name. The whichdeclareth not onely the declining of ma- ny , but alto that there (hall be violence offered by them to make others decline by force ; fo that there would be need of the great power of the Spirit, that fo a man might not depart from the truth, beingput clean out ofheart with the iniuries and threats of the ad- verfaries. For this conferring of their names before ha Pother, is for the comfort of thofe that profeffe Chrift and his truthfreely &with- out difmaying before men. Thus Chrift fending out his Apoilles on embaffage to preach, armeth theca again& the fear of afflietiort, Mat.io.32. And who knoweth not how far the hatred of thofe.that call thertfelvesLotbrranr,procceded ininhumanity againft the profef fours
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