Godly Philadel- phia. io8 4 evelation ofthe Apocalypfc. CAP. 3. He that bathan care. You therefore (ô Brethren of Saxony)for Km! Chrifiss fake con/der and marke what aftionthe Holy Ghoff doth commence againlf you. It is your great commendation that you were the firft that have grapled hand to hand with that Romifh Tyrant , and have broken off the yoak ofhis Tyranny from your felves alone before all others, but the Canaanite: beingleft in your land, haveproved thornes inyour fides andeyes, That little remnant of erreurs being at firft let alone careleffely, hath begottennew ones by Gods juif judgement; through the contagionwhereof, true pity is driven away, and togetherwith her the true life is loft, and fo you have a Church loft among you that ismade wofull withan horrible death. Neither is here an end ofyour evils, but fome new, huge,and fudden calamity will come upon you, unitfíe yewill ftraightwayes obey the Holy Ghofl- that givethyou warning. Let unhappy peevifh- neffe be fet packing away, and take fuchcounfell together , as may helpe the truth forward , may call home your exiled life, and may procure the falvation and fafetyofyou all. Neither doye only hear- ken what I fay, but let all men and Churches give Bare, and learne byyour mifery, howdangerous it is tonourifh the leaft erreur in the matterofReligion.. The Analyfis or Refolution of the Epiftle to Philadelphia. SO muchfor the £piffle to the Sardians. This unto the Philadel- phians, is infcribed allo to the Angell. Hethat fendethit is remark- ableferholineffe, truth, and the key of David, Which he carriethnot idely, but he opened) andfhutteth with it, as beingpart of the higheft fveraignety that he bath, verte 7. The narration doth firft tell his goodthings , both prefent, that ofthe open doore , Which is 111141i-ra- ted by the tante of it, his little ffrength, and confisant keepingofhis word, Verte S. As alfo that is to come, both that offubduing h. is ene- mies, Verte9. e/nd that ofaffording aide unto him ina common tri- all, the roafonWhereofa rendredto behis conftancy in the profegion of the Çofpell, Verte i o. And then he infiameth himWith de/ re ofpre ferving that good, becaufe his comming is (Wife, and there may be danger ofhavingtheir CroWne takenfrom them. Verfe i I. Then there is a very great reward, When as he /hallbe madea pillar , and 'hall haue Written upon it both the name ofGod, and ofthe neW 7erufalem, and alto the new name ofa Sonne, Verfe 12. To all Which things the common Conclufion is added in theend. Verfe 13. T H E
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