Ito 4 evelati,ioftheApocalypfe. C .,r. Godly this Church, byGods mercy, not defiled with any fchifm, or filthy di eila' revolt, aswe have feenthe Churchof Sardis. to be, which besaufe phia fhe took no care to plant a full and through Reformation, did. by Gods jufl: judgement lofe many ofher Citizens, like as the Fig-tree lofeth her. green Figs ; fo far offwas it that they should be Pillars, But Philadelphia flaould bewithout this grief, not but that it fhould have fome runnagates from their holy profeflion, whichfora; time they fhould diffemblingly make, but becaufe there kw falfe-hearted ones, fhould rather make the faith and diligence ofthis Church to fhine forth in examining and cafting forth thel ° iypocrites, thenthat they fhoildcaft any blot offchifine or apoftafeupon it. W,eitherJhall hegoforth any more. This Pillar is declared by a dou- ble propert theone ofperpetsity, the other ofa name Written upon .it ; that is, fi nified inthefe words, neither(hall he goforth any more. , The force ofwhichwords feemeth to be an anfwer to a fecret doubt, which might perhaps trouble the minde offorne man, becaufe chofe Pillars, in theTemplewere broken; when? whenahe Citiewas taken by Nebuchadnezzar, and the brafle ofthemwas carried into 1abell, Ier. 52. 17. Leapt any man fhould fear that the fame might happen here,namely, that though a manfhould be fetled for a time in this Temple,he fhouldat the lengthbe banifhed thence ; he biddech them be of goodcheer, forhe promifeth thathe fhall be fucha Pillar, as no Nebuchadnezzar (hall ever break in pieces, or carry awayby force anywhither. TheSon abideth ix thehoufefor ever, Iohn 8.35. The handmaidWith herfon is c4forth, but the heir /halllivealW4ies in his Fatherslight, Gal.+ 3o, Sz.c. AndI WillWrite"pm.it the name of my God. The name written upon it is three fold, of God, ofthe neW ?emplace, and the neW name ofa Son. All which things are fpoken agreeably to thole Pillars in the the Temple,the fafhion whereoftheholy Ghoft as it were pointing at, Both hereexplain, by the way-teaching us,that there was nothingor- dained in that old Temple invain,although it feemed to be ofno mo- ment at all. Solomon calledhis two Pillars which he ereLted by two notable names, thaton the right handhecalled lachim, that is, heWill fIablifb; that on the left hand he called Boaz, that is, in it there is ftrength, r King. 7.. r. Shewingnot oneiyby the matter, but by the names alfoof thofe Pillars,what ftedfaneffe theeleft Rand in before God, both for theprefent, and for time to come. For theprefent, the Eons ofGod haveftrength in themfelves ; for time to come, God will ftablifh them fo with,his grace, that they ¡hall never wholly depart from
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