C A P. i . _A` evelatioit of the Apdcalypfe. 3 The feven ftars,are the Angels of the (even Churches :and the feven candlefticks which thou faweft, are the feven Churches, TER FOrafmUch 94 At t4 take in hand a matter that is beyond the -power ofmagi, I befeech thee (O Father of.Lights,together with thySon the prin- cipal) Prophet, and theholy Ghoft the guide of `truth): to nuke plain and inanifeft before, my face the way Which to:this day was never fuffici- entlyknown of mortal] men. Our minde is half bl-inde__in_..things_ that are even before our -feet; how little, or nothingat,all rather loth it under- Pcandof high and hidden myfferies ? Hereupon how great danger is there, either to thruíl our (elves rafhly into thy fecrets , or elfe to paffe by things that be true, and to addeof our own head things abfurd & contrary to the truth ? Notwith- fíanding .thou that haft given thy word for a Ian - thern to our feet,thou whocalleff the moll fimple to fearch thy hidden myfl:eries, and choofef} com- monlyFifhermen before the wifeof this world; do thou (I fay) vouchfafe to afsiíí me in mypo- verty and weakneffe, grant me a happypaffage a- mono- thefe hard rocky matters keep me from running at any time upon the fheep Rocks of C z, Pride;
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