CAP. 3. 4 yelationofthe Apocalypfe. i 5 . rent manner of Government ; the French-Churches and,thofe that Lit, k in league with them,one; and ours of England another, and that a warm certain proper and peculiar one, as it were a nonefuchGovernment.. 'Ia. in g1®- Whence there are three that are di(t:inguifhed , eachapart from Laodicea. the other , to which three are three Types correfpondent , Sar- dis, Philadelphia , Laodicea , after the overthrow of lezabell, that is , after that the yoake of the Rorni(h Tyrannie was fhaken off. Now ours of England futeth with Laodicea the laft of them. as whofe beginning was laft of all ; which it tooke from the peer M. D. XLVI I. When as King Edvhard of molt noble memory came to the Crowne, being then atlength a confirmed , and eflablifhed Church, when eleven ycers after, our mac gra- cious Queene Elizabeth began to Raigne. The molt mighty King Henry her Father had calf out the Pope ., but hee retayned the Popifh Super&ition. And before hee began but to ftirreagainit the Pope , the Churches of Çermany and Si'itzerland were founded. The Scottijh Church was after ours in her birth, and uprifing; yet is it juftly munbred among thefe reformed Chur-. ches , with whom it confenteth inher forme of Church govern- ment, with whom therefore it is reckoned as being of the fame Original!, which is more to be efteemed by the agreement in the fubftantiall matters , then by the difference of time alone. Wher- fore our one Church of Englandonly maketh a Counterpain anfwt- ring to Laodicea, as the which was laft extant of thofe, in which a diverfity ofany moment is apparent. Thefe things faith that Amen. Amen is here ufed, as ifit were aproper name, andundeclinable, ò Amen as were ò o'n, hee that ir, that War, and that is tocome, before in the firft Chapter. This threefoldproperty given to Chrift in this place, tendeth to teach us what kind of Governour Chrift fhould chew himfelfe to be in this Church of England. The firft property is taken out of the firft Chapter, ver. t 8. Though Amen there wanteth the GreekArticle ò that goeth commonly with Nouns,neither is it read at all by the vul- gar Interpreter,which yet this placemay makeus conjeFture a little, that it fhould be read.Thefecond is taken,not obit ofthe vifìonofthe firft Chap. but out ofthe Infcription of the common epiftle,v.5. Nei- ther is the third to be had therein exprefs words, but in the 8,verfe he is called the beginning, and theend ; whence this here may feem tobe derived,the beginningofthe creatures of Cod. The two firft pro- perties ferve to exprefs his double truth, the one is in promifing, the S 2 other
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