io ,Xtvelat oìi ofthe Apocalyfe. C A P. 1. ning of the Churches ofAfia feems to intimate, that the congregati- ons of the Iewes are not tobe mingled with thefe. Which hath made me inmy general! furvey to diftinguif)Z the whole Prophecy into that which is proper to the particular Churches, and that which is com- mon to them all. (;race be With you andpeace from him that is, &c. Now he cometh to the falutation, wherein the third perfon of the Infcription is de- clared. This Fountaine of ;raceand peace he maketh one true God three in perfon. Theharpofwhichperlons, thefe words defcribe. 4; retas thin keth that thefe three times belong in fpeciall to the three perlons, becaufe the father, faithhe, elfwhere, is called he chat-is, as Exod. ;.14.The fon,hethat Was,Ioh. i. i. The holy ghof , he that cometh, Ioh.16. 8, 13. But that focleer a diftin Lion which prefent: ly followeth gain-faieth it, which challengeth this circumlocution of that ehei, Exod. 3. 13. Which is common indeed to the whole deity, as proper here to the perfon ofthefather alone. Whence alto we are given to wit, that this threefold difference oftime,refpefteth the un- changable and conffant truth ofGod inhis promifes. For the fame is the force of this circumlocution, as of that compendious defcripti- on ofGod,Exod.3. i 4.Which we knowwas then ufed to teachMofes, that the time was then come,wherein the promife ofoldmade to A- braham cóce rning the deliverance of his feed out ofEgypt,fhould be performed.Whence alto it was,that God was not known to the Fa- thers, by the name Iehovah, becaufe they had not as yet attained to the prouufe. Ccrtaine others will have this to be the name of the ef- fence, whereof a created minds can perceive no part, as ifGod fhould take fuch names to himfelf , for his own fake alone , not for ours; and fo this is the meaning, as ifhe fhould fay, from Cod the Fa- ther that is mot true andconftant in all his things, Whogiveth inprefent moff plentifulproofs ofhis truth, by rending his fon at length into the World; Who ofold times never failed in any things Which bepremifed, Who laflly bath givenus fuck hope of performing things yet to come, that he is every day carefull toperforms them , thus hajtening the full perf el-fionof hisWhole truth. For this force have the words : who co- meth, or is in coming, as if they fhould figrüfie a prefent-future thing, that I may focall it. For that which is coming is not y-et prefent, nei- ther yet is it altogether abfent. It is therefore far more figniHcant then ifhe had faid, he that if about to come, as it is commonly tranfla- ted. For this he.that com -th, declareth that he will no longer dele 're his promifes, but that he is even now labouring to performe them, which
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