C AP.5. 0/everattonofthe Apocalypfe. t95- worthy to lay it open, that found out the way to redeem the Elect by his owne death. This is that forwhich the Church triumpheth upon earth, the An- gelis in Heaven ; yea, and finally all other creatures with them, and that not for pomps fake more then the truth required, as the man- ner is inmens writings,to havematters amplified for ornament fake; but out of a true fenfe, and a juft caufe of rejoycing, as we flea!! fee hereafter, if God aflift. In the meane time, }hall not this foexceed- ing great joy ofHeaven and earth, kindle in mens heartsdiligence in rcading,a delireof underftanding,anda care to obferve thefe things ? Itt is indeed, a matter worthy to be very earneftly meditated upon byus, which I have enlarged with more words then ordinary, be- caufe I fee that the Interpreters, either have not underftood the purpofe of this Chapter, or elfe at leaft have altogether kept filence in a matter fo exceedingly neceffary, otherwife then was meete they fhould. ABooke, Written Within, and on theback-fide. The fiat commen- dationof the Prophetie is from the Bookce,the plentifull Writing in ir, and the fevcnfeales in this verfe. It mutt needs be a thing molt certaine,that is fet downe in a Booke, which is a moll faithful! helper ofmemory, where as that which depends upönmemory alone, may eafily in long continuance oftime, be either wholly extinguiflied, or at leaft corrupted. Whence it is,that God bids kremy for the greater credit of that Prophetic, to Writs all the Words WhereWith he fpe.iÍ¿r onto him in a Boeke, Jer. 3o. 2. Thus he provides againft our doubt- ing, left we fhould think otherwife of things, then of fuch things as are committed to publike instruments and records ; yea, and are, as it were, graven in Braffe ; to as they can neither be changed nor'perifh. The plentifulneffe of the writing is declared, in that the Booke Way Written within,andon the back f de,onboth pages; Now, bee fpeaketh according to the ancient manner of writing in long parchments, which were afterwards rolled together about Tome round piece of wood, whereupon Bookes were.called Volumnes or Scroles ; and Chrift it raid to have unfoldedandunWra ped the Bootie, Luke 4.17. Now (to ufe the words ofthe moil learned Theod. Bezel) the outfide did commonly abide cleaneand unwritten,unleffe the in- fide were not able to containe the wholewriting; for then they filled the outward part with letters, which kinde of writings were cal- led back-fide Writings. This fo great prolixneffe therefore did not only containethe chicle heads ofthings, which might, perhaps, have D d been
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