CA P. i. %,/ie aviation f the Apocalyp%. I which is a notable comfort to them, whoare ready to wax faint by reafon ofthe tedioufneffe ofthe delay. But what will force fay , is truth only given to the Father ? It is indeed common dike to them all, but feeing theoffice ofthe Son and of the Hoi fhof is exercifed in executing deerees, it is fo fpoken of, as if it were proper to him a- lone, whom the order ofworkingmakcth the Author ofpromifes,and theFountain ofbenefits andmercies. The impiety of the Gentiles hath imitated this diftribution in their Oracleout ofa Trivet, which they fay Apolloufed, becatife of thofe threeopportunities ofmatters; which hewas very skilfull in, as who k ew things prefent, thing to be, and thathavebeen before, as it is in the Interpreter of Ariftóphanes inPluto. And from thefevers Spirits. The fecond Fountain of peace is the Holy Gliof,as whodoth moft plentifully inrich.& furnifh the Church with all kinde ofgifts,for which caufe this circumlocution is ufed. Forhe can be no creature,who together With the Fatherand the Son,r agiver and an Author ofpeace andzrace. Touching which point fee what the learned Iunius hath.. Neither can this argue him to be a creature, as the Jefuit would have it, becaufe he is faid to Rand in thefight.oftheThrone,after the maner ofthole that rather are admini, ftring fpitits unto God,thcn that hefhouldbeGod himfelf.Ferby this . reafon,the fon fhouldbe Godneither, as who being the Lambe,came and tooke the Booke out of the right hand of him that Gtteth upon the Throne; as it is below, Chap. 5.7. And more plainly in Dan.. i 3. e.?ndbefore him (viz.. fittingupon the Throne)theyfet him, that is, the Son ofAfaa. Is now the Son therefore to be put out of the Deity ? Whereforewe mutt know, that throughout this Booke, mention is made both here and eifwhere, both in generali ofGad, as the higheft and chiefeft oovernour, for which caufe he hath a Throne given him, as alfoofthe fon and Holy Clhof as miniftring unto him, as by whole more neerly-joyned help all things are made and done. Wherefore they are Paid toland before theThrone, as it were in a readineffe, and as though they did waite for the beckand bidding oftheir high:e¡o go- vernors.So the Revelation ..Wae given to the fon above, verf. Land there- fore theHoly Clhofp in this place feemeth rather to be noted out by his gifts which he workes in the Saints, then by his propername. Bur matters that ferve only for order,are not to be drawn to the abolish- ingof the natures. 5. Andfrom Ielntr Chrifi,. who is that faithfe1113'itne frè thedefe& of the relative being fupplyed, which is-men common in this Booke, D 2 after
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