C A P.8. I T(evelatio;t of`the Apocalypfe. 279 A fecond effect, that teachethus what was the fruit of this falling Star. All the Teachers and Bithops almoil of that part , which should have been head-fprings of Doctrineunto others , did forth- with infect the wholfome waters, with the bitterneffe of their wic- ked opinions , but they did not procure death to themfelves , onely by this mixture, but all they alfo who drank of thefe waters , and fuffered themfelves to tee infected with the fame opinions, came to defl:ruftion, as wee [hewed above in the ex- pofition. t Z. After that the fourth Anoel bleb+ the Trumpet. Here is but one effect only mentioned of the fourth Trumpet ; otherwife then was done in the former. And that not without caufe , but for this purpofe as it feemeth; becaufe the former evils proceeded from thofe that were of the houfholdof faith inprofeffion,.and therefore it was ieedfull, not only that it thould be declared what was done, but that theAuthors alfo íhould be known , to which the firffeffect did chiefly belong. Now this calamity fhould come whollyfromthe Enemy, and from men that are firangers from the Church , touching whom it was not neceffary to record any fall of theirs. Wherefore hee cornett' in no other m anner to fpeakeof thisTrumpet, then hee did to relate the formercalamities, which thofe noifomeheathenifb Tyrantsdidof old bring upon the Church, Chap. 6. r 2, r 3.. This one cffed Both fmite the third part, of the Sunne , .Moon , Stars; day and night.. Wee interpret theft/mile , moon and flars as before, to be the.chiefe ornaments of the . more pure , and true Church; fo that the Sùnneare the Scriptures themfelves, .the'fountains of light ; the Moone , the doá}rine fetched from thence, - which is fometime compared to water, fometime to light in:a divers refpel. The Airs are the minifters the day joy and gladneffe, which are in the Church, an Ping from the enjoyingof this Sunne.; thenight the more rufull fate thereof, whether it be by reafonof- aftliebion,or of forne darkneffe, and obfcurity , that is. call: upon the truth, or of both; whence it is, that there _hall- be no night, in the full felicity of the Church , Chapter 21. 29; Neither are the Miniffers fames, becaufe they are fervants of the night, but becaufe they drive away darknef e in others , themfelves being in the mean while in- lightned throughly with the light of the Sunne. The meaning therefore is , that a mo/l grievous calamity (ball invade the third part of the world,Which fhall be common, no leffe'to thefall?, then to the trueChurch: as the Hiftory, witnefleth,that-it came to paffe. I let palle..
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