CA P. 9. ,rf Revelations o(the.Apocalypíc. 311 keep him perplexed with fear ofthere four Angels that are let loofe, left otherwifehe thouldnip &deífroyhis truth as it was fpringing up in the firft blade,and fo fhould keep it fromwaxing up tothat ripenes which we fee it is now at this day come unto. Wherefore this com- mandment was made very feafonably for the Church, for whole fake alone all the changes which tve.fee in the world come to paffe. 14. Saying to theJixth Angel. To him, to whom the commande- ment is given : This Angel isfirft of all the refs: made a co-worker in executing the punifhme.nt, the former did onely denounce the evil, perhaps the contagion of fin did hinder, fo that they could not put their hand to work : but here there fhould be a more evident fepa- ration made between the punilbment and the fault, that fo he who fhould execute that, fhould not need to fear to be tainted with thee. Loo/e the four Angels. The purport of the commandement, is touching four Angels that are to be loafed, which rood in readineffè, only expefting when they fhould have their watch-word given them. But what manner of Angels be thefe ? Are they .finch as be properly called fo, and that are fo fixed to a certain place, that they cannot flit from thence, till they have fome fpeciall leave and licence given them ? Indeedwe reade that theevilfpirit Afmodeue, Wa.rfen: aWay into the defart of theuppermofl part of Egypt, and was made to abide there, Tobit. 8. 3. But this might feem, and that not without caufe, tobe frivolous, becaufe ofthofe Jewifhdreams, to which that people was fo addifted, that even lofephus, otherwife a learned and eloquent man,durft affirm ,that Solomon War the firft that invented, at hall', one that did in his Books bring to exceedinggreat perfellion that dcvillifh Art of adjuring Spirits,Book of Antieuit. 8. (hap. 2. This (I fay) in Tobie, should juftly be accounted vain and foolifh, unleffe. we had better authority for it then that, out ofthis fame Book of the Revelation, Chap. I. and 2. where it is intimated unto us, that theun- tlean Spirits are fhut up into certain places,as it Were, into a prifon. The which yet feemeth not to be common to them all, but peculi- ar toTome certain ofthem. For how fhould all of them be tyed unto certain. determinateplaces, when as it isfreeforforce ofthem to cons- pafeabout all the earth, Iob i. 7. When as the Ancient and Chief- tains among themdo walk about like roaring Lyons, feeling Whom they may devour, t Pet. 5. 6. They have allo power in the Ayr, and there is a Spirit that doth noW Wok, effr dually in the childrenofdif- obedience, Ephef. 2.2. and there are force that be thePrinces of the World, yea, the gods of this World, blinding the minder o funbelievers, Ephef. f;
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