332 .'levelationofthe Apocalypfe. C AP.10 After that it Mu delivered, there it botha commandement todevoure it, as alto an advertifement touching the f rndry tafieof it, verf. 9. And a triall made thoreofby Iohn, verf, to.Laf ofall, the Interpretation is added, verf. 1. THE EXPOSITION. r. Hen I fan another Angel. We refer thefe things in the Analylis to thefolace of the Church, again( the evils of the former Trumpets, fpecially thefixt: Which is added unto it very feafo- nably. For who is there, who would not languifh away , almoft, with the tedioufnefsof fuch long lafting troubles, hearing of no- thing elfe in the Church throughout a long row ofveers and Ages, butJtormy tempefis of Hail,burningmountains,the darkning ofthe fun, troops ofLocufts, andSerpentsfpitting outflames offre,with which an infinite number ofmen fhouldbe miferably confirmed and burnt up ? Now thereforeafter that the Church path been as it were tolled up and down in the deeps a long time, and in exceeding manner, and the land and haven is fhewed them, wherein they fhould at length have force ref} and refpite from thefe evils ; and not fo onely but a profperous gale ofwinde allo blowethupon them in the mean time, whichmight make them to rid way the better in their doy _e --For whichptarpofe anAnsel ofmoft great power defeendeth down fror'n Heaven, of a divers nature from thofe oAngels, who 6leW the former Trumpets , or of which any mention had beenmade elk- where before. For they were Servants, this is the Lord Chrif himfelf, as whole appareil , countenance, and voice,, and his whole . array is more majefticall then can fuit with a creature. Neither doth this hinder it, that hee hath fuch a ftrange form, and founlike to his true humanity,feeing it is deer outof the ftrft Chapter, that he doth in fpeciall manner take to himfelffuch a refemblance, as might mof} fitly 1"erve to explain, and to confirm the things, that are pro- hpounded to come. Therefore as touching this defcription of him, e is calledfront/ or mighty, becaufe he hath power enough in his hand to deliver his "Church .from thofe evils wherewith it thall be at any time oppreffed: He defcended from heaven, becaufe that he fhould now at length, after fo long a fpace oftime, vifit his Church, fromwhich he.feemed to have been for a long while abfent. And.in- deed about the time of the founding of the fixt Trumpet, when . as the four Angels were loofed, in the yeer 23oo. as we have fail, chrijl began toPhewhimfelf in his f}ately prefende-more at large, then
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