CAP.10. AT(eyelation ofthe Apocalyple. 333 then in the former times that went next before that;and yet he came down from heaven clothed after a fort witha duskilh cloud;being not plainly made known unto the world,but inwrapped as yet in fo great obfcurity, that he did but appear unto them as it were through a lattice. He Weareth a RainboW upon his head, which is an evident foreteller and witneffe ofthe old covenant, and calm that was after the flood;that we might both underftand that he is faithful! and con- ftant in his promifes , as alto that the former tempefts fhould be every day more and more by little and little driven away , till at length the skie becleare and quiet on all fides. HTh face fhineth like the Sun, feeing Chrifl is molt glorious, at leaft fo far forth as he is made known unto men. But his feet dofill/burn in there, becaufe his poor members, that are of bale account in the world, fhould be burnt up upon earth with a grievous heat of aftliftion : And yet there fhould be no danger of perifhing in the fire, becaufe his feet are pillar;, and thofe made offinebraffe, Chap.i.i 5. For thefe things belong to the fame time, fee Chap.2.18. So then Chriß- doth repre- fent in his own perfon, the Church that then Was to befeen under the fix trumpet ; which began to recover fome health again about the yeer 1300. Yet fo, as it was overcall with much darknefs, ..notwithdtanding it did give forre hope of a more full refloring to health in due time ; and in the mean while it laid open the molt pleafant countenance of Chrifl, fuch as the world had not of a long time fern ; though the faithfull were all the while driven into many ftraights. a. And he had in his hand a little Book open. To whom doth an open Book better agree , then to him that hath opened the Seals thereof ? Chap. 5. 5. In that Chrift therefore cometh forth with this Book wide open., we are taught that now again men fhould have powerand liberty given them to know the truth, after a long buriall of it in ignorance , as we know it carne to paffe about that time : For about one and the fame inftant did the Turks begin to prevail in the ERfi : and learned men to rife up in the well who did defend the truthwith boldnefs and freedom of Spirit. But yet this Book which he hath in his hand, is but a little one, as it is called,and that either becaufe there were not fo many Changes of matters in the world remaining unaccomplifhed, but that they might be all contained in a final! volumn,as the words declared in the fat ver.ofthis Chap.There (hall be no long delay oftime any more or rather becaufe theknow- ledge that tho uld be of thefe . matters at this time fhould be flcnder Xx 2 anal
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