CA P.11. Açevelationof theApocalypfe. 349 the fame thing that is declared here inother words, when he bids him syseafere thole that WorJbip. Now all the faithful' are faid to worfhip in the Altar,becaufe they place all their hope and affiance in Chriíts death alone ; which kinde offacrifices belong not only to the Tribeof Levi, but a; well to every truly godly one. And this is that only which diffinguifheth a true Chrittian from one that is falte and counterfeit. But it may be thought worthily, that the moil in thefc times, did not fo worlhip God upon the eflltar, when as it is clearly evident by their writings, that many who ought to give light noothers, with all manner of good knowledge, did attribute too much to the works oftheir own chafingand devifìng, and to their own holineffe. 2. But the Court Which is Without the Temple. So read Aretu and Complutenfs ; but certain Copies read, That is Within the Temple; Namely, the Court of the Prieffs, wherein was the Altar of the whole burnt offerings, of which he fpake right now, whichwont to be contained oftentimes under the name of the Temple. And this reading is not to be lightly rejec`fed : For Iohn is not bidden to mete this Court, but ónly theAltar ofthis Court. And, perhaps, it agreeth better with that that followeth, if that inward Court be caff out of doors ; then if that fhould be cart out, which was already without before, But both tend to one, that it is to be had in no reckoning at all, whatfoever is more then thofe three things above- faid, the Temple, the Altar, and theWorshippers. For the Court is given to the Gentiles: That is, to the Chriftans that are fo but in name, andnot this only, but theHoly Citie alto, the which they fhould tread under foot, not by fpoilingand facking it in hoftilemanner, but by frequenting it continually under apretence toWorfbip Gos4-4s it is in Fray I. 12. And that by the fpace of tWo and forty moneths. There things do teach plainly, what fhould be the mate of the falfe Church in the time of thófe Ages wherein the truth fhould lie hid. Firft, it fhould exceed no leffe in number and multitude, then the people that dwelt in 7crufalemof old, and that werewont to converfe in theout-molt Court, did exceed the num.. ber of thole that bare office in the Temple. And it can hardly be ex- preffed howgreat difference was between them. The Company of inhabitants ofthofe that did flock daily to theTemple, was huge, but how fe wwere the Priefts that werewithin (in the mean while) to that innumerable multitude that was without? The fame pro- portion fhould there be of faigned Chriftians, to the true and Z 1 ï naturali
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