35° A Peevelatíorì ofthe Apocalypfe. C A P. 11. naturall Citizens.Secondly, . it fhould have thecounterfeit Worjl ippers, dwelling as neer as could be unto the Temple. For they should poi- fare Ierufalem,and the whole Court fhould be theirs; now how neer was the Court joyned to the Temple ? HowBoth it compaffe it round about, Ezech. 4o. 5. How neer fociety is this ? Who durft have condemned the Court as being profane, unleffe the Angel himfelfhad bidden a man fo to do ? And indeed, the event did änfwer to this Prophetic altogether. For in thofe firft times , when thefour Trumpets did blow, what was one Athanafauc tofo great affemblies of Bishops as then were ? Andafterwards,what wasBaf! the (Treat, or Gregory Nazianzene,to the whole Eafl almoft ? If a man would look tonumber, who would not have contemnedone or two,in comparifon of fo great a rabble ? But if a manwould refpeel holinefs, were they not all Bishops ? Did they not all delire to be thought to be valiant Champions.for the truth ? How eafie a thing was is then to be deceived, either with their number, or their neernefs to the true Church ? The fame brag- gingof the Holy city and the eutmof court, may we alto fee in thefe laft Ages, to be ufed againt the Temple. For'thus they babble, and foolifhly prate ; Whar,is not the Church of Rome fcattered far and wide through the whole world ? Have the herefies of the Lutherans ever paired over Sea ? Have they ever feen either Afia, or Africk, orEgypt, or Greece ? Who can doubt whether the Church of Rome be he Holy Catholike Church, whichcan number her. Bishops, by a rn4t certain fucceflion from Peter himfelf ? But let Rome boaft now of her multitude, the more it doth now flourifh,as it hath for a long time done with a great number of Profeffours, the more neer a kin is it to the crouds of people, that tread lerufalem underfeet, and the moreunlike is it to this poor handful!, that lieth hid withinthe Tem- .ple; we fee the patern of a whorifh Church. in this place, that is, furnifhed as much as can be with multitude, and neernefs to the true Church. If thefe things be enough to get the vietory withall , thou -haft got the day (o I, me) with thy troops of citizens, and thine adjoynednee rnefs to the Temple. . But let them look to it, who are carried away, with the name of the Catholike Church, how eafily they may be cozened by this whore, which takes poffef ion of the Holy city, and of the outmofi court,that info veer theTemple ; let them in the nameofGod weigh.the matter in good earneft and diligently , and let them not fuller themfelves to.be gulled with her vainbrags. Let them think, that all thofe feem indeed
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