CAP . i l . dRevelationofthe Apocalypfe. 3 $ 5 the danger fhall be, the morelhall his honour Thine out in delivering of his people. As touching the vengeancethat is begun,which is the fecond thing, and that hoted out in thefe words ( and thy WrathAd come) that comprehendeth the ftun ofthe Vials,which are therefore called the laft plagues,as t !hall (hew in the proper place. The fill rewarding , and firít of the good, as great as can be had on earth, is exp.refled in thefe words, and the timeofthe dead, that they may iudged. Which belong to the /al/et that are ftrangers from Chrift as yet, and therefore void offalvation, and truly dead; but they fhall be judged at Taft, and lhaI1 be brought to the knoWledke, andacknoW- ledging ofthe truth. And I have taken this interpretation from out of Daniel, Ezechiel, and other places of this Prophecy that follow, which how great moment it is of, it lhall appear afterward more evi-- dently.TheawardinZ ofpunilhment to the WicíZed,is let down in the Taft words of the verfe, and that thoumighteft deftroy them that deftroy the earth : Thatis,the Pope and the Turk, with all their complices and adherents, which are the mighty fpoilers of the whole world to this day. And thus we have a brief fummingup ofmatterithat are tö be opened afterwards more plentifully. 19 Then the temple Was opened. Therefore it was Phut before, name- ly,when it was meafured,in the beginning of this Chapter;and when the Eteet Werepaled ; But now it fhould be opened, and fhould not be any longer ufed to receive a fewofthe faithfull within it, but !!tóuld lie open to the innumerable multitude ofthe Saints. And i was not the Temple onely that fhouldbe opened,but theHoly of Ho- lies alto, wherein the Ark of the Covenant Wasfet; The high Prieft onelywas to enter by right into this molt holyplace inold time,and that onceonely by the yeer. Now it fhould be a like common for all the Saints togo into,feeing now all the myfteries of falvation were made fo plain, familiar andmanifelt unto every one, as they wereof old to the learned, whole whole ftudy was fpent in them. And who is there,but one that is altogether envious andunthankful, whowill not acknowledge,that moft richand abundant encreafe that hath ac- crued to the truth,in thefe laft times, from the yeer 1558. wherein the feventh Trumpet blew. The dodtrineofthe truth hath been illustrated withmort heads, hath been more exaftly alto and diftinetly known aad-delivered,then vt,is to be feen in many Ages that have been in times paft. And I do not (peak this for oftentation fake, but to magnifie the goodnefs of God,and to demonftrate the truth of this Prophecy. Certainly God bath
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