398 Çevelation- oftheApocalypfe. C A P,iz.. Paid to afcendup into heaven,verfe t a.Neither is it like,that he whole power was fo great over the nations,lhould h ve both his birth and his death joyned together, without mentioningany notable fart of his,wherin he fhould approvethis great power,that fhe had formerly received. To be takenup to Cod then, is to be placed in the highefl Top of dignity amens men, that is, to be made Empereur. Now he is faid to be takenup,becaufe the Kingdom was not fo much fought for by him, as it was call upon him,whenhe thought ofno.fich matter. He fled from the fnares of his en.mies, by getting himfelf away untohis Father whomhe findeth departing out of this life affoon as he came., And whenhe was once dead , he took poffellìon of all that power ofhis Father,as being heir unto it,under the fhadow whereof the de fired to lie covered whilehis Father lived. Shortly after he is fought out and much longed after, by the fervent delires of he people of Rome,whom the intolerable yoke of the tyranny of Maxentcus did oppreffe, they come and perfwade with him, yea they befeech him that he would notthus liehidden, in a little corner of theworld, bu t would takeupon him the government ofthe whole world,whichwas now offered him. The heavenlyfzgne,andvoice that bad him to doubt nothingof the viftory, was added heretoat the fame time, -to help them in their motion,and to encourage him to hearken to it. How great a force was here,and that fent from God, that takes up, and advanceth a man to the highefi honourr in the world ? He would willingly doubtleffehave reffed himfelf in thofe bounds which his Father left himof France and Brittany, wherein he kept himfelf quiet the five firfl-yeeres, unleffehe had been wrapt.up.from heaven toagreater Empire,then ever he had cafefor in his minder. 6.- And the Womanfled., This is another Event in refpeel of the woman, who fled away prefently after the birthof her male-childe -And this flight of hers is declared by the place whither fhe betook her felf,by that elate which he lived in there,and by the fpace oftime, which fhe continued there. All which things are explained a little morelargely afterwards,from the i 3.verL.Where the continued pro- phecie ofthisflight is let together ;Thefe thingsare herebrieflyfpoken of, as in their proper place,to the end wemight underl}and the more cafily towhat time this flight loth truly belong. The place at the lWil- dernefr, thatis, the Temple that was meafisred,. Chap. i i, i. Where while the poor handful! of the Elei l lurked,there was a meer folitary wildernefs in refpeél of that place,where that Innumerable company fixed, that poffeffed the holy city, and theoutrn t Court.. And
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