CAP .13. ROtelation ofthe A4ecalyppe: 44 étrine and fubjeetion. Is it not enough for you toperifh your (elves; unleffe youdo increafeyour condemnation,by dragging others toge- ther with your (elves into the famedeftru:tion ? But let nogodly man beoffended, if he (hall feeReprobates run back again after their Beaff;the H,Ghofthath told that this loaditone will draw this dr-offe tohimfelfe, and let him not marvel' hez eafter, that all thofe whoare wicked in their life are more prone to follow the Pope then the truth. Of that Lambe Which Wasflainefrom the beginning ofthe World. Aretas doth without caufe thinke that thefe words are diforderly tranfpofed, r will have the meaningof them tobe this, wholenames are not Writtenfrö the beginning ofthe World in the book.ofthe Lamb that Wasflaine. He will have their names to have beenwritten from the beginningofthe world,buthe willnot have the Lamb thin frotta that time. But it is not well done ofhim to dillinguifiachofe things which the Holy Giaoft joyneth together. For ifthe Lambe be from the beginning oftheworld , it tuft needs bealfo that he was thine from the beginningofthe world. For Chrift is no Lambe , but that he might be made a Sacrifice , anda Sacrifice cannot be otherwife made,but by death.Even as therefore he is deftinatedby theeteernall decree of God to be a Lambe for the faving of theelee`t, fo was he flaine by the fame decree from before the beginning of the world ; the efficacy whereof did no leffeavaile to deliver the Elea , before his death wasaccomplished in the flefh, then it did after he had fuf- fered death on the croffe, and in the grave. Verfe 9. He that bath anBare, let himheare. This is anacclamato- ryconclufion,the meanning wherofis,that this Beaff is to be fearch- ed intowithall diligence, that hemay be known ; howfoever there are many who will not hearken, and who are fo perverfe, that they will deny a matter that is more deer then the Sun at noon day. But all you that be Elea, markwhat I fay, and look to your felves, and with all your pofliible endeavour flye from this pefgilent Beat as whom you have here fet beforeyour eyes,eafie tobe difcriedby thefe marks which I have let down, not as it wereby his clawes, but by the full portraitureof his whole body. a o. If any man leade into Captivity. Thefewords belong to the comforting ofthegodly,who were toenter combate with this inon- fter. The hrft confolation istakenfrom the.certainty ofthat venge- ance that fliall be taken upon him in the time appointed ; and this is the meaning of it in plainer words, that although they fhould fee the $eafi prevailing powerfully for a long time , and leading Mmm 2 many
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