C A P.13. 10 ,elation ofthe Apocalypfe. 455 to ftablifherrours andLyes, for whatfoever tends to the commen- ding ofany thing whatfoever, that is contrariant and repugnanr to the moftholy truth of the Scriptures, that is a lying Wonder ; how greatly foever it is to be wondered at even to aftonil ment, and it is permitted by God to be done, but CO try the elect, and to make the wicked like fools, and men bewitched, whom God giveth over in his juft judgement, that they fhouldbeleeve a Lye, becaufe they Would not receive the love of the truth, 2 Theft: z. i o, i i. By which rude which cannot deceive us, if all thofe apparitionsbe examined,which are faid to have been made at Spandavia, and Birtinum, and in other places ofGermany in the year 1594. thofe glorious Angels of the Devils (hall be foundout to have been transformed into Angels of light, z Cor. t i. 14. Let it be true therekorewhich the Papifts brag oftheir miracles. Let all be fo done in very deed, which is fet forth in writing by their Legendaries; yet whiift that all thefe miracles ferve to noother end but to feduce men from the Truth, and to d raw them to errours and fuperf}itions, they are but wicked and lying . miracles, wholy of the fame kinde ofwhich this fire here fpokenof is, which the Beaft..draweth down fromHeaven. Saying to the Inhabitants of the earth, that they fhould make the Imageof the Beafi. 7hefe words in the Greek may be referred to the Beat himfelf, as if he ihould fay, faying to them that dwell on the earth, that hehad made the Image of th; Beafi, &c. as if he did here give a reafön of doinghis wonderfull works, teaching that he had done all to this purpofe, that the ancient Image of the Beaft fhould live again. Or elfe they may be referred to the People, as all the Interpreters do tranflate them, faying to thoe that dstell on the earth, that they Amid make, 6c. As if the infinitive mood in the Greekwere turned into theSubjunctive, with a Conjunctionbefore it, £tic. And indeed this is the end ofall thefe miracles, that the fir Beat may be advanced into honour among men; it being in the po- wer ofthe People tomake this Image; for unleffe.they bring honour tinto the Beaft, heshould gowithout it at all. Now it is faid in the Greek,tomalle the Image to the Beaft in the third cafe, not of the Keaft; the differencebetween thefe two is this, that he maketh the Image of a man, who doth either for gain or for delight, frame and fafhon an Image, as doth the Painter, or ftatue.-maker; but he isfaid to makean7mage to a man, who doth caufe it to be fafhioned to gratifie or to honour himwith it. But this Image is not any colou- red picture, or anymateriall Rattle; for all men mat .be¡lain that Will not
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