G- Ar.iq.. X3 eit ionof'tieApoca ypfe. 469 ofBabylon, verfe $. The third tu. urns the Beau out of his lurking holes, and feti him in the open light, by denouncing an horriblejudge- ment againii 'thofe, Who defpifrng this threatned judgement, do ne- verthele(fe cleave unto hem , verf. 9. to, 11. But yet fceiná the Weak ones are firicken With a' fear at the confadering of thofepains and torments, Which they are compelled to undergJoe, whilefl they return and cleave to the truth, there is a double Confolation ad- japed, one of Iohns, verf 12. aAaother of a voyce that WasPent from Heaven, Whereby the former ù confirmed, verf. 13. And fa the frfi encounter by Word is ended. The fecond skirrnifl, is made by deed, Which is double alfa: AHarvtft and Vintage, for thefur- theringof the harveli, an efltgel is addre/ed With an infirument, verf. 14. And a commandement, verf: r 5. And he falls to his WorkZe, verf. 16. For the vintage, an Angel cometh forthprepared andfur- tti/lied, verf. 17. Receiveth a commandement from another Ansel, verf. 18. And finifheth the bufinef e, verf. 19, and2o. THE EXPOSIT'IOí.' Verf. r.1Hen I looked, and loe a Lambflood. This Propheciebe- ginneth from the timethat the Dragon beingcall out up- on the earth, chafed the Woman into the wilderneffe, Chap. t 2,1 3,&c. Where the Gate of the Church, as the lieth hidden, is móre fully explained according to that more cleareknowledge thereofwhich the feventh Trumpet bringeth, as it hath beenobferved, at the be- ginningof the t a. Chapter. The eleventh Chapter did touch more fhortly the fate of the former times, difpatching, as it were, in one word, the whole remainder of the Prophecie in the fufferings of the twowitneffes, as being the two principals members. But here in this place we have it a little more copiously declared, how mat- tersuood with the whole body in the mean time, both in refpcdt of the fafety of all, and allo in refpedt of the valoroufielfe of Tome of them, by whole happy condudt a joyfull vidtorie is begun. John therefore beginning the matter again from thence, faith, he faW a Lamb (landingupon Mount Sion. This Lamb is Chrifl, the Sonne of God, as it is evident by his correlative in this verfe, the name ofhis Father. He carrieth himfelf like a Lamb all this while, in- during the Dragon and the Beall patiently, and not avenging him- fell of them with that fecuritywherewith he both could and might juifly, in regard oftheir defert ; and yet he lyeth not idle, neglecting P p p 2 the
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