474 A revelation ofthe A.pecalypfe. C A P.14. row prifon, while thefe other triumphed in the mean time in the outward and larger court, Chapt. i t. z. Who could not, or rather would not conceive what the SaintsfangWithin, but they made a noifewith a kindeof baftardly mingle-mangle mufick, lauding God for their adoption; but yet fuck as was obtained partly by Chrifi. partlyby their own ftrength, declaring whence they come by this their Shibboleth, Judg.' i a. 9. They fhould be therefore very few for a certaine time, who fhould fing this Fong in refpeft of the i eft of the multitude; yet after that Antichrift fhould begin to Ian- gun by little and little about the end ofthefe yeares, the number of the faithfull fhould enereafe fo greatly every day, that it fhould not be able to be numbred at length, Chapt. 7.9. So much for the joy of the Holy CJhot ; their Holinefe is defcribed in the rely of the words, and fiat that they are boughtfrom theearth, that is, they arepulled byGods power from out of the falte and hypocriticall Church, as it were out of the middeft of the flame, which is the ufuall fignification of the Earth in this Book. Vert. 4. Thefe are the) Who are not defiled WithWomen. Aretas . faith well, that thefewords are not fpokenin the difpraife of Mar- riage. For what defilement can there be in ir, when the bed is unde- filed, Heb. 13.4. What,was this a band ofBatchelors,andof Priefts onely?' Why, the Levites themfelves were not forbidden to marry, neither is this companyhere made, of theTribe ofLevi onely,ehap. 7.4. &c. Certainly Chriftian Prielis didnot want wives, till Hil- debrand opened a window to Sodomitry, leali that his Clergy fhould be defiled with chafie Marriage. But there was no man perhaps, among this company, who was tainted with this blot ofunlawfull companying withWomen, or was fubjec1 to it by the infirmity of the fiefh. But what, (hall we think that repentance did fo grow out of rifeafter Chrifis time,which had filch power to cleanfe the foule before he tookeour flefh upon him? Wherefore it cannot be, that Women fhould be taken properly in this place,but to be defiled With Women is all one,with to Wor/hip Idols; for which we know, that to _ea a Whoring is commonly put in the Scriptures; as, they Went a Whoring after their Qods,Exod.34.14. And inEzechiel,thou haft played the Whore, With theSons ofefEgypt,that is, thou haft worthipped the Gods of the Egyptians, and fo inmany o- ther places; according to which rule, to be defiled With Woman, is the fame with, not toWorfhip the gods of Woman. What are thefe women then?they are theLaeuJti,the people ofthe Angel ofthe botromlespir,the army
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