C A P.14..Af'îevelatiol ofthe Apocalypse. 4t 8 , Verfe r i. Andthefmoakof the torment. Thefe words do teach the eternity of the puniflament; for the f soak of their tormentfhrrll be everlaftinfz. Now frnoak is here put for fire,whereof it is a token. It is here uféd,to teach the worfhippers of the Beaff, not only that they are to be tormented eternally,but alto that their torment tha11 never be hidden from the Saints, who fhallalwayes fee the fmoak there- of at leaft. In thathe faith, They (ball never have reff day nornight ; thereby he fheweth that their torment (hall be continually without intermit= "lion as well as everlafting. The former part of the Propofition is re- peated again 'in the end to put more vehemencie to the Speech; where he onlymentioneth the Charallerofthe Buffs name ; becaufe this Enfign is co:nmon not to them only which are branded in the forehead, but to them altowho are branded in the hand. Confider therefore diligently, Óyee Popifh people ! What a horriblepunifhment waiteth for yon, unleffe you Will makea revolt from the Pope ofRome. Thefe flinging wordsof Mar.Luther,came not from a man,and from provoked adverfary, but they are fuch as theHoly Ghoff put into his minde and mouth ; you fee he was a man lent out from the Tents of Chrift himfelf. And think not that thefeThreatnings aredead and gone together with him, but rather let them be continually founding in and about your ears : for they live at this day, and ihail keep their efficacie no le%for ever,then when they were firft fpoken.By which they do denounce everladting damnation to every one, that doth Rill perfift towort-hip that Remi/h Idol. Yea fo mucti, the more grie- vous punifhmentis prepared for Papi/s that livedbftinately in their Popifb impiety at this day, by howmuch moremanifettly the Abomi- nations ofthat Sea have been difeovered; Let every one hearken that hash a careof eternal! falvation. Verf. i 2. Here is thepatience of Saints. Thefe are words ofConfo- latior, which the Angel ddeth to Phut up his fpeech therewith as with a concluding Epilogue; And yet they may be the words of lohn, joyn'ng to the former fpeeches thefe words of the Angels, as an ac- clamatory conclution according to his cuftome. But it little mat- ters whole words they be ofthe two. It is a defeélive fpeech, for here is a triallof the patience ofSaints, here is the triall of them that obferve godscomma: dements. For now it íhould be manifeft, who be indued with true patience, andwho they be that do exercife.themfelves in the duties of unfeigned godlineffe. Anticrbiff fhould bemade fo ftarkmad with the preaching ofLuther, R r r that
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