C A P.14. 4 gevelatsonofthe Apacalypfe. 487 the outer Court, which Partition was made in the eleventh Chap- ter , the Holy Chofl therefore is ffitl labouring to lay open the elate of that very fame time more fully, namely of the Church when the lay hid, and Phut up intoffraits, as we have touched at the firft verfe of this Chapter. Verf. a 6. Then he that fate upon the cloud, thrufl in, &r. Here the Execution of the matter is fet down, and the fuccefhe thereof, for the corne fell before the fickleof it own accord, by reafonof the great ripeneße thereo`. The earth was ufually taken before in the worfe parr. In which fignification it may give us notice that thofe men that were before this the inhabitants of the earth, that is, members of the earthly Church, which doth differ as much as can be from the true and heavenly one,are now to be gathered at Jail in this harveft into (heaves ofpure corn, or if ,the harveft be only of the Repro- bates,:fo that thefe only are cut down with the fickle, the meaning of the vifion commeth all to one, but that former interpretation is more naturall; For it teacheth that worthy and profitable Princes fhould rife up atlaff, who upon the perfwafon and incitement of Godly Minifters, fhould gather their fubjects into the true Church, and fhould bring themunto the fincere profèfíion of whelfome do- ârine, out ofAntichriffianfuperftition, and fhould withall d rive the .contrary impiety and the imbracers thereofout of their Coafts.Su ch white clouds as thefe wereSaxony,and many countries in Germany, as MJinia, Flafa,Prufa,with thefree Cities alfo,as,Strausborough, Tygurum,Berne, Geneva,Rfi1, &c. They that fate upon thefe clouds were the Princes, FrederickofSaxony,Maurrcius,Philip Lantgrave, Joachimue BrunfWick, vilberto of Brandenborough, the Senate of Zurich, Strausburg, Berne, Geneva. and the reft. The Angell that came out of the Temple, were Iuflus Ionas, ?hill Melanelon, Ni- ;clams Anss`lorfue4., Johannes Dulcitu who were the firft that fec on and ftirred upFrederickofSaxony to abrogate privateMaße, and to begin a Reformation. Among thefewere ZWinglius, Bucer, Capito, Blaverru and the reft of the Holy men of that time,every one in his place. The fickle that was put into the earth, are the meanes that were made, and the forces that were fet forth by the Princes and Senatours of the Cities for the effec`fing of a Reformation, namely when the Malle was abrogated at Wittenberg in the yeare 1 51 r. When the Idols were taken away, together with the Images and Altars out of the whole dominion of Tygerin, in the yeare 1523. and a few yeares after that when upon a more full reformation, the day
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