4za ADvelatiaZoftheA.pócalypfe. C AP.14. day and yeare ofthe abolilhingof that füperfiitiotts ReligionofPo. pay, Were Written inletters ofGold upon Pillars ix thefameplace. At which time the reapers in all thefe places above naméd, fell ftoutly to their reforming work, whilft each of them ftrove, who fhould be moft forward in cutting down the wicked fuperititions, and in plucking up the Tares by the roores, which did before fo do- mineer,and grew fo rank throughout the whole field, that aman man could not fee a whit of good corn for them. This Hairveii was happily begun about the yeare 152r. and was more and More fer- vently laboured in, for the fpace often whole yeares immediately after thebeginning of it, which followed ftraight after that Luther had broken theyce with his Sermons, by meansof which he wasne- ceffirilp forced for feareof=Cefars profecution,to hide himfeif in lc- act a little before this Reformation was fer upon. While he there- fore kept dole, another Annell tooke that Office unto himfeifof ex.. horting him thatfat upon the Cloud, to put his fickle into the earth by abrogating Idolatry,andgathering the Saints togetheras it were in- to the Sheaves ofHoly congregations, as we have expounded it be- fore. And this is not a likely and probable allufion, but fuch an ap- plication, as the refpeet ofthe prefenttinie Both require neceifarily. The Church did till now ly hidden within the Temple, as it is mini- kit by the Angels, whocome out thence. But about the endof the time that is calculated to be a thoufand two hundred and threefcore yeares,this Harve$ and vintage here fpoken of fhould be made, which have fo hindmoft a place given them in this Prophecie,becaufe things alfofbould be accomplifhed in their due time, after that all theother former things were finifhed : now all thefe things doe moft fitly agree to thatApplication,which I have made,neither (hall any man, withall his fearching finde either other Angels, or any o- ther harveft allo then thefe, tomake every thing correfpondent to ie f if neceffarily. Verf, 17. Andanother Anell. So much for the Harveft, thevin- tage followeth, as it°doth commonly after the harveft. But this is of wicked men, as that is of the Godly. For the Saints are compared righrly ro wheat and good corn,which be moll profitable and recef- fary thingf, and which do al1'o referable the foundi,elfe of good mens hearts by the folidneffe and fubftantialneffe of their fruit; by means whereof they are offar moreprofitable ufe, than many other that are ofa more gallant andmagnificall í(hew;But the full and fwelling de- licioafneffe of the Grapes lothmolt fitly declà''r the'pr font felicity of
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