4111=11 ,,1 IZevei4tion ofthe Apocalypfe. CAP.15'. bring the end with them, the inflruments whereofare Paid in this \'erfe to havethefeven lafplagues, and therefore they are nectifari- ly proper to the fameTrumpet. But ifthe f rfl Vcall fhould anfwer to the fret Trumpet, and fo the reft that follow in-order, fo that each of them fhould belong to the fame time to which the Trumpet be- longs that is joyned with it, there were no reafon why they should be called the laft plagues. But it cannot be fo by anymeans, fpecially Peeing the firft Viall bringeth an evill upon the nmen, who had the Markofthe Beafl fet upon them,Chap. a 6, i,2.Which wehave Peen to be the invention not ofthefirft Beafl, but ofthe ad; Chap. a 3. r6. The birth-day whereof fell into the fifth Trumpet. And yet by this reafon the Charaftermull needs go before all the Trumpets, the firft whereof, should not fo much fitthe Mark upon men,as it tnould vex them who were marked with it before. Betides the triumphallFong of the Saints isfang in this Chapter, becaufe ofthe vi Cory that was . gottenofthe Beaft, beforethe Vials be once prepared , or the e/In- gels let themfelves to their officeofpowring them out, Verfe a. But the Beafl dieth not under thefirft Trumpet, but is borne, and from thence he flourifheth unto the Harveft and the Vintage, Chai ter rq., And to the time till the t*o Prophets /ball rife againefrom the dead, Chap. a a. a r.Which we have chewed to have hapned about the end of the lìxt Trumpet. I but (will tome fay) there is great likeneffe be- tween the Trumpets andVials. There is indeed (.I anfwer) but filch as tends only tothis,that we may know, that men arepunithed by the famedegrees andfootfieps by Which theyfinned. But they Jiff, r,both in the time & in the kind ofthepuniJhment, feeing the Vials arepunifb_ means only, but the Trumpets are Sinnes alfo. It is manifeft there- fore, that this whole (pace oftime from john to the comming ofthe Lord, is divided into three Periodsoftime, and that each ofthofe Periods is again divided into (even members, fo as the firft metnber of that Period which followeth, beginne th under the laff member of the former, that is fo; that as the feven Trumpets have their Originali from out of the la.ft Seale, fo thefeven Vials have their of-fpring out of the leTrumpet. Which manner ofdiftributing the time makes this prophetic tobe eafte ut,Ito us, and to go currant- ly on to our underl'tandïng, which otherwife would not be able to be unfolded. In heaven. That ís,in the purer Church. For as theLord was wont ofold to roar out ofSion, and toputforthhis voiceout of2erufalem, Amos 1,2. So the evils with whichall theChurches enemies fhould now
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