CAP.15. 4 eve1ationofthe Apocalypfe.' 500, nowutterly perifb,fhall come-forth out ofhis holy Churtb,in which he (hall thew himfclfe a revenger, when he (hall punifhall the Re- probates.Now thisfigne isgreat and admirable,becaufeofthechange of things whichwould aftonifh a man withwondringat it, to fee the 73raft and the Dragonovercome and de(lroyed, and everlafling felicity gotten for the Church, as we ¡hall fee in the things that are to be opened feverally. SevenAngels.. Accordingto the cuftome that wassufed in the for- mer Periods. Now thefe Angels are men that be Citizens ofthepure Church, as it appeareth by the placewhence they come forth , and by their apparell, ofwhich we thall fee in their own place. Theodore. Beza exprefffthitbya forcible kindeoffpeech, thofe Angels, but neither is the Article in the Greek, neither were thefe either Peen be- fore, oronce fpoken ofbeforethat the Temple Was opened. They are faid tohave the feven laf%Plagues, becaufe that happy times only remaine when thefe are finned, and fuck as (hall con- tinue, till the endofall things (hall at leafk enfue ; as it is Paid in the next words ; for theyare not called the la¡t, as ifthey were to come a.littlebefore the end, but becaufe the wrathofGod thall be fatisfied by means of thefe, with the utter deftroy ingoftheenemies ofhis Church, who are as it were the boyfferous (formes that diflurbe the peace thereof. They take their beginning together with the feventh Trumpet, a- bout the yeare r 56o. in which regard we fay they are to come, not in refpeet ofthis timeonly wherein we now live. Now he faith, his wrath hathbeen fatisfied, for, it fhall.be fatisfied , becaufe the cer- tainty of the Prophecy makes him to fpeakofthings to come in the timepaff. Verfe 2. AndIfazea it were aglafe Sea mingledwith fire.Hither- to wehave heard in generali ofthe matters that are to be done , and of thofe who are to beagents in the executionof them. Now he tea- cheth us what should be the Gate ofthe holyChurch in themeane while, the mattersand perlons whereofare defcribed, of which is the Sea, that is, thedoirine as before, whofediverfequality hath made a diverfeSea. One Heavenly, fuch as that was, Chapter 4.6. Whichwas altoglafTe and like to Chryfiall, another earthlyturned into blood, andvoide ofallpurity, Chapter 8. Nowwe have a third, w'' isan heavenly one indeed, as the former Verfe(hewed, for this fïgne was feen in heaven. As alfoglafe,fuch as the.firff was, with which thereforeit dothagree innature,however there be force d iffe- rence
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