ev 1attimnofthe Apocalypfe. CAP,l ;. .ace in the quality of either of them. For in the roomeof that Chry all; fire is mingled in this place , for he faith it It.&_aglageSea N°síngled rurthfire, That firft therefore was tranfparent ac gla(p, and molt fimple,vuici ofall coleagas Chryfall is. This other here is trans fparent'affoas glaíí'c', butit is colouredwith a fiery redneffe, and not fhiningwith the fimplieityof Ghrgall. Now what other thing can fire lignifie but brabbles and contentious burning and boiling, with mutuall hatred ofone againft another ? Icame to bringfire upon the earth, faith Chrift, And what do I defirebut that it may be kindled ? Luke 2'.4y. The heavenly truth then ofthe laft Period fhould have this infeparable companion joyned with it. The doctrine should beglare and tranfparent, through which we might behold the loving & favourable countenanceof the Father in Chrift jefus, andyet it wasnot pure on every fide like Chrifall,but coloured with the fireof contention, The which thing indeed all the good men doe to their great griefe finde by expérience to be too true at this day. That unhappy contention about the Sacramentall Signes, howgreat troubles hath it raifed in the Church , which yet was notcontent by it felfe alone to make aburly burly every where, and toturneall topfìe turveya but it muff ado likean unluckie Crow hatch forth anotherevil!, like an' unluckie egge,' even that Monfter of Vbiquity, the like whereof huh not beenken or heard of. The fparks ofthis fire werecart into the See by Luther himfclfe,but they were quenched againe, partly by his owner partly by Mejantlons and other mens modeÉ3cy andpiety, who have deferved wall ofthe Church, But at laft Io13n Brentius, and Andreas did with great pains & indeavour kindle it again,as it were with bellowes, about the year a i 6E .Neither was there (titresand strife raifed about thefe heads of doctrine only, but ado about thevraee ofGod, about Predeflination, Raptifine, and others, as it commonly fats out,feeing an errour never goeth alone,and without force others to accompany it. TheChurch. es webare further remote from the confuming,that this fire made,do burn out withanother no leffefcorching flame of ambition, whence it commeth topaffe, that there are hot and fiercecontentionskind- led about earthly dignities and honours which Church-men claime and hunt after for themfelves, as if they were the Ornaments that -make to the being of the Church, and muff therefore bee flood for with might and amine. Though the, purer Ages of the Church doe teach us fufficiently, that there was never any thing that hath brought more certaine alfchicte alair undoing unto it It
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