51z Itevelattonofthe Apoca1ypfe. C A P.15. founded out with a moft fweet Harmony, when the Churches to Il ified their confent to the Holy dotlrine by their writings which were fet forth , and exhibited ro the Ensperóur, as wee chewed, chapter 14. z.'But Clow, after the yeare 1558. there was a far morefweet Confort of muficke to be heard by the increafe that was then made of new confeffions, as the French, Englifb, ehe latter Helvetian.; that of the lore Countries, of Bohemia, and Scotland.. All there conforting, and jumping together among themfelves fo well,rrade moft acceptable and heavenly mufick in the cares of the Godly, but the enemies were made ftark-mad with them and their mufick. Verf.3. And tteylung the fong of Mofes. That is, filcha.trium, phall fong, as Mofes and the Ifraelites fung of old, when they were delivered from the fgyptians,Exod. 15. For this deliverance from out of the jawes of Antichril,fheweth no leffe power and goodnes in Cod towards his people, then that from Pharoh did. It is no mar- vell then, if the fame kinde ofbenefit be magnified by one and the fame Fong prefently before that deliverance out ofthe rëdSea ;it was hard to fay what wouldbecome of the people of ?frael; for though they were fled out ofe/Etrypt,yet they pitched their Tents as yet before the edge of the hill ofHiroth,and they WereperplexedWith feare, being invironedon every fide in that country With the Wildernefe; So at this time the Pope and theEmperour joyned their Chariots together,and were deviling how to bring theProtefants back to their formerbon,. dage,but after that,theSea gave place to.the Proteflants in Germany; when theEmpe.rour was dead,and therby as it weredrownedwith al his Chariots,and the Proteftants fide grew-ftronger by thecomming in of England,Scotland& the Lott :Countries to beof the,tr-ue.Chu rch, nowwas the titne,to fing as Moles did unto the Lord: that he didex- ccedingly excel/ ,he had callthe Horfe andhis Rider into the Sea. And the Song, ofthe Lamb. I think he meaneth that fong, wherof mention was madebefore, Chap t. i4.3. Wherein they do magnifie God the Fatherfor the grace oftheir adoption in C'hrifl. This joy of the heart,which is called a fong by a Metonimy of the.effeet; arifethout of faith in the righteoufneffe of Chrift, that is imputed to us, and the feelingofthat fatherly love wherwithmod loth imbrace us in this. refpeec.Which Song bath been alwayes lung by all the Saints in all times and places,and by name by thofemen who lay hid for the fpace of a thoufand. two hundred and threefcore yeares; Chapter zy, being
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