5522. ARervelation oftheApocalypfe. CAP.l6. Thréne, as afterwards, Chap.t9 .S. The difference is this, that the voyce cometh out of theThrone,when it proceeds as it were immedi- ately from cod, out ofthe Temple, when any thing is Obtained by the prayers of the Saints,to whom the office ofcommanding is here given, that we might know what force faithful! prayers have, which fhould be as it were the firft moverF,and the principali Agents in the matter that was to be done,they do fo boldly command the bnfineff to be Pet upon. And indeed it could not be, but that fuch men as God had inlightned with fo great knowledge ofhis truth, fhould thus drive with all their might by prayers. to God, that hee would with all poflible fpeed deffroy efFntichriff. Areta.c reades not the words ont of the Temple, but all our copies, asalto the vul- gar do withone content read it thus, and it is wont to be (hewed in . other places, whence the voice cometh. They to Whom the vojce co- . meth,are the (even efingels; But what need is thereof this,will tome fay, Peeing they were longfince appointed, and furnifhed unto this Office with all neceflaries ; in the former Chapter ? They flood indeed at the Barriers and Lifts, prepared, and looking for their figne to make onfet; But theremuff come a fpeciall commandment unto the General!, if a man delire tohave an authenticall Commiflì- on towarrant him in the doing ofa matter. This is that therefore which they ex ec4, íhewing hereby that they will not fir, no not the breadth ofa finger without Gods beck andprovidence,by whiéh all things are governed. Now the commandment tends to this end, that they fhould go, and pour out, their Vials upon the earth. But tome ofthem are poured upon the Seit, the Floods, the Sun, the eA7re;it is true,and yet the force ofthem al rebounds upon the earth. The reff of the Elements are not changed, but to the end that the earth might be changed by them, it being as it were the common wafhpot whereinto all the liquor is poured. Why then, how can this be proper to the fir(( vial, as it is in the next verfe,which is com- mon to them all ? We flail fee in the particular expofitions,that the firft belongs without difference to the confuted multitude of thofe that inhabite this earth, whereas the ref belong to force certain kinds that areof fpeciall note. Verfe 2. And thefrt Went andpouredout his viali uponearth. So muchfor the commandment ; now the particular execution is fet up- on ; where the worke that is effeled, is thepowring out of a vial up- on the earth. Which words are not to be taken properly. For a Viallis not any material! flagon, neither is it full ofmaterial! liquor, bat of the Wrathof God, alt it is werfe y. of the former Chapter. Neither
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