538 AWervelatio,z ofthe Apocalyple. C A P.16, wherewith he and his followers fhall be driven at length to fo great diftemper, as that they fhall fret and gnafh their teeth again the d'un, that hath laid his hideous andugly hue open to the view ofall men, fo that he himfeff cannot endure tobehold it, Wherefore I am to exhort and toprovoke you (O ye godly learned men wherefoe- ver ) whom God bath adorned with a fingular faculty above the reft to fee cleerly into the truth, and to cattle it to be Teen cicerly of others, that you would beftow your uttermoft labours upon fo worthy a work for theufe of the Church. You hear what aglorious viftoryand triumph God hath referved for therelaft times. It is a great commendation for our Anceftourt, that they were the firft that unmasked Antichriii, there shall be no leffe honour abiding for rhem,who !hall be the means of hifling and driving himquite from the fiage. Yea they do chiefly carry away the Garland, and win the Spurres, that make an end ofthe batten. This is the onely combat that remains, as it Teemed, for learned men to make, which lhould ftir them up the more to Rudy and labour hard. That which remains to be done after this,fhall be difpatched with fire and fivord, not withpen and Inke. And he had power given him to afflifl men With heat by fire, The firft event afflifteth men with heat, but what kinde ofmen?Why is there nothing added here, as the marke of the ?jeafh, or force filch thing, that fo we might know to what company this plague belongs? What, fhall others alfo,befides the houfhold fervants of Antichril be burnt up With this Sun ? Truly fo it feemeth. The Hypocrites, and all the !rat that are not truly Religious, whatfoever Religion they profeffe,cannot brook ir, to have their fins laid open,convinced and reproved with the lightfome truth of God, fo that it lhould be no marvell,ifmany other earthly minded men alto, who are not of the Popilh Religion,thould be fore troubled with the fcorching heat of the Sun. But the words of the next verfe ( that bath polder over theftplagues ) feem to belong to the men whofelt the former fcour- ges alfo,as we have Paid. But why are the next words (6y fire) added, feeing the verb to fcorch Both exprefs the burning heat of the Sun fufficiently?Namely, that we may know that the heat wherewith theyThall boile,fhall not be heavenly,but earthly, fuch as that ofthefire is; that is to fay, emu,. lation,ftrife,and all bitter affeftions ofthe heart. For this ire here is metaphoricall,which may make it plain,that this is no propper Sun, as which loth not worke by his own,but by anothers force. Such
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