4Z vi`*etat n oftheApc calypfe, .0 a P.16. nay would not know their own mifery, made thernfelves matter of fporting and rejoycing with ir. Befides it is evident, that the former Vials do keepe their force ftil], and that they do not vanifh away prefently,_when new ones are brought in upon them. But aboveall envie vexeth themofl,which we Paid to bethe plague of the Sores,as which puts them to greater patine with the beholding of their ene- mies felicity, then with their own deftruelion. Who would looke for any fenfe of the former Sorer, when the grief of beholding the Popes throne laid waßte, did feize upon them. Great therefore is thy force; .O envie and repine. And they repentednot of their'Workes. For this feafir is the Libard, Chapter 13. 2. He cannot change hid skin. But thepower ofGodhad not put forth it (elfe fo greatly long ago, if Pharaoh had repented at the fight of the fikit miracles; So there (hall begreat plottings and tnanyfubtle praecifes, to uphold The Popes ICingdoom° after that his Throreis overturned; and Antichriftian Religion fhall !till be in requelt withthe Papifts that (hall furvive Rome. But let no man be a- fraid of this; The Beat is refcrved, onelyto adorne the triumph of Chrifl and his Church over him. Verf. t 2,.eAnd the fixt Angel poWreedeut.his vial1 upon the great River Euphrates. This River is not either Tyber,or any other block- houfe ofReme, (the deftrucftien wherofwas taught us in the former Viall that went next before ;for why (hould one and the famething being once done, be done againe? ) But it is that which flideth thorough Mefopotamia at the Fait fideof Judea, as we have feene above, Chapter 9.14. Yet this R, ver is put here metaphorically for any impediment ,, by which the paffage into this Country may be flopped. The farmer event ofthis Vigil is the drying up of the Wa- ters-thereof,.as the redSea was dryed up ofoldby meanes ofthe Eaft winds thatblew, and as it was done when the IeWes paffed over Jordan into the Land of Canaan,.Exod. r.. Iofh 3. The end why the 'waters are dryed up,is that the Way ofthe ICin s that come from the rife ofthe S«nnemight beprepared. But who are thefe Kings ? Are they the force Angels of whom we read, Chapter 9. 15. The confi- deration ofthe timewill not fuffer this interpretation to ftand.That Trumpet founded manyyeares ago;this Viallbegan not tobe powree4 out as yet; it followeth after the facking and razingof Home, which flouritheh yet, and which that Trumpet Taw fleurilhing a long time; what then,are they theft Kings ofthe earth and of theWhole World, of whom mention is made .i the 24..verfe of this Chapter. But thefe
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