CA r.í8. Akvelation,ofthe Apocaiypfé., 771 and luí}full lawes ; ofwhich fort thole Ships and Ship-men were that are fpoken of, Chap.8. 9. Andall the people thatfleep izzfbbipr, Complut. and the Kings Bible ar d Aretas, reale; Andevery one that fìrleth in ,/hips. The V«slilar, and all that rode ise the Lake. This is further off then the other, but as itfeemeth,it arofe. thence,becaufe the word for Ship in the Greek, is a little Ship or Boat, that is driven with Oars, which is more commonly ufed in lb-earns and rivers. And this interpretation is riot to be quite rejected; cfpecially feeing there is fo great variety Of Copies : and it declat-eth ¡pore plainly, that there is a certain difiribtìtion made here of the generals notion into certaie ranks in particular. Andes-many as traffiek o the Sea.In this lafl-mernber all they are comarhended, who take pairs about Pc piiihDoetrine, that teach it and learn it, that, explain it in their tvritie s, or publi.th it with their preaching,that defend it to their utterrnoît;or that do promote it by any other means; Of which fort the Sacrificing Prieflr are, the Monks:, the Friars, and above all the nett, the lefisits that ;ye in re- gnat at this day, who flick hard to their-tacklings, and fall hard to their rowingwork, beating and bouncing upon this fea with all the power and powder they have, without whofe lufty help,Saint Peters Fifh-boat had flock in the land, .and had rulhed againft the rocks long frnce. And yet thefe tall fellowes,while they ftrivero fcape one dangerous rock fall upon a worfe for all their cunning and blu- tiring coil, making the whores and the Popes filthy,nakednef e,to lie moreopen in the view of all men, by feeking to cover it with tlacix abfurd disputations. Verf. 18. What City Was like to thisgreat one ? Thus do Matiners cry touchingTyrna,Fzech.27.3a.what City Was equal! toTy,rus,th.rt ss cat daWnin the midit ofthe Sea? And.theyhad c,aufe thus to:be afto- nithed at this, and to as k this quction,fecing they confidered of the former wealthineffe of-that city,whichflourifhed erewhiles 1ìy means ofthat entercourfe of merchandize, which it had with fo many and fo great Nations ; fo that they thought it to beunconquerable by any ftrength ofman.What a deal oftroubledid it pucNabrechadnezzar to, Ez.ech. a9. i 8. How great was Alexander the Great pulled in belìeg- ing it afterwards? For he was fo out ofhope to overcome and over- throw it, that he repented that he had begun the liege againft it, and yet he never thought any other thing elfe too hard for him. But thefe Mariners and Watermen (hall be affonifhed far more juftly with marvel MIN
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