771 A1tèWtätt oftlie.Apocalypfe. Ç A y mifery and diareffe have been.greateft,becaufe the where hath burnt out with more deadly hatred againft them, then againft any other ofmen. Out of which we perceive , that which we fpake of before,. that feeing this joy is common to all the Elea, that thofe mourning Merchants , fpoken of, verle i i. arc not among this bleffed company, and therefore that they are called Mer- chants rather beca.ife they refemble them, thenbecaufe they are filch in truth. For God bath uni,(hed her. The Hebrew manner of fpeaking which is eapreffed in the Greek is more fignifrcatit ; according to which, the words go thus, Receufe God hath lodged your lodge- ment upon her; This kinde of fpecch fignifieth puri(hment, hut fuch as is not inflicted rafhly, but upon juif and lawful! exa- mination, conviátion and jádgeMent going before. This is the matter of their .jcy, that God would avenge the quarrel! of the Saints, at length, and wreck his anger of the whore for their fakes ,. as which hath raged with all kinde of in juries against them in a diveliGh fpight for fo many Ages, and yet bath carried all this away fcotfree all this while. Verfe z I. Then a mighty- Angell took, sep. Hitherto the ruin of Rome hath been declared by words alone; now there is a figne ufed together withwords, by which it might be taught , that it fha!l be fuddain, and eternal!. Now this is done by the Miniftery of a cer- tain third. Angel, ofwhom it is not fpoken whence he cometh ; per- haps becaufe it is that farfta Angel ,whofe place out ofwhich he came, is declared,verfe. r. Who is now brought in again, to performe that very fame thing, which he made Proclamationof before, that it was tobe done traight-wayes.For unlefs this caging ofthe lil fl°one into the'Sea be theve ry overthrowing of ome, it is. not at all defcribed after what manner it !hall be performed,. Forwe !hail underffand that the matter is difpatched in the beginning of the next Chapter: And the former Angels went before this Ruine force !scale fpace of time,wherfore either now is the overthrowof Rome fpoken ofin thefe words,or elfit is altogether buried in faience how it is to bewrought, ThereWas a Mill-ionecafe into the Sea. This is a convenient figae to declare the manner ofRomes fall, as the callingof a burning mountain into the. Sea,. was the beginning of Antichrifts Tyranny, Chap.8.8. gut the matter is yet hard tobe known ; It Thall be made manifeff a:t lark by the Event. This Angel is laid ro be firong, taking up aaolie like: uaxQa 411- ftone, and cafting it out ofhis hands into the
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