CAP . 19. ifItoelation ofthe Apocitypfe= ceflive ioy they conceive, and by means thereof they (hall breake forth into this thankful! acknowledgement ofGodsgoodnes to has Church inPunifhingRome. Hallelara, This is an Hebrue word, fignifying PrRSfè yet ie Lora& whereby the faithful' doprovoke one another to give thankes unto God, and they cheareup their hearts and Tune their fpirits to per- forme this duty in the beP manner,by making this Preface as it were thereunto. True ioy of the Holy Ghofl, will not endure to be kept and Cooped up in any one mans bream and bofome, but it (}rived& to get companions both for the powring out and imparting of it felfe unto them, that they may be filled and refrefbed out ofthis fpring of ioy ; as alto that it felfe may be the more increafed and inflamed by this joint rejoicingofmany good hearts together, that are all bapti, fed intoone Spirit, and are thereby made able one to inflame and to, edifie another. This one word containeth in it a large Theme, co make abundance of ioyfull matter on. But why doth this heavenly Hofi fpeake Hebrareat this time? what is there more holinesin theft Letters and fillables, then in other ? There be the Toyes and de- vicesofour Rhemifh Tranflatours. Are then there and fuch likeHe- brue words as Ofasn,t, Amen, Ab6a and the like retained in the Greeke and other Tranflations, for this end that we might make ufe ofthem tobe figees and remembrances unto us as it were ofourcon- iuntRton with the Holy Church that was in the old Law before Chrifi, namely that wedo both belecve in one and the fameGod arks that we dot call upon him alone ? This is indeed a profitableufe that we may make, ofthefc words thus retained, and a good reafon why' they are retained but it feemeth that the chiefs caufe why they are retained in this place is beeaul1 the Church of theGentiles, (half provoke their brethren the 'ewes, to Embrace the faith of'Chri(t after that Rome fhalbe.once defiroyed feeing that maire impediment Qialbe then taken away, which did moll mightily barre up the way from their converfion. For it was not *Tibia that thepeoplethat crucified the Lord fhould acknowledge him to be their Lord, as long as Rome flourifhed, yea or had any being in, the world, as which was the PIacethatgave them power and authority to crucifle hiu This is the caufe why this Hebraic word is fo often refounded and rungout againe and againe in their place e ThePraifes thatwere g1® ven toGod before in this !awake were notexprcffedin there words; but tieing the coveri on of:rne'ewes is joined next unto this Gratu- lation, the faints donow upon great reafon fpeake in the languageof 61ág a ',11a
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