C.AP.19, . ,ilRe:velationoftbe Apocalypfe. 781 And thefmoke thereofRofe up: That is ,now is Rome delivered up tobe tormented everlaffingly. For everlafling fire and torments are declared by the rifing up for ever more ; by which kindeoffpeech we are taught, that the perpetual! remembrance ofthat punifhtnentfhal 1 healwayes worthily magnifiedofall the Godly, as who should have the figtte thereof,( this ftnoke alwayesafcending (ever and anon ex- pofed to their fight leaft perhaps it might be._buried in forgetfulnes. Here is an allufion made to the everlafling tOrmelats which the wic- ked (hall endure. Therefore this Eternity of the punishment that {hall fall uponRome (hall yeeld a new occafion ofrei ycingttnto the Saints. And that not without great caufe as who (hall now know for a certaine that the infolency of the Curfedwhore, (hall not onely be abated and fuppreffed for the prefent, but alto that none ofthem (hall ever neede to feare it or any harme it can do any more for time tocome, Vert. 4. Andthole foureandtwenty Eldersfell dawn. So much for theThankesgivingof the mixt multitudeofthe faints in private. Now followeth the thankfgiving ofthe Affemblyof the faithfull gathered together folemnely,who (hall openly and Jointly bend their forces to performe this fame duty of praifing God. For this afhem- bly of the Elders and ßeafls fitting together doth referable un- to us the folemne meeting ofthe whole Church together ; Which God the Father accounted to be filch and fo glorious for his Sonnes fàke,as this moil holy and glorious Quire doth reprefent ttntous.And therefore as often as any thing is performed in the nameand with the content of the whole Church it isexprcf ed by this Sacred ferrate of Elders and Living Creatures, as we have (hewed Chapt 3. Such there foreas this is ( halbe the order ofgiving God thankes that the la ft daufe and Epilogues ofthe common TThankfgiving (halbe referved to the Publike congregations, And fo it is pra&ifed by the Church u= fually that the private soy doth alwayes gobefore that which is com- mon and publike. . That is wont to be let on fire with the lea rumour of wifhed re- port. This is not undertaken, but when matters are thoroughly known and approved tobe true Now the "'sure and twentyElders tali down when the Livingcreatúres glue gloryand thanes tinto him that fitteth on the Throne. It belongeth to their funEfion to moderate and governe the whole aOlion in the publike affembly, the Refi ofthe congregation ought to joinedeGres with them, and to teRifie their content unto them by adding their common Suffrage in the end. Ac- Ggggg 3 ... i cording i,°' :: . -.
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