784 Zevelatmn ofthe Apocalypfe. CA P.19 cording to this calm=here are onely two words relatedofthe whole publike thankfgiving; Amen,Hallenia;As if that former word were fet here to exprelfe the confect of the Elders, and as ifthis Latter word were placed here in this order, to be the efe& ofthe whole Thankes which the L,virg creatures, do conceive in their prayer. But this order bath been declated more Chapt. 4. Whence we may fee that the fame order ought to be underflood in this place, which is pointed onely at this times. But we may here obferve that the !aft Songs oldie Church ( halbe onely Songs ofpraife and thanksgiving, which found forth nothing but Halleluia. Even as the booke of the Pfalrnes,ïs (hut up with HymnesofLauding God. that begin and end withHalle/Ma, It did ofold fing many doleful( Songs, and Hymnes ofa mixt kinde, as occalion was given, but the lad atl and (hutting up ofall things here, (halbe a moll ioyfidl triumph. And thus we have thefnnerallofthe Cite ofRome de(cribeti,and thefe be the Ia 1 ob- fequies and funeral! fácriflces, wherewith her fünerall ( halbe celebra- ted. The day and the yearecan not be fed down certainly, wherein thefe folemnitics (halbe kept; yet Ifuppofe it ro be creare out of o- ther Scriptures, that the furthett day that they (hall be deferred at the Iongeft isnot beyond threefcore yeares.The fixteenthChap,hath taught us, that Euphrates is to be dried up, prefently after the Viall (halbepouredonthe Throne, that is, that the lerves are converted after that Rome (halbe thrown down, Now otherplaces feeme to confirme that the firfl calling ofthe Iewes ( halbe about the yeare 165o. But it is uncertaine, how lung a time beforethatRome (halbe dellroyed, it is likely that it fhall be but a very little, while ; feting the calling of the new People followeth it immediatly, and as it were at the heeles We have feene hitherto how farrethe Vials have proceeded ?The next Viallista bepoured ont uponthe Suture, which is the thing that is to be ''eatpe6ed now every day; with the heate whereof, when Rome (hall be warmed well till it be waxed hot againe by lying in the Sunne for force long time, it (hall draw neere to the Flame of fire, which the fifthVail (hall bring, wherewith it fhall be all on fire, and then the Throne (halbe defaced, and the faints have this rrsatterofreioycing made ready for them, that is here Ipokcn of. Whatmeanel} thou then Rome to be keeping of a merry Iubilee at this time, when as thou hulamore caufe tohoe and provide again(} thy funerallcone ? In ve- ry deed within the fpace of one Iubilce, that is, about fifty yeares hence, thou {halt make a Iubilee, not fo much for thy felfe tobe mer- ry in, as for all gods faints that (hall be thenliving, whom the fight
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