CAP. 19. AevelatienoftheApocalypfe.. 7 85 and newes of thy Doomefday (hall fill withunfpeakeableioy and glee. Is this then a time for thee to be nowgiving thy feite to furfet- ing and Drunkennes with Bahhafar, whenCyrus befeigeth the walls ofthy Citty, and is evennow entred within the Channall of En- ?braes that(halbe drained for the purpofe ? I know that the watch word that an heretickegiveth thee as thou callefl hits, is made no reckoning ofby thee, but yet looke more ferioufly upon the man or upon the matter it lelfe rather,ifmalice will fuffer thee, leafs perhaps he whom thou countefl as anhereticke thou finde him too late to be a true Prophet; yet if thou be fo obdurate and feared up that thou fcornefl my voice, let thofe poore remainders offaints which lie lur- king within thee if there be any, confider what I fay ; o You Elea ones; to you I fpeake awake you that have been fo long a fleepe, get you away from hence, makeall things ready that you may flie away in all hait, you have been lying too too long in the Dennes of Sodom, a fhower of brimflone is ready to fall upon it flraight wayes t,nleffe you convey your felves hence forthwith, you can not efcape deflruaion, give care to the Holy Gholt, who wouldhave you to be fairely warned by this muff holy booke of the Revelation. What meane you to let your faith hang upon that crue of purple Cardinals, that are the Bawdes ofthe Purple, who -T, whole Eyes God bath blinded up in his iu11 iudgetnent ? Ifye will fuffer this warning ofinine to take place with you, you (hall indeed much refrelh the minds ofyour brethren whole delire is to have you laved, but you !hall have the fruite thereofyour felves, even the falvation bothof your Soules and ofyour Bodies. Vert 5. Then came avoice out ofthe Throne. Tliùs fa rre proeee- deth thefifthgall, mow the fàxth cometh to be handled. For this ex-- hortation flirreth upmen to praife God for a new matter, and not fen-the/all ofBabylen; For to what end ílaould therebe a new corn- ' mandement, and a new triumph made a frefh touching this matter ? Now therefore wee are tat et, how the waters of Euphrates Jhalhe dried rip, and this was that which followed next after the overthrow of the Throne. Chaps. 1.6. r 2. Hence we learne that that great river is to be turned into dry land, to helpe forward the folemnizingofthe Marriage, that theremight be nothing tohinder the Martiage-guels or the new Bride rather. as it is plainly avouched verfe. y. Its thofc words, 6etaufe the marriage of the Lambe is come; which was the reaf)n why we have interpreted that fxh Viall to declare the 6.1-- ling of the levees. Firft therefore wehave tie efficient cau( ofthis cal ngprop3unded, in thole words, avoice coming out of the Thros:e. W. ich
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