$$ 1 evelàtion ortbe Apácalypfe. C P. 19. 'ear oat sf the Mountain mahout hands raigre,andthis kjngdome /hallnt , ie deJTtroyed for ever,neither fha11 it be left to orangep?oplc: D .a.24., He tnentioneth the omnipotency ofGod, in .managing of this king_ dome, bccaufe hee(hall declare himfelfe.to be moll powerful! in de- fcroyinghis enemies, whoBall oppofe themfelves againul this king, 'tome ofhis with all their might. Verf.y.Let to rejoyce,Mndbeglad.In thefe words the Friends ofthe Bride do fcem one toenflame another with fpirituail joy ; let us (fay they) Deck and £et out our felves matt gorge/311{1y for joyof heart, is mien ufe tódo inTriumphs,i flivall'dayes,afd in ä common rejoycing together. And indeed it is a matter to be greatly triumphed in by us that be Gentiles,when we (hall fie our Brethren,that have bin divided. fromtrs for fo many Ages, with fo ruftall-a'divorce, to be now at la(1 ingrafted tógeth'cr With .us,intoone and the fame Body, ofChrift. Of which joy the Prophets havespoken many things magutfically. For the marriage is come. For as the fonner.cdmrning of Chrid was sailed a Marriage, Math.2,2. a.Wherein he joyned the Gentiles to him- felfg,and;called them to come intohis marriage Bed; 63 it [hall be the time of hisanarriagemuch more, when he (hall take the Jewes into his efpeciall loveand acquaintance againe, whowere the firfi that he made love unto. Hereupon it is not without fome good reafon fail in that place of Matthew; as the originali bath it, He made marriages untohis Senne, not one, but more then one,, the former in hisfcrJF e mmtg, the fecund in this calling of the ?elves; And this is more plaine in the Grecke Text ; where the word, for one Marriage, is u- d in. thefibular number. The Latines expreffe any fingular mar- ;iage in a.word of the plural' number. fteirord hi: ii îfehash made herfelfe ready. Both the Siflcrs, both dm gent/1cs'and the lerves, doMake one wife, marrying themfelves unto one and thefame Husband, as Leah and F+ahel were ofold married un- to Jacob. Leah indeed that was the harder favoured, that is, we Gers- tiler, have crept firfl into his mariage Bed, and are become much more fruitfull alto, but the People of the Iewes who are Rahel, of a More choyce and fingular beauty, (hall at length be given unto him, and brought into his Bed,(han alto become a mother of moil goodly ànd amiable Children: Verfe 3. And to her wa&granted.Namely to the:new fpoufc, which was utterly bereaved ofall this comelyarraylong before.Thc Church of the Gentiles was moil gloriousin her fit[!,. original! ; Shce had a cráwne oftwelveffarres to adorne her head withal!, and all the reel of her Body was clothed gorgeoufly, With the Satnns, Chap. t 2. 3.
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