CAP .19. 1 velation oft 7e ApocaIypfe. '70 doth defcribe unto usby an unknown name, yea a name that can not beknown by any creature, becaufe no creature can Poffible findeout by any meanes, the exceeding greatnes of this laf ice and mercy of theLord. Let us therefore adore thisname, which mull needs be kept from the knowledgeofeverycreated underflanding, becaufe of the highnes and incomprehenfiblenes thereof, Onely let us obferve, how things agree together namelyhow the converfion ofthe Imes, Both proceed in like manger from the unfearchable wifdome ofGod, as the ir reic& ion, and the receiving ofthe Gentiles into thir roome, did proceede from the like fuuntaine long ague. Verf. t 3. Andhe was clothed with agarment dipt ix `load. So much for thedefcription ofthe Captain, as he is gathering of his people. Now followeth another manner ofdefcriptionofhim, as he is making warre . Now he takcth this Perlonunto himfelfe, for this caufe, that by fighting in a iufl quarrell, he may not onely puthis people in fe- curity, and let them free from Lease of anyoutward warms, that (halbe madeagain(( them, but alfothat he may make them live hap- pily at hómeby ruling and governing all things.amongfl them, in the tnofl Mil and commodious manner that may be. His refemblancc for this purpofe confifleth, in his bloody cloathing, and his Name That wordof God. Forafter that this converfion of the Iewes (halbe once begun, and there fhalbe fotne happy increafe of the Chriflian Religion for Ionic yearestogether.'Then'fhail there be railed up an exceeding great, and a deadly warre, fuch as never was in any re- cord. The Turks (hall rage as if he Were mad in the EaT the Bea.ft and thefalfeProphet in the Weft, both of them (hall do their worn, even to roote out every footeflep of the Truth; as `Daniel prophe- fyeth evidently touching theTar Chapt. 1 1.44.45. and I s.i I . and Ezech. Chapt.38.and 39. And as it is recordedofthe Beaff and his companion, towards the end of this Chapter. Then (hall Chrifl offer himfelfe to be feene ill this manner, as this portraiture defcri- bet) him, namely arayed in this bloody garment like a warriour that (hall be all over wringing ' m et with the blood ofhis enemies. And this is that time which Efay cometh to foretell,wshen he faith who is this thatcometh oat ofEdom, with red garments from Bozrah f wherefore is ttine appareil red , and thy garments like to him that treadeth in the Wine-preffe; Chapt. 63. I. 2. Very worthily (hall Chrifl be feen fprinkled with the gore bloodof hi flaughtered enc. mies. And in very deed the Iewes (hall then be of more tender and melting hearts, ready to be defoived into teases, fuch as the Prophet defcribeth them, and foretelleth that they (hall be in the Chapters Iiiii a that
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