goz .4' TO'elation ofthe Apocalyple C A P,I9, it were with a goodly garment, came forth abroad, and layd her Celle open to the view ofthcworld. Nowone may be laid to frand inhis clothing, as the Spoufefandeth'et the Kings right hand an Gold of O- pber, Pfal.45.Io. This Angel therefore (hall be forne Citizen of that particularChurch, which (hall Chine forth moll gloriously, by the approbation of the very facred truth, and rest !hall be the naturali daughter ofthat woman that it clothedwith the Saner. We know that there is not the fame purity ofall the particular Churches,vy hich pro- feffe Chrifl, but that one drinketh in more dregges, then another. But this Angel (hall be a member of that moll intire, and moll chaff congregation of all the ref+, which above others (hall Chine with this glorious array .And he is not oneof theconverted Iewes,ofwhont we have begun to fpeak right now,but it is a western Angell,founding an Alarum to a battell againh the 21 eaff, and the falfe'Prophet, that are the Plague and the Bane ofthis part of the world which we inhabite. And it feemeth that all the chiefe flreffe and violenceof this Tali Bat- tell, in the Weft, (hall be turned againh that holy Congregation, Which we Paid right now to (land gliftring in the Sunne. For which caufe a Citizen thereof, (hall make this !nude Alarum rathe r then any otber,and he (hall call therest ofhis brethren inother Churches, to take and toDivide the fpoile as conquerours rather then to ski r- milh,alid to fall to bloody blows for thevieiory;Out ofwhich words thus opened we may in fome fort underhand what that place is,cal- led Armagedon in the Weft, ofwhichmemion is made, Chapt.16. t 6. Namely, that it is forne fírch particular holy Congregation or City, which is to be the place where this battell shall be fought ; For such aplace is that hellof pretron,rfruit, that meantaine fall of holy plea- fure.r, ofwhichGod maketh more account, then of all the deltght- fome things in the world. And it is very likely, that after that Rome (hall beoverthrowne, that the Pope will feate his Chaire againe at Avin,on, (but I know nothing certainly touching this matter, onely I follow my owne conjci ìure ; )but ifhe be feared there what place will he ftraine to overthrowmore gladly,or readily, then his Neigh- bours of Geneva that dwell in the Country of Savo,, who together with their Allobrogicall Genevatingdifcipline, have been a heart- griefe unto him and his Followers for these many yeares together bleffed be God for it, who (hall then beanEye foie, yea an eye and heart Torment untohim and them ? And indeed I will fpeake this boldly, yet without difpraife of any other holy Reforrned Church, laowfoever I know that all who hate Reformation, will malice me for
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