CAP .19. ARevelation o f theApocalypfe. 2o' for fpeaking fo,the Sunneofthis part oftheWorld where we liveShi- neth in and from that lisle place; and Iam lure there is no godly heart, that will not earnetfly Rrive with God by prayer,thatthis Sun may aiwayes thine there and breake out thence into all the World more and morebrightly, Neither let my repeated admonition be fir perfluous which thou haft, leaf! another take away thy Crown. In the meanne time our hearty prayers (hall not be wanting unto the Lord for thee, that the Sunne of righteoufnes may alwayesthine upon, thee and drive far away all darkenelfe. Saying to allthefoules which ¿ld f ie by the midff ofheavenWe have obferved before, Chapt, 8.13.and r4.6.That the word in the Greeke tranflated, the middle ofheaven, fignifieth place between heaven and earth, as it were the niidle Region ofthe Aire where Meteors are in- gendred, and that it doth not fignifie the middeftafheaven in the lengthof it, which the Afronemers call C Aterides, the pointwhere the Sunne is at Noone -day and therefore that this word ferveth to decy- pher out unto us, the imperfeaion, and the impure Purity of thole then; who'have efcaped out ofthe horrible filthineffe ofgroffe fuper- fiition, by the knowledgeandacknowledgingofthe truth, and yet they have not attained to loch Purity, as was meete for thefe that dwell in heaven.The Angellofthe SuncaIleth all thefe to take part in dividing the fpoile, aswho are all ofthem the Schollers and folter-children of the fame truth, howfoever it flourifheth not a like among them all, in equall fan&vuony, and integrity. Out of which we underfiand, that howfoever one or two, or Tomefewof the congregations, fhaii profelfc and praaife (ìncere piety, at the time when this warre fhalbe waged with the Beafl, yet the moll ofthem, evenofthofe that are of reformed Religion, fhalbe found fuch, as either never have attained to full amendment of that be amiffe, or els they have thorough their owne negligence, and carelefnefle, fallen fo farre backe againe, that they come farce -7hort of the holineffe ofa pure and undefiled fpoufe. And who feeth not that this declining and decaying takes place every daymore and wore. There are fome perverfe and refra- dory men, who will not acknowledge this difference at this'time, but they towhom it is granted to meafure every thing by the onely rule oftruth, doboth fee and bewayle many fhamefully falling from heaven, and others alto as meteors hanging yet in the clouds. Come andgatheryourfelves together. Hecalleth them to a . Feaft, and toa merry meeting; The deffructionof 'Wicked men, which they are moft worthyof; is in Gods account as it werea moil fumptuou§ K k k k k Banquet
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