Ç A F. 20. fl evelationof the Apocalypfe. 8 i; the exprel ingwhereof, that cry ofthe Soulesferved,which required vengeance at Gods,hands againft thofe Mott favage tyrants, ch.6. i o, 1 I. All that time therefore tharreached from the time of lohn to the binding of the Devil! 6y Confiantine, was the time wherein the fwor+í, flames, 'torture!, and all kind of bodily torments did make havock ofthe godly,as it is herevery pithily intimated by one word. Againe the fame Thrones,and judgement that Were given to the Saints, after that the Dragon Was put in hold by Conflantine, declare the no- table outward felicity, that the Church enjoyed during the time of the fecondPeriod, after the had at length gotten the Emperours to be her Patronsand prole&ors. For thefeare not the Thrones ofthe Saints raigning in Heaven, as the Iefait will have them, thus cafting himfelfe upon manyabfurdities, but they be the Thrones of fuch as live upon earth in better cu ate in refpeFt of the open enemy, then theydid before ; for to what purpofe fhould the Kingdome in the heavens be bounded with a thoufand yeeres ?- Or why fhould they begin to raigne, after the Devill was chained, as if the Kingdome in Heaven were not perpetual!? Befides thofe are chófen and taken in- to this Kingdom, which were quite dead for the fpace óf thofe thou- fand yeers, as it is in the next vet fe, which cannot be underftood of the Kingdom in Heaven, whither unleffe the foules of them that de-- part doe flie forth-with,they can never come thither afterwards.But we (hall have this point more plainly opened at the next verfe. And they fate. It may be tranflated tranutively, and perhaps it' were better tohave it fo, theyplaced, for thus the Conftrut`tion go- eth on eauly if thefe accufative Cafes that follow be joyned with this Verb thus; the follies, and themWhich did not Worfhip, after this mea ning; AndIfaW Thrones, andthey placedupon them both the foules of themWho Were [mitten with the!word, as alfo them that didnot adore the beafl; and all thofe had judgement given them, and they lived,&c. Andjudgement Was given unto them;God dealt with his fervants ac- cording to hisjuftice, by reftoring them to liberty,& punifllingtheir enemies for their cruelty; as contrarily judgement is [aid tobe taken from a man,when he is overwhelmed with injuries,& they that offer them,carry them away fcotfree, as lob complaineth ; the Lbrd liveth Who kath defpifedmy Judgement, &c.Ch. 27.2. & 34.5.0r elfe to have judgement given, may belong to a Kingdom, as it is ufed by thePfai- milt, O God,sive thy judgements to the King,and thy righteoufnes to the Kings Sonne, let him judge thypeople juftly, and thy poore with right; PAal. .7a. r, 2.-as it were laid in.thi3 place, that the Church was now fo
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