CAr.1o. Ievel4tton ofthe Apocalypfe. 82 i thèBate ofthe Chiscrh of the time of the Period ; that is, flraight after the end of thefe thoufand yeers.. The truth fhould return in- to the world more, and fhould make a glorious Phewnow at laf, and the e1e5t fhould flock apace every where to the light thereof when it fhould break forth. Which eagerdefine and indeavour of theirs is called the firft refurreFtion; namely,in refpeet ofa fecund, of which there is fpeech made, verfe z a. as we (hall fee there. Now there fhould be greater abundance,ofthofe that fhould be converted to the Gofpel, and they fhould cotte flying to it with more ardent affections then before, as it came to paffe at the expiring of thefe thoufandyeeres ; namely, at the yeer 1 300. when as many who had been dead and buried before in Romifh fuperftitians, did open their eyes to fee the Truth, when it began to arife, and when the day Star began to dawn, and thus they roleup again to life, fromwhich they were ftrangers formerly. Among thefe Marfrllius Patavinus, Iohannes do Ganduno, Johnwicklife, are reckoned up, together with many other worthymen; ofas u{incere piety,and as great learning as that timecould afford.By the diligence of thefe men many other alto wereby flocks railed up, and revoked to the Truth from their er. rours as it were from death to life,as we have faidbefore,Chap:t4. i6. This marvellous converfion is called the firft refurreetion,under thename whereof John repeateth,and explaineth at once the Hifto- ry ofthere former times.This is not therefore the riling again to the lift judgement, as the Jefuit interpreteth ir, who forgetting hirnfelf much in this verfe, doth now extend thofe thoufand yeers, unto the day ofjudgement, the end whereofhe limited right now in the com- ing ofAntichrift. What time then fhall be leftfor Antichrift, that muff not enter upon his Dingdome, before the Dra'on (hall be let go out ofprifon ? What,fhall his firft onfet upon his Kingdome fall in- to the day of judgement ? It were indeed to be wiíhed that it might be fo ; for fo he fhould not fulfill that three yeers time ofhis and an half, which they tell us Inch tales of, that it will bring fuch calamity with it upon the Church, and which the Popifh Writers do bewail therefore in fo lamentable a manner. Moreover, they whichwere utterly loft and undon before, are made bleflèd in this refitr- reaion ; which cannot come to paffe in the lafi refitrreLfion. Be- fides, how can this be the laft refurreeiion, which is Paid to be the firft ; and which hath another coming after, verf. 12. How alto is this raigne of a thoufand yeers lafting with Chrif , Paid to be fome great matter, if k be that of the aints after the M in in m to a lift
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