CAP 1.» 1klielation"oftiMApbtalypife, 74 This Manna therefore doth not lyeopen,in viewabout the Tents at Thyat tige hand'for everyone that will come to take it up ; but it is fetched out of the golden Pot,., as much as will ferve tokeepe the life and foule of thofe Co whom it belongeth. And indeed unleffe Chrtfl hadprovi- ded for his fervants in thofe moll corrupt times after forcehidden manner, they might have bidden farewell for ever both to.iafery and falvation. 4nd I Will give him aWhiteRoue. The fecondreward. 4retís tcllethus that faiçha kinde oft one fear Wont tobe given to Wrefllers, that firóve in the Theaters. But it is not likely that that cuflome is here aimed at. For that Was given only When the battell was at the onfet, not when it was ended, and theconquerour was to be reward- ed. in the games of Olympus, left the Champions lhould runneto- gether at. randome , theydrew forth (tones out ofa Glver Pot , they which light upon thole that were Marked withone and the fame let- ter (for there were two of them on whichwere graven the fame Charaters) thofe the Judges put together to be Combatants. Nei- ther was there any other Life of thereSines ingames, as I fiippofe. In `judgements they were ufed for another purpofe, namely-, to give fuf frage by voyces ; wherein they, wereoffundry forts, accor- ding to thediverfe cuftomes ofpeople; many times they were bol- loW and boared through , wherewith they gave fentence of con- demnation : fometimes they were fulland folid, wherewith they. abfolv:d There was a time alto when they were diftinguifned by their colour only; the blacke condemning, thewhitecontrary, abfol- ving. So faithVlpianupon Demofth. Againfi Timocrates. Stonesfor fuf(rages (faithhè) Werefometimes piercedthrough,fometimes allá un- piercéd, fometimes alto black andWhite. The fame effed faith the ex- pornion oAriftoph. irrPR X,-But that ofAlcibiades is notable to this purpofe, who in a judgement oflife and death, Would not beleeve his oWn Mother, fufpecnling orfearing left theat unawaresfhouldcall the blacb florae for the White, Plutarch. in the Apothegmes ofthe Kings. Here is therefore an allufion to that manner ofaf folving in judgements. But wherefore ihould there behere a fond and third reward, when as therewas but one for the former Churches? Thus the cafe ofthe godly in this Church required. For, becaufe the faith- full that were but a few and thin fown among1i great a company of the wicked , fhotild bee hated of all men and condemned of, fchiftne, errour, herete, and I know not of what wickedneffe, there is an abfolving fiiffrage promifed unto them That though' M they
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