CA P. a0. ATteìelation of the Apocalypfe. 83 t their befieging and fighting againdt the Tents, in which the Saints live. Now ourEurope is this Tent,wInch the cruel] and lavageTurk hack now beficged by the fpace ofthree hundred yeares Lince the truth bath been reítored, on the Fait, and on the South. For the Saints keepe frill as it were within their Camp and Pavilion and they (hall have no end oftheir warfare, before that this marriage ilnall come, at the folemnizing where- of, they (hall caft cfftheir Souldiers weeds; and (hall put onmore joy - full garm nts, fuch as are befeemiug for fo great a folemnity. And the baoved Ciry,Their third enterprife is touched in thefe words; and unto this bath the repeating of the former prophecie .proceeded. This third exploit of theirs is altogether to come. For howfoever The holy City was permitted before to be trampled upon by the Gentiles for a thoufand tW®hundred threefeoreyeares, Chap. t t. 2. And the fame City was againe renewed (after that time was overpaft in the Churches,which are conftituted and governed according to the fquare of Gods truth in thefe Taft times: yet we are not to doubt, but that the beloved City, is that multitudeof the beleeving Tewes, fv called in an excellent and fpociall manner, who ihall be chofen and called at length, to be of the Company ofthe true beleevers in Christ, which calling,Ihall be cffec`ted fhortly. The Judgement which followcth prefently after in this and the next verfe, doth require that this fhould he thus, as by which the Turke that(hall endeavour to overthrow this City,fhall be fuddenly op- preffed and overwhelmed. If we would know, where and when this liege (hall happen, wemay gather it out of thefe things, which have been fai.d before. Theplace (hall be the Motentaine of beauty, and pleasure, the Eafterne Armagedon, the land of leery it felt So faithDani.'l, Chap. I T.45. &c. and Ltechiel expreffely, chap. 38. 8. After many Mayes thon ;lair be vi/'ted,for in the latter yeares thou ;halt come into the Land that bath beene deflroyedWith the [Word, and ù gathered our of many people uplit the mountaines of Ifrael,Wbich bave long lien waffe.yet they have been brought out ofthe people, and they (ball dwell all faf . The time (hall be at theend ofa thoufand three hundred thirty five yeares, of which Daniel chap. r 2. 12. At which time, the houre, the day, the moneth, the y ear of the Turkifh tyranny (hall be expired, namely at the yeare, A thoufand fix hundred ninety,more or lef e. But we will onely touch thefe things at this time briefly, we (hall have occafiongiven us perhaps elfwhere, to explaine thefe things more largely. Butfirecame downfrom God. Now followed]the laf} dcl'truc`tion, and firft ofthe Turkey Armies in this verfe, which God will deftroy after an extraordinary manner, and that utterly. For he (hall pour out his wrath
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