231. -' ervelation ofthe Apocalypfe. CAP./ 0. wrath from heaven upon the Turkes forces, as we heard before, Chap. 16. 21. and more fully Ezech. 38. i8. 19. &c. Verf, to. And theDevill that deceived them. That is, theTurk himfelf that is,their chief commander,fhall perifh both in regard of his perfon, whole !late, and the fiiccefíionofhis Empire. For there [hall not beany Emperours or name ofthe Turkr,extant any more. Now here by a Mc- tonymy,the principal} caufe is put for the inftrumentall,the Devill for the Turk; which is very fignificant in this place, teaching us, that not only this one enemy the Tiokis to be deftroyed,but that no@pen enernie (hall ever rife upafter this.For the Devill,by whofemeans they are railed uo, [hall not be crowded againe into prifon for a certain tìme,but he fhall be caft for ever into the lake offire,never to go out againe, to raite up any fuch new troubles and tumults. where tuns loth that Bea. ,and thatfalfe Prophet. They are all therfore alike and equal! in their fm, who are punifhed equally. The name ofa Chriftian maketh no difference between theTnrk and that Antichrift of Rome,unleffe it be perhaps,to make Antichrifts punifhment the more in- tolerable and terrible, in as much as he bath hadmore plentiful! meanes to come to the knowledgeof the truth,& to partakeofthe grace ofGod. But obferve that theBea.ft and the falfeTrophetfhal be deftroyed before the Tnrk, even as his deftruftion hath been revealed and opened before, and then at length this devillifhTurkcometh in order after him as a co- partner withhim in the fame punifhment. AndJ7all óe torrnented.The vulgar Latin omitteth the conj ;nftion co- pulative,and joyneth the verb (mall be tormented, with the Reaft and the falfe Prophet. But amiffe,fecing it is no leffeneceflary for us to tindeiftard that the çommonpunifhment ofthem all hall be eternal), then that they fhall have all one and the fame punithmenr. Vert. i i.AndIfaw agreat White Throne. Hitherto, the Holy Ghoft hath declared the finali deffru&ion of the enemies of the Church; -The felicity of the Church followeth now to be laid open, which it fhall en- joy after thatall thefe Itormes ofcalamities [ball be driven away.The firft part hereof is the gatheringofthe Saints in the refs of this chap.And this gathering ofthem is'fhadowed out by,the rerurreition fre+ss the dead, and the lagjasJgerrent, that fhall be givenofthem beingratfed up againe. Fór under correFtionof the learned;i am ofthis judgement,that this refurre- &ion fpokenof in this place,which hath bincommonly held and beleeved of all men as far as Iknow,to be that !aft rifingof the bodiesof al men un- to judgement,who have bin lying a fleep in:their gra,ves from the death of the firft-manAdara;Ifay,I-think that this refurreCtion isno.other thing but
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