çAP.20. A eryelation ofthe Apoca.iyple> 833 but the full re&oring ofthe Jewidh natior, as allo that it is not brought in and described here for any other purpofe,but for the more ful opening and declaring thereof. And this I hold, not as if I defired to be the first broacher ofnew found and ftrange opinions to the world, or as if I took pleafure.;to goagainft the confent ofall writers (I hope tlaat filch proud & impudent raíhneffe is far fromme) yeaCod is my-witneffe,how great- ly 1 do deteft and abhor that itcl:in, defire of huntingafter,and minting new and monstrous:errors(by reafon ofa prophane loathing of the anci- ently received truth) but only becaufe the whole order ofmatters& the marvellous content of the ref}of the Scriptures,compel me to follow this interpretation:Which things I have thought it good to let downbriefy, that it might appear to al men,what reafons nave that drawme to be of this judgement, that if fo be that they shall have any moment in them, to lay. open &'to confirm the truth, we might gaine toour felves the know- ledge ofa mater,that hashnot bin throughly fearched our, and certainly known before; but if they thatl be found to.be nothing ftrong and found to build filch apoint of weight upon, they might be razed and fcratched out with the cenfuresof theGodly, & fo 1 my feltmight be at length de livered from this error of rnine,ofwhat kinde foever it (hall be thought to be.Firft therforeI did diligently confider thole things which are pro-.. phecied of in the next Chap.as being to come topaffe after this Refnr- ret`tïon;I law that they could not agreeby any means,to the heavens that are properly fo called,but that they are to be found upon earth only. uch as thele be,that this holy Citycoaneth down out ofheavenfrom cod;that the f possfe is onlyprepared,and addrefled to be married with her husband,not gi- ven tanto hintis marriage ayet;that the hope ofreward ró put ofto the time to come,Yer.7.tha t one ofthe fevers Angels /T,eWeth this City unto lohu,v. r o. wheras there is no miniflerie of this kind to be feen in heaven : the very hearing altoof this Angels name,feeiaghe is laid to be one oftholi (even who were fet on er the'lift plagues, chap. 15. may teachus, within what bounds we converle as.yet. Moreover,(hall the Apoftles lay the founds tionofthe wall o; the holy City in heaven, when as Chrift-íhall giveup his kingdom to his Father? or (hall the kings of the earth bring their glory to the Church that triumpheth in heaven ? or (hall any thing re- dound from the heavenlyChurch, that (hall make for medicine to the Gentiles? Seeing therefore thefe andmany fuch things as thefe are to come to paffe after this Refurre6tion, I was hereby driven to Peek out Come other interpretation, and I was carried with maine and fpeciall force unto thar,which the proper nature ofthe words pointed out unto rne.For I-called to tninde,that the calling ofthe joys is manifeftly, and frequent
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