$34 "'Revelation ofthe Apocalypfe. C A p. 2©, frequently called a refurreetionofthe dead in the holy Scriptures;which was another maine motive in forcing me toexpound this place thusas I do. The firft Scripture is inS. Pauly writings; when he faith thus; If the calling aWay,6e the reconciling ofthe World,What Thal the takingofthem to covenant andmercy againe6.-,but lifefrom the dead,Rom, t i . t S.WhicI place is thus interpreted by Oceunseniue,to infili upon him,among all the old Interpreters,hoW/ball their receiving6e, butfoas ' /hallfay, that he Who receiveth them,that id,God, doth quick:n them that Weredead by reafon o-ctheirjns. Where very truly and agreeably to the meaning of the Apo- Ie,he thinketh and avoucherh,that the receiving of the Je .vs,fha!l be life from the dead.That moll learned interpreter ofthe NewTcffament,Theo. Beta,doth expound thofe words of the Apoflle, as if he fhould fay in a proverbiall manneroffpeaking,That itfhouldcome topaffe that theWorld Jhouldbe refgoredfrome death to life againe,at the time When thetleWsfhoteld alfo come,andbe called to theprofcjion ofthe Gof pel, & thatby an argument taken fromacomparifon.But I (pare toheap up otherInterpretations old or new.Thewords of the Apoflle are clear & plain enough.ofthemfelvs. The fecondScripture is Efay,ch.a6.r9.Thydead men.lhalllive,my car- cafesfkal rife againe..4rt'al¿eye that dwel in the duft,for thydeW is as the dei of herbs,-and the tarthgall call oast the dead. In the former Chapters the Prophet had foretold the defolationof thewholeearth,and particularly the deftru&ionoffome nations, from Chap. 12. and jovntlyof them all, Chap.24.Now feeing this repairing ofthe Jews which he fpeaks ofhere, [hall be elfeded after the overthrowof Babylon, and that whereby the Lord!hall (wallow up death in vidory, and he (hall wipe away tearer from all faces,as Chap.3 8.8. and it mull needs be, that this frill relloring of the Jewel, is yet looked for, to be performed according to promife in time to come,and that it is not pall already,and accomplifhed in thofe idler deliverances. Which hapned to this people long ago. Efpecially feeing wee have more expreffc fpecifying of the time in thofe words which follow next after thefe, where the Lord faith, that in that day he Will vifit Leviathan that long and crookedSerpent, and that he Willf1 ty the Dragon that is in the Sea. In which words he doth not lignifie the B.abi- lonians, (for they arefar removed from the Sea.) But he meaneth the Turke doubtleffe, whom our blellcd Apoflle John doth alto call the Ser- pent and the `Dragon, very agreeably unto the Words of the Prophet Efay.The Turkmay worthily be calleda long Serpent, as having the bor- ders ofhis Empire fogreatly enlarged in lengdh; he may likevifebe cal- led a crooked Serpent, no lefle worthily, if we refpe_i the Provinces that be fubjed to his Dominion. For a man may obferve his fwel- 1 ±nb
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