C A P.10. ARevelation oftle Apocalÿpre. $39 Verfe. 12. And Ifaw the deadbothfmall andgreat. So much of the It.<dge. Now thole who are tobe judged are described. Thefe little and great ones are the Iewes,whodid at the fiat rejea anddefpife the faith, and therefore they were confirmed and broken fo fore with calamities, that they feemed to differ nothing at all from dead men. Now all thefe (hall appear before God, each of them being to undergoe and abide the the judgement either of life or death.For now it (halbe made plain,who beElec`f,and who be Reprobates. They who(till retiít the truth obfti- nately, fhall be numbred among the curled crue of Reprobates ; They (Ball have no remedy miniflred unto them after this,whereby their fear- ed confciencesmay be brought to foftneffe and relenting. But why doth he fay, fmall andgreat ? What,doth he hereby teach ws, that in the Re- furrettion, ( according to the manner and forme whereof, all things are dcfcribed heré) every one (hall appear in that ftature, in which he de-. parted out of this life ? It is therefore too too rafhly affirmed by cer- tain men, that every one (hall rifeup in that tall and goodly future of body , whereinAdam was created. Which doth both contradiél this scripture manifefly , as allo it doth take away the truth of the body, . when it (hall be reftored, if it (hall not arife in thatjtrll'ftature, wherein it was fevered from the foul by death. And the Boo{_s Were opened. The form of thejudgement is by books that be opened, which are the Confciences ofmen 'inlightened with the true knowledge ofthe truth of God,and with a lively fenfe-ofall things that have been doneby themfelves. Thefe (hall at this time make main- fell unto all men,and let inopen view,all thofe. whohave a pure and fin - cere minde given themof God,and in whom there did lye hidden for- merly an,y feed of Election which is as vet remaining in'them. . And another Book That is, of;Gods -Í}cur t and E1ee'lion. Thefe things are fpokenafter thcanner ofmen,fëeitìg it is in ufe among us,to commit thingsdoneby us to writing,that theymay ftand' upon record for the better helpingofour memorie,andto give fentence in judgement out ofthe authority of them. Elec`lion therefore is.no new matter., nor filch as dependeth uponour will and pleafure,-but it is founded Upon the Eternal! decree ofGod. Andthe dead men wereiudged out ofthe things that wrre Written. That is, according to thofe things which are written inbooks, as ofold in the return from'the Captivity in Babylon, they were put from their places and offices, who could not finde out and bring forth the writing oftheir Genealogic, whereby they might !hew their fathers,houfe, or their feed; or that they were ofIfrael, as it is, Nehe.7. 61, 04, 65. TheGofpel Both never
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