846 evelatios ofthe Apocalypfe. CAP.zi. agreeable to ourfettfe,and fuch as (halitePeenopenly in theworld with- in thefe few yeers. The interpretationof Newheaven and earth,may be taken out ofthatplace, r2.26. whofevoyce did then fhal¿e theearth, but no*heheath denonnced,fayinu,yet once more will Ifhake,not the earthonly,but rlfoheaven. Where to !hike heaven and earth,is by the interpretationof the Apatitehimfeif, toabrogate theoldmanner of Werfhippnq god, andto cáll offthe oldpeople. For Heaven is by a borrowed fpeech the Temple,and the Whole legal!Worfhip ; whereof that Temple was the feat and dwelling place,as it is, Heb.8.5. So that to/hake heaven, is to abolilhthat worfhip. Themen are the earth,andmore properly, the peopleofIfrael,towhom that 1egall worfhip did belong. To (hake the earth therefore, is to (hake the Ifráelites, and to remove them out of their places. And the ufuatl manner of fpeaking throughout this Book, hath not varied a whit from this fignification of the words ; where heaven is put for the more pure Church;the earth for the degenerating citizens therof,as we have feen in their due places. Even as therefore God ihook.heaven and earth, in the firf .coming ofhis Son,by refufing the old worship andpeople,and by or- dainingand choofing a new one So again, when it fhall feem good unto him to have mercy upon that forlorn,forfaken Nation,and to make them partakers offalvation by Chrift,he fhall darken the former gloryof hea- ven and earth, by making thedignity and honour of the.new people ro be fo glorious, as if he had created all things new again. Tewhich ptirpofe that place of the Prophet Efay is to be applied ; For behold, Iam about to create neW heavens, anda neW earth, as if he fhould fay, IWill infji- tutea moll pure manner ofWorlhippin{ ms, and 1Will take unto mee aneW people in theaf femblies WhereofIWill be honoured, Chap. 65. 17. Ofwhich kind alto thofe words of the Apoffle are, Ifany man be in Chrtft; heel a new creature, the old things arepaled f away ; behold, all thingare become neW, a Cor. 5. 17. For the (r ii heavenand earth are cone. Shall the Church then that is among the Getatiles fail and come to decay ? For heavenno.eth out the more pure fervice ofGod,as we have fhewed;Butitmay be doubted how this can be extinguifhed, becaufe of thofe things which wee have laid above;tve need not to trouble our felnes much to make good the decay of the earth, feting theHoly Ghofi hash taught us fufficiently already, that the Pope ofRome,withall his crue of Catholikes, falfly fo called, (hall be rootedoututterly before this day. As touching the reformedChurch therefore,.fhall t`-e receivingof the ?eWs again be the eftrangin of the Gentiles from Chrift, as their caflino aWay ofold; Waù the reconcilement of the w.òrid,l(otn.I i. r 5.So it may feem,indeed,efpecially feeing theÁpoßle certi-
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