CAP.tI. Agevelation ofthe Apocalypîe: 85/ cut enduring of thofe griefes , as they are endured by the help of Gods grace in them ., is out of all doubt worthy of everlaffing life. Marke here I pray you the fraudulent elevife of a (hifting Jefuite,who having nothing to fay by wayof anfwer to this place whictl we arc nowhand- ling , and which we objeli awing them , flieth unto another place that fom thence he might fetch fome [hew of an anfwer to this place. But not to (land now upon the examining and lifting of that place in the Epifle to the Romanes, what meaneth ha to talkeat all now , and to tell u3 as he thinketh, llrange tales of the forrowesand afiions of this life , that are not to be compared with the joyes of the bleíled ones in heaven, when as he may plainely fee, that here is nothing at all to do with any of' thefe forrowes in this piace , feting all Teares, mourn- ing, crying, labour, and death it icile are laid to be banilhed away from this City , which is here defcribed, verfe4. So that nothing could be done of him more againil the haire, and the drift of' this place, then to (land commenting and debating at this time about any fuck compari- fon as this. For it is avouched in thefe words, that not onely theforrowes of this life are interim to the joyes of the Saints in heaven , but that the tbir l and hunger alfo, that is, the "nog ardent defre of, and purfuite after Godline(re, then Which thing there can not be ought in a man of greater worth , and eflimation , cloth not obtainc eternall life by the merit anddefect thereof , but onely by the nreere grace , andmercy of God. Nei- ther is that any what leffe frivolous , which that counterfeit Ambroseof thcirs,Thom.0 andRupertue fay, who will have this water of life to be thereforefaid here, to be given freely, becaufe though eternall life be due debt by God to the merits ofjug men, and that by the very condignity of them as they dreamt Wickedly , yet even thefe merits therzfelves could not be merits at all, Without the help of grace Which is given them freely, for if they would rather have fpolcen with the Holy Ghoft then from their own perverfe braines, they would never have fail , that any grace is given to men , by whofe htlpe they might doe works worthy of eternall life, when here it is laid expreffely, that the re- ward of the moil excellent workes is altogether freely bellowed , and not condingly. Verfe 7. He that overcemeth¡hallpo ffefre all things. For no man [hall attaine to this felicity , but he that (hall behave himfelFe like a valiant c'aampion in encountring with the `,Dragon , of whum fpeach was had in the former Chapter. Quite your[elves therefore like men andbe vali- ant (Sye Jewiíh) you mull one day enter the combate, and fight a bat- tell, and that a terrible one,as sver there was any clfwhere, as it isclearly Q9 c199 3 fore
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