CAP.2I. AReeevelataon ofthe Apocalypfe. 857 imagine thereby thinking to lull their confciences afieep, let him know from hence , that he that perufleth in theleafl firms without repent- ance ; that there is a place piepartd for him in the lake of fire and brimflone. To this placeOf helli(h torments , all this rabble of Gnfull wretches here put in a check-rot together, and wh(,foever belong to the fame tur- fed crue, as being of the fame Damp and Spirit, [hall be thrown down, and [ball there remain bound hand and foot in everlaftingwo and mifery ever dying, and yet ever living to endure deadly wounds of foul and body. Not that all the ungodly fhall go prefently quick to Hell at that time, but that they (hall be convinced and condemned by the judgement and f_ntcnce of condemnation , which flull be denouncedegainft them by the miniftery of the Holy Church : and this is all one as ifGod fhould pronounce it fromhaven with his own voice, and should raightway caufe them to behaled to theirex cution to hellilh tortures, after they are condemned. Verf 9. And therecame untome , one of thofe fevers Angels. Hitherto we have had a general]. lying forthof the Holy city ; now follo particular defcription thereof. And fill we are taught whofe 1hbour fhali be uf'd to tna.+e to beopenly known and Peen among men ; He is faid to be ow: of thole feven Angels, Of whom mention was made Chap. 15. and the left of them as it feemeth , who fhal! poure out his viali upon the aire. When it is cleare, that this new Jerafalem fu'e- fitteth within the compaffe ofthat time wherein the vials fhall be poured out ; in which rtfpePc wehave f> precifc a repeating of his funftion; that he is on.- , of thole leven Angels , which have thole (even vi hls f uì1 of thofe leven Taft plagues, lea(]. perhaps a man íhould wander at-random, and fliould by meanesof his ignorance and raihnef e , skip over the li- msaes, which are pitched by the Holy Ghoft hitrifelf. Come I Thew thee the fpoufe.What didnot Iohn,her before fee vet f z ?. yet , but there he faw as it were through a lattice, and after a more con- fufed tnanner, now he feeth her more diftinElly. The firft fight and femblanceof the new 7erufalerss as file is commingdown (hall feem to goodly anddtleftable,but yet after that (he (hall have made fume long a- bode upon earth , then fhall fhe be farre more (lately to fee to. For we gather out of things foemerly delivered that thefe words doe point at the Event , as that alfo doth, in that the Angel inviteth him tocome and fee, whence we learne by proportion of thofe things which have been faid before, that force holy man (hall let forth a books, wherein he (hall make it plain to all the faithfull, that the rnajcfly,.
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