84 '4 evelatioas ofthe Apocal ypfe. C P. a; (,rowing in the knowledge of the truth now fprung up , and fhould not fuffer T.hyatira. themfelves to be caff out from the right path,whatfoever fhould come of it. Now this comingwhereof he fpeaketh, is a morefull3efor-, oration, whereby it cometh to paffe, that Chrifl , who is as it were banifhed from among us , as long as fuperffitions and crrours raign. doth come unto us, when they are taken away , and giveth us the comfort ofhis prefence. This fparkle therefore of the truth fhould continue alive,till it fhould at length breake forth into a flame,name- ly, until! the time ofLuther ,as we fhall ffraightwayes fee. 26. For ifanyfhoarldovercome, c. Or, Andhe thatovercometh au4 kZeepeth my Worhes aenro the end, IWill give is him,&c. For I will giv e to him that overcometh and obferveth, &c. It is an Hebraifrne, luck as followeth in the next chap. verf. z 2. at. Where the Nominativ0 cafe is put abfolutely by a defe&oftheprepofition to,oforfär,gs Pfate I. r. 4. Novah in the heaven is hi sfeate,that is o fIehovah, or as tortch ,- ing Iehovah, his feate is in heaven. So Pfal. i 8. 3 t . god himfelf his Way i3 perfel , for the Way of God, or,asfor God his Way,&c. The like is that ofPauls, that Which Was impoffible to the laW,ei-c. Rorn. 8. 3. Which place Both fo vex the interpreters, becaufe they marke not this He- braifme; For To adunaton, that Which is impo ible,is an abfohite No minative cafe, the meaning whereof is,For as touching the impoffibility ofthe laW,&mac. The end,which he here maketh mention of, is not the end of life, but of this Tearme of hundredyeers, which fhould them ceafe, in place whereoffhould cornea morefull reformation. Iwingive himpower over theNations, Here is a double reware% ofpoWer over the Nations, and?ofthe m.rningfiar. WePaid before, that the rewards are fitly applyed to the tunes, and do note outfnch good things, as the Saintsenjoy in this life, howfoever they be pled- ges ofbleilings tocome, Thispolder therefore-over the Nations, is a power over the enemies of the Church. This name was once com- mon to all thofe that were not ofthepeople ofIfrael, but were {Iran- gets from their covenant and common-wealthRBut now among thefe Gentiles, all that do:fncerely profcffe Chrifl, areaccounted and rec- koned among true Ifraclires, the relic of theprophane and hypocriti- cal! rout, that doth either openly defpife the truth,or imbrace it only inPhew & profeffiori,fticketh fail in the old mire, & is called by the ancient name ofGentiles: The Nations then among the Thyaririans, weì'ë Íezabel With her adherents, among us , they be core with her Ad«lterers and brats. Neither is it to be doubted, that the Thyatirians got the victory over Iezabel, even as our men have
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