A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

The Angels are of a powerful nature: yet the good are made^s ministering spirits •or the heirs of salvation: the bad God ties in chains and muzzles their malicious forces. Those that had prepared themselves to^t slay the third part of men, were •ound up in the great River Euphrates, till he loose them. He needs not the Posts of Persia, which Haman used; nor the Dromedaries of Egypt, to signify his will; but […] ^uWord runneth very swiftly. The day is his, and the night is his; the open place •nd the secret; the very wings of the wind shall carry his Precepts. Jon. 1. The sea •nd a charge for the Prophet, as the Prophet had a charge for Nineveh. God said •o the one, Arise and go, and he went not: he speaks to the other, Arise and go, and […] went; fulfilling the Makers command with all diligence. Thus all creatures have mes and legs, when God bids them go; spirit and life is put into them, activity •o use them, wisdom to direct them, when they should punish.^x The Mariners •ere trying a chain of delays, with a number of shifts, desirous to save or reprieve •he guilty: but in vain they labour to evade the Counsel of God. While the men •re in advise, the winds and seas are in action: the men are backward, the other go forward with their service: the men lose time, the other admit no dilation.

The Angels are of a powerfull nature: yet the good are made^s ministring spirits or the heires of salvation: the bad God tyes in chaines and mussles their malicious orces. Those that had prepared themselves to