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A plain explanation of the whole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable…A plaine explanation of the vvhole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable…
A plain explanation of the whole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable in these days of trouble and affliction in the church. Penned by a faithful preacher, now with God, for more private use, and now published for the further benefit of the people of God.A plaine explanation of the vvhole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable in these dayes of trouble and affliction in the church. Penned by a faithfull preacher, now with God, for more priuate vse, and now published for the further benefit of the people of God.
London: printed by T.S. for Nathaniel Newbery, 1622
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In sackcloth; meaning that they should be heavy, sorrowful, and grieved at the troubles, strife, and hard-dealing which they should have at the hands of the wicked, which would not yield unto the truth: lamenting also for that they had no better success of their Ministry: and further by reason of the pride of Antichrist, when as they did behold how many even of those which should have ⟨p. 67⟩been the stars of the Church, and faithful Ministers, did strive and heave for preeminence without any care of Gods Church, as it was in the days of Gregory the 7. and Gregory the 9.
In sackcloth; meaning that they should be heauy, sorrowfull, and grieued at the troubles, strife, and hard-dealing which they should haue at the hands of the wicked, which would not yeelde vnto the truth: lamenting also for that they had no better successe of their Ministery: and further by reason of the pride of Antichrist, when as they did behold how many euen of those which should haue ⟨p. 67⟩beene the starres of the Church, and faithfull Ministers, did striue and heaue for preheminence without any care of Gods Church, as it was in the daies of Gregory the 7. and Gregory the 9.
These are the two Olive trees, and the two Candlesticks; A speech borrowed from the Prophet zachary, where it is said, that being returned from captivity, the Lord gave them Ministers, which as O lives should Minister Oil for the light of the Church: Even so in the wretched & cursed days, albeit the Church of God waxed fewer and fewer, yet there should be some Olive trees to give Olives, that is, some Ministers to preach peace unto the children of God, the Olive being a sign of peace, as also to drop in Oil (as Zechariah saith) into the Candlesticks, alluding to the use of the Candlesticks in the Temple, which having Oil put in them, did give light in the Temple, burning before the Lord continually: even so he saith, that even in those dark times, there should notwithstanding be some which should be able to give light unto the Church, by the Ministry of the Gospel.