. The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, king of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. . fire mall come downefrom hcauen and deuoure them, andthe diuell that decerned them, and all his inf truments,chiefly the Bealtandfalfe Prophet fhall be call: in a lake of fire and brimftone, and fhall bee tor-mented day and night inceflantly for euer and euer: that is, how greatlyfoeuer their brags be, how neerefbeuer they fhall appeare to be to obtainetheir purpofe, God from heauen, as the pallace and throne, wherefrom heegiuethproofeofhismerci
. The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, king of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. . fire mall come downefrom hcauen and deuoure them, andthe diuell that decerned them, and all his inf truments,chiefly the Bealtandfalfe Prophet fhall be call: in a lake of fire and brimftone, and fhall bee tor-mented day and night inceflantly for euer and euer: that is, how greatlyfoeuer their brags be, how neerefbeuer they fhall appeare to be to obtainetheir purpofe, God from heauen, as the pallace and throne, wherefrom heegiuethproofeofhismercie towards his owne, and of hisiuftice towardhis enemies, mall fend plagues and deftruc~tion, as well ordinary, as extra-ordinarie vpon them: Ordinarie, by reuealing their wickednefle by thethundring mouthes of trewpaftors,whichisoft called fire in the Scrip-tures: Extraordinarie, by all corporall plagues to their vtter dcltrudion,and vntellable torment for euer in the hels. Thus farre for the expofitionor paraphrafe of the words. The vnhappyfuccefle ofSatan. Thcpiiriticofthe Gofpclinduringjftay-eth ihe Ante-chrifl his THE SECOND oftl Ow followeth the interpretation ot the fentence accor-ding to the order vfed in the firlt part. Andriritwemuftknow what time thde thoufand or many yeres was in, andwhen,and how Satan was loofed. This time is to be found„ in the fixt Chapter, in the opening of the fir ft three fealesfecret bookeof God his prouidenceby the Lambe, to ypit, the timewhen the white, red, and blacke horfes had their courfe in the world: Andto fpeake more plainely, the Diuell his power did lurke, which is calledhis binding, and the Gofpel did flourifh in a reafbnable purine many hun-dreth yeeres after Chrift,as theEcclefiafticallhiftories beare witneflc: Forin great puritie the Gofpel did continue long, which is fignified by thecourfe of the white horfe, albeit the profeffors were vnder the croffe f igni-fied by the red horfe, and troubled wonderfully by
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