. 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. . edCitie: but fire came doumefrom God out of theheauen, and deuoured o And the diuelthat decerned tbem&as cafl into a lake of fire and hrimflonejvherethat beafl and that falfeprophet are, andfbalbe tormented euen day and nightfor euermore-j. The Meditation. S of ail Bookes the holy Scripture is moltneceflary for the inftrudtion of a Chriftian,and of all the Scriptures, the Booke of theRevelation is moll meete for thisour laft aage, as a Pr
. 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. . edCitie: but fire came doumefrom God out of theheauen, and deuoured o And the diuelthat decerned tbem&as cafl into a lake of fire and hrimflonejvherethat beafl and that falfeprophet are, andfbalbe tormented euen day and nightfor euermore-j. The Meditation. S of ail Bookes the holy Scripture is moltneceflary for the inftrudtion of a Chriftian,and of all the Scriptures, the Booke of theRevelation is moll meete for thisour laft aage, as a Prophefie of the lattertimes: Co haue I fele&ed or chofen out thisplace thereof, as moft proper for the actionwe haue in hand prelently. For after the A-poftle I o h n had prophefied of the lattertimes, in die nineteenth Chapter afore-go-ing, he now in this twentieth Chapter gathered vp a fumme of the whole,wherein are expreiled three heads or pnncipall points. i. Firft, the happie e(tate of the Church, from Chrifts dayes, to thedayes of the defection or falling away of the Antichrift, in the firft fixeverfes of this G a Next,. The necefli-tie of theknowledge oftheReucla- tion. A fumme ofthe ,of the Ref-lation. 7+ A Meditation vpon certaine verfes The meaningofthisprefcnt text. The order ob-ferued inhandling thistext. Satan in hisinftruments isloofed totrouble theChurch. Thethou-fand yeeres. Theprifonwhereout Sa-tan is loofed. Theloofingof Satan. a Next, the defe&ion or falling away it felfe, in this place that I hauein handle TM,the feuenth, eight,ninth,and tenth verfes. 3 Thirdly, the generall punifhment of the wicked in the great day ofIudgement, from the tenth verfe vnto the end of the Chapter. 1 he Apoltle his meaning in this place then is this, That after that Sa^tan then had bene bound a thoufand yeeres, which did appeare by his difcourfe afore-going, of the Saints triumphing intheearth,heefhallatlaftbreake forth againe loofe,and fo
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