Numbers — Chapter 1

that he is faid here co beare them vp in his right hand, andro vvalkeinthe pis Church. middes of them: no doubt io vphold and preterue them and to gue them is al truthe ‘

tome expofitouss chinke.bu: it feemerh more probable tnaci-e tpeaketh ot the . holy Augels, by comparing this co the like ia the ¢ Chapcer toluvving: vvherc he teemech re call Grace S€ peace theie,the feuen ipisices fenc into al tne vyvarid, as $. Paul co the Heorues (cot, 14) tpeaketh of Ane from ood &rhe gels. and fo the Proteftants take ic in their comentaries : vvhicn vve nore, becau:e therevpun wey holy Angels. = inuft needes confeife that the Apottle here guucth or wvifnetia grace and psac:, not :som God onely, bur alfo from his Angels:tnoug's tnat benediGion comuncta ons vay oF God,and an ctheg way ot his Angels or Sainctes, being but his creatures. And:fo tney may I-ame, :hat the taichruk God and our often ioyning in one tpeache, Ged and our t.ady, our Lord and any of his Sésnéts,..0 neipevi or bicile Ladie Gue vs, vs, is not fuperftitious, but an Apoftoulical {peache. ana {u the Patriarcn taid (Gen 4d. v.16.) The andthelke, Angel that delinereth me from al ewsls, bleffe thefe catidren. See the Anuot. 42. 15, 28:

Note thar the caufe vvhy God taketh the eruth from <ertaine countries, and Sinne is the catte remoueth their Bifhops or Churches into captiuitie or defolation, is the fimne ofthe Prelates and f¢ that God ta- people, And that isthe caufe (no doubt) that Chrift hath taken avvay our golden candledticke, keth tne Cath. thatis, our Church in England. Gad graunt vsto remember our fall, to doe penance and the for- faith from coft- mer vvorkes of chasitie vvhich our firft Bifhops and Church vvere notable and renovymed tics. ‘or. f 6. Because thowheteft.] Vve fee here that of al things, Chriftian people ((pecially Bifhops) Zeale againit fhould haue great zeale again(t Heresikes and hate them, thatis, their vvicked dodtrine and con- Heretikes. ditions , euen as God hateth them. forvvnich onely zeale, our Lord faith here that be beareth’ vita (ome Churches and Pselates, and faucth them from perifhing.

vvould induce them co liane, be kings : to ai chat ftians be both ¢™ploy their vvorkes and them teluesio {crue God & offer al cheir actions as an acccptable {acti kings & Priefts, fice co him , be pricfts. Neuertbeleife, as if aay man vroula sherevpon athirme tha. chere ougnt ro be go other eartly powvers or kings w goucmne in vvoridly alfaires oucr Chsiltians, he vvere a fee ditious Heretike, cucn fo are they chai vpoa this or che like places vwnere al Chrittians be called prieits ina ipiritual (ort, vvould tnertore interre , thac cucry ene isin proper ignitication a Prieit, or that al be Priefts alike, or chat there ought to be Bone bn: ‘uch {pirtual prietts. fori is .he tedie tious voice of C oré,faying to Moyies and Aaron, Let is fuffice you,thas al te muitisuae i of oly onex, and the Lerdis in them. Uvby are vow extolled ouer tne people of the Lora Num. 16. Difference of 19. On the Deminical day.) Many notable poiues may be marked here. firft,that enenin the holy ‘daies and Apoitics time there vvere daies depuced to the icruice or God, and 1o made holy and diferent, vvorkedaies. though not by nauure, yet by vie and benediion, from other profane os (as vve call chem) ; yvorke-daies. Sunday made Secondly, that the Apoftles and faithful abrogated the Sabboth which vvas thefeuenth day, holiday by the and made holy day for ic, the next day folovving, being the exght day in count rrom che creations Apoitles & the aod chac ¥vithout al Scriptures, of comaundement of Chrilt tbat vve reade of, yea(yvinch is more) Churches aB- nor ondly otherwvile then yvas by the Lavy obferued, bur piainely othervvite waen vvas preiceibed thoritice.-__ by God him fel¥ia the fecond commaundemcat, yea and othervvile tien be ordained in ine Ark Other. feaftes creatié,yvhen he tan@tified precifely the Sabborh day,d¢ not the day fuiowving, sacu great povver: ordained by the did Chritt leaue to bis Church, and for tuch cates gauc hs the holy Ginolk ro be reirucatinit, to Church. guide icinco al truthes , euem {uch as in the Scriptures are not expretied , Andii the Chuich bad au. As Saturday thouitie & intpisation trom.God,to make Sunaay (being a vvorke-day before) amcuctiatting holy yeas in memo- day : and che Saturday, thar beiore vvas holy day, novv a common vvorkeaay: + vhy may nos:he tie uf the creas fame Chusch prefcribe & appoint the other nuly feaits of Eatter, Vvhiciuaciac, Chriltnias, ana the tien, fo Sunday reit? or the lame vvasranc ihe hath fer the one, chat ihe natn for che other. ; ot Cheitts retus- Thiraly, it is to be noted that the caufe of this change vvas, for that DOW we Chiitians yedhiom eftcemung more our redemption, then ous niit cxcation, haue the holy aay which vyas bezore tor she Cra. Il. THE APOCALYPSE. yor Mat5 5 Malach, 4,7. the remembrance of Gods accomplifhment of the creation of things, novy for the memtoric of the accompli{hment of our redemption. Vvhich therfore is kept vpon thatday en vvhich our Lord rofe from life to death, vvbich vvas the day after the Sabboth,, being called by the Ievves, The Church una or prima Sabbathi, the firftaf or after the Sabboth. Mat 28. 4a. 20. ¢ Cor.16. Fourthly, icis. & wi to bc marked, that this holy day by the Apoftles tradition alfo , vvasnamed Dominisus dics , our He. heath” Lordes day, Of, the Dorminike, yvhich 1s alfo an old Ecclettaltical yvord in ourlanguage.tor the name n at f dai Sunday is a heathenifh cailing,as al other of the vveeke daics be in our [aguage:{omeimpoted after but ‘Din ‘Dente the namics of planets, as in che Romans time: {ome by the name ot certaine Idols that the Saxons ee nF ch, did vvorfhip , &¢ to vvbich they dedicated their daics betore they vvere Chriftians. Vvhick names booms » feria, the Church viech nor,bur hach appointed to call the firft day, she Dominize, after the Apottle here: acum the other by the name of Ferres, vutil the laft of the vveeke. vwhich (he callech by che old name, Sabberh, becaute that yvas of God, and noc by impolition of the heathen. See the marginal Anno- tauon Luc. 24,1, Laftly obferue, that God reuealeth fuch great things to Prophets, racher.vpon holy daies,and cod siueth groan in times of contemplation, facriiice, and praier, chen on other protanedaics. andtherforeas ter grace ag S. Peter (44.10) had areuelanon ac the (ix: boure of praier, and Zacharie (Zxs.s) atthe houre holy times of ofincente,, and Cornelius (.4&. 10) vvhen he wvas at his praicrs the ninthe houre, to here S. loha praicr &fafting, @otech chac he had al chete maruclous vilions vpon a Sunday, .

open in heauen , and the frft voice trwnichisre- My which heard,vvas as ic vvere of a trompet prefented nto : . . ° . . . 1 2g bon os {peaking vvith me, faving , Come vp hither, ind maieftie. i ey and I vvil fhevv theechethinges vvhich mutt of God in hear : . . . t 2 bedone quickly after thefe. + Immediatly vvas in {pitie: inceifant ho- and behold there vvas a feate fette in heauen, and vpon the nour & praifes fal Angel 3 feateone fitting. ¢ And he thar fare,vvas like in fight,to the and Sainte lafper ftone, andthe Sardine: and there vvas araine-bovy **§ifting hime. : Vvhichis re- 4 ‘ound about the feate,like to the fight ofan Emeraud. t And fembled inthe round about the feate,foure and tvventie feates: and Vpon daily one thethrones, foure and twentie feniors fitting, clothed about by al orders in vvhice garmentes , and on their heades crovvnes of gold. Fey ca ia s T And fromthethrone proceeded lightenings, and voices, the Churca. and thunders: and feuen lampes burning before the throne, militant a{b- 6 vvhich arethe feuen Spirites of God. t Andin the fight of the (cate, as it vverea fea of glaffe liketo cry ftall: and in the middes of the feate and round about the feate ** foure beaftes .. + pere foure 7 fulof ciesbeforeandbehind. + And the firft beaft, liketo heaites,and the a lion:and the fecond beaft,like to a calfe: and the third beaft, ae i erhe hauing the face as it vvere of aman: and the fourth beaft, ke iucgement of 8 toanegleflying. t And the foure beaftes,cuery one ofthem Bee nike. had fixe vvinges round about: and vvithin they are fui of the 4 Euange- cies, and they had no reft day and night, faying,’Hely, Holy, them al true them al true Ef.6,3. Holy, Lord God omnipotent, yy hich ywas,and vvhich is,and vvhich preachers »the J fhal come. t And vvhen thofe beaftes gaue glorie and ho= thei:6,Marke: nour and benedidtion to him that fitreth vpon the throne, ne ae loba, . . ’ . 1o thatliueth for euer and ever: t+ the foure and tvventie {e- sce the caufes niors fel dovvne before him that fitteth inthe throne, and hereof a pe adored him that liueth for ever and euer, and caft their 4 Euangeiit. rx crownes beforethe throne, faying, t Thou art vvorthieO rg ee Lord our God to receiue glorie and honour and povver: be- caufe thou haft created al thinges, and for thy vvilthey vvere and haue been created.