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A36033	Pious annotations, upon the Holy Bible expounding the difficult places thereof learnedly, and plainly: vvith other things of great importance. By the reverend, learned and godly divine, Mr. Iohn Diodati, minister of the gospell; and now living in Geneva. It is ordered this 11. of Ianuury, 1642, by the committee of the House of Commons in Parliament, concerning printing, that this exposition of the book of the Old and new Testament, be printed by Nicholas Fussel, stationer. Iohn White.; Annotationes in Biblia. English	Diodati, Giovanni, 1576-1649.; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, engraver.	1643 (1643)	Wing D1510; Wing D1509A; ESTC R5893	1,521,231	922

Gods peace whereof the Altar was a signe and instrument is all the defence of the Church For Ariel sometimes signifieth the Champions and valiant defenders of a Country 2 Sam. 23. 20. Now here he foretels the ruine of the Temple as Jer. 7. 14. Ezek. 9. 6. The City as by Ariel is meant the whole Temple and consequently that part of the City where it stood namely Mount Moriah So by this other part is meant that other hill namely the hill of Sion where the City of David stood To signifie the whole City of Jerusalem or severally the State and the Church vers 2. Adde ye that is to say feed your selves on with these vaine hopes that yeeres shal run on alwaies in the same manner An ironicall kinde of speech against prophane men as Ezek. 12. 22. Amos 6. 3. 2 Pet. 3. 4. Let them kill continue on your outward service which is but hypecrisie upon which notwithstanding you rely against all my threatnings see Jer. 7. 21. V. 2. I will distresse I wil cause my Temple to be besieged as well as the City making no difference between the one which is my holy habitation and the other which is the common dwelling place of the people V. 3. I will c●mpe as Captaine Generall of the Chaldeans that shall besiege thee V. 4. And shall speake thy pride shall be humbled and thy bravery cast down thou shalt yeed to thine enemies and petition to them with a great deale of basenesse see Jer. 46. 22. A familiar spirit which answered with an obscure sound and low kind of murmuring out of such persons as he possessed see Isa. 8. 19. V. 5. Of thy strangers thy men of warre which thou shalt hire or shall be sent thee from abroad shall all be dispersed and shall not be able to relieve thee It shall be all this reliefe which shall come from Egypt and other places shall not be able to withstand the Chaldeans and shall yeeld thee no comfort but a very short and transitory one see Jer. 37. 5 7. V. 6. Thou shalt namely Jerusalem With thunder a figurative description to say Heaven and Earth shall concur to their ruine V. 7. As a dreame in regard of thee to whom this siege and ruine shall happen beyond all thought judgement and expectation And also in respect of the Chaldeans themselves who will never be satisfied with tormenting thee and the more prosperous successe they shall have the more eager they will be against thee V. 9. Stay your selves let every one attentively and with admiration consider these calamities of my people and the causes of them Drunken they are asleepe lulled in their vices troubled and darkned in their understanding that they cannot give heed to these threatnings and so be converted and saved Isa. 28. 7 8. V. 10. Hath powred that is to say he hath punished their voluntary blindnesse with a greater astonishment depriving them quite of the light of his Spirit against which they have rebelled giving them over to the Spirit of darknesse Your Rulers the Italian Your heads for the false Prophets did intrude into the publique government while Jerusalem was besieged Jer. 26. 8. see Isa. 3. 2. The Se●●s namely Prophets 2 Sam. 9 9. V. 11. The vision you shall apprehend nothing by my word which shall be preached to you by my Prophets whereby you may be lively touched instructed and so converted which shall happen as well through your malicious ignorance as through my just judgement Is sealed see Isa 8. 16. Rev. 5. 1 5. V. 13. And their feare none of their seeming piety comes from the heart but is drawn from them by the absolute command of some good King as Hezekiah Josiah c. Or it is nothing but an observation of humane traditions V. 14. Shall be hid shall be confounded and shall not dare to make any more vaine ostentations Or it shall vanish away and come to nothing V. 15. To hide that designe their enterprises secretly within themselves and never informe themselves of the will of God nor doe not communicate their said designes to him in their prayers desiring therein his aide and blessing Or who in their sins and secret malices doe thinke they can hide themselves from Gods knowledge V. 16. Your turning doe you thinke to be masters and absolute rulers of what you intend and turne up and down in your minds as the potter is of his clay which he hath upon his wheele to doe therewith what he will Shall the worke can you thinke you can withdraw your selves from Gods knowledge and government who hath you and all your actions under the conduct of his Soveragine providence as the potter hath his clay V. 17. And Lebanon shall it appeares by Isa. 32. 15. that this is an Evangelicall promise the meaning whereof is Under the Messias his Kingdom which will shortly be made manifest all those vices which my people have at this present shall be corrected and their calamities restored For the men which are like wild Trees of the Wood such as Lebanon brings forth shall by my grace and Spirit be regenerate and become faire fruitful Trees such as grow upon Mount Carmel and shal be multiplied in number like unto a thick wood V. 18. Shall the deafe men that are naturally uncapable of the mysteries of faith shall be enlightned and instructed in the true knowledge of Gods word Of the Booke he hath a relation to what he had said v. 11. 12. V. 19. The meeke an ordinary title of beleevers V. 20. Is consumed that is to say there shall be none of them in the true mysticall Church see Isa. 28. 14. V. 21. That make namely that suborne false Prophets or induce true Prophets to falsifie Gods words Isa. 30. 10. For him namely for Gods true servants which reprove them for their sins in places of publique assemblies where the Prophets used to come ●er 17. 19. 19. 2 Am●s 5. 10. V. 22. Jacob namely the old Patriarch who is brought in rejoycing at the conversion of his posterity in stead of the shame which he had suffered for their former evill life Shall not now namely after I have purged and re-established my Church V. 23. The work● of namely those that through my g●ac● and Spirit have been re●e●●rated to newnesse of life Psal. 100. 3. Ephes. 2. 10. Shall san●●ifie namely shall honour and doe reverence to it as being most holy V. 24. That murmured namely against God and his Prophets rebelling against them and contradicting them A te●me taken from the peoples frequent acts in the wildernesse CHAP. XXX Vers. 1. THe rebellious children namely my people Councell fl●shly and reproved councell namely to trust upon Egypts assistance against the Babylonians without thinking upon the onely means of deliverance by turning to God and calling upon his Name see Jer. 37. 7. Ezek. 17. 15. V. 2. And have not by the priests oracle or by some Prophe● Num. 27. 21. Josh. 9. 14.

maintain and establish the devils kingdom Dan. 7. 20 25. To continue other Texts have it To war namely with the Church which seemes to agree best with the figure of Antiochus Fourty and two according to the letter they are the three yeares and an halfe of Antiochus his persecution Dan. 7. 25. and 12. 7 11. but being referred to Rome this terme seemes to be indefinite to signifie the whole time of Gods patience in suffering of heathen Romes persecution V. 6. His Tabernacle that is to say his Church And them that namely Christ and all his who were gathered up in glorie V. 7. Given unto him that is to say he was permitted To overcome them namely in the world and corporally for a time V. 8. Of the Lambe the Italian whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the Book of life of the Lambe who was slain shall worship him namely of Christ 1 Pet. 1. 19 20. to whom this Booke of life is attributed whether it be because that in Christ all Gods children are chosen Ephes. 1. 4. or whether it be because that he is prince and authour of everlasting life whereunto they are chosen Others set down the words of the Text in this manner Whose names are not written in the Book of life of the Lambe who was slain from the foundation of the world that is to say in Gods decree and foresight and in the efficacie of his death which hath been present to God from all eternitie V. 10. He that A summarie and obscure description of the Roman Empire through Gods just judgement Is the that is to say one ought to shew and exercise it in persevering constantly in the faith and in bearing all manner of assaults expecting the time which God hath appointed V. 11. Another this can apparently belong to no other but to a power used under the Name of Christ which hath brought in and established it selfe by meanes of and after the ruine of the Roman Empire Two hornes that is to say usurping two powers Secular and Ecclesiasticall even as Christ is both King and High-priest or counterfeiting the mildnesse of Christs Kingdom which proceedeth not with outward force nor violence of armes even as the hornes of a lambe are not good to butte with or to do any harme He spake that is to say he used an absolute command over the consciences raised himselfe through devilish pride and execrable boasting Rev 18. 7. V. 12. Before him The Roman Empire subsisting yet a long time after the being of this second Beast especially in these Easterne parts To worship that is to say to have religious conceits of the place where Rome stood as being consecrated to a perpetuall presence of God and to yield divine honours and religious obedience to it Whose deadly wound This seemes to be another wound then that of verse 3. and to have a relation to the desolations of Rome by the Northerne Nations V. 13. Fire come this seemes to be meant by thunders darted out as it were in God and Christ his Name whereby the world hath oftentimes been set on fire with warres and troubled with terrible confusions V. 14. That they should make namely that they should establish a new forme of Roman politicke Empire which should have some name and resemblance of the ancient Empire which was ruined And did live namely by the establishment of the universall Empire pretended to be spirituall V. 15. To give life the Italian to give spirit that is to say force and vigour to command Speak that is to say make Lawes and statutes with penalties to the disobedient and to the contemners of the majestie of this new Empire stiled sacred by its adherents V. 17. That no man that is to say forbidding all manner of commerce and communication with those that did not acknowledge this power V. 18. Count the This is very obscure and doubtfull A Christian Authour of the ancientest hath left in writing or peradventure by tradition that this was the name Latine as the Grecians write it for the Grecians using letters in stead of cyphers of numbers do out of the foresaid name make up the number which is here set down and indeed this number can have no relation to yeares for that as hath been said Rev. 15. 2. CHAP. XIV Vers. 1. I Looked It seemes that by this Vision the heavenly glorie is represented wherewith the ancient Martyrs were crowned who suffered death under heathen Rome or they who by vertue of their election have not adhered to the false dominion of the soules whilest it reigned in the world without any contradiction and they are brought in giving God thankes therefore V. 3. Redeemed that is to say acquired to God by the price of Christs bloud 1 Cor. 7. 23. 2 Pet. 2. 1. V. 4. Which were not that is to say who have kept themselves pure from all idolatrie which is spirituall fornication and have loyally adhered to Christ the onely Bridegroom of the Church see 2 Cor. 11. 2. Ephes. 5. 27. V. 6. Having the The sequele of these Visions sheweth that this cannot be understood of the first preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles and that it must be referred to a miraculous renewing of it V. 8. Is fallen This first crie is the proclamation of Gods sentence against the spirituall Babylon and of the beginnings of the execution thereof by the spirituall ruine of her plots the other proclamation Rev 18. 2. will be that of the final execution Made all nations drinke by her frauds and false perswasions she hath in such sort besoted mens spirits as with a compounded drinke that they have thereby lost their right judgement and have suffered themselves to be induced to spirituall fornication of idolatries and superstitions which deceit is neverthelesse an effect of Gods just judgement upon the world which hath not entertained the love of Truth 2 Thess. 2. 10 11 12. V. 10. Without mixture without any temperament of grace and of mercie with which God moderates the cup of believers afflictions V. 12. Here are they that is to say in these occasions they shall make themselves to be known by most certain proofes V. 13. From henceforth namely after the doctrine of the Gospell and faith shall be re-established in the world in its own puritie and vertue by which alone man can die happily in present comfort and confidence of eternall salvation Their workes that is to say the reward of them cannot fail them after their labours and combates V. 15. Out of the Temple represented oftentimes in this Book in Vision to be in Heaven now from this place to the end of the Chapter seem to be foretold the warres and desolations which were to happen in the world by reason of the Gospels re-establishment as if that after this last effect of Gods grace there were no more any mercie or patience to be expected but onely a finall destruction as a harvest or a vintage when