and washe you cleane and cleanse your corrupted harts by washing away your euill thoughtes wicked lusts and sinfull déedes in the blood of Christe by true repentance and newnes of lyfe least you be cast hedlong from the inheritance of heauinly pleasure into the filthie lake of perpetuall sorrowe and miserie and all yée Inhabiters of the earth striue against sinne and cast from you the fellowship of Ipocrisie enuy pryde couetousnes with all other sinnes and cut of from your hartes the cloisters of euill thoughtes and the braunches of wicked imaginations that you may bee found woorthie at the great day of the LORD to bee translated into the kingdome of glorie Wherefore consider the terrour of the day of iudgment and beholde how all kyndreds dooth stand shaking and be wailing before the highe Iudge that it may inforce vs to teares for to thinke on that daye when shall bee séene that moste great lamentable and euerlasting seperation departing of the elect from the dampned and this departing shall be such as that the one parte shall be cast into hel Mark 9. into the fire that neuer shal be quenched out of which no wéeping teares can restore vs where sayth Mark that the worme dyeth not and the fire neuer goeth out when shall be fulfilled that heauie voice Wo be to you that are riche Luke 6. for you haue therein your consolation woe bee to you that are full for you shall hunger woe bee to you that now laugthe Math. 11. for yee shall waile and weepe and theÌ„ shall bee heard that voyce of terrour and wretchednesse saying Woe bee vnto thee Châ—rasin Woe bee to thee Bethsaida whiche so little regarded and estéemed the Myracles and the Doctryne doone in thee which if they had bene done in Tyre and Sydon they would haue repented in sackcloth and ashes Therefore I say to thee it shall be easier for Tyre and Sydon at the day of iudgement then for you And wo be to thee Capernaum which art lift vp euen to heauen being so proud thou shalt be brought downe into hell for if the miracles and doctrine done in thee had bene done in Zodome they had remained vndestroyed till this day therefore it shall be easier for the land of Zodome in the day of iudgement then for thee wherefore beware ye carelesse people howe you refuse the doctrine of Christ least you heape to your selues an hard iudgement at the day of the Lord make ye readie that you may go vp to the house of the Lord Esay 2. and to the house of the God of Iacob and walke in his pathes for Christ hath told signes wonders and tokens of his comming And he hath sent you many a Ionas to recall you to repentance and to teach you his doctrine of saluation therefore turne to God least that Nyniuie rise in iudgement against you and the woe of Bethsaida ouertake you for as it happened in the time of Noye so shall the comming of the sonne of man be they eate they drank they married wiues and were married Luk. 17. euen vnto the same day that the floud came and destroyed them all like wise also as it chanced in the daies of Lot they eate they dranke they bought they sold they planted they bilt and euen the same day that Lot went out of Zodome it rayned fire and brimstone from heauen and destroyed them all And after these examples shall it be in the day when the sonne of man eppeareth and then two shall be in bed the one receiued the other forsaken two grinding at the mill the one receiued the other forsaken Therefore harken O earth and ye indwellers of the earth to this terrible day of the Lord yea cast off your mantle of securitie and slacknes and open your blunt hartes and dull eares giuing a carefull eare to the sentence which the Apostles doe giue Matth. 19. Matth. 25. that shall sit with Christ in iudgement saying take cast the vnprofitable seruant into vtter darknesse And Iohn Paul saith That all vncleane persons that worke abominations Reuel 21. 1. Cor. 6. and lyes the fearefull vnbeleeuing murtherers whoremongers sorcerers Idolaters couetous drunkardes extortioners theeues weakelens cursed speakers enuious persons continuing to death without repentance from the bottome of the heart shal haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death for as the trée falleth so doeth it lie whereupon beware ye wicked worldlings sinners the delay and hold off froÌ„ time to time driue off froÌ„ true repentance amendment of life least your sinnes lie heauie vpon you and your heart grow hard in these sinnes can not repeÌ„t and so heape to your selues the treasure of wrath against the day of vengeaÌ„ce according to the prophesie of Enoch Saint Iude. saying behold the Lord shall come with thousands of saints to giue iudgement against all meÌ„ to rebuke all that are vngodly among them of all their vngodly deedes which they haue committed of all the cruell speakings which vngodly sinners haue spoken against him TheÌ„ shal the Lord cry with a loud voice Reuel 14. like a lion that roareth vnto his angels to thrust in the sharpe sicle and gather the clusters of the earth and to cut downe the grapes of the earth the wicked and sinfull people and cast theÌ„ into the great winefat of his wrath and the winefat is troden wtout the citie of new IerusaleÌ„ yea it is trodeÌ„ in the place of extreme darknes in the hideous dungen of hel in al horror of bloody sorrowes for the reward of sinne is death and hell where it stincke with brimstone that cannot be abodden where behold with piteous eyes how the soules of the dampned bewayle in woe where all mirth and ioye are turned to woes where all songes and musicke are wooes where feasting and banketting be woes where daunsing and loue toyes be wooes playes and pastimes be woes and where golde and siluer and all gay things of this worlde are chaunged into wretchednesse and woes And of all other this is the most dreadfull woe Eâ—trenseâ—â—â— which is the depriuation of hope from comming out of those wooes And thus the miserable dampned soules are euermore tormented with fire and brimstone and the smoke of their tormentes ascendeth vp for euer and euer And neuer haue rest day and night and they crye piteously to the Lorde and hee heareth not and though they neuer cease from teares yet the Lorde regardeth them not And then they knowe when it is too late that all worldly thinges are vanities and miseries and they woulde repent and it helpeth not and thus they weepe and wayls in dolourouse tormentes and gnawe their tongues in most rigorous paine And so in great burning they drink of the cup of Gods intollerable wrath and heauie displeasure and indignation and they still burne and neuer are burned they seeke death and death
honor the Father that who soeuer heareth Christes woâ—des and beléeue on him that sent him Ihon. 5. hath euerlasting lyfe and shall not come to damnation but is scaped from death vnto lyfe for he only hath the keyes of hell and death and shall iudge the quick Reue. 1. and the dead at the appearing of his kingdome were all shall be brought before the iudgement seat of Christe Tim. 2.4 and euerie one giue accountes of him self to God for the time is come that iudgement must begin at the house of the Lord consider therefore what kynde of people we ought to bée in conuersatioÌ„ of lyfe Pet. 14. séeing the righteous iudgement of God shall be opened which will reward euery man with prayse honor and immortalitie that hath cuÌ„tinued in good dooing Rom. 2. and vnto them which hath béen sinfull disobeying the trenth following iniquitie shall come indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish vpon the soule of euerie man that doe euill for there is no parcialitie with God but dooth iudge without respect of persons according to euerie mans woorkes as shall appeir at the great day of the Lord when God shall iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christe according to the Gospell when we must appeir â—e before his glorious and shining maiestie that euery man may reape according as he hath sowen Heb. 4. whereuppon wée are moste carefully to looke into our owne selues knowing that our soules shall be wayes vpon the ballance by that moste true and righteous Iudge whose eyes are as a flame of fire that sercheth out the ground of our hartes and knoweth the seceret mouings of our myndes iudgeth all the thoughts and intentes of man to whome all things are naked bare neither is there any creature inuisible in the sight of him who will not fayle to to recompence euery man according to his wayes and according to the frutes of his counsels and imaginations Now then that this generall cytation of our infallible apperaÌ„ce before that Court regall which God will holde with all fleshe is so apparent wée should perswade that the knoweledge héerof is moste forcible to strike into our hartes a trembling feare and dread of our Lord God who is a consuming fire to all that doe continue in wickednes so that it behoueth vs not to make lighte accompte of so great and fearfull a matter and it standeth vs vppon not to bee necligente and carelesse of the order and maner of our liues séeing it toucheth our Soules so neare the quicke as that by the conuersation of lyfe in this world the marke and garland is so set before vs that if wee run the race of this life Math. 2.5 like to the fiue good Virgines hauing prepared in our selues in the grace of Christ that lamps of righteousnes sanctifying the Lord God in our harts by good conuersation in Christe then wee shall accompanye Christe or bridegroome in the great day of his comming shall go in with him to the wedding and to the inioying of our new heauenly Ierusalem which is to coÌ„e down froÌ„ God from heauen preparhd as a Bryde for her husband Roue 19. béeing rayes with the goodly raines of the righteousnes of Saincts for the mariage of the vndefiled Lamb and for the glorious companie of the holy elect who then are happie that they are called vnto the lambes supper ther crowned with the garland of glorification Otherwise if wee run the race of this lyfe like the fiue foolish Virgines not respecting the rule of righteousnes nor imbracing the Oyle of gladnes brought to vs by Christes Gospell but wallowing in wickednes and so seek after our fleshly lusts warldly vanities then we must be shut out from this heuinlie wedding and throwen down from the face of God from his Sanctes into that dreadfull darcknes where all are wrapt in sorrow wot made the dampned children of cursed sâ—â—haÌ„ Phil. 2. for which cause we ought to watch pray knowing not what day or hours the sonne of man shall come therfore we ought to watch pray woorking out our salâ—â—â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 â—â—â—â—es t that our misdéeds seperate vs from our God and our sinnes hide his face for â—â—er from vs. Wherfore ye Prachers cry out the voice of heauines the lamenting cryes of dolefulnes which shall come vnto the wicked lyuers vnlesse they repent and yée Preachers sound out the voice of ioy of mirth and gladnes that shall come vnto the godly people and thou hart faint not and thou hand slack not to vtter foorth and wriâ—â— how the gates of heauen staÌ„d open night and day for penitent sinners for the faithfull godly and righteous people to receiue them into blessednes and shewe thy self a watchman to awake with this voice all the people round about out of the sléeping bed of sinne blowing into the eares of deafe sinners wretched worldlings fleshly lyuers vicious walkers and wicked dooers how hell gates doe gape very wide â—n moste dreadfull maner to swallowe vp vngodly and wicked men Num. 16. O how did the Isralites tremble and quake when they did se the earth open and s wallow vp Corath Leui. 10. Dathan and Abyron with all that they had that they went down quick to hel O how did the Isralites tremble and shake when a consuming fire came out from the Lord and cons umed Nadab and Abihu the sonnes of Aaron Num. 11. then come hither yée Inhabiters of the earth and behold with gushing teares with sorrow and terrour with sobbes and sighes the day of vengeance with much more terrour of the gates of hell gaping and gas ping in most hydious monsterous and horrible manner to swallow by 〈◊〉 diffent 〈◊〉 and again con sider how the Isralites did saâ—â—â—â—or â—â—are when â—â—â—re of the Lord did burne among them and consumed the vtter mo ste of the hoast Exo. 19. Deut. 4. and how againe they shaked for dread when the Lord came down vpon mount Sinay with tempest sound of the trump speaking out of fire baâ—nnow come hither all ye people of the Lord beholde the day of the Lord for he coÌ„meth to take vengeance reward yea he coÌ„meth him self lyke a goldsmiths are 〈◊〉 the heauens shall perish the elemeÌ„ts melt the earth all the 〈◊〉 withâ—â—â—â—â—e according to Paule who saith that Thess 2. â— Hee shall come with his mightie Aungels in flaming fire rendring vengeance vnto them that know not God and to them that obey not the gospell of our Lord Iesus Christ which shall be punished with euerlasting damnation from the presence of the Lord and from the glorie of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his saintes and made maruelous in all them that beleeue therefore harken vnto this voice with sorrow of thy sinnes and remember this day with trembling and repenting knowing how miserable those sinners were that continued in wickednes and
dooth my Fathers will which is in heauen whereupon take warning O all ye people of the Lords and consider that narrowe is the way that leadeth to saluation and broade the way that leadeth to destruction for which cause be vigilant in all good conuersation and wel doing that you may keepe your selues in the narrowe path of Christ that you may find grace mercie in time of néede that when his glorie appeareth you may be merry and glad touching the which remember among many examples the forcible example of Dâ—â—es who being puffed vp with all wealthy prouision of lands and goodes liuing in the pleasure and securitie of this worlde Luke 16. regarded not goodnesse righteousnesse and mercie but contemned the poore so liued according to his owne froward thoughts and â—â—â—â—eites shewing no pitie and that 〈◊〉 to poore Lazarus â—â—â—â—ning to his gate for 〈◊〉 who had a true and patient heart to 〈◊〉 and miserie of life in this world And 〈◊〉 how this poore wretches 〈◊〉 to God was caryed into Abraham 〈◊〉 riche man for his wicked life 〈◊〉 heart is adiudged to hell torments and that he being in the burning 〈◊〉 of tortures and 〈◊〉 and beholding Lazarus as ioy â—â—d neuer after 〈◊〉 so much as one drop of 〈◊〉 scalding in the breaking 〈◊〉 take hee s to your selileâ— ye wealthy citizens ye rich gluttons voluptuous liuers couetous worldlings vncharitable hearts stiffs stomackes and vnmercifull people knowing that after that day repentance is too late so that be mindfull to lay vp treasures in heauen where neither theeues breake in nor mothes corrupt Matth. 6. that when the day of the Lord commeth thou maist find fauour to be in the bosome of Abraham with Lazarus in the euerlasting habitatioÌ„s and scape the danger of Diues torments where it is vnpossible euer to come out againe or euer to be released froÌ„ the horrour of woes therefore deceiue not thy selfe with the 〈◊〉 of a counterfet faint and cold repentance but put on true sineers faithfull repentance with a stedfast amendment of life making no longer delay least the arrowes of death or the sudden comming of the day of the Lord doth come vpon thee vnawares and so be found vnprouided like an vnprofitable seruant deseruing to be cast into darknes to whom the Lord shall say in his wrath Esay 3.1 it is ye the haue burnt vp my vineyard therefore depart froÌ„ me ye wicked whereby be ye mooued and stirred vp inwardly in your hearts knowing that it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God to sup the cuppe of his indignation when he shall say woe be to their soules which shal be heauily rewarded Esay 31. For the Lorde commeth saith Esay with â—â—â—e his charet shal be like a whirle wind that he may recoÌ„pence his vengeance in his wrath and his indignation in the flame of fire Esay 66. for the Lord shall iudge all flesh with the fire and with his sword for the hande of the Lorde shal be knowen among his seruants and his indignation among his enemies and I wil saith the Lord gather all people and tongues with their workes and imaginations and they shall sée my glorie for the Lord will hold his court regall with all flesh and then it shal be said Happie are the godly for they shal enioy the fruits of their works and labours but woe to the vngodly for they shall be recompens es after their euill deedes Oseas 7. and then at that day the Lorde shal say as in Oseas woe be do them for they haue forsaken mee they haue sowen winds therefore they shall reape a storme they must be destroyed for they haue set me at naught they haue plowed wickednesse and therefore shall reape the fruite of sinne which at that day of iudgement is the bitter paines of hell and damnation wherefore crucifie your earthly and fleshly members and s eeke for grace to replenish your heartes with heauenly thoughtes and deedes saying with Saint Iohn Reuel 1. He commeth and all eyes shall see him and they that pearced him and then all kindreds shall wayle Reuel 6. And heauen shall vanish away like a scroule when it â—â—â—olled together and all mountaines and Isles shall be mooued out of their places and the Kinges of the earth and the great men and the mightie men and the rich men and the captaines and euery bonde man and euery free man shall hide them selues in dennes and rockes of the hilles and say to the rockes and the hilles fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth in the seat and from the wrath of the Lambe for the great day of his wrath is come and who can endure it Esay 2. For then saith Esay shall men creepe into the holes of stoue and into the caues of the earth from the sight of the fearefull Iudge and from the glorie of his Maiestie when he shall make him vp to shake the earth Nowe sée what a dreadfull day of trembling this is and howe feare shall ouertake all men high and lowe euen with vtter lamentation and despaire when the Lorde at that day which is at hande shall according to Micheas Mich. 1. come downe and treade vpon the high thinges of the earth and cleaue the heauens asunder that the mountaines shall consume vnder him Thess 1.4 and the valleyes rent in pieces according to Paul The Lorde shall discende from heauen with a shoute and the voyce of the Archaungel trumpe of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first and then shal wee which remaine be caught vp with them also in the cloudes Cor. 1.15 to meete the Lord in the aire for the trumpet shall blowe and the dead shall rise incorruptible and we shal be chaunged in a moment and in the twinckeling of an eye at the sounde of the last trumpet for this corruptibilitie must put on corruptibiltie and this mortalitie must put on immortalitie then death shal be coÌ„sumed into victory for now the time is the though you be scattered to dust and ashes or in the waues of the sea and wrapt in the corners of the earth dennes of hell yet can you not escape froÌ„ God for euery place shall giue vp all their dead at the voice of Christ the iudger of the quicke and the dead Reue. â—0 and then shall the bookes bee opuned and the dead iudged of those thinges which are written in the bookes according to their deedes When according to the Scripture shall the names of the righteous be manifest and also the names of the vngodly with their woorks be declared wherfore put on the garmnets of God that yée may bee found to prayse and honor when Christe our high king of kinges commeth to iudgement when all knées shall bowe giue accoÌ„ptes to God Iohn 5. for which cause it néerly behooueth vs to walk in
therfore to annymate vs in spirit hée confirmed the assured certaintie of his glorie and our glorie and of his glorious comming in the end of the world when he sayde to his Apostles that some there were among them that should not taste of death till they saw the sonne of man Math. 17. come in his kingdome and so in a visiō or spiritual dream by transfiguring him self vpon mount Tabor before Péeter Iames and Iohn he shewed the vision of his owne glorie and of our glorification by Moyses and Helyas appearing also with garments of immortalitie And thus he presented to their spirituall sight the excellencie of his comming again at the latter day when his face did shine as the sunne and his clothes as white as the light and so pure in all whitnes as no Fuller can make vppon the earth Peter 2.1 Wherfore Péeter the chéef beholder thereof dooth testifie saying With our eyes wee saw his maiestie euen then verely when hee receiued of God the Father honour and glorie and when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glorie Iohn 1. This is my deare beloued sonne in whōe I delight And Iohn witnesseth also the s ame That hee saw the glorie of him as the glorie of the onlye begotten sonne of the Father and the great shyne of his glorie appeared vnto Paule after his assention Acts. 9.26 aboue the brightnes of the sun by which hee stirreth vs to expect his glorious comming in the end of the world and inflame vs with the desire of glorifying that wee might walke as Children of the light and sonnes of God in all righteousnes of conuersation according to his Gospell that wee may bee heires of his glorious kingdome of eternall ioy when he shall appeare to saluation to chaunge our vile and corrupt earthly bodies to bee facioned and made lyke to his glorious bodie Phil. 13. Moreouer our blessed Sauiour doth giue vs great consolation and hope by such Reuelations of heauenly expectation of blessednes to come when hée presented to Iohn the vision of his moste wunderfull brightnes and preciousnes of glorie beeing entred into heauen and set down on the right hand of the maiestie on high by shyning shewing foorth the spirituall semblance of his pre-excellent beutie power and glorie in which he is Alpha and Omega the first and the last and was dead and is alyue for euermore and shall come againe quickly and will not tarrie any longer then till his Father hath made his enemies his foote-stoole Cor. 1.15 And now hee appeared in the preheminence of exceeding and incomparable glorie and power in as much as hée hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name then the Angells and creatures Heb. 10. seeing by him all thinges were created thinges that are in heauen Colloss 1 and thinges that are in earth thinges visible and thinges inuisisible whether they be maiestie lordship rule or power all thinges hath their creation and being by him and in him and that hee is the first begotten of all Creatures the head of the congregation and first beginning and begoten of the dead that in all thinges hee mihght haue the preheminēce beeing the only begotten sonne of GOD. So that according to his moste excellent worthines of preheminence hée being the cheife lyuing corner stone of the whole buylding and the eternall head of the Temple of his Father did appeare to Iohn sitting according to his hye diguitie in the cheif and moste royall seate of the Temple in the midst of the seauen Candlestickes Esdras 4. ◠according to the vision of Esoras Hée was in the midst of the multitude vppon mount Sion beeing a condigne place for him hauing the goulden and heauenly censour to offer vp the swette cense and odoures of the prayers and petitions of the whole Saincts and congregation wherof he is the head through his owne handes vppe before the glorious presence of the heauenly Father vp vpon the golden Alter of GOD. Reue 8 ◠beeing clothed with a linning garment down to the feete as whyte as snow Daniel 10. arcocding to the said vision to Daniell answering héerto being his robes of the eternall puritie and of his euerlasting and royall préesthood for euer according to the order of Melchesedech representing the sanctifying of his precious and eternall holynes and godlynes in prays ing the omnipotent Father of glorie for euer in his holy Ierusalem or Temple of glorified Saincts and hee was girded about the breast or paps with a golden girdell reprsenting the pure and approoued confirmation of eternall veritie vndfiled chastitie and sinceritie perfect obedience and eternall wisdome righteousnes and treuth to be conioyned to his glorious body and his head and his heare were most amiable white lyke pure wooll or snowe shewing thereby a setled grauitie of all true godlynes a modest reuerence of all true honor a confirmed experience of all deuine patience and the only coullor of purenes and clearnes of mynde without chaunge for euer and on his head a golden Crowne shewing that hée was the glorious king of kings Heb. 4. and his eyes as cleare lamps and cleare flames of fire shewing that all things were naked to his fight and that hée was the only light of all things and his armes and feete like fine polished brasse burning bright in the furnace or lyke pillers of fire shewing that he had a sure strength stedfastnes in all his waies bé eing tryed faithfull in doing the will of his Father and in performing all his promises and so tryed pure therin as brasse in the furnace and his body was lyke a Crisolite transparent with the beautifull sintillation of golde fire shewing foorth the absolute mirrour of his glorious beautie in all soundnes of one selfe same in him self eternall clearenes of glorie and maiestie and his voice as the voice of a multitude or sound of many waters shewing that he was the head chéeif of the multitude of his people that all voyces and languages weare as one voyce and as one language vnto him and in his and that they should do all things by the direction of his voice for they that be his doe heare his voyce Iohn 10. And now he shall leade the glorified saints vnto fountaines of liuing water And on his right hand seuen starres shewing that as hee doing his Fathers will doth sit on the right hand of the Father in heauen so his starres which are the ministers of his worde being conteined vnder the figure 7. the Sabboth day number of perpetuall rest and holinesse feeding his sheepe setting foorth his glorie and doing by him and in him the will of his father shall sit with him in his seat euen on his right hand as he hath done with his Father according to Daniel They that haue taught other shall shine as the starres and glister like the shining of heauē Daniel 12. And out of his mouth
abiding inseparably in one concordance of with and in that one as a thing vnpossible that that great radical nomber should consist or be found without his roote radicall neither also is it possible to be thought a roote radicall to be but that in his owne nature and power of force are many nombers radicall inclusiuely conteined in this his roote as in a priuie seale of most heauenly comprehension so that the nomber of twelue is a radicall nomber which by vertue and power of it selfe multiplied in it selfe doeth of it selfe produce a greater nomber as an hundred fourtie and foure and so the heauenly harmonie increaseth by consent and agreement of radicall production yet this high nomber doth concord vnite and knit it selfe in of and with this radical nomber of twelue So that the twelue apostles being the twelue foundations raised out of one corner stone wherof the walles of Ierusalem do stand are the radicall roote whereof the great nomber of the elect in one symbolicall conformitie and concordance of vnitie doth agrée in perfect harmonie of coniuction as euer abiding in of with his foundation or radical roote and so by vertue power of perfect production coniunction concordance and harmonie is one in many and many in one conteined in perfection of heauenly mysterie Whereby this Radicall foundation and roote twelue Apostles springing out of that only roote of Iesse dooth conteine his measure of Ierusalem so vnder the vertue figuratiue of twelfe as the number of the whole elect of the twelue trybes that the heigh length breadth is equalll and the measure of the walles is a perfect radicall number of the radicall root of twelf multiplyed in him self which in his owne strength and power produceth and hūdreth fortie and fower a figuratiue signe of the vnitie and consent of the misticall number of the whole congregation of the elect number of the Sainctes for as twelue augmented in it selfe dooth therof concurre a certaine true perfect radicall number consemblably agréeing to in and with the roote twelf wherof it ryseth so in lyke consent vnity harmony perfect number and true increase of production and concordance is the vniuersall Church triumphant to the radicall roote of the twelue Apostles and their doctryne so knyt all in one roote of Iesse inseperably as one in many many in one in ghostly harmony euermore abyding And thus in lyke manner is this euerlasting habitation or new Ierusalem so absolute in all true perfection iust proportion of heauenly consent as nothing can be better nothing purer nothing excellenter and nothing more woorthyer to the euerlasting reioysing of the elect sainctes of God cohering in one self same perfection of one consēt peace and vnitie for euer And now the vision of this glorious Cittie wherin the glorified people shall dwel did glister in the spirituall eies of Iohn in such transparent maner as may animate all harts to the earnest looue and desire of inioying so beautifull an habitation Reue. 4. and so precious a Cittie of blessednes For the buylding of the walles was of Iasper and the Cittie of pure golde lyke to the cleare glasse and the foundation of the walles were garnished with all manner of pretious stones as of Iasper Saphir Calcydon Smaradge Sardonix Sardeos Crisolitie Byrrall Topas Crisoprassos Iacynt and Amatist wherby appeare the abundant riches of all vertues the innumerable treasures of all heauenlynes the exceeding ioyes of all ioyfulnes the vnspeakable swéetnes of all blessednes the moste precious felicitie of all happynes to bee alwaies there conteyned to the perpetuall gladding and reioysing of the hartes of the elect of GOD for the Cittie in euerie parte with the whole and of the whole with euerie parte is without spotte and dymnes without blemish and wryncle for euer being in euerie parte the selfe perfection for euer that in her cōpasse euer is the excelleecie of all excellentnes that nothing can be added Otherfore that the power glorie and mightines of this kingdome of Ierusalem might bee knowen to all men whose glorie is euerlasting and her dominion indureth through all ages for shée hath her gates wrought without hands and yet grauē by high ministerie beeing of twelue beauties like incomparable pearles and yet by heauenly vertue Reue. 4. they shine as many yet still in one And the streat of the Cittie was moste goodly conssisting of pure golde as a through shyning glasse Shewing that it is most riche with all fulnes of riches the mightiest Kingdome of all incomparable treasures Reue. 12. the phenicall Cittie of all inestimable heauenlie merchandize beeing moste delectable abooue all delightes moste beautifull abooue all fairnes most cleare aboue all clearnes most of all resplēding that the night is as cleare as the day and the darknes and light bothe a lyke abooue all brightnes in which wee shall reigne with the Father of all brightnes greatnes beautie and glorie who euermore holdeth the Sainctes and Citizens there in perpetuall blyss e and ioy touching such an heauenlie mansion wherwith they are clothed For that the Lord God almightie and the Lamb are the Temple of it and the brightnes of God doo lighten it and the Lamb is the light of it that there is neuer night neuer need of sunne or moone neither shall the gates euer be shut for the seate of God and the Lamb shall be there Reue. 22. and they shall see his face and his names shall bee vppon their Foreheades And then they are a moste blessed People hauing the Lord for their God that insomuch it is a thing beyond all measure a place of ioy beyond all thoughtes where wee shall haue the fréedome of Angells the paradice of ghostly delightes the incomprehensible brightnes of Gods con̄tenance satisfied with the pleasures of his house and kingdome in the aboundant and bountifull refreshinges of all sweet and delectable gladnes by beholding our GOD in his greatnes béeing the Creator of all creatures the giuer of all blessednes and Author of all heauenlines the omnipotent maker of kingdomes powers and dignitie that all thinges shall yeeld vp their glorie to this Cittie of his Saincts bothe kinges and powers and whatsoeuer hath béen created shall yéelde vp his honour and vertue to this Cittie bothe waters and stones frutes and leaues Reue. 2◠For out of the seat of God and of the Lamb procedeth pure Riuers of water of lyfe hauing on eueerie side woode of eternall life and frutes and leaues of euerlasting helth according to the saying of the Prophet Esay There lyeth no man that sayeth I am sicke for all euill is clearely taken away from the holy and blessed Citizens that dwell and inhabit there And thus the glorified and blessed People of GOD shall continue and euer remain in the glorious presence of Gods moste excellent maiestie in the euerlasting and eternall state of vnspeakable ioyes and hapines euermore walkeing in the puritie of the shyning and moste cleare light