eft monsters, and moft favage and cruel ty rants of all. The firft of them was Ottomanus. The second Bajazethes. The third Amurathes. Thefe made bloody wars against the Christians. I mean the Papists in Europe, and enlarged the Turks dominions very far.

They did from time to time fo cruelly murder and maffacre the inhabitants of the Weft, with their huge and bloody armies, that at laft both the Pope, the emperor, the king of Hungary, the king of Poland, the king of France, the duke of Burgundy, and the duke of Venice, and almost all the potentates in Europe, did join together to make war against the Turks, with great armies, but yet could not prevail; fo ftrong were the Turks, fo huge and dreadful were their armies: then we fee that verified which here was foretold, to wit, that the mon'ftrous armies of the Turks with their 'horfes and horfe men, fhould flay the third part of men: that is, the idolaters in Europe, by heaps and infinite numbers. To fet down the particular battles betwixt the Turks and the Chriftians in Europe, and their horrible blood-fhedding, would require a volume; but this which I have briefly fet down, may ferve to give fome light unto it, and may fuffice for the underftanding of this text. Now it is faid in the

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next verfe, that notwithstanding this heavy hand of God, which was upon the Papists in Europe, and thefe fearful judgments and maffacres, they repented not of their idolatries, but waxed worfe and worfe: for no judgments, no plagues can make the wicked any whit better, as we fee in the examples of Pharaoh and Saul. And here it is faid, That the remnant of men which were killed by these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they fhouldnot worship devils, and idols of gold ' and filver, and of brafs, and of ftone, ' and of wood which neither can fee, nor hear, nor talk. Alfo they repented not of 'their murder, and of their forceries, nei ⚫ther of their fornication, nor of their theft," Rer. ix. 20, 21. And thus we fee how the devils which were bound at Euphrates, being let loose upon the world, in the wrath and juft judgment of God, did fearfully plague both the Turks, in their fouls, and the Papifts in their bodies. The one with falfe religion, the other with bloody fwords: and fo was the defire of the devil fully fatisfied.

CHAP. X.

HAVING opened and expounded the

two first woes which fell out upon the blowing of the fifth and fixth trumpet, containing the two great plagues of Popery and Turkifm, wherewith the world was punished many hundred years: now in this chapter we are to hear of good news, and great comfort, after fo much forrow. For here Jefus Chrift cometh down from heaven to deliver his poor afflicted church, and to be revenged of all his cruel enemies. For now before the third and last wo, containing the greatest plague of all upon the world, which is, the laft judgment: wherein the wicked fhall be tormented in hell-fire for ever, both in body and foul, I faỷ, before the blowing of the feventh trumpet, by the feventh angel, of which we shall hear in the next chapter. Now in the mean time is fhewed in this chapter, what care God had for his little flock, which no. doubt were hid in thofe days, and did not appear and yet were fcattered in corners, even in the midft of the darkness of Popery, and the moft furious and hellifh rage of the Turkish armies. And therefore the principle scope of this chapter, is to fhew how the gofpel fhould be preached in many

kingdoms: Now after this general darkness for the difcovering and overthrow, both of Popery and Turkifm, and to fhew what fhould fall out in the church now in the middle time, before the feventh and last trumpet blow: for then judgment, as the angel chapter, verfe 6, 7.

cometh the last fweareth in this

This chapter doth contain four principle parts.

First, A defcription of Chrift and his glory.

Secondly, Shewing how the gofpel fhould be preached in many nations and kingdoms, by the minifters of this laft age, whereby all adverfary power fhould be o verthrown.

Thirdly, A watch-word, given to the world by Chrift, that when the feventh angel fhould blow the trumpet, the world 'fhould end.

Lastly, To fhow, how all faithful preachers being called and authorized by Christ, fhould travel and take pains in the ftudy of God's book, and afterward fhould publifh the knowledge thereof far and near.

' And I faw another mighty angel come 'down from heaven, clothed with a cloud, and a rain-bow was upon his head, and his 'face was as the fun, and his feet as pillars of brafs,' Rev. x. 1.

This angel of might is Chrift, as appeareth by the description of him, and by all the confequents following: for he is faid to be cloathed with a cloud,' which fignifieth his great glory and majefty: For he fhall come in the clouds of heaven to judge the world; that is, with great pomp and glory. The rain-bow was upon his head,' which fignifieth the cove nant of peace with his church, as before, Rev. iv. 3. His face was as the fun,' which fignifieth, comfort and deliverance to his church, and the difpelling of all the fmoke of the bottomlefs pit, as the fun scattereth and driveth away the thick mifts.

His feet are pillars of brafs,' which fignifieth that he should tread down all his enemies under his feet, both Pope and Turk: For he muft reign till he have de

ftroyed them all,' 1 Cor. xv. 25. The Pope a long time kept all the kings of Europe in fubjection. The locufts were of great power. The Turks prevailed exceedingly. But what are they all to this mighty and glorious angel, Chrift? What is their power to withstand him? What can Abaddon, the king of the locufts do, against this mighty king of Zion? What can the Turks moft terrible horfes and horfe-men do against this angel which fitteth upon the white-horfe? Alas, alas, they are able to