& by their preaching, hauing vvillingly ex∣posed their liues to the death, for the iustify∣ing of their faith in Iesus Christ.
12 Wherefore reioice O yee Saints which dwell in heauen, but tremble yee inhabitants of the earth, which dwell in the continent, & in the Ilands; for the divell is come downe vnto you, for to vvreake his anger vpon you, knowing that he shall ere long be cast into the bottomlesse pit, and that all his povver to doe hurt, shall shortly be taken away from him.
13 When the divell therefore savv that he vvas casseered of his kingdome, & that he vvas throwne out of heauen, hee did set him∣selfe to persecute the Church of vvhich Iesus Christ was borne, that is, the Church of the faithfull Iewes, amongst vvhom vvere the Apostles, and Disciples of Iesus.
14 But God shewd this Church a vvay to escape the persecution vvhich the divell had raised, by flying away, & hiding herselfe in the aboue named towne of Pella, on this side Iordan, vvhere God did nourish and de∣fend her, for a yeare, two yeares, and a halfe an yeare; that is, for three yeares and a halfe.
15 This persecution then of the Chri∣stian Church, being no vvaies advantagious to Satan, he mooved Pagan & heathen peo∣ple