¶ And I loked, and lo a lambe stoode on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred and xliiii. thousande hauing his name and his fathers name written in their foreheades. And I heard a voyce from heauen, as the sounde of many waters, and as the voyce of a great thounder. And I hearde the voyce of harpers harping with their harpes.
HEre foloweth, what rewarde they shall haue, whiche folowe not this horned beast, nor them that worship it. The lambe vpon the mount Sion is our Sauiour Christ, rulinge and gouer∣ning in his holy christen churche, and sorowing for his faithful elect. This great nomber, after the customable vse of the scrip∣ture, sygnifieth the infinite and exceadinge great nomber of gods elect from the beginninge of the worlde vntil the ende therof, vnknowen vnto the whole worlde: Althoughe the nomber of the wicked and damned sorte be also a great nomber. These electe are they, whiche without feare, shame, or compulsion haue confessed, knowledged, honoured, spred furth, noysed abrode, preached and taught the name of the heauenly father before all the worlde, a∣gainst all the spyte and resistinge of the deuyll, of all his ministers, and of the wicked worlde.