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Page  xxviiThis seuenth angell is more harde & vncerten to interprete and to expounde, than all the other. Lyke as it is more vncerten to wryte of thinges to come, than of suche thinges as are alredy past. It may wel be a great feare in tyme to come that y^• kyngdom of the Turkes for a short space, shal be a great plage & sorow, an heuy iudgemēt ouer the corrupte & decayed christēdome. Whiche plage may here be founde & marked out of these wordes, y^• it shal happē & come to passe be∣fore suche tyme as the Lambe & his ministers shal rule vpon y^• earth, that both Iewes & heathen shal be conuerted vnto Christ y^• it may be sayde, it is al done, and so vp y^• the full end of the worlde to come, & the terrible iudgement of God to fal vpō one sorte & parte of men whiche shall than be a lyue, whiche is y^• first parte. And the other part is of them whiche shall ryse vp vnto euerlastynge sal∣uacion. And y^• thirde, is of them which are already damned, which is and shalbe the greatest part. Vnto whom this iudgemēt, & all that shal goe before or come after it, shal be more fearful & terrible thā any hart can thincke, or any toung ex∣presse, which terrible & heuy thing is here sygnified (as muche as is possyble) by the terryble voyces, thonders, lightninges, earthquakes, & ouerthrowing of the greatest & mightiest cities & kingdomes, as Babilō & Rome were. What thing can be thought or ymagined more terrible & fearfull? Whiche thing this cursed and damnable worlde shall and muste suffer by the rightuous iudgemente of God, and it muste fele the great wrathe of God, forasmuche as it hath alwayes despised the blessed gospel and Christ our sauiour and redemer. And therfore the great and heauye stroke and plage of gods rightuous iudgement shal fal vpon the worlde, and yet shall it not amende them, but as damned parsons, shall cast and set them into euerlastinge blasphemye of God wherin they are hardened, and wil not amende. Whiche is the highest & greatest plage that the lorde God maye or wil sende vpon his enemies.