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¶ After this, I loked: and beholde a dore was open in heauen, and the first voyce which I hearde, was as it were of a trompet talkynge with me, whiche sayde: come vp hyther, and I wyll shewe the thinges, which must be fulfylled herafter. And immediatly I was in the spirite: and beholde, a seate was set in heauen, and one sate on the seate. And he that sate, was to loke vpon, lyke vnto a Iaspar stone, and a Sardyne stone. And there was a rayne∣bowe about the seate, in syght lyke to an Emeralde. And about the seate were foure and twentye seates. And vpon the seates foure and twenty elders syttyng clothed in whyte rayment, and had on their heades crownes of golde.
HEre doth Iohn looke and see in spirite, as all y• prophetes dyd. Beholde the fygure, whiche representeth vnto thee, what hea∣uenly mysteries of the kyngdome of Christ, and of the thinges that should happen afterwarde, Iohn dyd see in the heauen be∣yng opened. To be in the spirite, is asmuche as to be rapte of* 1.1 the spirite of god, into an heauēly traunce aboue al mans witte power or capacyte. Gods stoole or seate in heauen sygnified the euerlastynge state and continuaunce of the power, myght, blisse and ryghtuousnes of god. The bryghtnes of the precious stones sygnified y• hyghe maiestye and glory of god, bewtyfyed with the knowledge of al thinges. The raynebowe sygnifyeth