The sealed book opened. Or, A cleer explication of the prophecies of the Revelation. Together with the lessons that are to be observed from every chapter thereof, being cleerly explained. Intended chiefly for the discovery to all of that Roman antichrist, and that Rome her final destruction is surely at hand, by that blessed work of reformation happily begun in the several churches and kingdoms of Europe. / By William Guild D.D. and preacher of Gods word.

Ver. 4. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sinnes, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Follows here the second voice which John heard from hea∣ven, like that of the Angels exhortation to Lot to come out of Sodom, wherein allusion is to the same words, Jer. 51.45. upon which words sayes the Jesuite Ribera, cum Roma ever∣tenda & incendenda erit, Deus electos in ea relictos ut exe∣ant, admonebit, but they are to be extended not only to these who are within the walls of Rome, but also to all such who are within her jurisdiction, nor yet is a locall departure here to be meant, but a moral, or a departure not so much out of such bounds, but from her errours, superstition and idola∣try, as the next words shews, saying, that ye be not partakers of her sinnes, &c. which departure is not a schismatical separation of any from the true Church, b••t the true Churches separati∣on of her self by Gods command. From a Schismatick so∣ciety from the truth and a false Church or Antichristian. The reason of which command is from the danger that other∣wise will ensue, to wit, if they who are Gods people come not out of her, but be partakers of her sinnes they shall assu∣redly in like manner receive of her plagues.