For  from  above  all  goodness  cometh.     This  angel  betokeneth
the  faithful  preachers  of  our  age,  and  is  all  one  with  the  angel
that  had  the  seal  of  the  living  God  in  the  seventh  chapter,
with  him  that  was  clothed  with  a  cloud  in  the  tenth  chapter,
and  with  him  that  proclaimed  the   fall  of  Babylon  in  the
thirteenth  chapter.
2.  In  that  he  is  said  here  to  come  down  from  heaven,
is  signified  that  they  are  sent  of  God,  having  great  power,
with  constant  ferventness  of  spirit,  strongly  to  declare  his  will,
to  the  utter  destruction  of  the  whore.    For  like  as  the  Father
hath  life  in  himself,  so  hath  his  Son  Jesus,  and  so  hath  in  hiin
his  godly  ministers.
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3.  His  power  is  an  everlasting  power,  retaining  both
life  and  death.
4.  With  the  brightness,  not  of  this  angel  which  was  but
a  messenger,  but  of  the  power  that  was  given  unto  him,  was
the  universal  earth  abundantly   lightened.     Full  is  all  the
world  of  the  glory  of  God,  where  as  his  word  shineth,  and
his  verity  is  once  spread  by  the  true  godly  preachers.
5.  In  this  strong  power  cried  he  mightily,  and  in  this
clear  light  was  his  earnest  voice  heard,  uttering  this  sentence
to  the  world :

6.  She  is  fallen  clean  down  that  was  so  proud,  she  is
turned  over  that  was  so  glorious  an  whore,  yea,  even  the  great
Babylon  herself,  or  blasphemous  church  of  the  hypocrites.
