speaking of the martyred Saints for the faith of their Redeemer, _there was given unto every one of them white robes_; Having set down a little before, _that the Angell which had gotten the victory, and the Crowne, was mounted on a white horse_, (as in the 19, and 20. _the Throne of God is dressed with white_) _and hee that was mounted on the red horse, had a great bloudy sword in his hand, that one might massacre another_. But yet more expresly in the first of _Isaiah_, _Although your sins were as red as fine Scarlet, they should be as white as Snow_. And further, _though they were as red as crimson, they will become as white as wooll_. But some may say here are many things, which by little and little do turne us from our principall aime, and are as it were extravagant dresses. But not altogether, yet as to mount some sharpe precipice, wee must turne about to goe at more ease, to shunne cliffes and precipices: So are wee sometimes to make some small by-courses and digressions to facilitate our Theame. Rivers that goe turning are more commodious for Navigation, then those that runne impetuously one way downe. There shall bee nothing at last (God willing) unprofitable, nor from the purpose. Then all this red and white, is but Fire and Water, the pillar of fire by night, and the white cloud by day; into which, as the Apostle saith, _the people of the Jewes were baptized_; and in this cloud the divine Wisdome established his Throne; that of the Law of _Moses_, this of grace; Fire and Salt. _Zohar_ speaking of _Moses_ his two first Tables, broken for the Idolatry of the Golden Calfe, with two pillars, the one of fire, representing naturall heate, by which all things are vivified; the other is water, that is radical moisture, which maintaineth life, (from which, that is not much different in the 15. of the _Apoc._ where it is said, that _he saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire_,) which radicall moisture was perverted and changed in the deluge by the universall inundation, so that it was not since so vigorous as before: but shall at last bee brought to extermination on all sides, at the end of time by a finall conflagration. The first mutation shall meet with some mercy, the race of mankinde being at that time not wholly extinct, but the remainder was saved with _Noah_, and his in the Arke: but the second, shall have none, but all shall perish by the extreame rigour of fire: To the purpose of these two substances, the _Assyrians_ and other people of the East adored Fire, as that which represented to them naturall heat, and the Ægyptians with all those on the South of _Nilus_, which is radicall moisture which goes to render it selfe into a Sea impregned with salt, to preserve it in the end from corruption: Now for this effect, all humours of animall bodies, bloud, spittle, urine, and the rest, are salted, without which, all would corrupt each other, in an instant: Behold the difference that there is in holy writ, that apply