Their Priests that rejoyced

Their Priests that rejoyced.

Rejoyce] that is, They that did exult over the Calves, Oh! the Priests, the Calves made for them, they got the King to be on their side, and they made the Calves brave, and they had brave kind of Worship about it, and many pompous Ceremonies about it, and the Priests they gloried in this, for they had a special hand in all, and because they had the countenance of authority for their Calves, that they were able to crush any that spake against them, they exulted the text says.

But now there's a threatning, That they shall mourn, those Priests that did so glory in their Calves, as who were they that did glory so much in pompous Altars and other braveries but your Priests? They exulted and had all under them, and would quickly crush a man that should not yield to them, they did even brave it over all, and did even call themselves sometimes the Triumphant Clergie, just like your Chemarims; but now here they were like to lose all, and they should mourn over them.

Polanus upon this very place, for their fat livings, and parsonages, and such places, our Prelates, for their Prebendaries, and Deanaries, and Bishopricks, and such kind of preferments: Oh! how do they mourn this day for the loss of these things? Thus they that did so rejoyce to expect preferment, they are gone now, Oh! the world is at an end with them, and they mourn one to another because of the loss of such things as these are: and long may they mourn upon this ground. We reade in Revelation 18. these kind of people just set forth, that upon the fall of Babylon the text says, That the Merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man buyeth their Merchandize any more. And then in the 14. verse, The fruits that your soul lusteth after are departed from you: and in the 15. verse, The Merchants of these things which were made rich by her, stood a far off, weeping and wailing. Those that were made rich by the Whore of Babylon stand a far off, weeping and wailing. And so those that were made rich by the Prelates, and superstitious vanities, they stand a far off, weeping and wailing; and blessed be God that we see them to mourn that did so triumph and rejoyce over the people of God, but God has made such a change of things as now they hang down their heads and mourn, even because of their Calves that are taken from them.