Aphorism 23: Apocalyptic part
XXIII. There remains the Apocalyptic, the fourth part of the New Testament, written by the Apostle John concerning those things which Christ himself revealed about the state of the New Testament churches — from its beginning through seven distinct periods and faces portrayed in the Ephesian, Smyrnaean, Pergamene, Thyatiran, Sardian, Philadelphian, and Laodicean, unto the world's end — and concerning their gifts, dangers, calamities, Antichrist's persecutions, deliverances, the last judgment, the dreadful damnation of the impious, and the supreme glorification of the churches and the godly in it — lest, ignorant of their own fates and future lot, like Gentiles or brute beasts, they should be overwhelmed and perish by sudden chances; but taught little by little by the experience of predicted events, they might acknowledge that they are always Christ's care.
Latin
XXIII. Superest Apocalyptica, quarta pars N.T., a Johanne Apostolo conscripta de iis, quae Christus ipse revelavit de statu ecclesiarum novi testamenti, ab illius initio per septem distinctas periodos & facies in Ephesina, Smyrnenfi, Pergamenfi, Thyatirenfi, Sardenfi, Philadelphenfi & Laodicena effigiatas usque ad finem mundi, deque earum donis, periculis, calamitatibus, Antichristi persecutionibus, liberationibus, extremo judicio, impiorum horrenda damnatione, ecclesiarum piorumque in ea summa glorificatione, ne fatorum suorum sortisque futurae ignari, instar gentilium aut brutorum, subitaneis casibus obruerentur ac perirent, sed eventuum praedictorum experimento paulatim docti agnoscerent, se Christo semper curae esse.