chap. 13.2 which wee have shewed to be Rome and wil be playner yet by the things that folow Therfore after the evideÌ„ce of the Scriptures wherby the Beast swelted in heat in such marvelous maÌ„ner that which now next is to be looked for is calamity that shal come upon this very city Not any light adversity wherby her former dignity shal be a little lessened but her last overthrow wherby shee shall utterly be ruinate as after shal be manifest when that saying of Sibylla shall come to passe Then Rome shalt thou be wasted quight as thou hadst never been This therfore toucheth Antichrist neerer then the former The farr-darting Sun did scortch but it was from farr now the tops of his sacred Pallace shall fal down wherby the brightnes of the Popes Kingdome shal be turned into darknes For how should it not be covered with mournfull blacknes when the Princely Court is cut down and Chaire overthrown which they were wont to vaunt should be eternal and that Hel gates should not prevayl against it To prove which point Bellarmine bringeth many reasons but the speedy event wil teach how he was deceived Although some Iesuites being forced hereunto by the truth doo now beginn to speak of the destruction of it VVich yet they wil have to be not because of Antichrist but before his birth or at least before he shal begin his reign But this fiction we wil take away in his place We may hence observe how loÌ„g-suffering God is and slow unto wrath A thousand times hath he now already convinced this whore of her filthynes yet will he not quight destroy her until he hath set out her wickednes in a clearer light VVhich when it also shal be doon in vayn what remayneth but the last punishment when ther is no hope at al of any amendement But after the ruine of the City the Beast shal remayn a while not to recover his former dignity but to perish soon after with a greater destruction And therfore he sayth his kingdome was made darke not altogither extinct but bereft of the former brightnes ¶ And they gnawed their tongues for payn The second event they shal gnaw their tongues for rage and madnes Huge and intolerable shal be the payn such as is noted elswhere by weeping and gnashing of teeth Mat. 22.13 Vnlesse perhaps by a proverbial manner of speaking so great anguish be signified as wil they nil they they are compelled to refreyn their malapert toÌ„gues to renounce their own writings and speak thenceforth more modestly which is commonly caled the biting of the tongue and eating of ones own words But because in the next verse it is sayd they repented not of their works the former exposition is more simple Although they may faighnedly and for fear temper their evil speakings so as they repent not from the hart and truly yet I choose rather the former That speech of Zachary seemeth to agree fitly with this Their tongue shal consume in their mouth Zach. 14.12 And that phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for payn is an Hebraisme mehhamal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 answereth to the preposition min as elswhere for sighting Psal 102.6 11 And they blasphemed the God of heaven Infinite is the hardnes of maÌ„s hart which cannot be tamed by any afflictions Graunt that the Papists be not convicted by the increased light of the scriptures will not the destruction of their holy city move them to acknowledge the truth VVil they now burst out agayn into blasphemy wher ther is no hope but by asking forgivenes But it is not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth God striketh and softneth what harts he thinketh good And where it is sayd for their soares by it is signifyed that these are the same men on whom the former vials were powred But mention is made specially of soares because every calamity caused not sensible payn The Sea changed into blood was so farr from working any sorow that it rather ministred matter of reioycing to men that knew not their misery Furthermore it is hereby manifest that the former vials doo yet reteyn their force and vanish not streight way when new ones come in place But above all Envie which we sayd was the soares doth most torment which causeth greater greif by the felicity of their enemies then by their owne destruction VVho would look for any feeling of the former soares when the sorow for their wasted throne was upon them O envy great is thy power ¶ And repented not of their workes For this Beast is the Pantheresse chap. 13.2 it cannot change the skin But the power of God should not have bin so eminent in times past if Pharaoh had repented at the first miracles So shal ther be many subtil devises after the throne is overthrown Antichristian religioÌ„ shal stil be reteyned amoÌ„g the Papists But let none be afraid the Beast is reserved onely for the triumph 12 And the sixt Angel powred out his vial on the great river Euphrates This river is not eyther the Tyber or any other fortresse of Rome whose destruction was taught us by the former vial and why should the thing doon be now doon agayn but it is that which runneth through Mesopotamia Eastward from Iudea as before chap. 9.14 which notwithstanding is used figuratively for any impediment that may hinder the passage into this country The first event is the drying up of the waters therof as of old the Red Sea was by the Eastern winds and as Iarden was to the Iewes when they passed into the Land of Canaan Exod. 14. Ios 3. The end of drying up these waters is that the way of the Kings from the East may be prepared But who be these Kings Are they those foure Angels spoken of chap. 9.15 The counpt of the time wil not bear it For the troÌ„pet sounded many yeres agone but this vial is not yet begun to be powred out it foloweth after Rome is wasted which yet flourisheth and which the trompet saw flourishing long Are they those Kings of the earth and of the whole world mentioned in the 14. verse of this chapter But these to whom Euphrates giveth place are the Kings of the Eâ—st onely not of the whole world It would be long to recken al the interpretations of other men much more to refute them It seemeth unto me that they are here meant for whose sake alone the scripture mentioneth the waters of old to have bin dryed up namely the Iewes unto whom the read sea yeilded passage and Iarden stayed his course til every one were gone over journying on foot through the deep This miracle is proper to this people onely for that which Iosephus writeth that the sea of Pamphilia gave way to the Macedonians when Alexander led his host that way Antiquit. b. 2. chap. 7. Other writers doo playnly shew how the thing is to be understood Plutarch in Alexand. sayth that Historie-writers amplifyed the thing beyond al credit and
was new Rome new Babylon to weet Constantinople For every mighty proud Idolatrous bloudy impious city may be caled Babylon but specially next after Rome Constantinople the onely daughter and heyr unto a farthing of her mother Rome whose natural disposition as she drew by stock so did she deservedly take the name being caled new Rome And surely it seemeth the same order of things shal be here first that al the Turkish Popish forces shal be beaten down and destroyed secondly that al the cōfederate cities provinces if they also doo not quite perish shal yet at least be under new Governours thirdly that the chief city of the Turks this Babylon shal bear the iust punishment of her impiety And it may be the VVest Christians after that the Popes name is extinguished and that the Turk is overthrown in the East wil shew forth their wrath on Constantinople and execute the iudgement mentioned in this place By which now we may understand that al our enterprises against the Turk shal be vain until Rome be overthrown For she at the first caled for the Turk as we have learned from chap. 9.20.21 nor shal his scourge be removed til the cause be quite taken away But after that the Beasts throne is consumed with fyre the last Popish warr is doon then shal this horrible tyran without any trouble of ours be thrust down into hell neyther shal we ever need to fear any more molestation from any reliques of him ¶ Came in remembrance before God Now both the cause is mentioned of the destruction of the Constantinopolitan Babylon and the punishement which shal be inflicted on it The cause is Gods remembrance who is sayd to remember both for mercy and for iudgment when he performeth in deed what he decreed to be doon So long as he deferreth vengeance and wrath he seemeth to forget and to have no care or respect of our affaires and actions And this dooth very wel expresse the horrible cruelty of this Babylō wher with God suffreth them that are called Christians to be pressed dooth not in the mean time punish the adversaries nor yeild any defense from injury Who wil not acknowledge that God turneth away his eyes from beholding our miseries when without punishment he suffreth us to be beaten robbed vexed with al reproches and contumelies virgins wives to be defiled whole flocks of men to be caried bound and chayned into bondage infants to be plucked from the brests for to be instructed in Mahumetish blasphemy and the parents to know that they bring forth children unto eternal destruction VVho I say minding these and many moe things al which Idolatry hath brought upon us may not worthily say that God hath quite forgotten our misery He winketh therfore at Babylons wickednes that he may drive her to encrease calamities on the men which wil be taught by no warnings And at length when our mens impiety shal cease the shop therof being burned and consumed he will cast his eyes upon Babylon and cal to mind al her wickednes for to mesure meet punishment unto her But thou mayest observe that the Spirit dooth not exaggerate the iniquity of this city with so many words as her mother Romes because the sinns of Hethen men although they be very heavy ar lighter then theirs that abuse the grace of God As touching the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was remembred is used passively as Act. 10.31 so also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the cup might be given c. The punishement shal be the cup of the wine of the feircenes of wrath A Cup is a part or portion as the Lord is the part of my portion and of my cup Psal 16.5 11.6 a metaphore taken from Governours of feasts which were wont to part unto everie one that which he should drink wherupon Homer mentioneth a distributed drinking Iliad d. Like unto which are the judgments of God inflicted on every man in just weight and measure And judgements are a cup of wine because they shal be as pleasant to God as wickednes was to the men that is he will take delight in destroying them as chap. 14.10 Vnlesse it be therfore of wine because the severity shal take al sense from Babylon as over much quaffing in of wine is wont to doe wherupon shee shal no more escape the evil then a man that hath lost his senses through drunkenes In which respect it is sayd in Zachary I will make Ierusalem as a cup that causeth slomber and I wil smite every horse with stonishment and his rider with madnes Zach. 12.2.4 And this heaping togither of the feircenes of his wrath signifyeth greivous and most sharpe punishements although it be not shewed expressely whither it shal be so pluckt up by the roots as old Rome was before It is very like that after the great calamity which it shall suffer the city it selfe shal stil remayn possessed of Christians and alwayes thenceforth shal obey unto them 20 And every I le fled VVe have seen the calamity of the cities and next provinces these words now respect the nations further off whom distance of place shal help nothing at al. This desolation shall passe over the sea and consume them in their Ilands Nor shal it ought avayl them that dwel on the firm mountayns for these also shal be plucked up by the roots and perish for ever as before in chap. 6.14 Notwithstanding this trouble shal be farr heavier than that For there the Mountaines and Iles were onely moved out of their places here they are so utterly abolished as no footsteps of them doo remayn But an I le in this place is not onely a land compassed round-about by the sea but also the continent or mayn land after the Hebrew manner which cal al countryes beyond the sea Ilands Psal 72.10 and so it compriseth Aegipt also and Africk 21 And a great hayle as of talent weight Hitherto hath been the calamity of the places Now on the men it rayneth hayl of talent weight as of old in Ios 10.11 And as they fled from before Jsrael and were in the going down to Beth-horon the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them until Azekah and ther dyed more of them that dyed with the hayl stones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword But here he speaketh of stones of huge bignes which would not onely be ynough to kill but also to crush the men to powder For never before was there seen or heard such an horrible vēgeance as this shal be ¶ And the men blasphemed God The effect of all these as touching the reprobates who yet wil spew out their blasphemy against God This therefore is not the end of all things when the wicked shall with their approbation subscribe to the sentence of the law and say Amen acknowledging their condemnation to be most iust Deut. 27.15 c. But ther shal stil remayn some wicked ones in the
marchandise not so much by sea as by land from whence they are called the marchants of the earth Furthermore these are the Peres and great men of the earth ver 13. in a higher place and honour then they which sell marchandise Last of al we shal see that the soules also of men are amoÌ„g the wares of these men ver 13. which by no meanes wil not suffer us to stick to the proper nature of the words Therfore certaine common marchants are not here to be minded although these also shall suffer great losse but the stately Lords Cardinals Archbishops Popish Bishops who exercise a marchandise of soules and flourish by this marchandise with the glory of Noble men For we shal see after that Rome is compared to Tyrus because she is no lesse noble a marte town of spiritual things then once Tyrus of al those things which belong to the deligts of this life as we may see in Pope Alexander of whom was this sung common Alexander sels the keyes the Altars yee Christ also First of all he had bought them then by right he may doo so But Baptista Mantuan writeth more fully not of Alexandre alone but of the whole company and daily custome of the Romish court with us are to be sold The Temples Preists Altars the Holy things the Crown The fyre Jncens the Praies Heaven God is to sell Who can desire a better furnished market Neither mayest thou think this to be the overmuch libertie of railing Poets but a iust complaint of more holy reformers Bernard saith that the sacred degrees are given unto an occasion of dishonest luâ—re and that gaine is counted godlinesse in his first sermon of the conversion of Paul Budaeus in his Pandects saith the Popes decreâ—s are not profitable for the governement of manners but I had almost said doo seeme to give authority to occupie a banke for love Ludovicus Vives on August of the Citie of God book 18. chap. 22. saith though all things almost are sold and bought at Rome yet thou mayest doo nothing without a law and rule and also of a most inviolable authority But it were an infinite thing to sayle in this sea no shore of which thou canst see howsoever thou shouldest obtaine a prosperous winde for some few dayes Such therfore are both the marchants wares Although I wil not deny the huge excesse also of things which perteine to the body by conveying wherof thither many have waxed verie rich But here chiefly the marchaÌ„dise of soules seemeth to be understood than which no science hath been more gainful now for manie ages Augustine the Monk perhaps at home of no estimation yet because he had brought the Britaines into bondage under Rome was made Archbishop of Canterbury Venefride the English man called Boniface his name being changed by this way became Bishop of Mentz and togither also Governour of the Church of Coloine Who can recken up all who have made a way for themselves to verie great dignities by this same meane Alan an English man a traitour betraying the faith his countrey Prince to the Pope deserved by this trade of marchandise to be amoÌ„g the Peeres of the earth having gained the dignitie of a Cardinals hat Yea that this trafique might not be cold whom gaine and profits moved not those the crafty whore inflamed with honours and glory The King of Spaine was made the Câ—tholike King of France the moâ—t Christian King The Swissers the Defenders of the Church and furthermore endued with two great banners both the Cappe Sword Some reward is wanting to no man to the end that they may exercise the more diligently that profitable marchandise Threefold therfore is the cause of the destruction of Rome because â—he is the mother of Idolatry the corruptresse of Kings and nations and that may be sâ—ffered no longer for her arrogancy and pride and buying selling of soules By which things this right excellent Captaine being moved shal undertake this expedition against her 4 And I heard an other voice Such is the first Angel and the Prince as it seemeth of this warre the second as an under Captaine dooth his office in counselling and exhorting But here is no mention made of the Angel but onely of a voice from heaven as though this exhortation were without an authour his name being concealed from whom it commeth For which cause we have said in the Analysis that this Angel is namelesse It is in deed an odious argument which he handleth wherupon peradventure he will conceale his name which being known would bring no profit but might procure some danger the adversaries being of so spitefull minds His speech is continued even unto the one and twentith verse so copious shal be the admonition of some faithfull man which togither with the preparation to this warreÌ„ shal be spread abroad godly and truly warning men of the present punishment of Rome Notwithstanding that which wee have spoken of his name concealed is not of such necessity as that it must needs be so seeing the like voice from heaven did shew his author as the event declared chap. 14.13 But it is likely to be true that the name is to be concealed ¶ Goe out of her my people The exhortation consisteth of two parts the first part perteineth to them which live in Babylon warning them that acknowledging at the length the filthinesse of that citie they forsake the same and depart to an other place that they would no longer for her sake expose themselves to certain destruction Wherfore some elect lie hidd yet in the dreggs of the Romish impietie whom God remembreth in the coÌ„mon destruction of the wicked He will not suffer Lot to perish togither with the Sodomits and he used the like exhortation long since to his people when the mother of this Babylon was to be razed Ier. 51.45 And this commandement shal not be made in vaine to his people to whom alone it is proper to obey his voice Therfore even as the mises perceaving before hand that the house will fall doo runne away out of their holes so they being wakened out of sleep by the Angels voice shal convey them selves by and by out of this detestable city ¶ Least ye be partakers of her sinnes For of what sinners the felowship is not forsaken their guiltines is conveyed to men Therfore he saith not that ye be not partakers of her punishments but which is farr more greevous of her sinnes This feare wil provoke and inforce them to runne away who are convinced in their consciences of the Romish wickednes 5 For her sinnes are heaped up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one following an other as chained togither at length they hav reached eveÌ„ unto heaven But if through the whole Papistical Kingdome Rome be the holy city Peters chaire which cannot erre this chained row hath suffered a great interruption which as it much exceedeth the ages of the Heathen Emperours so much the more
God to depart from the felowship both of her wickednes and punishments ver 20. and chap. 19.1 c. Moreover after the time is finished of giving their Kingdome to the Beast the ten hornes with a constant minde shal detest the whore so farr off is it that they shal be greeved for her miserable condition chap. 17.16.17 Therfore that device falleth down concerning the ten Kings in whose power shal be the dominion of the whole earth who if with ioyned forces as the Iesuite wil have it they shal bring the last destruction upon Rome they should leave no King to bewayle her great miserie VVe have shewed by truer arguments that those x hornes pertaine to the onely degree of Emperours some one of which at length shal execute this destruction who yet keepeth the name of the whole number as it is done for the most part when speach is had of the mēbers or parts of some whole thing VVhile he shal spoile Rome some other Kings of Spaine Polonia and the like confederate with the whore shal make this miserable wailing 10 Standing a farr off for feare But what need shal there be then of lamentings VVhy shal they not rather make hast to help her They shal not dare to doo it for feare they shal be greatly afraid of their own safetie Therfore they shal behold a farr off her miserie taking heed that they thē selves burne not with the same fire if they shal come neere You therfore holy Princes take the matter in hande it shal not be a thing of so great trouble as peradventure you thinke Doo you think that Spaine France or other I know not what huge armies wil come to aide her These are altogither Goblins and vaine Scarcrowes Her friends shal stand a farre off with waitings testifying their love but taking no paines to deliver her from peril And who would expect that fornicatours wil undergoe anie dāger for a stale VVhore Therfore it is onely needful that you take upon you the matters valiantly the other things shal have prosperous successe Euphrates shal open away into Babylon for Cyrus if he cannot break through the walles ¶ Alas alas that great city A lamentable song of the Kings the often defect of which doth verie fitly expresse the truth of the affection The sentence shal be perfit in this wise Woe woe to us because that great city Babylon that mighty citie is overthrown and because in one houre thy iudgement is come They bewaile the ruine and the sudden comming of it 11 And also the marchants of the earth The marchants doo accord in the lamentations of the Kings but of the earth of which sort are the Kings we have shewed at the 3. verse that they were marchants rather of spiritual things then of those which respect the body For which thing there is an argument from hence Because saith he no man buyeth their wares anie more Therfore gold or silver is not here spoken of or sylke or fine linnen or spices or any such thing in the proper signification the estimatiō wherof dependeth not on Rome onely Vnlesse peradventure then they shall be of farre lesse price whē so greedy a buyer is taken away But the words are expresse neither is any such thing spoken of Tyre from whence this whole allegorie is taken out of Ezech. 27. VVhere the place no lesse required an amplification of the matter VVherfore these wares are labour study industry to adorne and enrich the city of Rome which thinges shal be most cheape and of no price after shee is fallen For who then wil give a rotten nut for them 12 The warrs of Gold and silver Even now we said that this whole allegorie was taken out of Ezech. 27. where it is spoken of the destruction of Tyrus Neither without cause as we have shewed in ver 3. when as at Rome there is no lesse famous a sale of soules then was at Tyrus of things necessarie for our use Ezechiel dooth so recken every nation that togither also he rehearseth the proper cōmodities of everie countrey in which both they abounded and carried to Tyrus According to which manner sundry kindes of wares seeme here to be reckened up to note out sundry nations to which either they belong or at least by whose travell they are brought to Rome Therfore although the names of the countries ar not expressed in plain words as in Ezechiel yet notwithstanding they may easily be understood according to that rule from the wares themselves The wares therfore of Gold and silver and the other outlandish things which are rehearsed in this verse may signify Spayne which fetched those things from the furdest Indies by whose travel they are to be sold in this part of the world Cinnamon Odours Ointments Frankincense wine doo note out Italy not because all these things doo grow in the same place but because as Spaine by the Ocean Sea so this by the intern sea affoardeth aboundāce of those things to Europe from Greece Cilicia Aegypt Africk Her selfe also being the most fertill in all delicious dainties of all the countries of Europe Fine floure and Wheate may signify the Ilands of the interne sea Cicilia Sardinia the garners and storehouses of Italy The Beasts Germanie abounding with them even as the Sheepe our England being greatly frequented with this kinde of cattel Horses Charets the French men who have great store of horses and from whence the use of charets have bene conveyed to others Bodies the Swisers who follow an externe and mercenary warfare and in which men Rome chiefly delighteth to make them her guard The soules of men are the common wares of all countries which Rome dooth hunte after by her marchants everie where desiring the same to be instructed in her superstitions which that so she may gaine and purchasse for hir owne proper goods she spareth no cost The makers of portsale of these wares are they that by their paines have brought these nations to be obedient to Rome Even as we know special provinces to have bin cōmitted to some Cardinals Iesuits whose care though it be bestowed in common yet it lyeth upon every one severally to declare his diligence in some certain nation Which if he can either retaine in their dutie or recall forsaking her by knitting it againe in friendship with Rome he bringeth wares of that sort to be sold wherby that nation is signified upon which he hath bestowed his labour As touching everie of the several wares by name Gold Silver Pretious stones Pearles they wer before in the whores apparell chap. 17.4 And it seemeth to be for that cause that Spaine in these last times shal be a special ornamēt to the whore And of fine linnen and Purple two for one the Purple of fine linnen which is a cloath made among the Indians of that kinde of flaxe so and of silke and of skarlet are spoken asunder for of skarlet silke Of skarlet we have spoken elsewher Silke
it were lawfull to departe froÌ„ the common edition Thou seest then that those faultes must be made good by thee and the fidelitie of the old Interpretour very ignorantly I will not say impudently boasted of though in deede so it was needfull for thee by reason of that dutifulnes wherby thou art bounde to Rome 6 And hath made that is and which hath made by a want of the relative as but now we have said All those things tende hereunto that they may teach that Christ hath not these good things for himselfe alone wherwith we have heard by the wordes last handled he is endued but doth poure them on the elect wherby they may be blessed thorough the participation of them ¶ Kings and Priests to God Some reade A Kingdome and Priests as also the common translation hath It makes not much for the meaning yet it is more likely that there is a conioining of persons betweene themselves than of things and persons The elect are Kings by participating of Christs Kingdome through which we have overcome the law death and sinne and doe daiely triumphe over the world treading under foote the same by faith 1 Ioh. 5.4.5 By him also we are Priests who being dead in him we have God mercifull to us and a waie opened to call boldly on him But he addeth wariely that we are made Kings and Priests to God that we maie not thinke that this honour is given to us eyther to trouble civill matters or to confound Churches politie ¶ To him be glory This is all that we can render for his exceeding benefits namely to wish that by his righteous praises he be celebrated amoÌ„gst all men And this thankesgiving seemes to be undertaken for Gods present gift thorough the knowledge of Christ poured forth on the GeÌ„tiles Beholde he commeth with the cloudes A benefite to come to be expected at his glorious coming To come with the cloudes is to manifest himselfe with a storme and tempest and wonderfull terrour of vehement and great lightening to be avenged on the wicked and to deliver his After which maner Daniell also speaketh of his coming J saw in the visions of the night that behold one like to the sonne of man came with the cloudes of heaven chap. 7.13 For so the notable iudgements of God ar wont to be described by which he poureth forth his fervent wrath on his enemies that we maie thinke that all creatures doe fight for God also he will use the heaveÌ„ the earth to helpe his people and furthermore that the reprobate shall have no meanes to escape After the like maner the Psalmist being delivered out of the handes of his enemies praiseth God for his power shewed from heaven in delivering of him Ps 18.13.14.15 In Mathew it is saide he will come on the cloudes chap. 24.30 but it may be in the same sence which is in Ps 18.11 and he sate on the Cherubins and did flie c. But the Angels affirme that he will come as they had seene him going into heaven Act. 1.11 And no feare was there onely the cloude tooke him awaie out of their sight but without any stricking of terrour But the similitude seemeth to be referred to the truth of the humane nature in which he shall returne to be seen of all men after which sorte he went into heaven not for the pompe and maiestie of his coming or the Angels speake in regard of the Godly to whom his coming shall be most ioyfull for which the reprobate shall in vaine desire that the mountaines should cover them All be it it shall be manifest by those things that follow that here these wordes are not spoken of his last coming but onely allude unto it because of the similitude ¶ And they shall waile over him Here the wailing is of repentance not of desperation as is plaine out of Zachary from whence these wordes are fetched and they shall looke saith he to him whom they have perc d and they shall lament over him as a lamentation for their onely begotten chap. 12.10 But seeing that when men shall stand before the throne of the universall iudgement their repentance shall be to late by no meanes these things seeme that they can be uÌ„derstood of the last iudgemeÌ„t neither of that his coming with the cloudes which but now he spake of but rather of that his excelleÌ„t glory which shall be manifest in the world in the calling of the Iewes Those are they which once perced him but at length they shall beholde him all the Tribes of the earth that is the whole nation of the Iewes shall with aboundaÌ„ce of teares bewaile the wickednes of their ancestours for delivering Christ to death And in deede the Revelation staies her narration upoÌ„ their conversion as hereafter God willing it shall be manifest And because then the glory of Christ shall be very great in the earth a most lively patterne of that which shall shine in the last daye a preparation unto this is brought for the beautifying of it Neither alone in this place but as it seemeth also in many other ¶ All Tribes These things are proper to the Iewes to whom once tribe by tribe the promised land was divided The thing could not in more exquisite wordes be declared Sometime the tribes are taken metaphorically but in no wise here seeing that Zachary mentioneth by name the Iewish tribes The land saith he shall lament every family apart the family of the house of David â—part the family of the house of Levy apart all the rest of the families every familie apart The lamenters here are those which were percers and the tribes are of those that lamented therefore of them which perced him to wit of the Iewes to whom properly this sinne belongs Therefore these wordes of the Apostle are thus as if he should saie Beholde he comes with the cloudes all men of all sortes shall see him also those which perced him to wit the Iewes whose predecessours crucified Christ and perced his side with aspeare these being scatered every where thorough all nations shall at length be convertâ—d to the true faith for earnest grief shall morne both for the detestable iniquity of their forefathers and also for their so long hardening yea Amen And so finally this is the summe of all that the benefite of Christ partly present is here celebrated in the calling of the Gentiles for that which he before spake of Kings and Priestes is referred to the seaven Churches of Asia that is to all the Gentiles embracing Christ at that present for which cause there is attributed to him the praise of glory power partly to come in the calling of the Iewes which we have declared to us both by their repentance and also by the desire and wishe of all the Godly ¶ Yea Amen The fervent desire of the Godly desiring this coming is expressed in greeke and hebrew for this shall be the wishe of all nations The
And in deede it might easily be understood that the time was not farre of when an ende should be put unto publike murders seeing all degrees of men did encline with so great gentlenes to the trueth But this Seale hath both some thing proper in the rest of this chapter and also common in chap. 7. That is the last triall of the Seales the first part of which conteineth the going on of the sorrowfull Tragedie and all the former calamityes ver 12.13.14 The secōd the ioyfull isue in subduing the enemyes and appeasing all hurliburlies ver 15.16.17 As touching that Aretas reporteth from the monuments of Andreas that very many sayd that this earthquake was a passage from the persecutions which were brought upon them for Christ his sake unto the time of Antichrist And so the scriptures are wont to call some notable alteration an earthquake as where it is sayd yet once more I will shake the earth Heb. 12.26 It signifyeth the remooving of those thinges that are shaken as Saint Paul declareth And in the olde Testament the going of the children of Jsraell out of Egipt is called an earthquake as Psal 68.9 The earth was moved and the heavens dropped at the presence of God Those Interpreters have touched the point according to the trueth but onely they did misse in this that living under Antichrist they expected him yet to come not knowing that he was come longe a goe Which errour of the auncient Fathers as who being further of from the last event were lesse able to perceive the matter it selfe the Papists snatch to themselves greedily and here they make a very great gaping and distance of time leaping over from the times of Traiane in which they conclude the former Seales unto the last ende of the world which they reserve to their Antichrist as though by this earthquake all iudgement of that which is right had fallen unto them But whether is it likely that a whole thousand and five hundred yeeres and yet to come wee knowe not how many more have bin passed over with silence and that all the rest of the Prophecy was stuffed togither into the narrow straites of 3. yeeres and an halfe as Fraunces of Ribera the Jesuite will have it It is indeede a profitable abridgement and a short way to set free his Lord the Pope from a very great feare For it could not be but as often as he should beholde his face in this glasse he would seeme to himselfe to be Antichrist unlesse the Iesuite now did make it apparant that all that was but a phantasme which made him afraid That nothing is here spoken of the present time neither of that which is past through many ages but that all the speech following is of the time yet to come But wee will put away this smoke mist through Gods his helpe neither will wee suffer that the Pope seeming to himselfe a triksy felow should love himselfe to destruction also will make playne that the Jesuites doe not interprete but moke the scriptures ¶ And the Sunne became blacke These figurative and hyperbolicall speeches doe shewe that there should be a persecution the most fierce of all those which the Church endured at any time from Christs birth till nowe For so the Prophetes are wont to speake when they pointe at any great calamity as Isaiah He will clothe the heavens with blacknes he will make their covering as a sacke cloath chap. 50.3 And Ieremy When I beholde saith he the heavens they have noe light ch 4.23 and the heavens above shal be blacke ver 28. but most playnly in Ezechiell speking of the overthrowe of the Egyptiās When I shall put thee out I will cover the heavens and make the starres thereof darke I will cover the Sunne with a cloude and the moone shall not make her light to shine all the cleare lights in the heaven I will make darke upon thee and bring darkenes upō thy land saith the Lord ch 32.7.8 Many such places doe teach that these speeches are not to be refferred to the last iudgement onely as some doe expounde but also to other times which those auncients did see of whom spake Aretas even now who would have these thinges to be understood of the passing over to Antichrist This blacknes of the Sunne the other disturbance of the creature perteineth to that horrible slaughter wherby those wicked men Diocletian Maximinian endevoured to roote out the Church For wee shall see that the Sūne Moone doth note stably through this booke the chiefe ornaments of the congregation of the faithfull so that the Sunne may signify the Scriptures the Moone that excellent glory of godlines wherby the saincts doe shine after they have borrowed light frō thē That both these should be miserably defyled by this common calamity this seale sheweth it The accomplishement whereof is recited by Eusebe booke 8.2 For when the Emperours in the nineteenth yeere of their reigne ordained by publik decrees that the bookes of the holy scriptures should be committed to the fire in the middes of the marked wee sawe sayth Eusebius with these very eyes that the sacred Scriptures inspired of God were cast in to the fire in the middes of the market place and in the same place a little after the Kinges letters patents did fly to fro in every place wherby it was commaunded to abolish the scriptures So this Sunne as a sacke cloath of haire noteth not onely generally that the publicke ioy should be turned into very great sorrow but also especially that outragiousnes wherby cruelty was exercised against the sacred scriptures Neither could it be otherwise but when the fountaine of light was darkened the Moone which hath her light onely borrowed should fade away into the darke colour of blood as almost alwaye it happeneth when shee is kept from having society with the Sunne 13 And the starres from heaven fell to the earth The starres were Ministers Pastors of the Churches chap. 1.20 In which signification they are used both here in other place afterward Many of thē through feare should revolte from the trueth which is shewed by the falling from heaven to earth Neither that onely after many dangers and divers calamityes wherby being weakened they should yeeld but in the very first assault they should fall downe as greene figges that is with very little adoe even at the first rumour of perill for the figge tree most easily looseth her fruit before maturity neither tarrieth almost for the violence of stormes but with any light blast of winde maketh an untymely birth that I may so say Plin. booke 16.26 Of which thing the Spirit maketh mention in so fine a similitude that the faithfull being forwarned should not be discouraged with the so easy falling away of many Eusebius sheweth that the thing fell out altogither as it was here foreshewed For after that first decree of demolishing the temples burning the scriptures there was added an
sort Iohn is here instructed of the Elder Neverthelesse it shall appeare from those thinges which follow that the Elder demanded not of the generall innumerable multitude but of one certen kinde conteined in that great company Who yet all are in one apparell and reioyce in one name because they shall cleave one to another both in consent to the same trueth and also by a continuall ioining togither of the times who also shall at length be partakers of the same glory 14 Thou knowest As though he should say I knowe not thou knowest Wherfore this company is not the same which he sawe lying under the altar chap. 6.9 c. For in that place he understood that they were killed for the word of God neither had he any need to be taught againe but as it is a new troupe of the godly whom by his ignorance he declared should be unknowne to the world suspecting nothing lesse ¶ These are they which came out of great tribulation The Elder did aske two thinges Who are these and whence came they Iohn is ignorant of both of thē The Elder therefore teacheth him but answering onely to one that is to say whence they came which yet also should disclose the men themselves It was indeede a great affliction which the Church suffered under Antichrist that whole time wherein the faithfull were knowne onely by the marke printed on them and not that onely but also some ages after as it shal be made manifest afterward Yet I doe not thinke that this is meant in this place but that it is called Great for excellency sake for the greatest of all that ever was since the world was made Which surely Moses will tell us of in his sōg in these wordes For fire was kindled in my wrath which shall burne even unto the bottome of the grave and shall consume the earth and her encrease and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines Vpon the consumed for hunger and wasted with scab and bitter pestilence I will sende also the teeth of beasts with the venome of serpents of the earth The sword shall kill without and in the chambers feare both the young man and the younge woman the suckling with the gray headed Deut. 32.22 Moses sung that these evils should come upō the Iewes for their falling away from God Which albeit they strike a certen horrour into men even by the wordes rehearsed yet they scarse touch the least parte of those calamityes wherewith the most wretched nation is wasted by the space of a thou sand sixe hundred yeeres even to this very day which times I doubt not but Moses hath shewed in those wordes that I may put you in minde of this by the way Who can number by counting howe great evils those auncient Jewes who killed the Lord of life and defiled their handes with the blood of the Apostles suffered in the destruction of the city Noe History sheweth that there was ever made so horrible a slaughter The enemy him selfe refrained not from teares acknowledging the strange murders beyond the cruelty of any warre You might thinke that the whole natiō was here destroyed utterly especially when they who were left in that utter ruine were solde to be slaves were throwne to the wilde Beasts were made mocking stockes in the theaters finally were not exempted from death but reserved unto torment Indeede a fewe yeeres after it seemed to have ben revived but it was to endure newe calamityes like as in the Comedie the heart of Prometheus being eaten was restored often times For Hadrian killing againe this people most miserably forbade them their native soyle and dispersed them into all quarters of the world Since that time they are dispersed vacabondes banished from their owne country land wandring through the whole world without Governour without God for a King yea that I may use the wordes of Terlullian in his Apologet. to whō it is not so much permitted as that according to the right of strangers they may salute their Fathers land with their feete There was never noe calamity of any people eyther for the kinde of punishment so grievous or for the length of time of such continuance there hath not ben any spectacle so cleare of God being offended not any so fearfull exemple of his eternall wrath Neither yet should there belesse trouble a little before that time whē God shall give an ende to this so long misery At that time saith Daniell when there shall be a time of trouble such as hath not ben since it was anation even unto that time which that it is to be understood of the last sharpe assault before the full restoring of the nation wee shall sometime shewe more clearely if God will Therefore whether wee respect the present casting of of this people or that future calamity at their receiving againe into grace this great affliction is proper to the Iewes who togither with the remnants of the Gentiles being revived after the tyranny of Antichrist and with them which shall then first open their eyes to see the truth shall make that great company which noe man could number ver 9. These thinges are confirmed from that happines which followeth in the next wordes which perteineth to this present life on earth not to that future in the Heavens the sound fruition whereof shall not come before that there be made one sheepfolde the elect Iewes being chosen into one Christian people as wee shall shewe at chap. 21.22 From which it is nowe manifest seeing that this indefinite nūber is made partly of the Gentiles partly of the Iewes whose calling ought to be expected a longe time after that sealing which was spoken of before that those definite and sealed ones were not Iewes Furthermore sound peace and all perfite happines shall follow the calling of the Iewes as in the next wordes it is declared briefly but more largely at chap. 21. and 22. But when the sealing was finished there remained yet much of that great affliction All which shall more appeare in the thinges that follow ¶ And have washed their longe robes At length being converted by faith unto Christ and clothed with the imputation of his onely righteousnes holines 15 Therefore they are before the Throne as before in ver 9. chosen into the Church and gathered into the assembly of the faithfull ¶ Day and night without ceasing For then the fallings away shal be ended and they shall cleave constantly to God even to the last ende ¶ Jn his Temple Yet there shal be noe Temple there as chap. 21.22 But in that place is understood the abolishing of the ceremonies which they shall regarde no more for the worshipping of God thereby here is a pilgrimage yet on earth from the Lord where we have neede of the coming between of outward meanes for to worshippe him of which there shal be noe use in the heavens ¶ They shall hunger no more They shall wante nothing neither shall
not to blowe untill they were driven in to the Skarlated Fathers as it were into the read Sea But that none may obiect that their stinking carkeises doe even hitherto infect the aire noe man can deny but that since that time they have lost their stinges which thinge onely this Prophecy respecteth ¶ And their paine should be as the paine of a Scorpion Not that they should kill as Scorpions for this was forbiddē them before but that they should inflict a wound causing noe lesse sharpe griefe then the stinging of a Scorpion It is likely that some great inflammation of blood striking pearsing througly doth thereof arise especially seeing it is a chollerick creature as wee have declared before ver 3. But what torment is to be compared with that whereby men are spoyled of their goods are pulled asunder from their wives are berefte of their children the chiefe comforts of this life neither this by any necessity of death the griefe whereof is forgotten with the time but wherby the living strong are separated away from the living that the griefe may be renewed dayly and a man onely left alive for misery That men sufferred all these thinges at the handes of the Sarracens is more knowne then that it needeth examples and wee shall see that they endured noe lesse the same at the handes of the begging fryers if wee shall well marke somewhat more diligently For these heires spoiled of their inheritances in sitting by their parents ready to dy and wringing from them partly by threates of Purgatory partly by an hope to be delivered frō thēce through their singing of masses for their soules and by their prayers possessions of great revenew farmes in the country lands Lordshippes and great summes of money For which thing any word of the sick man halfe dead was sufficient or if the breath were gone yet any sigh uttered at their demaundes It was a grievous thinge to the heires for to be dispoiled of their goods by this fraude but it was more grievous to be bereaft of their wives and children What was it else but under colour of a vowe to breake marriages to withdrawe children from the governement of their parents that against their willes they would keepe themselves close in their Monasteries And here are to be referred those most famous decrees If any shall say that a ratifyed marriage is not broken of by a solemne profession of religion of one of the two yokefellowes let him be accursed This decree is of the Councill of Trent but it was in use in former times chiefly whē these Monkes abounded And many exāples doe proove that not onely marriages ratifyed were undone when as it is wonte to be a hotter fire and greater torment not to obtaine the thing desired but also those that were accomplished which examples being sufficiently knowne I doe passe over purposely More over that it is lawfull for children to enter into a religion against the will of their parents An other torment of miserable men They tooke then away husbandes and wives and children from those to whom God and Nature had conioyned them Whom when they had in their keeping as pledges what could they nowe be afraid of their most loving mates and most tender parents who durst not to attēpt to doe any thing against it least they should be cruell towards their owne bowels yea rather what should they not hope for and carie away This tyrannie therefore brought noe lesse wealth and security to the spoilers then vexation to the spoyled That I may not say howe greatly it did molest the Priests and Bishops that the sickle should be thrust into their harvest of the superstitious Locusts and that they are wiped both of all estimation and also money with the people while the Fryars bare the sway in hearing confessions and doing other things which by right perteined to the secular Priests as the Archbishop of Biturim complaineth in an assembly of the French Bishops Maidenburg Centur. 13. chap. 9. colum 964. But peradventure this was a more easy torment consisting wholly in thinges of this life that was farre greater which did cast a snare upon the consciences by enioyning a necessity of confessing all their sinnes with every circumstance Jnnocent the third to whom the Westerne Locusts owe their stinges powred the first poison and strength of vexing into this superstition Whosoever sayth he confesseth not alone all his sinnes faithfully at least once a yeere to his owne Priest let him both living be kept from entring into the Church and also dying let him want Christian buriall in the Councill of Lateran canon 21. The Locusts armed with this stinge afflicted men with most grievous torments And certenly what racke could be more painfull Not to confesse was to betray their salvation as they were made to beleeve But to confesse was all one plainly with this for a man to offer his throate to the tormenter when as those holy hypocrites would absolve most readily the wolves Foxes from great sinnes and would devoure the poore Asses for one bundle of litter stollen away as a certen man wrote pretily in the Penitentiarie of the Asse The iniury which thou hast done to a stranger in taking away the litter from him is an exceeding great wickednesse Such then is the torment so farre as may suffice to manifest the trueth the full declaration whereof would be longer then would fitte our purpose 6 Therefore in those dayes Men shall be so weary of their life that they shall seeke death even as a thing which they desire very earnestly that is Death shal be esteemed a lesse evill then this torment Hence it came that the Mardaitae did fortify Libanus flying from the Saracenes to whom assembled many captives servants and that were home-bred because they were not able to endure any longer the tyranny of the Saracenes Although the safety which they sought by falling and flying away did runne from them who were compelled againe by force and armes to their former bondage as saith Zonar in Constant Pogonatus Our England was so grievously vexed and polled by these Westerne Locusts that it complayned in vaine that shee was more miserable then Balaams Asse clubbes spurres did pricke their sides and suffered them not to rest even a very little while but to go forward and to obey their most uniust exactions which the Holy Pope did urge continually by these Horsleaches was nothing else then to goe willingly into certen destruction set before their eyes Certenly during the reigne of Henry the third men by the iust iudgement of God being given up to the lust of these Locustes were sicke of a disease more grievous then death Neither did this misery belong to one Kingdome alone but also the neighbours Scotland France Germany groned under the same burden From whence not without cause Iohannes Camotensis as he is alleadged of Agrippa in the booke of the vanity of sciences said the Legates of the Popes of
danger have often tryed and other Princes also by their owne proper peril have by this time learned But though these things were not seing they ar bound by oath to the Bishop of Rome whoâ—e most feirce defenders they undertake to be they are worthily guilty of the bloud of al the Saincts which the Pope hath shed in so great abuÌ„dance So Christ condemneth the Iewes then present of the death of Zacharie whom their ancestors killed many yeres before because they allowed the same things that their Fathers which had wrought that mischeif Mat. 23.35 ¶ And thou hast giveÌ„ c. As Tomyris did to Cyrus To giv onâ— blood is to give one to death as I will give thee the bloud of gealousie and wrath that is I will cause thee to be cruelly killed as they that are slayn in the heath of wrath and gelousie Ezech. 16.36 By which it appeareth that the fountayns rivers are men as we interpreted at the first unto whom the murder of the saincts is attributed whom they agayn must make amends with their owne bloud 7 And I heard another from the altar The second testimony is of an Angel from the Altar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly is an altar of slaine Sacrifices sometime the altar of incense as chap. 8.3 because it is likewise a signe of Christs death Theod. Beza translateth it out of the Sanctuary which doth not sufficiently expresse the force of the sentence Perhaps he so turned it because of the preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which for the most part is of place and of that which conteyneth any thing which might seem not to agree unto an altar but a like place before wher an Angel came 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the altar chap. 14.18 may open the meaning of this VVe shewed that this maner of speach belongs unto them which ar killed for Christ which have a place given them under the altar chap. 6.9 Therfore this Angel is one of that flock which sufferring calamitie for Christs name dooth by his sentence approve the fact of killing the Iesuites and for that cause celebrateth in like sorte the justice of God Even as it is manifest to have fallen out in the yere 1586. April 4. when the States of Holland and of the other Provinces confederate with them did decree that none of the bloudy sect of the Iesuits or that then was a student with the professors of it whither he were born within the confederate Provinces or a forreyner should creep into those provinces eyther by sea or by LaÌ„d under payn of hostility and losse of his life By which decree they give their verdict against those ungracious men and subscribe to the sentence erst giveÌ„ by the Angel of the waters in England And who seeth not them lying under the altar who so many yeres suffered so many and horrible things of the cruel Spaniard for the profession of Christ Although they now by use have learned that ther is more confort in these calamities then in al Spanish deynties which in time past they injoyed when they wanted the holy truth the while VVerfore you noble Hollanders cleave stil with perfect harts to him by whose defense you have hitherto been kept safe Beware of the Romish wiles doo not so deal as that now by hearkning to Popish Sinons your constancy past avayl you nothing save to let you have tryall of your new feigned freinds to be noysome foes Think yee that the Catholik King could be more addicted to the Antichristian religion theÌ„ the Prelate and late Cardinal of the same VVould he more desire to take Christ from you then this man Take heed be not dismayed with fear of any peril though al men should forsake you The time is short stand stil and behold the salvation of Iehovah which he wil work for you within these few yeres But what doo I I could not chuse but by the way to warne in a word my brethren that are in danger I come againe to the matter Two yeres before that decree was made by the Hollanders when the French King Henry the 4 was wounded by Iohn Castell a Iesuite who had decreed to kill him this worthy sentence was uttered in the Session of the great Chamber both against this Castell and the whole hierd of Iesuites namely that all the Priests of the College of Clermont and all others that wâ—re addicted to the foresayd societie should as corrupters of youth troublers of the publik tranquilitie enemies of the King and Queen depart within three dayes after the proclamation of this Edict from Paris and other cities and places where they held their Colleges and within fifteen dayes folowing get them out of the whole Realm And if they did not but were found any where after the time prescribed they should be punished as guilty of high treason c. A holy and wholsome decree but ô Father of mercies rear up I beseech thee thyne altar among them that the Roman Antichrist being quite abandoned they may injoy with the rest of thyne elect the syncere worship of thy name 8 And the fourth Angel powred out his vial upon the Sun Hitherto have bin these times wherin now we live for unto this vial have our ages come the other foure ar by us to be looked for so that the serching of them out is the more difficult Notwithstanding we trusting in his guidance alone by whose conduct we are come hitherto and being holpen by the light of those that ar passed which we have drawn from the former explication doo hope that we shal bring somwhat which may be profitable for the illustration of them that are to come The proper force of this vial is turned upon the Sun wherof ther is a tow fold event first a power given to the Sun to scorch men by fire in this verse secondly a very great heat of men blasphemie and obduration in the 9. verse As touching the Sun the borowed speech is like the former For the same men complayn of the greatnes of this heat which felt the former calamities as in the next verse and they blasphemed the name of God which hath power over these plagues But if it be understood of any Sun-burning properly how dooth it afflict the bad more then the good seing both of them dwel togither on earth and the one sort ar no more covered from the force of the heavenly bodyes then the other But ther is no other Sun to be thought of then the vial which is powred out upon it which we have shewed to be caled so rather for similitude than for any respect of proper nature Let the usual signification therfore of this word remayn wherby it denoteth the holy Scriptures with whose light the dark minds of men are no lesse illustrated then the eyes of the body are with the beames of the Sun Vpon these is this vial to be powred not for to hurt them as the former vials did the earth sea
with a voice doubled It is fallen it is fallen Babylon after the maÌ„ner of the former Prophets but yet with this difference because they denouÌ„ced a destruction to come long after this declareth that it is already present now at last to be performed by this his expedition Babylon that great the seven hilled citie the chief Empresse Rome as once Babylon the head citie of the Assyrians There is a double Babylon in this book as we have heard chap. 16. Rome and Conctantinople But here he speaketh of the first which belongeth to the fift vial in which this chapter is employed The second belongeth to the last vial to be destroyed in the twentith chapter ¶ And is become the habitation of Divils The cause of the destruction is not here mentioned which foloweth after in ver 3. but the desolation is declared by a dreadful wildernesse which this kind of inhabitans reioicing in solitary places and folowing them doo expresse passingly Or rather wherin they themselves doo not so much take pleasure but into which they are sent and thrust even against their wils From whence that which first is caled the habitation of Divils is straightway called the hold of every fowl Spirit that is a prison or iayle into which they are thrust at the pleasure of the Highest iudge As if by the most iust iudgmeÌ„t of God the foule Spirits be tormented in the same places after they have ben deprived of all company of mortal men which they have abused by entising men to abhomination and naughtinesse Which is like a hell to them to be so kept from mens societie whom to draw with them into the same tormeÌ„t they hold it some confort in their damnation But they are not so shut apart from men into these secret places but that often times they goe on with rage in verie great meetings of folke as ofteÌ„ as it shal so please God but because such wildernesses are appointed to them for ordinarie prisoÌ„s Wherunto that saying of Christ seemeth to pertaine When the unclean Spirit is gone out of a man he walketh throughout dry places seeking rest and findeth none Mat. 12.43 Moreover the evils which were brought into the Church by Hermites and Monkes shew aboundantly how much the delusions of Satan doo prevaile in thosâ— foule and desert places as the most learned Theod. Beza hath observed But from this place we learnâ— how that of Isaiah is to be understood in chap 13.20.21.22 and again in chap. 34.13.14.15 unto which the Spiriâ— alludeth manifestly howsoever he interpreteth them not word for word purposely That is to say not only of some Beasts and unlâ—ckie birds but also of evil Angels to whom these names are proper Divils and fowle Spirits as the Greeks have translated partly retaining the Hebrew words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 partly translating plainly Schhirim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Divils in which sense that word is used in Levit. 17.7 And they shall no more offer their offrings to Divils lishhirim properly signifieth the word goates but it is translated unto Divils who appeared for the most part to their worshippers rough and hairie commonly they are caled Satyrs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Aquila translateth in Isaiah ¶ And a cage of every unclean bird It is not called a custody because it should be like a cage from whence the uncleane birds could not flee out but because they should be seen continually abiding in those ruines and to have their most usual place of dwelling there Such are those flesh-devouring ravenous and unluckie birdes the Egle Kite Hauke the Vultur Raven the Night-wandring scritchowles Howlets c. Of which sort many are reckned up in Levit. 11.13 c. And such birds were once counted uncleane by the Law Such difference hath no place at this day yet not without cause they are so called to this present time because they excellently set before our eyes the disposition of uncleane men who live by stelth and know no other way to maintaine themselves except by violence and injurie In this respect also those greedie birdes are hated of all the rest as they shew by gathering a company as often as they have gotten one of these ravenous birds alone and any occasion shall give an opportunity to oppresse them likeweise also this kind of men is odious to al mortal men 3 Because of the wine of the wrath A threefold cause of the destruction is rehearsed because she was the authour of Idolatry to al men because she drewe the Kings into the partaking of her wickednes and increased with honours riches above measure her citizens by her riot These naughtie acts are auncient and often cast in her teeth by other Angels some ages before Therfore he declareth that the shamelesse forehead of this whore is stil condemned of the same crime which can be moved with no warnings to put away her former lewdnesse As touching the words the wine of the wrath of her fornication is a fornication wherby God is provoked to wrath yet so making wretched men drunken for a time with a certen pleasantnesse that it taketh away all perceiving of the impiety therof as in chap. 14.8 ¶ All nations have drunk Montanus hath it ransitively thus hath made the nations to drink and so her wickednesse is more lively set forth more becomming her which beareth a cup of Gold in her hand wherby shee may provoke even those that are not thirsty to drink as before chap. 14.8 It is an horrible sinne to put a stumbling block before the blind but what is it to thrust and throw him headlong into the pit But the kinde of speaking seemeth to be changed of purpose least any man should alledge for his excuse that he hath not deceived others Therfore this common reading is to be preferred which our coppies have which also the verbes neuters which folow eporneusan eploutesan seeme to require ¶ And the marchants of the earth of the abundance of her pleasures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the force of her riot that is from the plenty and immoderate desire to enioy al pleasures For Rome is an other Zerxes who by rewards offered stirred up men to devise newe pleasures Therefore how should not the devisers and ministers of these things get to theÌ„selves great riches But of what sort are these marchants not of that kind as it seemeth who make a gaine by carrying out and bringing in of wares for they are in the number of the reprobates who shal mourne for Babylon wgose destruction shal bring very great ioy to all the saincts ver 20. Neither shal these meÌ„s wares be bought anie more Rome being destroyed yet notwithstanding gold silver and the other things which are mentioned shal not cease to be in account in other places Hereunto is added that among them to whom this name agreeth properly the chiefe dignitie is theirs who fetch wares by sea from farr countries but these exercise
For these are Scythians by birth who dwelled by the North side of the mount Caucase as Zonaras writeth in the 3. tom ad Constant Pogonatum VVho after that they were called into Persia against the Saracenes at length forsaking the Persians brought under their power the Babylonians almost the whole East Armenia Iberia Cappadocia Therfore the Scythian nation is the Turk at length made Lord of Meshech Tubal of the Cappadocians Iberians In which places he was at quiet until the Divel being loosed about the 130. yeere did seduce this natiō provoked them to make opē warre to the Church For Andronicus Palaeologus being Emperour he slew the Romane army in Paphlagonia not leaving one alive which gate being opened unto him he passed through even unto Sangarium and made all the provinces from the sea Poncus and Galatia even unto the sea of Lycia and Caria and to the river Eurymedon to be of his iurisdiction see Niceph. Greg. lib. 5. Byzant Hist From hence was the beginning of al miseries Ottoman rising by and by after by whom now for a long time hath the calamity of our world bin spred So then was Gog seduced Prince onely of Meshech and Tubal when first he began to goe on with rage but to whom now all Asia the lesse Syria Mesopotamia Arabia Iudea Palestina Aegypt the Ilands Graecia Macedonia Thracia c obey Al which Provinces after this tyrāny increased do com in that ful largenesse under the name of Gog in the Prophet But thou wilt say what alliance hath Gog with Magog if we grant him to be a Scythian by his stocke A most nigh both of kindred and nature For Magog is a Scythian and the Prince of that nation as Iosephus declareth in his first book and 5. chap. Magog saith he was the authour of the Magogites named of his name which are called Scythians by the Greeks But Sibyll describing his countreyes seemeth to prophecy another thing woe woe be to thee ô land of Gog and Magog compassed with the rivers of the Aethiopians VVhither then is Magog between the Rivers of Aethiopia But we know that these Southerne peoples are bordering on the sea and that this name agreeth not to any natiō neerer the North then Aegypt which sometime is called Aethiopia as Eustatius on Dionysius declareth And without doubt this is that Aethiopia which Sibyll meaneth which iustly she attributed to Magog For who knoweth not that colonies of the Cereases Scithyās wer brought into Aegygt where ther is also a town of their name And also Ezechiel reckoneth the Persians Aethiopians and Putei in the army of Gog chap. 38 5. Therfore Sibyll describeth not Magog by his proper countrey but by a colonie sent which shee chiefly maketh mention off because the calamity of Magog should most of all rest upon that part of the earth But let it be granted that Magog is a Scythian how hath the Divell deceived him In provoking him to ioyne his battels with the Turkes and togither to attempt the destruction of Christians When first by the streights of the Caspian sea new troupes of Scythians had broken by force into the nigher Asia about the yeere 1250. Iohannes Duca being Emperour at Nice they were troblesome to the Turkes their kinsmen who a few ages before came into those countreyes whom they drove out of the contreyes beyond Euphrates into those streights of Armenia the lesser and Cappadocia wherof we spake even now so as they were constrained necessarily to crave peace of the Roman Emperour wherby they might resist the inrodes of the Scythians pursuing them at their backes And this was the state of things until the time limited came wherin the Divell should be loosed from his bondes But then being let goe out of his prison he brake off this strife between these two and made one agreement of their minds for to abolish the Christian name Since that time the aide of the Scythians their countreymen hath never bin wanting to the Turk in whose strength at this day he trusteth greatly as we see in the late expeditions into Hungary where he had great armyes of the Tartarians who ar the natural Scythians the ofspring of Magog Therfore the society of Gog and Magog against the saincts is evident in these dayes whō not kindred affinity of a cōmon stock but onely fraud deceit of the Divell associated Such then is the army of the Turks Scythians both indeed of the same originall but of both these are called Gog because they are descendded from Magog evē as a river from the fountaine although now they be the princes of this warfarre neither retaine they any thing now of the Scythians because of their long sciourning in Asia but onely some footsteps of the former name But these partly newly come from Scythia partly the inhabitants at this day but called into these coūtreyes as necessity requireth delight yet in the name of their first Prince The number of this army is almost infinite for it is as the sand of the Sea that is exceeding great and innumerable being defined before to be of two thousand hundred thousand in chap. 9.16 in both places is signified an huge multitude But what Emperour but the Turk goeth to battell with so populous an army Scarce all the Christian armies ioyned togither in any expedition doo equalize the fourth part of it 9. They went up therfore into the plame of the earth In the former verse wee spak of a threfold ēdevour of this mustered army the first of which is this going up into the plaine of the earth wherby is signifyed the same thing which was expressed before by the third part of men killed chap. 9.15 But this so expresse mention of the latitude declareth that this tyranny shal overspred much more in breadth then in length For Aegypt being subdued a great part of Africk and toward the North even to the borders of the Tartarians this their Empire extēdeth no lesse it selfe frō the South unto the Septemtrion yea farr more then was once belōging to the Empire of Rome From the East to the West they have scarce attained any more then the third part Moreover they have had so easy and ready a conquest hitherto that iustly they may be said to go up upon the breadth who have brought under their power many countreyes rather by travelling over them then wearying them with any long and doubtful warre ¶ And they compassed the tents of the Saints The second endevour is the assaulting of the tēts in which the Saints dwel Whose tent is our Europe which after the truth restored the cruel Turk doth hold besieged on the East and South parth these three hundred yeeres For the Saincts are yet in campe under their tents and shal not have an end of the warrefare till before that the mariage be come at the solemnization wherof they shal cast off their souldiers cassocke and shal put on more ioyful garments meet
with very great dignity and maiesty Which marchandise the more rare it is the more glorious it shal at length be 19 20 And the foundation of the wall of the city He commeth to declare the foundations of the wall one after an other in describing wherof he resteth not in the very lowest ground sellings but teacheth that the matter of the whole frame is farre most pretious as altogether consisting of most noble pearles neither is it any thing inferiour to that most divine forme of which wee heard before I am not ignorant how greatly the Interpreters labour in applying every one of these to the auncient Apostles which difficulty this so exquisite order increaseth considering that there is not any certain order of the Apostles kept eyther in the Ghospels or in the Actes but sometime one Apostle sometime another is reckened first frō whence it becometh altogither uncertaine what stone may be answerable to which But it seemeth that the Holy Ghost intendeth another thing in this place not purposing to describe unto us the first twelve Apostles but the future teachers of the Iewes Church who carry the names of the Apostles whom they shall succeed both in office and fellowship of rewards as before in the 14. verse and in chap 18.20 All faithful teachers are the Apostles ofspring as also the former verse taught which made the greatnes of the wall of the number of twelve multiplyed in it selfe It is certain that the excellency of gifts by which the teachers doo excell abov the rest are signified here by most pretious earthly things by which more over it is taught both in what reckening they are with God and also in what estimation they ought to be with men And it is no lesse certen that every one of these excellent vertues shined forth in the old Apostles long time past but I thinke that the order belongeth properly to the future Teachers which if we shal apply to those auncient ones perhaps we shall erre greatly by attributing to every each one that which is unfit Wherefore resting as much as in us lay in the proper drift of this place beside that excellency which is common to all the pearles we think that so exact a reckening doth perteine to the order in which at length these new preachers of the Ghospell shall arise that even as the situation of the gates shewed the order of the countreyes in which the Iewes shal be converted to the truth so this manner of stones so set in order may signify the rising of the teachers in what order they shal rise up from every place Although there is this difference between the people and the teachers that the people assemble by troupes in every side of the city and therfore shall have three gates opened to them on every side the Teachers being fewer shall not gather togither by multitudes but shal be numbred man by mā according to the state of the places where God shal rise them up Yet we may not think that these shal be but twelve but that there shal be perhaps so many chiefe to whom the other multitude shal be wholly like Let us see therfore where these Gemmes growe and of what sort they are that in some measure wee may coniecture of the originall and disposition of those excellent men whom the divine bounteousnes wil give within these few yeeres The first foundation is a Iasper a divine stone often representing as we have seen the Image of God himselfe worthily occupying the first place because he that shal beginne the first restoring of the Iewes as an other Moses shal come most neere to God himselfe by a singular excellency of gifts The beginnings are most hard and require men very greatly furnished It is a Scythian and Persian Gemme of a celestial brightnes in which respect a certen kind of it is called Borea Aerizusa the beautie whereof can more easily be admired than declared it hath a pleasantnesseful of variety which the most sharpe eyed can not distinguish It may therfore represent a mixt riches of gifts wherein a manifold excellency is seen yet it cannot be diserned which most of all excelleth in which respect it figureth the Godhead as in chap. 9.3 in that so mixt fairenesse should signify in some measure that incomprehensible depth The Saphyre glistereth with golden points in great account among the Medes which sheweth a certen distinct kind of delectablenesse such as shal be in the next teachers after the first whom the excellency of some singular gift shall make famous A Chalcedonie is of a simple colour like to a Carbuncle shining with a fiery brightnesse it is a Northern Iewell found about the narrow sea of Chalcedon beaond Chrysopolis night to the rockes called Symplegades from whence it hath the name this betokeneth zeale fervency The most noble Emeraude groweth in Scythia it is of a most pleasant green neither doth any thing more delight the eyes But seeing here inward graces are more regarded then outward this greennesse is a most divine knowledge of things upon which the minde desireth to fasten the eyes before all things It is set after the Chalcedone that knowledge may accompany zeale The fift foundation is a Sardonix which is an Indian Iewel shining like the naile of a man set upon flesh it sheweth a certen kinde of humanitie having whitenesse mixed with rednesse The Sardius is found in Sardes it is wholly redde with bloody colour it may betoken a certen severity profitably ioyned with the Sardonix least perhaps gentlenesse should be despised without this companiō And these sixt first stones are belonging to the East and North which doo shew a happy encrease of Teachers from these regions which wee see how it agreeth with the former thinges when the first people shall be revived out of these same countreyes The seaventh foundation is a Chrysolite which shineth through with a golden colour It is a Iewell ful of dignity and maiesty AETHIOPIA bringeth forth the same PLINIVS affirmeth that the Beryll is found in INDIA DIONYSIVS in his book intituled Perieg saith that it groweth also in the land of BABYLON of a skie and water colour as the same describeth the skie coloured stone of the wet Beryll which groweth in the field of Babylon The watery colour belongeth to lenity and humility as is the water it selfe which easily giveth place to every thing a most fit companion of the maiesty of the Chrysolite that it may containe it within measure The ninth foundation is a Topaze which with Plinie is a green Iewel it is found among the Troglodites which dwel by the redde sea Dionysius saith that it is found in india or the stone of the bright Topaze shining with a skie colour writing of India But it is not of a simple and pure greennes but yellowish and glistering like gold From whence Eustachius attributeth unto it a golden colour chrusoeides yellow saith he sendeth forth a golden colour which
their desertes the trueth in the meane time might spring againe enioy a more quiet seasoÌ„ Wee have learned from those thinges which have ben said before that the pure religion had ben oppressed wholly and overwhelmed partly by a deluge of Locusts partly by other infinite corruptions chiefly by the tyranny of Antichrist But when it seemed good to God about this time to beginne sâ—me restoring of the trueth it pleased him to trouble Antichrist and to disquiet him with the feare of the foure loosed Aâ—gels least he should dâ—â—â—â—oy his growing trueth in the first blade and not sâ—ffer it to come to that ripâ—â—â—â—sse which wee see nowe Wherfore this commandement came in good season to the Church for whose sake alone all the alterations come to passe which wee see in the world 14 Saying to the sixt Angell To him to whom the commandement is given This first is appointed the effectour of the worke the former only denounced the evill peradventure the contagion of the sinne letted them from putting their hand to the worke but here should be a cleare separation of the punishement and the fault that the minister thereof should not neede to feare the infection of this ¶ Loose those foure Angels Car. Gal. pâ—g 56. duravit usque ad ann 1191 c. The meaning of the commandement of loosing the foure Angels who stood prepared in readines expecting onely wheÌ„ a signe should be given them But what manner of Angels were these were they properly so called and bounde to a certeÌ„ place that they could not stirre from thence untill some speciall leave was given them Certenly it is read that Asmodeus was exiled into the desert of the uppermost Egypt Tob. 8.3 But this worthily may be counted to be of small credit because of the Iewish lyes unto which that people was so given that also Iosephus a man doubtlesse learned and eloquent durst affirme Salomon either first to have invented or at least by his bookes to have encreased the Divelish art of coniuring a spirit booke 8. chap. 2. of Antiquities Thiâ— I say had ben vaine by right unlesse an authoritie of greater waight out of this very booke of the Revelation agreed unto it chap. 18.2 Where it is signifyed that the uncleane Spirits are shut up into certen places as into a prison Which yet neverthelesse seemeth not to be common to all but onely to some certen For howe can all be tyed to limited places when it is free for some to compasse the whole earth Iob 1.7 Of which also some walke about as roaring Lyons seeking whom they may devoure 1 Pet. 5.6 They rule also in the aire the spirit that nowe worketh in the children of disobedience Eph. 2.2 And they are the governours of the world yea the Gods of this world blinding the mindes of the infidels Eph. 6.12.2 Co 4.4 Can they performe these things being absent Therefore some doe seeme to be cast into certeÌ„ places as into a prison some to have more free liberty to walke abroade Yet neverthelesse the impiety of the Magitians is nothing holpen from hence who thinke that they are able to constraine the Devils with a certen necessity of abiding within a circle in a smooth stone in iron steele in a looking glasse in the nayle of a man or any like thing For God hath reserved this power to him selfe alone and to his holie Angels whom often he useth for his ministers in this thing he hath given noe authority any where to such men Neither are these Angels onely Devils but also men who are ruled by their power whom nowe it is a common thinge to be called Angels For the army is made of men as is manifest froÌ„ ch 20.7 Where againe he intreateth of the same thing Sathan goeth out to deceave the nations and to gather them togither unto battell But the Captaines are of the same kinde with their soâ—ldiers Wherfore seeing the order of things hath brought us unto the yeere one thousand three hundreth it is not to be doâ—bted but that they are the Turkes of which iudgement are a great part of Interpreters they are said foure because there were foure chiefe families of them For after the slaughter received of the Scythians Iconium the Princes Palaces being lost and after some yeeres spent in robberies at length they retiring backe they recovered themselves againe and divided among their Princes that of Asia which in short time after they tooke froÌ„ the Romanes The first of which was Carmâ—nus Atisurius the second Sarchanes the third Câ—lâ—mâ—s Cerasus his sonne the fourth Atman as he is written in Gregoras or after others Ottoman to which the same Gregoras addeth the fift Aâ—urius booke 7.1 And so many they seeme to have ben at the first but afterward to have ben brought to foure Laonicus Chalcocondy las saith that in the beginning there were seven booke 1 of the Turkes affaires But he ioyneth a certaine man called Teciem with Ottoman and reckeneth the children asunder from the fathers But it is not a thing to be mervayled at that this confusion of barbarous people could not be represented certenly by the History-writers albeit Gregoras lived in the same time and had the charge of keeping the rolles of the Emperour Andronicus the elder This nation came some ages before from Armenia the countries bordering on Euphrates From which places they did repell easily the Romanes which were wearied longe agoe and wasted with many calamityes But about the beginning of the reigne of Andronicus Paleologus the elder before the yeere 1300. it spred her selfe abroad through Asia even unto the Sea Aegeum But that they should not breake forth froÌ„ some other place then from their fore appointed lists to wit from Euphrates at that time when the raines were let loose unto them God by the helpe of the Catelani drove them againe unto Euphrates These men their Captayne being Ronzerius were souldiours in pay under Andronicus the prowesse of whom was such that for feare of them the Turkes fledde not onely from Philadelphia which then they besieged but also almost beyonde the auncient boundes of the Romane Kingdome as Gregoras testifyeth booke 7.3 This feare therefore did drive them into the countries about the river Euphrates did as it were lay fetters upon theÌ„ for a time Neither was it a small bounde tying them that they could not rage as they would in that their forces being devided unto many Princes every one a part were too weake that they should dare to attempt any great thing Both these impediments were taken away at the time of the power granted them For first of all the Catâ—lani followed not on the victory begun but shortly after went away returning home Secondly about the same time to wit about the yeere 1291 whatsoever by lawfull warre the Christian Princes tooke in Palestina and in the countries adioyning in twelve expeditions and after the possession of 196 yeeres they had lost nowe all
that so as those landes being given over every one went their way home Finally all the families of the Turkes whether of their owne accord or compelled by force submitted themselves to that one family of the Ottomans By which meanes the Turkes being free from all feare of the enemy behind them about Euphrates neither having any before them that could set against them sufficient forces renewed their assault against the Romanes whom in short time they overwhelmed wholly as it were with a deluge ¶ Bounde at that great river Euphrates So called properly that famous river of Armenia running to the West part of Mesopotamia where the Turkish nation abode many yeeres before it entreprised this warfarre 15 Were therefore loosed The execution of the commaundement lighting upon the yeere 1300 by one consent of all History-writers when their domesticall dissentions being appeased and all consenting to the Empire of the Ottomans they might freely bende themselves with all their power to enlarge their boundes and some time at length creepe out of their narrow straightes Howe longe time this power given to the Turkes should continue is declared in the next wordes prepared at an houre a day a moneth and a yeere which so exact description perteineth to the conforting of the godly whom the Spirit would have to knowe that this most grievous calamity hath her set boundes even to the last moment beyond which it shall not be continued Which indeede seemeth to be the space of three hundred ninetie and sixe yeeres every severall day being taken for a yeere after that manner which wee interpreted the monethes before But the yeere set downe here simply is meant to be the common and usuall Julian yeere of three hundred three skore and five dayes and some fewe houres All which time counted from the yeere one thousand three hundreth shall ende at leÌ„gth about the yeere one thousande sixe hundreth ninetie sixth which is the furthest bound of the Turkish name as also other scriptures by a merveilous consent doe proove unto which nowe to run is not permitted unto mee but a fit occasioÌ„ shall be given at an other time if God will In the meane time wee must knowe that the power of the Turkes shall not remaine whole unto this ende but shall threaten their ruine before or about fourty yeeres before that last destruction of them shall come but of this matter at some other time more at large ¶ To slay the third part of men Not without cause doth he make mention of the power granted to kill because more blood should be shed by these Angels then by any enemyes before spoken of A great number were killed of the Saracenes and the Romish Antichrist is wholy berayed with the blood of the Saincts as after chap. 17.4.6 But the slaughters made by them were none in comparison of these neither therefore doe come into any account The rage of the fierce enemie is limited with the boundes of the third part as wee have seene that it hath come to passe in the East partly in Asia partly in Europa from whence it is not to be feared that it shall be extended much further And surely it is kept backe by the force of the same prohibition wherby the violent waves of the sea are kept by the limites of a small sende For what barre is there in the West to stay them when the Christian Princes endevour one an others destruction Albeit there may be granted an excursion beyond those boundes for a small time to punish some men as wee have observed in the Sarden Church chap. 3.3 16 And the number of the horsemen was of the armies of a horseman for of horsemen unlesse peradventure it be set partitively as though he should say and the number of the armies of that of horsemen was two thousand hundred thousand I heard also the number of the armies of footemen which things need not to be stood upon considering that any may easily gather froÌ„ so great a nuÌ„ber of them that these were almost infinite The Comp. the K. bible reade of an horse A certeÌ„ olde copy hath of horses ten thousand times ten thousaÌ„de The word two being put out which Aret the Com transl hath The Interpreter of Aret. the Com. declare this number by the parts twentie thousaÌ„de times ten thousands which Th. Be. in the whole translateth two thousande timâ—s an huÌ„dred thousand In the clause following the Compl. the K. bible doe omit the copulative read by Ar. the Com. transl Beza hath it by a rational coniunctioÌ„ for I heard the number of them as if the number expressed perteined to the whole army which yet is referred expresly to the army of horse men but the indefinite number of the rest of the armies should have respect unto that of footmen unlesse peradventure all the hosts are of horsemen because of the swift increase wherby the Turks should waxe stroÌ„g as also is signifyed in the verse following But these are smaller things yet not to be neglected Wee understand that their armies shal be exceeding greate And in many expeditions it hath ben knowne for certen that the Turkâ— alone did bring moe souldiers into the battell then all the Christian Princes ioyned togither 17 And more over I sawe the horses Such is the number of the hosts their disposition is declared in this verse Which of what sorte it is is shewed froÌ„ the horses from the armour of the sitters on them from Lions heads of the horses and from that which cometh out of their mouth They are Horses in their alacrity and promptnesse to warre as before ver 7. The habergeons of the sitters on them are firie of Iacinth and of brimstone altogither of the same qualitie of which that is which cometh out of the mouth of the horses which breath out fire smoke whose colour is of Iacinth brimstone which three ar the instruments of killing men as after shal be said Seeing then they are armed with these three on their breasts it is even as if he should say that they ar armed sâ—rely with the destructioÌ„ of meÌ„ as who suppose that all their safety defeÌ„ce lyeth in slaying of other How lively doe these things pourtray the Turkish Empire which is susteined with no other holde theÌ„ tyraÌ„ny But further the firie habergeons ar cleare to all men eveÌ„ as the fire caÌ„not be hid Which is another marke by which properly this route may be challenged to belong to the Turkes not to the Saracens or Romanes For the Turkes doe vexe with opeÌ„ warre neither is there any of the ChristiaÌ„ name but he may behold a farre of their hostile minde in their habergeoÌ„s breasts The Saracens also were noisome but they invaded as it were by skippes unexpected flying upoÌ„ meÌ„ privily as craftily as they could Also the Romish Locusts so deceived with their vaine shewes doe yet deceive that they whoÌ„ they kill caÌ„not