CHAP.
XI
.
1.
The
regenerate
Christians
onely
are
the
Church
and
heritage
of
God
.
3.
The
residue
are
outcasts
and
refused
.
7.
Of
the
two
testifiers
and
preseruers
of
truth
.
13.
Antichrist
killeth
them
,
but
the
Lord
restoreth
them
life
againe
.
15.
Great
dissention
ariseth
thereupon
:
the
day
of
iudgement
is
foreshewed
.
VERSE
1.
And
there
was
giuen
me
a
reed
,
like
vnto
a
mete-yard
;
and
the
Angell
that
stood
by
me
,
said
,
Rise
,
and
measure
the
Temple
of
God
,
and
the
Altar
,
and
them
that
adore
therein
.
AS
in
a
common
field
,
a
good
Surveyor
doth
measure
out
each
intercommoners
seuerall
,
by
stake
or
by
rod
:
so
in
the
wide
and
common
field
of
Christians
,
the
Lord
commandeth
his
seruant
Iohn
to
survey
and
apportion
out
his
Church
and
partage
,
which
he
seuereth
from
the
residue
of
carnall
Gospellers
,
and
such
like
outcasts
;
in
recommending
vnto
vs
their
inward
frame
and
renewed
graces
,
vnder
the
appellation
and
names
of
the
Temple
of
God
,
the
Altar
,
and
them
that
adore
therein
:
meaning
,
that
as
in
the
Tabernacle
of
the
congregation
,
the
holy
and
most
holy
places
(
wherein
stood
the
Table
of
the
Shew-bread
,
Candlesticke
,
Altar
of
incense
,
Arke
,
propitiatory
and
oracle
of
God
,
ouercouered
within
and
without
with
Angell-gold
,
into
which
places
none
but
the
Priests
might
enter
and
adore
)
were
separated
by
a
vaile
from
the
outer
Court
,
where
the
brazen
altar
was
erected
for
all
the
house
of
Israel
to
enter
and
sacrifice
,
and
which
therefore
was
called
the
Court
of
the
people
:
so
in
the
common
field
and
Vniuersitie
of
Christians
,
they
onely
are
the
Church
and
heritage
of
God
,
which
are
sanctified
in
heart
,
and
holy
in
life
and
couuersation
,
and
separated
(
by
the
vaile
of
regeneration
,
that
is
to
say
,
by
the
teares
of
true
repentance
,
and
the
assurance
of
pardon
and
reconciliation
vnto
God
in
Christ
Iesus
,
in
grauen
in
the
tables
of
their
hearts
by
the
finger
of
the
Spirit
)
from
all
carnall
professors
and
nominall
Christians
,
in
whom
is
but
an
outward
face
and
protestation
of
the
name
of
Christ
onely
.
Verse
2.
But
the
base
Court
which
is
without
the
Temple
,
cast
out
,
and
measure
not
,
for
it
is
giuen
to
the
Gentiles
:
and
the
holy
,
Citie
shall
they
tread
vnder
foot
two
and
fortie
months
.
BVt
as
for
those
common
Catholique
Christians
,
here
resembled
to
the
base
court
which
is
without
the
Temple
,
because
they
are
but
ouercast
onely
with
a
profession
of
my
name
,
which
heare
my
word
and
participate
my
Sacraments
,
and
yet
are
separated
by
an
vnregenerate
heart
,
as
by
a
vaile
,
from
those
Altars
and
Priests
,
in
whom
my
name
is
honored
:
cast
forth
,
saith
the
Lord
,
and
measure
not
;
for
howsoeuer
such
vnleauened
companions
seeme
to
boast
in
the
name
of
my
Church
,
&
in
the
protestation
of
a
Christian
calling
,
yet
they
are
so
farre
from
belonging
to
my
peculiar
,
saith
the
Lord
,
as
that
I
haue
giuen
them
vp
in
reckoning
with
the
reprobate
of
the
Gentiles
,
and
they
shall
iustifie
mine
account
and
reiection
of
them
,
by
their
like
vncircumcised
cariage
and
heathenish
conuersation
:
for
they
shall
no
lesse
defile
my
holy
Citie
,
that
is
to
say
,
they
shall
no
lesse
hate
,
accuse
,
persecute
,
and
keepe
vnder
water
the
true
and
sanctified
Christian
,
then
do
the
heathen
and
vncircumcised
,
as
by
ouer-long
experience
is
well
knowne
to
the
Church
of
God
,
which
hath
been
,
is
,
and
shall
be
(
till
her
captiuitie
be
returned
)
opposed
for
melancholy
,
mad
,
new
,
factious
,
schismaticall
,
hereticall
,
by
Christian
Catholiques
,
politicians
,
Atheists
,
carnall
Gospellers
,
and
such
heathenish
protestors
like
to
these
.
And
that
the
Church
of
God
may
not
looke
for
other
or
better
entertainment
at
these
her
intercommoners
hands
,
she
is
here
(
by
the
predeterminate
counsell
of
God
)
to
be
troden
like
a
way
by
these
Gentiles
and
heathenish
Christians
,
two
and
fortie
months
,
meaning
months
of
yeares
,
euery
month
accounting
(
by
propheticall
supputation
)
thirtie
yeares
,
as
in
the
verse
following
shall
be
further
manifested
;
confounding
therein
the
Remisaries
of
Rome
,
who
sweat
to
perswade
that
they
are
but
months
of
dayes
,
thereby
to
turne
the
worlds
eye
from
the
great
Antichrist
that
now
is
,
to
a
pettie
Antichrist
which
shall
neuer
come
.
Verse
3.
And
I
will
giue
to
my
two
witnesses
,
and
they
shall
prophesie
a
thousand
two
hundred
and
sixtie
dayes
cloathed
in
sackcloth
.
DVring
which
time
of
the
Churches
disgrace
&
desolation
,
for
the
greater
comfort
of
her
children
and
iudgement
of
her
aduersaries
,
I
will
,
saith
the
Lord
;
I
,
by
a
wonderfull
outstretched
prouidence
,
will
preserue
vnto
the
world
the
light
and
power
of
my
two
testaments
,
to
guide
their
knowledge
and
conuersation
into
the
wayes
of
peace
.
Whereby
the
Lord
manifestly
reproueth
the
grosse
and
vaine
expectation
of
those
that
translate
his
meaning
in
this
place
to
the
coming
of
Henoch
and
Elias
:
whereas
of
Henochs
returne
,
either
in
flesh
or
in
spirit
,
there
is
no
syllable
of
promise
in
all
the
Scriptures
;
and
as
touching
the
spirituall
returne
of
Elias
promised
,
is
already
performed
,
as
the
Lord
himselfe
Now
touching
the
time
of
their
keeping
watch
while
the
world
sleepeth
,
the
Lord
voweth
it
shall
be
two
and
fortie
months
before
mentioned
;
which
being
dissolued
into
dayes
,
after
the
Kalender
of
the
Hebrewes
(
whose
yeare
did
driue
thirtie
dayes
to
euery
month
,
and
twelue
months
to
euery
yeare
)
amount
to
the
iust
number
of
1260
dayes
here
specified
:
which
computation
of
the
yeares
is
obserued
throughout
the
whole
Bible
,
Daniel
only
excepted
,
who
counteth
after
the
vse
and
stile
of
the
Caldeans
,
in
whose
tongue
and
amongst
whom
he
wrote
;
and
consequently
the
months
being
prophetical
,
that
is
to
say
,
months
of
yeares
,
which
to
each
account
thirtie
yeares
,
the
reigne
of
Antichrist
must
needs
endure
1260
yeares
.
Which
maner
of
reckoning
yeares
by
dayes
,
though
it
seeme
strange
,
is
vsuall
notwithstanding
with
the
Prophets
of
God
,
and
therefore
is
called
Propheticall
,
as
Ezekiel
a
day
for
a
yeare
;
and
Daniels
And
to
the
end
the
world
may
take
better
notice
of
these
his
two
testifiers
and
preseruers
of
truth
,
the
Lord
commendeth
the
knowledge
of
the
parties
,
by
the
description
of
their
garments
,
in
saying
,
they
are
cloathed
in
sackcloth
;
thereby
not
onely
disseuering
their
testimonies
from
all
the
soft
and
courtly
commentaries
of
flesh
and
blood
,
which
for
the
most
are
raised
with
infected
matter
,
and
vested
with
affected
stile
;
but
also
teaching
vs
that
no
man
can
retaine
to
the
Lord
,
before
whom
they
minister
,
vnlesse
he
serue
in
the
same
liuery
that
they
doe
,
and
can
turne
ouer
the
leaues
of
his
life
and
pilgrimage
in
fasting
and
sackcloth
,
and
true
repentance
,
as
these
his
seruants
the
Prophets
and
Saints
haue
done
.
Verse
4.
These
are
the
two
oliue
branches
and
the
two
candlesticks
which
stand
in
the
presence
of
the
Lord
of
the
earth
.
ANd
these
my
two
Testaments
are
those
two
oliue
trees
(
saith
the
Lord
)
described
by
my
Prophet
Zechary
,
which
stand
and
fructifie
before
the
Ruler
of
the
earth
for
euer
and
euer
.
For
their
leafe
,
that
is
to
say
,
their
word
and
iudgements
shall
neither
wither
nor
fade
,
though
heauen
and
earth
should
perish
and
melt
away
.
And
they
are
also
two
candlesticks
,
which
carry
in
them
the
light
of
my
truth
,
and
power
of
my
Spirit
,
the
great
moderator
of
heauen
and
earth
.
Verse
5.
And
if
any
man
will
hurt
them
,
fire
shall
come
forth
of
their
mouth
and
deuoure
their
enemies
;
and
if
any
man
shall
hurt
them
,
so
must
he
be
slaine
.
ANd
if
any
man
shal
wrest
their
word
from
the
aime
&
intention
of
their
meaning
(
saith
the
Lord
,
)
or
turne
their
prophecie
out
of
the
way
,
by
peruerting
or
clipping
the
honour
or
purpose
of
their
word
,
the
fire
of
my
wrath
denounced
by
the
mouth
of
these
my
two
testaments
(
for
though
they
be
two
,
yet
they
haue
but
one
mouth
)
shall
surely
iudge
and
execute
those
louers
and
makers
of
lies
:
and
for
the
more
assurance
of
this
sentence
against
them
,
the
Lord
doth
iterate
the
curse
and
vengeance
of
his
heauy
displeasure
,
saying
,
And
if
any
man
will
hurt
them
,
so
must
he
be
slaine
;
meaning
(
I
say
)
by
hurting
,
all
maner
diminishing
of
the
words
of
their
testimonie
by
false
,
blasphemous
,
and
lying
expositions
,
as
some
haue
done
.
Verse
6.
These
haue
power
to
shut
heauen
,
that
it
raine
not
in
the
dayes
of
their
prophecie
,
and
they
haue
power
ouer
the
waters
,
to
turne
them
into
blood
,
and
to
smite
the
earth
with
all
maner
of
plagues
,
so
often
as
they
will
.
FOr
the
Lord
hath
touched
the
mouth
of
these
his
two
Prophets
,
as
he
did
the
;
mouth
of
Ieremie
,
and
the
rest
of
his
seruants
,
of
whom
he
saith
,
Behold
,
this
day
haue
I
set
thee
ouer
nations
and
ouer
kingdomes
,
to
plucke
vp
,
roote
out
,
destroy
and
throw
downe
,
build
and
plant
:
and
in
another
place
,
Therefore
haue
I
cut
them
downe
by
my
Prophets
,
and
slaine
them
by
the
words
of
my
mouth
.
Such
priuiledge
the
Lord
hath
giuen
to
these
his
two
Testaments
,
that
if
they
once
shut
the
heauens
that
it
raine
not
in
the
dayes
of
their
prophecie
,
that
is
to
say
,
if
they
denounce
a
famine
of
the
bread
of
life
,
to
wit
,
the
word
and
knowledge
of
God
;
or
pronounce
a
sword
to
come
vpon
a
nation
,
kingdom
or
people
,
which
the
Lord
here
signifieth
by
turning
waters
into
blood
;
or
if
it
pleaseth
them
to
prophesie
(
which
the
Lord
here
calleth
to
strike
)
of
any
pestilence
,
earthquake
,
or
other
iudgement
to
come
,
such
power
is
giuen
them
,
that
if
they
say
the
word
,
it
is
done
,
as
it
is
written
,
Heauen
and
earth
shall
perish
,
but
the
words
of
their
prophecie
shall
not
passe
,
till
all
be
fulfilled
.
Verse
7.
And
when
they
shall
haue
finished
their
testimonie●
,
the
Beast
which
ascendeth
from
the
depth
,
shall
wage
battell
against
them
,
and
kill
them
.
ANd
when
his
seruants
the
Prophets
and
Apostles
shal
haue
fulfilled
their
course
,
and
be
translated
from
the
land
of
their
labours
to
the
land
of
rest
,
leauing
to
the
world
the
inheritance
(
as
it
were
)
of
their
ministery
sealed
vp
in
the
two
Testaments
of
God
,
to
preserue
the
feare
of
his
name
and
the
knowledge
of
his
pleasure
among
the
sonnes
of
men
,
which
the
holy
Ghost
calleth
finishing
their
testimonie
;
Antichrist
the
Beast
,
whose
proper
place
whence
he
is
and
whither
he
must
,
is
here
described
by
the
name
of
the
depth
,
shall
not
onely
hurt
and
wound
them
by
slanderous
&
lying
expositions
,
as
his
Clerks
and
Assects
do
,
but
shall
set
his
feet
vpon
their
necks
,
and
tread
downe
their
diuine
authoritie
by
the
aduancing
of
his
cursed
keyes
and
the
beautie
of
his
whorish
Church
aboue
them
,
which
the
Spirit
calleth
waging
battell
,
inhibiting
them
to
prophecie
or
teach
the
words
of
their
testimonie
vulgarly
.
And
not
onely
putting
them
to
silence
,
but
also
reprouing
,
condemning
them
for
corrupters
,
seducers
and
sowers
of
heresies
among
the
people
;
which
presumptuous
blasphemie
and
murder
,
the
Spirit
discouereth
in
saying
that
he
shall
ouercome
them
and
kill
them
.
Verse
8.
And
their
carkeises
shall
remaine
in
the
streete
of
the
great
Citie
,
which
is
spiritually
called
Sodome
and
Egypt
,
where
their
Lord
also
was
crucified
.
ANd
the
letter
or
text
of
their
testimonie
,
which
the
Spirit
calleth
their
corps
or
carkeises
,
shall
remaine
in
their
houses
,
Cels
,
Temples
,
hang
at
their
girdles
through
all
the
cities
and
kingdomes
where
the
Beast
and
his
Church
is
adored
;
which
in
regard
of
their
number
be
here
named
the
great
Citie
,
so
in
respect
of
their
execrable
worship
and
adulterous
seruice
,
contrary
to
God
and
his
holy
Citie
,
they
are
here
called
also
spiritually
Sodome
;
meaning
,
that
as
Sodome
her
sister
did
forsake
the
lawfull
vse
and
prescription
of
nature
,
and
wrought
filthinesse
against
nature
;
so
these
loathing
truth
,
and
louing
lyes
,
should
erect
strange
oblations
and
propitiations
,
as
contrary
to
the
offerings
and
satisfactions
of
the
Saints
,
as
was
the
sinne
of
Sodome
opposite
to
nature
.
And
the
Spirit
further
calleth
them
by
the
name
of
Egypt
,
for
that
in
blindnes
and
hardnes
of
heart
they
euery
way
match
the
presumptuous
and
indurate
Egyptians
,
still
pursuing
and
persecuting
the
truth
,
as
Pharaoh
did
Israel
,
till
the
God
of
Israel
destroy
them
by
the
Spirit
of
his
mouth
,
as
he
did
Pharaoh
and
his
hoast
by
water
.
And
in
further
detestation
of
the
cruel
murder
and
immanitie
of
this
Beast
and
his
adherents
,
the
holy
Ghost
layeth
the
blood
of
the
Prince
of
the
Couenant
to
their
charge
also
,
as
cunningly
as
they
thinke
to
conuey
his
murder
,
and
post
it
ouer
to
Ierusalem
.
For
as
the
Lord
doth
lay
the
blood
of
his
seruant
Abel
to
the
charge
of
the
Scribes
and
Pharises
of
his
owne
time
,
although
hee
were
slaine
long
before
those
Pharises
were
borne
or
Ierusalem
builded
,
because
they
were
the
very
image
and
liuely
imitation
of
his
brother
that
murthered
him
:
so
the
holy
Ghost
doth
here
lay
the
innocent
blood
of
the
Lord
of
glory
to
the
charge
of
this
crucifier
and
his
citizens
,
because
they
are
the
children
and
generation
of
that
high
Priest
and
those
murderers
which
cried
,
Away
with
him
,
crucifie
him
,
crucifie
him
.
And
that
wee
should
not
maruell
thereat
,
the
holy
Ghost
in
another
place
goeth
further
,
and
saith
,
In
her
shall
be
found
the
blood
of
the
Apostles
and
Prophets
also
,
and
all
that
euer
for
the
testimonie
of
the
truth
were
slaine
on
earth
.
Verse
9.
And
there
shall
of
the
tribes
and
people
and
Gentiles
,
see
their
dead
bodies
three
dayes
and
a
halfe
,
and
shall
not
suffer
their
corps
to
be
layed
in
monuments
.
ANd
all
nations
and
kingdoms
where
the
Beast
is
worshipped
(
whom
the
holy
Ghost
for
their
prophanation
in
life
and
religion
,
calleth
Gentiles
)
shall
haue
,
handle
,
and
gaze
vpon
the
letter
and
corps
of
his
two
witnesses
three
days
and
a
halfe
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
time
,
times
,
and
halfe
a
time
,
wherein
the
Beast
shall
reigne
and
persecute
,
euen
three
propheticall
yeares
and
a
halfe
,
accounting
(
as
in
Ezekiel
)
all
dayes
for
yeares
.
Neither
shall
they
suffer
the
word
of
their
prophecie
to
be
read
,
opened
,
vnderstood
,
and
laid
vp
in
the
hearts
of
the
people
,
the
true
and
natural
monuments
and
sepulchers
,
wherein
the
testimonie
of
their
words
ought
to
be
interred
.
Verse
10.
And
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth
shall
be
glad
ouer
them
,
and
shall
send
gifts
one
to
another
,
because
these
two
Prophets
tormented
them
that
dwell
vpon
the
earth
.
ANd
all
the
worshippers
of
the
Beast
here
noted
for
their
number
by
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth
,
shall
clap
their
hands
ouer
their
owne
inuentions
,
and
reioyce
in
the
death
of
the
truth
,
and
make
merry
with
bonefires
,
Vigils
,
Festiuals
,
Processions
;
and
in
token
of
ioy
,
they
shall
send
(
as
the
Spirit
saith
)
gifts
one
to
another
.
Kings
and
Princes
and
people
shal
present
and
endow
the
Beast
and
his
Church
with
donations
,
immunities
,
possessions
,
gold
and
siluer
offerings
,
&c.
and
the
Beast
(
on
the
other
side
)
shall
requite
their
kindnesse
with
titles
,
bels
,
pardons
,
buls
,
and
such
like
:
and
the
Spirit
yeeldeth
a
reason
of
this
their
wicked
and
vngodly
comfort
,
because
they
had
put
out
the
eyes
of
his
two
Prophets
,
that
their
whoredomes
and
prophanations
might
not
be
reproued
;
then
which
,
nothing
can
be
greater
torment
to
the
wicked
,
nor
more
vnsauory
to
them
that
perish
.
Verse
11.
And
after
three
dayes
and
a
halfe
the
spirit
of
life
from
God
entred
into
them
,
and
they
stood
vpon
their
feete
,
and
great
feare
fell
vpon
all
that
saw
them
.
ANd
forasmuch
as
in
the
death
and
extermination
of
Antichrist
by
way
of
dependancie
,
consisteth
the
life
and
resurrection
(
as
it
were
)
of
the
Scriptures
;
the
Spirit
foresheweth
,
that
after
the
reigne
and
persecution
of
the
Beast
,
which
here
(
as
in
the
ninth
verse
)
is
determined
by
three
dayes
and
a
half
,
God
will
raise
vp
faithfull
&
prudent
Priests
,
Shepherds
of
vnderstanding
hearts
,
who
shall
rightly
diuide
the
words
and
testimonies
of
his
two
witnesses
;
which
the
holy
Ghost
signifieth
,
in
saying
that
the
spirit
of
life
from
God
entred
into
them
:
for
as
the
letter
and
text
of
the
Scripture
is
the
corps
thereof
,
so
their
true
intent
and
meaning
is
the
spirit
and
life
of
them
;
and
by
the
faithfull
ministery
of
such
as
the
Lord
shall
raise
in
and
about
that
time
,
and
for
that
purpose
,
the
testimonie
of
his
two
Prophets
shall
be
restored
to
their
strength
,
and
(
as
it
were
)
to
their
walking
againe
,
which
the
Spirit
signifieth
in
saying
they
stood
vpon
their
feete
,
as
well
to
the
terror
and
astonishment
of
all
lying
and
stipulous
expositors
,
as
to
the
feare
and
admiration
of
the
children
and
iustifiers
of
wisedome
,
as
the
holy
Ghost
concludeth
,
saying
,
And
great
feare
fell
vpon
all
that
saw
them
.
Verse
12.
And
I
heard
a
loud
voice
from
heauen
,
saying
,
Come
vp
hither
:
and
they
went
vp
into
heauen
in
a
cloud
,
and
their
enemies
saw
them
.
ANd
the
restauration
of
the
true
meaning
of
the
Scriptures
,
which
their
enemies
so
long
kept
vnder
by
all
vniust
and
cunning
shifts
,
shall
be
more
famously
knowne
and
published
,
then
that
they
may
any
longer
hinder
or
stop
the
glorious
course
of
their
wonderfull
instauration
,
which
the
Spirit
intendeth
in
saying
that
he
heard
a
voice
from
heauen
saying
,
Come
vp
hither
;
meaning
that
it
should
be
more
possible
for
their
enemies
to
stay
Elias
chariot
from
ascending
,
or
pull
the
wind
backe
from
pursuing
his
point
,
then
to
resist
the
wisedome
of
the
same
,
the
which
shall
vindicate
the
abuse
of
the
Scriptures
,
and
by
the
power
of
their
ministery
(
as
in
the
strength
of
a
cloud
)
shall
hold
them
vp
,
and
restore
them
to
their
spirituall
and
heauenly
meaning
againe
:
and
the
Beast
with
all
his
sorcerers
and
liers
,
which
haue
been
their
long
and
ancient
enemies
,
shall
see
the
glorie
of
their
regeneration
,
and
wonder
,
and
die
.
Verse
13.
And
in
that
houre
there
was
made
a
great
earthquake
,
and
the
tenth
part
of
the
Citie
fell
,
and
there
were
slaine
in
the
earthquake
names
of
men
seuen
thousand
,
and
the
rest
were
cast
into
a
feare
,
and
gaue
glorie
to
the
God
of
heauen
.
ANd
at
such
time
as
it
pleased
God
to
begin
his
worke
of
instauration
,
and
to
cause
the
dayspring
of
his
Gospel
to
shine
out
of
the
night
of
Antichrists
darknesse
;
the
abominable
and
desolate
prophanation
of
the
Beast
,
which
had
so
long
time
ouercast
the
earth
,
was
in
such
sort
discouered
,
that
the
very
roote
of
his
throne
and
vsurped
authoritie
was
dangerously
shaken
,
which
the
holy
Ghost
closely
foldeth
vp
,
in
saying
,
there
was
made
a
great
earthquake
.
And
further
foresheweth
,
that
out
of
this
concussion
there
should
arise
so
great
defection
,
that
the
tenth
part
of
his
worshippers
should
reuolt
from
him
,
and
that
this
reuolt
and
defection
must
cost
the
liues
of
many
thousand
men
,
which
the
Spirit
vttereth
in
a
maner
of
speech
strange
to
vs
,
but
vsuall
with
the
Scriptures
,
calling
men
names
of
men
,
as
Chap.
3.
4.
and
meaning
by
seuen
thousand
many
thousand
,
vsing
the
determinate
number
of
seuen
indefinitely
and
for
a
number
indeterminate
,
as
it
is
also
in
Scripture
often
.
Which
broiles
and
bloodshed
concerning
the
institution
of
religion
,
are
so
sufficiently
reported
in
the
Commentaries
of
Bohemia
and
Germanie
,
and
in
the
troubles
of
France
and
Flanders
,
and
other
nations
,
as
if
it
were
purposely
registred
in
proofe
of
this
prophecie
.
Lastly
,
the
Spirit
concluding
foretelleth
that
many
kingdomes
in
this
defection
should
quite
forsake
the
Beast
,
and
haste
them
out
of
Babylon
home
againe
to
build
the
wals
of
Ierusalem
,
and
to
restore
the
morning
and
the
euening
sacrifice
of
praise
and
thanksgiuing
,
as
in
the
former
time
and
in
the
dayes
of
old
,
in
saying
,
And
the
rest
were
cast
into
a
feare
,
and
gaue
glorie
to
the
God
of
heauen
.
Verse
14.
The
second
woe
is
gone
,
and
behold
the
third
woe
will
come
quickly
.
THe
first
woe
was
the
blasphemie
of
Arianisme
,
which
the
holy
Ghost
in
the
ninth
Chapter
most
aptly
resembleth
vnto
a
smoake
ascending
from
the
depth
,
saying
,
that
the
Sunne
was
darkened
,
and
the
aire
with
the
smoake
of
the
pit
;
meaby
the
Sunne
the
Sonne
of
God
,
and
by
the
aire
the
word
of
his
truth
,
by
whose
onely
meane
and
interposition
,
the
obiect
of
his
Deitie
was
truly
discerned
;
and
in
regard
of
this
first
woe
which
was
kindled
by
Arius
,
wherewith
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth
(
as
the
Spirit
foretold
vs
)
should
be
tormented
fiue
moneths
,
meaning
moneths
of
yeares
,
which
by
propheticall
account
amounteth
to
one
hundred
and
fiftie
yeares
,
which
was
the
time
of
the
Arian
persecution
,
as
in
the
Ecclesiasticall
histories
more
plainly
appeareth
.
The
holy
Ghost
,
I
say
,
in
regard
of
this
first
woe
,
calleth
the
tragicall
reigne
of
Antichrist
the
second
woe
,
whose
long
time
of
tyrannie
within
this
Chapter
in
a
generall
maner
is
declared
,
and
in
the
thirteenth
Chapter
following
more
particularly
and
exactly
discouered
;
though
at
the
writing
of
this
prophecie
,
it
had
his
being
only
in
the
foreknowledge
of
God
,
and
was
not
yet
begun
to
be
acted
,
much
lesse
fully
ended
:
yet
in
respect
it
is
here
in
a
generall
maner
fully
reuealed
,
the
Lord
(
to
whom
all
things
past
and
to
come
are
present
)
saith
,
the
second
woe
is
gone
,
vpon
determination
whereof
the
third
woe
must
ensue
,
which
,
for
it
surpasseth
both
the
former
in
terror
and
greatnesse
,
the
holy
Ghost
bringeth
it
in
with
a
word
of
audience
,
Behold
,
the
third
woe
will
come
,
meaning
the
great
and
terrible
day
of
the
Lord
,
fore
denounced
by
his
seruants
the
Prophets
,
in
the
which
all
nations
shall
stand
as
prisoners
before
him
,
and
receiue
euery
one
according
to
the
wayes
wherein
their
heart
hath
walked
.
And
because
the
day
of
the
Lords
coming
in
glorie
and
consummation
of
the
world
shall
not
long
tarry
after
the
determination
and
consumption
of
Antichrist
,
(
as
in
the
last
verse
of
the
thirteenth
Chapter
following
shall
be
more
fully
declared
)
the
holy
Ghost
addeth
the
word
quickly
,
as
a
precise
note
of
his
speedie
coming
,
which
our
Lord
also
in
another
place
confirmeth
by
a
like
word
immediatly
,
saying
,
And
immediatly
after
the
tribulation
of
those
dayes
(
speaking
of
they
shall
see
the
Sonne
of
man
coming
in
the
clouds
of
the
aire
.
Verse
15.
And
the
seuenth
Angell
sounded
with
a
Trumpet
,
and
there
were
made
loud
voices
in
heauen
,
saying
,
The
kingdomes
of
this
world
are
made
our
Lords
and
his
Christs
,
and
he
shal
reigne
for
euer
and
euer
.
Amen
.
THe
vnderstanding
of
this
verse
dependeth
vpon
the
eighth
Chapter
,
where
it
is
said
,
And
when
he
had
opened
the
seuenth
seale
,
there
was
made
silence
in
heauen
,
&c.
and
I
saw
seuen
Angels
stand
in
the
sight
of
God
,
and
there
were
giuen
them
seuen
trumpets
&c.
where
the
holy
Ghost
meaneth
by
the
Lamb
the
Sonne
of
God
,
and
by
opening
the
seuenth
seale
,
a
more
particular
discouery
of
all
such
things
as
concerne
the
estate
of
his
Church
from
his
ascension
to
his
comming
in
maiestie
,
diuided
into
seuen
acts
,
declared
by
seuen
trumpets
,
sounded
by
seuen
Angels
,
of
which
acts
the
sixt
was
the
pageant
of
the
desolation
of
Antichrist
,
the
seuenth
and
last
is
the
coming
of
the
Lord
in
the
clouds
of
heauen
,
and
consummation
of
the
world
,
vttered
in
these
words
,
And
the
seuenth
Angell
sounded
with
a
trumpet
,
and
with
a
loud
voice
proclaimed
the
kingdome
of
this
world
,
so
long
time
vsurped
by
Monarks
and
Antichrists
,
which
by
right
of
Lordship
and
inheritance
,
did
euermore
belong
to
the
God
of
heauen
and
Prince
of
the
Couenant
,
shall
now
at
length
be
restored
to
the
right
Lord
and
lawfull
owner
,
and
of
his
reigne
,
dominion
,
and
glorie
,
there
shall
be
no
end
,
as
the
Spirit
concludeth
,
saying
,
And
he
shall
reigne
for
euer
and
euer
,
Amen
.
Verse
16.
And
the
foure
and
twenty
Elders
which
sate
on
their
seates
in
the
sight
of
God
,
fell
on
their
faces
,
and
adoring
God
,
said
,
We
thank
thee
Lord
God
omnipotent
,
which
art
,
which
wast
,
and
which
shall
come
,
because
thou
hast
receiued
thy
great
power
and
brightnesse
.
BY
the
foure
and
twenty
Elders
is
meant
the
testimonie
of
Moses
and
the
Prophets
,
who
for
that
they
spake
by
the
seuen
fold
Spirit
of
maiestie
which
burneth
night
and
day
about
the
throne
of
God
,
are
here
said
to
sit
on
their
seates
in
the
sight
of
God
.
And
for
that
their
iudgements
denounced
from
time
to
time
against
Antichrist
and
his
worshippers
,
are
now
iustified
vpon
them
,
and
the
euerlasting
kingdome
of
the
Lord
their
God
(
who
hath
stretched
his
wings
from
sea
to
sea
,
and
from
the
Riuer
to
the
end
of
lands
)
is
now
set
vp
for
euermore
;
therefore
the
Spirit
saith
,
that
they
fell
on
their
faces
,
and
adoring
the
iustification
of
God
,
brake
foorth
in
praises
and
thanksgiuing
,
saying
,
We
thanke
thee
Lord
God
omnipotent
,
&c.
Verse
17.
And
the
Gentiles
were
angrie
,
and
thy
wrath
is
come
,
and
the
time
of
the
dead
to
be
iudged
,
and
to
render
reward
to
thy
seruants
the
Prophets
and
Saints
,
and
to
them
that
feare
thy
name
,
litle
and
great
,
and
to
destroy
them
that
haue
corrupted
the
earth
.
ANd
all
kingdomes
,
nations
and
people
which
haue
euill
intreated
Ierusalem
,
and
made
a
sport
of
the
shame
and
affliction
of
Iacob
,
shal
now
reap
the
fruit
of
their
sauage
&
heathenish
liues
,
and
(
mauger
their
furie
)
shall
endure
the
wrath
and
iudgement
of
him
,
who
with
iustice
iudgeth
and
fighteth
,
as
the
Spirit
affirmeth
,
saying
,
And
the
Gentiles
were
angrie
,
and
thy
wrath
is
come
,
and
the
time
of
the
dead
to
be
iudged
.
And
the
Spitit
further
testifieth
,
that
the
Lord
(
for
whose
glorie
that
day
is
made
)
shall
render
to
euery
one
their
due
hire
or
wages
,
(
for
so
the
originall
importeth
,
commonly
interpreted
reward
,
)
first
to
his
Saints
and
seruants
,
and
all
that
ouercome
,
their
hire
and
wages
,
which
by
promise
and
for
his
owne
name
sake
is
due
vnto
them
;
next
,
to
all
execrable
Atheists
,
blasphemous
Catholiques
,
incredulous
heathen
,
liers
,
heretiques
,
carnall
Gospellers
,
and
all
other
brazen
and
vnregenerate
Christians
,
the
hire
and
wages
,
which
to
their
works
,
and
deeds
,
and
merits
is
due
,
as
the
Spirit
concludeth
,
saying
,
And
to
render
reward
vnto
thy
seruants
the
Prophets
and
Saints
,
and
to
them
that
feare
thy
name
,
little
and
great
,
and
to
destroy
them
that
haue
corrupted
the
earth
.
But
concerning
this
seuenth
age
,
wherein
the
Lord
shall
come
in
maiestie
to
iudge
the
quicke
and
the
dead
,
the
holy
Ghost
deferreth
yet
a
while
to
speak
more
particularly
thereof
,
and
resumeth
more
exactly
to
intreat
of
the
terme
and
persecution
of
Antichrist
and
his
accomplices
against
the
Church
and
Spouse
of
Christ
,
that
so
the
glory
of
his
iustice
in
their
iust
condemnation
and
iudgement
may
be
more
bright
and
manifest
.
CHAP.
XII
.
1.
A
confirmation
of
the
prophecie
following
.
2.
The
description
of
the
Church
and
of
her
first
fruit
.
4.
The
Churches
first
persecution
raised
by
Ethnicke
Rome
,
by
whose
immanitie
it
came
to
passe
that
her
beautie
was
no
more
seene
in
her
visible
and
eminent
graces
,
but
liued
here
and
there
dispersed
and
scattered
ouer
the
face
of
the
earth
.
8.
The
great
battell
betweene
Christianisme
and
Paganisme
:
Christ
and
his
truth
ouercommeth
Iupiter
and
his
prophanation
.
18.
The
Empire
remoueth
his
Throne
,
pretending
to
stop
the
floate
of
the
enemie
,
but
intending
to
roote
out
the
dispersed
remnant
of
the
Church
.
Verse
1.
And
the
Temple
of
God
was
opened
in
heauen
,
and
the
Arke
of
his
Couenant
was
seene
in
his
Temple
,
and
there
was
made
lightnings
,
voices
,
thunders
,
earthquakes
,
and
great
haile
.
THE
Apostle
hauing
drawne
in
the
former
part
of
this
prophecie
a
slight
draught
(
as
it
were
)
and
designement
of
Antichrist
,
doth
now
in
the
prophecie
following
revisit
and
perfect
the
discouery
of
the
Beast
,
and
hang
him
vp
to
the
view
and
discerning
of
heauen
and
earth
.
And
to
the
end
that
this
his
work
of
manifestation
may
carry
in
it
faire
and
vncontrollable
credit
,
the
Apostle
in
this
verse
assureth
vs
,
that
he
reuealeth
no
other
word
concerning
the
Church
&
her
pressours
here
on
earth
,
during
the
personal
absence
of
her
Lord
,
then
that
which
he
heard
at
the
Councel
table
of
God
,
which
he
deliuereth
in
a
maner
of
speech
vsuall
with
the
Prophets
.
And
the
Temple
of
God
was
opened
in
heauen
,
and
the
Arke
of
his
couenant
was
seene
in
the
Temple
,
alluding
to
the
Temple
of
Ierusalem
,
and
signifying
thereunder
,
that
the
words
of
this
his
Reuelation
are
no
lesse
sooth
and
true
,
then
if
he
had
receiued
them
from
the
Oracle
of
God
,
which
spake
from
ouer
the
Arke
of
his
testament
within
the
Temple
of
Ierusalem
,
whose
words
and
answers
,
for
their
diuinitie
,
maiestie
,
power
and
glorie
,
are
here
as
elsewhere
figured
by
voices
proper
to
God
,
and
not
to
man
,
as
lightnings
,
thunders
,
earthquakes
,
and
haile
.
Verse
2.
And
a
great
signe
appeared
in
heauen
,
a
woman
cloathed
with
the
Sunne
,
and
the
Moone
vnder
her
feete
,
and
on
her
head
a
crowne
of
twelue
starres
.
BVt
before
the
Spirit
takes
in
hand
to
discouer
the
persecuters
of
the
Church
,
it
pleaseth
him
first
to
describe
the
Church
it selfe
,
that
so
the
barbarous
immanitie
of
her
enemies
may
be
more
apparent
and
iustly
abhorred
,
being
vsed
against
a
creature
of
such
virginal
,
innocent
and
patient
modestie
,
who
for
her
rare
and
admirable
beauty
is
here
called
a
great
signe
,
or
heauenly
apparition
,
symbolizing
her
fearfull
,
modest
,
sober
and
matronlike
behauiour
,
with
the
appellation
and
qualitie
of
a
woman
;
for
so
she
is
in
holy
Scriptures
often
called
,
the
fairest
woman
,
the
Kings
daughter
,
daughter
of
Sion
,
daughter
of
Ierusalem
,
the
Spouse
of
Christ
,
Mother
of
the
iust
,
&c.
And
to
the
end
she
may
the
better
be
discerned
of
vs
,
the
Apostle
describeth
her
garments
and
wearing
,
saying
,
she
was
cloathed
with
the
Sun
,
meaning
that
she
had
put
on
the
Lord
Iesus
,
Sonne
of
iustice
,
that
is
to
say
,
her
soule
was
vested
with
an
assurance
of
the
mercie
and
loue
of
God
in
Christ
Iesus
her
Lord
;
which
iustice
or
iustification
of
the
Spouse
and
her
children
,
is
called
in
holy
Scripture
by
way
of
metaphor
,
the
white
stone
,
and
the
wedding
garment
.
For
as
a
stoale
or
garment
couereth
the
shame
and
nakednes
of
our
vile
bodies
:
so
the
mercy
and
loue
of
God
,
insured
vs
in
Christ
Iesus
our
Lord
,
hideth
the
shame
and
nakednesse
of
our
sinfull
soules
.
And
to
proue
that
her
garment
was
truly
wouen
of
the
two
diuine
threds
,
to
wit
,
the
assurance
of
mercie
&
the
assurance
of
loue
in
Christ
Iesus
her
Lord
;
the
Spirit
giueth
in
for
euidence
,
the
fruits
of
this
her
liuely
and
iustificall
faith
,
closely
hiding
her
newnesse
of
life
,
her
hatred
of
sinne
,
and
her
loue
of
God
,
as
vnder
a
vaile
,
in
these
words
,
And
the
Moone
vnder
her
feet
;
signifying
thereby
that
she
had
now
quite
forsaken
&
forgotten
her
fathers
house
,
that
is
,
had
slaine
her
naturall
sinfull
and
wonted
affections
,
and
was
reuiued
and
renewed
in
mind
,
and
with
her
Lord
was
now
risen
and
ascended
vp
,
as
he
into
the
heauen
of
heauens
,
so
she
to
a
new
custome
and
cariage
of
life
,
far
aboue
and
higher
then
the
Moone
:
for
all
her
study
and
hearts
delight
was
now
in
heauen
,
where
her
hope
,
her
loue
,
her
life
,
and
her
dearest
Lord
liueth
&
reigneth
,
God
,
to
be
praised
for
euer
and
euer
,
Amen
.
Last
of
all
,
the
Spirit
setteth
forth
her
head
attire
,
whereby
her
honour
and
estate
was
best
knowne
,
and
wherein
she
most
delighted
,
saying
,
that
she
wore
on
her
head
a
crowne
made
of
a
mettall
much
finer
then
gold
,
for
it
was
made
of
the
doctrine
of
the
twelue
Apostles
,
who
for
that
they
are
the
Lords
lights
and
lanternes
to
guide
the
feet
of
sinners
when
sinne
hath
benighted
them
,
are
here
called
by
the
names
of
Starres
,
And
on
her
head
a
crowne
of
twelue
starres
.
Verse
3.
And
being
great
with
child
,
she
cried
,
trauelling
and
labouring
to
be
deliuered
.
ANd
by
the
words
which
her
eares
receiued
,
her
heart
conceiued
,
and
she
was
great
with
feare
and
godly
sorrow
,
trauelling
vnder
the
burthen
of
her
sinnes
,
and
restlesse
desire
to
be
reconciled
to
God
:
which
anguish
and
paines
of
her
sorrowful
heart
and
broken
spirit
,
the
Apostle
most
excellently
compareth
to
the
sorrowes
of
a
woman
in
trauell
.
In
which
her
spiritual
labour
and
paine
,
she
could
by
no
meanes
be
relieued
or
eased
,
vntill
her
Lord
were
fashioned
in
her
,
that
is
,
vntill
her
heart
were
sanctified
by
faith
:
for
no
Treacle
could
heale
her
miserable
wounded
soule
,
but
the
assurance
of
mercie
onely
,
nor
any
water
could
quench
the
burning
flames
of
her
restlesse
desire
,
but
the
loue
of
God
onely
,
insured
her
in
Christ
Iesus
her
Lord
,
and
written
in
the
fleshly
tables
of
her
heart
by
the
finger
of
God
,
according
to
his
promise
,
his
first
and
last
and
euerlasting
couenant
.
Verse
4.
And
another
signe
appeared
in
heauen
,
for
loe
a
great
red
Dragon
hauing
seuen
heads
and
ten
hornes
,
and
on
his
heads
seuen
diadems
.
AS
night
doth
follow
day
,
and
the
shadow
the
body
;
so
must
the
Crosse
follow
Christ
,
and
affliction
his
Church
;
whose
Sunne
could
no
sooner
shine
,
but
the
enuious
man
raised
vp
a
mightie
storme
of
persecution
to
cloud
the
brightnesse
of
her
beautiful
beames
;
which
for
the
extraordinary
furie
thereof
,
the
Apostle
calleth
a
wonder
or
signe
,
meaning
the
Churches
first
and
primitiue
persecution
raised
by
Ethnik
Rome
,
who
for
his
power
,
immanitie
and
malice
to
the
Church
of
God
,
is
here
called
a
great
red
Dragon
;
and
both
for
that
his
Throne
and
Citie
was
seated
on
seuen
hils
;
as
also
for
that
he
was
in
all
impietie
,
pride
and
prophanation
,
the
totall
summe
and
epitome
(
as
it
were
)
of
all
the
seuen
Monarchies
,
vnto
whom
(
from
the
beginning
of
time
,
to
the
end
thereof
)
was
giuen
and
granted
the
charter
and
commission
of
blaspheming
God
&
corrupting
his
world
(
as
in
the
thirteenth
Chapter
following
is
more
particularly
discouered
)
the
Apostle
addeth
,
hauing
seuen
heads
.
And
in
regard
his
power
did
beate
down
the
power
of
all
nations
,
and
made
spoile
and
purchase
of
all
kings
&
kingdomes
on
earth
,
the
Spirit
saith
,
he
had
ten
hornes
:
for
the
hornes
signifie
kings
and
kingdomes
,
and
the
number
of
ten
include
all
,
be
they
neuer
so
many
,
as
all
numbers
are
made
of
ten
,
and
their
reduplication
,
be
they
neuer
so
infinite
.
And
because
he
came
to
aduance
his
head
so
high
by
the
power
of
his
sword
,
his
Leaders
and
legions
,
the
Spirit
crowneth
his
heads
with
magnificence
and
diadems
,
saying
,
And
on
his
heads
seuen
diadems
.
Verse
5.
And
his
taile
drew
the
third
part
of
the
starres
of
heauen
,
and
cast
them
to
the
earth
.
And
the
Dragon
stood
before
the
woman
which
was
ready
to
be
deliuered
,
that
when
she
had
brought
forth
,
he
might
deuoure
her
sonne
.
THe
head
of
this
great
red
Dragon
,
was
his
Regall
first
estate
,
gouerned
by
Romulus
&
six
other
successiue
kingcoates
,
which
Seneca
calleth
his
infancie
or
nonage
,
wherein
he
liued
swathed
and
nourished
in
blood
244
yeares
,
as
his
owne
Historian
reporteth
.
The
bodie
of
this
great
red
Dragon
,
was
his
Consuls
second
estate
,
which
Seneca
calleth
his
full
age
,
part
Aristocraticall
,
part
Democraticall
,
and
was
therefore
stiled
,
Senatus
populusque
Romanus
:
from
whence
partly
by
reason
of
his
ouerweight
and
fulsome
abundance
,
as
one
of
his
owne
noteth
,
Romana
laxitas
mundi
&
rerum
amplitudo
damno
fuit
;
and
partly
for
want
of
enemies
abroad
to
wreake
their
proud
and
kingly
humours
on
,
he
fell
into
the
intestine
euill
of
ciuill
warres
at
home
,
which
did
cast
him
into
his
minoritie
and
wardship
again
.
And
this
his
last
estate
of
regiment
Imperiall
,
the
holy
Ghost
here
calleth
his
taile
,
which
consisteth
of
a
rout
of
Monarchs
,
seuentie
Keysars
long
,
who
for
that
they
so
furiously
persecuted
and
hauocked
the
blood
of
the
chiefest
Saints
and
seruants
of
God
,
the
Spirit
saith
that
with
his
cursed
taile
he
drew
the
third
part
of
the
starres
of
heauen
,
and
cast
them
to
the
earth
.
And
not
contented
with
the
slaughter
of
his
fairest
lights
and
starres
of
his
Church
,
proceeded
to
desolate
the
whole
hoast
of
heauen
,
euen
all
the
seed
of
the
Spouse
,
named
before
the
Churches
child
,
and
here
her
sonne
,
meaning
those
in
whom
by
the
ministery
of
his
fairest
starres
(
his
seruants
the
Apostles
)
Christ
was
now
formed
,
and
of
whom
the
Church
was
now
ready
to
be
deliuered
;
for
so
much
the
Apostle
vnfoldeth
in
these
words
,
And
the
Dragon
stood
before
the
woman
which
was
ready
to
be
deliuered
,
that
when
she
should
bring
forth
,
he
might
deuoure
her
sonne
.
Verse
6.
But
she
brought
forth
a
man
child
,
who
was
to
gouerne
all
nations
in
an
iron
rod
:
and
her
son
was
taken
vp
to
God
and
to
his
throne
.
BVt
notwithstanding
all
their
furie
,
the
Church
brought
forth
her
first
fruit
,
which
for
their
faith
,
charitie
,
labour
and
patience
,
the
Spirit
nameth
a
man
child
:
and
because
they
followed
the
Lord
in
the
regeneration
,
and
ouercame
by
keeping
his
words
and
works
vnto
the
end
,
they
receiued
the
selfe
same
honour
which
to
their
Lord
alone
and
in
chiefe
belongeth
,
namely
,
that
they
shall
iudge
the
Tribes
of
Israel
,
and
haue
dominion
ouer
the
nations
,
and
shall
rule
them
with
a
rod
of
iron
,
and
breake
their
glorie
like
a
potters
vessell
,
as
the
Lord
hath
promised
,
Math.
19.
and
Apoc.
2.
And
in
remembrance
of
the
tender
care
and
prouidence
of
God
ouer
the
seed
and
first
fruit
of
his
Church
,
the
Spirit
concludeth
,
that
when
they
had
ended
their
course
,
they
were
taken
vp
to
God
and
to
his
throne
,
far
from
the
reach
and
rage
of
their
enemies
.
Verse
7.
And
the
Woman
fled
into
the
wildernesse
,
where
she
had
a
place
prepared
of
God
,
that
there
they
might
feed
her
a
thousand
two
hundred
and
sixtie
dayes
.
BVt
the
Church
of
God
,
here
named
the
woman
,
mother
of
this
faire
and
primitiue
fruit
,
being
no
longer
able
to
weather
out
her
stormes
,
was
enforced
to
hide
her
beautie
,
and
to
retire
her selfe
into
the
secret
chambers
of
Gods
prouidence
and
her
owne
conscience
,
and
to
take
vp
her
lodging
in
the
desart
;
not
that
her
light
was
vtterly
extinguished
,
as
her
enemies
reproch
her
:
for
although
she
were
dispersed
,
distressed
,
and
enforced
to
hide
her
extraordinary
and
eminent
graces
;
yet
the
beautie
of
her
true
repentance
and
of
her
liuely
faith
,
seconded
with
a
charitable
life
and
patient
expectation
of
better
things
to
come
,
still
shined
as
a
candle
in
a
darke
place
;
and
like
a
ship
preserued
in
a
tempest
,
she
remained
stil
the
same
,
of
whom
the
world
was
not
worthy
;
neuer
wanting
the
louing
protection
of
her
dearest
Lord
,
who
in
all
her
troubles
was
mindfull
of
her
,
as
of
Elias
his
seruant
,
or
Israel
his
first
borne
;
carefull
to
prouide
her
both
of
honorable
harbour
and
princely
diet
.
Her
resting
place
was
restlesse
,
strewed
and
scattered
far
and
neare
ouer
the
face
of
the
earth
;
for
such
a
lodging
did
best
beseeme
her
broken
and
restlesse
heart
,
which
soiourned
in
earth
,
but
dwelt
in
heauen
;
and
did
also
best
defend
her
person
from
the
furious
inquisitions
of
her
enemies
.
Neither
was
her
Lord
lesse
louing
and
prouident
concerning
her
food
,
for
he
preserued
for
her
diet
the
two
witnesses
of
his
eternall
Couenant
,
that
from
their
breast
she
might
sucke
the
pure
and
wholesome
milke
of
grace
and
life
,
that
so
she
might
be
both
nobly
harboured
and
princely
fed
during
the
tedious
and
odious
reigne
of
the
great
Whore
the
Church
of
Rome
,
who
during
her
exile
should
vsurpe
her
Chaire
,
and
vnder
the
vizard
of
her
name
should
persecute
her
name
and
generation
a
thousand
two
hundred
and
sixtie
yeares
,
here
(
as
before
)
mystically
deciphered
vnder
a
thousand
two
hundred
and
sixtie
dayes
.
Verse
8.
And
there
was
waged
a
battell
in
heauen
,
Michael
and
his
Angels
fought
with
the
Dragon
;
and
the
Dragon
fought
,
and
his
Angels
.
ANd
at
the
same
time
that
the
Temple
of
God
was
opened
in
heauen
,
the
Apostle
also
foresaw
that
great
and
bloody
contention
,
then
which
(
since
the
dayes
of
heauen
)
was
neuer
waged
greater
;
great
in
regard
of
the
armies
,
and
great
in
respect
of
the
cause
.
The
armies
great
,
as
well
for
the
greatnesse
of
the
Generals
,
as
for
the
valour
and
number
of
their
forces
.
The
Generall
on
the
one
side
,
was
the
power
of
God
,
sciphered
by
Michael
the
Prince
of
the
Couenant
,
who
stood
for
the
children
and
people
of
the
Highest
.
The
Generall
on
the
other
side
,
was
the
power
of
Satan
,
figured
by
Ethnicke
Rome
,
here
(
as
before
)
called
the
Dragon
.
In
their
forces
are
to
be
considered
the
Leaders
and
the
souldiers
.
The
Leaders
and
the
Captains
on
the
part
of
Michael
were
Diuus
Petrus
,
Diuus
Paulus
,
Di●●●
Iohannes
,
and
the
rest
of
that
diuine
and
noble
order
of
Saints
.
And
on
the
Dragons
part
were
Leaders
and
Chieftaines
,
diuus
Tiberius
,
diuus
Caligula
,
diuus
Claudius
,
diuus
Nero
,
and
the
rest
of
that
most
filthy
and
execrable
traine
.
So
great
was
the
multitude
and
number
of
souldiers
,
that
none
of
what
degree
,
sex
,
age
,
or
condition
soeuer
,
but
must
be
prest
for
the
one
side
or
for
the
other
;
the
valour
and
vertue
of
the
souldiers
exceeded
all
praise
;
few
subdued
many
,
the
weake
ouercame
the
strong
,
a
handfull
of
Christians
a
world
of
infidels
.
The
cause
was
great
,
and
higher
then
the
heauens
;
whether
God
or
Belial
,
Christ
or
Iupiter
,
Christianisme
or
Paganisme
were
more
venerable
for
antiquitie
,
maiesticall
for
amplitude
,
more
constant
for
continuance
,
and
in
all
other
respects
of
wisedome
,
honour
and
maiestie
more
worthy
to
be
embraced
and
adored
of
the
sonnes
of
men
;
which
was
for
life
contended
by
the
Dragon
,
his
Angels
and
assects
,
and
was
for
life
withstood
and
disapproued
by
Michael
and
his
Angels
,
and
their
followers
.
The
issue
of
this
contention
followeth
.
Verse
9.
But
they
preuailed
not
,
neither
was
their
place
found
any
more
in
heauen
.
AS
the
battell
was
great
,
so
was
the
victory
glorious
:
for
though
the
Dragon
with
his
sapient
Senates
,
his
prophane
Angels
,
and
his
vncleane
abbettors
,
intended
all
their
forces
,
mouing
(
as
it
is
in
prouerb
)
heauen
and
earth
to
make
roome
for
the
abomination
of
Iupiter
,
and
to
keepe
vnder
water
the
euerlasting
Lord
and
Prince
of
the
Couenant
;
as
among
the
many
monuments
of
time
is
sufficiently
proued
and
maintained
by
Orosius
,
and
by
him
to
whom
he
wrote
in
his
booke
de
Ciuitate
Dei
;
yet
the
Spirit
foreseeing
the
Dragons
folly
,
and
how
in
vaine
he
kickt
against
the
spurre
,
in
scorne
of
his
presumption
saith
,
But
he
preuailed
not
;
and
concluding
affirmeth
,
that
the
possession
of
heauen
(
so
long
time
vsurped
by
incestuous
murtherers
,
and
execrable
curtizans
,
gods
and
goddesses
of
their
owne
forgeing
)
must
be
resigned
now
to
the
true
Lord
and
owner
of
all
,
who
hath
taken
his
place
at
the
right
hand
of
the
Father
,
and
hath
deposed
for
euer
from
their
vsurped
titles
of
deitie
,
all
gods
and
goddesses
,
phantasmes
made
of
wormes
,
created
and
diuified
by
the
inuentions
,
relations
,
consecrations
,
and
canonizations
of
the
Dragon
,
his
Taile
and
successors
,
as
the
Spirit
discouereth
in
saying
,
Neither
the
place
of
them
was
found
any
more
in
heauen
.
Verse
10.
And
that
great
Dragon
was
throwne
downe
,
the
old
Serpent
,
called
the
Diuell
and
Satanas
,
which
seduceth
the
whole
world
,
and
he
was
cast
into
the
earth
,
and
his
Angels
were
throwne
downe
with
him
.
ANd
the
great
and
prophane
power
of
the
Romane
monarchie
,
which
had
so
long
time
oppressed
and
corrupted
the
earth
,
was
now
at
length
detected
,
and
thereupon
disseized
of
,
and
from
her
vsurped
claime
of
heauen
for
euer
,
as
the
Spirit
discouereth
in
saying
,
And
that
great
Dragon
was
throwne
downe
.
And
for
that
the
diuell
did
corporally
dwell
(
as
it
were
)
in
her
,
spreading
the
beames
of
his
wickednesse
at
full
,
in
all
idolatrie
,
impietie
and
presumption
against
God
,
and
in
all
oppression
,
iniustice
and
immanitie
towards
man
;
the
Spirit
crowneth
her
with
the
cognoments
of
her
sire
,
calling
her
,
for
her
malice
to
the
truth
,
a
Serpent
;
for
her
crimination
of
the
Saints
,
a
diuell
;
and
for
hostilitie
to
God
and
his
Saints
,
Satanas
:
speaking
therein
after
the
maner
of
the
Lord
himself
,
who
calleth
his
trecherous
steward
a
diuel
,
thogh
he
were
a
man
,
because
the
fulnesse
of
Satan
did
dwel
in
him
,
filling
his
heart
with
such
a
perfect
hatred
of
his
innocent
Lord
,
&
lamentable
loue
of
his
guiltie
penie
,
that
he
sold
Canaan
for
Egypt
,
heauen
for
hell
,
&
God
for
siluer
.
And
because
the
impietie
of
gouernours
,
is
not
onely
their
owne
decay
by
euill
doing
,
but
also
by
enforcement
and
euill
example
the
ruine
of
their
people
;
the
Spirit
layeth
the
seduction
of
the
whole
earth
to
the
charge
of
the
Dragon
,
for
the
ruling
it
after
the
leuell
and
prescription
of
Rome
,
saying
,
which
seduceth
the
whole
world
;
and
thereupon
giueth
iust
iudgement
and
sentence
of
death
against
him
,
namely
,
that
as
in
his
beginning
he
crept
out
of
the
earth
,
and
by
the
scale
of
his
wickednesse
ascended
so
high
,
as
to
presume
to
thrust
his
haughtie
head
into
heauen
,
and
build
his
neast
aboue
the
starres
,
as
did
his
antecessors
,
Assur
,
Beltassar
,
Darius
,
Alexander
,
and
the
rest
of
their
compeeres
:
so
by
a
like
power
of
sword
and
crueltie
,
he
shall
shortly
returne
to
his
friends
again
,
and
be
made
euen
with
the
earth
,
from
whence
his
stocke
and
first
estate
was
borrowed
;
and
the
power
of
his
Cesars
,
councell
of
his
Senators
,
sophistrie
of
his
Sorcerers
(
which
with
such
indurate
and
obstinate
mindes
stood
for
the
honour
and
worship
of
diuels
)
should
be
no
longer
able
to
vphold
the
reuerence
of
their
Iupiter
Capitolinus
,
who
was
now
deteced
for
a
rogue
,
and
by
the
voices
of
Michaels
Angels
(
as
by
whips
and
pasports
)
was
sent
home
againe
to
the
place
of
his
birth
,
namely
the
earth
,
from
whence
his
mortall
and
vile
genealogie
was
taken
,
and
with
him
also
were
Cesars
vndiuified
,
and
(
for
all
their
Senates
proud
relations
)
were
made
to
take
vp
the
graue
for
their
latter
end
,
and
shame
for
their
fame
,
and
wormes
for
their
heritage
,
as
the
Spirit
foretelleth
,
saying
,
And
he
was
cast
downe
vnto
the
earth
,
and
his
Angels
were
throwne
downe
with
him
.
Verse
11.
And
I
heard
a
great
voice
in
heauen
,
saying
,
Now
is
made
saluation
,
and
force
,
and
kingdome
of
our
God
,
and
the
power
of
his
Christ
,
because
the
accuser
of
our
brethren
is
cast
downe
,
who
accused
them
before
the
sight
of
our
God
day
and
night
.
NEither
was
this
famous
victorie
obtained
in
a
corner
,
or
spoken
in
the
eare
,
but
(
as
the
Spirit
reporteth
)
so
valorously
gotten
,
and
so
audibly
proclaimed
,
that
all
the
world
heard
the
report
thereof
,
witnesse
the
records
of
those
times
,
at
which
the
holy
Ghost
pointeth
in
these
words
,
And
I
heard
a
loud
voice
in
heauen
,
saying
,
and
sounding
the
victorie
of
Christ
and
Christianisme
against
the
Dragon
and
his
Angels
,
his
sorcerers
and
their
prophane
and
idolatrous
paganisme
;
in
these
deuout
&
diuine
notes
,
Now
is
made
saluation
,
and
force
,
and
the
kingdome
of
our
God
,
and
the
power
of
his
Christ
;
and
yeeldeth
a
reason
of
this
so
pious
and
triumphant
ioy
,
because
the
folly
and
fury
of
the
Dragon
and
his
Angels
,
which
so
continually
accused
the
Saints
and
seruants
of
God
,
for
pestilent
fellowes
,
mouers
of
sedition
,
maintainers
of
sects
,
polluters
of
the
Temple
,
teachers
of
new
gods
,
enemies
to
Cesar
,
wordsowers
,
babblers
,
blasphemers
,
is
now
vpon
setting
and
going
downe
for
euer
.
Which
death
and
downfall
of
their
spirituall
whoredome
,
the
holy
Ghost
discloseth
,
in
saying
,
because
the
accuser
of
our
brethren
is
cast
forth
.
And
for
the
greater
comfort
of
the
Church
and
iudgement
of
her
enemies
,
concludeth
,
that
there
is
a
perfect
courtroule
kept
,
as
wel
of
the
sufferings
of
the
Saints
,
as
of
the
slanders
of
their
foes
,
so
openly
committed
in
the
face
of
the
Court
,
and
before
a
Iudge
of
so
cleare
a
sight
and
eternall
memory
,
as
that
they
shall
neuer
be
discharged
or
forgotten
,
the
Spirit
inferreth
,
saying
,
who
accused
them
before
the
sight
of
our
God
day
&
night
.
Verse
12.
And
they
ouercame
him
by
the
blood
of
the
Lamb
,
and
by
the
word
of
their
testimonie
;
and
they
loued
not
their
liues
euen
vnto
the
death
.
LAst
of
all
the
holy
Ghost
discouereth
the
spirituall
armour
and
weapons
wherewith
the
Angels
and
seruants
of
Michael
obtained
this
famous
victory
ouer
the
Dragon
and
his
sectaries
,
and
saith
,
that
they
were
tempered
of
these
two
diuine
vertues
,
faith
and
patience
.
For
by
the
shield
of
faith
,
which
the
Spirit
(
by
a
metonymie
)
calleth
,
the
blood
of
the
Lamb
,
and
with
the
sword
of
his
two
witnesses
,
and
by
the
word
of
their
testimonie
,
they
ouerthrew
all
forces
and
arguments
drawn
from
reason
or
reading
,
which
the
Spirit
obserueth
in
these
words
,
And
they
ouercame
him
by
the
blood
of
the
Lamb
,
and
by
the
word
of
their
testimonie
,
and
all
such
arguments
as
were
drawne
from
the
blocke
,
as
fire
,
sword
,
persecution
,
interdiction
,
and
such
like
,
the
children
of
the
Church
quenched
them
with
teares
,
prayers
,
patience
and
martyrdome
,
as
their
Lord
had
giuen
them
charge
,
and
left
them
example
;
which
the
Spirit
vncouereth
in
saying
,
And
they
loued
not
their
liues
euen
vnto
the
death
.
Verse
13.
Therefore
reioyce
O
heauens
,
and
you
that
dwell
in
them
.
Woe
to
the
earth
and
to
the
sea
,
because
the
diuell
is
descended
to
you
,
hauing
great
wrath
,
knowing
that
he
hath
but
a
little
time
.
AS
after
victory
followeth
diuision
of
spoile
,
so
the
Spirit
shuts
vp
this
heauenly
conquest
with
triumph
and
ioy
,
inuiting
thereunto
all
the
Saints
and
seruants
of
God
,
which
haue
from
time
to
time
maintained
and
defended
the
honour
of
his
name
against
the
Dragon
,
his
sorcerers
and
sorceries
.
And
because
by
their
good
profession
and
godly
conuersation
they
testified
the
glorie
of
God
(
as
doe
the
heauens
)
by
their
obedient
conuersions
,
the
Spirit
crowneth
them
with
the
name
of
the
heauens
,
saying
,
Therefore
reioyce
O
heauens
,
and
you
that
dwell
in
them
.
And
on
the
other
part
,
pronounceth
woe
,
first
to
all
nations
and
kingdomes
accessary
to
these
spirituall
whoredomes
of
the
Dragon
,
whom
(
according
to
their
earthly
mind
)
he
most
aptly
resembleth
to
the
earth
;
next
,
to
the
Empire
it selfe
,
as
the
scelerum
caput
and
stable
of
iniquitie
,
whom
for
his
fearfull
power
and
vnbridled
rage
,
the
Spirit
most
elegantly
calleth
by
the
name
of
the
Ocean
and
the
sea
:
and
concludeth
his
woe
with
a
reason
why
,
because
both
in
one
and
other
,
the
power
of
Satan
had
taken
such
deepe
roote
,
that
the
more
the
light
of
the
truth
did
bewray
their
madnesse
,
the
more
they
stroue
and
stormed
against
it
;
and
so
much
the
rather
,
because
their
sinne
was
now
at
the
highest
;
and
that
the
kingdome
of
Christ
did
gather
so
fast
vpon
them
,
that
of
necessity
a
mutation
of
their
fortunes
must
needs
follow
,
with
a
subuersion
not
onely
of
their
Paganisme
,
but
also
of
their
power
Cesaricall
,
which
the
Spirit
closely
foldeth
vp
in
these
words
,
Knowing
that
he
hath
but
a
little
time
;
which
one
Apostle
also
obserueth
,
2.
Thess.
2.
Verse
14.
And
when
the
Dragon
saw
that
he
was
throwne
to
the
earth
,
he
persecuted
the
woman
that
brought
forth
the
man
child
.
ANd
when
the
raging
Romane
Empire
saw
that
his
maintenance
of
Iupiter
and
his
idol
art
of
making
shrines
was
to
descend
for
euer
,
(
as
among
many
voices
,
some
euen
to
this
day
are
heard
to
crie
vengeance
vpon
his
idols
,
inforcing
them
with
shame
to
resigne
their
vsurped
titles
of
gods
and
claime
of
heauen
to
the
true
Lord
and
owner
thereof
)
he
took
the
course
of
the
wicked
,
whose
custome
is
(
as
one
of
their
owne
noteth
)
malitia
alia
aliam
trudere
,
and
to
adde
sin
to
sin
,
(
as
a
holy
one
saith
)
to
quench
his
the
man
child
.
Verse
15.
And
there
was
giuen
vnto
the
woman
two
wings
of
the
great
Eagle
,
that
she
might
flie
into
the
desart
,
vnto
her
place
,
where
she
was
nourished
for
a
time
,
and
times
,
and
halfe
a
time
,
from
the
face
of
the
Serpent
.
BVt
the
Lord
,
who
had
so
dearly
bought
his
Shunamite
,
was
no
lesse
carefull
to
preserue
and
carry
her
to
the
place
of
her
rest
,
with
a
strong
and
out-stretched
prouidence
,
euen
vpon
his
owne
two
wings
,
whose
feathers
were
made
of
the
truth
of
his
promse
,
sealed
and
deliuered
by
the
hand
of
his
two
witnesses
,
which
the
Bridegroom
of
purpose
left
with
his
Spouse
,
to
accompanie
and
guide
her
whensoeuer
she
remoueth
.
If
she
trauell
by
day
,
they
are
her
leading
cloud
;
if
by
night
,
they
are
her
pillar
of
fire
:
if
she
flie
,
they
lend
her
wings
;
if
she
wander
,
they
harbour
her
;
if
she
be
naked
,
they
couer
her
;
if
in
prison
,
they
visit
her
;
if
captiue
,
they
redeem
her
;
if
she
be
weake
,
they
sustaine
her
;
if
blind
,
they
leade
her
;
if
she
be
heauie
,
they
comfort
her
;
if
sicke
,
they
recouer
her
;
if
she
doubt
,
they
resolue
her
;
if
she
erre
,
they
direct
her
:
if
she
thirst
,
they
giue
her
to
drinke
;
and
if
she
hunger
,
they
feed
her
,
and
make
her
so
strong
of
constitution
,
that
afflictions
are
reioycings
to
her
,
banishment
a
hauen
,
dispersion
a
friend
,
losse
and
death
aduantage
.
And
by
these
comforts
(
as
by
hands
)
they
conuey
her
to
her
solitude
and
restlesse
place
of
rest
,
as
the
Spirit
discouereth
,
saying
,
But
there
were
giuen
to
the
woman
two
wings
of
the
great
Eagle
,
that
she
might
flie
into
the
desart
,
vnto
her
resting
place
,
where
euer
since
her
primitiue
dispersion
she
hath
liued
strewed
and
scattered
far
and
neare
ouer
the
face
of
the
earth
,
seene
and
knowne
of
her
Lord
,
by
whom
she
is
protected
,
and
of
the
children
of
wisedome
,
of
whom
she
is
iustified
:
and
so
doth
and
must
remaine
hidden
and
retired
into
the
priuie
chambers
of
Gods
prouidence
and
her
owne
conscience
,
during
the
reigne
of
Antichrist
,
whose
curst
and
arrogant
supremacy
was
to
rise
out
of
the
ashes
of
the
Dragons
Emperioritie
,
as
the
holy
Ghost
prophecied
.
And
thus
,
hiding
her
eminent
primitiue
graces
,
must
closely
and
silently
keep
the
Lords
watch
,
and
stand
vpon
her
honorable
guard
three
propheticall
yeares
and
a
halfe
,
here
(
as
in
Daniel
)
determined
by
a
time
,
and
times
,
and
half
a
time
,
from
the
reach
and
rage
of
the
Serpent
,
his
taile
and
successors
.
Verse
16.
And
the
Serpent
cast
out
of
his
mouth
,
after
the
woman
,
water
,
as
it
were
a
flood
,
that
he
might
make
her
to
be
carried
away
with
the
flood
.
ANd
when
the
Dragons
traine
of
Cesars
(
who
for
their
malice
to
the
truth
,
and
seducing
the
nations
,
are
here
called
by
the
name
of
the
ancient
enemy
and
seducer
of
mankind
the
Serpent
)
saw
that
they
could
no
longer
hauocke
the
Church
of
God
,
by
reason
of
her
close
sight
and
secret
dispersion
,
they
deuised
to
pursue
her
with
their
bloody
edicts
and
sacrilegious
constitutions
,
which
they
breathed
out
against
her
in
such
raging
and
furious
maner
,
as
the
Spirit
therefore
resembleth
the
violence
of
their
barbarous
inquisitions
and
vnprincely
rescripts
vnto
the
vnmercifull
rage
and
current
of
a
flood
,
hoping
that
as
by
their
vnplacable
furie
they
had
dispersed
and
driuen
the
Spouse
to
corners
▪
so
by
the
due
execution
of
their
cruell
promulgations
they
might
vtterly
consume
her
generation
,
and
blot
out
all
letters
of
her
honorable
name
;
for
to
that
white
onely
they
aimed
,
as
the
Spirit
concludeth
,
That
he
might
make
her
to
be
caried
away
of
the
flood
.
Verse
17.
And
the
earth
holp
the
Woman
,
and
the
earth
opened
her
mouth
,
and
swallowed
vp
the
flood
which
the
Dragon
cast
out
of
his
mouth
.
BVt
in
reliefe
of
the
Churches
pressures
and
persecutions
,
her
Lord
gaue
charge
vnto
his
handmaide
the
earth
,
to
comfort
,
help
and
succour
her
his
Spouse
:
and
as
Moab
was
charged
to
hide
the
chased
Israel
of
God
,
and
not
bewray
him
that
was
fled
and
escaped
,
but
to
dwell
with
him
,
and
to
giue
him
couert
and
protection
from
the
face
of
the
destroyer
;
so
here
the
earth
was
commanded
to
reach
forth
her
helping
hand
,
and
to
take
in
and
harbour
the
Lords
exiles
,
in
the
seret
chambers
of
her
desarts
,
mountaines
and
caues
,
that
so
she
might
either
affoord
her
close
and
quiet
saueguard
,
or
in
witnesse
of
her
faith
and
proofe
of
her
patience
,
receiue
the
blood
which
her
cursed
brethren
spilt
;
which
courtesie
and
tender
fauour
,
the
Spirit
remembreth
to
the
perpetuall
praise
of
the
benefactors
of
the
Spouse
,
saying
,
But
the
earth
holp
the
Woman
,
and
opened
her
mouth
,
and
swallowed
vp
the
flood
which
the
Dragon
cast
out
of
his
mouth
.
Verse
18.
And
the
Dragon
was
wroth
against
the
Woman
,
and
went
to
make
battell
with
the
remnant
of
her
seed
,
which
keepe
the
commandements
of
God
,
and
haue
the
testimonie
of
Iesus
Christ
.
ANd
notwithstanding
the
Dragon
by
his
taile
of
Cesars
had
thus
massacred
and
dispersed
the
Church
,
yet
was
he
not
so
satisfied
,
but
for
very
rage
fell
into
a
melancholy
mood
,
for
cause
he
could
not
quite
consume
and
roote
her
honour
out
,
as
the
Spirit
discloseth
,
saying
,
And
the
Dragon
was
wroth
against
the
Woman
.
And
forasmuch
as
the
Churches
beautie
did
most
shine
in
the
East
Syria
,
Greece
,
Asia
,
where
she
was
borne
and
bred
,
the
Dragon
thought
it
his
best
(
in
policie
,
which
euermore
with
him
was
held
for
chiefest
religion
)
to
itch
and
set
forward
his
den
,
and
hold
his
Court
further
East
;
which
purpose
of
his
,
as
close
as
it
was
,
the
holy
Ghost
discouereth
,
in
saying
,
And
he
went
;
and
noteth
the
true
end
wherefore
he
went
,
not
so
much
to
barricade
and
stop
the
floate
and
incursion
of
the
barbarous
enemie
,
as
he
(
forsooth
)
pretended
,
as
to
pursue
and
consume
the
dispersed
remainder
of
the
Spouse
,
as
the
Spirit
vnfoldeth
,
saying
,
to
make
battell
with
the
remnant
of
her
seed
,
who
for
that
they
were
iust
of
the
making
and
growth
of
the
Churches
first
and
primitiue
fruite
,
holding
the
mysterie
of
faith
in
a
good
conscience
,
as
the
first
borne
did
,
the
Spirit
setteth
them
forth
in
the
same
liuely
colours
,
saying
,
which
keepe
the
commandements
of
God
,
and
haue
the
testimonie
of
Iesus
Christ
.
Verse
19.
And
he
stood
vpon
the
sand
of
the
sea
.
ANd
the
Dragon
remoued
his
throne
,
and
left
his
ancient
seate
and
citie
of
Rome
,
where
he
had
now
kept
court
almost
a
thousand
yeares
,
and
went
and
pitched
his
throne
anew
in
a
hauen
towne
,
betweene
Pontus
Euxinus
and
Propontis
in
the
East
of
Thracia
,
anciently
called
Bysance
,
and
there
erected
the
new
citie
of
Rome
,
and
called
it
after
his
owne
name
Constantinople
the
citie
of
Constantine
;
which
translation
of
his
residence
and
chaire
of
estate
,
one
of
his
owne
also
noteth
:
Constantinus
apud
Thraces
,
qua
Bosphorus
aequor
Thracius
Euxinis
Aegaeum
ingurgitat
vndis
,
constituit
sedem
Imperij
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
The
description
of
Antichrist
,
and
his
deuotaries
.
The
description
of
his
Cleargie
and
of
his
religion
.
The
Character
of
Antichrist
.
The
number
of
his
dayes
,
and
the
end
of
his
reigne
.
Verse
1.
And
I
saw
a
Beast
ascending
from
the
sea
,
hauing
seuen
heads
and
ten
hornes
,
and
vpon
his
hornes
▪
ten
diadems
,
and
vpon
his
heads
names
of
blasphemie
.
ANd
presently
vpon
the
remoue
and
translation
of
the
Empire
,
the
Apostle
espied
that
wicked
one
,
Antichrist
,
man
of
sinne
,
in
saying
,
And
I
saw
;
who
in
regard
of
the
tyrannous
power
and
bloody
vse
of
the
vnbridled
iurisdiction
that
should
be
giuen
him
,
he
is
here
termed
(
as
in
holy
Scriptures
other
Monarchs
are
)
A
Beast
,
that
is
to
say
,
a
kind
of
gouernment
,
kingdome
,
dominion
or
power
exercised
and
acted
by
a
succession
of
tyrannous
,
bloody
and
beastly
men
.
And
albeit
his
perfection
in
euill
stood
yet
aloofe
,
and
was
very
farre
off
,
yong
and
tender
,
as
lying
in
swathing
clouts
;
yet
the
Apostle
descrieth
him
,
as
it
were
through
a
chinke
,
in
saying
,
coming
vp
.
For
after
the
translation
of
the
Empire
,
and
that
now
Ethnicke
Rome
began
to
play
the
Christian
,
he
was
welnigh
a
hundred
yeares
closely
creeping
and
climing
vp
,
before
he
could
aduance
his
cursed
head
and
claime
of
supereminencie
.
Concerning
which
ambitious
puffe
of
vaine
prioritie
,
so
faire
and
euident
mention
is
made
in
the
monuments
of
time
,
that
the
incredible
boldnesse
of
the
aduersarie
is
no
lesse
maruellous
then
his
incurable
blindnesse
,
that
hath
so
long
time
stumbled
at
this
stone
,
and
so
often
spurred
vs
by
way
of
vaunting
,
to
shew
them
(
if
we
dare
or
can
)
when
this
apostacie
of
Antichrist
tooke
her
rise
and
first
commencement
:
which
daring
vaunt
of
theirs
,
the
holy
Ghost
tripping
ouer
as
a
thing
which
is
or
ought
to
be
knowne
vnto
vs
,
namely
,
that
the
horne
of
Antichrist
and
his
apostacie
did
then
first
sprout
out
,
when
his
Church
first
obtained
at
the
Dragons
hand
prioritie
of
place
,
suffrage
and
censure
ouer
all
.
For
as
the
tree
puls
vp
the
creeping
ivie
,
so
the
primacie
of
the
Church
of
Rome
pulled
vp
the
aspiring
supremacie
of
the
Bishop
thereof
;
which
Church
preheminence
and
prelation
(
after
long
ruffling
and
shouldring
)
was
first
obtained
at
the
hands
of
Honorius
(
though
afterwards
vpon
greater
concertation
and
daggers
drawing
,
it
was
by
other
Cesars
and
Kings
confirmed
,
renewed
and
ampliated
)
who
by
the
aduantage
of
the
weaknesse
and
death
of
his
elder
brother
Arcadius
,
hauing
obtained
power
and
protectorship
East
and
West
,
subiected
the
Church
of
the
East
Empire
(
which
most
withstood
the
West
and
Romane
supremacie
)
with
all
other
Churches
whatsoeuer
,
to
the
Church
and
Sea
of
Rome
,
at
the
instant
suit
and
importunitie
of
the
now
Bishop
of
Rome
,
whose
name
was
then
Innocent
the
first
,
in
the
first
yeare
of
his
creation
,
and
in
the
yeare
of
Redemption
406.
But
the
holy
Ghost
(
I
say
)
passing
ouer
the
punctuall
and
exact
moment
of
time
,
when
the
egge
of
Antichrist
and
his
Apostacie
was
first
laid
,
as
otherwhere
sufficiently
preserued
vnto
vs
,
proceedeth
to
detect
the
place
where
and
from
whence
he
should
arise
,
saying
,
that
he
saw
him
lift
vp
his
hardy
head
from
the
sea
,
meaning
by
the
sea
,
as
in
the
sixteenth
of
this
prophecie
,
the
surging
,
tumbling
and
raging
Sea
and
Citie
of
Rome
,
where
also
by
a
like
loquution
he
calleth
all
kingdoms
subiected
to
her
by
the
name
of
riuers
.
And
that
this
Beast
should
thence
arise
,
and
there
(
and
not
elsewhere
)
keep
court
and
residence
,
the
Spirit
proueth
by
an
argument
drawne
from
the
shape
and
proportion
of
the
Beast
,
for
he
had
the
seuen
heads
and
ten
hornes
of
the
Dragon
,
meaning
that
he
should
sit
vpon
the
Dragons
hils
,
and
reigne
in
and
ouer
the
Dragons
citie
,
and
aray
himselfe
with
the
spoiles
of
the
world
,
and
hold
in
subiection
the
Kings
and
States
on
earth
,
as
the
Dragon
did
;
for
so
much
the
Spirit
intendeth
in
saying
,
hauing
seuen
heads
and
ten
hornes
.
And
lest
the
vnwary
Reader
should
mistake
this
great
Antichrist
for
that
great
Dragon
,
or
this
Beasts
supremacie
and
his
pestilent
succession
for
that
Beasts
supereminencie
and
his
execrable
taile
(
as
many
vnwarily
haue
done
,
)
the
holy
Ghost
in
emblazoning
his
coate
,
giueth
him
a
most
exquisite
difference
,
in
saying
that
he
wore
his
diadems
,
not
vpon
his
heads
,
as
the
Dragon
did
,
but
vpon
his
hornes
;
signifying
thereby
that
he
should
not
come
to
his
Crowne
and
vainglory
by
the
strength
of
his
sword
,
his
Leaders
and
his
legions
,
as
the
Dragon
did
,
but
by
the
base
and
voluntary
submission
of
all
such
Cesars
,
Kings
and
Princes
as
should
with
one
counsell
and
force
,
deliuer
vp
their
authoritie
and
power
secular
to
the
deuotion
and
pleasure
of
the
Beast
;
and
therefore
the
Spirit
crowneth
,
not
his
heads
,
but
his
horns
,
saying
,
and
vpon
his
hornes
ten
diadems
.
And
concluding
sheweth
(
euen
by
his
head
attire
)
how
far
vnlike
this
Dragons
High-priest
of
Rome
was
and
should
be
to
the
Lords
High-priest
of
Ierusalem
,
who
(
in
stead
of
hauing
his
head-attire
emblemished
with
holinesse
to
the
Lord
,
as
had
his
seruant
Aaron
)
should
haue
his
head-peece
beslubbered
with
names
of
blasphemie
,
and
vpon
his
heads
names
of
blasphemie
,
whereof
proofe
is
made
in
the
sixt
verse
following
.
Verse
2.
And
the
Beast
which
I
saw
was
like
to
a
Leopard
,
and
his
feet
as
a
Beare
,
and
his
mouth
as
the
mouth
of
a
Lion
,
and
the
Dragon
gaue
him
his
own
force
,
and
his
throne
,
and
great
power
.
ANd
forasmuch
as
the
Apostle
foresaw
that
this
Beast
should
be
a
far
greater
aduersarie
,
and
a
far
longer
persecuter
of
the
Church
of
God
then
any
of
the
Monarchies
which
did
arise
afore
him
;
he
shapeth
him
an
outside
answerable
to
his
inward
making
,
framing
his
parts
of
the
most
notable
persecuters
that
euer
were
;
as
concluding
him
for
his
extraordinary
wickednesse
the
odde
fellow
,
the
totall
summe
and
very
accomplishment
of
all
other
.
And
first
for
his
presumption
,
in
extolling
himselfe
aboue
the
Prince
of
the
Couenant
,
defouling
his
sanctuary
,
desolating
his
sacrifice
,
burning
his
statutes
,
and
inforcing
the
humble
and
meeke
to
the
abnegation
of
the
truth
,
by
blood
,
fire
,
strappadoes
,
and
such
like
exquisite
torments
;
the
Spirit
resembleth
him
to
his
arch-type
Antiochus
descended
from
the
Monarch
of
Greece
,
here
(
as
in
Daniel
)
deciphered
by
a
Leopard
,
And
I
saw
the
Beast
like
a
Leopard
.
Secondly
,
in
pride
of
life
,
in
pomp
and
luxurie
,
the
Spirit
equalleth
him
with
the
Monarch
of
Persia
,
and
likeneth
his
arrogant
and
voluptuous
gate
to
her
ten
Kings
,
here
(
as
in
Daniel
)
deciphered
by
a
Beare
,
And
his
feet
as
of
a
Beare
.
Thirdly
,
the
holy
Ghost
ascribeth
vnto
him
the
proud
,
prophane
and
cursed
mouth
of
the
Mornarch
of
Babylon
,
in
commanding
the
dwellers
on
earth
(
vpon
paine
of
fire
and
fornace
)
to
adore
his
golden
idoll
,
which
he
had
dedicated
with
cornets
,
sackbuts
,
psalteries
,
dulcimers
;
which
also
the
Spirit
couereth
(
as
Daniel
doth
)
vnder
the
maske
of
a
Lion
,
And
his
mouth
as
the
mouth
of
a
Lion
.
And
last
of
all
,
lest
happily
he
should
be
least
beholding
vnto
his
Bella
Nimpha
,
his
dearest
Lady
and
mistris
of
Rome
,
the
holy
Ghost
saith
,
that
the
loue
of
his
Patronesse
the
Dragon
,
was
equal
to
the
loue
of
a
father
towards
his
sonne
;
for
she
made
him
heire
apparent
and
Lord
of
her
Empire
,
subiecting
all
things
to
the
feete
of
his
censure
,
and
confirming
vnto
him
her
throne
and
pallace
of
Lateran
,
with
all
the
demefnes
and
glorie
of
Latium
,
as
one
of
his
owne
also
noteth
,
Latiumque
relinquit
Christo
,
&
Romuleam
septem
cum
collibus
vrbem
.
Verse
3.
And
I
saw
one
of
his
heads
as
it
were
slaine
to
death
,
but
the
wound
of
his
death
was
cured
,
and
all
the
earth
was
in
admiration
after
the
Beast
.
ANd
presently
after
this
great
Antichrist
was
risen
,
the
Apostle
foresaw
such
a
wound
giuen
to
one
of
his
heads
,
that
the
Beast
was
in
eminent
danger
to
be
stricken
downe
againe
,
and
slaine
in
the
very
egge
;
for
so
much
the
Spirit
noteth
in
saying
,
And
I
saw
one
of
his
heads
as
it
were
slaine
to
death
.
For
the
better
opening
of
which
wound
,
we
must
not
onely
remember
the
Beast
hath
seuen
heads
,
but
we
must
also
step
a
little
forward
,
and
craue
the
assistance
of
the
seuenteenth
Chapter
concerning
the
interpetation
of
the
seuen
heads
,
which
saith
,
that
the
seuen
heads
are
seuen
hils
,
and
they
are
also
seuen
kings
;
discouering
the
true
seate
and
situation
of
the
citie
of
Rome
,
where
Antichrist
should
keep
his
court
and
residence
,
by
the
seuen
hils
.
And
by
the
seuen
kings
the
seuen
Monarchies
,
which
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
to
this
day
haue
successiuely
risen
and
reigned
ouer
the
earth
,
of
which
seuen
,
the
Assyrian
monarchie
was
the
first
,
and
the
Romane
the
sixt
,
of
both
which
and
their
pue-f●llowes
,
is
further
reuealed
in
the
seuenteenth
Chapter
following
.
Meane
time
we
are
here
to
obserue
,
that
as
the
holy
Ghost
doth
therefore
call
his
seuen
heads
by
the
name
of
seuen
hils
,
because
the
seate
of
Antichrist
should
be
there
,
and
not
elsewhere
placed
and
planted
;
so
he
nameth
them
also
seuen
kings
,
because
the
power
of
Antichrist
should
be
an
extraordinarie
soueraigntie
,
compounded
of
such
spiritual
and
temporall
claimes
and
iurisdictions
,
as
should
be
equiualent
in
presumption
and
prophanation
,
to
all
the
transgressions
of
the
seuen
monarchies
,
which
from
the
beginning
hitherunto
haue
blasphemed
God
and
corrupted
his
world
.
This
foundation
layd
,
doth
shew
,
that
this
deadly
wound
giuen
to
one
of
his
heads
,
which
(
as
after
appeareth
)
was
the
wound
of
a
sword
,
cannot
be
meant
of
any
one
of
his
heads
after
the
first
signification
,
as
they
are
hils
,
but
as
they
are
kings
,
and
subiect
to
the
sword
:
and
so
by
consequence
intendeth
that
one
of
his
Imperiall
heads
,
and
namely
his
faire
Adonis
,
his
minion
,
lord
and
master
of
Rome
,
of
whom
he
had
so
lately
receiued
his
breath
and
being
,
was
so
deadly
wounded
,
as
that
the
Beast
himselfe
thereby
was
in
great
danger
of
extinction
.
Thus
hauing
found
the
head
,
let
vs
look
vnto
the
wound
,
that
so
we
may
the
better
discerne
the
great
danger
the
Beast
was
in
,
deliuered
in
these
words
,
as
it
were
slaine
to
death
.
This
deadly
wound
was
giuen
and
driuen
home
to
the
head
,
by
the
sword
and
incursion
of
the
West
Gothes
,
vnder
the
leading
of
Alaricus
,
who
in
the
nineteenth
yeare
of
Cesar
Honorius
(
of
whom
the
Beast
some
foure
yeares
before
had
receiued
his
life
)
entred
Italy
,
and
gaue
such
a
deadly
stroke
vnto
his
powerfull
pate
,
that
for
very
feare
the
Beast
lockt
himselfe
vp
in
his
den
at
Rauenna
,
while
the
enemy
ript
vp
the
streetes
of
his
Imperiall
citie
,
filling
them
with
famine
,
fire
and
sword
;
which
night
of
woe
,
or
rather
beginning
of
her
wofull
night
,
made
an
ancient
friend
of
hers
to
bewaile
and
bind
vp
her
deadly
wounded
head
,
with
an
old
Ballad
,
after
the
tune
of
the
burning
of
Troy
:
Quis
cladem
illius
noctis
,
quis
funera
fando
explicet
?
Aut
possit
lachrimis
aequare
labores
?
Vrbs
antiqua
ruit
multos
dominata
per
annos
.
And
hauing
thus
mortally
wounded
the
head
of
the
Beast
(
in
the
yeare
of
saluation
410
,
and
1157
yeares
after
Romulus
had
raised
her
walls
with
his
brothers
blood
)
proceeded
to
seize
vpon
the
rest
of
his
dignities
,
hauocking
and
burning
his
chiefest
honours
,
Latium
,
Campania
,
Apulia
,
Lucania
,
Calabria
,
where
raging
and
deuising
how
to
extermine
the
power
of
the
Empire
for
euer
,
and
to
spread
his
glorie
ouer
all
,
was
by
sudden
death
blotted
out
,
leauing
his
purpose
and
his
armie
royall
to
his
wiues
brother
Ataulphus
,
who
in
like
raging
haste
and
fury
returned
to
Rome
,
with
an
obstinate
intent
and
resolution
to
obliterate
the
ancient
name
of
Rome
for
euer
,
and
to
call
her
(
in
honour
of
his
people
)
Gothia
,
or
after
his
owne
name
Ataulpha
;
which
counsell
and
purpose
of
his
,
had
it
been
effected
,
sir
Antichrist
with
all
his
primacies
and
supremacies
had
bid
vs
good
night
long
ago
;
and
all
his
gainfull
enterludes
of
fides
vestra
,
and
ne
deficiat
fides
tua
,
and
pasce
oues
,
and
tibi
dabo
claues
,
and
quorum
remiseritis
,
with
all
his
pestilent
painted
traine
of
succession
,
had
been
dasht
in
repeating
,
before
euer
they
had
come
on
stage
.
But
to
the
end
this
recouery
might
be
the
plague-sore
of
the
earth
,
his
deadly
wound
was
healed
,
as
the
Spirit
sath
,
but
the
wound
of
his
death
was
cured
.
For
by
the
pleasing
prayers
and
subtill
intercessions
of
the
Emperours
sister
Placidia
,
whose
beautie
and
bodie
was
espoused
to
Ataulphus
,
for
such
a
time
his
furie
was
auerted
,
and
his
designe
dissolued
,
and
himselfe
not
only
content
at
her
amorous
mediation
to
grant
the
citie
of
Rome
pardon
for
her
name
,
but
also
to
leaue
her
eclipsed
and
dying
honour
,
with
all
her
Italy
,
to
her
stupified
Honorius
,
who
for
feare
was
crept
into
his
earth
at
Rauenna
;
and
taking
his
spouse
Placidia
with
such
dower
as
himselfe
listed
,
departed
Italy
,
and
pitched
his
tabernacle
in
France
,
then
one
of
the
chiefest
prouinces
of
the
West
Empire
.
And
to
this
plaister
the
Spirit
pointeth
,
in
saying
,
but
the
wound
of
his
death
was
cured
.
And
the
holy
Ghost
foreseeing
the
greatnesse
of
the
Beasts
power
to
come
,
which
was
yet
but
like
vnto
his
sin
;
and
how
that
Satan
his
creator
,
who
had
formed
him
after
the
image
and
perfection
of
his
owne
wickednesse
,
should
affoord
him
such
letters
commendatory
to
all
the
world
,
which
naturally
loueth
wicked
inuentions
,
that
the
primacie
of
his
Church
and
supremacie
of
his
person
should
ouerspread
all
,
and
obtaine
the
praise
of
the
earth
;
concludeth
of
him
in
this
maner
,
And
all
the
earth
was
in
admiration
of
the
Beast
.
Verse
4
And
they
adored
the
Dragon
which
gaue
power
to
the
Beast
;
and
they
adored
the
Beast
,
saying
,
Who
is
like
vnto
the
Beast
,
or
who
may
warre
with
him
.
ANd
the
children
of
misbeliefe
ascribed
to
the
Dragon
inhibited
honours
,
decking
his
heathenish
Christendome
with
names
of
holy
and
most
holy
titles
,
due
to
God
alone
;
and
they
adored
his
execrable
inuentions
&
doctrines
of
diuels
,
worshipping
and
diuifying
his
vncircumcised
traine
of
Cesars
,
who
had
granted
vnto
Antichrist
such
power
incomparable
and
vncontrollable
iurisdiction
,
which
the
Spirit
anatomiseth
in
these
words
,
And
they
adored
the
Dragon
which
gaue
power
to
the
Beast
.
And
as
in
euill
there
is
no
meane
,
so
these
children
of
vnbeliefe
went
on
,
and
bestowed
like
titles
and
magnifications
vpon
this
base
and
vile
Antichrist
,
who
as
the
Prophet
long
ago
foretold
vs
,
by
Great
art
thou
,
O
Bel
,
and
in
thee
is
no
deceit
:
which
occasioneth
the
Spirit
(
in
detestation
of
their
madnesse
)
to
disclose
their
shame
,
saying
,
And
they
adored
the
Beast
,
and
said
,
Who
is
like
vnto
the
Beast
,
or
who
may
warre
with
him
?
Verse
5.
And
there
was
giuen
to
it
a
mouth
,
speaking
great
things
and
blasphemies
,
and
power
was
giuen
to
it
to
worke
fortie
two
moneth
.
ANd
as
the
Dragon
did
bequeath
vnto
Antichrist
his
throne
and
his
power
in
so
large
and
ample
maner
,
that
his
priestly
key
was
in
cutting
and
killing
,
so
like
the
Dragons
sword
,
that
he
that
is
wise
may
easily
perceiue
one
craftsman
made
them
both
:
so
Satan
the
master
and
seducer
of
them
both
,
endowed
his
Antichrist
with
mouth
and
lips
so
like
his
owne
,
that
whoso
heares
him
open
,
may
truly
say
,
quam
similes
habent
labra
lactucas
,
like
lips
like
lettice
;
at
which
the
Spirit
pointeth
,
in
saying
,
And
there
was
giuen
to
it
a
mouth
;
and
proueth
it
by
an
argument
drawne
from
the
fruit
of
his
lips
,
speaking
great
things
and
blasphemies
.
Whereof
the
Prophet
Daniel
And
the
Prophet
also
further
reporteth
,
that
times
and
lawes
and
great
power
should
be
giuen
into
his
hand
,
for
a
time
and
times
,
and
the
diuiding
of
a
time
;
butting
and
bounding
his
tyrannous
reigne
and
gouernment
within
the
selfesame
circle
and
period
,
as
here
the
Spirit
doth
,
by
another
like
propheticall
construction
,
saying
,
And
power
was
giuen
vnto
it
to
work
fortie
two
moneths
.
Verse
6.
And
he
opened
his
mouth
vnto
blasphemie
against
God
,
to
blaspheme
his
name
,
and
tabernacle
,
and
those
which
dwell
in
heauen
.
IN
discouering
the
blasphemous
mouth
of
Antichrist
,
the
holy
Ghost
doth
first
and
principally
challenge
him
for
presuming
to
lay
hand
vpon
his
diuine
and
spirituall
sword
,
and
to
weare
the
name
and
title
of
Vicar
to
the
Lamb
,
which
title
,
name
and
honour
is
onely
due
to
the
Spirit
of
the
Lamb
,
the
onely
moderator
,
comforter
and
commander
of
all
the
Lambs
affaires
and
forces
in
heauen
and
in
earth
:
and
of
this
principal
blasphemy
the
Apostle
condemneth
him
,
in
saying
,
And
he
opened
his
mouth
vnto
blasphemie
against
God
.
Next
,
the
Lord
challengeth
him
for
presuming
to
blaspheme
the
word
of
God
,
superaduancing
his
whorish
church
aboue
the
diuine
eternall
testimonie
,
in
and
by
which
the
Son
of
God
is
named
and
knowne
;
which
contumely
offered
to
his
most
holy
word
,
the
Lord
accounteth
as
done
to
himselfe
and
his
most
holy
name
;
for
so
the
holy
Ghost
speaking
of
that
Lord
that
is
faithfull
and
true
,
who
with
iustice
iudgeth
and
fighteth
,
saith
,
that
he
was
clothed
with
a
garment
sprinkled
with
blood
,
and
his
name
is
called
,
The
Word
of
God
.
The
pourtraiture
of
which
diuine
and
essentiall
Word
,
is
the
ingrauen
Scripture
of
his
most
holy
and
written
word
,
and
of
this
blasphemie
the
Spirit
inditeth
him
in
these
words
,
to
blaspheme
his
name
.
Lesse
maruell
then
if
like
a
raging
flood
,
downe
bearing
all
before
him
,
and
ouerflowing
all
bankes
of
obedience
towards
God
,
he
dare
extol
his
cursed
head
aboue
all
that
is
called
or
named
God
,
that
is
to
say
,
all
magistracie
,
authoritie
and
power
secular
,
which
by
Gods
owne
ordinance
&
commandement
,
is
the
onely
true
,
liuely
and
immediate
representation
of
his
owne
person
,
iustice
and
gouernment
here
on
earth
,
in
and
ouer
all
temporall
causes
and
persons
,
as
well
Ecclesiastical
as
ciuil
,
of
which
high
treason
one
Apostle
also
conuinceth
him
,
2.
Thess.
2.
No
maruell
then
,
if
thus
daring
to
blaspheme
the
Lord
of
the
house
and
his
annointed
Deputies
,
he
dare
blaspheme
the
house
of
God
,
wherein
his
name
is
honored
,
cursing
,
reuiling
and
reputing
it
a
house
of
schismatiques
,
heretiques
,
excommunincates
;
which
blasphemous
and
vndeserued
wrong
,
the
holy
Ghost
layeth
to
his
charge
,
in
these
words
,
and
his
tabernacle
.
And
last
of
all
,
to
shew
that
there
is
neither
end
nor
measure
in
his
blacke
,
presumptuous
and
blasphemous
mouth
,
the
Spirit
further
chargeth
him
with
blaspheming
the
Saints
and
seruants
of
God
deceased
,
cursing
,
reuiling
and
condemning
their
doctrine
,
and
yet
blessing
,
adoring
&
erecting
their
shadows
,
sepulchers
and
shrines
,
for
mediators
,
intercessors
and
reconciliators
betweene
God
and
the
sinner
;
like
their
cursed
fore-elders
the
Israelites
,
who
boasted
in
the
descent
of
their
father
Abraham
,
and
yet
blasphemed
the
faith
of
Abraham
their
father
,
of
which
blasphemous
and
indicible
contumely
against
the
Son
of
God
and
his
most
holy
Spirit
,
the
Apostle
condemneth
him
,
saying
,
And
those
that
dwell
in
heauen
.
Verse
7.
And
it
was
giuen
vnto
him
to
make
battell
with
the
Saints
,
and
to
ouercome
them
:
and
power
was
giuen
him
vpon
euery
people
,
tribe
,
tongue
,
and
nation
.
ANd
as
after
lightning
followeth
thunder
,
so
after
Antichrists
blasphemie
followeth
his
persecution
,
as
the
Spirit
testifieth
,
saying
,
And
it
was
giuen
him
to
bid
battell
to
the
Saints
;
which
the
Prophet
Daniel
by
way
of
exposition
also
plainly
setteth
forth
,
saying
,
that
he
should
murther
and
consume
the
Saints
and
seruants
of
the
most
high
.
And
in
further
amplification
of
this
his
carnificious
furie
,
the
Spirit
setteth
forth
the
largenesse
of
his
charter
and
commission
,
by
an
excessiue
loquution
,
foretelling
vs
that
it
should
be
so
large
and
general
,
that
the
fire
of
his
prophane
and
sycophantical
keys
should
take
hold
vpon
euery
nation
and
tribe
;
as
if
we
please
to
cast
an
eye
vpon
the
times
past
,
and
conferre
what
he
had
,
with
what
he
hath
,
we
shall
easily
discerne
the
meaning
of
the
holy
Ghost
in
these
words
,
And
power
was
giuen
him
vpon
euery
Tribe
,
people
,
tongue
and
nation
.
Verse
8.
And
all
that
inhabite
the
earth
adored
it
,
whose
names
be
not
written
in
the
booke
of
life
,
of
the
Lamb
which
was
slaine
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
.
THe
holy
Ghost
hauing
in
the
former
part
of
this
Chapter
discouered
the
birth
,
place
,
person
,
power
,
blasphemie
and
persecution
of
Antichrist
,
descendeth
now
to
the
description
of
his
creatures
and
deuotaries
,
foretelling
vs
that
they
should
be
such
onely
(
for
vnto
such
onely
the
particle
all
is
here
restrained
)
as
haue
their
portion
and
interest
in
this
life
,
whose
pietie
,
heauen
,
hope
and
glorie
is
here
,
and
not
elsewhere
;
which
kind
of
out
and
ouercast
Christians
,
the
Spirit
describeth
by
a
periphrasis
most
proper
to
their
naturall
and
inbred
disposition
,
saying
,
they
are
those
that
inhabite
the
earth
;
therein
discouering
them
as
by
a
difference
diuisiue
from
such
as
are
the
Lords
pilgrims
and
strangers
on
earth
,
hauing
here
no
permanent
abode
or
place
of
rest
,
but
seeking
the
things
which
are
aboue
,
attend
with
patience
the
reuelation
of
a
life
and
citie
to
come
,
not
made
with
hands
,
where
their
Lord
and
their
Redeemer
liueth
.
And
the
Spirit
proceeding
sheweth
further
,
the
supreme
,
hidden
and
vnperceiuable
reason
why
the
adorers
of
Antichrist
thus
defiled
the
ornaments
of
their
calling
,
and
why
they
loued
lyes
more
then
truth
,
the
Beasts
penance
more
then
Gods
repentance
,
the
Beasts
beliefe
more
then
faith
towards
God
;
the
Beasts
miserable
merits
more
then
the
fruits
of
the
Spirit
,
hatred
of
sin
and
loue
of
God
,
because
(
as
holy
Dauid
saith
)
they
were
not
found
in
the
Lords
record
,
nor
written
with
the
righteous
:
for
so
much
the
Spirit
vnfoldeth
,
saying
,
whose
names
be
not
written
in
the
booke
of
life
,
of
the
Lamb
which
was
slaine
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
.
Verse
9.
If
any
man
haue
an
eare
,
let
him
heare
.
THe
Apostle
hauing
sufficiently
deciphered
the
nature
and
cariage
of
Antichrist
and
his
creatures
,
commeth
now
to
discouer
his
reward
and
iudgement
,
which
howsoeuer
it
tarry
little
or
long
,
is
of
necessitie
the
reward
of
sinne
.
But
before
the
Spirit
draweth
out
his
sword
,
it
pleaseth
him
in
his
accustomed
mercie
to
awake
his
Church
and
her
enemies
,
and
to
moue
them
to
a
feare
and
reuerent
attention
,
by
a
generall
summons
,
proclaiming
,
If
any
man
haue
an
care
,
let
him
heare
.
Verse
10.
He
that
shall
leade
into
captiuitie
,
goeth
into
captiuitie
;
and
he
that
shall
kill
with
the
sword
,
must
be
killed
with
the
sword
:
here
is
the
patience
and
the
faith
of
the
Saints
.
THe
holy
Ghost
in
this
verse
calleth
Antichrist
to
the
Barre
,
and
sets
him
before
the
world
,
for
the
very
he
,
on
whom
the
wrath
of
God
and
his
heauie
displeasure
is
to
be
executed
.
For
he
,
who
vnder
colour
and
pretence
of
weeding
out
and
rooting
vp
of
heretiques
,
hath
brought
into
the
Church
captiuitie
,
inquisitions
,
tortures
and
torments
,
to
the
horrible
murther
and
slaughter
of
the
Saints
,
when
in
such
cases
(
notwithstanding
)
he
had
neither
precept
nor
example
in
the
life
of
the
Lamb
or
his
Apostles
so
to
do
;
he
,
euen
he
,
saith
the
Lord
,
is
that
partie
,
against
whom
this
iust
iudgement
of
taliation
is
laid
vp
in
store
to
be
executed
vpon
him
in
that
day
,
when
the
Lord
shall
bring
againe
the
captiuitie
of
his
Church
,
which
for
their
sins
he
hath
giuen
vp
to
the
sword
and
furie
of
the
Beast
,
vntill
she
haue
borne
the
burthen
of
her
shame
,
and
(
as
the
Woe
to
thee
that
spoiledst
,
and
wast
not
spoiled
;
and
didst
deale
wickedly
,
when
they
did
not
wickedly
against
thee
:
for
when
thou
shalt
cease
to
spoile
,
thou
shalt
be
spoiled
;
and
when
thy
sinne
is
ended
,
thou
shalt
be
rewarded
;
as
here
also
the
Spirit
denounceth
,
contesting
that
God
shall
scourge
him
with
his
owne
inuentions
,
&
repay
him
home
in
his
owne
coine
,
saying
,
He
that
shall
leade
into
captiuitie
,
shall
go
into
captiuitie
;
and
he
that
shall
kill
,
shall
be
killed
.
And
in
consolation
of
the
Spouse
,
concludeth
,
that
howsoeuer
Antichrist
and
his
Delegates
foolishly
thought
,
by
afflicting
the
Church
,
to
destroy
the
Church
,
yet
in
her
afflictions
consisteth
the
very
strength
and
approbation
of
her
children
;
for
by
the
things
they
suffer
,
they
learne
obedience
,
&
through
patience
their
faith
is
consecrated
,
by
the
which
they
are
perfected
and
made
inheritable
of
the
promise
of
God
:
all
which
mercie
and
fauour
is
commended
vnto
them
vnder
the
hand
and
seale
of
afflictions
,
by
which
their
mad
and
drunken
aduersaries
thought
to
consume
them
,
and
like
fooles
did
not
consider
that
as
the
workman
doth
square
the
stone
by
strokes
,
and
as
the
snake
doth
cast
his
old
skin
by
passing
through
sharp
stones
,
so
the
Lord
doth
renew
his
Spouse
by
stripes
,
and
brusheth
off
her
old
affections
by
passing
her
through
the
asperitie
of
tribulation
;
which
holy
and
hidden
consideration
,
causeth
the
Spirit
to
honour
the
sufferings
of
the
Saints
so
highly
,
as
to
ascribe
vnto
them
the
chiefest
stayes
and
supportations
of
their
precious
hope
and
calling
,
namely
,
patience
and
faith
,
saying
,
here
is
the
patience
and
faith
of
the
Saints
.
Verse
11.
And
I
saw
another
Beast
comming
vp
from
the
earth
,
and
he
had
two
hornes
like
the
Lamb
,
but
he
spake
like
the
Dragon
.
THe
holy
Ghost
in
the
verse
foregoing
,
hauing
pronounced
sentence
of
death
against
Antichrist
,
before
he
comes
to
the
execution
thereof
,
descendeth
to
the
arai●●●ment
and
condemnation
of
his
Clergie
,
that
so
they
may
be
carted
to
the
valley
of
Hinnom
both
together
,
whom
the
Lord
here
figureth
vnder
the
name
of
the
Beast
,
saying
,
And
I
saw
another
Beast
;
comprehending
vnder
the
singular
number
of
one
Beast
,
by
a
maner
of
speech
common
to
the
holy
Scriptures
,
the
whole
corporation
and
vniuersitie
of
false
and
lying
teachers
,
who
from
the
first
Eremite
,
Hypocrite
,
Father
,
Priest
,
Monke
,
Frier
,
to
the
last
trumping
and
vagabond
Iesuite
,
haue
auouched
the
honour
and
adoration
of
Antichrist
.
And
is
most
aptly
deciphered
by
their
earthly
,
sensuall
,
and
diuellish
minds
,
in
pointing
to
their
country
and
place
of
extraction
,
whence
and
where
such
weeds
do
grow
,
saying
,
comming
vp
from
the
earth
.
And
commendeth
their
making
and
acquaintance
to
vs
,
by
two
exquisite
tokens
,
the
one
their
person
,
the
other
their
doctrine
.
Touching
their
shape
and
person
,
the
Spirit
saith
,
that
it
was
in
robe
and
exteriour
appearance
the
very
face
and
countenance
of
the
Lamb
,
deckt
and
garnished
with
his
owne
two
hornes
,
to
wit
,
the
Law
and
the
Gospel
,
wherew
〈…〉
he
Lamb
doth
saue
and
kill
;
for
so
the
Spirit
saith
,
And
he
had
two
hornes
like
the
Lamb.
But
as
concerning
the
vse
and
force
of
the
hornes
,
the
Spirit
saith
,
they
were
therein
so
contrary
to
the
Lamb
,
that
when
they
did
open
,
either
to
teach
the
Law
or
preach
the
Gospell
,
they
spake
and
taught
like
the
Dragons
Doctors
,
and
like
the
Priests
of
Iupiter
,
teaching
and
preaching
vnto
the
children
of
the
world
,
that
they
ought
to
worship
the
God
of
heauen
,
as
the
Dragons
Priests
had
taught
their
fathers
to
worship
the
gods
of
the
heathen
.
Which
detestable
propha●ation
of
the
worship
of
God
,
and
preposterous
adoration
of
his
name
,
the
Spirit
detecteth
,
in
saying
,
but
he
spake
like
the
Dragon
.
Verse
12.
And
all
the
power
of
the
first
Beast
he
did
in
his
sight
,
and
he
made
the
earth
and
the
inhabitants
therein
to
adore
the
first
Beast
,
whose
wound
of
death
was
cured
.
BY
the
power
of
the
first
Beast
,
is
meant
the
purpose
and
plot
of
the
Dragon
for
the
vpholding
and
establishment
of
their
false
and
godlesse
religion
,
to
the
prophanation
and
extinction
of
the
true
worship
and
seruice
of
God
;
which
forasmuch
as
he
could
not
effect
by
force
and
open
enmitie
,
I
meane
by
the
bloody
persecutions
of
his
prophane
and
Ethnicke
Cesars
,
he
did
deuise
to
put
a
new
string
to
his
old
bowe
,
and
to
worke
it
out
by
fraud
and
falshood
of
friends
,
and
thereupon
perswaded
his
Ethnicke
Cesars
,
that
in
policie
it
was
the
best
to
play
Christians
,
forasmuch
as
the
world
was
now
so
giuen
,
as
Iupiter
with
all
his
idols
must
needs
giue
place
to
Christ
,
because
most
voices
went
that
way
.
And
the
better
to
bring
the
mysterie
of
iniquitie
to
passe
,
he
caused
his
new
Christened
Cesars
to
set
vp
a
race
of
Sycophanticall
,
high
and
princely
Priests
,
who
vnder
colour
of
proctering
the
affaires
of
the
Lamb
,
should
cunningly
clap
Iupiters
coate
vpon
the
Lambs
back
,
and
bestow
all
the
ceremonies
and
rituals
of
Iupiter
and
his
idols
vpon
Christ
;
that
so
by
turning
Iupiters
worship
into
Christianisme
,
he
might
turne
the
worship
of
God
into
Paganisme
and
idolatrie
,
and
that
so
he
might
at
the
least
prophane
and
desolate
the
true
worship
of
the
true
God
,
whose
maiestie
&
truth
of
deitie
they
could
no
way
blemish
.
And
for
the
better
successe
in
this
their
proiect
,
should
cause
to
be
erected
throughout
all
kingdomes
and
nations
,
certaine
Couents
and
swarmes
of
false
,
vngodly
and
prostituted
Clerks
,
who
by
auouching
and
maintaining
against
all
comers
,
that
Antichrists
name
is
Simon
Peter
;
and
that
the
supremacie
his
Cesars
and
his
Kings
gaue
him
,
is
the
very
keyes
of
heauen
and
hell
,
which
the
Lamb
committed
to
the
dispensation
of
his
Saints
and
seruants
;
and
that
the
throne
and
seate
of
wickednesse
,
is
Peters
Chaire
and
Sea
Apostolique
;
and
that
the
execrable
forme
of
Iupiters
worship
,
wherein
his
Lords
and
Cesars
delighted
,
is
the
very
true
worship
and
seruice
of
God
,
which
the
Lamb
and
his
Apostles
deliuered
.
And
by
these
mists
,
legerdemains
,
and
new
editions
of
old
idolatrie
,
should
establish
in
the
sight
of
Antichrist
,
the
selfe
same
prophanation
and
deuout
impietie
which
his
antecessors
the
Cesars
so
ardently
embraced
;
for
so
much
the
Spirit
rippeth
vp
,
in
saying
,
And
all
the
power
of
the
first
Beast
he
did
in
the
sight
of
Antichrist
:
and
thereby
so
strongly
deluded
and
seduced
the
children
of
disobedience
(
most
properly
here
,
as
elsewhere
,
described
by
the
name
of
the
earth
and
the
inhabitants
therein
)
that
they
loathed
the
sacrifices
of
the
God
of
heauen
,
and
refused
to
worship
as
the
Lord
commanded
,
&
chose
rather
(
as
the
Spirit
saith
)
to
adore
the
first
Beast
,
that
is
to
say
,
to
worship
the
god
of
their
fathers
,
as
the
Dragon
commanded
them
,
iust
after
the
prescription
of
his
Cesars
and
maner
of
the
heathen
.
And
that
we
may
the
better
discerne
from
whom
those
Proctors
of
Don
Antichrist
borrowed
this
their
abominable
Church-seruice
,
the
Spirit
remembreth
the
repaired
wound
of
their
masters
creditors
pate
,
mentioned
in
the
third
verse
,
whose
wound
of
death
was
cured
.
Verse
13.
And
he
did
many
signes
,
so
that
he
made
fire
to
come
downe
from
heauen
to
the
earth
,
in
the
sight
of
men
.
THe
holy
Ghost
hauing
arraigned
and
condemned
the
Clergie
of
Antichrist
touching
their
doctrine
,
proceedeth
further
to
detect
their
abomination
and
forgery
,
in
seeking
to
confirme
their
false
doctrine
by
lying
signes
and
works
of
wonder
;
condemning
therein
first
their
vanitie
;
secondly
their
presumption
.
For
as
nothing
can
be
more
vaine
and
vngodly
,
then
to
seeke
by
lying
signes
and
wonders
to
confirme
the
doctrine
of
the
Lamb
and
his
seruants
,
which
is
all
sufficiently
established
by
their
owne
magnificent
and
diuine
miracles
,
vnto
which
the
Church
of
God
vpon
her
allegiance
is
enioyned
to
subscribe
:
so
nothing
can
be
more
presumptuous
and
wicked
,
then
to
attempt
by
signes
and
wonders
the
confirmation
of
any
other
doctrine
then
that
which
the
Lamb
and
his
two
witnesses
haue
sealed
and
deliuered
vnto
vs
,
according
to
the
statute
of
God
,
Deut.
13.
And
though
their
signes
were
many
,
as
the
Spirit
reporteth
,
saying
,
And
he
did
many
signes
;
yet
were
they
but
forgeries
and
lies
,
not
wrought
in
truth
&
dignitie
,
but
in
falshood
&
fallacie
,
as
our
Lord
himself
and
his
seruant
Paul
foretold
vs
,
Mat.
24.
2.
Thess.
2.
In
which
regard
the
holy
Ghost
squaring
the
miracles
of
these
exorcists
after
the
rule
of
their
doctrine
,
which
was
in
shew
the
Lambs
,
but
in
truth
the
diuels
;
calleth
also
their
lying
signes
,
heauenly
fires
,
saying
,
so
that
he
made
fire
to
come
downe
from
heauen
to
the
earth
,
in
the
sight
of
men
:
not
that
they
were
in
deed
and
in
truth
so
,
but
that
they
seemed
so
to
be
in
the
eyes
of
men
,
because
they
were
wrought
by
these
vagabond
exorcists
,
vnder
a
pretended
and
colourable
imitation
of
the
name
of
the
Lord
Iesus
,
who
of
all
heauenly
powers
and
fires
is
the
true
Lord
and
soueraigne
commander
;
that
so
these
Clerks
of
Antichrist
might
be
sutable
in
their
wickednesse
,
that
as
their
doctrine
was
opposite
to
the
truth
of
Christ
,
so
their
wonders
might
contrary
the
power
of
Christ
,
by
a
colourable
imitation
of
the
miracles
of
Christ
,
and
might
be
a
true
and
perfect
deprauation
of
the
same
.
Verse
14.
And
he
seduced
the
inhabitants
on
the
earth
,
through
the
signes
which
were
giuen
him
to
do
in
the
sight
of
the
Beast
,
saying
vnto
them
that
dwell
on
the
earth
,
that
they
should
make
the
image
of
the
Beast
which
had
the
stroke
of
the
sword
and
liueth
.
ANd
the
Spirit
further
disclosing
the
happie
successe
of
these
vnhappie
brokers
and
slaues
of
Antichrist
touching
their
mists
and
miracles
,
foretelleth
vs
,
that
as
the
first
Elias
by
the
miracles
of
heauenly
fire
did
induce
and
draw
the
good
vnto
the
feare
of
God
,
so
these
imposters
of
Antichrist
,
by
the
lure
of
their
false
and
lying
fires
,
should
seduce
and
draw
all
dung-hill
and
earthly
minded
men
from
the
feare
of
God
,
in
such
sure
and
deuoted
sort
,
as
that
they
should
perswade
them
to
make
the
picture
and
image
of
the
Beasts
religion
,
and
to
embrace
and
erect
such
a
Christianisme
,
as
should
in
all
points
counterfeit
and
represent
the
Paganisme
of
the
Dragon
,
attiring
and
decking
Iupiters
prophanation
with
the
holy
and
honorable
names
of
God
,
Iesus
,
Spirit
,
Scriptures
,
Church
,
Sacraments
,
Saints
,
&c.
like
excellent
Comedians
who
decke
themselues
with
Crownes
,
Scepters
,
purples
,
and
representations
of
Kings
,
whenas
indeed
they
are
the
basest
of
the
people
.
And
as
the
Lord
commanded
his
seruant
Moses
to
erect
such
a
Tabernacle
of
witnesse
here
on
earth
,
as
should
be
in
all
points
after
the
Idea
,
modell
and
platforme
of
that
diuine
and
eternall
Tabernacle
which
he
saw
in
the
mount
:
so
Antichrist
(
Lord
of
misrule
)
commanded
his
propudious
Clergie
to
cause
all
people
,
nations
and
kingdomes
to
set
vp
such
a
Christianity
as
should
in
all
points
answer
the
Idea
,
modell
and
platforme
of
that
prophane
and
execrable
heathenisme
wherewith
he
saw
the
Gentiles
enamoured
;
and
hereby
so
strongly
seduced
the
inhabitants
on
earth
,
that
they
verily
thought
the
mysterie
of
Iniquitie
to
be
pure
and
vndefiled
Christianitie
;
and
that
the
abomination
of
desolation
,
forespoken
by
Daniel
the
Prophet
,
is
the
onely
true
,
ancient
,
Catholique
and
Apostolique
religion
;
teaching
them
that
perish
by
consenting
vnto
lies
,
that
they
ought
to
worship
God
as
the
Gentiles
did
worship
Iupiter
;
perswading
them
that
as
the
Gentiles
had
their
Arae
,
so
Christians
must
haue
their
Altars
;
and
as
the
heathen
had
their
bloody
sacrifices
,
so
Christians
must
haue
their
vnbloody
sacrifices
,
and
offer
bread
and
wine
to
God
,
as
the
heathen
did
to
Ceres
and
Bacchus
;
and
as
the
Pagans
had
their
Poutifex
maximus
,
so
Christians
must
haue
their
Pope
;
and
as
Ethnicks
had
their
Sacerdotes
,
so
must
Christians
haue
their
Priests
;
and
as
the
Gentiles
had
their
gods
and
goddesses
,
so
must
Christians
haue
their
he
Saints
and
she
Saints
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Pantheon
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
All
Saints
;
and
as
the
heathen
had
their
idols
,
so
Christians
must
haue
their
images
;
and
as
the
Pagans
did
consecrate
their
Temples
to
Idols
,
so
Christians
must
dedicate
their
Churches
to
Saints
;
and
as
the
Ethnicks
had
their
supplications
,
so
Christians
must
haue
their
processions
;
and
as
the
Gentiles
had
their
lustrations
,
so
Christians
must
haue
their
holy
water
;
and
as
the
Dragon
in
his
Church-seruice
had
his
Cerei
,
so
Antichrist
in
his
Church-seruice
must
haue
candles
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Acerra
or
Thuribles
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
Censors
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Nouendiall
sacrifices
,
so
must
Antichrist
haue
his
Masses
of
Requiem
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Hecatombes
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
Trentals
;
and
as
the
D●agon
had
his
Colledges
Sodalium
and
Arvalium
fratram
,
so
must
Antichrist
haue
his
Cloisters
of
Monks
and
Friers
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Vestals
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
Nunnes
and
Sanctimonials
;
and
as
the
Dragon
did
celebrate
the
birth
dayes
of
his
Cesars
,
so
Antichrist
must
solemnize
the
natiuitie
of
his
Saints
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Annals
,
so
must
Antichrist
haue
his
Legends
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
secular
Spectacles
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
Iubilees
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Bacchanals
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
Carnivals
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Lupanaries
,
so
must
Antichrist
haue
his
Stewes
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
inchanters
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
exorcists
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Asyla
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
Sanctuaries
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Exequies
and
Parentals
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
Diriges
and
his
de
profundis
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
comitia
centariata
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
Councels
oecumenicall
;
and
as
the
Beast
had
his
comitia
curiata
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
Councels
prouinciall
;
and
as
the
Dragon
did
diuifie
his
Cesars
,
so
must
Antichrist
canonize
his
Saints
;
and
as
the
Dragon
enacted
ciuill
lawes
,
so
Antichrist
must
enact
Canon
lawes
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Imperiall
rescripts
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
Decretall
Epistles
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Tribunitial
intercessions
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
vncontrollable
interdictions
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
and
vsed
his
prescriptions
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
and
vse
his
excommunications
;
and
as
that
Beast
commanded
his
heathen
to
please
their
goddesse
Iuno
with
cane
vota
libens
,
so
this
Beast
commanded
Christians
to
please
their
God
with
vowes
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Triceps
Hecate
,
so
Antichrist
must
haue
his
triple
tiara
,
to
signifie
his
triple
pretended
iurisdiction
;
and
as
the
Dragon
had
his
Hexaphoron
,
so
must
Antichrist
be
carried
vp
&
downe
;
briefly
,
as
the
Dragons
priests
did
teach
the
heathen
to
worship
Iupiter
as
God
,
so
Antichrists
Clergie
must
teach
their
Christians
to
worship
God
as
Iupiter
;
and
looke
what
forme
of
religion
,
what
maner
of
life
the
Dragon
led
,
the
same
must
Antichrist
in
his
person
parallel
&
maintaine
.
And
to
the
end
we
may
vndoubtedly
discerne
what
and
of
whose
image
the
Apostle
speaketh
,
the
Spirit
remembreth
now
the
third
time
his
recured
wound
,
which
▪
here
speaking
more
plainly
out
,
he
calleth
the
stroke
of
a
sword
;
not
that
it
was
the
onely
stroke
,
(
for
many
swords
did
pierce
the
Dragon
,
as
his
had
pierced
many
,
)
but
the
first
stroke
of
a
sword
,
which
from
the
beginning
and
rising
of
the
Dragons
Empire
and
regiment
by
Cesars
,
did
remeasure
the
fury
of
the
sword
vpon
his
owne
head
&
chaire
of
state
,
as
the
Spirit
noteth
,
saying
,
Which
had
the
stroke
of
the
sword
,
and
liueth
.
Verse
15.
And
it
was
giuen
to
him
to
giue
spirit
to
the
image
of
the
Beast
,
and
that
the
image
of
the
Beast
should
speake
,
and
should
make
that
whosoeuer
honored
not
the
image
of
the
Beast
,
be
slaine
.
ANd
such
art
and
perswasible
power
was
giuen
to
those
inchanters
and
apostates
of
Antichrist
,
that
they
infused
such
a
quickning
spirit
,
such
a
life
,
giuing
animation
into
the
Ethnicke
dead
and
desolate
image
of
the
Dragons
religion
,
by
gilding
it
ouer
with
the
reuerend
,
diuine
and
honorable
names
of
God
omnipotent
,
Christ
Iesus
the
righteous
,
his
holy
Spirit
,
his
precious
blood
,
his
sacred
word
,
his
blessed
Sacraments
,
&c.
that
they
easily
perswaded
the
blear-eyd
world
to
think
and
beleeue
,
that
the
execrable
forme
and
image
of
Iupiters
abomination
,
commanded
by
the
Dragon
and
his
Cesars
,
was
the
very
true
worship
and
seruice
of
God
,
commanded
by
the
Lamb
and
his
seruants
;
and
that
the
picture
of
Iupiter
Olimpius
which
their
Lord
Epiphanes
had
set
vp
and
placed
in
Sanctum
sanctorum
,
was
the
very
Arke
and
propitiatory
of
God
,
set
vp
and
erected
by
Moses
his
seruant
;
and
their
abominable
mysticall
Masse
,
the
sacrifice
of
an
vnbloody
Messias
,
made
of
bread
of
their
owne
baking
(
which
their
fathers
the
Patriarks
,
Prophets
and
Apostles
neuer
heard
nor
dreamed
of
)
is
a
sacrifice
not
Eucharisticall
but
propitiatory
,
and
so
allsufficient
for
the
attonement
and
reconciliation
of
God
vnto
the
sinner
,
as
if
it
were
figured
and
sealed
in
the
precious
blood
of
the
Lord
of
the
couenant
;
and
that
the
horrible
prophane
and
detestable
supper
of
Thyestes
,
is
the
very
true
,
holy
and
comfortable
commemoration
of
the
Lords
loue
in
giuing
his
life
for
the
children
of
the
Church
,
and
their
thankfull
communion
and
celebration
of
the
same
.
And
by
these
and
such
like
inchantments
,
these
Proctors
of
Antichrist
so
baffled
and
blinded
the
Princes
and
Protectors
of
their
synagogues
,
that
they
inzealed
them
to
authorize
and
erect
inquisitions
,
executions
and
torments
against
all
such
as
refuse
to
honour
and
adore
the
idol-seruice
and
desolation
of
their
Antiochus
;
and
that
all
such
as
doe
but
mutter
against
the
magnificence
of
their
Church
and
her
worship
,
which
all
the
world
adoreth
,
should
be
accounted
as
infoelix
Lolium
,
weeds
,
Lollards
,
heretiques
,
excommunicates
,
and
sonnes
of
death
,
to
the
admirable
confirmation
of
the
Spirits
prediction
in
this
place
,
saying
,
that
it
was
giuen
to
him
to
giue
such
spirit
to
the
image
of
the
Beast
,
that
the
image
of
the
Beast
should
speake
and
make
that
whosoeuer
honored
not
the
image
of
the
Beast
,
be
slaine
.
Verse
16.
And
he
should
make
all
,
little
and
great
,
rich
and
poore
,
free
and
bond
,
to
haue
a
character
in
their
right
hand
or
on
their
foreheads
.
ANd
the
power
of
these
prostibulous
Clerks
was
so
catholique
and
vniuersall
,
that
they
caused
all
kingdomes
and
nations
(
figured
here
by
a
numeration
of
their
estates
,
conditions
and
callings
,
little
,
great
,
rich
,
poore
,
bond
,
free
,
)
to
confederate
and
vnite
themselues
by
a
resolute
and
determinate
purpose
of
beleeuing
and
liuing
after
the
lawes
and
prescriptions
of
Antichrist
;
which
league
of
voluntary
and
resolute
subiection
,
the
Spirit
calleth
the
character
of
the
Beast
:
for
as
vnitie
and
loue
in
truth
,
and
a
resolued
purpose
to
liue
after
the
commandements
of
God
,
is
the
character
and
cognisance
of
the
Lamb
;
so
vnitie
,
conspiration
and
banding
against
the
truth
,
with
resolution
to
liue
after
the
traditions
of
Antichrist
,
is
the
crest
and
character
of
the
Beast
.
Which
profession
of
obedience
was
so
studiously
embraced
,
and
with
such
ioy
receiued
of
all
the
clients
and
creatures
of
Antichrist
,
that
the
Spirit
saith
,
they
did
no
lesse
pride
themselues
in
their
errors
and
abominations
,
then
in
the
wearing
of
their
bracelets
&
abillements
,
deliuering
it
in
manner
of
speech
vsuall
with
holy
Scripture
,
when
it
intendeth
to
expresse
an
ardent
and
hearty
affection
approued
both
by
word
and
action
,
by
practise
and
profession
,
as
Deut.
6.
8.
and
11.
18.
where
the
holy
Ghost
vseth
the
selfesame
phrase
,
in
their
right
hand
or
on
their
foreheads
.
Verse
17.
And
that
no
man
may
buy
or
sell
but
he
that
hath
the
Character
or
the
name
of
the
Beast
,
or
the
number
of
his
name
.
ANd
in
further
proof
that
Antichrist
and
his
apostaticall
Clergie
should
driue
the
naile
of
their
impietie
home
to
the
very
head
,
the
Spirit
saith
,
that
by
them
and
meanes
of
their
authoritie
,
it
should
be
enacted
,
that
none
should
trade
or
liue
(
for
so
much
the
inhibition
of
buying
and
selling
doth
inferre
)
but
such
as
acknowledge
and
adore
the
prerogatiue
royall
,
religion
and
discipline
of
the
Beast
and
his
holy
Catholique
Church
(
for
so
by
a
figuratiue
kind
of
blasphemie
she
must
be
called
)
as
is
confirmed
by
Antichrist
himselfe
,
then
named
Martin
the
fift
,
in
his
Bull
directed
to
the
Inquisitors
of
hereticall
prauitie
(
for
so
it
pleaseth
him
to
terme
the
profession
of
the
truth
)
nec
domicilia
habeant
,
nec
larem
foueant
,
nec
contractus
ineant
,
nec
negotiationes
&
mercatur
as
exerceant
,
nec
humanitatis
solatia
cum
Christi
fidelibus
habeant
,
&c.
All
which
their
dominering
,
rage
or
madnesse
,
the
holy
Ghost
by
way
of
prevision
most
admirably
epitomizeth
in
these
words
,
And
that
no
man
may
buy
or
sell
,
(
no
one
excepted
out
of
the
King
of
Babylons
decree
)
saue
those
onely
that
carry
his
signing
&
fleshmark
in
their
hands
or
hearts
,
as
beasts
doe
in
their
fells
,
meaning
such
as
vnder
or
aboue
boord
,
priuatly
or
in
publique
,
are
obstinately
&
resolutely
deuoted
to
liue
and
die
as
the
Beast
commandeth
;
which
the
Spirit
vnfoldeth
in
saying
,
but
he
that
hath
the
character
,
or
are
otherwise
allied
as
it
were
by
way
of
cognomination
vnto
Antichrist
or
his
Church
Catholique
,
and
are
hereafter
cleped
Papists
or
Catholiques
,
reuealed
in
these
words
,
or
the
name
of
the
Beast
;
or
last
of
all
are
found
to
adore
within
the
very
verge
or
lists
of
his
reigne
and
Empire
Pontificial
,
here
butted
and
bounded
within
the
circle
and
comprehension
of
these
words
,
or
the
number
of
his
name
,
of
which
more
at
large
in
the
verse
following
.
Verse
18.
Here
is
wisedome
;
he
that
hath
vnderstanding
,
let
him
count
the
number
of
the
Beast
,
for
it
is
the
number
of
a
man
,
and
his
number
is
six
hundred
sixtie
six
.
THe
holy
Ghost
intending
to
reueale
in
this
verse
the
secret
counsell
and
purpose
of
God
concerning
the
period
and
finall
end
of
Antichrist
and
his
Church-dominion
,
prepareth
his
Reader
to
attention
by
a
little
short
preface
,
intimating
that
it
is
the
discouery
of
a
mysterie
and
point
of
high
vnderstanding
,
saying
,
here
is
wisedome
;
wherein
lest
we
should
ouer-rashly
iudge
(
as
many
haue
done
)
the
Spirt
maketh
choise
of
his
auditors
,
and
addeth
for
a
barre
,
not
he
that
will
,
but
he
that
can
and
hath
vnderstanding
,
let
him
audite
and
count
the
number
of
the
Beast
;
He
that
hath
vnderstanding
,
let
him
count
the
number
of
the
Beast
;
whom
l●st
we
should
imagine
to
be
a
spirit
or
other
creature
of
strange
shape
(
as
some
haue
vainly
phantased
)
the
Spirit
calleth
him
a
man
,
saying
,
for
it
is
the
number
of
a
man
,
comprehending
by
a
Synecdoche
vnder
the
word
man
,
a
successiue
state
and
kingdome
of
men
,
after
the
speaking
and
stile
of
the
Prophets
:
for
so
the
Lord
informed
his
seruant
Moses
to
speake
,
Let
my
sonne
go
,
The
Ramme
which
thou
sawest
are
the
Kings
of
the
Medes
and
Persians
:
after
which
maner
of
speaking
,
the
Spirit
speaketh
also
in
this
place
,
and
vnder
the
name
of
a
man
presenteth
vnto
vs
the
whole
race
and
succession
of
men
of
sinne
,
whose
totall
summe
is
one
Antichrist
,
the
bounds
and
limits
of
whose
dominion
and
tyrannie
,
the
holy
Ghost
impaleth
within
the
circuit
of
a
certaine
sure
prefixed
period
and
determinate
number
of
yeares
,
saying
,
and
the
number
of
him
is
six
hundred
sixtie
six
.
Wherein
many
,
as
well
ancient
as
late
writers
(
as
in
the
rest
)
they
haue
vainly
imagined
,
that
Antichrist
is
one
singular
person
,
which
must
sodainly
start
vp
,
and
after
three
ciuill
yeares
and
a
halfe
depart
again
;
and
that
he
must
be
by
birth
a
Iew
,
and
of
the
Tribe
of
Dan
,
when
notwithstanding
those
cursed
scatterbags
haue
neither
Tribe
nor
shadow
of
Tribe
left
amongst
them
;
and
that
he
must
reigne
in
Ierusalem
,
of
which
Citie
and
Temple
,
there
is
not
any
one
stone
left
vpon
another
;
and
that
he
must
kill
Enoch
and
Elias
,
who
are
to
appeare
about
the
Kalends
of
Greece
;
with
diuers
other
such
legendary
phantasies
,
neuer
meant
nor
sent
from
God
:
so
in
this
point
also
concerning
the
number
of
Antichrist
,
they
haue
giuen
vp
an
account
so
farre
from
the
audite
of
truth
,
as
nothing
can
be
more
.
And
as
men
that
thought
it
worth
the
labour
to
find
a
knot
in
a
rush
,
so
by
a
conceited
framing
and
anagramming
of
letters
,
they
haue
endeuoured
to
find
out
such
a
name
as
by
characters
might
expresse
the
number
666
;
and
withall
might
something
square
either
with
the
name
,
nature
,
blasphemie
,
or
residence
of
the
Bishops
of
Rome
,
as
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
for
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Remiith
Adonikam
,
filius
perditionis
,
&c.
whereunto
also
may
be
added
the
coniectures
of
Iohn
Wickliff●
,
Iohn
Bale
,
Francis
Iunius
,
men
otherwise
of
good
and
worthy
memory
in
the
Church
of
God
;
as
also
the
coniectures
of
others
as
worthy
and
honorable
as
they
,
that
haue
referred
the
number
of
666
to
the
time
of
Antichrists
reuealing
and
yeare
of
rising
,
when
notwithstanding
it
is
a
strange
voice
,
and
not
known
to
the
eares
of
the
Scriptures
,
for
the
word
number
to
be
vsed
for
the
beginning
and
rising
of
any
terme
of
time
limited
and
predicted
by
the
Prophets
,
but
onely
for
the
end
,
period
,
and
determination
thereof
.
But
if
it
were
lawfull
to
smile
in
so
graue
an
inquisition
,
amongst
all
phantasticall
charmes
and
cabalisticall
coniectures
vpon
this
word
number
,
there
is
none
more
ridiculous
then
that
which
most
pleaseth
out
Rhetoricall
Rhemists
,
who
by
a
rare
supputation
of
characters
,
haue
as
roundly
found
out
the
Beasts
number
,
as
the
Sodomites
did
the
doores
of
Lot
,
in
the
name
Luderus
,
which
in
the
Almain
tongue
is
the
name
of
Luther
:
and
although
we
are
sure
,
they
cannot
so
much
as
thinke
vpon
the
poore
Frier
Luther
,
but
for
very
feare
they
stinke
all
the
world
ouer
;
yet
this
deuice
so
tickleth
the
Clergie
of
Antichrist
,
that
they
pretend
to
laugh
for
ioy
.
But
as
for
their
prefixed
time
of
three
naturall
or
ciuil
yeares
and
a
halfe
(
which
they
allot
to
the
reigne
and
rage
of
their
Antichrist
)
it
doth
so
vneuenly
square
with
Luther
or
Lutherans
continuance
,
that
these
miserable
Serdonians
are
faine
to
eate
their
word
,
and
to
endure
the
foolish
world
to
laugh
at
them
,
whiles
as
dying
they
faine
would
seeme
to
laugh
at
it
.
But
to
leaue
these
cursed
leaders
of
the
cursed
blind
,
and
returne
againe
to
those
that
haue
thought
to
calculate
&
find
out
the
mystery
of
Antichrists
number
666
,
in
a
word
,
we
say
,
they
are
deceiued
and
erre
,
not
knowing
the
power
and
construction
of
the
Scripture
.
For
first
,
by
the
word
name
,
deliuered
in
the
former
verse
,
in
these
words
,
or
the
number
of
his
name
,
is
meant
the
very
existence
and
person
of
the
man
of
sinne
,
by
a
proprietie
of
speech
common
to
holy
Scriptures
,
as
Acts
1.
15.
Apoc.
3.
4.
and
11.
13.
where
(
by
an
Hebraisme
)
names
signifie
men
,
and
are
conuerted
with
the
parties
and
persons
themselues
,
as
the
name
of
God
in
holy
Scripture
is
often
taken
for
God
himselfe
:
and
therefore
as
in
the
former
verse
the
Scripture
calleth
it
the
number
of
his
name
,
so
in
this
verse
he
calleth
it
the
number
of
a
man
,
vnderstanding
by
a
man
(
as
is
afore
said
)
the
total
summe
of
that
succession
of
beastly
men
,
which
make
and
constitute
the
existence
and
person
of
one
Antichrist
:
and
by
the
word
number
,
is
meant
the
fatall
end
and
finall
determination
of
their
reigne
and
gouernment
;
for
so
the
finger
of
God
speaketh
to
Baltazar
,
God
hath
numbred
thy
kingdome
,
that
is
,
God
hath
ended
and
finished
the
dayes
of
thy
kingdome
:
so
that
the
number
of
his
name
,
or
the
number
of
the
man
,
is
nothing
else
but
the
period
and
finall
determination
of
the
vsurped
tyrannie
and
domination
of
Antichrist
;
which
the
Lamb
the
Lord
and
preseruer
of
Israel
,
for
the
glorie
of
his
name
,
consolation
of
his
Church
,
and
confusion
of
her
foes
,
with
a
mighty
and
outstretched
arme
shall
bring
to
passe
in
the
yeare
which
shal
be
666.
Forasmuch
as
the
egge
of
Antichristianisme
was
laid
in
the
dayes
of
Innocent
the
first
,
successor
to
Anastasius
the
first
also
of
that
name
,
in
the
yeare
of
saluation
406
,
as
is
before
declared
;
and
that
by
expresse
commission
there
was
furthermore
granted
to
the
Beast
,
his
heires
and
successors
1260
yeares
,
for
the
hatching
,
fostering
and
perfecting
this
child
of
perdition
and
mystery
of
iniquitie
,
which
being
added
to
406
,
by
rule
of
true
audite
must
needs
verifie
this
admirable
iudgement
,
which
the
Spirit
of
God
hath
here
denounced
and
determined
to
make
good
vpon
him
in
the
yeare
which
shall
be
1666.
In
which
account
and
discouery
of
his
end
,
the
holy
Ghost
of
purpose
leaueth
out
the
millenarie
number
,
as
not
onely
knowne
perfect
and
immutable
(
for
that
these
vile
and
euill
dayes
shall
not
exceed
more
thousands
then
one
)
but
as
respecting
also
the
common
vse
of
all
nations
,
as
well
Hebrewes
as
Gentiles
,
who
in
their
stiles
(
for
breuitie
sake
)
do
no
lesse
often
speak
and
the
number
of
him
is
666.
And
then
all
kingdomes
and
people
shall
see
the
eternitie
of
that
eternall
citie
(
as
one
of
her
owne
calleth
it
)
and
the
immortalitie
of
her
soule
,
meaning
the
soueraigne
power
and
supremacie
of
her
Cesars
and
high
Priests
,
to
wither
,
die
,
and
forsake
the
earth
for
euer
:
and
as
Babylon
her
mother
left
vnto
her
the
inheritance
of
her
pride
and
prophanations
,
so
shall
she
also
leaue
vnto
her
the
heritage
of
her
death
and
iudgements
:
for
as
her
glorie
hath
been
great
,
so
shall
her
dishonour
,
when
all
her
excellencie
shall
be
translated
into
shame
and
sorow
.
Now
therefore
as
King
Baltasher
cried
aloud
when
he
saw
the
hand-writing
against
him
,
that
they
should
bring
the
Caldeans
,
Astrologians
and
Inchanters
to
reade
and
interpret
;
so
thou
that
once
and
long
before
our
dayes
hast
been
deemed
by
lawes
of
all
nations
a
power
so
soueraigne
&
holy
,
call
now
about
thee
thy
Councell
and
thy
Clergie
(
who
call
themselues
Good
men
,
learned
and
wise
,
whose
onely
grace
is
to
loue
antiquitie
,
grauitie
,
wisedome
and
constancie
,
)
call
them
I
say
,
cloath
them
with
purple
and
chain
them
with
gold
,
yet
shall
they
not
deliuer
thee
from
this
iudgement
to
come
;
but
as
the
mill-stone
which
the
mightie
Angell
took
and
cast
into
the
sea
,
which
may
not
rise
and
floate
againe
,
with
such
violence
thou
and
thy
Church
in
that
houre
shall
be
throwne
downe
,
and
shall
be
found
no
more
.
And
all
such
Kings
on
earth
,
or
rather
Kings
of
earth
,
whose
loue
thou
hast
stolen
,
to
the
losse
of
their
soules
,
that
haue
liued
in
drunkennesse
,
delights
and
wantonnesse
with
thee
,
shal
weep
and
waile
for
thee
(
as
for
their
first
borne
)
when
they
shall
see
the
smoake
of
thy
torments
ascend
,
and
the
apples
which
thy
soule
lusted
after
,
to
depart
from
thee
,
and
no
man
to
buy
thy
trasn
and
commodities
any
more
;
for
that
God
which
iudgeth
thee
is
a
strong
Lord
,
and
thy
derision
shall
be
the
ioy
and
Alleluia
of
Sion
.
But
her
faire
and
halcyon
day
may
not
long
endure
,
before
the
Lord
(
that
with
iustice
iudgeth
and
fighteth
)
shall
come
in
the
clouds
of
heauen
,
to
render
vnto
euery
man
according
to
the
ways
wherein
his
heart
hath
walked
,
as
more
directly
is
reuealed
in
the
20
Chapter
following
.
But
as
concerning
the
day
&
houre
of
the
coming
of
that
Lord
,
who
for
the
glorie
of
his
name
shall
bring
these
things
to
passe
,
it
is
fast
sealed
vp
in
the
treasurie
of
God
,
far
beyond
the
aime
of
all
his
seruants
in
earth
,
or
Angels
in
heauen
;
and
yet
his
beloued
seruant
Daniel
is
bold
in
spirit
,
and
layeth
downe
the
yeare
to
be
the
fiue
and
fortith
yeare
(
according
to
his
Caldaicall
supputation
)
after
the
consumption
and
extermination
of
Antichrist
,
that
it
may
be
fulfilled
which
was
spoken
by
the
Prophet
,
Verily
the
Lord
of
hoasts
will
doe
nothing
,
but
he
reuealeth
his
secrets
vnto
his
seruants
the
Prophets
.
FINIS
.