CAP.'8. AIyelation ofthe AOocalypfe. ti withall it teacheth us, how much more fafe iris to perfift in die- fimplicity ofthe truthofGod, then=fling to mans wifdom, to in novate ought therein. And thus wee fee this third part ,'into- which the burning Mountain was caft , and that the Doctrine was molt foully corrupted by meaneshereof,and deptaved,it is now God be thanked made more known, then that there should be any need to fpend time inproving it ; 'we Thall finde this to be the perpetual! Cuckoes fong of all th.e"Popifh fort, namely, to ad. ranee without all modefty"or moderation the ApofioITh.e Sea; to which purpofe they talkeofthe Sunne and the Moon, tWo (Wordr, the Churchbuilt upon Peter, and there isnothing ineffect, which theydo not drag in tor head and fhoulders. -9. Andsiit third part of the Creatures died. T=here are yet two members more remainingof the Second effect, the one concerning thedeathofthe Creatures in thisfea, the other as touching the deflru« Rion oftheflips. ThefeCreatures of the Sea, are all that baler lower molt rabbleof the Clergy -men, as they call them, filch as are Porters, Reader.c,Singers,Conjaurers, Attendantr, Subdeacons, Deacons, -Arch- deacons, Dcanes,Religious men, Monks,Frsiars,and the ref! of this rout. The flipsare thòfe of the uppermit. rank,whofeotfire-it.was to give themfelves wholy to preachingofthe word, and thereby to tranfport it likeMerchants, hither and thither, or to tráffique any other way- in this Sea ;The thirdpart ofallthefefhould die,that is,all men'that ex- ert-de this corrupt minifterythrough Snrope,whichis the third part of theworld,by drinking in this bloody andmattery corruption,fhould dieofafwellirig withambition, defpifing the fimplicity oftheir fun- ction, andnegleccting all refpect oftheir duty,by meanes oftheir fer- vent defire,to attain a higher dignity in. the world.In the Eaft,the in- undationofthe Barbarians quenched thisflame;In theWeft the times being fomewhat'mbre peaceable, gave power unto it tó range more freely. Thegreatneffe of which flames wherewithall the Mariners, Orono:, Pilots, andSeamen thatfail in the MediterraneSea, from the gulfë of Ionia even to the Gades, which .are the tWo Ifles that part Europefrom .Africke; that is, all the Churchmen in this part of our world, can, more eafly be comprehended in minde, and cogitati= on, them it canbe declared with Words by him efpecially that labou- reth for brevity. Would God the remainders and broken peeces of this mountain, did not annoy the Chryftaline Sea in the Chriflian Churches even at this dáy.,.Now how_ well troth it agree with this vill that light on the Sea, that about this fame time, as Hierome 0o faith,
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