278 ;ff evelation.ofthnApocalypfe. C A P.a... vexe the minds of many, and compelled them to ftirre upwhat troth bles they could againf} thofc of the Sound beliefe, but they hadano- ther matter in pretence and Phew , betides thefe were lefferfarres.. But C'onflantiue Was a great Star flaming like a lampe, bringing forth thematter into the open light, out of the lurkingholes thereof, and ifriving to amplifie it with exceeding great heat of fpirit. The like account is to be hadof Valens theEmperour, who followed after Iulianand lovinian.. . Through thehelpe of thefe two,wormwood fell into the thirdpart of theflouds,and into the Fountains of Waters..Before this the Bithops were lick of the difeafe,butnow they began to behorne-mad,having gotten filch to authorize them. The Whole Eaftt , except Athanajiu-s, and Paulinus,drankin the deadly poyfon of.the Artans,and the Eunomi- ans, Hieram againft errours,Iahnof leruf. Not. onlyNilus.Was turned into bitternefr,_but the fiends alto,. andfountainsofTbracia,Helllont, Bithinia,and the Whole cvntinent:region, inall,Which p.laces:the Arians expelledallthat held the truthout of the. Church, andpuniJZZed them in great extremity,and indtgnity,Sozom: Book. 5.27.lvloreove r,thepoyfon Waspouredupon all men univerfally from theborders of I1lyricum,eve unto Thebais, as Bafil complayneth, Epïft.69. Now what WoormWoëd was ever more bitter , thenthat the Chrif}'ians fhould bee whipped to death by Chriftians,fhould be depraved of their goods,.and - privi- ledges of their.Cities , marked in the forehead with a brand , and Chould not be one whit leffe cruelly,. and outragiouily handled-by their brethrcn,then they were'in tinesgaff, by theirxnofl;.favage and inhumane enemies. And yet the orthodox men:endured all thefe things, and many things more at the hands of 4acedoniul,of:Con- Jlantinople,and of other of his companions, who were rather helli/b furies,ihen.) ifbopr,as S.ócrate,rteporteth, Book 2.27. This plague did a long time molt miferably torment,and vex that third part , both by it felfe alone , as alto by that unhappy'brood Of thé Macedonians, 5114 Come fiuh other curfed ofd fpring ; and yet after that Valens waSdead, this flame alfo dyed ,:_whore nourifhment was fpenr, as of aLatnp.whìch bath no moreeylefuppplied:unto it. . Thefe WormWood Waters did 'marvelloufly automate the calamityof the Haile , unto which they did now mtittgle.thenlfelves , and :fo they hindred the quenching aid_agaitìffthe weft: rh Ere of anìbition:: Fornowthree Trumpetsdid joy.ntly invade the world together, which did at the beginning an.n0y;itfeverally',.and_ fo more lightly. z?. Therefore the third ;part, of the Waters, became WormWood.
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