C`A P . 9. A ki elationof theApocalypfe. ,1g37 felfthe title of Univerfall Bifhop, andWho bath an !loft ofPriefts pre- pared tofollow after him ? He is neer,faithhe,and at the doors; Yea ,he was much neerer then he thought, as in whofe Chair he. himfelffate, but by his ownecomputation he could not be far off. And;it is not lawfull toderogate from credit ofthe Pope,whocould not be de- ceived,chiefly,teeing he doth fooften,lnd in good earneft proteft,con- cerning the fame thing.' ecing then this Gregory next after thefourth trumpet, the perfecution ofthe Vandals, did foexprefly cry out that Antichrift was neere at hand, thenwhich there can befall nogreater plague and calamity unto theworld,and that a few yeers before that that Moufter, though long before hatched, yet carne forth into the . open light, it muff needs be, that he is thiseAngel, who is almoft as plainly declared in this Type, as ifhe had been named, The Ninth CHAPTER. l,, ,. .'Hen the fia(t Angell blew the Trumpet,, and I f<tw 'a ; Starre fàll fromHeaven unto the Earth, and to thatStar was given the Key of the bottomeleffe pit. 2 He Opened therefore the bottomeleffe pit, and there,arofe,4 &Hokeout of the pit, as the fmoke of a great rorrace. andthe Sunne was darkned,and the ayre,. by the fmoke ofthe pit. 3 And there came out of the fmoke Locufts upon the. earth, and unto themwas given:power, as the Scorpions ofthe earth have power. 4 But to them it was laid, that they fhould not hurt the Hay of the earth, neither ally areen thing, neither any tree : but onely thofe men, which had not the Sealeof God in their foreheads. 5 And to themwas commanded, that they fhould not, kill them,but that they fhould be tormented five moneths; and that their torment fhouldbe,as the tormentofa Scor- pion, when he bath ftunz a nun. P h 6 There.
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