C A r'.8. ,.?' e,elationz o. f'theApocalypse. 279 this Star was now before thisfallen: For this Star did not now fîrft fall at the time ofthefrfthYrntnpers blafl"s,but longbefore this,hadhe declined by many degrees from his integrity,& was tumbled into this gulfe of impiety. And yet this preterperfeft tenfe doth not only note out a matter which was now goneaway, but alto a continued aeition, after the manner of the Hebrewes ; of which kinde are thofeplaces, This is my beloved Son, inWhom Ihave been Wellpleafed,Mat. 3. t 7. So above, behold, faith Chrii}, IhaveRoodat the doore,and knocked, Chap. 3. zo. And of this fort there are many fpeeches in other places Hefell from Heaven to earth; by revolting trom theholy Church tó' the degenerate company ofthe wicked ; but this fall began now fir' to be perceived, after that the fifthTrumpet founded out : For that which is done by littleand little, and clofely, is not found out to be in doing, before it bealtogether. "done : The key of the bottomeleffe pit, that is given him, is a power given over infernall darkneffe, which is Phut úp within the molt'darke deepe dungeon'of.Hell, for that is the pit of Hell. . Now this power, is firl} of all given to fend forth fmoke, howfoever hee was fallen from Heaven, before that the Trumpet bleW. Now, that wee may finde out who is this Srarre . the matter is not to be meafitred by one or two circumftances (for 6 iy"ec (half finde Many to eavefallen from Heaven.) but all things are to be comprehended together ; which things truly, unto whomfoever they Xhall agree, even he it is, doubtlefle,'wlom this Prophecie painteth out unto us. It cannot- be ". that çhtë holy défçrìtións fhould, be common and vol- tar g : fo that tteÿ maÿ'l c àpp,lyed to things of a diverfe nature, betides the minde of the Holy Ghof . Nowwe mutt obferve, that this Trumpet is not Phut up within any bounds of a thirdpart, as the former were, but: that they 'hate free power to take their (cope_ whither foever"they °ixtill, as the Angel cryed in the common proheme in the end of fife farmer Chaper, Woe to the Inhabitants of the Eareh as if the calamity fhould be contained in no other limits thenof the whole world. Whence it coìneth to paf3"e, that the later Trumpets do not only exceed the former inthe kinde felfe,and continuanceof the-evills,'but in in the fjpact'and.ample- neffe of the Regións which thy fl óäìd damnifte . thingsbe- ing thus hiddowne,we ihall`finde that this Trumpet foi tided with- in three y eerés ftraight after that (ireçory dyed, (whofn r ght now we faidt"to be-the 'Angei fiyiiog through themidst ofHeaven,) about the yeete fiordCirrifts'Niti trj , *t..WltiiVh°time'Bonfacethe third
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