2 88 A Tevelatioa of the Apocaiypfe. C A P. 9. third obtainedat the Bands of Phocas, the betrayer andmurderer of his Trince,that hefbould be the univerfall B.of me;then alto Mahomet in the EafWas belayedby hisfollowers, to be a great Prophet,whom Robertus Cetenenfis, and Bibliander in the eleventh table, refer to the fame time, though yet I fuppofe that othersdo more rightly re- fer him toComeyeeres after,forthe Cum fthe matter there is no dif- ference. Both Bars fellfrom heaven before this time. The defection ofRome is manifeft in the Idolatrous worthippingof Reliques, by giving that to Saints which is proper toGod alone; not tofpeak of many other wicked fitperftitions,which it would be too long to nuttt- ber.gr.gory that middle Angel, whom a manmay worthily call and count a holy man, before all others of thePopes, in how plain words loth he bewrav the impiety ofthis Sea in this matter ? The Holy Martyrs our defenders are prefentlfaith he,they Would be entreat- ed,and they Peek, that they may be fought. Seek thereforefor theft helpers unto your prayers, finde out thefe protetlours ofyour guilti- neffe, Homil: upon the Goff): 23. Again, let S. Peter be now your helper in all things, that afterwards he may be able to forgiveyou yourfins, Book 4. Ep. 34. Allo, let him truly in thegraceofalmighty God,and the helpeof the blef"ed ApofllePeter, Book 4. Epift. 39. Yet more, Cant! of the Croffe, Wherein is the Wood of the Lords crofe, and the haire of John Baptifl, We fetchalt3aiesthe comfort ofour Saviour through :the intercefon of his forerunner, Book. 7. Epift. r 26. Neither was this man the firft author of his Idolatry, and they that followed after, him did not Rudy to put it down, and to put it to flight, but increafed it rather with all their might,till at length it carne to the full height of impiety. And not without canfe was thefall ofthis Starre then firft ofall to be feen openly, when he began to be called the Vniverfall Bifhop,whenas the-ears ofall men did as yet ring with the late thrill voice of Gregory, laying, He is Antichrifl, Who 'ballchallenge to him- felfe the name of univerfall Bifhop. Out ofwhich it is alto manifeD, how they both deceive, and are deceived, who require the teftimo- nies of Ambrofe, Hierome, Chryfofiome, eAuguffine, or any other of the ancient Fathers, whereby it might be exprefly proved that the Pope of Rome is that Antichrif, when as his fall could not fo plainly be foundout before that the fifth Trumpet blew, which truly it did not, before that thole holy men were departed out of the world.Tbe fall likeovife ofMaho»set out of heaven is manifeft; The Saracens had received the true faithof Chrift, by the intruc`fionof Moles, a cer- tain) ifhop oftheir own people, when Mavia the Queen rattled, as it
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