1" 290 , evelsltso?2ofthe Apocalyp1e. C A P.9. larged bounds of thisTrumpet,doemake this good ; that under this Star both Mahomet, and allo the Pap of Rome is tobe comprifed. Neither is it an unufuall thing, that many perlons are noted but by one fingularType, as which the likeníle between them doth com- pofe and make to be fomeone thing. z. And he opened the bottomelcffe pit ;,.and there arofe the (make of the rit ; So muchfor the firf effeel : Thofe that be fecondarr, fpring .each out ofother in a;certaine order. For, fink he openrth thepit;' when the pit is opened,the fànokearifet/ ut ; out of the fmoke,befides the darkring ofthe Sun, the Locuffs goeforth. Now thefmoke is here- fie indoftrine,andfuperflition in wor(hip : For what other thing can ikeame out of the pit of Field ? Before this time indeed it breathed out a hideous fteame,by many holes and pores, as it were, but now Hell gates being opened by thelermens hclp,it began to come leaping out in abundance: TheSun and e/lire are darkned,when errors pre- vaile,and the light ofthe truth is extinguifhed. Neither is this dark- nelfe inone place alone, Cuchas commeth out of the top offome hill, but the whole ay re is filled with this fog, little differing from the blacke darknelfeof thenight. And indeed, whenonce thePrimacie was obtained from Thocar, Boniface the next, both in name and or- der,confecrated unto all Saints, Pantheon, a Temple for the honour of all the gods belonging to the Heat.beni/h Idolatry;fo exercifing the fame impiety, which formerly the Heathenshad done, butundr another more glorious name. And he ordained ivithall.a Feaf' for there Saints, that fok might not be the impietyof the City of`!erne alone, to worfhip a new hofi ofgods. , His next fuccel or, Theodotuo, de- creed ; That the Parents Who h.xd at unaWares been Witnefes to their oWne children at 73aporrne, fhouldnot live any longer together inWed_ locke, but that there fhouldbe a feparation, and the Womanfhouldre- ceive her doWrieaoain,andayeere afterfhoula marry another. Strange kinde of Inceet by means of fpir:t_iall kindreds, which God had no knowledge of when he made !awestouching'ince-ft, and unlawfull marriages, Levit. 18, Boniface the. fifth, added to there that We are delivered by Chi-illfrom oginallfnne : That the laW doth require no- thing more of tcs,than What We are able to p0form by our oWnfire lgth, or at leafs by the help of Gods race. Vitalian decreed, That all things fzouldbe done in the Church in the Latin tongue. Toconclude, not to profecute an erdleflè matter ; it came at length to this pafle, that they made all men ofnecellîty to put their necks under this yoke; That everyfouls. that mcancth to befa.v,cd, ought to profeffe the forme.
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