C A P.9. AReruelat1onof the Apocalypfe. .2;h7 of the Romifs_tradition, and to acknoroledge, that allthe decrees of the Pope, Were to be received, asif they hadbeene confirmed by the divine voyce ofPeter hinsfelfe, as Atho faith in an Epifl:le that is among the Aasof the fixt Synod of Confantine. This fmóake came forth a fhort time after that the pit was opened, which grewevery day thicker by infinite degrees almoft : The manner alfo ofworfhipping God began no lelhe to be defiled, being all placed in Males, e4ltars, Garments, Images, Cups, Crops, Candlefic(s, Cenfors, Standards, Holy yeffels, Holy water, numbred Prayers, `ilgrimrages, Fafings, and an infinite troupe of other rites, not onely idleandfooliJb, but alfò Wicked; when as in the meane time the moí) pure ordinances of God were rejec`Ied,and trodden under feet. How fir and wide this finoke had before this time fpread it felfe in theweft, Bonifacewenofride an Englifmanmay be one, inftead of many witneffes; who being the Legateand ApofleofGregory the fecond, fubdued to the Popes bon- dage, the people in Germany, Franci, Wóricï. The people- ofLyons in France, Boij, Thyriget.cetti, apart of Saxons, the Daci, the Scla- vonian, tholeofFreezland.What a mighty company ol=flaves was here brought in by one mans labour ? But this is nothing to the whole 'wef,that was shortly after overwhelmed with this fame finoke; For after that the Princes Derr perfiì'ade,d that the church Was founded by Peter, and that this Peter had left'his keys andpo 'er granted him by Chrift, to his (tweefours ofRóme,andnowhere elfe in the World,fo that WhofoeverJhouldcut himself offrom the Church of Rome, didexile himfif from all CirifianReligion; as Adrianfpeaketh in an Epifle to the Spaniards; It was no marvel' ifthe Sun was taken awayout ofall Churches every where,by means'ofthis darkne{fe.But yet this black night grew yet a great deal thicker with finoke; when as at length the holy Scriptures werequite fwept away behinde thedoor, and all good learning was banifhed away, and School-divinity was onely efleemed, and the filthy Decrees and dirty Decretalls carried all the fway. Then the Egyptian darkneffe was nodarkneffe to this, which overwhelmed the whole weft. The Eaftcrnefmoke fent out by MaT bonnet was fo groffe, even from the beginningofit, that it might have been groped with hands. He joynedhis Alfurta, bis ferviceRookc, a horrible heap of all hlafphemies unto the three parts of holy Scripture, as he divides them. The Law ofMofes, the Pfalmes ofDa- vid, and the Gofpcl. And as if the men of the Eaf had not received mifcheif enough by the dotages of Mahomet , Heraclius the Em- perms- poured in alfo among them the errour of the Monothelitcs. So
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