:91. J evetatiort'oft ie Apocaly?fe. C A P.9ö So then about thefe times any man may fee abundance of fmoke breaking forth of the pit,when it was onceopened. 3. N'oW out of the fmoke came Loco(s. Another fecond effeet was the procreating of Loculls ; ; that ir, of men, who in their multitude and nature doe muff filly refemble them. The words cannot be underftood of certaine true poyfonfull creatures ,. whofe originali doth not require to have a man departingfrom the truth to beget them , fuch as we have flaewèd thef oir to be that` fellfrom heaven; neither doe the Locufs arife out of the fmoke of Errours, but the broodmuft be of the fame kind that the Dam is of. Wherefdre out of this ignorance, and molt grofíe errours , doe the Saracens that worfhip Mahomet come forth in the eafl, a company that flÿeth by troops , to robberies, and that liveth not fo much by their own, as by other mens goods ; A nation made toeat up,and to devoure other mens eftates , which in a very few yeers wafted the Whole Eaf,and after that drainedup the we/}, andour Europe mife- rably. The weffernLocufls, are the Monks,Fryars, a huge company of Religious orders, Cardinals, with the Whole Popifh Hierarchy : All thefe Beetle headed Locufts came flowing out of the fame fmoke, or dung rather of ignorance and errour. For after that men attri- buted theirfalvation to the worksof their ownWill- worfhip, what way was there to (top and ftint hew religions, and fuperftitions afrefla devifed everyday ? All men doe vehemently thirty after fal- vation, thewhich when they perceive tobe in theirown power , and confiffing in the obfervation of fuch things as they could devife, there could beno fuch fuperftition from which they could hold their hands. Certainly one man is not more commonlybegotten by ano- ther , then thefe Locufs out of that rmokZe ; Whatfoever was plea Pant any where, in any countries, flying thither by troops,and there (eating themfelves , they devoured it up wholly. And their Vietu- als were not more dainty, then as eafily come by ; for they lived , as if all mankind had been made Caterers, andCooks for there gour- mandizeas. What troops of thefe loads were to be feenof old titne,anyman ratty conjecture , by that which a certain Generali of the Mirforites (which one feet filled fourty Provinces) promifed unto thePope towards the levyingof an army againfl theTurlte , out of the faraphicgll family of the Francifcans , thirty thoufand tali warriours, Who might do him veryflour fervice ita his Warres ; and yet the fer- viceat the Holy thingsfhould not be hinderedat all. Sabel. Ennead. g. Book¿6.What au infinit company was there of all the rabble ofRe- ligious
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