C A.P. 9. !1 Revelationofthe Apocalypfe. 29 5 1ng their del ruu4ion , whom theLord fhould defend with a mighty arme againfi their affault. Even as we read it carne to paffe in the Eaf , when ConfantineTogonatus was Emperoter, about the yeer, 674. For then the Saracens did invade Thracia with great forces, both by land and fea ; and they affaulted Confantinople it felfe , tht regall Citie ; but after that they could effeci nothing with their vio- lent affaults, by the fpace of feven yeers together at leaft,, when the mcfi of their chips were burnt with a fire that was newly invented by Callinicus,and the remainders oftheir Navy were partly drown- edwith the l}orme, partly broken in pceces againft the rocks , they were fodifcotnfited , and weakued , that they were glad when their matters grewdefperate, of their own accord to delire a peace for thirty yeers, which they bought with a yeerly tribute, of a thoufand pound in Gold,and 4o. captivemen. Now do ye enquire the caufe, why the Saracenes did fight fo unhappily here ? There was a certain hay-time in thofe regions , while Confantine rejeiing the impiety of Heraclites, and Confinshis father, and rooted out quite the heretic of the Monothelites,by gathering thefixt Synod at- Confantinople,Marti- nus indeed, and Agatha, the Popes of Rome, did condemne the fame hercfie, whocannot yet becounted among this hay , being tyed faf to the earth with otherftrings,as namely ofmoll filthy Idolatry,from which the Church of Confantinople was more pure,as which recei- ved not true,and expreffe Images before the fixt Synod,that was held a few yeers after, under Inflinian the fecond , a; e.1ntonius Contins lheweth in the third of the decrees, and `Polyd.virg. de Invent. Boo(e 6.13. In the time of Leo Ifaurus,the fame Locu/Is carne flying again about the yeer 719. and that in a farre greater navy, and dreadful- 1er army, both for number andviolence. But Gód fuffered themnot to hurt his hay, whichhe had mowed by railing up Lea to prohibit the wicked Idolatry; which hay-cutting was yet more evident,when Gregory the fecond accurfed the Emperour, and deprived himof his Empire, and fromhis communion, that is, he cut him off from the re- probate earth, becaufe he haddecreed , that the holy Images , and Statutes be demolifhed , and defaced. The Locufs therefore are driven.away withwarre, famine, fire by fea, tempeft and fiery haile, to make them acknowledge God the avenger of the caufe of thofe that be his hay , and fo all that great Navy of lipsdid peri(h, fave ten, five of whichyet were taken by Cæfars fouldiers , the reff did at length arrive inSyria,that they might be the meffengers to tell of that horribledeliruction. Whichwas a manifeft tefl:inìony of the hay
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