C A P.9. Aevelatian oftheApocalyp%a 3`®T their miferable minds needs be tormented with doubting, when a; common fenfe told them , that their fins could not be purged away with any corruptible price ? Anguifh therefore and penfiveneffe did oppreffe them on every fide, feeing theirbought confidence did little or nothing free them from torments. 7. e4nd theform of the Locufls. Here we have a lively portrai- ture ofthe Locujls ; which firft are made like to herfes preparedunto battell. The alacrity of this Beaft to the fight is great, hisfeet dig up the ground in the valley, and he rejoyceth in regard of hisfirength,he goeth forth to meet the harnef man , he mocketh at fear , and is not afraid,and turnethnot backfrom thefword, lob 39. 25. The readiaaes of the Locufis fhould be no letfe. The incurfions of theSaracens are famous in all Hittories : the warlike chivalryof the Popifh band , is not perhaps fo well marked by all men, and yet it is as evident, and notable, if we (hall examine the matter throughly : What Souldiers did Innocent the 3. mullet for the rootingout of the Albingenfes ? Betides Dominicus, who Was a deadly proclaimer, andherald of this war, who became a little after one of thefour Captains ofthe bezzging Fryers, muttered an Army of the Crofhe-bearers, by the help of whom as of Horfes running tobattell, he hoped to overthrow and quite to deftroy the Hereticks, as they call them ; This order indeed had their beginning force time before, but when as it had been with- in a lhort while after , almoft brought to an utter decay, Innocentius the third reftored it again, that they might do him fervice in this war; foas thefe peftilent companies that had been at the point ofdeath, was fetched back from Hell at his commandment, and by his autho- rity they got power to rage, and more noifomely then ever to trou- ble the world a fre(h,Polyd. Virg, of the Invent. Book 7, Chap. 3. Neither did the Pope,whofe manner it was to make burly burlies, and to let Kings together by the ears (as Pro6usTullenfzs fheweth in the meeting at Hcrbibolis, under Honoricu the fourth) ufe any other bellows after that time toftirre up the fire of contentions : Yea as often as the Pope himfelf was to wage war, (for the Pope holds of ofMars as being a ielly warlike fellow, and not without caufe,feeing he hath fuch warlike Subjects as the Locufïs are) full armies of the croffebearino fryars, was alwayes at hand to fight in their Kings quarrel!. Worthily did Hildegard,foretell that theft hypocritesfhoteid befolders ofdi!cord , Who do rejoyce in nothingfo much as in the con- tention and bicke.ring of other men. cfánd they had as it Wtre craw on their heads. The firft property S f was
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