C A P.9. (Revelation ofthe Apocalypfe. 313 fenced, even no leffe fafe, then if they were coveredwith Iron Bri- gantines, all labour fhould be in vain, that was taken either to con- quer themwith war, or to reftrain themwith force, as long as their time of raigning fhould 1aft. How unhappily the Romans did often- times fight with the eXrabians, till the determinate time of their raging was paft, Zonaruu maketh report in Confians the Nephew cf Heraclsus, in ?nflinian Rhinotmeta, and others.. The fame thing is evident in the Friars ; _ one example [hall be inbead ofmany : The Vxiverfry of 'Parisbrought a certainblafphemons Book to thePop-, patcheei together by the Dominicans, which they called the Ever- lafling Gofel ; the Pope diffallowed of the Book, yet would he not have it to be publikely condemned, left that by this means the digni- ty of the Monks fhould be fornewhat impeached : Neithe r would he any whit the more reftrain their ungodly infolencv, Magdeburg. Centur. i 3. Chap.8. They then that would dart at there men, it was all one, as if they had call their dart again[} an Iron Brigandine, or rather again[} a wall of Braffe. eflad the found of their Wings. There was a mighty noyfe made by the Loctifits, when they did but once [tir up themfelves to affault any man. I will fay nothing of the Saracens, whofe hottile incurfions, who can be ignorant how great a terror they ['truck into men ? Was it nota thing worthily to be feared of all Ktngdomes andDomini- ons whatfoever, to fee a forrein Pope have within the midft of his bowels, filch an infinite multitude, almoft of molt ftrong men,who were altogether under his allegiance, and wholly at his beck alone ? By what cunning device could the Pope more terrifie Kings, thenby the clapping of there wings together ? It is nomarvel], if the `Popes didnourifh this Herd with fo great co[t and charges, whofe help they found tobefo commodious untohim. to. efindthey bad finings in their Tailes ; The Complutenfs, and fome other Copies read it otherwife then it is in Beza's Translation, thus ; And they have tayls like to Scorpions,andtings,and havepower in their tails to hurt menfivemoneths. Aretas confenteth to the fame reading; andfo the Hiftory requireth it fhould be read. For that which wasput before indefinitiy,ver(23.& 5. as if the power of hurt- ing had been common to all the Locsufts; by this means it is more diltinctly and exprefly reftrained to forne certain kinde of them. Now then it is[hewed, that the chief part of their rage should be in their tayls, to which thefive moneths alfo fhould properly belong. Now the Tail is every thing that is theworít and molt filthy in the
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