C A P.9..4 IYVelationoftheApo alypre. 315- Greek, that e4ngel of that bottomleffe pit, make great force in fpeaking,as is wont tobe in mattets thatbe certain,and well known. Yet we have hadnoother mention of this Angel of the bottemlefe Tit in espreffe words, unle% that fhould he he, towhom the Key of this Pit was given, verf. t. And fo indeed it Muff: needs be. For who fhould be rather the Angel ofthe Pit, then he that had the Key given him to open the Pit, and tofend out a fmoke ? By which argument we have proved, that the Star which fell, was an evil Angel ; This King ofSaracenes is Mahomet, or the Mahometan Calipha, whom they obeyed : and the Kingof, the Religious Locufts, is the Pope; For Bentface the raft made cheleMonks to be ofhis Clergy : where- by, it appeared plainely, whofe creatures they were, as wePaid on the third verle. , So Innocent the third, that it might appear plainly, . that the ?'ails of the Locufts, that is, he beltingFriars acknowledge no other King but themope, decreed in the Laterane Councell,Can. 13.Thatno manfrom thenceforth fhould invent any neWReligion,' but -that Whof®ever Would convert to any Religion, hefheudd af fume one of thofis Which Were before allowed of Which is not fo to .be un- ,derlkood, as ifhe did fipiply forbid new Religions, but that no new order fhould be thenCefforth ordained, without the approbation of theApoftolike Sea, as it isCha, of the Relig. Domin. And this de- cree was renewed by Gregorie the tenth, in the Councell at Lyons. Chap. about the diverfitieof Religions : By which decrees, that was madeneceffary, which before was free, as Bellarmine confeffeth, .Book 2. touching Monks, Chap, 4. Now what is this eltè, but tube a King ? Namely, to have power, to binde men with the chains of ofLawes,, and to impofe a neceflity ofdoing things, whichof them- felves were free before. Wherefore the 'Papas arefeif condemned by their own judgement, neither need we any other arguments. Now this King is let down by name, and that two wa es ; for he is called inHebrew Abaddón, in Greek Apollyon, after fuch a manner as is commonly ufed by the Hebricians, who put the Participle for the Subflantive ; And indeed that e4dverfary Antichrift is called the Son. of Defiruilion, a Theft a. 3.,. But yet he is thus called by a name taken from both Nations , becaufe this king fhould be com- mon to Jews and tó Gentiles, diverfe truly in found ofthe tongues , but one and the fame indeed: Even as Align/line argueth out ofthe words Abba Father,that there fhould be aconfentofGentile.s as well as ?eWs, in the worlhip ofone true God. The Hebrew word indeed ,agreethto the Saracens-, becaufe they came neer to the Hebrews T t in
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