6 le,i,e14 tíon of'tbe Apocaiyple. C A r , q. 1n a.kinde ofaffinity, and are neighbours to them in their countries ; but the Greek word A ollyon, after the manner of the Scriptures. =tech out the reft of theNations whatfoever, which have their off- fpring elfewhere then fromtheHebrews. In howneeranacuain- tance therefore are the Pope of Rome and this Mehometan King joyned together, though they make a fhew.of fighting one againíf another enemy-like ? The HolyÇhof Both worthily give themboth one name, whodo one and the fame thing, though under a contrary .thew. Thus then we havea molt plentiful) defcription of the Locufls, fo that noman cannow juály,make doubt,either who should he the Angel of the bottomleffe `Pit, or Which is his hellifb arntie ?Did not Bellarmine therefore egregioufly abufe and deceive both him- felfand his Auditors, whoin ascertain orationwhichhe made in the Schools, drags inall thefe:things by the head and thou1ders ; that they might make againik the Lutherans ? Did he once refpeti the time, wherein this pernicious company Ihould overrun the world ? For certainly that is the time, which did next of all infue after that deffructionwhich the Vandals brought upon the third part ofthe Chriflian World. And what otherLocuih were there extant then, but thefe which I have fpokenof?Where elfefhall Bellurmine finde this {having, this Patron of this womanish troop,this deftroying,and deftroyedCaptain, and the reft of thofe marks , then-among that folke, ofwhichhe is one himfelf,and that now while it iLs.languiihing and ready to breath the laft ? But that the matter -may be yet made more cleec,if it may be, I have a good minde toadd.e to all that hath been laid in{lead ofa conclufion, the Prophecy of Hildegard the /166ateffe ; both becaufe I have oftetn made mention ofit, as alto becaufeI think it is not eafily come by, and it.doth ferve to give much light to the matter in hand. That worthy man johnFax, our countrey man ofbleffed memory, hath fet this fame down in his Bookofthe Alis andMonuments of the Church , and that in our English tongue,into which he turned it out ofthe Latine Copywhich he had by him, written in parchment inold Characters. I will tame it again into Latine out of hisT ranflation, and thus it gocth. The Prophecy sfH 1 L D E GARD; tl3oft aaveo tbert Mall rift up afo;t of 76131ockitT1 felloiztto, potite, cobetono, ptrfu'tout,attD traffic, tbat Mall tat up tile finsof tDc commonpeoptr, carrying a certain Met) of foolriTj íupaatitton,
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