C A P.9:./j+T(evelatioi ofthe Apocalypfe. 3 i 9 vecoulDrife up no higher,ye fell DotvnUlte asbfD Simon Magus, Wham enDeftroyen, anD (mote With amighty plague; o ilatl youatfo bE thzotun Dotun upon the earth out of thedons, anoby means of your falfc Doctrine, you luichebnetre, tlanbers, anD beteitabte facts. Zhen the people Matt fay unto them, 4)ut upon you, get ye patting hence, you Captains of mífthtef ,. oberturners of truth , pe Shunamitiíh be th»en, fathers of herefes , fatfe £pon=tes, that Counter. feíteD the life of the .kïpofties , Whereof ye babe been intís tator by no means : you fons of iniquity , íre..ftiítt not fottot» the manner of your ívayes ; 3oß wale anD arrogancy hate Coma .you, anD infatiable cobetoufneffe, bath ens tangleD your erring minbes. Anti Peeing that you tuottiD webs afcenD up higher then Was meet ano equalt, ye are fattenbut ijeaDtong into ebertattinog fjante anD repNoach by On just jubgement. Thefe thingswrote Hildegardabout the yeer 1146. Threefcore yeer before thebeggingfriers were born,whom thedoth yet point out in fo lively and orient colours, that (he may feem rather to make a narration ofa thing paff, then to foretell a thing to come. Who can defcribe theOriginali and difpofition ofthefe Lecufls more evident- ly, who candeclare their deftruhion morecleerely, yea,who among our felves cando thefe thingsbetter, who have feen the matter pro- ved to be true by the Event ? And íhe did not onely entreat of thofe Locu/ls that fhould crall out into the world next after herown Age, but the fpeaks plainly oftheyefuites alfo ofthis ourtime, and the ref} of this ftìnking Ramp, which aneoyeth the World at this day. For all thefeare Locufls belonging to the fame Pit ofHell, whohave the likeconditions, and (hall be Pure ofthe like deftruc1ion. . 12. OneWoe is pall. That is, the rirft of the three greater and heavier ones. For the ferond followet.'i, as it is called , Chap. II. 14. And fo we obferved before, that oneamong the Hebrewes, doth afwell ferve for order as for number, Chap. 6. is This Woe is Paid to bepafl, not becaufe there fhould no remainders ofit be left,when the next Trumpet came in upon ir, but becaufe theextream heat of it íhould be much cooled, fo as it fhould feem to be very neerquite' extinguifhed. For this Angel of the bottomlefe pit is not to be quite obolijhed , together Withall his complicesand attendants , before that glorious coming of theLord, 2. The .. 2. 8. The fame meaning is there" of this word, Chap. xi. 14 For the evil of thefixt Trtrmpet,Ehould not
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