322 .4 Çevelatton of the Apocalyfe. CA P. 9: Ephef. 6. I 2. z Cor.+ 4.' What, can they do thefe things when they are abfent ? Therefore certain ofthem only feem tobe cart into cer- tainplaces, as it were, intoprifons others feem to have morefree fcope towalk abroad : And yet theimpiety of Magicians is nothing helped from hence,who think that they can binde theDevils neceffa- rily to abide Within a circle, in afmooth Stone, Iron, Braffe, a Glaffe, a mans Nail,or fonseTechmatter : For Gedhath referved this power to himfelf alone, and his holy Angels, whom he ufeth oftentimes for his infkruments in this matter; as for men, he hath given them no fuch power as this in any place. Now thefe Angels are not theDe- vilsonly, but they be alfomen, who are under theirgovernment, and at their command.; for whom tobe called Angels, we have feen to be anordinary matter. For the Devils Army is made of men; as it is manifeft out ofthe twentieth Chapter of this Book, verfe 7. where this fame matter is again entreated of, SatanWent out to deceive the 2ationr, andtoga- ther them tohattel ; now the Captains are of the fame kinde with their Souldiers. Wherefore feeing the order ofmatters in this Book hath brought us to the thoufand three hundrethyeer, it is not tobe doubted, but thefe Angels be the Turk! ; and to this opinion do themolt ofthe Interpreters confent. They are faid tobe four, becaufe there were four principal) Familiesofthe Turks:For after that they had received a difcomfiture from the Scythians,andhad loft the Palace of/emit/in, and had fpent foche yeer in robberies, at length, when the Scythian were gone back, they recovered themfeves again, and divided that part of Afia among their Peers,which within a fhort time after that, they got away from theRomans : Of whom the firft was Carman/is Atifarim, the fecond Sarchanes, the third Calames, and (crag*, his Son; the fourth Atman, as Gregoras writethhis name, or Ottoman as others write it; unto whom the fame Gregeras addeth a fifth,whom he callethAmuritu, Book 7, i . And they feem to have been fo ma- ny at the beginning, but afterwards they were reduced to four : La- conicus Chalcocondylas faith, there were feven at firft, Book i. of his Turks'/h Story ; But this Writer joyneth one Tecies with Otto- man, and rehearfeth theSons feverally from their Fathers. But it is not to be marvelled, that that confulon which was among thofe bar- barous Princes and people, could not be certainly and diftinftly,fer down in the,writings ofthe Hiftorians, thoughGreooras lived in the fAme times with them, and was the Molter of the Rolls to theEmp- ress,
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