'04 Çevelation ofthe Apoealyple. C A P . 9. Meftpotamid, where the Turki b Z2jation inhabitedmany yeers, be- fore that it took this warfare in hand. 15. And thefour .Angels Were lc' : Here wehave the execution ofthe commandement,which falleth into tuicyeer r300: by one con- fent ofall the Hiftorians ; when as after they had compofed all dif- fentions at home, and had all of them contented to be under the go- vernment of the Ottomans, it was lawful! for them to ufe all their ftrength,with all liberty,for the inlargingoftheir Dominions ; and fo at lengthto creep forthof thofe (traits, whereinto theyhadbeen for- merly thruft. Now how-long time this power that is here given to theTurk fhould laft, it is declared in the next words, which Were preparedat an hour, anda day,and a moneth, andayeer ;the which fo exquifit a defcription ferveth to comfort the godly,to v hom theHoly Ghoft would have it known, that this molt grievous calamity hath his appointed terms and limits, even to the leaft moment, beyond which it fhould not beprolonged : the which feemeth to be for 396. yeers, every day being taken for a yeer, after that manner .as we did inter- pret the moneths.before. Now a yeer here put fimply, is underftood- to be a vulgar andstfuall Iulianyeer, that confifts of three hundred fixty five dayes,and £ome hours. All which time being numbred from the yeer 1300. (hall expire atlaft, about the yeer 1696. which is the laft term of theTurkif?, name,as other Scriptures alfo do prove, with a marvellous confenr, into which I may not nowmake adigrellion; but there will be an occafron given elfewhere, to fpeak more fully thereof, if God will. In the mean time we muff know, that the ftrength oftheTurks fhall not Rand intire and unfhaken,during this -, term,but (hall totter, and wax towards the ruine thereof about forty yeers before that their utter deftruc`tion fhal! come... But ofthis mat- ter we (hall hear elfwhere more at-large. ,T`oflay the thirdpart ofmen. It is not for nothingthat hemakes mentionof powergiven them toflay,becaufe thefe Angels fhóuld fpil more blood, then anyother enemies that were fpokenof before. A great numberwas Hain by the Sarecens,and the Antiohrift of Rome is wholly imbrued in theblood ofthe Saints, as we flail fee, Chap. 17. 4., 6. But the flaughters that fhould be made by thofe, are -none to thefe which theTurks fhould make,,and therefore they come not in- to any account. The rageof this favage, enemy is limited with the bounds ofthe third part, as we have teen italready accomplifhedin the Eaft, partly in ..Afia, partly in Europe, whereupon it is not to befeared, that it fhouldbe much more inlarged, And certainly it. is Raid
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