C A P.9. ,-pdationz ofthe Apocalypfe. 317 cometk fromGuns, is notably known from ordinary fire,by an abun- dantfmoke, which arifethout of the fudden inflaming and extinguilh- ing thereof,as is ufually feen in difcharging ofOrdinance.: Where the fire continueth burning and flamingout brightly,thcre is Ieafl fmoke ofall,as which the flame loth wholly almoft confume. Betides, this fire is of brimttone; is not gun-powder made of faltpeter, coal, and brimftone?The Holy Ghoft therefore defcribes this enemy unto us by thofe warlike indlruments,whichfhould take their beginning almoí± with this tyranny.Now this fire cometh out ofhis mouth,becaufe they do as eatly fend out this fire,as they dobreath; If fo be that Sove- raign,arrdCaptain Robber of theworldfhall but once command any countrey to be wafted , he hath armies at an inch, and thofe moil fit for his púrpofe, which will prefently .do his command, and lay all were. x 8. By thole three.Hitherto hath beenChewed what maner of Cap- tains,and Souldiers the Turke bath ; now he cometh to the effeci of their wars; Which is firft the killing of the third part of men. We hear ( the more is thepity ) ofcontinuall Butcheries by them made, neither is anyman ignorant almott, how far and wide their cruelty makes aifault. Now in that he faith, By thefe three, it is tobe under- flood, by thole three ioyntly : He reckoneth three things, as if they were dittinft, becanfe the former defe ription of the fire did require fuch numbring ofthem. Andyet men hhall not' perifh by means of their Guns alone, but one kinde ofwarlike inttruments is put for the whole kinde. 19. For their poWer.Complartenfe and the Kings Bible read otherwife, forpower is in theirmouths,and in tloeir Tails; Aretucr and the Vulgar confent with them : And fo it feemeth it mutt needs be read; O:her- wife the reafon which followeth, doch not agree with thofe things that go before,in thofe words,for their Tails,&c.Hence therefore we have another difference between thole horfemen, and. the Locrrfts. For three did carry their darts in their Tails chief{y,that is,thefcum ofthe Saracens, a companyofwanderers and Vagabonds , who having no habitationsof their own, flew up anddown hither and thither, Peek- ing places to dwell in, and turning others out of their poffefhons, when as in the mean time their Soprani princes, called Calyphy, Seriphes, Soldans, took their pleafure at home in Babylon, Perfis,and Egypt. So the beggingFriars, theTails ofall the Religious Orders, did fling molt villanoufly. But here HeadandTail are even alike, and both of them do work mifchief alike : The great Trnrk,him- felf
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