31s ARe v lation ofthe Apocalypfe. C A P. 9 felf, the Sa fíæ, Beg, and the reft of the inftruments of his Tyran- ny , do all of them, breath out and exercife the fame cruelty. Moreover , thefe Princes are the fetters on of the reft to be cruell , and put weapons into their hands to fulfill their furious minds withal!. Having heads WherWïth.theyhurt. The Tailsalto have heads and mouths, out of which they pour out the fame def}rudion. All of them from the high Emperour to the bafeft wood -cleaving (laves, are like the Serpents called Amphifbana, that Ring at both ends , as the molt learned Junius hath excellently obferved. 20. eA'nd the remnant of the men. Theother event, is the obffi- nacy of the refidue that efcape the fury of thefe Turks , whoyet are nothing at all moved with thefe evils, neitherdoe they endeavour to amend their wicked lives. Nowwho be thefe refidue ? Are they not they of the weft , feeing the third part of men in the Eafizwas long fince{lain ? Affricke was foruinated,and weakned,by the inva- fionof the Saracens,that it yeelded it felfe to be under the dominion of the Turks , without any blood-flied. Now the fins which doe f}ick fo fait in their hand, and impenitent hearts, are firft againft the .firft Table, viz. their Idolatry,in this verle : The notorious wicked- neffe whereof is declared,firft by the effuthor, that it is the Worke of mans hands ; then that it is a WorJbipgiven untodevils ; thirdly, from that defperate andoutr ìgiou -s define anddelight, which they have unto and in this Sinne, which appearethby fo many and divers forts of Idols, of Cald, Silver, Braf fe, fioneandWood; and laft of all,by their notorious folly,worfhipping things that be voidof al fenfe.Out ofall which it may bemade more clear then the noon light, which of the Wefiern Inhabitants are the caule of this molt grievous calamity, with which this Wefiern part of the Chrifiianyyorld is plagued by the Turk,-.. For where {hall we find this Idolatry ? Truly the Trote- fiants, as they call them, and the reformed Churches , havefeat away all worfhip, reverence, and holy honour of Images, toHell again, from whence it firft came ; That Church therefore which boafteth it felfe to be Catholike whole Head is the Pope of Rome , whofe Temples glitter with gold, filver, and brazen Images, yea, which re- fufeth not to worfhip Images of ítone and wood , that Church (I fay)is this refidue company here fpokenof, which defending the Idolatrous adoring of Images, by wrefting of the Scriptures, by counterfet miracles, and by what force, fraud, and deceitful) means foever it canpoflibly,will not be rowzed up from this her dead fleep, by
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