a 364 A velatfmi ofthe Apocalypfe. C A P . I I. fùm, which are hot mentioned in this place ; as namely, that ofthe smiting ofthe Sun, finding in the Loctafs, and of loofing the four -An- _rt &. Out ofwhichpower that is manifeft, which we taught in the beginning of this Chapter ; that this whole Prophecie of meafuring the Temple, ofcafting out the Court, andofthe tWo Prophets, belongs to thefame time that thefixformer Trumpets do. Which do relate the plagues feverally in the fame order as they fell out. But this Prophe- cte mentioneth the Caufcs ; namely, the violating of the purity of the Scriptures, and the defilingof the Worfhtp of God With many fitperfliti- ons, in the .flfembliesofthefaithful!. Thefe were the things that did pull down fcourges and plagues upon the world; they came not ei- therby chance of fortune. The Prophets arePaid to havepower, to punifh the earth with what plague they will, becaufe Cod dorh go.. verne and order the world according to his will revealed in the Scriptures,and that for the good ofhis Church, and in favour unto ir. In the beginninghe gave up the earth toAdam, while he Rood in his intireabate and he will have all things now again to ferve for the ufe ofhis Children, that are reftored to their integrity by Chrift. Verf. 7. And when as they have t7nifed. This is the fecond deter- minate time, (as we diftinguifhed the times in the Analyfis) that.be- ginneth after that office of prophefying is expired ; namely, in the veer a thoufand five hundred forty fix. Until! which time thofe thou- fand two hundred threefcore daysdo reach,each ofthembeing taken for fo many yeers,as we have (hewed in Vero 2. and the number be- ginning tube reckoned from the veer of our Lord three hundred and fourth, wherein Confgantine came to the Empire, as Ca,tdorus fairh,tgachingthat the yeers of çonflantine are numbred from thence, and as Onoiphritu feemeth tohave gathered and made up the compu- tation moft accurately. For a thoufand tWo hundred and threefcore yeers (if you take away eighteen, how many the account of the veers which theAn;el followeth,wanteth oflnlianyeers? as we-laid afore en the fecond vete) do make-4 thoufand tWo hundred tWo and fortie Julian yeers, which do fall into that yeer that T have fet down, 1546. from,the beginning of Conftantines .raign. The Beall that cometh up out ofthe ttomlef fe pit. This fo exp reffe noting out ofa thingby the Article, declarethus, that this Beall was known and declared to the world already,and that long before. And then it can beno other brit r.'aat. Angel of the bottomlefe pit, ofwhich there was fpeech had, Chap.9. narnelv,the Pope ofRome. Forwe read ®f,noother enemy that came out of the bottomteffe pit. And yet
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