C A Pal. 0.ketfelatiotóf ti* pbt lypfe. /6 yet this Bee is not Paid to have come out of the Pit , then firík of all , when hefent the Lacuflsfrom cwt of the pit , when it Was opened; but we (hall fee by thofe things that follow , that he crawled out ldrig before. The Beaf then fhall not be for threeye-6v may and half..Hè hath gxëned five moneths more at leaft, wherein he hall raigts pith the Locufls. And hence alto may we gather another argument, to prove that this Prophecie belongs tothe former Trtar,qaets,bocaufe the Beall, wherewith the Prophets have to deal its the last paffage of their time, belongs to the jift Trumpet. Hence alto may we prove , that that which is fpoken in the s 3. Chap. of the Beaft , belongs to the fame Period of the Trumpets. For this and that is the fame Beall , and again both of them are the fame , with the Angel of the bottomlefie Pit, in the ninth Chapter. He jhall Wage War agaie them. Wliat,will the Beall proclaim War now firft of all ? He will work mifchief, and offer violence d t'e time of the thoufandtiro hátadredand threefcore daycs,Chap. /3. 5 But this battell , which he fl-iall make after that time is ended, Both deferve the nameofWar before all other,both in refpeei ofthe kinde ofpreparation furniture for the war, and his hoftile cruelty, as alto becaufe of that notable (laughter that was Made of the Prophets therein. And the matter it felf teacheth us , that a molt cruel( war brake ont and burnt at this fame time:For as to-uching the Scriptures, the Cotencell of Trent that was begun in the ÿeer i 546. Febr. Name- ly,after that thole r6ao. dayes were ended , as wehave Paid, did flab them through , and flay them in a moll pitiful! manner , at their third feflion, April( 8. For herein Were the Fountains of the Hebrew, andGreek Copies of the Bible. refufed,and the corrupt Latine trapElation Was eflablifbedforautbenticall. Herein Wereunwritten tra- ditions placed inequal(dignity With the Holy Scriptures.Heresn W,u the polderof interpreting the Scriptures,taken awayfromthé Scriptures,anei it Was alienated and enthralled to the pleafure ofmen, efpecially of the Pope. The Holy Books were never difabled and difgraced fo openly, and by publike authority from the beginning, of the world. Antiochus indeed did long ago give them a grievous wound,when he command- ed them to be burnt with fire ; In like manner Diocletian, andother Tyrants; but the wrong that therefathers Of Trent offered them, was far moreabominable. For they were heathens, and enemies enraged with a kinde offury like mad dtgs,that were altogether adverfariës to the whole truth. T'hefe would be counted the enely Catholikes, the S bb a rreatefl
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