366 ,,IAevelationoftlyApocalypffe. G A P.11. greatef andchiefefl friendr,and the veryPillarsof the truth that cannot be fainedWith the /raft afperfion of errour, they al/ó Wouldfees to do eree nothing, but after' they .hadlong,and laracly deliberatedofmatters,, andfo had been -aided by mature advicc.Hówmutt it needs begranted that the heathens wicked dealing againif theScriptures was of no authority, but there mens decree carried very great waight in it?And. there is riocaufe why any man ihould bring in Mercian,' the Eucra_' tites,the C'ataphyZrians,and fuch like monfters,to lefeen the fade of the Trent-Fathers , becaufe thefc men rejected the Holy Scriptures as they lifted,fome one part,fome ánother;tfiere is great difference to be made as touching the greatnefs of this overthrowwe speak of that happened to the Scriptures, between the dotages of obfcure here- tiques, and thedeliberate confultations,a.nd decrees ofa councel7 that is called together, fpeciálly filch a öneas challengeth to itfelfa pri- viledge t be beleeved without all exception.Itis therefore a fpeciall, memorable and worthy matter, that the Church íhould be fore - warned by fo notable à prophecie as this : Tne event and the time do marvelloully confpire together; fo that there is noman .that will in- differently confider of matters, that will not readily acknowledge. that I have notgreedily catched interpretation,but that Iban been ledby thehand untoit with the order andconnexionofmatters. Now as for theaf femblies ofthe Saints; thofe that did firR ofall put up their heads in Germany in thefe laR times, were affaulted with a moll cruel! war the fame yeer. The fame Beall that now we are (peakingof; waged this war aleo againft them,having Chàrles therift forhis captain, to Tway and help forward the matter, whowas an heroical! Worthy,for others matters to be.muchmagnified, but yet one that being led away with the common errour of the Princes,was too roaobfequious to the Pope; whereupon that is attributed to one, and that not without caufe, which proceeding from two or more, is done , though with one joint endeavour. The discomfiture that was taken in this war,was the yeer following about the 22. day of April ; namely, a 547, when as the forces of the Proteilants were put to flight, and John Frederik of Saxony himfelf , Erne fluor PrunfWick, the Son of Lantgrave,and not long after that, LantQrave himfelf were' takencaptives. And this cala-mityRaid not at tilde few, but afflic`ed many other afro, bothNobles, and Cities , which did partly yeeld themfelves up oftheir own accord, partly were van- q.uifhed by force. Theo. Beza bewailing the miferyof that time,faith thus; In one moment, Whatfoever had been built op in fa away yeer and.
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