368 AReveldtionofthe Apocalypfe. CAP.ir. fpreads'it Pelf through the whole Empire. Now thin great City itfcl together with her mother City, is defcribed in the ref} of the verle, and that by two expreffe names, and by a notable mark that is jot ned together with them, leaft any man perhaps fhould be milraken in the City,and for more caution alfo,we are admonifi cd that thefe names are not to be taken properly,but fpiritually, that is, ænigmati- cally, figuratively, allegorically. The firfl name is Sodom, a City that was of old moil famous for the fiithinefs, but is now famous for the punilhment thereof,and is a moil fit Paternof this great City,that is, the tower and principali Pallace of the 73eaf/l. For is not the City of Rome made infamous for lulls that are not to be named , above a41 other Cities of the whole world? Mantuan did by the content ofall men fing truly and tunably to this purpofe; Shame get thee to the countrey towns, ifthat they do not rife The fame corrupted filthynefr: Rome now ss allaflews. 1`>Fo Ieffe truely Paid he,that thus took his farewell ofRome ; Rome, farewcll,noW Ihave Theefeen, Enough it is to fee ; I'le come again, When Baud Imean, Knave, Brothel, Beall tohe. But that you may know Rome better yet to be another Sodom, hearken what one anfwered, when he was demanded what Rome was, laying thus : Say, What is Roma ? Amor love ; Ifbackward you it fpell Some loves the male kinde,fay no more ; I know thymeaning Well. Did not 7erom Zefed 21- lutins openly declare thus much in his Books, that were let out ofpurpofe to defend this horible fiithinefs, and were feen and allowed by Tope Iuliur the third bis Bulls, and Letters Patents. Towhom lahn a Cara the Arch-Billiopof Bencven- tum joyned himfelf as a copefinate to fecond him, as became art Arch -villain, a Pullet that was hatched in the fame filthy nett ; who went about to extoll that fin with praifes, which perhaps even So- dom it felfwould have been afhamedof. But it would be too too in- finiteand irklome,but even to touch briefly chofe things that might be faidof this matter. Thefe
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