CA P. i t. fi Revelationofthe 'Apóealy.pre: 360 Thefe abominable tufts (O Aeme) have made thyStews feem ho- neft, as which thy moft Holy Father Both upon, wife advice nourifh in his Holy bofome, and that forfooth to avoid a greater inconveni- ence; -but while he faineth,as ifhe would avoid it,he falleth into far greater mifchiefe by Gods juft judgement, being given over into are- probate fenfe, loom. a.26,27. As it may appear evidently to all men that will not be wilfully blind. And Rome is no idle a Spirituali Sodom, then a bodily mother, and fhop of all moriffrous Idolatry, as of the 1lafng, Worfhip, Images , Reliques , and of all other molt wicked impurityof that kind , as the matter is more known to all men then I need to lay it out in words. The fecond name is Egypt, not any Citie as Sodom was, but a whole countreyand Provino. Whence we gather, that this name is not proper to the Mother-citie it felfe, but common to the whole dominion , demonftrating molt plainly the difpofìtionof the whole Popifh Kingdom,howfar and wide foever the largedemeans there- of doe reach. For it Both declare, that there is no leffe fpirituall whoredom committed continually throughout this whole Iurifdia on, thenSe- dom declareth bodily and fpirituall whoredom together, tobe daily ar`ted in the Citie of Rome. It is famoufly known how great was the blindnelfe of E'gypt in old times, which they flaewed both by Worfhrpping a multitude of Cods , as alto byadoring for God , moft nary, filthy, and ugly creatures, as namely, Cats, Crocodiles, and others of that kind. The Spirituali Egypt with all her Provinces, aboundeth withno leffe flore of Gods, and thofe no whit leffe vile; towhich purpofe that particular reckoning up of fo many füridry forts of Images ferved, above Chap.g.a-o. And molt evident wit- neffeof daily experience in all their Temples, makes this plain. For whether can ye turn your eyes , where ye may not fee windows, wals, and lofts peftered with a rabble oftheir Gods ? What Church can ye come to,where ye fkall not find themworíhipping every day their breaden God? And as if there werenot Idols enough that ¡tan- ding likefalo harlots in publick places; they get themfelves Cruci- fixes, and RpmDei's inprivate, for the better fatisfying of their fpirituall lull; and thefe they hug and hide in theirbofoms , that fo they may never want harlots wherewith to defile themfelves. It was once counted a horrible thing for the people of Ifrael to heap up Gods according to the number of their Cities, Ier. a a.13. But in this _Kingdom they haven ultiplyed their Gods almoft by thepoll. And is
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