37o A gevelatioii of the Apocalyie. C A P. t r. is it I pray ye any teile impious and filthy a thing t© worfl;ip, with Religious worlhip, a certainforeskin, a (hint, a pair of breeches, a lit- tlepeece of a mans brains, bones,?fmoc -^, girdles,fhor ,and an in (inite company of fuck other fhings,as to worfhip an Oxe,a Crocodile,a Cat? &c.The Idolatry is not tobeaccounted to be fo much thelefs wicked and vile, by howmuch more excellent , orHoly the thing is that is abefed to Idolatry. For when a man is once become facrilegious againft god, by giving that to the Creature, that is proper to himfelf, he is no leffe abominable an Idolater by worfhipping the highefl Angels, then by worihipping the moli bale, vile,and abjeet creature that creepethon the ground. Neither is Rome Egypt only, becáufe of her Idolatry, but allo in refpe t of her notorious cruelty, which hath made the true Profelfors of the faith to feel the fire and furnace in the Popes dominions,no whit more hildeand tolerable, then the Ifraelites felt it to be in Egypt of old. So muchfor theNames. The propertyof the.place is, where our Lord Was crucified. Now thè particle (Where) being no Interrogation, fends us to.fomething that was fpoken of before, namely,to Spirituali Egypt. For the Lord was not crucified in Egypt properly taken,but in that Spirituali one,whofe whole land, dominion, and Empire, is full of cruelty, and Idolatry. There is great force therefore in this property ; which reduceth thofe two former common words, Sodom and Egypt, toa more ffrift and certain conuderation; For there are many Cities thatare fouly defamed for monftrous luffst many alfo, whole whole outward power over the people that are far and widefubjec4 unto them, ferveth only to exercife and to ffabliih Idolatry ; but that Sodom , which is alto a SpiritualiEgypt, and that Egypt, in whole borders and Empire the LordWas crucified, can be no other, but one that is certainly defined , and evidently known which is it. Out of this light then, any man may perceive moil clearly, which is that Ci- tic, Which,/ illed the tWo Prophets, and inWholeflreets they lay unburi- ed. For that Citie which in her Metropolitan Citie is Sodom,and in her vvhole dominion Egypt fpiritually, in vvhofe dominion the Lord Was Crucified, is that Citie that hath vvrought this villany againft the tWo 'Prophets. But no man candoubtthatRome is Sodom, both fpi- ritually and bodily, and Egypt in her vvhole Regiment, and that the Lord vvas crucified , being under the povver of his Kingdom. For they _Thal/ give him to the Gentiles (faith our Lord) thatfo they may mock fcourge and crucifie him, Mat.zo. t9. And let not any man think that hevyas crucifiedby the povver of the Ievvs, for the Ievvs them-
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