C A P.1í 1. ARervelat +on of the Apocalypfe. 371 themfelves acknowledged this, faying, Wee may not pert any man to death, 1011.18.31. Therefore Pilate the chief Deputy of the Ro- mans, and one that exercifed the Iurifdiétion of the Romans over the Iews throughout Iewry, condemning Chrift to be crucified, and giving himover to his Souldiers to be executed, after judgement gi- ven against him , crucified the Lord in fpirituall Egypt, the whole Kingdomof Tome being then heathenish, and defiled with molt foul Idolatry. Out of which we muft obferve, that thefe tWo Prophets are not tobe (lain in the fame particular Citie where the Lordwas crucifies', but in the fame fpirituall Egypt, which is a large and fpaci- ous countrey,that containsnot only many fpeciall Cities in it,but alfo very many Provinces. Bellarmine therefore Both foolishly labour toprove, that these Prophets are to be killed in Ieru lem , as if it were neceffary that thofe that be (lain in force one moil mighty king- dom, should be.flain in one and the fame Citie of the fame-King- dom. Bender, we may obferve that Rome is naleffe Spirituali Egypt in her whole dominion, thenwas that heathenishEgypt of old,how- foever the lefuitswould make them to beof a mighty diftance asun- der one from the other. But now let them go and triumph upon this place of Scripture, as if it were for their advantage, and let Bellarmine make his brag, that Chytreus , and other of our writers do let thefe words go away inhugger mugger, as having nothing to anfwer them I hope his Roue ismore evidently found to be here, then that either hce or any other of his thorn Crue , can ever be able to take it away out of our fight with any of their juggling milts. 9. And they of the people and Tribes. The whole Popifh natioa tlnould triumph over the Scriptures, whole finews they had formerly cut in peeces , and whofe backs they had broken. Nowl where is this concourfe of Tribes ,people, tongues and nations more manifeft, and more clearly tobe feen, then in thofe Councels which they have gathered and called together , in which they come together by troops out of every countrey? Certainly, unleffe the Angel had na- med the Colwell ofTrent in expreffe words,hecould nor,as it feem- eth , have fcarce fpoken more plainly. By the fame providence of God came it to paffe, that the forces likewife of the Em- perms- were levied out of divers nations , Germany , Pannonia, Italy, Spine , and others, that fo the Carcafes of the Pro- phets might be made a May-game unto all men , as it were in the Theater of the whole World; Sleidan, in theyeer,i 547. C c c For
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