C A P .l 1. ./I evelation oftheApocaiypie. 377 The enemies faw this,and fìormed at ir,efpeciaily the Tope did as it becamehim, take it moll: hainoufly, who was credibly thought to follicite Cefar, that he would make that Edithvoid again, Sleidan. Book26. 13. And the fame hour there teas agreat earthquake. Aretar,Cons- plute,afs, and force others read, in thatfameday. It is very ordina- ry for an earthquake to fignifiea changeof the efhate ofmatters , as we have obferved,. Chap. 6. 12. And indeed there followed a great change by means of this Decree thorowout all Europe. The men of Auftria do earnefliy require of Ferdinandus their King, that the fame thing might be granted unto them, that was granted to their fellows that were ofthe Aug q ne Confefsion. The Bavarians do importunately requefi: as much of ,Albertua their Prince. Which Princes,when they faw it was fcarce fafe to be utterly croffe again!' this fo fervent a del re ofmen, they do both of them grant their fiub- jer s fomewhat that they petitioned for, though fore againft their wills. The like things were done in many other places, where- upon a man might fee new revoltings every day tobe made from the Popilh Kingdom. end the tenthpart of the Cityfell. The City in this place, is the whole Kingdom of Popery, which began for the greaten part thereof, to be diminifhed after that the Germa:,s had thus revolt- ed. I doubt not but the Topehimfelf will confeffe of his own ac- cord,that he forfeited the tenthpart ofhis City and more by this fall; but together with this ruine and earthquake, there werefevers thou- fandhead, of men(lain. Now that that is tranflated heads of men, is names ofmen in the Greek, and that is put for the men themfelves, as Chap. 3.4. But it is a very fignificant manner of(peaking, teach- ingus that God doth not flrike men after the manner of thofe that play with fwords winking, but that he doth fet them down certainly and by name, whom he will have beaten with his rods. Thefe feven thoufand Popilh fellows are killed,not by being (fain in their bodies, but by being fpoiled of the great revenues of their Manafteries, Col ledges, and filch like yeerly profits; without any hope of recovering them. Was it not as ill as death to thofe idle all-belly Abbats and Monks, tobebereaved of their delights, and for men that had little to do ere while but to feed their ownpaunches atone, now to be put to this exigent, that either they muff feed others with word, life, or force profitable labour, or elfe they muff starve for hunger them- felves 1 But by the Augufane Decree, a right feizure upon all fuch poffernó^s
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