384 ARe velatton ofthe Apocalypfe. CA P.l r furvey of the whole Taft Period of time , which confifts in three things, in the anger 'of the Gentiles, the vengeance of God that was begun , and in the full réü'ard of bath good and bad at length. The li'rathof the Gentiles, is that rage and fury, by means whereof the Papifls fret-, and fume and gnath their teeth, to fee the kingdom of Chrifl to be marvellonily increafed againft the delire of their heart. How did thePopeflomack ir, when freedom of pure Religion was permitted by the publik4ecree of the `Princes of Germany? But fee- i.ng theTrincehood of Chrifl fhould bemoff eminent and evident it the time ofthe y.Truuipets blafl,the principal] madnefs ofthe Popifh crue was refereed unto this time:Who after that they had once heard the report of our England, and of our *ueen, that had put their Romifh impiety to fighr,burft out altogether, and Chewed it felt by theircontinuall, defperate, and hideous plowingof our utter dellru- c`lion,by all means whatfbever.And we (hall not needmany words to `declare this matter. The `Popes Curling ofus andour Prince from time to time, are known to all the world ; it is known alfohow oftenour people have been ifirred up to rebellion,how the blood- thirfty blood- hounds the Ieftits havebeen fent in daily amongft us,how Cut-throat and poifoning villains havebeen hired to play the traytors, how the Popish forces have been made ready in Ireland againft ns. No man can be ignorant of the Spanijll Navy,thenwhich there was never any better appointed and furnifhed, and yet not fo muchwith darts and weapons that ferve for battels, as with whips andhalters, and filch kinde ofartillery made to torment men ; Above the reft , their rage was made manifell by that fame eager enquiry of King `Philip the Father,as touching our Kingdom of England,and that even then when he was newly railed up from death it felf almoft , as if he were by and by to go to that place , where the tidings of our de- fttruclion would be no leffe joyfull to others then to himfell, who defired to be the foie carrier of this mef age even to the Pit of Hell. Certainly here was rage becoming fuch hellifh hearts. But thefeare but the beginnings onely of this fury , though they be indeed very notorious , then thall the Papifls be in fpeciall manner: tumultuous, when Chrifi null enter uponhis whole Kingdom, that fhall be glorious to the full , as afterwards we (hall hear more large- ly. TheTurk,and the Pope ;hall confpire the utter defolation of the WholeClonrch,to which purpofe they fhall gather their greatefl forces together that they cancome by; but the rage of men 'hall turn togods Qreaterglary,as the Pfalmifklingeth fweetly.For byhowmuchgreater the
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