406 1 R da ienof the Apoealyfe.. CAP. 1i. óf the earth,are very wicked company,either of Heathens or Chrifl i- àns,who have only a painted fhewof lteligion;-bur the inhabitants of the Sea,are the Clergy-men,as the(tualhthem,who fet a broach,groffe, troubled, brackilh and fowrith Dtì nine, to their counterfeit Chri- ftians, which Both rather bring barrenneffe of godlineffe to their hearers ; and doth gnaw their intrals, then quench their thirst, or yceldanyother good fruit : The Dev:ll being now{tripped of his power of hurting the true Saints, fhould toffe thefe men up and down, with all manner of whirling tempefls, as we read it came to paffe in the & f under Conflantine, Conftantiri, I.tian,Valens, and the reP. We have now already (hewed before in part, what troubles the Devill raifed among the Bifhops, but it is not my purpofe to prole- cute the matter moreat large ; Let any that will look into the Hifto- ry, and he !hall fee marvellous Tragedies. Certainly a godly heart cannot without great grief, read over thofe contention, diffenfions, reproachfull and flanderous fpeeches,wherwirh one vexed the-other. Yea, I doubt not, but whofoever will read their doinnwillconféffe willingly, that they were menhaunted miferably with fount 'Devils, they did trouble and over-turn all the Eaj fooutragioufly. But thefe were but fleabitings to the calamitiesofthewefl.I let paffe the deadly fewd that was between the two brethren, Confrantine and Confians, the.Ty rants Magnentim and Vetranior, that rote up, and other Infer evils that hapned. How great (I pray you) was the defolation that was brought in by the Barbarians, Gethes, Vandals, and the ref( of that e-afcall rout, and at laft by theLombards ? Every countrey was miferably fpoiled, above the reft, Italy, that had been the Lady ofall the world ofold time.With how doleful! notesdo Gregory the Great, and other Writers,bewail the evils ofthofe times ? The Plague that theSaracens brought, fucceeded unto this, and it didmc ft grievoufly plague the-world for-many Ages together. Unto which, itwe (hill adde thofe monftrous fuperflitions and errors, which followed upon that, thofe fiì'arms of men that lived inRelicious Orders', the app.ari aions ofSpirits,andfamiliar acpaintance WithDevils, lying *onders, prodigiorts miracles, and many other things of that framp ; it will not be hard, perhaps, to determine, who are thofe Inhabitants of the earth,and ofthe Sea,againfl: whom the Devil did in all this time of his exile, rage as became amad devil to do, efpecially, ifonewill turn his eyes upon Rome, and {hall there fee the High andHoly Fathers the Popes,that boaft of thernfelves, as ifChrift hadmade them his Vicars, to
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