CA P.12. Akvelation of the Apocalypse. 41 t Befides; let us confider that this fame fpace of time is fundry wayes fet down,accordingtothe variety of the perfons.In refpe t of the Gentiles,and the beafl,it is fet down alwa) s by rnoneths, Chap.' r. v.a. and Chap.I3.5. in regard of the Prophets, it is letdown by days, Chap.I r.3. In reipett of the Woman, both by dayers, in the fixt verfe of this Chapter,and by times, in this verfe, and that becaufe all thofe dayes Ihould not go on with one equals tenour, but there should fall out a three-fold change in thèni,to wtt,that the fhould fly away nee- er hand, under the time-then further oft and into more remote places unter the times: but the fhould fiy homeward,& approach neer again in her return, under the halfe time. The event maketh this manifeft, as it may be.underftood,hoth`by thofe things that have been Paid, and by thofe thingswhichíhall be fàid afterwards. 15 And the Serpent caft out of his mouth: The fecond perfecution of the Woman when the was put to flight, is laid in thefe words. For the Dragon held it not tobe malice enough to chafe her away into the wildernefs;unlcife he could alío quite abolifh- her remembrance. For which pu; pofe , tie poured out the barbarous nations upon her like a [loud that overunnethall, that inwhat corner foever of the world fisce lay hid, Thee might be overwhelmed with this inun- dation. For as Herod commanded all the children-in Bethlem , of tWo yeer old nod under to be(lain that fo that one.childe Iefus,whom he fought to deftroy might not.efeape:fo the T raion, left that this one Woman fhould remain in fafety -made every place to be covered over with a met} violcnt.floud, were he fufpeeled,thar the could lye hid. The Franci, the Alemanni,the BurZonians, all being people of çcrmany, the Gotis,the Vandals, the Hunni,the Treballi, the Heruli, the Lers- bards,and filch otherNorthern nations as thefe,which were molt ob- fcure before this time rufhed inupon her , about the yeer ¿oo. the fluces as it werebeing taken away throughout all Europe;& brought as it were a delugeof waters into a great part of Africa. And in- deed it is marvellous, that the Church was not wholly drowned up with thefe molt deep gulfs: Ahd 16 it had been, unlefs this (hip had learnedof old to float aloft, and fo to {cape drowning in that univerfall deluge of the whole world. But feeing it is now manifefl , that the Dragon call out of his mouth fo great [tore of waters into Europe and erfffrick after the woman , ir- may likewife appear molt evidently, that the woman- fled out of the EeJt into thefe Regions. And indeed the Church was H h h more
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