4 t ARevelation oftileApcalypfe. GAP.12 more peaceable hereabouts, amide thofe troubles:whiçhthe :Arians raifed in the Ersf , about the word Coefentiall. But left.weilioul& imagine that theFlived. any wherehappily , the Holy: Ç.hoftdoth; eall Our Europe, a, defert price, and Wildernef in expreffewords. For the woman roing into theweternparts, as (aid to,fly into a Wildernef; For fiiperaitions did fo prevadle at that time:, that thers.were no more frequent affemblies rightlyplanted in, thiscparts+rif'th.th v;dt) then there are wont tobe floreof habitations of mtn inra vildet fiefs: Here and there wafemore expreffe foot-lîep feerrì but it was:very rare , a it is- tomeet with many-men in the Wilder- nelie. Bit the Earth helped .the - Woman.. Not:this earthwhich wee tread upon, but the counterfir,andearthly Religion, tagetfieinwith the Pr.ofc;fo,rs thereof, at it fignifieth ever before. This.Chtirchfoecai- led commonly in the world , of what fafhion foever it then was (while the true Churchwas not converfant in the eyes of men,- but layhidden in fecret places) brought much help unto. the woman, Forthefe barbarous nationsl which-didmaintain hìeathenihimaiety: in their own Qqt ntries., as in the which they had beenborn and brought up, after that theycame in thefe countries , that were more hill of humanity, theywere content to be of that Religion, .which they taw to be received by the molt there : the Vandals and the Gadget., feating themfelves.firft about T"hracia; where the Peflilerice fthe Arian herefie had.fpovled all, were converted to thrift name, but in very deed to loch a forged and counterfeit Chrift as: Arias hadmade. The refit of the barbarous rout in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, followed the Romans in all things. And this thing . did much tame and mollifie their lavage minds; for while they gave their names but even to this Religion, and fuffered themnfelves to be enrolled among the Profeffors thereof, they were not fo malicious. against the Chriflian people, as to. Peek to root them out utterly,' whereby it came to paffe that while their wrathwas afwaged in favour of theirnewprofe , on, and while they reffed themfelves in thofe countries, which they hadpoffeffed,this floodwas ar laftftzal- lowed up, and theSerpents hope was notably deluded. The earthly Church did nowonce for all procure this good untotheheavenly;hut themeant to make her pay for it afterwards, by thofe infinite evils which she was about toheap upon her. 17; Then the Dragon was: Wrath. Hitherto.of the Perfect tion, whichwhen the Dragon faw to be in vain, yethe-would not leave off,
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