ef A'15 12: theltri .' atypfe. t5- For it giveth thefe words to the Devi/l,wfio went his way right now tomake war with the refit ofthe Saints, and,-..could not nand in any place for very devilifhfrry. And there is no ether purpofe of (lan- ding upon the fand,but tobehold,thearifnrr of th.Be4!, wüiclrchd nothing concern theDragon The`"words then are -Co be = referr ed'im to Iohn, wherein there is a tranfcitiòn rtt'ade tà fpeak of that .enemie that was to fight in the Dra -ons room; for the better beholdingof whole Original, Iot-n faith he'tvas fet in a mofl convenient place ; whereinhe teacfteth;' that they of ely c b holdthe Beaft when he firff comethup, who. aftertkey,have efc-aped opt'gf; the ,S'ea of For- rapt doltrinc,haye forne firm fbnding t tail on the (Boreor bankof ti e'Truth;Ihowfoever-perhaps the tcf ;igof thevaves,. and fowing of the Sea hither and thither, to and fro, cafe up many brackifh Er-- rours even upon them all() becatrfe óftheir neerneffetothe 504;.So afterwards they'thra ;et thè vcflìf"y of the Bea("sire t'o fi nd by the Sea of glaffe, Chapter 15'. a.ri.' For ir. may eafilV bet: gathered out of a like place to, this; t;háp.er"iy. 3. That tliefe words are, belong- ing to the Event. For there John is led oat into tbe.Wilderneffe,to ' ehold,thedams-ation ofthe Whore. What need was there to chaegehis place, ,unlef e this removing had a miftery in it ? Here therefore we are led to the con- federationof certaine Godly men, to whom the'Originall of this Beall- thatcame out of the Sea,fhould be plainly difcovered, as they flood in the brink of the Sca; as it were,- and that after that time, wherein the Dév ll Went o''tt to Wage War With the Seed ofthe Woman. For this place is not given to this tranfciien fox. nothing. And this thing we fee to have been accomplifhed in the learned men of MagdeburQh, who havinggotten a place at length wherein to fct their foorlleps firmly on the dry land, after that they had by Gods help and mercy fwimmed forth out ofthe Salt Sea of'Popety, did make it plain to all theworld in their Books of the Centuries, that thisBeafthad fuckan arifing,growth,andperfeFtion,as is here defcri- bedby Iohn. Many learned men had painted him out anbefore this-with Ori- ent colours, but all their labour was bellowed on one or two of his members, there was no man that gave ms his full and perfect por- traiture, before the time of this feventh Trumpet, which begat us thefe Centuries. This is that which this Tranfcition would intimare unto us;how happily the Event doth anfwer to prove this that I have faid, the applying ofeach thing that followeth feverally, {hall make. it plain; The
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