C A P.13. ifaZfvelationofthe Apocalypfe. 425 Which bathfevenheads,therby making her to be the lady and Empreffe ofalIother places, and therfore they took away the Crowns from all other Kings, and Provinces, emdpa!r them upon the fever heads or Hills of Rome. But nowmatters fhould be carried with another man- ner of Port and pomp, after that Antichrift began once toChew him- felf. For the Maleftie oftheEmpire fhould not reticle at Rome, but fhould be feated inother Nations alfo,in refpet`t wherof, the CroWns which belonged to the heads before, were now tranflated to the Horn's after an unwonted manner. Secondly, they differ in time. For the Horns of the Beaft Were not fprungout as yet, When 7ehn Wrote, Chapt. 17. i a. The Horns of the Dragon were lift up on high even beforeJohn was born, and thofe fpread abroad with many boughs, as we have feene, Chapt. 12.3. Therfore though they agree in number, yet they are not the fame in all things alike, neither fhould a man do well,if he fhould go about to apply thofe horns to the Beafts heads, which belong to the Dra- gons. But which then are thefe Horns of the Beall ? All things being diligently confìdered, I think theyare the ten firft Chriftian Empe- rours, for the numbring ofwhomthere may be a double way; one, ofeveryone of them feverall, and of thofe onely , who had either the Whole, or the Wefterne Empire in their power, into which accompt come, Confiantine the great, Con.ftantinus, Conilans, Confiantitis his Sons, Iulian, Iovinian,Valentinianthe firII, Qratian, Valentinian the fecond,Theodofiau. And fo there is a marvellous confent of the Hiftory,with the Prophecy. For while thefe then raigned, the Beall was notably defended, and his dignity was much amplified. And when thefe were once taken away, his horns were broken as it were for a time, for the Emperours who fucceededthem,were not able to maintain the lime authority of the Romifh Beall, which their ance- ftours had purchafed for him. For Honorius the fon of Theodofius the elder, fuffered Tome to be taken and fpoiled by the 3othes, and though it was two years toge- ther befieged by eA'laricus, yet he lived idelyat Ravenna, and either could nor, or durft not fendRome any ayd, fomuch was the .ftrength ofthe Horns decayed. Where was now that proweffe of his Father, which did fo often kill and put to flight fo many enemies even in the fureheft borders belonging toRome ? But neither had Rome any help now from the Ball, but the Beall, together with his Rome, was made a prey to the mof} contemptible ofall the Nations, after that thofe horns were as it were bruifed, wherewith theformer Emperour did
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