428 Tevelittionofthe Apocalypfe. C A P.13. the world; whofe very Image they cannot endure, though they be the moll filthy worfhippers ofother moil: foul and deteftable Ima- ges ? And do not the fpots of the Leopard note out thofe foul and beaflly abominations ofall forts, whichClick in, and come from thefe Topes of 1 me ? Have they not made themfelves ugly and loathforne to fee to, above all other men by living in all kinde ofhorriblevices? Whowere found out prefently after their firíf Birthday,to befor,ers When they belled the Councellof 2yZee to eflablifl theirTyranny. Then after that, they became Simoniacall, Manflayers, Atheifls, moll kedMagicians, mollfilthy Whoremaflers, yea and Donors that taught men ho.' tofulfill every abominable lull; to conclude, they were over- whelmed withal! kinde ofwicked prat :ifes, which a chafte minde would be more afhamed to relate, then they are to commit. And thefe are not the reproaches which their adverfaries call upon them, but thofe true crimes of everyone whereof, and far more, there are moil clear teftimonies given by their own writers and admirers. This Reafl then is full offpots, that giveth us no more hope that he will forfake his filthineffe, then the the-Leopard Both of changing her fpots. But befides her fundry forts of Spots, this Leopard is ve- ry cunning in catching her prey. For as Pliny writeth, they havefuch ot kindeoffinell,that allfourfootedBeaflsaredefirous to go after them, beingaluredWith the pleafantnefe thereof; but yet they are terrilled With thegrimneffe of their looks. whereupon it is, that When they have entifed the Beafls to come veer them, With the fWeetne ffe of their fmell, they hide their heads, andfo catch them, andpull them in peeces. Doth not Rome likewife alure men that behold her a far oft, witha certain reverend Majeflie, hiding the terribleneffe of her looks, that is, thofe monftrous abominations which the nourifheth within her, till (he have gotten profelytes into her fnares? The feet of Bears, are flat, and long, and broad, tearing the earthwith their nailes,even as they go; and thefe do defcribe unto us the {labilityof this Beal of Rome, joyned with cruelty. And indeed there was never any Monarchy, no not that ofthe Affyrians, which was of a mot! long continuance, that hath equalled the years ofthis Bea. And yet it is by means of his Bearsfeet that he thuscontinueth,as prolonginghis Age fo long by Bearlike cruelty. His Lyon-like mouth that is here given him, no- teth out his bloody favagenef e, that devourethall things, which the mourning and fighing of all the world is able to expreffe more plainly, then I can by any words of mine. The cruelty therefore that is in many wilde beasts, is found compatcd together in this Bca5ll
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