C A 1.13. . AKervelationofthe Apocalypfe. 43 i Kings,out of the 17..Choptér,9, to. Which of thefe two then is that that { hould carry away this deadly blow ? Certainly, if this wound was givenhim,by fubduing him Under the power ofhis enemies, one ofthe hils could hardly receive a wound, but they mutt be all woun- ded together;Wherefore it doth belong more properly to the Kings, of whom there was one only that was hurt by this wound, the reft a - bode fate and untouched thereby. And yet this calamity cannot be- fall to the King in filch manner, that it should not be common to the bils àlfo ; Now the Kings are the(even Regiments,or manners of tao- vernm'ent,wherewith the CityofRome was governed; namely, thole. that arefpokcn commonly of, and made to be fo famoufly knownby all the ReinanHiftory writers, Kings, CcnJuls,D teemsirs,Dit&tors, Tribunes,'Cafars, Popes as we shallmake it plain at the 17.Chapter. If the queftion now be made,to which ofthefe thisoverthrowMould happen, the place which we fpake ofright now doth plainly refolve us ;- and tels us it e thefeventh Head,that is,thePopes; For fo faith the. Angel,andanother,that is,the feventh is not yet come, andWhen hefhall come;hs muttftay but a fbort time that is,he mull be fowounded,as if he were utterly {lain-with that wound, for Zehn faith, as if -it Were Wounded to death,as Aretas well noteth,becaufe it friould not be quite . deftroyed with this blow. Now feeing it is clear what head this is, this wound was then gi- ven it,whenReme that had been forfaken tora long time by the Em perours ,ï whodid refide partly in theEaft at Bizentium, partlyat T.,tvenna in the weft, and that began again to flouriíh under the new regimentof Popes, was Wafted and fmitten with that mighty ftorm oftroubk, and adverfity,wherewith the whole well was wofully an- noyed by means ofthe Gothes, the Vandalls, the Heenni, and the ref': ofthe Northernpeople. In this common Calamity, (he that wasere while the Lady of the Nations , and the Queen ofthe whole world, fcaped not fcotfree,but came to a more grievous downfall,then any o- ther city. almoft,as being more often overcome, fpoyled, wafted, and brought under the lawleffehill ofthe barbarous people, then any'o- ther, and that for the fpace ofan hundred thirty and two yeers; Firít of all, Alaricus befieged andwoke it about the yeer 4! 5..of which Hierome fpeakitig faith thus, After that the moftglorious light ofall the World Was put out, yea the Head of the Roman Empire Was cut of , and to .'pe (yet more truly,theWhole WorldWas undonein the deftrsdli on ;f one City,&t.1i.t hisPreface_uponEzech.But yet he fpeaks more largely and elegantlyof this in an Epiftle to the Virgin `Principia ; That
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