43z A l evelation of the Apocalyre. C A P. 13 That Citie Which had vanquifhed the Whole world, Was vanqui- flied, &c. How wofully would hee have bewailed the State of ome , ifhe could happily have heard of thofe many vanquiílirnents and fpoylingsof it which followed after this. For Rome did not now once onely come to ruine, but it was taken the fecond time by e/Idaulplms, who gave it filch a dead- ly blow, that he began to advife with himfelf about the chan- ging of the name thereof, that it might be called gothia ever after. Gcnrericur the Vandal, tookcit the third time : Odoaces Rurianus the fourth time, who raigned there fourteen yeers. Tbeodoricus the King of the Gothes killed this man, and Totilas fol- lowed next after him in a certain order of fucceflion, and he defIroyed it, andbroke it down the fifth time ; bringing fo great a defolation upon it, that there was neither any man nor wo- man found in it for forty dayes, according to that Prophecie of Sybil; Rome fhali be made a ruinous heap for ever, and the Ifle of Delos that Was once made fo loftie and cafe to be (een of all men, /hall be made paft Peeing again. And yet I do not think that Rome path yet fuffered that difmall doom which Sybil fpeaks of, though this calamity fo long pat} may be a very lively re- femblance of that doom that is to come. Who would not have thought that the feven_hilled City was utterly perifhed ? Who would not have thought that the Popes Dknitie, that is to fay, the feventh Head had Peen it own laff, and utter decay ? Hereupon it was, that the Bithops of Conflan- tinople and Ravenna, fiuppofing that the authoritie of Rome had been quite overthrown, did ffrive fo greatly and greedily as they did to appropriate the fame to their Churches ; as if they had been the next heirs. But they were both of them much decei- ved ; This Head was not wounded to an univerfall (laughter, but, as it were, to fuch a (laughter. And therefore, while the wound was yet green, about the yeer 420. Zoz.imu, Roniface, and Celeffianus, the Rifhops of Rome, dad claim the Primacie, by forging a Canon of the .Nicene Councell. They furred indeed, and did as much as ferved to (hew that there was force life left in them; but they tooke a foul repulfe, for this was the timeoftheir Wound altogether. Telagiau alto not long after that, before the fcar was perfeelly grown together, wrefted the Scriptures for the fame purpofe ; but his vain indeavour (hewed, both that there was a Head as yet alive, as alfo that it was of no force ; For the King-
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