Brightman - BS2823 B85 1644

434 A:velttttonofthe A.poçalypfe. C _A ,P:'. 13: in the yeer fix hundred and fix ; This was he that made a grant to Boniface the third, that the Bifhop of Rome Jhould be counted -wind ca /led Vniverfall. Which is, that he fhould not only goe be- fore the reft of the Bithops in order and honour, as lufitinian decreed, yet withall limiting his primacie within the lifts that were fet unto it by the Holy' Synod, but that the whole world alfo lhould be his Diecefs fo that the Bifhop of Conflantinople did invain make debate about the primatie ever after, as from which he was clean difherired by the judicial! fentence ofthe Emperor. By this time he perceived his Wound to be healed, and that it was but loft labour therefore to make any more ltir and ftrife with him about this matter. And indeed, not very tong after this,did Pope Leo the fecondmake it appear, that he was fully recovered, when about the yeer fix hun- dred and fourfcore, he. compelled Felix the Biihop of Taaenna, through the help of the Emperors army, to acknowledge the Bithop of Rome for his Lord ; fo that there was order taken, by the au- thority of the Pope, that the Bifhop of Ravenna fhould never get aloft any more, as he had done; and that by means ofa decree, that theeleaion ofthe Clergie ofRavenna jhouidnot be ofany force after- Wards, unleffe the confent of the Bithop of Rome Were obtained to make it good , Sabellic. Ennead. 8. Book 7. And thus was there an healing plaifter made for this Wounded head, which wrought more mifchief againft the Chriftian worldwhen it was healed, then it did at any time before it was wounded. Andall the World WondredandfolloWed the Beaftt. Now he teacheth us how great the Beafts eftimation fhould be, when it was once recovered again : and firft by means, the honour Which hisWor- Jhippers f ould give unto him, this honour confifts partly in admiring him in this verfe, partly in adoring both the Dragon and the Bea.' in the next. Now hee fpeaks fignificantly after the manner of the HebreWes, to admire after the bead{, which is all one with this, to follow the bea.ff by admiring him, that is, to give them- /elves over to be Wholly governed at his commandement, as the Ifraelites when they Went aWhoring after their Idols, did renounce the true God, and did confecrate themfelves to their Idols wor- 1hip. Thole which do thus admire the Beaft, are the earth, that is, men that favour of the earth, being quits eftranged from the heavenlyCitie. Now how great is the number of thefe earthly, men ? All men; for

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