CAP .I3. A r,ellttionofthe Apocalypfea 443 landpower Owgiven Umover every Tribe,andTon1tre, andNa. tiers. This is the thirdpart of his power, RS WCdiftingettfhcd it in the Analyfis, which confifteth in the ampleneffe ofDominions, This fhauld fpread abroad it felke forte and wide, asdid the Dominionof the Dragon of old. For they had both of them one and the fame Throne,and the fame Kingdome,andEmpir ; fee for this above,V.;. unto thofe words, the whole earth. Verfc 8. Therefore all that dwell upon the earthfball*or1bbip him Whof names, &c. Here we have anillut}ration ofhis ample domini- on from the defcription of his fubjets. Suchare all they whomGod pathmolted among thofe that (hall be faved; which wordsdomeet with a doubt that might rife, whereby one might think perchance, that all men were out ofhopeoffalvation, feeing all men almoft fee- med to ba the(laves of the Beaft.But fear not i faith the Holy Ghof none of the ELchhall perifh; I have allthefe menwritten by name in my Regitler. Only those men that' be fuffered to adore the Beaftt, who are not found written therein. Now ifanyman f-y, it is as pet-- nicious a thing toadore the Heathen Emperours, I antwer that here is no purpofeofthe Holy Ghost to fh -w how dangerous a thing it is to adore this eaft them ; but only the Beal( is dcfcribed by the multitude of Reprobate s,whom he !hall have to worfhip him ; as if he fhould fay, this is that BeaJ1, whom all the Reprobatesofthe earth (hall adore, that is, to whom they than give divine honours. To which propofition, if thou aífiunethus, But all the reprobates of the earthhaveadored the Tope ofRona(, by giving himdivine ho- nours, it will follow that he is this Beafi ; Certaine HeathenEmpe. rours did arrogate a divine power and glory to themfelves, but the very Heathens derided* iis-madnePfeoftheirs , fo far off were they from allowing itby wsoirlaipping them. Suetonius reportcth, what a laughing flock was madeof Aug;Ow his Dodecatheos, that is, a private Supper, wherein twelye ghefls fat at meat, that were arrayed like to twelve godsand goddcffcs,and AuguJl as himfelfe was deck- ed as ifhehadbeen eApollo. Caligula hisgolden Beatd, and Thunderclap, which he wore be- caufe it wasan enfìgneofthe gods, were commonlydefpifed. But afïoone as ever the Pope had gotten to himfelfè the n{me of God úy hook andcrook , his vvo, fhippers did flraitvvayesaffent. We have heard at the third verfe ofthat adoration vvhtch his Legats and Bi . [hops yeelded unto him in their cecumenicall Connects, after vvhufe Pipe the Ganouifts fing and dance,as vve may fee in a certain iv1mm Cloffe
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