CAP.13. A evelationofthe Apocalypfe. therefore did make the C:rriginall of the Second Beaft noble and fa- mous, and thefe are laid tobe like to the hornos of lambs, becaufe the Popes, whom thefe hornes releeved, feemed to be poor,aftlic`fed, and innocent like to lambs.What lamentable Epidlesdo Stephanzu_ the 2. Conftantimu., Stephanats 3. and Adrian the Pope, fend to Pipingand Charle the Great ? How full are they all of complaints, piteous la- mentations, teares, and moil vehement obtefiations ? Do but confi- der what inhumanity they doe charge their enemies with, and how they do let forth the innocencyofthe Bithops. Certainly you would think that they were Wolves, and that thefe were Lambes, and that he had an heart of iron, who would not affay to deliver theft men that were thus in danger, out of their molt cruell jawes, if fo be he could poflibly. And yet the Beaft retai- ned his old nature in the midi of this his difireffed eflate, and he fpake big and terribly like a Dragon. I fpare to fpeake now of Gre- gory the fecond, who thundred terribly againff Leo If4urar. Whofe voice I pray you was that, whenZachary tooke away the Kingdome from the lawfull King, and beflowed it upon Pipine, his fervant. What manner of voicewas that of Leo 3. that proclaimed Charles to be Emperour of the Fall, andgave him an Inftalling ? Was it not the voice ofthe old Dragon, who by force of his exceeding power, . wherein he excelled, dubbed and difdubbed Kings at his pleafure. Defideritu the Lombard felt the force of thisvoice,who being drawn on with the lambelike Phewof weakneffe and poorneff , which the Popes made, offered to feize upon their pof effon, that fo he might recover thole things, which they had wrung from his ancefiors by . fraud,but this voicemade him leape fhort of his whole Kingdome while he liruggled about fome one Cityor Lorddlip, yea, and that fo as both himfelfe and the whole race of the Lombardi were for ever diffeiz,:d ofir. Thefe be the marvellous exploits of thisearthly Beaft. giving and taking away King:'.omes as he lidcan and which is farre more, doingall this,not fomuch with force ofarmes, as byhis voice, whereby he exercifed the power of the Dragon, though he carried the Phew asyet of a tender Lambe, who was not at all able of hitrr felfe todrive away the Wolfe from his fhoulders,_ Andhe didal thattheformer Beatcoulddo.So much for his begin- ning,and his likeneffe. His power is squall to that which the former had, whereof a notable proofe is given us in this verfe. whatro- everhe coulddo, this dothall that inhis fight. But whence bath this Beafi fo great power, butt from theDrag n, who gave it to the fieft, as 44*
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