454 ARevelation ofthe Apoealypfe. CA P. 13; not adore this; in the next verfe, whereas yet a materiall Image can- not come untoall men, unleflè it be either carried about through all the world, or elfe if it had a fixt place, all men fhould leave their own habitations to go on pilgrimage to it. Betides, thisImage (hall by his own power bring it to paffe, that l)'hofoever j7.ill refiufe to Peorflaip it , fhall be Hain as it is in the fame verfe; But this power is greater then any Piflure or Statue can have, howfoever we have read that force Images have fometime fpokeri by the cunningof the Devill. Neither are the images ofli- ving men wont to be thruft upon the people, to be worfhippedof them; there may be Statues indeed erer`fed untomen,while they be alive, but that is onely forcivili honours fake, not for religious wor- fhip. This image therefore is not any refemblance of aBody, but a lively and expreffe portraiture of the honour, Kingdom, andpower of the former Beaft, which the fecond Beaft fhould carry with him. For this is that which the fecond Beat} laboureth for, that the firft Beaft thould revive in hisPerfon;which wickedambition ofhis is de- claredmolt fignificantly in this kinde offpeaking. When he defrreth .earneffly to have an Image Pet up to the former Beaft, he doth ther- by fhew, that he stands for nonew matter, but onely to fhadow out that ancient matter, the truth whereof was extant in former times; whichcunning deviceofhis we did before call, the counter- feited name ofAntiquity, of which was fpoken, verf. 12. Outofwhich it is alto manifeft, that thefirfl Beall is not the Em- peronrr, but the Pope; for it were an unequall and impudent requeft, if the Pope fhould have openly arrogated unto himfelf the honour ofthe Emperours; but feeing he requireth nothing, but that which the former Popeshad, who would not think that fo honeff and rea- fonable a requeft should be yeelded unto ? Betides thisImage ihew- eth, what mannerofhonour he coveteth to obtainamong his follow- ers, namely,fuch as Idolatersgive to their Images; for he Would fit in thehearts andconfciences of men like an Idoli, as it is manifeffly tobe feen by that adoration and Admiration, which we fpake of before I le defireth indeed to be counted a God, but the Holy Ghoff cal- lethhim a falfe God,andan Image by a true name. TheHoly Ghoft acknowledgeth not that vain and foolifh diffindion between an Image and an Idol, which the Image-worshippers have forged of late dares. And is it not clearer then the light, that Superffitious peoplehave advanced the lattermoff Popes, fo as they have made certain Gods ofthem, and therefore much more have they lift them up
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