CAP , I; : w!!tsok oftheApocalypfe. '09 red by the nnlverfall Note all; as altoby the dcáribition thereof. For he letteth noman paffe, how contemptible and allec foevcr he be, but he willhavehim fome way or other made fore tohimfelfe,it this he dothvery prudently , teeing fmallfparkes make a great fire : Citiesare furprizedon that fide for themolt part, whicn is leaft fea- red, and evenConies not looked unto, mayoverthrow the ftrongeft and"higheft walls : Are not Princescompelled to follow themulti- tude ? It was thereforea very politick device inhim to make recko- ningoffmall ones, of the poore ofthe fervants. The which fo vigi- lant and exquifìte care ofhis , doth fomuch the more fit forth the glory of Chrilt in deliroying this Kingdome : As for the words, they are thus in the Greeke Mind he maketh all that he givetb them, aloe Marke : It isa concife kinde of fpeaking, but very figni- ficant, being all one, as ifhe had Paid, he driveth every one to this, That they are glad to take the Marke of' him, when he givethit them, &c. To receivea Markin their right-hand, &c. Montanus read, And that they fhould give Marks ; tódoth Aretas alto : As ifthe Beaft compelled men to print Marks in themfelves, but by this meaning it fhouldbe written,that they fhouldgive to themfelves.Andyet Are- tas maketh no other mark-giver but the Braft. After that he had (hewed who are to bemarked, now he teacheth in what part,name- ly,intheir right hand,orinthefore-heads.In that fo they might fight manfully for the Beaft to their uttermoil. For the Markis not to be taken in the left hand, but in the right , which is the Itronger and more ready ofthe two, to do any thing wtthall.After this manner be emperours, Kings, and all Magiftrates marked, & then all the Cler- gie, and the whole rabblement altoof theReligious orders,profefours in the Schooles, Canonifts Lawyers, 0-c. Al thefee are the ftoutcft of his Souldiers let as it were in the reward that be of the cheife com- manders company,& thecheife champions of the Beaft. The mark is put on the foreheads, that it might bemanifeft untoall men , to whom they belong as Vaf als. In which part thewhole refidueof the commonpeople beareththe Maike. For though they are not fo mighty inpower as the former, to de- fend the Beaft, yet mull they needsacknowledge openly, to whom they belong, as to their good Lord and Mailer, wherefore the Mark, in their right hand is a band of a more neere and {trait knot of amity, both becaufe defence is fomewhat more , then anaked pro- feflion, as allo becaufe it goeth before it in order and honour. 0 oo And
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