CAP .13. ,/f tvelatsox''ofthe Apocalypfe. 46i fully in the bookof thePontificals, where the Etnperour promi feth in expretCe words, makes a folemne covenant, and fweareth before Clodand bletfed S. Peter, That he willbefor the time to come, a pro- teetour, proftour, and defender of the higheg RHO, andofthe holy Church ofRome, Vic. Clement. Book 2, Tit. ofan Oath. The name is the proper appellation oftheBeals, which isgiven, unto thepeo- ple'as it were, a namederived from their anceftours, as to whom the Oath, and the ceremonies ofOrdinationcan not fo well agree. For the brand either ofan Oath, orofOrdination, or offiach other Rites, is not fet upon the whole people (for thefe belongto the Clergy-men, the 'Peers, andothers that beareany publick office) but thereis ano- ther more eafieand readyway, whereby the multitudes ofcommon people may profeffe themfelves to be the Popes proper Cattell, and thatls, to doe as the fervants didof old time, by takinghis namefo t pon themfdves, that even as. the Prince himfelfe iscalled Vni- verfall , high Tope , Pontifex : So fhould they be called Catho- licks, Papi(fs, Prelatilfs, Pontiñcii. some of thefe names were wont of old to be common, but the Pops did at length challenge them.as proper to himfelfe alone, neither will he have any other to be called Catholicks now, but only thofe that are ofhisflock. And though thefe names do flow promilcuoufly to all hisSubjeâs,yet the common people are knowne by this enfigne alone , the reft being markedwith a peculiar lkampe betides. But whatneed is there ofa third Note ? The two firft doe com- prehend the whole filthy company that belong to this Kingdorne. There is another kindofmen that are fet alittle further off from the government of the Beaft,then that which I fpake°frightnow.Who unleffe theybe markedat feat} with thenumber ofthe name,letthemr know that theyare forbidden all intercourfe of merchandize, with thefubjec`fs of this Beall. Now thefe men feem to be the Grecians, who unkffethey would receive the number ofthe name , fhould be accounted as outlawesand exiles unto this people, and fo (hould be debarredofall profits.which might be come by amongft them. The number ofthe name is all one witha nameearpreffed bynumber, or that I may fo call it,anumeral! name.The wch feeing it (hall bemade manifeft out ofthofe things which (hall bePaid upon the next verfe, tobe Latinea, the truth of.this Prophefie dothmarvelloufly (hew it Pelf even in thispoint alfo.For the Beal}did fohate the Greciansof old, that though hee faw them to bee fo miferably fpoyled by all their Neighbours, hee would not fuffer any aide to be fent unto 0oo 2 them
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