444 A revelationofthe AAocalypCe. CAp,i3 whichkindeI know two. pirlé' that which that worthyman, and great light of the Church Francis 7;mho bringeth, who will have this numbs to be the Popes learning, and the cvr,onI,i as he c., loth ir, chiefly now that thefixt bool¿,ofDecretals bath beenadded to thefiveformer by Boniface the eight. For this number isperfell, and arifingperfefllyout ofthe parts thereofatforce times; neither is there any part ofthe Papes law which is not conferred to the head thereof, or is not contained in it. The Beafalfo teacheth thit name, andmakes it to be as it were the snsarALs ofhis members. But feeing this is the name ofthe Beajt when he is growneold and decrepid, not that an- cient name , which wasextant beforehis beginning , and it is not the nameofanyman; it feemethnot to be fo agreeable; efpeciaily, feeing there could beno danger in revealing thisplainly , in regard whereof, thisnay (bean covering fhould benec ffary; and laftly, this is not the name ofthofe men,which donot at all cleave to the Beat filch as is the number of the name,aswe have ¡hewed, Verfe 17. but rather it is the name ofthofe that be the Beaftsdar.lings, that is, ofthe Canonifls, whom the `Pope makerh mall account of. Anothername there is that isbrought byMatter Hugh Broughton, thatlearned man of our own countrey ; AdonibVam ; Godbath rifn up, which is the name ofaman in Efra 2,13. Wholépofterity are reckoned up there to befixhundredfixtyfix as ifjohn fhould lay, that thename of the Beall is all one with the name ofthat man whofepofterity are re- corded, to be fixhundred fixty fix, that is, Adonikam. It is indeed a very fit name for e...fntichrifi. , feeing he lifteth up himfelfeas God above all earthly names. But feeing this name doth intimate nothing more, then that whichPaul hath taught plainly before , when he faith, that tAittichrift lifteth himfelfe up above allthat is calledGod, 2 Theft.a.4. It is not likely that that fhould benowclofely covered under a dark riddle, which wasfamoufly knownebefore through the wholeChurch, Betides, what troubles were to be fearedbydevulging this name ? That I may fay nothingofthat which fpoyleth all, that this potterity of4donikam are numbred up afterwards, and laid to be fixhundred fixty (even, Neh.7,19. The reft of the names which beTitan Lam. petit, Ninetes, Cacos odegos, alethes ; blaberos, pslai bafeanos, amnes adicos in Aretas, ecclef :a Italica, and the like in latter writers, they are partly no names ofany man , or at kaft not proper to a people, partly, there was no caste why the revealingofthem fhould be fea' red for my danger that would,enfue thereby whofoever fhouid know
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