CAP.13. A4e1'elationofthe Apocalyp{e:' 465 know them. Romith, or Romaghnus Romanur, commeth neereft of all to the truth ; but the fourthpropertydoth reject this name alto, becaufe it would not have forèe enough in it to winne the Beaftsfa- vour. For. the Grecians did willingly acknowledge themfelves to be Romans, and they gloried in this name for a long time. Conftanti- nople was commonly called new. Rome, and yet for all they were ex- ceedingly hated ofthe Beal all the while, till theydid at length ap- provetheir confent with the Latines, and acknowledge the primacy ofthe Latine Pope. Therefore after diligent calling off allaccounts, and examining of all interpretations, I think that Lateinos Latinus is that name , which the Holy Ghof bids us numberin this place. Which is a name, wholeletters do according to the computation of the Grecians make thisnumber, and in whichall the reft ofthe pro- prietiesdo confpire,and that fo much themore truly,becaufe it is con. untied untous from the Apolies times, & the event hathmadeit fo good, that that is more cleare then the Sunne at midday, which was before as darke as midnight. For fo faith Ireneus booke5.Chap.29. againft Herefies; Lateinos is a name Whofe number isfixe hundredfixty fixe; And it is very lil¿ly,bacaufe the righteftKingdom that is,iscalled by thisname. For they are the Latines, that raigne noW; but We will not boaft hereof.Thefethings writethhe; & that fò as if this werenot, hisopinion alone, but as ifhe had receaved it from force other, now from whom elfe is it probable that he had it but frc ní Polycarput, wholehearer he was,as Policarpus' was of Iohn: Such than are thcfe Beats; the expreffeportraitureofwhich we fee in the Pope of Rome, who according to the plaine interpretationofthe words, the events of the times, and the agreement in all thingsdoth without any force fo fitly refemble everypart of this firft Type, and that even to the leal fhadowes, and appearances thereof, that I think the Papils themfeluescan no longer doubt who is Antichrift. And thus farre havewe had the Revelation of the Dragon and the Real, according to the meafure ofthat knowledgof them, which should be augmented about the founding ofthe feauenthTrumpet. For thus farre do the thirteene Centuries; reach, which end in the yeare 1300, That is, in the number of the name ofthe Beall, and that isa lirleafter that the Bea/i had compounded and made peace with the Grecians vpon thir fubjeftion to the LatinePop ;And with this number ofnamedoth the HolyGhol altoPhut vp this prophecy of the Beaft,fhewing thereby a very great confent ofthe event onevtry fide. Chapter
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