:4 eìelatîon (fagApocalyple. CAPJ4. City is the holy aura; of Clodwhich the Scriptures doe often note out under the name of a City ; now the Winepreffe was troden without the Territory hereof, which how marvelloufly doth it agree ? For howfoever England did bereave the Popifh Crue of their goods and lively-hood, and flripped them ofall,their dignity, as they deferved to be dealt with, yet had it not attained to that re- formation at that time, by which it might be called by right a holy City. ThePope, was banifhed,. but Popery was Bill retained, as it is evident by thofe fix Articles which were made the next yeare after that the Ahbies were pulled downe; Inwhich it was fo decreed, That the true andnaturali body and bloodofChri,. , Were under the fermeofbread andWine ; and that thefubfanceofbread andWine re- maine no longer after confecration. That thereceiving ofthe Lords Supper intirely, is not neceffary tofalvation, andthat Whole (hriff is contained under either of the Elements. That it is not laWfull for Pries to marry. That theDoves ofContinency are to bek,cpt;. That privateMaffes are to beretained ; That auricular andfecret confef- fios offaults is profitable andnece(fary. Thefe filthy doarines did defile England, and made it for being a holyHoufeofGod at that time. .4nel blood came out of the Winepreffe, Blood here fgnifieth,the juce of the Grapes by an elegant Metaphore , but yet it doth.cOme neerer then ordinary to expreffe thè juce ofthefeGrapes ofWhich fpeech is had now, by a certain property offpeaking. For it is here put for that calamity which hapned bytheoverthrow ofthe Pope, whichwas fo great,that notonly the wholecountrey was made wet with it, but it didaltooverflow to the bridles ofthe Horfes. For we have it reported, that thofewho were fet over the bufnefleof de- ftroying the Bals ofthefe fadings, and to confifcate their goods,rode up and down with a great troopeand traineofmen to viewall their houfés through the whole Countrey , whichoffice while they dif- charge, there was fuck havock made of the Papifls goods, that their Horfes Teemed to fwim in their fpoiles, as it were in a river ofpref- fed Grapes. But befides this , I fiippofe there is another thingmore figni&d hereby, namely , that not only the common fort ofmen, (whowere no leffe couragioiis in managing this bu(ineffe thenHor- fes are unto the battell) did growvery rich and wealthy from hence, but alto that the Nobles and Peeres , who areas it were bridles to guide and keeps in thecommon people, gained very much alío by this bargains, It is well enoughknowne, that the beginningofmany a mans
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