CAP.i4. ,1f (21,elatiori ofthe Apocalypfe. 5 ©3 a mans greatneffeand honour came from hence, and thatothers that were prettily well before were muchencreafed hereby. For there was fcarce any man at leaft ofany account, who got not good (lore ofCarpenters Chips forfewelling, when thisgreat Oak was felled downe. By the fpaci. of a thoufandfix hundredfurlongs. That is through the whole Realme of England. A thoufand fix hundred furlongs, make twohundred Englifh miles. Now the length of this Realme from the furtheft part ofthe South to the longeft reachofthe North, ismore then this by a hundredmiles, but yet if we (hall take away thevaflneffe ofthe Northerne parts, where the conntrey ismore de- fert, and unmanured neer the borders, which thefe Grapes, that is, this crue of religious Monks, Fry ars and "Vannes, was afraidof, as being in acolder aire, then that they could endure it, who delight in the moll champion and pleafant places ofthe Land ; We !hall fee a marvellous confent even in thiscircumtance alto. Thus then Rands the Englifh Vintage , which is fo manifeftly proved to be this here foretold by the confpiringofall things together,that it is not to be doubted, but that that this is the naturali applicationofthis Type. And now we fee plainly with what fingular skill the Holy ghojf hath comprehended thofe memorable things, which fhould fallout in the Church, even to the yeare i 56o. In this Chapter Ray is made ofthe Flory at the year T 54o. but the eleventh Chapter hath fupply- ed that which is wantinghere from that time,,*he thirteen Centuries doemolt evidently defcribe the As and Monuments ofthe Dragon and the Beafi 1300. Thence our yohn Fox beginning at wicklefe, (withwhom youmay joyne yohn Sleidan,and Gafpar Peucer) doth goe on in- handling the other things thatremaine unto the fcventh Trumpet. In correfpondence to this plentifull and copious know- ledge ofthings pail, which the diligenceofthefe men fhould bring into the world about the fcventhTrumpets blaft , the Holy Choft Both fet forth this Repetition ofthe fame matters, agreeingwith their narrations. The whole Prophefieof thefe three Chapters , is from the time ofjohn, to the year T540. That is, it coriprehendeth the Hiftory of the Church, for a thoufand, five hundred, and forty yeares. S ff The
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