5'1.4 Á fr elatton ofthe Apoca1ypfie. C:A P.16. be furnifhed with the confetti ofall antiquicy,to warrant themfelves in the honouring of the B°afi. But hence you may obferve, that it cannot be poflible , that thefirth Vial Ihould be the fame thing with the firft Trumpet, feeing the Viol is poured out only upon fuch kind ofmen, as whereof diere was none extant before the fecondBeaft,. aswhofe Originali is not more ancient, then thefift Trumpet.Which matterwe have givennotice of at the firft verfe -of the former chap- ter. Thefe things being thus explained , all things do lead us to think, that this Sore is nothing;elfe but malice, and envie,then which theSicilian tyrants could not devife a moreexquifto torment , as the Poetfpea.keth;with which the Papifts were marvellouíly tormented, upon the pouring out of this Viall. Which difeafe of the mind is called an Vlcer worthily , the nature whereof it refembleth by a double fymptome. For they that are difeafed with it are both com- pelled thereby tokeep in andnot to come abroad , that they might avoid the beholdingof thofe men , whole profperity makes them fick and fore., as it fared with the Egptians of old, who together with the Ä11.gicians were fo full of botches all over them, at the fprinkling offduft , that.they were not able to ftand before Mofes, .Exod.90o,r1. As,alfo,every one of them allo is fo afraid of any to come veer and touch him, that he labours by all means to keep him.- felfe. from being thruft or fquifed. Which kind of evill invadedthe men that bare the badge of the Beath, ftraight after, the opening of the Temple,Chap.71.19. (To which we have fhewed that thefe Vi- als are to be joy tied, as the which the repeating of things part hash, parted afunder with a long diftance between ) namely about the yeer 156o. where the former prophecy ended. Fok then was our gracious ueenElizabeth bidden by a voice out oftheTcmplc, to- pour out a Vialupon theEarth, that is, íhe being admonifhed by the counfels of the Godly about the endof the firft yeer of her Raigne, did caft out many ofthofe men from theirl3ifhopricks molt worthily, as alto out of their other dignities, and Church- livings,who boafting onely of the Beathcognizance which theywore, denied their due allegiance to their lawful! Princeffe. Among thefe were the Arch- Bilhop of Torhk,,the Bithop ofLondon,Eli,andfourteen orhers,belides men ofa lower ranke,`I)eanes, Archdeacons, Parfons, Vicarrand the like: Howmuff it needs be that thefe fellowes were cruelly fcorched with envy and fpite, when they faw their dignities, lands, demeanes, goods andhonours to be beftowed .. n their adverfaries , and law themfe(vles.to. lieiwthe meantime defpifed and forlorne ?: Many of them
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