C A P.16. A VelatiO)t ofthe Apocalypíé. 525 them could not endure the griefs ofir, which made many to travell beyond Seas, to the intent, that they might leek fome cafe of their grief,by living out of the fight ofthis mifery ;and others of themwere confumed at home'in their harking holes,with cark and penfivenefhe, all of them fled from the light and fight ofmen, as whom to behold,fo joyful' and fo jocund, was as ill to thcrn,as a molt cruel' death. And yet their torment was not taken away, who changed their Air and their Country, feeing the Pope himfelf,. and that whole generation fo vehemently tortured with the very report thereofonly. Which thing he did futticiently witneffe by his Buls,fet forth againft our moll noble ,ueen,wherein he did in moll revere manner command all her Sub- jects to revolt from her, and that they should not be hind red from it with any Confcience of their Oath ofallegance,fromwhich this no- torious breaker ofall law, both of God and men, fet them free. But thanks be toGod,he hath fiingto deafmen till this day, whereby his grief is abovemeafure increafed.For thus doth he fret within himfelf, like as that curledSoul did ofold : what,haveye all confpiredagainfi me?Is there none of youthat Wil take the matter to heartfor myfake?Is there none of you that will allay the grief ofmy ulcer with the blood ofthat CzLieen,that bath bredme fo great grief? opatient Tope! take not the matter fo ill,I pray thee, this is the time wherein thou muff be fore plagued,not eafed and healed. But the difeafe will not fuffer him to ref. Therefore he ragethmoft cruelly with his poyfoned Buts, he incenfeth Kings with all his might, to fight againfi her, bee fends out the lefuites upon us clofely, (which are the bellows of all Sediti- ous and treacherous practices) to betray our Countrey, he fi_rborneth moil wickedVillains and Cutthroats to kill our facrcdPrinceffeand to conclude, he bends all his force by all the means hee can devife, to fir up troubte,wherewith he may utterly deftroy theKingdome and us all,but all his attempts have been fruftrate for there two and forty yeers, through the goodneffe and rich mercy of our gracious God, both the principall contriver and Captainof all mifchief, himfelf, as alto his turfed Imps, can fcarce fain tears, becaufe they can behold no lamentable accident to befall us. In France, about the fame time, when Charles the ninth began his raígn,that we may fee that this botch was univerfall to the Papift, at which time the Popes authority and the Papifts faetion began to be ruinated there every day more and more, when the greater part of the Nobility did imbrace pure Dotirine , moft of the States, and the Queen Mother, (through fear, as I fuppofe of our wen XX x o-t"
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