5 aS Aq.07elatidn o,Jt ieApika1ypfe. Car .16. But what is it that they aim at in-this feat ofadulterating the Wri- tings ofthe ancient Fathers ? What, would they blear the eyes of themen of the prefent ,ge,and`flop their mouths ? They cannot do it. There are-true copies forthcoming, thanks be to God, out of which this facrilegious fhamelefneflè of theirs t convinced. . Or, which is more like to be true,.:do they provide for them- felves againft a rainy day to come? Ohfoolifh Papifts ! who do la- bour to get the ancient Writers to give you their,fyffrage, for hereafter, }when as the : time will fhortly:'come, when there (hall be never a Papift alive , to whom they may give a voyce. Your caufe (half be decided after fomeyeexs infiung,,;and thofe not very many, not with Fathers; but with fire and (word as this Bo&ke of the eveláüorifha11make it manifeiL flit: the _mean- time let us obferve both how dangerous a, thing: ;it, is, to de- pend now upon the Fathers that are_fct forth in print by the Papifl.r ; as al to how full of botches the whole generation of Papifts is, who are fo afraid of the nails of the 'Fathers , that they cut them to the quieke, ands ;13ót content herewith, they do allo lap wool! about their fingers,, that fo they.. may handle their fcabbed bodies more tenderly.. Verfe 3. Andthe recond Angel p6 'red out his Vial/ upon the See. The fecund Vial! puts out his. force upon the Sea, that is, a. me- taphorical! one, filch as the earth was. Fin they are each of them, of one and the fame nature. And feeing, now the overthrow of Antichrift is in, hand, what; fpeciall dammage would hee be put 'toy more then all other mortali men, by the turningofthat Sea on- to filthy blood, that is fo called properly. For this is the former effete ofthis Vial, neither should the'9ec,u.ndary effeet hurt..hirn a jot more thenothers,wherbyall thelivingcreatures that are inthis,Sca do die. The earth furniíh..eth himwith;Aninfinite company of dainties, fo that he might the more'eafily indure the want of fifh, if they fhould all die at once : Wherefore we mutt not flick in the native fignifica- tion, but it is to be taken in that fenfe, whichwee have fcen often ufed before. it is the doctrine therefore, whereunto a notable change fhonld happen under this Via/t; ; for whereas it was corrupt before, it fnouidnow be made corrupt in the fuperlative degree. in formet ages it was changed into blood, bat now it fhould be turned, into a more groflè and publiée filthinete he ever before, till . at laff it becamelike: to the blooddropping out ofadead mangy black, gore, thick and rotten.; not clear and fouri(hing,,. fuck asfióweth - oat
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