530 qevelationofthe Apocalypfe. C A p.16, largely difputed,and íhould come abroad at this time in thefeBooks of eontroverfies, which was never to be feenbefore, that fo all they who did not (hut their eyes willingly, might fee the Sea plainly tur- ned into rotten and ugly fluff. And every living fonl dyed in the Sea. But how can this be, will force fay, feeing every foul liveth not in the Sea 1 It was this per.. haps, that made Theod,Beza totranfpofe the words thus; And 10>kat- foever livin3 creature lived in the Seadyed. But the naturali order of the words carrieth a meaning that is agreeing to all other things that be in this Book ofthis kinde. For we muff know, that the whole company of the malignantChtsrch is divided either into the Clergie; or into the re(t of the common fort, called by them Laitie. Thofe Clergie men are the living creatures, that be proper to this Sea,hofe ofthe Laitie are chiefly the earthly ónes,and are noted by the earth. Now if he had faid,everyfors! that liveth in the Sea War dead,a man would happilyhave gathered,that this deathwas proper to theClergit &to the teachers; but feeing he faith,every foul that livethwas dead in thisSea,he teacheth the lay men,and thepopi h people,together With the Clergie,(hould peri(h alto bymeanes of this filthy blood. But you will fay, the words do belong equally unto all men, that do live eve- ry where. Therefore this death feemeth to be common to all men; r anfwer, that all men indeed who feemed to live before, affoon as ever they defcended into this Sea, are {lifted, and killed. Btit all the Fleet have their dwelling in the Temple;now the Temple placed in heaven, chap. 15. 3. So that they have no caufe to fear any hurt from this earthly Sea,whofe infection fhail kill the men onely that be of the fame kind with it felf : All thefe men indeed, unleffe they fhall forfake their earth, that is, unlefl'e they (hall renounce Popifh Reli- gion, fhould come to deftruétion in this Sea. For they (hall drinkof no other water, but this that is rotten and corrupt,neither (hall they be inftruCted in any other dott`trine, then filch as is drawn out ofthe Conneell of Trent, and the Jefuiticall Books of eontroverfies. How can they then but give up the ghoft prefently, if they (hall drink of thefe waters, with which all the futndamentall points of Salvation are turned into deadly poifon. O therefore how miferable is your elate (ye Popi9people)who drink in mattery and filthy (fuffe,as if it were that moft fweet liquor that the Poets faired their nods drunkto keep themfront dying; and thus ye place your Salvation in that that bringeth certaindeftruL`tionupon you; But this is Gods juft judg- ment main([ tlaofe that defpife the pure waters of life; that they fhou'd
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