532 Revelation ofthe Apocalÿpfe. CAP.16. trive, and plot nothing elfe but this villainie which this law is made to prevent and punifh, as being the betrayers of their Country, the murderers of Princes, the feducersof Subjects, theplague and bane ofall Kingdomes and Common wealths. Therefore this yiall when it was poured our, wanted not his effect and eicadie, but Everard `Duc(,et, Endrund Campion, Ralph Sherwin, Alexander Brian, who were Iefnits, and nurfelings oftheSeminaries, were convinced the fame year tobe guiltyof breaking this law, and fuffered condigno punishment for ir, according toLaw. After whom followed next in order, John Paine,Themc Ford, John Sherret, Robert lohnfon, with many more ofthe fame wicked flampe. And thus was the wicked - neffe ofthefe curled wretches fomewhat fuppreflèd by the mercy of God. So that though it be not quite taken away, (for who can look that the Leopard fbouldchan,ebis Spots?) Yet it doth not fo freely rage up and down, but they mull needs lurk in the dark, counterfait their habit, cogg and diffemble in all things they do, that fo they may both fpread their poifon moreclofely,alfo that they may provide better for the Paving of their mifchiev©us Pates and neckes. !VLerf. 5. And I beard the Angel ofthe Waters. So much for the firlt Event, the fecond is a doubleteftimony wherewith this work ofthe VW/is approved and commended, the firft whereof is of the Angel of the waters, who is not one of thefe Rivers and Foun- taines, as the Angell ofthe bottomlefepit fl'as,Chapter9. r r. But one that is fet over the Rivers andFountaines to execute this judgment ofGod againff them. In which refile& the reft of the Angels may be called, the Angell ofthe Earth, ofthe Sea, ofthe Sun, becaufe they have power given them over thefe things. For in that he faith in the next verle, and thouhaft given them blood to drink, he exempteth himfelfout of their number. This Angell therfore is force Civil! Magiflrate, who had power given him, or who was rather the firft mover and perfwa- der unto this work of turning thefe Fountaines into blood, namely, of killing the Iefitits, and putting them todeath. Whom ifI (hall by name let down, and fay that it was William Cccill that molt honourable man of happy memory, that was lately the Lord high TreafurerofEngland, the next words will Chew that I do not ahirme it rashly, andwithout good reafon. Than art jug O Lord:This Teltimony doth extol! the Lord with the praifes of his Iultice and his truth, and then it doth annex a rel. fon taken from the prefent occalion, that the bloody man [layers were
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