C A P.17. ATevelation oftlg Apocalypse. 603 Namely, the Chriftian Sotaldiers, Mauritim, and the Armies ofthe ,Protcjtants, for whom the Lamb got the Victory : For it was his pleafure to overcome his enemies, not with Thunderbolts caft down from heaven upon them by his own power alone, but by ufing the labours and couragious exploits of his faithful! fervants. And thus we have the Horns declared more fully unto us, by this War, which is no leffe remarkable a Note to know them by now, when they are drawing neer their end, then the number of ten was to know them at their beginning; lo that having both the beginning and the endof them made known unto us, we cannot well make any doubt ofall the ref ofthe rank that come-fa between. Verf. 15. And he faid unto mee, the Waters Which thou faWe? . 'Thus far goeth the Interpretation of the Beaf. Now followeth that of the Whore : and firft in refped of her Whole jurifdic`lion , and that as it flourijheth, in this verfe. Hee interpreteth the Waters which he mentioned in the firft verle, to be people, companies of men, Nations, tonçues; that is, Nations of every Tongue that are in ficbjeetion toRme, as to their Lady and Empreffe. So are the Prophets wont to note out an huge company of people by Waters;as, the Waterscome upfrom the North,andfhall grout to be an over flowing andfelling flood, Jer. 47. 2. And indeed, they are called wor- thily by this-name, becaufe of their notable variety, inconftancie, and oftenchangingof their mindes and opinions, being, as it were, waves tared up anddown with the winds, as who are fubjeet to greater flowings, and to more violent and troublefome mo- tions, then that narrow Sea, called Euripus, whole violence is Paid to be fuch, that it is able to carry Ships that go with full fail again(} the wind ; to which for that caufe the Orator com- parech the multitude: Thefe Waters therefore belong to the Whore, who hath domi- nion over the world, far and wide, fuch as her jurifdietion was of old, when the was in the flowre of-her youth, and the perk- dion of her beauty and outward glory, though now in thefe lift dayes, when (he fhould grow withered, wrinckled and ill- favoured to fee to with age, as it becometh an old whore to look her waters fhould be made more (hallow, and 'drawn in- to a narrower Channell; as it followeth in the next verfe : as for the words, Ng/ions, and Languages, it is fpoken by a figure, by which tWo are put foc one; as if it were Paid, Nations of di- vers languages. Vcrf. aá.
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