C A p.5, 656 Againfi !ella9lriirit, to fpeak ofthe rely of thofe mofl villainous ways, bywhich the Beafp hath ttodden, the Soveraigne Majeflie of the Errsperours under his feet. Lafyly, the Toes of his feet seingnow divided, are not now'kept in. with any common band of the Imperial! name, but only of the whoreof Rome. For what hath the Emperor rodewith Spain ? what with France? What with theVenetians, with the Florentines; or with the King- dome of Naples ? All thefe Toes fticke together in the common foundation ofthe Popes Authority ; who is the only foot now wherein all thefe do , . agree and grow up together, and not the Empire, who hath nothing aimoii atall to do with them. The Emperors therefore are the Horns ofthe Beas7, but they are neither the leg nor foot of theRoman Empire, but the Toes of that foot and, perhaps, they fhall be the great Toe, when the Pope lift to make him fo. You Poptih Inchaunters of Rorie do blear their eyes with your jugglings, by giving them certain color red Titles and names without fubflance, but they (hall awake one day, and handle your inchaunting Circe of Rome, as her venues deferve. The things which you difpute for the Empire, and thé Em- pereurs, are vain and frivolous. There remaineth, fay you, a fucceffion as yet , and the name of thr Empereur , and it c471'e to pafe by the Wonderful) providence of Clod, that When the Em- pire failed quite in the Weltt., it remained fafek in the Ean, and When this failed, it Was reared up again in the Wen. I anfwer, that the fucceffion ofthe Empire Both not remain in the Emperor, but in the Pope. When thefixthHead fel,thefeventh fucceded; that is,the Pope,and not theChri/tian Emperors, who did then receive only the dignity to be the Hornsofthe Beaft, the fucceffion ofwhich dignity, they tran- flated to their pofterity,and not ofanyother. They retain indeed the name of the Emperors of Rome, but a title without any material} fub- fiance of the Empire fuch as it fhould have; even as the Churchof Rome is called Catholike,and many fuch titular things there be : but for thebeating out of the truth of this matter, the authority of the Holy Ghon is tobe refpeeted, and not the vain words and empty found ofmortali mens clamors. There bath shined forth indeed a marvellous providence of God in preferving this Imperial] dignity, ofwhat fort foeverit is both in the Ean, and in the weft. Put
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