CÁ1 Ii . 4 euelationofthe Apocalypfe. '711 hebeyet to come, And this is the only way todive intotht depth çf thefe myftericsawhich otherwife arc unfearchaWe by us. But we molt ubferve that this Angell trail not çnme Ñ th (as it feémtith) prçft fitly atlor that manitettationcfthe Tbrone, which we fpake c to the former Chapter. Bat fie fhallcome at lengtft after Tome car. taine andconvenient time comming between; and therefore this vifion is divided from the former by that ufuall finaleof exprefng of a fpace of time , that is a little further d if- joyned from that that went before ; andafterthefe thing I faW. Verf.a. And hecryed ont mightily, the words are in or with might, that is ftrongly,valiañtly,vehemently.. Complut,and the Kings bible read With 6111'3'011g voice; fo doth Aretar alfo read it,but the meaning is. allone.This vehement lifting up of the voice,fignifieth the effect- alneffe, & the unc rtngeablenelfe of the matters that were to bead- ed, as Aretas noteth; and yet perhaps filch a denouncingofthem is not tobe looked for as is to be made with words,but either the very onfet giving to the matter fhall ftir up filch an imagination in the minds of men,as if they werehearing this voice foundingout in their cares:Now fèeing this cryingout is performed by that one Angell,to whom thebuCncff ofdeltroying and burningRome is betrufted,as it is likely , this may fornewhat continue that which wePaid on the former Chapter , that fome one ufthe ten Hornes to whom all the reltof the company is joyned by a ;ynechdoche,& the whole num- ber, fnall bring this hit defolation uponRome, He crieth with a re- doubledvoice that Babylon isfaen,is fallen ; according to the man- ner of the former Prophets, but with thisdit .rence , th:t thofe.de. nouncingthe ruine thereof, which was to come long sfìer,this tea- cheth it to be at hand, yea to benow in tight ; now at 'all to be ac compliihed at this letting forth & arivall ofhis.Th tt great Babylon, that is Rome the f_ven hiltedCity,tiie fovcraigneEmpreífe,as Baby- lon was themot her City ofthe Alfyriins long agoe. There is adoa- ble Babylon fpokenofin this book,as we have learned Chap.z6.that is Romeand Cvnfantinople.but here the-Crft is fpoken ofw ch belongs to the fift Viall, in handling of which this Chapter is fpent. Thefe- cmdbelongs to the 124Viall,ch de.ftru55íion whereofis handled Chap. 20. And it is become the habitation ofDevils'. The cauleof the twine thereof is not fpoken ofhere thefe words; aswhich followeth af- ter in the thirdVerfe.Eut the defolation thereofis declared by com- paring it with an hOrrible andhideous wilderreffe,which this kinde of inhabitants here fpotten of doe expreffe notably, as which doe Ccccc 2 gladly
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