754 AttiewititiodftheApoolypre, CAP, 8, as it is helmChap. 14, 8, 4 isata h. srriblc tape ei to pst- a, m1 li g bloc ;v hofore roe is it then to thruft and cati Men down headl`Qng into th ditch Iltat the manner.pffp¢ak tall fcctneth to changedof purpofe, leaff anywicked man tbouldexcufe her, and fliould fay that flie did not bring others into her fnares which fhe lead laid for them. Therefore this common reading whichour copies follow, is to be preferred, which the other neuter verbes that follow, feemalto to require, viz, have committed fornication,have waxed rich. And the Merchants oftheearth,ofthe-abundance of pleafarres.That is,out ofher fuperfluity, and immoderatedcfire ofenjoyning all de- lights. For Rome is another 4erve,r , who provokedmen to devife new kinde of pleafures by offering them rewards for their labour. How lhouldnot then the cunning inventersAnd inll rumentsof filch plea lures get themfelves great riches? But wia; ofMercbanrs are thefe; not of fuck, as it feemeth , whoget their living by carry- ing out and fetching in bodily wares and commodities; for they are in the number of thofe Reprobates, who do .bewaile the cafe Rabilon, the ruine whereof is ro be matter of great, joy to all the Saints, verlo iò. Neither flu!! the Merchandizeof thefe men be bought up any more,when Rom: is once dethoyed, andyet gold, fl- ver,and the reft of the things which are laid to be their wares (hall notceafe to be in reque1 in other placrs. To this we may adde, that among them,to whom this name agrecth proper ly, they are of the chiefde worth, whobring wares by lea out of far countries; but th®fe merchants do not tratiicke and chafterC.o.much byfeaasby land,whereupon they are called the merchants o_¡' the earth. Befides tilde are the Peeresand Princes of the earnh vet f 2.3. Who are of a higher ranke,then chofe that !et out wares to fell properly.Laftly we 1 ethat the fouler of men are reckoned up among thefe waresalfo, verle 13.Which will not fuller us by any meanes to flicke in the pro- per natureof the words. When. Exc. we are not here Co think of certainordinarymerchents,as if they were meant here,and yet thefe alto fhall be greatly endammaged, but thole rnagnific4i Lords;, the Cardinall.r, the Popij?, Arch-P,ilbops, andTi hops, who make mer- chandizeofinens foules, and flouriih by meaner ofthis traifick like the glorious Nobles, and Peers of theearth. For we (hail fee after- wards,that Romeis compared to Tyros, becaufe it isro l ffe Famous a Ma. ting place óf fpirituall things, then: yrw was ferrous of old for venting all thofecommodities that f t`ve for the delights of s prcfthint
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