793 AZervelattonofthe Apocalypfe. CAP S. Where yet the place required no leffe , that the matter fhould be amplified with fuch words. Wherefore thefe waresare the labour, endeavour, and indulfry amen , in baautityingand increafing the frate of the city ofRome, which (hall be very bafelyefteemed of and rewarded,after that Rome fhalbe ruinated. Forwho will then give a man a deafe nut for his labour about Romes advancement ? Verf. z x. The Waret of Goldand Paid right now that this whole Allegory istaken out of Ezech.27.Where fpeech is had about the lleftruftion of Tyrua. And that not unworthily , as we have (hewed at the 3. Verfe , feeing Rome is no le% infamous for merchandizingof foules, then Tyros was famous for matting of Bodily Vtenfills. Ezechel doth reckon up eachofthe Nations in inch fort, that he dothwithall let down by name theproper commodities of each county , withwhich both they abounded themfelvas, and they made Tyrru to abound with them alto by carrying them out thither for traffick : According to this confideration,the fundry kinds ofwares freme to be reckoned up in this place, that they might note out untous the fundry nations, to which either they do properly be- long , or at lealt by whole travaile and paine they are conveyed to Rome. 'Therefore though the names of the countries are not fet down expreffely , as they be in Ezechiel , yet they may be eáfily underfood by the wares themfelves , according to that rule. The wares thereforeof liver andGold, and of the reit of the outlandifh commodities which are fpoken of in this verle, may lignifie Spaine, which fetched theft things out of the furde{f parts of the Indian countries ; and by whole meanes they are made faleable in this part of the world. Where we live , cynamon, odours, ointments, frankin- cenfe, andWine, note Italyout, not becaufeevery one of thefe things grow there , but becaufe as Spaine tranfporteth thefe things into E'u- rope,by meanes of the Ocean , fo Italy affordeth Europe plenty of thefe things,which it fetcheth out of Crccia, Cilicia, Arabia, Egypt by an inward fea ; and betides. It (elf doth tnoft abound with all kinde ofdelightfull fruits ofallthe countries in Europe. .Fineflorere, andwheat maynote out the Iles of the inward fez.Sicilia and Sardi- nia,which be the garners,and viClualing (tore-houfes of Italy;Beafs fign.ifie Germany that is full of them,Evtn as /beep may expreffe our Country of Rngland,which is molt famous of all other for the kinde of cattell, Horfes and charets note out the French-men , who have great plenty of Horfes,arid fromwhom this ufe of Charets and fuck kinde ofam nee hath beenderived over toother countr-ies;Bodies doc
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