ßy 6 A eveiationofthe Apocalypie. C A P.18e blood Royal, who have not judged this degree of honour, tobe unworthy to bee added to their Noble Defent , to grace them- felves and it wichall. Cardinal Pool was here , who living in Eng.--' Lind in the dayes of £aecne Mary , was defcended from Kings. Cardinall Burbon that lived in France, was of the King linage; fo alto was Lotharin?us the brother of the Duke of Guile. Alber- timDuke of o.Aiftria, and brother to Rodolph the Emperour, is not living, and glorying in the Title, and honour of a Cardinal!? not this truely force monftrous great Preferment, that fuch great Princes as thefe do not difdain ? may they not be worthily count ed the Peeres of the earth, who are become men of fuch high and honourable ¿fate, both by their birth, and by the rich comings in of theirMerchadizing trade? But you will fay,and fee that this is more then true, ifyou will take a view, how thrfe Swooping and Huffing Prelates take their places in an affembly of States at R,eme. If any Prince come, whom the Pope will in fpeciall grace and favour ad- mit to fit among the Cardinals,w hatplace trowye is allotted to him? Forfooth he (hall fit before the last Cardinalt that is a Deacon, and fo ifit bee a full Court , and a Congregation in State, confì(fing of all that belong to that Bench, this Prince muff thinkhimfelf graced by the Pope, ifhe fit !aft but one ofall this Rout, even ofthree-fcore and eight Scarlet Attendants of the Scarlet whore, as it was to be fern in the yeer t 593. in the example of Maximilian the `Prince of Bavaria, a Countrey high in Germany. This is that incredible and intolerable, more then Perfzan, and Pharifaicall Pride of theirs', and yet very well fuiting with the Court ofRome, where even the Emperours do kiffe the feet of the high Prieff of Rome, and there- fore why may not they who are the Privy Councell of the Pore fit higher,and over-top in honour the reff of thePrinces?But this pride ofRome (hall at length havea terriblefall, and withal], it (hall helpe to pull down that Mil-ft one upon the neck of Rome , whereby fhe fhall be preffed down into the nethermoff Hell. It is clear enough out of thofe things which have been laid before, how Idolatry hath íilued out of this Romifh fink-hold,into all the Wefferne parts. And we have no need to fay more about her murderingofS2 i its,as which wehave touched before;neither is thereany man who knoweth not cerrainelywhat and howmany have been the Maffacres ofthis Cai- nifh generation. CHAP;
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