804 ,fIRevelationof the Apocalyple. CAP.19. Banket, where there is (tort of Royall Chaire. Verf. /8. The tJe mar eate thefiefh of Kings. rc is very like that the Ten Hornes which (hall hate and bunte up the whore ofRome, (hall hate the Beaft alto, which was wont to be the minion and the , darling ofthe whore. Thefe Kings therefore that (hall join their forces with the Beaff, are not the ten Kings fpoken ofchapt. 17. Nei- ther (hall there be ten Kings onely in the time of Antichrrff, feeing thereChalkothers to be found befides them, who (hall lend the Beaff their helping hand ; But we may under(land by that which we have laid before, how vaine and fenfelctfe filch dreames as there arc. To let there paf;"e therfore,the Angel being now fur- ofthe vi.`tory,callech his brethren to the Ipoile, and biddeth them fly together, that they may take their fill ofthe booke and pillateof their enemies, and becaufe variety ingreat Feaas doch moll ofall delight men, he fetteth before them fundry kinds ofdainty dtthes ; thefiejk of Kings, of Captarues, &e. This is like to be fuch a Rovall real+, that a man (hall not be able to know, what dainty mortal robe doing with firl}, therebe fo many choice ones. Such a meales-meate isprepared by Ezeehidl, but the cares of it arc made of the fiefb ofthe Eaflerne enemies only, Chapter 39. t7. t8. Verf. 19. 4d 7 raw the 'Beall. Somuch for the Preparation of she Saints. Now followerh the mufferingofthe wicked together, and hill of thole that be in the weft, with whom the first encounter thalbe : The ch iefeCommanders and Captaines that there men (hall have are the Beafi and the Kings. For the Pope of Rome, after that Rome (halbe ruinated, (hall feare himfelfeelfewhere,for a few yeares, towit Avenion which is the Popespeculiar City, or at Bontorow, or Lone where there abouts. But he (hall not SurviveRome for any long time after that, not above five and fourty yeares at the tno', as it may begathered our ofthe diligent comparing of other Scriptures. Neither (hall he be deflituteofall aide from the Kings, when he Thal suite be bereaved ofhis Princely Chaire, but fomeKings, namely of the earth, that is. worshippers ofwicked fupierffrtion, (hail take his part frill who gathering and joining all their forces together, against Chrifr and his holy members,fhall enter thiscombate, letting their whole Reg, and trying their la l fortune upon it, as defperate wret- ches ufe to doe. Thcy(hall come together to Anxagedon,that holy Ci- ty, that hill that is fo fruitful' with dainty and precious things, the Angel whereoftandethin the Swine ; as it is verf. r7. Out ofwhich it is manife(t that all that Preparation CO warn, which the Holy Ghofa
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