CAP .19. .41evelAtionofthe AphCAiypíe. 8o$' Gholl hath comprifedtogether. Chapt t 6. 13. 14. &c. is ofdíverfe cncmíes,who (hall fight their Battells feveraily, fire of the Beaft, and thefalf-Prophet, and then ofthe Dragon. Verfe zo, Bait the Beaft mu taken. So fail re gotth the Explaining ofthe Sixt Pial1; The Scaventh and Tait commeth Now to beunfoul- ded and opened more fully. And this Both firft deliver unto us the de(lrucîionofthe enemiesofChrifl, and ofhis Church ; and fïrft of the Beaf and ofhis Armies. The Heaft ie taken;beìng as it were cat - ched ip fnares and ))(tangled ere he be awareof ir, as wild beafi:s are taken which runne into theNetts and ginns ere they know where they be. So much doth the word epaifle intimate that tignifieth to take. And indeed we know, that,TheLortá raineth DevonSnares tep- on the wicked, as it rs Pfa. r t.6. Whereby their fceteare taken in fuel) places, where they haft of all feared any filch matter. Thefa 1e Propket ár taken together with thísBeaff ; both whíelì being-joined to- gether do teach us, that the Popeat Rome, (for fo perhaps he will be Rill called, after that the Cityof Rome (halbe laid waft) (hall now at length be utterly dcflroyed, both in refpt5t ofHSCivillpeniir, whichmaketh him be called. the Beaft, as alto in refpeet' of Ens ffriri- trsafl, becaufe of which he is called the Falfe- Prophet. The Holy Ghat} fpeaketh ofhire(, as if he were two difiincl perlons, becau(è of that double wickedilate of his, for which this momofSin is fa- mous in all the world. but when I fay the `Popeof Ròm , I do not onely undèrliand that particular man, aaha Thai! fit in that Chàire of peflilence, at that time, brit the State itfile al fo and the order of Papes,which (hall then fn wholly and for ever perifh,that there {hall be no remainders of it left flandìng.Onely tome hateful remembrance thereof (hall abide. in that the impiety thereof hath been the utter avid etetnall undoing, death, and detlrueclion of fo infinite a number in Bodyand Soule. Who wrought Afiracie..Tbete was mention madeof the fall Pro- phet before, chap. 16. 13. But becaufe we had anaked name, onely ofa man there, that no manmight be ignorant wtom he meant by this name, the Holy Ghoe doth defcribe him here by infallible markes, that there might be no place left for doubting any more. Whe (faith he) wrought miracles,with which ed he, ucedtbafe that re- ceived the marke of the Beaft, and that adored his yrnage. In which word's he teachethus molt manifeftly, that thisfall Prophet is that fecond.134 ofwhich we read, chapt. 1 j, 13 arc. Let the Popes proms' ours therefore and arm oflaw looke well about them, and let Kkkkk a then
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