216 ii ervelation ofèbeApocalypfe. C A P. 2o: againe. In thcfe words the third Period is let downe, that falleth in- to thebeginning fixthT romper, when as the molt Barbarous Turke cafting away all feare of the Roman Empire, which he law to be left forfakenofthe help of theWeftern forces,and tobe undone within it felfby means of floathfulneffe,riotoufne{fe,andcontentions,begun to play the Tyrant again in anhorrible manner againft the Church alfo, avd not onely again[ the falfe Church, but againil the true one alto, whicht-began thereafter a long fpace oftime to plunge, andas it were, to look ot.t ófher lurkinghole in the Defarr, whether the had fed,though fhe deferred her ful return thence til many ages after.At that time the Devitt being let loofe, granted not the true Church one hou re ofTruce,but as foone as the truth began to come forth abroad at the year t 3oe. he ftirred up the enemy therof, to vex,by all means he could.The Turke, therefore invadeth the Dominions belonging to. the Empire, paffethover into Europe, heapeth up vietories, defaceth the Majeftyofthe Roman authority,carrieth away all withhimfelfe like a molt violent floud,neither is there any fortreffe found to be fo ftrong at this day, that cankeep out and refift his fury. But the time of this tyranny is but fhorr, namely for anhoure, a day, a moncth,and a yeere ; that is, about three hundred ninetyyeares, if we meafure a yeare by twelve moneths,-and eachmoneth, by thirty dayes, accor- ding to the accompt ofthe two and forty moneths, and of the three .dayes andan halfe, Chap. i t. if we follow the accompt ofIulian moneths, this wicked Kingdom (hail not be prolonged anymore then fevenyearts by this accompt, being then to be utterly extino gui(hed, not havingany footlkep of the Turkifh power to romaine unfhaken, as fhall befaid afterwards. Ver.4.Then I faOtfeats.Hitherto reacheth the concife repeatingof the Hiftory of the Dragon; the fame is handled now a little more ful- ly, having the Rate ofthe Church joyned unto ir, and repeated toge- ther with ir, wherein it is (hewed how it fared with eachof thofe Periods ofthe Dragon. The two fit-ft whereofarevery elegantly in= timated by the feuefame words; for teeingSeats are ['eerie to be fet after the binding of the Dragon, and thefootles alfo ofthofe that Were fmittcn'Withthe fOlord appeare fitting upon thefe Seats, and judge- ment isgiven unto them; by the fame words it is fignified, that the firft Churchwas miferablyafflifted, before that that deadly enemy was raft intoprifon. For the Church had no Throne.fet for it, no judgement given it, but it lay trampledupon the ground, fo as many of her members were made to lofe their lives for the truth, for the
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