4 8zß {Oelatlon'oftheApacalyp:fe. CAP.zo. Gag should not be the ufuall name of any Coúritréy, but a name made ofMago ^, both that it might note out the exceeding neer concord and amity of both thefe Nations, as alto that iè, might appeare that Gog had his originall from Magog. For, Magog is the 40tent and chiefname ofone ofthe Eons ofIaphet, which are reckoned to be Gomer and Magog,and Madai and Iavar,&c. Cen.Io. a. Now Go is made from that name, by the taking away of the ñríf fyllable,that fo we might knowhim to be a flip of than block. But the Countries which e echiel giveth unto him, did not fubje ff thenafelves to any fuchPrince at that time, but they were at length to come under the power of fome filch man, when that Prophetic íhouldbe fulfilled ; and this Goo: breaking forth of them, as it wereout of the Barriers, should make his firíf affault to fubdue the reff ofthe world ; as if it were faica,. Behold,Icome againft thee,O people,that haft thy reprif:nr; fromMagog,but thon dWelleft in the regions ofMefechandTubal. In which words he Both note out theTurk! in their lira originali molt tidy. For thefe are Scythi- anns in their originali, which inhabited the Northern fide ofthe hills of Cancafau : asZonaraa fa'th, Tom. 3. to Confantine Pevnatu.r. And theft men, after they were called into Perfia again;} the Saracens,revolting at length from the Perfians,brought the Babylonians,and almoff all the c°afZt, .Armenia, Iberia, Capadocia into their power. The Turk th refore is the Scythian Nation, who was made at lart, the Lord of Mefech and Tubzl; that is,,ofthe Capadocians and Iberians. In which places hee lay reffing himfelf, till the Devíll was let loofe at the yeer t 300. feducing and prc yoking this Nation to make open war againff the Church. For then, at the time when Andronicr s `Paleologue raigned,.he utterly difcomfited and deffroyedthe army of the Romans in Paphlagonia ; and this gate being fet open unto him, he made an incurfion, even to the River Sa{aras, that runneth into the Sea Erx num, out ofGalatia, and to all the Provinces that reach from the Sea of `Pontus and Galatia, even to the Sea ofLycite and Caria, and brought the River Enrymedon under his jurifdidior,_ Niceph. Gre-. Rook y. Pliftor. Bytant. Hencecame the beginning ofall mifchiefes : For lireght after this, Ottoman roteup,from whom the cala. mity that bath a(fl°seed our part of the world,hath been derived byta long fuccefiìctn. And thus hath Gog been(educed, whowas indeed thePrince ofMe0,eche4fTsabal önly,whenhe firfl began to make fpoiles and affiults in thq world ; but now all the lef1er Afra, Syria, Mefopotamia,e,1*ra6 a, lnd;a, `Paleftina, E`ypt, theIfles, Grcci.x, Macedònia, Thracia, &c..are Provinces fubjec`f untohint And all thereProvincesafter that this tyran-. nyof his was increafedto the full and large extent thereof, are calledof the
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