83o ARevelationofthe Apócalypfe. C A P.20. Chrif&ianprofeffion. From that time the Turknever wanted the help of the ,Scythians his countrey-men,upon whofe ftrength he much relyethat this day, as we taw in the lace wars againft the Hungarians, wherein he had great fo ces of theTartarians to help him, who are the naturali Scy- thian, the off-fpring of Magog. The combining therefore of Gog and ,Magog againft the Saints, is openly feen at this day ; fo as not any kin- dred and neerne%ofblood, but only the fraud and feducing ofthe De- vil( hath made them confederates. And thus wee fee what this Army of theTurks and Scythian is,both of which people are of the fame ori- ginal( ; but the Turks are called Gog, becaufe they have their off-fpring from Magog, as a river fpringeth from a Fountain; although they be now the principali Commanders in this warfare; neither do they retain any thing at all of the Scythians, by reafon of the long (by which they have made in .AJia, but only force foot-Reps of the ancient name. But the Scythian, partly thofe that same lately from thence, partly thofe that inhabite there at this day, who yet are fensfor into thefe Countries of Afia, and the refs of the Turks dominions,to aid them, as need requireth, are called by the name oftheir firft Founder and Governour. The number of this Army is infinite almoft. For it ù like the land by the SeaJhore, that is, very huge and innumerable; it was defcribed before bya definite number, of ttt?o thoufandtimesan hundred thoufand, Chap.9. 16. Inboth places an infinite multitude is fignified. And what Emperor is there, that cometh into the field with fo mighty and populous an army as the Turkdoth ? The forces,f.theChriftians,when they are all put to- gether, do fcarce equall the foíhpart of his army in any battell that is fought between them. Verf 9. And they Went up-over the plain bredih of the earth. _ Wee fpake in the former verfe of a threefold enterprife which this army thus levied (hall make ; the first whereof is this afcending over the bredth . ofthe earth, then on the length ofit.. For after that Egypt and a great part ofAffricktowards the North,even to the borders ofthe Tartarians, fl,ould be brought under fubjec`tion by the, Turks ; this Empireof theirs bath no lefl'e wide an extent from the South to the North, yea, much more, then the Empire ofThe Romans had ; but from the E4 to the weft,they fcarcegot any more then the third part. Moreover, they have, gotten fo eafie and fo. ready a vic%ory hitherto, that theymay be wor- thily faid to afcendover the bredth, . as who fubdued molt of the Na- tions unto their power, rather with courting through them,then by firing them out with any long and doubtful( battell. .41nd they comía j(ed the7ents,of theSaints. Their fecond indeavour, is their,
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