C e P.2o. ARervelatioh of Apdcalypfe. ling and knobbed head in Grecia, Macedonia, Thracia, äná the ref$ of sheCountries ofEurope; his body fomewhat prodigioufly huge, in the. lefíer Afia, which is called Anatolia,at this day,and then his belly,that is fulofturnings & windings throughSyria,and Phccnicia,asDionyfiis fing- eth touching the gulfe that is in the Sea neer ./fair, moft agreeably with this we have in hand,faying;NoWas a `Dragon Withhis terribleand 14/ling loekv,is Writhed and turned roundabout,creeping crookedly, and lazily, &c. Laff ofall we may perceive his Taile with a long traine, fwooping and trailing after himthrough Egypt, and the coaft ofLybia, and as it were gathering it felfe into a Circle. This Serpent goeth not on with forth- right paces,but wreathing himfelf into many hollowwindiings,he thrufts his body forth and forward. Who is there that beholding this Empire,_ not fo much stretching it felfe forth in length, as creeping with an ob- lique turning, may not perceive a lively Image ora crooked Serpent ? I, take no pleafure to catchButterflies, like children ; that is, to let drive at filly lìtbtilties that have no fubftancc in them, but onely I delire to fet before our eyes the truth, as it feemerh to me of that Portraiture of a Serpent, which the holy Ghoft hath deviledand defcribed unto us. To this we may adde his dwelling in the Sea; for whichcaufe he is alto called Leviathan, or a great Whale; Howmarvelloufiy loth this agree to theTurke , who hath fixed the feat of his Empire within thevery mouthofthe Sea ofPontus,and Propontis,namely at Contantinople?when as God therefore (hall vifit this Serpent andLeviathan in his wrath, that is, when he (hall utterly deftroy the name andNation of theTurk!, then dull refsrralion here fpoken of come to pa(%.For the Prophet E/ay joyneth thefe two things together, faying, Thy deadmen_Thad liveagaine, and in that day the Lord flail vi/it that LeviathanWith his me cruell (Word; and thus he beginneth the next Chapter with Petting the time wherein this (hall be effefted, againft that, wherein the Lord (hall he- flow that benefit upon his people,of which he made mention in the end of the former Chapter. So Both Saint Iohn in this place, joys this refur- rellion immediatlyafter the prophecy of the Turk! deftruftion. The third place is Ezec.37.Where,what other thing are the dry bones; the Main men, and the óraves,but theleWes who are afdi led over-w helm- ad withal kind of mferies & calamiries,who fhouldhave no more pow- er to deliver themfelves from that deftruftior, then thofemenhave that be dead and buried,to rife up out oftheir graves ? What alto doe thofe finewes, flefh,skin,brearh lignifie, but the reftoringofthat people,which (hall be fulrilled at lcngth,which fhall be almoft asacceptable andwith- ed a matter unto them, as a new life (hall beunto a manafter he hath O0000 been
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