(920) contention, that it is the purpofeofthe fpirit in this place, to cotta- prife in a short abridgement, the wholedate of the people of the "ewes, in a continual! orderly fuccefsion,even to the fecond coming oîChrifL. Let us come therefore to the words. The time of the end, whereof mention is made in thefirft place, fheweth many middle matters to be overpafled,and thata paffage is made to theTaft things; yet not to the laft, andutter ruin of this King , the Romane Empe- rour,but to his Hiding glory, and endofhis unbridled power,where- by of late he did whatfoever he pleafed. Neither did any remark- able accident fall out befides thofe things already fpoken of, after the defacing of the City, and fcattering of the nation by Adrian, which handled the remainders ofthis people in like manner, as Ve- //atiarr had their fathers, not many yeers before. Iuftly therefore., Both he paffe with fo fwift acourfe from thofe times, to the weakned and decayed Empire. A little before the end therefore, ofthe flou- :rifhing Roman Empire, (the Kingofthe South) that is, the Saracens than encounter him, withwhich their Captaine Mahomet did f rft make an invafion into the Romane Dominion, out ofArabia, and the Southerly places neer adjoyfling. Thebeginning of this hoftile and violent affaulr, was about the yeer fixhundred and thirty, which in fhort time fell out fo happily unto them, that within leffe then thirty yeers; they got from the Ro- mane Empire, ferrs/a1cm, all Syria, Africa,and thegreater Afîa.The Spiritdoth fitly liken this nation to a beaft , that tiriketh with his homes, jithbar, faith he, He !hall pu(h at him, he (hall fo wantonly and proudly info!*, neither with ill fetcceffe nor with leffeforce,then the wilde beafts Die to do, whole ftrength is all in their homes. Great w.;s the infolencie of.the Agarens,who hearing that confiance the Emperour had prepared a navy againit them, ltaid not till hee fhould purfue, and invade them, but prefently came flyingupon him intoPhenice in Lycia, and overcame him in a great batten by Sea ; Zonar. Conflan: Afterward for (even veers together they vexed his fon Confantiur Poganarus, and in their great pride bent all their forces againfc the Royal! City, which they moil eagerly affauited;as many yeers almoff, as the Grecians did Troy of old, as [corning the leffer Townes, and judging the miftrefle alone worthy, to the which they might imend their' journey with earneft dcfire. But thou wilt fay then,'.lf the Spirit would fall down into thefe.times, why doth hee .paffe over the goths, Vandals, Scythian, and the ether Northerne, rude, and Barbarous people, by whole invafîon this
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