922} us, as it were a ti hirlwinde. But who it is againft whom the An- gel faith, He (hall come againfl : ,he King of the South, or the Ro- man , it may bee doubted of: As a whirleWinde, faith he, /ballhefall upon hint. He vanqui(7ud indeed, the Empire ofthe Saracens in wife, but the weight and force ofhis Tyranny did lie, efpecially , againft the Romane, whom the Angel maketh the common : But to both Kings, both of the North and South, topierce him through with their darts and weapons, as the hiflorie thewtth evidently. Having therefore found out the adverfaries, let us fee, in the feverall parts, how the defcription will agree. He (hall invade, faith he, like a whirle-,, winde and tempeft fuddenly, fpecdily, and mightily, fhaking, and waftingall things, whofe force can fcarcely bee any way avoided but by flight, which indeed agreeth to none more fitly, and truly, then to the Turkifh Tyranny, from the yeer one thoufand three hundred, when he began utterly to overthrow Cities, Kingdoms, Armies, laying along, and fpoiling all that came in his way. The outragioufneffe of the Turkes did as much exceed that of the aracens, as a violent tempefl ruching from above, exceedeth the ercenetfe of a beaft, pufhing with his borne. The violenceof this beaft may be avoided by flight , or refinance, and ourmen have txprefled at length, the infolency of the Saracen!, though with their greet trouble and bile : but it is not in mans power tooppofe the terriblenefle and force of the whirlewindes, from which it is hard in any corners or coverts to make an efcape. Whence it came to paffe that our warres have not fo much put off the fury of the Turkes as provokod it : neither is any better to be expeeted,untill his Tyranny be come to his appointed time. His warlike inftru- ments are Chariots, Horfemen and Ships : the hooked iron Cha- riots were in frequent ufe with the Ancients, as it is manifeft both by Sacred and prophane Hiftorie : The Romanes firft raw them in the war of Antiochtu, and after that againft klithridat°s They ftrucke great terrour at the fire, but afterward they were de- rided and fcorned,as Vegetiue fheweth, Book 3. Wherefore the Romani never ufed thefe Chariors,and while they bore the fway, and vanquifhed, others alfo cart them offas unprofi- table on every fide : Here therefore he doth rather allude,to the an- cient Colton-1e, rhea ftrietly determine that the Kingof the North wouldufe Inch a kindeof armes: unlefle, peradventure, there Cha- riots be Wagons, andother carriages, appointed for the armies re- movalb
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