Book IV. M Y S T E R Y E A B Y L 0 N. M E T A P H 0 R. P A R A L L E L. v. 10. My Priefts and mine Elders by much Hunger; of which we have a lamentable perijbed in the City , while tbeyfought and heart-breaking Relation, in the Hiftory of the their Meat to refrejh their Soul; lrijb Maifacre, &c. thofc that were purer than S11ow, whiter than Milk, more ruddy than precious Stones curioujly polijbed, became as black as a Coal, withered and wrinkled, their Ski.• cleaves to their Bones for want of Food. X IV. Chaldea, or Literal BabyXIV. Rome, or Myftery Baby/on, hath fo much Ion, delightet1 fo in Burning-work, delighted in the curfed Trade of Burning, that as that they fet on Fire and burnt !he hath not been contented with burning the do·.vn the very Houtes and D wdBodies of Men and Women to Afhes ; but !he linos of the People of Sion, as well hath burnt down their Meeting-places, wherein as ~he Places of public vVorfhip, they wudhipped God; and not only fo, but the ']er. lii. 12, !3· In the nineteenth very Habitations and Dwelling-places of the faith– Year of tbe King of Babylon, came ful Servan<s of Chrift, leaving them and their his chief Steward, and burnt the Wives and Children Harborlcfs; as !he did not Ho1lje of the Lord, and the King's only to the bleifed Witneffes of Chrift, in the Val– Houft, and all the Ho11jts of J erulies of Piedmont, bm to famous and renowned Lon– .falem, aud all the great lioufes burnt don itfelf, &c. remember I 666. be with Fire, &c. X V. Chaldea, or Literal Baby/on '"'3.5 (o vilbinous as to ravifh the Women in Sion, and the Maids in . the Cities of 'judea, declaring their Sin like Sodom, Lan.. v. 1 1. '!'hey .defiled the Women, and ravijhed the 1\llaids i11 theii Cities, &c. XVI. Chaldea, or Literal Baby– Ion, delighted in I-Ianging as well as Burning, ferving Gud's People, as Men i'erve Dogs that they do not think fit to live; as well as ufed them like dry Bones and rotten Wood, by burning them to Afhes .and Powder, they hanged them up as well as burnt rhem, and hanged them up in a miferable manner roo, even the belt among the People, .La·m. v. 12. Princes are haJJged up by their Hands, the Face of Elders were not honored, which is the wodt Way of Hanging for cominuance of Shame and l:'ain. · XV. Rome, or Myftery Bab).Zou, hath been fo beaftly villainous, that it is almot1: beyond Belief, t.tking \Nomen before their Hufbands Faces, and Maidens before their Parents Faces; firft ravifh– ing them open ly, in the Sight of tbe Sun, and then imbruing their barbarous Hands in their Blood, as divers Hiftories do declare. XVI. Rome, or Myftery BabJ•lou, bath not lefs anfwered her Type in this than in many other Things ; for !he hath ferved the belt of Men like Dogs: that have been counted not fit to live, for beftdes making them like rotten Wood, and burn– ing their Bones into Lime, Dull or Powder, fhe hath driven a very curfcd Trade in Hanging; and becaufe !he would fee which was the wont \Vay of Hanging, the has hanged feme by the Neck till dead, and others by the Middle, and burnt them by Degrees, to lengthen our cheir Pain and Mi– fery; others by their tenderdl: P~rts; 0 monftrous Barbarity ! A Shame to have it told in Gath, or publifhed in the Streets of Ajkelon! What was done to the noble Lord Cobham, and many othe" in thefe Parts of the World, is !o plain and noto– rious, as if 01e had been under a Conllraint to accomplifh the Iniquity of her Type. Here we !hall, for the further cle>ring up of this Myltery, run a brief Parallel be– .tween the little Horn and the Popes, or B,fhops of Rome., and fo conclude. I. The little Horn rofe at the ·latter End of the fourth Kingdom, or when the Roman Empire ftood upon ilS !aft Legs, or fell into .a DiviGon of ten .Parts, Dan. vii. 7, 8. And tbe Roman, or fourth Bepfl bad ten Horns; and behold, there came up amongft them anotber little Horn. I. The Popea of Ro•ne were kept under by the Emperors, who kept a ftritl Eye over them, curbed their lnfolencies and Exorbitances, and at the firfl: Appearance nipp>i~g their afpiring ProjeCts in the very llud; fometimes depoGng and banifhing fome proud Prcb.les, when they !hewed at whar t11Cy levelled their Deftgns. But after the Power of Rome, which before wa.s entire in one Emperor, fell into ten Parts and Divifions, which happened and the learned -j- Mede 01ew at in the Ycar of our Lord 456, as * Du-Mou/in, large, ouJ: of the Roman Hi!1ories. Upon this Divi- • .Aaomp(ifomrnt if Prr;p!urin. JO N t Lib. iii. /· 779· lion,
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