Chap,4, according to S r M A T T H E VV. amnion : Alfo to have utterly extirped theBi(hop of Rome, &c. and Mon. Yea, they were fo thorowly refolved in that behalf, that they Ex refliotonio meant alto to exhort the Emperour to doe the like, or to break off L'ranmer,,Po4 from him. The fame Emperour to be revenged upon Pope ('le- , t; y; ment his enemy, abolifhed the Popes authority rhorowout all o , S a6. Spain, his native Kingdome, declaring thereby (the Spaniards snn xt. themfèlves for example ) that eccleuafficall difcipline may be P conferved without the Papali authority. The Eaftern Churches o.ü fafuur it. have long fince feparated ; the other four Patriarchs dividing tiusecetefie. themfelves from the Bifhop ofRome, and at their parting ufing 1laGl aped 3a- thefeor the like words ; Thygreatneffewe know , thy covetoufnes 4 n.Annal.rora. we cannot i túfie, thy encroaching we can no longer abide, live to Cade of the thyfelf. Neither are the Weffern much behinde, efpecially fnse Çh,nch, ex D. all was changed in that Church, manners, doctrine, and the very Fietd, Ger¡on, rule of faith in the Trent-counsel. Then (according to fome frr'carteron. Revel. Expofitours) did the fecond efingel pour out hia vial upon the fea ( upon that confluxofall forts at Trent )and it became as the blood pa w, &c. ofa deadman (thofe deadly decrees are written with the bloud of heretikes) and every livingpul died in that fea, as once the fifth of ,,Egypt. For none that worfhip the beaft have their names written in the bookof life of the lamb, fain from the foundation oftite world, Revel. z3.8. Slain, I fay, as in his fathers decree and promife, as in the Sacrifices of theLaw, and faith of his peo- ple; fo inhis members and Martyrs, beheaded as john Baptift, or otherwife butchered for the witneffe of Jefus, and for the Word Sangu?sMarty. of God. But the bloud of the Martyrs was the feeding of the ete,e. TerrEc Church. God was never left without witnefles, as is feen in our Tefter jecitati Catalogues ; but although]ohn was caff in prifon, yea beheaded per Illyr,cum, in theprifon, as if Godhad known nothing of him (quoth that D. Featteyt Martyr) yet there never wanted a Jefus togoe intoGalilee: And Catalogue, that guilty Edomite Herodwas fentibleofit, Matth. t a. when Proceflants g Y 4 calendar, he Paid to his fervants, This ie fohn Baptifl, he is rifena rom the Revel. air;. dead. In like fort the Romifh Edomite, after he had done to st. death Chriffs two ancienter witnefles, that (Baptiff-like) carne Parea in A;o. in the fpirit and power of Elias, to confute and confound their 14.6. Baalworthips, yet tohis great grief and regret, he loath feen In u rhac f langusge them revive and Rand upon their flot again, in that heroicafl nificthagoofe, t'viclif, who is laid to have written more then zoo. volumes a- Lurber a [wan, gainff him, in that Goofe of Bohemia, that Swan of Saxony and lohn Idau (thofe three famous Angels, That flew in the midfi of heaven, a: his death G z having pioptaelied te. 8;
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