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<P>NAPIERS NARRATION: OR, AN EPITOME OF HIS BOOKE ON THE REVELATION.</P>
<P>Wherein are divers <HI>Mi&s;teries</HI> di&s;clo&s;ed, touching the foure <HI>Bea&s;ts,</HI> &s;even <HI>Vials,</HI> &s;even <HI>Trumpets,</HI> &s;even <HI>Thunders,</HI> and &s;even <HI>Angels,</HI> as al&s;o a di&s;covery of <HI>Antichri&s;t:</HI> together with very probable conjectures touching the the time of his de&s;truction, and the end of the WORLD.</P>
<P><HI>A Subject very &s;ea&s;onable for the&s;e la&s;t Times.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>REVEL. 22.12.</HI></BIBL>
<P>And behold I come &s;hortly, and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his worke &s;hall be.</P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>R. O.</HI> and <HI>G. D.</HI> for <HI>Giles Calvert.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>NAPIERS NARRATION: OR An EPITOME of his BOOKE on the REVELATION.</HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>ROLLOCK.</SPEAKER>
<P>_WEll Sir, &s;ith it hath plea&s;ed our Lord JESUS CHRIST to reveale unto you many <HI>My&s;teries</HI> contained in the <HI>Revela|tion</HI> of Saint <HI>John;</HI> I be&s;eech you be plea|&s;ed to open &s;ome of them to me: and fir&s;t I d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ire to know what is meant by the foure Bea&s;ts men|tioned, <HI>Chap.</HI> 4.6.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>The foure Bea&s;ts are the foure <HI>Evangeli&s;ts,</HI> as it is evident; in that the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">aces which the Text &s;aith tho&s;e foure Bea&s;ts had, and the beginnings or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> foure <HI>Evangeli&s;ts</HI> Go&s;pels are alike; as for Exa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
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<P>The Text &s;aith the fir&s;t Bea&s;t had a face like a man; &s;o <HI>Mathew</HI> who fir&s;t of all wrot, and that in <HI>Hebrew,</HI> be|gins his fir&s;t face or leafe, at the genealogie of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> as he is Man.</P>
<P>The &s;econd bea&s;t is &s;aid to have a face like a Lyon: &s;o <HI>Marke,</HI> who was the &s;econd that wrote, begins his fir&s;t face or leafe at the voyce, crying like a roaring Lyon in the Wilderne&s;&s;e, <HI>Prepare the way of the Lord.</HI></P>
<P>The third Bea&s;t is &s;aid to have a face like a Bullock; &s;o <HI>Luke</HI> was the third that wrot, beginneth his fir&s;t face or leafe at <HI>Zacharias,</HI> offering incen&s;e as it were a Bul|lock at the <HI>Altar.</HI></P>
<P>The fourth Bea&s;t is &s;aid to be like a flying Eagle; &s;o <HI>John</HI> that wrot the fourth <HI>Evangell</HI> begins his fir&s;t face at the high and divine e&s;&s;ence of <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> God-head flying &s;o high in his Stile, that he is compared to an Eagle.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well Sir, you have &s;atisfied me in this; where|fore in the next place, I pray tell me what is meant by the opening of the &s;even Seales mentioned <HI>Revel,</HI> 6.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Nap,</SPEAKER>
<P>The opening of every Seale mu&s;t continue the &s;pace of &s;eaven years, and that becau&s;e of removing and gining &s;even yeares to every &s;eale, you &s;hall finde the effect of every Seale to bee performed within the &s;even yeares of that &s;eale; and &s;o the Harmony to be perfect betwixt tho&s;e Seales and the ju&s;t Hi&s;tory.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>And when did the fir&s;t Seale begin to be opened?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>This behooved onely to begin at that time that <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> was bapti&s;ed and began to preach and o|pen up the &s;ealed doctrine of our Salvation which was in the end of the 29^t^h. yeare of the age of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and a|bout the beginning of his thirtieth yeare, as <HI>Luke</HI> te|&s;tifieth.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well then Sir, I pray you proceed to &s;hew the
<PB REF="3">harmony betwixt the Text and the Hi&s;tory, that &s;o ac|cording to your &s;aying, we may &s;ee the effect of every Seale to be performed within the &s;pace of every &s;even yeares.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>For the clearing of this, I pray take notice, that the preci&s;e time of the foure <HI>Evangeli&s;ts</HI> writing, and the occa&s;ion why they did write agreeth with the Hi&s;tory and time of the foure fir&s;t Seales.</P>
<P>As for example, when the word of God pa&s;&s;ed out on the white hor&s;e in the time of the fir&s;t &s;eale, betwixt the yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 29. and 36. then &s;aith the Text, one of the foure Bea&s;ts &s;aid come and &s;ee; that is <HI>Mathew</HI> the Apo&s;tle, who at that time wrot the fir&s;t <HI>Evangell</HI> in He|brew, exhibiting the &s;ame to be &s;eene of the <HI>Iewes,</HI> ex|pres&s;ly for the conver&s;ion of them; and as the Text &s;aith, he that &s;ate on the white hor&s;e had a bow and a Crowne given him and he went forth conquering that he might overcome: even &s;o at that time <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> by his doctrine, Miracles death and victory over death &s;o touched and moved the hearts of all the faithfull; that &s;odainly hee with his di&s;ciples got the victory over all the world.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">he in the &s;econd &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ale betwixt the yeare 36. and 43. the Text &s;aith the &s;econd Bea&s;t &s;aid, Come and &s;ee, that is <HI>Marke</HI> the Apo&s;tle &s;et out the &s;econd <HI>Evangel</HI> to bee &s;eene of all men, for the comfort of the afflicted Church; for as the Text &s;aith, there was power given to him that &s;ate on the red hor&s;e to take peace from the earth, and that they &s;hould kill one another; &s;o within the &s;pace of the&s;e &s;econd &s;even yeares Saint <HI>Sephen</HI> &s;uffered Martyrdome for <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> &s;ake: and <HI>Iames</HI> the brother of <HI>John</HI> likewi&s;e was beheaded.</P>
<P>Then in the third &s;eale betwixt the 43. and 50. yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> the third Bea&s;t &s;aid, Come an &s;ee, and that was
<PB REF="4"><HI>Luke</HI> who&s;e <HI>Evangel</HI> came to light at that time, and as the Text makes mention of a Famine, even &s;o was there one at that time, whereof <HI>Agabus</HI> prophecied, <HI>Acts</HI> 11. and <HI>Luke</HI> in his Booke of the <HI>Acts</HI> maketh mention. In this dearth the bu&s;hell of Wheat was &s;old for five times the accu&s;tomed price, and the bu&s;hell of barly for three, as te&s;tifieth <HI>Suetonius,</HI> and <HI>Dion.</HI></P>
<P>Then in the fourth &s;even yeares betwixt the yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 50. and 57. the fourth Bea&s;t &s;aid, Come and &s;ee; and that was the Apo&s;tle <HI>Iohn,</HI> who at that time wrot the fourth <HI>Evangelion;</HI> for as the Text &s;aith, His name that &s;ate on the pale Hor&s;e was death, and hell follow|ed after him; even &s;o at that time were there certaine Heretiques aro&s;e, as <HI>Cerinthus, Nicolaus</HI> and <HI>Ebion,</HI> who held deadly Here&s;ies again&s;t the Divinitie of <HI>Chri&s;t;</HI> whereupon in the time of the&s;e fourth &s;eaven yeares <HI>John</HI> wrot the fourth <HI>Evangel,</HI> and publi&s;hed it, begin|ning at the de&s;cription of <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> Divinity, expre&s;ly a|gain&s;t tho&s;e Hereticks.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>As you have &s;hewed the effect of the foure for|mer &s;even &s;eales to be performed in the foure fir&s;t &s;ea|ven yeares; &s;o I pray proceed to doe the like of the three latter.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then in the fifth &s;eaven yeares, even the yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 57. (as the Text &s;aith) there was &s;eene under the Altar the &s;oules of them that were killed for the word of God, and for the te&s;timony which they main|tained, even &s;o in that very yeare aro&s;e the Tyrant <HI>Ne|ro,</HI> on who&s;e bloody &s;eate, the blood of the Saints cry|up to the heavens to God to revenge their blood.</P>
<P>Then in the &s;ixt &s;eaven yeares as the Text &s;aith, there was a great earth-quake, and the Sun was black as &s;ack|cloth
<PB REF="4">of haire, and the Moon was like blood; and even &s;o after the yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 64. a great change and defecti|on came in all e&s;tates of the Roman Empire, for now <HI>Nero</HI> rai&s;ed great per&s;ecutions again&s;t the true &s;piritu|all Profe&s;&s;ors, to have utterly darkned and extingui&s;hed the light of the Go&s;pell; &s;o that the true Church of God was forced to lurk in &s;ecret, for the revenge wher|of, God moved the Kingdomes of <HI>France, Spaine,</HI> and Ile of <HI>Brittaine</HI> to Revolt from this Tyrant.</P>
<P>Then in the &s;eaventh &s;eaven yeares which was be|twixt the yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 70. and 77. the Text &s;aith, At the opening of this &s;eale, there was &s;ilence in heaven a|bout halfe an hower; even &s;o at that time Gods Church had peace a little while.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well Sir, now in the next place tell me what you under&s;tand concerning the &s;even <HI>Trumpets</HI> mentio|ned in the eighth and 9. Chapter?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>I under&s;tand tho&s;e &s;eaven <HI>Trumpets</HI> mentioned in tho&s;e Chapters, and the &s;eaven Vials mentioned in the 16. Chapter to be all one.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>How doth that appeare?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>It appeareth to bee &s;o in that they are both of them the &s;eaven la&s;t plagues, as al&s;o in that they agree in their principall termes, the &s;econd <HI>Trumpet</HI> with the &s;econd <HI>Viall,</HI> the third <HI>Trumpet</HI> with the third <HI>Viall,</HI> and &s;o that thereby wee may a&s;&s;uredly conclude that both tho&s;e <HI>Trumpets,</HI> with tho&s;e <HI>Vials,</HI> and al&s;o the re&s;t of the <HI>Trumpets</HI> with the re&s;t of the <HI>Vials</HI> re&s;pective in purpo&s;e, meaning, time, and in all other circum&s;tances, to be one and the &s;elfe &s;ame thing.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>And when did the &s;eaven <HI>Trumpets</HI> or &s;eaven <HI>Vi|als</HI> begin?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>The la&s;t of the &s;even &s;eales, and the fir&s;t of the
<PB REF="5">&s;eaven <HI>Trumpets</HI> or <HI>Vials</HI> begin both at once in <HI>An.</HI> 71.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>How doth that appeare?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>This appeareth evidently for even by the Text, Chap. 8. the &s;eaventh Seale being opened that very hower the &s;eaven Angels received their <HI>Trumpets</HI> to blow; for having &s;aid in the fir&s;t ver&s;e, and when hee had opened the &s;eaventh &s;eale there was &s;ilence in Hea|ven about halfe on houre, he &s;ubjoyneth immediately, (ver&s;e 2.) <HI>And I &s;aw the &s;eaven Angels, &amp;c. receive their &s;eaven trumpets:</HI> and further, after he hath &s;hewed <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 5. how <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> powred out the fiery coales of his wrath in revenge of the blood of his Saints, which doubtle&s;&s;e was upon Ieru&s;alem which &s;hed it, incontinent he &s;ub|joyneth <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 6, and 7. that then the &s;eaven Angels pre|pared them&s;elves to blow, and the fir&s;t blew his Trum|pet, &amp;c, &s;o therefore ju&s;tly at this de&s;truction of Ieru&s;a|lem in <HI>Anno Chri&s;ti</HI> 71. make we both the la&s;t Seale and the fir&s;t Trumpet or Viall to begin.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>And how many yeares doth every Trumpet or Viall containe?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>Every Trumpet or Viall containeth the &s;pace of 245. yeares, which is the ju&s;t &s;pace of 5. Jubilees, and that this 71. yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and con&s;equently the fir&s;t yeare of every the other Trumpet or Viall was Jubilee, you may con&s;ider by the di&s;cour&s;e of <HI>Jo&s;ephus Scaliger de emendat temporum.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>But Sir, I pray tell me what you conceive the&s;e &s;eaven Trumpets or &s;eaven Vials doe &s;ignifie?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>I doe conceive them to &s;ignifie the &s;eaven Ages that were then to come to the worlds end; and I am the more confirmed to believe they do &s;o, for that I find in Hi&s;tories that great mutations of Empires fol owed the end of the&s;e 245. yeares one after another, as for
<PB REF="5">example: In the yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 71. <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> was de&s;troyed by <HI>Titus</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;pa&s;ian:</HI> this was the yeare that <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> procured the revenge of his blood and the blood of his Saints upon the Synagogue of the <HI>Iewes.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, 245. yeares after, which was in the yeare 316. <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the Emperour of <HI>Rome</HI> tran&s;ported the Imperiall Seat from Rome to Con&s;tantinople, and in Rome Pope <HI>Silve&s;ter</HI> began the Papi&s;ticall Kingdome, and Italy was left as a prey to the <HI>Goths</HI> and <HI>Vandals</HI> who de&s;troyed Rome and &s;ubdued all Italy, &s;laying and &s;poyling great and &s;mall, even every third man.</P>
<P>Thirdly, 245. yeares after, that is, in <HI>Anno</HI> 561. or therabouts, <HI>Totila</HI> King of <HI>Goths</HI> burned <HI>Rome</HI> and u&s;ur|ped the Dominion thereof.</P>
<P>Fourthly, 245. yeares after, that is in <HI>Anno</HI> 806. <HI>Char|lemaigne</HI> received the new Empire of <HI>Germanes</HI> and <HI>Romanes.</HI></P>
<P>Fiftly, 245. yeares after, that is in <HI>Anno</HI> 1051. <HI>Zadok</HI> began the fir&s;t dominion of the <HI>Turkes.</HI></P>
<P>Sixthly, 245. yeares after, that is in the yeare 1246. <HI>Otoman</HI> began the fir&s;t Empire of the foure Nations <HI>Ma|hometans.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. La&s;tly, 245. yeares after, that is in the yeare 1541. aro&s;e our true Profe&s;&s;ors again&s;t the Kingdome of An|tichri&s;t; &s;o then for conclu&s;ion you &s;ee that every <HI>Trum|pet</HI> or <HI>Viall</HI> endureth 245. yeares.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then Sir, it &s;eemeth by this account that this &s;eaventh Trumpet or Viall which we are now under, is not to end till the yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 1786. &s;hall the world continue &s;o long thinke you?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, I doe not think that the World &s;hall con|tinue &s;o long, becau&s;e it is &s;aid, <HI>Math.</HI> 24.22. that for the Elects &s;ake the time &s;hall be &s;hortened.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol</SPEAKER>
<P>How long doe you thinke the World &s;hall con|tinue; or can you conjecture when the day of Judgement &s;hall be?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap</SPEAKER>
<P>Although it bee &s;aid in <HI>Mark</HI> 13.32. that the day or <HI>Judgement</HI> and houre therof none doth know but the Father onely; yet let none be &s;o ba&s;e of judgement as to conclude thereby, that the yeare or age thereof is unknowne to <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> or unable to be knowne any wayes to his &s;ervants; wherefore I tell you it appeares to me that betwixt the yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 1688. and 1700. the &s;aid latter day &s;hall fall.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>I pray&punc; Sir let me heare your grounds for this your conjecture.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>In the 14. of the <HI>Revelation</HI> there is mention made of &s;eaven Angels, which are all one with the &s;ea|ven Thunders mentioned in the 10 Chapter; and eve|ry one of the fir&s;t three thundring Angels (as I may call them) containe a Jubilee, and then the foure la&s;t all at once compleateth the day of <HI>Judgement,</HI> by which it ap|peares to me that the day of <HI>Judgement</HI> &s;hall fall about that time.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>But I pray you Sir &s;peake more particularly of the&s;e things, and fir&s;t &s;hew how it appeares that the &s;ea|ven Angels and the &s;eaven thunders are all one.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>If wee doe but confer the tokens or the &s;eaven Angels with the tokens of the &s;eaven thunders, we &s;hall find them to agree; for fir&s;t in Ch. 10. at the comming in of the 7. thunders Chri&s;t doth offer the open book of his truth; &s;o Ch. 14. the fir&s;t of the 7. Angels bringeth the everla&s;ting Go&s;pel, and openly preacheth out the &s;ame. Secondly in Ch. 10. Chri&s;t by the mighty voyce of his Word as a roaring Lyon in the mouthes of his Preachers proclaimed the truth, then came the 7. thun|ders:
<PB REF="6">&s;o al&s;o Ch. 14. the voyce of Gods heavenly Elect is here as a mighty &s;ouund of Waters, and as thunder; then came the &s;eaven Angels; &s;o that you &s;ee in re&s;pect of the harmony betwixt them wee may conclude them both to be one.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well Sir, and how doth it appeare that every one of the fir&s;t 3. thundring Angels containe a Jubilee?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>After the Cu&s;tome both of the Levits and Pro|phets, who divide all great dates by Iubilees, and &s;mall dates by weeks of yeares, wee judge mo&s;t apparantly this la&s;t Age to bee divided by Iubilees, and &s;o every thunder or Angel of the&s;e 3. that are &s;aid in the Text Ch. 14. v. 6.8.9. to pretend Gods great Harve&s;t to con|taine a Iubilee, which is 49. yeares.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>And how doth it appeare that the foure la&s;t thundring Angels all at once compleateth the day of Iudgement?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>In the 14. Chapter, ver&s;e 14. and 16. it is &s;aid that the fourth thundring Angel which is <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> him|&s;elfe, enters actually into his great Harve&s;t, to gather up his Elect at the warning of the fifth Angel, even Gods holy &s;pirit <HI>ver.</HI> 15. like as contrarily the &s;ixt thundring Angel executor of Gods fierce wrath, mentioned <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 17. and 19. is admoni&s;hed and warned by the &s;eventh Angel commander thereof to cut downe, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> the Vines of the earth in the winepre&s;&s;e of Gods <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> and &s;o by the&s;e foure la&s;t Angels or Thunders, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> him&s;elf and by his whole mini&s;tring <HI>Angel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> the figure of the&s;e la&s;t Angels, all the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> of Gods harve&s;t and latter Iudgement is accompli&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>And when did the fir&s;t of the three fir&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Iubile begin?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>Even as I &s;aid, before the la&s;t of the &s;even &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk">
<PB REF="7">and the fir&s;t of the &s;even Trumpets began both at once in the yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 71. &s;o in like manner the la&s;t of the &s;even Trumpets, and the fir&s;t of the &s;even thunders began both at once, in the yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> 1541.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>What moves you to think it beginneth that yeare?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>In the 11. Ch. v. 15. it is &s;aid, that at the bla&s;t of the 7^t^h. Trumpet, the Kingdome of the World becom|meth <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> his Kingdome, that is then the Kingdome of <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> &amp; all other prophane Kingdoms &s;hall fall, and <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> his Kingdom &s;hall be &s;pred and inlarged over all; and this can no other way come to pa&s;&s;e, then by the preaching of the Evangel, which was of new opened up and preached at the comming of the fir&s;t Angel, whom the Text &s;aith to have an everla&s;ting Go&s;pel to preach unto them that dwell upon the earth, which Angel, as I &s;aid before, is manife&s;t to be the fir&s;t of the &s;even thun|ders; therfore it followeth con&s;equently that the new re&s;toring of the Evangell, the &s;eventh trumpet or Viall, and the fir&s;t thunder, or thundring Angel come all at once even in <HI>Anno Chri&s;ti,</HI> 1541. About which yeare God &s;tirred up openly his fir&s;t Mini&s;ters and &s;ervants, <HI>Luther, Calvin, Melancthon</HI> and others, <HI>ver.</HI> 6.7. to preach out during all this Iubile, the perfect verity of the Go&s;|pel publikely, which before was hid and ob&s;cured under the Antichri&s;tian Reigne; &s;o that now the true Church lurketh no more, but Gods truth to all the world is made apparant by the&s;e Mini&s;ters teaching them ac|cording to the Text, to feare God onely, and leaving all other &s;uper&s;titious wor&s;hipping to give glory onely unto him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>And when did this fir&s;t of the&s;e 3. Iubiles end.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Na.</SPEAKER>
<P>If you reckon, you &s;hall ea&s;ily find that it ended in <HI>Ann. Chri&s;ti.</HI> 1590. And then came the &s;econd of the
<PB REF="7">&s;even thundring Angels,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>ver.</HI> 8.</NOTE> declaring even pre&s;ently the horrible fall and decay to become of that figurative <HI>Ba|bylon,</HI> and great Antichri&s;tian City, about which time, to wit, the end of the fir&s;t Iubile, and beginning of the &s;econd, God hath &s;hewed marvellous indices that the Empire of Rome and Papi&s;ticall Kingdome &s;hall &s;hort|ly fall, the Antichri&s;tian and Spani&s;h Fleet is de&s;troy'd, the late King of <HI>France,</HI> Duke of <HI>Guize</HI> and his Brother, Papi&s;ts and Committers of the Pari&s;ian Ma&s;&s;acre, all murthered by other, a Prote&s;tant now made King of France; &s;o that before the end of this Iubile (God wil|ling) Rome and the whole Papi&s;ticall Kingdome there|of &s;hall be ruined.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>And what yeare &s;hall this &s;econd <HI>Iubile</HI> end?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>In the yeare, 1639.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>And what followes upon that?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>After that comes the third Iubile, or the third thundring and threatning Me&s;&s;engers openly and loud|ly threatning, that if any be now that doe wor&s;hip or reverence that <HI>Antichri&s;tian</HI> Empire, or that receive the old &s;uper&s;titious marks thereof on their foreheads or on their hands, the &s;ame &s;hall drinke of Gods wrath; &s;o that in this third Jubile the Mini&s;ters and Me&s;&s;engers of God &s;hall (God-willing) have only the latter dregs of that Romi&s;h &s;eat&punc; to admoni&s;h and threaten by open in|timation, that if any be in who&s;e hearts the reverence of that ruined Empire, or if any now be marked with Chri&s;me or Cro&s;&s;e on hand or head, he &s;hall be tormen|ted eternally in the fire of Hell.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well Sir, now I &s;ee plainely that if we add to 1639. 49. yeares, then according to your account the day of Iudgement appears to fall about 1688. I had not thought it could have bin &s;o plainly proved by <HI>Scripture.</HI></P>
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<PB REF="8">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>I doe a&s;&s;ure my &s;elfe that all the prophe&s;ies of the latter day &s;hall be knowne, and manife&s;ted to Gods Church before <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> come to <HI>Iudgement,</HI> and if we doe conferre all prophe&s;ies and propheticall figures there|of together, wee &s;hall find them come &s;o neere to that time that verily the matter is wonderfull.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>I pray Sir proceed on to doe it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>Fir&s;t as touching the Cimball of the Saboth, it is thought by the mo&s;t learned, that the &s;ix dayes of la|bour weekly ob&s;erved, doth meane and beare the &s;im|ball of 6000. yeares, that mankind &s;hall endure the tra|vells and cares of this world, and that is confirmed by <HI>Peter,</HI> who &s;peaking of the day of <HI>Iudgement,</HI> noteth that a thou&s;and yeares &s;hall bee as one day in <HI>Gods</HI> &s;ight, and a day as a thou&s;and yeares, and &s;o con&s;equently the &s;ixe dayes of worke to repre&s;ent &s;ixe thou&s;and yeares, after the which &s;ixe thou&s;and yeares, of worldly cares and travells, then &s;hall come our eternall Saboth and re&s;t in the glory of <HI>Heaven,</HI> &s;ignified by the &s;eaventh dayes re&s;t, for that truely there is no in&s;titution apointed by <HI>God</HI> to <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> which be&s;ides the civell commodity had not al&s;o a &s;pirituall figure, and &s;ure it is that no figure agreeth more con&s;onant with the&s;e &s;ixe dayes of work, and &s;eventh day of re&s;t then the pre&s;ent mi&s;eries of this world, and eternall Saboth hereafter: &s;econdly agree|able to the former, there is a &s;entence of the hou&s;e of <HI>Elias,</HI> re&s;erved in all Ages bearing the&s;e words, the world &s;hall &s;tand &s;ixe thou&s;and yeares, and then it &s;hall be con&s;umed with fire, two thou&s;and yeares voyd or without Law, two thou&s;and yeares under the Law, and two thou&s;and yeares &s;hall be the dayes of the <HI>Me&s;sias,</HI> and for our offences which &s;hall be manyand great, &s;hall the&s;e yeares lacke which &s;hall lack, thus farre &s;aith <HI>Eli|as;</HI>
<PB REF="8">Now the terme of the&s;e &s;ixe thou&s;and yeares, doth expire about the 2000. yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> which terme both by the &s;aid &s;aying of <HI>Elias,</HI> and by <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> owne &s;ay|ing in <HI>Mathew</HI> appeareth to be &s;hortned, and therefore thirdly by <HI>Daniell</HI> wee &s;hall aproach neerer that terme, for he in his 12. <HI>chap.</HI> intreating both of the fir&s;t Re&s;ur|rection, which is the Re&s;urrection from the Antichri&s;ti|an errours, and of the &s;econd Re&s;urrection which is the generall re&s;urrection from the dead, &s;uch an <HI>Angell</HI> as afterward appeareth to <HI>Iohn, Rev.</HI> 10. teaching him con|cerning the latter day, doth here apeare to <HI>Daniel,</HI> &s;wear|ing &s;olemly a terme of propheticall dayes to every one of tho&s;e que&s;tions doubled of by the Prophet of which the greate&s;t terme is expre&s;&s;ed to be 1335 propheticall dayes, which are &s;o many yeares, who&s;e beginnings are determined in the&s;e words, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> the time that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">he daily &s;acrifice &s;hall cea&s;e, and the Abomination pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> to de&s;olation or made de&s;olate, &s;hall be 1290 dayes, ble&s;|&s;ed is he that awaiteth and abideth to the 1335. day, as if he would &s;ay, from that time that both the <HI>Iewi&s;h</HI> day|ly &s;acrifice &s;hall utter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">y cea&s;e, and the abominable rites of the <HI>Gentiles</HI> bee aboli&s;h d to the compleating of the great re&s;urrection from the Antichri&s;tian errours, and utter decay of his Kingdome &s;hall be 1290. yeares, and then ble&s;&s;ed &s;hall hee bee that abideth and remaineth con&s;tant in the &s;mall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ime, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hall bee betwixt that and the latter day, which &s;hall fall in the 1335. yeare from the taking away of the &s;aid <HI>Iewi&s;h</HI> Ceremonies, and <HI>Gentil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">er&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ions, but &s;o it is that the&s;e were neither actu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">lly taken away by <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hri&s;ts</HI> Pa&s;&s;ion, neither in the de|&s;truction of <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> nor otherwaies till miraculou&s;ly in the dayes of <HI>Julian</HI> the <HI>Apo&s;tate. Anno Chri&s;ti</HI> 365. This <HI>Apo&s;tate</HI> having in de&s;pite of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> ordained the
<PB REF="9"><HI>Jewes</HI> to build up, and repaire their Temple of <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> on the one part, and on the other part having &s;ent his <HI>Legats</HI> to offer &s;acrifice in the chiefe <HI>Ethnick</HI> Temple of the <HI>Gentiles</HI> in <HI>Delphos,</HI> and to con&s;ult with that Oracle of <HI>Apollo</HI> there, <HI>God</HI> &s;ent his <HI>Thunder</HI> from above, and <HI>Earth-quake</HI> from beneath, and thereby overwhelmed both tho&s;e chiefe Temples about one time &s;o utterly, that to this day all the <HI>Iewi&s;h</HI> daily &s;acrifice of the one, and the abominable <HI>Ethnick</HI> &s;uper&s;titions of the other have cea&s;ed, and beene put to utter confu&s;ion and de&s;o|lation, but if after the opinion of &s;ome learned men, this <HI>Text</HI> doth meane in the Originall <HI>Hebrew,</HI> not the abomination, to be put in de&s;olation, but contrarily a de&s;olating and wa&s;ting Abomination, to bee &s;et up to|gether al&s;o with the taking away the former, and fore|&s;aid daily &s;acrifice in this ca&s;e apearing by the &s;ame date is not the le&s;&s;e e&s;tabli&s;hed, for who was a more horrible and wa&s;ting Abomination then was the afore&s;aid <HI>Iuli|an</HI> that bloud-thir&s;ty <HI>Apo&s;tate,</HI> together with his dete|&s;table Idolatrous Magicall decrees, which publickly he acted and &s;et up, to bring Chri&s;tiani&s;me to utter de&s;ola|tion: &s;o that how&s;oever this abomination be expound|ed, either pa&s;&s;ively to bee made de&s;olate as the <HI>Gentiles</HI> cheefe abominable, and Idolatrous Oracle of <HI>Apollo</HI> at that time was made de&s;olate, or actively, that the abo|mination &s;hould make a wa&s;ting or de&s;olation, and that that wa&s;ting Abomination &s;hould be then erected, as the abominable Tyrant and <HI>Apo&s;tate Iulian</HI> was promo|ted Emperour, and his cruell decrees of per&s;ecution at that time &s;et out, even alwaies in that very &s;ame yeare, 365. all the fore&s;aid Accidents occurred, for in that one yeare, both fir&s;t the foundations of the <HI>Iewi&s;h</HI> Temple of daily &s;acrifice, as &s;econdly (in the pa&s;&s;ive &s;en&s;e) the &s;aid
<PB REF="9">Temple of the <HI>Ethnicks</HI> Abominations in <HI>Delphos</HI> were by <HI>Thunder</HI> and <HI>Earthquake</HI> both de&s;troyed, as thirdly in the Active &s;ence, that abominable <HI>Iulian</HI> and his decrees, for de&s;olating and devouring <HI>Gods</HI> &s;ervants, were then &s;et up; Therefore from this yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> 365. wee are commanded to reckon 1335. yeares, which falls in <HI>Anno</HI> 1700. And then &s;aith <HI>Daniel, ver&s;e</HI> the 6. &s;hall be the end of all wonders, even the wondrous and great day of the Lord, but yet as this prophe&s;ie doth abridge the afore&s;aid prophe&s;ie of <HI>Elias,</HI> &s;o al&s;o <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> fore|&s;aid &s;aying in <HI>Matthew</HI> that came after this prophe&s;ie, doth apparantly abridge &s;omewhat of this time, there|fore as men &s;aid before, every thundering <HI>Angell</HI> of three contained 49. yeares and then comes the great day of the Lord, and we proved that the fir&s;t thundering <HI>An|gell</HI> began in <HI>Anno</HI> 1541. to which add thrice 49. years, which is 147. yeares, and &s;o by that account the latter day will fall in <HI>Anno</HI> 1688. wherfore appearingly be|twixt this 1688. according to the <HI>Revelation,</HI> and the 1700. yeare according to <HI>Daniel,</HI> the &s;aid latter day &s;hould fall, and for further confirmation thereof, there is a number put in the end of the 14. <HI>Chapter</HI> of the <HI>Reve|lation,</HI> which appeares to be a date of the latter day, for that <HI>Chapter</HI> altogether &s;peaks of the <HI>Lords</HI> great har|ve&s;t and latter <HI>Iudgement,</HI> there &s;aith <HI>Iohn</HI> the blood came out of the <HI>Winepre&s;&s;e</HI> unto the hor&s;e bridles, by the &s;pace of 1600. &s;tades or cour&s;es, as if appearingly he would meane Metaphorically, as <HI>Wine</HI> may bee thought to flow from the Pre&s;&s;e, or the bloud of &s;laine men in a Field to a&s;cend to the hor&s;e bridles; &s;o eternally &s;hall the torment of the wicked a&s;cend after that a thou|&s;and and &s;ixe hundred yeares bee accompli&s;hed, for the&s;e &s;tades agree well to meane yeares, &s;eeing a &s;tade
<PB REF="10">is that Race or cour&s;e, that one may bee thought to run with one breath, before he begin to renew his breath a|gain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">, as one yeare is that race or cour&s;e, that the Sunne maketh in a circuit, before he begin to renew his circuit againe, now counting therefore a thou&s;and and &s;ixe hundred yeares, from the time that this was written, which was about the 97. yeare of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> as <HI>Eu&s;ebius</HI> in his Chronicle &s;aith, or in the end of the reigne of <HI>Do|mitian</HI> as <HI>Freneus</HI> &s;aith, which was in <HI>Anno Chri&s;ti</HI> 199. the end of the account &s;hall fall about the year of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 1697. or the yeare 1699. which is betwixt the &s;aid terme 1688. and 1700. and &s;o the difference of the&s;e dates is but &s;mall, and if the time of Hi&s;tories were &s;urely written, and ob&s;erved, it may be thought that the diffe|rence would be either le&s;&s;e, or utterly nothing at all.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>]<HI>Rol.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Well Sir, you have fully &s;atisfied me concern|ing this point, as al&s;o concerning the ruine of <HI>Antichri&s;t,</HI> yet one thing more I de&s;ire to be further &s;atisfied in be|fore we part, and that is, how it is manife&s;t that the <HI>Pope</HI> is that <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> &s;poken of in Scripture.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>]<HI>Nap.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>That is manife&s;t fir&s;t, in that all the notes and tokens of <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> given us by the Scriptures, are mo&s;t evident properties of the <HI>Pope,</HI> &s;econdly by the notable contrarieties betweene <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> and the <HI>Pope.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>]<HI>Rol.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Fir&s;t then I pray you, &s;hew how the notes of <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> in Scripture, and properties of the <HI>Pope</HI> agree together?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>]<HI>Nap.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Fir&s;t the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, 2 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 2. <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> mu&s;t be the head of that Apo&s;tacie, or falling away from the truth, and it is well knowne, that <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome, Augu&s;tine, Theodoret, Theophalect,</HI> and <HI>Oecumenius,</HI> by that Apo&s;tacy under&s;tand <HI>Antichri&s;t,</HI> yea <HI>Bellarmine</HI> him&s;elfe affirmeth that by Apo&s;tacie in that place, <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> him&s;elfe may be fitly under&s;tood.</P>
<PB REF="10">
<P>Secondly the &s;ame Apo&s;tle in the &s;ame place &s;aith that <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> &s;hall exalt him&s;elfe again&s;t all that is cal|led <HI>God,</HI> and &s;o doth the Pope &s;tile him&s;elfe <HI>God,</HI> and cau&s;eth Emperors and Kings to ki&s;&s;e his feet; yet Pope <HI>Alexander</HI> the third trode with his feet upon the head of <HI>Frederick Barbaro&s;&s;a.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, in the &s;ame Chapter it is &s;aid, that <HI>Anti|chri&s;t</HI> shall come with all deceivablene&s;&s;e of unrighte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e, therefore Antichri&s;tiani&s;me is called the My|&s;tery of iniquity; &s;o that the impietie of Antichri&s;t is my&s;ticall, cloaked under the name of godline&s;&s;e; and as in the Popes Myter was wont; &s;o al&s;o in the whore of <HI>Babylons</HI> forehead is written a My&s;tery, <HI>Rev.</HI> 17.5. op|pugning <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> and his truth, under the outward shew and profe&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;tian Religion, he mu&s;t be called mo&s;t holy when indeed he is mo&s;t wicked, he cals him|&s;elfe the &s;ervant of &s;ervants, when in truth hee makes him&s;elfe the King of Kings.</P>
<P>Fourthly, it is &s;aid 1 <HI>Tim</HI> 4.3. that the <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> &s;pea|king lies through hypocri&s;ie &s;hall forbid to marry, and &s;hall command ab&s;tinence from certaine meats: and &s;o doth the Pope under hypocri&s;ie and lying pretext of cha&s;titie and ab&s;tinence forbid all his Clergie to marry and to eat fle&s;h in Lent, or on Fridayes.</P>
<P>Fifthly, it is &s;aid 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. that <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> &s;hall denie the Lord that bought them, and through covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;hall with faigned words make merchandiz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Chri&s;ti|ans, yea and &s;hall &s;ell their &s;oules, as it is &s;aid <HI>Revel.</HI> 18.13. &s;o hath the Popes Clergie brought in Pardons and Indulgences whereby they promi&s;e remi&s;&s;ion of &s;innes and the Kingdome of Heaven privily and in effect ther|by denying Chri&s;t to be their onely Redeemer, and &s;o have they through covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e under faigned pretext
<PB REF="11">of Religion made merchandize of poore Chri&s;tians, &s;el|ling by &s;uch divellish wayes even their &s;oules to the Divell.</P>
<P>Sixthly, the Antichri&s;ts comming, &s;aith <HI>Paul,</HI> is by the comming of Sathan, with all power and &s;ignes, and lying wonders in all deceivablene&s;&s;e. So hath the Pope advanced his credit in deceiving the &s;imple &s;ort by his faigned fables, and alleadged Miracles of the Legen|dary, and by &s;uch juglings as they u&s;e; and no marvell, when as <HI>Platina</HI> and others affirme 22. Popes came to the Popedome being abominable <HI>Necromancers.</HI> And thus have I &s;hewed you how the notes of <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> in Scripture, and properties of the Pope doe agree toge|ther.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>I pray likewi&s;e shew the contrarieties betwixt Chri&s;t and the Pope.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> came &s;o &s;oberly and meekly that he would not have broken a brui&s;ed Reed, but the Pope came proudly overwhelming the mo&s;t mighty Empires, hee changed the Kingdome of <HI>France</HI> from <HI>Chilperick</HI> the lawfull King to <HI>Pipin</HI> the Popes Confederate.</P>
<P>Secondly, Chri&s;t would not worship the Divell to gaine all the Kingdomes of the world; but 22. Popes bound them&s;elves &s;laves to the Divell for ever to bee made <HI>Popes,</HI> as te&s;tifieth <HI>Platina</HI> and other un&s;u&s;pected Writers.</P>
<P>Thirdly, CHRIST ca&s;t the Merchandize out of the Temple: But the Pope e&s;tabli&s;heth the Merchandize in the Temple to &s;ell his Pardons, Ma&s;&s;es and Indul|gences.</P>
<P>Fourthly, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> wa&s;hed his poore Di&s;ciples feet; but the Pope maketh the mo&s;t mightie Emperours to ki&s;&s;e his feete.</P>
<PB REF="11">
<P>Fifthly, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> honoured Marriage at <HI>Cana</HI> in <HI>Ga|lile,</HI> had &s;ome married <HI>Apo&s;tles,</HI> and commanded them to marry that could not live cha&s;t; but the Pope forbid|deth his Clergie to marry though they were never &s;o filthy Whoremongers.</P>
<P>Sixthly, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> forbiddeth Whordome: But the Popes were &s;even of them Whore-Mungers, and erecters of Brothel hou&s;es, and Pope <HI>Joane</HI> was a Whore, and died with child in open Proce&s;&s;ion; and the&s;e are named in their owne Hi&s;tories.</P>
<P>Seaventhly, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> paid Tribute to <HI>Cae&s;ar;</HI> But the Pope bereft the Emperour both of Lands and Tributes within Italy.</P>
<P>Eighthly, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> had not &s;o much money of his owne as to pay his Tribute: But the Popes propriety is &s;aid to bee eighteene thou&s;and Duckets every day. And Pope <HI>John</HI> of <HI>Anjou</HI> left in &s;tore 25. Millions of gold.</P>
<P N="9">9. <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> mi&s;liketh the ob&s;erving of dayes, moneths, and yeares: But the Pope commandeth to ob&s;erve his Fe&s;tivals and Holidayes.</P>
<P>Tenthly, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is the onely Mediator betwixt God and Man: But the Pope makes and canoni&s;eth his Saints whom he cals Mediators betwixt God and us.</P>
<P>Eleventhly, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> had not whereon to repo&s;e or re&s;t his head: But the Pope hath &s;tore of Townes, Ca&s;tles, and Princely Pallaces.</P>
<P>Twelfthly, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> forbids much babbling and vaine repetitions in our Prayers: But the Pope commandeth to repeat over your Prayers, and to &s;ay five <HI>Pater No|&s;ters,</HI> and five <HI>Ave Mar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">a's.</HI></P>
<P>Thirteenthly, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> teacheth a Religion wholly in &s;pirit, and void of all externall Ceremonies, except his two Sacramentall Seales: But the Pope hath con|&s;tituted
<PB REF="12">a Religion con&s;i&s;ting wholly in bodily Rites, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nd full of externall Super&s;titions.</P>
<P>Fourteenthly, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> was crowned with a Crowne of Thornes: But the Pope is crowned with a threefold imperiall Crowne.</P>
<P>Fifteenthly, to conclude, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> &s;hed his blood once, that we might reigne &s;piritually: But the Pope &s;heds our blood dayly, that he might reigne temporally.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Rol.</SPEAKER>
<P>There be &s;ome other things which I could de|&s;ire to be re&s;olved in; but at this pre&s;ent time will not permit: and therefore giving you many thankes for what you have done, I take my leave of you for this time.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Nap.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Lord be with you.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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