¶ And when they haue fynisshed their testimonye, the beast that came out of the bottom∣lesse pyt, shall make warre against them, and shal ouercome them, and kyl them. And their bodyes shall lye in the stretes of the great citee, whiche spiritually is called zodom and Egipte, where our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kynredes, and tonges, and they of the nacions, shall se their bodyes thre dayes and an halfe, and shall not suffer their bodyes to be put in graues. And they that dwel vpon the earthe, shall reioyce ouer them, and be glad, & shal sende gyftes one to another, for these two prophetes vexed them that dwelt on the earth.
It hath alwayes from tyme to tyme bene well sene, howe this beast hathe behaued hymselfe towarde the messagiers and ministers of god, whiche were sent vnto them. And specially vnder Achab and Manasses, and suche lyke kynges and ydolatrous and hethenysshe priestes whiche serued false god∣des, whiche persecuted the faythfull ministers of God, cursed and contemned them, burnt and drowned them, so farre as god permytted them. Whiche thing was for the best vnto the persons that suffered suche thinges, and for the syn∣guler profyte of the faythfull churche and congregacion. And yet for all their persecucion, the doctrine and workynge of the faythfull was euer vpright and lyuely, and their good and holy name with the commendacion of their godly feruent zeale, was also wonderfully preserued to the vtter shame and confusiō of the abhomynable and terryble beast, and all his members and lymmes: As the examples of the whole world doe testifye and beare wynes: And specially euen in our tyme, and also the moost true and infallyble storye of the prouy∣dence and of the holy worde of god. This citie, where Christ is dayly crucified, is (in figure and symilitude) the citie of Ierusalem, whiche for sheadyng of the