amongst the sonnes of men! O what contentions are in the Apostolicke seat! what emulations, sects, envie, am∣bition, intrusion; yea, and persecution is now! Alace, what companie, what assemblie, yea, what man then, may bee now secure?
Also in the life of Boniface the seavēth, he sayth, that manie were slaine, as in the primitiue Church, for that (to wit) which the Pope called Heresie.
And in the lyfe of Innocent the third, like-wise hee showeth, that 100000. of the VValdenses were partlie slaine, and put to flight, by the Earle of Mont∣ferrat, assisted at the Pope's command, with Bishops and Abbots.
And that in Mysticall Babylon, the blood shed in the whole Earth, may bee found, Onuphrius, in the lyfe of Iulius the se∣cond, showeth, that the Pope was the ve∣rie fyre-brand, and stirrer vp of Warres, everie-where through-out all Christen∣dome.
This is then, that killing of the two Witnesses, (Rev. 11.3.) whom Au∣gustine, (hom. 8. in Apoc.) and Beda on that place, expound to bee the true pro∣fessours of Christ's Church: and for number, called two, because (sayeth Beda) of that illumination by the light of the two Testaments, whose trueth they purelie professe, and whence, (sayth