2. The EFFECTS.
And his Kingdom was full of Darkness. By the fall of Rome, the head City, the whole Papal Kingdom shall suffer a great eclipse of its former esteem and glory, for now shall the Kings of the Earth, who have been former∣ly supports to this Kingdom, and those Merchants of the Earth who have formerly traded with the Beast, stand afar off, as men afraid either to own, or traffick with the Beast any longer for fear of her torment, as is more fully set forth in the description of Romes ruin, which we have at large, Chap. 18. v. 9. to 20.
And they gnawed their tongues for pain. Noting the extremity of rage the Papals shall be in, when they shall behold Rome, the glory of their Kingdom made a ruinous heap, and they no way able to revenge their own quarrel, they shall act the parts of mad men, who gnash their teeth, bite their lips, gnaw their tongues, &c. which also in suitable and emphatical expressions we have, ch. 18. v. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.