4 The Angel of this Vial,
The Gentile-Churches.
One great Question yet remains, which if not resolved, we are still in the dark, notwithstanding all that hath been hitherto said; which is, Seeing that this Vial shall fall up∣on the Great Turk, who shall be the Angel that must pour it out?
To say the Jews themselves shall do it, the Text it self will not allow, because a way is prepared for them by doing of it.
I could incline to think, because it seems well to agree to the metaphor of drying up, that the power and multi∣tude of the Great Turk should by little and little, ••hrough Intestive broyls, and Civil commotions, be wasted and consumed; but that my thoughts are recalled, when I con∣sider that all the Vials are to be poured forth by such An∣gels only as come out of the Temple.
To say as doth a godly man) that the Turk shall draw all his forces out of Asia, and Africa into Italy, and this to be the drying up of the River Euphrates, would please me very well, were it not but that according to this interpretation, there should be no plague at all attending this Vial, seeing (as hath been said) the plague is expressed in these words of drying up Euphrates, or in none, unless barely a plague in his will carrying him, or