The key of the Revelation, searched and demonstrated out of the naturall and proper charecters of the visions.: With a coment thereupon, according to the rule of the same key, / published in Latine by the profoundly learned Master Joseph Mede B.D. late fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, for their use to whom God hath given a love and desire of knowing and searching into that admirable prophecie. Translated into English by Richard More of Linley in the Countie of Salop. Esquire, one of the Bargesses in this present convention of Parliament. With a præface written by Dr Twisse now prolocutor in the present Assembly of Divines.

The second woe Trumpet OR, The sixt Trumpet.

Another woe of pl••gues (which untill this day O grievous!) * 1.1 lyeth upon it calleth forth the ••etra••chs of the Turk••s with a numerous troupe of horsemen, from Euph••••tes (where they had now long stayed) into the Roman Empire.

Loose (saith the voice from the soure hornes of the Altar of * 1.2 incense the foure Angels which are bound at the great river

Euphrates. Angels are put for the nations which they were thought to governe, a metonymie not unusall in this booke. That appeareth out of this, that those who are immediately loosed by ••teirdion of the oracle, are an army of horsemen, sent for••h to kill men.

He biddeth loose the Angels bound, Who breaking in upon the Romane regions, the former plague yet enduring were re∣strained at Euphrates a few ages, that they should not at their pleasure overrunne further. In the beginning truely they adven∣tured a little further, even unto Nira•• of Bithynia, but Solyman being vanished were againe driven backe to Eu••hrates, by the Christian Sea worthies in their expedition unto the holy land. * 1.3

Furthermore the foure Angels signifie so many Sultani••s or Kingdomes into which the Turkes were d••vided, when first having passed over Euphrates, they had spread themselves into the neighbouring coasts of A……a and Syria These Christopher Ric••e∣rius, concerning the originall of the Turkes, doth thus reckon up out of Scilix a Greeke author; the first of Asia, the second of Alepo, the third of Damascus, and of Antioch the fourth. The first of which the Asian or of Asia the lesse had its beginning in C••tlamusus (otherwise called by Elmachinus except I be de∣ceived Sedyduddrulas) allyed to that Tangrolipix who first tooke Bagdad. He began his Kingdome, in the parts of Asia bordering * 1.4 upon Euphrates; Caes••ria or Capadocia being conquered and taken from the Romanes to him and his poster••ty about the yeere of Christ 108. as the same auther witnesseth. The borders whereof afterward Solyman his successor enlarged as farre as Nicaea of Bithynia; but being vanished by ours in that renowned expedition unto Jerusalem, he was constrained to leave the whole region which he had gotten and to retire to Euphrat••s And the seat of this Tetrarchie, though in the beginning it were else where, yet for the most part was at Iconium in the same Ca••a∣docia.

The second was the Tetrarchie of Alepo the city thereof be∣ing Alepo which is watered with an arme of Euphrates, brought thither by one of the Sultanus, Siarsud aulas was the first king hereof (as witnesseth Elmachinus) having obtained Alepo in the yeere 1079. whose successor was R••duwanus Salgh••••ides, in the yeere 1095.

The founder of the third Tetrachie, whose chiefe city being Damascus, (by the testimonie of the same author) was Tagiud∣daulas Nisus the nephew of Togrulb••cus (or Tangr••lipix) who subdued Damascus in the same yeer 1079. His successor was Ducathes or Decacus the brother of R••duwanus, the Sultan of Alepo in the yeere 1095. Whom (saith Scilix) all the region of D••cap••lis obeyed. But this reached to Euphrates.

To these Scilix reckoneth the Antiochian ••o•• a fourth, con∣tained within moderate boundes. For saith he the Calipha of Egypt out of the Saracenicall stock possessed the regions of Syria unto Laodicea. But forasmuch as that Anti••chean Kingdome, as it was a little remote from Euphrates, so it endured not but four∣teene yeeres, Anti••chia being presently taken by ours under the conduct of B••••mund: happily it were better leauing out Antioch to adde for the making up of the number of four•• the Bagdad or Persia•• Empire upon the other side of Euphrates (for Scilix had onely respect to the Turkes, who had passed Euphrates) that so the whole Turkish Empire, beyond and on this side Euphrates, may be understood to be devided into those foure Sultanies: which with the course of the Kings or Sultans for a certain time, see Reader described in the following figure for thy more distinct * 1.5 contemplation.

A Diagramme of the T••••kish Kingdome par∣ted in Foure Partes at Euphrates from the yeere 1080. and so forth, out of Elmachinus, the Arabian, and S••il••p, a Greeke Author.

Beyond Euphrates,	on this side Euphrates,
Of Bagdad Togrulbecus Orbarsalanus.	Of Cesaria Capadocia & I. conium &c in Asia the lesse.	Of Alepo	Of Damascus
Ghelaluddaulas in the ye••re 1071 Barkyaruens M••hamm••dus Mahmudus be∣gan in the ye••re 1117. &c	Seijdud••aul••s by surname Cutlumusus S••limanus T••nismanius▪ Masutus Calisastlanus &c	Sjar••uddulas Roduwanus Tagjud••aulas his sonn•• Bulgarus begā in the yeere 1117	Tagjuddaulas Decacus Ababacus then alive in the yeere 1115 Sanguinus Noradinus

And this was the state of the Turkish affaires, when first they passed Euphrates, and as it were making a shew of their breaking in upon the Romane territories▪ they were restrained in their li∣mited prison at Euphra••e••. But howsoever this quaternion of Sultans remained not entire till the the time of their loosing, but underwent divers changes: yet the Holy Ghost esteemeth the na∣tion according to the state of the first irruption, wherein having passed Euphrates, they are bound untill an appointed time.

And those foure Angels were loosed, being prepared for an houre and a day and a month and a yeare, that they might slay the third part of men.

This loosing of the Turkes happened a little before the yeare 1300, the Caliphatship of Bagdad (with which the first Woe ut∣terly expired) being now extinguished by the Tartars in the yeere 1258, and the remnant of the Turkes, who on the other side of Euphrates, hitherto raighned in Persia, being cast by the same (in the yeare 1289) as it were out of a s••••ng into the countries be∣louging unto the Romane Empyre on this side of Euphrates.

For things thus framing, it happened also, that at the same time the Latines, who had hindred, and staied the irruptions of the * 1.6 Turkes now almost 200. yeares were driven out of Syria and Pa∣lestina, in the yeare likewise 1291. In the meane time the Turks, although as yet devided into severall provinces, invaded almost all the les••er Asia, parted it among themselves to be possessed by right of inheritance, and at length uniting themselves under the sole conduct of my Oth••man, without any restraint, cruelly raged and passed over into Europe: ne ther could they any ••ore bee restrai∣ned with any force, untill t••ey had destroyed the whole Constanti∣nopolitan Empire with miserable slaughters.

But unlesse I be deceaved, the Oracle designeth the time also of this overthrow of C••nstantinople: to wit, that it should come to passe, a day, a month, and a yeare, that is, 396 yeares af••er the Turkes, the Saracenicall Empire being given them, d••gan to be made ready by God; that is, from the time that B••gdad was taken by them. For this was the beginning of the breaking of the Turks when the Empyre of the Saracens began to be subverted, and the dominion of the Romanes to be afflicted; yet so as the force of the cvill, was to be restrained until the appointed time of setting them loose. Certainly the space of time, agreeth to an inch. For Alma∣chinus the Arabian Historian, whom we haue sometimes cited, then whom none hath more accurately noted, the moments of times, reporteth that Z••grulbecus Salghucides the Prince of the Turkes (whom we cal Tangrolipix, of the Zelzuc••ian family) the royall city of Bagdad being taken, was clothed with the Impe∣riall robe, by Caliph•• Ca••inus Biamrilla and enstauled in the king∣dome, in the yeare of the Hegira 4.9 that is 1057 of Christ, then sayeth he,, was the kingdome stablished to him. From this time therefore the Turkes, having the principall seate of the Sareceni∣call Empire, with the whole dominion beyond Euphrates are pre∣pared, that after a propheticall day, month and yeare, they should kill the third part of men; that is in the yeare of Christ 1453 they should utterly cut of the rest of the Romane Empire in the East, the royall city of Constantinople being taken. Fro the space from the yeare 1057 to the yeare 1453 wherein Constantinople was taken, is prec••••ely 396 yeares, whereof the day maketh one, the Month 30, the yeare 365. The exactnesse of the account is such that any one may easily imagine that even the howre (which ac∣cording

to the proportion of the rest should make fifteen dayes) a∣greed in like manner with the event, if the month of the inaugu∣ration of Togrulbecus had beene declared, as well as in the yeare is. In the meane while, untill that appeare 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 an houre may he taken here, not for th•• twentieth part of the day, but for a fit time, and the coniunctionk•••• (and) to be expounded declaratively as it were * 1.7 prepared for a fit time, to wit, for a day, a month, and a yeare, to slay the third part of men. But how many yeares after wardes should runne till the ruine of the Turkish kingdome, is no where had: only it is said that it shall come to passe at the end of the times of the Beast; to wit, the second Woe shall passe, when the third Woe should be at hand for the abolishing of the kingdome of the Beast chap. 11, v 14.15.

But before I depart hence, I shall not unwillingly confesse this, that except so exact an agreement of the prophesie with the thing done did as it were enforce mee, another interpretation should no way have displeased mee, to wit, this, that those An∣gels were prepared and furnished for every occasion whether need shall require for an houre, or a day, or a month, or a yeare, to take the matter in hand. But whether it bee like, that so accurate an∣swering of time, as here the event sheweth, should have happe∣ned by chance, let others judge. Some one perhaps there will be who will make conscience so to thinke.

It followeth of the quality and number of the Armies: And the number, saith he, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, of the Army of horsemen, were two hundred thousand, thousand. Hee ••ameth an Army of horse∣men, and no other Armies, in the whole description of the plague, as if this enemie from Euphrates should be wholly an Army of Horsemen. Whether because in the Turkish warre, the horsemen so farre exceed the foote men in number, that this is of no account in respect of that? rather (which I beleeve the Holy Ghost especially respected) because this is the very character, already consecrated by Ezechiel, of the Nation of Magog, of whom the Turkes are derived. For so hee describeth that Nation by warr∣fare on horse-back in that famous prophesie concerning Gog (this in the same age of Ezekiel was the * 1.8 common name of all the

King of Magog as Pharaoh was of the Aegyptians) Chap. 38. 4. And I will bring thee forth, saith he, and all thins army Horses * 1.9 and Horse men, and all of ••hem cloth••d with armour. Againe, verse 15. And thou shalt come from thy place out of the North∣parts, thou and people with thee, all of them Riders on hors••s, &c. furthermore, this Gog is called the chiefe Prince of Meshek and Tubal; That is, who going out of his coasts commanded both the Armeniaes beyond and on this side Euphrates. I comprehend here under the name of the hither Armenia the Capadocians anci∣ently called Meschim and Moschi, and where the chiefe towne Mazaca is, afterwards called (aesarea, and in the same Coast the Moschi mountaines, being no obscure tokens that the Inhabitants are derived from Meshek. The further or greater Armenia is that which is called at this day Turcomania from the habitation of the Turkes; wherein in time past the City Thelbalana was, the Tiba∣renian and Balbitenian people, the river Teleboas and other marks of the name Tubal. Yet notwithstanding, the Warre which Ezechiel declareth, is not to be taken for this irruption of the Turkes which Iohn describeth (this only he seemeth to intimate) bee understood of another the last under the returne of the Jews, and that if a man may conjecture, this which now is, something before departing.

But of the type of the Armie of the Horse-men, there is another thing which with the good leave of the Reader I will adde; but on this condition, that no man thinke mee over much to regard the deceitfulnesse of names and e••ymologies. Even solid and well cooked meates, are wont to taste more deliciously with sauc••. Let not the Reader therefore disdaine that I set such before him. To wit, that the Turkes before the loosing, now by long habitation have beene Perfians, and by that name called every where in the Byzantine Historians. Certainely Ni∣cetas, who in a History comprehended the most part of the time wherein they were restrained at Eupbrates, almost alwayes calleth them Persians, verily rarely Turkes. Now the Per∣sians, if thou marke even by the very sound of the name, are Harse men: since 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Paras by which name Persia is called in sacred writt (with which Parthia is the same, onely other∣wise * 1.10 pronouned) in the three Easterne languages, the Hebrew Chaldean, and Arab••an, dothsignifie a Horse or Horse-man

Therefore by this reason the Euphratean Horse-men are Turcoper∣••ians, that is, the borderers of Euphraces by a nam•• of their Na∣tion are called Horse-men.

Neither doth example of such allusion (if any shall object dis∣pose) seeme to bee wanting in Daniel, chapter 8. where the Macedonians, who at that time were called Aegeades (that is to say Goatish) are signified by a type of Goates, and the King is set forth by the representation of a hee Goate. Behold, saith hee, Hircus Caprarum that is the Male of the Goates) com∣meth * 1.11 from the West, &c. for hee meaneth Alexander the great the KING of the Aegeans. They are the Macedonians. For so that Nation was called, where the first seate of the king∣dome was, from Caramos the Founder, about two hundred yeares before Daniel. The occasione of the name the Epi∣tomizor Iustinus reporteth out of Trogus lib. 7. whose words I will not sticke to mention. Caranus, saith he, with a great multi∣tude of Gr••cians, being commanded by an answer of the Oracle to seeke places of habitation in Macedonia, when he had com••into Ema∣thia, he possessed himselfe of the Citie Aedessa, following a stocke of Goates flying from a shower, the Citizens not perceaving by reason of the greatnesse of the showres and fogge: and calling the Oracle to minde, whereby he was bidden to seeke an Empyre by the conduct of Goates, he appointed it the State of the Kingdome; and afterwards religiously observed, whethersoever hee removed his Army to have the same Goates his ensignes, using those as guides for his enterpri∣ses which he had for authors of his Kingdome. He called the Citie Aedessa Aegeas, for memory of the benefit, and the people Aegeans. See the rest.

Such is the aptnes here, that a man may judge that the type of the Ram also in the same vision concerning the King of the Per∣sians * 1.12 hath allusion to the signification of the name Elam (which is the other of the two names whereby that Nation is called) For 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 with the Hebrewes (whence the name 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a Ram) and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 which the Chaldeans signifie the same, to wit, * 1.13 to be valiant or strong. Happily therfore 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Elam with those sounded as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a Ram with these, and thereupon the K. of Elam is figured to Daniel in this type. Howsoever it be, when the mat∣ter it selfe is confirmed otherwise, such agreement of names with the type cannot but bee a godly solace to those that studdie those

things; whether wee beleeve it to have happened by chance or otherwise. And these things by the way.

Now againe I returne into the way to the Euphratean Horse∣men: the number of whom is, saith hee; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, * 1.14 two hundred thousand, thousand. Some read it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, * 1.15 leaving out 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as Cha. 5. 11. But a huge multitude is signified as Psal. 68. 18. The Chariots of the Lord are twenty thousands, thou∣sands, thousands. For 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is of those nu∣merall words, which in the Hebraisme are wont to bee taken in∣definitely, as Sexcenti with the Latines; and doth expresse not a number of tenne thousand, but any great one whatsoever; espe∣cially when it is so doubled, as is to bee seene Daniel 7. 10. But there is no man ignorant how great and how immense: the armyes of the Turkes in their expeditions have beene, and at this day are wont to be.

And I heard saith he, the number of them. For indeed it might bee demanded, whence the number could appeare unto Iohn, as which was impossible for him to account in a vision. I heard saith he. The like is to be esteemed to come to passe in other visions al∣so, as often as any thing is declared which could not be expressed in a vision; to wit, that the Apostle was instructed therein by voyce. * 1.16

It followeth concerning their ammunition: And so I saw, * 1.17 saith he, the Horses in appearance, and those that sa••e upon them, having (even) Brestplates of fire, of Iacinct, and of brimstone, and the heads of the Horses as the Heads of Lions, and as it we••e fire smoake, and brimstone issued out of their mouthes; by which the third part of m••n was killed.

No where in any of the Prophets, or other where in sacred writ doth such like representation of fire, Iacinthian smoak; and brim∣stone offer itselfe. Wherefore I take it according to the letter, of that new kinde of instruments of war, and before this Trumpet never heard of, which these Euphrat••an enemies should use after their loosing: I meane gunnes sending forth fire, smoak and brim∣stone. For Gun-powder is a powder casting out fire, with Iacin∣thlan smoke, the substance being sulphurous. Which who so do•• use in warre, appeare unto their enemies, as if they were covered as it were with fiery Iacinthian, and sulphurous Habergions, in re∣spect of the ayre, corrupted with fire, smoake, and sulphurous

smell: by reason of which, the heads of the Horses also seeme dreadfull and terrible, as it were of Lions. Hence it is that Io•••• saith, ••••e saw horses and horsemen, not indeed, but in appearance such; I say, in appearance 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, not indeed, having brest-plates of fire, jacinth, and brimstone; in appearance, having heads like Lions, to conclude, in appearance, not indeed, there came forth o•••• of the horses mouthes, fire, smoake, and brimstone; for that the thing is wont to appeare so to the beholders on the adverse part. This is the force of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in appearance, which twi••e in this sence is used in the fourth chap. ver. 3. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, like a Ia••per stone to looke upon, and a * 1.18 Raine-bow like an E••••rald to looke upon. Neither is that word to bee found in the New Testament, any other where except once o••ly.

By these three, fire, smoake, and brimstone issuing out of guns, * 1.19 he addeth, that the third part of men are killed, that is, they which were of that third part of men, whom wee called the Roman Empire. Neither is it necessary here of else-where, whre mention is of a third part, that the whole third part be understood, but to be taken partitively. Examples offer themselves as well in this book as elsewhere in the Scripture of such an Ellipsis of a word parti∣tive: as Iudges 12. 7. Iephte was buried in the Cities of Gilead, that is, in one of the Cities. And Rev. 17. 16. The tenne hornes shall hate the whore, that is some of them. So the third part of men was killed (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) that is they which were of the third part.

Who knoweth not that this was abundantly fulfilled in the overthrow of Constantinople? was not that most noble City, the head of the third part of men, conquered and given up to an uni∣versall slaughter by these engines casting forth fire? Here Chalco∣condylas. Mechmetes, saith he, in the expedition against Byzanti∣••m, caused great gunnes to be made, such as we never kne•• to have beene ••efore that time—those ••ee dispersed every where through his Army, that they might s••oote bullets against the Grecians—One of which was of that greatnesse, that it was to be drawen by 70 yoke of O••en, and two thousand men—to this on either side two ot••er great o••es also were adjoyned either of which shot•• stone, the w••ight wh••reof was halfe a tallent—that admirable peece of ord••••ance followed them, which carried a bullet which weighed about three tal∣lents, and did throw downe a great part of the w••ll—the ••••under∣ing

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whereof is reported to have binn so greate, that the country * 1.20 adjoyning for 40 furlongs distance was shake••, this peece of ••r∣dinance by day did shoot•• seven bullets, in the night one, which was a signe of day, and did shew in what place the bullets should be cast forth that day. He which desireth. To know more and how gunnes were vsed in the besieging of the City by sea, and how the walls being shaken with ordinance by the space of 40 dayes at length fell downe, and how Longe the Captayne of the Ge••••ales with his souldiers being beatne with the bullets of the gunnes quitted there place, and made way for the Turkes into the City, lett him have recource to Chalcocoudylas himselfe. Morover of the same he may learne, that the Peloponesian strei∣ght was also concured with the same armes, by Amurath this Mechmetes his Father, and the Pelquenesians brought to obedience and by Mechmets himselfe were wholley subdued, presently after the taking of Constantinople Corinthus also being conqureed by this manner of ordinance.

To this of their weapos is added another thing concerning the nature of the horses and horsemen. That their power was not in * 1.21 their mouth only (of which hither vnto) but also in their tayles. For their tayles were like serpents, having heads by which they doe hurte. That is, the same which before hath binne said of the Saracens, is true also of the Turkes. To wit, that they brought destruction where they came, not onely by hostile force, but also by the trayne of their Mahammedan imposture. Whence it is that these are noe lesse serpents in their tayle, then the Saracein∣••all L••••usts. whose religion they receaved. but that one kind of serpentine tayle is attributed to these, and another to them, that ariseth from the naturall diversity of the shape of both, the Locusts and horses; whereupon a sharpe tayle of Seorpions to those, but * 1.22 to these tayles with serpentine heades did beste agree.

But the rest of the men which were not killed with these pla∣gues * 1.23 (or which escaped these plagues) repented not of the workes of their hands, that they should not worship Devils, and idolls of golde, and silver, and brasle, and stone, and wood, which neyther 〈◊〉〈◊〉 see, nor heare, nor walke. &c.

But who these may be, it wilbe no hard matter to gather; since in the whole Roman•• Empire, or on this side Euphrates there are none now which worship Images (O shamefull and grivous!) but

christians. Must it not needs be then that the very same worship Divells, also since both is ascribed to the same in this place, But what Devills then thou wilt say? Shurely not those which they themselves hold for vncleane spirits, and so call them (for what christian wittingly and willingly would worship such?) but those Demone, which by the heathen theologists) were vn∣derstood by this name Damonia; I meane Deastri consecrated * 1.24 by the names both of Angells and of dead men, as it were medi∣ators betwenne God and men 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 sayeth Plato, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Devils, are of a midle nature betweene the Gods and mortall men. Likewise 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 God hath noe society with man, but all comunion and conference of Gods with men is by mediation of spirits, or Devills. The same the other Plato∣nists and the most philosaphers of other sects, except the Epicuri∣ans doe hold. I will only rite the words of Apuleius, where in the * 1.25 opinion of Plato and the rest is fully and perspicuously contayned. Devills, sayth he are meane powers by whom both our desiers and * 1.26 merits have accesse, to the Gods carriers betweene mortall men, and those that dwell in heaven, hence of prayers, hence of gifts; which carry hither and thither, thence petitions, thence supplies, or certeyne interpreters or bearers of recomendations. Neither, * 1.27 sayth he, will it stand with the majesty of the heavenly Gods, to take care of these thinges. Doubtles they had two sorts of Gods; heavenly who were continually resident in heaven, and would not abase them••selves to these earthly things, nor be defiled with the thought of them; these propperly and singulerly were called Gods: others Divells, who being as it were mediating divine power, & ministers of the heavenly and chife Gods, had the over∣sight * 1.28 of humane affayers Those the holy cripture (if I conjecture rightly) calleth the hoaste of heaven; these (especyally those that * 1.29 they made of dead men) Baales of all the kinge of the Babiloni∣ans or Asyrians, or in the Cald•• pronunciation, Bel, who first was consecrate by his for a Devil. whence after it came to passe that such divine powers were called Baalim, that is, Baales; as Baal••∣peor, Baal-berith, Baal-zebub, Baal-melach (••er 19) even as from the first Emperor Julius Casaer, the other Romane Emper∣ors afterwards are called Caesars.

But how this doctrine of Divels, agreeth with the worship∣ping of Saints and Angels by the counterfeit-christians, the thing it * 1.30 selfe speaketh: with this only difference, that with them there were many supreame or heavenly Gods; with us there is only one the Father of all. And truly there ought to be but one mediator also, our Lord Jesus Christ, but that the false prophets have brought in more like the heathen D••mones. Plainely according to what Pa••l hath prophesied 1 Tim. 4. 1. 2, 3. That it should come to passe in the latter times, by the hypocrisie of false speakers faining lyes of * 1.31 miracles, and through countorfeit holinesse of the Monkes abstai∣ning from marriage and meates, by reason of their ••ow: that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is, this doctrine of Divels should be brought back againe into the world. The interpretation will apt∣ly serve if thou take the ginitive 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 passively, that it may be the doctrine concerning devils as heb. 6. 2. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 &c. The doctrine of baptisme, the doctrine of lying on of handes. For surely that, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, by the hypocrocy of false teachers, and what followeth, that the order of construction maybe safe it is expounded by the government of to substantives, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the preposition setting forth the in••trument and cau••e•• which according to the Hebrew phrase is familiar) But I have declared this more at large in another place in a peculiar tracte, neither is it my minde here to repeate it.

Notes

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  ••••. Chap. 9.
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  Ve••se 14.
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  Ar••gmenta.
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  Chap. 9.
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  Diagra••mate.
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  Chap 9.
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  R••b. Moses Bar. Na••hman upon the Pen∣tatench, Gog. saith he, is a generall name, by which every Prince of Magog is called the same saith Iohannes Baptista, of a lew becomming a Christian, in the prologue of the second part. Leunclavius in the Pandicts of the Turkish H••story, p. 186. Gog at this day by the Turkes is called Giok or K••oc, with one only syllabl••: whence Kioc Can, wh••ch otherwhere is Gog Can &c. Gog E••p which also is Gug Elp.
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  Chap. 9.
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  Chap. ••.
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  Verse 5.
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  Chap. ••. Persians.
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  For••em s••n re∣bustu••••sse.
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  Verse 16.
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  Duaemyriades my••••adum. Cu••rnum Dei dua ••yriades, w••ll a d••p i••••t.
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  Chap. 9.
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  Verse ••••▪
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  Chap. 9,
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  Verse 9.
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  Chap 9
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  〈◊〉〈◊〉 9.
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  Chap. 9.
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  ve••••. 20.
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  men dei••yed? see Hisiod 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Vers. 121.? in simposi••
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  de Dhmonio socratis
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  Let the Redet see Austin de civit, dei lib 8. ct 9.
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  Chap. 9.
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  Daemones
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  you ••••y see Hiero•• vpon 22 chap. of Ezech. likewise vpon Ho•••••• chap. 2. and vpon Esay. 46. Demonem vers. 5. 13.
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  D••mon••.
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  De••strorum.