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oial of himself he will be swiCt to dcatroy. Ac- cordingly he brought up first bis uaconqucrtd Isbmaclitca to chaatcn and wound them, who pre* vatleii over part of Asia, and orcr Egypt and Africa, and t-ntered a good way into the Papal kingdom, even to the butikit of the Loire, froni wbich they were at length driven wholly ouu Then brought be uphit» angets of dcalruction, the ahephcrd nation from beyond Euphrates, wbo at* terly extcrminnted and destroyed^ and trampled ^nder foot the apostate church of the Eastt ; ai»d aCMJght aUo to force their way into the Papal kio^- doms, and prevailed to the gates of Vienna ; hot at length were driven out, and confined to their own bounds, M'bicb had been before dctcrmiued^ for them by God. ^| And thus, what do we heboid at the end of fifteen hundred yeara in that empire, wlioto liroapecls were so bright aud fair in the time IV,] THE DRTIKO UP Of THt KUPRRATK*. 1019 Conatantine. We behold the West worshipping & m&n of the deWO ri^ht band, hoMinf* the inlaUt- bihty of that man, and the decrees of hit church, instead of worshipping Christ, the man of God's right hnnd, submitting to the iufAllibility of the Holy Ohost, and con»liliiling the church of Christ- We find the saints persecuted, and their seed an- nihilated almost every where, save in this our kingdom, which God hath separated to be a wit- ness upon the face or the earth for his own wor* ship and testimony. We behold the whole Eart under the dominiun of Mohammed, a usurper upon Christ, a blasphemer, an anirel from the bottomless pit, a false prophet, permitted of God to come forth and deceive men; Christ every where forgotten, obliterated, despised, or trod- den under foot, over the bounds of that vast and mighty empire. And the lime tome*i fur hiiti to express his an^er, and the huliciess of bis indigna- tion ; the time of the cups full of wrath arriveth, that they should he poured out upon thi« apostate region of the world. He begins with the Papacy, and dealelh with her by degrees, and> as I may say, slowly and rclentingly ; because she is the example and the momiment of his long-suflering unto the Gentiles. And she receiveth five vials of different inflictions, each brintpngits own kind of punishment ; the firnt a universal soreness ; the second rcTolution, and much death tn the head and principal of herstates; the third, a bloody visitation iiprju her priests and saered shrines, in the sacred states and sacred city of her Melchi- zedec usurper; the fourth, exalting over her a scorching tyrant, full of power