. The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, king of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. . and clearely declares the authors^ and maner of hw dettrut~ becaufe that thefe plagues,and Babylon whereupon theylighted, did feeme obfcure vnto me, therefore one of thefeuen Angels who powred forth their phials ful ofplagues,did fay vnto me, Here then, I will fhew vnto thee moreplainely the condemnation of this great Whore-, and whatfhee is that fitteth vpon many waters; * With whom the Kings of theearth haue committed fpirituall adulter
. The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, king of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. . and clearely declares the authors^ and maner of hw dettrut~ becaufe that thefe plagues,and Babylon whereupon theylighted, did feeme obfcure vnto me, therefore one of thefeuen Angels who powred forth their phials ful ofplagues,did fay vnto me, Here then, I will fhew vnto thee moreplainely the condemnation of this great Whore-, and whatfhee is that fitteth vpon many waters; * With whom the Kings of theearth haue committed fpirituall adulterie,and with the wine of whofewhoredome the inhabitants of the earth, to^it,3. great number of nations,who are notoftheElecl:,are made drunke,as you heard before. * Thenhe bereft me in Spirit, as I told you in the beginning of this Epiftle, to the E 3 wildernes,. 54. (*ATaraphrafe vpon the liguelation C h a p . 17. wildernes,which fignifies the Gentelifme,as faith Ejay, for fhe and her fol-; lowers are Gentiles in erfed:, as ye heard in the fixt Trumpet: And as ourj Matter fayes, All thefe that gather not with vs,they fcatter, for no more isi there a middeft betwixt God and the diuell,nor betwixt the rewards there-? o£heauen and hell, and as one of thefe two Matters we mult of neceflitiefollow, Co of the fame neceflitie to one of thefe two places mult we And then 1 faw in the wildernes a woman, euen Ballon that Tft?hore, fit-| ting on a fcarlet coloured and bloody beaft, euen as ftieewas fitting be-fore in thelikcnefTe of a man vpon a pale horfe, in the fourth Seale 1 And this beall was full of blafphemie, and had feuen heads and tenne hornes,asI ye heard before. 4 And the woman was clothed with purple and lcarletandpretious Hones and pearles, and had in her hand a golden Cup ; torthis Monarchic and the Monarch thereof, fhall afwell
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