commanded that hee ſhould be brought forth, and without the gates at the gallowes be beheaded, and quartered; the ſeverall quarters being as a ſight ſet in the high-wayes, as being the members of ſome wicked Malefactors.
Chap. CV.
I. NOt without reaſon do we believe that the Kingdome of Antichriſt was ſhewed to John under the forme of a beaſt, for it doth indeed appeare before all eyes, if we do but conſider the cruelty, and madneſſe of that beaſt both againſt the living and the dead, and againſt all things contrary to it, and therefore yet it remaines to be ſhewed what rage they exerciſed againſt liveleſſe things, Churches, Books, Images, Sepulchers, and the bones of the dead.
2, As for the temples, it is not neceſſary that we ſhould remember or record how they did cleanſe them from that hereſie with their holy-water, a ſuperſtition (forſooth) among them for whom this ſanctification by the Word of God and prayer which the holy ſpirit taught the Chriſtians, (1. Timothy 4. 5. is not ſufficient, this was ridiculous to the common
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