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Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet , (
note :)
As if he should have said ,
these till now have been bound by the power of God ,
that they could not freely run over all men as they lusted ,
but were held and restrained at that great river of Euphrates ,
that is ,
in their spiritual Babylon (
or this is a paraphrase of the spiritual Babylon ,
by the limits of the visible Babylon long since overthrown )
that they might not commit those horrible slaughters ,
which they long breathed after .
Now go to it ,
let loose those four angels ,
that is ,
administers of the wrath of God ,
in that number that is convenient to the slaughtering of the four quarters of the world :
stir them up and give them the bridle ,
that rushing out of that Babylon of theirs ,
which is the seat of the wicked ones ,
they may fly over all the world ,
therein to rage ,
and most licentiously to practise their tyranny ,
as God has ordained .
This was done when Gregory the ninth by public authority established as Law ,
his own Decretals ,
by which he might freely lay traps for the life of simple men .
For who is it that sees not that the laws of Decretal ,
most of them are snares to catch souls with ?
Since that time (
O good God )
how many great slaughters have there been ?
How many great massacres ?
All history is full of them :
and this our age abounds with most horrible and monstrous examples of the these .(:
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Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates .
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And the nomber of horsemen of warre were twentie thousand times ten thousand :
for I heard the nomber of them .
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And thus I saw the horses in a vision , &
amp ;
them that sate on them ,
hauing firie habbergions ,
and of Iacinth ,
and of brimstone ,
and the heads of the horses were as the heades of lyons :
and out of their mouthes went foorth fire and smoke and brimstone .
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Of these three was the thirde part of men killed ,
that is ,
of the fire ,
and of the smoke ,
and of the brimstone ,
which came out of their mouthes .
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For their power is in their mouth ,
and in their tails : (
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That is ,
they are harmful on all sides :
on whatever part you put your hand to them ,
or they touch you ,
they do hurt .
So the former are called Scorpions , (
Rev_9
:3 ).(:
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for their tails [
were ]
like unto serpents ,
and had heads ,
and with them they do hurt .
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Also they repented not of their murther ,
and of their sorcerie ,
neither of their fornication ,
nor of their theft .