(1) This Beast (saith Du Moulin) rose from a small beginning and mean estate, signified by a Little Horn in Daniels Prophecy, and in the Revelations of St. John by his rising out of the Earth, according as the Latins call such as get up from a little, Terrae Filios, as Mushrooms or Toad-stools, pag. 259. Now who is there but knows how mean and poor the Bishops of Rome were, before they came to be Earthly Monarchs? then when they had not one foot of ground, that the Emperor caused them to be whipped, imprisoned, banished, &c. but by degrees to what a mighty height did he rise? He exercised the Power of the First Beast by little and little, he took the Empire upon him, (2) sat down in his very Seat, ⟨p. 50⟩assumed his Habit and Shoes of Scarlet, and counterfeited the actions and rights of the Roman Empire: casting off his Crosier-Staff, he takes to hisself a Crown, and is clothed in Scarlet, which was proper to the Emperor: the Emperor had a Senate •lad in Scarlet, and he hath a Senate of Cardinals clad in cloth of the same colour, and in many other things he seemed to represent the First Beast.
(1) This Beast (saith Du Moulin) rose from a small beginning and mean estate, signified by a Little Horn in Daniels Prophecy, and in the Revelations of St. John by his rising out of the Earth, according as the Latines call such as get up from a little, Terrae Filios, as Mushromes or Toad-stools, pag. 259. Now who is there but knows how mean and poor the Bishops of Rome were, before they came to be Earthly Monarchs? then when they had not one foot of ground, that the Emperour caused them to be whipt, imprisoned, banished, &c. but by degrees to what a mighty height did he rise? He exercised the Power of the First Beast by little and little, he took the Empire upon him, (2) sat down in his very Seat, ⟨p. 50⟩assumed his Habit and Shoes of Scarlet, and counterfeited the actions and rights of the Roman Empire: casting off his Crosier-Staff, he takes to hisself a Crown, and is cloth'd in Scarlet, which was proper to the Emperor: the Emperor had a Senate •lad in Scarlet, and he hath a Senate of Cardinals clad in cloth of the same colour, and in many other things he seem'd to represent the First Beast.
