John Trapp on Revelation 11:9

Verſe 9. Three daies and a half] i. e. For a ſhort time, till out of their aſhes others ſhould ariſe to ſtickle for Chriſt. The Pope never reſted, but had one or other faithfull Witneſſe to oppoſe him; either to his face (as Joan[illegible: 1 letter]es Sariſburienſis, Qui praeſens praeſentem Pontificem redarguit: and Mancinellus, I[illegible: 2 letters] R[illegible: 1 letter]v p. 145. who reproved Alexander the ſixth in a Sermon at Rome, and had therefore his hands cut off, and his tongue cut out, whereof he died.) Or elſe in ſome more remote part of his dominion, as Savanarola (whom Guicciardin and Mirandula highly commend:)De [illegible: 1 span] fort dial. 118. P[illegible: 1 letter]trarch who writeth thus, Babylon altera, nempè propinquior at que recentior adhuc ſtat, citò it idem caſura, ſi eſſetis viri: Babylon would ſoon down, would you but play the men. Beſides a cloud of other Witneſſes, that might here be called in.

Not ſuffer their dead bodies] So fulfilling that, Pſ. 79.2. [illegible: 2 letters]. Rev p. 195. Some they would not ſuffer to be bu[illegible: 2 letters]ed: others they digged up again after buriall, as (beſides many of our Martyrs) they unburied and burned the bones of Hermannus Ferrarienſis after they had ſainted him: becauſe he was ſaid to have followed the doctrine of the Waldenſes, thoſe ancient Proteſtants. Cardinall Poole had a purpoſe, if he had lived, to have taken up K. Henry the eights body,Act. and Mon. fol 1905. and to have burned it. 'Twas generally obſerved, that as Wincheſter and Bonner did alwaies thirſt after the bloud of the living, Ibid. 1439. ſo was Cardinall Pooles lightening (for the moſt par[illegible: 1 letter]) kindled againſt the dead: and he reſerved this charge only to himſelf.