John Trapp on Revelation 12:11

Verſe 11. By the bloud of the lamb] By his merit and ſpirit. Chriſts bloud (as Pliny ſaith of Polium) is a preſervative againſt ſerpents.

And they loved not their lives] When one ſaid to a certain Martyr,Act. and Mon. Take heed, tis an hard matter to burn: Indeed, ſaid he, it is for him that hath his ſoul linked to his body, as a thiefs foot is in a pair of fetters. In the daies of that bloudy perſecutour Diocletian, Certatim glorioſa in certamina [illegible: 1 letter]uebatur (ſaith Sulpitius) multo que avidiùs tum martyria glorioſis mortibus quarebantur, quàm nunc Epiſcopatus pravis ambitionibus appetuntur, &c. Thoſe ancient Chriſtians ſhewed as glorious power in the faith of Martyrdome,Non majori unquam triumpho vi[illegible: 1 letter]imus quam [illegible: 1 word] decem annorum ſtragibus vinci non pot[illegible: 1 letter] [illegible: 1 word] Sulpit. as in the faith of miracles: the valour of the patients, and the ſavagenes of the perſecutours ſtriving together, till both, exceeding nature and belief, bred wonder and aſtoniſhment in beholders and readers.