John Trapp on Revelation 14:8
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Revelation14:8
Verſe 8. And there followed another Angel] Martin Luther with his book de captivitate Babylonia, which when Bugenhagius firſt read, he raſhly cenſured for the moſt peſtilent book that ever was written: But upon better deliberation, he retracted his former ſentence, and became a means to convert many others
Of the wine of the wrath] Of the intoxicating enraging wine, that ſets men a madding after her:
Nam Venus in vinis, ignis in igne furit.
There is a ſtory of Walter Mapes, ſometimes Arch-deacon of Oxford, who relating the Popes groſſe ſimony, concludes his Narration thus, Sit tamen Domina mater que noſtra Roma baculus in aqua fractus: & abſit credere quae vidimus. Rome had raviſhed this man out of his wits.
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