John Trapp on Revelation 9:1

CHAP. IX. Verſe 1. A ſtar fall from heaven]

GR. That had fallen from heaven, viz. when the third Angel ſounded, Chap. 8.10. Then the Biſhop of Rome began to fall, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. but here, in Boniface the third and his ſucceſſours, He is fallen, he is fallen from his primitive integrity into the deepeſt gulf of impiety. The Jeſuites (to blinde the matter) tell us, that by this ſtarre is meant Luther, whom Satan ſent out to diſturbe the Church, and God ſent them to withſtand him. Bugenhagius alſo, a Dutch-Divine, when he firſt read Luthers book of the Babyloniſh Captivity, raſhly pronounced him the moſt peſtilent heretike that ever the Church was peſterd with. But a few daies after having thorowly read and weighed the contents of that book, he recanted and affirmed, that all the world was deceived, Scultet. Annal. and Luther only was in the right: And ſo not only himſelf became a Lutheran, M[illegible: 1 letter]t. Par[illegible: 1 letter]ſ. an. 1072. but many others alſo perſwaded by him.

The key of the bottomleſſe pit] Whereinto he lets ſouls innumerable: ſo that in the daies of Hildebrand letters were ſet forth, as ſent from hell, wherein the devil and his Angels give the Popiſh Clergy many thanks for ſending them in ſo many ſouls as they never had in any age before.