field of slain men, which none could number, and their blood running upon the earth. Then I ſaw as it were a throne erected in heaven, and on it, one like unto the Son of man clothed with a garment down to his feet, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle, saying, Rejoice over her, ye heavens, and ye prophets, and ye holy apoſtles, for God hath avenged you upon her. And a mighty angel took up a ſtone like a mileſtone, and caſt it into the ſea, ſaying, Thus with violence ſhall that great city Babylon be thrown down, to be found no more at all.
31. Feb 21. It was laid before me in printed letters, That the Lord was about to plead with Antichriſt for the blood ſed of his ſervants by him, since he had a beginning, which he would inſtance in theſe nations following, Germany, Bohemia, Piedmont, France, Spain. Britain, and Ireland, and particularly the bloody houſe of Auſtria, and for what was done in the Netherlands, which was made deſolate not for their own quarrel, but for mine, becauſe they would mot deny ne, and acknowledge the Pope to be head of my church At the ſame time it was ſaid. I will raze the kingdom of Spain as the top of a rock that hath neither food for man nor beaſt, but I will moſt bring him to Britain to avenge me of mine enemies, and for the injuries done me and my church there, and then will take the rod and throw it on the fire, and curſed be that man who reſuſeth to go forth, and bathe his ſword in the blood of Antichriſt.
33 At another time perceived a man walking with ickhorn by his ſide, and a pen in his hand, and when I fastened my eyes upon him he ſaid. I am to ſet a mark and fall upon the followers of the Lamb to diſtinguiſh with theſe from thoſe that have the mark of the beaſt in the approaching and deſolating stroke.
35. At another time it is laid before me, by three miles, that he would do with Antichrist the first was a fisher drawing his net, and every fish that wanted fins and scales he throw to the bottom of the sea, where they were never found any more: the ſecond was of a man taking a handful of sand, and throwing it against the winds, that was never found or heard of any more: the third was a man cutting
