The top portion of Swiss printer Johann Amerbach's 1489 woodcut De Civitate Dei sees St. Augustine diligently at work at his desk, but it is the bottom half that deserves the Slayer soundtrack.
...it is "a battle between the cities of Babylon (founded by Abel) and Zion ('Syon,' by Cain). In this battle Zion is defended by devils, and the devils are armed." (In case this demon with a firearm is eluding your view, he's on the lower-right, beneath the monster with the stone/hardboiled egg with malevolent intentions.)
Вспоминается, что у Мэлори (1470) только злодей Мордред мог обстреливать Тауэр из пушек (так же, как только прислужники подлого Мелеаганта могли стрелять по рыцарю из луков). Но, впрочем:
As for the angels, they would flex their own divine artillery against some demons in Celifodina's Scripturae Thesaurus in this 1510 printing by B. M. Lantzberg.
