[ 526 ] I . n:Zme, Davenant, Brownrig; Ward, Prideapx, Field, &c. Oh how many and how great! was this to UQite the Protefcants, and CO• ftrengthen them againft the United Papifts? . · · § VII. And alas how .greatly have thofe Zea-· lous Proteftants confirmed the Papifrs; and diilio~ noured the Church and Chrift their King; that rmaiAtain that the Church became Antichriftian in -J1,nno . 300 or 400, or at leaft 6o6, if not as foon as Cl!rift by Conftantir:e t~ok poffdfion of . tlle lmpenal V1fible Government. I will not · -aggravate this as it deferveth : But I wonde-r not ifit make thoufands of Papifts. · § VUI. And Pvoteftants too many 'have great– ly tfuardened Papifts, by too bold and forced Ex·: pofidons of the Apor:alyps; and laying coo muoh of the ftrefs of -their Caufe on it (as' that Pagan Rome is not the Babylon there meant,' nor that Rome as the Mother or Nurfe of Pagan Ido– latry the Whore ; nor the Pagan Empire the .Beafr with feven Heads and ten Horns, nor ·the P.ontifical, Oracular, Foretelling; and LiEerate Tribe, the Beaft ~rith two fjorns, not the Jew and Gentile .Miracle-working perfecuted Chd– ftians (radically-Epitomized in Peter and Ptml) " the two Witneffes; and that Antichrift is " fpoken of in rbe l!evelations ; and that Cnrift '• intended it as a Prophecy of all the great Af– " fairs and Changes of the Church to the end of "t~le VIorld. J I fay, laying the fcrefs· of our " Caufe on thefe, is next to giving it away. " ·when a Papift {hall call for the proof of this, · " arid ask whether 1ohn and tbe .feven Churches "underftood it; and what one man on Earth fo ~'expounded it of a Tho1.1fand years; or_a • ~~ Thou:f.tn~
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