: . [ )27 J ' . ~, Thoufand four hundred after Chrift? . and· why " Mr. Mede faith, That the Walden(es were the jirft ''of all Mortals that took.. the Pope to be Antichrift. '" And whether the Book was written for none " but a few men that agree not of the fence of it~ " fo near the Ehd of theWorId ? ] It will puzzle ·the Hearers before all thefe, and many fuch Q!Ie– ftions are wellAnfwered. When we have fo much plain Evidence.againfi ·Popery in the whole Bible, to lay it mainly on thefe Expolitions of the R€ve– lation ' (whe·re 1-find not three men in thirty that differ not in great Material Points ) is almofi to betray it : when fuch a man as ']vhn Fox, P. ni. VoL 1. Sweareth that he had a Revelation ceri- . trary ·to much of this, which he repeateth in his Comtnent on Revelations. . Spec;ially thofe that venture to foretel the·nce the Year of Anrichri tt's fall, and other particulars, which timeconfuteth, do .exppfe us to the Scorn of Cbnfirmed PapiHs. ·- · · · ' §IX. ·Protefiants have too often .advamaged Popery~ .by ill a.nfwering the Queh:ion) Where was· yo~tr Church before Luther? Pleading the Citholick I ·Chur.ches invifibility. When non apparere and non ejfo are oft I equal in.Argumentation: Greatly dit: honouring Chri!t , as if fo near the end of the World, the Albigenfes and f¥4ldenfes, (and fome 1 Papifis that found fault with the Papal Mifcarria– ges, had been all the knm,,n Church for ·Eleven hundred Years: To tell theMahometans that the Kingdom of Jefus after fplong .endeavours, was fcarce bigger than w;ales, 1snot the way to honour Protefiants, or ChriH. · And then they think to repair the difl1onour ·by theii· Prophecy of 'the Millennia! Kingdom, which tieth the knot harder than befor• § X.
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