A Pofifcript. their help, it may tend to their greater clearing of the Truth. And no thing is held fatter than that which hath had the greateft Objeftions and Difficulties folv'd. For inflance, I. Whether the Anti-god, 2 Theft. 2. and the Beads, Rev. r 3. and the Antichrifts, Mat. 24. and r Job. be the fame, or divers ? And whether the Rev. fpake of Antichrift at all ? II. Whether Mat. 24. 9. [Many fhall cime in my name, faying, I am Chrifi] and v. 55. The Setter up of the Abomination ofDefolation] be not two forts : the firft Antichritt's, and the fecond to the Romans. And I Job. 4. 2. and this (the Spirit that confeffeth not that Jefiu is come in the Fiefh, is 76 7e inn Ec k that Spirit ofAntichriftl) differ not accordingly from Rev. III. Clear it better, that tho' Rome then eminently ruled ever the Kings cf the Earth, and fate on Seven Hills, and had all the Wealth and Glory there defcrib'd, and idolatroufly worfhip'd Jupiter, Mars, and a multitude of Gods, (calla Devils by Paul) and Deify'd their Emperours, worfhip- ping them with Altars and Sacrifices, and by their Power and Learning kept up this fornicating Idolatry over a great part of the World, and alfo captivated the Church, as Babylon had done the Jews, yet Pagan Rome was not Babylon, nor the Imperial Power of it the firft Beaft, nor the Literate Promoters ofall this the fecond Bead. IV. That tho' the Angel told John how lie might himfelfthen know Babylon and the Beatt, yet he meant not that it was that Pagan Rome and Power at all, which then had thofe Marks, but Papal Rome, which was to arife Six hundred or a Thoufand years after, which John was not to fee. V. Shew when Papal Rome began to be Babylon, and its Power the Beaft. Whether wlenConflantine deliver'd the Church from Pagans, or when Phocas call'd Boniface Llniverfal Bifhop, or when Gregory VII. feil on mattering Princes by hisChurch- Keys, &c. VI. And why John of Confiantinople was not as much Antichrift, who claim'd the fame Power : And all Primates, feeing it was but a Primacy in the Empire, and not over all other Princes Dominions in the Earth, that Phocas gave or meant. VII. Whether all the Chriflian Godly Emperours, fucceeding the Pagans, and fitting at Confiantinople, and not at Rome , were the Bead alfo. VIII. And feeing it's commonly faid that the Civil Power was the Firft Beafl, and theEcclefraffical the Second, and the Pope is both ; prove that, the Pope was the firft Bead the fed Soo years, or more, while he was a Subject to the Emperours and the Gothifh Kings; and fince, when he had not half fo large a civil Power as the Emperour, or King of France, Spain, &c. but Rome it feif, and molt of Italy near him, fought againf him. IX. Seeing the Pope claim'd his Ecclefiaftical Power many hundred Years before his Civil Power, and yet is both the firft and fecond áeáft, and the feventh and eighthHead, evince it that the fecond Bead, Y 2 and
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