37Z .r levelation ofthe Apocalypre. C A P.it, For threedayes anda half. Somewill have this to be the fame fpace of time with the two andforty moneths, and the thoufand two hundred andtlreefcore dayer; But the words do fhew plainly, that they are divers fpaces. For this time ofthree ¿ayes andahalf; beginneth not before the 126o. dayes be ended ; For fo it is faid afore, andwhen they havefini/hed. Betides, the Prophets lay killed and unburied for thefe threedayes dyed a half, but that time of the 126o. dayes, is the time oftheir prophefy.ing infackcloth ; fo that they can by no means be referred to the fame time. Let us therefore give them their own place, and fet them next after the moneths; the which according to the proportion of the former dayes, do Eland for three leersand a half, wherein the Popiih Rabbins fhould rejoyce together in behalf of their Angel of thepit, and that not a little, in that they had put down the Scriptures, and troden upon the Churches neck, as they tuppofed, as it hapned partly at Trcnt, and in Bononia, partly in Ger- many. After that the fentence ofdeath was paffed againft theScrip- tures,in the yeer I546. April 8. Thofe Pope -holy fathers triumphed from that time,for threeWholeyeers anda ha/f,in a confuted concourfe of all nations, as if they had plaid the flout and tall fellows, and fo they addreffed themfelves to trample the truth that remained, under their feet, till at !aft the wicked Conventicle was broken up by the death of Paul 3. Which fell in the yeer i 546. Novemb. 9. That is, in the third yeer and the half after the Scriptures were troden down. A few weeks that be over,do not hinder the confenr,feeing it feemed not good to the Holy Ghofi to divide the matter into fmaller parrs, then into three ¿ayes and a half. The Church in Germany, which feemed in the opinion of men to bequite overthrown by means of the forces of the Ern,perour and the Tope that were confederate, lay for dead all that time; namelÿ,from the 22. ofe1pril,theyeer 1547. unto the Calends of 0flober of the yeer 155o. When as it began to lift up the head again at MaFdenbrergh, nothing at all fearing either the profcription of ('afar, or the confpiracieof the Princes, or elfe whatfoever any oftheir enemies could attempt againfl them Sleid Book,22. and 23. Obferve befde,how foolifh that is, and crofle to it felf,whichis carried about commonly concerning the threeyee;y rain ofAntichrii; For thefe three dayes begin not, before the tWo andfor- tie moneths be ended, and yet he that' raign both fpaces of time°. Whereupon, according to their computation, though wee grant them that the moneths` do note out three common seers and a half, He Elsall raign (even yeeres at real', And yet this is but a íhort
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