440 A elation the Ap&alyple... C A r. i ;. The time of Doing,ir two andfaurty moneths. Which is the fame fi ice;that the temple remaineth meijured,the tWo Prophets mottrx, 4nd A he Woman lyeth Badin the wildsrnefr,Chap. 11.2 . & t 2:6, From which time the beginning ofthefemoneths is to be accounted ; the Churclh, i. baniAed,the Prophetsput onfáckcloth,, andtheBeat or e4ntichryt is born into the Wei.ld,al at oncenamely,in that fiat time ofrcfting,which the Church had frompubfick perfecutions,about the yeer 3oo.But as we (aid before, than there be the fame end of all thefe together? Shall the Beadbe deprived of all power of doing, a(l'oon as the wo- man 1hal1 return out ofthe wilderneC? againft this many things;uiay be faid,as firí} , that the Beaft makes War With the tWo 'Prophets after the tWo andfottrty menethrbe ended,and overcommeth them.Which de- clareth that there is-no (mall power of his yet remaining,as_we have (hewed, ch. 1 r.7. Moreover, there remainethy:et a far more deadly war that fhall be -wagedagainit him a long time after thofemoneths, as we fhall fee,ch. i 6. Lsftly, if there be thefame end of the moneths in rcfpeet of the Peaft , -which is of the Woman, how !hall he have power to doforty and 2. monethr,when as the{hall lie lick a great part of them, yea he fhall be as it were flain by means of his vvotsdeóf head .? This fpace of time cloth kem therfore to contain the vvhole time of the Tyrannie of Antichriff,yet fo that the time ofhis vvound while it is fore,ba taken away from it. Now wee have (hewed-that this time of his crazinefs is defined within the time of the Gotiles Kingdom,verf.3. which latter' for a¿ìundredandforty yeers; If we (hall therefore take away thefe yeers froni the moneths of theWo- mans 1nrk no, we (hall fiad that at the end of- this lurking,namely at the yeer i 596.37. moneths only, and ten-days of Antichrifts King- dorn,when it was in vigour, were paffed over: Five moneths there- fore and twenty ,days are wanting hereto; which if we reckon from the yeer i 59.6.the Taft end ofAntichrift fhall expire at the yeer,i 686 or there abouts. For fo we !hall learn out of other Scriptures,that he (hall p,erifh utterly about that time. It may be that his deftruJion may conic fooner, then this term of yeersdefneth , for I do not call the accountaccurately at this time,neither do the Hiftoriansnumber theveers fo faithfully :as theyought, but hee (hall not be fuffered to goe.beyond the ftlrthett fpace that I have fet down. But perhaps thefe moneths are not the fpace from the firft beginning to the laft endof theBeafl, but.only theformer yeers of his Kingdom. Which may be many enough to-lay him open-, fo as hee may be revealed to all men. And.by this interpretation as he beginneth together with the
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