453 .íf. Re)'e1ation ofthe Apocalypf'e ;.._CAi .i; as it is above, verfe z. Wherefore both theft Tuffs beone and the fame both in Iargeneffe ofpower,' and in the founder thereof, From whom they received it. Nowwhereas Come will hare this fecond Beta tobe, as it were, a Champion to fight in the defence of the forma ; How can that be, unlaife wewould thinke that there is any man to becompared with Ilntichrill, either in power, or defire of doingmifchiefe ? Nay verily he (hall havenone to follow hirn,but he that exceed all men in wickedneffeby many a pole length.This Bea" then is not any of Antichriffs Guard, or otherattendants,but even he himfelfe, that isgoad at doing any villany,as himfelf. But will fòrne man fay,they feem tobediflina, becaufe one ofthem worketh in the fight of another. But this kindoff Baking doth not declareadiverfi. ty ofPerlons, but only that the firlt remained aliveafterhe had bean cured ofhis wound. And yet it is very fit they should be let downe, as if they were twoditlinet ones, becaufe of their notable variety, which one and the fame Perlon should attaine when he carne to his growth. For whichcaufe he is called both the ley nthand the eight King, Chap. i7 . Not becaufe there areeight Kings, for there areonly feven Heads, but becaufe the feventh hath to great variety in'his elate, that he might feemworthily tobe, as it were., a new. one, and fo tomake an eight. And befides, if the Second Bearl werediverfe from the former, why fhould he get honour rather for theformer than.for himfeife, feeing he is equal! tohim in power, andas notori- outly wicked ? It mutt needs be therefore, that the honour of the Se.. condconf(ls in the honour of theFir" whom he cloth fo earneftly labour to get worthippedofthe inhabitantsof the earth, not fo much defiring to amplifie the Gloryofanother, as hisowne. Andhe caufedthe earth, and them that dwelltherein. The effect of this power tendeth to compcll all counterfeit Chrillians to adore thefr# Beajl,which the Holy gboft doth defcribeexiftly by the healing of his deadly wound, teaching us that this e4doration did not befall him, before that he was healed foundly of his wound that was given him. Hee had indeed great authority before he was fo fore difcomfited, as we have fhewed, but it was indeed far greater after all wa, well repaired ani recovered. And this order the Holy Cfhofî obferved 'aboveverf:3. joyningbot hadmiration & alloàdoring ofthe Beaf next after the woundingandcuring ofbis Head. And that Adoration there fpokenof, is the fame with this here, which isnow procured by the helpof this fecond Bea.fl!'. But wherefore cloth not gibefecond 8eafif urge and cattle adoration in hisovtne name, but only in
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