Ct1..P:t3. Zoel fiói2'of1t-iAj4balypre. 453 tomleffepit. Which refurreLtion we havefhewed to be found molt plainly in the Pope of Rome, when he was eafed and delivered from thofe'miferies, wherwith he was overwhelmed by the invafionofthe Barbarians ; fo that he lay, as it were, dead arid buried in theopini- on ofinen.: For it shall be made manifeí }, that this cannot agree to a feigned death ofone man for a few dayes, who afterwards revived; and this will fhew out ofthe Perlon of iintichrif,which the i7. Chap- ter íhall teach'us, to be not any certain and ungular man but a long fucceflionof many men, efpecially, feeing this wound {hall be very wofull unto him,andnot fuch an one as he gavehimfelf in left, andof his own accord,butfilch as was givenhimby his enemies,where there could be no place for diffembling, that other conceit of a feigned death hath no reafon in it ; but is a falfe conje&ure, brought inby foolifh men,both againft the truth of the niatter,and the very words ofScripture. The Pope of `Rome therefore is famous by means of this firft miracle, which they may, if they pleafe, call his Refurredion from the dead, to-which it is not unlike. Now letus fee how like he is to this Beaf,in regard of the fecond miracle. Certainly thofe miracles feem to be the greater', which are wrought from heaven, or in the heavens themfelves, feeing that men have the leaft power over thofe bodies of any other, as, when thefire ofthe Lordfalling from heaven, confumed the Whole burnt offering of Elias,' King.i 8,38. Likewife,When theCaptain offiftie men,With all his armypori(bedby firefromheaven at the prayer of Elias, 2 King.'. e. íntichrifl therefore fhould fe't himfelf out with this kinde of mira- cles, that he might riot feem inferiour to thofemolt famous and Holy Prophets of God. The Jefuits areglad to hearof this,' and from hence they hold it for a molt undoubted truth,that the Pape is not Antichrift,as Whomwe never can read to have Wrought any"fuch miracle,as they fay. But Hil- debrand confefleth another matter, who in an ,&piffle of his to the Germans,faid that Henry the fourth was ttricken with a thunderbolt, when he was excommunicated by him..And that not without caufe, feeing the Spirit of God did govern his tongue doubtleffe, as he did the tongue of C'al'phaa of old, to the intent that the world might understand, how it was, that the Beaff made fire to come down from Heaven. But we have noneed to leek out a metáphoricall fenfe, when as the Hiffories milli Us with moft clear demonftrations. Of this kinde of miracle; vvas that of Zachary the Pope, who journying Nan 2 to-
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