586 ikvelatton ofthe Apocalypfe. C A P,17. afunder whereof the one fitteth and is borne, theother carrieth ; but if this conjoyning of them be of little force, here we have a more {freight, yea, a moil {l:reight union of them, as it were, of the head with his body ; fo that they who will fend away the Beall' to foire other place, then to Rome, mull reeds imagine him to be a body without his heads. Thus therefore I conclude demonftratively from hence, the City Where the heads of the Beaft , or ofAntichrifi are remaining,fixed anal 'table, is the very feat of Antichrifi ; But Rome is the City where the heads of e_ntichrifi remain fixed, therefore Rome is the feat ofAntichrifi. You can never efcape the dint of this Argument (O yee Papifls t) while you live. It mutt needs be as fixed,ffrong and durable, as are the Mountains themfelves of your Rome. Yet we will ftreightwayes fee what you are able to objeet to the contra- ry,when we come to the confuting ofyour newly coyned Antichrift. Verf r o.And they are feven Kings, Whereof five are faine. So much of the durable heads; thofe which are paffing away follow, which are the (evenKings : So that we fee there is a double apply- ing ofthis one1'ype,that teachethus,that there is an infeparable con- junction of the Hils and the Icings; whence wehave another necef- fary argument afforded unto us, to prove that Reme is the feat of Antichrifi, in this manner; The (eat of the (evenDings is the feat of Antichrifl, Rome the City With feven Hils, is the feat of thefevcot I:ings:For the heads are both the Mountains,and the Dings ;Therefore Tome is the feat of Antichrifi. But who, or what are thefe feven Kings ? They are not feven fingular perlons, as ViElorinus would have it, but they are thefeven forms of Trincehood, or Itiment that have been in Reme. For if eachof the headsfhould note out fingular men,five of which fell in johns age, that is to fay, Galba, Otho, Vitel- lus, Tiefpafìan, Titus, and Domiti.tn was the fixth,whowas then Em- "peror ; and ifNerve was the feventh whowas then tobe expeeled, who fhouldcontinue but for a 1hort time, and fhould have Trajane to fucceed him immediately, who fhould be both the eighth and the feventh at once, if (I fay) the heads be to be numbred thus, it muff needs be that this fhould have (Fite failed and perithed in Trajane, who fhould be his laff head, and that there is nothing now at all to be feared from himof the world. Unlelfe we fhould th;nke, perhaps, that he is frill remaining alive, when all his live-heads are cut off;' ór that new ones fprung up again, like the heads ofHydra, *hen theold were(rook off,' whereofyet Johnhatti made no men- tion,
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