CAP.z touching Antichrift. 625 added tofume one determinate thing, andfetch a is moft eleere, there is altogether fame emphafis becaufe oftheArticle, but Without the Arti- cle, the Word is to betaken indefinitely ofany vulgar matter. Even at ifwefbatl/ay ()3aflios ) a King, We have indeed expreffed a name, but yet We have not demonlratedany definiteman, forwefay the King of the ?erjians, andofthe Medes, andof the Elamites; but if Wefhill fay With putting toan Article,O Baflios, that King; it is out ofdoubt, What isfsgntfied,is the Kingthat Wasfoughtfor, or ofWhom fpeech Was had, or Who is known to us, or he that raigneth in fame certain Conn- trey. After the fame manner,theos, andO theos,anthropos,and O anthropos, andfo in the refl. Epiphanies therefore will have fome- thing fpoken before , that is famous, well known, ofwhich fpeech or queftion is had, but it never came into his minde, much lefàe hath he committed it to writing, that every word is alwayes tied to afin- gular perfon, with this circurhfcriptionof the Article. The Article may put anyhabite, as a Iefuitedothaccordingto the diverfe refpe t of timeand place. Whereas therefore you marvel! that our writers, who brag of their skill in the tongues, as you fay, have not marked and obferved this ; I do rather marvell at you who are a man exercifed in learning, famous in the Schooles, a Profeffor of controverfies, upon whole mouth, thewhole generati- on almoft of the Papifls Both depend, hath flipped fo foully in fo childifh a rudiment. But your defire of overcoming hath hin- dered you, that you could not fee the truth. There is but one way left for you to bolt out this ignominy, which is, to advife and perfwade all your Scholle s, that henceforth they would con- clude any thing rather from thefe Articles, then a fingular per- fon. The third place is,i Iohn2.28. You have heard that Antichrift is coming, now alfa there are many Antichris 'ts extant ; Where, fay you, theArticle isfet before Antichriftproperly fo called,and noneat all before him that is taken commonly ,andtherefore that is a certainperfon, this is ah' Heretickcs ingenerali. I anfwer, it feemeth that the great- eft defence of this caufe is placed in this new devifed force of the Article, and therefore that thefe twice fodden Coleworts are fet before us again. But wee have confuted this either ignorance or malice of yours fufficiently, in the former argument qhat went next before, with which this is altogether oneand the fame. And yet that you may not complaine that yeti can get no anfwer , admit that O Antichrifto, that Antichrift. with-the Article, be
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