C AP.2. touching AntichrifL. 627 Who alfo beareth up the YYhare, whom people, and multitudes andna- tions and tongues do obey, and raigneth over the Kings ofthe earth, Re- vel. 17. 15. i 8. But youwill fay,perhaps, he is called little becaufe of his beginning, not when he is come to his full age. I anfwer that the higher pitch ofhis dignity, when he Thal! flourifh mofi of all, (hall not lift up it fell higher, then above the three Horner, which he (hall fupp reffe. Out of que(fion the Holy Ghoft would have recorded more of diem, if he fhould have had power over more. Therefore this Horn is not Antichriff, but if we will confiderof the matter welt, it is the Dragon himfelf of the fi'thViall that is pollen of; Revelar. 16, 13. Namely, the Turk¿e, of whom and of the rat of the enemies, that (hall oppreffe the )ewes, Daniel doth onely intreat, without once mentioningof the ¡yefiern Antichriff, as we (hail haveoccafion given us, perhaps, to declare thefe things more fully one day. This Unlike neffe therefore between thefe two will not fuffer them to agree in one by any meanes. So that now you may fee that we ought not fo much to regard either who they be, or how many they be, that fay any thing, as with what reafons they perfwade them- felves fo. Secondly yougather out of thewords of Daniel, Chap. 7. 24, That this Antichriff ( Whom the Fathers will have to be meant by the little Horne) is afingular perfon, becaufe he is not calledone Kingdome, bást,one King, Who fhould take quite out of the World three of the ten Kings, Whom heAmid find in the World, and feebiet the other feven re himfelf. I anfwer, firfl, that there WI, words, andhe(hallfttbdue the o- ther feven, are very boldly forged, and foif}ed in, feeing there ap- peareth not the leaft foottlep of them in Daniel. For he faith onely here in the 8. Verfe,fothat three orthofeformer homes Were rootedout from before him. And againe, verfe 24, And he Pall fubdue three Kings, but he never fpeaketh of ¡fubduing the other {even.' And I pray you, how fhould he be a little Home, ifhe fhoald deftroy three Rungs, and raigne over all the refl. There words have been brought in unadvifedly by force of the ancient Writers, but they are retainedby you with a worfe mind, e- ven to obfcure the truthwith them. But this is of a little moment to helpe the forte ofthe argument. Therefore I fay in the fecond place, that that is falfe, that he is one perfon,who as called one King. For the Angel fpeaketh fo above, thefegreat Beafls,whieb are foure, are the forreKings thatPallarife out ofthe earth, verfe 17. Which yet arc Pot
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