638 Againfl ßeitannifie, CAP .2. Daniel, are tiót thefe of the Beall.,-they are correfpendent indeed to the Hornet of the Dragon, but the Bee hath not Hornet common with the Dragon. To this we mayadds,that that rime, times, and a piece of time, in Daniel, is not the fame (pace, which the fame kindeof (peaking in John fignifieth. There it agreethto.the little Horn, here to the Beal, which feeing theyare diverfe, as we have (hewed, it is not needful!, that one and the fame placeof time fhould be agreeble to them both. That lignificationof the time in Daniel , anfwereth to that honre, moneth,and yeer,R.evel,9.i 5. All which fpace is a little part onely,pf this time,times andhalf a time, that is fpoken of in the Revelation,as wehave provedbefore futficiently In that you urge the likeneffe of the words,it is all one;, as if one fhottld conclude the Pope to be the 7urk,becaufebothof them be rnen,and raigne over many men. Be- tides if I should grant that one is fpoken of inboth Prophets,yet Da- nieldoth not fpeakof one certain King.You did labour to effeft fuch amatter right now, but all in vain, as we have feen, and thematter lothproclaime the contraryopenly. For if the late Horne fhouldbe a fingular perfon , fuch as the ten Hornes Ihould be alto neceffarily according to youropinion,what a kinde of defcription fhould this be of the Romane Empire,which íhould omit fomany Ages.where- in it endured, and fhould onely touch the elate thereof during the lit three yeers? Naynot during this one three yeers either, when as youwill have this Empire ofRome to be quite deiiroyed , before Antichrift (hall come ? Therefore there is not one little word lefi for you-outof the Scriptures, which can teach that Antichrift fhall be a certain man, after the right manner of concluding; but we have demonitranted out of them molt certainly, that he is that Apojiatical Sea of thole, that (hall doritinere in the Church. Your fecond argument to prove Antichrift tobe certain ungular tnan,is out of the Fathers,whom how fhould webeleeve when they affirme this that you fay,feeing fome of them knewnot, whether he fhould bea manor no ? Someofthem will have him tobe eAr devill, others incarnateDevill,fome of them make himhim tobeNero,and others of themmake him to be I know not what. Do you think that thefe men are to becreditedof their bare word if they (hall fay he flail bea certainperfon ? Beides, feeing there is no fuch appearing out ofthe Scriptures,but the contrary toit,what account ought weto make ofthe uocertain conje lures of rnen,who are commanded not to
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