636 Againíl Bel/amine, CAP.t. lived. For fo the Revelation faith,Chap. i7, io. Five have fallen, one is, that other is notyet come. That one, who, as the Angelfaith, was than,was the fixt King,with whom theRomane Empire fhould not fall,feeingthefeventb Kingand Head should fucceed after : neither were theremore heads then one raigning at once,fo that the fevenrh headfhould as well take upon him the fway of the Empire for his part,as anyone ofthe other former headsdid.Therefore affoonas that prefent regiment fhould be changed, which happened about two hundred yeers after Johns time ; then after that heavie burden was removed which kept Antichriftdown , he fhould come forth, and keep in the viewof. the world. Thirdly,if the mylleryofiniquitywas working while the Apoltles lived, it muff needs be that the birth thereof was not far of, when as the paines in travail began tovex the Church fo loon, z. Theft. z.7. Otherwi4.:, what drange monfter is this, that the Papi(ls would make, that one fhould be withChild fifteenhundredyeers agoe,and that yet the brat fhouldnot be hatched,and yet whenhe fhould fpral forth,he fhould prove but a Kingof threeyeers and a halfes lofting ? But therebe Popifh dreames. For the ApoRles could hardly make himkeep inhis horns,mueh leffecould their pofterity do it,who had leffepiety,knowledge,care,diligence,wholegiftsalto daily decaying more andmore,ma a rise man ofax, to come andgrow up the more quickly. Thefe thingsbeing thus laid down , let us now come to that which you fay. And here we have but one agument one- ly to prove that Antichriftis not yet come ; it is long enough in- deed , as which reacheth from the beginningof aChapter to the very end,butit asweak in thejoynts of it, and feeble in the loines,as it is tedious and odious. This is the rumof it, Antichrift isnot yet come,becaufe hecame net i<hen,wiencertainofthofe that lived ofoldandofPate thought beWould come, the ancient ones youfpeak of, are theThefalonians, Cyprian, 7erome,Gregory,ene 2ude,Lattantitu,the Bithop ofFlorence; the later ones are the Samofatenians of Hungary, andTranflvania,lllyricus, Chytrarta,Lather,Bullin*er, Mufculus. And in following this mat- ter you fpendall the Chapter. I anfwertwo wayes, frit that that is falfewhichyou fay, that he thatcame not at the times fpokenofby thefe Authorsthat you men- tion, is notyet come. It was not necefí'ary that they fhould know the ftr(i on mall and uprifng of Antichrift. The Waft remaineth tobe a tnyëry long after that he kathbeen revealed , Revel. r7. 7. Whole
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