4540 Apia $3ellarmine, CAP .3. where the wilde 8eaj4couch, are carried with a full cry and run after themwithall their might , no longerfmelling of .everyone of theirsteppes ; Therefore they ref&re for the moft part fuch things to the fecond 'riling of the Beall , whichbelong to the firff ; and do drawmany things to it , thatare not agrecble unto it but this light errour oftheirs touching the time of his ti rifìng dothnot takeaway his coming at all, but wemay know that Antichrift was come by the fhoote and out-cryes they make, though they were ignorant of the very momenr,when he began firft to fubfill. Let us therefore run overyour anfwers to eachof them, that fo you may underfçandnot fomuch, that they were in an errour; asthat youhave wearied your felfto.no purpofe,in labouring to overthrow theiropinions. In the fecond place you graple with Illyricuo , who faith ? that Antichrill Was then borne, When Phocas e-rantedpower to the Pope of Rome , that he lbouldbe called the Headof the Church ; Which hap- pened in the ycer 6o6.You anfwer; that he Was not borne at this time in tWo refpeds,firftbecaufe the temporali h lkingdom ofAntïchrifl of666 yeers continuance, which Iliyrictts holds to bebegan from that time o f his aprifing,fhhould long flute beended, and iIntichrin (Mould be dead. Secondly becanfe by the ropesfpirituall Kingdom,Wbich Illyricns Wifl have to14 t o29.yeers,the Century 'writers might know the endofthe Worldexaflly,wbich is againft the words ofour Lord, Acct I.&Mat. 24 1 anfwer to the lrft,It is absurd and foolifh to gather as youdo from his words that Antich, iff muffdie after666.yeers are expired,when as you fee and fay,that he and the reffof the century- writers dogive him a fpirituall Kingdom that lattetha thoufand two hundred three- {-coreyeers. Can a man raigne five hundred ninety four yeers , after he is dead ( for fo many yeers do they proroge his fpirituall King- dome beyond his temporali; but perhaps your Pope hath no more life norlivelineffekft inhim , 'without his temporall power, then a Serpent filth without his daft. To the fecond f anfwer,thatit is aspofble,fir the centurywriters to know theyeer exac`lly, w hen the world (hall be ended,as it is for your Popifhwriters to know theveryday. Now donot you reckon a thoufand three hundred five and thirty ayes from the beginning of Antichrifts Kingdome to the laft judgement'? What (hall itbe known fo long betore,when the laft day [hall be ?Rath that fpeechof our Saviour as touching that unknown day no longer any force, but till Antichrift (hall come,Mark i3. 32.How then can it come, likea fxare upon thofe that dwell on thefaceoftheWhole earth ?Luc. 21.33, There-
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