642 Againíl Bellarrnine, CAP .3. In the fourth place you come to Luther , whomaketh Antichrift to have a double coming ; one with a fpirituall Sword,afttrtheyeer 600. another with a temporal" Sword after the yeer i000. You anfwer , that the Popes depofed Emperours , andmade Wars aoainft them before the thoufandyeer I anfwer ; Therefore thou alfowaft deceived(d Luther) Antichrilt was comebefore thou fuppo fed him tobecome. Certainly you defend the Pope in fuch a manner , as if one that were accufed of theft, fhould for the purging of himf,lfe from his crimecry out openly , that this was not the firft Theft he committed, but that he had a hand in manyother, and thofe more grievous robberies, you did not fearas it feemeth, that there would forne come after, who would fearch out further and higher into Antichrifts Original". Fiftly Rullinger doth foexpound that number 666, that he makes it to determine the yeer ofthe coming of Antichriftafter the Reve- lationwas written,namely theyeer of your Lord, 763. Towhom you anfwered well, that this number belonfreth to Antichriisname, not to his time ; though this do littlehelp your caufe. For howfoever he was not born at that time firff,he might be born before that,which doth thew futficicn ly that youaffirm fafely that he is not comeyet. Sixtly Mujculus atfirmeth that Antichriftcame about the yeere I too. and that being movedwith the authority of Bernard, faith af- ter many other other things wherein he bewaileth the limits of his times ; It remaineth that the man offinfbouldbe revealed,Serm.6.On Pfal. So Youanfwer two things, firft that the fufpicion of Bernard Wasfalfè,as Was that of Cyprian, Jerome, and Gregory to their times, for he fufpeded out of the evils Which he faw , that Antichrift Was nigh,Secondly,that there WerefarWorfe Popes Without any comparifox in theformerage,then in that. Ianfwer,to the firft, you do worthily to contradict the Apoftle. For he ttacheth that the apoffafiegoeth before Antichrift and that he (hall come into the world,be.aufe they defpifed the loveofthetruth, thereby declarring, that there 'isno more evident figne of Antichrifis approaching and raigning , then all kinds; of hypocritical" impiety, that raungeth every where without controllment. I Youwill have Bernard to be deceived,becaufehe fufpec`fed by the evils which he law that Antichrifi was neer. Indeed he was de- ceived, that he, thoughthim to be ricer, and not prefent. Orherwife he thought morefincerely touching Antichrift; then the Irfùits are wont,or anyother of the Papifl t. To the fècond I fay , fBing they were
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