CAP . 3. touchingAntichrift. 643 wereworfe in the former age, we grant untoyou that Antiehriflr firlt beginning was not now, but that he wasbegotten long before, but he wasnowopenly extant. And foat length you have made fuch a goodly piece of difpute about this queltion, as if one shouldbe very earneft to prove , that the funne was not rifen at noone , thoughhe began to flame in the Horizon at fix a clock in the morning , becaufc it did not arife either at the eight hour, as one affirmed, or at the ninth as another, or at the tenth as a third man held. By fuch a kinde of argnment do you and your Complices prove that AntichriFi is not yrt come. Chapter 4. Againft the firff demónararion that Antichrifl is not yet come, taken from Univerfall preach- ing of the Gofpel 'J''Hisqueftion about the time ofAntichrifl coming,givethgreateft Iight to the truthof the reft,being as it were the fun that enlight- neth all the reft of the ftarres with his light , Here upon it is that Bellarmine bath prepared fixe rhight and thicke vailes, which he calleth demonfirations , to obfcure the truthwith -, under whichhe hopes his Pope may lurke fafely. Now he will have thefe taken out of fo many cei taine fignes (as he faith) of' Antichrij?s comming, two whereof do go before, namely the preachingof the Gofpel in the whole world,and the defolation of the Romane Empire. Twodo accompany it,that is,, thepreaching of' Henoch and elias, as alto a great andmoft nortorious perfecution.Two follow it,name - ly the deftrutlionof Ahrichri(l after threeyeers and an half, and the endof the world, noneof which ( faithhe wehave feen to be ex- tant as yet. Let us therefore fee what we can do bythe grace ofGod to help this blind fellow and let us take away the Scales from his eyeswith a faithfiill hand if fo be that he will fuErus. The foundationofyour firft demonfiration is laid down,Mat.24.14. This Gofpel of the Kingdom, /hall be preached in the whole Worldfor a teflimony toall the Gentiles, out of which words an argument is framed thus , whichI pray youfuffer me tobrin,g into forme that fo we that are of the morerude and Pimple fort, !night the more eafily mark this art of yours in making dem:onitrations thus. He that is
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