C P. 4. touching Antichrift. 645, got fubfift togetherwith it ? But why may he not go before it I pray you ? Yea whit if hemutt neceflarily goe before, and that by fora c.4 this demonftration ofyours ? Certainly he cannot fubfift together with the generali preaching, becaufe of the.cruelty of the perfecution , for fo are your owne words, and he cannot come after; for Chrift faith, that When once the Gofpelfhould be preached in all the world, then (ball the confiernmation come. You fee that nothing commeth between the univerfall prea- ching and the end of all things, Therefore it mutt needs be, by this goodly reafon of your; , that he (hould come before the univerfall preaching.This is not the lcaft verrue of this doughty undoubted de. monftration,that it makes more to help your adverfaries caufe than your own.But fay you,theadverfaries donot admit of this reafon.T ruly, nomore do your friends neither I believe, uplefs they be Tome little crafty Foxes that will praife the Crow for his fweet Pinging. But I. con you thanks yet,that you will acknowledge at length the abfurd- íles ofthis demonftration.Befides you fay,thatyou have no leifurenoW to make this demonflration firong and unanfwerable br laying open the undenyable principles thereof,and therefore that you Willprove thefame poynt out of the tef¢imonies of the Fathers. What,have you no leifure,which undertook the moft copious hand- lingofall controverfies,that might ferve for aTreafury ofcon trover- lies? Specially feeing you bring no one argument of any weight in this caufe ? I cannot but take noticehereof a crafty Jefu ites fimpie (hifr. That which for poverty and badneffe of your caufe you cannot doe, you make usbelieve you have no leafure to do, for the hafte you make to other matters But let us goe on with you, and let us feehow you trimme and prove both the parts of your former argument ; for there was no newone to be come by as it feemeth,but you are glad to trick up & tohanfom the old Daws neft,that it might make tome thew ofa pret- ty pieceof work by your tampering with it.Firft therefore you bring in Hilary,Cyril,Theodoret,& Damafcene,who affirm,Tbat Antichrift (hall not come, but after an univerfallpreaching.. I anfwer, that is not needful for us to (earth curiouRy into their faying,becaufe they teach that which is agreeable to the Scriptures.For Antichrifl was tocome for rejecting the love of theTruth,2 Thef.2, i o.Now the punifhment is not inflicted before the fault be committed ; and there could be no filch fault made, before there were, power and means given to know and to believe the truth. Nnnn In
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