CAP.4. touchingAPtichrift. 647 is not feen perfectly fulfilled, no not at this day,as you alfo fay.Thetm fore toffe and perufe the Fathers over , and weigh their writings a little morediligently; perhaps howfoever thefe things have been ex- ceeding dark and hard unto them, you (hall not find any filch kindof preaching in them as youdream of. The firft ofthe reafons youbring is this,becaufe Chriigfaith that the preaching in the Whole Worldis a f owe ofthe confummationofthcWorld;forfò he addeth immediately,and then (hall the end be. But fay you ; if the Go;Pell jbouldbe preached in the WholeWorld not properly ,but by a nechdoche,thatfgnc Were of no value. For the Go#cll Was preachedafter that manner in the Whole World by the Apoffles in the rf 20 years after Chriff. I anfwer, that that which you atfirme,viz. that the preaching in theWhole world is a. fine of the endofthe world, is your own,(ö7ellarmine) not Chriff=; he faith nomore here,but that the endfhall tome then; Thofe words of the Worldbe none ofhis,nor any part of his meaning. For the end he fpeakethof,is not of the world, but of the IewifhTemple and go- vernment, the priviledge whereof was abrogated at andby Chrifts death, but now all theufe thereofalfo fhould be taken away at the fcattering and overthrow of their nation. For the Difciples asked Chrift about a double end of the Temple andofthe world,verf3. Touching that,Chrift anfwereth unto the r 3. ver touching this,he fpeaketh in the tel: of the Chap. under the name of his comming , neithet fhould he have fatisfied theirdemands, on- ' Ieffc he had comprifedboth of there poynts inhis anfwer. Where- fore that oeniverfalpreaching was a {-Igoe of the deftruftion of lerufa- lem,which had for a more immediate fgne of it, the abhomination of d folation,whichDaniel foretold;whichbeing fet next unto thisof the preaching,may teach us, ofwhat end the former words fpeak ; For Chrift doch not anfwer foconfufedly, and intricately, that he would skip back again to the !fate of the Iewes, prefently after he had fpo- ken of the end of the world. Seeing therefore he fpeaketh of thi; confummation in this place, and not of any other,there is no neceflity that preaching in the whole world fhouldbe takenproperly. Your fecond reafon is, that allthe nations ofthe earth vsere promi- fed to Chriffproperly. All nations (h.el ferve him,Pfa.72.Therefore this preaching ou.eht to be proper. I anfwer , that I deny not, but that all nations {half be gathered to Chrift, and that by a generali preaching, properly fo called before he come to judgement. For the preaching ofthe word is that filver Trumper,'vhich is appoynted for the gathe- ring of the cleft together,and I finde that there is a doable general{ N n n n 2 preach-
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