C 652, Againfl Bellarmine, ,& P. . Novv in the times of thefeKingr, the God of heaves lb,t/l r,tife Hp a Kingdom, vvhichfball not be de.Flroyedfor ever, &c. But thefe feet are the Empire of Koine, which is weaker, then that was of the Legs, which yet was the Romane Empire alfo, For the statue defcribed onely four Kingdoms ; but if the Legs and the Feet betokened a diverfe Kingdom, there fhuld be five. Whereupon it is proved falfe allo that you fay, that the Romane Em- pireJbouldbe at length dividedinto ten Kings,vvhereof the King ofthe oma;es fhall be none, ae no Toe to a Leg. For fo you bring in a fifth Kingdom, which the Spirit meaneth not by that Image. Neither is that of any value, which you fay, that a Toe is not a Leg, feeing no one member is another, though both of them be parts of the fame entire thing, even as the Leg and the Toe are parts of the fourth Kingdom. Now then you fee how fweetlyyou have de- monftrated the nakedneffe of your caufe, which the more you labour to cover and hide , the more foul and manifeft do you make it. The fecond place is out of Dan. 7. 7. Where fay you, the ten Hornet Which come out ofthe Beafl, are the ten daft Kings , Who fall fpring indeedout of the EmpireofRome, but theyfhall not be the Romane Empereurs, as the Hernerfprin upeut ofthe Bcafi,but they are not the Beaf itfell: I anfwer, as I anfwered even now to the for- mer argument, with which this is one altogether. If thefe ten Hornes poffefe a diverfe Kingdom from that of the Beath, then there are not four ICiors onely, butfive, which is contrary to that which the Angel faith;Thefe great Beall: Which are four, are four Kings that full rifeout ofthe earth, in the fame Chapter, ver. i 7, Befides do you think, that thofefour hornet ofthe ÇMte,which fpring up in the room of that Horne that was broken, is another King- dom from the Kingdom of the Goate, namelyof the Grecians?Dan. 8,S. If you do think fo,the Prophet Cheweth that you are plainly de- ceived,who teacheth that this Goat inChap. 8. is that Leopard in the feventh ; as alfo that the Leopard is one Kingdom onely,and that the third, Chap. 7.6. t7. For even as the Hornes of the coat do not make another Kingdom diverfe from the Kingdom of the Genre, fo neither do the ten Horner of the fourth Beall make a dive rte Kingdom from that ofthe fourth Beall. There are allo. ten Horner ofthe Draóoe,in this Book ofthe Revolation,who are not rebellious Princes against the Dragon,but his Chiefe helpers,Embafladours, and ervitours, by whole heipe he did chiefly exercife his Tyranny, Chap.
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