C A P.. touching Antichrif+. 657 But this providence watcheth no le% for the Hornes,then for the Head, that is, afwell for thefe who are called Emperors, as for the Pope. They have bothof them their fubfìilingby his decree, which 'lath appornted,thatfomeof the Toes ofthek'oote fhouldbeofIron. Nowyou fay,that it hindereth not but that the Empero«rJhouldpoffeffe andfWay the Empire, thoughhe Want Reme; Which you labour to proove by the examples of Arcadito s, Valens, Theodofius the youn- ger, Charles the great and his- fucceffours. Befides, you prove it from the dignity that he enioyeth to go before all the refi of the Chri- flian Princes; Moreover from the cledion of the Romans; and lady by the confefón of the Lutherans; Ianfwer to each of thefe things, to the fide., that if Valens, Arcadius and Theodogus hunier, when they wantedRome, did nevertheleffe remaine the Romane Empe- rours, then theWefferne.Empiredid never fade and decay quite. Neither is the Empire failed at this day, though the WeiterneEm- perourshave wanted Conflanrinople, if the right to,an Empire be e- nough without the poffeflion. But the .Kingdomesof the world are his that path them in poffcaion, and though they have been gotten wickedly forthe moft part,yet God taketh them away from forne by his juft judgement, andgiveth them to another.And yet this manner ofgoverning the world by. God, dothnot free thefe Ravenous Ty- rants from being in fault, but he loth punish one manby cafting him down, andagaine another by lifting him up, and both after a mar- vellousmanner. It is therefore a little more thenyou fpeake of to want Rome;to kecpe one from being the Emperour ofRome.To the fecond,I confeffe that the Emperour hath this dignity togo" before all the reft of the ChriflianPrinces, vet he that goeth before allthefe, followeth the Pope, fo that there is no man fo filly, but- he may fee, in whom. the Majeffie ofthe Empire refidethtruly. To the third, let it begranted, that Charier the great was created Emperour of Rome, and that by the confent of theRomans, yet the Revelation lheweth, that the Empireof Rome is obliged to the Ci-. tp ofRome, and not to the applaufe of thepeople of Tkome. To the fourth; TheLutherans bragging that they have three Princes Ele Lots,oftheEmperours ofRome, do give place,and .yeeld. rather to the cuftome of fpeaking, then to the truth of the. matter; or if they doperfwade themfelves fo indeed, this cornmeal from the common. Errour, themeaningof the Revelation being not yet made known to them fufiîciently. You Buckle the Emperors with avaine,and emp tie.
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