j Again{ Dellarmine, C.A P.T. tie Title; for as long as the Popof Rome fhali po>reffe Rome, they neither are, norfhall be tritely the Emperours f Rome; and fo you earneftly defending that theEmpire of Rome Both continue fült, knownot whatplaçe it flaould be in, whofe Head and Pailace you are ignorant of Luther Illyricue, and Chytrcus,dogather upon good ground by the reftoring of the Empire through the Popes helpe, that he is that great Ancichrif. But yet not fomuch in that regard,becaufe Charles the great was proclaimed Emperour of Rome by him, as becaufe the Empire revi- ved in the Pope himfelfe, who being Pope in name, was made Empe- rour indeed. This thing is cleared from thence, becaufe the Reafb bath both a Wounded, and an healedHead; both of which belong to the fame Tope. Likewife theBeaf Which war not when the Barbari- ans prevailed, is the very fame that was, when they were extingui- flied : Befides, Antichrift is both the feventh King fromConfantinet time,to the Kingdom of the Gothes, and the eighth by reafon of his new uprifing after that his Head was healed by Iuftinian andThocae and thofe that followed, as we have explained the places, Revel. t 3. 3. a r. and 17. to. z r. You anfwer, that the head that Was healed ie not the Romane Emperour, but 2Intichrift, Who fainethhimfelfe to be dead,andJhall raite up himfelf againe by hit devillifh Art,and that all the ancient Writers in a manner do expounditfo. To thefe things I fay,that you do ill to disjoyne the Emperour of Rome and Antichriff, feeing thefe two, if we will fpeak properly as the Revelation teacheth us, do make one and the fame perfon. Not that he who is called Emperour at this day is Antichrill, but becaufe whatfoever it is that the Emperours name containeth in it, and car- rieth with it, belongeth properly to the Pope. For both the Pepe and the Romane Emperour, or the Empire of Rome, were wounded to death by the inva(ìon of the Gothes. For the feventh Head, that feemed then tobe perilhed,was both a Mountaine and a King, that is, Romc,or the Empire of Rome, and the Pope, Revel. 17.9. It is true therefore that you fay,that the Text it Pelfdoth conftraine us flatly, that by that Headofthe Beaft, Which was dead and revived, We Jhould not underFtand Charles the great, but Antichrif ; For Charles the great was not Emperour truely, but howfoever he was not dead, and revived againe, yet the Emperour orEmpire ofRome was dead and revived in the Pope, as we have (hewed fuíhciently. By which it may a llo appeare, that that which is faid commonly of Anti-
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