C A r. 5. touching Antichrif .. 66r in each of them. For thefefhall be thofe Watchniiis that ftastd on the Walls of the City of lerufalem all the day, and all the night, 'hall not keepeflence, but fball rpeake continually, and they that remember the Lordfli-allnot befilent, not fuffer others to be filent touching him, of Whom Efay fpeaketh, Chap. 62. 8,9. The reafonhereof(hall be, be- caufe thfenew preachers of the Gofpell, ihall be inflamed with fo great a fervencie of godlineffe; that they confecrating themfelves wholly to the glory of God, and the Salvation of his people, (hall minde and endeavour this thingonely, making no account at all, no not of theneceffary care oftheir body,by taking theix rett and íleep, in regard of their inceffant care ofthefe things. And how great and burning (hall the zeale of the Minifters be, when among the common people the Father and Mother that have begotten a Sonne, (hall thruft him through with their owne hands for playing the falfe Prophet, Zacha. r ;. z, j. But whether this Elias fhall be one angular man, or many, he {hall not be Elias properly, bucfuch an one as the Baptift was; as we are taught by thisneceffary reafon which I have brought. But you inftance, and ftrive to prove, that this comming that Malachy fpeakes of, is the fecond onely (though yet onewould have thought that the in- terpretation of our Lord, should have hopped your wide mouth, and made you for once offering to obje/} any thing againft ir) forfo (fay you) Malachyfpeakes exprefly; Before that great and hor- rible day of the Lordcome. For his ftr/l comming is not called that great and horribleday, but the acceptable time, andday of falvation; Whereupon alfo it is added, left perhaps I come and fmite the Earth With a curie. But (brill came not so iudge but to be iudged is his firfit comming, andnot todeflray, but tolave. I anfiver that yon bringno- thingwhich can prove necelfarily, that he fpeakes onelyof Clarifts fecond comming; the fame things which you talke of, were doubts arifing in the minds of the Jewes and Difciples, who did for all this looke for Eli,rt at that time before Chrifts refurre&ion from the dead; to which that queftion of theirs to Chrift belon- ged, when he had made mention of this matter, what meane the Scribes then to fay, that Elias mull ruff come, Match. 17.9. Now for that great and horrible day, why may it not agree to the first comming of Chrift all() ? Behold faith Malachy, the Lord (hall come fodainely into his Temple; andWho can abide the day of his comming, or Who fhallRandWhen he'hsll` appeare ? For be fhall be a Founders fire, andas the Fellersfope, Chap. 3. i, 2. &c. Now thefe things ale PP P P fpokep,
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