C A r. 6. touching AntichrifL. 663 and offuffrcient credit. But I will not be extreame in cenfttring yon for this fault too fevercly, feeing their words containe nothing in them that is difagreeable to the Scriptures. But, fay you, they agree not,but to their particularperfons. It is true indeed that Henoch was translated after a particular manner,but I finde not any the leaft ink- ling given us ofhis returneagainc. For as for that, that he is faid to be made an example of repentance to the generations, he is made foby his manner of going out of the world, not by his returning into it. His tranflating cryeth openly, and fluff cry to the end, what great bleflîngs are laid up for thofe, that do truly repent. It was proper alfo to Elias to be taken up in a fiery Chariot, but to ¡convert the hearts of Fathers unto theSons, loth not fo agree to him, but that it might be applyed to the BaptiFt, as our Lord altobath taught us;and fo to other minifters ofGod that (hall come in the like Spirit to that of Elias, who (hall come towards the laft day, and 11)a11 be fuch as Iohn Bapti/t was at Chrilts firfl comming. Wherefore here is not one fyllable, nor the left jot ofany intimation touching his returne in his proper perfon. Which Ianfenius faw that is one of your own men,one that you wonder at for his excellencie, perhaps becanfc he alone amongil fo many of you that are the Popes proftours, durft deliver any thing ingenioufly that he law in confcience to be true; And indeed it is fuch a kinde of freedom of fpirit, as is rarely to be feene among you,whofe ordinary haunt it is to learch into the Scrip- tures, not to finde the truth out of them, but to patronize your groirie errours againft the truth, and that by the helpe of the word of Truth. The thirdScripture is taken out of Matth. 17. i r. Elias indeed fsall come and res`-tore all things. Therefore fay you it is true that Ella 'hallcomae, not lohn, Who Was come already, and could not be faid to be to come. I anfwer,that the Difciples hadmade mention in the former verle ofElias that was to come, whole fpeech Chrifl givinganfwer unto, fpeakes as ifhe Ihould have laid thus, it is true indeed that you fay, that Elias is to come. Do we ufe to fpeak otherwife,as often as we relate other mens fpeech touching that which is to come ? More- over, let us fuppofe that Chrift fpeakes of one that is to come, yet this man to come !hall be no other Elias, then fuch an one as John was, as the reafon which webrought before for proofe hereof, loth fufrcientiv convince. But you prove it by a double argument, fat beeatafe the Difciples moving the cpueflion by occajion of Chri,Fls Pppp 2 tranj
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