C A p, 664 Againfl Bellarriice, 6;, transfiat ration, fpake of true Elias inparticular, therefore alfo Chrift anfWerin. themfpake ofthefameElia4. I anfwer, it may be that the Apoftles had not plunged yet out of the common errour ofthe Jews touching Elias, yet it is not neceflàry,that the anfwer (hould be ai- lvayes according to the niinde of him that asketh the queftion. Which is vary manifeftly to be feene in this place, Peeing it is faid below in that Chapter verf. 13. That the Difciples underftood that he fpake untothcm ofJohn Baptift,How did they understand Chrfl to have fpoken Oflohn,ifhe fpake of the true Elias ? Your fecond argument is taken out of thofe words, And he JGa11 reflore allthings,and John (fayyou) didnofuch matter. For to reflorc allthings, is to call back a!l ?owes and Hereticks, and perhaps many Catholikes thatfhall be deceived by Antichrifl, from their errours to -the truefaith. I anfwer, that unletle that this reftoringof all things should agree truly to John in fome fort, the Difciples who Paw no filch reftoring ofmatters,undeifloodamide that Chrifi fpake unto them of John. But indeed he made a great reftoring of matters Peeing that as Chrift faith; from his dayes till this prefent the Kin 4 me of heavenfsífcreth violence, and the violent take it aWay,Matth. 11. 12. As unto whole B aptifine even all lerufalem flocked, andall Jury, 41141411 the region lyins round about Jordan, together With many of thePharifeet, andthe Sadduces,as it is Mat. 3. 5. 7. And yet I will. not deny, but there is a more full reftoring to come then ever was yet feene, and that all things properly, that fo all Ifrael may be fa- vcd as the Apo{tlefpeaketh, whereof that reftoring made by John was a fhadow and Type as is were, but it is not neceffary that the Minifter whomChrift will ufe in this reftoring should be true Elias but filch an one as is fo called by a fimilitude, as we hare (hewed on that place of Malachy; and this Elias whatfoever he [hall be, and ofwhat kind foever, (hall not accompany ntichrif, but follow him, not commiag forth, till he (hall be deffroyed and lent to his orvne place, or at leafs till his Kingdome (hall be exceedingly dark- fled, and defaced, as this Book of the Revelation makes it plaine, Wherefore {till we finde no footffep in this place, of the true and properly fo called Elias, much Idle in thefe words, Matth. 1 I. 19. And if ye Will receive htm, this is that Elia.t, *be Was to come, Where you do perforce acknowledge that John was that promifed Elias, not literally, but allegorically. Which thingbeing fo, and fee- ing we have your owne confellion that our Lord himfelfe cloth interpret thofcwords of Malachy allegorically, bring forth if yon. can
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