C a r.4. touching Antichrïft. 6ó can any Author of fwfficient credit that interprets them literally, but till you do it, we will ref} in that Allegorical) Expofition alone, to which wedare not adde any other, unleffe we had font,: leader againft whom there could be no exception. Time fourth Scripture is taken out ofRev. i t. 3. And I will give to my two Prophets, and they !hall propheci.e, M.CC.LX. dares. which Words, fay you,are to be underfand ofthefngul4rperfons of He- noch and.Elias. But I ask you in room ofan anfwer toyou, (hall ire come out oftheir mouth properly, wherewith to devour their ene- mies? For fo it is laid in the fame place,ver.3.And there feemeth to be the faine natureofthis fire,andof their perfons.Which if it be fo,then wobe to Antichrifi, that bath fuch companions prepared for him. A mans-fight juftly marvel! how it canbe, that he fhould go through all three yeers and a half ofhis raign, and how he could fcape burn- ingup rather with his devouring fire, the very firfi day ofir. But if this will not fatisfie you ; you may fee what I have faid on this place, where I have fhewed, that the words cannot by anymeans be underflood of ungular perlons ; and yet I will give you here, if you will take it, a more full and plaine confirmation of that which I fail there. Thefe two Prophets come forth into the world clothed in fack- cloth, and ftreightwayes after the Heathen Emperors were put down ; for thefe put on their fackcloth as loon as the Temple is meafured. The Temple that is meaftired, is the hiding place for the Woman in the Wilderneffe, whither the fled at the firft appearingof that ugly Resift, which is the feventh Roman King, who fucceedeth next to the fixth, that is, him that raigned in the time of Iohn; As loon as ever therefore the 73 out,which was flreight af- ter the time of the Heathen Emperors,thefe two Prophets mourning in fackcloth,began their mournfull office of prophclying;and there- fore they are not Henoch and Elias properly. Now fee,if there were ever amore foppifh dotage,then yours is,of thefe two ProphetsFfhat should come in their own perfons; your dotage, I fay : For the hot*. ancient Fathers might erre,and be deceived ; but feeing you dowil- fully maintain and perfevere in an open error, I fee not but it may be called a frantick conceit, rather then a dotage ; but Pet us go on to feethe reff ofyour fweet !luffe. You prove that the Revelation fpeaks properly of Henoch and Flits, becanre it Isfaid that theyJlsall be !lain by Antichrift, and that their bodies (hall remain nnhnried three days in the ffirect.r of the- great
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