66g Againfr Dellarmine, C A P.7. blind. For the Apofle faith, that EnochWas rapt up, becaufe heplea_ fedgall by walking continuallyWith the Lord ; and as it is,Eecl.44, t6. For an example ofRepentance to the World, that is, to fir up men to repentance, when they behold and confider ofthis notable example of Gods fingular love towards his fervants. And do you think it to be a fmall cnatrer,that there should be extant in all Ages ofthe world, a moft evident experiment of the truth of our faith, concerning the mortality ofthe body, and the afcendingup of the fame into heaven at length? This afcention of Enoch confirmed this faith to the men that lived in the age before the flood and the Law. For at the leali he afcended out of the fight of men into heaven in regard of mens eftimation and thinking, for he Was notfound, as the Apofile faith, Hebr4 r.5. Eliasafcended under theLaw, for the fame confederati- on, Iefus ¿'hrifl afcended after the Law, as being the firfi fruits ofall that afcend, by whofc merit and power, both thofe former Saints afcended,whatfoever the manner oftheir afcention was,as alfo all the Elea {hall afcend at length. This only darling of yours, the Romi'Xr Antichrifl,doth fo dazle and bewitchyour eyes,that you can fee none of thefe things, or any ofthis kinde, but do not fuffer your felf to be deluded any longer with a vainexpeftation of Enochand Elias, left you lofe your labour in feeking their bodies upon the earth with thole men ofJericho, 2 King. 2. But what talk I of lofing your labour ? I tell you, there is a grea- ter lofhe hanging over your head then fo ; namely, that Joffe ofyour foule for ever, becaufe you (hall be found to be among that number ofcurled Reprobates, Whofe names are not Written in the Boob of Life, fuch as all they are that follow after, and admire that Beafl of Rome, Revel. 17. 8. CHAP. VII. Againfl thefourth remonfiration taken from the publique Perfecution. v'Cur other joynt figne of Antichrfls coming is a publique perfe- j cution,whieh you fay,fhhall be moll grievous andnotorious; fo as all publie Ceremonies andSacrifcss of Religiens'hallceafe,none ofWhich things Wefeeyet fulfilled,as you fay,according therefore to the three- fold note ofthis Perfecution,you let down a threefold proofe. Firft. that itfhail be moflgrievous. _Secondly, t at it J7,all be moft notorious. Thirdly.
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