.67'0 Againft Dellarmsme, C A P. 7.. he kept in heaven, dragging after himwith his Title, the third part of the -Stars of heaven, which he calf down into the Earth, till he was overcome, and tumbled from thence by Michael ? that is, the heathen Emperours, did not onely keepe, but raigne and rage alto in the mi-dit of the Church, as which they vexed by all the tnoft cruel! ¡manes they could, till Chrift ffripped them outof their Empire, as wehave !hewed upon that place : from that time the Devil! was bound, that is, the open encmte, for a thoufand yeares, which being run out, his bonds fhould be loofed, and he tt,ould be railed up a- gaine, but he should not have fo great power to doe mifchiefe as he had before. For here hefhould have no place inheaven, that is,in the Church, but he fhould flick as it were in the farthefl jaggcs and skirts of ir, going about theTents of the Saints, and about the belo- vedCity, as it i , Revel. 2o.9. So that he Ihould not be Maid fo much so perfecute,as to war againft the Church,and the Saints fhould not dye like fheepe, but fhould refill like Soutdiers. Therefore howmuch more grievous an inward and dangerous enemie is,then an outward and open one, fo much greater was the afflictionof the former times, then that which the Devil! brought upon the Church when he was looted in thefe tall ages. BetidesAn- tichrift raigncd during the time of thole thoufand yeares, while Satan lay inprifon, Revel. 20.9. Whereupon it followeth, that if when he is loofed, he fhould play the Devil! fo every where, there fhould be'great tranquility when he was bound and fo the greateft part at leaft of his Kingdoin fhould be free fromthofe moll trou- blefonme [loaner, neither fhould he be an helper to Antichrifts perfecutions in the other part of his Eingdom, becaufe eflntichrift lhould converse within the Church, Satan without, as it is cleare bye, thefQrmer e tpofition, as alto becaufe the Devil! !!mould be now shade a Icourge unto rintird3rie, and not his hangman, and orrtenter to helpe him to vex others. For the ÌDevilt that is looted ;low, are'thofe foure Angels of Ets hrates that -are let loofe, whom God Pent to take vengeance on the Angell of the bottomlflePit; together with his troopof Hell- hounds, whichcrawled our of that Pit, Revel. 9. 20. 2I All which things we have made moll eteare in-their places. Therefore whereas Aù;rtjIine Nth; that'Antichrzf ionldraeemolt of allin the time When thé Devil! is let loose, as ifhe fhould now firft ofall be leticofe,and fhould beAntichriflshelper in exercifìng cruelty, he judgeth not aright of this loofing of his. For äteTwasloof.before. when he was in-Heaven, 7tv. r 2.3. &'c. Which could
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