676 Again Vellarmitze, C A r.7"® Chair, that the wrong that was done by them to any, Teemed to be not fo much hatred and perfecution, as in the juft defence ofthe Church, or a juft punithing of Flereticks, and wicked Rebels againft the Lord and Saint Teter. This publike notice therefore of matters, which may be fomewhat clear, when matters arc once pail and finithed, but is very [lender, or rather none at all, before the iffue of them appeare,is no noteofthe perfecution of Antichrift. The third markwhich you make hereof,is the ceafing o fthepublike and dailyfervice andfacrifice of the Church, becaufeofthefiercenefÿe of Antichrifsperfecution. I anfwer,it is worthy to be obferved here, and that in fpeciall manner,that you fay, that this ceafingofReligion than be not in any one countrey alone, but alto generally in all, which thing you do bothbeat upon in many places, and reafon in- forceth it. For if the Gofpel be to be preached before Antic-brigs coming in the whole world,and that not figuratively, but limply and properly fo called, as you did labour to prove in your firft demon- ftration,tt muff needs be,that this ceafing of all publike Religion muff have as lar e an extenr,as the preaching had before. Therefore there Ihall be this ceafing, not only in thefe parts of the world that are well known,but alto in all the Lands that are as yet unknown,among the Tártarians , Scythian!, the Afiatici, the Indians, and all the Eafern Ijles, in the Defarts of Africa, in the Southern Continent, in all America,irrtltt that is called newZembla,and all thofe coaffs Let thee 2udíous ob- that lie 2 Z rthVeard. All which Superficies ofground, peeve, that in the as it is dear by the Geometrical meafureof ir,is an hun- whole Superficies of dred forty eight thoufand thoufand times five hundred the earth, Archyme- fifty thoufand nine hundred and nine englifh orltali-- der his tctragonifnre, an Miles, which face, if wee will divide it into each or quartering, bath pac unity of a circle ofthe d ayes of that three yeers and an half, which you fuperfluotas, whereby, make your Antichrift to raign, there are to be courted perhaps, the true ter- overby him every day Provinces that reach an hun- tgo`nnifrn may be dred feventeen thoufand times eight hundred eighteen thoufand Miles,that is,all Spain and France, ifyee take their whole length and bredth together, are but very fmall countries to make up the taskofhis daily journey. What,(hall he have feature alto tobuild himfelf a Ternple,and to fit in it ? But I pray you tell me whither he (hall make this voyage with an hoff of men, or alone ? it may be, that evenas that Monk of Oxford, when he was carried by his familiar devill through the air, defcribe.i all the Regi- on that lieth under the'South_pole with his Aftrolabe, fo Antichrifl fluff
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