C .A P. 7. touching Antichrift. 677 fluff get upon fuch a devilifh Pegafus,and fhall provide fuch kinde of Hodes for all his forces, and then perhaps while he flieth through thecountries, he fhall make the true Religion to be whiff only with clapping ofhis wings together.; it may be alto that he will fpare his . labour, and go over the countriesby his Legates , andyet I trove he fhall have his hands fx11 ofbufinefs, to give them precepts and di- re&ions every day,for the managingof his affairs, in the conquering and governingof fo large dominions. But what becommeth of your Enoch and Eli u in all this generali and fo deep filence of true Re- ligion?what, are they put to filence too ; will not they oppofe them- felves to fuch impiety,or can their labour be in vain, out of whole mouth fire cometh forth, conluming their adverfaries? Revel. i i. 6. But what mean I to fpend fo many words in confuting fuch mor- ftrous opinions as thefe?Are not your felves afhamed of them?Ifyou be not, you may be afhamed that you are fo fhamelefs ? Suchugly Monfrers as thefedeferve tobe hilled out; rather then tobe confuted with any ferions difputation. But fay you, Daniel teacheth this thing plainly, Chap.' 2. in thefe words : From the time that the dayly facri ice 'hall be taken of ay, there (hall be a thoufand tWo hundredninety dayes , ar the ancient Wri- ters do expound it; and the reanin of it is , that Antichrift f all re- train all the Warfhip of God, which is now inufe in the Churches ofthe Chriftians, and efpecially that molt, holy Sacrifice ofthe Eucharifl; noW experiencefhelveth that this j?ne u not yetfulfilled I anfwer,that niel cloth fpeak ofnothing Ieffe, then of Antichrift in that place.The ancient writers who do fo expound it, will have this number of dayes that-is here fpoken of, to be the number of his Kingdom, but nothing advifedly, as the words do eally (hew. For if thefe dayes belong to his Kingdom, he (hall make all publikeReligion to ceafe kfore he begin his raigne. . For thefe dayes take their beginning from the time that the daily Sacrifice (hall be taken away, which muff ofneceflity goe before. Wherefore either there things doe nothing at all belong to Antichrift, or elle all thethings which the ancient writers do (peak ofhim are frivolous, while they thruff up all his Tyranny within the araits offo few days ; There is nothing therefore that is found in this expofition of theirs, but the facrifice which Daniel underftandeth, is that daily racrifice, which was taken a'vay,before Antichrili was borne; For it was taken away together, with the temple of /erufalem,to which itwas tied byGods appoint- ment. For all this.Prophecy of Daniel is touching the children of Rrrr his
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