e A r.8. touching Antichnit 679 ties fake make ufeofto be as it were the breathofhismouth, tode- ítroy your Pope who is notably manifefted by all themarks that he is that great Antichrift. Whom he will now ere long, at laft with his glorious coming utterly deftroy:2 Thef.2.8.But as foryou,feeingyon efteem of Arntichriff as ifhe were Chrifis Vicar, I marvell not that you do (tile Chrifts true and faithfull fervants by any name rather then their own, or then they deferve.Andnow it were tobe wifhed, that Antichrift did comeno raeerer the Saints,with his perfecutiogof them, thenyou have come neer any part of this quefkion by difpu- ting ofit ;For fo his perfecution fhould be tolerable , even as your difputation is altogether intollerable. C H A 1'. VIII. Againff thefifthdrmon/fratie n, takenfrom the conti- nuance of Antichriffs , Baigne. 1 YOu draw your fifth demonftration from the continuanceofAn- tichrifts raign,which you hold to befor threeyeers & a halfone - ly. ButfeeinQ thePope(fay you)hath raigneddfpiritually in the Church no*for thefpaceofr }oo.yeers,& there can nonebegiven that bath bin taken for.Antichrift,Whohath raignedprecifely three yeers anda half; the Popetherfore is not llntichriît,&therfore Antichrift not yet come. T anfwer,that I have already (hewed by molt ftrongarguments taken out ofthe Scriptures, how brainfick an opinion this is of Antichrist, ofthree yeers laftingand an halfe. For ifhe have raigned from the time of(onffantine the great,till this day,which this Book ofthe Re- velation hath denaonftrated unto us fo cleerly, as no Iefuit !hall ever beable topull upwhat we haveplanted thereout;it followeth that no- thing is more fencelefs, then to conceit a Kingdom that 'hall laft but threeyeers and an half. But the proper argument to prove this point is to be taken outofthofe things that follow, Cha. 20. v. 4, 5. of this book ;whence it is plainly gathered , that one part of his Kingdom laftetha thoufand yeers; For fo he faith, AndIfaW the fouls ofthem, Who Wire (mittenWith the'Wordfor the teftimony of7efru , andfor the Word of GolandWho did not adore the Beaft,nor hta Image,nor tookhis marké in theirforheeuds,nor in their hand,& they lived&,raiQnedWith Chrift a thoufandyeers; but the ref( ofthe deadmen did not live again, till the thoufandyeers Were expired: This is thefirft refssrreainn, it is timanifeftly to be Peen from hence,firfr,that the adverfaries of Ante- chrift do raign .a thoufand yeers withChrift before the firft refürrecìi on. Then that the.fiubjeFts of Antichrift who dyed through his Ty- ranny,lie dead for a thoufad yeers. But there could be no op pofition againft Antkhri/t that was not yet extant,neither could he be a hie to Rrrr a bold
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