taudhing.Alitichr.if!:`_ 68i that thofe 1296. dayes, Dan t i. belong allo to AtitichriPc; Eing dom ; befides,that I have{hewed in the former Chapter, that it can- not by any meanes be referred hither; behold haw great a jarre you make a frefh in the computation : For neither can this number fall under the account the time,times,and haltxtitne,feeing it cannot be divided into three intire films, and an haife; doth it agree with lohn,who reckoneth a thoufand two hundred threefcore dayes precifely. Bidt (fay you) this number belong to the death of Enoch and Elias, Whom Antichrifi Aall fitrvive one mon ?th. To which I fay ; Then it folioweth that Antichriff (hall not reigne onely three yeeres, and fixmoneths,as Irenaur faith expreffely, book 5. in the end ; nor three years andan h&zlfe, wich the Particle onely, as Cyril fpeaketh, Catechif.25. but one moneth above that number mutt beadded, and for fix moncths there (hall be feven. Neither (hall halfe a time prefi- trure fix, as lerorn faith on 7. Dan. but (even. And thugwhile you labour upon a concordbetween Daniel andJohn; you make. Iohn and the Fathers tobe at a jar together. But let us leave thefe men at their Ix to agree as they can, and let us draw forth the truth out of the true fountains. I confefs that that number of 1290 dayes, is not the whole time of Antichrifts Kingdome, but that it is ended at the death of the two prophets, touching whole names I will not not now (land to difpute the queffion ; and I confefîe that Antichríf (hall furvive thole two Prophets, when theyare flaine,but not for one moneth;onlr, as you furmife falfely, but for many years the number whe eofwe have fummed tip elfewhere ; which thing is made mani- fed from hence. For the two Prophets were flaine under the Gxth Trumpet,Chap. a t _8.I4.ButAntichrift pert{hethunder the la#f,which comprehendeth (even other plagues within ir,which are calledvials, under the' laftofwhich he is to be defaced utterly;fhall then all the (even vials come to their effcc`t in thofe your thirty dayes ? That is, each of them {hall have four dates to execute them in. For they are not all poured out together, and confufedly, but the fame order znd rank is obferved without doubt in the execution ofthem, which is kept in relating there.\Vherefore to let paffe the five former of them, (1131 thole unflean fpirits that come out of the mouth ofthe Dragon, the Beifl,ancl thefal'è. Prophet, under the Gxth viali, take their effe& in thofe Taft four dayes but one ? We have heard of the incredible fwifrnefi'e of your Antichrift, going over all the earth in fo (mall a (pace of his reigne ; but thefe fervitours of his (hall go beyond him in ac`ìivity,who (hall both take a view of all the earth in foure dayes, and
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