C A P. g, .6I.i 'Agáinf Bellarmine, and'they'fhall alfo lead moil huge Armies for nusnherínto the field; certainly this is the readieft fettingout of fou ldiers thacever was heard of,andwhich alone deferveth to becalled properly by the Latin name E.xpeditiom,for the quick difpatch thereof. Doeyounot yet perceive how falfe,abfurd and trifling things they are, yea meer ignorance it felfe,which you Papilts babble touching thefe matters ? When you (hall have proved,that the feven Taft plagues fhall be accomplifhed in thirty dayes, we will affent to you,and wil fay asyou fay, that Anti- chrift Thall furvive the tWo Prophets that areflain for one month only, and that there is a jail: confent of thefe numbersin Daniel and John : in the meane time we will hold that thefe two do handle divers mat- ters,and that theydoe not prophefie ofthe fame things by thefe num- bers. Thirdly I fay,. howfoever I ilìould granr,that all that indefinite fpace fhould confittofthofe either months,or days with great agree- ment, yet arc you never a whit the nearer toyour purpofe. For the queltion is, whether thefe moneths,ar days,or years, are to be taken pro- perly or ne; not whether the computation of them all doe agree ,which may afwel agree, whether they be taken properly or figuratively,fee- ing there is the fame proportion in the Type and in the Truth, al- though neither the Type is the truth, nor theTruth the Type. Howdoe you prove then, that they are to be taken properly ? by the teftimonyof the Fathers, fay you, fome of whom you bring Out in your anfwer to Chytreru, and the Century-writers.I anfwer,that we mutt pardon thofe ancient Fachersybecaufe being ignorant of the Event, they thought they were firietly to retaine the litterall fence; but feeing molt of thefe things are nowmade molt cleare by the iffie and fulfillingof them, whofoever (hall able the Patronageof their names,to confirme his own obftinacy in errour, illall pall downejuft d,amn'ation upon his own head : Therefore. either do you bring forth fomethingofgreaterweight, or elfeyou were belt toconfeffe, as be- corn-meth an ingenuous man,: that that reign of threeyears ftan- ding and a halfe,hathno defence from thefe Scriptures. Secondly, you prove it from hence,becaeefe the time of thedevil When he is loofed,andofAnt ichri/t lbos ld be mollfliort,Rev.r 2.12. Woe to the earth a4d thefea,becau(e the devil/is comedonn ro you,havin,7great in- dienation,knowin that he hash bnt a lïttie time. "I anfwer,that a little and indefinite time cloth not concludeat all touchinga certain & de- finite reigne of three years and anhalfe fo that you have butlittic help by this place, or rather noneat all. And then that which you call the rimeof the devil/ when he was let Ieofe, is-the time of the die-
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