686 Againft Bellarmrne, ,. C A P. S. _forty moneths,a goodly catch'; but I will not trouble you toomuch with askingyou fuch queftions as thefe, and ringing them into your ears with a loud voyte,Ieft, perhaps, I fhould break yourfIeep. I will whifper as low as I can, and will tell you in your eare, that the timeofdayes is not one day, but three hundred and threefcore dayes,times twice fomuch; namely,feven hundred and twenty ; half a time, an hundred and fourefcore : So likewife the time of yeers is three hundredand threefcore yeers ; timer, feiien hundred and twenty, half a tiniie an hundredandfourfcore. So the time ofmoneths it twelve moneths, times four and twenty, halfa time fix ; I pray you think of tiefe thingswhen you are awake,and in the mean time sleep frveetly and foundly all ehofe three thoufandifive hundred yeers, which you have inforced your adverfaries to make by your calculation. Sixthly, fay you,thefeven times in Daniel,Chap.4. are fevenyeers; otherwfe, ifevery dayWere takenfor ayeere, NebuchadnezzarAoarld have lived out of his s.:ingdome, z555 yeerr; Therefore one time in John mull beone ufuallyeer, and tWo times, tWo yeers, andfo on. I anfwer,it is ridiculous to tie wordsato one and the fame fignification ahs yes,unleffe there bea certain and neceffary caufe inforcing us fo to do. Daniel himfelf is Paid tohave fallen down on hù knees three times of a day, I trow you will not have him to have been onhis knees three yeers, Dan. 6. II. And thus we have teen you difputing about Aistichrifs three yeers raigne in fuch a fafhion, that you bring nothing that is of force to hold your felf, or any Tapift elfe, in this opinion, fave only a few bare names ofahcient Writers, who arenot competent witnefles in this cafe. Nay, I will fay fonmewhat mere,and yet truly, you, and all thepack of.you that are the Popes vafl`als, may be afhamed, ifyou have any flame in you, that you will Puffer your felves to be abufed and deluded in fo great a matter, and that with fo ligtht and childish toyes. God grant that the Truthwhich is now let before your eyes, may not only not be in vain unto you, but that it do not help to blind you more andmore at this time, as it hath done alwayes hitherto. There is one thing remaineth to be looked into in this Chap ter, namely, that which you anfiver to the argument of Illyricusr, ivhcre you fay,that thereare indeed Weeks ofyeers found, and calledfé rightly in the Scriptures, andyet not dayesput for yeers, nor moneths ofyeers ; noW it ùWell calleda Week of yeers,becaufe it is namedfrom. thenumberoffeven, but nior eths and dayes arenot names ofnumber, . brit the courfe ofthe Moon, or the time ofthe light, I anfwer, that that which
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