C A P. 9. touchingAntichriiL. 687 which you fay found ufedforyeers, is mani- feftly falfe ; did not God fay to the Ifraeliteyi cording to the number of the dayes, Wherein you fearched the Land, namely,forty dap% you (hall Beareyour Iniguities,even forty yeers? Numb. r 4.. 34. What can be plainer? Likewife, Ezech.4.6. 1 have given thee a day for a yeer. But fay you, H_emeaneth not toJay that yeers arefgnifed by the dayes literally,but that dayes are taken trulyfor dayes,only they are laid to be given forpeers, becaufe they Were a Egne of yeers. O wofull wit of a Iefuit, too much of this kinde of accuteneffe bath made you mad almoft ; infomuch, that you had need take fomepurging elleborum, to help you againt it. A day, fay you, as not ayeer indeed, but only a Ague or fignification of aper ; as if any man in his wits would ever think that a day were a very Veer trulyand properly ? or, as ifa day might fignife aveer in Etechiel, and other places, and yet might not inany cafedo fo much in ?ohn ? But now let us hear your reafon,why a week may be put for yeers,and not a day for a yeer in like manner, becaufe, forfooth, a weekfîQnifieth a number, but a day in no Wife dash fo. To which I fay, that this is fpoken alfo very fubtilly by you,thar unity indeed makethno number, ánd that day anfwcreth unity. And yet to us that are but dull heads, to you fubtill Sophifters, the quint - effence of wit it felf, a number feemeth to be a gathering together ofunities, and unities feem to be fuch"as is the whole number it felt- that is made of them. Therefore as (even dayes fignifie fevenyeers ; fo Ipray you let it be lawfull for once with your good leave, that one day may £guiñe one yeer; which thing,ifI may obtain ofyou,upn onmy reafonable requeft,I will requite your kindneffe,with the like liberal' grant,and will give your Pope a long laflingraign,not only for three yeers and half, but for a thoufand twohundred and threefcore yeers. CHAP. X. Againfi the fixth Demontration taken from the Goo - fummation of theworld. Ourfixth Demonftration is taken out of the laft Signe, that fol- loweth after Antichrif, which (hall be the con'ummationofthe World, thus : If Antichrifl (fay you) had come long azoe, the World fhould have been ended long fince alto, for hee is to come a little before theend ofthe World. But the World is notyet ended, and therefore bee id notyet come. I anfwer, if that which you hold touching Antichrigs S.c SS 2, three
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