690 Againi hellarn ztne, C A 13.9. i id e,osent Was iivett them; I anfwer that thefe things are far from thelaft end. For'they do not follow after the looting of the De- vili, asyou think, but thefe feats are placed during the time of his imprifónment. Betides, they are fetled a thoufand yeares before the filet refurreFtion : and then they that rife firft raigne a thoufand years, as it is faid exprc(fely verf. 6. Thefe Seates thereforeand this äudgement, which you think to belong to the laft end, do gobefore it, two thoufandyeares at the leafs; fuch a ftranger and forrainer are you in thefe myfteries. Thirdly, you bring thofe words out of Daniel t 2. Bleffedis he that Waiteth, and commeth to thofe thoufand three hundred, thirtyfivedayes, that is, fay you, tillfourty five dayes after the deathof Antichrift, for then the Lord fall come to iudge_ ment, andfhall render croü'nes of righteoufneffe to the conquerours. I anfwer, that we (hall open themeaningofthis place afterwards Chapter 20. i t. And perhaps we (hail one day handle it fully and throughly. In the meane time, let us know, that here is nothingat all fpokenof Antichrift that is fo called properly, nor yet of the co- ming of the Lord to the -aft judgement, who will not make all menNeffed, whom he (hall finde alive at his coming, feeing many (hall delire tobe covered from his fight with mountaines, but fpeech is here had onely touching the full calling of the Jewes, at which Danis- endeth his prophefie, neither do any Prophecies goe fur- ther. You come at laft to Mat. 24 The Çofpell(ball bepreached in the univerfallworldfor a Teflimony to all the Gentiles, and thenfhallthe confummation be. I anfwer, thathereis no mention made of your Antichrifl, as allo that the end here fpoken of, is the end of the Jewish Regiment, and not ofthe world, as we have {hewed Chap.+ when we deale againft your fourth demonftration, But you put to the other words that follow there, prefently after theTribulation of there dayes, the Sun fhallbe damned, and the Moone Jhall late her light, and thenJhall theflue of the Son of man appeare. I anfwer, that- neither do thefe words make at all to prove, that the delkruc`tion of Antichrift is joyned with the end of all things; whereas they are wholy filent touching him, and yet let us examine them a little, that we may know the Interpretationof them. This place is applied with one confent of all men as I fuppofe, to the taft judgement of ourLord But this Book of the Revela- tion, teachethus both to think, and to fpeak more diftincily of this matter; For hence we do under-Rand, that there is a double corn- ruing
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