C AP . 9: touchingAntichril. 693 dudehence, who will have Antichrift not to be come yet : namely thus,and no other way:he that is to come in the laft hourc,is not yet come; Antichrift mutt come in theTaft houre : Thereforehe is not yet come.i bring your reafon into forme, that youmay fee & be afhamed ofyourufuall manner efarguing.The Syllogifmc runneth on onefoot more then it Should; inyour propofition you underftand by the 1aú houre forne little fpace, for example, threeyeares and an halfe from the laft end;or elfeyour propofition, if it containe all the time from the firft comming to the fecond,is molt falfe.In your afìumption you take the laft houre as John ufeth it for the whole time of grace, till Chrift come the frondtime;or ifit be taken more ftriFtly for three yeares and an half, it is a fenfeleffe beggingofthe thing in queftior; and Iohns authority is pretended to no purpofe. You give us a Simile to illuffrate Johns arguments, and you will have him to fpeak of Antichrift in like manner, as Lome might fpeak of the fun, whole beames when he is riling, a man might call the fun; and even fo fay you that his argument is ftrong, as if a man would argue thus tou- ching theTaft houre of the night. The Sun rifeth in the WI honre of the night, thebeames ofthe Sun do noWmake the aire lightfome, there- fore this is the 14 honre of the night. I anfwer, that this fimilitude is fit enough to expretl'ethat thing which theApoftle meaneth. For thebeames ofthe Sun, and theSun it felf, are beheld alwayes at the fame houre; fo that he who made all this laft age but one houre,did not do amiffe to place the fore-runners thereof in the beginning of it. But as foryou, who make the laic houre tobe threeyeares and anhalf, what helpe can you have from the fimilitude of the Sunand his beames ? For thoughyou divide the houre into threcfcore tem- ples, Antichrifts forerunners Shall not go before him above two hundred and ten yeares. What are thefe few yeares to a thoufand five hundredyeares, in all whichyou grant that Antichrifts beames were openly feenc, and yet that he himfelf hath not appeared to this day, and when he fhall at laft appeare, that he is to be feene threeyeares 'and an halfonely? How unlike is he to the Sun, and howunlike arc his minif ors to the beames of the Sun ? the betimes gobefore the fun fcarce onehalf houre, which arifing ftraightwaies offerethhimfelf tobe Peenfor twelve houres, but thefe fore- runners of Antichrift Rand glittering a thoufand five hundred yeares; but Antichrift himfelf is not come forth yet, and when he Shall come he (hall not Thine out,not one leaft minute to that fpace;if Antichrift therefore have theCame refpe& to his forerunners, which the 11m Tut hash
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