694 a n, 13ellarmine, C A P,9 hath to his beanies, it muft needs be that he is come nowmany ages fine, whole forerunners made fuch a gliftring Phew in the time of John. Take heedehenceforth how you meddle with the fun. This eArpolle ofDelos, as his manner is, doth not hidefaults, but difcaver them. At length youdefeend from the Scriptures to the confent of the Fathers, and to the confeflionof the adverfarics, they will do you no good, with their confent; who wotìld all of them acknow- ledge with the like consent if they were aliveat this day, that 'they erred in many things that they wrote. I confef('e allo, that our writers do think, that Antichrift (hall raign to the end of the world, but give them leaveI pray you to change their minds, when they are better informed.They think it enough to tread in the Reps that other men have made, when they come to matters that are not clear and certaine enough of themfelves;but when they fhall,fee thatthe truth, wholevoyce alone they are skilled to hearken unto, fhineth out clearly on another fide,and that it is confirmed by mat certainear- guments and experience,you fhall perceive that they will give you the flip, and leave you naked, of.whofe confeffwn you do now brag. Thefe things being done, you come to your unanfweralble De. monftration, which you frame partly out of Acaicichril$s.'Kingdom three yeares long, and partly out of the worlds end joyncd with the death ofAnticIrrif ;and thus you comeuion.utaerriblyr,thçWald ,tall be ended ffraight after the death of 4muchriJ ,an-vi $ytiïiniß j all net live after heJhall once appeare, ixolLtegisa te, raigne,aitovc that yeares and an halfat rttofl: grit xo* the Pope bath r4i erl With. both AiefWorets above 5oc. yeares evenby,tke opinionof theadverfarrec, and yet the worldendureth_fill; Therefore - Antic&iltris mat yes coma, ,se Cher i the PopeofRome 4ntichrij?. I anfiwer, chax I hope I have made all the world to fee, that the fir _& member of chis reafon, viz. that the world is tobe ended firaight after Antich rifts death, hash no reafon in it, nor for it, but that all the Scriptures brought to underprop it, fpeakofanother manner of matter that _bull be effe&d long be* fore the end ofthe world; and i hope alto that I have proved in the formerChapter, that the other member of this reafon, viz. that An- 'deli' ft _hall live but threeyeares and anhalf after he tall begin to raign, is molt falle, and is nothingelkbut the efftcacie of errour to deceive thole who will not beleevethe truth, that fo they :nays pc- rift eternally. And therefore that whichyou. build upon.theft rottenPofis, viz. that
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