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696 Agairtfl 3ellaras ne, C A P. t o. the Frenchmen. I anfwer, that this inffance of yours, is not worth a button. For it is not needful!, that the Kingdom whence Antichriil should takehis ofdfpring, fhould be alwayes molt powerful! : but it is enough if it have beene fo forforce long time, fuck as the Latine Kingdom was from Irenaus his time for many Ages. The Kingdom ofAntichrilí (hall be (haken out of joynt, and brought to decay by little and little, before the uttermoft and latterai ft wafting thereof, till at length it ;hall come to utter ruin; we have heard that lezabcl is tobe ca. ft upon her bed of langui/hing, chaps. 2. 22, A And have you not read afterwards in this book, that Babylonis cer- tainly fallen: chap. 14. 8. Thatthe *or/hippers ofthe Beaft arebe- comefull of the botch, that Antichrills Throne Was to bedarkened: in regard Whereof heand his followers Jhould gnaw their Tongues for rage, chap. i6. ro. and to conclude, that the Kings fheuld forfake the Whore, making her nrtk`ed, eating her fiefb; and burning her up fire ar the lait, chap. 17.10. I fay then, have you read thefe things, anddoyou yet require that Anttchrii s Kingdom should{Ion. rifh in likemanner to the laff point of his time, as it had done in formerages? Certainly you catch at that in your defperate hafte to defend your caufewithal!, which (cabs it to the heart. For unleffe the Romane Kingdome fhould'at length have come into the Lapfe, and fhould havecome down with vengeance from the loftyheight thereof, to this fo pooreand bafe elfate, it fhould not beAntichriffs kingdom, Secondly .youobjeft, that the Word (Latinos) rte itfig ifterhRoma- id not Written by the Dipthongei, but by a fimsple i, and that it can- not makeup that number. f anfwer, that Irenaus knew out of dou&it what was the orthographyof this word, as well as Bellarminc; 1-Ie would never have faid it hadbeen exceeding likely,if the right wri- ringof it had come fhort of-the ion .computation. And is it likely that he who writeth fo accnratly of the name Teitan,fayingthdt the firft fyllabl, ie Written by tale Greek uoWels e, and i, fhöuld not fee what the word. Latinos required- to. the true writing of it ? Now in that it is written Latinos at this day with a fmple: lora;; you have no- need I-hope to'be taught, that long; among the Romans was wont to be- pronounced as the dip- thong ei; and that it had a ¡lender (e) included in is : So Ci- tfro,. wrote Rini in Latin foe the Greek binei, book9. Epiff; fami- liar. to Papyr, Pxt. the beginning of which Epift. is thus, I love :Ay..fhamefa ln4g.._ And ewc . .doc,: both pronounce and write -at this

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