gcr2 Agga nWW`,BelÍa nMe '4 'C A P.1 ra is required only in thefubjeets, and not in forrainers, filch as the }ewes are accounted ; for who judgeth thole that be without? but if any of the Chriftian profe(1iön, 'should Phew a mind that is i- gainit the Pope of Romer authority, he could not tra#hck among you upon any other condition, but with bringing himfelfe in dan- gerofhis life, as we have íhewedmore at large, Revel. 13. t7.Ther- fore the words ofthe text itfelfe have not yet confìtted thefe toy es you talk of, but they doe flatly conñrme, that thefe toyes carry the the only true judgement in them. Your other reafon is that whereby youprove, that all thefef¢nes ofAntichr aremore ancient then theycan agree to him. For the un- derftanding of which point more diftinftly, we muff know that there is a double time ofAntichrift; (for this fummary divifion will ftrífice now, we having to deale more exaftlyhereabouts in thepro- per place thereof) One of his firft uprifing, whereby he is become the firft 73eaft, theother of the fecond after his head was healed, whereby he came to be the fecond Beaft. Now the Mark is the or- dinance of the fecond beaft, within whole bounds it is contained, though the foundation thereof laid before, but it began to come to force at that time, when the Romilli Ceremonies were obtruded upon the Churches, and they were all conftrained tounderg_oe the yoke of them fo that that which you bring touchingcertaine rites, is altogether difagreeable to the queftions in hand. For the antiqui- ty of thefe rites is not now dealt about, but the time when they were firft brought in to be a Sacrament of the Romifh obedience, whichyou [hall not find to reach beyond the birth day of the fecond Wealt,ifyou will make a right computation. For whereas you fpeak in the firft place of the Chryfine ufed in Baptiime, we acknowledge that the fuperftition thereof is anci- ent ; yet Sylvefter the Tope of Rene added force new matter to it which was not ufed neceflarily in other Churches,till Äuguffine the Monge,, the Romifh Apoftle compelled the Britanes to adminitter Baptifme after the Romilh manner, and tobe in love with thebooks ofthe other Ceremonies ; Concel. Rom. Can. 5. Innocent. 3. decret. Epig2Beda hiliror. Anglic. Book. 2. Chapt. 2. and thisMark being once received;was printed more deeply,and prooagátedmore farre and wide for the fpaceoftheAge folIowing,.,through all CÇermany by the help ofToniface the EnQlifhman,who eftablifhed the Romilh rites every where, and whocafe out many godly and learned men out oftheir places, whodid fomewhat oppugnethem. What fhould [peak.
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