7o6 A ainíi Tellarmine, C A P.12., to them ;elves) but the fuperiority was to be given over to the La- tin Tope, or to the Bilhop ofancient Rome, or elfe no reconciliation could be made, as appeareth out of the Counsel at Lyons, under tjreerory the tenth. Howfoever therefore thefe and many other fu- perftittons were in ufe many yeers before Antichriff was made known to the world, yet after that they were made bands to tie men to defend the errors of the Church of Rome, they put on the nature of Brands,Marks,& Charallers. Thefe things do you difputcagainft the true Character, rather flablifhing our opinion with your vain impugning of ir,then hurting it in the leaft manner; But what kinde of Charalter doyou imagine and hammer out unto us ? namely, pine pofitive one that it to be deviled by Antichrift, but that it it not known What kinde ofone itJhould be till he come. I anfwer, if it be a pofitive Mark, and all men muff take it, as the Holy Ghoff faith cxprefly, then Antiehriftmuff either go to all men, or at leaft compell all men to come to him ; and whetherfoever of thefe wee (hall hold, wee muff be put again to the pains, tomake that admirable voyage of his over all Countries in the world, in that three yeers of his, and a little more, ofwhich wee fpake, Chap. 6. of this Refutation againft the publikeperfecution. Or if this work be impofed on his Embaf fadors, he will have more ground to traverfe, and more bufnetle to difpatch, then can be gone through in a fmall fpace of time. CHAP.'XII. oftheGenerations of ANT ICI-111.13r. S touching the Generation and Countrey where Antichriff muff beborn. You fet down theopinions ofCome ancient Wrt ter,Whereofcome (fay you) are erronioua,fame probable, others certain andundoubted. Thole that beerronioua, are the opinions of the authorofa little Worktouching Antichrift,which itfet amonte the Works of Augufline, of Hippolitus the Martyr, of Origen andSulpitius Thofe thatbe probable, are the opinionsofDataafcene,Ira:neus,Htppo- licus,Ambrofe, Augufline,Profper, Theodoret,Gregory, Beda, Ru- pertus, Aretus, Richardus, and Anfelmus. I do not rehearfe the Catalogue ofthefe Authors for this purpofe, that I may put you in minde whit flrong and (lately ifuds and pillars you build upon in this matter: For when you fee thofe men whom you produce for your principal( witnetfes in every queflion ; partly to hold a mani- fell error ; partly to confirm their opinion with no certain argu- ments,
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