C 710: Again lr3ellarm ,.; . l .. tz.; Ff theTruth,.verfe to. And indeed, what other Apoffafie could be- get this, pefiilent Antichrift ? For was theRemits Empire, which crueitded Cheift, fo greatly cared for by God,, that hee would fend 4ntic ril into tilt world to punifli the revolting from tha't'? i'hefe are the dream of -. Rosszifh Factors and Prot-Fors, that abotu d itl riot and fitrfetir s, and not of thofe that gave themfelves to the tree and fincere fludy of the Truth. Notwiù:fandingther' tote all that you have fpokenhitherto, it is cleare enough- that, they be ßor the leWás,,who fhould receive this Antichrift. But the Gentiles, and Calvin Cwhofe memory ought tobe inhonour of all godly men) and. other, whom } ou call Heretiques, do upon juff'caufe, depart from the interpretation of the old Writers; as alto that they do as ¡IAN expound this place of you and filch as you' are, as from whom God hath,taken:away,as it feemeth,all power ofdill erning between tight and wrong, truth and falfhood inmatters of falvation, and that hecaufe yee make more account of the finfull pleafures and prefer- ments of this world, then you do of the fimplicity and purity of the Gofpel. B, ut yougo about to perfwad us with reafon alfe, that the Jews are they that lh l r.eceive Antichr:iffyand,that he(hailjeyn hit »felf to them f'fecially ; For theyare ready toreceivehim,ae Who lookforf:ich a Meas. ae fhalt bea temporal' Kind. I anfwer,rhat they are indeed ready to receive Anticyrif, and that they have received them often- times ; according to that which Ch rift foretold, but what is this to that Antic/trig-whom we in-treat of? now thequeftion Ì fay is -hand: led touching Antichrif properly fo culled, whom, becaufe he hath tWo Horns like to the Lamb, Rev. i 3. i a. they who hate the Lamb, hate this Vicar ofhis alto ;, as far as they can, becaufe hee maketh himfeif like to hirwin part. Let the ?ewes therefore call the Pope of Rome H- hnsen,that is,a Rulrufh,and let them rail on him,and curie him at their pleafute. Yet doth it not fóllow from thence that lace is not the 11 hid-and greateft- Antiehrift, feeing it, is not faid any where in the Scriptures, that he is to honoured in any peculiar manner by this people ;.For whereas you fay, that he'hallgo out from rife Jews to-the Gentiles, in li,kg manner as Chrift Went from tieJews to the Gentiles; certainly, you do-either play the diviner, or the dreamer ; you prove nothing, un}efle perhaps-you hold, that Chrift is theType of Anti- sbeiff,wherein you play theungodly divine, which divinity of yours we have once before been,acquainted with in the Chapt. of Anti- crifts continuance; wherefore thiswhich you bring'touching Anti_ chrifP'properlyfo-called,thathe is tohe receivedofthe leWes, is utterly voidof reafon. The
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