7t 2, Againft 13ellarmiue Cm, t; they (hall bewrap'd, at the tim when this deliverance (hall happen untothem. But if that Glory ofAntichrifi which yee forge and de- vife,(hould comebetween,how fhould this bounty of Godbe (hewed upon thofe that lay before in fo miferable affliftion ? The fecund placeofScripturc for this purpofe,is taken outof that excellent Songof Mofes, Deut.32.36.&c. when the zordfall jndoe hrpeeple,thenfiall he repent,becaufe of hisfervant,*henhefbalfee than theirfrenpthisgone,andthat neither he that is Alitnp,nor he thatù let gocan do them anygood,When he ils.t/lfay,Vhereare their gods; Re I the flrong rock to Whom they commit themfèlves for defence ? Mofes loth ling of the fame times in that place ; and het iheeveth that the Lewes are to be brought into an extreme and defperate mifery,when God (ball arife to revenge the quarrell of his people. The third place is out of thole words,Efay 49.14. Jut ifZionfay, the Lordhashforfa_ esá me,e c. To thefe may be added, Ierem.3o.8,&c. E .ech.337. Dan. 12. Hof 3.4, 5. And thefe few places may fuffìce to open the mean- ingof many other. Out of which I conclude, that although the Pope of Theme (hall never be a IeW, nor be received ofthe Jews fór their Me/ft'a,but be rather hated of them, yet this is. no bar to keep him from being the Great and Grand e.Antichrifl; yea, unlefl'e thefe things fhould be fo,he fhouldbediffering from the Princelyand Prin- cipal! Antichriff as we have declared in due places. CHAP. XIII. Of ANT ICHAISTs Seat. IN expounding the words of this Prophetic, wehave concluded-it withmoth flrong arguments taken from thence, that Rome is the Seat ofAntichrifl, and that flreightwayes after that the Empirewas takenaway from the Heathen Emperors. For the heads ofthe Beaft remain at `Rome, where both thole Hilsand Kin s are which theYAzr- gel fpeaketh of. But where thefe Heads remain faxed,there mutt An- tichrifts feat needs be. Moreover, feting Antichrift was fubfif}ing fo foon as ConfÌantine entree upon his kingdomes, as we have proved before by many arguments, he bath had no other feat but at For in that he Raid at :?version for a few yeers,he did that to fojourn thereonly, not with a mínde to change his feat. But yoil (OBellar, mine i) fight on the contrary fide, holding, that Ierufalem(lull be Antichriítsfeat, not Rome ; theTempleofSalomon,and the Throneof David, not theTemple ofSr. Peter, and the e pottolike Chair. Which thingyou indeavour toprove two wayes , ftrft; by an argument, and then
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