CAP.13. CQuchugrAntichrliI. 717 cannot do,who can mint a new Chrifi everyday ofapeeceofdough. But (fery you ) this isbut a little,that the Scripturesfpea1 Thereforgg you bringus fome greater matter out ofthe ancient fathers and thPre both Latinand Greeke that haveived many Ages,who l7ae (as yotf, faynever called the Churches ofthe Chrifinns Tes,ìples,but oratories, andplaces to pray in,or,Cathedrai! andPrincelypalaces;. or places co;- fecrated to the memory ofMartyrs. I anfwer that the ancient Fathers both Greek andLatin,háve fpoken fo as the Scriptures fpeak,as Char,, Alexander:ffrom.Book,7. ATemple iseither agreat one as a Church that is an af fembly offaithful' people,or elfe a little one,as amad that retaineth thefeed o fAbraham.;And as Cyprian fpeakes boa t.Agaita theJewes, Chap. 15. That Chris`t fhould bathe houfe andTempla of God,and that the old Temple bath ceafed, and the new one 73-as begurt.' And book S.Epif1.8.idthosrgh Charily lboasid rot drive us fo m uch,to yeeld help to our brethren, yet we ought to confider in this plc that thefe fie the Temples ofGod,whicl, be taken ; a-. d We ought not to fi4ffer through our long ceafing to help then,and our neglellling of their griefe, that the Temple of Godfiouldbe long in Captivity. But you fay that you under(fand not either the Chriffian aífem;,hes, or the particulár .faithful! risen , but the h.mfad and material!churches , wherein we meet tcgether to worflip Godpublikely.I anfwer that you do there- fo e difpute like a profound Clerke, who do not all this while con- dud eyour Queffion by thisgoodly aufwer;for thus younow argue. No materiali Churches made for the publike wor(hip were called Temples among theChriffiansfor many agcs,but fome kind of Tem- ple are the places appointed for the publike worfhip;Therefore there was not fome kind ofTemple among the Chriff ians for many Ages. What of that I pray you ? For though there was not fome kinde o f Temple,yet there was fome other kinde of Temple arnung the Chri- (fians even in there very lime Ages that you fpeak of ; and in fuch a Temple as there fhould Antichrift fit afterwards.Uni ffe perhaps you fuppofe that the holy place of Affembly,is onely the Temple,Which if it be fo,then Antichrift (hall be no longer Antichrif;then he (halt fit in thefe materiali Churches,or elfeifhe (hall be out ofthofe Chur- ches, then the great Antichrift can be out of the Temple of God, 'and though he fhould not make vaunt of himfelf as if he wereGod, yet he fhould be Antichrift. For this Sacrilegious boa(f ofhimfelf (hall be onlywhile he (hall fits in the TempleofGod, as it is mar ifeff out of the Apoffleswords : and thus we(hall havea new Captain Anti- ehriff,fuch as the Apoffles never faw by the fpirit ofProphecie. YYYY Thete..
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