7t$ Agatna ed1drm6ie, CAP.t3e There is great force I w is inyour difputations,which bringus out filch montbers as this every where,but let us go on further with you. Nowwhere as you fay,that the name o fa Templewas not given to the hoofer ofPrayer ti/i yeromes time whom you cite for it,I wouldhave you underftand , that eufebiuss who was more Ancient then krone, did nor forbeare to call them by this name. Book. Hiff. io, Chap.2. Whom Ruffinus brings in (peaking thus book.9.Hilf.Eccl.Chap.io; that the Placer newly revived , do rife np more gorrioufly and loftily btsilt,and that high and ,{lately Temples are reared up inheadof thofe former bate and poore Conventicler. And again Eufeb. Book= zo. Chap. 13. There Was aTemplebuilt in Tyre after a bountifull and ftately faffi®n by his careand endeavour, Which was the moll notable Church in all the Country of Phenacia. Soalfó in that oration lauda- tory, whichone made touching the building of the Churches that were dedicated to Paulinos the Bithopof the Tyreans,we read thefe words , And thou Who art the mafricall ornament thatfette oust the holy Temple of God that bath been newly built here : And after many other words in the fame place we read thus , Hebuiltup this mofl magnificent Temple ofthe moll high God. And indeed the Hcïly Ghofi an oft wifelyproviding to meet with your crafty conveiancos fo gui- ded the hands and pens of thofe that wrote about that time , when Antichrifl fhould peere and peere out , that they fhould give the nameofa Temple,ev-n to the holy places of-the Chriftian affemblies, that fo it might be made every way evident , that he fitteth in the Temple ofGod. Therefore whereas concluding this matttr you fay, that itfeemeth to be certain that the Apofhle (peke of the temple of le- rufalem becaufe Writing that Antichrifi fhould fit in the Temple of God,hefailfume thing that he wouldhave to be underfeed of thofe to Whom he Wrote,and they couldnot thenunderhand any other temple but that of Ierufalem b the Temple or God,you may fee earlyhow falfe it is not to fay worfe of it,as I may,and yet fpeak truly. The Theffaloniansmight underffand,that he fhould fitin the minds and confciencesof men, whomhe should fe nee withhis craft and hypocrifie,as Anfelrnur interpreteth it,or that. he thould reiÿne in the Chriftian affemblies, as Chryfohom, Theodoret, Theephplaf , and Occumeniur expound it,or that he fhould braggeof himfelfe as if he were the Temple and the Church asAug-ufline explanes it ; but as for the Temple of lernfalem, they could never once think that he meant that , as which they knew fhouldbe quite deftroyedby that which Chri[f foretoldof it , Matth. 3. 39 ; and 24.2. And that it fhould never
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