CAP .13. touching Antichrif . 719 never bebuilt againe, feeing the wrathof Goa feazed upon then to the very Taft ; as it is,z. `fheft:2.46. To thefe you adde the common expofitionof the Fathers, as you (peak, but the contrary opinionof thofe, who are cited above, will not fuffer it tobe common , and the ignorance of a fevv , ought not to hand in the light of fo cleare a truth ; And thefe be your argu- ments,the force wh:eofl leave now to be judged of by the Reader, and I will fe.c in a word,what I can fay to your antwets were with you gó about on the other fide to weaken the reafons of fotne of our writers. Firtt whereas our men doobjeft out of Revel. 17. That Rome is the chiefefeat of Antichrif , becaufe thisfeat is agrcat city, whichfit, teth onleven hills,andwhich bath akingdomover thékingsof t he earth; all which things arefound to be m Rome; you anfwer threewayes firlt,that Rome is not under(ood by this city, but the Whole 1`intd,mof the Devil!, but you do not cell in this anfwer, neither is it in truth Of any moment,fee'ing that is not the univerfall cityofthe Devil,which thalí be burnt up by the tenDings, fpecially feeing there null many wicked men remainalive, who thall bewaile the fall thereof. Revel. a 8.9. For how (hall the whole company perífh,of which there thall Tome citizens remainafterwards ? Carting this anfwer therefore be- hind the doors you get you to another, and you grant that Rome is under(ood by the vehore,but that is heathenilb R eme, that the» raigned and worfiipped Idolls and that perfecutid the Chri.fáians, andnot C'hriTlian Rome.I anfwer that youdo it to difioyn thofe things which the Holy Ghofl hath coupled together. For Rome is then t7e whore andfeat ofAntichrifl when as fhe is carriedof the Reaf,but fhe was not carried while the Heathens reigned. For the is carried by the feventh head,whichwas not come asyet , when fohn received this Prophecie Revel. 17.9.1o. Betides ifHeathenill Rome that raigneci be the whore,then Antichrifl carne during the timeof that heathentlh Empire,for the Holy Gholt would have thefe two things to go toge- ther like infeparable cornpanious even to the very funerall of the whore,the Beaff carieth,thewhore rideth uponhim,one of them can- not live inany lively manner without the other. Moreover if that fhould be true,then the fhould long fince have left ofbeing thewhore, neither fhould the be found to be fuch,when Antichrif fhould come, becaufe as you teach us afcf:rwards, Peters chaire cannot be feparated fromRome,book4. of th,- 'Popeof Rome,Chap.4.Buf how doth this agree I pray youwith reafon, that Rome when it is Chrifcan, Holy, . Y,y yy 2 Catholilce
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