729 ._. Agaitilt &ellarrnune, CAP.I3. Catholike,and Peters_ciraire as youwill have it,fhall be punifhedone day likeand for et Whore,and yet that;ihe Ihouldgo uupunilhed when íhewas heathenifh, and plaid the whore-ntoft !avidity and riotoufly according to your opinion Revel. 17. i6. Certainly Jerome feetrwth not to have affirmed fo rightly,when he fpeaketh thus to Rome,to thee Ifpeak,, which ;;haft blotted out the blafpherny Written on thy forehead, with thy,confeffion of Chrifi ; book 2.againft Iovinian. For Rome hath not blotted out this blaiphemy,but hath fet it deeper in,after it began to be Chriflian, and therefore fhe mutt now bear the punifhment of her fornication.Thereforeyour fecund anfwer is no Life weak then thefirff; Let us fee your third anfwe.r,which tellethus Thatalthough that. Womanfbould be Chriflian Rome , yet our argumentfbould have nofarce at all in it ; becaufe Antichrifi fhould hate Rome, Jhould fight againfi it, andlay it Wall, and therefore that Rome is not Antichrifts feat. I anfwer that that which you tellus of the hatred and fight of eAntichrif againft Rome is flatly falfe,vou borrow your faife light out ofthoie words Revel. 17. 16. Which you read thus and the Ten Horns Whick thoufazoesrt,andthe 73ea ,thfe (ball hate the Vehore, c. .Which reading we haveproved to be faultywriting upon that place; the=True one is this,and the ten Horns which thou faweft in or upon the Reaft,thefe inali hate,&c. The difference is,that the ttue reading teacheth us,that the Horns ofthe Bea f ¡ball hate the whore, that falle one,will have it.meant,i hat both the Horns and the Beafi,that is,both the Kings and Antichrili dill hate the whore, Arctas readeth it fo as I fay,and fo doth the vulgar Latin, (to whichyou are bound asyou are to the C'ouncell of Trent) and fo do fa manyother copies, to which the reft ofthe Book of the Revelation givrth confcnr, which . yet is muff repugnant to that which youbring; So that unlcfleyou light upon a better anfwer then this , you mutt needs acknowledge that ChriflianRome is the feat of Antìchrift. To the fècond place which our men do bringout of Theft. 2.4. Where it is laid that AntichriftJhallfit in the Temple ofGod,you an- fwer that Pnul,fpeakesofthe temple ofSolornon,andyouputus over to -thole things Whichyouhavefaidbefore So do I alfo fend the Reader to that which I have Paid inway ofconfutation ofthem;and then to that reafon ofours,rhat the Temple of the 'ewes, was indeed the Tem- ple of God,but it had left olio befo,feeing thefacrifice and l'rieft. hoodof the JeWes were ceafed: You anfwer,that it ceafed not to be-the TempleofGodftraight Wayes. For thefameTemple might be the Tem- pie of (hriftians and indeed it wasfo while it continued, becaufe the Apoftles
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