CAP..I3. touchingAntichriifl . pt i , Apof#lespreachedandprayedix it ; Luc.24.53.A. 3.1.& 5.29 I an-, fwer,and demand, what dotheft things help ar all to confirm thefit- tingofyour Antichrift inSalmons Temple?what ?(hall the Temple ofGod in which Antichri(t (hall it be that ofJerufalem,becaufe the Temple ofIerufalemwherein the Apoftles preachedand prayedwas the TempleofGod,as long as it flood? Truly I could thew unto you that a Titular holines might remain for a timein that Temple ofSolo-, mon,afterthat the old Religious cerem his were abrogated,evenas a boat doth not leave ofmoving prefen(iy,after the oareshave left of to (hove it on,if it werenot labour loft and fpentin vain,to (land up- on a matter of no conkquerice.For you might conclude as well,and- as certainly as ye do from that Antecedent, that the Temple of God, which youhave made whereinAntichri4 (hall fit,fhall be that of Ie- rxfalem,becaufeof thole words of the Poet which I will a little al- ter,canye held laughingmy Maifecs , that are admitted to hearre all thisgoodly ftuffe t hat would make a Horfe laugh. To thole words Dan.Chap,9.And the defola:ion( hallperfevere un- to the confummation and the end , wherebyour men prove, that the Temple is not to be re-edified.You anfwer,that it jbcllbe reedified in- deed,but not till towards the endofthe World, or that itfhall he re-edi- fiedyet itfhall never be but aprophaneplace, or laftly that it it to be reedified but not perfellly,but it is to be begun onely,aud that Antiehrift Thal fit in it as it i c begun.I anfwer that we have needoffomeGeryon, whomay lay hold on this flippery Eele with his hundred hands. Into what manifòid plaits, turnings and windings do you wreath Your felt likea Serpent? Yet howfoever you change your fclfe intoa thoufand fhapes Proteur li, , you Ihall not (tape my hands. Who taught you this divinity I pray you,thus to coyn diftint`èions,to gain- fay the expref('ewords of 'Panic!? Is that the Temple is not to be re- edified,but in the end ofthe wot ld,or that when it is to be reedified it (hall remain a prophane place, or that it is to be reed ified,yct fo as it (balbe begun onely,and not finifhed.Have youfetched thefè bald and patched'diftinftions out of the Popes veltry,or his privy rather?Cer- tainly the truth infpired from, God bath not furnifhed you with filch (toreofrotten ftuffe:For this teieheth us,that thewrathofGodis come upon the ?eWs unto the uttermor,t.Theff.2,16.And thatthis isapart of this wrath,that God hathbowed down their backs alwaies,Rom. i I. to.Thereforetthe low (hill never lift up their heads fo under An- tichrift , that they (hall have the leaft power;to worke out any fetch exaltationofthemfelves, but they (hall alwayes remain defolate and Y Y Y Y 3 oppreffed,
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