CAP, 13. tauchingAntichrii1. -72,3 pare him an army at they be proud. To this I fay, that now you have made your part fafe and found. Indeed the Popilla Ptiefts are not proud, nor yet can be fo; that is pìtty. I fuppoe ve- rily, that when eflntichrif (hall come, the Priefls will be then either Popifh or.proud.. What will pride snake a new Order of Priefts ? Or if this pride be neceffarily required in rAntichrifts fouldiers, will there be any generation of min under the Sugne prouder then Popifh Prietls ? Cardinals, as we fee, petite up a- bove ,Kings ; Arch.Bithops and Biftwps are iiperiourtoBarons and Earles; every one of them. in their order goe before thofè that be advanced unto civili honour, neither is there any of the bafeft rout of fhauilings,. who will not thinke faule (corne tobe under the civili Magiftrate. Let e/'ntichrift therefore fEek hiin- felfe fouldiers fomewhere elfe, he (hall finde none among this lowly company of Popifh Priefts : yet Gregory biddeth us very exprefly to look for fuch an eAntichrifl, as (hall be the fupreme andmilchievousRing- leader, Commander, andCaptainofPriet s : Neither are there any other Priefts upon earth but Popifh Priefts; and this is that which they themfelves glory in as it becommeth faufe Apoitles to glory in their owne flume. Therefore by this mans judgement the Tope of Rome fhould be Ánticheift necef- farily, and that not farre off from his owne time, as for whom there were armies of' Priefts levying, about that time by his own confeflion : Certainly as Caiphzr propheed that which hirnfelfe knew of; fo Gregory feemeth to have blabbed out the truth ere he was aware, and that not becaufe his Chaire gave him pow- er fo to doe, but becaufe God for his mercies fake to his Church did fo guide his tongue that good men might take heed to them- felves by this warning that he gave them, and that the wickei world might bee made inexcufable, as wee have obferved, on Revelations 6.13. That therefore which is held by you touch- ing eA'ntiehrifts fitting in the Temple of 7erufalem, is voide of all colour of reafon , and the Topes continuall abiding at Rome is fo farre from clearing him from being rlmiehrift, that he is fomuch the more unanfwerably proved from thence to be the Antichr l of A.ntichrifts. C1iapter.
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