'e P t i6. touching Antichrift. 4r CHAP. XVI. of the Kingdom and battels of Antiehrifl. '[ J E have taught certainand undoubted points touching tfic 0/ / Kingdom andbattelc of AntichriFt outof Revel.Chap,a I.7 andChap.i 3.throughout whence theReader may fetch thole things that are to be held touching both thefe, and not out of there miry ditches of the Ief;its. But you propound four things about thefe ve- ry time things,and thofe out ofthe Scriptures;as you fay:thefirft,that Antichrift corrsingof a mold- bajepedigree, and out ofa moff bate elate lik,'Wife, Jbouldatchieve theKingdome of the Jewes by fraud and de- ceit. Thefecond, that he fhouldfight With three Kings, namely, of E- gypt, Lybia and Aethiopia, and Jhould felfe upon their Kingdomes, When they Were overcome. The third, that hefhould fabdue feven other Kings unto himfelf, and fhould by that means get to be the Monarch of the Whole world. The fourth, that hee fhould perfecute the Chriftians With an innumerable Hoft, through all the World, -and that this is the War of Gogand Magog. None of all Which açreeing to your 'Pope of Rome, itfolloWeth manifeftly, that hee cannot be called Antichrift by any means. I anf\ver,that noneof all thefe things neither do agree to Antichrift that is fo called properly, wherefore, though the Pope of Rome befree from all thefe fads and ads, yet neverthcleffe hee dial! be Antichrifl,will he nil! he. As for the fiat, you touch in your proofs, the poor and mean ori- ginal! of flntichrig, as for his purchatng the Kingdomof the7ewes, whichyou propounded,we heat ofno word for the confirming of it, and it was not without caufe that you let it fo paffe,feeing it is a very tale of Robin Hood, as lye have demonftrated already. His mean tentage then is proved,Dan, 11.2 . HeJhallhand delifed in his place, and rcgall honourJhall begiven unto him, and he(ball comeprivily, and he JZ'all get the Kingdome by fraud. You confeffe,and that upon Icroms authority, that the(e things are to be underf oodafter Tomefort ofAnti- ochus Epiphanes,whichyet youfay are to befulfilled farmore perfeítly in Antichrift,as thefe thingsWhich arefpokçn ofSalomon,P(f t .are nr.- der/lood indeed of Salomonhimfelf,bat that theyare performedmoreper- feflly in Chrift. I anfwer,that this fimily is altogetherunlike,Salomcn was appointed by God to bea type ofChrifi, but Antiochue was not appointedby God to figureout Antichrifi,unleffe von will prorogue tinticbifs Kingdome,and will give him fixyeers and a half, for thrcc Bbbbb veers,
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