C A P.16. 741' .gaift 13elide'si,w, : yeers and an half, for fo manyyeers did Antiochus exercife tyranny againíf the Saints. Betides, An,íochus was compelled to be quiet by the command of the RomanEwbaFfador. Shall Antichri.ft beat any mans command, who fhail be, as you fay, the Soveraign Monarch of the world ? Moreover, Antiochus was an heathen,analien andftran- ger altogetherfrom the Church. What, Shall Antichri.fl altobe fuch an one Learn therforeat length,not to gather every thingout ofany thing, without making difference of matters, but take your fcale withyou, and weigh what is laid, ifever you mean to come by the truth, Certainly,ifyou would take your marks aright, and go hand- fomly to work,youwould acknowledge that the trueAntichri.fts be- ginning should be rather glorious then bate. See you not how he wearethcrowns upon his horns as loon as ever he cometh up ? Rev. 13. t.was he not to be born at Rme,that was the raigning and Impe ti:ill City ; where how couldany thing bebafe,that was fit up in any dignity ? The `Pope of Rome, as yee are glad to be talkingand telling tous,was ofgreat authority, becaufe of thehigh account that the Ci- ty was in among all Chriikian Churches,before the Emperorsyeelded it up,and gave place to the Pope. And I hope I have demonffrated un- toyou f ich lignes ofAntichrjFt,as that youcannot doubt any longer, but that the Pope is ipfe he, if fo be that you will confeffe the matters' ingenioufly, and will fhame the Devil!. The teftimonies therefore whichyou bring, touching theamplitude and outward glory of the Pope of'Rome,do more vehemently provehim tobe Antichrift, then that which you bring out ofDaniel, proveth that he is not. Secondly, as touching the fight with th;. three Kings, ofEgypt, Lybia and eEthiepia.youcite that place,Dan;7.8. 1 beheldtheHorns, andlo,anot her littlehorn rofeup out ofthe midit ofthem,and threeofthe firft Horns L+ere pluckedof bishead; and afterexplaining,hefaith,. moreover,the ten Horns !hall be ten Kings, &c. Thefe three Horns are (fay you) expaundedWhich they be, Chap.' L43. namely,the Kings of Egypt,Lybia,and Ethiopia. I anfwer, that that littleHorn is not An- tichrifft properly called,as we have mewed, Chap.a. ofthis confuta- tion, and often elfewhere, but the Turk that ferveth Mahomet.. Whereupon, feeing your Pope ofRome hath not killed any of the Kings of Egypt,Lybia and Ethiopia,it may beproved indeed,that he its not theMahumetan Turk, but it can be made no more plain from hence,that he isnot Anticbrifit,then it can be that Davidwas not the Kingof the Ifraelites ofold, becaufe hee never fübdued thefe three Kings. The killingofthcfc Kings by the Pope, pertaineth not to this. caufe..
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