CÂP.16. touching Antichrifr. 743 caufe. The blood which he hàthfpiltat home,throughout all Europe, maketh him look foul & ugly enough,even like a bloody Butcher as ke is, though hee fhould never come neer the Lybian and Ethiopian defcrts,to imbruehis hands with more blood there.Moreover,it may alfo be, that thefe three Kings fhouldnot be thofe three Horns that are there Paid to be plucked off ; For the Horns belong to thefourth Reaf,as it is plainly Paid, that three ofthofeformer Horns Were rooted asstfrom before him. But thefe three Kings werenever the Horns of the Roman Empire. Ethiopia was never idled to the Romans,who did not inlarge their bounds into the South beyond Egypt. To theft we may adde, that the three Horns are pulled from out of his fight : now all thefe three were not to be overcome, but the Lybians, and the Ethiopians were tobeat his feet only, as being a people that was confederat rather with him,then fubdued by him;fo that they fhould aid him with forces for his wars, but fhould not themfelvesfuffer any hoftile invafion. Su rely ,ifAntichriff Ivere to make no other war but this, his warlike proweffe were not greatly to be fearedof us. That third point, that he fhouldbrimfeven Kings under his Tok,e,is of like force.But(fay you)LaEtantius & Iren.eus do interpret itfo; but (fay I) whether is it more reafon that we fhould hearken to Daniel, then to thefe men ? Certainlv,the Prophet plainly affirming that three Hornswerepulled away, doth exempt all the refl= out of his power ; otherwife he would have faid,that all the ten should peri(h ? or how could it be a little Horn, which fhould get dominion over them all ? But whether levenhorns or three befubjeded to that little Horn, this belongeth nothing toAnticbrif, unto whom we have (hewed that all there ten Horns have done homage from the beginning, not conffrained therto by war, but willingly, and of their own accord. TheFathers were utterly ignorant what thofe three horns fhould be, but the event hath [hewed us, that the Turkhathmade fpoile ofthe third part of the Roman Empire,which bath yet feven horns left lan- ding,wherof he (hall never be Lord and Xing, but only fo far as hee may bring upon them forne short and fudden calamity. This Horn therefore hath no reference at all to this notorious Antichrift. But that which you fay,that he hall be a Monarch, and (hall fucceed the Romans in the Monarchie,as the Romans fucceeded the crecians,they the Per/ians,and thefe the Affyrian, bath more flrength to ground it upon,feeing Anticbriff (hall lift up himlelfabove all that ú called God, Thef. 2.4. and the whole earth (hall follow after the Beaf admi- ring him, and magnifying his power, as ifthere werenone likehim, Bbbbb a or ,,
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