C A n.16. touchingAntichrií . 745 he mutt not fpcnd all this (pace wholly injournying, but than fe (hall then fet upon his voiage, ofer the fubduing of the three, and of the feven Kings. Betides we wondred there, to fee himdifpatch fo long a journey and rid fo much way by himfelfe alone, efpecially when hewas not hindred with any troopes offollowers, but nowwemay wonder at this far more, when as he (hall have the Levying of an Army,and that univerfall herfecution which he should raife every where, to hinder him in his journey. Surely whatfoever you have Paid before againft Hippolitus,youleeme to thinke flatly, that An- richrift (hall not be a man, buteven the Devil( himfelf; But to leave and to let go there monftrous conceitsof yours, let us come to the battle you fpeak of, which I wonder that you fee not that it is the Batted of the Dragon, and not of the Beall. Betweene both which there is indeedgreat fellowfhip and likenc(fe in regard of their wic- ked and deteftar le enterprifes, but there is no lefe difagreeing be- tween theperfons and things, as there is between an open and an hidden enemie. Towhich we may adde,that both the Beall, and the falfe Prophet were deftroyed before this Battell here fpoken, was undertaken, or at leafs was £nifhed. If fobe that be not enough to move you to think fo, in that bothof them are faid to be (laine in the endof the former Chapter, yet confider that the Devil(, that is, the Dragonwas call into the lake of fire, where the Beaft and the fálfe Prophet had taken up their (landing formerly, before that the De- vil( came thither, Revel. zo. zo. Therefore though Antichrill be a Martial! fellow, and a great Warrior, who can better weeld Peters Sword then his Keyes, yet shall he not fall on skir,iiflaing after that he (hall be once dead & damned in Hell. I but (perhapsyot9 :tiIIfsy). this is oneof his miracles to rife againe. It may be fo (I grant)when he (hail mock and delude with the worldand counterfeit himfelfto be dead, as your fiction ofhim telleth us he (ball; but when once he (hall be flaine by the hand of God, and thrown down into the bot- tomof theLake offire, he hull finde it will not be fo cafiea matter to play this trickeofRifing up againe, as if he lay under a Carpet ot.. an hanging. Set afide therefore fuch things as do not al all concerne 4nrichrift, and do not play filch a filly Sophi(lerspart, as togo about to prove that one is not a man,either becaufe he hath not foure feet, or elfe becaufe he wantethwings to ßye withal(, and then you (hall fee that the other things de fo hang together and agree in all. points- between thcmfelves and with Aathrif, that nothing can agree :pore. Cer-
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