8o6 ;ílIfvelatiou oftheApocalypfe. C AP 1.9.. diem fee whether they do not proclaims open defiance againft the Truth, when they fay Itand ftiffely maintain: it, that Antkhrif (hall raìgne but three yearesand a half;before Chrift shall come to his laR ludgement and that he is a fincular Pcrfon ? All men acknow- ledge that either this frond, or that firil Beal! isAnttchriff.. Both of thcfe flourifhed longbefore that the dignity and majeficallncffc of thewhoreofRomebegan tobeabated and taken down. Betides both of theft Beafls fhall beremaining alive, for Coale yeares after the o- verthrowofthis whore, as it appeareth inanifcftly out of this place. What Ihall we thruft up all this time either within the (pace of three yeares and an halfe,or els within the narrow compaffe ofone mortali mans life. But the things which have been Paid touching the time of Antichrtft upon the feavententh.Chaptcr,are focertaine and cieare, that no man can doubt of them, nohardly though he would. Thefe were both call alive, As Corah, Dachau, e/1Giramwere fwallowed up alive, and as they funke into Hell, when the Earth brakeafundcr. The dthruetion of the Popedom is to be very hor- rible. The Holy Ghoft maketh a manifeft difference between the Popes puni(h ncnt, and that ofthe ref' ofthe Crue, that (hail fight onhis fide. It would have beenwell for him, if he might have been burnt up in the fame fire with the world, but he (hall be plagued moregreivoufly, that he may be made a fpeaacle and an hilling to all the world. Into a lake offire, Into the fecond death, that is, everlafting death, as it is chapter, 2t. 8.But how can the Po elombe call into the fire? That which is proper tomen, is transferred to the flare and condi- tionofinen, whereby that isdeclared, that we have faid before, !namely not oncly that the perlons ofthe Popes are to be tormented and punifhcd grei loully, but that the Popedom it felfeis to be utterly abohfhcd, fo as it (hall never rife up agafne ; even as they alfi who are thrown down to Hell, can net looke for any returning or deli- verance from thence. Certainly we may conjefture, and that not rafhly, by this (range andunufuall manner of the Punifh nent that (halbe inflifted upon the Beaff,that God will demonftrate it by fame. vi(ible Signe ; how damnable and hatcfull a thing he bath alwayes accounted thePopedom to be. And this is that deflrucftion which . was foretold Chapt. 17.8. Where it was faid, that the Beafi fhould go intodeflroRion; Whereby he (hall receive a iufl reward and ven- geance fromGod, fortll his Ántichriftian Tyranny. Verf. 2.r . And the remnant were I1,aine with the Sword. So much of the
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