C H A P.2. Ep f le to the Theffalvnians. V E R. 3 of the Romane Empire : two concomitant. I. The prea- ching of Enoch and Elias. 2. Perfecution Antichrill fo great and notorious, that all publique feruice of God fhal! ceafe. Two fubfequent. r. The deflruaion of Antichrifl after three yeeres and a halfe of his Reigne. z. The end of the world : thefe none of them yet in being, proue preg- nantly that Antichrifi yet vnborne. Large anfwer to thefe trifles of Argument learned may better fetch from our diuines, then expoa from the . In fa- uour of the people to whole vfe I intend thefe labours,this breuiàt I propound. To the firfl,Mat. t4.ry.Re¡o.;.The vniuerfal preaching of the Gofpel is nor there,nor any where else made a figne or antecedent of Antichrill ; "7o1e Tesos; then is the end, faith our Saúiour; therefore then Artichrifl? bafely they beg the queflion,that make the end Of the world con rigi- ous to antichrifls riling or fall, z.1-low full of homonimy is euery peece of the argument. The end is there of the Temple and Citie, not of the world ; if Cbjfòrome or Saint Luke may bee credited , Luke 21 .20. Anti- chrifl belike was to be before the deflruelion of ierufalem: indeed fo you might better haue coloured your conceits of his Nation,and Temple ; and remoued him farther from your Rome. a. But bath not the Gofpel bin preached vni- uerfally in the feule of our Sauiour? I doubt not, but while the Citie and Temple Mood : from Ieru/alemto r Illyri- cum, one `Paul had.,ñlled all zrith the cofpel of (brill : 1up- pofe you the tell of the Apoflles idle ? See Rom. t.8.& 10. 18. Col. 1.6.23. betides what your owne Stapleton re- ports of Thomas from Syluefterand Chryfologur: as if in preaching he had reached to the very Indians & the towel Antipodes. 4. But fuppofe you, our Sauiours preaching is meant in firth meafure, as to bee prevalent to found Churches in euery Nation? f Thefoundand Rumour of him went out into all Lands, fufficiently to depriue them of excufe. S. Nor need wee wonder if in the lands by our men lately difcouered, there befound no monuments of Chritlian Faith andReligion; when in as few centuries of veeres I0? r R OM. If. IQ, 'Rom to,18. t e
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