i ao C s A r.2. ,4n Expoftion vPora the feeond V e 11,3, Mat,r r.14.& I7.II,I2.. Luke I.17. u Mat.17.13. * Compare Luke 1.17.& Mat.I1.14. 'jHomiG.in Apoc. 8'. yeeres after the Bond we finde,except in Abrahams family, extinì all the Religion taught by Noah to his pofierity. TO the fecond,The defolation of the Romane Empire, 2 Thefa.6.7. Refp. Full anfwer fails fitted in explicating the fixt and feuenth verfe : where expect it. To the third,The preaching of Henoch Fí¿ Elias,who are fitppofed yet to liue vpon the earth,znd to liue for this, to oppofe themfelues to Antichrifl,to preferue the Elea from his feducement and to conuert the Iewes, cfkra1,4.5,6. Ecclus. 48. & 44. ( M at . x7. I r. eslpoc. 1 5 . 3 . Re/p. I. In none of thefe Scriptures that are of vndoubted Au- thority is any mention of Enoch. a. Nor at all of Antis thrift or their oppofing hire. 3 . What Malachi fpeake of Elias and his comming, our Sauiour interprets of t John BaptisÇt, who came in the Spirit and power of ;Elias ; And when the Cardinali hath tired himfelfe in wrefling, yet muff he be forced to yeeld,the Prophet fpake of Eli.0 my- flicall orfymbolicall,not proper or perfonall ; except hee will mannerly as he doth,oppofc to our Sauiours interpretation, and theuApofles true apprehenfion : them if we follow,we (hall finde _Malachi to meane Elias * myfticall, a Harbin- ger to Chri{ls 6rf comming in the flefh, not perfonall, to attend oroppofe Antichrifl at the end of the world. 4. Or fuppofe it meant of Chrifs fecond comming,and the con - uerfion of lewes ; yet I. Where is Henoch? And why not this Elias myfticall, as John Baptise the forerunner of Chrifs comming in the fiefh? Deuoting thofe Miniflers more or fewer, whom God (hall raife vp his infiruments for calling of lewes? 5.13ut what is all this to Antichrifl ? whofe fall precedes the calling of Iewes, wherein the Eliasmentioned bath his imployment. To that of the two witneflcs,Apoc.I I.3. What neceffìty to interpret of He- noch and Elias ? Why not,as x Augufline, of the two Tefia_ menu ? In this Reuelat ion, wherein there are verba tot fa, cramenta, allegoricall expofitions may not bee deemed frange? 6. Or why not,of that fmall,yet competent num- ber ofMinifers, railed in all times to oppofe veto Anti- Chrifi ? There is left probability that its meant of He- noch,
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