C H A P.2. An Expo //t ioYs a pon the fecond V E R', 3. I To the aft & lixt.The Reigne of Antichri(i to endure on- ¡' ly for three yeeres and halfe at the ending of the world I within fome daies. Ref . Except a few faces and names of men,what bath this dread c to fitpport it ? I confefle I haue no heart to doe, what is done by others, fuller me there- fore to referre you to diuines forecited. In my Confcience I thinke, their learned thus fpeaking, fpeake again(} their owne confcience : for, t. Can they thinke a man fo bale in his birth as they fuppofe Antichrifi, fhould in fo Tew yeeres fupprefiè the whole Church ? Subdue Rome it felfe, erecì his Temple in lerufalem, expell the Turke? What, All this in the fpace of three yeeres and a halfe ? of Alex_ anders exploits and vitlories great things are written ; yet equall they not in fpeed,the one halfe of what this Leopard muff worke. 2. Why am I long ? The pratfe and crowne of Saints is, that they had not worfhipped the heart, nor his Image, nor receiued his Chara ter in forehead or hand,du- ring the ffiaceofthe thoufandyeeres, Apoc. 20.4. whereof? But ofhis raigne ; the mifery of the world, that they lay dead vnder him that whole time lafling, ver,s. A dreame therefore, that his whole Age is but of three yeeres and halfe.. As to the immediate fucceeding of the worlds end to the fall of Antichril, and that within 45 daies, quid at- tinetmulta ?) Refp. z. Its a little peece of my Faith,that after Antichrifis ruine,fhall follow t .The calling of Iewes. 2. The, defirudiion of Gog and (.Magog. 3. The Raigne of the Church $ourifhing on earth for fome hundreds of yeeres, howfoeuer we préfume the thoufand yeeres to de- note an indeterminate fpace of time. 2. But out vpon im- pious curioutie; when the a Father bath referued times & feafons in his ozone power; b the Sonne profeffeth bee knew neither1 day nor honre afhis comming; (hall man préfume to point out the day ? r. Suppofe my skill fo good, as to calculate the precife time ofAntichrili entring his raigne; day of his Ruine I haue learned from Rome; might I not alfò know tLe exal day of Chrifis fecond comming ? 2. There (hall be that (hall fee Antichrifi in his ne . Th Paproifis
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