1 2 2 C x A P.2. An Expofation vpon the fecond V F R:3. h I Reg S$,2I, I 2. R.eg.t7,33, Bed,hi,l. Angl. li(t.2°.regir.o,l.4. uancement aboue them; if tira we minde you of Bellar- mines Sylogifme. Thus it mull be for this member ofdo&rine. Antichrift Jhall oppugno both the true God an Idols. The Pope oppo- fethneither true god nor Idols. that the Minor? Or, the true God not Idols. Credo. How much better had the Argument proceeded, if thus ; Idols, but not the true God. But then how fhould Antichrifl be fuch an Antitheos,as the Maiorfhapes him? But in fober fad nes tell, how mull the Minor bee vnder- flood ? Doth he oppofe neither true God nor Idols ? Be- like he is an IfraeIite after the rate of them in elias time, h halting treixt two opinions ;not refolued whither I E HO- VAH or Baal be God: -or as the Samaritan colonies;wìl- ¡. ling to keepe fauour with both ; hee 'fares the Lord and fernes Idols alfo ; vtrumuis. Elfe how ? Doth he oppofe the true God, not Idols ? The more impious wretch,the verger Antichrifl, and Anti - theift hee. Idols, and not the true God ? So haue you the the fumme;its a note of Antichrifl to oppugne Idoles. Thus frame the Argument you acquit the Pope of Antichrillianifine.Antichrifl oppugneth Idols, See Apoc. 3.=4.18. 8tc. The Pope doth not oppugne Idols. Hoc credo. Ergo, The Pope is not Antichrifl. Thus Ed/amine. Yet now I minde it, there is a remarkable Story of Bo- ntface the Fourth, next fucceffor of him to whom 2'hocas granted the flyle ofOecumenicall Bifhop. Thus its extant inSigibert, Bede, Regino and others , about the yeere of Chrifl 609. Did this Boniface by fuite obtaine of Phocas `Parricide of C/1lauricius, the gift of the great Pantheon, the Temple of all Gentilifh Idols, demolifhed them all from the great high thundring lupiter,to the pettiell of the gods, minorum Gentirim: heere, by Bellarmines Argu- ment, he playd the flarke Antichritl ; at one blow demo- Iifhing all Gentilifh Idols in their great Pantheon. Prefently he confecrates and turnes it the Temple of Saint c27ary and allMartyrs; wherein they all with their Images
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