I28 AuSuftus ambonitanus R.45.fr 35. v/'e. C H A P. 2. 44 Expo /tion upon thefecond V E R. 4. leffe then diuine: a tanquam of God, whole great Vice- gerent and Vicar Generali on earth bee pretends him- felfe. Suits this to the Papacie? heare their owne Aduocates, IdemeffdominiumDei 'Papa: Gods dominion and the Popes is all one : as the Iurifdi9ion of the de!eganc and delegate is one, efpecially where the delegation is plenary, totall,without any ref ruation made : as that wretch pre - fumes it in the Pope : anfwerable are all his deportments, as we haue feene before, and (hall particularize in the next claufe. We haue then thus farre traced Antichri(r by Panic di- rection : that at length we finde him, a Bithop C'athedra- tedinthe Church, 'with vniuerfalitie of power and Iurif_ dülion. Why I wonder, feeke wee Antichri(t in Turkic ? fits that Dragon in the Church, as Bifhop ? is his Iniquitie carried in a myfierie ? beams hee himfelfe a tanquam of God, in fuch couerture of carriage, as is here intended of Antichrift ? quidmulta ? Compare with Paulr defcripti- on, Saint Iohn.r delineating him in his Reuelation,you will finde it true: there is no greater identitie betwixtHomo and e/inimal rationale, then betwixt Rome and that Babylon, betwixt the Pope and that Antichrift. Except in fo many termes Gods Spirit fhould haue Paid the Bifhop of Rome is that Antichri(t, which had bin trolling to the intended firong delufion, more punFtually he could not haue fpo. ken. Wherefore my counfaile is; wrong not the holy Fa- ther, giue the Diuell his due. Let the Pope be that Anti - chrift : he will be, fpight of the Diuell and the Dragon: Maugre the Turke and his Moamed. Shewing himfelfe that he is god : the fecund degree of his pride refpc ting God; proud emulation of God, ten- ding to win him opinion of power no lefle then diuine: or, if you will, his carriage of himfelfe in his chaire of pe- nitence. The Cardinali and others would haue it, vaunting, pro- fèfng, proclaiming himfelfe Jod, yea the only God What? and
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