Ï.,.} .: , rti .?.v, .;346'44441,,-01 {,, H A?.2. Eprflle to the Thef'alonians. . V E R.3. 141 folace : compare e poc.14,t7.18. Whence you may in- forme your felues who this Antichrifi is, what his king - dome, where his throne: no other then Rome, &c. What the infiruments; who the chicle worker of his ouerthrow, &c. And allthat his pride, or our itifirmitie may obie&, prevented ; for firong is the Lord God who iudgetn her, fipoc. '8.8. e/Eterna Roma is to Saint Hierom and Profper the name of Rlaj henry written on the fore-head ,of the Beall, Apoc. t 3.1. No nay, but Rome muti be the Church,againfp which the gates of hell preuaile not ; perpetually it mutt en- dure to the end of t': e world. OhfoolesandflOw of heart, to beleeue all that the Scriptures bath fpoken ; to dr -came of perpetuity of that Synagogue offatan,which thtl.ord bath begunne to demoli {h, threatned vtteriy to abolifh. Can yeti obferue hir already in her comfumption, and with-a, prob dolor, bewaile the daily defer lion of Kingdomes and Nations from hit? and yet dreame of hi r perperuitie ?BLit thus mull they be blinded, whom God will haue deluded. a With this hope let Gods people folace themfelues ; fomuch the rather fot_that his day draweth nigh. 3 And let all Gods people,the h9ly fee d ,if any among (1 them, z come out o f her, that they be not longer partakers of her linnet, and receive of her plagues. Degrees of deflru lion. i Confnption; a lingring wafting of hits and his kingdome. See Pfal. 78. 7,8. Ie- zabel this Qzene of whoredon:es is not at once call out of the window :fir{ +, into her bed oflanguifbinó. Why not at once d. flroyed ? Rec i. With b much paci -. ence God beares the velels of wrathprepared to de kiruElion. There Reafons are of it. God knowes tovfe euill things well: t Antichrill, g as aAfbur, hisrod to fcourge his Church. a His infirument of their triall. See eflpac.6.to,t r. meanes of their crowne. t Slay them not, lealI my people forget it, Pfal:.59 i3. 3 The holy h remnant, by fight of his languifhing, ref - cued out ofthe Iawes of death. 4. That Yfe t. Haerom,ad,41- gaí q.ti.Pro(p. dc. pror,id, ¿sr pcdep eap.r. Eßius in &M el Z. 4. 2. 3 ° Apoc.z.za. b Rotve.,g,zz, glfaito,g,tz. Apoc.t8.4,
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