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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14688	A treatise of Antichrist Conteyning the defence of Cardinall Bellarmines arguments, which inuincibly demonstrate, that the pope is not Antichrist. Against M. George Downam D. of Diuinity, who impugneth the same. By Michael Christopherson priest. The first part.	Walpole, Michael, 1570-1624?	1613 (1613)	STC 24993; ESTC S114888	338,806	434

former beast may signify the Roman Empyre though he speaketh doubtfully ioyneth another exposition with it which indeed is the more probable of the two out of which he maketh many illations but proueth none and therfore it is sufficient in this place to deny them all and remit the Reader for both our reasons to the seuerall places where they are handled at large only thus much we may note now that since as we haue already proued the 7. head which is Antichrist is not to come till the 6. which is the Roman VII VIII Empyre be wholy taken away it is most manifest that the Apoc. 13. Pope can by no probability be the seauenth head since that the Emperour as yet remayneth And withall I would The Pope cannot be signified by the 7. he●d of the beast Apoc. 13. 17. desire the Reader to put all M. Downams arguments in forme that he may better discouer his folly and make himselfe sport for how doth it follow Antichrist shal be head of the Roman Empyre ergo not of the Iewes Antichrist shall be head of the Roman Empyre ergo his chiese Seat or Sea shal be not Ierusalem but Rome and he shall not be one particuler Man only one of his illations is good against Bellarmine viz. that if the beast signifieth the Romā Empyre the name of the beast may very well be said to be Roman or Latin But this agreeth not with the number of 666 as Bellarmine proued besides it is certaine also that the name of Antichrist himselfe is signifyed by that number and consequently that he is signifyed by the former beast and not the Roman Empyre Neyther can M. Downam in any case admit that the seauenth head of The 7. heads of the beast Apoc 13. are not the same with those of Apoc. 17. this former beast Apoc. 13. is Antichrist since that he affirmeth that Antichrist is signified by the latter beast wherfore both Bellarmine and he must of necessity graunt that this beast Apoc. 13. is different from the other cap. 17. and indeed it is very euident that Antichrist and the 7. Kings which shall acknowledge him are spoken of in the 13. Chapter and in the 17. other 7. far different from these as we shall presently see 5. The obiections which M. Downam maketh against Bellarmines second interpretation proue aswell against Downam impugneth himselfe the first which is his owne for what world wondreth after the Roman Empyre but such as are in some sort subiect or belong to it VVho are all those Inhabitants of the earth that do worship it VVhat are all the Tongues Kindreds Nations which are made subiect vnto it For if this be absolutely vnderstood of all the wicked and reprobate it is false that they all do thus wonder or worship or are subiect to the Roman Empire and if it be only vnderstood of some viz. of those which belong to the Roman Empyre then the difficulty is as great how the Roman Empyre is said to wonder c. after it selfe as how the multitude of the wicked may doe the same and besides M. Downam hath one difficulty more to explicate then those which follow this second interpretation haue for he must shew vs how all this wondring and worshipping and subiection came vpon the restauration of the Empyre in the West which he will needs haue to be the healing of the head which was wounded as it were to death for experience hath shewed vs the quite contrary viz. that the Roman Empyre hath euer since gone more and more to decay and had a farre greater part of the world subiect vnto it before then since Wherfore all this still conuinceth that this beast Apoc. 13. is neyther the Roman Empyre nor Apoc. 13. the multitude of the wicked but Antichrist himselfe of whom all those sayings are to be verifyed and the 7. heads are the 7. Kings which shall yield themselues to Antichrist and ioyne with him in persecuting the Church Neyther doth the beast mentioned cap. 17. signifie Apoc. 17. the Roman State or Empyre or the multitude of the wicked but the Diuell himselfe and the 7. heades which he hath signify eyther the Kings which reigned in the 7. ages of the World as it is commonly held by Catholikes or else the 7. diuers gouernments of the Roman State as M. Downam will needs haue it because otherwise his whole deuise of prouing the Pope Antichrist out of this place is quite ouerthrowne But we will shew in due place that this his exposition is nothing so probable as the other And though it were true in this poynt yet it cannot stand in the rest in which he would ground his inference against the Pope 6. Wherfore M. Downams discourse of the 3. wounds which the Roman Empire receaued at the death of Iulius Cesar by ciuill warres and of Nero by vncerteynty of succession and in Augustulus by his ouerthrow and of their seuerall healinges is altogea●her impertinent and ridiculous for now we seeke only for one and the last which maketh most to his purpose Downam impugneth him selfe is indeed flatly against him since that in his opinion the Pope healed this wound whom he would haue to be signified by the 2. beast whereas the Scripture witnesseth that it was healed by the first Beast and that before the second appeared Likewise if we will belieue M. Downam the healing of this wound and the erecting of the Image is all one since that both are nothing els but the erecting of the West Empire vnder Charles the Great and the like he must say of making the former beast to be worshipped for M. Downam hath no other deuise left for all these seuerall actions but only the bare erecting of the Roman Empire by the Pope And yet he will haue this also to be so mean a thing that in substance it shal be nothing at all and that indeed not this new Emperour but the Pope himselfe shal be the head of the Roman Empire all this while and the Emperour shall only stand for a cipher to make vp the number of 8. whereas notwithstanding the Scripture plainely saith that there are 8. without him not heades as M. Downam seemeth to imagine but Kings the beast making one himselfe as the Scripture expresly testifieth cap 7. v. 12. which can by no meanes be vnderstood of the Roman Empire except M. Downam will make the Empire it selfe an Emperour which is too absurd for of what should it be Emperour Wherefore it is manifest that by the Beast is vnderstood the Diuell who indeed is distinct from the other 7. as is manifest and therefore By the beast Apoc 17. the Diuell is vnderstood may well be accompted the 8. and yet b●longeth to all the 7. because he concurred with them all in their wickednes and in the persecution of the good and it is also manifest that he was in the world before Christs comming much more