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A20740	A treatise concerning Antichrist divided into two bookes, the former, proving that the Pope is Antichrist, the latter, maintaining the same assertion, against all the obiections of Robert Bellarmine, Iesuit and cardinall of the church of Rome / by George Douuname ...	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1603 (1603)	STC 7120; ESTC S779	287,192	358

now to answer those which before were not touched That Rome is the seat of Antichrist we proue because it is mysticall Babylon scituated on seuen hilles hauing dominion ouer the Kings of the earth c. Bellarmine among other answers before refuted saith that by mysticall Babylon we are to vnderstand Rome Heathenish not Rome christned because S. Iohn speaketh of that Rome which had dominion ouer the kings of the earth and which is said to bee drunke with the bloud of the Saintes and Martyrs of Iesu. I aunswere that although these notes agreed not to Popish Rome yet we might vnderstand the Apostle thus that that citie which then had dominion ouer the Kings of the earth then persecuted the Saints is called Babylon because it was to be the seate or See of Antichrist But now these notes agree also to Popish Rome both in respect of dominion vsurped more insolently ouer the Kings of the earth by the Pope then by any Emperour and in regarde of most cruell persecution of the Saintes of Christ as before hath beene shewed 9 Againe whereas we proue that Antichrist shall sit in the church of God because the Apostle saith he shall sit in the Temple of God and withall affirme that this cannot be vnderstood of the Temple of Ierusalem which now is vtterly destroied is no more to be reedified as Daniel testifieth chap. 9. verse 27. hee answereth that Daniel would say something that he doth not say eyther that the Temple should not be reedified vntil a little before the ende of the world But Daniel doth not say vntill a litle before the end but as their owne translation readeth Vsque ad consummationem finem perseuerabit desolatio the desolation shall continue vntill the consummation and ende or as Ierome saith Vsque ad finem mundi vnto the ende of the world or as other Vsque ad consummationem eamque praecisam As it is said of Michel 2. Sam. 6. 23. that she had no childe vntill the day of her death And of Ioseph that he knew not Mary vntill shee had brought forth her first begotten sonne Math. l. 24. of Christ that he will be with the faithfull vntill the ende of the worlde Mat. 28. 20. Not that Michel at her death or a little before had children not that Ioseph euer knew Mary nor that Christ will euer forsake the faithful So that this word vntil in the scriptures signifieth rather perpetuitie then cessation before the time which seemeth therby to be limited Whereas therfore Daniel saith that the temple should lie desolate vntil the end consummatiō of the world it is as much as if he had said that it should neuer be reedified Or if that were not Daniels meaning thē he must say that although the temple should be built againe yet as it was desolate before it be built so afterward the abhominatiō of desolation that is Antichrist or his Image should remain in it to the end Yea but the Primitiue Church beleeued that the temple should neuer be built againe and held this assertion of the Papists as a Iewish fable And as touching the abhomination of desolation it hath bene shewed that our Sauiour Christ by a metonymie vnderstandeth Luk. 21. 20. and Mat. 24. 15. thereby the armies of the Romanes who in respect of their paganisme were abhominable and in regard of their effect desolations such as brought vpon Ierusalem the finall destruction and desolation Daniel saith per alam detestationum desolantem by a synecdoche for per legiones c. as Esay 8. 8. Or lastly this must be Daniels meaning that the temple shall neuer perfectly be reedified but that the reedifying is to be begunne and that in the temple so begunne Antichrist shall sit Thus shamefully the wilfull patrones of errour sticke not to drawe the scripture to their fancies not caring to conforme their iudgement to the scripture Daniel in that place speaketh not a word of Antichrist nor yet of Antiochus his type but of the vtter desolation and finall destruction of Ierusalem by the Romanes and of this desolation according to their owne translation he saith that it should continue to the ende and consummation that is saith Bellarmine the temple shall neuer perfectly be built againe but yet it shall be built againe and in it being so built Antichrist shall sit How built is it like that Antichrist who shall according to their conceit be the most mightie Prince and Monarch in the world that he I say will suffer that temple which he chuseth for his chiefe seate to be vnbuilt or that so great and so proud a monarch will sit in a temple without a roose or vnsinished professing the same also to be his principall seate Why but Christ saith the destruction of the temple should be such as that one stone should not be left vpon another and Daniel saith according to their owne translation that this desolation of the temple should continue to the ende How then can his meaning be that it should be reedisied either in whole or in part The stories also of the church do testifie that as Daniel Socrat. li. 3 c. 20. and our Sauiour Christ had foretold the finall destruction and desolation of Ierusalem so when Iulian the Apostate desiring Theodoret li. 3. ca. 20. Sozom. li. 5 cap. vlt. to conuince the preaching of our Sauior of vntruth endeuoured by the Iewes to reedifie the temple the Lord to verifie his word would not suffer it to be built either in whole or in part but by a fearefull earthquake ouerthrew the foundations by fire from heauen burnt the tooles of the worke-men by winde and tempest scattered the lime and morter and by fire proceeding out of the earth burnt the workemen as they digged Ierusalē the temple were types of the church of Christ. Therefore when as by the preaching of the Gospell to all nations the church of Christ was planted among the Gentiles the citie and temple were to haue an ende as our Sauiour hath prophecied Math. 24. 14. then shall be the ende to wit of the citie and temple of Ierusalem which being once ouerthrowne by the legions of the Romanes should according to Daniels prophesie remaine desolate vntil the ende of the world or as our Sauiour foretold in other wordes that Ierusalem should be troden Luk. 21. 24. vnder foote of the Gentiles vntill the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled 10 Lastly whereas Theodorus Bibliander proueth by the testimony of Gregory the great that Antichrist was to sit in the church to exercise an vniuersall dominiō ouer the same because Gregory saith that Iohn of Cōstātinople challenging the title Lib. 4. Epist. 38. of vniuersall Bishop therein was the forerunner of Antichrist and secondly because hee saith that an army of Priests were prepared for Antichrist thereby signifying that he should be a prince of Priests Bellarmine answereth that the contrary is to be inferred vpon Gregory