people not to keepe in memory what is taught them by their Pastors Maries commendation a Luc. 2.19 she kept the sayings in her heart Dauids that he b Psal 119.11 hid them as some treasure in his heart that he might not sinne against God To this end tended c Num. 15.38 39 Phylactaries amongst Iewes and the prescript of d Deut. 6.7 8 9. writing on doore posts and continuall talking of the Law giuen to Iewes God hath giuen vs eares to heare mindes to know memories as storehouses wherein to treasure vp what we haue heard A Christian should be as our Sauiours wise Scribe able to bring out of his e Mat. 13.52 storehouse things new and old Vse I know not what mercie or wrath God hath in store for vs we may liue to taste Amos his f Amos 8.11 famine our Nausea is the same Happy is the man who in that time is able from the old store to supply himselfe with direction and consolation Helpes auaileable to confirme memory of heauenly doctrine 1. Once know price of it I neuer knew man so old that he forgot where he laid his Gold Oh that g Psal 119 72. Dauids minde were in vs. 2 Frequent meditation Ruminating helpes digestion in those that are cleane 3 Conference 4 Pens though sometimes mistaking often marring the text with the glosse I simply blame not rather encourage to vse Take heed yet that your knowledge dwell not more in your bookes then in your braines 5 Cloy not memorie with ouer various remembrances of things Secular vnum est necessarium h Luk. 10.41 42. Mary chose the better part if Martha grumble remember her checke and thinke it true which Bernard hath It s Foelix Domus vbi Martha conqueritur de Mariâ VERS 6 7 8. And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be reuealed in his time For the mysterie of iniquitie doth already worke onely he who now letteth will let vntill he be taken out of the way And then shall that wicked be reuealed THE words haue this scope as to checke them for their wauering after their information by the Apostle and knowledge receiued so withall to proue the minor belonging to the antecedent of Christs comming the reuelation of Antichrist That he was not yet reuealed appeares because the impediment of his Reuelation was yet in the being of an impediment And because it might be quaered Is he not yet in the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he answers he is in the world but secretly and in fieri manifested not yet nor likely to be whereof are two Reasons 1 God that sweetly sorts all things to their seasons had allotted to Antichrist his season of reuealing 2 And the reuelation must not be till the impediment be remoued This the sum and series of the text To 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Chrysostome sounds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Oecumenius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which hindereth his reuealing or discouerie What that is for realtie is the first question I willingly forbeare the various coniectures amongst Interpreters least I grow ouer voluminous 1 Generall consent of Expositors old and new Protestant and Popish is that its ment the Roman Empire If any aske why not specified by the Apostle Saint Augustine Hierome c. answer least thereby rage of those then persecuting Emperors and their people who promised themselues eternitie of Imperiall rule might be exasperated against Christians probably 2 Meanes he the heathenish or the Christian Empire Resp Perhaps or without perhaps both While the Heathenish preuailed was no place for Church-mens ambition those were dayes of persecution And while the Christian knew their strength they easily bare not insolencie of Christian Bishops 3 Is it now remoued i Bellarm de de Rom ponti lib. 3. cap. 5. In no wise saith the Cardinall for though he haue now nor pallace nor territorie in Rome or Italie though not so many Kingdomes as they of old yet still remaines the succession of Emperour to Emperour in the same power and dignitie still the Name of Roman Emperours Whence is the Inference therefore Antichrist not yet come because yet no whole desolation of the Empire Resp Quid audio A Romane Emperour without territorie palace or dominion in Rome that is to say an Emperour without rule Romane without possession or any interest in Rome The name and title makes not an Emperour but the power of gouernment and coâ—ction and that more then Regall ouer Kings and Prouinces 2 And is the ancient dignitie and power of the Roman Emperour to obtaine precedence onely and such like ceremonious complements vt verbo expediam Consider 1 what the Turke in the East hath taken from it 2 How many Kingdoms Christian haue wrought to themselues an immunity and are now become absolute Monarchies in themselues without any reference to the Empire 3 How euen in Germanie where the Name remaines he is 1 precariò such and at the Popes pleasure 2 Titular onely without soueraignty tribute homage or ought else except ceremonious complements 4 Specially how in Rome and Italie possession and right is wholly seized by the Pope you wil be forced to confesse an omnimodous desolation of the Roman Empire except perhaps emptie names and ceremonies make vp the nature of Imperiall soueraignty If this then be the let of Antichrists discouerie intended by Paul which onely hindered his Reuelation and if with remouall of this impediment the discouery of that lawlesse one be so coniunct as Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 intimate what should hinder vs to conclude both that he is reuealed and that out of the ruins of that Empire he hath had his immediate spring and raising to his now magnificence The witty and learned coniectures of the late interpreter of the Reuelation touching this impediment though full of probability and of some auaile to expedite difficulties I willingly silence who lists may Reade him not without much pleasure and contentment ad Apoc. cap. 17. 4. Followes the discouerie of Antichrist immediately vpon the decay of the Empire Resp Paul then saith Caietane aptly signifies that before it he shall not be reueled but vpon no certainty affirmes that immediately thereupon this discouerie should follow But if 1. This was the onely thing that hindered him from appearing who had so long striuen to see the sunne then immediately vpon the remouall thereof was he manifest 2. The end of that obstacle intended by prouidence was that he might be reuealed in his season The time of remouall therefore was the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Article and point of Time wherein he was reuealed So that who can informe himselfe sufficiently what time the Regiment of Rome was relinquished by Emperours and seized by that Bishop to the full satisfies himselfe for the time of his first discouerie for my part I willingly vse and professe mine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It s not the best light which the cauel
it needs denote a singular indiuiduum and why not a Kingdome a kinde a whole made vp of successiue parts as our opinion is Forsooth the Article forceth to a particular person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It s Epiphanius his rule Articles contract the signification to one certaine thing so that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies man at large but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alwaies a singular or indiuiduum of man Resp Yet Procius thus vbi Plato dicit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 scribit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Examples are frequent Christ committed not himselfe vnto them for he knew them all and needed not that any man should testifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is I trow not in this or that particular onely but in euery man Compare Luke 4.4 Mar. 2.27 Apoc. 22.11 Rom. 1.17 c. The Lyon the Beare c. in Daniel denote they particular Kings Or not rather Kingdomes Kings many lineally succeeding each other And that such a line and succession of men is intended by the Apostle appeares by these Reasons 1. Conceiued he was and after a sort animated in Apostles daies The spirit of that Antichrist of which you haue heard that it is comming and m 1 Ioh 4.3 now is it in the world already 2. But a part of his Reigne is of a n Apoc. 20. thousand yeeres continuance 3. The greatnesse of things to be wrought by him whither wee number them the same that Papists or whither as Scripture requires much more then the age of a man Reade our diuines they giue you full satisfaction 1. What is his Reuealing 2. Is he yet discouered 3. When reuealed 4. Where may we finde him Resp To the first Popish Interpreters conceiue a discouery of him so euident and cleere as of Christ at his comming as if euery eye should see him and be able to discerne him as he is But say sadly Suppose you all shall be able to discerne him to be that Antichrist 1. How then are Kings and Nations made o Apoc. 17.2 18.3 drunke with the wine of his fornications 2. How then a mystery of iniquity which title the Whoore discouered p Apoc. 17.5 carries in her fore-head 3. Thus conceiue discouered he meanes in such sort that who haue eyes may see and discerne him The blinde see not the Sunne shining in his brightnesse not through defect of light but for want of Eye-sight 2. Is hee yet Reuealed Resp Nor borne say Papists Gods Spirit in Scripture hath giuen vs q Bellarmine de part Rom. lib. 3. cap. 4. six certaine signes of Antichrists comming two preceding 1. The Preaching of the Gospell in all the world 2. The desolation of the Romane Empire two concomitant 1. The preaching of Enoch and Elias 2. Persecution by Antichrist so great and notorious that all publique seruice of God shall cease Two subsequent 1. The destruction of Antichrist after three yeeres and a halfe of his Reigne 2. The end of the world these none of them yet in being proue pregnantly that Antichrist yet vnborne Large answer to these trifles of Argument learned may better fetch from our diuines then expect from me In fauour of the people to whose vse I intend these labours this breniac I propound To the first Mat. 24.15 Resp 1. The vniuersal preaching of the Gospel is nor there nor any where else made a signe or antecedent of Antichrist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then is the end saith our Sauiour therefore then Antichrist basely they beg the question that make the end of the world contigious to antichrists rising or fall 2. How full of homonimy is euery peece of the argument The end is there of the Temple and Citie not of the world if Chrysostome or Saint Luke may bee credited Luke 21.20 Antichrist belike was to be before the destruction of Ierusalem indeed so you might better haue coloured your conceits of his Nation and Temple and remoued him farther from your Rome 3. But hath not the Gospel bin preached vniuersally in the sense of our Sauiour I doubt not but while the Citie and Temple stood from Ierusalem to r Rom. 15.19 Illyricum one Paul had filled all with the Gospel of Christ suppose you the rest of the Apostles idle See Rom. 1.8 10.18 Col. 1.6.23 besides what your owne Stapleton reports of Thomas from Syluester and Chrysologus as if in preaching he had reached to the very Indians the lowest Antipodes 4. But suppose you our Sauiours preaching is meant in such measure as to bee preualent to found Churches in euery Nation Å¿ Rom 10.18 The sound and Rumour of him went out into all Lands sufficiently to depriue them of excuse 5. Nor need wee wonder if in the lands by our men lately discouered there be found no monuments of Christian Faith and Religion when in as few centuries of yeeres after the floud we finde except in Abrahams family extinct all the Religion taught by Noah to his posterity To the second The desolation of the Romane Empire 2 Thes 2.6.7 Resp Full answer falls fittest in explicating the sixt and seuenth verse where expect it To the third The preaching of Henoch Elias who are supposed yet to liue vpon the earth and to liue for this to oppose themselues to Antichrist to preserue the Elect from his seducement and to câ—nuert the Iewes Mal 4.5 6. Ecclus. 48. 44. Mat. 17.11 Apoc. 11.3 Resp 1. In none of these Scriptures that are of vndoubted Authority is any mention of Enoch 2. Nor at all of Antichrist or their opposing him 3. What Malachi speake of Elias and his comming our Sauiour interprets of t Mat. 11.14 17.11 12. Luke 1.17 Iohn Baptist who came in the Spirit and power of Elias And when the Cardiuall hath tired himselfe in wresting yet must he be forced to yeeld the Prophet spake of Elias mysticall or symbolicall not proper or personall except hee will mannerly as he doth oppose to our Sauiours interpretation and the u Mat. 17.13 Apostles true apprehension them if we follow we shall finde Malachi to meane Elias * Compare Luke 1.17 Mat. 11.14 mysticall a Harbinger to Christs first comming in the flesh not personall to attend or oppose Antichrist at the end of the world 4. Or suppose it meant of Christs second comming and the conuersion of Iewes yet 1. Where is Henoch And why not this Elias mysticall as Iohn Baptist the foreunner of Christs comming in the flesh Deuoting those Ministers more or fewer whom God shall raise vp his instruments for calling of Iewes 5. But what is all this to Antichrist whose fall precedes the calling of Iewes wherein the Elias mentioned hath his imployment To that of the two witnesses Apoc. 11.3 What necessity to interpret of Henoch and Elias Why not as x Homil. in Apoc. 8â— Augustine of the two Testaments In this Reuelation wherein there are verba tot sacramenta allegoricall expositions may not
is called God or that is worshipped That little variety of reading found in the originall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let no man stumble at whither we reade euery one or euery thing that is called God the sense is the same and the pride noted all as intollerable diuersity of expositions ariseth from the homonymie vnder this name God come 1. p 1. Thes 1.9 The liuing and true God Father Sonne and Holy Ghost 2. Idols which braynsicke superstition of man hath aduanced into Gods seate when they are q 1. Cor. 8 4. Gal. 4.8 nothing in the world nor haue ought of that diuinity which mans madnesse hath deified thâ—m with all 3. There are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 many that are Å¿ 1. Cor. 8.5 called Gods as t Psal 82.6 Magistrates whom that one True God hath graced with his owne Name to winne the more reuerence to that Authority which as his Viceroyes on earth they exercise of whither would the Apostle be vnderstood The Cardinall and his Sectaries interpret of the true God and Idols u De Pontis Ro. lib. 3. cap. 14. â—e nonsolum Deum sed etiam solum se Deum esse dicit oppugnabit omnes alios Deos id est tam Deum verum quam etiam Deos falsos omnia Idola So is their glosse But ore thinke they and professione tenus or opere onely 1. The Whore his Paramour is made * Apoc. 17.5 mother of all spirituall fornication 2. Himselfe sits in Templo Dei non suo 3. Is and professeth Prophet questionlesse of some God not his owne 4. Shall Christians or euen Iewes so in multitudes x Apoc 13.3 admire after a professed Atheist or Antichrist when Domitian grew to the arrogancie of being saluted God Sueton in Domitiano how did Heathenisme it selfe scoffe and disdaine him yet read what stile he hath from his flatterrers a Extrauagant de maiest obedientâ—â King of Kings and Lord of Lords Else where b Clement in proem in Gloss Dominus Deus noster Papa Againe To c Extrauagant in Ioan. 22. cap. Cum inter in Glossa belieue that our Lord God the Pope could not determine as he hath determined should be deemed hereticall O mouthes of blasphemie 2. It s maruell if in their owne foreheads may not be found written Names of like Blasphemy Innocent the Third may seeme modest in impietie d Innocent 3. Ser. 2. de Consecrat Pont. Now then yee see who is this seruant whom the Lord hath set ouer his houshold surely the Vicar of Iesus Christ the Successor of Peter the Christ of the Lord the God of Pharao Inter Deum hominem medius constitutes â—itra Deum sed vltra homines minor Deo sed maior homine qui de omnibus iudicat à nemine iudicatur Pope Nicholas prouing the Pope exempt from all secular power thus Reasons God cannot be iudged of men e Distinct 96. cap. Satis Michaeli The Pope is God by testimony of Constantine Ergo. Pope Sixtus f Concil tom 1. in purgal Syrdi Quicunque accusat papam nunquam ci remittetur quia qui peccat in Spiritum Sanctum non remittetur ei nec in hac vitâ nec in futurâ I maruell at Gods mercy if euer that Blasphemy were forgiuen him 3. In facts Authority no lesse then diuine more then diuine assigned arrogated exercised deposing Kings disposing Kingdomes sometimes with that in Salomon arrogantly vttered per me Reges Regnant binding where God looseth Loosing where he bindes dispensing with lawes of God positiue saith Bellarmine yea naturall as examples haue bin frequent God himselfe say Schoolemen dispenceth not with morall precepts The Pope doth de facto may doe de Iure g Caus 15. q. 6. c. Authoritatâ—m in Glossam his Canonists so aduise him else how should he aduice himselfe or bee aduanced aboue the true God Siat ergo Antichristus Let vs examine the second Branch for Idols and his aduancement aboue them if first we minde you of Bellarmines Sylogisme Thus it must be for this member of doctrine Antichrist shall oppugne both the true God and dols The Pope opposeth neither true God nor Idols Is 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 should Antichrist be such an Antithcos as the Maior shapes him But in sober sadnes tell how must the Minor bee vnderstood Doth he oppose neither true God nor Idols Belike he is an Israelite after the rate of them in Elias time h 1 Reg 18.21 halting twixt two opinions not resolued whither IEHOVAH or Baal be God or as the Samaritan colonies willing to keepe fauour with both hee i 2 Reg. 17.33 feares the Lord and serues Idols also vtrumuis Else how Doth he oppose the true God not Idols The more impious wretch the veryer Antichrist and Antitheist hee Idols and not the true God So haue you the the summe it s a note of Antichrist to oppugne Idoles Thus frame the Argument you acquit the Pope of Antichristianisme Antichrist oppugneth Idols See Apoc. 13.14.18 c. The Pope doth not oppugne Idols Hoc credo Ergo The Pope is not Antichrist Thus Bellarmine Yet now I minde it there is a remarkable Story of Boniface the Fourth next successor of him to whom Phocas granted the style of Oecumenicall Bishop Thus its extant in Sigibert Bed hist Angl. lib. 2â— regino l. 4. Bede Regino and others about the yeere of Christ 609. Did this Boniface by suite obtaine of Phocas Parricide of Mauricius the gift of the great Pantheon the Temple of all Gentilish Idols demolished them all from the great high thundring Iupiter to the pettiest of the gods minorum Gentium heere by Bellarmines Argument he playd the starke Antichrist at one blow demolishing all Gentilish Idols in their great Pantheon Presently he consecrates and turnes it the Temple of Saint Mary and all Martyrs wherein they all with their Images were full deuoutly adored In this fact hee is quit of Antichristianisme for now as zealously as euer did Iew or Pagan he worships Idols and causeth the Nations to adore them Pater omnium fornicationum abominationum Terrae Therefore hee is no Antichrist to speake of But viewing the Text mee thinks nor true God nor Idols are heere intended but terrestres dij rather Magistrates whither inferiour or imperiall aboue all which Antichrist must aduance himselfe and as I apprehend the Apostle points vs to two degrees of his pride and vsurpation The first Respecting Men in this Branch Secondly God in what followeth Ouer them hee insults on them tramples him he imitates and emulates onely Besides that difference of demeanour which the Text more then intimates These Reasons induce to that interpretation 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seemes a style to diminuent for
Paul to expresse the true God by which yet suites well to Magistrates as the very phrase is applyed 1 Cor. 8.1 2. Besides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had more fully expressed the intention had it binne of the true God 3. And why 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Though there be many that are called Gods yet to vs there is but one God 1 Cor. 8.5 That the sense may be this In his pride so arrogant and intollerably ambitious that hee shall aduance himselfe aboue all Magistrates and their Authority on earth Not that onely that is inferiour but that also which is Augustus like vniuersally monarchical no lesse then Imperiall Did euer Popish pride aspire to such height That Seruus seruorum Dei brookes he the style of Rex Regum and Dominus Dominantium Resp 1. His facts full of Luciferian ambition knowne stories will fill you withall To speake of Kings of Italie France England and translating their Kingdomes oft attempted sometimes executed were to make his pride seeme ouermoderate these were but Dij minorum gentium What say you when Emperours must waite at his Gaâ—e and pray and pay too to bee admitted to his presence When they must thinke it their grace to hold his stirrop and beare the checke for ill hostlership in mistaking the right When their fauour is counted high to kisse his feet and wrath of that holinesse is implacable for that he heares not the sweet Busse cry smacke Vah Lucifer That one demeanour of his towards Frederick Barbarossa proclaimes him in pride The great diuell Incarnate Creeping comes the Emperour to that beast Alexander the Third naucler gene al. 40. Chronicon colonicâ—se Sabellicus and kisseth his feete to obtaine absolution from a sentence of excommunication would you thinke it He sets his foot on the necke of the Emperour now prostrate before him and as well became the Vicar of Hell applies to himselfe in that fact Thou shalt walke vpon the Aspe and Basiliske the Lyon and Dragon shalt thou tread vnder thy feet How doth naturall affection curbe Heroicall spirits How did papall pride in this Monster exceed it selfe But these may seeme insolencies personall and but in ceremonie of deportment What say you to deposing of Kings of Emperors or if any thing may be in Magistracy a transcendent to them Facts read frequent in the Cardinall not related onely but iustified as done de Iure and pleaded as euidences to prooue Bellar. de Rom. Pont. lib. 5. cap. 8 that the Pope hath supreame power temporall on earth though not directly yet in ordine ad Deum and all spiritualia So far then as this property may aduance the Pope hee hath best right of all miscreants to be that Antichrist Vse How long Lord holy and iust doest thou not auenge the bloud of thy seruants the abasures of thy Lieftenants vpon that false Prophet and the Beast Stirre vp O Lord the Spirit of Princes that once the lofty lookes of the proud may be brought low Who is there amongst the Lords anointed ones whose heart the Lord hath inclined to be instrument of his vengeance vpon the Whore His God be with him And if hereto the offering of the people be not willing vnworthy they to see the peace of the Church But trow you shee hopes or meditates anew to procure England to carry the Saddle Oh papae Asina shall it euer be againe the style of England If so I le say the diuell rides vs. So that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that he is God 2. The second degree of his pride respecting God in two Branches 1. Imitation or as you may conceiue it pretensed representation of God 2. Aemulation for he beares himselfe as God emulating his actions and authority or if you will you may thus particularize there is noted 1. Râ—gimen 2. Locus Regiminis 3. Authoritas 4. Modus regendi 1. Sitteth sedere for Cathedratica potestate praesidere as the vse of the word is frequent in Greeke and Latine Authors and Scripture is not abhorrent Estius ad locum See Acts 18.11 Mat. 22.1 As if th'Apostle meant withall to point vs to his profession and quality of life a Bishop or professed Teacher and Gouernour of the Church he should be to which accords that in Saint Iohn his stile is Starre and false Prophet 2. His Cathedra sedes Episcopalis his See is noted the Temple of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Templum so is th' originall which hath giuen occasion of diuerse Rendrings and expositions Saint Augustine In Templum De Ciuit. dei lib. 20. cap. 19. quasi ipse sit Templum Dei quod est Ecclesia as if hee were the Church Seipsum Ecclesiam vendicabit vicem Ecclesiae geret which if it were the Sense would lead vs by the hand to dubbe the Pope Antichrist For Truth is howsoeuer the Name of the Church be oft pretended as the sole infallible Interpreter of Scripture Iudge of Controuersies c. Yet in th'vpshot all is resolued ad Papam nor people nor Pastors nor Fathers nor Councels are that Church except they haue the suffrage of the Pope wherefore euen to Authoritie of Councels the answere must be rested in They wanted Popes Authoritie first to congregate them secondly to guide them by presence of himselfe or Legates thirdly to approue them by his suffrage But thus rather conceiue th'Apostle willing to denote the place of his Regiment the Enallage of the preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not infrequent in Scripture Mat. 2.23 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. in the Citie Nazareth Mar. 1.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cap. 2.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so that the sense is apert this in the Temple of God What that is is the doubt saith the Cardinall the Temple at Hierusalem and before the Temple of Salomon Contra what 1 that of old built by Salomon repaired by Ezra and Nehemiah beautified by Herod It s ruined not a stone left vpon a stone nor is hope of reedifying Mat. 23.38 2 some other to be reared out of the ruines thereof by Antichrist But would the Apostle call that the Temple of God the diuell he would It s Augustines Argument against that opinion Aug. quá supra Thus rather Hieron ad Algasiam q. 11. in the Temple of God that is in the Church of God so Augustine Hierome Hilarie Chrysostome and the Cardinall wilfully forgat himselfe when he said that in the Scripture of the new Testament by the Temple of God is neuer ment the Church of Christians but perpetually the Temple at Hierusalem What say we to these Scriptures 1 Cor. 3.16 17. Know yee not that yee are the Temple of God mox The Temple of God is holy which yee are See also 2 Cor. 6.16 Apoc. 3.22 the result of sense is this hee sits in the Church of God as in his Episcopall See