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Ramans for a pledge of the fidelity of his father. Secondly, He continued the fame fervitude, and payed Tribute. And his being Hoftage at Rome many years, going to render Homage to this God even in his own feat, makes the fervitude and the homage principally fall on him, and they may be justly attributed to him. Thirdly, Though the fervitude began in the time of his father, neverthelefs the Prophecy particularly fixes it on the Son, because of that pride which was peculiar to him. As if the Holy Spirit would have faid, the Kingdom of Afia fhall feel the force of the Romans, for the mortification of this proud Antiochus, who fhall endeavour to exalt himself above all the Kings of the Earth.

This is an accident that to me feems marvellous, that this prophecy found its accomplishment in Rome and in the Romans, as well in the temporal as in the fpiritual fenfe. I faid above, that Antiochus was not a type of Antichrift, but in the things he did against the fewish Nation. Because the ftrange Nations having no reference to the Church, no, thing that Tyrants do against the Nations, is myftical. Therefore we muit not feek after a myftcry in that, which the Prophecy fore-tells that Antiochus, fhould do against the Egyptians, against Ptolomee, and in reference to other people. But 'tis reasonable to except the Romans from this rule. Though they then were a nation eftranged from the Church, yet however they had a reference to the Church. For Rome was to be the head ofthe Antichriftian Church. And already in the Prophecics Rome Pagan that then was, made but one beaft, i. e. one Empire with Rome Chriftian and Antichriftian; fo that it was proper to the genius of the Prophecy, that the type of the Roman Antichrift

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Befides, it can't be thought ftrange, that the fame prophecy fhould have two profpects, and confequently two accomplishments. For fo it is always in thofe Prophecies, that turn on a typical fubject. That which may make fome difficulty, is, that the temporal adventures of the type have ufually their figurative refpect to the fpiritual adventures of the thing reprefented by the type. Which doth not appear here: for the homages which Antiochus rendred to the Romans, do not appear to have any typical reference to the homages, which the new Romans give to their Demi-gods. They have however, and it is certain, that the homage which the new fubjects of the Roman Empire do render at Rome to its head, to its Saints and Idols, have the refpect of a figure, and the thing figured to the homage, which the people of the world did render to ancient Rome, whole Citizenship they did under-hand labour for, and whofe Eagles and other military Enfigns they worshipt.

Religio Romanorum tota caftrenfis,
Signa veneratur, figna jurat,
Signa omnibus Diis praponit.

St. Peter, and St. Paul, and the H. Virgin at this day, are in the banners of Rome, juft as the Eagles were heretofore; and all the world gives homage to thefe banners, and to that which is reprefented by them, just as during the Empire of ancient Rome, men did proftrate them felves before the Eagles.

I hold that the twelfth and last Chapter of Da. Chapt of niel, doth also refer to Antiochus and Antichrift. Daniel re. And at that time shall Michael ftand up, the great fpects allo Antiochus Prince, that standeth for the children of thy people; Epiphanes, and there shall be a time of trouble, fuch as never

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was fince there was a nation, even unto that fame time ; and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book of life.

This Prophecy literally refpects Antiochus's laft perfecution of the fews, that was terrible and cruel, but ended by the victories of the Macchabees. This Michael is the Son of God himself, who always watched for the preservation of his Church. Spiritually and myftically this agrees to Antichrift, and refpects the laft perfecution that he must cause the Church to fuffer, after which he himself is to be ruin'd, and the people of the Saints deliver'd. 'Tis the fame victory as is described to us in the 19th Chapter of the Revel. The words that follow make it very plain, that this Prophecy must be understood of that victory that 7. Chrift must obtain over Antichrift, at the end of the Antichristian Empire.

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And many of them that fleep in the dust of the Daniel Earth fhall awake, fome to everlasting life, and the refurfome to everlafting fhame and contempt. And they rection that be wife, fhall shine as the brightness of the fir- shew that mament; and they that turn many to Righteoufness, of the vihe speaks as the stars for ever and ever. What, I pray, fhould eories of the refurrection do here in the middle of the Chap. over Antiin which the adventures only of Antiochus Epi chrift. phanes are fpoken of? "Tis plain, that this is perfectly the fame Prophecy as that of St. John, in the 20th Chapt. of the Revel. where the Apoftle predicts the deliverance of the Church, and the coming of the Kingdom of Christ by a refurrection. They that were beheaded for the Name of Jefus, must be raised up, and reign with him a 1000. years. This is what Daniel faith here, that they that have turn'd many to Righteousness by their Doctrine,

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and by their Martyrdom, fhall be as fhining and ruling Stars in the Kingdom of J. Christ.

'Tis not the laft refurrection; nor the laft cophecy of ming of Jefus Chrift, that St. John fpeaks of, no Danicl more than Daniel. 'Tis of that coming that St. ther the Paul fpeaks of, when he faith, that Jefus Chrift, rections, shall defroy Antichrift by the brightness of his cothe firft & ming; when he fhall come to establish his Kingthough dom of a 1000 years on the Earth. 'Tis that ate di- refurrection which the Revelation calls the first refrom the furrection. And therefore Daniel doth not say, And ALL thofe that fleep in the duft fhall awake, but he only faith MANY of thofe that fleep in the duft even as St. John faith fo exprefly, that then all the dead fhall not arife. 'Tis true, that Daniel also joins the refurrection of the wicked; and fome shall awake to shame and everlasting contempt. But we must not conclude, that this refurrection of the wicked must be at the fame time; one Prophecy must be explained by the other. The refurrection of the wicked, which Daniel joins here with the first resurrection, is distant from it at least a 1000 years. But he speaks of it as of two things joined together, because he who speaks is God, before whom a 1000 years are but as one day. Befides this, when our eyes look on things very far off, always those things that are far from one another feem to be near. The Stars feem to us to be near the Moon, and yet they are at a prodigious distance from it. So the Prophet looking on these two refurrections, the firft and the laft, it is not ftrange that beholding them at fo great diftance, he looked on them as joined together, though they are a 1000 years diftant from each other. Moreover, the H. Spirit from this first refurrection, in which the Church must be deliver'd,

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and which it may be, is but a figurative refurreЄtion, would raife us up to the contemplation of the last and general refurrection; because this first refurrection, that must be before the 1000 years of the reign of Jefus Chrift, must be but an Embleme of the great deliverance of the Church, when it fhall be in one body tranflated from earth to heaven by the laft refurrection. 'Tis ufual with the Prophets to have holy fallies, that from temporal things do tranfport them to fpiritual and eternal ones. Ifaiah fpeaking of a fign that God would give to Ahaz, and which he refufed, paffes over many ages, leaves there Abaz and his fign, and faith, the Lord God shall give you a fign, behold a Virgin shall bear a fon.

The rest of the twelfth Chapter is not less profound; but as it refpects the duration of the per fecution of Antiochus literally, and mystically the time of the duration of the Kingdom of Antichrift, we shall reserve it for that Chap. where we must fpeak of the duration of his Kingdom.

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CHAP. XXIV.

In which are gather'd together 35. Characters of Antichrift, that perfectly agree to the Papifm, and cannot agree to any but it.

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Fter founding all the fountains whence the A short pourtaiture of Antichrift is drawn, it will not be unuseful, to gather together here chrifi and all the ftrokes, that we may fee them all with one rures, view, and that we may difcern the perfect con

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