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Boo vii. THE DIUINE INSTITUTES. 461 and that he this number is complete tho consummationmus talis place, and the condition os human fialas o re- modolled for theaetter, tho proo of Whicli must firat be related, that tho matter itself may bo plain God completed the woridandaliis admirabio Work of nature in the space of six dus asis containe in the secret of holy Scripture), and consecrated the sevent dari on hic He had rested frommis Woas Butthicis the Sabbath-day, hic in the language of tho Hebreissreceived iis amerimm the number, Whence thoraeuent is thelegitimate an completo number. For there are seVen dus, by tho revolutions of hic in orde tho circles of ear ammado up and thermare seis star Whicli domo set, and sevenluminaries hic ara calle planeta, ,hos differing and un-equat movements are belleve in causo the varieties of circum-atances and times.
quillit and res hom the labours whicli tho morid no. has longendured But hoW that will com to passa mill explain in iis orderi e avo osten aid that tesse things and things of smali importanc are figures an previcus hado ings fori ofgreat things as his da os ure, hic is bounde is lis rising and the setting of tho sun is a representation of that great danto hicli in circuit os a thousand years assixes ita limila In the fame manne also tho fashioning of tho arthi manheld sortii in tho futuro tho formatio of the heavent people.
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tashione for righteo nes by the doctrino an precept MGod Anyas thema mortal and imperfeci man was formedimae the earili, that he tot sive a thousand years in his orti; so no from his artat ago is forme a perfeci man, statbein quichened by God, he may bearaulo in thia amo moru
tio mill tis place, and What end insta the assair of men, i any one inali examine the divino rit ga he wil Meertain. But the voices also os propheis of the orld, agressin via in heavenly, announco the en an overthrow of at thino after arahor time, describin ascit ere the last old ago of the wearie and wasting Worid. ut the ining Whic amisiad hypropheta and wer toto about in happen e oro that las en, in comes pon the worid, I Wil surioin bein collaeis and accumulated hominil quartere. CHAP. XV.-O the devastatis of the woria and Mans os tri
It is contained in the mysteries of the sacre Writima, that aprinos of themebreWs, compellexis mant of com pamod into Egypt wit ali his famil and relatives d When his pos teri , remaining long in gypt, ad incream into a reat nation, and wem oppressed by the heau an intolerable aso clavery, God smote gypt Wit an incurabis atrine, andireedmis peoplo letaing them throuo the mitit of the ea,
When the Waves bEing cut Munde and parte o Euher id the eopte Went ver o dry ground An in hing of the Egyptians endeamuring o follow them a the fieri tho mareturning to iis place, he Was cui ofi, with ali his Moseo Andiliis deed so illustrious and so Wondersul although for tho presentit displayed to men the pomerio God was also ador hado ingan figurem a greater deed, Whic the fame God ma abori toperform at the last consummatio of the times, forme mill Dee His eople homilio oppressive bondage of the moria. ut sincerat that timo the people o God were one and in ono nation
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Boo vii. THE DIUINE INSTITUTES. 463onj, Egypt only Was mitten. ut no , ecaum in Mopleos God aro collected ut o ali languages, andra et amongia nations and ars oppressed by thos bearing res ove them, it must comerio pas that ali nations that is, the wholo mori' bo beaten Min heavent stripes that the righteo levi', shippers of God may be set laee. Aud a then signfmere ovenar hic in coming destructio mas inown to the Egyptians, o at therias time onderivi prodigies iliciae place throughout at tho elements of the worid, is hic theimpendinidestructio may be underet da ali nations. Therefore, a tho end of this orld approaches the condition
o human assalas must undem a change, and throuo the pr valence of michedn saecome orae so that noW these times
of ura, in hic iniquit an impiety have increased even to
comparison of that incurabis evil For righteousnes Will sode eam, and impleu, marice, destre, and lust ill so greatly
For ali tho earin Willae in a state os tumuit Wars mill ever' hero age ali nations mill e in arms, and Wil oppos ono another; eigh urin states mill care o conflicta illi ach
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strennii, since the motas of mortias are mortia Thus ala osterkingdoms in tormentimes, though the had long flourish d, erenoverthelem destroyed For it is related that th Egyptians,
and Perstans, and Greelis, and Assyrians ad the overnmentos tho, id and after the destructionis them ali, in elites poWer came to the Romans also MLinasmuch a there elati oster ingdom in magnitude, With a much greater an ovem
mor numerous system o instructio and institutions; ut at
ance and authorityos Brutus, it soare Gld, as though ulta nostrengi to suppor itaeis, unies it depended on the aid es irarulers. ut it thes things are so What remains, excepi that dealli solio. old ages And that it Wil so como in para thepredictions of the propheta briefl announc unde the covis Oi
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ulso, Who Was a very ancient hing of themedes, hom homalso the river Whicli is noscalle Hydaspes received ita name, hande down to the memor os posterit a Wondersu dream rapo the interpretation o a'o Who ultered divinations an- nouncing long besore thorioundingis the Trojan nation that the Roman empire andiam Wouldae taenis antrom the Worid. CHAP. XVI. O the demastationis the worid, and ita prophetio
nor mill there e an res fram deadi Wars unti te hingsaris at the fame time, ho wil divide the worid, no to govem, butrio consume it These haviniincreased thei armiecto animmense extent, an havin deserte tho cultivatio of the fields, Whichris theaeginningis overthrow and dis ter Will laymaste and rea in ieces an consumo at things. The amos poWerses enem Will suddenis aris against hi from theextremo boundaries of the orther region, ho havinid stroyed three os that number ho hal then e in possessionos Asia, hallae admitted into allianco by the others, and shallbe constituted prince of all. e stati haras the world wit an intolerable rule; hali mingis things divino and human; hali contrive things implous to relate, and detestable; hali meditate ne desios in his reast that he ma establis the goVern-men sor himself he Will change the laws, an appoin his oWn he wil contaminate, tunder, spoli, and ut in east. An a lennii tho name being changed and the seat otiovem-mentaeing transferred, confusion and the disturbance of man-kind will solioW. Then, in truth, a detestable an abominablotimo stiali come, in hic life hallae pleasant to non onmen. Cities inaltae ulterly overthrown and shallieris not only
alumnum veritatis. Prodigiis. concisa.
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o vino mill produco anything but aster they have inve thegreates hope in the Nossom, therWili fail in the fruit. Mumtatas also hali elarie up together With in rivem so that ther inali nota a suffcient suppinior drinhing and waterashalla change into blood oraliterness. on account of thesethings, beast shali ait o the land an bitas in tho ala, and fishes in the ea. Wondersu prodigios also in heaven inali
confound the miud of men illi the greates terrors, and the trians os comeis, and the datanes of the sun and the colo of tho moon, and tho gliding of the fallin stare. Nor, homover, ill thes things tas place in the accustome manner: but there mill suddent appea Mars unknown and unmen bytho Ves the sun mill e perpetuatly darhened so that here Willae carcet an distinctionaei se the nio and tho du; the moon,ill no fati no for three hoursinin but ovempreMwit perpetuatalood, Willio throuo extraordinar movement so that it illiso bo easyrior an to ascertain the co se of the heavent bodie or in system of the times for ther uilleitherae summer in the winter, or Winter in the summer Thentheaear illae shortened, and tho mont diminishod, and theda contracted into aratior space and stare inali tali in great
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Boo vii J HE DIUINE INSTITUTES. 467 fear, nor hal flee approach to thei ves, ut anxiet and walchsulnes inali consume the fouis of mem inershali deploroand lament, and gnasti thei ieeth; the inali congratulat the ad and e ait in liring Through thos and many thorariis store hiat e desolationi in earin, and the world shallbo disfigure an deserted, hicli is thus expresse in the
throno tho destructioni men.' For tho human race illaeso consumed that Marcely the tent pari os me mill e lost; and rom hinc a thousand ad gone foris, carcet a
ot whichae ma entice me to adoro him. II Will command fire t como doWn hom heaven, and tho inito stand and leavo
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name above, havinidescribe the iniquit of this last time,
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and mourning and will imploro the protectioni Jupiter that Jupiter Will look to tho earth, and hea the Volces of men, and wil destro tho iched All hic things aro trus exceptone, that he attribute to Jupiter hos things hic Godwil do. ut that also was Withdram from the account, notmithout fraud o the par of the demons via. that the Son ofGod Would then e sent, ho having destro Lail the wiched, would se a liberi the pious. Whicli, however, Hermes didnot conceat. For in that book whichris ontiue the Complete
Treatiae aster an enumeratio of the viis concerning which
kinifrom the sun who shali causo ali the eartha cerae homdis imus War.' And again another: Me Will lata away tho intolerable ok of laver hic is placed n our nech, and lis mill do away wit implous laWs and violent chians. CHAP. XIX.-O the adventis Christ to ju ment, and of the overeoming of the false prophet. The mori there ore eing oppressed, since in refources osmen hal be insussicient for the overthrow of a tyrann os immense strength, inasmuch as it Wil pressopo the captius Wori missi great armies of robbere, that calamit soareat Will
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srom heaven a Word that the righteous mayano. that theleader of the sacre mariam is a ut is descens an He inali
descend with a company o anget to the middie of the earis, and there hallis betore Him an unquenchablo fim, and the wer of the anget shali desiver into tho hania of the iust stat multitude hic has surro de tho mountain, and ther allbo flain iram in inita hourrunti the evening andalaod inali fio lita a torrent an ali his forces Minidest yed the wiched ne hali Mons scape, an his pomer inali perio fremata.
NoW this iste horis called Antichrist; ut ho inest falselycallaimseli Christ, and shali fight against the truth, an Ming