'Tis expressly laid down by the Apostle, as an undoubted Mark of the Man of Sin, viz. That he should sit in the Temple of God. Chrysost. is very express, Hom. 3. 2. Thes. 8. [Greek or Hebrew], that is, not in Jerusalem but in the Church, so Oecumenus, de Rom, lib. 3. cap. 13. and Theoph. Theodor. Ambros. Primus Anselm. Severian. apud imsum. Besides it was to be in a C• with 7 Hills, and where 7 kings of supreme Magistrates were or had been, which agrees to no City ty but Rome, as is demonstrated by peter du Moulin and others; if it be objected, That the Church of Rome at the time of Antichrists Rise, could not be the Temple of God, because upon the Great Apostasy that denomination ceases, it is answered▪ It might be called the Church and Temple of God then, though the Presence of God and the true Religion and Power of Godliness was gone it might retain the Name; as Royal Palaces keep ⟨p. 53⟩their names when ruined; 'its said, I sa. I. 2 I. How is the Faithful City become an Harlot? Could she be a faithful City and a Harlot too? The meaning is, she was so, but now thus; so Matth. II. 5. Mark 7. ult 'tis said, The blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, the lame walk, &c. that is, they were so, but now otherwise; a Woman keeps her Husbands Name though divorced for Whoredom; so Rome (*) was Gods Temple & Christs Church, but when she espoused another Head, and cast off her first Husband (†) and the true Faith, she became an Harlot and Synagogue of Satan, though bearing still the name of Church and Christian also. See an excellent Treatise, Entitled, The Man of Sin, Printed 1677. pag. 40. &c.
'Tis expresly latd down by the Apostle, as an undoubted Mark of the Man of Sin, viz. That he should sit in the Temple of God. Chrysost. is very express, Hom. 3. 2. Thes. 8. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that is, not in Jerusalem but in the Church, so Oecumenus, de Rom, lib. 3. cap. 13. and Theoph. Theodor. Ambros. Primus Anselm. Severian. apud imsum. Besides it was to be in a C• with 7 Hills, and where 7 kings of supream Magistrates were or had been, which agrees to no City ty but Rome, as is demonstrated by peter du Moulin and others; if it be objected, That the Church of Rome at the time of Antichrists Rise, could not be the Temple of God, because upon the Great Apostacy that denomination ceases, it is answered▪ It might be called the Church and Temple of God then, though the Presence of God and the true Religion and Power of Godliness was gone it might retain the Name; as Royal Palaces keep ⟨p. 53⟩their names when ruined; 'its said, I sa. I. 2 I. How is the Faithful City become an Harlot? Could she be a faithfull City and a Harlot too? The meaning is, she was so, but now thus; so Matth. II. 5. Mark 7. ult 'tis said, The blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, the lame walk, &c. that is, they were so, but now otherwise; a Woman keeps her Husbands Name though divorced for Whoredom; so Rome (*) was Gods Temple & Christs Church, but when she espoused another Head, and cast off her first Husband (†) and the true Faith, she became an Harlot and Synagogue of Satan, though bearing still the name of Church and Christian also. See an excellent Treatise, Intituled, The Man of Sin, Printed 1677. pag. 40. &c.
