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A42310	Anti-Christ pointed and painted out in his true colours, or, The popes of Rome proven to bee that man of sinne and sonne of perdition fore-prophesied in Scripture by the clear witnessing of Roman Catholicks themselves, who lived and died in the communion of that church / by William Guild.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1655 (1655)	Wing G2203; ESTC R27163	64,002	182

speaketh thus of the Pope in his tyme in his Plow-mans tale And to Popes hest's such take more heed Then to keepe Christs Commandement Of gold silver mot be ●is weed They hold him whole Omnipotent Whence it is likewise that their own Cassander of late sayth Pontificem vero Romanum quem Papam dicimus tantum non Deum faciunt ejusque authoritatem non modo supra totam Ecclesiam sed supra ipsam scripturam divinam efferunt sententiam ejus divinis oraculis parem imo infallibilem fidei regulam consti●●●nt That is They make the Roman Bishop whom wee call the Pope little lesse nor GOD extolleth his authoritie not onelie aboue the whole Church but also aboue the holie Scriptures which is to be aboue GOD and maketh his sentence or decree equall to the Oracles of GOD consequentlie himself to bee equall to GOD yea to be the infallible Rule of Fayth 3. Hee showeth Himself to be GOD and sit as GOD in the Temple of GOD whill as he usurpeth the other Tytles that are onelie proper to GOD a● 1. To be Head of the Church of GOD as Bellarmin styleth him ascribing that unto him with other tytles as followeth which as it is contrar to holie scripture 2. Cor. 11.2 Where CHRIST is called the One and onely Husband of His Church and consequentlie her onelie Head so Gregorie the first calleth it A divelish usurpation under pretence of humilitie by pride of a pompaticke tytle sayeth hee to attempt so the subjecting of Christs members to himself as Head of the Church quae omnia uni soli capiti cohaerent sayeth hee That is all which cohere to one onelie head thereof to wit CHRIST and againe writting to Iohn patriark of Constantinople who began first to usurpe the same he sayeth If Paull eschewed that the members of the LORDS bodie should be particularlie subiected unto other heads beside CHRIST altho they were Apostles what will thou be able to answere at the strick Tryall of the last judgement to CHRIST the Head of His Vniversall Church who preasseth by the tytle of Vniversall Bishope to subject all these his members unto thee as head which wickednes sayeth hee what else is it but thereby to imita● him to wit Lucifer who despysing the Legions of his follow Angels joyned with him in one societie did attempt to mount above them to such a hight of singularity That hee lykewyse would bee vnder none but hee alone would bee aboue all others which is indeed to sit as God in the Temple of God And therefore such Style Gregorie declareth to bee not onlie prowd and prophane but also Antichristian And which none of my Predecessours sayeth hee Bishops of Rome would ever consent to haue Neither I my self would consent thereto for what were this else but to lose the Fayth sayeth hee and to make ship-wrack thereof 2. BELLERMINE styleth the Pope The Husband of CHRISTS Church contrarie to the place forecited 2. Cor. 11.2 Of which sayeth BERNARD to Pope EUGENIUS when hee had told That Christ is the onlie Husband of His Church Wherefhre sayeth hee call not his Beloved Spouse Thyne and challenge thou nothing as proper to thee over her And which Title their canonized AQUINAS LYRA LOMBARD on 2. Cor. 11.2 showeth to bee proper onlie to CHRIST alone and without blasphemie is not communicable to anie 3. Bellarmine also calleth the Pope Generall Father A Title proper onlie to GOD Therefore sayeth Pope Gregorie to Iohn of Constantinople who first attempted to usurp that Style How wilt thou answer in the Day of that Terrible Examination of CHRIST the Iudge who is to come who deserveth to bee called not onlie Father sayeth hee but also The Generall Father of all 4. By the same Bellarmine in the place forecited hee is called That Corner Stone spoken of by Isai. cap. 28. proved and precious which Title to be onlie proper to CHRIST and without grosse blasphemie to bee communicable to none these Romanists beareth witnesse To wit Hugo de S. Charo Pintus and Perusin on this place rendring these Reasons 1. Because he and hee onlie as a corner stone coupled together both Iew and Gentile in one unitie of Fayth 2. Hee is called PROVED by the Passion of His Crosse which Hee onlie indured 3. As also Hee is called PRECIOUS In respect both of the Infinit Worth and Excellencie of His Person being GOD and MAN As lykewyse by the Merit of His Sufferinges whereby the world is redeemed Hee was called That Light that came into the World And which the World receaved not by Cornelius Mùs Bishop of Bitonto in a publick Oration before the Councell of Trent which is extant and printed at Rome in Platea Parionis which is spoken Iohn 1.9 onlie of CHRIST And which Tytle their own Lyra Carthusian and Ferus showeth to belong onlie and is competent to CHRIST So lykewyse as Antoninus Archbishop of Florence reporteth in his Historie when the Sicilian Ambassadours asking pardon of Pope Martin the fourth delyvered their Ambassage in these terms saying Agnus DEI qus tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis The Pope accepting of this Tytle replyed disdaynfully saying In the terms whereby the Souldeours mocked CHRIST Ave Rex Iudeorum dabant illi alapas So that by assuming such Tytles proper onlie to GOD and CHRIST IESUS GOD and MAN wee see hee sitteth as God in the Temple of God All which being so manie Blasphemies it is no marvell therefore that That Scarlet coloured Beast spoken of Revel. 17.3 Is sayd to bee full of the names of blasphemies Amongst which in expresse terms Gregorie calleth the Tytle of Vniversall Bishop Nomen Blasphemiae tho there were no more than that name alone to proue the Pope to bee Antichrist From all which former wee reason thus he that sitteth in the tēple of God as God that is as in Gods stead claiming to be his vicar generall and who usurpeth alike Tytles with God which are only proper to God and in him are the names of blasphemie spoken of Revel. 17.3 Who also equalleth his decrees traditions with the verie oracles of God hee is the Antichrist But the Pope doth all this as we haue proven in all this preceeding Chapter by the witnessing of Romanists themselves Therefore it followeth that the Pope is Antichrist CHAP. XII Of the Popes not onlie equalling himself with GOD But extolling himself aboue GOD himself Which is the hight of Antichristian Pryde and Matchlesse Impietie HAving shown how the Pope exalteth himself against all that is called GOD by participation onlie of name And equalleth himself also with him who is GOD onlie in Essence Followeth to show How lyke Lucifer in his Meridian or highest ascension hee extolleth himself aboue GOD 1. Extolling his Authoritie over the Scriptures which are the WORD of GOD And consequentlie aboue GOD himself 2. Making himself Iudge over GODS WORD And what it

or an Idolatrous Church 3. As making the kings of the earth and inhabitants thereof drunk with the wine of her Fornication and procuring as hath beene said such a generall subjection to her Shee is a pretended catholick Church 4. As a mother of Harlots as shee is called v. 5. Shee is a mother Church and 5. mysticall Babylon which Iesuit Ribera and other Romanists expoundeth rightlie to be Rome Shee is the Roman Church all which being put together maketh up heer the cleare description of that Antichristian Church over which the Pope is Head and Monarch which is the Romā catholick mother Idolatrous church so much doted upon by seduced papists and generallie submitted unto by them Out of which compleate description of Antichrist let any papist under Heaven fynd out any other but the Pope to whom the same in all points may bee applyed as being the eight head of soveraigne authoritie over Rome who arose thereto by the the decay of the Roman Empyre and at the same time when others arose to soveraigne authoritie with him as kings over these Kingdomes which now they rule and which before were tributarie provinces onelie to the Roman Empyre who claimeth a suppreame ecclesiasticall authoritie over all priests and ecclesiasticall persons as Universall Bishope and Monarch of the Church and who also hath claimed and heeretofore obtained a generall subjection of all persons whatsoever to him and his sea according to his decree theranent as being head of the Roman Catholick mother Church which hath dependance upon him and which he again supporteth by his pretended infallibility and power From all which former wee therfore frame this argument The eight head as governour who now sits in Rome and who arose at one time to soveraignitie over that Citie when others arose to bee free kings over their kingdomes which before were tributarie provinces to the old Roman Empire as all Histories record hath procured all subjection of al persons to him his sea not by force but by allurement of a sensuall Religion and like an intysing Whoore hath made these that are subject to him to committ spirituall Fornication which is idolatrie and who also claimeth especiallie a supreame ecclesiasticall authoritie over all priests and ecclesiasticall persons as universall Bishope sole Monarch and Head of the Romā Catholick mother church This head I say described so by Iohn is that grand Antichrist But the Pope is such Therefore he is that Grand Antichrist The major is scripture expounded as hath beene shown by Romanists thēselves by evidence of histories the minor likewise is cleare by fit application in all points to the Pope and applyable to no other and by his own undenyable practise Therefore the conclusion inevitablie followeth CHAP. VII Where Antichrist is to bee found or his place in generall 2 Thess. 2.4 HAving thus seene who is Antichrist Next we are to search and try where hee is and first His place in generall 2. in particular First then as for his place in generall Paull telleth us That hee shall sit as GOD pretending to be his Vice-gerent and usurping his power in the Temple of GOD by which not any one materiall Temple is to be understood as that of IERUSALEM which the papists fancie tha●Antichrist shall reedifye and which their own Pintus upon ISAIAH 25. ●howes shal never be reedifyed But the Professour● of the Christiā Name in cōmon ar therby to be understood which therefore haue the name of the Church and as we see thē so called especiallie these who are truelie Christians 1. Cor. 3.16 Ephes. 2.21 And therefore sayth Chrisostome upon this place 2 Th●ss 2.4 Sedebit in Templo DEI non eo quod est Hierosolymis sed in Ecclesiis That is hee shall sit in the Temple of GOD not in that which is in IERUSALEM but in the Churches and what is meaned by these words of Sitting Theodoret telleth us The Spirit of GOD using the same word that the papists use speaking of the Pops raigne saying Sedittot annos calling Rome the Apostolicall Sea or Sedes Apostolica Thus therefore sayeth Theodoret Templum appellavit Ecclesias i● quibus primam sedem arripiet That is the Holie Ghost called the Churches the Temple in which Antichrist shall usurpe the first seat or primacie Thus also speaketh Aquinas Therefore it is expounded sayth hee In templo DEI Idest in Ecclesia quia multi de Ecclesia eum accipient vel secundum Augustinum in templo DEI sedeat idest ut principetur dominetur ta●quam ipse cum suis nunciis sit templū DEI sicut CHRISTVS est cum suis That is he shall sit in the temple of GOD that is in the Church because many that are of the Church shall receive him or according to Aug●stin he sits in the Temple of GOD that is the Prince or Monareh thereof and hath Dominion therein as if hee with his Cleargie were the church of GOD as CHRIST is with His followers So likewise speaketh the ordinar glosse and Lyra upon this place the expresse words of Augustin are these Rectius putant latine dici sicut in graeco est Non in Templo DEI sed in Templū DEI sedeat tanquam ipse sit Templum DEI quod est Ecclesia sicut dicimus sedit in amicum idest ut Amicus That is they think that more rightly it may bee said in the latin as it is in the greeke not in the Temple of GOD but that Antichrist should sit as the Temple of GOD that is as if he were the Temple of GOD which is his Church Even as we say hee sits for a Friend that is as if hee were a friend and which tytle of the Church we see that that the Pops parasits giveth unto him calling him the Virtuall Church wherein onelie is infallibilitie Whereupon Radevicus a Roman channon speaking of Pope Victor 2. sayeth thus Ipse Antichristi tempora prafigurans usque adeo erectus est supra se vt in Templo DEI sederit ostendens se tanquam sit DEVS multi abominationem desolationis stantem in loco sancto non sine multa lachrymarum effusione corporis oculis inspexerunt That is he prefiguring the tyme of Antichrist was so farre exalted aboue himself as that hee did sit in the Temple of GOD showing himself as if he were GOD and many did behold this abhomination of desolation standing in the Holie place not without much effusion of tears which sitting of Antichrist as the vicar of Christ in the Church whose horns he resembleth by a deceiveablenesse of unrighteousnes did so seduce simple and unsound Christians that except by the Scriptures hee could never otherwise bee knowne nor his Dragon mouth perceived Therefore sayeth Chrysostome Haeresis impia quae est exercitus Antichristi stabit in sanctis l●cis Ecclesiae obtinens Ecclesias vt si velit quis cognoscere quae sit