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A77240	The marks of the apocalyptical beast, plainly decyphered and the danger of having communion with him clearly discovered. The testimony of a reverend and learned divine concerning the following treatise. As to the treatise, Mr. - and I have perused it carefully; and not to speak to please, but as the thing is, it is very clear, strong, and useful, and very fit to open the eyes of those Papists whom God hath a favour to: I wish the nation enjoyed it, being it is so solid, short, and fitted for good.	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1667 (1667)	Wing B418A; ESTC R203034	15,160	19

Lake which burns with Fire and Brimstone and all such are to be confounded i. e. To perish for ever who serve Graven Images and boast themselves of Idols 5. If they who believe a lye 2 Thes 2 9-12 as that a piece of Bread is turned into the very Body and Blood of the Son of God and have pleasure in such unrighteousness are all to be damned 6. If they who Worship Angels hold not the Head Christ and therefore cannot look for any life from him Lastly If they who in a proud conceit of their own Righteousness either prefer it to or else mingle it with the Righteousness of Christ for Justification do commit the very sin of the Reprobate Jews See Rom. 9 30-32 and 10.3 Gal. 2.21 and 5.4 making the death of Christ in vain and consequently have no Interest in the Redemption purchased by it If I say these things are of that hainous nature as who ever is guilty of any one of them is by the Word of God pronounced Worthy of death then the Papists who besides their bearing the Name of that accursed Beast 2 Pet. 2.1 the Pope do hold all these and many more such destructive Heresies are certainly in a state desperately and deplorably dangerous and for any to teach otherwise it is to speak peace and Pity where the mouth of the Lord hath not spoken it For us therefore who through the infinite goodness of God have escaped the snare to have any Church Fellowship or to seek Reconciliation with them it is not onely ingratefully to slight the Mercy of our deliverance but foolishly if not impiously to sell the Truth or rather to betray it into the hands of its most prejudiced hardened and implacable enemies Let them therefore in the Words of God by the Prophet to back-slidden Israel Jer. 15.19 Return to us by renouncing their Blasphemies forsaking their Idolatries and with-drawing their Obedience from that Beast they serve but let not us return to them by parting with one Iota of Scripture-Truths Rev. 18.4 Deut. 7.25 26. and 13 18 19. Levit. 14.44 Rev. 18.23 24. least by partaking in their sins we become likewise sharers in their Plagues and by touching the accursed thing do make our selves a Curse and incur that guilt which still cleaves like an incurable Leprosie unto that Idolatrous and bloody City of Rome Against which City God hath formerly sent the Goths and Vandals and other Executioners of his Vengeance to scrape and to pare and to cleanse her filth out of her but she is now returned to her Trade again still Worshipping Devils and Idols Rev 9.20 21. and not repenting of her Fornications Witch-crafts and Murders It remains therefore Heb. 6.8 that like the Barren Earth which having oft been Rained upon brings forth onely Briars and Thorns she is nigh to a curse and her end is to be burnt with fire This glorious spectacle Rev. 18 ib. v. 20 Rev. 6.10 11 Rev. 11.17 18 2 Tim. 2.10 11 Rev. 20.4 6 Rev. 22 20 Cant. 8.14 though worldly-spirited men will lament and tremble at the sight of yet the Heavens and the blessed Inhabitants of them are commanded to rejoyce at For which the Souls of the Martyred Saints that are already under the Altar and all their Brethren who are yet witnessing in the Wilderness do earnestly pray as being then to receive a full Reward for their labours and to Reign with Christ for whom they suffered Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly POST-SCRIPT THough a Doctrine which is built upon and confirmed by the Scriptures the word of God needs not any Testimony from Man for its farther establishment yet because this Truth comes forth at this time without a Name and some of the Protestant-Readers may possibly suspect it to be New and not agreeable unto the Judgement of our Reformed Churches the Authour therefore of the foregoing Treatise hath thought fit to adde that he hath delivered nothing for substance but what is exactly consonant not only unto the Scripture but unto that Interpretation of it which the most Learned and Judicious of our Protestant Writers have already given And this was thought so clear a Truth in former times that this Article The Pope is Anti-Christ hath been put into most of the Publick Confessions of Faith of the several Churches And in our own Church hee thinks it still is but he is assured it was till of very late years the Judgement of almost all that were of any Reputation either for Religion or Learning It were easie to exscribe their Words and Arguments but I shall content my self with the Testimony of One whose imcomparable Learning and Piety together with the eminent Place and Authority hee enjoyed may serve either to make his words to bee received or at least mine not over forwardly condemned It is the Reverend Dr. Usher Arch-Bishop of Armagh Pag 438. who in his Catechisme writes thus As Christ is the Head of the Church which is his Body so Anti-Christ is the Head of the Romish Church which is his Body Quest Who is that Anti-Christ Answ He is one who under colour of being for Christ and under Title of his Vice-gerent exalteth himself above and against Christ opposing himself against all his Offices and Ordinances both in Church and Common-wealth bearing Authority in the Church of God ruling over that City with seven Hills which did bear Rule over the Nations and put our Lord to death A man of Sin a Childe of Perdition a Destroyer establishing himself by lying Mircacles and false Wonders All which MARKS together do agree with none but the POPE of ROME Pag. 439. Quest What is the use of all his Doctrine Answ That whosoever are partakers of the Sins of Rome are also under the same curse c. Quest What farther Answ That there can be no sound Agreement betwixt Popery and the profession of the Gospel no more than betwixt Light and Darkness Falsehood and Truth God and Belial and therefore no RECONCILIATION can be devised betwixt them For if the members of Anti-Christ shall be destroyed we cannot in any sort communicate with them in their Errors unless we will bear them company in their destruction also The Author hath no more to adde but to beg of God that he will own this Work by giving a Blessing to it in this Dark and Cloudy day FINIS

Explication As First Vers 3 4 Upon the Beast there is discovered to sit an Imperious and Whorish Woman attired in a very sumptuous and pompous manner bedecked with Gold and precious Stones and Pearls Compare Hos 2.13 Jer. 4.30 See also Prov. 7 10 16 17 2 Thes 2.3 4 1 Tim 4.1 2 Cor. 11.2 3 Cant. 8.6 Isa 47.5 Rev. 18.7 Nah. 3.4 with Rev. 14.8 and 18.23 just as the Church of Israel is described by the Prophets when she was fallen from the Service of God unto the worship of Idols in resemblance of whom this Woman may well be called The Church Apostatical as having now arrived unto the height of Apostacy which before was prophesied of For as the true Church the Virgin Spouse of Christ is said to lean upon her Beloved having dependance upon and taking complacency in him alone so this False and Adulterous Church sits upon the Beast by whom she is supported and upheld in whom shee glories as her Head and by whose means she extends her soveraignty so far that like Babylon of old she sits as Queen and with Niniveth that once Imperial City she intoxicates the Nations and bewitcheth them unto a Communion with her in her Abominable and Idolatrous Practises Whence it appears that whatever she may vaunt her self to be as the Mother Church the Mistress of Faith and the like yet when the Mystery of her Iniquity comes to be revealed and the Curtain drawn she must then be called Rev. 17.5 as the Spirit of God doth call her in her true stile The Mother of Harlots i. e. of all false and Adulterous Churches and of the Adominations of the earth i. e. of all Impious and Idolatrous Practises And that wee might not wonder who this Woman should be as men ignorant or surprized are wont to do for even the holy Evangelist Revel 17 6. who saw her but in a vision could not but greatly wonder at her the Angel plainly tells us that this woman was nothing else but the City placed upon seven Hills verse 9. verse 10 11 c. see Tacitus p. 1 2. Verse 18. which had already passed thorough five several forms of Governments being then under the sixth viz. that of Heathen Emperours and to leave no scruple or doubt remaining which at that time when he saw this Vision and wrote this Prophesie had the supreme Dominion over the Kings of the Earth Which City if any one can be so far mistaken as to deny to be Rome he must finde out some other City unto whom those Properties will more exactly agree which is altogether impossible Secondly Sedes Romana Though by this discovery of the Whore we might satisfactorily enough be led unto a knowledge of the Beast upon whom she fits yet that we might be more certainly and infallibly guided Rev. 17.3 Mark 1. the Spirit of God is pleased to lay down some clearer Marks to make him evident and notorious to us First The Beast is said to be of a skarlet-colour and full of the Names of Blasphemy Of his Blasphemy see Isa 14.13 14. Dan. 3.15 4.30 Of his Blasphemy see Dan. 8. 9-12 and 11.36 37 He was called Do minus Deusque noster Martial Verse 6. Job 22. 25-17 with 21.14 15. Exod. 5.2 2 Kings 19 10 16. not being it seems contented with one Name as Nebuchadnezzar Antiochus Epiphanes Domitian and other Tyrants and Oppressours his Predecessours were but this Beast as he succeeded into their roome so he was to inherit their Nature and to out-do them in the worst of their Actions loading himself with many sacrilegious Names of Blasphemy that so he might the more easily be discovered What these Names are is not particularly expressed but they may easily be guessed at by the character which is given of him in the 13th Chapter That he opens his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his Name and his Tabernacle and those that dwell in Heaven The several parts of which description deserve to be particularly insisted on 1. To utter Blasphemy against God or to Blaspheme the Name of God may be done two waies Either 1. In direct and open denying the very Being of God as the men before the Flood Pharaoh and Senacherib did Saying Who is the Lord that we should obey his voice Or 2. When frail men by reason of some outward success given them do intrude themselves into the Place and Authority of God by assuming some of his Divine and Incommunicable Attributes Thus the Prince of Tyre Blasphemed God when he said I am a God I sit in the seat of God Ezek. 28.2 3 4.6 of whom likewise it is spoken in a way of sacred Irony Behold thou art wiser than Daniel i. e. than any of the Prophets or divinely inspired men there is no secret they can hide from thee This arrogant Prince it seems not only challenging the Power of God unto himself but likewise his Wisdome too even pretending to a kinde of Omniscience and Infallibility for hee adds with thy Wisdome and with thy understanding thou hast gotten thee Riches In conformity to which Description the Apostle Paul gives us this full and perfect Definition of Anti-Christ or of the Beast wee are enquiring after He is one who opposeth viz. 2 Thes 2.4 Psal 82. Christ and his Saints and farre exalts himself above all that is called God or Worshipped whereby is meant not only above Magistrates who are called Gods but likwise above every thing else which is thought by men to be most capable of Divine Honour so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God i. e. in the Church which was of old truly so and still pretends to be so declaring himself that he is God Declaring that is Demonstrating and manifesting this Mark 2.7 by his pretending to a God-like Power as to be able to pardon sins which none can do but God alone To absolve from Laws To Dispense with Oathes To be Infallible and the like which Titles and Power whoever dares assume to himself He is The Anti-Christ a Blasphemer and consequently that Beast whose Marks we are seeking for of which the first is that he was to be full of such Names of Blasphemy 2. The Tabernacle of God which this Beast is said to Blaspheme may either signifie the Church of God Eph. 2.22 1 Tim. 3.5 15. which oftentimes is called the House of God over which the Beast doth sinfully assume a power or which I rather take to be the meaning The humane Nature of Christ for thus the divine Writer to the Hebrews doth elegantly call it because it was the true Tabernacle Heb. 8.2 and 9.11 which God pitched and not man Which Tabernacle is Blasphemed when the Merit of those Sufferings which God himself underwent in the Humane Nature is lessened and the blood of Christ not accounted sufficient to cleanse from sin without something added by men to eek out its value For since our

Saviour expresly affirmeth that he gave his flesh Joh. 6.51 i. e. his humane Nature for the life of the World and nothing can be more undeniable than that excellent Argument of a Divine Writer Heb. 9.13 14. If the blood of Bulls and of Goats doth sanctifie to the purifying of the Flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ who by the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot unto God purifie our Conscience from dead works The shedding of that blood which was the price paid for the satisfaction of sin being abundantly sufficient to merit forgiveness for millions of worlds because the Mortal Nature which suffered by its Union with the Divine was of Infinite and Incomparable Value If then the Beast shall dare to extenuate and lessen it by pretending that some part of the Ransome is yet unpaid and that he hath power by his Indulgences to add something to it this must needs bee a Blasphemy of the highest kinde because it is in effect to say that the Son of God did not finish the work for the full performing of which Heb. 10.5 10 14 a Body was prepared him 3. Those that dwell in Heaven are the Angels and the departed Saints who are then Blasphemed when any thing is ascribed or done to them which were they now on Earth they would not dare to own Thus when the men of Lystra who had the excuse of an amazing Miracle to justifie them did prepare to offer Sacrifice unto Paul and Barnabas we read that those blessed Apostles did rent their cloathes Act. 14.14 2 Kings 18 37. Mat. 26.65 which was usual in the cases of Blasphemy and shews what Opinion they conceived of that Action So when our Evangelist perhaps onely in a pious gratitude for such great discoveries would have fallen down at the Angels feet to Worship him The Angel in a kinde of sacred horror forbad him Revel 19.10 saying See thou dost it not for I am thy fellow-Servant Worship God And a greater than hee even the Son of God himself yet appearing in the forme of an Angel would not have Sacrifice offered to him Jud. 13.16 but saith hee to Manoah If thou wilt offer a Burnt-Offering thou must offer it to the Lord If therefore Sacrifice and Adoration was not at all pleasing to those blessed Spirits upon Earth 1 Pet. 2.5 Heb. 13.15 we cannot think but Prayer and Praise which are a Christians Sacrifice and other acts of Divine Worship must needs be accounted by them as Blasphemous now they are in Heaven For they have not altered their minds nor are they now lesse zealous of Gods Honour than when they did on Earth express their utmost abhorrence of what-ever did but seem to intrench upon it So that to summe up all the parts of this first Mark together for a sinful man to assume the prerogative and incommunicable properties of God to lessen the Invaluable Merits and Satisfaction of our Lord Christ and to injoyn undue honour unto Saints and Angels such as were they now on earth they would detest these all are Blasphemies of the grossest nature which who-ever belcheth forth he is the Beast we are commanded to beware of Secondly Another Marke and that no little one Mark 2 by which the Beast may be known is the numberless number of his followers even the whole Earth saith the Text Rev. 13.3 with 17.8 or All that dwell upon the Earth whereby is not meant every individual person throughout the world but as is afterwards explained Every Tribe and Tongue and Nation That is All the Professors of Christianity throughout the world except the Elect Mat. 24.24 Rev. 17.8 Rev. 13.7 Rev. 12.17 or They whose Names are written in the Book of Life These are called the Saints or the seed of the Woman i. e. the Sons and Daughters of the true Church Whom the Dragon persecuted Who keep not the Traditions of men but the Commandements of God and in direct opposition to the Usurpations of Anti-Christ do hold the Testimony of Jesus Who in comparison of that vast Rout or rather Heard which Worship the Beast are stiled a little Flock left as it were Luke 12.32 to humane view altogether Naked and Defenceless in the midst of many fierce and ravening Wolves Rev. 11.7 by whom they are no sooner discovered but they are hunted taken and slain Which General delusion and raging madness of the Bestal crew together with the distressed condition of the Lambs company must needs even in the eye of common Reason make those swelling Titles of Universality Visibility Pomp and Extent of dominion very unsafe and most unfit to plead as signs of the true Church since during the whole time of the Beasts Reign they are applicable onely unto his Followers If any ask how it was possible for the world professing themselves as they did to be Christians to become so stupid Rev. 5.6 and senseless as instead of the Lamb Christ Jesus to shew a Tyrannical and outragious Beast his greatest Enemy in answer to this we must consider that from the first moment wherein the Beast was invested in his Soveraignty there was universally conceived a slavish dread of his Power which made the over-awed and captivated world to cry out who is like unto the Beast Rev. 13.4 who is able to warre with him For if those of Samaria were exceedingly afraid of Jehu 2 Kings 10.4 and thought they reasoned well when they said Behold two Kings stood not before him how then shall wee stand How much less able then were any to resist the Beasts encroachments who had ten Horns i. e. Ten Kings his Vassals Revel 17.12 13. that owned him for their Head and tamely gave up their Authority to be disposed of and ordered by him But besides this Argument from Force and Fear which alone had been sufficient to enslave the world there were two other causes which did concur to make the spiritual Thraldome plausible and universally taking 1. There was a willingness in the world to bee deceived as the Israelites being many years accustomed to the taste of Mannah though it was bread of Heaven Ps 105 40 Psa 78.24 25 and food for Angels began to loath it so did the World grow weary of the plainness of Truth which made God in his just judgement give them up to be acted by a Spirit of Errour 2 Thes 2.10 12 Joh. 7.18 1 Cor. 13.6 So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 52.3 because they loved not the Truth saith the Apostle but had pleasure in unrighteousness or in falsehood as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 often signifies Men having then their Ears open to receive and their mindes ready to believe a Lye and offering themselves as a willing Prey to every one that would but take pains to cozen them 2. To this propensity and readiness which was in the world for the embracing of any kinde of Errour there was