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A51123	Antichrist unvailed by the finger of Gods power and his visage discovered by the light of Christ Jesus, and his ministers, members, works, and lying wonders, manifested by the spirit of God, a manifestation whereof is given to every man (and woman) to profit withal : with friendly and serious invitations, exhortations, and warnings to all professors of Christianity, to beware of that antichristian spirit that leadeth to destruction, and of those teachers, who are influenced by it / written in the love of God by a prisoner (at Lancaster castle) for the testimony of truth, and one of the people called (in scorn) Quakers, Henry Mollineux.	Mollineux, Henry, d. 1719.	1695 (1695)	Wing M2393; ESTC R13417	147,325	285

〈…〉 By the FINGER of Gods Power AND His Visage Discovered by the Light of CHRIST JESUS and his Ministers Members Workes 〈◊〉 Lying Wonders Manifested by the Spirit of God a Manifestation whereof is given to every Man and Woman to profit withal With Friendly and Serious Invitations Exhortations and Warnings to all Professors of Christianity to beware that Antichristian Spirit that leadeth to Destruction and those Teachers who are Influenced by it Written in the Love of God by a Prisoner at Lancaster Castle for the Testimony of Truth and one of the People called in Scorn Quakers HENRY MOLLINEVX And Jesus answered and said unto them Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my Name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many and because Iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold Mat. 24.4 5 10 11. As ye have beard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists 1 John 2.18 LONDON Printed and Sold by T. S●●●● near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in 〈◊〉 street 1695. THE PREFACE TO THE READER Friendly Reader IT hath been a weighty Concern upon me for several Years to give forth in Writing a Testimony against the Spirit of Antichrist as I have through the Love and Mercy of God been made sensible thereof by the Manifestation of the Spirit of Christ Jesus the Son of the Living God and so having cleared and eased my Mind and Conscience of what hath lain upon me I commit to thee the following Treatise desiring that the fear and dread of the Lord God may constantly have a place in thy Heart in the Reading of it as it had in mine in the Writing of it and that will preserve thee Meek and Low in Heart in an aptness to Learn of Christ the Son of God's Love that many Professors of Christianity are but ignorantly talking of and so thou wilt not be apt to take offence nor stumble at the Truth as thou art made sensible of it in thy Heart but wilt be willing for thine own Eternal Good truly to examine thy self before the Lord in Secret how thou standest in thy Spiritual State and Condition before his All-seeing Eye for there was never more need for People to be truly concerned for the Salvation of their Precious Souls than there is now but they who walk not in the fear of the Lord slight it And if thou Reason saying Ah! But I am Unlearned and how should I understand or know the Truth For there are many great Scholars and Men Learned in Latin Greek and Hebrew and yet one sort of them preacheth one Doctrine and others other Doctrines and therefore how should I know which is the Truth I answer that thou mayest be as capable to know the Truth as if thou understood Latin and Greek and Hebrew for the Manifestation of the Spirit of Truth in thy own Heart that reproveth for Sin is sufficient to teach thee to know the Truth if thou believest in it and be truly willing to obey it and in disobedience to it none can know the Truth to their Comfort though they may perfectly understand Latin Greek and Hebrew the understanding whereof in its place may be good and serviceable Yet thou knowest not how soon thou must give an Account to the God of Truth how thou hast profited with the Manifestation of his Spirit of Truth which is given to thee to profit withal As for the Times and Manner of the Inventions setting up and establishing of the Popish Mass Ceremonies Tythes and other Trumpery I refer thee to a Book put forth by Francis Howgill in Two Parts the first Intituled The Glory of the True Church discovered and the latter Part The Rock of Ages exalted above Rome 's imagined Rock And also to a little Book called Popery Arraigned set forth by G. F. and E. H. it not being my present Concern so much to shew the Times and Persons and Manner how by whom and when the Popish Inventions came up in the Apostacy that being upon Record and sufficiently done before as to shew how much they are contrary to the Scriptures of Truth and to the Spirit of Truth by which those Scriptures were given forth and how many professing Christianity and Reformation from Popery are yet found in them and in an Antichristian Spirit and how they may know the evil thereof and come out of them that they may enjoy the pure Life of Christianity which is more than Profession thereof Herein several Popish Inventions and Practices are very little or none Treated of yet comprehended being contrary to the Scriptures of Truth and the Witness of God in every Heart in them who truly take heed to it will Testifie against them such as their Worshipping of Images and Pictures and Relicks and Bones of the Dead and praying to the Dead and for the Dead and counting their Prayers by Beads as if they thought like the Heathens of which Chirst spake that they should be heard for their much speaking or babling with their Mattens and Letanies and their Idle Complements and giving of Flattering Titles c. and also their being divided into many distinct and different Orders and Sorts of Monks Friars and Jesuits and yet they plead or cry up Unity and also their Orders for Barbarian Praying wilfully in an Unknown Tongue and their not permitting to the People the Scriptures of Truth in their own Language which were publick amongst the Primitive Christians who searched them daily and found great Comfort by them and the Apostles and Holy Men of God wrote in a Known Tongue or Mother Tongue to whom they wrote that all might understand them and be edified by them in the Spirit of Christ by which only the Scriptures of Truth may be truly understood And so I commit thee to the Word of God's Grace which is the Light or Manifestation of the Spirit of Christ in thine own Heart by which only thou mayest be made sensible to understand aright the Things that Concern thy Everlasting Peace and Happiness who am a Well-wisher to all Mankind H. M. THE CONTENTS COncerning the Prevailings of Antichrist and his being manifested in the Primitive Times of Christianity and the Prophesies of him from Page 1 to 32. Concerning the Power of Antichrist and also concerning Freedom from Sin and concerning the Popes and Babylon from Page 32 to 105. Concerning Baptism and the Lord's Supper and also concerning the Signs of Antichrist and Fighting and Persecution and Tythes and the Spirit that denieth Christ come in the Flesh from Page 105 to 233. Concerning Reformation from Popery and Constancy and Inconstancy to Professions from Page 233 to 251. Concerning the Wonders of Antichrist and concerning them that say lo here and lo there from Page 251 to 258. Concerning the Rock on which the Church of Christ is Built and the Popes pretended Headship and Infallibility and Popish Persecutions from Page 258 to 270. Concerning the Popes pretended Stewardship from Page

which none can obtain the Crown of Life and Salvation and those Crosses that are made of Silver or Wood c. that any Child can carry or those that are made with Water in the Foreheads of Children or others which some Pretenders to be Reformed from Popery yet use And concerning the Invention of their outward Crosses it is Recorded That before the Name of Pope was given or the Bishop of Rome Entituled Universal one Mocarius Bishop of Jerusalem See Socrat. 1 Cap. 6 9. Plat. Polid. Deborus c. was the means with one Helena that the Cross was found in the Year 310. so it seemeth the Apostles and Primitive Christians made no stir about the outward Cross otherwise it would not have been neglected Three Hundred Years And Agapetus Bishop of Rome first commanded People to go a Processioning to follow the Cross in the Year 533. this is contrary to Christ and his Apostles And as the Power of the Man of Sin prevailed those Crosses and other Inventions were more and more esteemed so that in the Year 569. King Conwell had always a Silver Cross carried before him and caused Crosses to be set first upon every Steeple in England And the Days of the Invention and Exaltation of the Cross are to be found in most Almanacks or Kalenders Plat. Pan. Bec. fol. 355. the one being on the Third Day of the Third Month called May which is called Invent. Crucis or holy Cross or Helena's Day because they say she helped to find it and the other is on the Fourteenth Day of the Seventh Month or September which is called Exalt Crucis or holy Cross or holy Rood so they may see not only the Year but the Month and Day of the Invention and Exaltation of their Crosses It were large to write of all the Signs Ceremonies and silly Superstitious Practices which the Apostate Christians upon whom the Power of the Man of Sin prevailed have by degrees as the Apostles Prophesied that they should brought into their Churches so called some instituting one thing and some another in the fallen Wisdom for their outward Gain part of them being derived from the Jews and part from the Heathens and the Inventions or Introductions of them are largely to be found upon Record notwithstanding the strict Inquisitions and Search that hath by the Papists been made for the destruction of such Books where is to be found the Authors Names and the Times when they were first imposed upon and received by and amongst them called Christians witness Eusibius lib. 5. Aug. lib. de Haeres Becon's Works Hospinian de Orig. Temp. Pageon of Popes Acts and Monuments and many others And at the dawning of the Day of God which is breaking forth upon the Nations Cant. 2.17 and the Shadows of the dark Apostacy are flying away many being Convinced by the Light of Christ in their Hearts concerning the Vanity of many of the Superstitious Popish Ceremonies as well as of their destructive Doctrines Tenets and Practices they in following and minding the Light which had Convinced them they upon good ground separated from the Papists and protested against their Abominations and so according to what they knew made a Reformation and were called Protestants And at that time great was the Work of God in bringing many in some measure out of Babylon the City of Confusion wherein many had long been held in Captivity and for bearing the same Testimony that the Protestants then bore against the Invented Idolatrous Ceremonies Signs and Superstitious Practices of the Times had suffered greatly under the Popes Usurped Exalted Power and under his Subjects the Apostatized Christians and many had been Murdered And those that in their Day and Time answered and obeyed the Light that in their Hearts convinced them of their own Sins and also of the Errour and Superstition of Popery and continued to the end in sincerity of Heart answering the Requirings of the Lord according to what he made manifest to them in their Hearts they laid down their Heads in Peace with God who preserved them in their Exercises to their endless Comfort and to his own Praise But many by negligence in not answering the Lord according to what he made known by his Light in them were prevailed upon by the deceit of the Man of Sin to rest as satisfied with the Form of the Protestant Worship and Religion and with the Pleasures Riches and Honours of the World and so rested short of the Possession of the Life and Power of Godliness and Christianity though they held the Profession and Name of Christians and Protestants and such rather went backwards towards Popery again than forward towards a full Reformation from it For though there was a denying and a protesting against many Popish Ceremonies and Superstitious Practices and a denying of the Pope their Head and the Head of the Romish Church which was well so far for Christ is the Head of his Church which is his Body and he ought to rule and sway by his holy Light Power and Spiritual Scepter in the Hearts of People yet many that professed Christ and Reformation from Popery they would not that he should rule over them but they desired to rule over others for when they that reckoned themselves Ministers of the Reformed Churches became setled in their Benefices Tythes and other Incomes then they assumed to themselves great Names and Titles as the Most Reverend and Right Reverend and Reverend the Archbishops and below them the Reverend Lord Bishops now the Title of Reverend implieth that they are to be scared and worshipped and honoured and Archdeacons Deans Doctors c. yea and every Parish Priest can claim or assume to himself the Title of Rector which is Governour or Ruler of his Parish and so they call themselves Governours or Rulers And how the Parish Priests which are but of the Inferiour sort have ruled by Force and Cruelty like the False Prophets and Shepherds of old Ezek. 34.2 to 17. who did eat the Fat and cloathed with the Wooll and killed them that were fed but fed not the Flock and how they have Persecuted Sued at Law and Imprisoned them that could not receive them for Ministers of Christ nor pay them for their Preaching though they heard it not and how Cruel they are and have been for their Tythes and Wages it is very manifest and well-known to many in these Nations But the true Ministers of Christ over and in whom he governeth by his Light and Spirit 1 Pet. 5.1 2 3 4. 1 Cor. 9.16 to 20. 2 Cor. 4.3 to 18. Mar. 10.42 43 44. Acts 20.35 they do not so but serve Christ their Master Ruler and Governour and are really Servants for his sake as he said to his formerly that they should not be as the Rulers of the Gentiles that exercise Lordship over them but said he Whosoever of you will be the chiesest let him be servant of all And said he Freely ye have

used and for meeting together to Worship God in his Fear Spirit and Truth and they were Imprisoned and extream hardly used in so much that in their Petition to the Parliament they reckoned the Cruelty of their Persecutors to exceed the Cruelty of the Heathenish and Popish professed Tyrants and Persecutors and said The Records of the Heathen Persecutions under Nero Trajan Decius Galienus Maximinian c. could scarcely afford any Examples of the like Cruelty that was used to them they craved but the liberty either to die openly or live openly in the Land of their Nativity and many of them ended their Days in loathsom Prisons And Six of them were put to Death Sealing their Testimonies with their Blood whose Names follow viz. Henry Barrow and John Greenwood who were Executed at Tyburn John Penry at Thomas a Waterings near London William Denis at Thetford in Norfolk and one Coppin and one Elias at Edmundsbury in Suffolk And it appeareth by Records that the Chief Instruments of their Death was the Clergy and not the Queen for one Doctor Rainolds being by Queen Elizabeth much pressed to tell her what he thought concerning the said Barrow and Greenwood at last told her That he was perswaded if they had lived they would have been Two as worthy Instruments for the Church of God as hath said he been raised up in this Age then the Queen sighed and said no more But afterwards being near the place of their Suffering and calling it to mind she demanded of the Earl of Cumberland who was present at their Execution what an End they made he answered A very godly end and prayed for your Majesty and the State And there was a Famous Preacher one Phillips having seen and heard Barrow's Speeches and Preparation for Death who said Barrow Barrow my Soul be with thine And after Queen Elizabeth's Decease in the Reigns of King James and King Charles the First many called Puritans c. suffered greatly and some for no other Cause but for refusing to join with the publick Worship Established by the Bishops and for separating themselves from the Church of England were Banished the Land of England And this is observable that the Long Parliament in the Year 1644. denying the Common prayer Book and by an Assembly of Priests setting out a Directory for Publick Worship the generality of the Priests then Conformed to that calling the Common-prayer Book Popish Rags of Rome Dregs of the Whores Cup and the English Mass c. And when Oliver Cromwell was made Protector he took Course in the Year 1653. for the Glergies Recovering their Tythes and other Dues as they pretended and many of the People of God who were led by his Light and Spirit to testifie against Tythes and to deny to pay them because they could not uphold what Christ came to pull down and were also made willing with the hazarding of their Lives and Estates to preach the Everlasting Gospel of Christ freely in Sincerity and Truth denying to join with their Man-made Hypocritical Worship and telling them plainly that if they repented not God would overturn them as it came to pass many such then suffered deeply by and under their Cruelty who through Killing and taking Possession were come from a suffering state themselves into high Places of Earthly Authority where being setled they soon forgot their own Sufferings and their Covenants and Vows made to the Lord therein and trod in the Antichristian and Popish steps of Persecution themselves of whose Cruelty both Old England and New England are Witnesses but the Lord preserved his People in Constancy and Faithfulness to him in their great and many Sufferings But notwithstanding all the aforesaid Reflections against Popery and the Common-prayer Book when King Charles the Second was Restored in the Year 1660. and the Common-prayer Book enjoined again how generally it was received and entertained of the Clergy is yet fresh in the Memories of many and how the strictest sort of them in Times of Persecution joined with it again or crept into Corners and ran from their Assemblies upon the sight of Informers or the like it is very well known whereby it appeareth they themselves who contended against the true Light and the Faith that is in it thought their own Faith not worth suffering for as really it is not and so they could not abide Persecution But in Times of Toleration for Liberty of Conscience those would numerously appear in publick again though when a Storm of Persecution arose as in the latter end of the Reign of King Charles the Second then few of them durst appear But when King James the Second began his Reign and proclaimed Liberty of Conscience which is desirable to all People which hitherto continueth and is now by Act of Parliament confirmed then and since then the Corner-creepers have bodly appeared in publick again By what is premised it is plain and evident that they who were prevailed upon by the power of the Man of Sin the power of the Devil and of Darkness to disobey the Light the Word of God's Grace and Power in their own Hearts whatever they might profess of Christianity yet they went in the Way of the Man of Sin and as they persevered therein he came to be exalted in them over all that is called God and so he made them Liars Persecutors and Murderers like himself who was a Liar and a Murderer from the beginning and such could turn as the Times turned from one Religion or Profession to the contrary to and fro any whither to save themselves and their worldly things with which the God of the World hath blinded their Minds lest the Light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God 2 Cor. 4.3 4 5 6 7. who is Light should shine in them And also it is plain and evident that they that faithfully obeyed the Light and Spirit of Christ in their own Hearts they resisted the power of the Man of Sin in themselves and through Faith in the Word of God's Power in their Hearts were in good measure made Conquerors over the power of the Adversary in their Hearts and to the Honour of God through the same Faith and Obedience of his Light they were enabled patiently to undergo what their Antichristian Persecutors the Members of the Man of Sin were suffered to inflict upon them which was not only Imprisonment and loss of outward Enjoyments and Possessions but also to many Death it self they would rather part with Goods and Life and all than lose their Heavenly Treasure which God had given into their Earthen Vessels the Excellency of which Treasure and Power is of God and out of the sight of all those who disobey the Light of Christ in their Hearts And so they in whose Hearts God who commandeth the Light to shine out of Darkness hath shined to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ who not