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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

Judgments Rev. 18.10 God will judge this Scarlet-coloured Beast full of Names of Blasphemy which is ascended out of the Bottomless Pit and shall go into Perdition and also he will judge the Whore the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth who is drunken with the Blood of the Saints and with the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus that sitteth upon the Beast and is arrayed with Purple and Scarlet Colour and decked with Gold and precious Stones and Pearls having a Golden Cup in her Hand full of Abominations and filthiness of her Fornication And God whose Judgments are true and righteous is judging this great Whore Rev. 19.2 which hath corrupted the Earth with her Fornication and he will avenge the Blood of his Servants at her Hand And this great Whore that sitteth upon the Waters which Waters are Peoples and Multitudes Rev 17.15 18 and Nations and Tongues is the False Church that is called Babylon which signifieth Confusion which is that great City which hath Reigned over the Kings of the Earth and certainly all People that are gone a Whoring after any other Lovers from the Teachings Leadings and Guidings of the Light and Spirit of Christ in their own Hearts are within the Empire of this great Whore or of the Beast that carrieth her whatsoever they profess or whatsoever Names and Titles they be distinguished by or whatsoever their Professions be called for all that dwell upon the Earth whose Names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World they all Worship the Scarlet-coloured Beast which carrieth this great Whore Rev. 13.8 Rev. 17.7 16. which must be Burned with Fire and how should their Names be written in the Book of Life of the Lamb whose Life is the true Light in the Heart John 1.4 9. John 12.36 Rev. 21.24 and Conscience in which all ought to believe and to obey it who rebel against his true Light in their Hearts and will not obey it nor walk in it that they might be saved And let all beware of receiving Rev. 13.1 or retaining the Name of the Beast which is written upon his Seven Heads which Name is the Name of Blasphemy which he causeth all to have that sell and buy for he causeth that no Man might buy or sell save he that hath the Mark or Name of the Beast or the Number of his Name so he Excommunicateth out of Church and Market as their saying is all that will not receive his Name of Blasphemy and so he hath caused those that are erred from the true Light in all their several Professions which are his Heads Rev. 17.9 and the Mountains on which the Whore sitteth to Blaspheme against the Light and speak evil of it and to give unto it many Blasphemous Names and Titles and so his Name is a Name of Blasphemy which those receive that are erred in their Hearts from the Light of the Lamb wherein the Nations of them that are saved must walk And they shall have no true rest Day nor Night who Worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the Mark of his Name And so it is a dangerous and destructive thing to Worship the Beast Rev. 13.7 15. to whom power hath been given over all Kindreds and Tongues and People or to Worship the Image of the Beast which hath both spoken and caused that as many as would not Worship the Image of the Beast should be killed And yet all the World hath wondred after the Beast and worshipped the Beast Rev. 13.3 4. saying Who is like unto the Beast Who is able to make War with him And so all that disobey and rebel against the Light of Christ in their Hearts they Worship the Beast and wonder after the Beast and beastliness and filthiness and believe that there can be no overcoming of the Beast nor true cleansing from filthiness before their Bodies possess the Grave which is as much as to say who is able to make War with the Beast And likewise all that receive or pay for anything of that which is called Religion or Worship in any sort of Profession whatsoever for fear of the Threatnings of Men or in Disobedience and Unbelief of the Light of Christ in their Hearts they thereby Worship the Image of the Beast whose Image is Disobedience and Darkness and Cruelty and so all who in any manner disobey the Light of Christ in their Hearts for fear of the Cruelty of Men they Worship this Image of the Beast and must drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God For the Day of God's Power is come in the Light whereof many have believed which hath taught them the fear of the Lord and hath led them in his Way which is strength to the upright Prov. 10.29 Prov. 29.25 where Cruelty of Men cannot hurt them and therefore they fear not Man for the fear of Man bringeth a Snare but whoso putteth his Trust in the Lord shall be safe for in the fear of the Lord is strong Confidence and his Children have a place of Refuge and the fear of the Lord is a Fountain of Life Prov. 14.26 27. to depart from the Snares of Death and from the fear of Man that bringeth a Snare who can but kill the Body and therefore they whose Hands God had taught spiritually to War Psal 18.34 2 Cor. 10.4 Mat. 10.28 and their Fingers to Fight without Carnal Weapons they will only fear God who is able to destroy both Soul and Body in Hell for God's Salvation is nigh them that fear him and the Name of the Lord is their strong Tower into which they run Prov. 18.0 and are safe from the fear of evil And so the Care of the Children of God who have good will to all Men is not to please Man but to please God and faithfully to follow the Lamb Christ the Captain of their Salvation in whose Light they walk Psal 99.3 and in whose great and terrible Name their Confidence is strong and so they are ready and willing to follow their Captain having on the whole Armour of God Rom. 13.12 the Light even the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of his Spirit and the Breast-plate of his Righteousness Eph. 6.11 to 18. and their Loins girt about with Fruth and their Feet shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace and above all taking the Shield of Faith wherewith they shall be able to quench all the fiery Darts of the Wicked And so when the Beast and the Kings of the Earth and their Armies are gathered together to make War against the Lamb Rev. 19.19 20 21. and his Army then shall the Beast be taken and with him the False Prophet who had deceived them that had received the Mark of the Beast and them that worshipped his Image these both must be cast alive into a Lake of Fire burning with

is made manifest by the Light And so all by Examination may prove and try themselves whether they be in the true Faith of Christ which giveth the Victory and so the Apostle advised adding thereunto these Words Know ye not your own selves said he how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be Reprobates Oh! it is a dreadful thing to sell Eternal Happiness for Earthly Trifles and what else is all the Glory of the World as Esau being faint it seems he wanted true Faith he sold his Birthright for a Mess of Pottage and lost the Blessing being hunting abroad Heb. 12.17 and afterwards could not find a Place of Repentance tho' he sought it earnestly or carefully and that with Tears And so let all beware lest they bring themselves into Esau's condition for they cannot find a Place of Repentance when they have sinned out their Day and sold Heaven for a little Vanity And let none hunt abroad like Esau who that while lost the Blessing but every one at home may do well to take heed to the Light though it shine but as in a dark Place until the Day dawn and the Day-Star arise in their Hearts For it it a terrible thing to neglect the Day of the Visitation of the Love of God in and by the Light and Grace of Jesus Christ for he would not that any should perish as Jerusalem did whom he would often have gathered as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her Wings but she would not wherefore Christ wept over her saying Oh! that thou hadst known in this thy Day the things which concern thy Peace but now they are hid from thine Eyes And then he declared of the Wo Confusion and Misery that was therefore to come upon her by her Enemies prevailing over her because she knew not the time of her Visitation Luke 19.41 42 43 44. And so Wo Confusion and Misery will certainly come upon every particular Man or Woman by the prevailing Power of their Enemy the Man of Sin the Power of Darkness who reject the Light of Christ and rebel against it and neglect the Day of their Souls Visitation by it For the Light of Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness is extended to all Mankind to teach People to fear the Name of God that so the Sun of Righteousness may arise upon them and that they may be gathered under the healing Wings thereof as a Hen gathereth her Chickens and so Christ standeth at the Door of Peoples Hearts and knocketh and desireth Rev. 3.20 and entreateth that they may open unto him that he may come in unto them and Sup with them and they with him But all they who reject his Counsel and will none of his Reproof but delight in Vanity and do not chuse the Fear of the Lord who when he knocketh will not open when he calleth will not answer and when he stretcheth out his Hand Prov. 1. refuse to be gathered these may seek him but shall not find him these may call but he will not answer these may cry but he will not hear them And it is not Profession only that will stand any instead though it be of the very Truth it self without Faithfulness to God in the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord which is at hand Zeph. 1.12 wherein the will Plead with all Flesh and stain the Glory thereof wherein he will search Jerusalem with Candles and punish the Men that are settled on their Lees for the Lord by his Light searcheth the Heart and tryeth the Reins Jer. 17.10 even to give to every Man according to his Ways and according to the Fruit of his Doings And now God requireth all People to hear his beloved Son who speaks from Heaven by his Light in their Hearts his Heavenly Voice which Voice from Heaven saith Come out of Babylon my People Rev. 18.4 that ye be not partakers of her Sins and that ye receive not of her Plagues he that hath an Ear to hear let him hear what the Spirit saith And let none refuse him that speaketh from Heaven for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on Earth Heb. 12.25 of how much sorer Punishment shall they be worthy who turn away from him that speaketh from Heaven And they who call themselves Protetestants what sort soever they be of who protest against the Abominations of the Pope and the Church of Rome if they come not to the Light nor bring their Deeds to it that their Deeds may be made manifest by it that they are wrought in God they are yet but in Babylon in Confusion and in Darkness and there they are in the inventing Nature in which Popery first arose and from which sprung their Ceremonies and Ordinances to get Money by and so they are far from the Nature of them who first began to protest against Popery who according to what was made manifest answered the Light in their Hearts and were wonderfully preserved And so they who profess Christianity and are erred from the Light of Christ in their own Hearts and live in Disobedience to it they are walking in the Way of the Man of Sin who is their Leader and Ruler And what need such to call the Church of Rome Babylon or the Pope who is called the Head of it Antichrist or the Man of Sin who are in Spiritual Babylon and subject to the Spirit of Antichrist in themselves For the Papists themselves as they do tell of an Antichrist or a Man of Sin to be revealed of which one of them called Robert Persons in his Book entituled A Christian Directory or Resolution printed Permissu superiorum that is with the Licence of Superiors in the Year 1622 in Part 1. and Chap. 7. and in Page 246. thus writeth That according to the written Prophecies of Ezekiel Daniel Saint John in the Revelation a little before the last General Day of Judgment there shall be revealed the Man of Sin called Antichrist who after the Conquest of many Kings and Kingdoms shall make himself the Monarch and absolute Owner of the World and shall exercise upon good Christians more Barbarous Cruelty and shed more Innocent Blood within the space of three Years and an half which shall be the term of his outragious Tyranny than all other Enemies of God have done from the beginning In which Words the said Robert Persons writes as if the Man of Sin or Antichrist were not yet revealed or not yet come to his Exaltation but the said Apostle John whom he quotes testified That the Spirit of Antichrist in his time 1 John 4.3 was in the World and that there were then many Antichrists whereby saith he we know that it is the last time Joh. 2.18 And if the Spirit of Antichrist and many Antichrists were then so known to true Christians that thereby they knew it was the last time it must needs follow that Antichrist was in the Apostles time revealed But if

like two or three Berries on the top of a Tree And many were put to Death for their Testimonies about several things and particularly about the Popish Tenet of Transubstantiation before-mentioned for denying that the substance of Bread and Wine by the words of the Priest is Transubstantiated or changed into the very substance of that same Eo●y Flesh and Blood of Christ which was Born of the Virgin Mary and Crucified by the Jews and for saying That the Bread was but a signification and not the Body that Christ suffered in and that the words of Christ whilst in the Body in which he suffered which Body was not the Bread that he gave his Disciples to eat before it was Crucified spoken concerning the Bread to wit this is my Body c. were spoken siguratively and in the same sense that Christ called himself a Vine and a Door c. And for this matter the Papists Burned the Bodies of many Innocent Christians and yet they call'd themselves Christians but were far from the nature of true Christians who cannot render evil for evil and so are far from putting any to Death or Persecuting about Religion And yet this is undeniable that it was a Thousand Years after Christ before their Tenet of Transubstantiation crept in and was generally received by or in their Greek and Latine Churches witness Elfricus his Homily that was Antiently before his time received by the then Papists which the said Elfricus an Archbishop of Canterbury Translated out of the Latine into the Saxon Language which Homily was clear against Transubstantion saying That the Bread or Eucharist is not the Body that Christ suffered in which the said Elfricus and one Wulfstius then Bishop of Sherburn and one Wulfstane Archbishop of York who all had their Calling and Succession in the Roman or Popish Church commanded the Priests to read publickly on Easter Day so called to the common People for their better Preparation or Instruction in the Sacrament as they called it See the Epistle of Elfricus in Worcester Library compared with a Book in the Saxon Tongue at Excester Thus the Man of Sin the Power of Darkness hath drawn his Followers from one degree of Darkness to another for since then in Queen Mary's Days the Papists Burned Hundreds of Men and Women for confessing their Faith that the Bread or Eacharist as they call it is not the Body that Christ suffered in And so they might have Burned many more but the Lord disappointed them and so all Persecutors about Religion must meet with disappointments and God will be the great Reward of the Righteous For they that hearken unto the Voice or Light of Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness Prov. 9.10 which shineth in their Hearts and reproveth for Sin it will teach them the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of true Wisdom Rev. 21.24 and as they faithfully obey this Light wherein they that are saved must walk they shall know the Beams of the Sun of Righteousness to be displayed more and more upon them and shall know that the Reproofs of its Instruction is the Way of Life Prov. 6 2● Prov. 4.8 Isa 35.8 1 John 1.7 and that the Light is the Path of the Just and shineth more and more unto the perfect Day and as they walk in that Way which is the Way of Holiness wherein the Wayfaring Men though Fools shall not err they will know a cleansing from Sin by the Blood of Jesus Christ and so a Fellowship with true Christians who walk in the same Way Jer. 6.16 which as it is a good Old Way so also it is the New and Living Way which Christ hath Consecrated for the Faithful thorow the Vail Heb. 10.20 that is to say his Flesh and such fearing the Name of the Lord they will meet with Refreshment in the Way whereby they will grow as Calves of the Stall Mal 4.2 Mat. ● 5 and they truly hungring and thirsting after Righteousness will come to be satisfied and the Sun of Righteousness will arise unto them more and more with Healing in his Wings that can heal all their Distractions and resolve all their Doubts and hard Questions And the Day is coming and now is broken forth Cant. 2.17 that the Shadows must flee away and the Everlasting Gospel must be Preached again unto them that dwell on the Earth and to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and People and immediately the Voice of the Angel will follow saying Babylon is fallen Rev. 14 6 7 8.9 10. Rev. 17.4 is fallen that great City because she made all Nations drink of the Wine of the Wrath of her Fornication which she handed forth to them in a Golden Cup and the Voice of the other Angel followeth saying If any Man Worship the Beast and his Image and receive his Mark in his Forehead or in his Hand the same shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the Cup of his Indignation and shall be tormented with Fire and Brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb in whose Light they that are saved must walk Therefore let all mark this who receive the Mark of the Cross in their Foreheads or offer their Infants to it or who receive the Eucharist as the Merchants call it or their Bread and Wine in their Right Hands for the Beast would cause all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive his Mark in their Right Hand or in their Forehead and would have no Man to buy nor sell save he that hath his Mark so he Excommunicates out of Church and Market as they say those that will not pay for his marking and if the King of the Country give him Power he throweth them into Prison upon his Excommunication as many in England have experience Now the Mark of the Beast which is the Man of Sin is his Signs for the Apostle Paul said His Coming is with Signs 2 Thes 2.9 and therefore it is good for all to beware that they neither receive nor buy his Signs Rev. 13.15 which is his Mark of those that would compel or cause them to buy their Water-Baptism or their Bread and Wine and tell them that they are outward visible Signs of inward and spiritual Graces for he that receiveth his Mark that is his Signs the same shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God Acts 17.30 for though the Times of Ignorance God hath winked at yet now in the Dispensation of his Everlasting Gospel which is now preached again in this the Day of his Power he commandeth all Men every where to Repent and to Fear God Rev. 14.7 and give Glory to him for the Hour of his Judgment is come and to Worship him that made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and the Fountains of Waters And in this the Hour of his Righteous

received freely give and it is better or more blessed to give than to receive And this is the Knowledge and Practice of the true Ministers of Christ so there is a great difference betwixt them and the Parish Priests And so though the aforesaid Reformers upon good ground denied the Popes Headship and Authority and rejected several of his Superstitious Ceremonies yet the Reformation was but in part and the Reformers though some of them answered what they knew yet came not fully to the Doctrine and Practice and Order of the Primitive Christians as is plain for they retained the Popish Tythes Oblations Mortuaries Surplices Tippets Hoods square Caps and their Bells Pulpits Altars Tables Fonts Organs and Pipes and also they observed the Popish Lent Gal. 4.9 10 11. 2 Pet. 2. 1 Tim. 4 1 2 3. and other Fasting Days and they observed like the Papists and called some Days Holy Days as if others were unholy and a cording to the Papists they also forbad Marriage in Lent and at several other times of the Year and such things were Prophesied of to come in the Apostacy but there is o Ground nor Authority for them from Christ nor from the Scriptures of Truth but against them And they also retained much of the Popish mass-Mass-book only turned into English and some of the grossest Expressions left out which as King Edward the Sixth writing to quiet some in Devonshire that opposed its being Englished said were so fond that it were a shame to hear them in English and they also retained the Popish Letany and Suffrages as they call them and the Popish Order in reading such a Collect and such a Prayer and such a part of the Gospel as they say and such 〈…〉 and such a First Lesson o● Second Lesson and such a Chapter or Psalm on such a Day and others on other Days with several other Superstitions Practices which when setled upon their Lees as some of them were they could comply with and some of them probably being against all or many of these things yet could not get those that had been trained up in the abundance of Popish Ceremonies to come out of them suddenly tho' they might be Convinced of the Folly of them and they that drew back and minded not the true Light that had Convinced were not like to leave them at all And these things are yet retained as Apostolical by many that call themselves Protestants tho' there was none of them practised by the Apostles or Primitive Christians but were since Invented in the Apostacy And some that took heed diligently to the Light of Christ in their Hearts they came to see beyond many things which in imitation of Popery were kept in practice by pretended Reformers and such separated from them upon good ground and so they were called Separatists Fanaticks Puritans and by several other Names And still whatever they professed yet they who not minding the Light of Christ in themselves were prevailed upon by the Power of the Man of Sin their Hearts were darkned and they came not forward out of Superstition nor yet to a Settlement in the Truth as they did who truly followed the Lord in his Light as he was pleased to manifest himself unto them in their Hearts And so there came to be so many sorts of Names given to Professors of Christianity because when any People being further Convinced of any Superstitious Practices left them off and separated from those that used them then presently there was some Nick-name given unto them and such as might be Convinced and Separated with them but not truly minding the Light that Convinced them in their Hearts they lost the true substantial Power and Life of Christianity though they might hold the Form and Profession and Nick-name And when others upon the same good ground separated themselves from amongst those Professors then they soon had some other Name also given unto them And so when any sort of Professors that were in any kind of Form of Worship how many soever they were without the Life and Power of Godliness those amongst them that faithfully obeyed the true Light in their Hearts they could not continue in Unity with them but were in obedience to the Light constrained to separate from them though they might suffer Persecution for it because they knew that the Lord would not accept of them in that dead formal Worship and so they must either leave the dead Worship of their former Fellow Professors or else they should therein become as dead with them again and so be worse than at the first even twice dead as the Apostle said Jude 12. But on the other Hand those who held the Profession but through Disobedience to the Light in their Hearts had lost the Power of Godliness they could turn with the Times and so many that had professed to be Protestants a considerable time when Queen Mary being a Papist commanded that Mass should be sung in Latin again and so should be used in all Churches as they called them in England c. and so set up Popery again as in its Power in England c. then the said professing Protestants Priests and People generally complied thereunto and took an Oath contrary to their former Profession to be true to Saint Peter to the Church of Rome and to the Pope their Holy Father and to persecute to their Power all Opposers saying So help me God and the Holy Evangelists Yet they that took diligent heed to the Light of Christ in their Hearts and were faithful to answer the Requirings of God thereby made known unto them they were preserved constant Witnesses for God against Popery and all the abominable Superstitious Practices thereof as by the Light they were made sensible of the same in that Bloody Reign of Queen Mary under which many of them were persecuted to Death and Burned and Killed by the Blood-thirsty Apostates that called themselves Christians but were Strangers to true Christianity and to the Life and Power of Godliness Notwithstanding after the Death of the said Queen Mary then Queen Elizabeth coming to the Crown and denying the Pope she was Intituled Supream Head of the Church and she with her Parliament made an Act for the Uniformity of Prayer c. with much of the Mass all in English again and then of above Nine Thousand Bishops Priests Deans Prebends Masters of Colledges Archdeacons and Abbots that had formerly sworn to be true to the Pope and Popery there was not above an Hundred and Twenty that refused to take an Oath against Popery so it appeareth that Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Fourscore of the said Nine Thousand that had lately caused to be Burned Hundreds for denying in Queen Mary's Reign to Bow to Popery then refused not to Swear against Popery themselves as History relateth And in Queen Elizabeth's Reign many suffered deeply for testifying against the Popish Superstitious Practices and Ceremonies then by the Bishops Orders retained and

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