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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

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-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

〈…〉 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

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