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A31512 A vindication of the true Episcopal religion as it was planted and set forth by our Saviour Christ ... / by W.C., student in divinity. W. C., Student in divinity. 1681 (1681) Wing C173A; ESTC R15221 10,285 16

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quite against the Word of God They command Angel worship and the Angel tells John See thou do it not I am thy fellow-servant worship God St. Paul tells the Thessalonians 2 Thess 2.3 Let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except there come a falling awry first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God and so on and then at ver 12. he concludes with these words For this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness The Mystery of Iniquity began to work in the time of Gregory the Great the second Bishop of Rome before Boniface the first Antichristian Bishop The said Gregory writing to the Bishop of Constantinople sharply reprehends him in the words before quoted and he saith also Whosoever shall call himself Universal Bishop or desire so to be called in the pride of his heart is the fore-runner of Antichrist I may by no means omit again to remember you what St. Paul writes to the Thessalonians in the place before cited from ver 1. to 12. of that Chapter upon which St. Austin in his Book de Civitate Dei hath these words This Scripture saith he doubtless is meant of Antichrist And again Truly saith he I am utterly ignorant what others Conjectures are hereof but I will not be silent Some say St. Paul spake of the state of Rome and would not be plainer lest he should incur a slander that he wished Romes Empine an evil Fortune The same Father hath given his opinion That these Words He that withholdeth shall let till he be taken out of the way and then the wicked man shall be revealed are meant of Antichrist No man doubteth saith he that this may not unfitly be understood of Rome As if he had said He that now reigneth shall reign until he be taken away This may be meant of those good Emperors that should be taken away by death and then that wicked Man was revealed Phocas the Emperour of Rome who was the Father of Antichrist and created Boniface the Third Bishop of Rome an Universal Bishop of the Christian World He opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God I shall give you a Definition of the God here spoken of Temporal and Spiritual and first of the Temporal God Moses in one of his Books speaking of the Temporal Gods says I have said you are Gods but you shall die like Men ye Princes shall fall like others Here God is pleased to call Emperors Kings and Princes Gods because they execute Gods Will upon Earth Here the Man of Sin exalteth himself above the Temporal Gods in placing and displacing them at his pleasure he maketh them believe that he can put them into the state of Damnation or absolve them at his pleasure whereas for the first 600 years more than sixty Bishops were subject to their Emperours and Kings and many of them Ordained and Instituted by their Order till Boniface the Third and Phocas that wicked Emperour Again He exalteth himself above the great God of Heaven and Earth Christ refused to be called Good and told them There was none good but God but the Man of Sin the Pope thinks it not a sufficient Honour to be called Good or Holy but Most Holy a Title due to none but the Great God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Here in this very Particular he exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped Again He is so uncharitable as shews he is nothing of a true Christian for he will Excommunicate the Reformed Churches from the highest to the lowest tho he never knew any of them nor their Doctrine or Manners and does his endeavour to send them to Hell tho we know his Power is nothing against our Church Whereas the Great God saith As I live saith the Lord I desire not the death of a sinner but that all should come to repent and be saved And the said Pope the Man of Sin hath Excommunicated all God's Vicegerents of this Land from Queen Elizabeth to our gracious King that now is Here the Luciserian Bishop shews how he exalts himself above all that is called God in Excommunicating Gods Vicegerents when no doubt but many of them may belong to the Election written in the Lambs Book of Life before the Foundation of the World Here the Man of Sin toucheth the Wisdom of the Godhead in putting into the state of Damnation those whom God hath elected for saith the Apostle Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's Elect It is God that justifieth In this he exalteth himself above all that is called God so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God But you will say That the Temple of God was at Jerusalem St. Austustine in his Book de Civitate Dei gives you his Judgment in that In Templum Deum saith he In some Temple of God And he adds It could not be meant of the Temple at Jerusalem because Titus Vespasian had destroyed and sacked it so that there was not left one stone upon another which was not thrown down nor of an Heathenish Idols Temple for that was no Temple of God but he must sit in some Christian Temple which may not unfitly be applied to Rome So he Now St. Augustine and many of the Learned do conclude That St. Paul meant this of that great Cathedral St. Peters Church in Rome which may not unfitly be called the Temple of God because for the first 600 years after Christ Religion did slow plentifully from thence into many Parts of the World as St. Paul speaks in Rom. 1. that their faith was spoken of thorow the whole world And there was Constantine the first Christian Emperour converted to the Faith in whose Reign Arius broached his Heresie in Africa whereof when Constantine heard he said There was no true serving of God without Vnity and Love and thereupon he made a Decree and Sealed it with his own Seal in these VVords I straightly charge and command more than 300 Bishops that you go into Africa and summon Arius and examine his Doctrine whether it be according to the Word of God or no and if not to brand him for an Heretick that it proceed no further as Eusebins saith in his Ecclesiastical History VVhere was St. Peter's Successor the Pope of Rome when Constantine executed his Ecclesiastical Power which Authority has been claimed and exercised by the Bishop of Rome but since Phocas the Emperour and Boniface the Third who was made by that wicked