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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54053	A sober guess concerning several dark prophesies in the Revelation, especially the XI. chapter extracted out of several authors expositors on the Apocalyps / by T.P. Minister of the Gospel.	T. P.	1662 (1662)	Wing P119; ESTC R22458	86,572	208

Luther of error by solid demonstrations out of the Word of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but mainly because his doctrine was contrary to the decrees of Popes c. He doth also charge and command Patriarch● Metropolitans Primats Archbishops Bishops and all other Ecclesiastical Orders downward even to the begging Friar● and then all Kings Electors of the Empire Princes Dukes and so on and at last all men throughout the whole univerful world the very voyce proper and native language of the grand Antichrist on pain of the great Excommunication that they do not embrace Luthers doctrine nor adhere to or favour his person Now the Popes challenged this supremacy in some degree soon after the fourth Century Pope Innocent the first drew all Appeals from other Bishops to the Apostolick Sea according to former Statutes and Customs as be he saith in his Epistle to Victricius Innocent Epist 2. ad V●cori●ium Majores cansae ad s●dem Apostolicam sicut Synodus statuit beata consuaetudo exigit A●no 404 or 406. post judicium Episcopale reseruntur not to speak of their claiming the title of Vniversal Bishop nor yet their assuming the title of Pontifex Maximus the name of the cheif Heathenish Priest among the Romans which dignity many of the Emperors had annexed to their Imperial greatness which Graecian the Emperor first renounced Anno 380 and the rest after him they did about that time plainly arrogate and usurp a judiciary power over Councils and Churches As in the time of Innocentius the first who did sue for and obtained of the Emperor Honorius Priority of place suffrage and censure over all Churches In his time therefore Historians report the Roman Church began to swell with pride and to usurp Jurisdiction over other Churches And this appears by the insolent letter which this Pope Innocent the first sent to the fifth Council of Carthage in which Council the heresie of Pelagius was condemned This Council sent their letters to this Bishop of Rome expressing therein the decree of the Council See Sympsons History of the Church Cont. 5. The answer that this Innocentius returned to this Council was intermized with words of swelling pride as if no decree could be firm unless it had the allowance of the Roman chair Besides they did then claim this prerogative that Appeals ought to be made to the Bishop of Rome from all Churches and he to give the last definitive sentence yea so zealous were they about this time that three Popes Zosimus Boniface Coelestine did in the sixth Council of Carthage in which Saint Augustine was present in the cause of one Appianus who had appealed out of Affrick unto Rome as many had done before not onely challenge the receiving of Appellations from all Churches but also forge a decree of the great Council of Nice which had been almost a hundred years before to support it This was by the Fathers of the Synod indeed then rejected and the pretended Canon found to be forged and spurious yet this was a right by the Popes then challenged Before the Council of Constantinople which some reckon to be in Anno 381. others in Anno 383. Wolphius Lection memorab Tom. 1. p. 131. saith Hoc scilicet tempore gliscebat Antichristus Rome i.e. Antichrist did then begin to appear at Rome c. yea that very Council of Constantinople consisting of 150 Bishops moderated by Nectarius Archbishop of Constantinople did acknowledge the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome onely reserving to the Bishop of Constantinople the second place among the Bishops and immediately after this Council the Bishop of Rome did mightily labour to draw all causes to his own Consistory Morn Mystery of Iniquity p. 40. But this Supremacy they were ambitious of long before as learned Brightman and others observe for in the first great Council of Nice where Constantine was present the Bishop of Rome was not there of whose absence Bellarmin gives two reasons 1. It did not seem convenient that the Head should follow the Members 2. Because in the Eastern Councils always the Emperor was present or his Ambassador who did challenge the first Bellarm. l. 1. de Concil Eccles c. 29. at least material place to himself Lest therefore he should either suffer this or else make a tumult he would not go to the Council but rather sent his Ambassadors Hence Brightman concludes That in the time of this Council the man of Rome though not outwardly and openly Home Romae Brightman Antichrist Nascen Antichrist Crescent Antichrist Re●nant and Triumphant He was the first when he usurped an universal Authority over all Bishops See Dr. Crackinthorp his Treatise of General Councils cap. 13. p. 186. yet inwardly and secretly did lift up himself above all that is called God 2 Thess 2.4 From all which I conclude that about 400 years after Christ the grand Antichrist was not only as a great big Embrio swelling in the womb and ready to come forth but rather as a childe lately born lying in the cradle that it is probable yea I may say more then probable that between 403 and 410 Antichrist begun Object Daniel speaking of these horns intimates that the little horn Antichrist that grew so great should come up after the rest Dan. 7 24. Answ He spake as it were in his preception and observation the little horn rose with the rest but he did not discern it until he considered the horns as is were with a prying eye vers 8. And as it was in the Vision so it was in the accomplishment indeed he rose imperceptibly because the world mistook what manner of Creature he should be No we may rather suspect that Antichrist was up before the Kings the Papacy having such strange appearance of him before any of the Kings sprung up Rev. 17.12 And so some read these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They received power as Kings one hour not with the Beast but after the Beast Thus I have given two Indices or Evidences to prove and that a priori that the 1200. and 60. days are near to a period And so the Earthquake that must ruine the Beast is at hand But there are two other Evidences of it a posteriori which are more certain and more indubitable 1. The slaying of the Witnesses or rather their lying dead in the street of the great City which precedes the great Earthquake which shall be at their resurrection Centemporary with which resurrection as a second Evidence is the pouring out of the fifth Vial upon the throne of the Beast Some think this vial is now about to be poured out for at the pouring out of this Vial this great Earthquake begins and so continues and ends not till the pouring out of the seventh Vial. Of the first of these see the following AN EXPOSITION OF THE XI CHAP. OF THE REVELATION THere are many important things contained in the Revelation of