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A89894	A perfect description of Antichrist, and his false prophet. Wherein is plainly shewed that Oliver Cromwell was Antichrist, and John Presbiter, or John Covenanter his false prophet. Written in the yeare, MDCLIV. By Abraham Nelson. And now published with an epistle to the Kings most excellent Majestie.	Nelson, Abraham.	1660 (1660)	Wing N416; Thomason E1044_13; Thomason E1055_8; ESTC R203043	18,065	28

head to be healed by electing another Nobility of his owne Tribe which is set forth unto us by the word Image And well may be called an Image in comparison of the other that was before it But however it must be Worshipped For in the 13. chap. the 15. verse He had power to give life to the Image of the Beast that the Image of the beast should both speake and cause that so many as would not Worship the Image of the beast should be killed And I will shew you more things that this Man of sinne shall doe expressed by Paul his 2. Epistle to the Thessalonians 2. chap. 4. verse it is said there That he shall oppose himselfe above all that is called Gods and are worshipped Now his fore-runner shall be a man of Worship as John Baptist was when he commeth But the Man of sinne shall be a meane Man and no man of Worship neither shall any be proper for him Therefore it is truly said When hee commeth and playeth his Pagents above Kings and great Men on the earth that he exalteth himselfe above all that is called Gods unto whom Worship belongeth And in the first of Paul to Timothy the 4. th and the 3. verse hee saith He shall forbid to Marry that is He shall alter the ordinary practise of the Church of GOD in marriage which was solemnly performed by the Ministers of CHRIST according to Gods word commanding it to be done by those that are no Priests which are Commissionated by his Marke and also upon a penalty of Disinheritance as Bastardizing their posterity Hee shall also command Fasting-dayes and prohibite Festivalltimes which the Church had celibrated as the time of CHRIST'S Nativity his Resurrection and Ascention and the like farre worse then any Pagan But it is more proper to Antichrist's fore-runner which shall come like John Baptist Neither eating nor drinking but with a great deale of temporance and Purity to deceive though it be proper to him what the People said of Iohn That he hath a Devill Now I will speake of Antichrist and his false Prophet joyntly being united to advance each other therefore first of their beginning and so of their growth And that I may make it plaine I will compare the Lord of life and this Messenger of Death together In the 2. of Luke the 46. th 47. and the 48. verses Christ was found of his Parents disputing amongst the Doctors in Gods Temple it seemes to me to be the Puritanicall Pharisees with which hee disputed and which hee calleth so often afterwards to his Disciples Hypocrites giving them command to take heed to them This was the time of CHRIST's beginning and increase to doe his Fathers businesse till he was Baptized in Iordain of John Then being in the full Exercise of his power after his Baptisme hee continueth therein till his Ascention 42. Moneths or thereabouts in all one and twenty yeares And a little before his Suffering Mathew the 21. chap. the 12. verse Enters into the Temple and overthrew the tables of the Money changers and those that polluted his Fathers house hee drave out saying that they had made his Fathers house a denne of Thieves The same time shall Antichrist have till he come to the height of his power that CHRIST had till he was Baptized after which time hee shall thinke himselfe lawfully Installed to his Jesus ship to him and his for ever And as Christ first began his most Gracious worke in the Temple and so continued till he whipt the Prophainers out as aforesaid So shall Antichrist and his false Prophets begin they worke to doe their Fathers businesse in disputing against the true Doctors Professors and worshippers of God in his Churches and Temples till they drive out of Christ's Churches his faithfull Officers and Professors and make them Stables Courts of guard and consequently a denne of Thieves Now it is requisite hee being so perfectly marked out that it should be made knowne what shall become of the Man of sinne and what shall be his judgment It is said in Daniel the 7. th and 11. I beheld then because of the voyce of the great words which the Horne spake I beheld even till the Beast was slaine and his body destroyed and given to the burning Flame And in the 26. th verse The judgment shall sit and they shall take away his Dominion to consume it and destroy it to the end And in the 19. th of the Revelation the 20. th verse John saith That the Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought Miracles with which he designed them that had the Marke of the beast and worshipped his Image these both were cast into the Lake of Fire burning with Brimston But seeing in the same Chapter there is mention made of a whorish Woman which I have a little spoke of before J will touch it a little as it lyeth in the way In the 3 verse John was carried into the Wildernesse and there hee saw the whorish Woman riding in the same Place and upon the same Beast which persecuted the most Glorious woman the Church John seeth a Cup of abomination in her hand and in the 5. verse We saw her Name written in her Forehead Mysterie Babilon the great the mother of Harlots the abomination of the Earth This Woman was drunke with the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of JESVS which made John wonder This Woman shall be the Royall City where the Man of Sinne shall make his Seat and in which the Antichristian Representative body of the Beast and Head of the beast doth Consult and giveth Antichrist that is the Horne his power In the last verse of that Chapter it is said The Woman which thou sawest is the great City which raigneth over the Kings of the Earth sor by their prevalent Power during their Antichristian compliance both by Sea and Land they are said to Raigne over the Kings of the earth And in the 7. verse of the 17. th chap. The Angell saith He will tell Iohn the mistery of the Woman and the Beast that carrieth her And in the 8. verse hee saith The Beast on which the Woman sate was and is n c and shall descend into the Bottomlesse pit and goe into Perdition and they that dwell on the Earth shall wonder whose lives are not written in the Booke of Life from the foundation of the World When they behold the Beast that was and Is not and yet is This Beast shall be Presviter John and the first great Assembly of Republiques that aydes him which was That is hee shall be in great Power when the Man of sinne appeares with his Toleration Hee shall lose his Power and Dominion when the Man of sinne is apparently come and therefore it is said He was and Is not And it is said hee yet is Seeing he shall give himselfe and his Power to uphold the Man of Sinne after which he shall recover his Power and being and

the beast Daniell hath omitted St. John doth describe them more fully He saith that he came out of the Sea he saith he hath 7. Heads and 10. Hornes and upon his heads the Names of Blasphemy This ugly Monster he describes in the 2. Verse to be like a Leopard his Feet as the feet of a Beare and his Mouth as the mouth of a Lyon his Power and his great Authority was given to him by the Dragon And the Dragon is described before in the 12. Chap. and 3. verse to be Red and to have seven Heads and ten Hornes and Crownes upon their heads And J find in the 11. verse of the 13. chap. another Beast described To come out of the Earth having hornes like a Lambe but a terrible speech like a Dragon These two Beasts described by St. Joqn doth exercise their Power to advance each other vers 1● he saith He exercised all the power of the first Beast and caused all that was on the earth to worship the first beast These two beasts be so joyned together in the exercise of their Power and having their power from the Dragon that they are sometimes said to be one But Daniell sets forth this Second beast unto us in the similitude of a horne that hath a Mouth and Eyes chap. 7. verse 8. Now before these terrible beasts appeare in the Earth and exercise their power I find in the 12. chap. and 1. verse A wonder seene in Heaven a most glorious Woman cloathed with the Sunne and the Moone under her feet and Crowned with 12 Starres Shee is also described to be with Child and in paine to be delivered But being in danger to be devoured by the Dragon and his Instruments these ugly beasts God Almighty provides a place for her and takes her Child unto himselfe vers 5. and 6. Now by this most glorious Woman and her Son is most certainly set forth unto us the Estate of the Church of Chr●st and the Sonnes of the Church When these monstrou● Beasts shall appeare for some of the Sonnes of the Church shall lay downe their Lives for the Truth and so is taken unto God Also in the 11. th Chap from verse the 1 till verse the 7. th is most certainly set forth unto us the pure Preaching of God's Word for the Worship and Service of GOD that shall be in the Church of Christ in that place when and where these Monsters shall appeare John is there commanded to measure the Temple of God and the Altar and them that worsh●p therein But is prohibited to measure the Court and holy City seeing it was to be troden under foot by the wicked and prophane 42. Moneths that is 1260. dayes xxx dayes to the Moneth the same time the vertuous and glorious Woman lyeth hid in the place God provided for Her the 12. th Chap. and 6. verse But for his two Witnesses they should prophesie in Sackcloth 1260. dayes these are the two Olive-trees and two Candlestick standing before the God of the whole Earth Spoken of by Zachary the Prophet the 4. th Chap. and 3. verse and the 11. th and 14. verses By these two Olive-trees two Candlest●cks and two Witnesses is set forth unto us the K●ngly and Priestly Officers As also the bookes of the Prophets and Apostles the Old Testament and the New all which shall be in Power and had in Estimation and the Word faithfully taught unto us by his Apostolicall Ministers When and where these monstrous Beasts appeares And it is most certaine that these Monstrous Beasts shall be Enemies to God his Worship and those that feare his Name That is manifest in the 7. th of Daniell the 25. verse for it is said there he shall speake great words against the Most High And in the 13. th Chap. of Revelations the 6. verse and he opened his Mouth with blasphemy to blaspheme his Name his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven Now for the cruelty of this Beast how this Beast shall prosper and what he shall doe and how long he shall continue that is necessary to be shown But of that hereafter But first of all what is meant by the Sea and great Waters from whence this Beast shall come it is expressed Chap. 17. th and 15. verse to be People and Multitudes Tongues and Nations it is also necessary to know where they shall appeare He shall certainly appeare in that place where the most pure preaching of the Gospell of GOD and our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is taught and upholden Both in Doctrine and Discipline by Christ's Regall and Sacerdotall Officers And he shall oppose himselfe against all lawfull Authority This great Beast is certainly the Man of Sinne the Antichrist the Son of Perdition spoken of by the holy Prophets and Apostles But now for the Description of this Man of Sinne the Son of Perdition set forth by the similitude of these Monsters it is necessary to shew Therefore first of the body o● this Beast It is Multitudes of men in the World in Seven severall Nations who will either voluntarily or by force comply to the Man of Sinne. Secondly the Heads of this Beast is Princes and great men in those Nations and sometimes it is taken for the head City where they meet to consult Called the Royall City Thirdly by the Hornes of this Beast is meant the Kings of those Nations whereof one of them hath foure Dominions belonging to him So these foure and the other six maketh seven Heads and ten Hornes Rev●lations the 13. th and 1. verse Daniell 7. th and 7. verse Then Daniell expresseth that he saw another little Horne come up after them Before whom three fell And that Horne is said to be the 8. th Dominion and yet one of the Seven Rev. 17 ch and 11 verse that l●ttle Horne is the Antichristian Horne which by Daniel is said to have Eyes and a Mouth that shall speake high things Now it is to be understood that when this Man of Sinne shall appeare all the seven Nations shall be Christians But he shall arise and make his Seat in one only Nation and in that Nation where the most pure Preachings of the Gospel are both in Doctrine and Discipline and in that Nation whose Head hath foure Hornes that is foure Dominions belonging to it though he doe but exercise the power of Three But upon the appearance of the little Horne the three Dominions which the former King had shall fall to him and the former King shall be pluckt up Dan. the 7. th and 8. verse but of that hereafter Now that Antichrist is set out unto us by this little Horne in Daniell and the Beast out of the Earth in John It shall be apparant by what he shall doe answerable to that which is written of him Also by the Description of his Name and Marke and the first Beast by his Name and the number of his Name Therefore to make it plaine I will shew it more