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A12095	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse laying open the Beast, and his marks. Vpon the 14. of the Reuelations, vers. 9.10.11. By Richard Sheldon, a conuert from out of Babylon. Doctor in Diuinitie, His Maiesties chaplaine.	Sheldon, Richard, d. 1642?	1625 (1625)	STC 22398; ESTC S117172	45,770	62

to affirme the Emperours that are now to haue ought to doe therin independently from the Pope or that they haue any Emperiall Soueraignty ouer Rome no no in the faith of the Pope and his Imperator Presens the present Emperour is but Homo ligius Papae A liege deuout seruant to the Pope Againe to too apparent it is that those Kings and Kingdoms into which the temporal Roman Empire vpon her ruine was diuided did the Dragon putting the same into their hearts yeeld and submit their powers and crownes vnto the Papall State for the support of the same And is it not most manifest that the said Kings and Kingdomes God putting the same into their hearts haue alreadie begun to hate the Papall State to make it desolate to consume it with the fire of the zeale of Gods glory and truth God grant they continue the same vnto the end but should any States or Kingdomes which haue begun in the spirit decline to the flesh yet shall they neuer bee able to make frustrate and void Gods infallible and ineuitable decree of the vtter ruine and fall of the Autichristian State euen as of a milstone cast into the bottomlesse Sea whereof there remaineth Apoc. 17. neither token nor memory And so I adde a fifth proofe The Antichristian State is that State which was to haue Fifth Reason her Sea and to reside in mysticall Babylon mysticall Babylon that Great Citie which is situated vpon seuen Hills that Reu. 17. 9. 4 18 c. Citie which in S. Iohns time had rule and command ouer the Kings of the Earth that Citie which was to be a whore The Antichristian Throne in Rome and Apostata from her first faith by superadding many doctrines of deuills and errors of wicked spirits and yet 1. Tim. 4. was insolently to glory of her euer-in errabilitie and that shee should see no widow-hood that Citie which was to Reuel 17. 2. make drunke with the cup of her abominations pretending to bee the sole mother of Christianitie all the Kings and Ibid. 4. Kingdomes of the Earth that Citie which was to be ruddy with the bloud of Saints those Saints which were to suffer for the testimony of Iesus I interpret for the sole faith of Iesus as the onely meanes of saluation That Citie which Ibid. 5. was to haue the name Mystery written in her forehead full of mysteries professing mysteries making mysteries That Citie which was with honour riches and glory to inrich and make glorious all her Louers and Admirers the Inhabitants of the Earth And are not all these things most punctually accomplished in the Papall State I need not to repeat nor to make any particular application but I say againe and againe are not all these things with all other such like fore prophecied by the Spirit of God against the Antichristian State fulfilled and accomplished in the Papall State which hath its residence in Rome its Throne and See in Rome c. Some of our Aduersaries that so wee may answere an A vaine obiection obiection by the way doe against this reason pretend a very idle euasion they acknowledge that Rome shall bee the Seat of the Antichristian State and of the Beast but Rome Ethnike say they not Rome Christian Rome as it was before the daies of Constantine but not Rome as it is now in these our times O the vanitie of this answere Rome The Answere Ethnike as it was before the time of Constantine is to be the Throne of the Antichristian State and Seat of the Beast and yet in their owne opinions Antichrist is not to come vntill a verie short time before the consummation of the world and then also his reigne in their opinions is to be onely of three yeeres and a halfe continuance O that these wise Sages would informe vs how this their Inerrable and Infallible Papall See so they glory shall become Ethnike and Heathenish By what precursour of Antichrist shall it bee so made Heathenish for the entertaining of the Great Antichrist shall Antichrist himselfe make it Heathenish and Ethnike shall he reare vp the adoration of many Gods the proper character and badge of Heathenisme that they cannot say for they professe vainely that Antichrist shall suppresse all manner of Idolatry hee cannot then be in their iudgements the Author of Heanish Idolatry vaine then and most vaine is their pretended reason Againe like vaine is their answere when they pretend A second euasion that the Beast which shall sit at Rome is not the same with that Beast which arises out of the Sea hauing seuen heads Apoc. 13. and ten hornes For doe they not all confesse that both Answere Beasts doe type vnto vs Antichrist yea the Great Antichrist which Antichrist in all their iudgements shall bee so indiuidually one onely man that herehence they think they haue an inuincible buckler of defence against vs that their Popes are not Antichrist nor the Beast for that they are not one only man but many yea very many a whole Generatinn of men how then can they auoid but that it is one and the same Antichrist which is typed by both the Beasts for if Antichrist typed by both be indiuidually one then of necessitie one and the same State is typed and signified by both the Beasts And if Antichrist typed by the one Beast sit at Rome hee cannot also sit at Babylon vnlesse it bee by turnes or that the faire Beast bee diuided into two parts the one to haue his Throne at Rome the other to haue his seat at Babylon Let it then thus rest proued that the present Papall state is the very Antichristian state typed by the Beast This imputation which is so grieuous and heauie howsoeuer Diuers learned Authors of the Papists Church haue reputed the Papall State Antichristian and of the Beast it may to some as halt betwixt God and Baal for many such medleys these times haue seeme iniurious yet is it not much more then that which some ingenious professours of diuers points of Poperie haue prophetically and couertly heretofore deliuered to the euerlasting confusion of that State Bernard was not farre from the sight hereof for to him in part Gods spirit had reueal●d this truth when as in respect of the infinite abuses of the Papall state hee cries out that the Churches of his times Bernard l. 4. de considerat were rather folds for deuills then for sheep and in his sermon vpon the conuersion of S. Paul hee complaineth that Ser. 1. in Conuers S. Pauli the whole Church of Christianity so I interpret seemed to haue conspired against God yea so conspired that in regard In Psal qui habitat Psal 91. thereof hee is bold thus to pronounce elsewhere It remaineth saith hee that the Man of Sin and Sonne of Perdition bee reuealed not onely the day but the very noone-deuill which is not onely transformed into an Angell of