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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19290	The danger of popery: or, A sermon preached at a visitation at Ashford in Kent vpon 2. Thess. 2.12. Wherein the marks of antichristianisme and signes of truth are opened and applied, and the question of the sauing and damning of thos. that follow Antichrist is explanted by the Scriptures. By Robert Abbott, preacher of the Word of God at Cranebrooke in Kent.	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1625 (1625)	STC 57; ESTC S115232	25,712	50

Church into 3. periods the first which went before Antichrist wherein there was nothing decreed or receiued as a doctrine of faith which is not ours the second wherein by degrees Antichrist came vnto his highth and in which some pleaded for Christ and more for that man of sinne the third wherein Antichrist beganne to decline in the second darke and leaden times the Church of Rome thorough the whole Hierarchy of it did swell with titles which was accompanied with the ruine of mens soules Let vs take heede in time Pride we see hath bin a miserable Symptome twice Oh thou chiefe Shepherd of our soules driue it and keep it from vs and work our hearts highly to esteeme rather the flourishing of the Church by solid and powerfull preaching and catechising euen amongst the poorest of Gods people Let our second coppy be holinesse to the Lord vnto our people If holinesse to the Lord becomes Gods house for euer why not his neerest seruants As therefore the Iewes in the preparation to their passeouer did for foure houres Godw. Moses and Aaron lib 3. cap. 4. pag. 135. Christ Syn. search out all leuen out of their houses and then for two houres cast it out of their houses and lastly curse all the leuen which they had not seene and could not finde so let all the Priests of the Lords house be carefull to search to purge and to execrate all the leuen of wilfull and raigning sinne and to oppose and mortifie the least sins that we may be Priests after Gods owne heart as Ieremy speaketh Let Popish Priests bee eminent for a Player-like grauitie and holinesse so long as they are acting their massing part but let vs be starres in Gods right hand hauing an inward principle of the light of holines in vs from Christ and shining forth holily vnto others not onely in the pulpit and prayer but in our whole course What would we answere to such Colossians as should say to Archippus Thou that teachest Col. 4. 17. another teachest thou not thy selfe thou that Rom. 2. 21 22 preachest a man should steale doest thou steale thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery doest Vers 23. thou commit adultery thou that abhorrest idols committest thou sacriledge thou that gloriest in the Vers 24. Law thorough the breaking of the Law dishonourest thou God For the name of God is blasphemed amongst the Gentiles thorough you Let vs tell our consciences plainly haue we another way to heauen then we teach our neighbours Take heede I say take heede amongst all that were accessary to Christs death the blacke gowne I meane Iudas was punished first Therefore labour against vnholinesse pray against it and fast against it And oh that it might be the glory of the Church of these times to procure publike fastings and prayings as other Churches haue against all our sinnes What though it be a time of reioycing in regard of our blessed King and gouernment Yet anoynting the face doth not mis-become a fast nor I thinke publike thankesgiuing a day of humbling Physitians haue their preseruatiues to preuent diseases as well as their cures when they are come Seeing then it cannot but pitty vs to see Syon in some places in the dust to see the holy Temple defiled Gods enemies Psal 79. 1. to laugh when the blood of his Saints is Ps 80. 5 6. shed like water and they remaine are fed with the bread of teares and haue giuen them to drinke in great measure to see Antichrist roare in the Idol Masse in the midst of their congregations and to set vp the signes and marks of the beast And lastly to see the plague whereby God doth most immediatly triumph in iustice ouer his enemies to begin to set footing againe amongst vs seeing I say wee see these things whose heart doth not hunger to make the body more hungry and that not onely priuately but publikely especially considering that our sins euen all our sins as well of the Church as Common-wealth doth call for these or greater miseries vpon vs. I will say but one thing more to my selfe and to you my brethren like me by office to perswade to a greater degree of holinesse and then I end Consider that the person doth much commende and gaine much vpon the affections of the hearers Antichrist commendes it as a principall Champ. of the calling of BB. and Pastors principle that first we must looke to the person teaching before we looke to the thing taught that so they may bring in a seeming formalitie to out-face true doctrine And therefore as when Elishah accused the Israelites of Idolatry they called him bald-pate implying belike that he wanted Iewish formalitie according to the Law because he had that blemish so when we charge the Papists with sinning against the word of God they say that we fayle in histories and customes in our entrance But truly this is a silly ground thus to imbrace persons before doctrins For first Christ hath taught vs that what persons so euer they are if they build vp the kingdome of Christ they must goe on For when Iohn complained to him saying Master we saw Mar. 9. 38 39 40. one casting out diuels in thy name which followeth not vs Iesus said forbid him not for whosoeuer is not against vs is on our part Secondly in the New Testament none but the enemies of the Gospel looke more to the persons then to the Doctrine For the Priests and Elders said to Christ By what authoritie doest thou these things and the Synod at Ierusalem aske Peter and Iohn By what power and in what name haue Math. 21. 23. yee done this but of the true worshippers of God we heare no such thing Which I speake not as if Act. 4. 7. ordinarily wee ought not to aske after mens authoritie for this were the next way to leape from the Shop-board into the Pulpit with Brownists and other Sectaries but to shew that Doctrine must be preferred before Persons Thirdly the Eunuch and Lydia did not ill in hearing Philip and Paul without enquiring after their Persons They knew that Christians should not giue an account at the day of Iudgement of the Persons they haue heard but of their obedience or disobedience to their wholesome Doctrine yea they knew that it was better to be led to Heauen by a man of no Pompe then to Hell by a Pope vnder pretence of infallibilitie Lastly most glorious Persons may be full of deceit they that come in Sheepes cloathing may be inwardly rauening Wolues yea Watchmen may Matth. 7. be blinde and dumbe Dogges that cannot barke Es 56. 10 11. and greedie Dogges that can neuer haue enough From the Prophets euen to the Priests they may Ier. 6. 13. all deale falsely yea and there may be a conspiracie of her Prophets as in the Councell of Ezek. 22. 25. Act. 20. 30. Trent in the midst of the Church Thus you may see that it is a silly sleight when Rome would haue vs chiefely looke to the Person teaching before the thing taught yet thus farre it holds that the Person doth much commend the Worke For the Apostle sayd not in vaine Continue in the things which thou hast learned 2. Tim. 3. 14. knowing of whom thou hast learned them that is God yea and it may be me Gods Minister who haue beene in thy Soule by the spirit of Power which hath effectually concurred with my seruice Oh therefore that our Persons may be such that we may sweetly settle our Workes vpon the hearts of those that heare it that when the chiefe Shepheard shall appeare wee may receiue an vncorruptible 1. Pet. 5. 4. Crowne of Glory I will end with Paul I charge thee before God and the Lord Iesus Christ and the elect Angels that thou 1. Tim. 5. 21. obserue these things without preferring one to another and doe nothing partially FINIS