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A13733 Antichrist arraigned in a sermon at Pauls Crosse, the third Sunday after Epiphanie. With the tryall of guides, on the fourth Sunday after Trinitie. By Thomas Thompson, Bachelour in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods Word. Thompson, Thomas, b. 1574? 1618 (1618) STC 24025; ESTC S118397 246,540 374

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none of these three wonders therefore the Pope cannot be Antichrist And yet he may be Antichrist Sol. although he doe none of these since he may doe other tricks of a maine deceiuer But to answere their argument first we denie the Proposition 1. Proposition false not allowing any of these three to be Antichrists miracles For to begin at the last 3. Miracle till we come to the first Where doe they finde that Antichrist shall fayne himselfe to dye and to rise againe For m Reuel 13.3 the head wounded to death and the deadly wound healed can no way proue either this n Vid. Riberam in locum to be a dying and rising againe since he was but wounded vnto death and yet did not dye being healed of this wound to the wonder of the world which magnified the Dragon for giuing such power vnto this beast whom afterward they worshipped or to be an act of Antichrist who is not signified by the former beast but by the latter as we haue before proued the former o Vid Marlaorat in locum being the Romane Emperour one of whose heads is said to be deadly wounded when the Monarchie beginning in Iulius Caesar p Appi●n lib. 3 de bell Ciuilibus Dio Cass l. 52. was almost cleane defaced againe by his death till Augustus did afterward reuiue it to its former estate and leaue it in a flourishing firmenesse to his successours in whom q Iunium in Apoc. 13.3 being bad men as in those monsters Caligula Nero Domitian Commo●us and Heliogabalus the maiestie of the Empire seemed to be dead where againe in those who made a shew of morall vertue as Tiberius Claudius Vespasian Titus Traian Aurelius Alexander Seuerus Probus and others it flourished to the wonder of all the world which both magnified the Deuill in those heathen gods to whom they with Symanchus r Symmach Epist ad Valentin apud Prudentium Ambros tom 3. lib. 5 Ep. 31. ascribed the continuall prosperity of the Empire and worshipped the Emperours for Gods as ſ Ioh. Rosinus lib. 3. Antiq. Rom. cap. 18. appeareth by their solemne consecrations after their death Againe where the second beast which is Antichrist is said to make the Image of the beast to speake we cannot vnderstand it literally to be spoken of a miracle done by Antichrist who as t Henriq li. 14. cap. 23. § 3. Blas Vi●gas in 13. Apoc. commentar 2. q. 6. Papists do describe him must in setting vp of the Iewish superstitions pull downe all images and therefore will not erect his owne as u Eudaemon lib. 3. in Rob. Abbat pag. 253. Eudaemon speaketh without booke but mystically according to the tenour of the whole Chapter wherein as * Hieronym Epist ad Paulin. Hierome saith there are as many mysteries as words we must take it for an allegoricall description of one of the proudest actions of Antichrist who then made the Image of the beast to speake when eyther he tooke vpon himselfe the like maiestie and authority as the heathen Emperour had before or else seemed to assigne it ouer to the Germane Empire For what had the first beast p Onuphr lib. 3 Antiquit. Rom. in substance of gouerment truly to wit an head who was the Emperour a bodie politike consisting of the Senate at home with his deputies in the Prouinces abroad and a soule or life of soueraigne authoritie set downe in his lawes eyther heathenish in the Digests or Christian in the Code and Authentiques the second beast to wit Antichrist euen the Pope hath apishly counterfeited as he proudly mainteineth in q Vid lib. 1. Ceremon Rom. Eccles sect 1. 2. a like resemblance of Soueraignetie and State both in his owne Court at Rome and in his creature the Germane Empire posted ouer from one noble Familie to another at the pleasure of the Pope For first in his own Court at Rome there is an head with three crownes euen the Pope himselfe not ashamed to tearme himselfe r Bonifacius 8. apud Vrspurg anno 1200. Caesar and Pontifex a monstrous body of a scarlet coloured Senate ſ Vid. lib. 1. Cerem Rom. Eccles sect 8. cap. 4. in the Red-hatted Cardinalls together with his Deputies his Legates abroad and a filthie soule of vsurped authoritie by which this Image speaketh aloud to all the world t Corpus Iuris Canonici in Decretis Grati. Decretalibus Raymundi Sexto Bonifac. 8. Clementinis extrauagantibus correctis à Gregor 12. euen the Canon law set downe in the text of Gratians Decrees Raymunds Decretalls the Sext of Bonifacius Clementine Extrauagants and their latter Constitutions all adorned with glosses plainely painting out the primacie of the Pope both ouer the Spirituall and Temporall state So speaketh this Image by these Parasites one way But secondly u Bull●ng Ser. 6 in Apocalyps if we take this Image for the Germane Empire which in truth is but a shadow of the former Romane Empire as we shall shew hereafter then the language which the Pope putteth into his mouth is but as an idle Eccho resounding abroad what is the Popes pleasure as appeareth by that mutuall accord x Apud Auent lib. 4 Annal. Boiorum pag. 259. c. between the Pope and Franks Pipin Charles the great and others who as they were placed in their Empire by the Pope so set the Pope for Soueraigne in the best and the greatest Segniories of Italie verifying the old prouerbe y Racemus iuxta racemum maturescit Erasm Chiliad tit ●en●at benefic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 since one state by the help of the other came to ripenesse Lastly that fire which they will haue their Antichrist to fetch downe from heauen z Bulling Marlaorat Iun. c. in 13. Apoc. is no materiall or elementarie fire but that brutum fulmen that furious fire of Excommunications thundred out vsually against Miracle 1 such Christian Princes as would not be subiect vnto his desire as by a Plat. in Greg. 2 Gregorie the second against Leo Iconomachus by Gregorie the b Jd● in Greg 7 seuenth against Henrie the fourth by Innocent the c Mat. Paris in Johan fourth against King Iohn by Pius the d Vide Iewels view of a seditious Bull. fifth against Queene Elizabeth to the e Confessio Stanihu●s ad M. Iohan Pellingum Bruxellis Guiliel Barckley de Potest Pap● cap. 31. setting of the Christian world on ●ire and the trouble of Religion within those Kingdomes whither such Bulls were sent euen by the sound iudgement of moderate Papists But honest f Eudaemon li. 3 in D. Abbat pag. 252. Eudaemon will haue this fire of Antichrist to be as true and proper fire as was that of g 2. Reg. 1.9 10 Elias his calling fire which consumed the Captaines with their fifties Ob. Wicked wretch as he is in equalizing and matching the true miracles