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A90952	An answer to Grifith Williams Lord Bishop of Ossorie his book, intituled, The great antichrist revealed, never yet discovered, and proved to be neither pope, nor Turk, nor any single person, nor any one monarch or tyrant in any polity.	Pressick, George.; Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672. Great antichrist revealed, never yet discovered, and proved to be neither pope, nor Turk, nor any single person, nor any one monarch or tyrant in any polity.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3294A; ESTC R182040	110,354	119

and after he hath done all he may go to Hell for his pains being all that he did was but an outward form a husk or Hell of godlinesse denying the power thereof and both the Pope and his instruments with all the means they can use labour to hinder the power of godlinesse in others and bind men to outward conformity of humane inventions and not divine institutions there is no favour of Heaven nor Heavenly things amongst them but all manner of abominations Covetousnesse Hypocrisie Ambition Pride Tyranny Murthers Treasons witnesse The Gunpowder-plot poysonings Sorcery Inchantments Necromancy Witchcraft Conjuration Delutions Idolatries Superstitions Adulteries Fornications Sodomy Incest Exercismes Perjuries Crouching Crossing Washings Pilgrimages Numbring prayers upon Beads with false Spittle Oyle Holy Water Crisme Crucifixes Agnus Dei Crosses Reliques Images Altars Penance Intercession to Saints c. with a number more the like and which even the best of them their Popes Prelates Cardinals c. have been exercised in all these things and these are their Devotions which consists in outward bodily exercise which an Hypocrite or reprobate may do yea and hath done much more all which shewes that they are carnal earthly sensual and divilish For though he have two Horns like the Lamb he pretends fair in outward shew but he spake like the Dragon for verse Second The Dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority his Throne is the Seven hilled City of Rome his power and authority by which the Pope doth act the Holy Ghost saith plainly It is not from God but from the Devil the Dragon for from whom else can these works named above The Pope hath his power throne from the dragon and the like proceed but from the Devil he speaks like the Dragon in deed in all his words and doctrines and his works declare from whence and from whom they come all his false Doctrines and lying Miracles and unwritten Traditions and service in an unknown Tongue and prayers in a Language not Understood by them that pray and the like you see here from whence the authority came that sets up that kind of Worship and Service Chrysostome in his 48 Hom. what is it saith he that Antichrist shall not attempt he will pretend the works and offices of Christ to serve himself of Christ and to fight against Christ under fair pretences to introduce his pernitious traditions upon Christians for their practise And he did all the first Beast could do before him and he caused c. in which Text is shewed that this second Beast the Pope by his Ecclesiastical Authority and Jurisdiction he could doe all that the first Beast could do by his civil Authority but we must take notice that he hath his power from the Dragon as well as the first Beast both their power is from him and are both as one in the largenesse and extent of their power for their power is both included in this second beast as you have heard in regard of his double power and Jurisdiction which he exerciseth whereby he was able to doe all that the first Beast did before him even in the sight and open view of the whole Empire And he caused the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the Beast whose deadly wound was healed that is Papists worldlings and Counterfeite Christians to worship the first Beast to receive and set up Superstitious and Idolatrous worship such as the Heathen Emperours had only it changed the name for the Popish Superstition and Idolatry is as great as ever the Heathen was and by compelling them to worship the first Beast and not to worship himself is his pretending to Antiquity that he might have the more esteem in the world as if he should say he challenged no new thing to himself but that which his predecessor had left him by inheritance so that though this worship come under the name of Christ yet it is as abominably wicked as was the Heathens for they condemned the true Worship of God and set up false Worship and so do the Popes and labour by cruel Laws and Decrees to force men to their Idolatry and false Worship and humane Inventions To Worship the Beast whose deadly wound was healed in these words the Holy Ghost speaks of a second Condition of the Beast whereby his first dignity had been somewhat diminished by having one of his heads wounded the seven Heads here are the seven Hills of the City of Rome they are also seven Kings Rev. 17.9 or seven Kingly Governments The beast received his deaths wound in 415. whereof five were fallen when John writ on his faith he and another is not yet come and when he cometh he must continue but a short space that is until he should have his deadly wound but the deadly wound should be healed the sixth head which then was when John writ was the Heathen Roman Emperours the seventh head was the Government by Popes which began in Constantines time after the Heathen Emperours was removed the short space that he continued after he came before he received his wound First by Alaricus about the year 415. wherein he took Rome and wasted it which Hierome speaking of saith That the most glorious light of all the world was put out yea the Head of the Roman Empire was out off or as it is in the Text The head was wounded as it were to Death The whole world saith Hierome was undone in the destruction of one City and in another place he saith That City which vanquished the whole world was vanquished I said before that Antichrists Kingdome began at the Councel of Nice about the year 328. so 〈◊〉 the time of his continuance before he received this wound was about 87 years which was but a short space in comparison of the time that he hath raigned since his wound was healed but Rome was taken again after this by Adulphus who gave it such a deadly blow that he began to advise with himself about changing the name thereof and to call it Gothia Rome was taken the third time by Gensericus the vandal and the foutth time by Odoaces Rugianus who reigned there 14 years but Theodorecus King of the Gothes killed him and Totilas followed after him in a certain order of succession and he destroyed it and brake it down the fifth time and brought it to such desolation that it is said there was neither man nor woman found in it for 40 days who would not have thought but that the seven hilled City had been utterly perished who would not have thought but that the Popes dignity that is the seventh head but that it had seen his last and utter decay for it was now at that time wounded as it were unto death whereupon it was that the Bishops of Constantinople and Ravina supposing that the authority of Rome had been quite overthrown they strove to appropriate the dignity to their Churches as if they had been the

next heirs thus it appears that not one Jot or Title of the word of God shall not faile until all be fulfilled for though the City of Rome was the Mistresse and Queen of all the World yet by the invation of the Gothes Vandals and Hunnes she had a fearful downfal yea more then any other City being so determined of God to fulfil this Prophecy that after Antichrist did come he should continue but a short space before he should have a wound as it were to death Now my good Lord Bishop I think I have shewed you several Texts that Prophesied of Antichrist which was never fulfilled by the Long parliament nor Presbyterians c. nor cannot properly be applyed unto them But this deadly wound was healed after the space of 132 years about the year 547. in Justinian the Emperour his time by means of the Prowesse and Valour of Bellisarius and Narses The beasts wound was healed in 547. the Gothes were never so shattered the Emperour played the Phisitians part in good earnest for he first took away bad humours by repressing the Barbarians and utterly destroying them and then he powred in Wine and Oyle for that decree in the Novel constitution of Justinian being 131 in number was instead of a soft healing plaister we decree according to the decrees of holy Synods that the most holy Bishop of old Rome is the first and principal of all the Priests how greatly was the wound healed up by this decree that seemed to be a deadly wound saith Mr. Brightman Thus it doth evidently appear that the Beast that had the wound of a Sword and did live is the Pope the great Anti-Christ of Rome of whom it is said in the 15. verse of this 13. Chapter that it was permitted unto him to give a spirit unto the Image of the Beast so that the Image of the Beast should speak after this beasts deadly wound was healed men began to adore this Beast like an Idol his affliction did not reform him but he returned to the Idolatry and superstition of his Predecessors so that his Idolatry was a lively Image of the Idolatry both of former Popes and of the Heathen Emperors Idolatry and he caused them that dwelt on the earth to make the Image of the Beast that is to commit the same Idolatry and it was permitted unto him to give a spirit to the Image of the Beast that it should speak that is it is made to speak by the whole Crew of the Popish Clergie crying up the Antiquity of the Roman Church of their Doctrine and Ceremonies and traditions as received from the Apostles though the Apostles were strangers to such things and knew nothing of them but it would avail the Pope but little to erect such an external way of Idolatrous worship with so many Ceremonies and vain humane Inventions If it were not for his Clergy his Locusts and Frogs that are in such multitudes in every Countrey that puts life in this Idol or Image by their terrible threatnings and Excommunications against all that shall dare to mutter any thing against their holy Father the Popes proceedings affirming him to be the universal Bishop Christs Vicar and Peters Successor and that he cannot erre therefore his Decrees Cannons Injunctions and constitutions are to be received and obeyed as divine Oracles upon pain of damnation so that he deceives saith verse the 14. them that dwell on the earth and causeth that those that will not worship this Image should be killed as many thousands have been for denying that Idolatrous worship thus these Instruments with their threatnings and delusions put life into their Image-worshiping and all other their Idolatries You shall hear what delusions and Idolatrous means they used just about this time of healing the Beasts wound Chosroes a great Tyrant destroyed Antioch with Sword and fire Seleucia Daphne and came to Apamia whereon Thomas a Monck was Governor of the Church the people were all in expectation of death and Thomas saith the Story brought forth the wholsom and lively Crosse and set it before them all to the end they might behold and embrace it when their last hour came for therein saith the story the only health of man consisted and now taking their Voyage into another world they might have the reverend Crosse for their way-fair to safe conduct them into another Soil Thomas lift up his hand and let all see the wood of the Crosse whereby the old Curse of Sin was wiped away Oh cursed Idolatry to ascribe the looking upon a piece of Wood a means to wipe away sin I could shew several more such passages even about that time See Evagrius Book 4. Chap. 25. As the Vision at Sergiopolis and of the Picture which they feign God himself made and not the hands of man which Picture say they Christ sent to Agbarus when he desired to see Christ which Picture the People of the City of Edessa drew through a Ditch between them and Chosroes Army that besieged them into which Ditch they conveyed water See here Popish delusions the which Water set the besiegers Works on fire if you will believe the story See the former Book Chap. 26. Thus Antichrist and his Agents makes fire to come down from Heaven in the sight of men as it is Revel 13.13 Also of Barsanuphius the Monck that shut himself up in a Cabbin fifty years and was never seen of any man not never took sustenance and of Simond the Monk and also of the Hebrew Boy Chap. the 35th of the same Book of whom they report that the remainders of the Sacrament which they call The Body of Christ at Constantinople their Custom was to give it ●o Children which went to School among which was a Hebrew boy who had share and tarrying longer than ordinary his Father examined where he had been and what he had done who when he had related his Father took and threw him into the firy Furnace where he made his Glasse the Mother sought the Child and could not find him the third day being spent with lamenting and weeping for her Child sitting in the shop door as she sighed she called the boy by his name who answered her out of the fiery Furnace the Mother burst open the door and spied her Child in the middle of the hot burning coals and yet preserved from hurt by vertue of the Crums of the Sacrament of the body of Christ that he had eaten if you will believe Popish stories All these delusions were feigned about the time of healing the Beasts wound which served very well for his purpose to have the Image of the Beast worshiped It is said by some that the Roman Heathen Emperors assumed to themselves not only the Dignity Royal but also pontifical calling themselves Sovereign high Priests but this was but a dead Image without life but when once the Pope came to exercise both the Emperial and Ecclesiastical power he put life into this dead and

of Popes who doth exercise both Civil and Ecclesiastical power and jurisdiction and so is the eighth and yet one of the seven because of his double authority the Angel speaking of these seven Heads that five were fallen before John writ and one is which was the government of the Heathen Emperors that was the fixth he doth not say and the seventh is not yet come for that might have implyed that the seventh should have been a Civil Head only as the other six were but he saith and the other or another is not yet come implying that he should be another of a divers nature differing from all the former Kings for they only were Civil Governors but this seventh should be of a mixt kinde he should be both a Civil and an Ecclesiastical Governor in respect of which Ecclesiastical Government he is said to be the eighth and one of the seven as the Ecclesiastical and Civil Governments are both included in one person therefore the Christian Emperors cannot be understood to be the seventh head because their Government is only Civil therefore cannot properly be said to be the eighth and one of the seven neither had they their seat at Rome the seven hilled City where the former six Governed from all these Prophecies that I have touched upon and opened in a slender manner yet as well as I can I think it will evidently appear to the impartial Reader that the succession of Popes is the Beast and great Antichrist and Man of sin and Son of perdition that exalts himself above all that is called God c. and is the great Antichrist that was to come into the world much more might be said but I hasten to another business The ANSWER to part of Bishop Williams his Book called The great Antichrist revealed before this time never discovered By GEORGE PRESSICK IN the 6 first pages of his Book he endeavours to possess the Reader that the persecution in these late daies of the Long Parliament c. did exceed in cruelty the persecutions in King Henry the eighth and Queen Maries daies I answer and do confess that in reference to his Majesty both King Charles the first and King Charles the scond it did exceed the former for King Henry and Queen Mary were not persecuted but they were the chief causers of the persecutions but what he saith to the persecution of any others I think moderate men that are not oversway'd with prejudicate opinions they will say that the persecutions that was in these late daies was much inferiour to that in King Henry the eighth and Queen Mary's daies when the Bishop of Canterburie Bishop Ridley Bishop Hooper Bishop Latimer and Bishop Farrar of Saint Davids all five Bishops were burned to ashes also long time after their death the bones of Martin Bucer and Paulus Phagius were taken out of their Graves and burnt and the body of Peter Martyrs Wife taken out of her grave and baryed in a dunghil by Cardinal Poules order the year One thousand five hundred fifty seven bloudy Bonner himself in three years condemned three hundred Christians to the fire what was there then in all parts of the Kingdom it would amount to some thousands did ever any man before you except he were a Papist say as you affirm in your fourth page that these Bishops and other Martyrs in King Henry and Queen Mary's daies were used after a far better manner and were more justly proceeded against and more fairly handled and less cruelly dealt with than others were by the Long Parliament c. these it is true plundered and cast out of part of their estates but the others suffered flames of fire and their whole estates confiscate c. mistake me not I come not in the least to excuse them for it is granted they were too cruel but my aim is if you will not be made sensible of your own mistakes yet to endeavour to make others sensible of it because I would not have all nor any thing that you have written in excuse of the Pope the great enemy of God and of his Church to be believed for if you had not excused the Pope I had held my peace and should not have troubled my self nor others In the seventh and eight pages he saith that the prevalent faction of the Long Parliament did move him to settle his thoughts to search the Scriptures that foretold of the coming of the great Antichrist and to pray most earnestly night and day for the help of Gods grace and Spirit to guide him in the true understanding thereof and by reading the best Authors to help him in the same I answer I will not say much of what force his prayers might be but the Tree is known by the fruit and when men obtain the thing prayed for or somthing equivolent to it they have ground of comfort that their prayers are heard but as I said in the beginning som men are like Iohanan c. 42. of Ier. that resolv beforehand that thus and thus they will do and then they go and pray though they intend not to alter their Resolution for though he prayed to understand the meaning of such Texts by reaping the best Authors yet in his 24th page he says Mr. Mead Doctor Hamond the Magdeburgenses Calvin Beza and in another place the Author of the Revelation unrevealed and saith he found many good and probable arguments produced by them and Luther Iuneus Chytreus Tilenus Mouresius Powel Whitaker Tomson Brightman Downham and many others whom he saith do unanimously affirm Rev. 17.5 that Text mysterie that great Babilon the mother of Whoredom and Abomination of the earth is the same with 1 Pet. 5.13 the Church that is at Babylon and is interpreted-by the Ancient Fathers to signifie Rome as Papius Eusebius Tertullius Adversus Iudeus S. Hierom Augustin and divers others of late Writers Here you see the names of above twenty Authors and saith them and divers others besides that he hath read and finds many probable arguments from them all and prays that by reading of Authors he may be helped in his work yet observe the fruit of his Prayer for he saith he must crave leave to dissent from them and all others as he saith in the 43d page of the second part of his book and that you may know what his Opinion is and wherein he dissents from all men I will set down his own words in that place When saith he by the Wars of Alaricus The Bishops dissent from all other Authors and in what in the year 410. and of Attalas in 451 and Gensericus in 455. Heathenism and Idol-worship was fully destroyed in Rome and Christianity became victorious I desire the Reader to consider what truth can there be in what he here saith that Heathenism and Idol-worship was fully destroyed in Rome and Christianitie was victorious at this time when Rome was in the hands of bar barous Heathen Idolaters as the Goths Vandals and