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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73009	Tvvo sermons delivered at St. Peters in Exeter. By Rychard Pecke, Master of Arts, and minister of Gods word, at Columpton in Devon; Two sermons delivered at St. Peters in Exeter	Pecke, Richard.	1632 (1632)	STC 19522.5; ESTC S104988	46,565	83

the blasphemous dreames of their Prophet Mahomet I appeale to the Occidentall what a notorious reuolt hath there been made from their primitiue faith and purity Is' t not euidence sufficient the vniuersall leprosie of Heresie and impurity that hath so ouergrowne the whole body of the Church of Rome that for these many yeeres not one print almost of pristine soundnesse can be espied Is' t not euidence sufficient those infinite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 superstitious will worships and traditionall inuentions of men that since the first 600 yeeres haue by the vsurpt authority of the Bishop of Rome preuail'd and gotten head in the Westerne Church Is' t not euidence sufficient those innumerable errours not circumstantiall onely but fundamentall and these expresly or consequentially so at least confirm'd now by their Trent Anathemaes as their resolu'd doctrines and the peremptory Tenents of their Church their Iustification by works Popes supremacy and infallibility merit freewill satisfaction supererogation worship and inuocation of Saints purgatory prayers to and for the dead adoration of the Eucharist Transubstantiation priuate Masses pardons indulgences caetera pecora campi in all which haue they not left their first estate palpably deuiated from plain rule of Scripture and fallen from that first Roman faith and worship taught them once by Paul in his Epistle to Romans whereby that Bethel once how is it become a Bethauen now and that City that was once Faithfull now a Strumpet I spare prolixity in a fact so plaine But doe yee see what issue The Apostasie by Paul foretold then hath already been and so one forerunner of Christs second comming passed must wee not henceforth then look for Christ But 2 With this Paul connexeth our second prognostique Signe 2. the reuelation of Antichrist the head indeed of that forenam'd Apostacy when as 2 Thes 2. 3. that day saith he shall not come except first that man of sinne be reuealed that sonne of perdition Now can we haue him brought plainer vpon the worlds Stage plainer discouered then he is already I meane not in 2 Thes 2. Reu. 13. 17. the Turk to whom the great Antichrists description made by Paul and Iohn are not truly competible I meane not in some indiuiduall Iew of the tribe of Dan of a virgin borne by the Deuils helpe to sit at Ierusalem whom Enoch and Eliah forsooth returning from the terrestriall Paradice must buckle with three yeeres and halfe before Christs Comming Bellarmines Chimera But that Beast that Saint Iohn Bellar. De Rom. Pont. lib. 3. Reu. 13. 11 Reu. 17. saw horn'd like a lambe buttongu'd like a Dragon that purple strumpet and whore of Babylon that monster of Luciferian pride mounted vpon the seauen-headed Beast or seauen-hill'd City the Pope or Reu. 17. 7. 9. 18. Papacy of Rome For I demand who 's the Antichrist if not he that sitting in the Temple of God and seated in his chayre of Pestilence couertly at least opposeth Christ in all his offices and exalteth himselfe aboue all Kings and Emperors that are called gods Who 's the Antichrist if not he that being but a silly man yet claimes all power both in heauen and 2 Thes 2. 4 earth makes lawes of his owne to binde mens consciences and dispenseth when hee lists with the breach of Gods that vsurps authority to forgiue sinnes to put downe Kings and dispose of Kingdomes claymes supremacy Monarchicall ouer the whole earth both in spirituals and temporals as Christs Vicar generall on earth Who 's the Antichrist if not he that sets vp a new sacrifice propitiatory for sinne preferres his Decrees and traditions before Gods written word makes himselfe the infallible Interpreter of holy Scripture and supreme Iudge of controuersies Who 's the Antichrist if not he that mangles Christs Sacraments as hee pleaseth addes new of his owne and maintaines flat idolatry both in the breaden host in the inuocation of the dead and worship of Saints reliques images forbids mariage commands conscientiall abstinence from meates seduceth men by lying miracles and hath 1 Tim. 4. 3. drank himselfe drunke with the blood of the Saints If Iohn Bishop of Constantinople that for a season Ego fidenter dico quisquis se u niversalem Sacerdotem vocat vel vocari desiderat in elatione suâ Antichristum praecurrit Creg Papa l. 6. Ep. 30. de Iohan. Constantinop only claimed the title of Sacerdos universalis vniuersall Bishop was by Pope Gregories confident assertion Praecursor Antichristi the Forerunner of Antichrist then the Bishops of Rome that since Boniface the third haue euer vsed this title are that Antichrist indeed So that we doubt not with him in Aventinus to auerre Papam esse Antichristum that the Petrus Iohan. apud Aver●inum Pope is Antichrist which Antichrist as he was conceiued euen in the Apostles dayes at what time the mystery of iniquity was working stroue vnto birth 2 Thes 27. for 300 yeeres after by aspired superiority betweene the Patriarchall Sees borne about Constantius reign when that sounded from heauen Seminatum est venenum in Ecclesia poyson is sowne in the Church Platina in ult Siluest Irenaeus lib. 5. cap. 25. Reu. 13. 18. Christened as I may say it by Irenaeus with the Beasts numerall name Lateinos whose Church hath beene called the Latine Church and whose Liturgy yet is Latine all So in Boniface the third was hee set vp in his throne when still'd by that parricide Phocas Emperour Episcopus Oecumenicus Occumenicall or vniuersall Bishop but then especially more openly reuealed then in his flourishing prime when afterwards out of the Empires ruines or at least translation encreased with secular dominion possessed with both the swords decreed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the infallible In Concil Lateran An. 1516. and vnerring Iudge of all controuersies from whom no appeale and superior to all generall Councels So then Antichrist is reuealed our second prognostique of our Sauiours second comming Who as hee hath beene mortally wounded since Luthers time by the sincere preaching of the Gospell so the Lord we trust will go on daily more and more to consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy vtterly with the brightnesse of his comming which 2 Thes 2. 8. whether the Lord be now about to doe conjectures are not improbable only I referre vnto your secret thoughts what God is acting by the hand of Sweden 3 The wonderfull reuining of the Gospell in most Signe 3. parts of the Christian world I meane not here that preaching of the Gospell whereof our Sauiour speaks Mat. 24. 14. that the Gospell should be preached in all the world and then should the end come conceiued by some both Protestants and Papists an vndoubted praeludium of Christs comming to iudgement that saith Chrysostome was fulfilled in the Chrysost in Mat. 24. Apostles dayes through whose Ministery the Gospell was come into all the then inhabited world and Col. 1. 6. then came the