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A51311 A plain and continued exposition of the several prophecies or divine visions of the prophet Daniel which have or may concern the people of God, whether Jew or Christian : whereunto is annexed a threefold appendage touching three main points, the first relating to Daniel, the other two to the Apocalypse / by Henry More ... More, Henry, 1614-1687. 1681 (1681) Wing M2673; ESTC R5104 236,862 422

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Dominion of a tyrannical Clergy over an affrighted and besotted Laity who are made to believe or at least out of fear to profess any thing that makes for the worldly Interest the Gain or Revering of the Priest for who without astonishment and affright can look upon such a Priest as professes himself and is believed to be a Creatour of his Creatour and by a few words to be able to change a piece of bread into the very person of Christ who is to be worshipped with Latria as being God Blessed for ever or it be those that have private phansies or freaks of their own and think never enough is done till Reformation come up to the measure of their conceit nor will suffer the Witnesses to rise or acknowledg them risen till things ascend to the pitch of that peculiar Idea which they have formed in their private imagination Whenas God be thanked things are in so good a frame for example in our English Church that nothing hinders but that a man may be a most perfect and accomplished Christian holding Communion with her The fruits of the Spirit are Love Joy Peace Long●…suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance Which of these fruits or priviledges of the Spirit I beseech you may you not injoy if it be not long of your self holding Communion with the Church of England And as for the works of the Flesh Adultery Fornication Uncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witchraft Hatred Variance Emulation Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revellings are these any of them any conditions of the Communion of the English Church as some of them are of the Church of Rome as particularly that of Idolatry to say nothing of Heresy of Murder and Bloud of which that Church stands so deeply guilty which yet she justifies herself in and they in a manner subscribe to it that joyn in Communion with her But as our Church engages none in the guilt of such detestable wickednesses so it apertly declares against all the rest of the vices of this black roll and has a pure and unexceptionable form of the worship of God devoid of all Idolatry and Superstition Whence those people that so slight and vilify the Reformation which Gods providence has brought to pass amongst us their Ingratitude is monstrous and horrid and I pray God it may be never laid to their charge They will be reforming the Reformed Churches in things indifferent why do they not reform themselves from their own vices and corruptions which are not indifferent they having so full and fair opportunity by the free enjoyment of the Gospel and no man requiring unlawful things of them as they were required in that deplorable condition under the Church of Rome Wherefore fourthly All Magistrates supreme and subordinate in Reformed Christendome being in truth the established Powers whether spiritual or temporal of the Kingdome of Christ in opposition to the Kingdome of Antichrist this ought to be a rousing motive I trow to all in the Reformed Churches to give due Reverence and Honour to them as the appointed Ministers of the Kingdome of Christ and be obedient in all things lawful to the powers both Ecclesiastical and Civil and make no Schisms in the Church much less behave themselves rudely and malapertly as the custome of some has been as if they forsooth were the only children of the Kingdome when nothing but fanatical pride or mistake or the perfidious suggestions of foreign Emissaries or the envy of Satan has driven them to such misdemeanours to slur and disgrace the Reformation as much as he can But it being thus apparent that the Reformed Magistrates are the Risen Witnesses ruling in the Kingdome of Christ in opposition to the Kingdome of Antichrist or Dominion of the Pope whom the Reformed Princes have justly cast off as it appears out of the fulfilling of the Vision not onely ●…hose of the Reformed Persuasion are to come in to the Church and leave their Schism but those also that yet continue Romanists it is not onely lawfull for them the Dominion of the Pope being thus by Divine sentence abrogated and made null in England and in the rest of the Reformed Countries but their indispensable duty to renounce their Communion with the Church of Rome and communicate here with our English Church as elsewhere with other Reformed Churches and so become both good Christians and good Subjects at once But for those of the Protestant Persuasion to divide and subdivide which is but to doe that which all the activity of the Emiss●…ries of Antichrist is chiefly employed about surely is a strange fruit of the Spirit which yet the most factious amongst them most of all boast of If it be not the Spirit of Pride and Hypocrisie it is yet certainly the Spirit of Giddiness Imprudence and Indiscretion Fifthly The Impletion of this Vision of the Rising of the Witnesses in the Reformation justifies all the Reformed Princes in Christendome in their casting off the Pope from all shew of injustice or Heresy which the Papal party would charge them with and demonstrates a Right in all the rest of the Princes of Christendome to doe the like it being but the recovery by degrees of the Kingdome of Christ out of the hands of Antichrist and delivering themselves and their people like so many good Moses's from that salvage Idolatrous and impious Dominion and worse than Aegyptian servitude of that mystical Pharaoh the Pope of Rome who has so notoriously and prodigiously defiled Christendome with Idolatry and bloud Sixthly it being so manifest that the Kingdomes and Principalities recovered out of the hands of the Pope that signal Antichrist predicted by Daniel John and Paul are indeed the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ and that the supreme and subordinate Magistrates both temporal and spiritual set over them are set over them as the Vicegerents and Ministers of Christ in opposition to the Kingdome of Antichrist the duty of all such is so to discharge their offices as remembring they must one day give an account to Christ how well they have defended or enlarged his Kingdome or protected his loyal subjects in it nor given any advantages to those of the Kingdome of Antichrist to incroach upon or get foot-hold against the faithful Subjects of Christs Kingdome But that any Magistrate spiritual or temporal should be so disloyal to Christ as to betray any part of Christs Kingdome into the hands of Antichrist that is a thing that none can think on without unspeakable astonishment and horrour Certainly they must have a deep Melancholy and darksome jealous mind that can so much as fansie it possible to come into any ones breast so to doe that remembers he is intrusted with such a charge from our Saviour Iesus Christ who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and has the keys of Hell and Death Which consideration touches also private persons in proportion as well as publick Magistrates as many