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A66360	Ho Antichristos the great antichrist revealed, before this time never discovered, and proved to be neither pope, nor Turk, nor any single person, nor the succession of any one monarch or tyrant in any policies, but a collected pack, or multitude of hypocritical, heretical, blasphemous, and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophesies of the Scriptures ... and especially have united ... together by a solemn league and covenant to slay the two witnesses of God, Moses and Aaron ... that is, the supreme magistrate of the Commonwealth, and the chief pastors and governours of the Church of Christ, and the Christian world is requested to judge whether the Assembly of Presbyterians consulting at Westminster, together with the independents, Anabaptists, and lay-preachers be not the false prophet ... and whether the prevalent faction of the long Parliament ... that killed the two witnesses of Jesus Christ, 1. Charles the First ... 2. William Laud ... be not the grosse and visible body of the same antichrist / by Gr. Williams.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2662; ESTC R25201	504,825	313

Army and for their service unto the Antichrist capita hominum heads of the people and ring leaders of the seduced multitude Where by the way you may yet take notice of the great malice of Satan against Christ and the great power of the Antichrist against the witnesses of Christ that he should have such a number of men of note to assist him to overthrowe the Servants of Christ for though among 600 thousand men that came out of Egypt Exod. 12.37 there were but 250 men that rose up and rebelled against Moses and Aaron yet here is 7000 men of renown that stand up and fight and are slain for the Antich to withstand the witnesses and to hinaer them to obtain their Offices and places and if so many men of note be slain what a multitude of other inferiour men of no note may be slain and of others that fight and assist the Antichrist against the witnesses are not slain But it may be the number of 7000 doth signifie as I said a great many That the number of 3.7 and 10. do very often signifie many because the number of 3 and of 7 and of 10 hath very often none other importance then a great deal or a great many as in St. Jude the Lord commeth with ten thousand of his Saints so in St. Matth. 12.45 and in St. Luke 8.2 the number of 7 betokeneth many and so I rather conceive the meaning of these words 7000. men were slain to be that a great many were slain and not that the just and full number of 7000 men were to be slain in that commotion And it may be likewise conceived that all these 7000 or great many names of men that were to be slain or annihilated and undone in that commotion are not all of the Antichrist his party but rather so many and such a great number should be slain of both parties which is the likeliest interpretation Yet howsoever whether you understand the words literally for the full number of 7000 men or mystically for a great many * Or 7 that should be in the stead of 7000. The love of Christ to his servants and his power to desend them greater then the malice and power of Satan to hurt them or whether you understand them all of both parties or all of the Antichrist party you may here observe a greater love of Christ unto his witnesses then the malice of Satan can be against them and the power of Christ far greater and better able to protect and to set up his witnesses and to overthrowe their enemies then the Antichrist can possibly have to destroy them or to hinder their restauration for to the comfort of the witnesses and of all others the Servants of Christ St. Cyprian that was himself a Martyr and a faithfull witness of Christ saith most truly that non plus valet addejiciendum terrena paena quam ad erigendum divina tutela the Lamb that standeth on Mount Sion is far more able to protect us then the roaring Lion is to overthrowe us and Christ is far more powerfull to raise his witnesses then the Antichrist is or can be to hinder their rising and therefore were the Souldiers of the Antichrist and the followers of the beast 70 times 7000. And I demand if the adversaries of the King and Bishops be not affighted to see them restored yet they should be subdued and slain in this Earthquake rather then the witnesses of Christ should be hindered to ascend up into Heaven and to be restored to their offices and places for so the Angel testifieth that the witnesses ascended up in a Cloud unto Heaven and 7000 heads or names of men were slain in the Earthquake and the remnant were affrighted as well they might to see how gracious the Lord is to assist his servants and how powerfull to overthrow his adversaries that will oppose and suppress his witnesses and they that is the witnesses gave glory to the God of Heaven which is indeed the God of his Church more especially then he is the God of any other place or people whatsoever And then saith the Angel When the second woe shall passe away when the witnesses are restored and their enemies subdued the second woe shall be past and the Saints and servants of Christ will give thanks and prayse unto God as they have most just cause to do as for all things else so likewise more especially for overthrowing their enemies and restoring the witnesses of Christ to erect and build up the Temple of God by serving God with the right service and preaching his word truly unto the people as you see they do from this 14. verse unto the end of this Chapter But lest the restored witnesses A good lesson both for the King and Bishops and the Church and the rest of Gods Servants should grow secure after they had overcome these great troubles that with great constancy they had passed through they must still be exercised and trained up in gymnatio patientiae in the School of afflictions and therefore the Angel addeth that although the second woe be past when the witnesses are restored and the 7000 men slain yet behold saith the Angel and consider it well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the third woe cometh quickly And this woe I take to be the last woe that shall fall upon the Sons of men The last woe upon whom and when to fall and under which the Lord God will powre out the 7 last vialls of his wrath upon the Antichrist and his adherents and upon the false Prophet and upon all prophane worldlings and wicked Hypocrites and in some respects upon very many of the true Servants of God and the witnesses of Jesus Christ as failing in the same Ship and being commorants in the same City among the wicked and perhaps soiled in some measure with the manners and evill practices of the world and therefore must partake in some kind of the plagues and punishments that God powreth down like rain upon the wicked and then that is after the powring out the Vials of Gods wrath the mystery of God which he hath declared to his servants the Prophets shall come to an end and be fully finished as the Angel testifieth to our Evangelist Revel c. 10. v. 6. 7. c. 10. v. 6 7. And this mystery of God I conceive to be with the favour of them that think the contrary not the restauration and calling of the Jewes and the other ten Tribes of Israel as Dr. Willet E. H. and some other learned men do imagin The fictions of the Presbyterians and Jesuites in mistaking this mystery of God 1 Tim. 3.16 nor the reformation of the relapsed gentile Churches and the destruction of the Papacy Turcisme and Mahometisme as others of our late Presbyterians do as fondly conceit nor yet the overthrowe of the Popish Antichrist set forth by Sanders Bellarmine and others but the great mystery of

they are men be they of what religion soever they please their different sense should not make us to destroy them so long as they live peaceably amongst us as you know the Sodomites permitted Lot that professed not their religion and the severe Pharisees suffered both the Sadduces and Essaei to enjoy both their lands and their estates without troubling them for their religion and would you make the Christian religion more unjust and worse then these Sure none would do that but the great Antichrist that would hinder all to think well of the religion of Christ Therefore I hope your wisdomes and justice will be so far from confirming any injustice done by that long Parliament or their under-agents either to these displanted Irish or ejected Clergy or any others that you will christianly redresse what they have so unjustly done amisse lest the continuance of these crying wrongs here on earth do pull down upon us all the flying vengeance of God Vivat Rex currat lex fiat justitia ruat mundus from heaven Because the good God is just and loveth justice hating all oppressions and wrongs and therefore as I would not belie the Father of lies so I would not do any injustice to the very devils and let no sinister aspect bend you from the straight rule of justice and if you will not redresse the too much wrong that we have suffered already I beseech you confirm them not by any new lawes to make your selves partakers of their sins and to make us still to crye with the soules under the Altar how long Lord holy and true but let us have the benefit of our old lawes that were justly made and if you will not nullify all the acts that are without our late Kings assent or perhaps cannot do it because so many of that long Parliament are members of this present Parliament contrary to the desires of many yet let the justice of our old lawes still continue and we shall still continue our prayers to God that he may still continue his blessings both to you and yours which is and shall be the daily prayers of Your most humble and faithfull Oratour to serve you Gr. Ossory Gentle and Christian READER THis book as very many can bear witnesse was fully finished above two years agone in the time of Oliver the usurper and I was very ready then to undergoe the danger that should ensue the publishing thereof and was as earnest to have it printed but either because some of the things prophesied of as the reviving of the witnesses were not as then fulfilled or because of some fears which my friends conceived from the Governours that then ruled I could not by any means get it to passe through the presse but now all the prophesies that are any where in the holy Scripture mentioned concerning the coming and the proceedings of the Antichrist being fully and cleerlie fulfilled and come to passe as I have shewed in this book save onely one part of the last prophesie touching the resuscitation of the last witnesse which some suppose to be unfulfilled and the Presbyterians hope will never be as we explain it and we conceive it done or as good as done already when as Christ said to Saint Peter tu conversus confirma fratres so Gods prime and principal witnesse being so gloriously risen to the joy of all hearts he will do as Christ willeth him stretch forth his royall hand as Christ did to Saint Peter to pull the other witnesse out of those waves that were so ready to swallow them up and set them to the sterne of the ship again and then as Solomon saith spes impiorum peribit Therefore as I have been at all the paines in composing it so I resolved by Gods assistance and only for the service of Gods Church to undergoe any cost to the uttermost of my ability to publish it unto the world and to bear all the blame aspersions or punishment that either friend or foe publick or private can lay upon me for the same for I call heaven and earth to witnesse that I have long studied and seriously meditated upon the sense and meaning of the Holy Ghost in those places of the Scriptures that foretold us of the coming of the great and egregious Antichrist and I have often prayed and most earnestly and heartily desired of my God to grant me the true and right understanding thereof as who he should be where he should rise what feats and Tragedies he should effect how long he should continue by what means he might be discovered and how he should be subdued and at last utterly destroyed and I believe God hath now granted my request and that I have rightly and most truly explained those holy Scriptures that speak of him And if the presbyterians can give me satisfaction that I am mistaken herein I shall very willingly recant and be most heartily sorry for mine errour but if they be not able to demonstrate my mistakings as I assure my self the beast with all his power and the false Prophet with all his skill and putting all their heads together shall never be able to do then I intreat them not to be like the Galathians to become mine enemies for speaking the truth but to consider well what they do because God will not be mocked and it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God for my witnesse is in heaven that I bear not any malice or any the least ill will to any one of all the Presbyterians or to any other of the members of the long Parliament or their adherents neither wrote I these things out of any excessive sense that I ever conceived of any injury that was done unto my selfe nor especially for any hope of profit or preferment when a Presbyterian told me The publishing of this treatise would be my ruine but Paupertas orbitas senectus the no losse of Lordships the no infants to cry after me and the years of mans life which are threescore yeares and ten being already past in me long agoe and I being very ready and willing for causes heretofore shewed to under goe what death soever it shall please God to impose upon me In the Epistle to the Reader before the seven golden candlesticks either on a block or a gibbet or a pillow so it be for the discharging of my duty it is not a pin matter for a good conscience which of these he must abide Quia nec nobis ignominiosum est pati quod passus est Christus nec illis gloriosum est facere quod fecit Judas vel Pilatus For seeing my Saviour and my King were so served why should I think much to be so likewise used and therefore his threatnings could not frighten me from divulging the same unto the world and that for these four special ends 1. To do my best endeavour to bring the members of the beast and the false Prophet

which as the Apostle saith no man should assume Heb. 5.4 but he that is called of God as was Aaron And I would to God I might see the like good Josias that would deal in like manner with the Ministers of the Beast or at least some other way stop the mouths of these base unworthy and unlawfull Priests and most ignorant Preaches of Blasphemous Doctrines that do now abuse Gods Service and broach such damnable Heresies and wicked Errors as are able to Poyson the souls of the simple people 2. The other device of Jeroboam was 2. To do the Service of God in unlawfull places Deut. 12.5.11.13 14 26. to appoint the service of God to be done in Dan and Bethel when as the Lord required they should serve him in the place where he should choose and this place for the Israelites before their settlement in Canaan and the building of their Temple was in any place where the Ark of God resided in the Wilderness in Shilo in the house of Obed Edom and after their setling in the Promised Land and the subduing of their Enemies by King David it was to be done in Mount Moriab where Abraham was commanded to Sacrifice his Son Isaac otherwise called as it was afterwards Mount Sion where the Son of God of whom Isaac was a type was Crucified for us 2 Chron. 3.1 and which David took from the Jebusites and built it round about from Millo and inward and called it the City of David where he intended to build an house to God in the threshing floore of Arnon or Arauna the Jebuzite where the Angel appeared unto him 1 Chron. 17.1 and he built an Altar and offered Sacrifice unto the Lord and where the Arke of God should be placed and God should be there publickly served by all the people of Israel after that time but the Prophet told him 1 Chrou 21.18 c. 22. that the Lord accepted of his intention yet because he was a man of War and had shed much blood wherein the Lord taketh no delight though it was the blood of Gods Enemies he should not build him any house because Gods house is not to be built in blood 2 Chron. 3.1 c. 6. See Eusebius his Ecclesiasticall History l. 10. c. 3. 4. and there you shall find the particulars of the Temple and what every thing signified Esay 5 6 7. Jerem. 7.10 11. Math. 21.13 Mark 11.17 How God requireth to be Worshiped 1. At the time that he appointeth Exod. 20. c. 12.18 2. By the Priests whom he chooseth nor with the Sword as now the new builders of the Beast have and do most eagerly strive to build it but Solomon his Son that was the Son of peace should build his house in that very place where he intended it and God commanded Solomon so to do which he did accordingly as you may see in 2 Chron. 3.1 c. 6. where you may read the Prayer that Solomon made at the Consecration of this house and the benefits that they should reap which served God in that house And I desire every good Christian to read over that Chapter at his leasure and to read it often and then seriously to consider it and withall to remember that of this and the like consecrated place that is dedicated for Gods Worship the Prophet Esay saith it should be called of all Nations the house of Prayer therefore not of the Jews only but of the Christians also and the Prophet Jeremy saith the same and our Saviour Christ confirmeth it and no marvel for God will be served 1. In the Time That he himself appointeth 2. By the Persons That he himself appointeth 3. After the Manner That he himself appointeth 4. In the Place That he himself appointeth 1. As he will be served at all times so specially at that time which he pleaseth to prescribe as you may see in the 4th Commandement where he chargeth us to remember to keep Holy the Sabbath day and in Exod. 12.18 he chargeth the Jews to observe the 14th day of the first moneth to eat unleavened bread and whosoever neglected to observe this time that soul should be cut off from the Congregation of Israel and this he repeateth againe in c. 13.5 2. As God will be served in the time that he prescribeth so he will have his service performed by the persons whom he chooseth and good reason he should have the honour and the liberty to chose his own Servants when a mean man will scarce indure to have Servants of another mans choice intruded upon him therefore Christ did choose his 12 Apostles and the 70. Disciples and the Evangelist tells us he hath chosen quos voluit whom he would and not those that would be whether he would or not 3. 3. With the service which himself prescribeth He will be served with that service which himself by his Prophets and Apostles hath prescribed in the holy Scriptures and not as every upstart novice deviseth which being not according to the received service that is deduced by the grave Governours of the Church from Gods word is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a will-worship no wayes accepted by God but rejected and reproved as Idolatrous by the Apostle and demanded by the Prophet quis requisiuit haec who required these things at your hands wherein you please your selves and not God 4. 4. In the place where the Lord commandeth As God will be served in the time that he appointeth and by the persons that he chooseth and after the manner that himself ordaineth so he will be worshipped in the place that he commandeth for you may see in Levit. 17.8 how the Lord professeth that whatsoever man there be of the Children of Israel or of the strangers that sojourneth among them Levit 17.8 that offereth a burnt-offering or Sacrifice and bringeth not the same unto the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation i.e. the Church-door to offer it unto the Lord even that soul shall be cut off from among his people Exod. 23.19 and in Exod. 23.19 he saith That the first of the fruits of the Land they should bring into the house of the Lord Exod. 25.8 and in c. 25.8 he chargeth them to make him a Sanctuary or a Tabernacle i.e. an holy House or Temple consecrated for his service that he might dwel among them And therefore the Prophet David before the Temple was built desired that he might dwell in his Tabernacle and saith that he was glad when the people said we will go into the house of the Lord Psal 27.4 that was the Tabernacle which Moses appointed to be made by the Commandement of God for the place where God should be worshipped Psal 122.1 Joh. 18.20 before Solomon had built his Temple and when Christ came he did frequent the Temple and saith I ever taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple that is for the most part and