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A44854	Hē apostasīa, ho antichristos, or, A scriptural discourse of the apostasie and the Antichrist, by way of comment, upon the twelve first verses of 2 Thess. 2 under which are opened many of the dark prophecies of the Old Testament, which relate to the calling of the Jews, and the glorious things to be affected at the seventh trumpet through the world : together with a discourse of slaying the witnesses, and the immediate effects thereof : written for the consolation of the Catholike Church, especially the churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland / by E.H.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1653 (1653)	Wing H325; ESTC R11943	203,833	222

Church whereof you are members let love to the generations yet unborn who are to be members of the Church provoke you to constancie That they when they shall blush to read of the shameful Apostasie of many eminent Professors may rejoyce and be incouraged by your patience pray ●…aith and constancy to maintain those truths you leave them sealed with your bl●…ud with Christian courage in the greatest storms of persecution and give glory to God on your behalf in imitation of your singular vertues wherefore stand fast and in your deepest troubles lift up your head for your Redemption draweth nigh 't is but waiting a little while and then he that cometh will come and will not tarry when he 'l come over the mountains an unexpected way and will appear to you on th●…se Mountains like a pleasant Roe but he 'l come as a thief upon your enemies that is suddenly unexpectedly terribly bloudily with his sword drawn in his hand spoiling them in a moment when your enemies are fol●…ed together as thorns and whiles they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry but on Mount Zion shall be deliverance That thou Christian Reader mayst be found on Mount Zion in this great and terrible day of the Lord which by all Scripture-signes is neer at hand that thou mayest be one of those that keep their garments clean and wait for the comming of our Lord that thou mayest not be found amongst the number of Christs enemies when he comes but mayest disc●…rn the times and the seasons so as thereby before-warned to flie from the wrath to come I have with much labour and diligence presented with all the affection of a sincere Christian this ensuing Treatise to thy view if thou beest a gainer by it for thy souls good give glory to God the Authors designe is fully accomplished Farewel In the first page of the Preface for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of the APOSTASIE The First Part. CHAP. 1. THis Chapter is a part of the second Epistle of Paul which he wrote to the Thessalonians I call it the second Epistle in regard of its posteriority to the first in the order of place it is in all the Greek Copies the last or second Epistle yet Learned Doctor Estius and Grotius do conceive this second in the order of time to be the first as being written by Paul first their grounds for this I shall not meddle with it not lying within my circle at this time to enquire when and where Paul writ this Epistle yet I doubt not ere I leave this Subject but to make it manifest that this Epistle is Pauls second Epistle in time as well as place to the Thessalonians That Paul was the Author of this Epistle is on all hands granted the only thing then that we shall enquire after before we come to the Text is who this Paul was Here it will not be impertinent to give a word or two 1. Of his Birth 2. His Breeding 3. His Conversion 4. His Name 1. Paul was born at Tarsus the Metropolitan City of Cilicia Acts 21. 39. The son of a Pharisee an Hebrew of the Hebrews Philip. 3. 4. 5. A man that for Natural Birth-right-Priviledges could have boasted with the proudest Iew he was of the Tribe of Benjamin out of which Tribe God gave the twelve Tribes their first King after whose name he was called these two Sauls fulfilled the dark side of that Prophecy Gen. 49. 27. being monstrous Wolves against Christs Sheep and Shepherds 2. Pauls Breeding o●… Education was under Gamaliel Act. 22. 3. who was a man of great Authority and Learning amongst the Iewes he was a member of the great 〈◊〉 which sate at Ierusalem and had the sole power of judging of a Prophet he was a Doctor of the Law of great repute among all the people Act 5. 34. who by his eloquence and wisdom in one Dilemma put to silence the High-Priest and all the Doctors or rather I may say he made them like Subjects fall to his opinion This Learned Doctor was Pauls Tutor Now how to reconcile Act. 18. 3. with what I have writ or rather what the Holy Ghost discovers in the forementioned Texts of Pauls Education I do not know for it is generally concluded from this Text that Paul was a Tent-maker by Trade now that Paul should be a Pharifee and a Tent-maker was as absurd amongst the Iewes as it is amongst Orthodox Christians to say a man is a Minister and a also a Cobler or a Tinker unless Paul were as by his wild Zeal he should seem to be a Tub-Pharisee indeed the Jewish Church was at that time exceedingly degenerated from its primitive Purity and that very Sect declared so much for a Pharisee was but an hypocritical Sectarian Separatist And Drusius tels us that they ●…an Division to seven there was the Praise-seeking Pharisee and the Self-justiciaty and the Self-afflicting Pharisee that wounded his head and scratched his body with thorns the Slavishly-fearful Pharisee the virtuous Pharisee the covetous Pharisee and lastly the down-look'd devoted Pharisee who wore a thing like a Mortar on his head to hinder his looking upward But I find another distinction more grave but whether more Authentick I leave to the Jewish Antiquaries to determine there are two sorts of Pharisees namely Porashim and Parushim as the Hebrews term them that is Docentes and Separati Teaching Pharise●…s and Laik Pharisees now this distinction is brought by Antiquaries purposely to salve that Text Luke 18. 12. where the Pharisees boast that they paid Tythe of Mynt and Cummin Now if they paid Tythes saith the Disputant how were they Church-men To this it is answered The Teaching Pharisees paid not Tythes But received them but the Laick Pharisees paid it But this distinction is not satisfactory for if none but Laicks paid Tythes then we may as well conclude that all the Levites were Laicks because the Levits paid Tythes to the Priests I humbly conceive the answer ●…would be sound and true thus That it does not follow that of absolute necessity the Pharisees that paid Tythes must be Laicks for why might not they being Church-men pay Tythes to the Priests at the Temple as well as the Levites who receive Tythes pay the Tythe of their Tythes to the Priests Numb 18. 28 29. But the Priests were Levites and the Levites called Priests Ezek. 44. 15. Heb. 7. 5. But we need none of these distinctions or answers to solve this question about Paul for we do affirm from Act. 26. 4 5. that Paul before his Conversion was no Tent-maker for Paul declares before King Agrippa that all the Jewes knew that from his youth he had lived after the strictest Sect of Iudaism a Pharisee now no body believes that the strictest Sect of Pharisees were Trades men much less Tent-makers

be restored to their own Land and ancient Civill Go●… Whether all the Tribes or only Iudah shall be converted ●… cannot tell whether these questions will come within my l●…ttle ●…ircle at this time 3 That of the Witnesses which affords us these doubts Who they are Where they are What is meant by their slaying When they shall be slain Who shall slay them What their rising is And what shall be the Consequents of it Whether their rising be at the seventh Trumpet or the Earthquake which slayes the 7000 be that Earthquake which slayes the Antichrist and puts an end to the Apostasie Some of these will fall within my compass 4 From that of the Antichrist Questions may be raised ad infinitum chiefly these 1 When he is to arise and appear Whether as Brightman saith assoon as the Pagan Emperours were dethroned and Constantine possessed the throne or as Bellarmine saith when the Roman Monarchy is to be ruined 2 Where or in what part of the World must the Antichrist appear Whether as Downam and Brightman say in Rome or in Ierusalem as the Papists say 3 Whether Antichrist be past as Brightman saith or yet to come as Bellarmine saith 4 Whether he be the seventh head of Rome 5 Whether he be one single person or a Kingdom as some affirme Whether he be the head of the general Astasie as Calvin saith or whether he be the Apostasie it self as others affirm So many of these Questions as fall within the reach of the texts I am to handle I shall endevour to resolve These nine following Verses of Pauls are a large and full discovery of the Antichrist as the most Interpreters acknowledge Quest. It may be asked why Paul should say so little of the Apostasie and so much of the Antichrist This question only I will answer and then proceed to the words in the text Answ. I answer Paul here follows the method of all the holy Prophets that Prophesie of the Antichrist For Daniel in the seventh and eleventh Chapters makes a larger description of Antichrist that riseth in the end of the Roman Monarchy then of the Roman Monarchy it self and Christ himself in his Prophecies Matth 24. speaks more of the time of Antichrist's appearing then any other and so Iohn in the 11th Revel and 13th and 17th describes Antichrist more largely then the Apostasie and the reason as I conceive is because the Holy Ghost knew the Apostasie would be obvious to the sense of every Christian as what is more cleer then this of the Apostasie of the Eastern and Western Churches But now the Antichrist by reason of his subtilty and successes and goodly pious pretences would not be so easily discerned therefore it is so much is said of him 2 The appearing and the destruction of Antichrist in the Church is the great ensigne that God hangs out to the World that the day of the Jews redemption the Gospel-Churches deliverance draweth nigh Then the grand Apostasie is drawing to an end and the mystery of God is ready to be finished then is Christ at the door comming forth on his white horse Revel 19. to clothe all his Saints in white and to take off from off the back of his two Witnesses the filthy garments their sackcloth and to put Priestly robes on his Ioshua and to set his slain Witnesses in the throne Revel 11. and Revel 20. and Da●… 7 27. to give the dominion to the Saints Then is Christ comming on the white cloud Revel 14. 14. with a sharp sicle in his hand to reap the vine of the earth Then do the horns appear in his hand and the mystery of his power is then revealed then shall the Vision that is for an appointed time to be silent speak to them that wait for it for it will speake peace and salvation and to the enemies of the Church eternal ruine then is that one day come which is known to the Lord Zach. 14. 7 the evening of which day shall be light assuredly to the Church of God and ruine to her enemies Then is the Lord comming to smite with his sore great and strong sword Leviathan the Serpent crossing like a bar i. e. Antichrist and slay the Dragon in the Sea i. e. the Popedome the beast of the Sea say 27. 1 2. and then shall the Church have a Song of the Vineyard of red Wine sung unto her Then is God ready to darken the Sun and eclipse the Moon and cast the Stars from Heaven and shake the powers of Heaven Matth. 24. 29. that is ruine the Roman Monarchy and then will the Lord Christ gloriously manifest himself to the twelve Tribes that he is their Messias and they shall weep and mourn for that they have crucified him in that day the Vision shall be writ so plain that he chat runs may read it That which was a Mystery before is now made plain it seems to me to be parallel with Revel 17. 5 7 there the Mystery is writ on the Womans forehead so plain and open that every body might read it At this time saith Habakkuk 2. 4. The just shall live by faith i. e. the Iews that look for salvation justification shall come in unto the Gospel no longer seek for righteousnesse by the Law but by faith in Jesus Christ. This text Paul quotes Heb. 10. 37 38. Paul tells the Hebrews that Habakkuk's Vision is yet for a little while concealed i. e. Christ their Messiah hides himself from them but he will come and they shall live on him by faith this Vision of Habakkuk's sealed is the great Mystery of God to be finished And therefore ô ye Noble and ancient people of Israel look about you this day look into your own Prophets in whom you say you believe and see whether their words are not fulfilling in your eyes and eares this day you have negligently lost one glorious day for which you have lost your Nation Government Temple you would not heare your Messias voice but hardened your hearts against him in that day Yet comfort your selves let me comfort you blinded as that blinde man was comforted when Christ passed by him Be of good comfort his bowels that have been long shut up are yerning after you he is comming this day to you and he calleth for you by name Luke 21. 28. and when these things begin to come to pass when ye see the Antichrist to appear in the World the signe of whose appearing is that his great and prodigious act of slaying the Witnesses whose destruction wil be suddenly after his appearing thus then look up and lift up your head look up with faith and lift up your head with hope for your redemption draweth nigh Be not faithlesse but believe Behold he commeth with Cloudes every eye shall see him and they also that pierced him you ô Iews that pierced him shall by the eye of faith see him and all the kindreds of the earth

a corrupt vine and so it relates as well to the Roman Apostasie from the Gospel which is expressed in ver 32 33. Their Vine is worse then the Vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah their grapes are grapes of gall their clusters are bitter their wine is the poyson of Dragons and the cruel venome of Asp●… Of these words I shall g●…ve no other exposition then what I fetch from Scripture Observing this first before wee proceed that Vine cannot in this place relate to the Jewes as some would have it but to those their enemies that shall then oppresse them for if you please to observe it their Rock in ver 31. and their Vine ver 32. relate to each other and both stand in opposition to our Rock ver 31. But it is concluded on all hands that Our there implyes the whole Nation of the Jewes who had God for their Rock and by their profession owned him so to be 'T is granted by our opposites that ver 37 38. are or at least wise may be meant of the Gentiles their enemies if so it will easily follow that ver 32 33. must also be meant of the Gentiles for there is no disjunctive to be found betwixt them so that their Vine must either mean the Turkish or the Roman Politie but I rather incline here to the Romish Tyrannie which was most inhumane Vine signifies both the Head of a Church and the Church it self both these you have in one expression Psalm 80. 8. this Vine signifies the Church of God brought out of Egypt into Canaan before whom the Heathens fell and this also signifies CHRIST who was brought out of Egypt after the death of Herod he being Head of the Church who hath overcome the world and subdued all the powers therein to be subservient to his glory and his Churches good Now there is Gods Vine and the Divels Vine there is the Vine that Gods own right hand hath planted and there is the Vine of Sodom which is of the Divels planting which grows in the fields of Gomorrah both these Vines have grapes and clusters and yeild wine there is in Gods clusters red wine wine which maketh glad the hearts of the sons of God but there is in the Divels Vine bitter clusters and poisonous wine the wine of Dragons and no wonder here Moses his Vine yeilds the wine of Dragons for Revel 13. 2. the vine is of the Dragons planting Hee gave him his Power and Seat and great Authority Here wee take Vine for the Head of the Church i. e. of the Apostate Church of Rome and so the Pope is this Vine of the Divels planting as the next significant word expresseth for Moses by Vine of Sodom hints to us the place where this Vine shall be set and that is Rome for Rome is called Sodom say the Learned from Revel 11. 8. where when the Witnesses are slain 't is said they lay in the street of the great Citie which spiritually is called Sodom i. e. in one of the Kingdomes not all the Kingdomes subject to Rome which is this Sodom So that by Vine of Sodom is meant the head of the Church of Rome 'T is questioned whether Sodom relate to the Street or Citie If to the Street then how comes the place where the Witnesses are slain to be a Sodom 'T is answered Antichrist and his followers make it a Sodom and from such accidents it is usuall in Scripture to change the names as 2 King 23. 13. There Mount Olivet whose proper name is Har Hammishcha Mount of Unction is by reason of the Idols Chemosh and Molech set on that hill called Har Hammashchith the Mount of corruption 3. Or Vine of Sodom as it signifies a Church so it may signifie the great apostasie and generall defection that that Church hath made The Vine and Grapes and Clusters and Wine and all are mortall and deadly poyson The wild Vine 2 King 4. is rank poyson and such is the Church of Rome this day it is become the degenerate plant of a strange Vine Moses sets the Roman Church forth as Iohn under the representation of a Vine as in Revel 14. which Vine the Angels pray the Lord Christ to cutdown which ver 18 19. he doth with great furie and in Revel 17. where 't is Romes great Vintage time then when she is neer her ruine there she comes with a golden cup which she holds out to all and what is in it but the juice of her own grapes full of the filthinesse of her fornication This Revel 18. 3. is that wine of fornication which shee hath made the Kings of the earth drunk with So that by the wine of Dragons and the venome of Asps is meant the Blasphemies Idolatries Heresies and Abominations of that degenerate Vine the Church of Rome for of the Roman Monarchy neer its ruine Moses prophesies as wee shall make out and now it onely stands upheld by the Papal politie which every sober judicious Christian knows is the most idolatrous blasphemous heretical venemous Government and Power against the true Church both in its Head and Members And of this doth Moses prophesie the destruction when the Jews shall be converted to the Lord Jesus and united into one body with the true Church of Gentile gospellers Thus have you Moses in this prophetick Song of his setting forth 1. The Jews rejection of the Gospel and their captivity under the Romans as a punishment for their Apostasie 2. The mystery of the Jews conversion to the Gospel in the latter end and of the Roman Churches Apostasie from the Gospel 3. Now follows in the third place the signes of the grand Apostasies finishing and the Jews conversion for the ending of one i●… the beginning of the other the ending of the Apostasie is at the beginning of the Jews Conversion ver 36 37 38. Ver. 37 and 38 I take to be blasphemy of the Antichrist as in Dan. 7. 25. And he shal say I cannot see how this can be meant of God as sóme would but Antichrists boasts Where are your Gods i. e. your Magistrates What 's become of your Cause your Covenant your fasting and praying where is that God in whom ye trusted At this blasphemy of Antichrist in the next verse ver 39. God riseth up as one jealous of his honour and saith in answer to Antichrists boasting Behold now I even I am he c. 4. There 's the coming of Christ to ruine Antichrist finish this Apostasie and convert the Jews ver 39 40 41 42. 5. An Hallelujah throughout the Gentile Churches with and for the Jews conversion ver 43. the reign of Antichrist and the finishing the Apostasie parallel with Rev. 19. and Rom. 15. 10. where Paul tels us plainly that there is a day to come when the Iews and Gentiles shall rejoyce together which is not yet come In ver 36 37 38. there are two signes of the Jews conversion the Gentile Churches resurrection and the ruine

by which Antichrist shall be by little and little consumed and brought to nothing if this be a true interpretation of these words then the Lords destruction of Antichrist is not nor cannot be at the day of Judgement for then the Ministerie of the Word shall cease But Cornelius à Lapide confutes this opinion by one good argument It cannot saith he be meant the preaching of the Word for Antichrist shall remove that by slaying the two Witnesses ô Cornelius I fear thou wilt prove a true Prophet Antichrist will forbid all Preachers upon the greatest penalties to let alone his usurped tyrannical bloudie government Neither saith he is the preaching of the Word able to kill Antichrist Alas Antichrist is Sermon-proof All the reason and Religion in the World shall not take him off from his purposes all the thundering Cannons of the Church affright him no more then a paper-pellet from a pot-gun he is shot-free in this holy War he is that Leviathan which counts these darts as stubble and laugheth at the shaking of these spiritual spears Therefore saith my Author Christ when he comes to destroy him shall not come ad praeliandum but ad judicandum Hence he and with him Aquinas Oecumenius Andreas Scaynus Fab. Paulutius Goranus conclude that by the spirit of his mouth is meant his Imperiall command his Majestick sentence Aquinas hath another tolerable exposition of these words he parallels these words with that in Isaiah 11. where it is said The zeal of the Lord of boasts shall do this that is the zeal of his justice wherewith he is zealous out of love for the good of his Church Indeed zeal it is flamma amoris and as the Noble Husband otherwise milde and gentle cannot but furiously arise against those that offer injurie to his beloved wife which flame of fury ariseth from the fire of love even such is Christs against the enemies of his Spouse the Church especially against the Antichrist the greatest and worst of enemies to the Spouse of Christ. Grotius by these expressions of the Apostle understands the facility of the work in Christs hands He can as easily confound Antichrist as the winde before the smoak away as the Sun causeth the dew to vanish 't is but speaking the word and it is done as Antiochus Dan 8. 25. a type of the Antichrist was destroyed without hands so shall the Antichrist without hands by the breath of Christs mouth be destroyed In Psal. 10. 5. there we finde the wicked succesful Tyrant puffing at his enemies he overthrows them by his might as easily as a man blows out a Candle 't is an expression full of disdain to his enemies even so here Christ in disdein to the Antichrists might and power shall with the breath of his mouth confound him As Antichrist puffed at the Saints of God disdeining all their force and power and easily vanquished and overthrew them so the Lord Jesus when he comes he will puff at Antichrist and easily vanquish him and therefore Christ in disdein to him all his power that he brings against him Rev. 19. 17 18. sends his messenger to invite the fowls of the air to a supper that he would give them made of the carcases of those Kings and Captains and mighty men so much doth he disdein the armies of his enemies and so little doth he doubt of the success of the day that before he fights he promiseth the fowles a supper at night of these mighty men that set themselves in array against him that day the breath of Christs mouth against his enemies is that that shall overthrow them in the height of their strength Therefore Isaiah 59 19. When the enemy shall come in like a floud the Spirit of the Lord shall by blowing against sin make him to flie the Spirit of Christs mouth shall vanquish the adversary the Antichrist The Scope of this Text being to set forth the destruction of the Antichrist by the Lord Jesus his immediate power and command I conceive the expressions in the Text are such as run parallel with the Old and New Testament-texts that prophesie also of this great day of Antichrists destruction For the finding out of those parallel Texts we must take in both expressions whom the Lord shall destroy with the breath of his mouth and consume with the brightnesse of his comming 't is but a doubling of the same expression as Grotius observes after the manner of the Hebrews when they intend either to expresse a thing elegantly or vehemently or certainly both these expressions tends saith Grotius to one thing For the first expression we shall finde some Texts onely parallel with the matter some both with the marter and the phrase whom the Lord shal destroy with the breath of his mouth Parallel both with the phrase and matter are those two Texts Isa. 11. 4. and Revel 19. 15. Isa. 11. 4. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked one This Text saith Cornelius à Lapide Paul alludes unto vel potiùs citat or rather cites it It is manifest both from the Hebrew Translators and also from the Greek Translatours that the Texts in the phrase are alike one thing more is observable in the reading of the Text that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Scebet which we translate rod signifies Scepter so that He shall smite the earth with the Scepter of his mouth this Scepter of his mouth Revel 19. 15. is called the sword of his mouth wherewith he smites the Gentiles here he smites the Gentiles there the earth both which Lukes copie of the same prophecie from Christs mouth expresseth Luke 21. 25. there the earth shall be distressed and in great anxiety and the Gentiles at their wits end CHAP. XI IN the prophecies there are two great dayes spoken of wherein Christ comes with sore punishments upon the Roman Gentiles before both which times he is seen upon his white horse In Revel 6. he goes forth conquering on his white horse but the Roman Gentiles yield not whereupon the great day of the Lambes wrath fell upon the Roman Emperours that they were not able to stand against Constantine but were utterly overthrown and cast from heaven the Imperiall Throne Revel 12. The next great day of battel against the Roman Gentiles is against the apostate Antichristian Gentiles Revel 19. where we finde Christ again appearing on his white horse utterly to ruine the heads of the Romish Apostasie and the Antichrist which are both set forth under these two titles the beast and the false Prophet Now as at the first great overthrow of the Romish Pagan Gentiles the Jewes were driven out of their own Countrey and scattered throughout the World so at or about this great day of Christs comming to plague the Antichristian Gentiles the Jews shall be both converted to the Gospel and called again to