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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76653	The book of the Revelation paraphrased; with annotations on each chapter. Whereby it is made plain to the meanest capacity; Bible. N.T. Revelation. English. Authorised.	Waple, Edward, 1647-1712.	1693 (1693)	Wing B2707bA; ESTC R228092	335,011	550

Ashes as a City and Temple fit for God's Presence if the Idolatry and other sins of his People had not hindred him (a) Ezek. 43 1-12 from dwelling for ever in the midst of them Hereupon by the infinite Justice and Wisdom of God the first (b) Dan. Chap. 2. and 7. Monarchy began and a Course of Four successive Monarchies was to expire before the Glorious Kingdom of Christ should succeed Which Monarchies although as to their Greatness and Vniversality they bore some Resemblance of the Kingdom of Christ were yet indeed Antichristian as being contray to Christ's Kingdom in their Idolatry bloody and persecuting Temper and in respect of their usurping its place and stead in which Antichristianism consists which is an (c) See on Chapters 13 14 15. Abbot de Antichr pag. 26. Downham of Antichrist 1 4. 2 1. Moor's Mystery of Iniq. part 2. Opposition to and a Delay and Vndermine of Christ's Kingdom which it usurps and counterfeits For seeing that Christ hath a Glorious Kingdom belonging to him as come in the Flesh the supplanting of this Kingdom is the peculiar Character of Antichrist according to 1 Joh. 4.3 2. It is plain from (d) Dan. 4.33 35 41 42 43 44 45.7 8 11 12 20 21 24 25.8 9-12 11 36-45 12 7 11. Matth. 24.15 24. Mark 13. Luke 12 41-59.21 24.36 2 Thes 2. 1 Tim. 4 1-5 2 Peter 2.1 John 2.18 19 22.4 3.2 John 7. Scripture that in the Times of the Fourth of these Monarchies called the Times of the Gentiles by our Saviour Luke 21.24 there should arise besides the other many Antichrists One Grand Notorious one called 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or The Antichrist by way of Eminence 2. The Man of Sin or the sinful wicked One the chief Author and Servant of Sin and not of God whose Profession is nothing else but a Mystery of Iniquity 3. The Son of Perdition or the graceless hopeless Apostate like Judas called so John 17.12 the chief Author of Mischief and Destruction to Christ's Church and therefore fitted for and devoted by God to Destruction or Perdition 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the (a) Grot. in 2 Thes 2.4 and 1 Pet. 5.8 Satanical and Apostate Adversary and Opposite to Christ's Kingdom 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or The Blasphemous and Insolent Vsurper upon the Authority of Christ and the Supreme Powers who are called Gods in Scripture 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or The Lawless One one who pretends to be above all Laws and violates all the Laws of God and Man By which Man of Sin is not meant a single person but a Succession (b) Poli Synops in loc See Downham of Antichr 2.2 of Men as Interpreters upon the place have observed from parallel places of Scripture who is also the (c) Mede 's Works pag. 763. same with Daniel's Wicked Horn or Beast as the Church saith Mr. Mede from her Infancy hath interpreted it 3. It is plainly asserted in (d) 2 Thes 2. 1 Tim. 4.2 Pet. 2.1 See Mr. Mede's Works B. 1. Disc 29 43. his apostasy of the latter times and Dr. Moor's Mystery of Iniquity which is also confessed by Ribera and those other Learned Romanists who assert that there shall be an apostasy of the Romish Church towards the end of the World See Alcazer in Apocalyps pag. 20. 466. ed. Ant● Scripture that the Sin of this Man of Sin should in general consist in an Apostasy and that a great and solemn one which should overspread the Visible Face of the Catholick Church of Christ which is called by the Apostle Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Apostasy or the Grand Apostasy and that from the Faith or the Great Mystery of the Christian Religion described in the last Verse of the Third Chapter to Timothy which as Mr. Mede hath well observed should according to the Division of the Ancients be the first Verse of the Fourth Chapter 4. In particular this Grand Apostasy is limited in Scripture chiefly to these Three Heads 1. To Idolatry and Superstition Dan. 11 37-39 1 Tim. 4 1-4 2. To an Insolent and Blasphemous Usurpation of a God-like Supremacy in Opposition to the Supremacy of Christ and of the Civil Magistrate Dan. 7.8 11 20 25.8 9-14 23 24 25.11 36 37.2 Thes 2.4 3. To a bloody and persecuting Temper Dan. 7.21 25.8 10 24 25. 5 It is also (a) 1 Tim. 4.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 John 2.18 expresly plainly and not aenigmatically and mysteriously declared by the Holy Spirit that this Apostasy was to be in the latter Times By which are meant as Mr. (b) Apostas of the latter Times Chap. 21 c. Mede hath proved the latter Times of the Fourth or Roman Kingdom whose Times he thinks are called the last Times because it is the Last Kingdom in Daniel 6. Furthermore the particular Time or Season of the Coming Revelation or Appearance and Manifestation of this Man of Sin is expresly dated by the Apostle Paul from the Fall of the (c) Thes 2.6 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word which signifies to retain or hold fast and also to obstruct hold bàck or hinder is elegantly put to denote the Pagan and Christian Roman Empire and Emperours the Sixth and Seventh Kings from their holding their own proper Successions firm during their own Times and thereby holding back or hindering the Succession of Antichrist but the Christian Empire and Emperours the Seventh King is most especially thereby intimated who held back or hindered more immediately the Succession of the Antichrist the Eighth King that he might be revealed in his own Season upon the Fall of Augustulus the last of the Roman Emperours See Chap. 8. 11 and this Chapter Grot. in 2 Thes 2.6 Ham. ibid. in Rom. 1.18 Abbot demonstr Antichr pag. 91. Patres ad unum ferè omnes hoc agnoscunt Roman Empire which the (d) See Bellarm. de Rom. Pontif. 3.5 Chamier de Antichr Mede's Works pag. 656. Ancients generally understand by the taking out of the way that which letteth or withholdeth 2 Thes 2.6 7. Upon which the Apostle says that the Man of Sin should be revealed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. in his own Season as Dr. Hammond rightly translates the Word which is the same with that made use of in (a) Dan. 12.7 Rev. 12.14 Daniel and the (a) Dan. 12.7 Rev. 12.14 Revelations concerning the Months Times or Seasons of the Beast 7. The Apostle Paul in the same Chapter 2 Thes 2 6 7 8. expresly assigns a Line of Time to this Man of Sin dated from his Birth Coming Revelation or First Appearance at the taking away of the Roman Empire A. D. 475 or 476 and reaching unto the Coming of Christ Which may be called the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Times of Antichrist to distinguish them from the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Times of Christ mentioned 1 Tim. 6.15