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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52810	A distinct discourse and discovery of the person and period of Antichrist wherein a diligent enquiry is made concerning the time of his rise, reign, and ruine, the answer whereunto is not peremptorily imposed, but modestly proposed / published for publick good by Christopher Ness ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing N453; ESTC R3549	114,929	254

the All-sufficiancy of Christs Sacrifice by Reiterating their Mass as a Sacrifice Rome also overthrows the very Humanity of Christ which is locally circumscribed in Heaven by their making it wholly present in a 1000 places on Earth at once in their Transubstantiation 73. Besides Rome denies the Sufficiency of the Scriptures which are a Foundation Doctrinal as Christ is the Foundation personal and forbidding their Laity to read them they do as much as say the word of God is not Necessary to Salvation neither Necessitate medii nor Necessitate praecepti So their Worshipping of Saints of Angels of Crucifixes of Reliques of Images and of very Wafers are no better then real Underminings of the sacred Foundation Thus it appears they do not only destroy that great Fundamental truth of Justification by Christ in ascribing it to Works but also in overthrowing both Christ and Scripture 74. Many more evidences may be added as their making a New Rule of Faith to wit Tradition a new guide or head of Faith to wit the Pope prescribing Prayers in an Unknown Tongue attributing the effect of the Sacraments and all Services to the External work the Popes Canonizing of Saints his Forgiving of sins in a Magisterial manner his creating new Articles of Faith and making himself as Infallible as God By all which 't is made as clear as the Sun that the Pope is this grand Apostate both from Christ and the Apostolical Church at Rome 75. I have insisted the longer upon the first part of the Induction because in the Definition of Antichrist that clause stands as the Genus thereof the other following are as the Differentiae which I shall with much more Brevity run over Now come we to the 2d part or clause in the Induction which is pretending friendship but intending opposition that the Pope is a Christian none denies it though a Degenerate one his Title shews it Christs Vicar-General upon Earth thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Substitution and Vice-gerence so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a Viceroy is most fitly also accommodated to the Pope as he is Christs Vice-gerent 76. But like a Pirate at sea he hangs out false Colours to deceive unwary Souls For though he would look like the Lamb yet speaks he like the Dragon and pushes the true Lamb with his horns Rev. 13.11 and though he be said to sit in the Temple of God in his external profession of Christianity which once did flourish in the Roman Church in Primitive times yet hath he introduced the Doctrines of Devils into Gods Temple and hath made war with Christ and with his Saints that would not embrace them hence the Pope is truly called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies not for as above but against Christ 77. The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Apostle uses 2 Thess 2.4 signifying an Opposer or Adversary is truly applied to the Pope though he be not an open Enemy for he must speak lyes in hypocrisie 1 Tim. 4.2 he must bring in privily damnable Heresies 2 Pet. 2.1 he must be a false prophet Rev. 16.13 he must come in sheeps clothing Matth. 7.14 in a word he must be a mystery of iniquity 2 Thess 2.7 and 't is wisdom yea wisdom peculiar to Saints to discern him Rev. 13.18 All this makes the Pope a more dangerous enemy Ps 55.12,13 78. That the Pope is an Opposer of Christ and an enemy to him appears in his opposition to all the 3 Offices of Christ 1. his Prophetical office the Pope overthrows in his undervaluing Christs word as Unnecessary as before yea and as obscure capable of many interpretatione as if it were a Nose of Wax and in equalling yea preferring his own Traditions before it Lastly in assuming a power to make what Scriptures he pleaseth Canonical or Apocryphal 2ly his Sacerdotal office in his urging the merits of Saints and Expiation of Venial sins by mens sufferings c. as before 3ly his Regal in assuming an unlimited Power to himself of making Canons in the Church as the Bishop of Bishops the Head of the Church titles of blasphemy in any save in Christ Jesus only 79. The 3d clause of the Induction is stirred up by the efficacy of Satan the Pope is such an one not only as under godly pretences of friendship to Christ he hath transformed himself like Satan into an Angel of light into an Apostle of Christ 2 Cor. 11.13,14 and making himself to look like the Lamb though more of the Dragon then of the lamb be found in him Thus his sworn Swordmen the Jesuits do ambitiously affect the title of being of the Society of Jesus though indeed they be the worst sort of Enemies against Jesus in the World warring against his Image where ever they find it Presbyteri à socio geritis qui nomen Iesu Dispeream si vos Jesus amare potest but also in more open Satanical practises 80. That Satan hath been the chief Architector of the Pope's kingdom as well as of his Doctrines call'd therefore the Doctrines of Devils appears ex abundanti out of their own Chronologers as well as out of ours Benno Uspergensis one of their Cardinals writes what kind of Popes Satan set up after Silvester the 2d and Platina the Popes own Secretary and keeper of the Vatican Library Matthew Parisiensis and others make them Limbs of the Devil 81. To dig in this dunghill of Satanical Popes would be both endless and unpleasant to relate the stories out of Platina their own creature who wrote by the commandment of Sixtus the 4th or out of Benno Uspergensis in his Paralipom their Cardinal neither of which could write out of prejudice against them I omit and shall only add one passage out of Mathew Paris the last of the fornamed Hist Angl. in Guil. Conquest Y. 1072. pa. 10. he reports how Satanas omne contubernium Inferorum c. that is the devil and all his hellish Crue wrote letters gratulatory to the Pope and his Clergy for sending more souls to hell then ever went before 82. To let pass Bernardus Damianus Gulielmus de sancto Victore Nicolaus Gallicus Narbonensis Savanarola the Florentine Arnolphus Clemanges with many more mentioned in Illyrici Catologo Testium Veritatis all which notwithstanding the darkness of the time they lived in espied the efficacy of Satan raising up the Pope besides Petrarch Mantuan of later time to say nothing of Wickliff Husse Jerome of Prague c. or our own later Chronologers as Alsted Pareus and our Countriman Dr. Prideaux c. which show how many Popes gave themselves to the devil for obtaining of the Popedom by his help 83. Popish Chronologers as well as Protestant confess that some of the Popes were Necromancers in express league with the devil and such as sacrificed to him as if the devil were their God Some did not only study and practise it themselves but also taught it to