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A12807	A plaine exposition vpon the first part of the second chapter of Saint Paul his second epistle to the Thessalonians Wherein it is plainly proved, that the Pope is the Antichrist. Being lectures, in Saint Pauls, by Iohn Squire priest, and vicar of Saint Leonards Shordich: sometime fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge.	Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653.	1630 (1630)	STC 23114; ESTC S100545	402,069	811

Law and without God At 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will not cast such durt in their faces although I may rake much with much Mele● Canus lib. 11. cap. 6. facility from their owne Dunghills Wee produce their owne miracles against their owne persons and their owne propositions There remaineth one maine miracle a maine argument wherin some Papists doe triumph and whereat some Protestants doe stumble From Revelation 13. 13. thus they dispute Antichrist doth cause fire to come from Heaven The Pope doth not cause fire to come from Heaven Therefore the Pope is not Antichrist I answer this cannot bee taken literally because the whole Chapter is mysticall None can be so grosse as to thinke that a Beast indeed shall rise out of the very Sea having seven heads and ten hornes as it is in the first nor that the people shall worship a very Dragon as it is in the fourth nor that there shall bee another beast like a Lambe and a Dragon as in the twe●th neither shall it be a very sire as it followeth in this thirteenth I say therefore is an Allusion unto 1 King 18. 24. This exposition though it be singular good yet is it not singular besides our owne learned Expositors it is so expounded also by Paulus Bernriedensis Paul Bernried in vita Greg. 7. who mentioning divers wonders of fire wrought by Pope Gregory the seventh doth sundry times resemble him to Elias According to that resemblance and not literally I say Antichrist shall cause sire to come from heaven In 1 King 18. 24. there being a difference in Israel betwixt Baals Priests and the Prophet which was the true Religion Elias testisieth his to be the truth by causing sire to come from heaven So here there being a difference in the Church whether the Religion of Christ or of Antichrist was the truth the text saith Antichrist shall cause sire to come from heaven in conspectu hominum that is he shall make his salse Religion to appeare to men to bee the truth as effectually as if like Elias hee should cause sire to come from heaven for a confirmation of his doctrine Which is most agreeable to the Pope The caeca obedientia blinde obedience of the Clergy and the implicite saith of the Laity the one beleeving whatsoever the Pope teacheth and the other obeying whatsoever the Pope commandeth without examination or disputation and both as consident in what the Pope teacheth as if they saw sire come from heaven to confirme his doctrine Here I professe that argument which once did most stagger me doth now most strengthen me in this point I take this to be an insoluble syllogisme Whosoever maketh his followers as confident in their errours as if they saw fire come from heaven to confirme them is That Antichrist But the Pope maketh his followers as confident in their errours as if they saw fire come from heaven to confirme them Therefore the Pope is that Antichrist I desire that every honest and understanding Papist may take this argument into their conscionable and serious consideration I will but touch upon two points and so conclude First Whether the Papists doe worke any miracles Secondly If they doe Whether those miracles should perswade us to be of their Religion a Proposition and a Supposition To the first the phrase of Arnobius will Arnob. adve●s Gentes lib. 1. frame a fit resolution by a most apt application Saepe sciamus scierimus Full often have we knowne and as often shall we know say the Papists many cured by miracles Inquiro Quis Quo loco Cui auxiliatus fuerit By what person In what place and of what disease have those miraculous cures healed them Againe An sine ullius adjunctione materiae have they beene healed without application If any thing hath beene applyed to those Creples Clinikes c. benesicia ista rerum non sunt curantium potestates they were then healed by the secret vertue of the things not by the miraculous manifest power of the Agents Finally Quod millia debillium how many millions of miserable creatures can we shew you who Cum per omnia supplices irent Templa after they have gone Pilgrimes to all the Saints Shrines in Christendome Cum deorum ante or a prostrati after they have prostrated themselves before all the holy Images Cum limina ipsa convererent osculis after they have swept the very pavement of their Churches with their lips Nullam omnino ret●lisse medicinam and yet to have receiued no Benefit to their diseased carkeises These are the words of Arnobius but mine owne interrogations I request any sober papist to render a solid resolution Some ioyne issue and say that at this day they can instance in Miracles wrought beyond the Seas and in England also Beyond the Sea and beyond our Beliefe also Lipsius his chronicles are Lipsius de Virg. Hallens cap. 12. Acosta de salut Indorum lib. 6. cap. 4. 12. 17. Melchior Canus lib. 11. cap. 6. fraught with miracles of the Lady of Halls as giving sight to the blinde c. We answer For such miracles in generall Acosta who hath travelled as farre and Melchior Canus who read as much as did Lipsius dare not venture their credit in countenancing those Popish miracles And for the Popish restoring of the blinde in particular a French impostor was discovered at our Ladies of Renand in Paris ●●● S●●v Apology Fox Monum to 1. vita Henr. 6. and an English counterfeit at S. Albons in Hartfordshire both by the selfe same impudent ignorance and ignorant impudence a brace of borne-blinde Bayards would take upon them at the first moment of their miraculous sight to judge of colours Also here at home Eudaemon cryeth us downe with an instar Eudamon advers Abbot lib. 3. sect 4. omnium with one amazing miracle Quantum vobis Quantum vestris Magistratibus Quantum Regio Consilio admirationis attulit Quantum terroris incussit Garnetiana illa palea Oh quoth he what wonderment and astonishment overwhelmed you your Magistrates yea and your Kings privy Counsell because of Garnets straw We answer we value it as it was it was a miracle of straw Our boyes deride it because none of our men beleeve it As one speaketh it was done artificio by Art and by no wonderfull Art neither If any lust to spend Abbott Antilog cap. 14. time to know toyes reverend Abbots Antilogy to Eudaemon his ridiculous Apology will give him a superabundant information To unty the first knot we say The Papists doe no miracles here especially This I make good on two grounds First consider what God will doe not confirme an errour by his suffrage Which he should doe if an errour were countenanced by a true miracle Secondly what the devill can doe no true miracle Therefore his assistance availeth not Therefore neither digitus Dei nor digitus Diaboli neither can the devill nor will God inable the Papists to

it is impossible to convert them Malvenda de Antich l. 3. c. 10. consisteth in three things In the men the Seducers in the Motive to the seducing and in the men seduced The first cause that China's conversion is impossible is saith he Cōspiratio Antistitum the cunning of the learned to keepe out all forraigne instruction The second Ne nefarij quaeslus extorquentur mendacia coarguerentur their gaine and glory do move them thereunto And thirdly the people are made pliable to be hoodwink't Superbiâ suarum rerum infinito amore pueruli educatione by the pride of themselves and prejudice of others which they have sucked in from their Cradleinfancy In Popery also since wee see such a sympathy betwixt the seducers and the seduced that the Priests hands are not so cunning to temper the baite as the peoples mouthes are open to swallow it Wee may inferre this Prophecy is in them accomplished The Papists both Priests people God hath sent thē strong delusion The Papists doe as they speake the cause that their conversion is impossible is this Conspiratio antistitum ne peregrina in eas terras inferantur sacra their Prelates and Priests concur and conspire to cut off the sound of al forraine religion that may occasion any reformation The case is plaine and notorious By their inhibition of Bookes confession for their soules and inquisition for their bodies by their prayers in a strange tongue and the Scriptures indeed in no tōgue The world knoweth they have so immured in their adherents that it is as easie for a Christian to enter into China as for Christianity to enter Rome or reformation the breast of a Romist By the policy of their prelacy they have made the way to reforme Rome as narrow as the eye of a Needle If God please not to alter the very nature of the Creature there is no hope to effect it Spurr'd on are they to this desperate delusion by a double instigation as it followeth in Malvenda's phrase Extorquere nefarios quaestus coargui mendacia non patientur to confesse their errours and to forsake their Pompe flesh and blood cannot endure it they will never performe it Their gaine alone is a sufficient obstacle to make them Obstinate Preach reformation unto the Papists and according to that Acts 16. 19 20 21. The Masters when they see that the hope of their gaine will be gone they will exclaime against Paul and Silas saying These men do exceedingly trouble the City and teach customes which are not lawfull for us to receive being Romanes To descend from the dignity of an Archbishop to be a Dean we see it is enough to apostate the unstable and hath beene an occasion that our moderne Ecebolius did returne to his vomit Therefore when the Conversion of their religion shall bee the subversion of their Estates when learned men both Priests and Monkes by leaving their Church in our Church must of force become aut medici aut mendici either to digge or to beg either to exercise some other calling or endure poverty if not extremity Now to goe from plenty to penury is a wide step and few will venture it I doe deplore that our Proselytes are so poorely provided for and doe conceive the expectation of Poverty to bee a Remora to reformation Flesh and blood will rather be obstinate in a false Religion then beg in the true Next it concerneth their Credit to support their delusion That men learned and great should acknowledge such grosse absurdities as the adoration of Images the exalting of a Bishop above Kings equall to Christ and in truth to make the whole Church the slave of one man it is incredible and therefore they must exercise strong delusion to veile it The Panther is said to hide his head when he Plinie l 8. c. 17. draweth the poore Beasts to destruction Euen so the Papists will hide those horrible Heads of their religion for feare the uglinesse thereof should affright away men even of an indifferent understanding or conscience And therfore Beza said well that Ignatius was the Angel Revel 10. 1. Cloathed with a Cloud by Mystery of Iesuites pag. 51. which is meant that he and they cover their enterprises and hide the mystery of their religion So that for many of their learned I may speake of them as Lactantius doth of the old Lactant. l. 3. c. 24 Malvenda lib. 3. cap. 14. Heathen I know not what to say of these men qui cùm semel aberraverint constanter in stultitiâ perseverant who when they have once erred will constantly proceed in their folly vana vanis defendunt and defend one falshood with another Vnlesse I may suspect them aut joci causa philosophari aut prudentes scios mendacia defendenda suscipere that either they dispute in jeast or willingly and wittingly take upon them to defend those things which they know to bee false quasi ut ingenia sua in malis rebus aut exerceant aut ostentent as if their study was either to exercise or to shew their wits in the Patronizing of Paradoxes Or I may speake to them as Augustine Aug. de Mor. Cath. Eccles lib. 1. cap. 31. did to the Manichies Non dicam quae vos ignoratis sed quae vos occultatis Many of the Papists I cannot perswade my selfe that they doe not know their errours but they will not shew their errours and to this purpose they use learning to avouch them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Clement of Alexandria Clem Alex. Protrept concerning the Idolaters of Grecia We may say the same of the Latine in English the Papists in our time have more learning and cunning than they had in old time Now when the height of errour and the height of learning are wedded together may we suspect expect that the Monster of my Text may bee ingendred betwixt them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a strong delusion Hurle a Boule downe a steepe Hill and it will runne passing swiftly the cause of which swiftnesse is principally the outward violence of the hand and concurrence of the Hill But withall it proceedeth from an inward propensitie which that body hath to move downward So in Popery Facilis est descensus Averni The Learning and Policie of the prime men in that religion is admirably potent to perswade delude and to deceive if it were possible even the very Elect. Yet besides that there is an inward propensity which doth forward people unto Popery It is their nature altera natura August epist 167 Festo custome and prescription which maketh men so obstinate in the Romish Religion Cùm tam perspicua Verit as aures ac corda hominum feriat tantae quosdam malae consuetudinis vorago submersit ut omnibus authoritatibus rationibusque resistere quam consentire mallent When as so cleere a Truth saith Saint Augustine doth smite mens Eares and Hearts also yet so vast a whirlepoole

will not permit this prerogative unto the Turke The Turke therefore is not the Antichrist Sixtly the tenth verse telleth vs Antichrist shall come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in omni seductione he shall be an admirable seducer I demand did any ever heare a subtle disputation or see any Pius 2. ●pist ad Morbisan learned Booke that the Turkes have made to maintaine and propagate their religion by fine force of argument or insinuating alluring perswasions No Seducer No Antichrist Compendiously hence I will draw sixe demonstrations that The Turke cannot be the Antichrist 1. Antichrist is an apostate and the Head of apostasie The Turke is no apostate nor the Head of apostasie 2. Antichrist doth sit in the Temple and Rule the Church The Turke doth not sit in the Temple and Rule the Church 3. Antichrist is a mysticall and secret adversary The Turke is not a mysticall and secret adversary 4. Antichrist is consumed by preaching of the Gospell The Turke is not consumed by preaching of the Gospell 5. Antichrist shall pretend Miracles The Turke shall pretend no Miracles 6. Antichrist is a Seducer The Turke is no Seducer From all these Sixe Syllogismes I will frame onely this one Conclusion Therefore The Turke is not the Antichrist Let me adde one word to our Protestants who pretend that the Turke is the Antichrist as it betideth Neuters they have thankes on neither side We cannot greatly praise them that divert our people from looking or listning after the true Antichrist by telling them it may be the Turke is Antichrist And the Papists conne them no thankes for the service which they indeed doe to the Pope But they disclaime their opinion as most senselesse and erroneous By name Bellarmine Suarez and Bell. de Pont. Rom. l. 3. c. 3. Suar. Ap. l. 5. c. 10. Malvenda li. 2. cap. 5. Malvenda And indeed almost all the Popish Writers on this point Whence I conceive it would be no disparagement either to the learning or judgeof any Protestant if hee would bee pleased to tread in the footsteps of Clictovaeus who when Clictovaeus in Damasc lib. 4. 26. he had eagerly disputed this cause yet he concludeth with this confession Many things are written by S. Paul to the Thessalonians 2 Epist 2. which cannot easilie be applyed to the Turke and which appeare not yet fulfilled and never to be fulfilled in him The Staffe is plucked away the next point must fall which indeed doth leane on this Some say that both the Turke and Pope concurre in opposing Christ and that both the Turke and Pope are Antichrist This is said to be the judgement of Melancton and Iohannes Draconitus on Daniel And this was propounded by a learned English Bishop 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a probable position for his Cōmencement disputation All reverence reserved to these learned authors I am yet to learne the likelihood of this assertion They say the Turkish State and Papacy both combine in one confederacy and combination that both these though opposite ad invicem in temporalibus may and doe make one conjoyned opposition unto Iesus Christ and his truth inspiritualibus And although that externally and in regard of civill Policie they differ and doe deadly hate each other and mainly oppose one against the other yet nihil impedit but they may conspire in opposing Christ his Gospel and his Kingdome differently Thus they say and I say on the same grounds wee may adde the Iewes to this Antichristian combination and so Antichrist shall be not onely a Cecrops but a Gerion but a Cerberus They say moreouer that these two respectu finis may be accounted one in opposition against God and Christ though the meanes of effecting it be many different and diverse Turcisin● may one way oppose Christ vi aperta by fiery force and Popery be ad oppositum another way fraude insidijs I say Those which have a Combination have a Consent The Turke and Pope have no Consent Therefore No Combination They have no consent Ratione medij because the Turke doth oppose Christ vi aperta and the Pope fraude insidijs Nor Ratione finis because the scope of the Turke is a Temporall of the Pope is an Ecclesiasticall Monarchie The Pope opposeth Kings that he may be an Oecumenicall Bishop the Turke opposeth Bishops all Christians that hee may bee an Oecumenicall King Finally the Turke doth oppose Christians not quà Christians but as they are Adversaries to the Turkish Empire But the Pope doth oppose Christians qu● Christians onely because they deny him to bee the Head of the universall Church which we maintaine to be Christs royall Prerogative Finally so say they Saint Iohn remembreth a Beast with two Hornes Mahomet in the East and the Pope in the West both Hornes fiercely pushing against the Saints I answer that one beast should assault any thing with two Hornes is no wonder but that those Two Hornes in one Beast should assault one another is most wonderfull No lesse admirable is it that the Turke and Pope which perpetually fight betwixt themselves should be said notwithstanding to compose one beast and make up one body of Antichrist And if I should suppose that the Turke and Pope may concurre to oppose Christ as Herod and Pilate did heretofore I must suppose withall that as Herod and Pilate was the Turke and the Pope are friends otherwise they cannot concurre to cōpose one Antichrist And if it be true which Christ doth teach Luke 11. 18. then if these two Hornes compose one Kingdome of Antichrist though Antichrist doe come in all power of Satan though he be established by Belzebub the Prince of the Devills yet if this Kingdome be divided it cannot stand In two words to adde onely three properties out of this text If the Turke and the Pope make one Antichrist Then as it is in the third verse they must have One Heart of Apostasie to fall frō the Church Then as it is in the 4 they must have one Head of Supremacy to bee Rulers of the Church And then as it is in the tenth verse they must have one Tongue of fallacie to be the Seducers of the Church But that ever Turcise and Papisme should be so incorporated into Antichristianisme I thinke few can beleeve it and fewer perswade it I rather conclude that those Two States are like the two Legges of Iron and Clay Dan. 4. 43. though they should bee mingled with the seed of men and by the wit of man yet shall they not cleave to one another It is impossible that those twaine should make one Antichrist Yea the difference among Divines who the man of sin should be may be a sufficient motive to me to persevere in my opinion and for any learned Protestāt to retract this if he hold that both the Turke and Pope or that the Turke alone be Antichrist If either of us have learned either of those Rules either that of Saint Ambrose ad quamcumque