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A77240	The marks of the apocalyptical beast, plainly decyphered and the danger of having communion with him clearly discovered. The testimony of a reverend and learned divine concerning the following treatise. As to the treatise, Mr. - and I have perused it carefully; and not to speak to please, but as the thing is, it is very clear, strong, and useful, and very fit to open the eyes of those Papists whom God hath a favour to: I wish the nation enjoyed it, being it is so solid, short, and fitted for good.	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1667 (1667)	Wing B418A; ESTC R203034	15,160	19

most agreeable to the design of the Spirit of God who speaks of the Beast as of one that was to reign a long time and comparatively much longer than either the Christian Rev. 17.10 11 or the Heathen Emperours before him in whose place the Beast was to succeed as the eighth in Number but indeed the seventh Head and was thence forward to continue until the Lord Christ himself came to take away his Authority from him 3. That since the breaking of the Roman Empire and the Rise of several Kingdomes or Principalities out of it which by all writers is placed between the fourth and the fifth Century though many differ concerning the particular Time of each there have already lapsed above 1200. years all which time we must in conformity to this Scripture be forced to acknowledge that the Beast who was to begin his Reign with those ten Kings hath been visibly and powerfully reigning and to speak more plainly this the Spirit of God hath affirmed he was to do and therefore hath done in Rome it self and thither wee are directed by the Angle to seek him that wee may know who it is whose Communion wee are with so much care commanded to avoid From what hath been said it is very evident nor indeed can any thing possibly bee more clear to all unprejudiced men that as Rome was that City which was represented under the form of a Whorish Woman so the Pope or Bishop of Rome is the Beast who bears her It is he who for many hundred of years hath fixed his Seat and his Supremacy there It is hee who challengeth Authority over all Kings and Earthly Magistrates the greatest of whom have been forced to wait as Lackeyes to make up his Train It is He who hath all these Names of Blasphemy of being Head of the Church Infallible Pardoning Sin Dan. 7.25 and the like which the Spirit of God had before prophesied of and witnesseth against It is He who hath attempted to change Times and daily doth change Laws dispensing for his own gain with whatever is Sacred and Holy It is He who Blasphemes those that dwell in Heaven Canonizing whom hee pleaseth for Saints and then commanding them to be worshiped as Gods shewing himself hereby not only to bee a God Apolog. but as Tertullians expression is Deus Deificus A God that can make Gods So much is hee advanced above the condition of a Mortal Man And lastly It is He who hath the False-Prophet to Act and Preach for him even an infinite number of Monks Fryars Jesuits and the like False-Teachers who being his sworn Subjects by their Lies and Lying Wonders do all strive to bring the World into the same Vassallage not much caring what becomes of other Points so that Men will but be Ignorant enough and quietly hold the Fundamental Article of their Creed that the Pope is Head of the Church but if any suspecting him to be the Beast they are bid to beware of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mic 3.5 do once boggle at this then these False-prophets prepare or as the Hebrew word signifies Hallow War against them i. e Wage an Holy War the meaning of which Phrase our Protestant Churches in France Savoy Germany and other places are too sensibly acquainted with to need an explication If this bee so for the proof of which I have not followed any pre-conceived Notions of mine own but the unerring guidance of Scripture-light then it doth necessarily follow that in the Church of Rome I mean for those who knowingly live and dye in Communion with Her acknowledging the Pope for their Head there is not any possibility of Salvation and to affirm there is is boldly to contradict the express denuntiation of the Spirit of God and therein to bee mercilesly Cruel unto the Souls of those deluded men under pretence of being Charitable 2 Th. 2.10 See 2 Cor. 2.15 4.3 Acts 2.47 1 Cor. 1.18 Jude v. 4 The Apostle Paul saies that the Deceivableness of Unrighteousness works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in them that perish or in the lost who being alwaies opposed to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the saved it abundantly shews that all who continue their adherence unto the damnable Errours of that Church and Head are wholly forsaken by God and designed to Destruction What may bee said concerning former Times when the Truth was not so clear nor the Apostacy in all its parts so visible I will not determine It is possible Acts 17.30 31 that as heretofore so then God might wink at those times of Ignorance but I am sure hee now calls upon all to repent or else wee must expect to perish in our Obstinacy It is therefore very observable Vers 7 See Psal 96.5 and 115.4 c. Isa 41. 1 Thes 1.9 that in the 14th of Revelation first there comes an Angel to Preach the Everlasting Gospel the sum of which is no other than what the Prophets and Apostles did Preach of Old That men should turn from Idols to serve the living and true God and worship him who made Heaven and Earth and the fountains of Waters Upon the preaching of which Gospel immediately there follows another Angel proclaiming that dreadful Judgement before mentioned against such as worship the Beast and receive his Mark or his Image From whence I gather that what-ever may be the dealings of God towards those in Spain and Italy or other places where the Preaching of the Everlasting Gospel is utterly supprest and those poor souls who possibly may long for light are forcibly detained in darkness yet in such places where the Truths of God are taught and freedome given unto all that will come and hear them there to continue in that sin of Popery which God hath already declared he will not pardon must needs be utterly inconsistent with any hopes of Happiness Although I need not say any more for the proof of this than what hath already been spoken concerning the Judgement threatned against all such as obey that Man of sin and Childe of Perdition the Pope or the Beast against whom the Lord hath an irreconcileable controversie yet in compassion to the souls of those miserably deceived Papists amongst us I shall add these few things farther That 1. If all who either add to or take away from Rev. 22.18 19. the words of Scripture are to expect all the Plagues threatned and to bee excluded from the happiness promised in it 2. If they who Worship God after the Doctrines and Commandments of men do onely Worship him in vain Mat. 15.9 13 14. and instead of gaining a reward for their Service are to be plucked up as Plants not of the Fathers planting 3. If they who blindly and with an implicite Faith do follow after blinde Guides will certainly at last fall with them into the ditch even the bottomless-Pit of destruction 4. Rev. 21.8 Psal 97.7 If Idolaters are to have their portion in the