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A51123	Antichrist unvailed by the finger of Gods power and his visage discovered by the light of Christ Jesus, and his ministers, members, works, and lying wonders, manifested by the spirit of God, a manifestation whereof is given to every man (and woman) to profit withal : with friendly and serious invitations, exhortations, and warnings to all professors of Christianity, to beware of that antichristian spirit that leadeth to destruction, and of those teachers, who are influenced by it / written in the love of God by a prisoner (at Lancaster castle) for the testimony of truth, and one of the people called (in scorn) Quakers, Henry Mollineux.	Mollineux, Henry, d. 1719.	1695 (1695)	Wing M2393; ESTC R13417	147,325	285

Christ Princes of Priests and say they sit in Peter's Chair and that they have the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to bind and loose and remit and retain Sins and that they cannot Err are in these things found Liars and Deceivers and so Servants of the great Deceiver the Father of Lies for the Apostle Peter declared that Christ is the Rock and the Popes say Peter and his Successors are the Rock the Apostle said Christ was the Head of his Church and the Popes say Col. 2.19 Eph. 1.22 they are the Head of Christ's Church Peter ●alled not himself the Prince of Priests for he wrote to the Christians saying That coming to Christ as a Living Stone they were as lively Stones Built up a Spiritual House and an Holy Priesthood to offer up Spiritual Sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ which Sacrifices acceptable to God are invisible but so is not a Wafer the Sacrifice of the Mass-Priests of whom the Pope styleth himself Prince which Wafer a Mouse or a Rat would not be afraid of and do they not say it is the very Flesh Blood and Bones of Christ Jesus who suffered without the Gates of Jerusalem Which is abominable Deceit And though Peter and the rest of the Apostles who were in the Power of God had that which did open into the Kingdom of Heaven and shut out that which did defile and was unclean yet Peter Sold no Indulgences nor Pardons for Money as the Popes have done or do but he Prophesied of such false Teachers to come who said he shall privily bring in Damnable Heresies 2 Pet. 2.1 2 3. even denying the Lord that bought them and many shall follow their pernicious Ways by reason of whom the Way of Truth shall be evil spoken of and through Covetousness shall they with feigned words make Merchandize of you And so the Apostle Peter plainly foretold of the false Teachers who Teach for Hire and Divine for Money and through Covetousness with feigned words make Merchandize of People and deny the Lord that bought them of which fort of Teachers the Popes have been the Head which have no part in the Church of Christ they being neither Head nor Members of it for Peter acknowledged that Christ is the Rock upon which his true Church is Built but the Popes say that Peter is that Rock and that they are his Successors and so they deny the Lord that bought them and account themselves in his place and many have followed their pernicious Ways in preaching for Hire or Tythes and Gifts or Rewards and all such deny the Doctrine of Christ who said Freely ye have received freely give and so they deny the Lord that bought them and speak evil of the Way of Truth that they may readily make Merchandize of People with their feigned or lying words as Peter Prophesied and so it is plain that the Popes are the Head of the Deceivers and false Teachers that Christ and his Apostles foretold of And as for Peter's Keys that the Popes have reckoned that they keep and with them the Power of Binding and Loosing c. however they have been esteemed of yet it is written of Pope Julius the Third a noted Sodomist that he destroyed Two Hundred Thousand Christians in the space of Seven Years the abominable wicked Lives of many of them and also their many flat Contradictions being upon Record and that he intending to make War against the French and marching to the Bridge of Tyber he threw Peter's Keys into the River Tyber saying Peter's Keys help not let Paul 's Sword defend * Witness Prideaux Introd and Burton's Wonderful Prodigies of Judgment and Mercy us and yet that Pope could sell his Pardons And except the Keys were found again which I never read of yet have not all their Popes Pardons been sold without the Keys since And have not People been greatly deceived who gave their Mosey for Pardons to them that had not the Keys of Heaven to lot them in as they made them to believe that they had And doth it not seem as if the Pope erred who threw away Peter's Keys And it was written of him thus He selleth Heaven but hath not Heaven himself But the Kingdom of Heaven is within Luke 17.21 Mat. 13.89 and the Word of that Kingdom is in the Heart and so the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are Spiritual and not to be seen by a Carnal Eye and it is only they who receive believe in and obey that Word the Word of Faith in their Hearts that by the Keys know an opening and so an entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven and thus testified Peter who advised them to whom he wrote to take heed to this sure Word the Light and to give diligence to make their Calling and Election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 to 20. And so the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are not made by a Smith upon an Anvil as probably the Popes Keys may which must rust perish and be of no esteem for the Day is at hand wherein no Man buyeth their Merchandize any more Rev. 18.11 It is Recorded in undoubted Histories what Bloody Persecution and Monstrous Murders the Roman Emperors in the time of those called the Ten Persecutions inflicted upon the Suffering Christians in the Primitive Times and then was there any talk of a Pope for a Visible Head of the Church at Rome Or then was Rome any more accounted of than the others The Churches at Jerusalem See Hist Magd. Cent. 5. Chap. 19. and Leo. ad Gal. Epist 77 89. at Constantinople at Alexandria at Cesaria and at Cypr●is had as much Power in their several Churches as Rome had during the first Three Hundred Years after Christ And the Elders or Bishops of the said other Churches did sometimes sharply reprove the Bishop of Rome and it was at the least Six Hundred Years after Christ as Records declare when Phocas Platina Christ Misseas Hen. Panteleon c. Epist 32 33 34. Cap. 76.77 to aspire to the Empire of Rome Murdered his Master Mauritius and his Children and Phocas somewhat searing and willing to have the Favour of B●●isace the Third then Bishop of Rome cohdescendeth to all his Petitions and grants him to be Head Bishop over all Christian Churches and here begun the Name of Pope being the first Rise of Rome's Visible Head And as the Popes had their Rise by a Murderer so a Murdering Persecuting Spirit hath influenced them as their Bloody Principles and Murdering Practices have abundantly declared to the World witness the sad Massacres of the Waldenses in Provence in the Year 1545. and of Christians in Haly in Calabria in the Year 1560. and likewise in France of above Thirty Thousand Persons in the Year 1572. and the Irish Massacre in the Year 1642. being yet fresh in Memory wherein by the Papists were put to several sorts of Death in the Province of Vlster an Hundred and Fifty Thousands

they that believed not in the Light Luke 8.37 the Manifestation of the Spirit of Christ in their Hearts they did not believe his Miracles nor in him for his Works sake But they who believed in the Light the Name of Christ in their Hearts they believed both him and his Works who said He that believeth on me John 14.12 or in me the works that I do he shall do also and greater works than these shall he do because I go to my Father And likewise he said The hour is coming John 5.25 and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live And so such as have been dead in Trespasses and Sins against God and his Light when their Minds have been truly turned to the true Light of Christ Col. 3.1 2. to 17. which is the Voice of the Son of God and reproveth for Sin in the Heart as they have believed in it and taken diligent heed to the reproofs of its Instruction which is the Way of Life Prov. 6.23 they have known a being made alive to God and a being dead unto Sin in which formerly they lived And so many have been and are made living Witnesses of the wonderful Operation of the quickening and healing Power and Spirit of Christ in their Hearts Souls and Consciences and have certainly and sensibly known and do know Luke 7.22 that the Blind have been restored to sight the Lame have been made sound the Lepers have been cleansed the Deaf have heard and the Dead are raised up and live to the Praise and Glory of God in that which is out of the sight and reach of the World Col. 3.3 that lyeth in wickedness for their Life is hid with Christ in God who hath raised from Death and with the daily Bread of Eternal Life preserveth their depending Souls alive in his Love and this is far more satisfaction than the seeing hearing of or doing of any outward Miracles that can be done by Man to know the Lord's wonderful doings in themselves Psal 118.22 to 28. and that the Stone which the builders refused is become the head Stone of the corner the true Light which Babel's Builders have refused the Lord hath made to become such a Day that those which he hath quickned can with trembling in his presence rejoice and be glad in it These are Built upon the sure Foundation the tryed Stone the precious Corner Stone that God hath laid in Sion for a Foundation Isa 28.16 1 Cor. 10.3 Deut. 32.4 according to his Promise of old this Foundation is the Rock of Ages and the Spiritual Rock of Spiritual Israel which is the Satisfactory Nourishment of all that are true Israelices indeed The Pope of Rome is not this Rock nor a Succession of their Popes nor the Apostle Peter is not this Rock though the word Peter signifieth a Stone or a Rock but the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God is this Heavenly Rock against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail For when Jesus Christ asked his Disciples saying Mat. 16.15 16 17 18. Whom say ye that I am Peter answered and said Thou art Christ the Son of the Living God Jesus answered and said Blessed art thou Simon the Son of Jonas for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father which is in heaven and I say also unto thee that thou art Peter and upon this Rock I will build my Church and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it By which words it is plain that Peter was not the Rock upon which Christ would Build his Church neither was Flesh and Blood that Rock but the Revelation of his Father which is in Heaven and that is by the Son for Christ had told them before saying Mat. 11.27 No man knoweth the Son buy the Father neither knoweth any man the Father but the Son Luke 10.22 and he so whomsoever the Son will reveal him And not only did the Apostle Paul testifie That another foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 10.4 1 Cor. 3.11 Eph. 2.20 the Rock and Corner Stone but also the Apostle Peter himself testified that Christ was as a Living Stone disallowed indeed of Men but chosen of God and precious and the Chief Corner Stone laid in Sion Isa 28.16 according to Isaiah's Prophecy and that he was a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of offence to them which stumble at the Word which is nigh in the mouth and in the heart being disobedient And also he said 1 Pet. 2.1 to 10. That true Believers coming unto this Rock as unto a Living Stone are also as lively Stones Built up a Spiritual House then out of the sight of the Carnal-minded an Holy Priesthood to offer up Spiritual Sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ the Popes Mass is no such Spiritual Sacrifice and that they are a Chosen Generation a Royal Priesthood an Holy Nation then no * Witness Pageon of Popes and the Papists Order to allow Whore-houses proclaimed and published Jan. 24th 1509. Whore-houses allowed amongst them as have been at Rome a Peculiar People to shew forth the Praises of Him who hath called them out of darkness into his marvellous light of which Light he wrote thus speaking of the Voice which came to Christ from the Excellent Glory he said We have also a more sure Word of Prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed 2 Pet. 1.10 to 20. as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts And so according to the Testimony of Christ and of his Apostles Peter and Paul Christ is the Rock upon which his Church is Built against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail and not Peter for did not the Gates of Hell prevail against Peter In so much that we read in the very same Chapter some Verses after mention is made of Christ's Building his Church upon the Rock Mat. 16.23 that in answer to other words of Peter Christ said to him Get thee behind me Satan thou art an Offence unto me for thou savourest not the things that be of God and was not he prevailed against by the Gates of Hell Mark 14.66 10 72. Luke 22.54 to 62. John 18.25 26 27. after that even so far as to deny his Lord and Master and to Curse and Swear And did not Peter err and so was not Infallible Though the Popes that pretend to be Peter's Successors reckon themselves Infallible and that they cannot err And so it plainly appeareth that Peter was not that Rock upon which Christ Buildeth his Church and that the Popes who call themselves Peter's Successors Bellar. de Poot lib. ● C●● 1. Ibid. lib. 4. C. 6. Bellar. Con●ov Tom. 2 the Head of the Church and the Vicars of