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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

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

person of Antichrist shall bee confounded by the presence of Christ In the ninth and tenth verses hee prophecieth how the comming of Antichrist shall be confirmed videlicet by the meanes principall and instrumentall In Him Saint Paul foresheweth his person Satan and his power the working of Satan In it miracles signes and lying wonders And Oracles all deceiveablenesse of unrighteousnesse From the instrument the meaning is evident that Antichrist shall bee confirmed by miracles To which shall bee added Oracles where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unrighteousnesse in this verse is opposed to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Truth in the twelfth so unrighteousnesse is here taken for untruth or falshood and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the deceivablenesse of a strong cunning perswasion The sense Antichrist shall confirme his false doctrine by sophistrie admirable fallacies to make his errours probable yea appeare to be truth The person and agent being Satan it is evidently inferred that the Antichristians shall bee stirred up by the Devill to teach the Doctrine of Devils And the power of the agent it expressed by three termes the worke of Antichrist shall bee wrought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all power and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Energetically and effectually All concurring in this manifest construction The Devil shall inable men to spread perswade the Doctrine of Antichrist beyond admiration Finally the fift part followeth in the tenth eleventh and twelfth verses by whom Antichrist should bee embraced concerning whom we are to consider their persons and properties Their properties being Active and Passive each of them are twofold 1. Negative They received not the love of the truth and affirmative They had pleasure in unrighteousnesse Their passive properties passions and punishments are either internall ●od shall send them strong delusions or eternall That they might be damned Persons on whom Antichrist shall prevaile are here said to bee those that perish whom Saint Paul proposeth by way of anticipation And shall Antichrist and Antichr●stians be so powerfull to deceive Alas how shall we be able to withstand him saith the fearefull Christian Feare not saith my text Antichrist shall indeed prevaile but it is onely in them that perish so the sense is Those that are deceived by Antichrist shall bee damned The first active propertie is negative They did not receive the love of the Truth that they might bee saved Here is the cause that so many are deceived by Antichrist a double errour the former of the minde They doe not receive the love of the Truth or of the Gospell the other of their end They receive the Gospell for some pompe profit or personall respects not for the right end for the love of the Gospell The second active propertie is affirmative They tooke pleasure in unrighteousnesse Where we are to take notice of the action and affection of Antichristians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unrighteousnesse and pleasure Vnrighteousnesse is twofold morall false-dealing Luke 16. 9. the Mammon of unrighteousnesse that is covetousnesse and spirituall unrighteousnesse false-doctrine Rom. 1. 18. The Philosophers did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Keepe downe the Truth of God in unrighteousnesse that is in their owne errours and false doctrine In the same place Saint Paul telleth us what that false-doctrine was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idolatrie This word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they shal take pleasure is very emphaticall implying the infinite affection which any beare to the thing they delight in so is the word used by man 2 Cor. 5. 8. and so is it used by GOD Matth. 3. 17. The sense The servants of Antichrist shall be Idolaters and delight in Idolatry in an high nature In the first passive propertie internall we observe the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a strong delusion and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to beleeve a lye In the first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is strong or energeticall and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 commeth of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a Iuggler 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a strong juggling saith Oecumenius expressing thus much Such as embrace Antichrist shall have a strong strange delusion which shal make them desperately obstinate affronting religion in the phrase of Iob 21. 14. Nolumus scientiam viarum tuarum The meaning of the next phrase is manifest That they shall beleeve a lye that is Antichrist shall make and beleeve the strangest lyes of all other The last passive propertie is eternall and it is as plaine as fearefull all Antichristians shall bee damned Some are not satisfied with this interpretation and would have those condemned who say that the eternall propertie passive of the Antichristians is that they shall be damned Let such please to take foure things into their consideration 1. If they be of the English Church this is the English Translation which I preferre before all humane writings next to the Originall it selfe 2. If they bee of the Romish Church this is their exposition also Iudicandi voce condemnationis poenam intellige saith Steuartius 3. If they be Grecians they know 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is common even in the Greeke Testament 4. It is the drift of the discourse if they please to peruse it And for mine own part I will not nodum in scirp● make a question where there is a consent on all sides Out of these plentiful points I will contract extract a compendious Paraphrase 1. Antichrist will come on a time when there shall be an incomparable falling away from Rome by Rebellion and from Christ in Religion And Antichrist himselfe shall be the Apostate and Author of them both This Apostate shal be a man of sinne the patterne and Patron of impietie and the sonne of perdition destroyed himselfe and destroying his adherents He shall be an adversary unto Christ both fundamentally in the maine point universally in many points of Christian Religion but so cunningly that he shall place his Throne in the Temple even in the Prime Church professing Christianitie Which hee shall so rule over-topping Kings and Emperours with command equal unto Christ that he shall behave himselfe as if he were God incarnate even Christ Iesus the verie Sonne of God 2. His Plots are secrets and Mysteries undermining the truth in Saint Pauls time but Hindered by the Emperour who was no sooner removed but this Antichrist was immediately revealed And then hee domineered with all lawlesse actions 3. His Tyrannie hath beene d●scovered and diminished by the preaching of Christ though his Kingdome is not wholly to bee finished but by the presence of Christ 4. Being d●scovered by preaching Antichrist opposeth such Preachers by Miracles and lying wonders and by Oracles and strong arguments As probable as Satan can infuse into man to support the Doctrine of Devills 5. By which they shal seduce many wretched Proselytes but to their fatall perdition Because they receive