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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85941	The down-fall of Anti-Christ: or, The povver of preaching, to pull down popery. In a briefe treatise on 2. Thessal. 28. By John Geree, Pastour of Tewkesbury, in Glocester-Shire.	Geree, John, 1601?-1649.	1641 (1641)	Wing G595; Thomason E157_17	18,755	26

THE DOWN-FALL OF ANTI-CHRIST OR THE POVVER OF PREACHJNG to pull down POPERY In a briefe Treatise on 2. Thessal 2 8. And then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his Mouth and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming BY JOHN GEREE Pastour of Tewkesbury in GLOCESTER-Shire London Printed for Thomas Vnderhill 1641. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL JOHN WHITE Esquire and to the rest of that Honourable Committee for RELIGION Most worthy Sir MAny yeares agoe a Parliament sitting I began this Treatise thereby to have added my coale from the Word which is as fire to have kindled Zeale where there was power for the promoting of Preaching which Parliament miscarrying made this birth then abortive But when the fame of this Honourable Committee in this happie Parliament came abroad I was againe encouraged to consummate that which before was inchoate and now most worthy Sir to you I send it if it may any whit encourage you to goe on with your glorious designe who have encouraged me to go on with this meane piece what greater encouragement to any worke then evidence when it is finished it will bee of worth to answer the labour This Treatise will demonstrate that if you set up Preaching you give Popery her most deadly and uncurable wound and what can be a more glorious work did you know with what joy prayers to God the designment of your Committee for this purpose did every where provoke you would easily conjecture what exultation and Hallelujahs the effecting of it would produce and that would be no small spurre to you as no Committee hath a more acceptable object so I believe none hath more or more powerfull Prayers then this of yours which I doubt not but will procure good successe this as it is the Confidence so the daily Prayers of Your Worships Servant in the Lord Iesus Christ JOHN GEREE THE DOWN-FALL OF ANTI-CHRIST 2 THES 2.8 And then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shal consume with the Spirit of his Mouth THis Prophesie is now fulfilled and so cleared Prophesies cease to be Mysteries when by accomplishment they become Histories While this wicked one was obscured so was this Text but when his person was revealed this Text was unvayled hence the difference betweene Divines ancient and mod●rne about this wicked one they could not see him because he was hid so some of them mistooke the Cloath for the picture the let for him that should have beene revealed supposing Nero to have beene that wicked one Others of the Ancients though in the Questions quid and qualis sit Anti-christus what and what-like Antichrist should bee they spake appositely yet in the question quis sit who should be this wicked on● they having onely mysticall Visions not performances there they were misled and mistooke But the later Divines look't on after the Let was removed and this wicked one revealed and so to them it was as easie to know him as it was difficult to the other as a riddle is easie after it is read as a Mathematicall conclusion plaine after it is demonstrated And here by the way we see a sound reason suggested why though in other things we give a preheminence to antiquity yet in this touching the person of Anti-Christ we attribute more to ages neare us For the ancient Fathers looked on this wicked one not onely through a mist but at a great distance both impediments to sight But our Divines saw him both with clearer light and nearer they saw him coram face to face as it were not through a Mystery darkely and therefore might give more sure information according to that of Austine Prophesies are sooner fulfilled then understood Iohn the Baptist was in many things equall to the greatest yet in one thing the least in the Kingdome of Heaven was greater then he to wit in unfolding the mysteries of the Messiah because they saw all things accomplished concerning him So men farre inferiour to the Fathers in Learning and other indowments may be greater than they in this point touching Anti-Christ because what the former studied in the Revelation these saw in the exhibition of this man of Sinne. Now later Divines generally save such as have received the marke of the beast in their hands or fore-heads as they understand by this man of sin the Antichrist so by the Anti-Christ the succession of the Popes of Rome who once revealed must not endure ever that is the property and prerogative of Christs Kingdome not of Antichristian Tyranny But he shall be consumed of whom the Lord by what The spirit of his mouth and what is that in the judgement of the best interpretours but the Preaching of the Gospell Anti-Christs Revelation could not be hindred because God had decreed it nor shall his consumption be prevented because God will worke it God workes by meanes happy is he whom God vouchsafes the honour to be an instrument of this desired ruine Whosoever loves holinesse must wish and endeavour the ruine of Ant Christs Kingdome because he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the lawlesse Whosoever loves the Lord Christ as all doe who are not accurst must oppose this man of sinne because he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Antichrist but he that opposeth Antichrist must labour to use the right meanes lest he builds up while he intends to destroy And what the right meanes is this text discovers holding forth to us this spirituall truth Observ The spirit of Gods mouth that is the preaching of the Gospel is the best means bring to Anti-christ and his Kingdome into such a consumption that will afterwards end in abolition Rev. 14 6. No sooner was one Angell seene in the midst of heaven having the everlasting Gospell to preach unto them that dwell on the earth but presently there followed another Angell saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great City c. plainely showing that the preaching of the Gospell ushers in the ruine of the Seat and so of Anti-christ himselfe Many arguments may be gathered to confirme this spirituall truth as Argum. 1 1. Gods meanes are alwayes best to effect his owne worke and is not this of his prescription God is the wisest worker he knoweth the nature of every thing and the power of every instrument and therefore cannot erre in the designment of meanes for the accomplishment of any matter Nay as Gods word is operative so is his designement His word can give bei●g unto things and his choice impresse vertue on the meanes to effect the end and therefore when any meanes is designed of God we cannot without detracting from God deny it to be most fit to effect the end for either he designed it because it is fit or it becomes fit because he hath designed it Gods prescription then doth certainly evince that there 's no such blast to make Anti-christ wither as this spirit of Gods mouth the preaching of the Gospell Argum.