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A19290	The danger of popery: or, A sermon preached at a visitation at Ashford in Kent vpon 2. Thess. 2.12. Wherein the marks of antichristianisme and signes of truth are opened and applied, and the question of the sauing and damning of thos. that follow Antichrist is explanted by the Scriptures. By Robert Abbott, preacher of the Word of God at Cranebrooke in Kent.	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1625 (1625)	STC 57; ESTC S115232	25,712	50

the person if you aske me who are these miserable Antichristians I answere from The persons in danger the text Doct. They are such as beleeue not the truth but haue pleasure in vnrighteousnesse They are described here by Infidelity in respect of the word of God and by euil beleife in respect of the word of Antichrist Which descriptiō that you may conceiue consider the foure tearms of it First what is meant by the truth secondly what by not beleeuing the truth thirdly what is meant by vnrighteousnesse fourthly what by taking pleasure in vnrighteousnesse By truth you must vnderstand the doctrine of the Gospel contained in the Scriptures Thus Christ expounds Ioh. 17. 17. it sanctifie them with thy truth thy word is truth which word is so called in three respects First in respect of the vndeceiueable nature of it All other doctrines are either false or may be vaine or fruitlesse They are false if they oppose the religion of the Scriptures They may be vaine whether they be naturall or ciuill if they doe possesse vs and captiuate or peruert our vnderstanding for these haue their places if they doe prepare vs for higher Modò praeparent ac non detineant ingenium imployments and doe not imprison vs from God and his more sauing truth Secondly the word is truth in respect of the imployment which God hath giuen it in the Church to be a rule and square of all sauing truth As Moses must build according to the patterne so must we lay the ground of all sauing Heb. 8. 5. and wholesome truth according to the Scriptures Therefore when Christ meant to destroy by degrees and to deface the deformities of Antichrist he giues Iohn as a tipe of the Ministery of the Gospel Apoc. 10. 8 9. the little booke to eate which is the word of God Hee gaue him not the great Popish volumes of decretals which together with the spirit of prophesie in the Popes owne breasts doe make vp the word of Antichrist but the little volume of the holy Scripture which maketh vp most fully the word of the Lambe Lastly it is called truth in regard of the worke of it because it doth confound errour and worke sinceritie in iudgement heart tongue affections and the whole conuersation of those who without preiudice doe cleaue vnto it For though some thorough the iust iudgement of God are giuen ouer to the blindnesse of their minds and rebellion of their wills and so doe not submit vnto the word as those who resisted the holy Ghost yet so many as are ordained Acts. 7. 5● Acts. 28. 23. 24. Act. 2. 47. vnto life and shall be saued are by this meanes at some times or other reclaimed from their false courses and added to the Church Thus you see what is meant by the truth now if you aske mee what is meant by not beleeuing the truth I answere the not receiuing of it into our heads and hearts For that which he called before ● Thes 2. 10. the not receiuing the loue of the truth that they might be saued heere he calleth not beleeuing the truth Besides the power of beleeuing is called a Ioh. 1. 12. receiuing by Iohn when he saith that as many as receiued him to them he gaue a right to be the sons of God euen to them that beleeue in his name The contrary to this not beleeuing is expressed by three significant phrases namely sealing grafting hiding Esay saith Seale vp the Law among my Disciples Esa 8. 15. The fowles pecke the wheate in the stony ground but that which is sealed vp is not easily come by to be stolne away Iames saith receiue with meekenesse Iam 1. 21. the word which is graffed in you As the graft is receiued of the stocke into one body so the word must bee incorporated into vs and not to bee separated from vs but to our ruine The Psalmist Psal 119. 11. saith that I haue hid thy promise in my heart that I might not sinne against thee As blessed Mary kept Luk. 2. 19. 51. the sayings of Iesus Christ in her heart so Dauid kept the promises of God by faith When the truth is not thus sealed vp and hid in our hearts by being taken into our nature that we may liue and die with it but the smoake of the bottomlesse pit is suffered Apo. 9 2. to darken our soules then are wee said not to beleeue the truth But what now is meant by vnrighteousnesse in this place Nothing but falshood For as sinne in generall is taken for false doctrine as when Christ Ioh. 8. 46. saith which of you can rebuke mee of sinne as we see by the opposition there but if I say the truth why doe ye not beleeue mee so vnrighteousnesse in particular in this place as we see by the opposition here not beleeuing the truth but hauing pleasure in vnrighteousnesse And falshood may be called vnrighteousnes both because it carryeth vs from the rule of righteousnesse which should informe our Quod efficit tale illud ipsū est magis tale vnderstanding and reforme our hearts and whole conuersation that we might haue an accepted righteousnesse as also because it is a fearefull cause of vnrighteousnesse The Romanes abusing the law of Nature and turning the truth of God into a lye Ro. 1. 24 25. were giuen vp in their hearts vnto lusts vncleannesse and other Gentiles as well as they hauing their cogitations darkened and hearts hardened for Eph. 4. 18 19 want of sauing truth gaue themselues vnto wantonnesse to worke all vncleannesse with greedinesse Thus you vnderstand vnrighteousnesse one thing more will cleere all and that is what may be meant by taking pleasure in it I answere the giuing of our hearts to the pleasing enticements of Antichrist as effeminate persons giue themselues to the pleasing enticements of harlots For there are three sorts of the followers of Antichrist Some that are simply seduced such are they who are said to dwell on the earth that is in the visible state and condition of the Church who were Apoc. 13. 14. deceiued by the signes and great wonders of the beast Some that are by feare and torture compelled such are those small and great rich and poore Apoc. 13. 16 17. bond and free whom he made to receiue his marke or else they should neither buy nor sell Some also there are that are carnally minded who liue in pleasure with the whoore of Babel such as are said to commit fornication with her and to be drunke with Apoc. 17. 2. the wine of her fornications and to waxe rich with the aboundance of her pleasures Of these doth the Apoc 18. 3. holy Apostle speake in this place Thus haue I as God hath inabled mee opened vnto you the words of the Apostle by which you may perceiue that the text driues at the description Who are Antichristians of Antichristians and

pit by descending from Adam we are in a ciuill bond as beeing members of the same Church and Common-wealth and we are of the same gracious bond as being members of the same body whereof Christ Iesus is the head All these ought to mooue vs to thanke our God when we see men flocke from Antichrist to the assemblies of the Saints as doues to their windowes and to exhort them to stand fast in that Christian course which they haue vndertaken by imbracing the doctrines of the Gospel deliuered 2. Thess 2. 15. vnto vs by what meanes soeuer and also by praying that they may be confirmed by beeing Ver. 19 17. comforted in the way of grace that all Gods people with ioyfull hearts may say Amen Amen Vse 3 Lastly I came to you my Fellow-Labourers in the word of the Lord seeing the danger of Popery is so great and it is so hard a matter to bring them that delight in it into Gods fould let vs obserue the exhortation of blessed Peter feed 1 Pet. 5. 2 3 4. the flocke of God which dependeth vpon you caring for it not by constraint but willingly not for filthy Lucre but of a ready minde not as though you were Lords ouer Gods Heritage but that ye may be examples of the flock If I should doe nothing but repeate these wordes it were plentifully sufficient But oh how hardly are we drawne vnto our duties Shall I not therefore presse it in particulars First then as pittying the miserie of Antichristrans let vs feed the flock of God by the word of God Euery thing is best fedde with that meate which is best sutable with the nature of it and so is Gods flock Therfore in the feare of God giue them the word of God Christ hath shed his blood for them is it not therefore pitty that Antichrist should defile or destroy them Therefore heare the word of the Lord yee Priests after Gods owne heart Preach Catechize and liue against the Pope of Rome First feed by preaching that is by speaking vnto men to edification exhortation and comfort 1 Cor. 14. 3. wherein as a brother to brethren let mee giue my aduice as one that hath obtained mercy Let vs labour to speake the word of God in the spirit of power and of a sound mind wee may 2 Tim. 2. 7. finde by wofull and daily experience how hard a matter it is to make poor people to vnderstand the word of God As therefore Mannah must descend from the clouds that the people may eat of it so must wee lay aside all cloudy speculations and descend to vulgar apprehension that the people to whom we intend good may take what is their owne and goe their way Let vs be as solid as wee can as the Apostle saith take heed to 1 Tim. 4. 13. 16. Prach pl●a by S. Hier. reading and to doctrine but as in the building of the temple as it is wel obserued there was hewing in the mountaines but when it was set vp not an Ax or Sawe or Hammer in Ierusalem because it was to bee a ●ipe of the kingdome of peace so though we vse all sortes of wrighting and wrighters in our priuate studies yet let vs not muster and obtrude them in troopes for ostentation in the pulpit least as Asahels dead 2. Sam. 2. 23. body it make the people stand still and cause them to say as Ahimaaz of the death of Absolon 2. Sam. 18. I saw a tumult but I knew not what It is a true speach of a reuerend Diuine that learning neuer spoiles a good sermon but when it is communicated either with affected eloquence and vnusuall words or in such an abstruse manner of speaking as if wee meant to work admiration astonishment rather then edification wee may perhaps get the garlands of prayse and goodwill rom them that liue more in the eare than in the hearte but wee shall neuer procure the conuersion 1. Thess 2. 19. of soules which is the crowne and seale of our Apostleship or ministery 2. Cor. 3. To stirre vs vp therefore to preach and thus Motiues to preach think with mee as I often haue done of these foure motiues First that our people as wee also breake Gods commaundements euery day both in thought word and deed as euery child can say They breake them all in Adam by communion who in that one sinne violated the whole law of nature Yea since they were cut off from the old Adam graffed into Christ by faith they breake them by disposition and Ro. 5. 12. if they doe not fall into the outward acte noe thankes to themselues who are as prone vnto it as a chained fox to kill yong chickens but vnto our God who doth either restraine and bridle vs or renew and sanctifie vs to better imployments Secondly let vs consider that our people being Tit. 3. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thus in sinne and errour are like vnto mad-men For all the world cannot perswade them otherwise till God perswade Iaphet yea they Gen. 9. 27. will sometimes runne vpon death it selfe in the 1. Cor. 13. 3. maintenance of their fooleries yea and further they like madmen will raise great stirres vpon ridiculous matters For as the Robe of Caesar is sayd more to trouble Rome than his death and an apple to set all Greece on fire so the Church in Christs time was troubled about fasting in Mat. ● Act. 15. the Apostles time about stranguled and bloud in the next times about the celebration of Easter betweene the East and West Churches and after that about the rites of Baptisme to wit whether Heretickes could truely baptise and truely Euseb lib. 5. cap. 25. lib. 6 cap. 3. these trifles haue benne the fuel of contention from time to time that not only in the church but also among the people as if madnes and not matter did sway on all sides to the disturbing of the common peace Thirdly let vs consider that when our people are come to knowledge they know a great deale more then they can make vse of for their good Eccles 4. 8. As a couetous man hath no power to take comfort of his estate or as children fooles and impotent persons may haue great honours and reuenewes but know not how to vse them so ordinarily where the diligent hand is to disperse the good word of God there may be and is a rich treasure of precious knowledge in many of our people who know onely to know without further profit For there is great difference betwixt knowledge for vnderstanding and wisedome for practise as we see in those that knew the way of the Lord and iudgement of their God Ier. 5. 5. yet they altogether brake the yoke and burst the bonds And againe in those who said they were Ier. 8. 8 9. wise and that the Law of the Lord was with them yet they reiected the