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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Waters are Peoples and Multitudes and Nations and Tongues so Tongues or Languages is one part of her Seat And this Woman is the great Whore with whom the Kings of the Earth have committed Fornication and the Inhabitants of the Earth have been made drunk with the Wine of her Fornication and this Woman is that great City that reigneth over the Kings of the Earth and she is become the Habitation of Devils and the Hold of every foul Spirit and a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird for all Nations have drunk of the Wine of the Wrath of her Fornication and the Merchants of the Earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her Delicacies But how much this False Church this City Babylon hath glorified her self and lived deliciously so much Torment and Sorrow must be given her for she saith in her Heart I sit a Queen and am no Widow and shall see no Sorrow therefore shall her Plagues come in one day Death and Mourning and Famine and she shall utterly be burned with Fire for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her and the Kings of the Earth who have committed Fornication and lived deliciously with her shall bewail her and lament for her when they shall see the Smoke of her Burning standing afar off for fear of her Torment shall say Alas alas that great City Babylon that mighty City for in one Hour is thy Judgment come And the Merchants of the Earth shall weep and mourn over her for no Man buyeth their Merchandize any more a great number of Priests and covetous Preachers will be at a great loss then and that Day is now drawing near for fear of her Torment weeping and wailing and saying Alas alas that great City that was cloathed in fine Linnen and Purple and Scarlet and decked with Gold and precious Stones and Pearls for in one hour so great Riches is come to nought But Heaven and the holy Apostles and Prophets shall then rejoyce over her when God hath avenged them on her Rev. 18. for by her Sorceries were all Nations deceived and in her is and will be found the Blood of the Prophets and of the Saints and of all that were slain upon the Earth And if this false whorish Church had not had a large and splendid Profession of Christianity and Religion she could not possibly have magnified her self so much nor by her Sorceries could she so have deceived all Nations and if it had not been a Golden Cup that she handed forth to the Nations being full of Abomination and Filthiness of her Fornication probably she cōuld not have allured the Inhabitants of the Earth so freely and generally to have drunk of it as they have done with which they have been made drunk brutish and ravenous so that as Wolves they have preyed upon the Sheep of Christ true Christians who loved their Enemies and Persecutors and in killing of them they thought they did God good Service as Christ foretold being drunk with the Wine of the Whore's Fornication Joh. 16.2 And so they were far from the Nature of Christ and from his Teachings who came not to destroy mens Lives but to save them and taught and by his Spirit teacheth all his Disciples to love their Enemies but they are far from loving their Enemies who kill or persecute their Friends for witnessing to the Truth though it reprove them for Sin for Sin may cause them to be destroyed but it will never do any of them any Good thus all Persecutors are acted by the Murthering Spirit of the Man of Sin and drunk with the Wine of the Whores Cup. And so as Cain who was the first Persecutor about Religion had a Mark set upon him lest any finding him should kill him so all Persecutors about Religion have a mark set upon them for their Persecuting is an infallible Mark or Token whereby all may know that their Religion is vain and that they are no true Christians but false Pretenders to Christianity For the Apostle Paul said All that will live Godly in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 3.12 shall suffe Persecution and so they are no persecutors but persecuted and can Pray for such as persecute them And when Paul was called Saul he was a Persecutor and consenting to the Death of Stephen who prayed for his Persecutors and Murtherers Rom. 8.10 but when he believed in the Light the Word of Faith in the Heart and ceased to kick against the Pricks of it and obeyed the Teachings of it then of a Persecutor he became a Preacher of the Cross of Christ which he bare through much Persecution even unto Death 2 Cor. 4.17 and could say This light Affliction which is but for a Moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory and said he I reckon that the Sufferings of this present time Rom. 8.18 are not worthy to be compared to the Glory that shall be revealed in us So he changed for a better condition And so all Professors of Christianity of what sort soever that are Persecutors are within the compass of the false Church Mystery Babylon in whom is found the Blood of all the Righteous that are slain upon the Earth And though such differ among themselves one Preaching this and another that different Doctrine and often go to Wars and kill one another about their pretended Religions and Doctrines and Tenets and which of them can get the upperhand prey upon vex and trouble the others yet none of them all can endure to be persecuted themselves but when they are under they creep into Corners and hide or run or seek to save themselves by joining with the Worship of their Persecutors in Hypocrisie and being at difference thus among themselves like Herod and Pilate yet they can all agree to set at naught and mock and persecute Christ in his Members But true Christians Children of the Light are Children of God and God is their Friend and therefore they fear not what Man can do unto them for they know that God their Father will preserve his faithful Children and they are Members of Christ the Truth and the Truth is precious in their Eye and their Faith in it is worth contending for and worth suffering for and for it they can suffer what God their Father seeth meet and Man can inflict no more and so true Christians are freely given up to suffer Persecution for Christ the Lord their Righteousness knowing it will be to the glory of God if he so please and also having an Eye to the Recompence of Reward And now is fulfilled that which was prophesied by the Prophet Isaiah saying In the Day when the Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious Isa 4.1 2. and the Fruit of the Earth excellent and comely for all them that are escaped of Israel then seven Women shall take hold of one man saying We will eat our own Bread and wear our own Apparel only let

like two or three Berries on the top of a Tree And many were put to Death for their Testimonies about several things and particularly about the Popish Tenet of Transubstantiation before-mentioned for denying that the substance of Bread and Wine by the words of the Priest is Transubstantiated or changed into the very substance of that same Eo●y Flesh and Blood of Christ which was Born of the Virgin Mary and Crucified by the Jews and for saying That the Bread was but a signification and not the Body that Christ suffered in and that the words of Christ whilst in the Body in which he suffered which Body was not the Bread that he gave his Disciples to eat before it was Crucified spoken concerning the Bread to wit this is my Body c. were spoken siguratively and in the same sense that Christ called himself a Vine and a Door c. And for this matter the Papists Burned the Bodies of many Innocent Christians and yet they call'd themselves Christians but were far from the nature of true Christians who cannot render evil for evil and so are far from putting any to Death or Persecuting about Religion And yet this is undeniable that it was a Thousand Years after Christ before their Tenet of Transubstantiation crept in and was generally received by or in their Greek and Latine Churches witness Elfricus his Homily that was Antiently before his time received by the then Papists which the said Elfricus an Archbishop of Canterbury Translated out of the Latine into the Saxon Language which Homily was clear against Transubstantion saying That the Bread or Eucharist is not the Body that Christ suffered in which the said Elfricus and one Wulfstius then Bishop of Sherburn and one Wulfstane Archbishop of York who all had their Calling and Succession in the Roman or Popish Church commanded the Priests to read publickly on Easter Day so called to the common People for their better Preparation or Instruction in the Sacrament as they called it See the Epistle of Elfricus in Worcester Library compared with a Book in the Saxon Tongue at Excester Thus the Man of Sin the Power of Darkness hath drawn his Followers from one degree of Darkness to another for since then in Queen Mary's Days the Papists Burned Hundreds of Men and Women for confessing their Faith that the Bread or Eacharist as they call it is not the Body that Christ suffered in And so they might have Burned many more but the Lord disappointed them and so all Persecutors about Religion must meet with disappointments and God will be the great Reward of the Righteous For they that hearken unto the Voice or Light of Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness Prov. 9.10 which shineth in their Hearts and reproveth for Sin it will teach them the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of true Wisdom Rev. 21.24 and as they faithfully obey this Light wherein they that are saved must walk they shall know the Beams of the Sun of Righteousness to be displayed more and more upon them and shall know that the Reproofs of its Instruction is the Way of Life Prov. 6 2● Prov. 4.8 Isa 35.8 1 John 1.7 and that the Light is the Path of the Just and shineth more and more unto the perfect Day and as they walk in that Way which is the Way of Holiness wherein the Wayfaring Men though Fools shall not err they will know a cleansing from Sin by the Blood of Jesus Christ and so a Fellowship with true Christians who walk in the same Way Jer. 6.16 which as it is a good Old Way so also it is the New and Living Way which Christ hath Consecrated for the Faithful thorow the Vail Heb. 10.20 that is to say his Flesh and such fearing the Name of the Lord they will meet with Refreshment in the Way whereby they will grow as Calves of the Stall Mal 4.2 Mat. ● 5 and they truly hungring and thirsting after Righteousness will come to be satisfied and the Sun of Righteousness will arise unto them more and more with Healing in his Wings that can heal all their Distractions and resolve all their Doubts and hard Questions And the Day is coming and now is broken forth Cant. 2.17 that the Shadows must flee away and the Everlasting Gospel must be Preached again unto them that dwell on the Earth and to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and People and immediately the Voice of the Angel will follow saying Babylon is fallen Rev. 14 6 7 8.9 10. Rev. 17.4 is fallen that great City because she made all Nations drink of the Wine of the Wrath of her Fornication which she handed forth to them in a Golden Cup and the Voice of the other Angel followeth saying If any Man Worship the Beast and his Image and receive his Mark in his Forehead or in his Hand the same shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the Cup of his Indignation and shall be tormented with Fire and Brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb in whose Light they that are saved must walk Therefore let all mark this who receive the Mark of the Cross in their Foreheads or offer their Infants to it or who receive the Eucharist as the Merchants call it or their Bread and Wine in their Right Hands for the Beast would cause all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive his Mark in their Right Hand or in their Forehead and would have no Man to buy nor sell save he that hath his Mark so he Excommunicates out of Church and Market as they say those that will not pay for his marking and if the King of the Country give him Power he throweth them into Prison upon his Excommunication as many in England have experience Now the Mark of the Beast which is the Man of Sin is his Signs for the Apostle Paul said His Coming is with Signs 2 Thes 2.9 and therefore it is good for all to beware that they neither receive nor buy his Signs Rev. 13.15 which is his Mark of those that would compel or cause them to buy their Water-Baptism or their Bread and Wine and tell them that they are outward visible Signs of inward and spiritual Graces for he that receiveth his Mark that is his Signs the same shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God Acts 17.30 for though the Times of Ignorance God hath winked at yet now in the Dispensation of his Everlasting Gospel which is now preached again in this the Day of his Power he commandeth all Men every where to Repent and to Fear God Rev. 14.7 and give Glory to him for the Hour of his Judgment is come and to Worship him that made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and the Fountains of Waters And in this the Hour of his Righteous