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A90952	An answer to Grifith Williams Lord Bishop of Ossorie his book, intituled, The great antichrist revealed, never yet discovered, and proved to be neither pope, nor Turk, nor any single person, nor any one monarch or tyrant in any polity.	Pressick, George.; Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672. Great antichrist revealed, never yet discovered, and proved to be neither pope, nor Turk, nor any single person, nor any one monarch or tyrant in any polity.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3294A; ESTC R182040	110,354	119

that forsaketh Peters Chair It is therefore no easie thing to traffick without the Beast's mark or his name or the number of his name In the 14. Chapter 9 10. verses is held forth the punishment of the Beast and his followers suitable to their sins verse 9. the third Angel followed them that is the two Angels mentioned before verse the 6. and 8. saying it is fallen it is fallen Baby lon the great City because she gave the Wine of the wrath of her fornication to all Nations these words doth manifestly declare the utter overthrow and destruction of the City of Rome which here is called Babylon and the reason why she shall be destroyed because she hath given the Wine of her fornication to all Nations that is because she hath propagated her Idolatry which is spiritual whordom and fornication unto all Nations so far as her power extended and which they have received and drunk in her Idol●trous Doctrines with as much eagerness and delight as a thirsty man drinketh wine and verse 9. the third Angel fellowed them saying if any man shall worship the beast and his Image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand he shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God by Angels in this prophecy immeant the Ministers of the Gospel The ruine of Rame for their idolatry as the Angels of the seven Churches of Asia the 2. and 3. Chapters that is the Ministers of the seven Churches so these three Angels mentioned here must be understood all the faithful Ministers of the Gospel that witness against the Idolatrous doctrines and practice of this Beast the Pope here is a certain number set down for an uncertain of which Angels and their preaching every one seems to be more terrible than the former the first peaceably publisheth the glad ridings of peace by the Gospel saying feal God and give glory to him c. the second thunders out the ruine and desolation of Rome here called Babylon for their Idolatry and contempt of the Gospel the third doth by the spirit of God declare the innevitable and irrevocable sentence of ruine and destruction of soul and body of them that worship the Beast saying with a loud voice If any man there is none exempted for his greatness If any man shall worship the Beact 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 maxture into the cup of his indignation and he shall be vormented with fire and brimstone before the h●ly Ang●ls and before the Lamb here is a punishment denounced suitable to the sin as it is said in the 8. verse she gave that is the Beast and Whore of Babylon gave to all Nations the wine of the wrath of her fornication which is her idolatry and superstition which men drank in as if they had drunk sweet Wine and therefore God will give them of the Wine of his wrath to drink to all eternity for so it is in the 11. verse And the smoak of their torment shall ascend up for ever and ever and they have no rest neither day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name that is all Papists and Roman Catholicks as they call themselves for these as you have heard above are the marks of his name In the 17. Chapter verse 1. the Angel tells John he will shew him the damnation of the great Whore that sitteth upon many waters by the great Whore here in this place is meant the seven hilled City of Rome the Throne of the Beast by waters is expounded by the Angel verse 15. to be meant people and multitudes of Countries Kingdoms and Provinces of People that the City of Rome sits upon or ruleth over and yet in a literal sense Rome may be said to sit upon many waters for it is built upon Tyber into which it is reported that besides fountains and small brooks two and forty rivers discharge themselves and verse 3. I saw a woman sit upon a searlet coloured Beast full of names of blasphemy which had seven heads and ten horns which Beast is Antichrist the Pope of Rome the seven heads are the seven hills upon which Rome is built which is the Beasts Throne How the Beast sits upon the Whore and the Whore upon the Beast they are also seven Kings or Kingly governments as verse 9 and 10. and the ten horns are ten Kings verse 12. but it may be demanded how this can be that the Beast which is Antichrist should sit upon the Whore which is Rome for Rome the seven hilled City is his Throne and the Whore which is the City of Rome is said verse 3. to sit upon this scarlet coloured Beast I answer that Antichrist the Beast hath his seat and Throne in Rome the seven hilled City it is proved above there in the overthrow of Rome by the Gothes and Vandals the Beast received his wound as you have heard he received the wound of a sword and did live there is a very near affinity between these two the Beast and the Whore for many in our propriety of speech takes the one for the other and sometimes both for one calling Antichrist sometimes by the one name and sometimes by the other though improperly but first as Rome is called the Whore that is a spiritual Idolater she may properly be said to sit upon the Beast the Pope because he is the basis or foundation upon which her Idolatry is seated she rides triumphingly in her Idolatrous waies upon him and by his authority and jurisdiction he hath so exalted her over all the Cities and Kingdoms in the world by his double anthority Civil and Ecclesiastical that for her magnificence she is said in the 4. verse to be arrayed in Purple and Scariet and to be gilded with Gold and precious Stones and Pearls and to have a golden Cup of spiritual fornication in her hand to allure others to her abominable idolatries and filthiness 2ly Pope Leo will tell you by what means she rides upon the Beast in his first Sermon upon the birth day of the Apostles when Popes were in their height about the year 683. O Rome saith he which art made the head of the World through the holy See of St. Peter thou rulest more largely through divine religion than through any earthly dominion for thou hast enlarged thin● Empire and priviledges by Land and Sea being amplified with many victories yet that is less which thou hast had subdued to thee by warlike labour than that which Christian peace hath brought under thy power so saith Pr●sper Might it not then be said as properly that Rome did ride aloft upon the authority and dignity of the Popes as to say a man doth ride upon his horse Full of the names of blasphemy but why is this blasphemy set out here by names

Antichrist that changes Laws yea even the Law and Word of God utterly abolish the second commandement and making another Commandement into two assuming to himself an universal authority over all Churches as head thereof as if the whole state of the Church did hang so upon the Pope that if there were no Pope there were no Church or that if the Pope were not the Pope the Church were not the Church Page 27. He demands if they be rightly applyed Whether all Notes Acts Arguments and Testimonies of Scripture that are set down as marks of Antichrist are not all to be found in the long Parliament and Presbyterians c. And it is answered That they are not for the long Parliament and Presbyterians c. did never forbid Marriage nor 2ly they never commanded abstinence from Meat 3ly they did not exalt themselves above all that are called Gods as the Pope doth though they exalted themselves here yet not above other Emperors and Kings 4ly they did not delude with lying Miracles Signes and Wonders 5ly the key of the bottomlesse pit was not given to them to let out the Locusts 6ly they did not deny Jesus to be Christ in his three Offices of King Priest and Prophet 7ly they had not their seat and residing in the City built upon seven Hills or Mountains which reigneth over the Kings of the earth 8ly they could not properly be said to be the Beast that was and is not and yet is 9ly they were not the seventh head which John spake of saying five are fallen one is and the other is not yet come 10ly they are not the Beast that had the wound of a Sword and did live 11ly nor the Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns 12ly they did not shed the bloud of all the Saints and Martyrs as Revel 18.24 though I must needs say they shed too much but all these and many more are applycable to the Pope and cannot properly be applyed unto them That which the Apostle in the 2 Thes 2 calls a falling away or apostacy he perverts the Text and calls it a Rebellion and because he would excuse the Pope from being Antichrist where the Apostle speaks of an Apostacy before Antichrist should be revealed in his 34th page he saith We find no rebellion in the Church of Rome against their Governors but saith he the Leaders of the Church de●ive the Church and so her Apostacy is the more excusable and less abominable to God Observe here how he contradicts the truth and himself both for page 31. he speaks of the Heresies that was in the Church of Rome and he names the Nicolaitans the Ebionites Cerinthians Montanists Valentinians Arians Nestorians Eutyehians Pelagians Manicheans and Donatists and many others whom he saith rebelled against their Governors and here he saith there was no rebellion in the Church of Rome and I have in the former part of this book shewed that there was twenty times two Popes at once one rebelling against another and many times the pople rebelled and deposed one Pope and set up another Thus you see he shames not to write any thing so he might defend and excuse the Pope not to be Antichrist Besides take notice he saith The Leaders of the Church deceive the Church therefore their Apostacy is the more excusable I beseech you whether is the greater Apostacy of the Leaders of the people that should know the truth and teach others for them to apostatize and draw multitudes after them and for most part sin against the light of their own Consciences or for ignorant common people to apostatize and sin through ignorance is not the apostacy of the Governors of the Church the greater and doth the more mischief and leads the more astray and yet this Bishop saith the apostacy of the Governors of the Church is more excusable and lesse abominable in the sight of God It seems he thinks that God seeth as he seeth I will not say that this What less than Blasphemy and some other things we have spoken of are blasphemy against God and his Truth but I refer it to wise men to judge There is little more of account to take notice of until the 58th page where in a sort he contradicts himself in what was said last viz. that Governors apostacy are more excusable than others and here he tels us That the Church of Rome compelleth all men to submit unto her more with the Sword of the Magistrate than with Aarons Rod witnesse their cruelties to the poor Indians their massacres in France their inquisition in Spain and their unmerciful persecution in England in King Henry the 8th and Queen Marys dayes and the Gunpowder-treason and then he tels of the cruelty of the Arians against the Orthodox was more than barbarous they infected and afflicted the Church most grievously being armed with several weapons and he tels us that Novatus exceeded all the rest for he would neither give his Father bread when he was ready to starve nor bury his corps when he was dead he spurned his own Wife out of doors being with child and killed the child in her belly these are the Bishops own words but he saith above that 〈◊〉 prove it for as to 〈◊〉 growing 〈…〉 Apostacies are more excusable because they were guides of the Church Page 59. he saith The most learned of the Jesuits do confesse the Assirian Babylon to be the type and figure of the Italian Rome and is so understood by the Apostle 1 Pet. 5.13 The Church that is 〈◊〉 Babylon salute you I Answer If in this Text as is granted by Babylon Italian Rome is understood then we must in all those places in the Revelation where Babylon is spoken of understand Rome which if it be granted as the Bishop doth grant it here and saith that the most learned of the Jesuits do grant it then must Babylon which is Rome be the Seat and Throne of Antichrist which Rev. 1● 5 is called mistery great Babylon the mother of whoredom and abomination of the earth And Chap. 18.2 It is fallen it is fallen Babylon that great City the habitation of Devils and the hold of all foul spirits and a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird for all Nations have drunk of the Wine of the wrath of her Fornication c. this notes out her utter ruine and destruction And this is Rome as Rev. 16.19 And that great Babylon came in remembrance before God to give unto her the Cup of the fierceness of his wrath Yet neverthelesse he hath said above that by Babylon is meant Rome so self willed and self-conceited is our Bishop that he flies off again page 61. and saith that what is said Rev. 17.18 cannot be understood of Rome without trope or figure for that it is said that in Babylon was found the blood of the Prophets and Saints and all that were slain upon Earth which cannot saith he be referred to any one City in the World but only

Antichrists Doctrine is described to be a dying Doctrine a falling from the faith a Hypocriticall and Divilish Doctrine carried on with deceite and fraud The Popes ●ivellish do●rine of for●idding Mar●●age all which doth ●minently appear in the Pope of Rome for who is there in all the world besides the Pope and his Clergy that teacheth this Divilish D●ctrine to forbid Marriage to those whose age and temper may require a help meet for them but the Pope who is that Man of sin and Antichrist of Rome which the Apostle here charges to be the Doctor that teacheth this Divilish Doctrine of forbidding Marriage which is a holy Ordinance of God instituted in Paradise and allowed in all Nations and to all persons whose age and temper doth require it as 1 Cor. 7.2 to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife c. and it was so until this Imposter and seducing spirit the Pope prohibited it unto the Clergy and this is one way of his exalting himself not only above earthly Gods as Magistrates but above the God of Heaven for what God allows this Antichrist the Pope disallows and that for bad and wicked ends As first To bring a Revenue into his Treasury by allowing Brothel Houses or Stewes which paies him yearly no small Rent for in Pope Paul the first his time which was 976 years since that Pope had upon Record in his Register the number of five and forty thousand Whores in the stewes that paid him Rent for liberty to play the Whore as Mr. Beard saith in his book of the Delusions of Antichrist and there his Clergy c. to whom he denies Marriage have liberty to go for their recreation and because the Pope allows them it is not accounted any sin And Secondly by this means he hath all the Clergy at his beck to send when he will and where he will to act their Father the Devils part by their Hypocritical lies to seduce the Nations and Kingdomes of this world for they would not be so willing to rainge abroad in such swarmes in every Kingdome if as other men they had wives and children to provide for at home Peter Marter Chap. 16. saith How are the stews punished at Rome Whores in Rome attended like Ladies by Cardinals instead of punishment they dwell in the fairest houses they are carried with honour through the City as if they were Ladies they are mounted on ambling palfries they are arraid with Chains of Gold attended with persons disguised and sometimes with Cardinals and especially in the night season in the Citie of Rome the Stews or Courtezans pass through the streets or ride on Mules like honest Matrons or Ladies in the midst of the day Noblemen Cardinals and Priests attend upon them we never saw such corruption but only in this City this info●m●tion was presented unto Pope Paul the Third saith Bishop Jewel against Harding also Luit Prandus in his sixth book Chap. 6 saith the Popes Palace at Lateran sometime the harbour of holy Saints is now become a stew of Whores Amphilocheus that wrought the life of Thomas Becket reports a woman called Emphrosyna that dwelt 36 years in a Monkes apparel among the Monks likewise Marina a woman lived many years in an Abby as a Monk in Monks apparel and this is the cause of the Popes divilish doctrine in forbidding marriage and herein lies another part of his deceit and hypocrisie in making them believe that he can pardon them and perswades them that it is lesse sin for a Clergy man to have a Whore which the Law of God forbids then to have a Wife which the law of God allows and all because they could not be so fit to send for his purpose abroad Now Bishop Williams did ever the Presbyterians or Independants or Long-parliament fulfil this Prophesie in teaching this Doctrine of Divels to forbid marriage which is one mark or Character of the great Antichrist and not the least mark and let the Readers Judge by this mark whether they or the Pope be most like Antichrist now this doctrine of Divils forbidding of Marriage and which is the doctrine and practise of the Church of Rome only and no other Church that I have read of and which occasious so much uncleanness and ungodliness and that with toleration and allowance who can doubt that the Popes who are the Authors of this divi●ish doctrine successively one after another but he is the great Antichrist that was prophesied that he should come into the world and that man of sin and son of perdition and who exalts himself above God in this particular doctrine in forbidding of Marriage to those whom Gods allows to marry Forbidding marriage the doctrine of devils and which doctrine the holy Ghost in the word of truth tells us is the doctrine of Divels that is of Popes succeeding one another and teaching that doctrine and that they that teach it are apostatized and fallen from the true faith and are hypocritical liars and seducers of Millions of souls and all to establish himself in his cursed Throne those that think the Pope not to be Antichrist I desire them to rouse up their spirits and rub the scales from their eyes and observe how lively here and else where as shall be shewed how the Apostle hath drawn Antichristes Picture in every point and limb so just like the Pope that all men that reads may say this is he That marriage instituted of God in innocency honoured by Christs presence at Canaan in Galile the seed plot of the Church the allowed remedy against incontinency and lust and which the the Apostle commands as honourable in all men Heb. 13.4 and yet forbidden by the Pope the Scarlot Strumpit of Rome to all the whole Clergy Wherein besides the divilishness of the Doctrine denying men subject to sinful lust the lawful remedy which God allows them and so cast men upon a necessity of sinning they teach this Hypocritical lie with a seared Conscience for with what Conscience saith Mr. Anderson can they make marriage a Sacrament in Lay-men and sacriledge in the Clergy with what Conscience permit Stews and forbid marriage with what Conscience confess fornication to be a sinne against the Law of God and Priests marriage onely against the Law of the Church and yet make Priests marriage a fouler sin then for a Priest to commit fornication or incesse is not this to make the transgression of the Popes laws a greater sin then the transgression of Gods laws with what Conscience to forbid lawful marriage to some and yet by dispensation to allow unlawful marriage in others who but Antichrist doth such things therefore the Pope that doth them must be the great Antichrist and man of sin for the Long-parliament nor Presbyterians nor Independents c. never did those things to forbid marriage and the like which the Apostle layes down as a Character or mark to know Antichrist by and we have reason to believe the