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A78608	The deceived, and deceiving Quakers discovered. Their damnable heresies, horrid blasphemies, mockings, railings, unparallel'd deceit, and dishonestly laid open. In the discovery of which, is made known the pure use of the holy scriptures (which by them is denyed) the true Christ, and how he justifies, his second coming proved not to be already (as the Quaker affirms) also the resurrection from the dead, and the eternal judgement, and several other particulars that saints are required to be stedfast in. / Set forth especially for the good of those that are called out of the world, into the primitive order of the Gospel, but may be usefull for all people. By Matthew Caffyn a servant of the Lord, related to the Church of Christ near Horsham in Sussex, being an eye, and ear-witnesse. As wee have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists, whereby we cannot but know that this is the last of the last time. Antichrist made known. Or, The Romish vvhore of Babylon proved not to bee the Antichrist, or man of sin, in seven particulars. 1 Who is this great whore of Babylon, and where her chief seat hath been, and is. 2 Her fall, and the means how and by whom. 3 What is the spirit of Antichrist, and who hath that spirit. 4 That the Antichrist will bee a single person. 5 The manner of his rising, and when. ... 7 Lastly, his fall, when, and by whom. By William Jeffery servant of the Church of Christ. Entered into the register book, kept by the Company of Stationers.	Caffyn, Matthew, 1628-1714.; Jeffery, William, 1616-1693. Antichrist made known.	1656 (1656)	Wing C206; Wing J522; Thomason E873_2; ESTC R206563	72,973	85

Beast that the Image of the Beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed and he causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to give a mark in their right hands or in their foreheads and that no man might buy or sell save hee that had the mark or the name of the Beast or the number of his name Rev. 13.11 to 18. so the Beast that had a wound with a sword that is one of his seven heads was slain to death yet ye having another which is of the Seven or one of the seven and is the eight and so liveth and so it is the Beast that was and is not and yet is and so the false Prophets shall by miracles cause the World to worship the Beast the man of sin the Antichrist as God sitting in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God 2 Thes 2.4 and cause as many as will not worship the Beast or his Image to bee killed and so the fallen Star before mentioned which is the Beast the Antichrist ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit the key of the bottomless Pit being given him he openeth the bottomless Pit and then ariseth a smoak out of the Pit as the smoak of a great furnace and the Sun and the air will be darkened by reason of the smoak of the Pit Rev. 11.7 chap. 9.1 2. and neer the end of his reign when the sixth viall is poured or pouring out then shall come three unclean spirits like frogs out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the false Prophet for they are the spirits of Devils working miracles which go forth unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole World to gather them to battel of that great day of God Almighty and hee gathered them together to a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon Rev. 16.12 13 14 16. which is into the Land of Canaan according to Joel 3.9 10 11 12 13 14. Multitudes Multitudes in the Valley of Decision or threshing for the day of the Lord is neer in the valley of decision and so I come to the seventh particular which is the fall of the Beast or man of sin and when and by whom Now Paul saith that the Lord will consume him with the Spirit of his mouth and shall destroy him with the brightnesse of his comming 2 Thes 2.8 so when the enemy shall come in as a flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him Isa 59.19 and so when the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds and of their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him Jud. 15. then the Sun and the Moon shall bee darkened and the Stars shall withdraw their shining the Lord also shall roar out of Sion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the Heavens and the earth shall SHAKE but the Lord will be the hope of his people and the ftrength of the Children of Israel Joel 3.15 16. and in that day will the Lord make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all People all that burden themselves with it shall bee cut in peeces though all the people of the EARTH bee gathered together against it Zech. 12.1 2 3 4. then the Lord Jesus that DYED and ROSE again himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout and with the voice of the Arch Angel and with the Trumpe of God and the dead in Christ shall arise first then wee which are alive and remain shall bee caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall wee ever bee with the Lord 1 Thes 4.14 15 16 17. and so as Zechary hath it the Lord my God shall come and all the Saints with him chap. 14.5 and then the ten horns which received power as Kings in one hour with the Beast the man of sin THESE have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the Beast THESE shall make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them for hee is LORD OF LORDS and KING OF KINGS and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithfull and so according to Rev. 19. the Lord Jesus the KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS with his armies which were in Heaven following him upon white horses cloathed in fine linnen white and clean descends from Heaven against the Beast the man of sin and the Kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sate on the horse the MAN Christ and against his armies and the Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought miracles before him with which hee deceived them that had received the marke of the Beast and them that worshipped his Image these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone and the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sate upon the horse which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all foules were filled with their flesh so the Beast the Antichrist the man of sin and the false Prophet which did work miracles before him shall bee taken alive and cast into a lake of fire burning with brimstone and so Tophet is ordained of old yea for the King it is prepared hee hath made it deep and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a stream of brimstone doth kindle it Isa 30.33 and so as men are threatned in Rev. 14.9 10. that if they worship the Beast or his Image and receive his mark in their foreheads or in their 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 hee shall bee tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb. SO it shall come to pass when the Lord Jesus shall appear and therefore take the 11 verse and the smoak of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name for this purpose read Isa 14. ●8 19. and cha 66.24 Ezek. 38.22 23. THUS the Lord will magnifie himself and sanctifie himself and hee will bee known in the ●yes of many nations and they shall know that he is THE LORD and then in that day shall his Servants say THIS IS THE LORD WE HAVE WAITED FOR HIM WE WILL BE GLAD IN HIS SALVATION Isa 25.9 So then you may see that the Whore is not the Antichrist that the Scripture speaks of for the Whore is set out in Scripture thus As a Woman a Harlot A false Church As a

espoused Christ the Lord and so came to change the Ordinances and yet she pretends to be the Spouse of Christ and so hath a shew of all the Ordinances or the names of them for Beleevers Baptism she hath Infants baptism or sprinkling and for laying on of hands she hath Confirmation or Bishopping but the Presbyters have left this out and in this they are neerer Antichrist than the Lord Bishops and for breaking of Bread or the Lords Suppor that is in Part ministred to the People or Parish and so to the wrong subject being not penitent nor Baptised persons and instead of the true Call of her Ministry she hath a Human way as hath been shewed which is not mentioned in Scripture and so Tithes and forced maintenance instead of that which is to be by free gift and instead of singing with the spirit and with the understanding also 1 Cor. 14. 15. they have singing in Rime in a Carnal formal way many together without understanding the Psalms being collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others and so she hath a glorious Show and a golden Cup and through the Popes Supremacy and the Peter-pence and Prayer to Saints and false Doctrin of Purgatory and such like trumpery the Clergy is very rich and proud and covetous and so all may see the way of the Whore which is National Generational Fleshly Carnal Human after mens Traditions making voyd the Commandements of God through her Traditions thus she goeth a whoring after her own inventions and so you have a brief discovery of the Whore of Babylon which is the Mother of abominations of the earth and is drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus Rev. 17 5 6. and that is and will be the cause of her Fall and that brings mee to the second thing even the Fall of this Whore of Babylon and the manner how and by whom And for the clearing up of this First Consider that this woman sits upon a scarlet-coloured beast full of the names of Blasphemy which had seven heads and ten horns Reve. 17.3 now note that five of them heads or Kings were faln when John wrote the Revelation and the sixt was then in being vers 9 10. now this woman the Harlot was to sit upon the sixt head and hath so done a long time and so the beast that had seven heads carrieth her and beareth her up for the Magistrates have supported her all along understand also that the sixth head of the beast hath reigned ever since the writing of the Revelation but now is partly strong and partly broken and that the sixt head is not fallen is plain if you note well for the seventh head when he cometh he must continue a short space now that head of the Roman Monarchy which is in being hath coutinued long even from before the birth of Christ and this the Scripture clea●eth Rev. 17.10 five are fallen and one is and another is not yet come and when hee cometque hee must continue a short space the power of the Pope and his Clergy cannot be the seventh head for that hath continued long Secondly The Whore cannot bee any of the heads of the beast because she sits upon and is carried by the beast that hath seven heads and ten horns So she causeth the beast to serve her and maketh the beasts and the Kings of the earth slaves to her to do her will so then the sixth head of the Roman power is not fallen though it be in part and the seventh head is now arising which will take away the sixth and doth will and must give some liberty to preach the Gospel and to administer the Ordinances in the old way thereof and so the Lord God will bring things to passe for not one jot or tittle of his word shall fall and so in the rising and reign of the seventh head and of the ten horns the Angel shall flye in the midst of Heaven having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every Nation and kindred and tongue and people saying with a loud voice fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his Judgement is come and worship him that made Heaven and Earth the Sea and the fountains of waters Rev. 14.6 7. so the Gospel and the way thereof being preached the Nations will bee enlightened and so God will put it into the hearts of the ten horns or Kings to hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire Rev. 17.12 16. so through the preaching of the Gospel in the pure way thereof the great Whore of Babylon falleth and so the hour of her Judgement is come and to this agreeth that in Rev. 14.6 7 8. which sheweth that after the Gospel is preached to the Nations then shall follow another Angel saying it is fallen it is fallen Babylon the great City for she made all Nations to drink of the Wine of the wrath of her fornication verse 8. much more might bee spoken to this but let this suffice as touching what the Whore is and her fall the manner how and by whom In the next place note diligently what the spirit of Antichrist is and who have that spirit now John in his first Epistle chap. 4. and verse 3. doth declare what the spirit of Antichrist is namely every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this is that spirit of Antichrist whereof you have heard that he should come and even now already is in the World Also understand that John did not intend simply the Heathen that never did beleeve nor the unbeleeving Jews which never did acknowledge Christ come in the flesh but those have the spirit of Antichrist that went out from the Churth of Christ chap. 2.18 19. John sheweth them that it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby wee know that it is the last time THEY WENT OUT FROM US c. so that the spirit of Antichrist is that spirit that is found in them that have been enlightened and have known the truth and go out from the Church of Christ and in a mystery deny Christ come in the flesh and so Paul speaking of the Antichrist or man of sin 2 Thes 2.7 saith the MYSTERY of iniquity doth already work c. and Peter speaking to the Saints saith in his second Epistle 2.1 there shall be false teachers among you who PRIVILY shall bring in damnable Heresies even denying THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM and bring upon themselves swift destruction So the spirit of Antichrist denies Christ come in the flesh secretly and they that have this spirit say Christ is come in their flesh and so say the light within them is Christ when at the best it is but the light

light of truth was exceedingly kept back and but few received it and them that did receive it she persecuted some she put to death others she banished or caused to flye into strange Countries and into howling Wildernesses others imprisoned and fined and so she cometh to be drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and so the Gospel could not be declared in the pure way thereof to every Nation Kindred Tongue and People Rev. 14.6 and so also if any did arise that had the spirit of Antichrist shee took off him also and so shee pluckt up much Wheat and Tares also contrary to that of Matth. 13.29 30. let both grow together until Harvest and so forth So the sixth head of the Roman Monarchy being rid upon and guided by the Whore did let the Gospel from being preached and the Antichrist from rising and so I think that the sixth head did hinder the coming in of the man of sin in the Apostle Pauls time for the Emperours being Heathens then persecuted the Saints and so that sixth head supporting and carrying the Whore also so as that it did let and will let until it bee taken out of the way 2 Thes 2.6 7. but now the sixth head being in part taken away and the seventh head arising hee giving some liberty of conscience the Gospel is preached and truth appears and many receive the knowledge of it and obey it and many fall away from it and so the spirit of Antichrist ariseth and so the seventh head of the Roman Beast shall take away the sixth head and shall continue a short space Rev. 17.10 and so the ten hornes also shall arise in one hour with the Beast that was and is not even hee is the eight and is of the seventh or is one of the seventh verse 11 12. and so is the little horn that Daniel speaks of chap. 7.11 24 25. and the last power or Beast the Antichrist the man of sin and so the seventh head and ten horns or Kings giving liberty the Servants of God sound forth the truth as it is in Jesus ministring in the Gospel glad tidings of the Kingdome to the Nations men come to know the truth and so are enlightened with it and so many may come to shine as stars and yet fall away as the Antichrist or man of sin himself will be some notable man shining as a star for a time yet afterward falling from the truth according to that in Rev. 8.10 11. the third Angel sounded and there fell a great Star from Heaven burning as it were a Lamp and it fell upon the third part of the Rivers and upon the fountains of waters and the name of the Star is called Wormwood and the third part of the waters became Wormwood and many men dyed of the waters because they were made bitter So the man of sin falls from the truth or true Church as a great Star from Heaven burning like a Lamp through Satans transforming himself as into an Angel of light and so fals upon the Rivers and fountains of waters so that hee maketh them bitter so that the sweet promises of the Gospel and way of Christ in which men shall bee made partakers of the Waters of life and so made glad in the City of God are so made bitter like Wormwood changing the taste of them so that many men dye of those waters according to that of Jude 12. twice dead plucked up by the roots and thus hee causeth men to fall so that the third part of the Sun is smitten and the third part of the Moon and the third part of the Stars so as a third part of them is darkened and the day shone not for a third part of it nor the night likewise Rev. 8.12 the Sun is here compared to the Church because the Church or Saints through Christ are said to be the light of the World Matth. 5.14 and so Jacob who is called Israel according to Josephs dream is compared to the Sun Gen. 37.9 10. the Moon I take to bee the World or the Whore the false Church which hath her light from the true Church as the Moon hath her light from the Sun the Stars are the eminent teachers in the Churches Rev. 1.20 and this in the eight chapter before spoken of is an allegory because the waters are said to become Wormwood and yet men drink of them which cannot be if they were made Wormwood therefore it is allegoricall that the Word of the Gospel in the ministration of the Prophets is compared to water look Ezek. 34.18 19. Isa 55.1 Rev. 22.17 so then a many of the Church will fall from the faith and the Stars the elder or chief teachers also and many of the World or false Church that shall be enlightened and will not obey shall bee darkened and so shall lose that light they have and so shall be given up to gross darkness and so after a great falling away from the truth SO the man of sin the Antichrist is revealed and getteth the power and rule by flatteries after the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders and with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousness and SO opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or is worshipped so that HE as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God Dan. 11.21 2 Thes 2.3 4 9 10. and so I come to the sixth particular which is some of the great things that the man of sin will do Which in the first place take what Daniel saith of him setting him out by a little horn chap. 7 8.11 24.25 he saith that he shall subdue three Kings and he shall speak GREAT words against the most high and shall wear out the Saints of the most high and think to change times and laws and they shall bee given into his hand untill a time and times and the dividing of times and so he shall reign in full power three years and a half for time is taken for one year and times two years and half a time is half a year as in Dan. 4.25 some translation reads for seven times seven years and so the woman cloathed with the Sun that flyes from him into the wilderness and is there three years and a half Rev. 12.1.14 so he shall persecute the Saints of the most high vers 11.17 and the false Prophet causeth the first Beast whose deadly wound was healed to be worshipped and he doth great wonders so that he maketh fire to come down from Heaven on the earth in the sight of men and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by means of those miracles which he shall have power to do in the sight of the Beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the Beast which had the wound by a sword and did live and he had power to give life or breath to the Image of the