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A71208	A discovery of the rebels by J.V., prisoner.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652. Great antichrist.	1643 (1643)	Wing V301; ESTC R20945	28,284	50

their brethren farre away from their houses lands and friends that they may seize on their inheritance But thus saith the Lord to you Cains behold I will raise them from the place whither you have sent them and returne your recompence on your owne heads and I will sell your sonnes and your daughters to the sonnes of Judah and they shall send them to the Sabeans to a nation afar off for Jehovah hath spoken it Thirteenth they are Traytours fathers betraying children and children betraying fathers to the death the off-spring of the Wolfe and Tiger and the wild beasts their kindred breaking the bonds of society betweene man and man and delivering men up to Magistrates and Rulers for a word and that in secret our Saviour prophesyed of these Traytors Luk. 21. 16. Your fathers and brethren and kinsmen and friends shall betray you to death do we not see this in these days of Civill warre a father will not spare his child a child will kill his father in battaile and if he cannot so kill him he will betray him to death by discovering his secrets or by false accusation under pretence of justice But the greatest Travtours are such as fight against the King and they pretend all this is for the King though his owne person have beene in imminent danger more then once these are they that call darknesse light and light darknesse evill good and good evill the use of this is made by Isay the Prophet say not a confederacy to whom this people shall say a confederacy neither feare their feare but feare God and meddle not with Traytors that curse their God and their King and looke upward for as it followes they are proud and heady and their councells shall be carryed headlong Fourteenth these Hypocrites are hasty in all their consultations without deliberation they pretended Reformation must be done in a day not considering the divers gradations of a Reformation Josiahs wonderfull Reformation was of the continuance of three hundred yeares the reignes of Asa Iosaphat Iehoiada Iotham Hezekiah Manasseth Iosiah and then also was but fainedly and not with the whole heart and for punishment of Delinquents they are too hasty have they never read of David what he said of the sonnes of Zerviah Ye are too hard for mee he would but could not punish these two great Delinquents except he had involved his whole Kingdome in a Civill warre as is now done lastly they are too hasty in their hostility have they not read that Israel lost forty thousand in two dayes in a Civill warre through too much hastinesse and precipitancy not consulting with the Lord and surely in this respect these men have cause rather of mourning then rejoycing Fifteenth these are lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God whence come these warres and fightings do they not from their lusts and pleasures that warre in their members their pride ambition popularity avarice for hereby their portion who were beggarly is made fat and their meate pleasant they live by warre therefore they barne incense to their net and sacrifice to their dragge They cry nothing but warre and bloud digge they cannot and to begge they are ashamed therfore they resolve to kill steale rob rifle or doe any villany to satisfie their lusts which they love more then God Sixteenth They have a forme of godlinesse but deny the power thereof they have a portraiture picture or delineation of godlinesse but no life at all therein Consider the particulars they give almes but it is to be seene of men they make long prayers but to be heard of men they fast but disgrace their faces appearing as sad when they are not what is this but a picture of godlinesse without life it was never knowne from the beginning of the world that a dead beast was offered in sacrifice to God but the Hypocrites present dead sacrifices to God Againe in their Sabbaths is a shew of godlinesse but no life for they say When will the Sabbaths be gone and like the Pharisees their viperous progenitors abuse the letter of the Sabbath against doing good they sit in Moses chaire to teach and to judge others according to the Law but doe the contrary and breake all Lawes they make long prayers to devoure Widowes houses they enlarge their phylacteryes of the hand and head there 's the letter but no power their heads are full of mischievous devices and their hands are full of bloud They are ever hearing and learning there 's the shadow but are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth there 's no power except it be over silly women as the Apostle here saith These Hypocrites intrude into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sinnes and led about with divers lusts This time is a plaine interpretation of this Prophesie Another power they have got likewise by the shew of godlinesse it is against the King like Janis and Jambres the two Sorcerers of Egypt that resisted Moses who was King in Jesurun These sorcerers were Hypocrites for their miracles were but glisterings and delusions of the eyes The use of all this is First our Saviour saith Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is Hypocrisie Hereby wee are most like the Devill who transformes himselfe into an Angell of light and hereby wee become limbes of Antichrist the first borne of the Devill who is the great Hypocrite That hath two hornes like a Lamb but speakes like a Dragon The second use From such Hypocrites turne away so saith Saint Paul avoid their society for they are selfopinionated selfwilled greedy of money proud unnaturall truce-breakers fals-accusers traytours heady fierce unthankfull popular unquiet haters of all moderate men lovers of lusts and pleasures and deceiving the world by a forme of godlinesse so that they believe Rebellion to be Zeale and Treason to be Religion Depart from me yee Hypocrites yee bloudthirsty men The Lord give us grace to depart from them here lest wee have our part with these Hypocrites hereafter in the lowest Dungeon of Gehenna from which good Lord deliver us by Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and holy Spirit be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS a Theologia symbolica non est argumentativa b Aliquid c A paribus imparibus similibus c. d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e Syr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 f Chron. 10. g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philip. 2. 2 Phil. 6. 7. c. h Syr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. to recover it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 k Psal. 110. 1. m Prov. 8. 1 Cor. 15. n Psal. 68. o Debellare superbos p Matth. 24. q Luk. 21. r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 s Matth. 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theophyl t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 12. Arab. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

helpers of God and the King therefore ye sonnes of men if ye would avoid the curse and inherit the blessing leave Neutrality and shew your selves men for God and the King especially you the inhabitants of the Metropolitan city Meroz Thus I have finished the literall sense The mysticall sense concerneth the King of kings whom we must admit to raign over us to whom we must pay Tribute in releiving his members to give honour to the King of kings Christ Jesus as supreame to yeild obedience to his Commandements to abhorre Neutrality to be zealous and repent of Lukewarmnesse to shake off the yoke of sinne and to receive upon us the yoke of Christ. And thus much of the crimes laid to the charge of these servants Now I come to their doome Bring them and slay them before me The iust reward of a Traitor is death as appeares in the examples of Ioab and Shimei 1 King 2. Thou knowest what Joab the son of Zerviah did to me Some say in revealing his letters about Uriah or rather in threatning to turne the hearts of his people from him saying As the Lord liveth not one shall stay with thee yet for this David on his death-bed chargeth his sonne to bring his hoary head with sorrow to the Grave So likewise Shimei who cursed David with a bitter curse If these were sons of death that threatned and reviled the King how much more such as plot mischief against him and doe steale away like Absolom the hearts of the kings subjects from him Bring them and slay them and the modus patiendi Before me for the greater shame and example to others that all Israel may heare and feare and doe no more so wickedly Let us feare the destruction from God and the king and yeild such subjection as belongs unto them both that we may flie from the wrath of the king here and the wrath of Jesus Christ by whom kings raign hereafter To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory for ever and ever AMEN FINIS THE GREAT ANTICHRIST 2 TIM 3. 1 2 3 4 5. Know this that in the last dayes shall come perillous times c. By J. V. Prisoner Printed in the Yeare of our Lord 1643. THE GREAT ANTICHRIST 2 TIM 3. 1 2 3 4 5. 1. Know this that in the last dayes shall come perillous times 2. For men shall be lovers of their owne selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankfull unholy 3. Without naturall affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good 4. Trayterous heady high minded lovers of pleasure more then lovers of God 5. Having a forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof from such turne away IN the last dayes the Scripture foretells the coming continuance of The Antichrist the great Antichrist the man of sin whose members were many petite Antichrists that is the forerunning hereticks for in them the mystery of iniquity wrought in Saint Pauls time who said Ye know what withholdeth that he should he revaeled in his time that is the Roman Ethnick Empire which when it was removed then came in that Antichrist The Persians succeeded the Chaldeans the Grecians subdued the Persians the Romans followed the Grecians and after the Roman Monarchy ceased in Augustulus the Hesperian Caesar the Starre Absynthites that fell from Heaven about the yeare 666. Constans the Emperour gave the government of the City of Rome to the Pope Then was Antichrist the bestia bicornis the beast with two hornes his Ecclesiasticall and Temporall power whereas before he had onely the Spirituall power to bee Universalis Papa supreame over all so then Antichrist hath continued above a thousand yeares by consent of the foresaid writers Yet Andreas and Arethas upon the Apocalyps with other Fathers seeme to hold that Antichrist shall continue but three yeares and a halfe which is true in a sense for his three last yeares shall be most grievous to the persecuted Saints such tribulation as never was in mockings scourging bonds imprisonments warre bloodshed and he shall not suffer their bodies to be buryed These are the perillous times spoken of in this Text therefore have I made so large a preface to it wherein observe first a precept to get knowledge know this secondly the subject this in generall but in particular it is a prophecy of the perills of the last times thirdly the adjunct in the last dayes fourthly the causes 1. Opinions 2 ly Vices of men here particularized 1. For the first observe in generall Knowledge is a precious thing The preacher was wise and still taught the people Knowledge all men naturally desire to know knowledge of the Ancients is commended in Scripture David cites a Proverbe of the Ancients As saith the Proverb of the Ancient of the first that made it Wickednesse shall go forth from the wicked His sinne goeth forth from him willingly and his punishment goes after it his ruine comes from himselfe S Paul thrice cites the Poets which were Prophets among the Heathen First against Idolatry Acts 17. Wee are his off-spring therefore the Godhead is not like the worke of mans hand that hath neither reason sense or life Secondly against Atheisme denying the immorality of the Soule 1 Cor. 15. Let us eate and drinke for tomorrow wee shall dye be not deceived evill communication corrupts good manners Thirdly against Lying and Epicurisme Titus 1. the Cretians are alwayes lyers evill beasts slow bellyes Three mayne articles are confirmed by humane learning but there are in those dayes ignorant sectaries that oppose all learning pretending inspiration by the Holy Ghost as the Gnostikes of old yet it was the commendation of Timothy that of a child he knew the holy letters But why should I trouble your eares with invectives against r these I leave them to meditate on three Proverbs A wise man contending with a foole whether be rage or laugh he hath no rest A foole is wiser in his owne conceit then seven men that can render a reason Bray a foole in a morter and his foolishnesse will not depart from him 2. I proceed to the subject which is a prophecy of perillous times This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your eares animus meminisse horret My heart trembleth at this and is removed out of his place but you must know it and therfore I must speake it these are the perillous times or difficult all men are in such straits that they know not how to deliver themselves as Israel betweene the red Sea and the Aegyptians secondly hard times wherein men want food to eate and rayment to put on all men cry out O tempora O mores oh hard times and evill conditions of men Wee have heard of Germany and Ireland and would not believe now wee see and feele thirdly cruell times the Son