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A47607
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Sion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Chruch [sic]
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Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
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1681
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Wing K87; ESTC R27452
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That says the Beast shall not arise before The Desolation of the Scarlet Whore †It hath been a received Opinion of some Christians of late times that the Beast who is the Antichrist or Man of Sin shall not arise till the Whore is destroyed and that when he comes he shall only Reign 3 Years and a half Which Notion may seem strange to all considerate men because that Beast who is of the 7th and an 8th all confess is the Man of Sin and how evident is it that this very Beast bears up and carrys the Whore from first to last Besides Consider 't is said the 10 Horns of this very Beast's shall hate the Whore and make her desolate how could the Horns hate or hurt her if the Beasts rise not till she is destroyed can there be Horns and no Beast And besides should this Notion be received it might seem strange that the Holy Spirit passeth by in silence and takes no notice of this horrid Monster or Succession of Popes that have continued so long having all the Marks and Characters so clearly upon him of Antichrist If any should say he doth not deny Christ come in the Flesh I answer In a Mystery he doth and particularly in his ordaining of Sacrifices as it was under the Law which cease all when the Antitype came and by assuming the place of Christs Supremacy and Government The Seventh Mark THe Holy Spirit most expresly faith In later times some shall renounce the faith That by the Spirit of Seduction led Doctrine of Devils through the Earth shall spread That belch out Falshood in Hypocrisie And many Thousands do deceive thereby Forbidding Marriage * and the use of Meat Which God ordain'd for every man to eat * This is an undeniable Mark of the Son of Perdition viz. That he shall forbid Marriages and command to abstain from Meats and who it is that commands to abstain from Meats and who it is that suffers not his Clergy to Marry and forbids the eating of Flesh on some eertain Day and seasons of the Year is known to all The Council of Chalcedon saith Conon Cap. 16. ut nec Deo dicata Virgo nec Monachus nuberit That no Nun or Monk shall marry Bellarmine in his 34. Cap. of the Book of Monks stiles the Marriage of Clarks and Monks by the name of Sacriledge and affirms That they sin less which commit Fornication after they have once taken a Vow than they do which Marry nay and in the 19 Cap of the First Book of Clarks he saith That the Marriage of saints is not without some Sin Pollution and Uncleanness The General Council assembled at Trullo to make Canons tell us plainly in the 13 Canon that in the Church of Rome Whosoever will be a Deacon or Priest must first protest that he will never any more after that have to do with his Wife If a man be found to have broke the Ordinance of the Church by eating Flesh in Lent especially in the Week which they call the Holy Week the Priest saith my Author hath no power to absolve him c. This Doctrine of the Pope as ' its a Mark of Antichrist so'its expresly called the Doctrine of Devils The Eighth Mark. HE 's not content to be Supream below And make all Scepters to his Crosur bow But th' impious Wretch is grown so bold that even He dares affront the Majesty of Heaven What God Commands this Imp of Hell controuls Condemns the sav'd and saves condemned Souls Himself he places in Jehouah's a Throne As Chief of all as Second unto none a He shall oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped shewing himself that he is God 2 Thess 2. He shall speak great things against the most High Dan. 7. 25. That the Pope is guilty of opposition to and emaltation of himself above the Majesty of God is made appear by divers worthy Writers the very Life and Soul of Popery seems to run in this vein The Lord Jesus saith one is made a very Lacquey to the Pope he changes Times and laws at his pleasure God says Thou shalt make to thy self on graven Image c. The Pope takes away that Commandment and declares ' its lawful to worship Images The Lord bids us Search the Scriptures the Pope opposeth this and forbids the reading of them nay burns to death those that do read them and to prevent it locks them up in an Unknown Tongue God pardons Sins upon Repentance the Pope without for a Sum of Money The Pope can invest a sorry Priest with power by uttering a few words to make a God to turn Bread into the Real Body of Christ and have power over him to do with him what he pleases when he hath done and he can't deliver himself out of his hands A brace of Keys he carrys in his hand To shut and open at his own Command He curses and absolves he binds releases Puts down advances whomsoe're he pleases This is th' Apocalyptick Beast that claims Sublimest Titles and Blasphemous Names With Matchless Pride and Peerless Impudence He does for Money with Gods Laws dispence To fill his Purse O shameless Avarice All sorts of Sins he values at a price b b What Sin is it but the Pope takes upon him to pardon for Money besides be makes the detestable Sins of Treason and Murder if it be done in Zeal and by his Authority for the Promotion of the Pretended Holy Church meritorious Canonizing black and brutish Sinners for Saints in his Kalendar he exalts himself above the Word of God he usurps Gods Seat by giving what Interpretation to Gods Law he pleases which he makes of equal Authority with it The Ninth Mark FAlse Miracles and Lying Wonders too This grand Deceiver does pretend to do a He fain would make th' abused World believe That he with Ease can make a Dead Man live They do such things their Sottish Legend saith As far exceeds all Truth or Humane Faith Their Nature Number Circumstances all Done by Atchievments Dabolical Their senselss Fables arrant Fopperys Are meer Impostures and apparent Lyes This is an Engine which the Granceless Wretch Does spread abroad the Sons of Men to catch And God lets such those horrid lies believe Who Gospel-Truths would not in love receive That they might perish and be damn'd thereby The just desert of such Iniquity a Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all Power and Signs and lying Wonders 2 Thes 2. 9. Bellarmin de not Eccl. l. 4. cap. 14. maketh Miracles one infallible Sign of the True Church md certain I am the false and lying Wonders of the Roman Church clearly sheweth the Pope to be the Antichrist or Son of Perdition I have not room here to enumer ate many of them only take one or two by which you may judge of the rest One Becanus's Head being off St. Itas Prayers made it come posting through the Air stand