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saint_n	france_n	king_n	lewis_n	1,449	5	10.4561	5	false

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A66360	Ho Antichristos the great antichrist revealed, before this time never discovered, and proved to be neither pope, nor Turk, nor any single person, nor the succession of any one monarch or tyrant in any policies, but a collected pack, or multitude of hypocritical, heretical, blasphemous, and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophesies of the Scriptures ... and especially have united ... together by a solemn league and covenant to slay the two witnesses of God, Moses and Aaron ... that is, the supreme magistrate of the Commonwealth, and the chief pastors and governours of the Church of Christ, and the Christian world is requested to judge whether the Assembly of Presbyterians consulting at Westminster, together with the independents, Anabaptists, and lay-preachers be not the false prophet ... and whether the prevalent faction of the long Parliament ... that killed the two witnesses of Jesus Christ, 1. Charles the First ... 2. William Laud ... be not the grosse and visible body of the same antichrist / by Gr. Williams.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2662; ESTC R25201	504,825	313

is no sin in them which retain their Sanctity in the very acts of sinning for what is sinfull in other men is not so in them who may commit any crime against the Law of God and yet it cannot be imputed to them for sin because they know in their consciences what they do and a righteous man such as they all are in their own judgement is a law unto himself as the apostles testifieth and therefore their consciences excusing them as being the rule and the Law whereby they square all their actions they are capable of doing any thing and of committing any offence against their neighbours especially the Malignants without the breach of the Law either of Justice or of Charity the which priviledge is onely proper unto them and to none else because they onely and none else do hate the Assembly of the Malignants and they onely will not sit with vain persons but their field alone hath no tares their floor no chaff and their net incloseth no trash when as nothing but pure gold is built upon their foundation therefore Dr. Featley doth merrily bid them go to New Ingland Dr. Featlies merry speech of these hypocritical Saints or the Isle of providence or to Sir Thomas Moor's Vtopia where Plato's commoner Osorius his noble man Castilio's Courtier Vegetius his Souldier Tullies Orator Aristocles his Faelix the Jews Benchochab the Manachees paraclet the Gnossicks illuminat ones the Pelagians perfect ones the Montanists spiritual ones the Catharists pure ones and their own precise holy ones may all meet at Prince Arthurs round Table and every guest be like the Table totus teres atque rotundus 4. But for them thus to call light darknesse and darknesse light to justifie the wicked and to condemn the godly to make the Members of the Antichrist the servants of God and the true Saints of Christ ungodly Reprobates and so to thrust the deserved heirs of hell into heaven and the redeemed heirs of heaven into hell what is it else but as Solomon saith an abomination to the Lord and as the Holy Ghost saith here to blaspheme them that dwell in heaven and therefore shall receive without a speedy Repentance the woe that the Prophet denounceth and the Scripture every where threatneth against such wicked doings Prov. 17.15 Isa 5.20 Then it is said v. 7. that it was given to the Beast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who are the Saints with whom the Beast warreth to make war with the Saints and to overcome them and this war is to be understood of a bloody war as it appeareth by the recompence that shall be rendred unto the Beast v. 10. He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword and Mr. Mede interpreteth the same of the war that the Church of Rome caused to be followed against the Albigenses and Waldenses Not the Waldenses which as I conceive is far from the meaning of the Holy Ghost Reason 1 1. Because the time of this Beast continuing in his prevalency being but three years and a half or some short space much about that time and not so many hundred years as Mr. Mede would have the Beasts 42 moneths to signifie unto us it can no wayes agree with the Wars of the Waldenses that as the Histories record extended it self to a far greater time then three years and a half Reason 2 Alexand 3. died 1181. These were for the most part French Rebels in Languedoc Province and other parts of France and the Earl of Tholous was a prime Leader of many of them against Lewis King of France in the time of our Henry the third 2. Because this war of the Beast is said to be with the Saints and those Waldenses and Albigenses being ever accounted for most obstinate hereticks and so condemned in the Council of Lateran under Alexander the third by 280 Bishops and very stiff-necked Rebels against their Kings it cannot be thought that such men are here meant under the Notion and Title of Saints And therefore I say that although Thuanus writeth that in the wars waged against them and the Lollards about ten hundred thousand men were slain yet I cannot yield these mad hereticks to be the Saints here meant nor the prosecutors nor procurers of this war to be the Beast that is here spoken of and as yet had not lifted up his head out of the sea nor can I allow that the Duke de Alva though a most cruel man that slaughtered in Belgia onely as Junius and Tilenus say 36000 men was a Champion of this Beast though I confesse him to be like Cosroe King of Persia a very great instrument of the Dragon to scourge these poor Christians for their sins because this Beast was scarce hatch'd when that Vice-roy acted his bloody part Who then are the Saints with whom the Beast warreth and whom God himself termeth Saints and therefore can be neither Hereticks nor Rebels because the true Saints will ever choose rather patiently to suffer then Rebelliously to resist their lawfull Governors The true and Loyal Protestants are the Saints that are here meant as King Lewis was to those Albigenses and I demand whom can they be if they be not the true Protestants that neither can be charged with any heresie against the faith nor taxed for any Disloyalty against the King as the Waldenses were both wayes adjudged guilty And therefore I believe this is plain enough for any blind man to understand who are meant by the Saints that should be warred against and overcome if he doth but confider who overcame and who were overcome in the last war that hath been made against the truest Protestants on earth for you see the Spirit of God tells you the Beast shall be the Conqueror and the Saints shall be conquered and so Daniel that typically prophesied of the Antichrist which is understood by this Beast saith that he should wear out the Saints of the most High and they should be given unto his hands And you see who are worn out And then having conquered the Saints it is further added in the said 7. v. that there was given unto him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dan 7.25 Nations and tongues submit and honour the conquerors The Parallel Power or Authority over all Kindreds and Tongues and Nations and truly I think none so blind but seeth all this most sutable every way to the long Parliament for after they had subdued the King have they not assumed to themselves and so attained greater power then any of all the Kings of England ever had when as not one of them could have so much as a small Subsidy nor power to press any Soldiers to Warre against forreign Enemies without the approbation of their Peers and People and King Charls could not have so much as one penny of money to build his Ships to protect his Merchants and to secure his Ports without murmuring without Suits

suddenly bring Atheisme and all Prophaneness among the people which I beseech All-mighty God of his mercy to keep from his Servants and to turn away this Blasphemy of the Beast against Gods Tabernacle And I may demand if the false Prophet the Preachers and the adherents of the long Parliament have not brought this contempt of Gods Tabernacle in too great measure among the simple people and which very sin I am confident cannot be fastened either upon Jewes Turks or Papists CAP. IV. The Blasphemy of the Beast against the Saints in Heaven the first despisers of them the Blasphemy against the Godly Saints on earth who are the Saints with whom the Beast warreth the successes of the Beast that we ought not to wonder at his Victories what the successes of the Beast should teach us and of the end and downfall of the Beast 3. IT is said that the Beast opened his mouth to Blaspheme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. The Blasphemie of the Beast against Gods servants 1 Perfectos them that dwell in Heaven and this may be understood for two sorts of Gods Servants 1. For the blessed Angels and the Saints that are departed and do now rest and reside with the Holy Angels in Heaven 2. For those holy men that do wayfare here as yet and are the lively members of the Militant Church of Christ 2. Inchoatos Maledicta in Sanctos dicuntur blasphemiae quia Deus in Sanctis maledicitur Cajetan in Thom 22. q. 88. Artic. 5. which warreth against the Beast and which is often to be understood by the name of heaven in this book And the Beast hath not spared to blaspheme both these kinds of Saints whose abuses are called blasphemies because God is blasphemed in them saith Cajetane for 1. Touching these blessed souls that are with Christ I speak not for the invocation and praying to the best of those Saints nor the adoration of their relicks and images for that might well be thought to be flat Poperie and a sin to be punished by the Judges or at least not well to be justified neither do I argue for the worshipping of them no not the blessed Virgin with any kind of Divine worship either 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but onely for a reverent opinion and a charitable estimation of them free from contempt and shewed by good words and the addition of some reverent title and honourable Epithite added unto their names as we use to do to the Heroes and noble persons The Parallel Calvinus instruct contra libe tinos c. 9. or our honourable benefactors that are on earth which as I conceive is but the minutest honour that can be given them and yet this is a great deal more then this Beast can afford to bestow upon the most deserving of them for as Mr. Calvin relates of Quintinus the father of the Libertines in France and a near kinsman of this Beast here spoken of adeo petulanter in sanctos debacchabatur he did so insolently rail against all the Saints that he termed Saint Paul no otherwise then a broken vessel Saint John a foolish youth Saint Matthew an usurer Saint Peter a denier of his Master and I heard say that some one of the spawn of this Beast hearing a worthy Preacher citing Saint Augustine replied Saint Augustine Saint Devil and I am sure the adherents of the long Parliament as limbs of this Beast do for the most part hold it blasphemie to call the holy men departed Saints and therefore you shall never hear any of them to say in their Sermons or Writings And Mr. Love gives to Mr. Greenham the Epithite of holy Greenham Saint Peter or Saint Paul but the bare naked nameof Peter Paul John and so of the rest is good enough for the best of them though they can be pleased to give far more honourable titles to their own impure proselites and some of them to become so impudent as to compare their own sinfull mothers with the unspotted mother of God the blessed mother of Jesus Christ whom the Holy Ghost saith all generations shall call blessed as they all do that love Christ except it be this cursed generation of vipers that gnaw out the bowels of their own mother But this contempt of the heavenly Saints The first despi sers of the blessed Saints these new Scholars have learn'd of their old Masters the first despisers of the Saints and Martyrs Leo Isaurus and Constantinus Capronimus that said the blessed Virgin after she was delivered of Christ was like a purse that had been full of gold and that made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an universal Law that none of Gods servants should be called Saint saith Cedrenus Apud Surium to 6.28 and so Steven the Martyr of that time sheweth that the Constantinopolitan-Council of 338. Bishops assembled by Leo Isaurus had proscribed against holy things and had cast away in contempt this epithite Saint from all the righteous men of God and would give no other title to the Apostles and Martyrs of Jesus Christ but as their Disciples do now the bare name of Matthew Mark and the like and thought it an hainous crime to say Saint Peter whereby you see this new practice of the Beast and of his followers that have unsainted all the holy inhabitants of heaven and Sainted all the hypocrites on earth is but raked up out of the old dunghill of these Hagiomastices the Saint-scourgers that I named unto you Yet you hear what the Spirit of God saith that to speak evil of the Saints whom we ought to honour as those that sit with Christ on his Throne Rev. 21. as Christ himself doth testifie is no less then hainous blasphemie and therefore if we will not yield them that due respect and honour that we ow them as the friends of God and as the brethren of Christ and the sons of God and for the manifold good that they have done unto us yet I hope this will bridle all those that fear God from uttering any contumelious speeches against them 2. For the other sort of Gods servants that remain still in the world The Parallel 2. The blasphemie of the Beast against the inchoative Saints that are on earth and reside in the earthly heaven that is the Church militant the Beast termeth them not onely sinners which they confess themselves to be and confess it with grief of heart that they are so bad and can not be better but calleth them also Reprobates Malignants Members of the Beast Sons of the Whore of Babylon Limbs of the great Antichrist and faggots destined for hell-fire And for themselves that are indeed the Members of the Beast they pretend to be the right Saints and the onely true servants of God The strange Divinity of the Beast In the Historie of Independency part 3. p. 29. and therefore they may commit any Act that is a sin in us whom they deem Reprobates and yet