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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47047	A sermon of antichrist preached at Christ-Church, Dublin, Novemb. 12, 1676 / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of Meath.	Jones, Henry, 1605-1682.	1679 (1679)	Wing J950; ESTC R1645	32,988	47

gracious Majesties continual care of his People they were thus considered and that by your Lordships procurement and management God multiply his blessings on you in your Person and in your Excellent Lady and Noble Progeny and make us happy in the continuance of your prosperous Government generally desired which are the prayers of My LORD Your Excellencies Most devoted Servant HEN. MIDENSIS THE EPISTLE TO THE READER THat between the first and second coming of Christ the Church being settled and propagated by the Apostles and their Successors there should arise a certain person notoriously wicked an adversary to Christ and a cruel persecutor of the Church whom the Scripture 1 John 2. and 4. calls Antichrist is by Scripture and Apostolical Tradition among Catholicks most certain and not to be doubted Say the Romanists And whereas the Apostles speak of a Mystery of iniquity even then in those very times working 2 Thes. 2.7 and that many Antichrists were then in the world 2 John v. 7. and that there was one other not-yet-come but in his time to be revealed 2 Thessal 2.5 1 John 2.18 These together give us to understand Antichrist considered in his several Ages and gradual appearings for Rome was not built in a day The knowledge of which Gradual Comming of Antichrist leads us to the better understanding him as to his Person and Appearing Herein therefore consider 1. The Preparations to Antichrists Comming 2. His after-appearing in the world 1. The Preparations to his Comming or his being conceived and but yet an Embrio in the womb 's may be those first times when that iniquity did work but in a Mystery that is not yet so openly as after and Antichrist not himself yet appearing but by others his forerunners called Antichrists and from their number many Antichrists and from their chief called also the Spirit of Antichrist who was to come John 2.7 This period of time may be extended to the first 600 years of the Church of which although the first 300 be acknowledged the purer yet do the later 300 and the whole 600 pass generally under the name of pure compared with the following In which 600 years it is granted that many Errours did creep into the Church For while the husband men slept or were less vigilant the enemy sowed Tares among the Wheat both growing together as our Lord had forwarned Matth. 13.24 to 31. yet is it notwithstanding confidently averred that within those 600 years there was not one in the whole world might be properly called a Papist saith our most learned after Primate Usher For as the Title of Pope was not yet appropriated by and to the Bishops of Rome nor the name Papist from them derived to their followers so those Errours before stolen in and crept into the Church were not then received nor passed for Truths some of them being taken notice of were opposed both in the Eastern and Western Churches particularly in France Germany and even in our own Britain also And long after were those erroneous Doctrines of Popery no other among the learned of that side than Points disputable pro and con which were after in the Council of Trent and some others before determined as de fide to be thenceforth no more questionable This was not to be expected within those first 600 years of the Church when was wanting an Universal Bishop and Pope by whose power a Council might be ordered to adopt those growing Errours for Truths which after followed For at the end of that sixth Century and in the entring on the seventh in the year 607. we then begin to hear of Antichrists appearing in the world But 1. In Infancy 2. After in full age growth and strength 1. Antichrists Infant age is what next followeth and may be stated in the year 607 Boniface 3. who by favour of Phocas the Emperor obtained and assumed the title of Universal Bishop or Pope which had been ambitiously sought after by John Patriarch of Constantinople as what he thought was belonging to the chief seat of the Empire Constantinople which his so invading that proud title was by Gregory the great Bishop of Rome declared a sign of Antichrist's being then at hand that whosoever assumed that title was Antichrist or a forerunner of Antichrist not dreaming how near that by him so spoken was to himself For while he was eyeing another person and place this was soon after found in his own See of Rome and there in his very next successor but one Boniface 3. he Arrogating that high name of Universal Bishop not content with Primacy without Supremacy not satisfied with being first among the five Patriarchs but to be above them also and they subjected to him and his rule so he to be over all Bishops and the Church throughout the whole World subjected to him as chief And here see how near the Pope's two so contrary Titles came in and began almost together that of Servus Servorum Dei by Gregory and Universal Bishop by Boniface his successor That also Antichrist had scarcely begun to shew himself in this Western part of the World at Rome as now in Boniface when near upon that time Mahomet the false Prophet began to appear in the East both to the bane of the Church the famous Churches in the East suppressed by the one and those in the West corrupted by the other 2. Yet was this but Antichrist's infancy we have yet to see him in his full growth of strength and stature under following Popes especially in Gregoy 7th before called Hildebrand who inlarged the Papal power above all spiritual and temporal not only Bishops but even Emperours also being brought under him As to the time of Gregory the 7ths Papacy which was about a thousand years from the destruction of Jerusalem and Temple by the Romans In which time of the destruction of Jerusalem was that Fulness of Christ's Kingdom and its coming in power That is the Gospel preached to other Nations and Jerusalem trodden down of the Gentiles Luke 21.24 Thereby also were the Temple Jewish service worship and sacrifices taken out of the way which for a time were hindrances to the course of the Gospel In this Christ's Kingdom of the Gospel so come there was to be also a binding up of Satan for a thousand years after so as the Devil should be restrained not in that time to seduce the world so freely and so generally as before Rev. 20.1 2 3. after which thousand years Satan was to be again at liberty for mischief which loosing of Satan was the period of Antichrists being also at liberty he coming with the working of Satan 2 Thes. 2.9 Satan and Antichrist working by and for each other Which thousand years were then compleated in the Papacy of Gregory the 7th mentioned And it may be observed in this what is also found in other great Prophecies that about the time of their fulfilling mens minds have been then stirred up as by