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A36016 The mystery of iniquity anatomized by William Dillingham. Dillingham, William, 1617?-1689. 1689 (1689) Wing D1483; ESTC R24295 19,111 24

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be possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all Men in patience possessing their own Souls and so with a silent meekness slip through the World and lay hold on eternal Life leaving others behind them to question and commune with their own Hearts about their own Share and Interest in that sweet and blessed Legacy of our dying Lord John 14.27 Peace I leave with you my Peace I give unto you And to bethink themselves what account they can hereafter give unto him of that great Depostitum And when all Church-censures how duly soever dispensed and the Municipal Laws of particular Nations whereby the loose Spirits of Men were held to their Duty and to the observance of the Divine Law of both Tables shall be Suspended and Despensed withal and thereby Men turned loose to do every Man what is right or wrong in his own Eyes and to follow the inclination of his own Mind into how forlorn a Condition the Church and Worship of God must needs be reduced any considering Man may easily apprehend When a justifying Faith shall be reduced to the same form with that of the Devils Assurance of Salvation be branded for Presumption and Men discouraged from making their Calling and Election sure in spight of the Apostle's Exhortation when Sin shall be pardoned for Money or of course when Repentance which is a godly and hearty sorrow for Sin joined with an abhorrence and forsaking of it shall be laid aside as too harsh for the delicate Flesh and instead thereof an hanging down the Head a pale and distorted Countenance in a few Grimases the saying by rote a few Paters and Aves the chastising of the Body by some outward Severities rather than part with the Sin of the Soul a Whip and a lousy Coat and denying themselves something which they do not much care for shall be accounted the only Self-denial and Mortification a-la-mode When there shall be no Charity left but that of Almes and that applied for vain Glory given with the sound of the Trumpet and to maintain a lazy Superstition whilst the same Persons shall have so little true Charity or Mercy as to imbrue their hands in the Blood and Tears of the true Members of Jesus Christ When Charity shall grow cold and Persecution hot and Men become Lovers of themselves of their Pleasures and Riches more than of God abandoning themselves to all manner of Licentiousness and making it the chief of their care to make Provision for the Flesh Then may Men come to be assured that the Mystery of Iniquity is busily at work in the World as the Apostle tells us it had begun in his days But how much of it hath been since executed and wrought off and the woful Effects which it hath produced I shall leave to the Histories of the Church in all Ages to report and to the Judgment of all wise Men to make the Application But let every Nation and Church and Party of Men on which any of these Corruptions shall be found bear its own Burthen repent and reform what it finds amiss in it self and never dream of excusing it self by casting all the Blame upon others for it is most certain that the Mystery of Iniquity is as large as the Dominion of Sin and Kingdom of Darkness is within the visible Church and under the Profession of the Christian Religion and there is not a Nation under Heaven wherein the Devil hath not ten times more of real Subjects than Jesus Christ FINIS Some Books newly printed for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden-Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard A Third Volume of Sermons preached by the late Reverend and Learned Dr. Thomas Manton in two Parts The first containing sixty six Sermons on the 11th Chapter to the Hebrews with a Treatise of the Life of Faith. Part the 2d A Treatise of Self-Denial with several Sermons on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper and other Occasions with an Alphabetical Table to the whole Folio The sure trial of Uprightness opened in several Sermons upon Psalm 18. ver 23. I was also upright before him and have kept my self from mine Iniquity By William Bates D. D. Octavo His three Sermons at the Funerals of Mr. Clarksm Dr. Jacomb and Mr. Benjamin Arshurst Legal Exceptions and lawful Prejudices against Popery or a large Deduction of Historical Evidences proving that the Papacy is the real Antichristian Kingdom By Peter Jureiu Octavo A new Systeme of the Apocalypse or plain and methodical Illustrations of all the Visions in the Revelation of St John proving the Pope to be Antichrist Written by a French Minister in the Year 1685. and finished but two days before the Dragoons Plundered him of all except this Treatise Faithfully Englished Twelves Primitive Episcopacy evincing from Scripture and Ancient Records that a Bishop in the Apostles times and for the space of the first three Centuries of the gospel-Gospel-Church was no more than a Pastor to one single Church or Congregation By the the late Pious and Learned David Clarkson sometime Fellow of Clare-hall Cambridg Octavo A Discourse concerning Liturgies by the same Author Octavo A plain Representation of Transubstantiation as it is received in the Church of Rome with the sandy Foundations it is built upon and the Arguments that do clearly evert and overturn it By a Country Divine A brief account of the first Rise of the Name Protestant and what Protestantism is with a Justification of it and an earnest Exhortation to all Protestants to persist in that Holy Religion By Samuel Bold Rector of Steeple in Dorsetshire A Discourse concerning Idolatry and Transubstantiation in answer to the late Bishop of Oxford's Plea. By Gilbert Burnet D. D. now Lord Bishop of Salisbury Wonderful Predictions of Nostredamus Grebner David Pareus Antonius Torquatus wherein the Grandeur of their present Majesties the happiness of England and Downfal of France are plainly delineated with a large Preface shewing that the Crown of England has not been obscurely foretold to their Majesties King William the 3d. and Queen Mary and the People have duly contributed thereunto in the present Parliament Folio