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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44285	A sermon preached afore Thomas Andrews Lord Maior and the aldermen, sheriffs &c. of the honorable corporation of the citie of London in which discourse is held forth I. The order, method, and succession of times and things both good and evil ... as an explanation of his former sermon before the said honorable assembly upon Octob. 8, 1650. 2. A touch upon the two witnesses. 3. An iconism or picture of the present apostacie in England. 4. A systeme of symptomes of them that will have the spiritual falling - sickness to depart from the faith / by Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2575; ESTC R29231	23,573	34

and providential shall be most eminently conspicuous to a glorious brightness in the eyes of the generality of all men So that before them in their esteem the pomp glory riches power authority dominion majesty c. of Anti-christ shall be blotted out as a fair writing or melt away as a great estate rioted to nothing and made void as non ens as the Greek * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 expendere delere c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 antiquare irritum facere abro●are well imports The Gospel shall manifest such freedom comfort c. in opposition to Anti-christ and providence shall so serve that end that men shall infinitely vilifie him untill at last that be fulfilled Rev. 17.16 The ten horns hate the Whore make her desolate and naked eat her flesh and burn her with fire That is the Nations that were formerly subject to him that were formerly his horns of power to arm him with might now shall turn their power against him to his ruine For though they be called Kings Vers 11. yet the meaning cannot be Kings properly for that the holy Ghost tels us there in the 10. Verse those Nations should change their Government often as from Kings to Consuls Dictator Triumvirs c. And experience suggests that severall Nations that have departed from Anti-christ have no King * Switzers Helvetians Low Countries And therefore the ten ho●… must signifie so many Nations by those chief Powers the People shall set up in whom under God all civil power is radicated and is planted for use and shelter to a State in him or them to whom the people by an orderly general consent shall delegate it There is no Rule in Scripture to constitute any Form of civil Government to be jure divino and unchangeable The Apostle useth first the word Apostasie because its native signification denoting the shrinking and slinking of Souldiers from their General unto the Enemy the translating and transferring thereof to the Apostasie meant as we have heard in this Text is very apt elegant and emphatical And secondly he useth the word revealing because the beginning of Antichrist was in a Mystery Vers 7. after the Text that is hiddenly But Christ by his Word and providence should reveal him John in the Revelation as one saith writ the Mystery of Anti-christ Paul in his Epistles the Commentary And both our experience can tell us are dayly more and more expounded by the divine providence wheeling Kingdoms and States to that effect And thirdly the Apostle cals the Race and Succession of Anti-christ the man of sin the son of perdition as if but one man First because still as their main prinpal one man is the absolute Head and chief of all that Monster and monstrous Body whether Turk or Pope Though both one * They are one in desent both of Nature and Religion Mahomet by one of his Parents being a Gentile by the other a jew and Mahomet and a Popish Monk invented his Alcoran or Religion And from the Pope he took his Dominion breaking off three horns from the ten Dan. 7. Antichrist In descent in dominion in the Iconisme or description in the next Verse after the Text viz. Sitting over the Temple of God c. ** The Turk sitting over the material Temple at Jerusalem as the Pope of Rome over Christians the spiritual Temple Though they pretend the Turk something the ●ope more to honor Christ and to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Christ as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sometimes signifies ●o 1.16 yet they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against Christ as the word is intended and explained 1 ●o 2.22 And secondly the Apostle speaks of Anti-christ as if but one because originally collectively and representatively in the esteem of God there are but two men from the beginning of the World to the end there of Adam is called the first man 1 Cor. 15.45 47. Christ in the same place is called not only the second man but also the last man And so all the sons of men in all Generations are to be reserred to and considered in one of these two Sinners to and in Adam fallen the first man and Beleivers to and in Christ the second and last man as it is the whole Discourse and the main intended Design in that Discourse of the Apostle Rom. 5. v. 12. to the end of the Chapter and punctually and home the Apostle tels us Rom. 6.11 that all Beleivers are to be RECKONED in Christ Yea in 1 Cor. 12.12 he boldly eals the Church by the name of Christ as of old did the Prophet Jeremy Chap. 33. vers 16. And this is the name wherewith SHE shall be called The Lord our Righteousness Which is the Name the same Prophet in Chapter 23. Verse 6. gives to Christ But sinners have a twosold consideration as under a double notion one general in their corrupt natural condition as dis-obedient to God contrary to the Law and so they are Adam 1 Cor. 15.47 48. The first man is of the earth as is the earthy such are they that are earthy The other notion is more special as sinners are under and considered in a moral state and acting of nubeleif refusing Christ contraay to the Gospel and so they are all Anti-christ limbs and members of the Anti-christian Head though some parts are more remote and less quickened by that Head Thus Saint John in his Epistles doth much inculcate as in the place but now mentioned 1 John 2.22 23. He is Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son Whosoever denieth the Son the same hath not the Father therefore there are many Antichrists now of those called Christians For they sleight Christ at the least and Vers 18. of the same Chapter Antichrist shall come now are there many Antichrists They went out from us because they were not of us Observe the Departers from religious persons and practises from the holy Church and the holy Rule are called Antichrists So chap. 4.3 Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this is that spirit of Antichrist and is even now already in the World The same in 2 Eph. v. 7. Now we know by 2 Tim. 3.5 Men may deny Godliness though they keep the form by Rom. 2.20 A man may have a form of knowledge yet be and act as a great Transgressour by Tis. 1.16 Men may profess they know God but in Works deny him And 't is granted by all generally that are not Papists or Heathens the Papacy and all its Members holding Justification by Works to be Antichristian though they do in words acknowledge Christ for a Saviour So that to our point in hand all that refuse Christ believe not in him are more or less Antichrist For in substance of Religion he that is not for Christ is against him though in natural or civil circumstances as to serve Christ though we be not in his