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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

others sinful both in life and profession Therefore called spiritually Sodom Rev. 11.8 and as to Faith and Doctrine An Apostate and what is in that kind worse falling away v. 3. departing from the Faith 1 Tim. 4.1 denying the Lord that bought them and bringing in damnable Heresies 2 Pet. 2.1 and Doctrines of Devils forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats c. 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. we know who do so Of these Apostate Professors are those also of whom St. John speaketh who deny that Jesus is the Christ adding he is an Antichrist that denyeth the Father and the Son whosoever denyeth the Son hath not the Father 1. John 2.22 23. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this is that spirit of Antichrist whereof ye have heard that it should come and even now already is it in the world 1. John 4.3 Not that Antichrist or every Antichrist denyeth Christ come in the flesh Some did so nor do all hereticks speak the same thing but whosoever shall say that Christ is not come in the flesh is an Antichrist In all is to be observed 1. That all false doctrines and heresies whether against the doctrine and truth of Christ of which the Apostle S. Paul speaks 1. Tim. 4. or against Christ's person or Natures of whom St. John speaks both these are against Christ and such as so teach and believe are therefore because against Christ Antichrist so as every deceiver is an Antichrist 2 John v. 7. I Judg saith St. Hierom all chief hereticks to be Antichrist under the name of Christ teaching contrary to Christ. 2. Hereby we find that there are many Antichrists 1 John 2.18 and of those many that some were then in the Apostles dayes in the world 1. John 4.3 Apostates from the faith before professed They went from us but were not of us saith the Apostle 1. John 2.18 19. 3. Observe that among those many Antichrists there is one chief Antichrist see both in 1. John 2.18 little children it is the last time as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists In this we find those two sorts of Antichrists distinguished 1. In number Antichrists plurally And many Antichrists the other but Antichrist singly one among many 2. These two also are distinguished in time Of those many some already come and then in the World but that one Antichrist then not yet come yet expected 2 Thess. 2. the revealed in his time v. 7.8 3. see that one and chief Antichrist above the rest pointed at Emphatically by an Article which is in the Greek not expressed in our English 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or that Antichrist saith Grotius points at some one Antichrist among those many more noted And with like Emphasis is this man of sin in the Text expressed by that man of sin The Son of perdition v. 3. That wicked v. 8. and even him whose coming is after the working of Satan v. 9. 4. Observe that great Antichrist in S. John and this man of Sin in S. Paul to be intended of the same Person none can doubt but that St. Paul doth speak these things of Antichrist saith S. Augustine where and else where we find the same person under several names under diverse considerations so called Sodom and Egypt Rev. 11.8 the great whore Rev 17.1 Babylon v. 5. and here that man of sin 5 and by St. John Antichrist In which variety of names some one is at present to be principally used for avoiding confusion in which I shall choose that of Antichrist as being a word both Scriptural and Ecclesiastical frequently occurring in the Fathers and Ecclesiastical writers ancient and modern 5. Observe that man of Sin or Antichrist although singularly and Emphatically and as it were personally pointed at is not notwithstanding to be understood as terminated in any one individual person whatsoever but as those many Antichrists make up that wicked society of Apostate Hereticks of what kind soever so is this great Antichrist A chief of this great Apostacy but as one in succession though diverse in persons so it is said of the Pope and Papacy That as to the place and office of the Papacy ' all Popes from first to last are but as one Pope so when they say the Pope is head of the Church that is not intended of any one Pope alone but of any and all in that succession Thus of Antichrist as here considered in his person condition and quality A man of Sin one in profession and faith also in life and manners sinful exceedingly and how that is will appear after in particulars II. We have next to see this man of sin as to his place where he should appear and is to be expected sitting in the Temple of God Which words The Temple of God some appropriate to Jerusalem and the Temple there so understood properly saith Grotius in both Testaments It seems also to make for this what is instanced of Cajus one of the Roman Emperours who caused his Image or statue to be placed in the Temple at Jerusalem to be worshipped which agrees say some with the Text literally This man of sin sitting in the temple of God c. But this man of sin or Antichrist is intended of an Apostate Christian fallen away v. 3. such as was not Caius a Pagan and never otherwise therefore not he this Antichrist 2. Nor is Antichrist one individual person but a chief in succession heading an Antichristian State and Faction therefore not Caius nor Simon Magus or any other such whosoever which will after appear more fully 3. The Temple of God in the Text is interpreted the Christian Church by the Fathers St. Augustin Chrysostom Hierome Hilary Theophylact Theodoret and others also by Thomas Aquinas and others of the Schoolmen 4. Notwithstanding what is confidently averred by some that in both Testaments the Temple of God is intended of that Temple in Jerusalem the contrary appears and that the Christian Church is also in that pointed at in both Testaments So in Zech. 6.12 13. Behold the man whose name is the Branch meant of Christ Zech. 3.8 Isa. 14 1. Jer. 3 8.33.15 he shall grow out of his place and he shall build the Temple of the Lord even he shall build the Temple of the Lord and he shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne In which is not intended the Temple of Jerusalem as if built by Christ whose destruction he declared those dayes also of its destruction being the time of the Lord 's coming to Judge that People and then setting up his Temple of the Christian Church where he would be worshipped in spirit and in truth not any longer in Types and Sacrifices as in Jerusalem John 4.20.21.23 And the Christian Gospel-Church taken as Catholique and of both Nations is called