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spirit_n	holy_a	speak_v	word_n	18,876	5	4.5025	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42310	Anti-Christ pointed and painted out in his true colours, or, The popes of Rome proven to bee that man of sinne and sonne of perdition fore-prophesied in Scripture by the clear witnessing of Roman Catholicks themselves, who lived and died in the communion of that church / by William Guild.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1655 (1655)	Wing G2203; ESTC R27163	64,002	182

or an Idolatrous Church 3. As making the kings of the earth and inhabitants thereof drunk with the wine of her Fornication and procuring as hath beene said such a generall subjection to her Shee is a pretended catholick Church 4. As a mother of Harlots as shee is called v. 5. Shee is a mother Church and 5. mysticall Babylon which Iesuit Ribera and other Romanists expoundeth rightlie to be Rome Shee is the Roman Church all which being put together maketh up heer the cleare description of that Antichristian Church over which the Pope is Head and Monarch which is the Romā catholick mother Idolatrous church so much doted upon by seduced papists and generallie submitted unto by them Out of which compleate description of Antichrist let any papist under Heaven fynd out any other but the Pope to whom the same in all points may bee applyed as being the eight head of soveraigne authoritie over Rome who arose thereto by the the decay of the Roman Empyre and at the same time when others arose to soveraigne authoritie with him as kings over these Kingdomes which now they rule and which before were tributarie provinces onelie to the Roman Empyre who claimeth a suppreame ecclesiasticall authoritie over all priests and ecclesiasticall persons as Universall Bishope and Monarch of the Church and who also hath claimed and heeretofore obtained a generall subjection of all persons whatsoever to him and his sea according to his decree theranent as being head of the Roman Catholick mother Church which hath dependance upon him and which he again supporteth by his pretended infallibility and power From all which former wee therfore frame this argument The eight head as governour who now sits in Rome and who arose at one time to soveraignitie over that Citie when others arose to bee free kings over their kingdomes which before were tributarie provinces to the old Roman Empire as all Histories record hath procured all subjection of al persons to him his sea not by force but by allurement of a sensuall Religion and like an intysing Whoore hath made these that are subject to him to committ spirituall Fornication which is idolatrie and who also claimeth especiallie a supreame ecclesiasticall authoritie over all priests and ecclesiasticall persons as universall Bishope sole Monarch and Head of the Romā Catholick mother church This head I say described so by Iohn is that grand Antichrist But the Pope is such Therefore he is that Grand Antichrist The major is scripture expounded as hath beene shown by Romanists thēselves by evidence of histories the minor likewise is cleare by fit application in all points to the Pope and applyable to no other and by his own undenyable practise Therefore the conclusion inevitablie followeth CHAP. VII Where Antichrist is to bee found or his place in generall 2 Thess. 2.4 HAving thus seene who is Antichrist Next we are to search and try where hee is and first His place in generall 2. in particular First then as for his place in generall Paull telleth us That hee shall sit as GOD pretending to be his Vice-gerent and usurping his power in the Temple of GOD by which not any one materiall Temple is to be understood as that of IERUSALEM which the papists fancie tha●Antichrist shall reedifye and which their own Pintus upon ISAIAH 25. ●howes shal never be reedifyed But the Professour● of the Christiā Name in cōmon ar therby to be understood which therefore haue the name of the Church and as we see thē so called especiallie these who are truelie Christians 1. Cor. 3.16 Ephes. 2.21 And therefore sayth Chrisostome upon this place 2 Th●ss 2.4 Sedebit in Templo DEI non eo quod est Hierosolymis sed in Ecclesiis That is hee shall sit in the Temple of GOD not in that which is in IERUSALEM but in the Churches and what is meaned by these words of Sitting Theodoret telleth us The Spirit of GOD using the same word that the papists use speaking of the Pops raigne saying Sedittot annos calling Rome the Apostolicall Sea or Sedes Apostolica Thus therefore sayeth Theodoret Templum appellavit Ecclesias i● quibus primam sedem arripiet That is the Holie Ghost called the Churches the Temple in which Antichrist shall usurpe the first seat or primacie Thus also speaketh Aquinas Therefore it is expounded sayth hee In templo DEI Idest in Ecclesia quia multi de Ecclesia eum accipient vel secundum Augustinum in templo DEI sedeat idest ut principetur dominetur ta●quam ipse cum suis nunciis sit templū DEI sicut CHRISTVS est cum suis That is he shall sit in the temple of GOD that is in the Church because many that are of the Church shall receive him or according to Aug●stin he sits in the Temple of GOD that is the Prince or Monareh thereof and hath Dominion therein as if hee with his Cleargie were the church of GOD as CHRIST is with His followers So likewise speaketh the ordinar glosse and Lyra upon this place the expresse words of Augustin are these Rectius putant latine dici sicut in graeco est Non in Templo DEI sed in Templū DEI sedeat tanquam ipse sit Templum DEI quod est Ecclesia sicut dicimus sedit in amicum idest ut Amicus That is they think that more rightly it may bee said in the latin as it is in the greeke not in the Temple of GOD but that Antichrist should sit as the Temple of GOD that is as if he were the Temple of GOD which is his Church Even as we say hee sits for a Friend that is as if hee were a friend and which tytle of the Church we see that that the Pops parasits giveth unto him calling him the Virtuall Church wherein onelie is infallibilitie Whereupon Radevicus a Roman channon speaking of Pope Victor 2. sayeth thus Ipse Antichristi tempora prafigurans usque adeo erectus est supra se vt in Templo DEI sederit ostendens se tanquam sit DEVS multi abominationem desolationis stantem in loco sancto non sine multa lachrymarum effusione corporis oculis inspexerunt That is he prefiguring the tyme of Antichrist was so farre exalted aboue himself as that hee did sit in the Temple of GOD showing himself as if he were GOD and many did behold this abhomination of desolation standing in the Holie place not without much effusion of tears which sitting of Antichrist as the vicar of Christ in the Church whose horns he resembleth by a deceiveablenesse of unrighteousnes did so seduce simple and unsound Christians that except by the Scriptures hee could never otherwise bee knowne nor his Dragon mouth perceived Therefore sayeth Chrysostome Haeresis impia quae est exercitus Antichristi stabit in sanctis l●cis Ecclesiae obtinens Ecclesias vt si velit quis cognoscere quae sit