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A43562
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Three sermons preached at the Collegiate Church in Manchester by Richard Heyricke.
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Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.
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Wing H1751; ESTC R27425
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in the Temple of God as God and exalts himselfe above all that 's called God above all Kings and Princes to whom God imparts some part of his power and name above all Synods and Councells yea he shewes himselfe as God for he advances himselfe above God he will dispense with the morall Law blesse where GOD doth curse and curse where God doth blesse no Law nothing shall binde him this wicked one called so verse the eight the Greeke word signifies properly this lawlesse one for so indeed the Pope is a lawlesse person whom no law of God nor man is able to bind he dispenseth with solemne oathes the surest tye betwixt man and man that exact and well composed oath of Allegiance they make it a Sampsons Cord To hold the Pope to bee the head of the Church is more incongruous and improper more blasphemous and derogatory against Christ then if a man should make an excellent Image of exquisite and exact forme delineated in all the points to the life with necke and shoulders with armes and hands with thighes and legges and should place thereon a Gorgons head of an hideous and monstrous shape That Image in Daniel was more uniforme that had a head of gould breast and armes of silver belly and thighes of brasse legges of Iron and feete part of Iron and part of Clay then to have the legges and thighes of Gold and the head of Clay This is so hereticall and damnable that whosoever holds it must necessarily bee a Heretick Infidell and Atheist Thirdly Papists are in continuall danger of temporall destruction The Popes Parasites Romes builders give the same glorious titles Attributes and Eulogium to the City of Rome that once the Prophets of God did to Ierusalem calling it the Holy City the City of the great King the joy of the whole earth the Queene of Nations the everlasting the eternall Citie and yet Rome must downe Babylon shall fall the spirit of God speakes plaine enough reade the whole eighteenth of the Revelations at your leisure hee that reades it may understand for the Text you see is plaine enough it must downe Rome must downe by the sword Popery must downe by the word Rome first Popery after Those ten Kings that cleave unto her shall at the last make War against her Rome shall down Popery shall loose it's strength though not it's being till the comming of Christ I will not determine the set time when Rome shall downe I have read the Conjectures of many yet all agree the time cannot be long but Rome must downe At the first comming of our Saviour Christ when there was a generall expectation of him the Iewes did not know the particular time the yeare the moneth the day there is at this day in the Church of God a generall expectation of some change though wee cannot particularly tell the time the yeare the month the day it may be the time is now at hand the Trumpet is sounding to battaile it may bee present with our selves of uncertaine things wee can speake but uncertainly I subscribe to them rather that conceive the yeare to bee one thousand sixe hundred sixtie and sixe though upon other grounds t is plaine Satan shall bee tyed up a 1000 yeares sixe hundred sixty sixe yeares is the number of the Beast Antichrist shall so long reigne these two together make the just number besides looke into the Latin Alphabet the tongue that Rome useth and the numerall letters make up this number But this wee can certainely say Rome must downe Rome shall fall Rome in the Revelation is set downe by the name of Sodom Gomorrah and spirituall Ierusalem Rome equalls their sins and shall beare their plagues God calls his people to come out of her that they bee not partakers of her sinnes and of her plagues Rome must fall and Papists are in continuall danger of temporall destruction Lastly all Papists in that sense that I say Papists are sure of eternall damnation I may not speake peace where God speakes no Peace When Iehoram said to Iehu what peace Iehu he answered what peace as long as the witchcrafts and whoredomes of thy mother Iesabell remaine What peace can I speake to Rome while the spirituall whoredomes and witchcrafts of the Church of Rome remaine among them Saul lost his kingdome for sparing Agag And God may damme me for ought I know if I refuse to damne them They are but false Prophets Balaam-like that blesse where God doth curse God preaches damnation to them I may not preach salvation In the third verse of this Chapter Antichrist the man of sinne is called the sonne of perdition and he is so indeed both actively and passively he is damned himselfe and is the cause of the damnation of others The spirit is plaine in the 10 11 and 12. verses hee shall work in them that perish and for this cause God gave them up to strong delusions to believe lyes that all that receive not the truth in the love of the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse might be damned See in the twentieth of the Revelations and the tenth verse what the end of them is where all they must goe into the lake that burnes with Fire and Brimstone They that write professedly of this question whether a Papist can be saved or no distinguish of times places and persons first of times since the Reformation and before the Reformation at those times of ignorance God did connive Then men would have seen and could not the Sun did not then shine our fore-fathers might bee saved in that Ignorance But God commands every one to seeke after knowledge the Sun shines cleere enough Papists may see and will not God gives them over to affected ignorance he that will be ignorant let him be ignorant Againe they distinguish of places where the light of the Gospell hath shined and where it hath not shined in some places the Gospell shines very bright and very cleere as in some parts of France and Germany and blessed be God in England In some places is darknesse they have the word rarely preached to them God will not be mercifull to those Papists where the light of the Gospell shines as cleare as may be and yet they remaine in darknesse Lastly they distinguish of persons It 's confest of all that a learned English Apostate Papist cannot be saved God hath preach'd damnation to them so must we Now you see the danger of being Papists they are Traitors to the King under whom they live Hereticks Infidels and Atheists in continuall danger of temporall destruction and at last sure of eternall damnation And you see the first Reason why we should stand fast because there wil be an Apostacy a falling away to Popery the second followes more briefly Secondly Therefore stand fast because of Gods great mercy in bringing the Gospell among you as the Apostle inferres this exhortation from the thirteene and foureteene verses those immediately before the Text
Italian Spanish Iesuited Gunpowder Papists I could bee angry and sinne not I could stampe knocke bend my brow and thunder were it lawfull I could take up the execration of David let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth and my right hand forget her cunning when I forget the deliverance of this Day That therefore you may for ever remember and stand fast to the Gospell received and not bee tempted to that damning Religion I have made choise to speake in the words of the Apostle Therefore Brethren stand fast IN which words you have a duty enjoyned Stand fast Secondly the reason enforcing in the illative word Therefore The Apostle the Doctor of the Gentiles exhorted the beleeving Thessalonians to stand fast and the more to move them calls them Brethren {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a brother is derived of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} uterus a wombe brethren being properly uterus the fruit of one wombe The Apostle and the Thessalonians were not brethren in nature but brethren in grace sanctior est copula cordium quam corporum This compellation carries much affection with it and imports thus much that he tendered the beleeving Thessalonians as his mothers wombe or his own bowels even as his brethren therefore he gives them this necessary exhortation in all brotherly love and earnestnesse Stand fast The reasons that enforce it are implyed in this word Therefore Therefore Wherefore Two Reasons may bee gathered from the coherence of these words First the Apostle tells them there will be an Apostacy a falling away Therefore stand fast Of which Apostacy you may read from the third verse to the thirteenth verse Secondly hee remembers them of Gods mercy to them in bringing them to the knowledge of the Gospell from the thirteenth verse to the fifteenth Therefore Brethren stand fast These are the Reasons to enforce this duty and of these in their order plainly And first Therefore stand fast because there will bee an Apostacy and a falling away That there will bee an Apostacy and a falling away all must all do confesse our times and the times of our fore-fathers are sad witnesses of the accomplishment of this Prophecy The Apostle speakes it in expresse termes there must be an Apostacy and a falling away first That this Captaine Apostate whom the Apostle v. 3. cals the man of sinne and doth so exactly describe is the same with the Antichrist of whom Saint Iohn writes in his Epistle and the false Prophet you read of in the Revelation for ought I know wee have unanimous consent But who this man of sinne is the Antichrist the false Prophet there 's the difference Not to spend much time in the searching out thereof or in answering to this quaere The Fathers are not competent Iudges in this particular The Papists themselves those pretended adorers of them yet in this leave them and refuse them Daniel tells us that the Prophecy is sealed to the end Saint Austen saith ingenuously that concerning this chapter hee could not understand the meaning of it To the Fathers these Prophecies were riddles and darke sayings yet by that glimering light they had the mystery of iniquity beginning in the Apostles time they could they did point out the time the place and some the person The Fathers could not tell who this man of sinne was Our adversaries of the Church of Rome will not tell us they labour to free the Pope from it rather then to fasten it upon any other And while they labour to build new Babel Lord how are they confounded The Rhemists confesse that Rome is the place yea Bellarmine Ribera and others say certainely Rome is the seate The Sunne shines cleare as at noone-day they can but will not see I could muster whole Armies of the reformed Churches produce a cloud of witnesses empannell many grand-Iuries of our owne learned men that readily will answer to this quaere the Papacy is this Apostacy the Pope this man of sinne the Antichrist the false Prophet the time would faile me to bring forth King David and all his worthies King Iames the Bishops and Professors and learned men of that learned age all which plainly and freely confesse and answer that the Papacy is this Apostacie the Pope this man of sinne the Antichrist the false Prophet In this particular I may truly say of that King of Schollars what the servants of King David said he is worth tenne thousand how plainely hath hee publisht to the whole world and sent it abroad to the Emperor to Christian Kings and Princes wherein he hath declared his opinion concerning this thing how plainly in his paraphrase upon the Revelation in his meditation upon the twentieth Chapter in his Apologie to Kings and Princes For my part I will walke under the protection of this great King and follow the steppes of those learned men backt with the authority of the booke of Homilies and take it for granted indeed which cannot reasonably bee denyed it may easily bee made good that the Papacy is this Apostacy the Pope this man of sinne the Antichrist the false Prophet Then my exhortation to you is the same with Paul to his Thessalonians Therefore Brethren stand fast that you be not entangled and drawne away to Popery If Saint Paul thought it necessary in his time when the mystery of iniquity began to worke and the man of sinne was not revealed when the Cockatrice Egges were not hatched and the Pope had no being in the world to exhort the believing Thessalonians to stand fast that they might not bee drawne away with that falling away how necessary is it for us and at this time seasonable for mee to exhort you beloved now that the mystery of Iniquity is strongly working and the man of sin clearely revealed now that the Pope is regnant in full power and strength to exhort you in the words of the Apostle Therefore Brethren stand fast First consider if you stand not fast indeed you may be drawne away to Popery Secondly consider It 's a dangerous thing to bee drawne away to Popery First you may easily be drawne away The Papacy is an alluring inticing tempting bewitching Religion Sir Walter Rawleigh knew what hee said and he spake truth when hee said it that were hee to choose a Religion for licentious libertie and lasciviousnesse he would choose the Popish Religion No Religion under Heaven so consonant so congruous so sutable so agreeable to corrupted nature to flesh and bloud as the Religion of the Church of Rome see I beseech you what the spirit of God faith of it in the seaventeenth of the Revelations and the first and so forth to the sixth verse you must have patience that I may read the words to you And there came one of the seaven Angels which had the seaven Vials and talked with mee saying come hither I will shew unto thee the judgement of the great whore that sitteth upon many