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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

fall away whiles his forbearance of sin is not from inward divine principles and disputed in Prayer and back'd by Faith in the death and resurrection of Christ which was the Art of Paul Rom. 7. and Phil. 3. If men do not mainly by such inward principles so mann'd and managed depart from sin but do it so far as they do it by policie looking at outward respects they have the tokens of this Faling-sickness 3. When a man acts good with self-ends 3 Symptom and beyond that he doth not act as Jehn Judas and Magus he hath the signes he will fall away as the did Jehn onely acted to remove that which stood in his way viz. That which did impede his access to the Crown and his peaceable enjoyment of it but not the Idol and evils of his predecessor Magus professed his belief and was baptized that he might obtain the admired gifts Indas the longest lasting false ground lasted as long as his gain lasted no longer Hos 7.14 When ye howled as alluding to dogs crying for love of their meat not of their master for corn and wine and oil did ye fast unto me even to me And Hos 10.1 Israel is an empty vine bringing forth fruit unto himself He onely clothed himself gay with green leaves unless he brought a few berries to seminate its kinde not to serve the end of the Husbandman that planted it 4. ●ymptom Be the fruit never so fair or full if it be not from a right cause root and stock he will fall off as a dead branch Ioh. 15.2 Point it right thus Every branch put the comma there in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and as 't is in vers 6. is cast forth AS A BRANCH That is a man will fall off and become a tarquam-Branch a thing that is but an AS IT WERE in Religion unless he be fruitful and brings forth that fruit from a Physical union as 2 Pet. 1.4 intimates from a partaking of the divine nature from a communication as Gal. 2.20 of the life of Christ from a serious frequent application of Christ to that very end 5. ●ymptom The last Symptome of the spiritual falling-sickness is the want of that Antidote of Antidotes oil in the vessel as Christ calls it Mat. 25.4 For as 't is there in the parable the foolish virgins went very far were in the Heaven of ordinances companiors to the wise had lamps of much brain knowledg of divine things with a fair moral conversation had an expectation of Christ coming therefore took lamps and waited had some awakenings of conscience at the noise of Christs coming yet for all this because they had no oil in the vessel that is no infused habit of divine grace in the heart no inward change no complexion of holiness they fail and fall at last Therefore Christians if these five tokens of the spiritual falling sickness be upon us our work of salvation lies yet undone 〈◊〉 matter and ●…ner of Rege●…tion and Sal●…on 't is yet to be done A new foundation is to be layd in floods of godly sorrow for sin and in particular for past hypocrisie New applications of Christ by faith in Gospel promises offering him are to be made with strong cries of prayer that God would give our hearts and souls to Christ that we may be joyned to the Lord 1 Cor. 7 as one spirit and so really close with him with mutual taking him to us and we giving up our selves to him Cant. 2.16 My beloved is mine and I am his adding to all an earnest begging of God as was the manner of sincere ones Iob David and Pauls advice to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 13. to search and try us that we be not deceived And still to stick to this work in attendance on ordinances and duties with Meditations ejaculations and spiritual contestations between God and us and us and our own souls as Psal 42. Ps 43. till the soul come to an experimental knowledge of the inward mystery and power of godliness in the heart having all the spiritual sences touched affected exercised with the delightful presentation of their commensurated objects thus * The inwa●… mystery and power of G●…ness in the 〈◊〉 described 1. The heart hears the voyce of Christ in the language of a spiritual lover as in Cant. 2.8 The voice of my Beloved The ellipsis and imperfect expression intimateth a suddain spiritual passion of the heart leaping with joy at the found thereof Of this inward voice the Prophet speaks Thou shalt hear a voice behinde thee saying This is the way walk in it And Psal 35.3 Say unto my soul Thou art my salvation And Psal 27. Thou saidst Seek my face thy face Lord will I seek That Text intimates a voice making an Eccho in the heart Should seem by this last place and the rest that this voice is not a Scriptureless dreamed Revelation or Enthusiasm but the voice of God's written Word carried from the ear to the heart by applications ond impressions of the Spirit 2. The heart sees the glory of the exellency of Christ Visions of faith and raptures of admiration and adoration of him Cant. oft And 1 Cor. 2. Eye hath not seen c. But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit And Phil. 3. I count all dung to the excellency of the knowledge of Christ 3. The heart feels the operations of the Spirit of Christ as mortifying sin so quickening raising and enlivening the soul in spiritual actings Rom. 8. much And Cant. 5.6 While he spake my soul failed Heb. my soul went forth through wonderful affectionate apprehensions 4. The heart tastes the sweetness of Christ's love shed or poured upon the spiritual palat Rom. 5.5 2 Cor. 5.14 5. And lastly the heart smells the fragrant pleasant acceptable communications of Christ to the soul Cant. 1.12 While the King sitteth at the table my spikenard viz. by communication from him sendeth forth the smell thereof for so it follows in the next verse A bundle of myrrhe is my Beloved unto me And v. 14. My Beloved is to me a cluster of camphire So the soul speaks of Christ Psal 45.8 All thy garments smell of myrrhe aloes and cassia Iacob is sweet but not of himself but in the garments of his elder brother by that means he smells as a field of flowers whom the Lord hath blessed Gen. 27. And thus Christians we be or must be if right The third thing to be done in relation to the Minatory Prognosticks of evil to come ●nvention is to raise our Faith to believe in God through Christ that as the Prophet saith Say to the righteous It shall be well with them it shall be well with us that believe This our Apostle hints in the Context when he exhorts the Thessalonians not to be shaken in minde As we flee to Prayer for succour against such storms so Faith is the hand of Prayer to lay hold and climb up into God's lap And to cherish our Faith and comfort thereby the Apostle tells us in the Text and Context that if do the good party what they can Apostacie and Antichristian impletie rise yet higher and higher come the worst that can come it shall not be long after ere Christ come Acerbissima pati possumus modo brevissima We may endure sharp things if short If nothing else can take down the high appearance of Apostates and Antichrists Christs appearance shall Then is their total ruine and our perpetual restauration and to triumph on earth for a time afore the Ultimate Glory as we have it elsewhere That as when nothing would restrain several rebellions of the Israelites about to stone Moses Aaron and other good men among them The glory of the Lord appeared upon the Tabernacle and aw'd and husht all so shall it be in this Therefore with Faith and Hope and personal purity wait Cannot we watch with Christ one hour Blessed are all they that stand ready waiting for him with their loyns girt Amen FINIS

of that Greek name of Anti-christ Rev. 9.11 Apollyon * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Hebrew name there answers exactly This Feast as the Revelation oft cals him is both actively and passively The Man of sin and Son of perdition ** Illud scelus Homo perditus as the purer Latins name one desperatly wicked for ruine He causeth and is sin and perdition The cause in others the object in himself Son in Hebrew applied to things as in the Text signifies inherence and propriety of the thing to that man I think it long this while I am in the Bark and Shell of the Text. Let us shew you briefly the pith and kernell I am not willing though it would be easie to shew you the variety of Glosses of the Greek ancient and pious Fathers but rather to my light strike point blank upon the verity of the native sense Before the next Appearance of Christ two Signes shall precede as fore-runners Apostasie and Anti-christian Impiety both transcending and surpassing For 't is as well emphatically said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The or that Apostasie as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The or that Man of sin And both inferring one another like Scales If profession of Christianity go down Anti-christianisme riseth up If Anti-christianisme stands up ascends visible Christianity fals down and deelines The Apostle speaks both in a breath not putting so much as a period or half period point between And after in this Chapter prosecutes them as reciprocally by turns inferring one another * So in Ver. 10 after the Text. Men hear the Truth but not receive the love of the Truth they are out of love with it Therefore the Man of sin is let to appear He openly acts his power signes c. and deceives such with his unrighteousness and lyes This the order of nature of these in the Apostles following prosecution This Apostasie and this Discovery revealine Anti-christ are both twofold here hinted and elsewhere more explained twilled together like the Legs of two Wrestlers clasping for a Combat The first Apostasie is not onely from the outward serious practise of Religion but also from the Doctrine of Faith and the historical or temporary Faith of Doctrine as elsewhere we have more enlarged * Doemonologie or Character of the crying Evils of the present Times yea and by that means gradually to apostatise from a fundamental Faith that there is one true God JEHOVAH that hath his throne in Heaven and the Farth for his foot-stool and yet many have a diabolical Faith implicitly at least to go to the Devil in unlawfull Astrologie ●ele●mes Stoicheioseis Schemes Cir●…es and Infernal ceremonies to know and do things not revealed by God This Apostasie the Apostle here hints ●ers 10 11 12. after our Text as a Commentary upon it touching the word Apostasie saith he They received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved For this came God sent them strong Delusions that they should beleive a ●e● that they all might be damned who beleived not the Truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness But this this same Apostle in 1 Tim. 4.1 2. lays wide open and strikes home thus Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the later ●imes some shall depart from the ●…ITH giving heed to seducing spirits and DOCITRINES of DEVILS speaking lyes in hypocrisie having their CONSCIFNCES SEARED WITH AN HOT IRON This added fully reacheth this latitude of the first Apostasie which though it seems to wrestle against Anti-christianisme yet doth but list it up For by the opportunity of this Apostasie Anti-christianisme takes its turn to be advanced and therein is the first Revelation of Anti-christ as the Text speaks that is Anti-christ shall be revealed in his power and glory * So the Greek Fathers generally though I list not to name them as the blinde Worlds power and glory ** Rev. 13.3 All the world wondered after the Beast as our Apostle sufficiently hints in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and ●…erses after the Text as a Commentary upon it touching that revealing that same man of sin s●ith the Apostle according to the Creek and 〈◊〉 of perdition be revealed that same opposer and exalter of himself above all that is called God or is worshipped even to hi● sitting over the Temple of God as God shewing himself that he is God and now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time That is the being and power of the Roman Emperour hindered Anti-christ then from appearing in that dominion power and glory as to be above all that is called God c. that is above all Magistracy To which as he attains there is added a second Apostasi● he draweth after him the Nations of the Earth from their due Subjection to their own chief Magistracy to adore and worship him Rev. 13.8 And this our Apostle sufficiently hinteth * Though we n●me not the whole stream of the Latin 〈◊〉 th●… generally running this way unto us in Vers 9. and 10. After in that he saith This same Opposer of all other powers shall come after the working of Satan with all power and deceivableness Should seem he shall deceive many with all his false Principles and draw them after him to submit to his power till at last follows a second Revelation of that Man of sin Anti-christ revealing him in his intolerable impiety tyranny and enmity not onely against the Christianity of Beleivers but against the natural liberty of mankinde So that this second Revelation of him Legs down and overthrows the first Revelation of him And repays his causing the former Apostasies from Conscience towards God and due subjection to Magistrates with an Apostasie if I may so call it it being a godly Apostasie of the enlightened World from him and his pretended power both ecclesiastical and cevil This second Revealing of him not to lean upon modern learned which might numerously be quoted we clearly collect out of the Apostles words in the 8. Vers after our Text as further commenting upon the extent of the word revealing And then saith he shall that wicked one be revealed How revealed As stubble in a slame and nearer to the words as riches and pomp in the riotous wasting and spending And as a person in great honor devested and degraded from that honor For saith the Apostle him shall the Lord consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of to keep to the Greek his Appearance The Spirit or Breath of Christs mouth is his Word * See Isay 11.4 The Chalde on that Chapter expounds the Spirit or Breath of his mouth to be his Word and his Spirit accompanying it as 2 Cor. 3. And his appearance is as well spiritual in the effect of his Word and Spirit upon the hearts of men drawing them from Anti-christ and providential in ordering things to that end as personal in his visible coming next before which personal his spiritual

process and recory of Apostasie and Antichristianisme notwithstanding some impedings or discountenance is sensibly perceived by them that are spiritual Living Creatures Revel 4. that have eyes as well within as without These can see that though all Roots of goodness be not kill'd yet the Blossomes and young fruit of of the Trees are generally blasted Though Autume Plants and Herbs be not as in Winter altogether leaf-less without all appearance yet lifeless without spirit and vigor You will say How shall these things be now forward The Demonstration which have not been so palpably these two or three hundred years backward or more If this be true thank Persecutions Oppressions Afflictions for it But besides the common Cause of Apostates and Antichrists 't is the nature of the Beast and property of the Disease viz. Wicked men and Seducers grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived till their folly and madness be made manifest to all men 2 Tim. 3.9 10 11 12 13. I say besides this common Cause that such in longer time grow riper in their sins there are special Reasons now nearer the end afore Christs Appearance to wit now God changeth his hand ever and anon to trust Nations that have pofessed the Gospel with Liberty Civil and Spiritual a thing which for many Ages they have not known and therefore are utterly unskilled to rightly use it And from hence as men half-famished coming to full Diet they surfet and break out into spiritual Scabs and Botches Their Liberty to the generality of them proves but as a Lightening afore Death their glorying but as the bright Glance and Glare of a Spark or Snuff before it goes out The Liberty they triumphed in as if they would improve it to great advantages in matters of Religion proves but an opportunity none then controlling their Opinions and way of Profession for them to become any thing till at last they become nothing And further the rotten-hearted the most of men bad enough of themselves infecting as I may say the common air where they professed and now putrifie causing some Saints none being yet perfect to be touched with a tincture of the common Contagion some specks of Itch and petty spots appearing as Symptomes of their stain also so far with the general Infection those rotten-hearted men take incouragement thence to loath all the sincere and their wayes but pronounce to themselves their own licentious Liberty base backsliding a pious priviledge a spirituality a perfection Thus as Luthers Sw●ne of which he speaks to this our purpose These impious Revolters joyfully grunt gladly to nuzzle in Excrements but contemptibly trample Gold and Jewels and pleasingly wallow in the Mire because some godly men by force of temptation a little trod in the dirt but got out again These Comparers of themselves with the worser things of the best men to be worst themselves never take notice of the common hour of temptation brought on by themselves nor take any true account of the just circumstances of beleivers failings that if Solomon be carried forth to make experiment of the vanity of wine yet still he acquainted his heart with wisdom Nor do they look after the Saints many yea thousands of repentings for one sin David for his pens many penitential Psalms how often by him recited who can tell We are not destitute of Precedents to confirm this even down to these times wherein the common crowd of Professors of Religion fall away to be detestors of Religion And because they see some weaknesses in some single Saints that adhere to Ordinances and that no way either of Baptisers Presbyters or Congregations is perfect therefore they adore their own New-nothing or their worse then nothing in Religion to be a great religious something For to a many a freedome of their spirits to sin is by them cried up for a sanctity So long since as Constantine the great we have a draught and platforme of the manner means and measure of Apostasie and Antichristianisme before asserted He putting a period to the ten Persecutions about the year after Christ 313. thence forward for his time giving liberty peace promotions and donations to the Churches how odiously anon after brake out and sprang up Papal pride Arrian Antichristianisme and the thousand headed Hydra of Heresie too much to be counted name and thing in one hour as pious and learned Epiphanius about 50 years after and S. Austin about 30 years after him have declared When a dark cloud of War began again to overshadow the Earth fulness of troubles in many places God raising Carolus Magnus accounted to have been a wonderfull religions Prince * Carolus Magnus fuit admodum religiosus princeps Epit. Hist Fccles Magdeburg Ad annum 383. c●… 3. about the year 760 after Christ as a mighty Warrier and succesfull Destroyer of the open Enemies of Religion and withall exceeding indulgent and beneficial to the Churches which then were many in many Countries ** Ibid. pag. 1. Epit. Histor Hist Eccl. Magd. ad ann 788 789 791 c. how abominably after a while did thousands apostatise Pontifical pride begins more to swell and Heresie and Superstation more to fret and spread like a Gangrene and Leprosie Multi jam errorres c. many Errors had now crept into the Church of Christ The Hunnes revolted from Christian Religion to Ethnicisme Tum religio christiana c. Christian Religion then was much contaminated with many Superstitions with infinite more in the next Century and downwards These doubtless might be part of the Apostles meaning in our Text and in his Explanation 1 Tim. 4.1 c. numbering the kindes of Apostasies c. to be in the later Times mark the Phrase according to the Greek * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But these are not all our Apostles sense and intent These afore named in the said Times are but beginnings and Landskips and petty Maps to that Ocean and world of wickedness that was to follow in future For surely when our Apostle the Apostle Peter do afterwards by the same Spirit speak in a higher Key 2 Tim. 3.1 c. saying In the last Dayes * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And in 2 Pet. 3.3 in a yet higher Key saying In the last of Dayes ** 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and do immediately subjoyn these Prophesies of worser Impieties near to the Appearance of Christ 2 2 Tim. 4.1 2 Pet. 2.1 compared with 2 Pet. 3.10 they must needs intend to signifie to us a further Apostasie of Professors and Revelation of Antichrist viz. An 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 't is in the Text eminent a the or that same Apostasie and Revelation of Antichrist of the sin of the perdition some general and grand defection And so doth S. John in the Revelation carry on the succession succretion the length and latitude of that defection for in the 13. Chapter The Beast hath power to act two and forty