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A12095	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse laying open the Beast, and his marks. Vpon the 14. of the Reuelations, vers. 9.10.11. By Richard Sheldon, a conuert from out of Babylon. Doctor in Diuinitie, His Maiesties chaplaine.	Sheldon, Richard, d. 1642?	1625 (1625)	STC 22398; ESTC S117172	45,770	62

now shew it selfe to be Church-Recusants dreaming after we cannot tel what what though there be such shadowes of vaine hopes The words of God must be accomplished and ere it be long hypocrites in all States Churches being to their shame discouered The man of sinne and sonne of perdition will bee brought to vtter ruine and Change of Religion royally impossible perdition Come Lord Iesus come quickly I said in the third place that such a change was Royally impossible For how possible that our Religious Dauid should not bee Semper Idem alwayes the same How possible but hee who hath gone in and out before vs in this holy warre Yea more Cecinit classicum hath sounded out his most Christian learned Alarum wherein the Papall State is most liuely and Praemonit reg learnedly declared to be the State of the Beast and wherin there is more learning and Diuinitie then can iustly be refuted by all Papall Rabbins I adde or by any of their dissembling Fauourites How possible I say that he who hath so happily begunne in the spirit should end in the flesh Shall any of vs dare to be so irreuerent against Maiesty so Christian a Maiesty as once to thinke that he will doe ought against the knowledge of his own conscience a sin against the Holy Ghost or that he will suffer that truth to bee imprisoned impugned which his Royall Pen hath so learnedly and Christianly defended and maintained Far be all such surmises from the hearts and tongues of all dutifull Subiects who also euer will as they ought interpret Arcana Regni Secrets of State in the best sense But if we will not perswade our selues that such a change is Royally impossible in regard we haue a Religious Learned Resolued Prince in all points of Christianitie yet let vs be perswaded that such an alteration is Royally impossible in respect we haue an Intelligent and a Politick wise Prince for who cannot but know that with such a change he must put on lugum exactoris The very yoke of the Exactour and that he and his Successors must of Absolute Monarchs Soueraigne Commanders become blind deuouts to Papall Breefs and liege Seruants also to the Soueraigne Lord of all Lords the Pope For in Papistry it is an Axiome that the Nation and Kingdome which shall not serue the Pope shall must and ought to perish Let vs then rest resolued that such a change is altogether both vnlikely and impossible Let vs cast off such feares rather take heed that our Aduersaries do not thinke that we haue conceiued any such feare for vpon such conceptions they will begin new stratagems and will think the day to be halfe theirs if they once apprehend that we are afraid of their preuailing I sum vp this my discourse and aduise thus let euery soule here present feare lest through demerits of our sins we may be drawne from the stedfastnes of our profession let vs also in deuor by force of truth and firmnesse of perswasions to draw the Papist from the Idolls of his Heresies Superstitions and Impieties Vlisses his followers stopt their A necessary caueat eares so to escape the charmes of Circes Vlisses himselfe his eares being vnstopped binds himself fast to the Mast of the Ship that so hee might escape her veneficious charmes Yee that are but weake in zeale or not fully instructed stop your eare against Romes Charmers charme they neuer so gloriously but yee who are better instructed and who dare to heare their disputes their conferences their arguments tye your soules inuiolably to the Mast of Christ his Ship his sacred Word with the cords A true rule of Catholicisme Vincent Litiuensis contra Hereses of the rule of Faith which rule is no other then that forme of doctrine which is Catholike that Quae semper quae vbique quae ab omnibus credita fuit That doctrine which alwayes which in all places and of all persons hath beene beleeued Vnder this Mast only Gods sacred Word Catholikely not Popishly interpreted shall yee bee safe and secure against all the nouell vanities and vaine nouelties against all the impious blasphemies and blasphemous impieties against all the arrogant presumptions and presumptuous arrogancies of the Antichristian State of Rome Let vs then O Christian soules be resolute constant for the testimony of Iesus he who lookes backe hauing put his hand to the plough is not fit for the Kingdome of God neither is he fit for the religious chase zealous pursuit which is to be made after so execrable a Beast who may either looke backe by returning or withdrawing his first works like some Godlesse Dalmatian Apostata or who like some profane Helcesaean dissembling his Faith may shake hands in somewicked communion with the Beast or with these sworne champions of the Beast or finally who like some Godlesse Adiaphorizer may either say in his heart or speake with his mouth that any man so he professe Christ beleeue on Christ may bee saued in such his faith and profession be it Popish be it Muscouish be it Pelagian be it Donatian be it of any other falsly named forme of Faith whatsoeuer O Christ what times doest thou suffer when wee are thus enforced to speake against such an excesse of impietie and irreligiosity I conclude the God of Gods hath spoken Mercy and Iudgement belongs to him mercy from him for all those who shall sincerely serue and worship him iudgement against all those who shall worship the Beast or the Image of the Beast mercy for euer for all those who vnder the Lamb are called chosen and faithfull iudgement against all those Who shall receiue the mark of the Beast in their hands or on their foreheads mercy for all those Who may dye in the Lord for they shall rest from their labours which God of his infinit mercy grant to euery soule here present iudgement against all those who shall admire after the Beast for they shall drinke of the cup of Gods wrath and indignation From vs who worship the Lamb but abhorre the Beast who onely adore Gods Word but execrate the Beasts Traditions From vs who haue in hate all the markes and Characters of the Beast and who are signed with the Spirit of the holy Lamb in the day of our Redemption From vs I say to our God together with the Lamb that sitteth vpon the Throne and their euer blessed Spirit be rendred benediction Claritie power wisdome honour thanksgiuing vertue and obedience from this time forth for euermore Amen Laus Deo

of the Protestants whom he knowes to be Father Sonne and Holy Ghost is the most vnciuill and euill-mannered God of all those who haue borne the names of gods vpō earth yea worse then Pan God of the Clownes which can indure no Ceremonies nor Good manners at all Reading these with diuers such like my bowels trembled within me and my zeale for the Lord was set on fire and I said vnto my Soule Spare no arrowes but shoot against Babylon for that shee hath sinned against the Lord And I say more againe Anathema Maran-atha to him whose zeale for the Lord is not with such blasphemies incensed and set on fire against the blasphemers I dare not once suspect that Royall Maiestie though the blasphemous Pamphlet be dedicated presumptuously to it or Parlalament-Excellency or Senate-Integrity of this Christian-State hath euer had any speciall notice or information of so blasphemous a Pamphlet formerly in time of Conniuency and yet still to the ioy of the Aduersaries and vnspeakable scandall of the Pious and Godly hunting vp and downe this Kingdome Arise O God and put into the knowledge and heart of our Soueraign to auenge such thy blasphemous Aduersaries and all their witting Abettors with deserued reproach Amen! Wee pray againe Arise O Lord and auenge thy owne Cause and as dust before the face of the wind so scatter thou the Enemies of thy Glorious name Amen Amen And so humbly praying the God of Truth to make you all perfect in the knowledge and loue of Truth I rest a reuerent Euer-admirer of your Admirable learning in Truth and humbly pray that wee all may bee zealous Euer-imitators of our Glorious and Angel-like Predecessours for the Reformation and constant defence of that Pietie and Truth The Testimony of IESVS Amen Yours and euery one of yours in the LORD IESVS Richard Sheldon A Sermon Preached at Pauls Crosse the first of September c. APOC. 14. 9. 10. 11. And the third Angell followed them with a lowd voyce saying If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receiue his marke in his forhead or in his hand The same shall drinke of the wine of Gods wrath which is powred out without mixture into the Cuppe of his indignation And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in presence of the Lambe And the smoke of their torments ascendeth vp for euer and euer THe words which I haue read in the eares of this most Christian and honourable Assemblie are an obscure partiall prophecie of that mysticall Booke which to vse Hieromes Epist ad Paulin phrase hath no more words then it hath mysteries How then shall I who am of a dull apprehension of a stammering speech and of a weake spirit bee able to lay open the sence of the same except the Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda giue me a spirit of courage confidence vnlesse the Lambe slaine which hath the seuen eyes that manifold light of knowledge impart vnto me some gratious measure of wisdome and vnderstanding O thou Gratious Lambe who scatterest of thy graces where thou pleasest illighten my vnderstanding that I may truely interpret this thy Scripture O thou Powerfull Lion of Iuda who openest no man shutteth open thou my mouth and set on fire mine affections that I may confidently and constantly with a lowd voice deliuer this thy truth to the glory of thy great name to the confusion of Antichrist and to the eternall comfort and consolation of our owne soules And the third Angell fellowed them with a lowd voyce saying If any man worship c. MY Text which in the whole is a most dreadfull Edict Diuision sent from the Court of heauen may be diuided into three Generall parts 1. an Inscription or Title And the third Angell followed them saying with a lowd voyce 2. Into an Hypothesis or Supposition If any man worship the Beast and the Image of the Beast and receaue his marke in his forhead and in his hand The 3. a most fearefull Threat and Denounciation the same shall drinke of the Wine of Gods wrath which is powred forth without mixture into the Cup of his indignation and hee shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in presence of the holy Angells and of the Lambe And the smoke of their torments ascendeth vp for euer and euer Thus our diuision And though for the auoiding of confusion and for breuity sake I doe onely thus in generall distinguish my Text into an Inscription a Supposition and a Denounciation yet if you shall be pleased to lend vnto me religious and attentiue eares you shall well obserue that in the prosecution thereof I shall lay open vnto you great secrets of highest consequence and necessitie prepare not your eares for any oratorious florishes for such from this and like places I for my part rather despise then honor or admire Wee begin with the Inscription And the third Angell followed them saying with a lowd voyce c. FOr Declaration hereof I prefixe certaine suppositions 1. Supposition First I suppose that which is most manifest according to the exposition of all to wit that this inscription doth present vnto our considerations an imaginary forevision of our Prophet foreseeing certaine zelous Preachers typed vnto vs Zealous Preachers typed by the 3. Angell by this third Angell who were with lowd constant and perspicuous voyces to denounce Gods fearefull iudgemēts against the adorers and worshippers of the Beast Secondly wee suppose a like manifest truth concerning 2. Supposition the circumstance of time that these zelous Preachers typed vnto vs by the third Angell were immediately to follow other Preachers Pastours represented vnto vs by other two Zealous Preachers ioyning hand in hand for reformation Angells described in the 6. and 7. precedent verses of this Chapter The summe is a certaine ranke of holy Preachers fore-typed vnto vs by these three Angels immediately following each other through the middest of Heauen that is publikely and manifestly were to ioyne hand in hand in the consormity of the Doctrines sounded out by the three Angells for the reformation of the world for the repaire of decaied Christianity and for the beating downe of all manner of Antichristian superstition and idolatry For the clearer opening of which truth of the last branch of this our second supposition I suppose In the third place that the Preachers which the Holy-Ghost 3. Su●p●sition doth represent vnto vs by these three Angells were not to appeare neere the daies of the Apostles in the time of the Primatiue Church nor for a long time after no they These zealous Preachers when they are to preach 2. Thess 2. were not to appeare vntill the Diuells being let loose the Antichristian state was to be reuealed and the mistery of iniquity by the breath of Christs mouth was by degrees to be dissolued a truth so manifest that there is no colour to gainsay it