Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	beast_n	head_n	horn_n	1,469	5	10.8310	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44854	Hē apostasīa, ho antichristos, or, A scriptural discourse of the apostasie and the Antichrist, by way of comment, upon the twelve first verses of 2 Thess. 2 under which are opened many of the dark prophecies of the Old Testament, which relate to the calling of the Jews, and the glorious things to be affected at the seventh trumpet through the world : together with a discourse of slaying the witnesses, and the immediate effects thereof : written for the consolation of the Catholike Church, especially the churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland / by E.H.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1653 (1653)	Wing H325; ESTC R11943	203,833	222

iniquitas in commum quia membra ejus non plus erubescent actum impietatis quàm pietatis qui fidem habent paucissimi erunt Carth. Bruno These words seem to be prophesied of these times Qui tenet i. e. qui fidem tenet ante Antichristi adventum teneat i. e. ne moveatur citò donec de medio fiat i. e. donec moriatur Fabr. Paulutius in locum Qui tenet teneat religionem donec de medio Ecclesiae fiat apostasia Estius Haec interpretatio non modò est absurda sed Graecis etiam nullo modo respondet Beza Romanus Pontifex qui tenet nunc Ecclesias teneat illas donec de medio fiat id est ab ipsâ Romanâ Ecclesiâ quae est Medium cor Ecclesiarum fiat iniquitas ob quam multae ab ea discedant Ecclesiae Anselme Sicut carbo ignis inter ligna occultè vim suam exerit vicina adurit sensimque proserpit donec in flammam incendium manifestum erumpat sic iniquitas à Daemone accensa occultè in impiis vim suam exerit serpitque donec in publicam omnium scelerum flammam sub Antichristo erumpat Cornel à Lapide 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 multa significat tenere retinere detinere impedire possidere occupare imperare rerum potiri exempla passim halemus Zanchius Note Verse 8. This opinion may seem to oppose the general opinion of the Protestants such as Beza Bishop Iewell Downam Whitaker Willet Brightman and several others who conclude the Pope is Antichrist For my part I grant as much from Scripture against the Pope as they as that he is the Head of the Western Apostasie sitting in pomp in Rome making peoples and Nations drunk with spiritual filthiness and that State that hath drove the Witnesses into Sackcloth that the Popedom is the State with the seven heads and ten horns but all this makes him not in the least the Antichrist that denies the Father and the Son 1 Iohn 2. 21. nor the beast of the earth Revel 13. 12 13. nor he that slayes the Witnesses Revel 11. 7. nor he that lifts himself up in the ruine of three Kings Dan. 7. nor he that is the son of perdition 2 Thess. 2. Who is not to be revealed until he have removed the two Witnesses out of the way This is the Antichrist the Fathers both Greek and Latine make mention of Cornel us à Lapide Exlex est quia nullis legibu●… subiicitur omnes aut●…m leges contemnet conculcabit Zanchius Antichristus manifeste revelabitur fontem esse totius iniquitatis qui nec modò in membris suis nec tunc in s●…ipso timendus Anselmus Retegetur autem sic ut apertè conspiciatur in impio suo regno dominatu cognescatur esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 iste Anti b●…stus Zanchius Aper●…e dominabitur P●…ator Note Spiritus oris non significat praedicationèm verbi Dei quia haec non interficiet Antichristum imò i●…sam tollet cum Eliam Enoch occidet Nil prodest ratio aut religio ubi vis imperat Spiritus oris Christi non est p●…aedicatio sed potiùs sententia judicium condemnationis Zelus justitiae faciet qui est amor Spiritus enim Christi est amor Christi hic zelus est Spiritus Sancti quem habet ad Ecclesiam Aquinas in Locum Et spiritu lab●…orum suorum morte affici●…t improbum Tre●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuagint i. e. to a wonder in the spirit by by the lips he shall slay the wicked one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conficiet Spiritu oris est Periphrasis verbi D●…i virtutis ejus nam verb●…m breve consummatum facie●… Dominus super terram Zuinglius Note August Ambros. Ante diem judicii ●…ccidetur Antichristus nam post ●…jus mortem minimùm dabuntur hominibus quad●…aginta quiuque dies poe●…tentiae ut patet Dan. 12. 12. Cornel us d. Lapide alii docti Multorum opinio est inter Antichristi mortem Dominique adventum spatium aliquod temporis fore medium qu●… pace aliquantulâ f●…uatur Ecclesia Estius in locum Fat●…or quidem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 voce sae●…è illum iudicii adventum significari sed id perpetuum non est Leigh Critic Sac. Haec verba non duntaxat de ultimo adventu Christi intelligenda sunt sed quotidiano adventu verbi Christi in corda fidelium Zuinglius Incertum est an loquatu●… de ultima Christi apparitione cùm judex è coelis patefiet Calvin in locum Adventus Domini extensè secundùm quandam latitudinem est intelligendus ut sub eo comprehendatur etiam adventus praedicatio praecursorum Estius in locum See the learned Annotations on Matth. 24. I●… may be called the coming and appearing of Christ when he comes and appears in his Vice-gerents his two anointed Offices Magistracie and Ministery but at the raising of the Witnesses he eminently appears in these two Offices therefore 't is called Christs comming and appearing Verse 9. Theodoretus Hypolitus de Consummatione S●…culi Rabanus de Antichristo Operatio Satanae omnis conatus ejus in hoc homine situs ●…rit Ant. Scaynus In ipso cum ipso per ipsum operabitur Satanas Tirinus In Antichristo est Diabolus ●…uggerens ●…icut dicitur de Juda Jo. 13. Introivit in eum Satanas scilicet instigando Aquinas Ità Gorranus No●…e Mr. Ant. Burges Hot modo decipiat Antichristus primò per potentiam Secularem Secundò per virtutem miraculorum Quantum ad primum dicit in omni virtute scilicet Seculari Dan. 11. Dominabitur thesaurorum auri argenti Aquinas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Copi●… militares dicuatur non solum in sermone sacro sed etiam apud autores profanos Leigh Potestaccipi pro divitiis vi armorum Ant. Scaynus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazian Jamb 15. 2. 2. Signa sunt quaedam mi●…a etiam p●…rva prodigia verò magna quae aliquemprodig●…osum ostendunt quasi ●…ocul à digit●… Aquinas Miracula dicuntur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quia signa sunt praesentiae divinae atque eorum proprius usu●… est ut confirmetur fides nostra Leigh è Camera Miracula vocantur signa Synecdochicè quia mi●…acula signa testimonia sunt divinae ad dicendum vocationis veritatis 〈◊〉 Note Annotations on the Bible Et prodigiis falsis Syr. Et prodigiis mendacibus Beza Quae causam habent occultam alicui non simpliciter dicuntur quidem mira non miracula simpliciter sed quae simpliciter caus●…m occultam habēt sunt proprie miracula Aqui. Miraculum est quod ●…it super omnem naturae vim quódque omnium naturalium causarum creaturarum vires excedit transcendit Cornelius à Lapide Zanchius Miraculum mendax dicitur vel quia deficit à vera ratione sacti vel à vera ratione miraculi vel à debito fine miraculi Aquinas Cyrillus Catech 15. Non su●…t vera miracula vim naturae super anti●… sed praestigiae diabolicae vel certè vi potentiā naturali patrata Tyrinus ex Cyrillo Theod. Utitur Antichristus ad fallendum sapiene●…tiâ verbo●…um simulatione virtutum testimonio Scripturarum operation●… mir●…culorum promissione divitiarum terrore persecutionum Goran in Locum Verse 10. Mr. Leigh Magnâ comitace gratiâ se insinuandi captandique hominum gatia●… sanctimoniâ simulatâ utetur Antichristu●… ad illiciendum homines Describit jam subditos hujus regni eóque●…olatur pios ut ne metuant Antichristi potentiam quippe limitibus certis definitam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys. Dicit charitatem veritatis qui●…isi formata●…ides per charitatem nibil est Aquinas Hic sensu●… sacilior est planior maglsque connexu●… versui sequenti opponitur enim amor veritatis errori sive amori amp●…exui erroris ●… Lapid ex V●…tab In ●… fundamentum non est Christus ●…ui caetera praepo●…untur Aug. de Civit l. 21. c. 26. ●… Note Verse 11. U●… volunt Deo ut fruantur mundo Aug. de Civit Dei lib. 15. c. 7. Object Answ. Vide Bazil Tom. 1. Homil. Aug. contra Julianum l. 5. c 3. Deus mi●…tet quia Deus diacolum ista facere per●…et Aug. de Civit. l. 20. c. 19. Opponit Apostolus veritatem Christi non mendacio sed iniquitati Antichristi Cornell à Lapide Ità Scholi●… Docent Scripturas quas non intelligunt p●…iùs imperitorum magistri quàm 〈◊〉 ip●… Hieron Epist. Us●…patio est usu capio●… interruptio in j●… Civil Verse 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Scholia Ità Beza Aquinas Gravius est dilig●…e ●…eccatum quàm ●…accre Greg. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 propriè sig●…t a●…cui facer●… injuriam aliquem per vim opprime●…e Alsted Rom. 12. The shaking of Heaven and Earth in the Scripture-sense is the overthrowing the Throne of Kingdomes and the strength of the Kingdom 's of the Heathen Hag. 2. 22. Note 1. Proposition 2. Proposition Observ. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuagint

the four Angels then a Star fallen from heaven to earth and now in this place you have the Head of the same Roman Church called a Beast that doth rise out of the Sea having seven heads and ten horns Now is the Apostasie come to the height He is a Beast It alludes to Daniel's four beasts to note that he usurpeth the throne of a Monarch he is got to that independent Greatnesse to be an uncontrolled Potentate therefore a beast Then he is a beast of the Sea his rise is from the Clergy from the Chair of the Church he claims his right to the Throne of universal uncontrollable Monarchie therefore Revel 9. 1. he is called a Star fallen from heaven to earth from God to the world And then his seven heads and ten horn●… tell us plainly that this evill Angel fallen Star and Beast of the sea is that Head or Polity over the Church in Rome for the City with seven heads and ten horns which through the bloudy cruelty and persecution of this Apostate Government and the supporters of it becomes drunk with the bloud of the Saints is by both Protestants and Papists confessed to be the City of Rome Rev. 17. Thus have I gone over a large and an uncommon circuit in this survey of the Apostasie and the heads thereof being willing to say as much as I find the Scripture to say of it and no more CHAP. IV. I Have but one word more to write concerning this Apostasie and then I have done with it and shall pass to the discription of the Antichrist and that is concerning the time of the Apostasie wherein by the assisting power of the Holy Ghost we doubt not but to make this Apostasie more manifestly distinct from the Antichrist then as yet it hath been there are five Texts give light into this Apostasie as Revel 11. 1 2. Rom. 11. 25. Luke 21. 24. Deut. 32. Dan. 12. 6 7 9 very briefly of each Of Revel 11. 2. I shall do little more at this time then repeat the words Here Iohn is commanded to measure with a reed the Temple of God the Altar and they that worship therein But the Court which is without the Temple leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles and the holy City shall they tread under foot forty and two months This Text may well be put amongst those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Revelations for it is exceeding hard to be understood Iohn measures the Temple and the Altar in the Temple and they that worship in the Temple that is the Jewish Religion and those obstinate unbelieving Jewes who professed that Religion all these Iohn measures Now what the meaning of this measuring is I profess I do not know this I have learnt from the Jewish Antiquaries that the reed went as well to Mount Golgotha as to Mount Olivet it was to ruine as well as to rear up it was sometimes used to pull down and sometimes used to build up and for which of these ends Iohn is commanded to use his reed like a rod I cannot tell but if it be meant for ruine as most probable it is notwithstanding others contrary opinions then it must be meant of the ruine of the Jewish Religion that Temple which they bragged of saying The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord this Temple of the Lord must now be meted out to destruction and the Altar and those that worship therein must be measured with the rod of destruction so that according to Christs words not one stone should be left upon another and they should be led captive into all Nations I know nothing prophesied of their dissipation by the Romans in all the Revelation but this Herein Iacobs Prophecie is fulfilled Gen. 49 10. The Scepter shall not depart from Iudah untill Shiloh come i. e. there shall be a Church and State of the Jewes until Christ come and then for their Rebellion against Christ they should be both un-Churched and un-Stated and that the definite Particle until imports what ever others say my weak capacity knows not how to make sense of this Prophecie or truth of their sense other wayes And the court which is without the Temple leave out and measure it not i. e. according to the former Exposition do not ruine the Gospel Church of the Gentiles with the Iewes for it is given to the Gentiles and they shall tread under foot the holy Ci●…y forty and two months that is the Gentile Church which worship God through Christ according to the Gospel they shal be exercised with affliction under the Gentile Apostasie As the Church and State of the Jewes by Iohns measuring line were dissolved and ruined and the Nation dissipated so the true Believers under the Gospel shall be persecuted and drove into the Wilderness by the Gentile Apostasie that is say some learned Papists by Antichrist who shall be a Gentile but I rather affirm it to be by the four Angels that were Gentiles and the by Star fallen from heaven to earth who is a Gentile and by the Beast of the Sea with ten horns and seven heads who is the Pope of Rome a Gentile to these Apostate Gentiles the Church was to be given and they were to tread the holy City under foot forty and two months not to measure it with a reed to the destruction of the Church as the Jewes By the holy City is meant the Church of God Revel 21. 2. in its state of holy conformity to Christ her Head maintaining his Truths in uprightness and sinceritie this holy City was to be trodden under foot by Apostate Gentiles for forty and two months and this is more evidenced by ver 3. which tells us that for the space of One thousand two hundred and sixty dayes which is just forty two months the two witnesses shall prophesie in sackcloth poor clothing for such worthy persons and high Officers as Monarchy and Ministry this is but to shew the sad condition of the true Church under the Apostasie of the Gentiles for if it fare thus with the Pastors how ill must it needs go with the Sheep There is one verse from Christs mouth that seems fully to comprehend all that Iohn hath said both of the Jewes dissipation and the Gentile Gospel Churches affliction in the three verses of Revel 11. and that is in Luke 21. 24. There shall be wrath upon this people meaning the Jewes and they shall fall by the edge of the sword and they shall be led away captive into all Nations here is Iohns measuring reed like a rod indeed passing over the Church and State of the Jewes to their ruine and mark what follows And Ierusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled This Prophesie is given in Iohns phrase and method by Ierusalem is meant the Church of God worshipping him according to the Gospel rule and by treading down is signified the

then the Man of sin shall be revealed He makes them distinct This truth of the Scripture had need to be more then ordinarily insisted upon not in regard of its obscurity for I know not any truth cleerer in Scripture then this but in regard of its opposition and that by many learned and pious Protestants We do affirm that the general apostasie and the manifestation of the Man of sin that Antichrist are two distinct things and this we prove from their opinions that affirm the contrary for they themselves affirm these particular points 1. That this apostasie is a falling away from Christ from the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of Christ. 2. That they are Professors of the Gospel that make this apostasie for it must be a forsaking of that they did once professe how else can it be said an Apostasie 3. They say this Apostasie must be an universall and general Apostasie of all the world that is of every Church in the world for otherwise they say the Apostle would have limited his speech and not spoken indefinitely as he doth now put this with their opinion of Antichrist together If the Apostasie be universal thoughou●… every Church and this Apostasie and Antichrist are all one then Antichrist must be an Ubiquitary he must be in Europe Asia and Affrica at once for the Europan Churches Affrican Churches and Asian Churches are all apostatized from the Doctrine and the Discipline of the Primitive times All Protestants grant it so that by making Antichrist one with the Apostasie we shall grant that are Protestants more to the body of Antichrist then we will allow the Papists to grant to the body of Christ for we make it to be every where at one and the same time It is granted from S. Iohn's words that the spirit of antichrist was long since in the world and S. Paul here saith the Mystery of iniquity did work then but he tels us that Antichrist was not then but after that to be revealed It cannot be denyed but that the spirit of antichrist went forth with the apostasie and therefore S Iohn 1 Ioh. 2. 18. minding the Churches of the prophesie of antichrist to come in the last times tels them that there were many Antichrists already abroad i. e. that had apostatizing proud aspiring malicious trayterous thoughts and endeavours to supplant the Gospel Ordinances and Gospel Officers but he cleerly distinguisheth the antichristian spirit from the Antichrist in the self same verse and in the 22d and so doth Paul twice in this 2 Thess. 2. distinguish betwixt the Apostasie and the Antichrist In ver 3. he calls it the falling away first and then the Man of sins manifestation which will not be untill the end of the apostasie and ver 7 8. there the apostasie is called the mysterie of iniquitie which then began and but began 'T is a Text parallel with that fore-cited 1 I●…h 2. 18. Now there are many Antichrists The mystery of iniquity began to work in S. Pauls time but not to that height as to carry all before it no there were lets there were the Sons of Oil which did curb it and would untill they were slain and then Mark ●…hen the Adverb of time clearly distinguisheth betwixt the Apostasie and the Antichrist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is there a discretive particle and also points us to the set time of the Antichrists appearing But more of this in its due place But it may be said that though they are distinct yet they are as the body and the soul so united as that they appear together and va●…ish 〈◊〉 though they may be distinguished yet they cannot be divided asunder There is some head and Ring-leader in this 〈◊〉 saith Ia●…kson on this Text and that must needs be the 〈◊〉 who shall be discovered and a little after he saith that this apostasie is to be a generall and universal departure of the whole Christian world then it must follow that the Antichrist must be the head of all the Churches in the world if so then the Pope cannot be the Antichrist though he bid as fair as he can for it for he is not head of the Eastern apostates and therefore we so frequently hear learned and reverend Divines pray for the ruine of the Eastern antichrist and the Western antichrist the Turkish antichrist and the Popish antichrist by which expressions of theirs they make it evident to me that they beleeve neither the Pope nor the Turk to be the Antichrist which Iohn or Paul single out with the Greek article ●… Possibly they may mean by the Western antichrist the chiefest cause and support of the Western apostasie which Rev. 13. is called the Beast with seven heads and ten horns and without all doubt that is the Popedome the head of which being apostatized from a spiritual Pastor to a proud Usurper in Temporall affairs is called the Star which fell from heaven to earth Ministers are called Starrs therefore by Star his Office Revel 9. 1. is set forth by falling from heaven to earth is meant his eminent and shameful apostasie Hence he is called Rev. 13. 1. the beast arising out of the sea Sea being put in opposition to Earth to note that he ariseth not out of the Civil but Ecclesiastick State he is a Church-man not a Lay-man And then he is crowned and horned to note his greatnesse in Temporal affairs he is one of the Roman Emperors in power But all this doth not make him the Man of sin nor the Antichrist here spoken of nor such an antichrist as some describe him How many learned Scholars both Protestants and Papists set up a Jack-a-lent of their fancies framing and then hoot at it for Antichrist Peradventure many will take me for one of these Fantasticks The safest way is to say so much of Antichrist as the Scriptures say and no more where the Scriptures distinguish concerning the Antichrist and the Apostasie let us distinguish where they are silent let us be silent Most men say the self same that I do highly extolling Scripture and truly acknowledging what the Mythologists sabulously report of their Goddesse Pandora that 't is Gods treasure on earth filled with all manner of heavenly riches and yet mean while either through ignorance or wilful wickednesse there are many too many of these in this age that open Scripture as Epimetheus opened Pandora's Box not as the alabaster box of Spikenard which sent forth an odoriferous smel but on purpose to infect the minds of people with false Opinions Heresies Rebellion and Blasphemies I confess the best Interpreters may take up that saying of themselves What man is there that liveth and sinneth not What Interpreter is he that writeth and erreth not Those of the highest form have confessed of themselves so much Errare possum saith one Haeretious esse non possum This was a confident high speech for no man knows his own nature thus much they know that it is