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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

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

of mind from all the Inhabitants of the Earth Loe how that of the Prophet is accomplished That Apoc. 13 4. the whole earth admired after the Beast This reason I confirme with the words of Odoard Guilliand Bishop of Cas●n●● Odoard Guilli●dus de Ciuili moral Facult lib. 14 cap. 3. a Citie of Flaminia in Italy This man in a certaine booke of his dedicated to Clement the eighth doth excellently describe vnto vs the Diuinitie and Godhead of their Holy Fathers the Popes A Papa saith hee tanquam à Capite in vniuersum Ecclesiae corpus hoc est in omnem Christianan rempublicam spiritus influunt celestium gratiarum sensum fructumque praestantes efficacem motum ad sempiternam beatidinem merito igitur Sanctissimus Beatissimus appellatur ab omnibus religionem Christianam profitentibus quasi quidam Deus adoratur colitur From the Pope as from the head there doth flow into the whole body of the Church that is into the whole Christian common-wealth certaine spirits of heauenly graces which doe yeeld both sense and fruit and efficacious The Pope to be adored as a cer●aine God motion to euerlasting happinesse worthily therefore is hee called most Holy and most Blessed and of all those who professe Christian Religion hee is to bee adored and worshipped as a certaine God Thus hee and such is the blasphemous note and tune of diuers of them flat opposite to that confession of the Saints in the Reuelations Saluation commeth from our God that sitteth vpon the Throne and from the Lamb. And shall Apoc 7. 10. wee desire more to lay open the blasphemous presumption of that State or shall wee dare to affirme that such Admirers Reuel 13. 3. after the Beast that sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if hee were God are in the 2. Thess 2. 4. state of saluation if they bee wilfully obstinate and reluctant against the truth sufficiently proposed vnto them In the third place I reason thus The Antichristian Third Reason state is that very Gouernment against which in the very height of her pride and presumptions certaine zealous and Godly Preachers foresignified by the three Angels Reuel 14. 6 7 8 9 10 11. flying through the middest of Heauen and hauing the euerlasting The preaching of the three Angells accomplished against the Papall State Gospel were to oppose themselues by preaching the feare and worship of God alone and keeping of his commandements and consequently were to beat downe all manner of Idolatry and Wilworship reared vp against the same were againe in the second place to sound out the ruine and desolation of that State and consequently were to check the insolent confidence of her followers and Admirers glorying in her euer infallibility and indefectibilitie And lastly were in the third place to dehort from all manner of communion with that state and agreeingly were to teach all true Christians to detest the marks and characters of that State And is not this the very selfe-Gospel The Papall State persecuteth the Preachers typed by the three Angels of Reformation which the Pastours and Doctours of the Reformed Churches doe now sound out against the Papall State yea and according to the prediction of the Prophets to the begun ruine of the Papall State This reason Apoc. 14. 2. may bee confirmed if with all wee consider that euen as it is foretold in the Reuelation the same Chapter The Antichristian State would conceiue so great rage against the said Preachers typed by the three Angells for such their preaching and doctrines that thereupon it would raise Reue. 14. 12 13 or cause to bee raised against them most fearefull persecutions persecutions so great and so manifold that the Spirit of God though it meet to prearme his chosen against the same with these and such like comfortable instructions Here is the faith and patience of Saints here are those who keepe the commandements of God and the faith of Iesus Blessed are those who dye in the Lord who dye for the Lord From henceforth saith the Spirit they shall rest from their labors Reuel 2. 29. Thus there In which most comfortable instructions doth not the Spirit of God manifestly premonish and prearme vs of these times against the Pope Heare all yee that haue eares to heare what the Spirit of God saith to the Churches The Pastors of the Reformed churches suffered from the Pope according as by Gods Spirit it hath bin foretold For is not this the very thing which is now and hath formerly beene acted in the world Doe not the Pastors and Doctors of the Reformed Churches and other faithfull suffer for this very cause for that they sound out publikely the doctrines of the three Angells the Euerlasting Gospell of the feare of God alone of the ruine and fall of Babylon of the State of the Beast and against the taking of the markes and characters of the Beast in hand or on forehead and from whom or by whose meanes do they suffer for such things but from the Papall state What Inquiries are made after them What hideous Inquisitions are reared for them What Crosse-warres haue beene proclaimed against them Aske our Fathers of old in France Italy Germany Spaine England Denmarke Scotland Burgandy and where not Our Aduersaries the Pontificians cannot deny this it being the very desire of their Fathers and of their owne soules Let it then rest proued that the principle prophecie against the State of the Beast being accomplished in the Papall State that the Papall State is the very State of the Beast And so I adioyne a fourth reason thus That is the Antichristian State typed by the Beast and Fourth Reason the Image thereof or typed by the seuen and eight August 20. de Ciuit c. 19. Hier. ad Algas quest 11. in Dan ad Gerontiā de monogamia Tertul. de resurrect carnis Cir. catech 15. Chrys Ambros Theophil Oecume Primasi in 2. Thes● 2. The Papall State hath done out of the way tho Roman Empire See glos in Canon si Imperatori Radeuic de gestis Friderici Sidon l. 11. de regno Itali● heads thereof which was in the very gouernment of Rome it selfe to succeed the Roman temporall Empire So diuers of the Ancient Fathers Austen Hierom Lactantius Tertullian with others haue affirmed vnto which Antichristian State also ten Kings a number certaine for an vncertaine springing out of the ruines of the Roman Empire were for a time to giue their powers for the honouring and supporting of her and yet afterwards forsaking her would bend their forces against her God putting the same into their hearts to make her desolate and consume her with fire And is not this the very Papall State it selfe succeeding in the Gouernment and Empire ouer Rome the Roman Temporall Empire For in Rome who knowes not that it is reputed no lesse crime then le-so-Sanctitie