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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

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

A SERMON Preached afore THOMAS ANDREWS LORD MAIOR And the Aldermen Sheriffs c. of the honorable Corporation of the Citie of LONDON At PAVLS on the Lords day Feb. 2. 1650. By Doctor NATHANAEL HOMES Teacher to the Church at Mary Staynings LONDON In which Discourse is held forth 1 The Order Method and Succession of Times and Things both good and evil that are to come to pass before the next appearance of Christ 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 Left as a Testimony and Protest of the Author against the Evils of this present Age. London Printed by I. R. and J. C. 1650. To the Right Worshipful Jasper Draper John Blackwel Samuel Harsenet and William Hulme Wardens of the Right Worshipful Company of GROCERS of London And to the rest of that worthy Company Honoured Sirs IN answer to Desires I have printed this Sermon and bequeathed it to you also who that I might acknowledge your great respect to me and your favour to the present Government therein were the Primum mobile the First movers of printing my former Sermon to you also bequeathed which so far taking your spirits as you then much expressed I thought it necessary to catch hold of this happie opportunity to explain That by This in shewing you as well the black side as the bright side of the cloud of future times and so your judgements might be set upright in the apprehension and expectation of those things to rejoyce in Christ but with a holy filial trembling Do as Chrysostom sent word to the threatning Empress Ego nil nisi peccatum timeo Fear sin and then fear nothing Your reverence of Christ shall be then filled with rejoycing that his day is coming to beat down all his enemies and advance his Saints upon earth afore the ultimate glorifying of you and him who subscribes himself Your humble servant in Christ Jesus NATHANAEL HOMES From my Studie at Mary Staynings London Feb. 12. 1650. 2 Thess 2.3 Let no man deceive you by any means For that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that Man of Sin be revealed the Son of Perdition THis chapter is happily divided from the rest it distinctly containing the second part of thi● Epistle viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prophesying of the Prognostick Antecedents fore-running near before the next Appearance of Christ with their appendices Appurtenances An Error of some of the Thessalonians that the Day of Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was then even as present Vers 2. was the occasion of this Discourse of the Apostle Which he begins with beseeching and obtesting them Vers 1. by the future coming of Christ that they would not be shaken in minde as if he were then presently coming though as in all Ages down to us some would assert it Vers 2. as pretending their own spirit of Prophesie or some word viz. Tradition or suppositious Epistles of the Apostles But saith the Apostle them that perswade that decline ye for they go about to deceive you Because that Day cannot come unless such and such things first come to pass and so he smoothly slides into our Text and the Prophesie of the falling away of the seeming Christian and the revealing of the Anti-christian before the next Appearance of Christ Let no man deceive you saith the Apostle by any means for that Day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed You see by the change of the Letter in your Bibles how much is supplied by our Translators viz. Day shall not come is not in the Greek but are the true sense and intent of the Text and therefore supplied by other Translators both of the best Latins and others And they do it because say some here is an Aposiopesis an Ellipsis say others * The Commentator on this Epistle in Zanchies works saith that some Syriack Copy so supplyes words viz. Syrus inquit Ne quis vos decipiat ullo modo nam nisi venerit prius defectio reveletur silius hominis peccati silius perditionis scilicet non instabit Dies ille Domini Howbeit I find them not any how so supplied in either of my two Syriack Cosies But what need of all this To me the Greek it self duly pointed and rendred is able sufficiently to express it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Correct the pointing for we had need sometimes as John 15.2 c. and put the first Coma at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and then the sense runs smoothly and fully thus Let no man deceive you by any means that so it is viz. as Vers 2. that the Day of Christ is at hand except there come a falling away first c. There are some singular Elegancies and Emphases in the words 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Two Negatives are put in the Dehortation whose properties are more vehemently to deny and forbid as that we may truly render the Apostle according to the Idiome of our English thus Let no man by no means deceive you Intimating vehemently that thence to succeeding Ages there would be much danger of many deceiving and being deceived that Christs second Coming was fulfilled afore it was And this Deceit would peep up under many shapes as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rendred here means may also signifie We shall view this thousand-shap'd Proteus better afterwards 2. The falling away in our English is in the Greek expressed by a word which signifies an odious falling away and our English of it if rendred word for word exactly takes after the Greek for casting an odium upon it For 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apostasie The Arabick keeps the same The Syriack 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Rebellion For Apostates usually do not onely fall away from the Truth but also against the Truth * Heb. 6.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fall against As the Greeks say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Contrary to reason 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A transgressor against the Law And the Apostle adds in that Heb. 6.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is falling against the Truth with a witness 3. Revealed and the Greek of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are near kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Book of the Revelation both name and thing viz. This man of sin and of perdition must be revealed as ripe in sin for perdition according to the Revelation Chap. 16. Chap. 17. before Christs next coming Which Man of sin is expressed with the greatest Emphasis of Emphasis upon Emphasis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. That same man of the sin that same son of the perdition And the Greek of perdition is of the kindred