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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86099	The rise, growth, and fall of Antichrist together with the reign of Christ. by Edw. Haughton minister.	Haughton, Edward, 17th cent.	1652 (1652)	Wing H1151; Thomason E1286_1; ESTC R9637	101,184	219

find out a name but such a name out of them as will grasp in all the other descriptions of Antichrist such a name as sutes to all that is said of him in the Rev. or elsewhere such a name as will hold forth the man that succeeds the Emperors in the Government of the Roman State or that is the seventh head of Daniels fourth beast that sits in the temple of God as the great Church man Lording it over the Faith and Consciences of all men in the world and in ordine ad spiritualia subjecteth all civil rule and Authority to himself that highly pretends to be for Christ and yet in every thing crosseth and contradicteth Christ That looks like a Lamb speaks like a Dragon and exerciseth the Power of the first beast viz. King Consuls c. When we put them to find a name out of this number that points out a man to whom all these particulars do agree they are at a stand they cannot give us one though their Kingdom and their All lie upon it Wherefore I conclude That that name whereto all the descriptions of Antichrist do agree is that Saint John bids us here seek after and is the name of the great Antichrist but the names before given pointing out the Pope are such as in every one of them all the descriptions of Antichrist do meet and concentrate therefore this is the name and consequently the Pope is the man of sin the great Antichrist Thus you have a sevenfold-scripturall demonstration of the point It 's good to make sure-work when we have to do with so unruly a beast But why did not the Holy-Ghost speak expresly who it was might not he as easily have said the Popes of Rome are the man of sin the great Antichrist as expressed it thus darkly and left it so liable to doubt and controversie I answer T is not for us to teach God how he shall speak but duty when he hath spoken to set our selves with reverence to spell out his mind I might put you off with this But yet think I may with safety venture to give you some reasons why God carried it on thus in the clouds and in the dark I. 'T was out of a tender respect he had to his People the prevention of their utter ruine for had he said that the Bishops of Rome and consequently Christians should be Lords of Rome yea make Kings and Emperors bow before them nay be Masters of the World this inhumane conjecture would have armed the Heathen Emperors as one man against the Christians and Christians talked so much of a Kingdom that they had some thoughts and jealousies in their heads and hearts of them already therefore certainly if Saint John had spoke out their jealousies had kindled into a flame against them that they would have set themselves to have destroyed the name of Christian from of the Earth which was this way prevented Secondly God would shew himself to be the God of secrets and depths of wisdom above weak shallow man This book of the Revelation hath brought many great and learned men to let fall their plumes the high thoughts of their own wisdoms and sufficiencies hath set them a studying hath exercised their best Intellectuals brought them upon their knees to God in prayer that he would be pleased to give them a Revelation of the Revelation the things he hath opened in this book that he would open them more and give them his own key for none else can unlock the Cabinet How hath it set men of admiring that if there be such hardness such depths in Gods Revelations what unsearchable secrets and depths of Mysteries are there in the heart and bosome of God himself infinitely above the reach of the understanding of all Men and Angels God loves to lay vain proud men low he loves to bring them to the knowledge of themselves and t is a great mercy to us that he doth so Thirdly God sent Antichrist as the greatest judgement on men that ever was in the World Rev. 6.2 God there sends forth Christ in his Apostles Evangelists and others riding swiftly on the white horse of the Gospel and you know how quickly they rid clean through the world Psal 19.34 with Rom. 10.18 but the world did generally despise the Gospel of Salvation offered to them In the following verses of that chapter God sends out The red horse of War The black horse of Famine The pale horse of Pestilence and his name that sate upon him was Death and Hell followed him verse the twelfth There comes a great Earthquake which upon the same account shakes down all the heathen Gods and Monarchies brings Constantine the great into the Throne sets up Christianity in the World and now Regis ad Exemplum every one turns Christian but yet the meer formality of name and notion served their turn the generality of men received the Christian faith but not in the love of it they held the truth of God in unrighteousness and this doubtless angered God more then the Heathens open contempt of the Gospel whereupon God set himself to bring forth some greater judgements on the Christian world then he had on the Heathenish when first he had secured his own By sealing the servants of God in the forehead Chap. 7. In the eighth Chapter the Trumpets sound whereby all Expositors agree haereses corruptelas verae Doctrinaepraesignificari In the four first chiefly Heresies Corruptions of sound Doctrine are presignified Temporal miseries not excluded but t is something hard I find to assign the right heresie and who was the broacher to every Trumpet Chap. 9.1 2. Tht fifth Angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit And he opened the bottomless pit and there arose smoak out of the pit as the smoak of a great furnace and the sun and the air were darkned by reason of the smoak of the pit Here Hell breaks loose upon them and now in the Popes of Rome or the great Antichrist was wrath come upon the Christian World to the uttermost there were all Judgements in this one 2 Thes 2.8 to 13. Then shall that wicked be revealed whose comming is after the manner of Satan with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that Perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be sved for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lye that they all might be damned c. Now if God had named the Person and time of Antichrists coming there are such fearful things spoken of him that all the World would have set against him and so God had crossed the decree of Divine Justice but being expressed thus darkly the Pope hath been able to corrupt and deceive all the Nations of the Earth whereby the determined wrath is come upon the souls and bodies of Hypocritical and ungodly Christians This kinde