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truth_n	believe_v	lie_n	unrighteousness_n	2,384	5	11.3357	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77240	The marks of the apocalyptical beast, plainly decyphered and the danger of having communion with him clearly discovered. The testimony of a reverend and learned divine concerning the following treatise. As to the treatise, Mr. - and I have perused it carefully; and not to speak to please, but as the thing is, it is very clear, strong, and useful, and very fit to open the eyes of those Papists whom God hath a favour to: I wish the nation enjoyed it, being it is so solid, short, and fitted for good.	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1667 (1667)	Wing B418A; ESTC R203034	15,160	19

Saviour expresly affirmeth that he gave his flesh Joh. 6.51 i. e. his humane Nature for the life of the World and nothing can be more undeniable than that excellent Argument of a Divine Writer Heb. 9.13 14. If the blood of Bulls and of Goats doth sanctifie to the purifying of the Flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ who by the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot unto God purifie our Conscience from dead works The shedding of that blood which was the price paid for the satisfaction of sin being abundantly sufficient to merit forgiveness for millions of worlds because the Mortal Nature which suffered by its Union with the Divine was of Infinite and Incomparable Value If then the Beast shall dare to extenuate and lessen it by pretending that some part of the Ransome is yet unpaid and that he hath power by his Indulgences to add something to it this must needs bee a Blasphemy of the highest kinde because it is in effect to say that the Son of God did not finish the work for the full performing of which Heb. 10.5 10 14 a Body was prepared him 3. Those that dwell in Heaven are the Angels and the departed Saints who are then Blasphemed when any thing is ascribed or done to them which were they now on Earth they would not dare to own Thus when the men of Lystra who had the excuse of an amazing Miracle to justifie them did prepare to offer Sacrifice unto Paul and Barnabas we read that those blessed Apostles did rent their cloathes Act. 14.14 2 Kings 18 37. Mat. 26.65 which was usual in the cases of Blasphemy and shews what Opinion they conceived of that Action So when our Evangelist perhaps onely in a pious gratitude for such great discoveries would have fallen down at the Angels feet to Worship him The Angel in a kinde of sacred horror forbad him Revel 19.10 saying See thou dost it not for I am thy fellow-Servant Worship God And a greater than hee even the Son of God himself yet appearing in the forme of an Angel would not have Sacrifice offered to him Jud. 13.16 but saith hee to Manoah If thou wilt offer a Burnt-Offering thou must offer it to the Lord If therefore Sacrifice and Adoration was not at all pleasing to those blessed Spirits upon Earth 1 Pet. 2.5 Heb. 13.15 we cannot think but Prayer and Praise which are a Christians Sacrifice and other acts of Divine Worship must needs be accounted by them as Blasphemous now they are in Heaven For they have not altered their minds nor are they now lesse zealous of Gods Honour than when they did on Earth express their utmost abhorrence of what-ever did but seem to intrench upon it So that to summe up all the parts of this first Mark together for a sinful man to assume the prerogative and incommunicable properties of God to lessen the Invaluable Merits and Satisfaction of our Lord Christ and to injoyn undue honour unto Saints and Angels such as were they now on earth they would detest these all are Blasphemies of the grossest nature which who-ever belcheth forth he is the Beast we are commanded to beware of Secondly Another Marke and that no little one Mark 2 by which the Beast may be known is the numberless number of his followers even the whole Earth saith the Text Rev. 13.3 with 17.8 or All that dwell upon the Earth whereby is not meant every individual person throughout the world but as is afterwards explained Every Tribe and Tongue and Nation That is All the Professors of Christianity throughout the world except the Elect Mat. 24.24 Rev. 17.8 Rev. 13.7 Rev. 12.17 or They whose Names are written in the Book of Life These are called the Saints or the seed of the Woman i. e. the Sons and Daughters of the true Church Whom the Dragon persecuted Who keep not the Traditions of men but the Commandements of God and in direct opposition to the Usurpations of Anti-Christ do hold the Testimony of Jesus Who in comparison of that vast Rout or rather Heard which Worship the Beast are stiled a little Flock left as it were Luke 12.32 to humane view altogether Naked and Defenceless in the midst of many fierce and ravening Wolves Rev. 11.7 by whom they are no sooner discovered but they are hunted taken and slain Which General delusion and raging madness of the Bestal crew together with the distressed condition of the Lambs company must needs even in the eye of common Reason make those swelling Titles of Universality Visibility Pomp and Extent of dominion very unsafe and most unfit to plead as signs of the true Church since during the whole time of the Beasts Reign they are applicable onely unto his Followers If any ask how it was possible for the world professing themselves as they did to be Christians to become so stupid Rev. 5.6 and senseless as instead of the Lamb Christ Jesus to shew a Tyrannical and outragious Beast his greatest Enemy in answer to this we must consider that from the first moment wherein the Beast was invested in his Soveraignty there was universally conceived a slavish dread of his Power which made the over-awed and captivated world to cry out who is like unto the Beast Rev. 13.4 who is able to warre with him For if those of Samaria were exceedingly afraid of Jehu 2 Kings 10.4 and thought they reasoned well when they said Behold two Kings stood not before him how then shall wee stand How much less able then were any to resist the Beasts encroachments who had ten Horns i. e. Ten Kings his Vassals Revel 17.12 13. that owned him for their Head and tamely gave up their Authority to be disposed of and ordered by him But besides this Argument from Force and Fear which alone had been sufficient to enslave the world there were two other causes which did concur to make the spiritual Thraldome plausible and universally taking 1. There was a willingness in the world to bee deceived as the Israelites being many years accustomed to the taste of Mannah though it was bread of Heaven Ps 105 40 Psa 78.24 25 and food for Angels began to loath it so did the World grow weary of the plainness of Truth which made God in his just judgement give them up to be acted by a Spirit of Errour 2 Thes 2.10 12 Joh. 7.18 1 Cor. 13.6 So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 52.3 because they loved not the Truth saith the Apostle but had pleasure in unrighteousness or in falsehood as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 often signifies Men having then their Ears open to receive and their mindes ready to believe a Lye and offering themselves as a willing Prey to every one that would but take pains to cozen them 2. To this propensity and readiness which was in the world for the embracing of any kinde of Errour there was