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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12099	Five pious and learned discourses 1. A sermon shewing how we ought to behave our selves in Gods house. 2. A sermon preferring holy charity before faith, hope, and knowledge. 3. A treatise shewing that Gods law, now qualified by the Gospel of Christ, is possible, and ought to be fulfilled of us in this life. 4. A treatise of the divine attributes. 5. A treatise shewing the Antichrist not to be yet come. By Robert Shelford of Ringsfield in Suffolk priest.	Shelford, Robert, 1562 or 3-1627.	1635 (1635)	STC 22400; ESTC S117202	172,818	340

from the prophesie in Dan. 7. where he is compared to a little horn But it is known that the Jews are a vile kinde of people disperst like vagabonds amongst all nations having no kingdome nor kingly honour but are subject to the laws of other countreys among whom they dwell and among us Christians whom we detest we call a Jew Wherefore S. Hierome upon this place after he had first applied it to Antiochus saith thus But our men better and righter interpret that in the end of the world Antichrist shall do these things who is to rise from a small nation that is from the people of the Jews and he shall be so vile and despised that the kingly honour shall not be given him but by fraud and deceit he shall get the principalitie Again upon the 11 of Daniel he writeth No Jew without Antichrist shall at any time reigne over all the world These despised Jews when they shall get the day shall rage more terribly then any other according to the proverb Asperius nihil est humili cùm surgit in altum The basest ever is the most severe Once having gotten power to domineer Vers. 10. Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved In that the Apostle joyneth love with the truth in the way to salvation this shews that none can either attain the truth or stand long in it without love which is the most sanctifying grace of the holy Ghost For so high are the mysteries of godlinesse and so contrarie to mans reason that none can apprehend them except divine love do bend his wits that way This appeareth from the scoffing anthem of the Arians in Socrates Scholasticus Where be these fellows who affirm three to be one Therefore then is mans understanding capable of divine truth when the holy Ghost who is Love goeth before Before love come we will dispute of the truth and with Pilate ask what is the truth though the truth stand before us as Christ stood before Pilate This is the reason why babes and fools of the world perceive that which the Scribe and the disputer cannot see And though they see it yet without love it is unsavourie to them they are not the better for it This S. Paul sheweth in 1. Cor. 13. 2. Though I had the gift of prophesie and knew all secrets and all knowledge and had all faith so that I could remove mountains and had not love I were nothing Wherefore where love and truth go hand in hand there is right faith and good life the two complements of our salvation But the principall of these two is love because love makes use of truth but truth without love is idle Vers. 11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should beleeve a lie Here S. Paul sets down the just judgement of God against the receivers of Antichrist which is effascination or strong delusion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the power of errours working which the creature of it self is not able to resist Such was the working of Pharaohs inchanters that when he saw them to throw rods out of their hand and they turned into serpents therefore he would not beleeve Moses and his miracle though his rod devoured their rods before his eyes And so strong was the old prophets lie to the man of God that prophesied against the altar in Bethel that because he would not obey the revealed word of the Lord therefore the lie prevailed upon him to his destruction So will the devil fat men in a plerophorie of Antichrists false doctrine that they shall be so farre from doubting of it that they will exult and triumph in it But here may be demanded how God should be cleared from sinne when he sendeth such strong delusion which is the cause of sinne To this I answer that this is not here spoken of God properly but tropically Mittit non physicé sed permittendo deserendo He sendeth not delusion naturally but privatively by way of forsaking and suffering For when God upon just desert withdraws his grace from any then he gives the devil leave to go in and thus Gods forsaking is in place of sending because God knows that when he is departed the strong seducer will not be long absent And herein is God justified in that he never forsakes any untill he be forsaken of them according to the School-axiom Deus non deserit nisi priùs deseritur If the Jews would not have forsaken the true Christ they should not have been left to the lies of Antichrist God for his mercy sake grant to us Christians that we trust not so much to the strength of our own new phansies that we utterly abolish the ancient truth Antichrists doctrine Vers. 11. That they should beleeve a lie This is the summe of Antichrists doctrine it is a sermon yea a volume of lies A capite ad calcem from the head to the heel all is but a lie The Fathers have expressed some particulars as that he should command circumcision the Jews sabbath for our Sunday the temple at Jerusalem to be reedified the ceremonial rites to be observed and that he himself is to be worshiped above all gods Though Antichrists doctrine have many branches yet all is but a lie As a tree though it hath many arms and boughs yet it is but a tree and a body though it hath many members yet it is but a body so is Antichrists doctrine in all his parts and members but one main and continued lie Or els there shall be one masterlie which is that Christ is not Christ and all his other lies shall be of the familie of this And in regard of this his false doctrine he is called the false prophet in the 16 19 and 20 chapters of the Revelation as Christ is said to be the true Prophet in John 6. 14. This is of a truth the same Prophet that should come into the world Vers. 12. That all they might be damned which beleeved not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse Here is the end of false faith and bad life which is to swimme in infidelity and the pleasures of sinne for a time and then in the end to reap eternall damnation For when the sinnes of Antichrist shall be ripe when his followers have suckt in all the delights of unrighteousnesse when they have fatted themselves to the day of slaughter when they have played their pageants and are in their full ruffe then of a sudden as our Apostle saith to these Thessalonians when they shall say Peace and safetie the skie shall alter and the weather shall change and then the signes and prodigies of the worlds end and Christs coming to judgement shall act their parts The signes and prodigies of the worlds end The first is the rising from death to life of the two witnesses after they have been dead three dayes and a half and their ascending up

ten kings which stood up out of the fourth kingdome as Daniel expoundeth in the 24 verse This fourth kingdome or fourth beast was the reigne of the Seleucians in Asia from which the holy nation received many mischiefs and the little horn was Antiochus who plagued the Jews above all the rest From whence ariseth this argument that if Antiochus the figure of Antichrist was but one man then Antichrist which must answer to his figure must be but one man too And to this agreeth S. Johns prophesie in Apoc. 13. 17. where a particular name and a particular number is given unto him Lastly this is shewed from the circumstance of time For Antichrist is to reigne but three yeares and a half as appeareth in Dan. 7. 25. where Antiochus is foretold to reigne over the holy nation untill a time and times and the dividing of a time which is three yeares and a half And with this consenteth the prophesie of Antichrists reigne under the Dragon in the 12 of the Revelation where the woman that is the Church is said to be nourished in the wildernes for a time and times and half a time To this is added the treading down of the holy citie by the same Antichrist for the space of fourty two moneths and the prophesying of the two witnesses in the same time by the space of a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes as it is manifest in the 11 chapter of the same book All which severall accounts by yeares moneths and dayes make but three yeares and a half as that most judicious Father S. Austine most boldly delivereth And with this further agreeth the prophesie of Christ concerning Antichrists end of dayes as appeareth by alluding to Daniel about the abomination of desolation set in the holy place that is to say of the sitting of Antichrist in the temple of God as S. Paul expoundeth it And except those dayes should be shortened no flesh should be saved But here we see these dayes to be shortened by the last yeare cut asunder in the midst And this is more illustrated by reason of congruitie for as Christ preached but three yeares and an half so it is not meet that Antichrist should preach more lest he should seem to prevail upon Christ. The testimonies of Fathers confirm this Irenaeus in the end of his 5. book hath these words Antichrist shall reigne three yeares and six moneths and then shall the Lord come from heaven Hierome upon the 7 of Daniel hath these Tempus annum significat Tempora juxta Hebraici sermonis proprietatem qui ipsi dualem numerum habent duos annos praefigurant Dimidium autem temporis sex menses quibus sancti potestati Antichristi permittendi sunt ut condemnentur Judaei qui non credentes veritati susceperunt mendacium A time signifieth a yeare times according to the propertie of the Hebrew speech which hath the duall number prefigureth two yeares but half a time six moneths during which time the saints shall be permitted to the power of Antichrist that the Jews might be condemned who beleeving not the truth have received a lie S. Augustine in his 20 book of the citie of God and 23 chap. saith The most cruel reigne of Antichrist against the Church that it is to be sustained for a very short time he that readeth these things though he be half asleep and half awake is not suffered to doubt because A TIME AND TIMES AND HALF A TIME is one yeare and two yeares and half a yeare and so three yeares and an half This also appeareth by the number of dayes afterward put down and sometime in Scripture this is declared by the number of moneths From these testimonies it is cleare that if Antichrist in his reigne shall not exceed this prescribed time then it is not probable that he should be more then one man But against this computation it is objected that the foresaid prophesies of yeares moneths and dayes are to be multiplied and understood according to the prophesie Ezek. 4. 6. where is said I have given thee a day for a yeare Then these yeares moneths and dayes will fetch in a long succession of Popes into Antichrists chair I answer Then the foresaid Fathers and all the rest for all in this point agree in one were much overseen in not seeing this prophesie to be so much against them Next I answer This is a particular prophesie and no generall rule to rule other prophesies I have given thee a day for a yeare and so I have not done to the rest of my prophets for if times should be understood of yeares and then every day in the yeare should be multiplied again into so many yeares more as there be dayes in every yeare then where it is prophesied of Nebuchadnezzar that seven times should passe over him in his expulsion from his kingdome it should follow that he was banished two thousand five hundred and fiftie five yeares which are more yeares then he ever lived by a thousand at the least and thus the prophesie of his restauration should be utterly false But these times in Daniel must be understood onely of yeares as Tremellius and Junius note upon Dan. 4. 13. after our division of chapters but upon the 16 as they begin their chapter Again in the 11 of Daniel verse 13 in the text he readeth exactis illis temporibus id est annis following the Hebrew original And thus again it is noted in our Church-bible in the margine of the same chapter and verse at the end of times of yeares Therefore Revel 12. 14. during the great persecution of Antichrist caused by the devil the old serpent the woman that is the Church is provided for but for a time and times and half a time that is but for three yeares and an half as both ancient and modern interpreters consent The second prophesie of the durance of Antichrists reigne is by moneths Revel 11. 2. And the holy citie shall they tread under foot two and fourtie moneths This the opponent will not understand of bare moneths as the Fathers expound which make but three yeares and an half but they will alter the propertie and turn moneths into so many daies as be in fourty two moneths and then they will turn dayes again into yeares that is 1260 dayes which are in fourty two moneths into 1260 yeares Here I would demand of these men what rule or warrant they have in any part of Gods word to turn moneths into dayes and then dayes into yeares I reade in Levit. 25. 8. where God gave this rule to the Israelites to number yeares by weeks or sabbaths Thou shalt number seven sabbaths of yeares unto thee and the space of seven sabbaths of yeares will be unto thee nine and fourty yeares Now let them in like manner shew where God hath given a rule to number yeares by moneths resolved into dayes as here we