GALLICANTVS SEU PRAECURSOR GALLICINII PRIMUS Containing two ADDRESSES The one to the KING the other to the PARLIAMENT Tegether with a POSCRIPT ABOUT The affaires of RELIGION of most high Concernment By R. Lanceter Author of GALLICINIVM now in the Presse LONDON Printed for Nathaniel Ranew at the sign of the Angell in Pauls Church-yard 1660. An humble Addresse and Supplication to the Kings most excellent Majesty Charles the Second by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Blessed be God even the Father who onely doth great wonders that he hath so wonderfully brought and established your Majesty in your just Rights and Sovereignty The sâ—me Lord blesse preserve and guide your Majesty in this great and high Calling and Charge whereinto he hath brought and setled you And withall advance your Throne into the high calling of God in Jesus Christ that you may be truly and compleatly glorious both in the Father and in the Son May it please Your Sacred Majesty WHEREAS it hath pleased Almighty God to traine you up long in the Schoole of affliction and no doubt to fit you thereby for some speciall and extraordinary work of his as it hath been his usuall way towards such as he hath designed for the most gratious archievments And accordingly hath abundantly manifested the power of his grace upon your Royall heart by those many signall testimonies thereof already shewn forth whereat all your good subjects exceedingly rejoyce and praise the Lord. That it may appear that as your Majesty hath set your heart towards God so himselfe hath set his heart towards you to advance your Throne above all the Kings of the Earth and above all that ever were before you You may please to see the evidence hereof in what the Lord is pleased here to present you with Wherein your Majesty becoming highly instrumentall if it be found to be truly of God never was King or Potentate on earth called as yet to that place of eminency with God as is your Majesty hereby It hath pleased the Lord Almighty who hath ordained the times and seasons for the bringing to passe his mighty Works and for the discovery of the hidden things of darknesse to exercise your humble Suppliant Subject and Servant in the reluctance with that darknesse all the time that he exercised your Majesty with afflictions And now upon your deliverance out of them to have also given him a release from those chaines of darknesse so far as to present your Majesty with that light into which he hath escaped The summary tender whereof is under these three heads 1. That it is not possible that either at present or in former times for many hundreds of yours either we or any other Nation called Christian or any other Nation or Party in the World can be the Church of Christ and people of God or in way of salvation but absolutely either Antichristianly or Diabolically in state of wrath and damnation 2. That it is not possible that any or all the wayes that men do or can devise to state and settle Religion and the Church in the wisedome that they act in can ever do it aright and make the case better then it is but in all likelihood to render all still worse and more Antichristian 3. That yet there is a way not new but layd of old by Christ wherein the Primitive Apostolicall Church constantly walked but ever since utterly lost in the World as to a Church-way such a way as is most cleare easie undenyable which all the World will grant if once they see it to be the truth of God the onely way to make all Churches Churches of Saints and all people to live blessedly an happy people both here and hereafter This the Lord hath reserved to be manifested in your dayes and your selfe for such a time and commendeth the same to your Royall care for the advancement of his glory in the Son and of your Majesties Throne in both I am not mad or a Fanatick but I speak the words of truth and sobernesse I have been in the Ministeriall Calling about thirty years in your County of Norfolk I have lived to see and with much reluctance and grapling with have passed through the calaminities of these times especially the distractions and monstrous emergencies in the notion way and pretence of Religion I have been ever formerly conformable in all things both as to Doctrine and Discipline as an obedient son of the Church of England And during these times while the truth of Christ was more and more obseured by the devices of men I have given my selfe into all my utmost endeavour to clear up the saving truth unto my own soul and consequently to the consciences of all others especially of my Charge In this my search and incessant study finding my selfe more and more confounded and the truth hidden from me in the abundance of the rubbish of mans wit and devices cast upon it It pleased God to recall me from the wisedome of men to that of himselfe in his word and to cast my self upon the pure discovery of truth in those heavenly Oracles which being the way of his own Ordinance it pleased the Lord to meet me therein and by revealing his Son in and unto me to vouchsafe me in the knowledg of him that light of truth which is not possible to be found in all the works of men whatsoever And being convinced by the clearnesse thereof and also by imparting the same to others of best judgment and piety that it was indeed the onely saving truth but yet wholly unknown and quite crosse to the opinion and way of the World I thought it my duty and thereunto also I discerned my selfe especially called to publish the same to the World as being of the highest concernment unto all that possibly can be imagined both for this life and for that to come Now may it please your Majesty hence is my present Addresse and Supplication unto you in the first place 1. For that intending the Dedication of this Work to your Majesty it being so high an undertaking might be too bold a daring to presix your name thereto without your good liking and consent 2. For that understanding that your Majesty together with your high Court of Parliament are setting your eyes to the affaires of Religion and that to the settlement thereof in such a way as I cannot in conscience close with therefore I thought it better to appeare beforehand in the case possibly some good may come thereby then to be found an apposer of authority afterward 3. For that considering that the things which I come forth with are of the highest concernment that ever came forth even the same with those of Christ and his Apostles which the World hath so long lost and have the like need of again and consequently of especiall concernment unto your Majesty in many regards both respecting God your place and people
for plucking up all root and branch So say I As the Father planted the Law so Christ the Gospell therefore every plant that he hath not planted never consider what wise men thought of it how it sits the state how it stands with prudence c. but without the least question or dispute Pluck it up it is of Hell Antichrist c. Is there nothing worth regarding thinke we in these and such like passages of Christ and of his blessed spirit That God hath hid the things of Heaven from the wise and prudent That whatsoever is highly esteemed of men is abomination in the sight of God That the wisedome of the World is foolishnesse with God That God knoweth the thoughts of men that they are but vaine And that all the imaginations of mans heart are wholly evils and that continually and abundance the like And yet shall we professing Christ account all these as nothing not considering how he saith Heaven and Earth should passe away but not one word of his should faile And yet I say shall we turn from all the wisdom of Christ into the accursed wisedome of men and into all of mans liking and esteem how abominable and dreadfull is this Is it not that â—eigne and delusion of Antichrist unto damnation whereunto the latter ages were to be adjudged and accursed and which we all confesse that for many hundred of years the Christian World lay inthralled And most sure it is that even as damnably as ever therein it abideth still Were I to speak to Heathens and Insidels these passage were in vaine but seeing it is to Christians that I speak for Gods sake let our Lord Christ be the common Master to us all The drift of all this my humble addresse is That seeing the Lord hath so happily called you together and begun a good worke by you of highest hopes and expectation and accordingly have set your hearts to a blessed settlement of all things both in Church and Common-wealth that you would be pleased to turne your hearts into the right way for the attainment unto your right intended ends for else they can never be accomplished Looke not therefore what was of yesterday what was in our Fathers times what stand with Policies of State with the liking and acceptation of men c. set by all and looke wholy to the Lord Jesus Christ the author and finisher of our Faith Remember I pray You that Christ layd the foundation of all Christianity in selfe denyall even of all our wills wisdomes likeings endearements and all that man doth or can give his heart unto Without which as nothing of truth can possible appear so be assured that in so doing all truth is before you even that holy unction whereby we know all things Which the Lord is about to tender unto you if so denying selfe you make way for that Grace of God In a word be it considered that if in the very Apostles times men had so carnalized the truth of Christ and apostatized from it as the Apostle was sayne to plucke them off wholly from all their religion then in esteeme and to contend earnestly for the Faith which was once delivered unto the Saints Jude 3.4 Much rather may I now presse the same when farâ—e more into Wantonnesse and Carnalisme the whole frame of Religion is carryed Even to spare it in nothing to please men with but to Pluck up every plant whatsoever that God and the Lord Jesus Christ hath not planted and so to contend earnestly for that Faith alone which was once delivered to the Saints from the mouth of Christ and his holy Apostles Damning all the rest to the pitt whence it came and the rather by how much the more the carnall mind is besotted and made drunke with that Whoorish cup. And thus I humbly take leave in the words of David on the like occasion 1 Chron. 22.16 Arise and be doing and the Lord be with you The Postscript THat which our Blessed Saviour expresseth Mat. 5.15 Noman having lighted a candle putteth it under a vessel but on a candlestick that all may see it c. intimating that when God inlighteneth any it must not be concealed but set forth to open view for a light unto others This the Apostles found and expressed the power of Act. 4.20 We cannot but speak the things which we have heard and seene This charge I sind imposed and pressed strongly on my heart and Conscience as to the power of that light which the Lord hath been pleased to vouchsafe me Therefore having in the first place made my addresse unto the Kings most Excellent Majestie then unto his high Court of Parliament in some generall things which will inferre abundance more of speciall discoveries I cannot forbeare the holding forth of the same light unto all others as previous to the discovery of farre more The things therein already declared are of the highest nature and greatest concernment that may be which all persons especially that professe and hope in Christ must nearly lay to heart The two former of which are in the addresse unto his Majestie namely 1. How we are no Church of Christ c. But meerely of Antichrist 2. How it is not possible that we can be set right in and by the way wherein it is sought and endeavoured Then 3. In the addresse unto the Parliament is shewed the reason of both namely for that men have turned and still do turne out from the wisdome of God into their own Then follows a 4th of speciall moment expressed in both addresses Which is That there is a true cleare and perfect way layd forth by Christ and his Apostles and practized then of all which wholly turning unto is the onely blessed way but otherwise all is under the curse and wrath of God To bear witness unto these truths and many more to follow am I now come up unto the head Citie of my Nation in a fit and due season the Lord grant it may be found a good and acceptable time In which enterprise and that not without the Lord I may justly use the Apostles words Act. 20.22 23 24. And now behold I go bound in the Spirit unto Jerusalem not knowing the things that shall befall me there Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every Citie saying that bonds and afflictions abide me But none of these things move me netheir count I my life dear unto my selfe so that I might finish my Course with joy and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God The same measure I expect and blessed be my Lord and Saviour who hath vouchsafed me for a long time to drinke of his own cup. It is not posible but that his word shall abide in force till this World be no more it self And hath he not sayd Yee shall be hated of all men for my names sake In this World yee shall have tribulation New wine cannot
the case be considered from what all men professing Christ do acknowledge namely 1. That there was a true and pure Church in the time of the Apostles and a good while after so long as it abode in the Apostolical Rule Way 2. That there was to be a falling away from that Rule and Way of true Christianity and that to be universally and damnably as the Scriptures declare fully and clearly 3. That this falling away into the estate of damnation took beginning even in the Apostles times as to some persons which afterward became a general Apostasie from the Faith under which Apostasie the Christian World so called was to abide 1260 yeares 4. All Christians holding and believing all the former things and the Protestant Divines holding the latter do withall declare and maintain that for about 1100. years before the Reformation the Christian World was generally in the Antichristian Apostasie hence then it must needs follow that there still remains after the Reformation began by Luther about 160. years of Antichrists Reign which must of necessity comprehend all the time since unto this day Thus far the truth of the case is born out by all that profess belief in the Scripture Prophesies especially by all Protestant Divines and Churches Secondly Be it considered from what is further acknowledged namely That the true Christian Apostolical Primitive Church was and is called the pure Church for that it abode in the truth and sincerity of the Gospel in its naked purenesse and spiritual clearnesse living and walking in the new nature c. But in the after-times and so to this day the Church framed it self into an Artificial Garb and Structure both in Doctrine and in Worship Ordinances and Discipline wherein it boasts it self of its Liberty and Power so to add and change as to become quite another to what it had been alledging That then it was in its Infancy naked bare unpollish'd stintâ—sh c. But now is become adult of perfect maturity beauteous adorned splendid and in far more complete accomplishments Hence it must needs follow That if the Church Primitive were truely Christs and represented by the Woman clothed with the Sun the nakednesse and clarity of Truth Rev. 12. Then the other must be that of Antichrist and represented by the gorgeous Whore arrayed with earthly Pomp and Gallantry Lyes and Vanity Rev. 17. 18. Which if as Babylon the Mother of Horlots is signified the Romish Church then all other Churches bred out of her as all ours are are no other then her Daughter-Harlots If it be objected That all the Artifices Additions and Changes brought into the Church are but Circumstantial tending to order and decency and so alter not the Nature and Essence of the Church I answer it is quite otherwise those Artifices have utterly mixed Christianity even as much as Adams fall ruined all mankind the case is even the same as may and will be manifested in season it being the utmost height of that despoyling of all and destroying of all Religion which is spoken of Jude 4. and in many other places of Scripture Thirdly Be it considered what is yet further acknowledged that the Scripture fore-speaking of the most accursed Estate of people in the last times beyond all others before as no times to have been under such horrid Apostasie and Cursednesse as those and that all confess that these are those times do also declare that this condition should be universal and in that estate mens hearts to be so shut up blinded and hardened as no working upon them should win them out of it being given over to so strong delusion to believe a lye to their utter damnation such a delusion as to rest in a form of godliness and utterly to deny and turn away its Poâ—er such a besottednesse in a carnal self-pleasing Religion as to lye drunk in it and abundance of the like dreadful expressions and fore-speakings of the state of the last times And withall that there should be no release and deliverance out of this woful estate until the brightness of Christ dissolve and break those chains of darknesse save onely from some palpable enormities towards the end of the Reign of Antichrist which brightnesse of Christ having not yet appeared needs it must be that Antichrist still abideth in life power and all his essentials even where much of his outward parts have been consumed among the reformed These things and many more discovered at large in Gallicinium may well startle and affright us For surely were there such Churches and so many precious people yea and National Churches as we dream of these things could not be nor ever have been uttered by the Word of truth Fourthly Be it considered from the clear and unquestionable evidence of the case it self which all men must acknowledge and cannot possibly clude when it be set before them And herein 1. Consider wherein consists the true nature and essential proprieties of the true Church as it stood and abode in the Apostolical and Primitive times was it not in the new Man the Lord Jesus Christ in spirit and power formed in their hearts according to his proper Nature and Office which Nature is Love and his Office is to bruise the Serpents head that is the Lusts which are the Kingdom and Power of the Devil in man and so to restore man unto that estate in the Image of God wherein he was first created that so living and walking in love the good works flowing from thene to be the fruits unto eternal life so being in the life of God and acting God's part and work in the world to be ever wel-pleasing and acceptable to God himself so becoming a Temple and Kingdom of God and of Heaven Is not this to be truly a Christian and this course and conversation the way of the Church and the conversation in heaven And did not the Primitive Church thus live thus walk Was not herein their Church-Way Church-Rule and all that denominated them truly Christian See at their firâ—t conversion Act. 2. 4. how Christ and Christianity manifested it self purely in their out-flowing self-denying Love so in all their Life Conversation Exercise whole Demeanure among the Heathen Was not the essential Character of their Religion and Grace meerly Love whence flowed all Virtue Goodness Holiness c So as it became the all-sufficient Note and Character whereby to be known to be the Disciples of Christ as himself declared Joh. 13.34 But now bring we our Church and all Churches now and of long time called Christian and see if any such character note and evidence can be found So as indeed it is utterly unknown shut up in a Mysterie making good that of the Apostle Eph. 3.19 The love of Christ passeth knowledge Sure it is and Gallicinium will make it evident that both we and all other Churches so called are far from the true Church of Christ even the pure Church of old as Hell
the great Day When that light of true Wisdom shall appear whereby the true Judgement of all things shall be manifested which now are shut up in the mystery Thus we see the proofe of this from its inward Root 2. It is more evidently proved from the outward manifestation thereof in constant experience 1. As to the general the wisdom of man standing always in its whole bent to seek after happiness and leaving no wayes untried no stone unrolled to find and obtain it see the event and fruits of all even nothing but to make themselves and the world more and more miserable If thou beest wise sayes Solomon thou shalt be wise for thy self but see the cursed conviction of mans wisdom in that setting the heart wholly unto self it reacheth unto and attaineth nothing but trouble turmoyle vexation sorrow woes crosses and miseries what not Hence justly is the wisdom of the world called foolishness with God and that God knoweth the thoughts of men that they are vain yea vanity it self 2. As to the special and particular Instance the reformation of Religion be it considered that men are and have been sufficiently conscious and convinced at all times since they departed from the wisdom of God in Christ that Religion was ever out of its due course and that something or other was amiss and necessary to be amended and withall that from time to time they set themselves with their utmost endeavour in all study labour and diligence what might be to amend reform and set all right And yet what hath been done what hath been the issue of all their strenuous endeavours both singly by themselves Fathers Doctors Grandees c. by all their Writing Preaching Disciplines and also jointly in Councils Synods Consistories and the like but to turn all into more and more confusion by stating their Decrees Doctrines Disciscipline and all in such wise as exposed them to endless questions Disputes and Controversies Yea what did all tend to but to the setting up of Antichrist and all his delusions and working unto damnation which as the Scripture foretold should come so they did and all by mens acting in their own wisdom despising the wisdom of God Sure it is that in Christ and his way there is that Light which whosoever walketh in cannot stumble much less fall as himself expresseth And as clear it is That all the Errors Deceptions and Evils whatsoever that came into the Church were from those that went out from them that walkked in the Light and Wisdom of Christ into their own as the Scripture declareth Most certain it is that in love is all light and there need no teaching no fear of error or evil as might abundantly be shewed and in Lusts lye all Error and Wickednesse whatsoever In a word seeing all the ablest and wisest of men bending themselves to reformation could never do it or make any thing better since they fell to act in their own wisdom but on the contrary rendred all stil worse and worse therefore it cannot be hoped in the least that ever it can be compassed in that or the like way Experience have proved this to be true every age to this present day whereof most clear evidence is seen in these late yeares wherein all parties took what Liberty they pleased and see what striving and endeavors they used how many wayes have been tryed how many Religions Sects and specious things have been stept into and all prove no better then the former but rather stil worse in the acknowledgement of all And now at present see whereto the wisdom of men driveth how they can see nothing good but what is provision for their Lusts and likings A price is put into their hands to get Wisdom but they have not an heart unto it Liberty and Encouragement is given to move according to Conscience But see by the continual Addresses and Petitions daily coming from alll parts that their Wisdome is set upon no higher pitch then with the Dogge to return again unto his Vomit and like the foolish Israelites that cryed out for the Leeks and Onyons of Aegypt when God gave them Bread from Heaven Thus I conceive this PROPOSAL also stands cleare If more be required I have enough to say for the fuller convinceing of all 3. PROPOSAL That yet there is a way and that of old laid down by Christ to render all Congregations Parishes and Societies of People Churches of Christ and all as formerly Churches of Saints in a blessed condition both here and hereafter TO make this to stand clear and good I shall resolve the whole into these three branches 1. That such was the estate and condition of the true Church of old which is called the Primitive and Apostolical 2. That a clear full and all-sufficient way for it was laid down by Christ 3. That it is an easie and ready thing to bring all Congregations Parishes and People into the same estate and condition again and much more easie for us to compasse it now then in those times of old 1. For the former of these I have given some light into it already in the first Proposal and it stands ful and cleare in the Gospel All happinesse and blessednesse whatsoever that is high heavenly and alone the true blessedness consists in these three things as being the perfect Image of God 1. Clearnesse and fulnesss of Truth to live in the light thereof so as to know all things and to be guided and walk in the truth infallibly so as not possibly to be deceived and led into Error This is truly Angelical and the true life of God and in God 2. Integrity of righteousness and holiness so as no place to be for sin and transgression To live in perfect obedience to the Wil and Command of God in all things and never to have so much as an heart and will to offend God or any thing but to do all the honour and good that they may both to God and man And this is as Heavenly and Angelical perfection as the other 3. Perfection of Blessedness so to live and abide in full fruition of all joy and contentment standing free and ful in an exemption from all that is evil and in the enjoyment of all that is good fully satisfactorily so as the heart to desire no more but to abide ever in an aboundant overflowing If in these be not the perfect blessedness let all men judge Now most sure it is that in a most sweet and abundant enjoyment of all these did the Church of old live while it abode truly Christs Church and degenerated not to be Antichristian The former is cleare by many Warrants of Scripture Surely Christ failed them not of his promise to give them his spirit which should guide them into all Truth which St. John testified that every true Christian and Member of the Church had being that Unction whereby they knew all things and that so as that they needed no other Teaching
this about and settle it in the world there must be an utter plucking up of all that is now in esteem and desire in the world and of all that have such in the world for many hundreds of years and all things to become new FOR the clearing of this because it may seem to contradict what was even now said namely That the Church-Ordinances and means of Grace are stil remaining among us and therefore if all must be plucked up then also what Christ hath planted be it considered 1. That though Christs Plants be remaining still yet there are more also added thereto some surreptitiously crept in by the devises of private spirits in all the Sects and Heresies that have been broached and so received by many for truths Others there are that are professedly maintained by a pretended Authority of the Church which is meerly a proud and arrogant pretence and presumption The Church of Christ hear his voice alone and no other It is no other but the self exalting Whore upon the Beast that claims a Right and Power to change or introduce any thing of the way of Christ yea though under pretence of indifferencies as that Whore hold them forth These all are to be plucked up for that Christ hath not planted them as I have expressed before in my Address unto the Parliament 2. That though Christs Plants be still remaining yet they have been all transplanted and set in a faâ—se ground Most sure it is and a most dreadful thing it is to consider that there is not one point or subject in all Divinity not one Ordinance of Christ not one Grace or Duty not any thing in all Christianity but hath been plucked up from the root and ground of all the Lord Jesus Christ and transplanted all into Antichrist in the Kingdom of the Devil the Lusts and abominations of Hell The Scripture declares the Church of Christ to be built upon the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner stone but that Building is removed to a far different Foundation upon Philosophers and the Wisdom of man so as the true Foundation is utterly lost and Jesus Christ as the Corner-stone is more reâ—ected of our Builders then ever it was by the Jewish Builders so as what that Corner-stone is is as utterly unknown to the Prelates and Grandees of the Christian Church as it is to the very Heathens Infidels yea and far more Gallicinium renders this ful clear in every head and subject of Divinity contained in all Didactical Theology making it evident how gâ—opingly even in the darkness of Hell all the Heads and Cuides of the Church that would be themselves the Corner-stones and Guiders of others have constantly walked ever since the Church played the Whore and became Antichristian even for above 1200. years verifying that of Christ If the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch giving up themselves and all that follow them into that delusion which St. Paul speaks of to believe a lye that they might be damned To exemplifie this but in one thing of many thousands more lest I be thought to say more then can be proved Be it observed how Antichristianly the most main and heavenly Doctrine of Regeneration is stated by our learned Grandees For whereas the Scripture states it in such a perfection in Christ as in a condition above sin so that he that is so born sins not neither can sin they state it onely in a condition not to be committers of sin there give such a meaning to committing of sin as is much like the sense that they give of the sin against the Holy Ghost even such as few in the world come under the guilt of and so most damnably delude people to their utter perdition while they secure them upon a conceited Regeneration by their Infant-Baptism or perhaps some restraint of enormious open gross crimes and so run headlong into Hell in the driving of their Lusts wherein is the whole power of the Devil unto eternal damnation Thus stating Regeneration in Antichrist it become no better then damnable delusion whereas stated by and in Christ it is the very power and arm of God unto salvation the very building on Christ the Corner-stone whereby to become Temples of God eternally in heaven These things are Mysteries to the self-wise World shut out from their eyes and so are all the saving things of Christ See we how hypocritically base the self wise Prelacy have stated that high power and priviledge given by Christ to his Church above all that Authority and powers in the World even to bind their Kings in Chains and their Nobles with Links of Iron which being heavenly and spiritual and so of efficacy beyond all fleshly power they plucking it out as it was rooted in Christ planting it in Antichrist in an Antichristian Carnal Earthly Spirit that can perceive savour nothing of what is heavenly have sixed and rooted it in an affectation of Earthly Dominion and Greatness with such a besotted baseness as rather then fail seeing they can reach to no higher eminence in worldly state the worlds Princes not enduring more to be allowed them lay hold even of the Fag-end the very Tayle of the civil Power skipping up and on the hanging on the Rump of the Beast rather then on no part above at all and so they may reign some way in earthly power dote upon such base preheminences as were they the least in their right wits they would utterly abhor and all this by transplanting the Church-power out of Christ into Antichrist The like is about matters of Divine Worship to state them in Forms Liturgies Ceremonies and Gallantry specious things in the eyes of the Carnal which did they know the least of Christ and his Spirit they would extremely abominate But I need not insist on these things here they are at ful displayed in Gallicinium and the World though back'd with all the Power of Hel shal never be able to gain-say them Thus already some discovery is made how of necessity these plantings in Antichrist must be plucked up ere there can be planting again in Christ God and Belial Christ and Antichrist cannot stand together And whereas I said All things must become new it is not as if a new Light were pretended unto or new things to be brought in but even as in Christ formerly all things were said to be made new that is restored a new unto the primaeval integrity as God first made man So likewise in this case all the devices and delusions of Antichrist now becoming old and rotten to be abolished and the truths and this way of Christ renewed and restored Be it known therefore that as this must be so it shal be and God is about this great work to overturn overturn overturn the Diadem is reserved for him to whom it belongeth even the Lord Christ who must reign in his time and all Worlds whatsoever