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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

power and who carries himself as if he were God he is the man of sin the great Antichrist but the Popes of Rome are seated in the temple have subjected all rule and Authority to themselvs and behave themselves as if they were God therefore the Popes of Rome are the man of sin the great Antichrist Thirdly Antichrists Name is written in his forehead Rev. 17.5 Mystery Brocard a Venetian doth avouch it that the word Mystery is written in the Popes Mitre and many others who have been at Rome do profess to have seen it as Dr. Iames the late keeper of the Library at Oxford will further satisfie any man in his Dedicatory Epistle to his Treatise of the corruption of the Scriptures What mystery 't is that is written upon his forehead Saint Paul tell you 2 Thes 2.7 Mystery of iniquity As the Doctrine of the Gospel is a Mystery of Godliness so the Papacy is nothing else but a Mystery of iniquity The Pope pretends to be more for Christ then any man in the World Christs Vicar Christs Vicegerent the visible head of Christs Church Saint Peters successor to feed the flock of Christ and still he hath Christ in his mouth and who but Christ with him I tell you he pretends to be more for Christ then any man alive but let me tell you withall that there is no man alive so much against Christ as he is and therefore most properly called Antichrist which signifies both for and against Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek is pro as well as contra Ioh. 1.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grace for Grace The great Antichrist is one that is pretendedly for Christ but is really against Christ which cannot be affirmed of the great Turk or of any other beside the Pope but of him it may most clearly That he bears the World in hand he is Christ greatest friend I need not prove I suppose we will all take that for granted but let me shew you how in truth he is Christs greatest Enemy in all points One mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus 1 Time 2.5 There are other Mediators says the Pope both for satisfacton and intercession for satisfaction the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass the blood of Thomas the merits of the Church for intercession the Virgin Mary Saints and Angels are intercessors to God even as to our particular necessities for us there 's but one says Christ there are more says the Pope Christ alone is Prophet of his Church to be heard in all things whatsoever he shall say Act. 3. and for this end he opened the sealed book bids every one of his search the Scriptures grow in knowledge walk in the light of Gospel-truth the Pope expresly contradicts this and tells you that the Doctrine Christ hath left in the Scriptures is not sufficient without his daily supplements of unwritten Traditions which are of equal Authority with the word of Christ and must be beleeved upon pain of damnation Of the written word what he pleaseth he makes authentique what he pleases he cancels he teaches and interprets all by an infallible unerring Spirit He hath sealed up the book or Bible which Christ opened to them forbidding the people the use of Scriptures Latine Scriptures Latine Service all must be to them in an unknown tongue he tells them that ignorance is the mother of devotion and to believe as the Church believes is knowledge and faith enough Christ hath forbidden all kinde of pictures and Images in the Worship of God Deut. 4.15.16 Take good heed unto your selves for ye saw no manner of similitude in the day the Lord spake unto you in Horeb lest ye corrupt your selves and make a graven Image c. John 4.23 The true worshippers worship the Father in Spirit and in truth the Father seeketh such to worship him No says the Pope you shall make Images of the Trinity and pictures of the Cross and shall kiss and worship them with the worship of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the same worship ye give God Christ You shall make Images of Saints and Angels and shall worship them with worship of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a religious worship though not the highest you shall pray unto them and fill all your Churches with them for they are Lay-mens books Christ hath taught us that our own righteousness is as menstruous rags upon our best performances we are unprofitable sevants that we are justified by faith without the works of the Law T is not so says the Pope good Works are meritorious there is a merit of congruity in them before conversion and a merit of condignity in them after conversion nay that some men do works of supererogation more then the Law of God requireth or is their duty to do whereby they are not onely justified themselves but the overplus of their merits helps to justifie others Christ saith he will have the Sacrament of the Supper administred in both kinds 1 Cor. 11 23. to 27. I have received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you that the Lord Iesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and sayd take eat this is my body after the same manner he took the cup saying this cup is the new Testament in my blood this do ye as oftenas ye eat this bread and drink this cup c. This St. Paul received of Jesus Christ delivered it in charge to all and every of the Churches of Corinth both what and how they were to receive It shall not be so says the Pope the Priest shall receive in both kinds the People shall have nothing but the bread Christ teaches that marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled Heb. 13. No says the Pope 't is not honorable in the Clergy so they call them t is not lawful for a Priest to marry Christ says Let no man judge you in respect of meats or drinks or an holy day Col. 2. You are now freed from the observation of daies and meats every creature of God is good if it be received with thanksgiving No says the Pope ye shall observe Saints daies and for meats touch not taste not any flesh on such and such dayes and weeks of Lent But to what end should I thus go on I profess I can hardly name one Doctrine of Jesus Christ but the Popes of Rome have thwarted it either directly or indirectly and quite subverted it The Pope may see himself in those old Heretiques the Antitactae as in a glass who held it religion to contradict the Laws of their Maker and instead of Gods Laws brought in their own inventions and fooleries Take it thus He on whom such a mystery of iniquity is found as to pretend to be wholy for Christ and yet in every thing crosses and opposes Christ he is the man of sin the true and great Antichrist but upon the Pope is this mystery of iniquity

of revealing of him was most sutable serviceable to the great design God had upon the base rotten Christian World Fourthly The revelation of him in this Book and elsewhere is sufficiently clear to all the Elect who have set themselves to find out Antichrist As it fared with the Jews concerning Christ Rom. 11.7 so also with the Gentilish Churches concerning Antichrist The election have obtained knowledge of him when the rest are blinded by their own wilfulness by their self interest and God holds their eyes in a just judgement that they shall not see and know him Dan. 12.10 None of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand If the sense of the Context be rightly drawn down it speaks to this present business concerning Antichrist and bringing in the Kingdom of our Lord the men of the world will be blinded to the last but the spiritually wise do discern and judge of all things Rev. 15. ult The Temple was filled with smoak from the glory of God and from his Power and no man was able to enter into the Temple till the seven plagues of the seven Angels were fulfilled This verse will bear a double Interpretation one of them is this the Temple or Church of Christ gained out of the hands of Antichrist hath the glorious presence and Power of God abiding in it for the smoak that filld the Tabernacle and Temple upon their dedications had that signification whereto the Holy-Ghost here alludes God hath been powerfully and gloriously present amongst his Saints since the Vials began to be poured out The other which I aim at is This the Temple or Church of Christ to the eye of the Antichristian Partie as a powerfull and just judgement of God upon them is full of the smoak of Apostacie smoak of Errors Heresies the smoak of Schisme the smoak of Treason the smoak of Rebellions the Church of Rome and Popish Faction can see nothing of Righteousness Equity Honesty in any or all those wayes the Saints take against them their Assemblies and Councels their Doctrines and doings are the darkness and grievance of smoak unto them and will be so yet a while for none of them says the text can come into the Temple To be true members of the Church of Christ to own the Assemblies of the Saints in their worship and wayes till the seven plagues of the seven Angels be fulfilled I say till then such a smoak is in their eyes they will not be able to get any clear vision of things though there be the light of noon day to guide us in our work and way The whore hath layed Kings mighty men Merchants and all them both great and small that dwell upon the Earth except two poor witnesses dead-drunk with the wine of the spiritual fornication Rev. 14. Those who are drunk with Heresies Errors their own Inventions and Opinions can have no right understanding or discerning spirit in them neither of themselves nor of the great Antichrist nor of the true Church nor of God in Christ God in his works or worship they know no body they know nothing but what their drunken fancy and strong delusions suggest to them Popery is a mystery 2 Thes 2. Rev. 17. and do you wonder if Papists and carnal impenitent People do not or cannot understand mysteries See but one text more Hos 14.9 Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them for the wayes of the Lord are right and the just shall walk in them but the transgressors shall fall therein This Scripture can hold truer in nothing then in this business between Christ and Antichrist wicked men are blinded in it they stumble at it and fall but the Saints of God being wise and prudent they discern they know go on in the right wayes of the Lord. I am perswaded there is no man in the World that hath the Spirit of Jesus Christ in him that is a Saint indeed but if he set himself to study this point which Humility Diligence Faith and Prayer he shall be led into the very City of Rome and there comparing predictions with the Popes actions for Paul had no other way mightily to convince the Jews that that same Jesus who was born of Mary suffered so ignominously under Pontius Pilate was the very Christ but by laying his birth in the circumstances of it his manner of Life Doctrine Miracles Death Resurrection to the Prophesies that went before of him and this did it I say when he shall have taken a full veiw of things there comparing the Popes carriage with what Daniel Paul and the Apostle John have spoken of him and see how fully they joyn and cloze one with another he shall be forced to sit down satisfied that the Popes of Rome are the great Antichrist and the oftner he reads this Chapter of Paul to the Thessalonians and Saint Johns Revelation he shall wonder at the clearness of this truth shining and breaking in upon him more and more and marvel that any who ever read Saint Paul and Saint John do not see it Though God hath expressed things darkly in this point yet clear enough to all the Elect if the rest be deceived and perish he matters it not 't is the Elect he intends to Communicate secrets Mysteries and do good unto But the Bishops of Rome that were once by common confession such good men some of them even Martyrs for Christ they were planted as Jeremiahs expression is wholy a right seed how were they turned into the degenerate plant of a strange Vine into the Vine of the Earth Rev. 14.18 How came they to so much vilenes as to make up the man of sin the great Antichrist For satisfaction to this 1. Those of them that were truly good righteous and holy persons doubtless their seed abode in them so they lived and so they died their Righteousnes Holiness Services Sufferings went along with them Secondly God hath not so annexed grace to any Function or Rank of man not yet to any one place in the World but in process of time that Function may fail that place basely degenerate Sure if God had Entailed grace and goodness on any succession of men it was Aaron and those that followed in the Priesthood but how it was with them may be known if you read 1 Sam 2.12 to the end of that Chapter The Holy Ghost spake nothing bad but all good of the Angel and Church of Philadelphia yet now t is the Synagogue and habitation of Turks and Devils But a most ominous Prophetical Warning did Paul give the Church of Rome Rom. 11.17 to 23. If some of the branches be broken off and thou being a wild Olive-tree wert graffed in among them and with them partakest of the Root and Fatness of the Olive-tree Boast not against the Branches if thou Boast thou bearest not the Root but the Root thee Thou wilt say then the Branches were broken off that I might be