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A44285	A sermon preached afore Thomas Andrews Lord Maior and the aldermen, sheriffs &c. of the honorable corporation of the citie of London in which discourse is held forth I. The order, method, and succession of times and things both good and evil ... as an explanation of his former sermon before the said honorable assembly upon Octob. 8, 1650. 2. A touch upon the two witnesses. 3. An iconism or picture of the present apostacie in England. 4. A systeme of symptomes of them that will have the spiritual falling - sickness to depart from the faith / by Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2575; ESTC R29231	23,573	34

of that Greek name of Anti-christ Rev. 9.11 Apollyon * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Hebrew name there answers exactly This Feast as the Revelation oft cals him is both actively and passively The Man of sin and Son of perdition ** Illud scelus Homo perditus as the purer Latins name one desperatly wicked for ruine He causeth and is sin and perdition The cause in others the object in himself Son in Hebrew applied to things as in the Text signifies inherence and propriety of the thing to that man I think it long this while I am in the Bark and Shell of the Text. Let us shew you briefly the pith and kernell I am not willing though it would be easie to shew you the variety of Glosses of the Greek ancient and pious Fathers but rather to my light strike point blank upon the verity of the native sense Before the next Appearance of Christ two Signes shall precede as fore-runners Apostasie and Anti-christian Impiety both transcending and surpassing For 't is as well emphatically said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The or that Apostasie as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The or that Man of sin And both inferring one another like Scales If profession of Christianity go down Anti-christianisme riseth up If Anti-christianisme stands up ascends visible Christianity fals down and deelines The Apostle speaks both in a breath not putting so much as a period or half period point between And after in this Chapter prosecutes them as reciprocally by turns inferring one another * So in Ver. 10 after the Text. Men hear the Truth but not receive the love of the Truth they are out of love with it Therefore the Man of sin is let to appear He openly acts his power signes c. and deceives such with his unrighteousness and lyes This the order of nature of these in the Apostles following prosecution This Apostasie and this Discovery revealine Anti-christ are both twofold here hinted and elsewhere more explained twilled together like the Legs of two Wrestlers clasping for a Combat The first Apostasie is not onely from the outward serious practise of Religion but also from the Doctrine of Faith and the historical or temporary Faith of Doctrine as elsewhere we have more enlarged * Doemonologie or Character of the crying Evils of the present Times yea and by that means gradually to apostatise from a fundamental Faith that there is one true God JEHOVAH that hath his throne in Heaven and the Farth for his foot-stool and yet many have a diabolical Faith implicitly at least to go to the Devil in unlawfull Astrologie ●ele●mes Stoicheioseis Schemes Cir●…es and Infernal ceremonies to know and do things not revealed by God This Apostasie the Apostle here hints ●ers 10 11 12. after our Text as a Commentary upon it touching the word Apostasie saith he They received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved For this came God sent them strong Delusions that they should beleive a ●e● that they all might be damned who beleived not the Truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness But this this same Apostle in 1 Tim. 4.1 2. lays wide open and strikes home thus Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the later ●imes some shall depart from the ●…ITH giving heed to seducing spirits and DOCITRINES of DEVILS speaking lyes in hypocrisie having their CONSCIFNCES SEARED WITH AN HOT IRON This added fully reacheth this latitude of the first Apostasie which though it seems to wrestle against Anti-christianisme yet doth but list it up For by the opportunity of this Apostasie Anti-christianisme takes its turn to be advanced and therein is the first Revelation of Anti-christ as the Text speaks that is Anti-christ shall be revealed in his power and glory * So the Greek Fathers generally though I list not to name them as the blinde Worlds power and glory ** Rev. 13.3 All the world wondered after the Beast as our Apostle sufficiently hints in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and ●…erses after the Text as a Commentary upon it touching that revealing that same man of sin s●ith the Apostle according to the Creek and 〈◊〉 of perdition be revealed that same opposer and exalter of himself above all that is called God or is worshipped even to hi● sitting over the Temple of God as God shewing himself that he is God and now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time That is the being and power of the Roman Emperour hindered Anti-christ then from appearing in that dominion power and glory as to be above all that is called God c. that is above all Magistracy To which as he attains there is added a second Apostasi● he draweth after him the Nations of the Earth from their due Subjection to their own chief Magistracy to adore and worship him Rev. 13.8 And this our Apostle sufficiently hinteth * Though we n●me not the whole stream of the Latin 〈◊〉 th●… generally running this way unto us in Vers 9. and 10. After in that he saith This same Opposer of all other powers shall come after the working of Satan with all power and deceivableness Should seem he shall deceive many with all his false Principles and draw them after him to submit to his power till at last follows a second Revelation of that Man of sin Anti-christ revealing him in his intolerable impiety tyranny and enmity not onely against the Christianity of Beleivers but against the natural liberty of mankinde So that this second Revelation of him Legs down and overthrows the first Revelation of him And repays his causing the former Apostasies from Conscience towards God and due subjection to Magistrates with an Apostasie if I may so call it it being a godly Apostasie of the enlightened World from him and his pretended power both ecclesiastical and cevil This second Revealing of him not to lean upon modern learned which might numerously be quoted we clearly collect out of the Apostles words in the 8. Vers after our Text as further commenting upon the extent of the word revealing And then saith he shall that wicked one be revealed How revealed As stubble in a slame and nearer to the words as riches and pomp in the riotous wasting and spending And as a person in great honor devested and degraded from that honor For saith the Apostle him shall the Lord consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of to keep to the Greek his Appearance The Spirit or Breath of Christs mouth is his Word * See Isay 11.4 The Chalde on that Chapter expounds the Spirit or Breath of his mouth to be his Word and his Spirit accompanying it as 2 Cor. 3. And his appearance is as well spiritual in the effect of his Word and Spirit upon the hearts of men drawing them from Anti-christ and providential in ordering things to that end as personal in his visible coming next before which personal his spiritual

minde That is as 't is said in a like phrase Rom. 1. God gave them up and Rom. 9. God hardens some mens hearts God gave them up in just judgement that as many of the ten Horns as should after destroy the Whore ver 16. should notwithstanding afore that having been enlightned and in good measure delivered from Popery revolt from that illumination and deliverance and close confederate and covenant into one determination with the other of the ten Horns or Kingdoms of Europe that continually abode in Popery For say they Now in vers 17. all the ten Horns were not of one minde till by consultation and agreement they made themselves of one minde Some of them as we said but now had been enlightned and escaped from Popery but now revolt into one minde with Popish Kingdoms and Nations and their powers And this must be say they else how shall the Witnesses of all Gods people lie dead three days and an half For these Witnesses of all Believers are not found in Kingdoms that still contined in Popery Therefore they must be in Nations that once being enlightned departed from Rome but as 't was said afore revolt again unto subjection to Rome And this last subjection to Rome is that which precedes next before the ruine of Rome by the resurrection of the Witnesses who must rise up out of those Nations before enlightned though since revolted but now again returning to the Truth God stirring up his people to that animosity For not all the ten Horns or Kingdoms shall hate and destroy the Whore because 't is express Rev. 18. that some of them shall lament her ruine But the meaning is that some of the ten Horns shall destroy her Synechdoche generis pro specie totius pro parte As 't is said with the same figurative speech The Thieves that is de specie latronum some of the kinde of Thieves as well as of Souldiers c. reviled Christ though but one of them did it 2 Argum. Their other Argument is from Revel 18.7 That before the total fall of Babylon even a little afore that ruine she shall glorifie her self saying in her heart I SIT A QUEEN AM NO WIDOW AND SHALL SEE NO SORROW But say our Authors 't is not yet so with the Popedom For my part I had not time in my sudden warning to this work to debate these things to my full satisfaction nor have I time in this hour to determine how far I close with these things in all particulars further then to tell you that so far I conceive them to be right as in the main they make out my Text and Doctrine That an eminent falling down of Religion and arising up of Antichristianism will be before the next appearance of Christ and sutable perdition successively will attend upon it And both will be the more general and high where they are not timously prevented You will ask How should there be any prevention in any degree We answer out of the Text three things 1. Three Preventions To beware aforehand take warning Fear and repent Blessed is the man that feareth always as is the general scope of the Text. And our Saviour to the lapsed Churches in the second and third Chapters of the Revelation gives this antidote in the word Repent threatens to remove the Candlestick or to do so and so unto them unless they did repent and aggravates their sin that he gave them time to repent and they did not and commands them to repent and do their first works It should seem Christ distinctly requires affectionate and effectual Repentance to prevent those judgements Affectionate in deep workings of the affections as the word intimates and effectual in doing our former works as t is there express Repentance it should seem will avert such threats Non-repentance lets in ruine as a deluge In Revel 16. at pouring out of one Vial 't is added afore the next be poured our that they repented not at the pouring out of the former Repentance is fully described A Motlon for days of Humiliation 2 Cor. 7.11 And to help on this I would Parliament and Citie and Kingdom would not lose their acquaintance with days of publike Humiliation Now for Sins as formerly for Judgements The former is a weightier cause and includes the business of the later And to go to the work afore we are whipt to it Forcement to that duty will neither speak for our sincerity nor for our hopes in the day of solemn cries Poor Nineve of Heathens scaped by this course of Repentance Think of it you English Professors and promote it Mean while let us be marked with the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * The first letter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Law Doctrin Instruction Word of God Thereby signifying men whose hearts are deeply affected with the Word of God to judge and do according to it T as 't is in the Hebrew noting us for them that mourn and sigh and cry for the abominations of the land Ezek. 9.4 And you Senators and Judges of Sessions and Judicatures Let justice be done according to the Law as the Persian Emperour said of judging a mighty Queen in Esth 1.15 chiefly on Blasphemers and Atheists who are worse then many Thieves you hang. And let all of us call upon our apostatized friends and reclaim or constrain or restrain them 2. 2 Prevention The Text doth intimate that all shall not be deceived to fall totally away else the Apostles admonition to the Thessalonians had been totally vain Therefore let us search into our hearts and try our ways by the candle of the Lord as Solomon speaks meaning Divine light whether we be of them that are like to have this Falling-sickness of Apostacie from Religion Symptomes of the spiritual Falling-sickness or Apostacie from Religion like to fall away from our Profession I shall here for brevity sake give you but Five Symptomes 1 Symptome is Not to receive the LOVE of the Truth So vers 10. after my Text where 't is not said onely receive THE TRUTH but the LOVE of the Truth Truth and love of Truth and to love it as Truth And that not meerly to be prudent wise understanding men but as 't is there also to be saved And salvation as S. Austin well upon Mat. 1.21 is to be saved from our sins Truth must be a Science closed with the Stock of the heart by Love It must be a Plant set in a moist heart Jam. 1.21 An implanted or engrafied Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thy heart and the Word must live and grow up together as a Stock and a Science or Scion And which is wonderful the Science must change the nature of the Stock 2. He whose heart is willing to sin 2 Sympto● but only 't is restrained by something without the heart as in Laban Balaam and at a time in Saul and Pilate he that very man is like to