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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

find out a name but such a name out of them as will grasp in all the other descriptions of Antichrist such a name as sutes to all that is said of him in the Rev. or elsewhere such a name as will hold forth the man that succeeds the Emperors in the Government of the Roman State or that is the seventh head of Daniels fourth beast that sits in the temple of God as the great Church man Lording it over the Faith and Consciences of all men in the world and in ordine ad spiritualia subjecteth all civil rule and Authority to himself that highly pretends to be for Christ and yet in every thing crosseth and contradicteth Christ That looks like a Lamb speaks like a Dragon and exerciseth the Power of the first beast viz. King Consuls c. When we put them to find a name out of this number that points out a man to whom all these particulars do agree they are at a stand they cannot give us one though their Kingdom and their All lie upon it Wherefore I conclude That that name whereto all the descriptions of Antichrist do agree is that Saint John bids us here seek after and is the name of the great Antichrist but the names before given pointing out the Pope are such as in every one of them all the descriptions of Antichrist do meet and concentrate therefore this is the name and consequently the Pope is the man of sin the great Antichrist Thus you have a sevenfold-scripturall demonstration of the point It 's good to make sure-work when we have to do with so unruly a beast But why did not the Holy-Ghost speak expresly who it was might not he as easily have said the Popes of Rome are the man of sin the great Antichrist as expressed it thus darkly and left it so liable to doubt and controversie I answer T is not for us to teach God how he shall speak but duty when he hath spoken to set our selves with reverence to spell out his mind I might put you off with this But yet think I may with safety venture to give you some reasons why God carried it on thus in the clouds and in the dark I. 'T was out of a tender respect he had to his People the prevention of their utter ruine for had he said that the Bishops of Rome and consequently Christians should be Lords of Rome yea make Kings and Emperors bow before them nay be Masters of the World this inhumane conjecture would have armed the Heathen Emperors as one man against the Christians and Christians talked so much of a Kingdom that they had some thoughts and jealousies in their heads and hearts of them already therefore certainly if Saint John had spoke out their jealousies had kindled into a flame against them that they would have set themselves to have destroyed the name of Christian from of the Earth which was this way prevented Secondly God would shew himself to be the God of secrets and depths of wisdom above weak shallow man This book of the Revelation hath brought many great and learned men to let fall their plumes the high thoughts of their own wisdoms and sufficiencies hath set them a studying hath exercised their best Intellectuals brought them upon their knees to God in prayer that he would be pleased to give them a Revelation of the Revelation the things he hath opened in this book that he would open them more and give them his own key for none else can unlock the Cabinet How hath it set men of admiring that if there be such hardness such depths in Gods Revelations what unsearchable secrets and depths of Mysteries are there in the heart and bosome of God himself infinitely above the reach of the understanding of all Men and Angels God loves to lay vain proud men low he loves to bring them to the knowledge of themselves and t is a great mercy to us that he doth so Thirdly God sent Antichrist as the greatest judgement on men that ever was in the World Rev. 6.2 God there sends forth Christ in his Apostles Evangelists and others riding swiftly on the white horse of the Gospel and you know how quickly they rid clean through the world Psal 19.34 with Rom. 10.18 but the world did generally despise the Gospel of Salvation offered to them In the following verses of that chapter God sends out The red horse of War The black horse of Famine The pale horse of Pestilence and his name that sate upon him was Death and Hell followed him verse the twelfth There comes a great Earthquake which upon the same account shakes down all the heathen Gods and Monarchies brings Constantine the great into the Throne sets up Christianity in the World and now Regis ad Exemplum every one turns Christian but yet the meer formality of name and notion served their turn the generality of men received the Christian faith but not in the love of it they held the truth of God in unrighteousness and this doubtless angered God more then the Heathens open contempt of the Gospel whereupon God set himself to bring forth some greater judgements on the Christian world then he had on the Heathenish when first he had secured his own By sealing the servants of God in the forehead Chap. 7. In the eighth Chapter the Trumpets sound whereby all Expositors agree haereses corruptelas verae Doctrinaepraesignificari In the four first chiefly Heresies Corruptions of sound Doctrine are presignified Temporal miseries not excluded but t is something hard I find to assign the right heresie and who was the broacher to every Trumpet Chap. 9.1 2. Tht fifth Angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit And he opened the bottomless pit and there arose smoak out of the pit as the smoak of a great furnace and the sun and the air were darkned by reason of the smoak of the pit Here Hell breaks loose upon them and now in the Popes of Rome or the great Antichrist was wrath come upon the Christian World to the uttermost there were all Judgements in this one 2 Thes 2.8 to 13. Then shall that wicked be revealed whose comming is after the manner of Satan with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that Perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be sved for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lye that they all might be damned c. Now if God had named the Person and time of Antichrists coming there are such fearful things spoken of him that all the World would have set against him and so God had crossed the decree of Divine Justice but being expressed thus darkly the Pope hath been able to corrupt and deceive all the Nations of the Earth whereby the determined wrath is come upon the souls and bodies of Hypocritical and ungodly Christians This kinde

graffed in Well because of unbelief they were broken off and thou standest by faith be not high-minded but fear for if God spared not the natural Branches take heed lest he also spare not thee Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God on them that fell severity but towards thee goodness if thou continue in his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut off Are these Bugbears windie Bladders Can these words possibly import less then that God and Grace were not so made over to them but time might produce a change both in Pastors and Church from good to bad from bad to worse and that if they did not walk humbly and watch to the keeping of the Faith they should certainly be cut off Thirdly Together with Constantines large Endowments and Immunities there arose abundance of Idleness Errors Images Superstitions Pride Affectation of outward greatness especially in the Church of Rome and thus she forsook her first Love and the spirit daily quenching yea dying in them they knew no way to keep up but by supporting themselves with a carnal and outward strength Socrates in his seventh book and 11. Chapter saith Now began an ill name to stick on the Bishops of Rome who beyond their priestly bounds have stept into principality This was in the daies of Theodosius the yonger scarce fourscore years since their low poor condition which Constantine raised them from The next remarkable thing we read of was this Philippicus Leo with some other Emperors after them not without the advice of Pratriarks and a whole Eastern Councel threw Images out of Churches as being decreed Idolatrous Whereupon the Bishop of Rome seizes the City and Territories about into his own hands makes himself Lord thereof which till then was Governed by a Greek Magistrate absolves all Italy of their Tribute and obedience due to the Emperor upon this goodly occasion Then to bear himself out in these pranks he takes upon him by Pap●●● sentence to unthrone Chilpericus gives the Kingdom to Pepin and so made him his fast friend and Champion for by him he presently got all Ravenna and annexed it to the Sea of Rome as lawful prize to Saint Peter I must not now stand to tell you how throughout the fift and sixt hundred years after Christ diverse of the Bishops of Rome did openly contend for supremacy but were supprest in several Councels of Carthage and Chalcedon T was not long after when Phocas murthered his Master the Emperor Mauritius and then says the Historian Bonifacius obtinuit a Phoca ut Rom. Ecclesia esset caput omnium Ecclesiarum Pope Boniface obtained of Phocas that the Church of Rome should be head of all Churches From that time forward that Antichristian Jurisdiction and Supremacie grew still more and more till it became an overgrown Monster even to give Laws to all the Kingdoms and Churches in the World Fourthly It is said Rev. 13.2 The Dragon gave him his Power and Seat and great Authority The Pope hath the Keys of the bottomless pit Rev 9 in his hands the devil freely bestowed them on him and made him the great steward of his house his heart rests securely in him Fithly God made them Antichrist in that sense which he 's said to harden Pharoahs heart They not receiving the truth in the Love of it but holding the truth of God in unrighteousness for this cause God gave them up to what you have heard to receive in and upon themselves that recompence of their Errors and sinfulness which was meet Thus you have the cause of his Rise and Growth But haply some man will say to me Is not the Pope Saint Peters successor My Answer 's this That he is the great Antichrist hath been I think sufficiently cleared then whether he is Saint Peters Successor or no I leave thee to judge But for your clearer light in this point what if Saint Peter were never Bishop of Rome as for my part I verily beleeve he was not And because here is the very foundation of their Papacie give me leave to speak to it not doubting but I shall say enough to convince thee there is no just Warrant to make it a point of thy Faith that Peter was Bishop of Rome Whatsoever Bellarmine saith concerning Peters Journals for he speaks as punctually as if he had travelled with him from first to last hath no solid ground to rest the sole of its foot upon at all He says in the fifth year of Christs passion Peter was made Bishop of Antioch and continued in that Bishoprick seven years Then he went to Rome the second year of Claudius ibique sedem fixit ann 25. there he pitched and Bishop'd it five and twenty years Et ibidem vitam finivit there he ended his daies But that ever Peter was seven years Resident at Antioch for that 's required in a fixed Bishop and twenty five at Rome or most part of those years in those places he brings not one text of Scripture to prove either you have his bare word for it but who 'l take that for good proof in his own cause I wonder For the former of these we read concerning the Church of Antioch who gathered and constituted it Act. 11.19.20 21 22. ver 25.26 We find also who were the chif Prophets and Doctors of it Act. 13.1 We do not find in all the Scripture that Peter was at Antioch but in one place Gal. 2. and that in transcursu he took it only in his way Is here sufficient ground to conclude him Bishop of Antioch for seven years together I have stood the more upon this to shew you that if upon such slender grounds they have concluded him Bishop of Antioch for such a space of time certainly they will catch at small things to constitute him Bishop of Rome whereby their own turn is so much served Search all the New-Testament from one end of it to another and where ever you find Rome named if you find mention of Peters being there twenty five years or ten years or one year or one day then let me pass for a lyar Yea says Bellarmine 't is evident he was at Rome Ex eo quod fuit in Babylone in that he was at Babylon 1 Pet. 5.13 the Church which is at Babylon salutes you Roma autem in Apocalypsi passim vocatur Babylon Rome in the Revelation is still called Babylon his very words 1. Let God have the glory of his own truth out of his Enemies mouths Rev. 17.4 5. The woman was arrayed in Purple and Scarlet colour and decked with Gold and Precious Stones and Pearls having a golden Cup in her hand c. And upon her forehead was written Mystery Babylon the great the mother of Harlots and the abominations of the whole Earth All this then by Bellarmines own confession must be understood of Rome and the great whore or Antichrist is not to sit at Jerusalem as he says in another place lyars had need of good