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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90843	The unveiling of Antichrist. Or, Antichrist stript naked out of all his Scripture-attyre, by which he hath deceived the Christian world; so that we may the more cleerly see the very bottome-root, from whence he sprang, and the very basis and foundation upon which he hath erected, and set up his kingdome. / By James Pope.	Pope, James, fl. 1675.	1646 (1646)	Wing P2902; Thomason E337_2; ESTC R200817	20,183	32

appears a Risen Christ for us and continueth his Mediatorship those that are in covenant with God shall so continue otherwayes we shall make the Mediatorship of Christ lesse successefull then that of Moses who did prevaile with God to passe by the peoples sinne Exod. 32. 11. Psalm 106. 23. Oh let us take heed that we do not so dishonour Christ in his Mediatorship for to prefer Moses before Christ is Antichristian The use of the sixth Difference If the bloud of Christ and not the bloud of Beasts is the bloud of the New Testament then here is the great priviledge of Saints the bloud of the first Testament did onely purifie the flesh Heb. 9. 13. But the bloud of Christ is shed for us being the bloud of the New Testament Matth. 26. 28. And this bloud purges the conscience from dead workes to serve the living God Heb. 9. 14. by this bloud we have Remission of sinnes and a way made into the holiest through the veil which is his flesh and that with boldnesse by that new and living way and have a high Priest over the house of God Heb. 10. 18 19 20 21. Nay it is not onely our priviledge that we may enter boldly but it is our duty we ought to draw near in full assurance of Faith vers 22. So that which is our priviledge is our duty and our duty is our priviledge In this we may take notice of the unspeakable freenesse of the Grace of God and magnifie it as also the wonderfull happinesse of the Saints that are made to partake of such Grace When the bloud of the first Covenant was to be offered none could go into the holyest but the High Priest but now the veile that did keep the people from the holyest is done away or rather the substance of that shadow is consecrated to be our new and living way of entrance by the bloud of Jesus into the holyest and this blessed way unto the Father is open to all the people of the Covenant that they go as freely before the Mercy Seat as the high Priest who is already entred Hab. 9. 24. But the way was not made manifest while the first Tabernacle was standing Heb. 9. 8. This shewes us that for men to teach that the people of God ought to mourn for sinne not declaring in what sence is Antichristian because there is no need to offer this bloud year by year nor a remembrance of sinne every year as under the Old Covenant Heb. 10. 1. 3. but by this one offering Christ for ever hath perfected them that are sanctified Heb 10. 12 14. So that now for the people of God to mourn for sinne as under sinnee is sinfull for it undervalues the bloud of the Covenant as if it needed to be offered yearly as the bloud of the first Covenant was Again it is sinfull because it opposes duty for it is the duty of Saints to draw near in full assurance of Faith but to apprehend our selves to lye under guilt of sinne keeps us off of this duty so that those that are truly humbled for sinne I mean those that are in the Covenant are not humbled from the sence of guilt and fear of wrath but because they by sinne do dishonour God who is their loving Father who also hath pardoned their sinne The use of the seventh Difference If the Law of the first Covenant was written in Tables of Stone and the Law of the New Govenant in Fleshly Tables of the heart then it informes us that we are not to reckon a Nation to be in covenant with God and so to be the Church of God for that sets up the first Covenant againe and so is Antichristian denying Christ to be come in the flesh for God did take a Nation in to covenant by the first covenant but by the second he takes onely those neet to himself by covenant in whose hearts he writes his Law and therefore there were Churches in Judea where was but one Nationall Church under the first Covenant as I have formedy shewed and those Churches were in Christ. 1 Thes ● 14. Gal. 1. 22. The Church of Corinth were Saints by calling 1 Cor. 1. 2. The Church to whom Peter writ were lively stones 1 Pet. 2. 5. Such as did believe Vers 7. A holy Nation a peculiar people such as were called out of darknesse into his marvelous light Vers 9. Such holy Nations and none else the new Covenant doth allow of to be the Churches of Christ all other Nations viz. all collective bodies of the Nations assuming to themselves the title and practice of Churches having no rule but from the first Covenant are Antichristian Object It may be some will object and say that in the invisible Church there is none but such as have Gods Law written in their hearts but in the visible Churches under the new Covenant there have been as bad as was among the Jewes under the first covenant Answ I answer that into the visible Churches of Saints some may creep in unawares as Jude speaks Jud. 4. But if they once be discovered to be wicked the Church will be leavened with them if they do not cast them out 1 Cor. 5. 1. 6 7. 11. Revel 2. 20. And so my ground holds good for Saints in the Nations to be the people of Gods covenant and for the Nations that call themselves Gods Churches they are as I conceive The waters that cary the Whore Rev. 17. 15. For the Whore being a spirituall thing must necessarily sit upon people that are accounted religious and not the Nations of Turks and Pagans as some think The use of the Eighth Difference If the New-covenant be so plain and full of Light then let the people of it labour to walk as children of the light and of the day putting on the Breast-plate of faith and love and for an Helmet the hope of salvation 1 Thes 5. 8. Oh let us endeavour so to walk as those that watch for our halting may have nothing against us unlesse it be in the matter of our God Let us labour to shew forth the praises of him that hath called us out of darknesse into his marvellous light 1 Pet. 2. 9. And the note that the Scripture gives us to know if we are in the light is If we love the Brethren 1 Joh. 1. 7. chapt 8 9 10 11. So that I conceive to desire to have any of them hanged imprisoned or banished is from the dark spirit of Antichrist and not from the spirit of Love and Light which is from Jesus Christ For when the Disciples would call for fire from Heaven as Elias did Christ tels them they did not know what spirit they were of Luk. 9. 55. It is like they thought it had been the spirit of God that moved them to be so zealous for their Master when it seems it was nothing so For the spirit of the Lord doth produce other fruits Gal. 5. 22 23. as Love joy Peace