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A29073	A discourse about Christ and antichrist, or, A demonstration that Jesus is the Christ from the truth of his predictions, especially, the coming and the seduction of antichrist : to which is added a treatise about the resurrection / by Edward Bagshaw ...	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1661 (1661)	Wing B408; ESTC R37055	55,746	68

publikely proclaime that Jesus was not the Messiah but that he was justly put to death and this is it which makes Infidelity a sin of so deep a dye in that it doth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Undervalue and disesteem the blood of the Covenant Heb. 10.29 and conceives that it was shed by Christ not for the Remission of our sins but for the Expiation of his own He then that dares not say that Jesus was justly put to death let him forthwith believe that he was the Christ i.e. the Eternal Son of God for for the defence and in the maintenance of that Assertion he died And so much for the Second Prediction The third and last Prediction of our Saviour Predict 3. which I shall insist upon is concerning the coming and seduction of Antichrist The words of the Prediction are Then if any say unto you Mat. 24 23 24. loe here is Christ or loe there believe them not For there shall arise False Christs and False Prophets and shall shew great Signs and Wonders insomuch as they shall deceive if it were possible the very Elect. In which Prediction there are these things considerable 1. The Title which our Saviour gives to Antichrist he speaks of him in the plural Number False Christs and False Prophets implying that there should not be one single Person but a Corbination and Conspiracy of Deceivers And though the Apostle Paul 2 Thes 2.3 speaking of Antichrist calls him The Man of sin and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that lawless one And John calls him by a single name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Antichrist yet I suppose that can be no more understood of one man than the word Satan of one Devil for in those words of our Saviour Mar. 3.23 How can Satan cast out Satan And If Satan rise up against himself and be divided he cannot stand Satan signifies the whole Commonwealth if I may so call it or Regiment of evill spirits under some one Chief Luk. 11.15 called in Scripture Beelzebub Or as the Apostle Paul in those words For even as the Body is one and hath many members 1 Cor. 12 12. but all those members of that one body though they be many make up but one body even so is Christ where the Apostle called the whole Church as it contains both Head and Members by the name of Christ So is Antichrist a collective body of many False Christs and False Prophets united under some one head for the better managing and carrying on their designs order being so necessary that as our Saviour observes Hell it self which is otherwise a place of Confusion cannot for the present subsist without it But there is a twofold Order an Order by force and constraint and that is the Order of Hell and of Antichrist and there is an Order by Consent and that is the Order of Heaven and of Christ 2. The second thing observable in this Prophecy is the way wherein Antichrist should discover himself viz. by being a False Prophet so v. 11. Many false Prophets shall arise and shall deceive many So that a False Christ and a False Prophet is the same thing the latter word being explicatory of the former And this name of False Prophet is ascribed to Antichrist by the Apostle John both in his Epistle 1 Joh. 4.1 2. Apoc. 19.20 2 Pet. 2.1 and Revelation It signifies in English a False Teacher and so Peter expresly mentions There were saith he False Prophets among the People so there shall be false Teachers among you who shall privily bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them In which words the Apostle cannot mean that they should deny the Person of our Saviour for then we could not have had any sufficient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to distinguish Antichrist by since the whole Jewish Nation and almost all the Gentiles both then did and still do they deny him but as among the Jews those who were False Prophets pretended highly to honour God but yet taught lies in his Name and secretly withdrew men from his service So should these False Christs and False Prophets cry up Christ in words for saith our Saviour Mat. 24.5 they shall come in my Name and he tells us that at the last day some shall plead for themselves Have we not prophesied in thy Name Mat. 7.22 But yet both in their Doctrine and Practice they should directly oppose him and set up a Religion which should have nothing in it of Christian but the Name To find out what kind of Doctrine it would be that Antichrist should preach and what kind of Practice he should follow the best way will be to look in Scripture what it was that our Saviour and his Apostles did most inveigh against for those very things Antichrist would set up and defend 1. In Doctrine you will find these three Opinions principally condemne● First Justification by works which the Apostle Paul spends almost two Epistles in confuring The sum of what he saies is contained in this Position We know saith he Gal. 2.16 that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but only by the Faith of Jesus Christ and we have believed in Christ Jesus that we might be justified by the Faith of Christ and not by the works of the Law for by the works of the Law no Flesh can be justified And whereas many captious men were apt to asperse this Doctrine as if it did open a way to looseness of life the Apostle proves by his own example Rom. 6.1 2. that if rightly understood it had a quite contrary effect since nothing can more effectually kill sin than to behold it as killing Christ from thence he concludes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I abolish Ver. 21. or disanul not the Grace of Gode for if Righteousness be by the Law i. e. can be attained by the observance of the Law then did Christ die in vain for what men might have got without any satisfaction made in their behalf that Christ needed not have died to purchase And therefore he urges again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ye are brought to nought from Christ Gal. 5.4 i.e. Christ is become vain to you if you are justified by the Law ye are fallen from Grace i.e. Ye do declare ye have no need of Grace or free Pardon because you appeal to the sentence of that Law from the rigour of which nothing but Christs Death could free you So that Justification by Works as evacuating the Death of Christ and rendring mens Salvation as hazardous and uncertain nay Impossible as before our Saviours coming is a Doctrine persectly Antichristian Secondly The second Doctrine recorded to us for Antichristian is the Mediation of Angels this it seems under the colour that it was too bold and presumptuous a thing for frail Man to address himself immediatly unto God some false Teachers at Colosse did advise them first to pray