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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12807	A plaine exposition vpon the first part of the second chapter of Saint Paul his second epistle to the Thessalonians Wherein it is plainly proved, that the Pope is the Antichrist. Being lectures, in Saint Pauls, by Iohn Squire priest, and vicar of Saint Leonards Shordich: sometime fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge.	Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653.	1630 (1630)	STC 23114; ESTC S100545	402,069	811

were mine owne Apostasie this must bee mine owne judgement It were better that a milstone were tyed about my necke and that I were cast into the bottome of the sea Luk. 17. 2. But beloved I hope better things of you Even such as accompany sanctification and foregoe yea foretell salvation Thus as God hath shewed me have I shewed you that Antichrist is revealed Concerning which point concerning all points God himselfe reveale the truth unto you all by the illumination of his holy spirit It is time to End here is the End of this point here is the End of this Sermon here is the End of this Terme and here may be the End of our Lives Wee are mortall and wee are not sure to returne to another Sermon Howsoever I End this Sermon as if it were the End of my Life I will speake a few words plainely and heartily Some labour yee see I have bestowed on a great question wherein the event hath answered my expectation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am thought to have erred in both the Extreames Some say my sermons have beene excessive that they have beene too hot some say they have been deficient too cold against the Papists That they say I am in both extreames mee thinketh they conclude that I am in neither but that I am in the middest without Partiality To answer them and to satisfie you I say to the one my Sermons have not beene Extreame for I doe not hate the Papists I say to the other they have not beene deficient for I doe not love the Papists I doe no● hate the Papists because I know they are Men. I doe not love the Papists because I know they are Erroneous And indeed I desire to separate the men from their Error not by a mathematicall abstraction in my discourse onely but I would make such a Reall separation that if it lay in my power I would bring their Persons to Heaven but send their Errours to the Pit of Hell to the Devill who hatched them I say to both Againe I renew my old protestation I doe so speake to you as I meane to speake to God as I must accompt my Sermons at that dreadfull day of Iudgement And in truth that I should bee partiall any way I can imagine no motive to lead mee thereunto Surely it can be neither ambition nor covetousnesse no covetousnes to discharge such a labour no ambition to follow such a labourer And if I understand mine owne Heart surely by these labours I am covetous of nothing but to inrich you with knowledge and ambitious of nothing but to promote you to be the heires of the kingdome of Heaven Now I hope you will pardon such a Covetousnesse I hope you will not bee angry with such an Ambition To purchase both which for your behoofe you see my labour the Talent which God hath given to mee I imploy for you Part of this Talent you have had alreadie the remnant I will now cary home with me There I will not bury it nor hide it in a Napkin but I will indevour to increase it that I may returne it with abundance for your future benefit In the meane time wee are to depart all of us for many dayes some of us for many Miles also One thing therefore at parting I will leave you till it please God we meet againe either in this place or in a better I will bequeath that to you at the End of my Exercise which Saint Paul did bequeath to these Thessalonians at the End of this Epistle The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all Amen SERMON XIII 2 THESS 2. 7. The Mysterie of Iniquity doth alreadie worke The Mystery of Iniquitie Popish Mysteries to advance the Papacy Popish mysteries to advance Popery Baites to catch Papists Hookes to hold Papists THat I might breathe a little before I entred this great point I craved leave and have taken it But thereby inopem me copia fecit Fluent matter furnished my meditations in such abundant manner that I feared this Exercise would resemble your Cisternes runne at wast One houre cannot suffice for so many particulars But I remember a story in Tacitus Atcius Capito fearing the overflowing of Tiber diverting the streame into other branches prevented the Inundation of the maine River So here the mysteries of Antichrist being so many I will reserve some of these points unto the 11 verse where Antichrists working is called efficacia deceptionis strong delusion to the 10 where it is termed seductio iniquitatis deceiveablenesse of unrighteousnesse to the 9 where his comming is said to bee potentia prodigijs in all power and signes and lying wonders and unto the 8 verse where Antichrist is stiled iniquus that is the Fountaine of iniquity All these doe containe Mysteries but now I will deliver and discover mysteria iniquitatis Onely such things as are plainly and primely mysticall above all other A Mysterie Weake blowes are mortall fastned on a feeble adversary And in a plaine case to speake but superficially is to disclose it sufficiently Here it may stagger even a sound Papist to see how sitly the Pope may be invested with this word mystery Hee is apparelled with it whatsoever he weareth is Povel de Antichristo lib. 1. cap. 25. sect 7. mysticall His white linnen Surplesse Rochet or Vestiment they say is to signifie the whitenesse of the Popes Innocence and Chastity there is one mystery His two-horned M●ter signifieth his knowledge in the two Testaments there is another mystery In his triple Crowne is involved a treble mystery First it signifieth the three Graces Faith Hope and Charity Secondly his Three Kingdomes of Heaven Earth and Hell Thirdly yet more mystically more majestically it shadoweth the mystery of the Trinity Baculus his Crosier importeth the rod of Moses and Aaron with which hee doth correct the Erring people another mystery Annulus his ring is pignus desponsationis cum Ecclesia a pledge of his contract with the Church a strange mysterie Chirothecae his Gloves are signes that his hands are cleere from corruption and bribery would this were true and no mysterie Yea the very name of the mystery the brand of Antichrist which is written in the forehead Danaus de Antichristo C. 11 Dounamus de Antichristo lib. 1 cap. 7 Sect. 10. of the whore of Babylon Rev. 17. 5. hath beene written above the forehead of the Pope in his Miter And the mystery of the Name Rev. 17. 4. Poculum aureum plenum abominationum that is a Golden cup full of abominations implying how the mystery of iniquity shall intoxicate miserable seduced people The mysterie of this Name is involved in the Popes Name Papa P Poculum a Cup A Aureum of gold P Plenum full A Abominationum of Abominations So that both according to the Letter and sense also that word falleth to the Pope as an indiuiduall property But I desist from these Velitations come to grapple with