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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62540	The two witnesses: their prophecy, slaughter, resurection and ascention: or, An exposition of the eleventh chapter of the Revelation wherein is plainly proved that the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, are the witnesses there spoken of, who have prophesied in sackcloth one thousand two hundred and sixty years compleat; that they are already slain, revived, and ascended. That the tenth part of the city is fallen by our late earthquake, wherein seven thousand names of men were slain. The second wo is past. This is the first part of the chapter, the second part follows. By Tho. Tillam, a weak labourer in the Lords Harvest.	Tillam, Thomas.	1651 (1651)	Wing T1168; ESTC R219308	67,928	180

from the Roman Empire and yet Antichrist is not Come Before the comming of Antichrist the Nations were to fall away Thomas Lyra. as we see it already done saith another but as their Fore-fathers the Scribes and Pharises seeing the Scepter departed from Judah wondred that the Messias came not when he was working wonders amongst them all the while and they could not discern him Even so these blind Popish Guides were gaping after the Revelation of the son of Perdition when he was all the time of their seeking for him and long before sitting in his Pontificalibus exalting himself above all that is called God being mounted by almost insensible degrees from a little horn Fulk Rhem. Test pag. 329. a vile contemptible condition to command as he pretends all the Kings and Kingdoms in the World as to instance a little in some particulars Zacharias Pope of Rome having deposed Childerick King of France and absolved his Subjects from their Oath of Fealty he gave the Kingdom to Pipin who afterward he made to kiss his feet Gregory the Second excommunicated the Emperor Leo the Third because he was an enemy to Images and while the good Emperor was casting down these Idols Field of the Church pag. 623. this son of Perdition made Decrees for the people to revolt from their obedience to him Pope Gregory the Seventh deposed Henry the Fourth and made him his wife and child wait three dayes bare-foot at his Palace Gate What shall be said to that excessive pride of Pope Alexander the Third treading upon the neck of Fredrick the Emperor spurning from the head of another the Imperial Crown making others hold his bridle his stirrop kiss his feet the Emperors being water to wash his hands carry the first Dish to his Table bear his Cup his Train carry him upon their shoulders c. call him our lord god the Pope yea to this day the Elect Emperors by order are to worship the Pope at his Coronation Paul the Third said that he was above all Princes in the World that he could change Kingdoms at his pleasure that no Prince should be his Companion but all Subjects under his feet as it was fit they should by the will and appointment of him who had built his Church upon Peter his Predecessor that he would die overthrow all and set the World on fire rather then be base and yet as much as he scornd baseness he was not asham'd nor afraid of that desperate sin of Perjury c. Boniface went in Procession attired with the Crown Imperial Pope Alexander the Sixth was so enraged with burning lust to his own Daughter that he could not endure any man to enjoy her but himself and therefore he dissolved her Marriage from two Husbands that so he might wholly engross her to his Incestuous lust which yet he fell short of for his own two Sons the Duke of Candia and Cardinal of Valentia did also share with their Father in the Incestuous enjoyment of their Sister for whose sake Valentia murthered his Brother Yea In Vita Pauli 5. so generally wicked and abominable were the Popes of Rome that Papirius Massonius a Popish Writer saith no man expects any sanctity in Popes now adayes they are thought to be excellent Popes if they have never so little honesty or be not so wicked as other men use to be Is it not miraculous that the great and holy God the fountain of Justice hath so long endured such dreadful and abominable wickedness If it be said that some Bishops of Rome were accounted holy men in the fourth and fifth Century and some Councels of those times were well approved of and therefore Antichrists rising could not be so early as the yeer 304. I answer Antichrist and his kingdom is the Mystery of Iniquity as hath been shewed and therefore the Prophet Daniel considereth diligently and searcheth curiously before he could espie him so dark obscure were his beginnings in sheeps cloathing Mat. 7 15. Rev. 13.11 Mat. 24.24 with horns like a Lamb yet spake like a Dragon and raven'd like a Wolfe Neither do I believe that all the Bishops of Rome immediately after Constantine had knowledge of what they did as to the furtherance of this work of darkness or that their seat was the Chayr of Pestilence Nay I do think that some of them did with great confidence abominate and would with abundance of zeal and resolution have detested the thought of being instrumental in the setting up of Antichrist The Jews and Gentiles that put the Lord of glory to a shameful death 1 Cor. 2.8 little knew what they did 2 King 8.12.13 when the Prophet Elisha fore-told Hazael of that horrible wickedness that he should do to the children of Israel he was amazed at the thought of such abominations replyed with great resolution in detestation of it But what is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing Acts 22.4 Little did Paul think what he was about when he was going to Damascus against the Saints I dare not think that all the Bishops of Rome did promote this work knowingly and resolvedly it is cleer that Gregory opposed John of Constantinople in his attempt to be made universal Bishop and I believe he little dreamd how irrecoverably the Chayr he sate in was poysoned with the infection Trap. Comment pag. 292. And yet t is well known that himself did most basely insinuate and earnestly desire the same title from the bloody Emperour Phocas Brightman considering the monstrous pride and worldly pomp that followed upon the Enjoyments of that glorious peace that was now established thinks it no great wonder that this defection should so slily creep in even whilst they were fervent in promoting and advancing Christianity because that at the same instant many were swoln big with contentions others gaped after honors some were delivered of desperate heresies Rev. Apoc. pag. 112. and the Generality heaped up superstitions without measure And all this while the obscurity of the true Churches encreased every day more and more the simple plainess and sincere purity of the Scriptures were more and more slighted defiled obscured wrested and perverted by idle and fond Allegories and absurd Expositions Reliques were adored and Religion placed in toys and trifles while all kind of iniquity got ground And therefore we may not conceive that the man of sin was at first to be openly manifested for how then should it be a Mystery of Iniquity Rome was not built in a day the Mystery was working in the Apostles days but never got a feat in the Church till the Arrians bore sway when the Christian world seemd to turn heretique and though the Chayr of Pestilence was now erected and the true Church with her true witnesses now exiled yet it was long before the man of sin was openly discovered for as the true Church of Christ after she had conceived travailed with child 300.