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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

is not the number but the sinceritie in answering a Rule of the New-covenant that is well pleasing to God Three horses that can and will draw will do more when the Cart stands then they can with twenty more added to them that draw backward The like may be said of other Nationall worship Again inasmuch as God did binde all the people of the first covenant to come to one place to worship and to bring thither their guift which place he made holy by dedication and consecration and now a ground being taken from thence to set apart speciall places of worship consecrated and dedicated and all men bound unto it under penalties as in the first covenant that therefore it is that many of the people of the New-covenant are afraid to come to worship there ● Ioh. 10. lest they should approve at least of that which as they do conceive doth deny Christ to be come in the flesh and upon this ground it is and no other as I verily believe that many people of God do think that the power of Christ alone is to be administred among the Churches in things appertaining to God and that in matters of Civill Government the Magistrate is to rule all men alike both Churches and others for the Scepter was not to depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet till Shil● come Gen. 49. 10. Objection But if you say sometime they had none to rule by that Scepter As appears Judg. 17. 16. and 18. 1. and 21. 25. Answer I answer though they had none to rule yet there did remain the Scepter and the right of ruling and that in matters of worship God informing them by his Prophets what to do they being to rule for him in that Nation which he had chosen which was Church and State individuall and this to continue till Shilo came therefore when this people would have a King like other Nations God having differenced them from all other Nations God tels the Prophet they had not cast off him but God 1 Sam. 8. 7. And though God did grant them a King yet would he not make them altogether like other Nations for he would chuse their King for them 1 Sam. 10. 24. And he appointed the manner of their Kingdome vers 25. Thus did God rule over the people of His Covenant in a more especiall way then over other Nations therefore it is conceived that he doth so now over the people of the New-covenant But now Shilo is come he is Ioh 1. 49 Rev. 1. 5. and 15. 3. Mat. 2. 2 21. 5. conceived to have the Scepter and to be the Law-giver to the people of the New-covenant in all those things that appertain to his own Kingdome and for those things that appertain to this life he hath set the Ordinance of Magistracy to be obeyed by all his own people as well as others and he that resisteth Rom. 13. 1 2 5. resisteth the Ordinance of God and therefore they must obey or submit to every humane ordinance or ordinance of man for 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 the Lords sake and for conscience sake Objection If any object that if this be so then every one will do that which is right in his own eyes Answer I answer seeing God by his own Ordinance hath appointed Magistrates to order the affairs of the Nations and Jesus Christ to order the affairs of his Kingdome this objection is fully resolved Neither need any fear that any of those that have learned to give the Lord his due will deny Caesar his seeing the Lord hath made both a duty and both former and latter experience doth confirm it and if any men in the Kingdome be disloyall to the Magistrates it is those that would so fain have those that are faithfull and true hearted to the State cut off imprisoned or banished in a time when there is so great need of them But the Lord forgive them The use of the Last Difference If the Lord have taken away the first that he might establish the second Heb. 10. 9. Then it should teach all people to take heed that they do not go about to establish again that which God hath taken away nor take away that which God hath established as all do which endeavour to bring into the worship of God the rites of the first Covenant and it is indeed to give the spirit of God the lye for it is in effect to say the first Covenant is best when the spirit of God sayes the second is the best being established upon better promises I am perswaded that each godly heart doth long for the utter ruine of Antichrist which will be completed so soon as this is generally seen that the upholding the first Covenant is the upholding of Antichrist what was that with which the Churches were deceived and bewitched presently upon their first planting Was it not the bringing in some thing of the first Covenant As appears Gal. 3. 1 2 3. and almost the whole Epistle declares it O foolish Galatians saith the Apostle who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you The Apostle seems to admire that inasmuch as a crucified Christ had been so cleerly held forth among them which did put an end to the Rites of the first Covenant that they should be so bewitched as to bring them in again Are you so foolish saith he having begun in the spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh Vers 3. By flesh he means the rites and priviledges of the first Covenant and by spirit the priviledges of the second as appears by what followes all along to the 12. verse of the fifth Chapter compared with Phil. 3. 3 4. If the Galatians were bewitched and if it were foolishnesse in them to return to the first Covenant is it not so now in those that do the same thing as they did Would it make the Apostle a transgressour to build again the things which he had destroyed Gal. 2. 18. And must not they needs be transgressours which build again the things which God himself hath made void Heb. 10. 9. We see there was no small deceit in this that the Apostle is fain to use so many Arguments to prevent it He tels them it was to Gal. 4. 9 be in bondage to weak and beggerly elements as if he should say What folly is it for those that are set in a glorious liberty to desire to be in bondage to things that are beggarly Therefore he warns them to stand fast in this liberty against that bondage Gal. 5. 1. You see he holds out the distance and difference between the Liberty of the New-covenant and the bondage of the Old in the two Mothers and their two Seeds as before is shewed Gal. 4. 22. 24 25. 26. Again he tels them If they were circumcised Christ should profit them nothing Gal. 5. 2. That Christ was become of none effect to them that they were debters to keep the whole Law that they were faln from grace Gal. 5. 3 4. It seems that Circumcision was that particular of the first Covenant whereby they were most easily deceived at that time being so lately in use But now this will not take with people the spirit of Antichrist hath put men upon the observing of other particulars of the first Covenant which are as dangerous as I conceive as that of Circumcision Oh therefore let us take heed how we act in any of the parts of the first Covenant in the worship of God for the perswasion so to act is not of him that calleth us Gal. 5. 8. Religion is not a thing to be jested with If we would therefore honour God and be honoured of God in the enjoyment of Gospel freedome and persue Antichrist to his utter ruine Let us cleave close to the rules which Christ and his Apostles have left us to walk by which when all religious people are brought unto Antichrist is down FINIS