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A66360	Ho Antichristos the great antichrist revealed, before this time never discovered, and proved to be neither pope, nor Turk, nor any single person, nor the succession of any one monarch or tyrant in any policies, but a collected pack, or multitude of hypocritical, heretical, blasphemous, and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophesies of the Scriptures ... and especially have united ... together by a solemn league and covenant to slay the two witnesses of God, Moses and Aaron ... that is, the supreme magistrate of the Commonwealth, and the chief pastors and governours of the Church of Christ, and the Christian world is requested to judge whether the Assembly of Presbyterians consulting at Westminster, together with the independents, Anabaptists, and lay-preachers be not the false prophet ... and whether the prevalent faction of the long Parliament ... that killed the two witnesses of Jesus Christ, 1. Charles the First ... 2. William Laud ... be not the grosse and visible body of the same antichrist / by Gr. Williams.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2662; ESTC R25201	504,825	313

informed Daniel that the little Horn which at the first was but little indeed and then did succrescere grow so great by the suppression of the three Kings and the accession of three Kingdomes should think to change the times and the Lawes and so we finde that Antiochus did use all possible endeavours to abolish the times of the Jewish Sabbaths and feasts and their circumcision legem ipsam Dei ju●áque omnia nefariè convellere and to overthrow the very law of God and tear in pieces all humane rights most wickedly saith Tremelius Tremel in loc and so the Antichrist would indeavour to do the like to put down all the festival times and the holy dayes of the Christians and to change all the Lawes and Customes that they had learned and observed even from the Apostles time And I am sure the Pope is not guilty of this sin of the Antichrist for he is so far from putting down their feasts and holy dayes See the History of Independency and there you shall finde how the Author of that Book shewe●● how that long Parliament proceeded contrary to all Lawes part 3. A Book fit for the understanding of this point that he multiplied the same added unto their primitive feasts a great many more holidaies than were needfull or indeed fitting to be observed But I pray you tell me what horn did ever change so many Laws and Customs both of the Church and of the Kingdome as the long Parliament hath done for hath it not troden under foot not one nor two but all the ecclesiastical Laws and Canons of the Church and hath it not very often transgressed and in many things nullified our Magna Charta the great Charter and the fundamental Laws of this Kingdome that for so many hundred years were confirmed to our forefathers and Predecessors by I know not how many Parliaments I am sure above 30 at least And for the times I would fain know if any good Christian heart can look upon these times without bleeding or hold his eyes without weeping for the greatest love and favour that ever God shewed to mankinde was the giving of his own natural coessential and coeternal Son to be made of a woman and made under the Law to redeem us from the curse of the Law and from sin death hell and Satan when a greater good than this the omnipotent God himself could not do for us for what could God give better than God himself but as the Apostle saith because God could swear by no greater he sware by himself so when he could give no better he gave himself Heb. 6.13 and therefore S. Ambrose saith plus Domine Jesu debeo tuis incuriis quod sum redemptus quam tuis operibus quod sum creatus O sweet Jesus Christ I ow thee more love and thanks and service for thy care and pains and sufferings by which I am redeemed than for thy work whereby I was created because that in my creation dedit me mihi deus God gave me unto my self but in my Redemption dedit se mihi deus The greatest good that ever God did for mankinde God gave himself unto me and because in the creation of me and all things else dixit facta sunt he did but speak the word and they were made he commanded and they stood fast but in the accomplishment of our Redemption multa dixit magna fecit dira tulit he spake many gracious words he did many wonderfull works and he suffered many execrable and intolerable things Therefore as God commanded the Israelites Why the Jews were commanded by God to keep their Feasts in remembrance of their deliverance out of Epypt That was but the type of this our deliverance from the bondage of sin and Satan to keep the feast of Passeover and in remembrance of the reception of the Law on Mount Sinai which was an inferiour favour and lesse than our receiving of the Gospel to observe the feast of Pentecost and in remembrance of their wandering 40 years in the wilderness and their feeding there all that while with the Manna that came down from heaven which notwithstanding is no waies comparable to our feeding with the Word of God and the blessed Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ which is God himself to keep the feast of tabernacles and whosoever neglected to keep these feasts and to observe these times that soul should be cut off from Israel that is from among the people of God as an ungratefull person unworthy of the favour of God And as Mardocheus and Queen Hester commandeth all the Jews to keep the feast of Purim that was to be kept upon the 14 and 15 dayes of the Month Adar which is answerable to our February Hest 9.23 24. throughout all their generations for ever for dayes of rejoycing and Thanks-giving for their deliverance from the malicious plot and wicked designe of proud Haman the which feast was observed by Christ himself John 10.22 The Geneva notes on John 10. 22. and as in like manner Judas Machabaeus injoyned the feast of dedication to be observed upon the 25th day of the Moneth Casteu which is our November for a thankfull remembrance of the like benefit which was the casting out of Antiochus his Garrison from Hierusalem so that the Apostles and their immediate Successors the Bishops and Fathers of the Church and all the other succeeding Governors of Gods people considering that the Jews temporal favours aforenamed were but types of our favours and shadowes of those substances that we have and so no wayes neer so comparable to the benefits that we receive by the birth circumcision resurrection and ascention of Christ and the gifts that is the Apostles the Teachers and Governors of Gods Church furnished with the gifts of the Holy Ghost that Christ sent unto them on the day of Pentecost 50 dayes after his ascention into heaven by which favours and great blessings we obtain a deliverance not from a small temporal bondage as that of the Israelites was under Pharaoh far less then the bondage of many good Christians in these dayes under the Turk or from such an enemy as was Haman or Antiochus but from sin death hell Satan and eternal damnation have in their own persons observed and injoyned all other Christians to observe That is Christmas New years day Easter day Holy thursday Whitsunday and the rest the feast of Christs Nativity and of his circumcision resurrection and ascention and the other dayes prescribed by them as dayes of rejoycing and meeting together in the Church to praise God and to thank him for those great and inestimable favours and benefits that he hath conferred upon us and we received as upon those dayes and I may demand What Pope was ever so wicked and committed such and so horrible a sin as to prophane these holy times in so high a measure as Antiochus-like to command them to be prophaned

with their adherents to repentance and to forsake the courses that heretofore they have most wickedly walked in 2. To disswade all others from adhering to them or approving of their unjust proceedings 3. To perswade the godly seruants of Jesus Christ that have suffered so much and such indignities at the hands of the beast and his assassinates to continue constant in their former resolutions and not to be dejected for any adversity or to approve and affect the prosperity of the beast and to imbrace the doctrine of the false Prophet 4. That as our predecessors recorded the truth of those things that happened in their times to us which otherwise we should never have known so likewise we should deliver the truth of what we have seen done in our time to our posterity that the sad condition of the Church and especially of the witnesses of Jesus Christ in these dayes of the Antichrist might be made known to after-ages that as Johns disciples said to Christ so the disciples of Christ might demand in like manner of the Antichrist Art thou he that should come or shall we look for another and I suppose none can give a better answer then what our Saviour gave to the Jewes in the like case The works that I do testifie of me so the works that these men of our time have dones shall testify unto all posterities what they are for as Demodocus said of the Milesians that they were no fooles but they did the same things that fooles do so if these men of our time say they are not the Antichrist yet I believe the world seeth they did and still do the very same things that the holy men of God prophesied the great Antichrist should do And this is all that I do and no more in this whole book 1. To shew you out of the holy Scripture of the old and new Testament what the great Antichrist should do when he should come into the world 2. To set down what is seen done by the men of our time the prevalent faction of the long Parliament and their adherents together with the Presbyterians Independants and Lay-preachers to continue their names and their memories to the generatons that are to come which is all that shall be left of them when they have left their pomp behind them and shall carry nothing with them but the deeds that they have done And as Queen Hester said so say I if for this I perish I perish yet the truth is great and will prevail and continue true when the greatest tyrants shall be reduced to dust and ashes And in the Interim I do professe that I neither fear the sharpest sword of the bloodiest tyrant nor the most virulent tongues or malicious pens of the most railing Rabsheca quia nec melior si laudaverint nec deterior si vituperaverint because the praise of men makes me not one jot better nor the aspersions and dispraise of enemies one title worse then I am and my conscience tells me that I have so lived Ut nec pudet vivere nec piget mori as that I am neither ashamed to live nor afraid to die And if any man shall blame me for any acrimonie or bitternesse that he findeth in this book I call God to record that it proceeded not as I said before out of any excessive sense that I ever conceived of any particular injury that was done unto my self when as I found my friends favourable enough to me and granting me more then I expected from them nor out of any hatred or malice to any one of all the Presbyterians Independants or Lay-preachers or to any other of all the long Parliament men when as very many of them were my best Patrons and my singular good friends that offered me great preferments which I would have accepted if my conscience had not utterly disliked of their wayes but whatsoever gall or vinegar hath distilled from my pen it proceeded only out of the vehemencie of the zeal which I bear to the true service of God and the love that I had to the piety and goodnesse of our good King and especially the extream hatred that I conceived against the injustice impieties and evil doings of the men anatomized in this book for my faith is that although heretofore many particular tyrant heretick and wicked man might be noted out of Histories that perhaps might be worse and more detestable then any one of these men here meant yet that such a pack such a society and such a multitude of wicked hereticks tyrants and malefactors that combined and were like sworne brethren to effect such un-heard-of mischiefs injustice and impieties as they have done the sun in above 5000. years revolution never saw the like except that wicked councill which condemned the Son of God to death And therefore seeing we are fallen into such times wherein Nec vitia nostra nec eorum remedia ferre possumus I may justly say quis iniqui Tam patiens orbis tam ferreus ut teneat se c Who can hold his tongue at the sight of such doings And old Chaucer saith The words must be of kinne unto the deeds And the wisest Writers do loath to trimme up vices in Vertue 's raiment and we that are rude know not how to call a spade otherwise then a spade Rudes sunt populi Macedonum Scapham vocant Scapham as King Philip of Macedon answered a Traytor whom he had pardoned and complained that the people called him a Traitor And though I earnestly desired to be moderate in my expressions yet the height of that wickednesse which I found acted could not otherwise with all my rhetorick be set forth in any fairer terms unto my Readers Ο ' Αννιχριστος The GREAT ANTICHRIST REVEALED Before this time not Discovered CHAP. I. To what end Christ foretels the Afflictions and Persecutions of his Church that her greatest Persecution should be in the time of the great Antichrist and of the strange Persecution and extream Cruelty Oppression and Injustice that have been lately acted against Gods servants in these parts and in our daies by the Ministers of the Antichrist OUR blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ out of his great and infinite love to his Church forertels her of the many troubles afflictions and persecutions that his best servants and her chiefest members should finde and must undergo here in this world To what end Christ foretels the persecutions of his Church amongst the sons of men to this end that she might earnestly pray to God he would be pleased either to avert them from her or to strengthen her with patience most constantly to endure them and still to keep her garments clean and her conscience undefiled in the midst of this froward and crooked generation Euseb Eccles Histor. l. 4. c. 5. l. 5. c. 1. And after this prediction of our Saviour Christ St. Luke in the Acts of the Apostles and Eusebius Socrates and others

world and therefore to encourage all the Christians to be constant in their Profession unto their death it was requisite to use all the Eulogies and praises that might well and rightly be given especially in the funeral Orations of the Martyrs unto those holy men that had so manfully fought the good fight of faith and so christianly died for the defence of the Gospel of Christ when as the contrary would have been a great disheartening of the weak Christians but these Eulogies a spur to inflame them to all readiness to undergo the like Martyrdome rather than to start aside from their Christian profession Neither do I see how those Eulogies and praises that these Fathers gave unto the Martyrs are any wayes contrary to the truth of our faith or the Word of God because we know that as the Prophet saith Psalm 116.15 right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints and no doubt but he hath some love and care of their dead bodies to preserve them from that spirit of malice and contempt that the Devil and his wicked assassinates bear against them and therefore as he preserved all that were in the ship for S. Paul's sake Act. 27.24 so he may be pleased to preserve others his servants with the preservation he extendeth and would have shewed to the bodies of his Saints and especially of his holy Martyrs the which he would have no wayes to be abused as the Prophet sheweth and doth exceedingly complain of them that give the dead bodies of Gods servants to be meat unto the fowles of the air Psal 79.2 and the flesh of his Saints to the beasts of the field as now I have seen it in many places how the hogs are rooting in their graves and the dogs gnawing the bones of Gods servants That the aforesaid Errors make not this Apostasie And I say that although the Roman Church hath failed in the Premises and erred in the points aforenamed yet all that doth not make this grand apostasie which the Apostle here speaketh of Reason 1 1. Because here in the Roman Church we finde no rebellion against their Governors but qui ducunt eam seducunt eam the leaders of that Church deceive the Church and so her apostasie is not so odious but the more excusable and the less abominable in the sight of God Reason 2 2. Because these Errors and Superstitions aforenamed and the like have only defaced but not nullified bespotted and polluted but not destroyed that Church which is now like unto a false woman that hath played the whore but is not divorced nor run away from her husband That the Church of Rome holdeth all the foundation and preservation of the Christian Religion for so long as they profess to believe as the three authentick Creeds that is the Apostles Creed the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed teach us and use the Lords Prayer and publish the ten Commandements and receive the two Gospel Sacraments that is Baptisme and the Lords Supper and retain the wholesome form and reverent manner of Divine worship and service of God with the rightly authorized and lawfully called Pastors and Governors and a dutifull submission to the established Discipline of the Church which things are both the foundation and preservation of the Christian Religion and which they say are all observed and performed in the Roman Church I believe no good Christian can deny her to be a true Church though not a pure Church of God because that while the foundation remaineth sure and undigged up all superstructures of wood hay stubble doth not evert and overthrow the whole edifice but is rather a going beyond Eccl. 7.16 17. than a going back from the faith of Christ like the being too righteous and not too wicked as Solomon speaketh that is the being too precise and making more sinnes than ever the Law of God made and not too prophane and so exceeding in the works of supererrogation and observing many other commandments of men besides the commandments of God Mr Mede P. 612. just as the precise Pharisees required the people to do in the time of Christ and Mr. Mede resolves Mr. Hartlib that the Roman Church hath not erred in the fundamental Articles of the Faith but in the assumentis which they added unto the foundation so likewise D. Crakenthorp B. Hall and most of our best Divines are of the same minde And therefore questionless the Church of Rome cannot be guilty of this grand rebellion and Apostasie here spoken of And 4. 4. Nor the falling away of the Protestants from the Church of Rome As the African and Afiatick Churches of the East under the Greek Patriarchs and the Europaean Churches of the West under the Pope of Rome are not liable to this grand Apostasie so neither can the Church of Rome nor any other Master of that Church say and say truly that the falling away of Luther Calvin Beza and the rest of the Protestants and protestant Churches from the Roman errors and superstitions and from their obedience to that Church can be this falling away and apostasie here spoken of because we with them and they with us do hold and profess the same 3 authentick Creeds that do contain the sum and substance of our Christian Faith and are agreeing in all or at least in most of the essential and fundamental points of the Christian Religion and the differences betwixt us in the most points that are of moment are not so capital but that for the most part a charitable construction and a right distinction might well and fairly reconcile most of them especially as they are held by the best Interpreters of the Scripture in that Church and by the most temperate and soberest Divines of our Church because as the Apostle saith charity is kinde and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 charity is not rash that is in her judgment no more than in her actions 1 Cor. 13. but beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things and endureth all things and the want of this divine grace of Charity maketh those faults that are indeed but mole-hils to appear like mountains and this want of charity is too too common a fault both among the popish and the Protestant writers which doth make the breach wider and the differences to seem far greater and far worse than indeed they are which made me often to pray that God would send more love betwixt us and suffer not the devil to send so much misprision and distaste betwixt us as there is Question And now the foresaid Churches being freed from being liable to this apostasie the question is What Church can be said to be found guilty of it What Church is guilty of this Apostacy and instead of answering it it is now demanded If this now present Church of great Britain be not liable to this charge of a grand Rebellion and apostasie such as the Apostle speaketh