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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60500	Anti-christ in man, or, A discovery of the great whore that sits upon many waters wherein is declared what that whore or inward mystery is, together with the destruction thereof, by the powerfull appearing of Christ in us / by Joseph Salmon ...	Salmon, Joseph.	1647 (1647)	Wing S413; ESTC R39105	36,300	80

deludes the soule by Now therefore know O man that this whore workes in a mistery upon her Fore-head is written Mistery Rev. 17. When Antichrist or thy fleshly wisdome is most apparant in any sinfull action yet in that appearance She is very Misticall So that sindeede upon her most open workings in the heart there is written Mistery It is a property of a Strumpet to pretend what shee doth not intend to her Lovers be●old a Character of the Mother of Harlots thy fleshly wisdome She is very subtill of heart Prov. 7. She alwaies pretends what shee never intends So that here all is well in the History but meare deceit and delusion in the Mistery this whore Shee will present a glorious shew but there is nothing but wickednesse and Harlotry intended This is that Spirituall Judas that will Betray thee with his salutations you shall find this whore in a religious Dress many times that hereby she may deceive the heart of the simple Observe how the Harlot in Prov. 7. beguiled the yong Man She caught him and Kissed him ver 13. and with an impudent face saide unto him I have peace Offerings with me this day I have paid my vowes this whore in the Mistery is thy fleshly wisdome and thou art this simple young Man who art deluded by her Behold therefore O man the impudency and bouldness of this spirituall Whore She is not ashamed to shew her Fore-head to thee But here is a Mistery all this while that thou seest not Now therefore know Oh Christian that this whore appeares to thee in all thy spirituall performances Sacrifices to the Lord if thou doest but observe thou shalt see her appeare in Prayer in Humiliation in Fasting nay in all outward Ordinances thou shalt see thy fleshly wisdome in all these things steale thy heart from the Lord by attributing somthing to form flesh and creature so that wee are apt oft-times to blesse our selves in our spirituall performances and sing a Requiem to our selves in our fleshly formes so that hereby all our duties are but the Sacrifices of the Whore the vowes of our fleshly wisdome which She appeared in to delude us Now woe and alas for us that ever wee should be deceived by this whore in those things wherein we think is least appearance of her but here is plainly seen her misticall apparition This whore meets thee O man in all thy religious performances and there doth She attribute all the goodnesse of all that is done to her self and thou also givest consent to it and to commit Fornication with her hence it is that the woman is saide Rev. 17. to have a Golden Cup in her hand full of abominations filthiness of her fornications a golden Pot but a bitter potion This Serpent our fleshly wisdome appeares to us with her speckled Skin but within her there is deadly Poyson Beware then of this whore in all her glorious appearances and golden manifestations for all this is but to insnare thy heart with her treachery the wisdome of the flesh will meete thee many times arrayed in Purple and Scarlet coloured and deck'd with Gold which in the Mistery are nothing else but shewes of glory to thee She will meet thee in good performances there shee will salute thee and tell thee that thy good duties have prevailled with God for thee and She will tell thee because thou art under such an outward forme and carnall dispensation that therefore thou art better then other Christians which injoy God in a more spiritual making out of himself thus She will endeavour to make thee drink of her Fornication by proposing her golden Cup to thee and thus poore s●duced man commits folly with himself or his own wisdome in all outward worship whatsoever forsakes God in praying fasting mourning and all outward formes and is carried away more with the decency order and trimnesse of the whore in an outward dispensation then the Power and life of Godlyness that God requires in a Christian and somuch shall suffice for the setting forth of the first delusive pretence of the Whore which is to array her self in her glory the better to effect her designe upon the poore creature 2 The designe of Anti-christ or thy fleshly wisdome is alwaies to bring thee out of love with God O! its death to the whore when shee seeth that thou desirest to bee constant to thy Husband Jesus who hath espoused thee to himself and therefore She is still labouring to bring thee out of love with Christ and God And this She labours to effect by causing of thee to think that God doth not love thee that so hereby She might estrange thy heart from the Lord. It is the worke of this Serpent to raise in our hearts hard thoughts of God all poore afflicted soules whoever you are that grieve under the pangs of an accusing conscience harken behold and consider how the wisdome of the flesh deludes you by causing you to looke upon God in the glasse of flesh and creature and so hereby to apprehend him to be what he is not Poore soule thou tellest me there is no mercy in a Christ for thee and prithee why so Oh Alas God loves me not hee is offended at me and displeased with me I have beene so vile a sinner against him Now all this while the poore soul doth but looke upon God according to the dictates of selfish wisdom and so it apprehends God to bee like it self Thou thoughest saith God that I had been altogether such a one as thy selfe Because we are angry with God many times therefore we are apt to thinke God is froward with us whereas God is love saith the Apostle Eph. 1. John 4. and therefore God tells us that his thoughts are not our thoughts nor our waies his ways Jsa 55. The wisdome of the flesh eudeavours to put out and extinguish the light of God in a Christian whereby the soul might see God to be purely Love and mercy and will propose its own glasse to the creature which renders God to be what he is not to mans apprehension So that when the soul would fain be refreshed with the comfortable aspect of Gods presence then comes fleshly wisdom tels the soul it must not behold God according to his Love but according to its own Iniquity and so here by dasheth the soule upon the rock of desperation in so much that the poore creature now concludes that God is angry with him and is resolved not to shew him mercy Now when the Whore hath thus estranged the heart from the Lord by perswading the soul that either God is not able or willing to help it in its misery then She propoundes her own way to the creature She will perswade the creature never to goe to God againe but rather with the Prodigall to goe and feede upon the Husks as namely upon Prayer fasting or some outward and carnall Ordinances and here the soule estranged from the

the new light of God manifested in them O Christian I tell thee thou art a thrice happy man whom the Lord hath made the Lamb a light unto thee this Lamb light is an innocent light a righteous light a pure light a discovering light it is this light that discovers the hidden and obscure whore unto thee it is the light of Christ that uncovers and strips the whore starke naked before thee of all her glory and excellency so that now thou beholdest her out of her purple and scarlet colour even in her very nakednesse and shame And thus you see how Christ in his day in a Christian does first of all discover the whore to him But Secondly in this last day or Sun rising of Christ in a Christian it is the worke of Christ to destroy as well as to discover this whore in us as it is the property of light to destroy darknesse so it is the property of Christ to destroy antichrist in the day of his appearance it will be the worke of Christ by his comming in thee to roote out that spirit of antichrist head and tayle root and branch insomuch that there shall not be left one hoof of the beast in thee when John saw the Angell come downe from heaven endued with great power Revel 18.1 Who inlightned the earth with his glory immediatly he heard this voyce Babylon is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of divels the hould of every foule spirit and a cage of every uncleane and hatefull bird all which teacheth me thus much that when that Angell of the everlasting lasting covenant Christ Jesus is by the Father sent down into the hearts of his Saints who comes by the power of his Spirit and enlightens the earth or earthly man with his glory when the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord when the glory of this Sun comes to enlighten and beautifie our earthy hearts then is the time of Babylons downfall now is the season of the whores destruction now is the Saints time of Halelujah now rejoyce over her thou Heaven and all the holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath avenged you on her vers 20. The Prophet Malachy tells us chap. 4. That the day comes that shall burne as an Oven this day is Christ Jesus who indeed shall so baptize us with the holy Ghost and Fire as that he shall consume and burne up waste and destroy all the appearances of the Whore the wisdome of the flesh and therefore the same prophet tells us Chap. 3.34 That he shall sit as a Refiners fire and as Fullers Soape and he shall purifie the Sons of Levi that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousnesse this day must burne in us this Jesus must be a refiners fire to us before we shal see the downefall of mysticall Babylon the worke that Christ hath to doe in us is to destroy mortallity and to cloath us with immortality to destroy this corruption and to cloath us with the incorruptible righteousnesse of himselfe After the downfall of the whore Revel 19. John tells us vers 8. That there was granted to the Lambs wife that she should be arrayed in fine linnen cleare and white c. In which I observe first the love of Christ to the Soul Christ did first of all by his blood and passion purchase the Soul to himselfe to the end that she should be a constant Spouse unto him but she hath adulterized from her husband committed harlotry from her first lover and hath taken part with antichrist against him upon which adultery the jealousie of the Lord arises in himselfe and as jealousie is said to be the rage of a man so the Lord as I may say in the rage of this jealousie comes and destroyes this antichrist kils sin in the Christian sheaths the sword of the spirit in the bowels of this spiritual antichrist breakes the head of this serpent in us but yet notwithstanding entertaines this adulterized creature into his love and favour does yet once more espouse her to himselfe by a fresh act and manifestation of love and favour you may see an embleme of this love in Hos 3.1 where God commands the Prophet to go with a message of love to the woman that had played the harlot with him Goe yet love a woman beloved of her friend yet an adultresse though she an adultresse yet I am her friend though she an harlot yet I send love greetings towards her though she hath been unconstant towards me yet I will owne her to be my wife my Spouse my beloved and therefore the text saies that it was granted to the Lambs wife that shee should bee arrayed in linnen clean white which likewise dictates to me 2. In the Second place the purity that this day of burning Christ Jesus in Spirit works in the heart of his People he doth not only take from it the garment spotted with the flesh but likewise Cloathes it with the shinning Robe of righteousnesse he doth not only empty a Soul of its owne corruption but likewise fills it with his glory beautifies it with his own adornings O Faire beautifull amiable creature whose beauty and excellency consists in Christ that divine centre of bri●htnesse and glory this will send a Saint to the depth of admiration behold what manner of love hath the Father bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God that God should thus by the power of the Spirit consume all this dross and coruption in us and bring us by that divine light to see our vnion with the Father in the Son and to see the glory of our Adoption in Jesus and to behold our selves in the flesh of our elder Brother at the Right-hand of the Father this is mercy past discerning and worth admiration Thus will God in the power of his Spirit Judge this spirituall Whore in us and ease us of the vassallage and servitude we were in to our owne selves thus shall the brats of this spirituall Babylon the wisdome of the flesh be destroyed by that happy man Christ Jesus God saith Jsa 17.12 concerning this destruction of Babylon That hee will make a man more precious then fine Gold or the Golden wedge of Opher this man is Christ who in the day of his power and in the confounding of this Spirituall Babell in us shall be made unto us more precious then the highest creature excellency never till now will the Saints come to value and to prize Christ till they see what he doth in them Now how beautifull upon the mountains are the feete of them that bring glad tidings of good things that publisheth Salvation that saith unto Zion thy God raineth Thy Messenger upon the Mountaines is Christ Jesus who comes Leaping over the mountaines and skiping over the hils of difficulty that lies in the way and appeares in glory to his Spouse or beloved Christian and declares the message of glad tidings to him