![]() Luke in the Acts of the Apostles, and Eusebius, So∣crates, and others in their Ecclesiastical Histories have left it recorded to all Posterities, what direful Torments the poor harmless Christians have endured in the first ten grie∣vous Persecutions, under Nero, Domitian, Dioclesian, Decius, and others, Heathen Tyrants, that were so cruel and so tyrannical to the Saints and Servants of God, that most good men and religious minds cannot read their Sufferings without weeping, nor remember them without pity For,įunera, quis caedes posset deflere nefandas? * And after this pre∣diction of our Saviour Christ, St. * 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. 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 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 In∣justice, that have been lately acted against Gods servants in these parts, and in our daies by the Ministers of the Antichrist. be not the grosse and visible body of the same antichristĬHAP. that killed the two witnesses of Jesus Christ, 1. and whether the prevalent faction of the long Parliament. 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. together by a solemn league and covenant to slay the two witnesses of God, Moses and Aaron. 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. ![]() be not the grosse and visible body of the same antichrist / by Gr. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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