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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Thirteenth Point accused.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Thirteenth Point accused.
That Antichrist shall not be a particular man, and the Pope is Antichrist.
Ans. This is Popish Stating Cases; Protestants find in the Creed, the Name of Christ, but not the Name of Antichrist; and therefore while they know and trust Christ, they think it not necessary to Salvation to know Antichrist: But they believe Christ, who said, that many should come in his Name saying, I am Christ and deceive many, even before the Destruction of the Jews; and rhey believe St. John, that said, there are many Antichrists already: The Fathers and Papists say, there is some one Great Antichrist to come towards the end of the World: Most Protestants think it is Antichrist that is described, in 2 Thes. 2. and Rev. 12.13, 17. To confute ⟨p. 68⟩King James, Bishop George Downame, Dr. Henry More, (above all) Mr. Mede, Cluverus, Grasserus, &c. will require more than this Writers Impertinences. There are many Protestants that think it a mere mistake, that there will be any one Antichrist so Eminent as to obscure all the rest: And they pretend not to judge, of Antichrist by the Apocalypse, but by the Ten Commandments, and all the Gospel: And they believe, that he is Antichrist that usurpeth Christs Prerogative, and yet opposeth his Kingdom: And such they think the Eastern Antichrist Mahomet is the most notorious, and the Western Antichrist, the Pope is his Second; in that he claimeth Christs Prerogative of Governing all Nations of the Earth as Vice-Christ, and yet by Lies, Malice and Blood, suppresseth his true Gospel, Grace and Kingdom; confute this if you can; Amending would be your best defence.