The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

Containing the second Allegorical sense of the words, viz. concerning Antichrist. The wickedness of Sodom and Egypt, compared with the wickedness of Antichrist. 1. Idolatry. 2. Cruelty. The bondage of Christians under Antichrist. 1. Outward, in Estates, and Lives, 2. Inward, a soul bondage. The baseness of this showed in several particulars, concerning Ceremonies worse then Egyptian bondage. Faith must deliver us, Deliverance difficult in several particulars. The work of Faith in delivering people from this bondage, in 6. or 7. Considerations. Quest, Whether men may not reject the yoke of Antichrist upon other grounds besides Faith? Answ. In 10. Particulars.

Containing the second Allegorical sense of the words, viz. concerning Antichrist. The wickedness of Sodom and Egypt, compared with the wickedness of Antichrist. 1. Idolatry. 2. Cruelty. The bondage of Christians under Antichrist. 1. Outward, in Estates, and Lives, 2. Inward, a soul bondage. The baseness of this shewed in several particulars, concerning Ceremonies worse then Egyptian bondage. Faith must deliver us, Deliverance difficult in several particulars. The work of Faith in delivering people from this bondage, in 6. or 7. Considerations. Quest, Whether men may not reject the yoke of Antichrist upon other grounds besides Faith? Answ. In 10. Particulars.

The second Allegory, is the bondage under Antichrist, and Faith doth carry also from that bondage, from that Egypt: The seat of Antichrist, and the bondage that we are in under Antichrist is called in Scripture, Egypt. 11. Rev. 8. and their dead bodies shall lie in the Streets of the great City, which spiritually is called Sodom, and Egypt: But because it is said, where also our Lord was crucified: Therefore some of the Papists would have it meant of Jerusalem: but he doth neither speak of the thing, nor the place literally, but it is spiritually Sodom, and spiritually Egypt: And so, where Christ is spiritually crucified, so that in a Metaphorical ⟨p. 200⟩sense, the chief seat of Antichrist is Sodom, and Egypt and spiritually Christ is crucified there, There is no place in which Christ is more crucified then in Rome, in regard of his members. Besides if you will speak of Christs being crucified literally, it may be said likewise of Rome, because he was crucified by the Roman power, & Roman Authority: But by comparing this place with other places in Revelation, it must be meant, that in that place Rome is Sodom and Egypt: I might spend much time in making Comparisons between the most abominable wickednesses that were in Sodom and Egypt, and that are in that place.