XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing…

Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the sea•, yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thy heart as the heart of God. His fault was taking upon him as if he were God, to accept divine honours, to do those things which would make him equalize himself to our Lord Christ Blessed for ever; so doth he show himself that he is God. 1. His accepting Antichrists Disciples, who call him our Lord God the Pope. Supremum numen in Terris, a certain Deity upon Earth. That the Pope hath the same Consistory with God, and the same Tribunal with Christ: That he is Lord of Heaven and Earth: That from him there are no appeals to be made, no not to God himself. That the Pope may do all that God doth, that he is the Husband of the Church, and the foundation of Faith. In the Council of Lateran, Sess. 4. Alter Deus in Terra; that the words of the Pope in Cathedra, are for certainty of truth, equal to the Scriptures; that he can change ⟨p. 97⟩the form of Sacraments delivered by Christ, or Decree contrary to Scripture. If any do object, that these were the applauses of his Flatterers and claw-backs; it is true they were so uttered; but those flatteries of the Canonists and Jesuits, do come to be received Doctrines among them: And whereas divers Popes have directed special Commissions for perusal of the works of the learned, with authority to expunge and purge out whatsoever is not Orthodoxal, many better things have come under censure, but these things stand still, as being very pleasing to his Holinesses humility, and so not to be altered. Besides many of these things have been spoken to his face without rebuke. Conc. Latt. Sess. 2. He is called the High Priest and King that is to be adored by all, and most like unto God. Sess. 9. It is said, the Aspect of thy Divine Majesty dazzleth our Eyes, and applieth to him that of the 72. Psalm, All the Kings of the Earth shall worship him, and all Nations shall serve him. Now to accept and approve of these flatterers, is to show himself that he is God. 2.

Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the sea•, yet thou art a man, and not God, though thon set thy heart as the heart of God. His fault was taking upon him as if he were God, to accept divine honours, to do those things which would make him equalize himself to our Lord Christ Blessed for ever; so doth he shew himself that he is God. 1. His accepting Antichrists Disciples, who call him our Lord God the Pope. Supremum numen in Terris, a certain Deity upon Earth. That the Pope hath the same Consistory with God, and the same Tribunal with Christ: That he is Lord of Heaven and Earth: That from him there are no appeals to be made, no not to God himself. That the Pope may do all that God doth, that he is the Husband of the Church, and the foundation of Faith. In the Council of Lateran, Sess. 4. Alter Deus in Terra; that the words of the Pope in Cathedra, are for certainty of truth, equal to the Scriptures; that he can change