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

2. Gods discovery of him to the World; that is, when Antichrist was not only extant, but impleaded as such; and this also was by degrees, God raising up in every Age, witnesses against the Tyranny, and Usurpations, that Rome, as the Place, and the Pope, the Person, as considered in his succession, claiming the same power. 500 years before Luther, Peter Bruis begun, and Henry his Scholar succeeded him, and both of them succeeded by the Waldenses and Albigenses, then Wycliffe, the Bohemians, who have all pleaded and proved that ⟨p. 136⟩the Pope was the very Antichrist; then S•vanorella in Italy, preached this boldly. In the fifteenth Century, about 1500. there were some remainder of the Albigenses about the Alps, some few Relics of the Hussites and Calixtines in Bohemia, so few, and so ignorant, that they had neither learning nor ability to oppose this potent Tyranny. Then God raised up Luther, and many other Worthies to assault the Idolatry, Tyranny, and Errors of the Church of Rome; and it is reported in History, that the Angel on the top of the Tower St Angelo, was beaten down by a Thunderbolt; and in the very Day, and in the Church, where Pope Leo the Tenth at Rome had Created 31. Cardinals, a sudden Tempest dashed the Keys out of the hands of the Image of St Peter, showing God would begin to take away their Power.

2. Gods discovery of him to the World; that is, when Antichrist was not only extant, but impleaded as such; and this also was by degrees, God raising up in every Age, witnesses against the Tyranny, and Usurpations, that Rome, as the Place, and the Pope, the Person, as considered in his succession, claiming the same power. 500 years before Luther, Peter Bruis begun, and Henry his Scholar succeeded him, and both of them succeeded by the Waldenses and Albigenses, then Wickliff, the Bohemians, who have all pleaded and proved that ⟨p. 136⟩the Pope was the very Antichrist; then S•vanorella in Italy, preached this boldly. In the fifteenth Centurty, about 1500. there were some remainder of the Albigenses about the Alpes, some few Reliques of the Hussites and Calixtines in Bohemia, so few, and so ignorant, that they had neither learning nor ability to oppose this potent Tyranny. Then God raised up Luther, and many other Worthies to assault the Idolatry, Tyranny, and Errors of the Church of Rome; and it is reported in History, that the Angel on the top of the Tower St Angelo, was beaten down by a Thunderbolt; and in the very Day, and in the Church, where Pope Leo the Tenth at Rome had Created 31. Cardinals, a sudden Tempest dashed the Keys out of the hands of the Image of St Peter, shewing God would begin to take away their Power.