Five pious and learned discourses 1. A sermon shewing how we ought to behave our selves in Gods house. 2. A sermon preferring holy charity before faith, hope, and knowledge. 3. A treatise shewing that Gods law, now qualified by the Gospel of Christ, is possible, and ought to be fulfilled of us in this life. 4. A treatise of the divine attributes. 5. A treatise shewing the Antichrist not to be yet come. By Robert Shelford of Ringsfield in Suffolk priest.

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And that man of sinne be revealed, that sonne of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he doth sit as God in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

These words are the description of Anti∣christ; in which, as in a table, ye may see his stature, complexion, and portraiture limmed to the life. First, he is called by an emphasis that man, that is, that singular man singled from all other men, as having no equall. He is that man of sinne, quia totus ex peccato: He is made of sinne; sinnes are his materials. Other sin∣ners have some good parts in them, though but few: but as there is no goodnesse in the father of sinne, so there is no more in the sonne of sinne; for he is a great masse or mountain of sinne. Him doth Irenaeus thus anatomize in his 5. book and 23 chapter; Diaboli virtutem suscipiet Antichristus, qui veniet ut impius & injustus, sine lege quasi apostata, iniquus & homi∣cida quasi latro, diabolicam apostasiam in se re∣capitulans, idola seponens, ad suadendum quòd ipse sit Deus; se autem extollens unum idolum. Again, in his 24 chapter he hath, Omnis nequitia, do∣lus, & vis apostatica confluit in Antichristum. Antichrist shall take up the Devils vertue, who shall come as unjust and impious, without law like an apostate, wrongfull and killing like a

thief, ingrossing in himself Diabolicall apostasie, putting away idols to perswade that he is God, and extolling himself the onely Idol. All wickednesse, deceit, and force apostaticall, flow together into Antichrist.