The marrow of Christianity

SECT. V. Quest. When he shall be ruined.

Answ. FIrst, in the mystery and spi∣rits of the Saints, as Jesus Christ comes in, and shiues gloriously in the spirit; so shal Antichrist bee discovered, and destroyed: and so hee hath received a great blow already in this Nation, through the shinings in of Jesus Christ in the spi∣rit amongst many of his Saints: so that this is the time of Antichrists ruine: when Je∣sus Christ comes in, and takes place in the spirit of his people; as the Kingdome of Christ increaseth, so the Kingdome of An∣tichrist decayeth and consumeth.

Secondly, Antichrist shal bee destroyed when the everlasting Gospel shal be prea∣ched; that is, when the Angel flyeth through the middest of Heaven, preaching the ever∣lasting Gospel; that is, when the Ministers

of the Gospel shal come forth with their ful, and heavenly discoveries of God in the spirit, being permitted to preach the Go∣spel, by the Earthly power in all places with liberty: For, much hath beene done already by the witnesses professing in sack∣cloth: that is, almost always in danger of a civil persecution; and much ignorance of the mystery of the Gospel, which hath cau∣sed them to prophesie in sack-cloth; yet they have had power, to cause fire to come from Heaven, as oft as they please, burning up all Antichristian formes, and invented delusions: And then, what wil be done, think you, when the Ministers of the Go∣spel shal come forth in the full and bright discoveries of the Gospel, with liberties here below for the publishing of it?

Thirdly, Antichrist shal bee destroyed, when the witnesses have beene slaine, and laine dead three dayes; (that is a short space) then a tenth part of the City shal fal, and the rest shal have their time pro∣longed; but, for a time and a season. The first woe is almost past; behold, a second, and third woe cometh quickly: waite, and it wil come apace.

Thus have I from the Light of Truth, with as much brevity as may be, in some measure, hinted at this Man of sinne, this Mystery of Iniquitie, with his reign, ruine, with the meanes and time.