FALL OF ANTICHRIST.
Antichrist had a time to come into the world, and so must he have a
time to go out again. For although he saith that he is a god, yet he
must he subject to the will of God, and must go as well as come
according to that will. Nor can all the fallen angels, with all the
members and limbs of antichrist, cause this, that their brat should
abide so much as one day longer than our God's prefixed time. The
Lord Jesus shall consume him, and cause him to melt away; not all at
once, but now this part and then that, now his soul and after that
his body, even until soul and body are both destroyed.
And that you may be convinced of the truth of this thing, do but
look back and compare antichrist four or five hundred years ago,
with antichrist as he is now, and you shall see what work the Lord
Jesus has begun to make with him, even with the spirit and soul and
life of antichrist, both in confounding and blasting it by the
Spirit of his mouth, as also by forcing it to dishonorable retreats,
and by making it give up to him as the conqueror, not only some of
his superstitious and diabolical rites and ceremonies to be
destroyed, but many a goodly truth which this vile one had taken
from his church, to be renewed to them. Nay, further, he has also
already begun to take from him both kingdoms and countries, though
as to some not so absolutely as he shall do by and by.
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