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REASONS FOR ANTICHRIST'S DESTRUCTION.
Antichrist must be destroyed, for that he has usurped the name and
attributes of God upon himself. He hath said, I am God. For that
antichrist has thus taken the place of God, prescribed and imposed a
worship as a God, got the world to worship and wonder after him as
after a God; therefore he shall die the death of the uncircumcised,
both in the soul, spirit, body, or flesh of antichrist. Therefore
will God enlighten and gather and set the kings and nations against
him, that both he and his may be buried, and have their dolesome
withdrawing-rooms from the world in the sides of the pit's mouth.
Antichrist must be destroyed, because he hath set himself against
the Son of God; against the Father, and against the Son. He had a
spite against the Son betimes, even then when he came forth but in
little things, when he attempted to deny that He was come in the
flesh. But seeing he could make no earnings of that, he has changed
his methods, and seeks to run him out and down by other means and
ways. "Because, therefore, he hath set himself against the Son of
God, the King, therefore he must die."
That he hath also set himself against the Son of God, is evident;
for he has his name from thence: he is therefore called Anti-Christ.
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