Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... And before them Christ himself foretold of this defection 18. chap. of Like verse 8, When, says he, the Son of man shall come, think ye he shall find faith on the earth? No, there be an universal defection. Then this universal defection is nothing else, but this Apostasy and defection from the faith of Christ that shall be before Christ’s coming in the world. Now ye see then this is a prophecy of the thing to come. Is this Prophecy fulfilled yet or not? Is it come to pass? Is that universal defection of the world from the church, from the faith of Christ come, or shall we look for it?
There is the question. I tell you, it is come, I cry it out, it is come, and come long since, and very long since; It holds on and shall hold on. Mahomet began it, when he drew away not only the people from the faith of Jesus, but also drew away the very name of Christianity, so as there durst not one avow himself to be a Christian. The Oriental Churches so well planted by the Apostles of Christ, whereof this Church of Thessalonica was one, may bear witness hereof. Who followed on? (Mahomet ended it not then) The Popes, that beast of Rome followed on.
As Mahomet played with the Oriental Churches: So the Papists played with the Wester and Occidental Churches. The Pope has drawn away this occidental Church of Christ in Europe, not indeed from the name and outward profession of Christ, for all are called Christians, but he has drawn them from the faith of Christ, without the which there can be no salvation. So this Apostasy prophesied so long before is come now to pass. ...
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There is the question. I tell you, it is come, I cry it out, it is come, and come long since, and very long since; It holds on and shall hold on. Mahomet began it, when he drew away not only the people from the faith of Jesus, but also drew away the very name of Christianity, so as there durst not one avow himself to be a Christian. The Oriental Churches so well planted by the Apostles of Christ, whereof this Church of Thessalonica was one, may bear witness hereof. Who followed on? (Mahomet ended it not then) The Popes, that beast of Rome followed on.
As Mahomet played with the Oriental Churches: So the Papists played with the Wester and Occidental Churches. The Pope has drawn away this occidental Church of Christ in Europe, not indeed from the name and outward profession of Christ, for all are called Christians, but he has drawn them from the faith of Christ, without the which there can be no salvation. So this Apostasy prophesied so long before is come now to pass. ...
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Robert Rollock on the apostasy of 2 Thessalonians 2:3
Now all the question is, what Apostasy means the Apostle of? I am not ignorant how a great number of the old Latin fathers in the Church, understands this Apostasy to be meant of the defection of m…
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