APPENDIX.

All the Characters agree with the Mahometan Antichrift, and not with the Pope.

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Here must be a falling away firft, before the coming of Antichrift: This may be the denying of Chrift's Divinity by the Arrians, which preceded the coming of the Impoftor Mahomet; and this is the Mystery of Iniquity, which is defcrib'd in 2 Theff. 2.

2. God fhall fend them a strong Delufion, that they should believe a Lye: i. e. that Mahomet was a Meflenger fent from God; this is Mahomet's Lye thro' Hypocrifie.

3. Antichrift is call'd the Son of Perdition, and both the Saracens and Turks flew an infinite number of Chriftians, and made long Wars with 'em.

4. The Antichriftian Empire must be part of the Roman Empire, and the Turk now poffeffes one half.

5. The Seat of the Antichriftian Saracens was Babylon, which they built, and call'd it Bagdet, but the Christians Babylon, to this day.

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6. He fhall fix his Tent and Dwelling in the Seas; which is, at Conftantinople.

7. Antichrift must fit in the Church of God; and fo did Mahomet the Great on the Altar in St. Sophia, when he took Conftantinople: He turn'd it into a Mofch, which remains so to this day; and the Turks fell all the Patriarchates in the East, and govern all their Churches in Afia and Greece.

8. He fhall bring in damnable Doctrins: that is his denying Chrift to be the Son of God; this is his Blafphemy.

9. He shall extol himself against all that is call'd God: This is Mahomet's Pretence of being a greater Prophet than Christ. The Turks call Mahomet the Lord of the Creatures; and the Turkish Emperor's Title is, God's Deputy upon Earth, Lord of the Lords of this World, King of Greece. The Attributes and Praises of Mahomet are fung on Fridays in their Mofchs, which is a fort of Idolatry.

10. Antichrift's coming is with all Power and lying Wonders, in all deceivableness of Unrighteousness. This is Mahomet's pretence of his Commiffion to conquer and oblige all to become Mufelmen, or Tributaries to him, and fome Miracles he pretended to. See the Life of Mahomet, in the four Treatifes concerning the Mahometans, where Fire is faid to come down from Heaven on the Chriftians.

11. He muft oppofe Christ both in Life and Doctrin; he denies the Son, and therefore must deny the Father. See Mahomet's Life wrote by Dr. Prideaux.

12. Antichrift has two Horns, the fpiritual and temporal Authority; and thefe both the Saracen Caliphs (or Vicars of Mahomet) pretended to. This is the falfe Matt. 7. 15 Prophet in Sheeps Cloathing.

13. He fhall perfecute the Chriftians 1260 prophetical Days, or Years. And this he has done above 1100 Years already.

14. He fhall change Times and Laws, and fubdue the Saints till Chrift's coming, Dan. 7. 1. Mahomet began the first Hegira, invented new Laws, and his Religion will laft to the coming of Christ.

15. The Lord fhall confume him with the Fire of his Mouth.

16. The fecond Beast is the Image of the first, the Turk, of the Saracen Tyranny and Religion, deriv'd from Mahomet; and he fhall worship Mauffim, which his Fathers knew not. The Turks were originally Heathen Tartars before they embrac'd Iflanifm, and they worship God.

17. The two Horns of the Ram may relate to the Turks Profeffion, being Herdsmen at first: Or, they may be defcrib'd like the Perfian Ram with two Horns; that is, they firft conquer'd Perfia and Media: So Axan did. Mahomet fays, there never was a Prophet who had not been a Shepherd; and he kept Halimas Sheep in Shepherds cloathing.

Or, this is the falfe Prophet in Matt. 7. 15, who comes in Sheeps cloathing, but inwardly was a ravenous Wolf.

18. The Grecians had a Cuftom, in their Mysteries and Oracles, to obferve the number of Names: Na, the Ægyptian River, contains the number of the Days of the Year, 365, and for that reafon St. John ufes the fame concerning the Number of the Beast; 666 is the Number or Mark of his Name, Macunlns contains 665. Pudet Turcos vetufti nominis, quo latronem in fuâ not ant vernacula juvat Muflemin aut Mufelman nova appellatio. The Nuniber of the Beast is the Number of a Man, that may be counted in the numeral Letters; the Mark in the Forehead, is the Turbant; the Mark in the right Hand, the Profeffion at Circumcifion, by holding up the Thumb and faying, God is one, and Mahomet his Prophet.

The Thumb on the right Hand must be held up at this Profeflion, and after this they are accounted Mufelmen. The Numeral Letters in Mahomet's Name make 666, as Mountague obferves in his Appello Cafarem; and fo does Napier reckon.

That the Pope is not Antichrift, these are my Arguments:

1. He never deny'd the Father and the Son, which is St. John's Mark of the great Antichrift.

2. 'Tis no where said that Antichrift must be a Chriftian, but as his Name imports, the Adverfary to that Religion. He may

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be faid to fit in the Temple who turn'd it into a Mofch, and built one on the Ruins of Solomon's Temple, as Omar did.

3. In Timothy's firft Epiftle, chap. 4, the Prophefies of St. Paul relate to the Pope, and not to Antichrift, and to thofe Hereticks which Epiphanius defcribes to hold the fame Opinions before the Papal Monarchy began: Ver. 1. In the latter times fome Jhall depart from the Faith, giving heed to feducing Spirits, and Doctrines of Devils : Ver.3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from Meats.

These are the Corruptions of the Western Church, and relate not to the great Antichrift.

4. The great Antichrift is deftroy'd (chap. 19 of the Revelations) with the falfe Prophet; but the Pope is deftroy'd, chap. 18, therefore the Pope cannot be Antichrift.

5. The great Antichriftian Empire was at Babylon in Chaldea, but the Papal Empire at Rome, call'd the Mystical Babylon.

6. In the Turkish Prayers they use the following Epithet of God, Rabol Maizza, the Lord of Powers or Fortitudes; which is the fame with Eloah Mauzzi, Dan. 11.31, which is the Title of God omnipotent, and the Words of the Prayer are thefe; Be that far from thee, O Lord, O Lord of Powers: which they (Chriftians) attribute to thee, (that thou art a Father, and haft a Wife

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