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2701 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 369.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… how Antichrist may be known:
2702 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 369.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… know antichrist, which doth elevate himself in the church, and judgeth at his pleasure before the time. His canonizations, and judging of men before the Lord’s …
2703 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 371 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
3. DECLARES PRESENCE OF ANTICHRIST EVIDENCE OF LATTER DAYS
2704 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 371.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… to Antichrist’s reign. With the appeal, “Therefore, good people, let us make ready towards his coming. And though he cometh not at this time, yet let us make ready …
2705 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 371.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… past. Antichrist is known throughout all the world. Wherefore the day is not far off. Let us beware, for it will one day fall upon our heads.” Ibid., p. 364.
2706 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 373 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Emphasis Centered on Papacy as Prophesied Antichrist
2707 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 374 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
2. ALWAYS TWO CHURCHES; ONE Is ANTICHRIST’S
2708 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 375.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
” ‘In the New Testament is mention made of two churches, as it appeareth in the Apocalypse; and also St Paul to the Thessalonians maketh mention that antichrist, with his false generation, shall sit in the temple of God.’” Ibid., p. 107.
2709 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 375.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist sitting in the temple of God, which Paul “seemeth to have taken out of the prophecies of Daniel, and which Curio applies to the pope; he regards …
2710 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 376 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
II. Bradford Burned for Not Acknowledging Antichrist of Rome
2711 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 377.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… false antichrists; take heed they do not deceive you.” It was just five years from his ordination to his martyrdom. Ibid., pp. xli-xliv.
2712 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 377.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the antichrist of Rome to be Christ’s vicar—general and supreme head of his catholic and universal church.” Similarly in his “Farewell to the University and …
2713 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 378.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the antichrist of Rome to be Christ’s vicar-general and supreme head of his church here and every where upon earth, by God’s ordinance.” Ibid.,) pp. 441, 442.
2714 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 378 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
2. ANTICHRIST IN CHURCH; NOT TURK, INFIDEL, OR JEW
2715 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 378.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… church antichrist will sit. And Peter telleth us, as it went in the old church afore Christ’s coming, so will it be in the new church sithen Christ’s coming: that …
2716 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 378 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
3. BISHOP OF ROME UNDOUBTEDLY GREAT ANTICHRIST
2717 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 379.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
I and of Phocas. Calling the bishop of Rome a “bitesheep” rather than a bishop, Bradford tells of a large treatise he had begun, entitled “Of Antichrist.” To Lady Vane he says:
2718 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 379.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… great Antichrist, of whom the apostles do so much admonish us; that you may have as well something the more to stay you on, as also wherewith to answer the adversaries …
2719 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 379 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
5. REIGN OF EMPIRE BEASTS AND ANTICHRIST AT ADVENT
2720 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 379.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Bradford tersely sets forth the Antichrist as a usurper in God’s kingdom, also showing his accord with the standard Reformation interpretation of the four empire beasts of Daniel 7 .