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2721 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:
2722 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 …
2723 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 379 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
5. REIGN OF EMPIRE BEASTS AND ANTICHRIST AT ADVENT
2724 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 .
2725 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 379.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , that Antichrist shall bear rule in the church until Christ come to judgment: then shall he destroy his kingdom. So that the true church of Christ shall not …
2726 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 382 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
1. PAPAL ANTICHRIST SAME AS BEAST OF APOCALYPSE
2727 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 382.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… prophesied Antichrist and Beast of the Apocalypse:Hooper, A Declaration of Christ and His Office, chap. 3, in Works, vol. 1 (Early Writings), pp. 22, 23.
2728 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 382.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of antichrist, I mean of Christ’s great and principal enemy, is so openly known to all men, that are not blinded with the smoke of Rome, that they know him to be …
2729 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 382.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… and antichrist[ian] seat of abomination; idols, peregrinations, masses, dispensations, absolutions, defensions of all things abominable; tyrannies against …
2730 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 382 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
3. REFERENCES TO ANTICHRIST PERMEATE WRITINGS
2731 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 382.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist,” Antichrist exercising “great and cruel tyranny upon the faithful children of God.” Such expressions as the “kingdom of Antichrist,” the “doctrine …
2732 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 387 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
V. Cranmer at the Stake Repudiates Pope as Antichrist
2733 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 387.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… papal Antichrist, just as Cobham, Huss, and Jerome before them. A host of martyrs thus sealed their testimony. Indeed, the Reformation rests on such testimony …
2734 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 390 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
2. DYING TESTIMONY REJECTS POPE AS ANTICHRIST
2735 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 391.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
” ‘And as for the pope, I refuse him as Christ’s enemy and antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
2736 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 391.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
In the Preface to his A Defense of the True and Catholic Doc trine of the Sacrament (1550), occurs this solemn declaration of Cranmer’s prophetic interpretation of the Papacy as Antichrist and Babylon:
2737 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 391.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… how antichrist hath obscured the glory of God, and the true knowledge of his word, overcasting the same with mists and clouds of error and ignorance through …
2738 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 392 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
4. TRIPLE-CROWNED ANTICHRIST SEATED IN TEMPLE
2739 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 392.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… great antichrist, which took upon him authority, not only over the clergy, but also climbed above kings and emperors, deposing them at his pleasure, and settled …
2740 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 392.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… now Antichrist of Rome, contrary to this decree, hath extolled himself above his fellow-bishops, as God’s vicar, yea, rather as God him self; and taketh upon him …