The Apostasy of the Latter Times In which, (according to divine prediction) the world should wonder after the Beast, the Mystery of Iniquity should so far prevail over the Mystery of Godliness, whorish Babylon over the virgin-Church of Christ; as that the visible glory of the True Church should be much clouded, the True unstained Christian Faith corrupted, the purity of true worship polluted. Or, The Gentiles Theology of Demons, i.e. inferior divine powers: Supposed to be mediators between God and man: Revived in the Latter times amongst Christians, in worshipping of Angels, deifying and invocating of Saints, adoring and templing of Relics, bowing down to Images, worshipping of Crosses, etc. All which, together with a true discovery of the Nature, Origin, Progress, of the great, fatal, and solemn Apostasy, are cleared. Delivered in public some years since upon I Tim. 4:1,2,3 (1641, 1845 edition)

Birks, in his introduction writes, "for close and varied research, happily applied to illustrate an important warning of Scripture, few works can claim equal praise. No treatise, perhaps, has had a more powerful and lasting effect in unmasking the Christian idolatries of former ages, and thus forming a strong bulwark against the proud pretensions of the Roman Antichrist" (p. i).

Solves the "666" mystery!

We have also added William Twisse's preface from the 1641 edition.

358 pages.