The power exercised by the Bishops might be pernicious, unscriptural, antichristian but illegal it certainly was not; and to pronounce it illegal was to outrage common sense.
The antichristian hierarchy was to be abolished, not because it was an insult to heaven, but because it was felt as a burden on earth; not because it was hateful to the great Head of the Church, but because it was hateful to the people.
It is contrary to presbyterian principles, to congratulate an antichristian usurper for undermining religion, and overturning laws and liberties.
He that can read such a book as Bilson's for "Christian Subjection against Antichristian Rebellion," and yet deny him to be a teacher of subjection, hath a very hard forehead.
How will this harmonize with the 20th chapter, where she appears in triumph over all her antichristian foes?
Now, if the great city Babylon, a symbol which comprises the whole antichristian confederacy, has been utterly destroyed, as appears in the eighteenth chapter, whence come these enemies bearing the same characters?
To describe this antichristian combination and present the unholy confederacy against the Lord and his Anointed, and so to justify the ways of God; it was necessary to digress from the narrative of the trumpets.
Joining their victorious predecessors who overcame the antichristian combinations "by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony," (chs.
Rome pagan, and the rest of the chapter to antichristian Rome.
That the student of prophecy,--especially of the Apocalypse, may realize the fulfilment of this promise, it is indispensably necessary that he be absolutely untrammeled by all antichristian politics.
The first trumpet began to demolish the fabric of antichristian power; and by the fourth the western division was overthrown.
The destructive influence, however, of these two judgments, may be considered as reaching to the time of the third woe, the one which is to demolish the whole antichristian fabric.
It was in fact under the reigns of Constantine and his successors, that ambitious pastors were nurtured into antichristian prelates, and passed by a natural transition into Popery.
In this chapter we have the fullest exhibition of the great antichristian confederacy, spoken of by prophets and apostles, including the "man of sin, to be revealed in his time.
I simply gleaned the fact of her apostasy, with that of her abounding zeal in the antichristian cause.
They also rejected the Lutheran and Zwinglian doctrine of justification, which they regarded as a remnant of antichristian Romanism.
The Grusinian Separatists and the Bavarian Chiliasts are millenarians of German extraction, of whom the former sought deliverance from the prevailing antichristian spirit in removal from, and the latter in removal to, South Russia.
While the antichristian spirit of the age breaks out in various theoretical forms in our literature, there also abound social and communistic movements of a practical kind.
Is so much honour to be given,(338) and so great respect to be had to popish and antichristian rites, as to the ceremonies which were ordained by God himself.
Ours have no better original than human and antichristian invention; theirs had their original from God’s own institution.
How much better were it to remove the Babylonian baggage of antichristian ceremonies, which are the mischievous means, both of the strife and of all the evil which ariseth out of it!
Antichristian experience alone could teach the name of Antichrist, service of the beast the name of the beast; and such experience no Christian could have.
In them the antichristian might of the beast will culminate.
The antichristian power which the protesters of Spires rejected, is now with renewed vigor seeking to re-establish its lost supremacy.
And his opportunity was improved by writing books and homilies, in which the antichristian claims of the popes were fearlessly exposed and commented upon.
There is not a false doctrine in religion, nor an antichristianform of worship, nor a usurped prerogative of the Pope and clergy, which the unrestrained perusal of the Scriptures does not expose.
Why is modern literature, when fashionable and popular, so antichristian in its tone and spirit?
It is unlike the bitter disbelief shown by the early antichristian writers, or by the doubters of modern times.
Two of the most obvious proofs that we can select for proving the existence of a state of unbelief(302) are, the ridicule of religion expressed in the burlesque poetry of the time, and the antichristian sympathies of several distinguished men.
God shall meet together, without fear of being disturbed by the antichristianand Cainish brood!
That that Antichristian Prelacy with all the traine thereof is extirpate?
In "the Antichrist" theantichristian principle is personally concentrated.
But how if they yet retain some antichristian principles.
For though they had the one, yet because they had not the other in that antichristian way which we thought meet, we could not, would not, either hear him ourselves, nor yet give consent that others should.
For as the Old Jerusalem was built after the Jews were come out of literal Babylon, so is our New Jerusalem built after our coming out of the antichristian oppression of spiritual Babylon.
Such has been the tendency of the antichristian church in all ages; witness the cases of the Emperor Henry IV, Henry II of England, and many others.
Antichristian people are diligent to preserve the works of their eminent men; and therefore Christians should be diligent to preserve theirs.
It requires more than human wiliness to originate, foster, perfect, and support such a thoroughly unbiblical and antichristian institution.
In these writings Luther depicts the true antichristian inwardness of the papacy.
The same antichristian feature appears in those advocates of the Papacy who would clear it from the guilt of actual idolatry, because 'it is part of that church from which the idols are utterly abolished.
The Man of Sin and the Beast are unmistakably identical, and refer to an Antichristian world-power; whilst the Harlot and the Priest are symbols of an apostasy in the Church.
We may remember also the mysterious witnesses who are to appear in the last eventful days of the world's history and bear testimony to the Gospel truth before the antichristian world.
It is rather in other communities, where authority is flung aside, and any man is permitted to believe or reject what he likes, that we must look for the leaven of the Antichristian spirit at work.
You will Reply, It is because they are Ministers Ordained by Antichristian Bishops; and therefore before they have renounced their false Ministry, we cannot with a safe conscience hear them, nor expect a blessing from their Ministry.
If they be Antichristian Ministers, how is your conversion Christian?
I say this to the end ye should not love those dumb masks of antichristian ceremonies, that the church[93] where ye are for a time hath cast over the Christ whom your soul loveth.
Half an eye of any, not misted with the darkness of antichristian smoke, may see it thus in this land.
The divisions among Christians arise, as Bunyan justly concludes, from 'antichristian rubbish, darkness, and trumpery.
For by antichristian darkness, though they might call it light, the true light was darkened, and so the eye made dim, even the eye of the truly godly.
It is antichristian that opposes the Christian light still.
Truly, I think it is repeated to show the evil effects the first antichristian opposition would have in the church of God, towards the end of her wilderness state.
Now, therefore, we have light against light among the godly, as afore there was antichristian against the Christian light.
I do not say that the antichristian darkness has done nothing in the church as to the hurting it in the great things of God.
This city is the gospel church returning out of antichristian captivity.
On the other hand, it is recognized that national customs should be carefully observed when they are not antichristian or immoral.
The presence of these antichristian representatives of Christendom is a great hindrance.
The division of the corrupt form of religion then prevailing, into these two Antichristian apostacies, is thus foreshewn.
This objection supposes, First, That the most wicked antichristian government may be a lawful government in point of conscience.
A fifth motive to quicken us to this duty, may be even the practice of the Antichristian state and kingdom; popery hath been dexterous to propagate and spread itself by this means.
This, according to our understanding, means that a far-reaching influence of a Reformed nature will manifest itself, especially with respect to church-practise and the attitude toward all manner of societies and antichristian lodges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antichristian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
