Adjective
Dying, moribund.
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Former ages have ſeen Antichriſt Naſcent, when the Biſhop of Rome firſt uſurped authority over all the Churches; Antichriſt Creſcent, when he began to maintain the doctrine of adoring Images, and praying to Saints departed; Antichriſt Regnant, when he exalted himſelf above Kings and Emperours, ſetting up his mitre above their crowns; yea Antichriſt Triumphant, when he once became Lord of the Catholick faith, ſo as none might beleeve without danger more or leſs, or otherwiſe then he preſcribed. To this obſervation made by one of our own learned countreymen, let me add; we our ſelves have ſeen him Antichriſt Cadent, falling and waining ever ſince [Martin] Luther, [John] Calvin, [William] Perkins and others were ſet on work by God to unmask him. And no doubt, if we do not, our poſterity ſhall ſee him Antichriſt morient, dying and giving up the ghoſt: for the Lord faithfull and true hath not onely threatned his ruine, but foretold that his day is coming.
We are Cadent, if not Morient; we do not want for ſin; there is a Spirit of wickedneſs in the Land.
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[Richard] Crakanthorpe (in his Vigilius Dormitans) obſerves, that Antichrist was Naſcent when Rome uſurp’d authority firſt over all the Churches; 2ly he was Creſcent, when he maintained Adoring of Images, and Praying to Saints: 3ly Regnant, when he exalted Himſelf above Kings, and placed his Mitre above their Crowns: 4ly Triumphant, when he became Lord of the Catholick Faith: 5ly Cadent, we ſee him (ſaith he) in our Day, by [Martin] Luther, [John] Calvin, [William] Perkins, &c. who unmask’d him; and he adds a 6th Period, to wit, Morient, ſaying, If we do not, yet our Poſterity ſhall ſee him die, for God ſaith, that his day is coming, Pſ. 37. 13.
This Book having already ſwell’d into a greater Bulk then at firſt Intended, (almoſt above a portable Pocket-Book) I muſt Referr my Reader to the Morient (or Dying) Period of Antichriſt, in my Diſcovery of Antichriſt, pag. 81. to pag. 110. and Confine my ſelf by Conſtraint) to point out onely the moſt Eminent Remarks of Divine Providence which hath Preſerv’d the Church in thoſe Two laſt Centuries, to wit, the Fifteen and the Sixteen Hundred Y. of Chriſt, becauſe it would require a Diſtinct Volum to Speak Diſtinctly of every Paſſage and Providence therein.
That the instantaneous and evanescent discharge (nascent and morient) which we recognize as a thought, and what the materialistic observer takes for the whole occurrence, is only an exaggerated manifestation, for the moment, by the suddenness and greatness of the disturbance, of what is, in fact, a permanent latent force which goes out, at this transition of dissolution, from the material compound or body in which it has now been moulded into a new and self-sustaining persistency, with still an ethereal, quasi-material body, and which survives as a newly eliminated centre and form of force in the universe—[…]
Four babes, and morient two, the breath / Went in and out their pallid lips, ’twas all: / They moaned the loss of love they never knew / And hands they had not felt.
Albert the good, the brave, the great, thy land / Lies at thy feet, a crushed and morient rose / Trampled and desecrated by thy foes.
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In one last fond embrace salute the Bambino of the Ara Coeli, the Christus of Michael Angelo, the morient Gaul, the Teresan Ecstasy, Canova’s Princess, the Ludovisi Juno.
And so, being engrafted by nature, essences do not change, albeit we have seen herbs withdraw from their purpose to resuscitate the ailing and morient, stars deviate from their course to signal imminent events, and upon its passionate flight we have witnessed the Soul accomplish more than alchymic ligatures.