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A17215	Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come, and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age, and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas Potter	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Potter, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 4070; ESTC S109532	41,593	112

meruelous and wunderful things against the God of Gods So that the prophet dooth meruail greatly at his impudency But reuerend maisters and déerly belooued brethren if yée desire to heare some of his great presumptuous woords giue eare I wil reherse some of them vnto you out of their owne bookes What thinges are taught in the decrees decretals and gloses touching the Pope of Rome his maiestie and Monarchie The Pope say they is aboue all lawes He may prefer by his owne interpretation equity not writē before the lawe written For he seemeth to haue all lawes in the Cofar of his brest Therefore what soeuer the Pope alloweth or dissaloweth the same ought we also to alow or dissalow Of the iudgement of the Apostolick seat no man ought to iudge neither is it lawful for any man to correct or repeale the sentence of the same namely because of the primacy soueraintie of the Romain church giuen from abooue by the benefite of Christ in blessed Peeter the Apostle The Iudge ought not to bee iudged neither of councel nor of Emperour nor of the whole clergie nor of the Kinges nor of the people The causes of others God would haue to be determined by man But without all question God hath reserued to his own Iudgement the high ruler of this Sea In somuche that if he should cary with him by heapes innumerable people to hel fire yet no mortall man may presume to reprooue his faultes heerin because he is to iudge all men and himself is to be iudged of no man God suffereth not the church of Rome to erre And euery one that obeyeth not the decrees of the Romain Seat is an Heretick And Pope Adrian saith also Wee iudge and ordaine by generall decree that he be detestably accursed and remain alwaies gilty before God as a breaker of the catholike faith whosoeuer shall suffer to be violat●d or beleeue that there ought to be violated in any point the sensure of the decrees either of the kīgs or of the Bishops or of any heerafter the mightie Popes of Roome All the ordinances of the apostolick seat are so to bee esteemed as confirmed by the diuine voice of Peeter him self With lowd voice saith Leo the fourth I feare not to pronounce that whosoeuer shal be found not indifferently to receiue and allow all the decrees of the holy fathers which are intituled among vs by the names of Canons hee is therby approoued such a one as dooth not profitably and effectually to his behoof keepe or beleeue either the Catholick apostolick faith or els the foure holy Gospels For whosoeuer dooth against her which is the mother of faith dooth indeed breake and violate the faith And albeit the Fathers of the Apostolick seate some times bee not good yet they are alwaies presupposed to be good The Pope sinneth whē he cōmitteth adultrye or murder but he may not be accused It were apoint of Sacriledge to dispute of the Popes dooings whose wicked acts are excused as the murders of Sampson the robberies of the Hebrues and the adultery of Iacob Yea also if one of the Clergie doo imbrace a woman let it be said that hee dooth it to blesse her Let no man think that I haue ●ai●ed any of all these things For I haue in effect resited the very woords of the Canonists which I am able to shew in their owne Books if any man shall require it The Pope alone say they hath all the dignities all the power which all the Patriarcks haue had His authoritie is greater then the authoritie of the saintes because whom he confirmeth no man may disable the same He hath bothe the swordes He is not to be called to account by any man no although he be called an heretick Hee alone appealeth from all men to God him self because he is the Vicar or deputie of Christe and hath fulnes of power from God He may spare whom he lust To him alone and to none els it is lawful to take a way from one and giue to another All the whole world is the diocesse of the Pope and the Pope is the ordinary of all men hauing fulnes of power in things spirituall and tēporall For he is Lord of Lords hauing the right of the King of Kings ouer his subiects He is all things and aboue all thinges And it is requisit vnder pain of damnation to be subiect to the Bishop of Roome For God and the Pope haue bothe one cōsistory Also the pope is said to haue an heauēly power and authority and therfore also to chaūge the nature of thinges by turning the substāce of one thing into an other And of nothing he can make something And the sentence that is of no force he can make it of some value Because in those things that he liketh his will standeth for reason And no mā may say vnto him why doost thou thus For he may dispēce with all lawes and of iniurye make Iustice by correcting of lawes and chaunging of them Hetherto haue ye heard the mouth speaking great things worthy truely to be stopped vp with the Turds of the Deuil But thus the Rat is bewrayed by shewing of her self And while he thus did shite foorth these moste filthy Turds in the middest of the Church yet stil he would needs séem to speak on the behalf of the highest whose Vicar he bosteth him self to be on earth VVho as Daniel saieth dooth think that hee may chaunge bothe the times and the lawes In very trueth no man can or ought to chaunge the ordinances of God Therfore Antichriste shall think that he may chaunge them Er wirds whaenem Saint Ierom noteth vpon these wordꝭ of Daniel that Antichriste shall make subiect vnder his power the whole Religion of Christe Wherin we haue séen the Popes to haue doon what they lusted them selues But because all times doo bring foorth faithful Preachers of Christe Enoches and Eliases who doo withstand such abhominations therfore Daniel saith very wel that hee made war against the Saints and preuailed ouer them Of which war because I haue spoken before when I expounded the woords of Christe our Lord there is no néed héer to make repetition again But because the godly vppon whose shoulders this burden and care doth test might demaund how long time this other beast should rage and waste the kingdome of Christe and blaspheme the name of the eternall God Daniel preuenteth this thing and saith The end of the Popes kingdome They shal be deliuered into his hands vntil a time and times and half a time In whiche dark kinde of speaking he séemeth to signifie nothing else but that the Saints must cōstantly abide in that fight whether the time that they must fight in be long or short For no certain determinate time is declared and therfore none must be looked for Moste men haue vnderstanded by a time For a time times and half a time times and half a time one yéere ij

ad vom braemen vstrumen vnd be schissen with which it hath been a raging enemye against the whole worlde bothe spiritually and corporally Assuredly all historyes doo witnesse that our Lord God bare a singuler great fauour vnto the Citie of Constantinople One matter onely will I resite After the decay of the Romain Monarchie how soeuer the whole world run togither with mutuall warres amonge them selues most kingdomes tasted of meruelous alterations yet neuertheles the kingdom of Constantinople remained stedfast and vnmoouable giuing often repulse vnto barbarous nations and also to the very Sarasines beeing enemyes otherwise moste mightie fierce But at the length beeing vtterly void of Gods protection it was laid open to be spoyled and trodden vnder foote by the Turks at what time the Princes of Constantinople béeing deceiued by Eugenius the Pope to the great calamitie of moste mightie Princes For at that season by the vnhappy councel of Amurathe he ouerthrew Ladislaus the moste victorious King of Hungary and Polonia with all his whole hoste departing in the councell of Florence from their true head Christe acknowledged the Pope of Roome to be the true Vicar of Christe on earth and the lawful successor of Peeter I reherse the woords of Platina to occupy the chéefest and highest place in the world whom the Church bothe of the East and also of the West ought of duty to obey But séeing that these things haue happened to this moste noble ond moste ancient Citie through the iust iudgement of God let men take héed in these dayes what they doo that béeing deliuered thorow the tuicion and diligence of good Princes from this Romain beast outragious proud insatiable in blood and riches filthy and deceiuable yet wil again throwe down thē selues to be stamped vnder his féet and to be ouerwhelmed Sith all kinds of legerdemain But now I return to Daniel It appéereth out of histories as I was about to tel that in the West within Roome and Italy beeing the auncient seat of the empire there was no Caesar or Emperour all the time from the desolation of the West Empire vnto the dayes of Charles the great which was thrée hundred yéeres and more For the Hornes that grue vp by the diuision of the Romain Empire béeing diuers and many did fiercely fight togither and slew one another So that Roome and Italy was gouerned now by the west Gothes afterward by the VVandalles after that by the Saxons so by the East Gothes then by the Greeks and at the length the Lombards also and Frenchmen attained to the Empire And during this vnhappy time while the frantick Prinres slewe one another with mutuall wounds there sprung vp in the middest of this contention that base and despised litle Horne that Daniel speaketh of namely a parish Préest of Roome who a litle before this time through moste wicked deuises practises began to be in authoritie which helped him exceedingly to the attainment of the Empire For now he was accounted almoste of all men in the west parts for the vniuersall pastor as Bishop of that place which after long contention had first with the Churches of Africa and afterwarde of Constantinople Phocas the Emperour altogither an infamous and vnfortunate Prince commaunded to be chéefest and head of all Churches in the world Therfore now the Popes iudgements and decrées were of great authoritie among princes as of a man altogither Apostolike who neuerthelesse hitherto was equall with other Bishops and had no princely superioritie and therfore was a base and despised litle horne And Daniel dooth not let to tel by what meanes that base person not accounted of who was once vnder the subiection of the Romain Princes is now started vp to so great a dignitie power The little horne ouerthroweth iii. hornes namly by the ouerthrowe of thrée Hornes in that sharp conflict of the other Hornes And héer I would haue you to note dilygētly how that Daniel in declaring of this matter vsed not one ōly woord but thrée For he saith that the Hornes were pluct a way brought lowe fel down Namely that one of the thrée hornes was pluckt awaye an other brought lowe and the third fel down For Grigory Bishop of Room the second of that name a Cirian born and a man very wittie and subtile did excomunicate Leo Isauricus Emperour of Constantinople béeing a good and other wise a strong Prince for taking away the Images out of the temples of Christians whom also he plucked away and draue him out of Italy Héerin reigned the Saxons and Ostgothes men barbarous about Clxxv yéeres But these were subdued by Bellisarius a mā very expert in the affaires of war And Narses a skilful and mightie warrier béeing sent by the princes of Constantinople draue them clean out of Italy and he him self ruled Italy as Liuetenant for the Prince of Constantinople After this Longinus brought a new kinde of gouernmēt into Italy called the Exarchate The Exarchate af Rauenna such a one as was the Deputy and Viceroy in Italy in place of the Prince of Constantinople He was termed Exarchus who had his seat at Rauenna and not at Roome because it remained very filthy and as it were desolate by meanes of the waste destruction doon by the Gothes And after Narces and Basilius Rome had neuer Consuls nor senat lawfully assembled But the Romain state béeing vtterly wasted was gouerned a long time by the rule of a Grecian whō the Exarchus sent from Rauenna And it was not called the Exarchate of Roome but of Rauenna But after that Leo the Gréek Emperour was excōmunicated and Gregory the Pope had perswaded all the Cities of Italy to reuolt they began to chuse them Dukes to rule ouer them Wherby it came to passe immediatly that casting away the gouernment of the Exarchate they slew through sedition Paule the Exarchus togither with his Sonne at Rauenna and expelled the Grecians out of Italy And so this horn was plucked away Moreouer Pope Zacharias wheras he was falsely esteemed by the Frenchmen and other nations to be the true Apostolike and vniuersall bishop on earth was chosen vmpire to pronounce whether were more worthy of the kingdome Hildericus or Pipin the dwarf But he brought lowe the true King Hildericus in place of whom hée exalted Pipine béeing the chéef ruler of his house Wherfore Stephen the successor of Zacharie second of that name the repulse béeing giuen to the Lombards and also in despite of the Greeks receiued for a reward of his wicked fact the Exarchate of Rauenna lately made desolate by the practises of the Pope And so another of the thrée Hornes was brought lowe and the litle horne was exalted into a higher estate Furthermore now after these commeth Charles the great the sonne of Pipin the dwarf who beeing called foorth by Pope Adrian in to Italy against the Lumhards at Papia or Ticinum ' beséeged and took Desiderius the last king of the Lombards in Italy