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A12577	A briefe and learned treatise, conteining a true description of the Antichrist, who was foretold by the prophets and apostles And an evident proofe that the same agreeth vnto the Pope. Written in Latin by M. George Sohn Doctor of Diuinitie, and publike professor thereof at Heidelberg, and translated into english.	Sohn, Georg, 1152?-1589.; N. G., fl. 1592.; Grimald, Nicholas, 1519-1562, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 22891; ESTC S114124	33,734	90

much vnto free-will that he seemeth to come very high to the heresie of Pelagius as may be gathered out of the 28. chap. of Augustins booke de Heresibus The Scriptures teach that Christ onely hath satisfied for our sinne 1. Ioh. 2. Roman 3. 25. and 5. 8. Ioh. 1. 29. Math. 20. 28. Hebr. 10. 14. But the Pope teacheth that wee must by our abilitie merite satisfie and answer the iustice of God The Scripture teacheth that we are onely iustified by faith in Christ and that freely vnto life eternall and that our saluation is to be accounted and esteemed as obtained by the onely mercie of God Esay 43. 25. Ioh. 3. 6. Act. 10. Eph. 2. 8. Heb. 24. But the Pope hee teacheth that wee not onely haue not our saluation by faith alone but that wee may merit and deserue euerlasting life by our workes and demerits Further that there is in the masse application made of all Christes benefits ex opere operato that is by the deede done or for the workes sake Finally that the masse beeing applied in the behalf of others though they be vnrighteous persons so that them selues put no barre and be no hinderance of the same doeth merite the remission both of the guilt and of the punishment thereof The Scripture teacheth that iustifying faith is a sure confidence reposed in Christ or els thus a sure confidēce of the remission of our sinnes for Christs sake Rom. 4. 19. c. But the Pope he teacheth that faith is nothing but a knowledge of the historie and a doubtfulnes of the remission of sinnes The Scripture teacheth that euen the regenerate man whilest he is in this life can not perfectly obserue and fulfill the Lawe of God Roman 7. Luk. 17. 10. Philippian 3. 12. Act. 15. 10. But the Pope affirmeth that hee is able consenting with the Pelagians The Scripture teacheth that the kingdome of Christ is not of this world Further that the ministerie of the Apostles and their calling is not ciuill and worldly Ioh. 18. 36. Mark 20. 25. Luk. 22. 25 27. In like manner the Canons of the Apostles commaund that hee should be remooued and deposed from his office who so euer should beare both ciuill and ecclesiastical iurisdiction But the Pope who boasteth that he is the Vicar of Christ and the Successour of Peter doth arrogate to him selfe both ciuill and ecclesiasticall authority as hereafter we will shew more at large The Scripture saith there are onely two Sacraments of the new Testament properly so called Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord of which the one is ordained Math. 28. and Mark 16. The other Math. 26. Mark 14. Luk. 22. 1. Cor. 11. But the Pope holdeth that they be seuen The Scripture teacheth that the vulgar tongue with an euident significant a loud and distinct pronuntiation is to be vsed in the Church or the meetings of the godly that whatsoeuer is spokē might be easily vnderstood and approoued by the people 1. Cor. 14. 9. And Lustinian doeth make a decree very agreeable to the Scripture in this behalfe in Constit 123. 146. But the Pope will haue all things read in the latine tongue The Scripture teacheth that men are to be baptized for the remission of sinnes Mat. 28. 19. not bruit creatures and things without life But the Pope doeth not onely baptize men but also wood and stones and bells c. The Scripture teacheth that the bread both is remaineth in the Lords Supper 1. Cor. 10. 16. 11. 26 c. But the Pope teacheth that it is transubstantiated and chaunged into the bodie of Christ The Scripture teacheth that bread in the Lords Supper is a token of remembrance or a signe of the bodie of Christ once offred vp as a sacrifice for vs and that the body of Christ once giuen for vs and his blood shed is not offered againe vpon the alter by vs in the supper but is eaten and drunken for the confirmation of our faith in Christ and for to stirre vp thankesgiuing in vs Hebr. 9. 28. and 10. 12. Make 26. 26. Luke 22. 19. But the Pope conuerteth this Sacrament into a sacrifice externall reall and propitiatorie And hee daylie in his masse offereth vp this breade turned into the bodie of Christ vpon the alter for the quicke and the deade and beeing offered hee shuts it vp in a boxe and carrieth it about and worshippeth it Cap. peract dist 2. de Consecrat and as in the Councill of Trident and the Iesuites Catechisme is to be seene Further hee offereth this sacrifice or permitteth it to be offered for corporall necessities Whereupon it is that there bee Masses for them that sayle vpon the sea or trauell vpon the lande either on foote or horsebacke women with childe and in trauell for them which are barren or are sicke of tertian or quartern agues for marchants that they may haue prosperous traffique The Scripture teacheth that Christ in the institution and celebration of the holie Supper had and retained and still hath and retaineth a true bodie of the same substance with ours Matth. 26. 26. Luk. 24. 39. 1. Cor. 11. 26. But the Pope feigneth that the bodie of Christ is inuisible and insensible and so altogether diuerse and vnlike vnto ours and such a one as may be in many places at one time that is to say that a bodie is present but not as a bodie in deede The Scripture teacheth that not onely the Ministers of the worde but others also which be faithfull ought to take eate and drinke the breade and wine in the Lordes Supper Luk. 22. 17. 1. Corinth 11. 20. But the Pope will that onely the Priestes shall take eate and drinke the rest are onely to be spectatours and to looke on as in the priuate Masse The Scripture teacheth that in the Lords supper the wine as well as the bread is to be administred and distributed 1. Cor. 11. 26. But the Pope barreth the laytie from the vse of the Chalice and of the wine as in the Councill of Const 13. The scripture teacheth that there be onely two places appointed for the soules of the dead after this life to wit heauen for the faithfull hell for the vnbeleeuers Mark 16. 16. Luc. 16. 22. Ioh. 3. 18. 4. 36. 5. 24. c. But the Pope hee feigneth a thirde place where the soules of them that are defiled with veniall that is with small sinnes are to be purged before they ascende vp into heauen which for this cause he calleth the fire of purgatorie Concil Trident. Sess 6. cap. 30. Sess 22. cap. 2. cap. 3. Sess 25. The scripture teacheth that mariage is not onely seemely and honourable for all sorts of men but also euen almost necessarie for the auoiding of fornication Heb. 13. 4. 1. Cor. 7. 2. 9. Againe it woulde haue a Bishop to be the husband of one

also the onely spouse of the Church 2. Cor. 11 2. Ephes 5. 29 Finally though hee bee also the onely prince the chiefe shephearde and the high priest vnto his Church 1. Pet. 2. 5. and chap. 5. 4. Heb. 6. 20. chap. 7. 26. chapt 9. 11. Alway liuing to make intercession for vs. Rom. 8. 34. Heb. 7. 25. Yet notwithstanding the Pope of Rome doeth arrogate this office and these properties vnto himselfe and vaunteth himselfe that hee is the chiefe head high priest and sacrificer and the Oecumenicall and generall Bishop Pastour and doctour of the whole Church here vpon earth For so saith Clement Pastoralis de Sentent re Iudic. A pastorall charge is enioyned to vs of God over all Nations of Christendome c. C. 1. extravag de empt vend We being governers of the vniuersall Church by the Lords appointment c. c. reg extravag de prebend Beeing called to the gouernment of the vniuersall Church by heauenlie ordinance C. 1 de treuga pace Being called to the gouernment of the vniuersall Church by the mercy of God so disposing it C. 3. de Elect. The holy Church of Rome which by the Lords appointment being as it were the mother and mistresse of all the faithfull which belong to Christ hath obtained of God superioritie ouer the rest distinct 22. Sacrosancta This Apostolicallchayre to wit Rome is appointed the head and principall and as it were the Hinge for as the doore is turned and gouerned vpon the hinge so all Churches are to bee ruled by the authoritie of this Cap. Vnam sanctam extravag de mator obed Therefore there is one bodie of one and the same onely Church one bead not two far that were monstrous to wit Christ and the vicar of Christ Peter and Peters successour Cap. fundament de elect 6. So likewise at this day the Pope in his bulles challengeth authoritie ouer all Churches of euerie people and nation So also doeth hee call the Church his spouse and bride C. quoniā de imminut in 6. saying after this manner Wee being loth to neglect the righteousnesse of our selues the Church our spouse In like maner also hee speaketh cap. inter corporalia c. licet in tantum de translat Episc Secondly the Pope hath violated and corrupted almost all the doctrine of Christ so that he is not onely an heretike but an Archheretique the ringleader and the Patriarke of heretikes for hee hath not onelie maintained one errour onely against the foundation but hath heaped vp manie one vpon the necke of another and defended them with might and maine as may bee plainely vnderstoode by this comparison and opposition of the doctrine of Christ and the Pope The scripture or rather Christ in the scripture teacheth that God is in vaine worshipped with the precepts of men Matth. 15. It condemneth voluntarie seruice Col. 2. 2 3. Further it declareth that al things necessary to saluation are committed to writing by the Apostles are to be sought for in theit writings 2. Tim. 3. 6. that he is Anathema that is accursed who teacheth or bringeth any other doctrine Gal. 18. But the Pope doeth vrge the traditions of men bringeth in a will-worship and letteth not to say that the scripture is obscure maimed and imperfect as it is in the counsell of Trident. Sess 4. 1. and else where The scripture teacheth that there is but one onely God who knoweth all things is almightie and the gouernour of the worlde and all thinges therein Deut. 6. 4. Mark 12. 29. 1. Kings 8. 39. 2. Cron. 6. 30. Esa 40. 13. Rom. 16. 27. 1. Tim. 6. 15. and in other places besides But the Pope making as it were a diuision of the diuine Maiestie doeth transferre the same vnto certaine petie gods and associates vnto him For looke how many he hath canonized for saintes so manie hath he erected to bee gods and lordes and rulers of the worlde Amongst which one is ouer the raine another is for faire weather one for diseases another for health finallie one for this cause another for that they hauing their taskes and offices assigned seuerally vnto them The scripture teacheth that God alone is to be called vpon Deut. 6. 13. Math. 4. 10. Act. 10. 25. 14. 11. Reuel 19. 10. 22. 9. But the Pope hee prayeth vnto the deade and teacheth that they are to be prayed vnto The Scripture teacheth that we should abhorte idols Exod. 20. 4. Deut. 4. 23. 1. Ioh. 5. 21. Reuel 18. 4. But the Pope doeth erect and set vp idols euery where to be worshipped The Scripture teacheth that now there is one onely high Priest and Sacrificer to wit Christ and that there is but one onely Oblation Heb. 6. 20. and 9. 26 28. and chap. 10. 12. But the Pope hath substituted an infinite number in stead of Christ who doe euerie day offer to God a reall and propitiatorie sacrifice to wit the bodie and bloode of Christ in the Masse The Scripture teacheth that there is one onely Mediatour and Intercessour betwixt God and man to wit the man Iesus Christ 1. Tim. 2. 5. 1. Ioh. 2. 1. Rom. 8. 34. Heb. 7. 24. and 9. 24. But the Pope hath suborned almost an infinite number of dead men to be mediatours intercessours and spokesmen and especially the Virgine Marie in stead of Christ as is in the Councill of Trident The Scripture teacheth that all power in heauen and earth is giuen and graunted vnto Christ and that he is exalted aboue all principalities and is appointed Lord of all things Math. 28. 18. Act. 2. 36. Ephes 1. 21. Further that he is the head of the militāt Church here vpon earth as was saide before Whereupon Gregorie the great saith That he is the forerunner of Antichrist who soeuer should challenge vnto him selfe the title of generall Bishop who that hee might leaue vnto his successours an example of humilitie was the first that called him selfe the seruant of the seruants of God And likewise the Councill of Carthage and Pelagius the Pope were of the mind dist 96. can Nullus But the Pope he placeth Christ who is now in heauen exalted vnto the right-hand of his Father not onely inferiour to his Father with the Arrians but also somewhat inferiour to his mother and willeth that shee should by her mortherly authoritie and priuiledge to commaund her Sonne c. And for him selfe hee standeth vpon it that he is the vniuersall Bishop here vpon earth and the head of the whole Church The Scripture teacheth that a man beeing deade in his sinnes is not able so much as to vnderstande any thing of him selfe that is hath no free-will in those matters that be spirituall and appertaine to saluation Ephes 2. 1. Colos 2. 13. Roman 8. 6. 1. Corinth 2. 14. 2. Corinth 3. 5. 2. Tim. 2. 15. 1. Ioh. 13. But the Pope he attributeth so

one and the same Saint In that hee counterfaiteth miracles which neither are nor haue beene wrought as was shewed before In that hee pretendeth the name of Christ the saluation of the Church But indeede doeth seeke his owne honour and commoditie For he calleth them the Riches of the Church and Patrimonie of Christ But did Christ possesse any such things Thou bearest the name and title of Bishops but altogether voide of the substance Thou hearest the name of Patriarkes Superintendentes Abbats but if thou take away the outwarde visard and ceremonie what will remaine Thou hearest the names of the Fraternities and they are schismes or diuisions Thou hearest of the orders and contemplatiue life what is it but confusion and senselesnesse Thou hearest of continencie and it is nothing but riotousnesse Thou hearest of the pouertie especially of the Monkes and what is it but deliciousnes Thou hearest of chastitie and single life and what is this but filthie lecherie Thou hearest of humilitie and it is pride and arrogancie Finally thou seest the sheepes skinne but there is a wolfe lurking within it For hee indeed professeth humilitie but exalteth himselfe aboue all others hee voweth chastitie but vseth adulterie yea and more is further from all honestie no man as it is full well knowne vnto all men doth more defile himselfe with all kinde of villanie hee celebrateth a feast and yet he playeth the glutton in the same Againe hee is cruell as those terrible excommunications and edicts do shew which he maketh against Emperors kings others as do also his factions his warres his butcherly massacres with the persecutions and most extreme torments of the faithfull which are in truth more then I am able to rehearse in any short space For how many factions warres massacres hath the Pope of Rome caused among Christian princes in all partes of Christendom within these 500 yeres for the maintenance encrease of his power How much blood hath he shed when as he in the meane season like to a Fencer hauing set others togither by the eares is a beholder of these bloodie sports Or as another Nero beholding in his turret the citie set on fire which himselfe had fired doth feede and please his mind and delight his eies with such a hidious and pitiful spectacle What mischiefe did he work in that voyage to Ierusalem for the recouerie of the sepulchre of the Lorde the citie Ierusalem and the holy lande which was first begun by Gregorie the 8 one who was more cruell and abominable then Nero himselfe and after prosecuted by Vrbanus the deare and most neare friend which Gregorie had wherein the West fought against the East verie dangerouslie the Christian souldiers so vsed the matter by spoiling killing Christians Iewes others by committing other outrages that all the warres which were made by the Romanes being Gentiles may in comparison of that bee called Christian godly and holy Howe madly and furiously haue the Counter popes raged together euen that they might dispatch one another onely to serue their owne ambition To conclude how many and how great persecutions hath the Pope caused within this 60 yeeres what torments hath he inflicted vpon men faithfull and holy whome he proclaimed as heretiques especially in France and the low Countries For because that he is cruell he doeth persecute the saintes but he worshippeth them when they be placed in heauen For this is the propertie of a bloody and cruell man to iniurie those which are his equals or them who are his inferiours whom he may hurt but as for them who are his betters whom he can not hurt but feareth lest himselfe be hurt by them these he reuerenceth He also appeared by little litle by the craft of the deuill which mingleth truth and falshood together which is a cunning cozening and sophisticall subtilty For a lie is weake of it selfe can not stand therfore these cozening mates do vnderprop their lies with such propositions assertions as be either true or els haue a shew of trueth Therfore sathan by litle litle brought in the corruptions of doctrine maners confirmed them more and more by sophistrie hypocrisie till at length this kingdome did fully appeare Hee also hath bin extant since the diuision ouerthrow of the Romane Monarchie and since the expiring date of those 666 yeeres that is since the death of Mauritius the Emperour when the Emperour Phocas who slewe his father made this decree that the Church of Rome should be head ouer all other Churches and that the Bishop of Rome who then was Boniface the third should be head ouer all Bishops be the Catholique and general Bishop And alway since especially since the time of Charles the great hee hath gotten strength and growne greater and greater He appeared in the temple of God that is in the Churches and there he still sitteth and ruleth feigning that hee is the Vicar of Christ and the successour of Peter for there was the true Church where the Pope of Rome first appeared as Antichrist and afterward there remained the name the title the print of the Church there was the bible that is the booke of the Prophets Apostles there remained the true doctrine concerning God concerning the trinitie of the deuine persons concerning the person of Christ there remained baptisme together with the creed of the Apostles and though the Popedome was not then no more then in trueth it is now the Church yet the Church was and did as it were lie hid in the Papacie He sitteth at Rome betwixt two seas Tyrrhenum Adriaticum for here is the seate of the Pope wherein oftentimes for sometimes the place is changed he dwelleth bodily He is discouered in these last daies of the world first by Iohn Hus secondly by Martin Luther other excellent men whom God raised vp who hauing found out Antichrist euen in the time of his marchandise and as we say with the manner haue put him to shame by shewing his impietie and indeauour against Christ and haue kindled the light of the gospell in all places especially in Germany though the Pope other the Lords of Christendom being vtterly against it haue threatened banishments punishments warres and ouerthrowe who would not suffer the religion which had continued so many ages to be ouerthrowen to the great trouble destruction of all Europe For so soone as men which were not giuē vnto pleasures as Epicures are did see but a spark of light shining vnto them they being verie much grieued with that darknes seruitude wherewith they had beene so manie yeres oppressed and being intised with the beautie sweetnes of trueth they ioyned themselues vnto the sincere teachers of truth not hauing regard of other matters whatsoeuer By which meanes the puritie of doctrine was euerie where propagated spred abroad the Churches were established restored vnto their