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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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