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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15761	The hunting of Antichrist VVith a caueat to the contentious. By Leonard Wright.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1589 (1589)	STC 26031; ESTC S120413	23,031	38

The Hunting of Antichrist VVith a caueat to the contentious By Leonard Wright Ieremy 16. Vers. 16. 17. 18. 16 And after that I will send out many hunters and they shall hunt them from euery mountayne and from euery hill and out of the caues of the rockes 17 For mine eyes are vpon all their wayes they are not hid from my face neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes 18 And first I will recompence their iniquity and their sinne double because they haue defiled my lande and haue filled mine inheritaunce with their filthy carrions and their abhominations Veritas non quaerit latebras LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe 1589. To the curteous Reader THat auncient Poet Lucillius was wont to say that neither learned nor vnlearned should read any of his doinges for that the one was too ignorant to vnderstand his true meaning the other too wise for him to aunsweare their expectation Reading of bookes is aptly compared to eating of cheese the talant whereof seemeth so diuers in taste as amongst ten men two can hardly agree in one iudgement One saith it is too fresh another thinkes it too salt It is too milde sayth he nay sayth his fellow it is too strong of the rennet for me In like manner my SVMMONS FOR SLEEPERS was no sooner published abroad but it seemed to haue four seuerall rellishes First it pleased the wise and learned courteously to pardon my imperfections accept my good will and consture all things to the best The second sort iudged it rather to proceede from naturall or arteficiall giftes then spirituall or diuine grace The third company finding the matter not fitting their fancy begā maliciously to discredite and deface both the author and the booke The man in his yong time quoth they delighted too much in hunting shooting and good fellowship to be studious or learned therefore sure it is but some od vaine conceit vnworthy the view The fourth crew forasmuch as it was not correspōdent to their owne seditious vaine condemned it straight for no better then playne Papistry Thus to recompence my painefull labours seeking in some measure to discharge my duety profite my country the whole race of my former life was called in question ript vp as an anotomy tost from post to piller as a tennis-ball Whereuppon I haue taken occasion not to rip and lay open the conditions and manners of that vncharitable brotherhood for loathing of honest eares or vncouering their shame to the enemy but rather to spend a little more time in my old pastime of hunting Not the wyly Fox nor harmeles Hare but that seuen headed monster Antichrist of Rome the three headed Cerberus bandog of Hell and his whelpes the intollerable Sectes of Seditious Scismatikes sprung vp in our time dayly barking against the most Christian and well reformed Ecclesiasticall state of the Church of England Who seeke together continually like ramping roaring lions with tooth and naile to dishonour our God extinguish his Gospell deuour hys poore saintes Not with cries of yelping hounds to fray thē nor strength of coursing grey-hounds to chace them nor fangs of rauening mastiffes to baite them but the sound of godly Patriarkes valiant Prophets couragious Apostles and their inuincible successours to destroy them the breath of Gods holy spirite to subuert and utterly confound them and the two edged sword of his eternall woord to pierce and thrust them thorough euen to the diuiding a sunder of their iointes and marow Beseeching thee in curtesy gentle Reader to iudge charitably censure wythout partialitye make choice to thy profite yeld God the glory Vale in Christo. Leonard Wright As for carping Zoilus with his peeuish ●…fsicophant whelpes I looke for no 〈…〉 at their handes then my 〈…〉 found and my selfe haue ●●gested To whose spiteful obiections though wisdome do will me not to cast a stone at euery barking dog yet must I needes in mine owne defence say somewhat First as touching the title of learning I reuerently yeeld it ouer to my betters that woorthily deserue it hauing nothing my selfe to boast vppon but painefull crosses grieuous afflictions sicknes of body troubles of mind and wreastling with want necessity Beseeching God to graunt me patience and his holy spirite to vse in some measure that little I haue conceiued by reading the holy scriptures and learned mens bookes Exhorting all men euen in christian charity and the feare of God That though it were as simple a scholer as Balaam asse that shall iustly reproue your wicked behauiour and tell you the trueth do not strike him but go about your owne amendment least you seeme to kicke against the prickes or stryue with God who will neyther bee mockt nor dallied withall Touching my recreation I aunsweare with Spiridion Bishop of 〈…〉 demaunded why hee durst 〈…〉 flesh in Lent I dare freely 〈…〉 quoth he because I am a christian So dare I freely hunt and shoote for my health and recreation intime place company conuenient because I am a christian know how to vse them without offence towards God or abuse to my neighbour Requies ludus in vita necessari● saith Aristotle Both the body and the mind are sometimes to be refreshed with playes saith Peter Martyr to make vs afterwards more prompt vnto grauer matters For as there is a time to weepe and mourne so is there a time to laugh and be merry When God sent the prophet to cōfort his people of Ierusalem amongst others his mercies he promised them this security that their boyes and damsels should sport and play in the streetes Mirth ioy prayse and thankesgeuing shall be heard in Syon sayth the Lord. Defraud not thy neighbour of his liberty saith Iesus Syrach neither despise him in his mirth Take thy pastime at home and do what thou wilt sayth he so thou do none euill When thou hast discharged thy duety sairh the prophet sit downe with the people and be merry The Apostle himselfe exhorteth men to loue and delight in brotherly fellowship And daily experience teacheth that honest pastime is a great occasion of frendly meetinges And neighbourly conference the cognisance of humane society A meane to foster and cherish concorde and amitye amongst men Whereas the contrary do●h rather engender melancholike hatred and disdaine As for such grim churlish Timons curious Stoicall hipocrites and wayward scrupulous fooles whose willes are too obstinate for their sences their wittes too headstrong for their wisdome and their dumpish natures too peeuish to enter league with reason Are more fit to liue in Diogenes tub or Trophonius denne then for humane society amongst honest men And wot you what Master Tusser saith There is oftentimes sene no more very a knaue then hee that doth counterfait most to be graue THE HVNTING OF ANTICHRIST A briefe description of the Church of Rome from the time of Christ vntill our present age