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A08453	The fountaine and vvelspring of all variance, sedition, and deadlie hate Wherein is declared at large, the opinion of the famous diuine Hiperius, and the consent of the doctors from S. Peter the Apostle his time, and the primitiue Church in order to this age: expresly set downe, that Rome in Italie is signified and noted by the name of Babylon, mentioned in the 14. 17. and 18. chapters of the Reuelation of S. Iohn.	Ocland, Christopher, d. 1590?	1589 (1589)	STC 18778; ESTC S113367	31,748	48

confusion of dissention by y ● which the Church is at this day tornin sunder for although the Church be in Babylon of the world yet it ought to be gathered by brotherly vnanimity And a litle after Esay saith Babylon my welbeloued is turned to me into a miracle but I say Rome my beloued is turned to me into a miracle yea what is so marue●lous yea what is so miserable Dauid saw the Angel of the Lord standing with a drawn sword ouer Ierusalem we the daughters of the Romish Church behold we sée the Bishop there which is or should be the Angell of God ready with a drawn sword ouer the Church Dauid praied that y ● people might not be killed our Angel reching to the Earl of Flanders the sword praieth that we may be slaine wher many mo things touching the crueltie of Babylon be adiected in their place whosoeuer listest to search and read the history at large About the yeare of our Lord 1200 S. Barnard the Monke liued in great estimation with Kings and Princes euen with the Kinges of this Land For he was a man of great fame both for his godly life and learning This S. Barnard in his bookes written to Pope Eugenius doth rehearse and carpe so many and such crimes both of the Bishops and Citizens of Rome how many and such as none of the old prophets is read to haue obiected to the Babilonians which to 〈◊〉 tediousnes here I omit to rehearse who so is 〈◊〉 to seée his words the books be extant at this time though written 400 year past more Likewise Petrus Iohannes Pyranensis about 1330 did openly in schole teach that as the Pope was Antichrist So no other Church but the Romish to be vnderstood by the name of the whore of Babylon Also Wickliefe of England and Iohn Hus and Hierome of Bohemia taught affirmed the same doctrine of the Pope and of Rome the first of these thrée his bones burned 18 yéeres after he had bene dead the other two brent aliue yet consenting in opinion to all the godly Fathers and Doctors in these points that be aboue rehearsed Now it hath bene sufficiently spoken with the approoued testimo-of euery age euen from the Apostles time and the opinion and sentence of the best learned cited thereto touching the place that Rome is signified by Babilon Now let vs return againe to the ruler of this Babylon and his tragicall actions who putteth on him the vizard of piety and is altogether vnder his Maske impiety it selfe This impudent and shameles man of Rome yea rather beast he may be called which doth the iniuries afore rehersed to our Lord Christ what presumeth not he to aduenture vpon daily among his inferiors for equals hee will haue none and both Emperor and King professing Christ within Europe he hath made subiect vnto him and ready at ●all to do his will and command●ment He maketh War himselfe he prouoketh one prince with fire sword to assault another he sheddeth innocent blood in persecuting those that dare or wil open their mouth against him Hée maintaineth Subiects so rebell against their Soueraigne Lords kings he is the firebrand to set an outrage of burning in al parts of Christendome he is a deadlie poison which hath infected y ● church of God with notorious dregs Did not the Pope stir prouoke Sigismond the Emperor and the noble Princes of Germany with force of armes to inuade the realm of Bohemia Upon what ground or occation Truly because Iohn Hus and Ierome of Prage had by preaching of the word of God began to reueale the son of perdition in the same country of Bohemia The Pope therfore féeling himselfe touched to the quicke endeuoured as much as in him did lie to destroy and extirpate all the Bohemians First Hus Ierom were cruelly burned and yet the desire of the people to the knowledge of true religion thereby not quenched but inflamed and kindled the more What ensued of this with huge power and most puissant 〈◊〉 the Bohemians were inuaded two yeares together And both the times with wonderful courage prowes of the Bohemians the assault makers were repulsed and put back to shameful flight by the miraculous power mighty hand of God who fought for them did set thē at rest peace in despite of the Bishop of Rome his Cardinals cleargie I omit here for breuities cause to inferre manie examples how the Popes frō age to age moouing war haue procured by their Legates and messengers one Prince to wage battel on his next brother and Prince adioining and when the Armies were readie to encounter and méete then would he colourably as though no fault were in hym Friers and other messengers were despatched betweene perswading peace and reconcilement The Chronicles in euerie Realme can sufficientlie testifie the same And therfore I remit those that be desirous to know further herein to the said Chronicles This I say and affirme boldlie that it was the Pope that did animate and set on Robert Earle of Flanders against Henry the fourth Empero●r It was he the Pope that maintained the warres with ten thousand Italians and gaue money to pay them wages on the behalfe of the Emperor Charles the fift against the Duke of Saxony and the noble Pée●es of Germany because the said Pope would haue had the light of the Gospell darkened which at that time had sprong vppe from the first preaching of Luther séeking to bring ignorance in place againe though it wer with the shedding of Christian blood and vtter vndooing and spoile of many both men women and children It is he the Pope that to his great ignominy and shame for euer cherished a ranke Traitor named Stukeley a man of euill life and conuersation and mainteyned him against his Soueraigne Ladie and Quéene with money men Shippes and munition to enter Ireland God confoundeth the deuises and purposes of the wicked and maketh them frustrate contrary to their expectation What followed Stukeley when he had sailed from Italie to the Bay of Portugale and there hearing that the King Sebastian was going ouer into Barbary with all royall preparation of warre offered his seruice to the said King not for any zeale or good will but vpon a subtill pretence that Warres there ended hee woulde borrowe a summe of money of the King the better afterwards to goe through with his enterprises in Ireland In the battell in Barbarie the King of Portugall the blacke King with others and this Stukley also was slaine This you may sée that God sent a curst Cow short hornes and Ireland was deliuered and England also from a most cruell enemie and Traytor though he died a fairer death then he should haue done or had deserued yet such was the malice of the Pope this enterprise began by Stukley was afterward prosecuted by the sayd Antechrist of Rome who first sent Buls full all impiety as it were with a bayt to allure the

The Fountaine and VVelspring of all Variance Sedition and deadlie Hate Wherein is declared at large the opinion of the famous Diuine Hiperius and the consent of the Doctors from S. Peter the Apostle his time and the Primitiue Church in order to this age expresly set downe that Rome in Italie is signified and noted by the name of Babylon mentioned in the 14. 17. and 18. Chapters of the Reuelation of S. Iohn Chap. 17. verse 5 And in her forehe●d was a name written a mysterie great Babylon the mother of whoredome and abhomination of the earth 6 And I saw the woman dronken with the blood of the Saintes and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus LONDON ❧ Printed by Roger Ward dwelling vpon Lambard hil neere vnto olde Fish-street 1589. ¶ TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND noble Earls the Earls of Huntington and Warwicke Grace Peace felicitie in the Lord Iesus RIght Honorable the warres rumors of warres breach of brotherly loue manifolde troubles and dissention growing euerie where through Europe which is the part of the worlde professing Christ argue the dissolution of all things premonished by our Lord not to bee farre hence distant It behooueth therfore all good Christians considering the time to be circumspect to watch and pray accordingly as vve are commanded by our Sauiour in these words Vigilate Orate againe Estote prudentes sicut Serpentes Be ye wise as Serpents And we are deeplie to consider from whence this venome and poyson floweth which drunk and sucked in by the space of many years passed hath transformed and as it were charmed the braines and sences of many men that according to the words of the Prophet seeing they see not hearing they heare not and vnderstāding they vnderstand not in matter concerning principally the saluation of their soules The remedie of which mortall maladie consisteth in this to knowe and search out the cause and that knowen to remooue the same and then to apply medicine for curing of it In all which pointes Right Honorable I shew briefly in this small treatise following the doctrine of S. Peter the Apostle and the best learned and most approoued Authours opinions consenting deliuered from age to age which open the sinfull man and misterie of iniquity the onely cause of troubles and not yet well perceiued neither vnderstanded of the greater sort Committing these my labours to your Honors tuition and protection whose zeale to true and sincere Religion attentiue eare giuen alwaies to the Preaching of Gods worde and laudable life concurring as sure testimonie well knowen to the world makes me bolde to dedicate vnto your LL. this Pamphlet hoping that the booke beeing your own as it is and therefore the more to be desired to be read and to come into many mens hands whome all in generall for your singular vertues do reuerence honour and loue may profite doo good and perchance conuert not a few from their obstinate opinion in cleauing to the woorishe Babilonicall Church wherein rather of selfe-wil than of any grounded reason they dwell and persist And on the contrarie side confirme and establish the others whose hearts alreadie conducted by the holy spirite see the light of Gods truth and ensue it And herein withall humblenes I make manifest my conscience according to the small talent which vnto me is lent hope that my dutie obedience and good vvill to her Maiestie Lords of her Counsell and my Countrey may in the sequel sufficiently appeare Praying God to send both your Lordships long life with encrease of honour Your Lordships most humble Christoph. O. The Fountaine and VVelspring of all Variance Sedition and deadlie hate throughout Christiandome MEdicines be applied to the bodie sicke and diseased but exhortations are vsed to giue courage and more stomacke to the forwarde stout and industrious that the spark of vertue alreadie ingenerated in them may grow to a bigger flame and substance with increase or els to stir vp raise and plucke forward the mind of man when it languisheth I therefore of the lowest sort of all among the learned purposing to vtter my conscience and knowledge by way of exhortation my most bounden dutie first towardes the Quéenes Maiestie and ne●t to the people of my natiue soile and Country of England déeply considered and moouing me thereto doo earnestly pray and instantly require al true English men of euery degrée as they tender y ● safty of their soules and bodies to giue attentiue eare and wel to marke the whole discourse of this my purposed treatise the rather because it is of waight of most great importance touching the weale publique in this litle Isle of England and preseruation of our most royall and gratious Quéene Elizabeth and next of vs all English ingenerall our countrie wherein we are bred and borne our wifes children kinsfoolkes and posteritie whereof we should haue a most cheefe and especiall care regard especially and aboue all of religion which concerneth our soules to liue here and euer in the world to come In al which by God his grace I intend to vse perspicuity to be as briefe as the vrgent occasiō of so necessary a cause shal suffer me yet pretermitting many things which otherwise should haue bene touched to auoid tediousnes and prolixitie in matter now apparant already and many yéeres alredy past made manifest vnto y ● whole world Cōsider O noble Eugland that thou hast enimes that hate thée deadly that go about as much as in them is to work thy destruction Consider how the professors of the word of God els wher in Europe far hence and those that dwell next almost vnto vs be manaced vexed and persecuted with all rigor and crueltie from time to time afflicted euen to death the malice whereof procéedeth of causes of long time afore growen hereafter specified and fore warned in holie Scriptures Ponder déeply and call to minde with your selues Nos incidimus in tempora periculosa We are fallen into the perillous time Nos sumus in quos fines Seculorum deuenerūt We be those vpon whom the ends of the world be come The tokens thereof be plaine and manifest told afore by our Sauiour and Lord Iesus Christ which be these Nation shall rise against nation and Realme against Realme then shall they put you to trouble and shall kil you and yee shall be hated of all Nations for my names sake And then shall many be offended and shal betray one another c. So the time is certaine that the day of iudgment is at hand But of the day and hower saith Christ knoweth no man no not the Angels of heauen but my father onely The Apostle S. Paule in his 2 Chap. of his Epistle of the Thessalomans teaching when the day of Christ shall be at hande thus saieth Let no man deceiue you by any meanes For the Lord shall not come except their come a departing first and that the sinfull man be opened the

encouraging al the rest with promises to giue them the blesse of heauen if they perished in the war and died in the fight O Sathā transfigured into an Angel of light O false i●gler O crafty Apostle yea rather Aposta●a O bloody murderer that vnder pre●ence of holines would séeme to sit at home in thy chaire and y●t ar● the grea●est slaughter man in the front of the battaile O fierce brother of Cain that killest the innocent Abels S●rcease to animate mainteine the Spaniards thy partakers in war Learne by the euent of their late enterprise to sit stil to study on gods booke and to leaue the ●an●ling of war to temporal princes But religion is the chiefe occasion and ground of the debate breath of peace beside other quarels The deciding of true religion false and iudgement thereof consisteth onely as they say in the Pope and therefore pronounceth vs English heretiques And where he cannot consume vs with fagot and fire because he hath not our Lady and Quéene at commandement to be his executioner as hee hath Princes in other regions 〈◊〉 thral to his tyranny This blessed man of Rome maketh vs a pray to the Spaniards or any other that will assaile vs. Where note that the Pope gaue the crowne and kingdome of England to the king of Hispaine O impudent monster of men O thou that hidest the commandementes of God in the Latin from the lay simple and vnlearned people and wittingly and wilfullie breakest them thy selfe which knowest them and vnderstandest them It is written in the 10 and last commandement Thou shalt not cou●t thy neighbours house nor any thing that is his These bee the wordes among others in the commandement If to couet be sinne and breach of the precept what horrible offence to God is it impudently to take and giue away that which is anothers as though the whole earth were the Popes to bestowe and destribute at his pleasure Where is it read that Christ or his Apostles or any other Bishoppe of the Primitue Church or prelate of any other place since but this of Rome did giue or assigne Princes crownes or kingdomes the same Bishop of Rome at the first being a beggar and liued but of almes and deuotion of the well disposed who at the first went on foote as others doe And after that Constantines donations had enriched the Sée of Rome began to ride on horsebacke and now through pride is so puffed vp that he is caried vpon mens shoulders in a chaire A kinde of most arrogant insolencie for pompe that no Prince in any age for glorie hath vsed the like but the Pope Religion as I said before is laid to the charge of vs English Touching Religion we answere that we are in the true and the Pope and his adherents in the false The iudgment whereof appertaineth not to him being an aduersary of Christ a persecutor of poore innocentes and professors of true Religion a Tyrant a blood-sucker But the t●uchstone must be the holy Sceiptures as our Sauiour Christ hath 〈◊〉 and taught in these wordes Scrutamini scripturas Search the Scriptures And againe thus Erra●is nescientes scripturas Ye erre out of the way not knowing the Scriptures which shew and declare who goe right and who goe wrong And we answere with the word● of S. Paule in the 24 Chapt. of the Actes of the Apostles But this we boldly confesse with S. Paule the Apostle vnto the whole world that after the way which the Pope and his Cleargie call heresie so worship we the God of Abraham beléeuing all things which are written in the Lawe and Prophets c. This is the Pope of whom the Prophet Daniel speaketh of in y ● 7 Chap. of his Prophesie that shall destroy the Saintes of the most highest and in the 8 Chapter Hee shall slea the strong and holy people In laying heresie to thy charge O England which is no heresie but the true worshipping of God then it is God cause that thou art blamed for that thou art manaced ●ated enuied and sufferest Keioice therefore and be glad that thou may be counted worthy to suffer these reproches for Christes sake The Spaniards the Popes owne chéefe Darlinges afore all other people in Europe did take in hand this last yeare viz. 1588 the execution of the Popes malice and War adding thereto quarels of their owne But as the Spaniard liketh his last aduenture made vpon England so let him and his partakers come againe We English put in God alone our trust they shall go wée ping away if any go away or escape For I trust it neither is neither will be forgotten the manacing of the Spaniards this last Sommer their whippes their scourges their Yrons that they brought in their ships to mark the youthes of each Sex of the conquered nation to make their bond-slaues for so they vaunted and according to the Prouerbe Antè victoriam canebant triumphum that is They assured themselues of victory before thoy did strike astrcke for it And if euer they come againe they shall bée recompensed seuen folde in their bosom and shall bee vsed as Perillus was according to the Prouerbe Be whipped with their owne whippes and marked with their owne Yrons For they be a people disdainfull cruell and proud in heart aboue measure euen frō the lowest degrée of men in their common weale Will you heare for a proofe thereof what I haue seene A poore Spaniard Fisherman which onely gaineth his liuing by going to Sea to catch Sardines a kind of Pilchard sillie wretch in his olde ragges scant woorth taking vp if they were found vpon the donghill after he hath caught some fish and returneth with his small Skiffe or boat home his poore wife waiteth at the shore side for him The man leapeth out vpon the shore leauing his fish to b● solde by his wife and his boat also to be made cleane by her and going home to his house putteth off his sea apparell claddeth him selfe with his best doublet and hose and couered with his Spanish cape or cloke with his Rapier and Dagger by his side walketh and ●etteth in the place of the towne whereto marchantes and the wealthiest of the Towne resort to buy and sell. As the Spaniard is proud so is he crue●l excéedinglie and where hee can or may ouercome his tyrannie is intollerable what infinite slaughters haue the Spaniardes made in the West Indians in America as well of women and children as of men silly soules of that Country It is beside my purpose here to rehearse whosoeuer is desirous t● knowe the trueth thereof let them reade whole bookes written of the same matter both in French Latine and other tongues And to know the same by reading it will make any Christians heart to bléede Ouer and beside the crueltie of their Cleargie in matters of Religion repugnant to Papistrie Superstition and idolatrie Woe woe yea thrée times woe to them that