him that stode in lynen aboue the waters of the floude which his right and lyfte handis lyftedvp into heuen swore by the euer lyuinge god that all these thinges shall haue an ende aftir that thei haue fully dispersed and skatered y e power of the faythfull peple to endure vnto the determined tyme whether it be long or shorte or els as hath another text translated by doctor Ioan Draeonites All these shall endure for a tyme tymes and an half And the dispersion of the holy peple ended all these thin ges shall come to passe This is the tyme of the delyuerance of the persecuted chirche and of the ende of the worlde Daniel here seeth two aun gels of eche syde of the flowde one ayenst and contrary to the tother which signifyed the two aungels mencioned in the x. chap. making warre ayenst the Iewes letting the buyldinge of their temple encensing the kinges of Persye and Medis lost the worde shuld haue encreaced with frute The man cled with lynen was Ga briel The askinge of Gabriel how long the persecucion shuld endure is the voyce of the wayling and wepinge chirches desyering to knowe y e ende of their greuouse persecucioÌ„s which be here called meruelous and wonderfull for that there can be nothinge thought more wonderfull to be merueled at then thus to see sathan by his instruments the tyraunts heretykes and anticrists without ende to persecute so that if one enimie of ours be ouercomen yet he euer stereth vp another with whom we must euerfyght and neuer ceasse It is a wondrefull warre of so many so mighty princes of the worlde ayenst so fewe and feble a lytle ferefull flok that so many and so mighty shuld be afrayd of ve which nether with materiall swerde nor shylde can fyght but onely with oure lyppes pennes and prayers It passeth all manis reason that we shuld in conclu sion haue the victory The aungel which with both his handis lyfted vp into heauen swore by the lyuinge god was cryst himself clothed in whyght lynen which betokened that he shulde in tyme to come be borne of the pure virgin Marie and take vnto him the most pure and vndefiled nature of man to be borne as is the swete clere and byrall dewe dropes of the morninge descended from heauen standinge vpon the toppes of the grasse clerely to be sene ayenst the sonne rysing as is his natiuite in so fewe wordis declared in y e 110. psal aftir the Hebrewe text sayinge Thy concepcion shal be in the most hygh beutye clerenes and holynes as pure as is the dewe conceyued oute of the wome of the morninge For as y e vapores by the celestiall powr be drawnvp oute of the erthe and in the morninge be condensed as it were into crystall perls or dewe dropes euen so by the supercelestiall vertew did the sone of god take vnto him his very humane bodye of the pure virgen that he the sonne of rightwisnes shuld come forth and be borne into the worlde This sonne of man standinge in whight lynen aboue the waters or flowd is cryste treadinge downe all tribulacions and all the persecucions of his enimies yea euen his enemies themselues as sinne dethe deuil and hell makinge of them his foâ—e stole he is cled in whight for that by his crosse he shuld be made whight and tryed lyke syluer he telleth Daniel how longe this persecucion shall endure He telleth him the moste certein token that shall immediatly go before the resurreccion euen the dispersion and scateringe abrode of y e holy peple which we see it this daye many for the wordes sake to be dispersed out of their owne countries and londis as ma ny pore men yet fele it But how long this dispersion shall endure cryste telleth him not playnly The zyrik texte sayth vnto y e determined tyme of god whether it be long or shorte for somiche signifieth the Hebrewe phrase Ad tempus tempora dimidium Fewe dayes apere many and a short tyme is longe to the afflicte persecuted And in the endinge of the scatering of the powr of the holy peple shal all these thingis be finisshed How longe we shal be thus dispersed by persecucion one ly god knowth But of this be we certein that this dispersion by persecucion is the laste and moste certain signe that y e daye of iugement is at hande For God declared vnto daniel the order of the. 4. monarchies whiche be all paste and the cruell kingdoms of Anticriste which shuld aryse in the fowerth monarchie whiche at Mahumete and the pope be reueled And the seculare anticristes which shall ende in the turke begine faste to growe and to preuaile which yet shall neuer be lyke in powr to the Romane monarchie when it was in hir firste flowers And therfore when the seculare Anticristen kingdoms now begun in the cristen emprowr kings and princes be deuolued into the turkis imperie theÌ„ shal that daye begin to sprin ge wherin the dead yet a sleape shal awa ke The sayinge of Elye before in the. 9. lefe of this boke is known of all men it ought to be writeÌ„ in euery manis wall is and wyndows Cryst telleth vs the dayes to beshortened as was the course of the yeres vnto Noheâ— â–ª floude shortened that the synnes of the peple might haue bene the soner smyten of And if ye will aftir the playn wordis take the tyme tymes and an half as it stondeth Then thinke I that the tyme is taken for y e tyme betwixt or from this reuelacion vnto daniel which was a non aftir y e ende of the captiuite of Babylon the ende of y e destruccion of the Iewes by Titus which contayneth 600 yeres and a lytle more And the tymes I take for the long tyme dowbled euen for the twelue hondred yeres sence wherin hath continewed the persecucion of the chirche of the gentiles sence that destruc cion of Ierusalem euen for the tyme of y e persecucion by y e Romane emprours and aftirwarde by the Mahumete and y e turke and the pope and his seculare impes The half tyme I take it for 300. yeres which be the half of 600. Now from the destruccion of Ierusalem vnto this daye ther are 1474. yeres so that by this rekeninge the half tyme shal be ended with in these 30. yeres to come But this rekening will I not certaynly affirme But ra ther take the half tyme for siche a shorte soden tyme as no vngodly man can iuge it but thinke it rather to be as long ayen and so prouyde for it whylis god sodenly kut him of in the middis of his course as it is wryten The blody vngodly deceytfull shall not come to half the tyme they loked fore Theis coniectures I permitte vnto the iugements of the crysten readers desyering euery man not to be to curiouse in this accompt but to repent beleue the gospell
erth thus writeth Miche peace be with you Of me it is decreed that in all the parties of my realme all men shall feare dreade the god of daniel for that he is the lyuing god abyding for euer and euer for his kingdom shall neuer be destroid but his dominion euer must endure who helpeth and delyuereth â–ª he sheweth his wondrefull miracles in heuen and erthe whiche delyuered daniel from the lyons Aftir this daniel was highly promoted in the kingdom of Darii and in the realme of Cyrithe persiane See how God will haue the victorye see vnto what ende God hath permitted these iniuries to daniel The kinge wold be puft vp with glory His diuines nobles flater him the iuste is casten to the lyons god the iuge of all is not knowen But now at last his glory is declared clerer then the sonne And the kinge with publyk rescript and open recaÌ„tacion confessinge his synne setteth forth the glory of god Nebucadnezar commanded that the name of God in nowyse shuldbe blasphemed Darius here willeth it to be feared and worshipped and all men to tremble and feare at the face of the god of daniel As though he shulde saye Let oure actis lawes decrees or proclamacions whether thei be of myself or of any other made bynde noman if thei commande any thinge ayenst the god of daniel For myselfe at last haue I lerned wherto lawes be holy and when thei shuld be dispensed with Miche more iust it is that God be rather obeyed then man I am but a man mortall dust and asshes It is God that lyueth for euer which punissheth and rewardeth His face feare ye him serue and reuerence He lyueth and raigneth present when men thinke him to be absent And awaketh when he is thought to sleape Who wold not haue despayered of daniels lyfe â–ª And yet so for his faith is he delyuered from the lyons hongry mouthes let vs folowe thinges certain and leaue lyinge vanities Many miracles hath god done in heuen and earth but of this one maye we be taught his power and goodnes Now the king rebuketh his errour and the holy prophet before contempned he exalteth into greate glory And taketh daniel with him into the lande of Mede leauing Cyrum and his sone Cambysem at Babylon Thus wolde god aftir the crosse glorifye his seruant The lyons signifye the mighty enimyes of crystis chirche as hath the Psal. My soule lyueth emong lyons Of god onely for oure faith in cryst oure delyuerer are their mouthes tyrannouse power stopt And as cryst then in the forme of an aungell preserued daniel euen so now being man and intercessour before the father he with his present spirit preserueth his chirche in the middis of these lyons his cruell enimies Here be we lerned none to be exalted of god onelesse he before be casten down into the dennes of lyoÌ„s For cryste might not lifte vp his head except by the waye he had dronken of the roring ryuer Nether shal the cristians aryse vnto lyfe eternall except thei be first dead and buried Whoso euer therfore thou be thus for the trwth accused and handled as daniel not onely se that thou thus singe vnto thy god whilis thou be â—est me thou makest me great but also haue thou faith and confidence knowing the same shortely to be fulfilled in thy accusers and persewers that cam vpon daniels accusers Thei shal be trapped and taken in their owne snares fall into y e pitt whiche themselues had digged vp But I saith the faithfull shall passe by â–ª harmeles How can we want these examples in the congregacions so ful of consolacion If Daniel be diligently red ye shall see him to haue bene the fygure of crystis passion and his glorificacion by his resurreccion This story of Dary also ought to be set before all the princes eyes of the world to teache them repentance to beleue to professe the trwth to reuoke their errours and false and vngodly lawes actis articles constitucions and institucions or enstruccions to coÌ„serue the trw worshipers and beleuers and also to se that all their chirches haue good prechers of the worde whiche is the cheif office of euery kinge and to see theÌ„ brought vp in the very trwe enstruccions and doctrine of cryste and his apostles Nowe to the seconde boke of daniel and seuenth chapter NOwe daniel returneth bake 3. yeres teching vs not what other men but what himself did see to come vnto the worldis ende What changes of kingdoms and what persecucions the chosen shuld suffer vntil the eternall kingdom of cryst shuld come to vs. He telleth here the vision shewed to himselfe wherbye he prophecieth the affliccions of the peple of god vnder the 4. Monarchies to be suffred and how that the Romane empire at last diuided shaken in here erthen feble feet anticryste inuading Chrystis chirche shuld persecute it vnto the worldis ende And at last cryste comen to iugement shuld destroye him that the faithfull with cryst all their ennemis taken away might reigne and dwel in peace for euer In this 7. chap. the same thinge is shewed which was sene of Nebucad in the. 2. chap. albeit vnder other wordis in another forme or vision saue that here daniel clerely prophecieth of the seclare Anticrystis of the popis Mahumetis and of the Turkis Antichristen kingdoÌ„s to be sprongen vp out of the Romane empyre Let vs heare the text In the first yere of Beltsazar kinge of Babylon daniel had a dreame and a vision of his head in his bedde Whos 's some he wryteth in these wordis I daniel sawe in the night the fower wyndes of heuen fyghting and makinge great coÌ„mocieÌ„s vpon the great sea And. 4. great beastis one ayenste another were ascended out of the sea And the first was lyke a lyon hauing egles winges And I loked vpon him whylis his wynges were plucked from him and himself casten oute of the lande but yet standinge on his fete erected lyke a man and a manis mynde was geuen him And beholde the seconde beast was lyke a bere standing in the one syde hauing 3. morsels in his mouth betwixt his tethe Vnto whom they sayd Aryse and deuoure thou miche flesshe Then yet I loked and so I sawe another lyke a leoparde hauinge 4. swyft winges on his bake this beast had iiii hornes and vnto him was geuen power to rule After this I loked in the nyght and beholde I sawe the fowrth beast a beast ferefull and terrible and meruelouse stronge which had great tethe of 〈◊〉 he deuoured and consumed and the leauinges he trode vnder his feete This beast beinge lyke non of all the other former had x. hornes This vision sene in the night with so many cruell beastis so fyghting vpon the sea is ferefull signifying the chirche of God to suffre affliccions and greuouse persecucioÌ„s vnder the. 4. monarchies laboring in the derk ignorance of god
1250 begane OthomaÌ„s kingdom to prospere And so shortely aftir this idolatrie once coÌ„firmed his kingdom begane to aryse and encreased aboue all other regions and brought forth weapens ayenst the west parte of the worlde to punisshe the filthei spottis of the romishe chirche So that assone as this idolatrie of the 〈…〉 begane to be confirmed of the pope the turks powr did encrease to skourg it in cristendom and shall yet more and more growe and preasse vpoÌ„ vs tyl this idolatrie of the 〈…〉 be takeÌ„ quite awaye This othoman being the great turke enlarged miche the turkis dominion out of whose blode all the kinges of the turks sence vnto this day haue reigned and taken their originall to whom god geueth strength and powr to punissh all cristendome for their idolatrye in the 〈…〉 for their false inuocacion and other abominacions whiche require a nother Nebucadnezar euen the turke to punisshe them But yet is there added this consolacion Where Daniel signifieth that there shall neuer be the fyft monarchie And therfore the turkis powr shall not be lyke the Romane empyre to destroy all Europe For as ye see the popis kingdom to fal when he thought himself moste sewr and highest euen so shall the turkes imperie faile and encline when he shall come to his highest thinking himself to conquire all and to raigne alone for euer then shal his half tyme come vpon him with a sodeÌ„ fall in the middes of his course For then shall the moste glad day begine to shyne in whiche the sone of god shall sterevp y e dead geuing to his chirche eternall lyfe and glorye and casting all the vngodly into euerlasting torments These same things be spoken of Gog and Magog in Ezechiel and in apoca 20. For Ezechiel faithe that Gog and Magog aftir thei haue done their mischeif in destroing slaynge then shall their selues at laste be desiroid in the mountains of Israel Which albeit it may be vnderstandeÌ„ of the laste iugement yet I think it to signifie the batails which the godly haue and shall haue in this laste olde age with the popissh emprowrs kinges and turke w c all shal be ouercomen in the hill is of Israel that is in the places where the chirche of cryst dwellethe in which the gospel is preched and receyued â–ª and the peple trwly in the faith of the sonne of god one onely mediatour call vpon their heuenly father For the pope and turke shall not be ouercome but by the sone of god fighting for his chirche as ye shall see it clerâ—yer in daniel 12. chapt saying Michael which is cryste the great capitaine shal stond forth for the defence of the peples childrn But bothe in daniel and in Ezechiel there be prophecied many great destruccions Which with all our hertis we beseche god to mitigate 〈…〉 Hitherto Philip Mesancthon This cap. is a prophecie of the monarchie of the Perses to be translated to the grekis Macedones Dario their kinge slayn by Alexander which dead anon y e Monarchie of the grekis was diuided in to 4 cheif kingdoms that is into Macedone Egipt Asiam and Syram And at laste in the Syrsake kingdom there arose Antiochus epiphanes which being of all enemies the moste cruel tyrant scourged the iewes and was the figure of our anticrystes In all these heuey and blody muâ—acions of kingedoms and trowblose tymes â–ª God wold confort his peple leste in the middis of these affliccions and offendicles thei shuld despeyer Let vs hear y e text In the thirde yere of y e raigne of kiÌ„g Beltsazar there was shâ—wed a vision vnto me Daniel aftir this former vision w c in my visioÌ„ loking aboute me methought I was by the floude Eule Nowe daniel being out of y e kiÌ„gs court of babylon in the londe of persie in a castel called Susis by the flowde Eule seeth a terrible vision Susis was the head cyte of Persye so called of Roses otherwise called persâ—polis there in was king Lyrus his cheif palace 140. forelongs aboute Of the flowde Eule hauing his head spring in Medis runing about the castel or tâ—wer of Susis write the pliny in his 6 boke 27. chap. Daniel saw this vision by the flowd whose waters lyke as the later waues thruste forthe the former sourges euen so shall one tribulacion and persecucion succede a nother coÌ„tinually as long as crystes chirche dureth and the gospel be trwly and frely preched vnto crysis coÌ„ming Wherfore it is necessary the chirche to be counforted and taught lest among these greuose affliccions and heuey persecucions she fainte and despayer Also it behoueth vs to be warned that we might know the causes of these plages and so to estiem them And therfore sayth daniel here that for the sinnes of the peple was Antiochus sent so cruelly to punisshe them as saith Paul Because men loued not the trwthe now preched to theÌ„ therfore shall god sende them mighty illusions making them to beleue lyes These heuey threatis shuld moue vs diligently to receiue and conserue the trew doctrine now offred vs lest god suffer yet a greater dâ—rkenes and greuoser plages to be casten vpon vs. It shal be therfore expedient to behold the horrible destuccions and cruel affliccions done vnto the iews by Antichus that we might haue consolacion lest we fal and despeier seing there be many lyke Antiochus nowe executing lyke tyrannye and cruelty ouer chirstis floke ☞ And myne eyes lysted vp lo I saw a â—amme hauing two hornes standing before the floude whiche hornes being very long yet was there one hygher and longer then the tother and in the extremest parte it did shote forth moste prowdly This raÌ„me I sawe runing with his hornes ayenst the weste and ayenst the northe and ayenst the sowthe so that no beastes might resist him nor be delyuered froÌ„ out of his powr so that he did what he listed and wexed great in doing great actes And whilis I considered lo I sawe an he gote coming fro the west vpon the face of al y e erthe nether lyted he vpoÌ„ the erth And this gote had a forth stretched horne to be sene standing betwixt his eyes â–ª He came vnto the horned ram whom I sawe standind before the flowd with a mighty violence he ranne ayenst him And I saw him come eueÌ„ to the ram where in his hotte fury he smitte the ram broke bothe his hornes for the ram had no strength to withstande him so that he smitte him downe to the grownde trode him vnder his fete there was non that mighte desyuer the ram from him Then did the gote right valeant grete actes was mightely highly magnified and when he was in his moste strength and powr his great horne was broken in whâ—se place there grewe forthe 4 hornes procedinge ayenst the fower partes of the world And out of one of them there went forth a litle
daye togither I shuld in the begining haue tolde ye the occasioÌ„ of the calamite but it cometh not out of ceason what so euer profitteth Wherfore as it is cleare in the 1 boke of the Maccabe God to haue had fore sene by 137. yeres Antioche to be the scourg of the iewes and the autor of thir affliccioÌ„s for the sinnes of y e peple euen so is it play â—e in the 2 chap God also to haue had sene before the ende of Antioches pestilence to be Matathiam and the Maccabe is So that there is nothing done vpon erth but god knowth it before nether willeth he vs any thing to know before but that â—heafore saith and telleth it vs to come Wherfore let vs namely counfort owrselues in this that owr meruelouse one cryste here saith vnto gabriel the maÌ„ of god bidding him to expown the visioÌ„ to dani â—â—so desyrouse to know it what it mought signifie for because it pertaineth to the laste dayes For it signifieth cryste vnto all men desyering to vnderstand prophecies euer to sende some that will teche hi that is so minded towerds God as was daniel affected towerds cryst his aungel when this vision shuld be declared Nether signifieth it els daniel to be conserued by his worde to be liftedvp and refresshed of the aungel then cryste by his auÌ„gels the ministers of his word to this entent to animate the timerouse and to strengtheÌ„ the weake that thei shuld with the prophetis wordes shewing cryste the sauior refresshe and confirme the chirche pressed vnder the crosse Wherfore let vs geue thaÌ„kis to crist for that he neuer sleapeth whilis his chirche is in persecucioÌ„ but is euer awake to deleuer vs in his name callinge vpon our father whiche is confirmed by the example of the Macabeis The ram which thou sawest with two hornes is the kinges of Mede and Persie And the roughe hearye gote is the king of the Grekis And the great horne betwixt his eyes is the firste king which broken there stode vp 4. in his place w c aâ— the 4 kingdoms to rysevp oute of the same nacion but non of them lyke him in strength And in the ende of these kingdoms when synne and iniquite shall preuaile there shall standvp a king shameles and subtyle This king shal be mighty sâ—rong but not by his owne powr And he shall woundrefully wast and destroye and shall prospere mightly in his actis He shall make away and destroye grete mighty men yea and the faithful good peple to And by his crafty subtyltie he shall expede his affaiers properously thorowe deceytes He shall in his owne consaight take great enterpryses vpon him be magnifyed And himself strengthened with great riches shall destroye many men Also he shall resiste the most highe prince of all and theÌ„ with out manis handes shall he be alto broken Now is the vision declared to Daniel by the aungel at the commandement of the sonne of god But certeinly it is said and prophecied of owr present anticrists bothe spirituall and seculare playing antioches parte euen this daye For that anticriste Antiochus ouer the iewes prefigured owr anticrystes in the ende of the worlde ouer the gentils The occasion of the destruccion of kingdome by Antioche and anticrists ar the obominable sinnes of the peple of their emperowrs princes For as before crystes first cominge for the sinnes of the iewes God steredvp Antioche to skourge theÌ„ euen so now for the contempte of the gospel god befor the seconde coming of cryste hathe steredvp owr antichristen Antioches as cruelly to persecute the crystianes as euer did Antiochus the iewes For where the text sayth when synne and wikednes is preuailed and hath the ouerhand what els folowth then the contempt of the worde and the sinnes of the peple to be the very causes of bothe these skourges that is to saye bothe of the iewes Antioche and of the crysten Anticristes Albeit by Anticryst be taken al that resiste and persecute cristis worde aâ— Ioan said in his tyme to be many anticristis But because this prophecie sowneth to be spoken of the kigdom of Antioche that is of anticryste nether be there any kingdoÌ„s vnder the sonne more contrary to cryste then Gog and Magog that is to weit the Mahumeti hâ—ast and the false prophete of rome with his 10 seculare hornes with weping teares trwly saith Doctour Ioan Draconites do I tremble and quake to speke it â–ª That vnder the name of anticrist muste be taken the Turkis kingdom goten by swerde and violence the popis kingdoÌ„ constituted by fraude and supersticion Antiochus compared with Anticryste by Draconites Daniel gods painter wolde by the descripcion of Antioche prefigure vnto vs the maners of Anticryste First of his vnshamefaced face for that he was is the moste impudent despyser of god and the fiercest bolde beast to persecute and to be contrarye to his worde as be the two sonnes of antioche this daye the turke the Rome bishop w t his hornes y e most shameles pestelent persecutors and condempners of the gospel of god for arrogantly dare thei do what thei liste contrarye to gods wil. Of his fraude is he described for as that subtyll fraudelent foxe Antiochus craftely circumuented egipte Iudeam euen so be the false turke and his subtyle serpent the pope the two crafty marchants with their false fayned wordis deuillish doctryne to peruerte al meÌ„ not of their owne powr but of other menis For Antiochus was so mighty ouer Iudâ—am by the falshed and vnfaithfulnes of the bisshops of the iewes and by y e vain leuite of the peple as it is redde in the Maccabeis And euen so these two bretherne albeit vnlyke inprofession the turke and the pope gote and constituted their kingdoms by other men is powr and might The turke at first by the mighty fraudes of mahumete and the pope by the powr of emperowrs bisshops cardinals kinges and his owne subtyle supersticiouse hypocrysye and chosen holines And now therfore shall ye note that by the counsell mischeif of the bishops Anticristis seat shal be translated and tossed from the ecclesiastiâ— cheier of Rome vnto the secular emperowrs and king is trones as the storye fygured in that secular and anticriste Antiochus which was out of the stoke of the emperowr of the grekis called Seleucus and helde the kingdom of Syre And begune to raigne in the 137. yere aftir the dethe of Alexander as witnesseth the first boke of the Maccabe This hathe euer ben sene in all stories That the emperowrs and kinges will attemper bende and bowe all religions and beleifes vnto their owne profit and pleasures As when Antiochus knewe the iewes for their religion and faith not gladly to suffere any heithen king to be their gouerner he first studied howe he might destroie their faith and subuerte their religion and so to become
borne vp Also here be prices taught their office to se diligently that their subiectes be lerned the worde of God and other craftis and coning artes c. necessary for a comon weal. It is testifyed here confirmed the precept deu 17. coÌ„maÌ„ding the kiÌ„g alwais to holde the boke of the law of god in his haÌ„dis that he mought read it lerne therein Wherefor kynges ought to procure diligeÌ„tly siche lerned godly meÌ„ of whoÌ„ thei shuld lerne who also shuld tech other euen hitherto pertaineth the saying of I saye 49. euen the kings to be y e nources of their peple that is kings to nouresh vp maintayn and defende the prechers and techers of the chirches and scholes and not to destroie burne banishe and commande them to silence Oh how highly is king ezechias praised for restoring the studies and scoles of the preists Wherfore al princes ought to know God to requyre of them straightly this office The iewes persecuted their owne Prophets but nowe the haithen kinge nourissheth them aÌ„d receiued grete benefits of God for so doing For he was by them conuerted vnto the trwe religioÌ„ and had a flouresshing kingdom for these good me nis sakes For god largely recompenseth this kynde of office according to his own promise whoso geueth but a draft of water to any one of my preachers he shal haue his rewarde But contrary the tyraÌ„ts whiche despise moleste and persecute the godly prechers studies and scoles thei shal be plaged with horrible punishmeÌ„ts To this study of godly prices pertaineth that peter commandethe Euery man to be redye to geue a rekening of his faithe and to satisfie whoso asketh him ther of and Paul commandeth Titum that the peple lerne to excess in good workis vnto vses necessarye so that thei be not vnprofitable At laste ye se Daniels temperancye to haue bene the worke of his lawful profession commanded in the law and not the tradicion of man nor yet his own chosen holynes or religion he wolde not defile himself with the haitheÌ„ kings forboden meats to auoide the company rites of the gentiles Also Daniel being in the kings courte nether for threates nor for contempt or plesure nor by powr wolde hebe ouercomen or tempted once to swarue from the trwe worship worde aÌ„d fere of god no not for promocioÌ„ whiche thing wil not owr spiritual courtyers do Loke ye therfore of Daniels coÌ„stancye his faith and temperaÌ„cie and folowe it if ye will with Daniel be godly promoâ— For thei that glorifye me I shall glorifye them saith the lorde 1. samuel 2. And thei that despyse me I shal abhorre and with shame confounde them The godly therfor in tyme of peace heare the prophets and prechers that is thei feare the comminacions of God and beleue his promises wherfor when thei be punisshed with the vngodly as men in perel both in one shippe thei despeier not but thei confesse their synnes to God pronowncing him to be iuste And because God saith as verely as I lyue I wilnot â— death of a synner but had â—r him to be conuerted lyue a non thei erecte theÌ„selues by his promises ayenst his comminacions thei cal vpon him thei be herd and holpen as ye se it in the example of Daniel and his felows in this Chapter For thei be as sewer as god lyueth and raigneth that he will kepe promise w t theÌ„ that repent beleue his promises â—herfor thei prescribe not y t tyme nor place nor maner to god in fulfilling his promises w t them as do the vngodly but ayenst all hope and truste thei hope and beleue as did Abraham and thei preche as did Abacuâ— saying God wil fulfil his promise This example therfore techeth vs manifestly trwthe it to be that Paul saith God to be mighty enoughe to bring althings to passe aboue our estimacion expectacion asking and vnderstanding â–ª to whom be glorye But contrary do the vngodly whiche in tyme of peace deryde and coÌ„tempne the prechers of the gospel and heare the prophetes of the deuil preching his aÌ„d their own false doctryn boldely affirmig those coÌ„minacioÌ„s of y e trw prophets to be vain because god promised y e scepter of Iuda not to be taken froÌ„ theÌ„ and as we promise oâ—r selues victory ayenst the turke because we be crystened cal vpon holy saints he being an heithen miscreant we make with ower â—yes that is with the false interpretacion of the scriptures and falser preching the peple and ower selues so sewer that we dare saye and crye with the Iewes Templum domini templum domini The temple the temple of the lorde The churche of God the churche of God arwe c. But God almyghty and mercyfull nethelesse kepeth his promises as thou here seist him yea although he punisshe the vngodly as it is afore sayd For it is the synne of the false Prophetis being ignoraÌ„t of the nature and difference of the lawe and Gospell that make the vngodly in tyme of peace to coÌ„temne and skorne out the worde of God and so to fall from God in tyme of batail And euen the bloude of all these contemners of Gods worde now perisshed shall God requyre at the handis of owre false Prechers Wherfore Ieremye wel dehorted and disswaded the peple sayinge Se that ye beleue not the lying wordes and sermoÌ„s of the false prechers saying The temple the temple of the lorde is so holy For because that Hananias agene-sayd Ieremies sermons Iere. told him he shuld dye the same yeare because he preched agaynst the lorde So trewe is it that is comonly sayd ye will not beleue y e trwe prechers exceptye se signes mirâ—… Let vs therfore feare God accordinge to his commandements and beleue in him as it standeth in owr credo and accor ding to all his promises and praye we alwais as cryste techeth vs in owr â—ordis prayer that we may in tyme of peace w t our wel doings and sayngs ouercom the enuye of our aduersaries and in the troublous tymes of warre be preserued with owr cryste and preseruer almighty as were Daniel and his felows and may raigne as thei did in the middes emong owr enimies Amen Here is Nebuchadne â—â—â—â— dreame declared whiche Daniel interpreteth of the. 4. Monarchies which shal be destroid at the coming of crystes kingdome IN this chapter God conforteth his captiued iewes and ensâ—ructeth the king vnto the kingdom of heuen He coÌ„forteth theÌ„ in that he glorifieth Daniel shewing Messias to come in and aftir the fowerth Monarchie He enstructeth the king in that he confoundeth his wyse men the preistis and dreame tellers in de claring cryste to pertaine vnto the gentiles but so that firste the wysedoÌ„ of those worldely polityk preistis be proued all folisshnes In the secoÌ„de yere of Nebucadnezar he himself sawe a dreame whereby his spirit gretely afraid he awaked Then he called
which had as yet in the begininge very lytle power Also note this thinge That as Dauid pondred wayed Saul as ye see in the psalmes euen so do the coÌ„sent of the crysten congregacioÌ„s in their prayers waye and pondre as it were in the lances of gods worde the wykednes of oure present persewers at the comminacions of God sainge I shall viset their iniquite Let emprour and princes therfore wysely and godly in all fatherly loue behaue themselues ayenst the crysten chirches their subiectes that they maye be fauoured and as in the. xx psal prayd fore For yf their auctorite fauour be lost in the crysten chirches and they be prayed fore as the Iewes in Babylon prayed for Babylon and their persewers in the. 137. psal both the emprour kynges and their kyngdoÌ„s are vndone The last worde Vpharsin signifieth clerely y e kingdom to be dissipated and skatered geuen to the Persians which albeit they were helpers to y e Medis for xenophon playnly denyeth the persone of Darii to be present in y e besege therof yet by his host present with kyng Cyrus they obtayned the cyte Wherfore according to the prophecyes the kyngdom of Babylon was at last translated vnto Cyrê° that he shulde send home ayen the Iewes out of captiuite to buylde vp their temple for the which to be done daniel was promoued Then Beltsazar commanded that daniel shuldbe cled with purpure and a golden chayne hanged aboute his nek and to be proclaymed the thirde lorde or ruler next him in the empyre This place hath an example whereby we confirme God in the mutacions of kyngdoÌ„s therfore the more to honour his chirche then in peace that they might conuerte the victores and encrease his chirche emong them For thorow the honour obtayned by Cyrus daniel as sone as Babylon was taken begane to be knowen what he was of Cyrus and Darius which aknowleged themselues to haue had wone the cyte by gods fauour Wherfore let crysten congregacions be confirmed by this example in perturbacions of realmes not to fall to the vngodly but rather to heare cryst sayinge When ye shall heare rumores of bataill be ye not afrayd nor troubled To receyue clothes golde promocion of kyngs is not synne so longe as they be taken to th entent as daniel receyued them For to the pure all things be clene and contrary to the polluted and infidels all are vnclene but both the mynde and conscience of these men are vnpure as Beltsazar honoureth not daniel as the prophete of God but as he wold haue done to any one of his diuynes and spirituall enchaunters and sothsayers nether repenteth he himself but wold be sene to kepe his promise to saue his princely honor Whatsoeuer is not of fayth is synne And therfore he falleth as it foloweth ☞ In the same nyght Beltsazar the kynge of the Chaldeis was slayne This place as it were the conclusion of all describeth the fall and death of the kynge and mutacion of his kyngdome for his blasphemye and festinge in securite and synfulnes xenophon wryteth Babylon to be taken the same nyght where in the kynge in great securite and confidence celebrated his fest vnto his god Beel For Beltsazar in his huntinge of enuye slewe y t sonne of Gobie and therfore these two princes or rulers vnder Beltsazar one called Gobiamand the other Gadatam then beinge with kynge Cyrus first entred the cyte and tower of Babylon and slewe the kyng Gobiam being auenged of his sonnes death Here is so y e ende of the first and golden monarchye which stode 1495. yeres and ended in the. 3440. aftir the creacion of the worlde Wherby all emperours kynges and princes maye fele it with their fyngers onely god to be the defender of empyres and realmes so that except he watche ouer them in vayne are their cites kept And except he defende them by his aungels inuayne gather they tresure inuayne buysde they blokhouses and municions inuayne mustere they and take they vp men Wherfore I exhorte and monissh yet agene emperours kynges and princes all that they worship not straÌ„ge gods nor yet exhibit any reuerent behauior vnto images nether to trust to miche to their tresure municions and helpe of men money For here maye they see this golden head of the worlde sodenly for their idolatrye coÌ„tempt of the trwe prechers and for the neglectinge of Gods worde sent them to be destroyd but let them worship and thanke God onely the father of Iesu cryste oure delyuerer now in these last dayes y e restorer and bringer ayen of his worde of saluacion Let them I saye worship him accordinge to his firste and .ii. preceptis as the psalmes teache them An example of daniels accusers torne of the lyons is here setforth to fraye all flaterers aboute kynges from euyll counsell â–ª geuinge to deterre them from their false complaynts and maliciouse accusacions of the inoncent ministers and prechers of goddis worde For in this chap â–ª as it were in a seuerall lytle boke concer ninge the false accusers of prophetis and trewe prechers torne in pesis of y e lyons we see that euyll counsell is the worst of all to the counsellers But to teache the readers playnely and orderly that they might the easlier holde this golden lytle boke in memory we will diuide it into 7. places The first is of y e office of victours or conquirors The seconde conteyneth a terrible example of the spiritualte bisshops being in courte and of counsell steringe emperours kynges and princes by their euyll counsell vnto persecucion mischeife and wykednes The thirde hath an example of the constant confessor of gods worde The .iiii. hath examples of the infirmite and weakenes of fayth and of the persewers of the worde The fyft hath examples of the wrath mercye of god The .vi. hath an euangely proclamacion of kynge Darii The seuenth hath the example of a man glorifyed aftir his crosse DArius Medus being lvii yeares olde toke vpon him the kyngdom whom it pleased to constitute 120. gouerners ouer y e hole empyre Ouer these men he ordined 3. cheife princes or rulers emong whom one was daniel vnto the which 3. hyghe rulers the other 120. shulde geue a rekeninge of their offices that the kynge might be cased of his so chargeable burdens But daniel excelled all the princes gouerners for that he had so excellent plentuose a spirit wherfore the kynge had thought to haue ordined him gouerner ouer his vniuersall empyre This Darius kynge of the Medis xenophon calleth Darius Cyaxares y e sonne of Astiagis whom Cyrus succeded to raigne ouer the Medis Persis and Babylonits and Cyrus was the first kynge of the Persis and raigned aftir Darius xxiii yeares with whom Darius aftir they had taken Babylon raigned not fully one yeare So that kynge Cyrus in all raigned xxiiii
Alexander whiche aftir this ways came to the kingdome Out of Seleuco was borne Antiochus the greate which had these .iii. sones SeleucuÌ„ Antiochum Epiphanem and Demetrium And when Antiochus the greate warred with the Romans and had left in hostage or pledge Antiochum Epiphanem Demetrium he dyed in Syria â—â— left his sone Seleucum aftir him no king but a foole wherfore Epiphanes knowinge of his fathers death gote himself preuily from Rome and came into his fathers kingdome his vnapt brother deud he enioied the kingdom in the .137 yere aftir Alexanders death witnesse the .1 chapter of the first of the Maccabeis This Antiochus was of Catalinaris crafty witte Wherfore daniel here prophecieth that by Antiochum Epiphanem the sowtheste euen the most pleasaunt lande of the Iewes shuld be skourged and plaged which is called zâ—by in Hebrewe for hir fertilite that is the beutye and flowr of all landis euen as the Iewes for the trwe worship of god delyuered them by Moses and the prophetis are called the beutyfull ornaments hoosâ—es or companies of heuen as be the sonne mone and starres He skourged the sowth when he inuaded Egypt makinge bataill against Ptolome the elder his sisters sone being king and compelled AlexandriaÌ„ to flye for socoure to Ptolome hir yonger brother But how y e senators of Rome desyered of his bretherne expelled false AntiochuÌ„ out of Egypt by their ambassiadour Popilium ye shall se it in .34 boke of Iustini partely here aftir How Antiochus skourged and plaged that pleasant desyred lande throw down the starres into the erth and destroyd the holy habitacle in the first and .ii. of Mac cabeis it is so clerrely and cruelly expressed that I abhorre and tremble not onely to speke but also to wryte any more of this blodye beast But right heuey destines abyde them that euyll deserue which thing I maye confirme by the example of Antiochus the very image of Anticryst For when he inuaded destroyde in the east parties as daniel here prophecieth and not onely from the besege of Elymaid of Persie he was with the great heuines of his mynde repelled and put bak but also when it was tolde him his capitayn Lysiane with his host to haue 〈…〉 fledde he fyll into so greate a sykenes and thought that before his death he confessed himself therfore so greuously to be plaged and so compelled to dye because he had so spoyled and destroyd y 4 temple of Ierusalem and so cruelly skourged the Iewes For it was not enoughe for him thus to persecute the Iewes and subuerte all their lawes holy rytes and godly ceremonies and sacrifices instituted of God but he wold arrogantly blaspheme god himself suppresse his trewth with all his diuyne sacred ordinances yea and he prospered in his mischeif This miche be sayd for the preface of the prophecye Now heare the interpreter ☞ And I hearde an holy one speake saying vnto a certayn meruelouse excellent one How longe shall this vision of the dayly perpetuall sacrifice and of the blasphemose synne which is the cause of this deuasâ—acion and destruccion endure that both the holy sacred temple with all hir sacrifices and the Iewes shal be thus troden downe And he answered me Aftir two thousand and. 300. dayes which containe the daye and night shall the holy temple be restored to the iust and lawfull vse And whylis I daniel beheld the vision desyerouse to knowe it lo there srode before me one lyke a man And I hearde with in the floude eule the voyce of a man crying out sayinge Gabriel teache this man this vision Then he came nyeâ— the place where I stode whose coming so nyghe me made me so afrayd that I fyldowne flat one my face And he sayd vnto me Attende and perceiue thou sone of man For this visioÌ„ shal be fulfilled in the last tyme or in the ende of the captiuite And whylis Gabriel thus spake with me I fylldowne grouelinge as one had bene ouercomen with great sleap And he towching me lifted me vp ayen into my standing And then he sayd Beholde I shall teache the what thinge shall come when this wrath is finisshed for it shall haue an ende at the tyme prefixed Daniel calleth the interpretor of the vision a meruelouse excellent one As Iâ— say calleth cryst a meruelous one a counseller c. Here therfore he asketh this meruelouse one whiche was cryst apperinge lyke the aungell Gabriel so called for his meruelouse excellent strengthe how long y e peple of god shuld be so skourged and persecuted of Antiochus which was the figure of oure Anticrysten Antioches and lytle horne crept vp in the Romane imperye and so consequently what affliccioÌ„s hang ouer the chirches of cryst to the worlds ende for it is manifest that whatsoeuer the aungel tolde before of the heuey affliccions of the Iewes the same be now verified and done vpon the chirche of the gentyles which thinges sith they be past it is no dowt but the rest of the vision is in fulfillinge now and shal be euery daye fulfyssed vpon vs tyll cryst become to iugement This meruelouse one whose name is hidden is cryst Iesus the sone of god which euer from the begining hath bene present with the godly as he now is present and shal be vnto the worldis ende For the kingdom of cryst is cryst himself present with his worde and spirit counfortinge vs certifyinge vs of the casamities to come hearinge vs calling vpon him gouerning oure thoughts wordis and workis by aungels so that death troden downe we mought haue lyfe eternall This is my couenant with them sayth the lorde My spirit which is in the and my wordis which I haue putte into thy mouth shall not go fro thy mouthe nor from the mouthe of thy sead whylis the world stande For where two or iii. be gathered togyther in my name I am in the middis of them For because therfore that vnder Antioche the chirche shulde be so miserably 〈◊〉 and torne and Gabriel the fauorer of the chirche asked howlonge that calamite shulde endure therfore cryst answereth 2000. and 300. dayes that is 6. yeares 3. monethes and. 20. dayes that the godly readers of daniel might haue confort in that persecucion and be assewered Antiochus that blast of the deuyll be yend that tyme to rage no farther For eueÌ„ so came it to passe as the bokis of the Maccabeis testifye For it may be shewed y e image of Iouiâ— olympii to be set vp in y e temple in the yere 145 aftir the deth of asexander y t moneth of NoueÌ„ber then was Nicanor ouercomen and slayne in the yere 151 in februarie called adar vnto the which adde december Ianuarie and februarie with the odde dayes and thou haste the iuste nouÌ„ber And in that he saith the morning euening he vnderstandeth the naturall daye as it was first created containinge the night and
lustes pleasures he signifieth the turke and the pope with their coniured hornes to be lawlesse nether to goddis worde nor to their owne lawes to be subiect but all thinges that thei lyst to be lawfull Hytherto perteineth this .4 verse of the .x. Psalm This vngodly casteth vp his nose despiseth all other in al his mischeuouse wyked cogitacions he setteth naught by god Not onely the turke Mahumete the popis of Rome their cardinale bisshopes monkis preistis and fryers haue playd and yet play this parte but also all emprours kinges and princes which ensen ced by their serpeÌ„tine perswasions haue yet do persecute and suppresse the gospell which now the daye of their mercyfull visitacion by the gospell offred them yet wyll thei the aungell calleth anticrist a kinge do what thei lyst make what proclamacioÌ„s and articles of oure fayth thei lyst as doth the emprour this daye in the nether parties of Germanie strayghtly commanding no printer to printe nor boke seller to sell any godly boke to the edifying of crystis chirche nether in dewche Latyne Frenche English Spanish nor in the Italion speche Secondly he is described of his pryde He shal be extolled and thrust vp himself aboue and ayenst the moste high god speking horrible and meruclouse blasphemies ayenste him Here was it prophecied That Anticryste shuld not onely sitte in the temple of god but that he shall proudly lift vp himself as Paul prophecieth it of this place takeÌ„ aboue euery thing that is called god but also by his doctrine fighting playn ayenst the gospell contumeliousely skorne god and cryste and accurse and excommunicate his chirche as it standeth in the .10 Psal. His mouthe is ful of malediccions We exhorte therfore as many as we may for the glorie of god that thei separat themselues from this vngodly faccioÌ„ both in iugement will as did the Maccabeis exhorte many to auoid the company of the counsels confedered with Antiochus we warne also the lerned and prudent which yet for the studie and zele of peace as thei wolde be sene or for a certain singulare precise morosite wolde apere to abhorre and estiewe these new facions and soden mutacions as thei call them being alto ware to wise and to charely circumspecte in this their slake santering leste their rasshnes as thei pretex it shuld confirme the enimies of the gospell therfore decree thei thus to staÌ„d still lyke idle idols and in securite as it were afarre of loking vpon and beholdinge the bront of the bataill no handis putting forthe nor yet once wheÌ„ thei might to helpe to any amendement or reformacion But the mater is to manifest and to farre gone as may easely be perceiued of men of clere iugement not being corrupt with any affeccions But here thei say that in healing these euills and enormites we do more hurte then good as to make tumultes sedicions and cause the peple to rebell ayenste the magistratis and the ordonarie powrs and thus geue them the brydle to all licen ciouse libertie And by this example and occasion the curiose persons shall trouble the trwe doctrine We see say thei the Anabaptists the Seruetis the caÌ„panes the loites georgiaÌ„s dauides and other pestlences encrease at your steringis As wheÌ„ some of the hyders headis were smiten of other headis arose vp of their bloude Euen so these deceiuers in this or that one place repressed yet shall there other as euill sectis aryse in other places say you ye aske be what enterprices take the great men vpon themselues with what discipline suffer thei their maners to be ruled Howe diligent I praye you be thei to nourish godly studies and scoles Whother translate thei the chirche and abbey goodis What thinke ye Is not this distraccion and diuision of princes now emonge themselues an infinite and sufficeÌ„t euil We se it saye thei that nether great nor small maters can thei with a comon consent bringe well to passe At laste thei say If now the beginings of this stryfe be so perellouse what shall chance thinke ye vpon owr posterite when there shal be lesse lerninge and then by the lenger custome the audacite of grete men shal be the more confirmed yet is there nowe in princes some zele to godlye doctrine Siche a study zele shal there not be in their childern Wherfor if ye wil nedis haue althings sodenly chaÌ„ged say thei ye shall encreace fiercenes and crueltie These thinges thei saye ayenst vs when we rebuke their errours ty rannye and open mischeif And ful grete sorows do these heuey sighthes bring vpoÌ„ vs. Ciuile discordis geÌ„der infinite euils and perels But yet is it an vniuste yea an vngodly towche to caste the cause of discorde and licenciouse rebellion vpon y e peaceable gospell For thei that rebell wilnot obay god nor his trwthe but defend their owne lyes and erroneose affectiâ— ayenst the open verite thei I say by their sediciouse studies stere vp these vprores Images and all false opinions muste geue place to the almighty voice of god These abominacions when thei be defended pertinatly of the enemies of the gospel then their stifnecked pertinacie inflammeth discordis And euen these be the comon and worthy present plages of all cristen realmes now set on fyer withe bataill I thinke there was neuer a fayerer and goodlyer realm then was Egipte constituted of Ioseph and yet did Moses sament it to be vtterly destroid for repugning gods message and withholding his peple in bondage ayenst his will And miche more did Ieremye bewaeil and sorowe the destruccion of Ierusalem the teÌ„ ple and the iews comon weall Nowe con sider the tyme of Antiochus the figure of owr anticristes and thou seest euen the image of owr present plages and calamities in the storie of the Maccabe Few or almost non was the nomber of the godly vnto whom yet were there ioyned many vayn light false and deceitfull persons The princes could not agre amonge theÌ„selues Their cheif leader and defender of the godly died before the ende of the batail as nowe of late the cheife mainteiners writers and prechers of the gospell haue bene taken awaye But yet shall the beter and lest parte haue the victory But what confusions and destruccioÌ„s of the iewes londe folowd that persecucioÌ„ Trewly Matathias toke not to him his weapens to the entent that his neuei hir canê° shuld be a â—autor of the saduceis false doctrine nor yet that his childers I hil dern shuld constitute their kingdom with mutuall murt her slaying so cruelly the ci tesens Nether yet that their childers childern as were the The banes brether ne emong themselues shuld with wiked wepens and batail one kil a nother troublinge the religion and bringinge in vpoÌ„ them the Romans to prophane their tem ple. For it is manifeste that aftir the batail of Antiochus Epi. the iâ—ws were gre uously plaged withe the domestik tyrannye of the posterite
as he was to the iewes in Antiochus tyme not sufferinge that greuou sepersccucion to continewe senger then y e said 1290. dayes he saith dayes because the litle tyme apereth so longe to the afflicted Thê° be we warned to perseuer strongly in pacience abydinge the glorious coming of cryste to iugement to slaye this anticristen horned whore of babylon withe the almighty breathe of his mouth that we might haue our perpetuall ioye teste with cryste But daniel go thou hence vntyll the ende be comen be at reste For thou shalt stand vp with thy parte in the ende of the tymes Here at last is daniel commanded of y e aungell Cryst to departe and to take his reste his bodye to lye down and sleape in the duste his soule to reste in ioye in Abrahams bosome which is in heuen with god the father with his sone holy gost with all y e holy aungels spirits of the lust vntyll that gloriouse daye of y e resurreccion all crystis enimies thrust downe vnder his fete And then he telleth him that he shall resume his gloriouse immor tall incorruptible spirituall bodye standing vp ayen as it were from sleape with his parte and blessed company of the cho sen. Thus shall we all bothe gladde fresshe and ioyfull aryse rogither in the laste daye which is now owr moste present coÌ„solacion Iesus cryst our resurreccion graunt it vs that we mought so vnderstande teache and lone daniel the prophetes that me myght with them ryse agene in that euerlastinge scole perfectly lerne to knowe to honor God vnto whom onely be glorie immortall So be it Nowe geue thankis to our celestial father thorowe Iesus cryste our redemer that he hath at last so clerely by his prophete daniel reueled to vs these so secrete misteries so that we be assâ—wered cry sâ—e our redemer to haue had ben comen incarnated these 154â— yeres ago that he shall come agene shortely to delyuer vs mightely out of anticristis tyraÌ„nye destroye him w t his almighty worde We beseche the oh father for cristes sake ge â—e vs the very feare faith in the make vs call vpoÌ„ thâ—for our onely mediator cristes sake to be herde that among these so many mighty fraudes of Anticryst we â—hriâ—k not we fall not froÌ„ the but that in thy holy feare pacieÌ„t abydig we might perseuâ—â— to our endis reste with daniel in the cominge of cryste Iesu we mought with him in the felowship of thy chosen meâ—e our sauiour cryste in our glorifyed bodies rysen ayene into that perpetuall felicite prepared for vs in cryste from the begininge Amen Emprinted at Geneue 1545. G. I. Halcyon is a kingis fissher The last dayes be ê‘ellous Cap. 12. A monarchie is one empire ouer all the worlde the scripture is Gods worde the first age 2. age 3. age the first age 2. age 3. age A monarchie the first monarchie The. 2. Monarchye The. 3. Monarchie The. 4. Monarchy Daniel 2. The argument The om nipotencie mer cie of God God ruleth the world by kinges prophetis note this wel good reader 22. Cap. 9. Cap. Gene. 7. Of babylon citie Amonicion 2. Pet. 2. Rom. 11. Text. The office of kinges and victours the chirche is fre in captiuite Exo. 20. What thing is victoriose kings shuld do Deu. 17. kinges muâ—â—â— euer â—â—adâ— y e boke of Deut. Daniel â—althasar â—ananias drach Rom. 13. Text. Exo. 20 Cap. 11. Places of the. 1. cap. Rom. 11. The false prophe tâ— were euer in greter autorite theÌ„ the trwe wherfor be good men scourged w t the euil The batail i promises 29. Eze. 33. Ephe. 3. The glory of the peple of Israel â— their exi le Gen. 49 3. place Prou. 20 2. Paral. 31. Mat. 10. 1. Pet. 3. Titu 3. The godly howe thei shal do in tyme of peace batel Eze. 18. Faith erectâ—th hirself vp bithe â—mises ayenste the threates We may not poit God the tyme pla ce c. How the vngodly behaue theÌ„selfe in tyme of peace batail The fast and punisshement of the false prechers Iere. 28. The cry sten lyfe The argnmeÌ„t of the 2. ca. Text. Gen. 22. It behoueth the victor to fele what captiues he hathe 1. Samu â—l 5 6. god how he is w t men I say 29 the word of god reueled shameth maÌ„ nis doctrin seme it neuer so deceÌ„t laudable Text. Rom. 4. all thynges be possible to God Heb. 11. Text. Psal. 17. What it is to call vpoÌ„ god 2. Cor. 1. Ioan. 16 Text. Our ennimies must we loue 1. Cor. 2. Onely y e holy gost seeth what is to come Our eni mies but not their doctryn to be loued Text. Whiche drames be of god Cryste when aÌ„d wherfor he shuld come Text. The kiÌ„g doÌ„ of cry ste. The begining fal of kiÌ„gdoms be of God Christis kingdoÌ„ kingdoÌ„s ar y e howses of the gospell The worlde without the gospel is hel Text. â— Mona Text. Text. Text. 4. Monarchie The Romane empiâ—e shal be destroyed Cast of all shall the Gospell destryoe both Pope turke vsurping the Romain empire The diuision of the Romain em pire Text. Christes kyngdoÌ„ when it begane institued of God Christis kyngdoÌ„ is his worde his chur che the ston â—ut out of the hil without hande Luc. 19. Psal. 2. Text. 1. Pet. 4. 1. Tim. 5 The. 3. chapter Bothe autors â–ª defenders worshippers of ymages â–ª shal be greuosly plaged Text. accusers of good menshal be destroyed Text. Text. To not defende y e trwthe and to re nye it is allone The lyberty of the faith full in the crosse To worship god what it is Rom. 10. Dissemble not in Gods honore worship The bisshops vn godly godly worship of ymages Onias Menelaus Iason Macha Exo. 32. Leui. 26. Psal. 96. Deut. 4. 27. Exo. 20. Iosue 8. Deu. 16. 1. Cor. 10 Thre hâ— nors a diuine honor A ciuâ—le honor And an ydoll honor w t win gloseth and it oute w t a certain reuerent behauior Matt. 5. Text. Beware ye cruell hangmeÌ„ meÌ„ but ners Psal. 104 Text. The subiects folowe their kynge coÌ„dicions the first precept is the rule of all doctryne I say 7. Who was the angel in the fyer The flame burneth the burners of y e faith full be they neuer so far of Psal. 2. Text. The pro perty of our papi stis about kingis emprowrs To send forth pre chers is y e spediest way to plant y e gospell Cryst is with vs in y e middes of y e fyer of tribulacion I say 53. Hebre. 11 kinges take hede your fice the first place TyraÌ„ts deride y e godly Oure erth quakis and present eclyps Ioan. 3. In his first article against D. barnes Corporall promises haue condicioÌ„s but not y e promises of the gospell Of y e 6. place 26 Wherfore God laith vpon vs bodely affliccions Psal.