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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

sonne of perdition which is an aduersary and is exalted aboue all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he doth sit in the Temple of God boasting himselfe to be God Remember yee not that when I was yet with you I told you these things And now you know what withholdeth euen that he might be vttered reuealed at his time For the mistery of iniquitie doth alreahy work c. Againe in the 10 Chap. of S. Mathew these be Christ his words The brother shal deliuer vp the brother to death and the father the sonne and the children shall arise against theic fathers and mothers and shal put them to death And ye shal be hated of all for my names sake But he that endureth to the end shall be saued Now considering that these be the latter daies that the end of the world is hard at hand by these tokens manifest and dayly to be séene euery where in Christendom before our eies let vs diligentlie search of whence this variance and deadly discorde sowen and sprong vp through all Europe is deriued out as it were of a welspring or fountaine For euery malady proceedeth of his cause take away the cause and imediatly ensueth the curing of the sore or disdase What hath bene and is the originall cause that the knot and band of brotherly loue is broken in the partes of the world professing Christ that the rage cruel and beastly fearcenesse taketh place bearing sway that the Peace which was in one house is put to flight that enuy hatred and ma●●ce créepeth in that War and the sword threatneth destruction euery where euen to the Innocentes That Sathan is let loose abroad to increase the malice of men and to kindle the fier brand of all wickednesse Uerily the originaull causes of all these troubles at this present broiling and afore this time many yeares past hath bene and is the holie Father as they call him the Pope the Bishop of Rome whom Saint Paule as ye haue heard now before couertlie describeth to be Antechrist the Son of perdition which is exalted aboue all that is called God I beséech you gentle Readers bée yee indifferent Iudges euen as the trueth of God his word shall leade you as the interpretation vpon holie Scripture made and set downe by the ancient approoued Doctors of the Church euen from the Apostles time til 1000 yeares past shal direct you when the Pope rideth from his castle to S Peters Church in Rome and is caried sitting in a Chaire aloft by men vpholding the same vpon their shoulders And the Sacramentall bread is set in a Pyx on a Nag or white horse backe led by a Priest in a white Surplice going afore him his gard enuironing the holie Father and crying with aloud voice to the people gazing on to sée the sight in this Italian word Abasso Abasso which is to say Bow and bend downe your selues or knéele downe not so much to the Pix as to the Pope Is not here the Bishop of Rome exalted aboue all that is called God and aboue the God in the box For the Popes doctrine teacheth men to cal the Sacramētal bread God when they term it their Maker when the make it a Sacrifice propiciatory for the quick and the dead in their Masses when they reiterate day by day on the Altar that oblatation once offered vpon the crosse once for all for filthy lucre and gaine as in trentals of Masses c. Doth not the Pope boast himselfe aboue all that is called God when hee sitteth in S. Peters Church enthronished thrée or foure yardes higher then the Altar or Sacramental bread reserued in the Pix blessing and crossing them that lie prostrate before him when he vnder his Buls writtē or printed in shéeps skins sent to those that dwell 1000 or 1500 miles from him being at Rome forgiueth vpon mony taken horrible murders incest parracide and such like crimes the heartes of the parties not considered whether they be trulie and vnfainedlie penetent or no. When the Pope most arrogantly peruerteth the wordes spoken in the Psalme 90. only of Christ. Super Aspidem Basiliscum ambulabis conculcabis Leonem Draconem Thou shalt goe vpon the venemous beast and Adder the yoong Lion and Dragon shalt treade vnder thy feete and applieth them with a Sathanicall pride vnto himself and to those that from time to time ●it in his Chaire which is horrible basphemie But here I will vse a litle digression from the man to the certaine place of his habitation that the Beast may the better bee knowen by his den and accustomed haunt where he fatteth and franketh himselfe For more and better prooffe of the sequele of this matter and so to settle their consciences in the truth which hitherto haue but blinded Hear I desire you in the Lord Iesus certaine authorities from the Primitiue Church to this age consenting and agréeing together that Babylon specified in the Reuelation of S. Iohn doth ●●te and signifie vnto vs the Cittie of Rome in Italie First it is vsuall in holie Scripture to set downe some word by some Trope to signifie a thing turned away from that which it properlie betokeneth And it is vsed in writing when an argument commeth in handeling out of which may grow either vehement suspition or feare of an imminent danger In this sort S. Paule 2. Tim. 4. sayeth himselfe to haue bene deliuered out of the mouth of a Lion meaning by naming the Lyon the cruel Prince Nero. That in this place the sence is Nero to be taken for the Lion The ancient Doctours of the Church as Hierome vpon the life of Paule Chrisostomus Theophilactus Aquinas● Lyranus Interpreters vpon holie Scriptures doe agree consent By like Trope our Lord Christ in the 13 of Luke calleth the King Herode by the name of a For. Ignatius an holie writer in the Primititiue Church vsing this maner of spéech saith that he he himself was compassed about with ten Leopards which Ignatius afterwarde interpreteth to be ten cruel souldiors to bring him capti●e to Rome Thus as S. Paule couertlie by the name of a Lion would haue to be vnderstanded Nero. Our Lord Iesus by the name of For meaneth Herod And Ignatius by the Leopardes tearmeth Souldiors So the authour of the Reuelation would haue Rome to bee knowen by the vo●able of Babylon With this also agreeth S. Peter who in the end of the fifth chap. of his former epistle writing from Rome saieth thus The Congregation which is at Babylon saluteth you Here note that vpon this place of Peter as well the olde and ancient Interpreters as the newe doe agrée that the word Babilon is set downe for Rome as testifieth P●pias Hierapolites in Eusebius vpon the Ecclesiasticall Historie 2 booke 15. Chapter Hierome vppon the life of Marke the Euangelist Nicolaius Lyra an approoued writer by the Romishe Church and

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

house the feare of god was vpon al the kingdomes of the earth when they had heard that the lord had fought against the the enemies of Israel and so the Kingdome of Iehoshophat was quiet and God gaue him rest on euery side likewise in the 14. Chap. of Exodus in the end of the same it is thus written But the children of Israell walked vpon the drie land through the middest of the sea And it followeth in the 15. Chap. Then sang Moses and the children of Israell this song vnto the Lord in this maner I will sing vnto the Lord for hee hath triumped gloriously the horse and him that rode on him with all the rest hath be ouerthrowen in the sea The Lord is my strength and praise he is become my saluation he is my God he is my fathers God and I wil exalt him The Lord is a man of war his name is Iehouah c. Let vs thus pray praise God with y ● Israelites for the ouerthrow of our enemis in the Sea and he wil continue our good and merciful God Let vs continue to go to the temple with Iehosophat and there with the harmonie of our cleane soules and bodies giue there the Sacrifice of thanksgiuing Let vs sing th● 21 Psalme Domine propter robur immisum gaudet Regina quia tu author illi fuisti victoriae exultat seriò O Lord the Queene re●oiceth for the strength that thou hast sent vpon her and because thou hast bene the principall giuer of victory to her she reioiseth earnestly Let her Maiesty spiritually reioise as she doth Let vs her Subiectes take bolde heartes and be full of courage if at any time forraine enemie should make attempt The Lord will not forsake them that put their trust in him God grant her Highnesse a long life a long and most prosperous raigne God of his mercie continue his blessings vpon this Realme of England Amen FINIS The latter daies of the world ●●hessalo ●●●ichrist Variance and deadlie discord throughout Christ●ndome The Pope the cause of variance The Pope exalteth himself aboue all that is called God The pride of y ● Pope Pardons for murder The Pope knowen to bee An●echrist by his habitation and place 1 Pet. 5. Papias Eus. bi● Tertullian Origines Hi●ronimus S. Augustine Nero and others persecuted the Christians The Popes doe the same The testimony of the Church of Leodia against Rome S. Barnard Stukley trator maintained by the Pope The popes men vanquished by the L. Gray in Ireand Church plate taken out of the Vestries by the Pope to make war The wicked liues of the Popes Raphael Volaterranus Xistus the 4. Innocentius the eight Alexander the sixt I●lius the second Clement the seuenth Paulus tertius These Popes not men but monsters of men Catholiqu●s Exhortation to the Papists to recurne to the true Church Equal auctority giuen to all the Apostles to forgiue sins Hierarchia Succession by i●heritanc Succession by Election 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 is there is the Church Hierusalem fo●s●ken much more Rome Harlots or curtesans in Rome To read scripture bringeth k●●wledge vnderstanding The Pope the head of the holy league that practiseth to trouble molest England The Spaniard his preparatiō for war against England many yeares The Popes pr●mise to saue the soules of them that perish The Pope a murderer Not found in scripture that the Apostles di● assigne Princes c●ownes But y ● Popes do it Constantines donations puffed vp th● Se● of Rome with pride The Spaniard tooke in hand the execution of the Popes malice 1588. The cruel●●● of the Sp●●●ards The Strapado England beware England call vnto the Lord trust in him England be sory lament for thy sinnes past England cease not to pray continual●y Our en●mies hate vs fo●●eligion The heathen mans l●●●on ●o fight for our countri● bound by gods law to defend our Prince and Countrey Comfo●t of the Q●eenes 〈◊〉 and her most wi●e c●uns●ll England furnished with Armour and Artillery as it was neuer in any princes daies 〈◊〉 this time The commen●ation of the Q●eene Elibeth H●r vertues worthy qualities H●r knowledg in the Greeke Latine and other t●ngues He● 〈◊〉 wonde●ful ●●liuerāce from trea●on at ●●me The long raigne of a man princes Salomon Short raignes of prince what it b●tokeneth The long ra●gne of a Prince The Quee●s care and ●●udy to stop and represse the rage and ●u●ie practised in France an in y ● Low-countries Sir Phillip Sidney Carolus ●eobussextus king of Scots lamented his vnripe death The Lord Charles Howard Lord Admirall of England His going to Sea in the deepe of winter 1587. His victory ouer the Spaniards The firing of the Spanish Ships The Queenes going to Paul● Chu●ch t● 〈◊〉 thanks vnto God The Queenes clemencie wonde●full 〈◊〉 euen to the enemy England be continually mindfull of y ● great benefites receiued at Gods hand 〈…〉

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