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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

many other which heere to rehearse it were to long And so much the more this hath a resemblance of truth that the Apostles had reueiled vnto them many and sundry things concerning the latter times of the falling of the Romaine Empire of the reueiling of the acurssed sonne Antichrist of the abhomination standing in the holy place All which the Apostles set out as it were shadowed somewhat darkly as it is left vnto vs in writing and may be séene in the 24. of Mathew 2. Thessalonians In which two places there is spoken of these matters as it were by points and prickes rather than by any oopen speach Againe the same Papias taught afterward in Alexandria and had bene the scholler of S. Iohn the Apostle whervpon we should be perswaded that he must néeds heare the same interpretation of his maister concerning Rome to be named by Babylon and that the same interpretation was as well in the Churches of Asia where S. Iohn preached as in Europa where S. Peter taught And least peraduenture any might doubt that no good and iust testimony may be brought out of the ancient and approoued writers of the Primitiue Church succeeding next to the Apostles age you shal hear the opinion of those which were next to the Apostles Tertullian did write in the yeare 170. after Christ. He in his worke against the Iewes hath this written Babylon in the writing of Iohn bereth the figure of the city of Rome in that it is great proud in force and a beater downe of the saints Who will now doubt but that the said Tertullian heard this at the Apostles mouthes Also Origines liued in the yeare 200. And he wrote in Alexandria many bookes and the 12 Homily vppon Ezechiell the Prophet he thus expoundeth that there is Babilon where is confusion of maners by vices mischieuous doing continually growing And therfore it is no maruell if the holy writers pondring what was y ● state of the Romains Empire which was the head of the world especially the city of Rome haue defined Rome to be Babilon in their bookes Now hear an euident manifestation of this where Hierome wrote about the yeare of our Lord 380. teaching the Churches both in Asia and Europa in his commentary vppon Esay 47 chap. hee witnesseth y ● many beside him in his time and age did interpret the daughter of Babilon which should be made humble not to be Babylon in Caldea but to be the city of Rome in Italie which is called specially by the name of Babilon in the Reuelation of S. Iohn and in the Epistle of S. Peter all threatnings which be spoken by the Prophet against Babilon to be referred to the distruction of the city of Rome Likewise the said Hierom in a certaine Epistle to Assella complaining of the corrupt maners of the city of Rome calleth Rome by the name of Babilon Againe the said Hierom in the end of his 2 booke against Iouinian turning his oration to the city of Rome I speake vnto thée saith he which hath blotted out the blasphemy written in thy forhead by the confessing of Christ. O mighty city lady of the world interpret thy name Rome is by the Gréekes a name of strength by the Hebrues a name of highnes kéep that that thou art called Let vertu make thée high let not voluptuousnes make thée low Thou maist eschue by repentance the curse which our sauior hath threatned in the Reuelation Thou hast the example of the Niniuites Beware the name of Iouinian which is deriued of an Idoll S. Avgustine liuing in the time of S. Hierom but yet a litle yonger accounted the chief among the latin Deuines and hauing respect to al that was spoken of Rome by those that had written afore in y ● Church declareth many things to be like in Rome and Babilon for in his booke De ciuitate Dei the fifth Booke and second Chapter he calleth Babilon the first Rome In his 18 book and 22. chap. he compareth Rome with the city of the wicked whi●●h Cain builded The one saith he was builded of c●in which ●●ue his brother abel The other was builded by Romulus which killed his brother Rhemus Againe Orosius a Spanish writer liuing in the time of S. Augustine sheweth that Rome and Babilon were alone and especiciallie beside all other wickednesse in opressing the Saintes of God Lib. 2. cap. 3. and again lib. 7. cap. 2. But perchance some to this afore may make obiection alledging that at that time when these ancient writers did write Rome was gouerned by most cruell Emperours which persecuted horibly all good Christians inflicting vpon them all torments and most sharpe death But now Rome is no more gouerned by Emperours that be wicked and thirst the blood of the godly but Rome is vnder the iurisdiction of the holie Pope and for that cause to be reuerenced and honored of all Therefore if any man should now say in these our daies that Babylon mentioned in the Apocalips might betoken Rome no sufficient cause or ground of matter were to confirme or corroborate his assertion to be found But the answere to confute this is ready of great force and validitie and not to be conuinced Albeit wicked Emperors euen from the Apostles time and long after by some hundred yeares held Rome for the chiefe seat imperiall and put manie to sundrie kindes of torment and death for confessing Christ yet S. Hierom who liued about 380 after Christ and after S. Augustin and Orosius whose ages were during the raignes of Iouinian Valentinian Gratian and Theodosius Emperours who not onely fauoured but greatly aduanced Christian religion did in their bookes taxe sharply reprehend Rome by the name of Babylon then gouerued rather by Popes and Bishops as it is knowen than by temperall princes And here is further to be noted that these Christan Emrours aforesaid ruled and made their abode in Constantinople and the Popes administred all at Rome by litle and litle mal engin deceit sinister practise with hypocrisie counterfeit humblenes now and then by force enterminled encroched not to bee onely equall but chalenged to haue superioritie not vpon the Cleargie onely but ouer Emperors and kings to make lawes at their lust pleasure to wage war make battel yea to tread down vnder their féet the whole world if they might bring it to passe All hitherto said and written doth the testimony of the Church of Leodia in the low countries confirme set down about the year of our Lord 1100 against Pascalis the second of that name then Pope That is as followeth hitherto saith he I haue but interpreted that S. Peter wold by the name of Babylon note Rome because at that time Rome was spotted with all kind of Idolatrie sin and filthines And now my sorrow doth interpret vnto me that S. Peter terming with a spirit of prophesie the congregation gathered together in Babylon did foresée the

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