hypocrites To this end the Popes clergie is described in a plaine painting forth of them and of their warres for Ierusalem at yeeres 1100. Next are all the Turkes warres handled alone next reuiuing of the Gospell against both vntill the end of the world before which tyme neither Turke nor Pope shall fall They flatter themselues that write otherwise But as the Antiochi who reigned about 300. yer after 150. were so weake that they stood by the Romans courtesie so Lagidae in the tutelage of Rome till the set yeere of Christ his first comming so though the Pope bee weakned in many places Italy shall remaine a continuall plague that shall appeare in the seuenth Trumpet But now let vs consider the first Trumpet CHAP. IX The 5. Trumpet sounding out the Popes cleerly The fift Angell sounded the trumpet and I saw a starre fall from heauen and the key of the deepe of the Pitt was giuen him and there came a smoke out of the deepe and the sun and ayer were darkened by the smoke that came out of the pitt THE haters of the Papes turned to Popes from fathers to Diuels to be the wicked Isai 11. Romylus in learned Ionathan from Cittim Ieroms Italy Nu. 24. Onkelos Iarchi Romans They be for this commune place the fift Trumpet in order of handling but in an explication of the first in tenor of matter The starre fallē from heauen was in the third trumpet the messinger of the cōgregation fallen from the kingdom of heauen Dan. 2. Mat. 3. in Christ and by Kimchi vpon Hosea 4. Key is power of gouernement in soules case Isai 22. Mat. 16. Apo. 2. The deepe is darkenesse Gen. 1. 2. in Zohar cōparing visible with inuisible darkenesse bringing to Gehenna euen as the commanding of light to shine out of darkenesse is compared with shewing Christ to our soules As Rattes suo indicio pereunt Terent. so heere the Pope and all that beare his keyes Keyes heere be damned but not such keyes as haue Gods warrant Whence the Pope chalengeth Keyes Nothing is more commune nor euer seene more impudent thē the Popes chalinging of Keyes from Mat. 16. first saying that Peter is there the Rock 1. All holy will hold him therin Abaddon Apollyon autor of destruction For the Son of man Dan. 7. Christ the holy of all holinesse Daniel 9. The son of God Psal 2. calleth himselfe the Rock from Deut. 32. translated in the 70. God six tymes in one chapter and the Rock was Christ 1. Cor. 10. there is no Rocke but the Eternall in Psal 18. and Rock is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Creator S. Peter chap. 4. vseth that terme for God onely teaching Papes not to be babes nor Popes but to know how he vnderstood the wordes of Christ yet the Pope will make Peter to take Gods name to be the chiefe of the Apostles and to haue power in new sort to binde and loose sinns as though all that truly teach Christ do not the same though they know it not But the first teachers of the son Ps 2. were to haue the first commencement of Doctorshipp in Thalmud knowen speach And all kinges who should read the Law preach as Salomon did all his life are the true Papae and Episcopi One appointed man should be the sergeāt of the Church to looke to businesse speciall But all that gouerned should be are called Episcopi as well as hee should be as well learned God is Episcopus Iob. 20. Pakid any of charge as Eleazar is Episcopus communely in the 70. Iudas office was Episcope Antigonus in Diodo was like to be Episcopus of all Asia And when the Greeke Papae would be Episcopi alone they were neuer quiet They had beene stronger if all learned had beene Episcopi with them as at Zurick now one ruleth none but is chiefe sergeant for teaching sacraments but accountable as any other for cariage But Pope Romane thus goeth on to teach that Peter came to Rome that he left keyes to one and he to successores that they be the Rock to sitt in the Temple of God as God to make men sweare otherwise then any of Gods people euer heard to allow Priests after our Lords death to reiect the Ebrew and Greeke Gods gift and to accept a Latin deadly falty translation Exod. 12. Act. 7. 13. to deny that the Bible which God gaue is extāt to vse Latin in Landes of other Languages to giue the people no vse free in it But 9. of 10. commun And Pater noster as to parrats and with the last verse stollen away the verse from Dan. 7. shewing all Kingdom Power and Glory giuen to Christ So the summe of faith they had in Latin as Parrats in the maine pointe for the soules going vp to the Father a going downe to hell with beliefe that the fathers till then were there Before I reckon more Popish that is diuelish points I wil heere shew how Iewes haue disgraced our Gospel by the wicked translation Descended to Hell by barbarous wresting of Latin from the true vse in Tullies dayes A digression to shew a scandal laid to Iewes Izhak Ben Arama saith Behold the string vpon which the law of Christians hangeth is this the famously knowen that for the sin of Adam the first death of the soule entred vpon all ages and they fell all fathers and sonnes first and later Prophets and holy into the sorrowes of Gehenna vntill Christ went and redeemed them These be strictly his wordes vpon Leui. 26. where Moses expresly telleth that the Godly should goe hence to Gods Tabernacle and Saint Paul 2. Corint 5. translateth him in a most heauenly and comfortable sort and telled expresly of Abraham and the commended that they desired an heauenly Citie and God prepared it for them although they were not perfected in this world with manifestation of the Gospell Some Greekes mistaking S. Paul held Limbum and wrested Greek from old vse to that as Basill vpon Psalm 49. Yet he spake well vpon Psal 15. As Maymoni tract poenite That all holy went hence to Gods Tabernacle and Chrisostome though he said Christ opened Paradise to the thiefe saith vpon 2. Corint Hom. 6. Thus Lazarus was poore and verie poore and he was rich that passed by him lying in the gate now whether entred into the Kingdom and ioyed in the bosome of Abraham Herein Chrisostom is very sound and laid no trap for the Iewes Athanasius Cyrill Theodorite and others vpon the Psalmes and many in Theophilact vpon Luke 23. And he vpon Iohan in this I goe to the Father and very many in Photius library and Hegessippus vpon the Maccabees yet Romes aduancing Latin to abolish knowledge of the Greek Testament caused old Chrysologus to say that Abraham was in Gehenna till Christ went thither and the 3. day brought him out So the Iew had caught the Latin company enemy to all the Bible for happinesse Redemption that Iewes and Philosophers could speak of Emperors causes better then they Thus for 9. cōmun in stead of 10. for the Lords prayer
of Constantinus and he removeth the Empire to Byzantium calleth it new Rome and indueth it with the privilegies of old Rome Our West brought him to the East and one of our Helena despiseth old Rome buildeth new Rome near Troy where the wicked Helena wrought destruction to the house of Assaracus that after 300. yeares old Rome should begin by blood and spoyling And this may be noted that Q. Elisabets agent did that in Constantinople that none of other nations could That the Turkes Princes and Iewes there desired to have from England the Gospell preached there in Greek and Hebrew and the Kings royall mynd is to be commended for his bent to allowance that way L. Barton wrote that if N. could be gotten thither it were like to turne to the common good of Christendome So God offered our nation againe glory in the stateliest soyle But Satan hindreth by his servants that can turne themselves into Angels of light God will look to it One libeller would perswade that the Iewes letter comming in severall copies and translated there and thence sent to Basil and printed there was forged there A strange dealing a strange impudency None learned would think that all Christendome setting their wittes together could forge such a letter The slaunderer could not read one line of it And what a barbarous vnthankfull wight is the Libeller of these words Because your armes are the owles you think you must bring owles to Athens and because the Iew saluteth you as you feigne you think you are the onely Rabbin of the world If the base borne wight had bene of Constantinus kindred he had bene of an other spirit but now he could not consider the height of that cause The like vnto him is he that sayd these words The knight which said the King would give 500. lib. annuitie did but flatter and I will stay the King that he shall give no allowance to Iewes matters All the Oratours that ever were can not sufficientlie expresse the deadly hatred that these men have to the truth of God There is no other way to make Christians readie in the Bible but by handling the Gospell by Thalmudiques to whose tenour of studie all the new Testaments stile is bent The best learned Iesuits at Francfurt in the hearing of a gentleman of England hartily requested this done saying that by me they ready to cleare the new Testament could soone turne the Indians The Iewes over Germanie hartely desire this Princes made great promises but the old serpent wil be hindring whom the great Angel can tye in chaynes that he deceive not and deale with his factours as they wil be boūd with chaynes of darknes To which matter I require the cuppes of the foure wights and 24. Bishops full of incense to be powred before the Lambe that Iannes and Iambres may receive according to their workes that no more regard whence the sixt seale brought on a new world nor how the fallen must be lifted vp CHAP. VII Three hundred yeares were passed ere that men were sufficient in number to have kingdomes of Christianitie Then Schollers began to remit zeale and Hebrew studie which had soone overthrowen Arians shewing GOD to bee our Creatour Eccles 12. and Christ Iehova our righteousnes Yea the Apocalyps had most tamed Arians and Iewes and had been clear at the first by Thalmudique veine of studie By 300. moe Byshops pride and sloth made but a gaine and ambition of the Gospell Antioch would have chief Patriarkship following Antiochus old pride Alexandria would as Alexāder would be a God Old Rome would as it crucified Christ New Rome would for the Empires seat None considered that the Scholers of Patmos should be the sealed martyrs whē neither North-wind rose nor South-winde blasted in the garden that the spices might flow the beloved come into the Garden and eat of his precious fruites Cant. 4. But foure Angels held the foure windes God favoured Antioch that where sinne abounded mercy might more abound That men should not therefore be high minded but feare in the ende Hagarenes take it Cush or Abushini in Keturahs house had Abrahams familie and long held well but in the end held but the Gospel and few Epistles and the Psalmes for all the Bible That which Colen Rome hath printed Moscovia from Constantinople held litle sound Rome was the cause of falling to all still weakening the East Empire that should have holp the rest So God telleth that a generall fall shall come that not the open be the true but the hid bee the servantes of God such as God sealed As in Ieremies dayes in Ierusalem the ill figs the troupes of Ierusalem were a Synagogue of Sathan when all the Levites condemned him to dy and God in Ezekiel sealeth all his whom Israel condemned So here an apostasie is told which groweth vp 300. yeares by many wicked steps And then commeth to the Popes supremacy and soon maketh the open Church a Synagogue of Satan That onely men vnknowen few to mens sight but many to Gods ey that seeth all be the Church Here the Papists might have their answer when they aske where our Church was The tribes all have ech one twelve thowsand Though Dan is not named he is vnderstood But when Iosephs two sonnes and Levi be reckoned one is left out as Symeon Deu. 33. So Dan here They be shallow who hence gesse that Antichrist commeth of Dan. S. Paul taught Chrysostome 2. Thes 2. that he should come from Rome The latter halfe of the Chapter sweetly expresseth the poinctes wherevpon all standeth that salvation is from God and the Lambe All more in religion is from the serpent All honor to Mary Saincts Also Martyrs and their comfort is sweetly expressed This matter in time followeth the eight and ninth CHAP. VIII Out of the seventh seal come matters more to bee sounded thē six afore had The Church had peace a small while but angels seven are prepared to sound wrath arising Christ the Mediatour is ready to receyve prayer he is contemned by Rome dallying with his mediation Therefore hee powreth voyces thundrings lightnings and earthquake Angels here tell it Men in playn work The first common place Warre Hayle and fire mixt with blood sheweth vexation with warre ever since Constantines house fell the Popes bestird them to stirre warres to overthrow the East Empire and to set the West by the eares The second common place The Popes supremacy The arising to be a great mountayne became a mountayne of fyre when he cast himselfe into the sea of nations That a third part of men became dead in sin in profane trafique of life The third common place Corruption of Scripture wrested to his policie A great star burning as a torch fell from heaven and fell into the rivers and fountaynes of waters the name of the star is wormwood c. Angelus ecclesiae the Doctor is a star Ch. 1. heaven is the Church burning
spirites which haue names in the Law And they only in heauenly Daniel called Son of man as admitted vnto Angells company so Ezekiel and only they two From Daniel chap. 8. and 9. Gabriel is brought to Luc. 1. For most rare vse The wise will vnderstand it but the wicked will neuer vnderstand Dan. 12. Michael is vsed thrise in Daniel twice chap. 10. and one chap. 12. Dan. 10. vers 13. Beholde MICHA-EL the principall or only of the chiefe Princes is come to aide me Daniel saw a glorious vision of Christ before which he fell as dead then an Angel in the forme of a man that is Gabriel speaketh how Christ shewed his assistance against Cambises inhibition of the Temples building and giueth him a notation Hee that is in the forme of God from Exod. 23. The Angell which hath the name of God in him The character or forme of Gods person Ebr. 1. 3. That doth MICAEL signifie In our Lords wordes Ioh. 10. from Dan. 12. The Father and I am one As I haue shewed vpon Dan. 12. In Dan. 10. vers last the matter is playner in these wordes there is none strong for you in these affaires but MICHA-EL YOVR PRINCE Daniel acknowledged no creature of spirites his PRINCE therefore Micha-el must bee the Son of GOD. So he is called chap. 12. in the same Angells speach Michael the great Prince that standeth vp for his people No created spirite dare chalenge a princehood ouer people so here in the exposition of praise MICHAEL is expounded Christ Of Tobies fable The Iewes as I haue written in Ierusalemi vpon Dan. 8. say their Fathers brought with them Angells names from Babilon Michael and Gabriel Then if Angells had no names before Tobie that bringeth Asmodaeus for a spirite must bee a late fable Neither Thalmud Ierusalemy nor Babilonian hath that name Only late Rabbines Yet the fable of Tobie cited by Clemens of Alexandria is elder then the compiled Talmudes But they are made from Writers all Elder then Tobies fable Thargum Eccl. is a late worke and eldest Iew for record of Asmodai the Prince of Diuells The Pharisees had Beelzebub Prince of Diuells And later Iewes made Prince of Diuells Ben Tzirgha sonne of Leprosie To disgrace our faith of the SON Prince among the holy Angells The wicked Rabbines feigne a Prince among wicked spirites But wee make no created Angell Prince the Eternall Sonne Creator of all is the only Angell Prince And hee is the Arch-angell that could not suffer Satan to speake bad speach of Moses the first King in Israel But Iehouah before Iehouah said The Eternall rebuke thee Satan The Iewes in Midras Rabba Deut. chap. 33. feigne pleading from Satan before God for Moses and in Abboth Rabbi Nathan S. Iude telling Rabbins that they would destroy the Nation by resisting rule bringeth their owne commentary how Michael the Archangel checked Satan for contempt of Moses King of Israel and giueth him the high checke from Zach. chap. 3. The Eternall rebuke thee Satan So the Eternall Sonne before the Father spake in Zacharie what in Iudes Rabbins in a like cause Michael the Arch-angell speaketh and Zohar Gen. col 46. saith Where Michael is head of the holy Angells there Gods maiestie is meant This hath Zohar And we should not fauor Arias more then our enemies would Tobies fable disturbing Scriptures glory where euen Rabbins speake for it should no more come among holy workes then a worke of Beelzebub Asmodaus or Ben Tzirgha being a leprous wicked worke from the principall mischiefe of the Diuel Of Michaels Angells All the true Christians are called Michaels Angells they fight by the two edged sword of Gods word which originally in the Ebrew and Greeke new Testament is pure in writ cleare in meaning and perfect to discusse all sage matters Caesares Diui were soone confuted because all knew their profanesse they were soone by all sides excluded from all mens regard for any hope of happy state But the great fight here is with the King of Locustes and his garrisons Satans Angells that they may be knowen not to be the People of God Here is a sore combate that of the two Prophets ch XI Of the wicked spirites names Dragon old Serpent Diuel Satan bee the names of the wicked spirites companie King Pharaoh Esa 27. is a Dragon as old Pharaoh who for all Moses Rod would bee but a Serpent So the king of Madai and Paras worshipped in Babel that for a moneth none should pray but vnto him is in the Apocrypha fable a Dragon worshipped in Babilon So the Roman Diui Caesares and the Pope shewing himself in the Temple of God as if he were God make a Dragon as the old enimie worketh in them Of old Serpent The old Rabbins as Zohar and Aben Ezra and many moo confesse that the Angells which fell spake in the old Serpent And that company is called the old Serpent or Tempter as Adam gaue the Serpent from his nature the name Tempter The Rabbins whom I haue cited in an Hebrew treatise of fitting Iubilees to the yeare of our Lordes death so terme the Tempter later Aben Ezra though late wicked Iewes turne all to fables of a naturall Serpent who may be musselled by their owne ancient Of Diuell Diabolos in Greeke is the commune name of any slanderer but applied by Iobs translater chap. 1. to the Ebrew Satan enimie where our enimie the false accuser goeth about like a roaring Lion seeking whom hee may deuour There Diabolos expresseth enimie by occasion taken from Satan slandering of Iob. Saint Pet. 1. 5. taketh both names The Zohar telleth vpon Gen. 3. howe the Diuell accuseth each one from his comming into the world all his life So by the Iewes hee accused Christ as an enemie to Caesar and made him pay for robbery Psal 69. though it was not robbery for him to say hee was the Sonne of GOD. Christ held it no robbery to bee eaquall to God but the Diuell the Slanderer made Caiphas vrge this as a deadly matter so the Christians were slandered to the Caesares as athean and the reformed now are haeretiques to Papistes some trapps we lay in their way wherby Gods iustice doth whipp vs by their tongues Of trapps laid by our selues Whereas Catelthein eis haidon in the godly is all one as to remoue hence to the father Geneua denying Christ a passe Catelthein eis haidon denieth in tongue that he went to the Father And so denieth all religion Likewise Lutherans by Vbiquity for the humanity of Christ wound all the doctrine of incarnation wherein the humanity is according to our kinde sin onely excepted Besides we grant to the Papists that text of both Testaments is corrupt and so wee weaken the auctority of scripture and make no end of checking the holy Greek Testam that the Iesuits binde not it but Ieromes Latin with Ebrew in octauo Also where the Apostles speake plainly to all learned Iewes wee expound them as if
so Princes seeing that the former age by the Pope brought in the Turke to the hazard of the West and see that he knoweth not one letter in the LAW and is blinde in euery part of it and cannot make his owne cause good against the Turke or Iew they forsake him the seruant of seruants as God left the Chananites to bee conquered of Dauid So he is Chanaan they be Dauid and in his warre he shall be Iabin and by Sisera fall at Mageddon and bee no more able to resist And the great Citie became into three partes and the Cities of the nations fell and Babylon the Great was remembred before God to giue her the Cup of the Wine of the heate of his anger and euery Iland fled and the mountaines were not found and great haile talent bigge descended from heauen vpon the men and men blasphemed God for the stroke of the haile because the stroke of it was exceeding great By the Citie meane the policie and by three partes great diuision that it hath but a third part because the policies of nations fall from it and God remembred his anger told chap. 14. and as vnder the Caesares Ilands and Mountaines were moued from their place that is into another policy so heere alteration of policie is meant haile of a talent is great ouerthrowes by Gods hand the allusion being taken from plaguing the Chanaanites Ios chapter 10. where haile killed more then sword So the Spanish fleete hath often had great shipwrake by the extraordinarie hand of GOD specially 1588. And what an infinite masse of money and millions of men hath Netherland consumed to him And lately Venice shewed his weaknesse that he durst not goe forward to warre and specially Iuliaque where Leopoldu◠Emperour Spanie Pope wish they had neuer begon Touching the quantity of haile in countreies neere the Alpes wee see this speach to keepe neere propriety without a great hyperbole At Zurick my learned friend M. Caspar Wesserus told me of haile lately there that one stone was brought from a field somewhat farre off to the Consull and must melt in cariage yet beeing weighed it peised a wax pound Chanaan and Egypt haue greater haile that trees and beasts be stricken to destruction by it And in all this the Papists repent not but thinke God to fauor the wicked side and so blaspheme and keepe their old Idolatrie and locusts of all professions as before It is hard for men to repent which will not learne from the word of God how their case standeth Their false ground that Peter was the chiefe Apostle and at Rome and the Rocke and that hee had auctoritie to binde and loose more then others and could leaue that to Doctores of the Citie which crucified Christ as though they best deserued that and the fables of their miracles as though they were true these harden them that they cannot come into the Church till the anger of God consumeth the Pharaohs as chap. 15. vers vlt. told CHAPTER XVII Iohn like Daniel And one of the seauen Angels which had the seauen Cupp◠came and spake with mee saying to mee come I will shew thee the Iudgement of the great Whoore which sitteth vpon many waters with whom the Kings of the earth committed fornication and they which dwelt in the earth were drunke by the Wine of her fornication THe wise God maketh the Cloud of his word light to Israel and darke to Pharaoh That the wicked shall not be ouer busie with it he speaketh to them in Visions that they cannot see whither they tend because they know not the ground Besides commorations seeme vnto them new matter and not a commentarie vpon former So to them that be out of the Church all things are in parables But they that know the grounds shall see all easie Ieremiah taught Israel in the playnest propriety of wordes that might bee Ezekiel sweetneth the same with allegories when both are compared together all is plaine Daniel telleth how Iudah should bee afflicted by enemies likened to the proportion of a mans body fist so generally that heathen would not marke the persecuted But the Iewes knew And if at the first they had bene told of great affliction they would haue gone before captiuitie into Countries of Grecia But when they were in Babel and neere returne their enimies are beasts comming out of the sea and terrible but yet reuenged as the image was by strok from a stone so they by fire But the persecuters and persecuted neither be named In a new vision they are expresly named what the Ram and Buck meane and the persequutour aboue all that should goe before him is plainely described And last of all a proper speach expoundeth the Image expoundeth the sea beastes expoundeth the Land beast That no booke was euer plainer then Daniel Iohn is like him He telleth chapter 6. of great plagues to a state but telleth not to what state Then he telleth of a falling away but telleth not by whose occasion Then he describeth the occasioner vnder seauen trumpets but hideth from the profane world what policie hee would haue marked After this he bringeth the old Caesares and Pope with late into one serpent After this he diuideth the serpent into two beasts with resonable plaine notes and sheweth that the former beast cōming out of the sea should be reuiued by that which came vp out of the Land Now that reuiued beast after his particular doings and suffrings is heere to bee seene with the reuiuer The Angell teacheth Iohn in vision the learned men be Angeli Ecclesiae The great whoore is the great Idolatrous City the many waters the harlot sitteth on be people troupes nations and tongues Kings society in Idolatry is the fornication the dwellers on the earth are the Idolous whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or cariage is not in heauen And he caried me into the wildernesse in the spirit As the Church was driuen into the wildernesse to haue a policie vnmixed with Rome so Iohn sheweth that they must not be of Romes part that will condemne her but absolute free from her In Aegypt God could not giue lawes for Israel but they must be separated from other policies so God brought them into the wildernesse And when God would teach Iuda that Moyses Ceremonies were but poore elements and to praepare them for the rest of Christ he carieth them into the wildernesse of the heathen And when Iohn Baptist praepared a way for the rest of Christ and calling of the heathen who in the dayes of Dauid and Salomon were not circumcised but baptized Rambam Asure Bia. Per. 13. So we must goe into a wildernesse simply iudge by Gods word not by rumors of antiquity and vniuersality what is to be iudged of Rome And I saw a woman sitting vpon a scarlat beast full of names of blasphemy hauing 7. heades and 10. hornes So Satan being incarnate in the Empire of Rome had seauen heades and tenne
the Pope be sitting vpon the Empire by litle and litle And England at 1200. yer would not grant him supremacy Sigibert And good father WICKLIFE now 200. yeares ago preached that if the commune lawes of England might stand the Pope should haue no stroke in England And good Lady Margareth a pearle for a woman the mother to K. Henry the seauenth when she built Christs Colledge S. Iohns in both which I was fellow and owe them this dutie she in those dayes made lawes to aduance knowledge to ruinate the Pope And the valiant Henry VIII trust him out from being head or taile in our Church so the Empire ridden by the Pope stood but a litle while in sundrie places And all the while of the arising the Grecians as Chrysostome Andreas Oecumenius taught that the Romane Empire would be reuiued though in Greek stories Sysimus and the ecclesiasticall Alaricus Giezerichus wrought much harme and there Antichrist should reigne And if the Greeke old Doctores had bene well known the Pope had neuer gotten peny by his Masse Areopagita taketh the worde in the Law sense the token of the body so Eusebius the Image and Symbolon and so elder Origene and later Nazianzene Antitypes and later Theodorit in a full disputation and Macarius the Greeke Monke calleth it Symbolum and full many moo Then the Pope had no auctoritie for turning bread into the body of Christ to make him haue 1000. bodies and to make Religion a stage to Angels and men This long warning of the Popes arising was a warning to all ages that they should not suffer the starr falling to make bitter the waters of the Law nor darken the starrs and in all ages he had gainesayers And both Princes and People who contemned the warning of this book were worthie to be giuen ouer to all force of error And the Beast which was and is not the same is also the eight and one of the seauenth The Pope shall be the eight chaleng place aboue all follow all heathen superstitiō in name staffe apparel of Caesares and Temples setting but a face of Christianity vpon them A plaine description of the Popes comming vp And the tenne hornes which thou sawest are tenne Kings which haue not yet receiued the kingdome but receiue auctoritie as kings one houre with the beast These haue one minde and shall part their power and auctoritie to the Beast These shall make warre with the Lambe and the Lambe shall ouercome them for he is Lord of Lordes and King of Kings and they which are with him are called and chosen and faithfull Steuchus against Valla reckoning the Countries which held of the Pope bringeth them to ten But we must know that ten vsually is a great number about ten fewer or moo These kingdoms vnder the first Caesares were not so parted as when Iulian the Apostata kept at Paris who neuer heard that his Fathers brother the great Emperor Constantine gaue the West to the Pope and if any such matter had bene it could neuer be hid from him But when the Pope of Rome by long begging for S. Peter and so for Monasteries in many Countreies had gotten much wealth and ready good wills in Rome and the West to set vp againe the Empire at Rome He picketh quarrels with the Patriarch of Constantinople for procession of the holy Ghost and Pascha day and supremacy still of old labored to extinguish the Greek tongue and puritie of Latin and weakneth the East Empire that barbarous Gothes reigned whom to ouerthrow Princes gladly ioyne with him and he with them still for great Countreyes that in the end they sweare to helpe him to hold Constantinus donation and to bring the East the Greeke to agree with Rome And after 1000. yea the king of Locustes hath Satans throne in such power that his winges bee chariots and horses to cause kinges to doe what hee will As for Ierusalem warrs to ouerthrow all their kingdomes And in these tymes Satan bare sway that scant any learned were in the West But Monasteries and Collegies were built to fortifie haeresie that Greeke was vnknowen till our age and Ebrew to this houre for skill in the tongue able to hold water and to make a translation of good warrant to all learned iudgements In this blindnesse still some Abates and such fought well by pen and at the last by Martyrs whom the Pope damned and the secular power put to death But in the end Christ by his martyrs roareth like a Lion and seauen thunders tell his anger seauen Angels poure it out and men eate the little booke of Scripture and preach to nations and kinges to bethinke them how they did set vp Rome And hee saith to mee The waters which thou sawest where the Where sitteth are people and folke and nations and tongues The phrase is from Babel Ierem. 51. O thou which sittest vpon many waters and from Dan. 3. These phrases teach the simple how plaine Gods Law is lightning the eyes to call old matters into minde and to teach by old euents howe other matters will fall out Moreouer this open speach of manie waters to meane people and nations would making a commentarie in the margin vpon many places of the old Testament inlighten much Of the Popes fall And the tenne hornes which thou sawest vpon the Beast these shall hate the Whoore and make her desolate and naked and eate her flesh and shall burne her in the fire The same kingdomes which cleaued to the Pope for profite or deceipt when they see all profit gone and how he by terror of forged purgatorie gate Princes great lands wil alter their minde to hate the Pope Many millions in England hate his keies in Canterburies armes as a mockage to the true keies of knowledge so they hate the title grace in Scotland as doth the learned M. Meluin others hate Leuies Linen Cope Priest and Kneeling at receiuing bread which should bee receiued with most holy iudgement not in the Popes gesture others hate the Leprosie of the Apocrypha books the writers of which shew no more faith in Christ then did Flauius Iosephus nor so much Others hate the Popes forme of prayer patched vp for his vse to content the people not to spend that tyme in requiring of them opening of the Bible And many would haue our Bishops caught in praemunire to loose all Others make great sute to haue their lands Now if in England most reuerend right reuerend fathers so learned as they take vpon them to bee bee so hated for remnant of Papistrie what hatred shall open Popery haue where the Pope dareth excommunicate kinges Thal. Ierusal noteth that the King might not be excommunicated nor any chiefe Ruler But be sagely warned to keepe his house for a time and to saue his honor But the high Sacrificer was whipped with as many stripes as any other for his faultes Ierus in Sanedrin But our Pope will bee excommunicating