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A01327	A sermon preached at Hampton Court on Sonday being the 12. day of Nouember, in the yeare of our Lord. 1570. VVherein is plainly proued Babylon to be Rome, both by Scriptures and doctors. Preached by VVilliam Fulke Bacheler of Diuinity, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge.	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.	1571 (1571)	STC 11450; ESTC S102774	26,607	59

but that this persuasion was so déepely grauen in hys minde that Babylon is Rome that neither in earnest noriest he could forget it but is alwaies harping vpon it as though he thought scorne to call Rome by any other name then that he had learned in the scriptures to be Babylon the purple Harlot For in lyke maner writing to Marcella a vertuous Gentlewoman of Rome whom he allured to forsake Rome to dwell nere vnto him in Bethlehem one especial reasō that he vseth to persuade her is this That as Bethlehē whether he wold haue her to repaire is situate in the holy land the place cōsecrated to the birth of Christ So Rome where shee desired to remaine was the Babylonical harlot according to the Reuelation of s. Iohn appointed for the birth of Antichrist which ther shuld arise exercise tyranny from thence should deceiue that whole world with his wicked wyles But who so wil reade the workes of Ierome may finde yet more places in which he is bold to cal Rome Babylon that very Sée of Antichrist Whereby it is apparant that it is no new or straunge matter to séeke Antichrist at Rome when such old Doctors of the church so cōmonly in Commentaries Epistles and other writings do teach vs that Rome is Babylon the scripture affirmeth that Babylon is the Sée of Antichrist But let vs leaue s. Ierome and sée what other say of the same matter Saint Ambrose writing a Cōmentary vpon the Reuelation of s. Iohn is of the same iudgement Of the authority of the woorke I wyll moue no question at this time seing it is commended to vs by Cuthbert Tonstal late bishop of Duresme who found it in an old Library first set it in print vnder the name of that great s. Ambrose and is willing that men should so thinke of it It is good authority I say against the Papists being commended by so Catholike a Prelate because they are woont to receiue whatsoeuer commeth vnder the name of an old Doctor though it be neuer so vnlyke his writing and cry out vpon vs for reiecting at our pleasure the workes of auncient Doctors that make against our doctrine as though we reiected any without cause or they refused none for any cause wheras Pighius their great Patron blusheth not to reiect the report of two general Counsels the fift sixt of Cōstantinople which are cōmended to vs by publike faith of that church of Constantinople because in the one Pope Honorius is condemned accursed for an heretike in neither of both the Popes Legats could haue the highest place according to that request of their ambicious Maister But as for this Ambrose if he wer not Ambrose of Millain yet is it apparant by the style that he was some auncient writer of the Latin church he throughout this prophecy interpreteth Babylon to be Rome Antichrist to be sought no where but at Rome Primasius also a very auncient writer who likewise cōmenteth vpon the Apocalips expoūdeth these prophecies of Antichrist to be fulfilled in that Romane empire of the city of Rome S. Augustine in his worke De Ciuitate Dei not once or twise but oftentimes is bold to cal Rome Babylon Babylon Rome as in his 16. booke and 17. chapter he calleth Rome an other Babylon in the West And in his 18. booke 2. chapter he calleth Babylon of Chaldea the first Rome Rome of Italy the second Babylon willing men to consider that in the beginning of the city of God which was the church in Abrahams time the first Rome that was Easterne Babylon her enemy was builded in Chaldea and about the same time that the first Babylon was destroyed least the city of God should lack her enemy the second Babylon which is Rome in Italy was erected It is a straunge matter that the same city which is that professed enemy of the city of God should be the mother of al religion the very city of God it selfs O Augustin thou wast not wel aduised to make the city of Rome enemy to the city of God that Rome should be the same to the church of God that Babilon of old was at Ierusalem The same Augustine in the 22. chap. of the 18. booke calleth Rome an other Babilon daughter of the first Babilon And in the 27. chap. he calleth Rome Western Babylon By these other testimonies of old● writers that might be brought but for tediousnes I suppose it is sufficiently proued that Babylon in this my text spoken of is Rome and that we should not seeke Antichrist to proceede from any other place then from Rome But what neede I trouble my selfe to seeke further testimonial for cōfirmation of this matter that Babylon is Rome then of the Papistes them selues For it is the common catholike opinion of all Papists that s. Peter in his Epistle where he sendeth salutacions frō the Church gathered in Babilon by Babilon vnderstandeth Rome And they learne it of Ieronime which in the life of s. Marke doth so expound it So gréedy they are to finde a place in Scripture where Peter should be said to haue bene at Rome that they are content to acknowledge Babylon in the scripture to be vnderstood of Rome And thus I haue performed I trust sufficiently that which I tooke in hand to proue both by the autority of holy scripture in plaine manifest textes by consent of many auncient writers yea by the confession of the Papists them selues that Babylon in the scripture is taken for Rome And thus much for the first part in which because I haue bene ouer long I wyl be shorter in that which remayneth In the second part I promised to declare how Babilon which is Rome is fallen according to the prophecy of this Angell She is fallen saith the Angel she is fallen He repeateth y woord of falling for two causes First to declare the certainty of her decay that howsoeuer she seemed to floorish and triumph as though she should neuer haue fallē or come to ruine yet God for her wickednes most righteously for the comfort of his church most mercifully had decréeed vndoubtedly that she should fall when that time was once come which in his most wise well ordered councel was appointed for her destruction Secondly he repeateth twise that she is fallen to shew that she should haue an vnrecouerable fall she should not fall as other cities which haue risen again but she should fal without al hope of recouery neuer to be restored again Therfore in the 18. chap. a mighty Angel taketh vp a great mylstone throweth it into the sea saying VVith such violence s●al Babilon that great city be throwne downe neuer be sene any more So that as it is impossible for a great milstone throwne with great forc● by a mighty Angel into the bottom of the sea to rise vp againe swym aboue the water so impossible is it that