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A02671	A sermon preached at Brocket Hall, before the right vvorshipfull, Sir Iohn Brocket, and other gentlemen there assembled for the trayning of souldiers; Sermon preached at Brocket Hall, before the right worshipfull, Sir John Brocket, and other gentlemen there assembled for the trayning of souldiers.	Harris, Edward, fl.1587-1590.	1588 (1588)	STC 12803; ESTC S119766	20,841	48

worlde Babilon that is the Romaine sea hath taken a great fall therby notwithstanding we see that they which now threaten vs with warre and trouble sticke stil to that whore of Babilon they still worshippe the beast and his Image the Popedome they delight to she we them selues and write themselues Papists they will not bee drawne from the breastes of that harlot which the rest of Christendome abhorreth as a most ●…thie strumpet and as the mother of all Idolatrie and spirituall fornication they delight still more in her painted falshood than in the true and glorious beautie of the spoase of Christ Iesu what remaineth therefore deerely beloued for these popish aduersaries of ours but that they shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God that is to say God will take bengeaunce on them in most terrible maner Yea but shall we be the instruments of the Lordes wrath against them shall they be destroyed by vs will some say Although it skilleth not whether they be destroyed by vs or for vs yet marke what is written Reuel 17. 16. 17. The Kings which first gaue their kingdome to the beast but after ward fell to hate the whore they shal make her desolate and naked They shall deprine her both of pourpe and power and shall leaue her succourlesse and friendlesse in comparison Haue not wee brethren sometimes committed fornication with that Romish harlot but doe wee not now hate her as much as euer we loued her it is then greatly to be hoped that if wee continue to hate her still withall her whorish tromperies and superstitions we shall be the meanes of the Lord to make her vtterly desolate by ouerthrowing these her onely defendants or by helping thereto This comfort and hope to preuasle wee haue by our enemies that threaten to assaile vs let vs see whether any comfort and courage be ministred by reason of those which are meanes to set them on and exhorte them to this assault We doe all of vs knowe deerely beloued how the Embassadours which prouoke and stirre vp these and other Prinres against vs are those rouing Jesuits which sent from the Pope of Rome creepe euery where into Kings courts exhorting both them and their Nobilitie against vs. Hath the Scripture then determined what euent their counsailes shall haue to what ende the Princes which are ruled by them shall come vnto Yea verely looke Reuel 16. and you shall find it set downe there Saint Iohn verse 12. of that chapter hauing vnder the figure of Euphrates dried vp by which meanes the olde Babilon was destroyed prophesied the destruction of the Romish Babilon he saith in the 13. verse that He sawe three vncleane spirites like frogges come out of the mouth of that drakon and out of the mouth of that beast out of the mouth of that false Prophet The office of these frogges be describeth to bee this to gather the Kings of the earth to the battell of that great day of God almightie Meaning that their purpose should be to stirre vp the Kings against the destroyers of their Babilonian tower and to bring them to build it againe if it might be but the Lord should otherwise dispose their labours and himselfe take the cause of his children in hand making battaile with them c. The whole difficultie of this place lyeth in knowing who are ment by these frogges Some vnderstand the Popish schoolemen but that cannot bee First because the Prophet noteth how these frogges should not come foorth till the decay and way made to the ouerthrowe of their Babilon as for the schoolemen they were in the flourishing state of the Romish Monarchie Secondly it was not the office of the Popish schoolemen to go from one countrie to an other from one Prince to an other and to stirre them vp against the people of the Lorde but these properties both of them agree to the Jesuites and to them only For after the decay of the Romish supremacie they were inuented for this entent that they might go from one King and Kingdome to an other stirring them to battaile against the decayers of their Babilon And wee see that they haue not bene sluggish nor negligent in doing this It is then out of all doubt and controversie that the Jesuits are ment by those frogges What then shal be the euent of the labours of these Jesuites They shall gather the Kings to battell against the Lord to aplace saith S. Iohn called in Debrew Har Mageddon the mountaine of Mageddo or Megiddo a place famous by reason of great slaughter there committed meaning that they shall gather them to their owne destruction as the whole text manifestly declareth This serueth greatly for our encouragement deerely beloued The Princes which threaten vs are gathered by these Jesuits not so much against vs as against the Lord himselfe whose word we truely professe therefore if our iniquities and lacke of following our profession doe not make separation betwixt vs and the helping hand of God the ende of those Jesuitish embassadours councell shall come vpon thē that is their gathering together shall bee to their owne destruction for the Lorde will fight against them I will adde but this one reason for the perticuler persons and I beseech you be are with me if I be the longer in it considering it poynteth out the verie time wherein we liue and containeth our aduersaries by name The place is written Reuel 20. where it is sayd that Gog and Magog shall gather themselues to battell and shall compasse the tents of the Saincts about and the beloued citie c. For the more plaine vnderstāding wher of I must needes declare the meaning of that which goeth before in that chapter and also of somewhat in the 12. which hath relation to the 20. In the 12 chapter of the Reuelation after that Christ was ascended verse the 5. and the woman which is the Church deliuered by flight from the Dragon the Dragon went and made warre with the remnant of her seede which keepe the commaundements of GOD and haue the testimonie of Jesus Christ whereby is signified that Sathan should raise persecution against the true Christians which was fulfilled in those tenne persecutions vnder the Romaine Empire which ended Anno domini 367. Here S. Iohn leaueth to speake of the dragon and speaketh no more of him all the 20. chapter where be beginneth at the time whereat he left before As if one should demaunde of S. Iohn what became of the drakon after those persecutions he aunswereth from the end of those persecutions to the terme of a thousand yeeres more the deuill shall be bound up meaning that be should not raise any such open persecution against the Church for the faith it might vee demaunded then what should become of such as were staine in those persecutions S. Iohn aunswereth verse 4. they shall line and raigne with Christ al that thousand yeeres Some might as ke againe what shall bee the state of