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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

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

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

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 Chap. 17. verse 5 And in her forehe●d was a name written a mysterie great Babylon the mother of whoredome and abhomination of the earth 6 And I saw the woman dronken with the blood of the Saintes and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus LONDON ❧ Printed by Roger Ward dwelling vpon Lambard hil neere vnto olde Fish-street 1589. ¶ TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND noble Earls the Earls of Huntington and Warwicke Grace Peace felicitie in the Lord Iesus RIght Honorable the warres rumors of warres breach of brotherly loue manifolde troubles and dissention growing euerie where through Europe which is the part of the worlde professing Christ argue the dissolution of all things premonished by our Lord not to bee farre hence distant It behooueth therfore all good Christians considering the time to be circumspect to watch and pray accordingly as vve are commanded by our Sauiour in these words Vigilate Orate againe Estote prudentes sicut Serpentes Be ye wise as Serpents And we are deeplie to consider from whence this venome and poyson floweth which drunk and sucked in by the space of many years passed hath transformed and as it were charmed the braines and sences of many men that according to the words of the Prophet seeing they see not hearing they heare not and vnderstāding they vnderstand not in matter concerning principally the saluation of their soules The remedie of which mortall maladie consisteth in this to knowe and search out the cause and that knowen to remooue the same and then to apply medicine for curing of it In all which pointes Right Honorable I shew briefly in this small treatise following the doctrine of S. Peter the Apostle and the best learned and most approoued Authours opinions consenting deliuered from age to age which open the sinfull man and misterie of iniquity the onely cause of troubles and not yet well perceiued neither vnderstanded of the greater sort Committing these my labours to your Honors tuition and protection whose zeale to true and sincere Religion attentiue eare giuen alwaies to the Preaching of Gods worde and laudable life concurring as sure testimonie well knowen to the world makes me bolde to dedicate vnto your LL. this Pamphlet hoping that the booke beeing your own as it is and therefore the more to be desired to be read and to come into many mens hands whome all in generall for your singular vertues do reuerence honour and loue may profite doo good and perchance conuert not a few from their obstinate opinion in cleauing to the woorishe Babilonicall Church wherein rather of selfe-wil than of any grounded reason they dwell and persist And on the contrarie side confirme and establish the others whose hearts alreadie conducted by the holy spirite see the light of Gods truth and ensue it And herein withall humblenes I make manifest my conscience according to the small talent which vnto me is lent hope that my dutie obedience and good vvill to her Maiestie Lords of her Counsell and my Countrey may in the sequel sufficiently appeare Praying God to send both your Lordships long life with encrease of honour Your Lordships most humble Christoph. O. The Fountaine and VVelspring of all Variance Sedition and deadlie hate throughout Christiandome MEdicines be applied to the bodie sicke and diseased but exhortations are vsed to giue courage and more stomacke to the forwarde stout and industrious that the spark of vertue alreadie ingenerated in them may grow to a bigger flame and substance with increase or els to stir vp raise and plucke forward the mind of man when it languisheth I therefore of the lowest sort of all among the learned purposing to vtter my conscience and knowledge by way of exhortation my most bounden dutie first towardes the Quéenes Maiestie and ne●t to the people of my natiue soile and Country of England déeply considered and moouing me thereto doo earnestly pray and instantly require al true English men of euery degrée as they tender y ● safty of their soules and bodies to giue attentiue eare and wel to marke the whole discourse of this my purposed treatise the rather because it is of waight of most great importance touching the weale publique in this litle Isle of England and preseruation of our most royall and gratious Quéene Elizabeth and next of vs all English ingenerall our countrie wherein we are bred and borne our wifes children kinsfoolkes and posteritie whereof we should haue a most cheefe and especiall care regard especially and aboue all of religion which concerneth our soules to liue here and euer in the world to come In al which by God his grace I intend to vse perspicuity to be as briefe as the vrgent occasiō of so necessary a cause shal suffer me yet pretermitting many things which otherwise should haue bene touched to auoid tediousnes and prolixitie in matter now apparant already and many yéeres alredy past made manifest vnto y ● whole world Cōsider O noble Eugland that thou hast enimes that hate thée deadly that go about as much as in them is to work thy destruction Consider how the professors of the word of God els wher in Europe far hence and those that dwell next almost vnto vs be manaced vexed and persecuted with all rigor and crueltie from time to time afflicted euen to death the malice whereof procéedeth of causes of long time afore growen hereafter specified and fore warned in holie Scriptures Ponder déeply and call to minde with your selues Nos incidimus in tempora periculosa We are fallen into the perillous time Nos sumus in quos fines Seculorum deuenerūt We be those vpon whom the ends of the world be come The tokens thereof be plaine and manifest told afore by our Sauiour and Lord Iesus Christ which be these Nation shall rise against nation and Realme against Realme then shall they put you to trouble and shall kil you and yee shall be hated of all Nations for my names sake And then shall many be offended and shal betray one another c. So the time is certaine that the day of iudgment is at hand But of the day and hower saith Christ knoweth no man no not the Angels of heauen but my father onely The Apostle S. Paule in his 2 Chap. of his Epistle of the Thessalomans teaching when the day of Christ shall be at hande thus saieth Let no man deceiue you by any meanes For the Lord shall not come except their come a departing first and that the sinfull man be opened 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 〈…〉