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A08559	The coniectures of the ende of the worlde, translated by George Ioye; Conjecturae de ultimis temporibus ac de fini mundi, ex Sacris literis. English	Osiander, Andreas, 1498-1552.; Joye, George, d. 1553.	1548 (1548)	STC 18877; ESTC S120761	47,723	118

to ma ke them sure They be iiij cōiectures for wherfor shuld I not tell them forthe by tale as treasure which nowe orderlye I will reherse THe first coniecture is taken out of Elie the Prophete which the Iewes recite as out of the mouth of God spoken in diuerse places of theyr bokes called Thalmude For they be writen in theyr boke called Abodazara in the i. Cha. in theyr boke called ●aichedrim in y ● laste Cha. and also in other places on thys maner The house or scole of Elie hath affirmed and left it thus writen Elye hath sayd that sixe thousande yeares shal the world stand ●r endure Two thousande voyde of anye lawe written two thousande vnder the lawe writen two thousande vnder the dayes of Messias Hytherto Elias afterward the rabbins added these wordes But for our sin nes which be great and many the fyfte thousande and an halfe be thus past and yet is not Messias comen But yet is this doutles an oracle worthy to be beleued for many causes although it be not expressed in the scriptures For fyrst to begyn therewith this oracle is susteyned with the wordes of Moyses in the Psal. after the Hebrewe rekenynge xc to which Saynt Peter cleaueth in hys ij Epistle iij Cap. saying That a thousand yeares with the Lord be but as one day Also hereof it foloweth That as god cre ated all thynges in vi dayes rested in the. vij Euen so shal he sixe thousand yeares gouerne the world subiect to generacyon and corruptyon and in the seuēth thousand bryng in that euerlasting rest of which Thapostle so plainely speketh Hebre. iiij that he semeth to shewe the selfe same misterye as it were with hys fynger ☞ Besides this it consenteth ryght well with all the other coniectures folowyng and it is constantly celebrated and hyghly estemed of the Iewes as the assewered oracle of the Prophete and yet it fighteth plainly agaynst them selues theyr infidelitie whiche may not be beter confounded then in y t they be cōpelled by theyrowne sainges of Elias to graunt y ● Messias shuld raygne the hole laste two thousande yeares yet contrary to their sayng they still loke for him as thoughe he were not comē For by this clause added That for theyr synnes God differreth Messias birthe theyr selues confesse frely and plainly the time of christes birthe not to hauehad bē yet past in this last age of late but rather then whā theyr bo ke of thalmude was publyshed euen about y e yeare of our Lord. CCCC xxxvi Wherof it is manifelt that thei haue wai ted more then these eleuen hondred yeres for a nother messias then our Lord Christ and al in vayne The cause whereof they falsely impute it to their own sinnes For Christ was in so certain a prediffined tyme promised to vs thē that neyther for theyr sinnes must he haue had ben borne y e later nor yet for theyr good liuig haue comen the soner of y ● which thing more peraduēture shalbe spokē in another pla ce Although some of our religyon wold contend to drawe this litle clause of Chri stes birthe now paste vnto thend of the worlde as thoughe for our synnes there shuld wāte muche of these sixe thousande yeares so that they be not fulfylled But thys sence although it maketh well for our purpose yet the Hebrew wordes receyue it not Wherfor this is the meanig of the oracle That the world frō the time wherof Moses said The earth was emp tye grosse and void dured two thousand before the lawe of circumcision with her adpertinences was geuen to Abrahā of which it is writtē Gen. 26 27. That al nacyons shalbe blessed in thy sead And from the time of delyueraunce of circum cision to Abraham vnto Christes birthe there dured also other two thousand yea res which thyng syth it is proued manyfestly so to haue come to passe for Christ was born suffred about the four thousand yeares frō y e creacion nedes muste the rest of y e oracle also be true y ● frōchrist to the ende of the worlde there shalbe no more peraduenture much lesse then two thousande euē as Elias sayd But in that as certain yeres of the laste two myllenaryes be paste and yet Christ be not come as y e Iewes dreame because of their sinnes as they wold seme to excuse theyr vnbeleue with another synne of vnbelief they be vtterly deceiued For after this oracle Christ is verely comen so y t about fower thousand yeares from the creacyō he was crucifyed rose agayn frō death ascended to heauen and in the ende of the world thence to come to iudge the quicke and deade And where the Iewes fro the creacyon hither to reken CC. yeres lesse then we the cause is that emong manye of theyr errours this is one great ouer-fight For they reken dariū Hystaspis or Longimane vnder whom the tēple was redifyed and Darium that was ouer comen of greate Alexander bothe for one Kynge of the Medys and Persyans to haue reigned but vi yeares whē there canne betwixt them after Ptoleme Cxcij yeares which thyng we shal discusse diligently in our cronicle This coniecture is also holpen by Henoch and Elie hymselfe which bothe were translated quick out of thys miserable lyfe to that blessed immortalitie death neuer tasted For as the sixe fyrst generacyons that is to say Adā Seth Enos Lainam Mahalaleel Iared dyed and the seuenth generac●on euen Hen●ch hym selfe whom Iudas in hys Epistle mētioned not without a cau se to be the seuenth is immortal Euen so thorow these vi millenaries of the world shall death raygne and in the seuenthe shal floresh that blessed immortalite And as the fyrste vi ages of men from Adam to Elie were subiect to death and the seuenth which is Elie obieyned immortali tie For Elias was rapt vp aly●e in the charet of fyer euen so thorow these vimillenaryes shall the mortall lyfe dure And in the beginnyng of the seuenth shal we be taken vp to mete Christ comynge downe to iudgement Adā lyued to Mathusalem Mathusalem to Sem Sem to Iacob Iacob to Amrā Amram to Ahiā the Silonite Ahias to Elias which was trāslated These cōiectures also vsed Ioā picus Meradulane in y e yere of our Lord ●● ccc lxxxvi did put vp this one amōg hys disputable 90. conclusions sayng yf there be any humane coniecture of y ● last tyme we may serche and fynde it by the muste secrete way of Cabbalist the end of the world to come hense of 514. yeres Netheles for right gret causes as we haue sayd to fore we coniecture that the sixt millenarie shall not be fulfylled For as in the lawe the sixt daye was not hole graunted to worke therein to the full end as to the midnyght but a good part therof was anticipated and cut of added to the Sabboth daye euen so shall not the sixt

is there this one thynge whiche principally perteyneth to the shame ignominie misery and confusyon of the abominable popedō That euen by the same Emprours Kynges by whom it was stablyshed in whome he moste trusted whome he most dignifyed magnifyed w t hys flateryng lying titles to be hys defēders of hys faythe his first begotten sonnes most catholyke Kynges moost Christen Kynges c. By y t same Kinges shal he at last be plukt vp by the rotis that w t the most hygh ioy of al y e holy faithful saintes which for y e same fal shall brekeforth into this laude prayse before God and synge Helthe honor glory power be to the Lorde our God for true and iuste are his iudgementes done vpon the greate whore whiche hathe corrupted and polluted the earth w t her vnshāfaced whoredome and hathe auenged the blode of hys seruaūtes delyuered out of her handes These wordes out of Ioan be suf fycient Now let vs also hear Paul writting to the Thessalonians thus Paul we praye you brethern for y e coming of our Lord Iesu Christ and of our gathering together into hym that ye be not sone caryed awaye of your owne opinion neyther be ye troubled by spirit nor by pistle as it wēt forth by vs as though y ● day of Christe were now at hand let noman de ceyue you in any wyse For the Lorde shall not come to the laste iudgement except there come before a departynge or a fallyng awaye Osi. By whiche the prouynces shall fall awaye from the Roma ne imperye and Romane kyngedom be fallen and destroyed Paul And the man of sinne and sonne of perdiciō be vttered reueled Osi. That is y e pope of Rome Paul Whiche is ayenst God is extolled lifted vp aboue y e most highe God aboue whatsoeuer is worshipped as god so that euē in the tēple of God Osi. That is in the chirche as it is said the temple of God is holy whiche temple be you Paul he wil sitte Osian That is he will occupie y e chayer seat pulpit place or office to teache and rule al men Paul Ostēting himself and bosting him as he were God Osi. For his doctors of his canon lawe affirme the pope not to be a pure man but to be taken vp of God into the fulnes of powr Paul Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I tolde ye these things Osi. Euē the same that the Apoca. hath writen Paul And now what yet letteth ye to know it that he be not reueled tyl in his tyme For euē now he worketh his secrete mistie mischief Osian For the bishops of Rhome with their carnal clerkis bishops cardinals for very fewe of thē were good euē then fro the tyme of the Apostles aspired priuely vnto the dominacion and lordeship whereby by succession of tyme thei haue oppressed the hole vniuersall chirche Reade the Epistle of Zepherin and of Pontiane and suche lyke annexed to the bokis of the recognicions of Clement and thou shalt see howe erely and spedily by what craft and subtiltye thei begane to worke this their secrete mistie mysteryes But yet then dyrst they not openly brekeforth and in very dede chaleng to themselues the dominacyō so lōg as the monarchy of the Cesars floryshed at Rome Paul Onely so y t he that nowe holdeth let hym holde fast ty● he be takē out of the seat Osi. The monarchie of y e Cesars and Emperours which rule ouer all sayth he let them stande holde fast theyr kyngdome tyll the Empyre be trās lated fro Rome to Constantinople or vn tyll the former dominacyon of the citye of Rome be deuolued into the Popis pri macie which was when they fayned thē selues to haue had suche a ryche gyfte of Peters patrimonie by the legacie of Cōstantyne Themperour Paule And then shall that wicked Antichrist be disclosed Osi. And euen then dyd the aight heade the Pope steke forthe hys hornes put out hys head as it is to fore sayde in the Apocal. Paul Whome the Lorde shall slay with the breath of hys mouth Osi. That is with the power of hys worde which after the xxx iubilei of the church openly ayen and with a mightye spirite shalbe preached ▪ Paul And he shall destroye hym with the brightnes of hys co myng Osi. For as the gray morning cometh before the sonne euen so shal y ● sprirer preachyng of the pure Gospell come before the commyng of oure Lorde Iesu Christ the sunne of ryghtuousnes For Christ sayd This Gospell of my kyngedom that Christ is our Kynge and not y t Pope shalbe preached in the vniuersall worlde into a testimonye for al nacyons and then shal the ende come For this cleare preachynge of the Gospell shall destroye the dominacyon of the Pope as it hathe now begune So be it For hys dominacyon shal not dure vnto Christes comyng or els how shuld it be fulfilled that at Ioan sayth of the x. Kynges that they shall leaue this beast desolate naked her flesh eaten vp and at last burne here vp God so putting it into theyr her tis Pau. Whose coming is w t the worke of Satan in great power with lying signes and fayned myracles with a migh ty deceyt with wyked stronge illusyons to thē y t be forlorne Osi. This is y e most holy sanctitie of our most holy prelate y ● Pope Pau. And for y t thei haue not recei ued the loue of the trouth therby to be saued therfor shal god send thē y e operaciō of errour to beleue lyes ▪ that thei al be dampned y t haue not beleued the trowth but haue consented to wykednes These things hath Paul prophecied of the last dominacion and fall of Rome and of hir popedom Wherfore ye peple of Christ gete ye out spedily farre from hir lest ye be partakers of hir wykednes be plaged also with the beast and hir vnclene clergye as the Aungel cryeth in the Apoca vnto vs. And as for the Emprour of Rome albeit he be yet so called yet posse deth he not Rome nether dare he once loke thitherwarde without the popis con sent which is so come to passe by the extreme wykednes and execrable subtiltie of the serpent and his vicar the pope of Rome for this same cause that if any man shuld be so bolde as to once opē his mouth to laye any of these oracles prophecies ayenst the execrable wikednes intolerable Romish dominaciō ouer our faith he shuld apere to obiecte it ayenst the Emprours maiestie because he bereth ●til the name of the dominacion of Rome and is no lorde therof But the thing it self declareth clerely the euident difference enoughe betwixt the Emperours dominacyon ouer Rome and the Popis albeit they be bothe sayd to be y e one of Rome Emperour the tother of Rome the Pope So