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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

y at the first I gaue warning that I did not vnderstand Rome for the topography of Rome that is so much ground onely as is compassed within the walles of that city but for the regimēt gouernance prerogatiue that is claymed by reason of that city or that monarchie wherof Rome is the head and then I shall easely proue that Christ was crucified at Rome For by whom was he condemned Was it not by Pilate the Deputy or Liefetenant of the Romane Empire For what cause or crime was he adiudged to dye Was it not for treason pretended to be cōmitted against the Romane Empyre With what kinde of Execution was he put to death Was it not such as was vsuall by the lawes of the Romanes for such haynous offences as were vniustly layd to hys charge Finally was not the place wherein he suffered within the circute of the Romane Empyre May I not then iustly affirme the he was crucified at Rome when by the Romane Iudge he was condemned for a crime against the Romane state and executed by a kinde of death appointed by the Romane lawes in a place of the Romane dominion As for the Iewes they had at that time no autority to put any man to death as they confesse them selues when Pilate had them take him and iudge him according to their owne lawe meaning they should decrée some light punishment against him they aunswered It is not lawfull for vs to put any man to death he hath deserued to dye As touching the cause although they accused him of blasphemy in that he made himselfe the sonne of God yet could he not be condemned for that because Pilate would admit no accusation but such as contayned a crime agaynst the Romane lawes And as for the death of the crosse it is manifest to be proper to the Romanes for the Iewes would haue stoned him if they might haue condemned him for blasphemy according to the law of Moses And that the Angel in the place by no meanes can vnderstād Ierusalem it is manifest by these reasons First that he calleth it that great city which term could neuer be spokē of Ierusalem also he calleth it Sodoma and Aegiptus which was the sea of the monstrous beast Antichrist which in other places is often called Babylon wheras no man euer did imagine that Ierusalem should be called Sodoma Aegipt or Babilō Adde hereunto that Ierusalem the place where Christ suffred was vtterly destroied in S. Iohns time whereby it is euident that by thys great City spiritually called Babilon Sodoma and Aegiptus is ment none other but the Romane Empyre which crucified the head and should also bring forth the monstrous beast Antichrist which should torment and afflict the members which began with murther of the Lorde and should continue till it were destroyed in murthering of the seruantes And by thys playne text which cānot be wrested to any other sence this great City Babilon where Christ was crucified is proued to be Rome and the aucthority rule and power of the Romane City The second plaine and euident proofe which I will vse at thys tyme shall be taken out of the 13. chapter of this Reuelation where that euil shapen beast is described which is the head of the persecuting malignant church hauing vij heads ten hornes and is the same which afterwarde in the. 17. chapter beareth the great whore Babilon the mother of all abominations of the earth Who so therfore that wil compare these things that are written in this booke concerning the disposition of that monstrous beast wyth those thinges that the Prophet Daniel in the. 7. chapter of his prophecy describeth of the ●4 beastes and specially of the fourth which all men confesse to be the Romane Empire except ●e be to much blynded with frowardnes per●ers affection he must neede acknowledge that ●his beast which Iohn painteth out is the same ●hat Daniel setteth out which contayning in it ●he cruelty of the Leoparde the Beare and the Lyon which were the former Monarchies is vnlyke to them all therfore is the fourth Empire which all the world acknowledgeth to be the Monarchy of Rome What should I speake of the nūber of the hornes equal in both generally of all other partes of their discription which is set forth so like almost with the same words both of the one of the other that it were mere madnes to imagine that this beast which Iohn describeth should be any other then that Daniell had so long before portraited Then if the Beast in Daniels discription doth signifye the fourth kingdome as the Angell expoundeth it which no man will deny to be the Romane Monarchie The same monstrous Beast beyng here painted out in this Reuelation wyth the same shape coulors and conditions must néeds signify the Romane Empire and so Babylon by this reason also is proued to be Rome The third argument or proofe is taken out of the. 17. chapter of this Reuelation the. 9. verse Wher the Angell expounding to S. Iohn the mistery of the beast with seuen heads declareth in very plaine words that the seuen heades doo signify seuen hyls wheron the woman sitteth Now seing it is euident that the woman signifieth a great City we must see where we can finde a great City builded vpon seuen hyls and that by the interpretacion of the Angell is Babylon the See of Antichrist And if we séeke throughout the whole world wher shal we finde a great City builded vpon seuen hyls but that great City in Italy Which al writers Poets Historiers Cosmographers with one cōsent do confesse to be Rome which is builded vpon vij hils whose names are these Palatinus Capitolinus Auētinus Exquilinus Viminalis Quirinalis and Caelius This is so plain a notacion of Rome to be Babylon builded on seuen hyls that the Angel could not more plainly haue expressed Rome though he had named her Nay this is a more euident and certaine description of Rome to be the See of Antichrist then if in plain words he had said Babylon is Rome For it might be that some other City then that here was ment might haue the name of Rome but no other Citye could haue this notacion to bée builded on seuen hyls For Constantinopolis was afterward called new Rome but Constātinopolis was not builded vpon seuen hyls like vnto old Rome Therfore this is a plain manifest circumlocution of Rome which with no reason can receiue any other exposition For what Boy going to the Grāmer schoole and reading in Virgils Georgikees thys verse Septem quae vna sibi muro circundedit arces That City saith Virgil which hath compassed seuen hyls within her wall what Boy I say in the Grammer schoole doth not vnderstand this to be ment of the City of Rome although the Poet in that place doth not once name Rome With what face therfore wyll any man deny that the Angel here meaneth any other City by this Periphrasis

And being referred vnto him all the rest hath a very ap● exposition of the city of Rome the dominions therof hath had seuen principal states or formes of regiment The first state of Kings the secō● of Consuls the third of Decemuiri the fourt● of Dictatores the fift of Triumuiri the sixt o● Caesars or Emperors the seuenth of Popes Now fiue of these states or formes of regimen● were fallen and abolished in s. Iohns time th● sixt which was the Emperors in his time wa● in place and the seuenth which is the Popes was not yet come which was the very beast i●selfe the Romane Empire reuiued and raise vp from the bottomles pit of hel into the vsurped tyranny of the Pope And this is that Beas● that somtimes was of wonderful great powe● and glory in the daies of Augustus and some other of his successors but then much decayed as if it had not bene although in some sorte it wer but should be restored in the vsurped autority of the Pope that claimeth al the world to be his Diocesse Which power commeth not from God but from the Prince of pride out of the bottomles pyt But chiefly let vs consider that the beast although he be but one yet in the accompt he standeth for two for he is that seuenth head the sight also And remember that the Pope challengeth double authority namely the power of both swordes the spiritual the temporal So that in this exposition althings agrée most aptly Againe it is manifest in the scriptures that Antichrist should deceiue the world with false doctrine vnder pretence coullor of true religion therfore so often times the scripture warneth men that they be not seduced by him which were needeles if any open professed enemy of Christ should be that Antichrist For there is no likelyhood that an heathen man a Iew or a Turke shuld deceiue any multitude of true Christiās but he that vnder the pretence of the name of Christ seeketh most of all to deface the honor of Christ he is a subtil aduersary the very spirit of Antichrist as S. Iohn also in hys Epistle doth testify For in the second chap. speaking of those Antichristes which were the forerunners of that great Antichrist be sheweth that they went out from the church in the fourth chap. he calleth them false Prophets and teacheth them how to know that spirit of Antichrist He that denieth IESVS to be Christ he that denieth that IESVS Christ is come in the flesh That is he that derogateth anye thing from the honor of Iesus to be Christ and in his flesh to haue performed the ful worke of mans redemption as that Pope doth most blasphemously he is Antichrist and who so teacheth anye such doctrine speaketh by that spirit of Antichrist For the testimony of IESVS is the spirit of prophecy Seing therfore that S. Iohn accompteth Antichrist for one that is gone from the Church for a false Prophet it is cleare that Antichrist is no heathen Emperor which was neuer of the Church nor anye false Prophet that tooke vpon him to teach in the church The same may be said of Mahomet who neuer professed him selfe to be a Christian nor yet a Prophet in the Church of C●rist pretending to vphold the religion of Christ but an open enemy or the Gospell and of our Sauiour Christ altogether without the Church By these arguments I doubt not but all men may see that see●ng Babylo● is Rome and that the head of Babylon is Antichrist that he cannot be any of the heathen Emperors but euen the Pope him selfe And therfore I conclude according to my text that Rome is fallen if Babylon by fallen Now remaineth the last part that I promised to entreate of namely the cause of Gods so seuere iudgemēt against Babylon that he hath decreeed her vtter ouerthrow and destruction which the Angel comprehēdeth in these words Because she hath made al Nations dronke with the wyne of the fury of her fornication That is She hath deceiued all the world wyth false doctrine which he compareth vnto two kindes of vices wherby men are so deceiued that they léese al right iudgement Dronkennes and Fornication For as these two vices do allure men to commit them by coueting of vayne de●ectacion that is in them euen so Babylon hath enticed all men lyke an other Circe to drinke of the cup of her delectable errors and to commit most filthy fornication with her idolatrous religion For of all other religions to the carnall man none is so pleasant as Popery is in which be so many kindes of satisfaction to be obtayned both in this life after men be dead that there is no greater security of an hipocri●e to sleepe in then in the faire promises of Poꝑerye And that causeth so many willingly to embrace it so loth to depart from it because they wold styll continue without checke of true doctrine which calleth men to repentaunce and amendment of lyfe or els threateneth eternal damnation For howsoeuer it pleaseth them to charge the doctrine of the Gospell with cause of security it may easely be sene by comparison of it with the doctrine of Popery whether be cause of security that which teacheth no satisfaction but one for them that be penitent in this lyfe or theirs that hath so many waies to merite rewardes to satisfy for synnes not onely while men lyue in the world but also for them that are already gone out of it And ther is no wine so swéete to the taste of a carnall man as that which maketh hym droonke with opinion of his own righteousnes as it is the nature of strong wyne to make very Cowardes thynke them selues to be valiant Champions and such is the cup of popish doctrine contayning merites and satisfactions Agayne when we consider that Antichrist should make men droonke wyth hys erroneous doctrine we maruel lesse how men could be so blinded and infatuate that they could not sée and perceiue such grosse errours and manifest vntruthes as are in Popery For as they that are ouercome with the strength of wyne haue lost the right vse both of their wyt and of their sences euen so they that are droonke with the hereticall doctrine of Papistry do grope in the cleare light of the Sunne and sée not their own deformity though all the world beside cry out of them In like maner they that be ouercome with the vnhonest loue of Harlots haue theyr reason so imprisoned in corrupt affection and foolish fantasy that they are at libertye neither to see their own folly nor admit any wyse and godly counsel So it fareth with those that the Babylonicall Circe the church of Rome hath al●ured by her enchauntments to commit spiritual fornication with her they cannot abide to heare the voice of them that calleth them out of that damnable estate so highly they please them selues in their own misery as if they were in case of