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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

¶ 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 APOCALIPS 14. ¶ She is fallen she is fallen euen Babylon that great Citie for of the wyne of the furie of her fornication she hath made all nations to drinke Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely ❧ TO THE RIGHT honorable vertuous lord Ambrose Dudley Earle of Varwike Maister of the Queenes Maiesties Ordinance and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter WHERE as it pleased your Honor to requyre a copy of my Sermon which I preached last in your Honors hearing so far as my memory would serue me to repeate it I thought it my dutie to satisfie your godly desire Not that I count it worthye of longer remembraunce in respect of any great skyl or diligence of myne shewed therein althoughe in regard of the matter I would it myght neuer be forgotten but because I acknowledge my selfe so much bound to your Honor that whersoeuer I may perceiue that my poore seruice may be accepted of the same I would in no wyse be slacke to offer it much lesse refuse to yelde it when it pleaseth your Lordship so earnestly to require it In which request albeit the singuler good wyll that your Honour beareth toward me moueth you to think better o● my simple doinges then they deserue in deede Yet your godlye zeale to the glorye of GOD and the detestation of Papistrie may appeare to all men as it is throughly knowen to those that daylye haue experience of your honorable disposition VVherfore I addressed my selfe to put in writyng that which before I had vttered in speaking obseruyng as neare as I could not onelye the substance of matter but also the phrase of wordes which I then vsed as by reading your Honor can best iudge VVhich after I had sent to a friend of myne in London to be written out at my next repayre to the Citie I found that it was already committed to a Printer who had vndertaken to set it out in prynt For which cause I thought good to set this Preface before it most humbly beseeching your Honor to take it in good part and for the delay of tyme to hold me excused seing it shall come otherwyse into your Lordships handes then of me at the first was purposed The Lord of Lords encrease al honorable godly vertues in your Lordship with prosperitie in this life to his diuine pleasure after the course of this time ended perpetuall ioy and felicitie Your Honors to commaund alwaies in the Lord William Fulke A sermon preached at hampton Court the. 12. of Nouember 1570. THat I may speake to the glory of God and the edifiyng of the Congregatiō here gathered in his name I shall desire you all right honorable worshipfull and welbeloued in our sauiour Christ to ioyne with me in faithfull and earnest prayer And in this praier c. It is written in the 14. chapter of the Reuelation of s. Iohn the 8. verse She is fallen she is fallen euen Babylon that great City for of the wyne of the fury of her fornication she hath in 〈◊〉 all nations to drinke The holy Euangeli●● s. Luke right honorable welbeloued in Christ in the. 4. chapter of his Gospel recordeth that on a time when our sauiour came into the Sinagoge at Nazareth to rede as his custome was ther was deliuered to him a booke containing the Prophecy of the Prophet Esay Which after he had opened at the first be found the place wher it was written in these words The spirite of the Lord is vpon me because he hath annoynted me that I should preach the Gospell to the poore he hath sent me that I should heale the broken in hart that I should preach deliuerance to the Captiues and sight to the blinde that I should set at liberty them that are brused to preach the acceptable yeare of the Lord. Then after he had closed the booke and deliuered it to the Minister he sat downe to preach and the eyes of all them that wer in the Congregation wer bent vpon him Then he opened his mouth spake vnto thē these words This dai is this scripture fulfilled in your eares and they all gaue him testimony that it was so In like maner may I say concerning this place of scripture which I haue read vnto you In your eyes and eares is this scripture this day fulfilled And I pray God you may all likewise beare witnes with me that it is so The last time that I spake in this auditory I entreated of the floorishing prosperous 〈◊〉 of Ierusalem which is the Church of 〈◊〉 forth in the. 122. Psalme and therfore good order now requireth that I shuld speake of the d●cay ouerthrow of the enemy of Ierusalem which is Babylon the See church of Antichrist And for that purpose principally haue I chosen this text of scripture to speake of That by the one we might bee enflamed with loue of the true church of Christ by the other be moued to the hatred of that false church of Antichrist Now this text of scripture She is fallen she is fallen euen Babylon that great City for of the wine of the fury of her fornication she hath geuen all Nations to drinke offereth me thrée speciall things to be considered First what Babylon is secondly what is become of her and thirdly what is the cause of her heauy decay In the first part by the assistance of God and your honorable pacience I shal plainly shew proue that Babylon is Rome In the secend the Babylon or Rome by the iust iudgemēt of God is fallen yea she is fallen In the last the reason of this so sharpe sentence of God against her because she hath deceiued al the world with dronkēnes and whoredome Within the c●mpasse of these thrée propositions I will kéepe my selfe in all my discourse Sauing that by your fauour forasmuch as this is the myddle voyce of thrée Angels that speake in this chapter for 〈◊〉 I wil vse the voyce of the first Angel of whose preaching this my text is a cōsequent an● in the stéede of a conclusion I wil touch the voyce of the third Angel which is a consequent of this the myddle Angels voyce Concerning the Preface it shal be this in few words After that s. Iohn had described the preseruation vnity of the church of god in Christ their head euen in the midst of the fury of Antichrist vnder the figure of the Lambe standing on moūt Syon with 144000. of his chast worshippers Next he declareth that God would bring the same againe into the sight of the world by preaching of the Gospel and the ouerthrow of the kingdome of Antichrist Wherefore he sendeth an Angell flying in

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