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A17215	Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come, and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age, and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas Potter	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Potter, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 4070; ESTC S109532	41,593	112

who in the Epistle to the Thessalonians plainly said This thing onely nowe vvitholding vntil he be taken out of the way and than that wicked one shal be reueled Which is asmuch in effect as if he had said This onely that now letteth namely the Empire of Roome shal be taken away and when Tocatochon that is the same impediment shal be taken away then shall the Romain Sea be erected and in the same newe and second seate shal be placed the two horned beast bearing the badge of keyes and armed with two swoords Neither doo I alone expound this place of Paule after this sort Tertulian did euen so expound the same abooue fourtéen hundred yeeres ago who in his book of the resurrection of the flesh VVho shal be taken away saith hee but the Romaine estate vvhose departing scattered in to ten kingdomes shall bring in Antichriste The same meaning also hath Saint Ierome in the eleuenth question to Algasia The Pope a new King and troubbler of kingdomes who manifestly calleth Roome by the name of Babilon the seat of the Beast and of the purple Harlote And thus the Pope this newe king béeing established in his kingdome began euen him self also to create kings and in greatnesse of glory to excel all christian Princes and afterwarde in all kingdomes to make trouble and whurly hurly For Leo the thirde Pope of that name restored or rather raised vp anew the Romain desolate and defaced by the space of thrée hundred yéeres and more reiecting vtterly the Princes of Constantinople For he appointed Charles the French King to be Emperour and yet in such sorte that beside the vain name it litle auailed him For he reserueth Room to him self and the chéefest part of Italy which the Gréeks had possessed and was called by the name of Exarchate But he graunted vnto Charles a parte of Italy som Romain titles whiche was recouered from the Lombards and also the empty name of Emperour Therfore according to the prophecy of Iesus Christe vttered by Iohn in the Apocalips The Image of the beast is seen stirred vp by the false Prophet No dout the same was doon by the marueilous crafty woorkmanship of that olde wily Fox For when all antiquitie looked for Antichriste about th' end of the Romain Empire and when he was about the very same time risen vp and had placed him self in the seat of god he going about as it were to repaire the dcayed Empire brought to passe that he was not knowen of the faithful But they rather béeing deceiued with his suttle practises looked for a certain I knowe not what Antichriste of Babilon whom in their published Bookes they declare should bée yet to come and whom also they earnestly dispraise Yet should they not misse the right mark if they would with all elder times call Roome that Babilon and in steade of time comming to place the time present At the length the stock of Charles and Pipin béeing rooted out so that the Popes had remaining litle or no help at all from the hande of the french Kings as in time past they had abused the power of the Greeks and Lombards from whom afterwarde they flitted vnto the French men so now they créep in to the fauour of the Princes of Germany the better to bring their matters about Wherfore the Othoes with their Armies set vppon Italy with great labour and expences Vnder these are chosen vij men whom they tearme Electors They chuse the Emperour But the Imperiall maiestie and estate is giuen by none but by the Pope For now the Popes of Roome had gotten the Monarchie in to their owne hands wherby also within a while after they pluckt away the Empire from the Henries Frediricks Levvis and many other notable and holy Princes of Germany troubling in the meane season and wasting with swoord and fire all the kingdomes in Christendome so that not without good cause they were called the Children of Perdition I wil now speak nothing of the war that was commonly named the Holy war which was procured moste chéefly by the industrie of the Pope In that warre were ioyned togither all the nations and kingdomes bothe of the east and of the west moreouer also of the North and of the South Wherby folowed so huge a bloodshed that there was neuer at anye time in the worlde any battail fought with more ireful and obstinate mindes and with so great losse of things as this the popes holy battail Moreouer they began to thrust out Kings from their auncient inheritances and kingdomes through treasons murders and in their places to exalte others for their owne pleasure and cōmoditie For which cause bothe Kings and kingdomes fought moste fiercely one against another So they stirred vp the Kings of Hungary the Kings of France the Kings of Germany and the Princes of other nations against those whom they accounted for their enemies So was Cicily and Naples wrested away from the posteritie of th'Emperour Friderick the Sweuian and cruel warre was betwéen the Germans Frenchmen and Spaniards But often times the French Kings were lewdly recompenced at the Popes hands In déed Boniface the viij with wunderfull impudencie béeing bolde to claim the kingdome of Fraunce to be the benefite of the Popes maiestie took away the same from Philip the fair then King of Fraunce and gaue it forsooth to Albert of Awstrey But impossible it is to declare in few woords how sore this new vnhappy kingdom of the pope and moste mischeuous Monarchy hath shaken the whole world It is sufficient to haue at the least wise touched these things that by them as through a lattise windowe yee may sée that there is not or was not at any time any kingdome in all Christendome more troublesome then the Popedome of Roome The histories doo at large prosecute the same Now I return to Daniel let vs therfore consider Daniels most perfect and euident description of this new king and let vs compare the things them selues with him to the intent all men may plainly knowe with out any douting that the prophecy of Daniel is to be expounded and ment of none other then of the bishop of Roome and of his kingdom and that all things touching him are all ready throughly fulfilled Wherby it commeth to passe that wée can looke for none other thing but the last iudgement and therwithall the end af all things For which cause let vs all watch as duty bindeth vs and stir vp all men to a circumspect watchfulnesse The eyes saith Danial of this little horne vvere the eyes of a man For this King was throughly exercised wily deceitful and furnished with all kinde of arts and practises And his retinew excelleth in this facultie all the practicioners of all princes And surely this facultie hath promoted him vnto his kingdome augmented his power couered his wickednes and keepeth him yet in safetie The Prophet addeth further His mouth speaketh great things or presumptuous things Also He shall speak

meruelous and wunderful things against the God of Gods So that the prophet dooth meruail greatly at his impudency But reuerend maisters and déerly belooued brethren if yée desire to heare some of his great presumptuous woords giue eare I wil reherse some of them vnto you out of their owne bookes What thinges are taught in the decrees decretals and gloses touching the Pope of Rome his maiestie and Monarchie The Pope say they is aboue all lawes He may prefer by his owne interpretation equity not writē before the lawe written For he seemeth to haue all lawes in the Cofar of his brest Therefore what soeuer the Pope alloweth or dissaloweth the same ought we also to alow or dissalow Of the iudgement of the Apostolick seat no man ought to iudge neither is it lawful for any man to correct or repeale the sentence of the same namely because of the primacy soueraintie of the Romain church giuen from abooue by the benefite of Christ in blessed Peeter the Apostle The Iudge ought not to bee iudged neither of councel nor of Emperour nor of the whole clergie nor of the Kinges nor of the people The causes of others God would haue to be determined by man But without all question God hath reserued to his own Iudgement the high ruler of this Sea In somuche that if he should cary with him by heapes innumerable people to hel fire yet no mortall man may presume to reprooue his faultes heerin because he is to iudge all men and himself is to be iudged of no man God suffereth not the church of Rome to erre And euery one that obeyeth not the decrees of the Romain Seat is an Heretick And Pope Adrian saith also Wee iudge and ordaine by generall decree that he be detestably accursed and remain alwaies gilty before God as a breaker of the catholike faith whosoeuer shall suffer to be violat●d or beleeue that there ought to be violated in any point the sensure of the decrees either of the kīgs or of the Bishops or of any heerafter the mightie Popes of Roome All the ordinances of the apostolick seat are so to bee esteemed as confirmed by the diuine voice of Peeter him self With lowd voice saith Leo the fourth I feare not to pronounce that whosoeuer shal be found not indifferently to receiue and allow all the decrees of the holy fathers which are intituled among vs by the names of Canons hee is therby approoued such a one as dooth not profitably and effectually to his behoof keepe or beleeue either the Catholick apostolick faith or els the foure holy Gospels For whosoeuer dooth against her which is the mother of faith dooth indeed breake and violate the faith And albeit the Fathers of the Apostolick seate some times bee not good yet they are alwaies presupposed to be good The Pope sinneth whē he cōmitteth adultrye or murder but he may not be accused It were apoint of Sacriledge to dispute of the Popes dooings whose wicked acts are excused as the murders of Sampson the robberies of the Hebrues and the adultery of Iacob Yea also if one of the Clergie doo imbrace a woman let it be said that hee dooth it to blesse her Let no man think that I haue ●ai●ed any of all these things For I haue in effect resited the very woords of the Canonists which I am able to shew in their owne Books if any man shall require it The Pope alone say they hath all the dignities all the power which all the Patriarcks haue had His authoritie is greater then the authoritie of the saintes because whom he confirmeth no man may disable the same He hath bothe the swordes He is not to be called to account by any man no although he be called an heretick Hee alone appealeth from all men to God him self because he is the Vicar or deputie of Christe and hath fulnes of power from God He may spare whom he lust To him alone and to none els it is lawful to take a way from one and giue to another All the whole world is the diocesse of the Pope and the Pope is the ordinary of all men hauing fulnes of power in things spirituall and tēporall For he is Lord of Lords hauing the right of the King of Kings ouer his subiects He is all things and aboue all thinges And it is requisit vnder pain of damnation to be subiect to the Bishop of Roome For God and the Pope haue bothe one cōsistory Also the pope is said to haue an heauēly power and authority and therfore also to chaūge the nature of thinges by turning the substāce of one thing into an other And of nothing he can make something And the sentence that is of no force he can make it of some value Because in those things that he liketh his will standeth for reason And no mā may say vnto him why doost thou thus For he may dispēce with all lawes and of iniurye make Iustice by correcting of lawes and chaunging of them Hetherto haue ye heard the mouth speaking great things worthy truely to be stopped vp with the Turds of the Deuil But thus the Rat is bewrayed by shewing of her self And while he thus did shite foorth these moste filthy Turds in the middest of the Church yet stil he would needs séem to speak on the behalf of the highest whose Vicar he bosteth him self to be on earth VVho as Daniel saieth dooth think that hee may chaunge bothe the times and the lawes In very trueth no man can or ought to chaunge the ordinances of God Therfore Antichriste shall think that he may chaunge them Er wirds whaenem Saint Ierom noteth vpon these wordꝭ of Daniel that Antichriste shall make subiect vnder his power the whole Religion of Christe Wherin we haue séen the Popes to haue doon what they lusted them selues But because all times doo bring foorth faithful Preachers of Christe Enoches and Eliases who doo withstand such abhominations therfore Daniel saith very wel that hee made war against the Saints and preuailed ouer them Of which war because I haue spoken before when I expounded the woords of Christe our Lord there is no néed héer to make repetition again But because the godly vppon whose shoulders this burden and care doth test might demaund how long time this other beast should rage and waste the kingdome of Christe and blaspheme the name of the eternall God Daniel preuenteth this thing and saith The end of the Popes kingdome They shal be deliuered into his hands vntil a time and times and half a time In whiche dark kinde of speaking he séemeth to signifie nothing else but that the Saints must cōstantly abide in that fight whether the time that they must fight in be long or short For no certain determinate time is declared and therfore none must be looked for Moste men haue vnderstanded by a time For a time times and half a time times and half a time one yéere ij

called holy because they are vttered by the holy Ghoste It foloweth therfore in the woords of the Apostle And for that also thou hast knowen the holy Scriptures from a childe The holy fathers in olde time were w●nt to instruct their children out of the authenticall Booke of the lawe of God and of his Prophets Therfore because Timothes mother was a Iew borne albeit his Father was a Gentil he béeing exercised in the scriptures from a childe had accustomed him self therunto And when he heard the Apostle preache the Gospel of Christe hee vnderstoode straightway by the inspiration of the spirit of God and by conferring of the woords of Paule with the woords of the Prophets that the Apostles doctrine touching Christe was taken out of the law and the Prophets and confirmed by the testimonyes of the same And for that cause he knew that he had not learned the faith of Christe out of wandering rumours and vain talks of the people but out of the autenticall Booke that is to say out of the holy Scriptures namely inspired from God as I haue already declared and deuoutly taught and written touching things moste pure of all other by none but by such as were moste holy men All other books that where out of the Canon and common vse of the Church are accounted vnder the name of prophane Books But this is an effectuall reason and such a one as ought throughly to mooue the mindes of all men that we must therfore beléeue the Apostles doctrin and cleue only to the same because it proceded from God and is confirmed by the Authenticall Scriptures béeing moste ancient and moste holy of all other What so euer booke of what so euer Authors thou shalt compare with these Books thou shalt scarcely compare Lead or durt it self with moste fine and shining Golde Moste rightly therfore doo we beléeue that they of all men be moste foolish who either omitting the Apostles doctrin and writings of the Prophets turn aside to the inuentions of man as though there could be taught or contayned in these more absolute more cléere and more certain things then in the other or else vtterly giue no credit at all vnto the Scriptures The taunt which our Lord gaue to the vnbeléeuing disciples is right notable and woorthy of speciall remembrance Luke 24. when he said O ye fooles and slovv of hart to beleeue all those things vvhich the Prophets haue spoken The Scripture is able to make a man wise vnto saluation And now ensueth in the Apostle another reason no lesse euident why we ought only to beleue and stick fast to the Apostles doctrin and to the holy Scriptures Because saith he they are able to make thee wise vnto saluation through faith in christe Iesu The Philosophers haue disputed much of true and false Wisdome True wisdome and haue so entangled them selues with their chattering that they scarcely vnderstād them selues and muche lesse reaped any frute of their disputations Paule dooth simply and truely deriue true Wisdome out of the Scriptures of God and out of the Apostles doctrine For God béeing moste excellent wise dooth very often in his woord call his commaundements and the doctrine set foorth in his lawe and by the Prophets true Wisdome And Moyses béeing elder then those men whom the Gretians call moste ancient namely Homer and Hesiodus and the Battel of Troy and also béeing much more excellent then Hercules Museus Linus Orpheus Mercurius Apollo and the other Gods of the Gentiles or then euen the holy Soothsayers elder also then the wise men of Greece Much more ancient then Plato and Aristotle dooth expresly say in Deuteronomy Deu. 4. You shall keep and doo the commaundements of the Lord for this is your wisdome and vnderstanding in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these ordinances and shall say This people only is wise and hath vnderstanding a famous Nation But the Apostles also at this present dooth shew that saluation is the end and also the frute of true wisdō saying VVhich are able to make thee wise vnto saluation But without the true saluation of man what shall auaile I pray you the empty name and vain title of wisedome Wisdome is the knoweledge of things diuine and humain and moste chéefely of those things by which we may knowe the highest good euen God him self and therwithall to be ioyned togither with Christe The which indeed is true blessednes and the highest felicitie And now I omit to rehearse how that out of this knowledge of God springeth righteousnesse and the looue and exercise of true vertue and of all deeds that are truely good But the Scripture and doctrine of the Apostles abundantly suffiseth to giue this Wisdome and true saluation Therfore it becommeth vs to content our selues with the same Yea it is expedient for vs to bestowe all our life and all our labour vppon those holy books to depend wholly vppon them to direct all our saylings and all our waies by the same as by a moste infallible and moste sure l●de Starre to run and flée wholy vnto them as to a moste safe Sanctuary For Dauid cryeth out and witnesseth saying Blessed is the man that delighteth in the lawe of the Lord Psal 1. and ernestly studieth in the same bothe day and night Luke 11. For the Lord sayeth also in the Gospel Blessed are they that hear the woord of God and keepe the same And in deed this shal be the onely and safest way to escape all perils of al times and all deceits and legerdemain yea euen the moste sharp and cruel of this our last age But because saluation might be hoped for by this heauenly wisdome and also by the reading and bare knoweledge of the holy Scriptures or els by the merits of the vertues whiche we haue learned out of the Scriptures therfore in déed very godly and Apostolikely he addeth and sayth Saluation cōmeth by faith in Christe Through faith in Christe Iesu Therfore saluation is learned out of the Scriptures because it consisteth in Christe alone And Christe who is the bread of life the saluation and fulnes of the Saints dooth onely and alone giue true saluation But true faith béeing instructed by the spirite of God and by the holy Scriptures receiueth the same Saluation therfore is to be attributed vnto faith not to any other thing but yet not to euery faith but only vnto the same that commeth vnto vs by the grace and benefit of the holy spirit the which we lerne out of the Scriptures the true wisdome of God which extendeth and is staied vpon the a●only sonne of God who is our onely moste absolute most assured and eternal righteousnes redemption satisfaction sanctification life and fulnes But The end ●●●ft of the Scriptures as soon as the Apostle hath expounded these things very elegantly and plainly he sheweth what is the end and mark to the which we must direct all