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B11837	A hundred sermons vpo[n] the Apocalips of Iesu Christe reueiled in dede by thangell of the Lorde: but seen or receyued and written by thapostle and Eua[n]gelist. S. Iohn: compiled by the famous and godly learned man, Henry Bullinger, chief pastor of the congregation of Zuryk. Newly set forth and allowed, according to the order appoynted in the Quenes maiesties, iniuntions. Thargument, wurthines, commoditie, and vse of this worke, thou shalt fynd in the preface: after which thou hast a most exact table to leade thee into all the princypall matters conteyned therin.; In Apocalypsim Jesu Christi. English	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Daus, John.	1561 (1561)	STC 4061; ESTC S107053	618,678	759

was cruelly rent in peaces and troden vnder foote And that for no other cause then for that she woulde not worship the beaste that is that she wold not receyue the superstions and heathen rites of the Romane Empire I meane the false Gods and idolatrie of the Heathen And for that she worshipped one God alone through Chryst and cleaued to him seruid him after his Gospell Here therfore are excepted Constance Constantine Gracian Theodose and other godly and christen princes or Emperours which be not rekened vnder the deuelish beast For an Empire or kingdom of it selfe as S Paule sayeth is of God wherfore yf good men rule and geue not ouer themselues to be ruled of the Deuill they shall verely appertaine to the body of holy church and not to the abominable bodi of the beast In the meane time whilest that olde Rome wold not seriously repēt and tourne to Chryst forsaking theyr false gods and superstitions at the last it was condemned of Chryst by the law of like penaltie For with the same measure that the Romanes met to other nations with the selfe same did other nations measure agayne to Rome Wherfore the Persians Hunnes Frenchemē Alemans west Gothians Vādalles and East Gothians invaded thempire rent the whole Empire in pieces And at the last beseged Rome it self brake in to it toke it spoyled sacked burnt destroyed it And so at the length the Lord Iesus by iust iudgement reuenged the bloud of his seruauntes And Rome lay and yet lyeth in ruine and shall neuer be repared to the aūcient beautie And it behoueth the ruine of it to remayne in token of the veritie and reuengment of Christ Iesus that euen therof al godly may gather the God wyll be most true in thother promeses of Christ also as yet not fulfilled Moreouer the Romane Empire westward laye neglecte without an Emperoure aboue thre hundreth and twentie yeares from Augustulus whom Odacer a Germane oppressed til Charles the great king of Fraunce And in these times of desolation that is of thempire oppressed and extinguished in the west The Bisshop of Rome began by little and little to gather to him no smal power and possessions by the authorytie which he toke vpō him vnder the pretence of Chryst and the Apostles Peter and Paule tyll such time as he began to reygne also The falle of tholde Empire is the rysyng of a new But tholde Popes his predecessours wer not Princes in the Churche ruling vnder pretence of Religion but were ministers of the churche simple pastours and poore And Saint Paule prophecied that of the ruine of the Empire and destruction of the citie Antichrist shulde spryng vp For he sayd only this holdyng now or only thys let that now deteyneth tyll it come to passe that it be taken a waye and then shall that wicked be reuayled He signifye● therfore that Antichrist shuld not reygne com nor appere before tha● olde Romane empire were taken away For this being ouerthrowē that the same See of Rome shulde be erected For Tertullian who lyued a thousand and three huddreth yeres past in hys boke of the resurrection of the fleshe Who sayeth he shall be taken out of the way but the state of Rome whose departing being dispersed in to ten kings shall bryng in Antichrist And. S. Hierom in the .xi. question to Algasia The Romane Empire sayth he which now possesseth al natyons depart and shal be taken away and then shal Antichrist come the welspryng of iniquitie The same authours by Babylon in this boke of S. Iohn The two horned beast vnderstand Roome And Iohn hym selfe in this boke sheweth that the seuen headed and mighty olde empire of Rome being taken away an other beaste shal aryse and that with two hornes that is to witte suche a Prynce whyche shall chalenge to hymselfe a double rule or kingdome fulnes I say of power aswell in thynges spirituall as temporall And this same doth the whole worlde at thys daye acknowledge to be the Byshop of Rome decked with his triple crowne vndoubtedly of the three hornes which accordyng to the prophecie of Daniell Daniel .vii. eyther brought lowe or toke away this base contemned horne and Armed with two keyes signifieng hym to be king and Byshop the most myghty Monarke in matters spiritual temporall Christes vicar in earthe hauyng full power in Heauen and in earth He hym selfe in tymes past caused men to set vp the Image of the beast that is to set vp a new empire after the Image and the Imitation of the olde Romane Empire Whych thing after it was begon in Charles the great a right noble prince and furthermore auaūced and commen from the kings of Fraunce to the Germans which in dede were stoute Godly and worthye Prynces The Byshop of Rome was not ashamed in straunge wise to vexe trouble excomunicate depose and to substitute others in theyr place to styre vp wars in many Realmes at ones and set them together by the eares so long till those kynges did frame themselues after hys wyll and appetyte and wolde fall downe to kisse hys fete And he hym selfe at the length toke vpō him thempire publishing his decrees to the whole world boasted hymselfe to be the Monarche or soule ruler of the world who myght at hys pleasure bothe depose kinges and set them vp in kyngdomes Finally that he was supreme iudg in earth whych may iudg al men but he hym selfe may in nowyse be iudged of any man Therfore lyke as in tholde empire we sequestred from the cōmunion of the beastes all good men which were or liued vnder thempire so in this new also we do alwayes except the graue and witty the good godly men and al religious people which mixed among them not only abyde styll in Chryst but also eyther abhorre and comtemne the beast or to theyr power fight against him The Characte of the beaste Wherby they come not in the accompt of the beast And this two horned beast marketh his worshippers with a Characte And those that refuse thys characte he excommunicateth out of al mens company so that it is lawful for them neither to by nor sel Yea more he condemneth them for hereticks schismaticks for damned and lost creatures If thou confesse thy self now to be a Christian and professe with a syncere and loyall hart the belefe or crede of the Apostles one holy church of Christ and of al saincts and dost not aboue all thinges confesse the Pope to be Chrystes vicar in earth with the fulnes of power and the Romish churche which is the mother of all churches and can not erre thou shalte seme as yet to haue confessed nothyng but shalt be sayed rather to be suspected of heresy and therfore to be more straytely examined This thing can not be dissembled for it is knowen to all men in the whole world But to thintent we shuld not erre in a matter so nedefull to be

nowe who is it that knoweth not howe many orders ther be of Monkes Freres you maye therfore accompte other orders after the rate of the order of S. Fraūces and though you attribute to euery one but the one half of that numbre to what a some wil it amounte To these if you adde the colledges more and lesse through out so many diocesse persons vicars chaplaynes and parish priestes thou wilt graunte that not without cause the popishe clergie is compared to locustes Locustes distroye al grene thinges But howe they light vpon and deuoure all thing I nede not with many wordes to declare It is comōly sayed whe● so euer thou seeste any place fertile and holesome where euer thou ridest or goest thou shalt finde it full of the clergie and possessed with religiouse men He reasoneth also expressely of the power of these Locustes Of the power of the locustes He setteth them forth by a parable and power was geue them sayeth he as the Scorpions of the earth haue A Scorpion is a flattering and in maner a domestical worme which sodenly striketh with his tayle or rather with the stinge of his tayle and so poisoneth Therfore with flattering wordes the clergie of Antichrist disceyueth and powreth in the poyson of venemouse doctrine So speaketh the Apostle also of false teachers in the .16 chapt to the Romains Through fayre speache sayeth he and flatteryng they disceiue the hartes of the simple Theyr power therfore is none other but euil doctrine wherewith as it were with the venome of Scorpions they infecte the simple Christians but especially those tha● contemne the doctrine of the Gospell Whome the Locustes can hurte For there followeth a declaration whome these Locustes maye hurte There be two kindes of men The one in dede willyng and witting will perishe and are the open and professed enemies of the holy Gospel whome by the iust iudgement of God these Scorpiolocustes distroie with their poyson The other beyng more simple doe erre rather of ignoraunce than of obstinate mallice these sins they haue a seale in theyr foreheades wherof is spoken in the .7 chapt are not stongen of the Scorpiolocustes For the power of this euill is limited and not out of measure Therfore was it geuen to the locustes that they should not kil not those wicked which had rather dye than liue those simple They hurt verely but not as the vnfaithfull to death And they vexe them fiue monethes And that tourment is the trouble of the conscience which they tourment with threatnings hipocrisie and wonderfull terrours There is added for a cōforte fiue monethes Fiue monethes The locustes verely come out in the moneth of Aprill and liue vntill September and when they haue liued wholy fiue monethes incontinently they die It signifieth therefore that suche as are cōsecrate to godlines shal fele these tourments a little while nother that the disceyuers shall alwayes preuaile but that there shal be spaces to reste and breath in wherein the godly through the trueth maye be recouered For the locustes distroye not are sene al the yere long There semeth therfore a comparison to be here in this determinate nūbre that the sense should be like as the locustes liue not lōger than from Aprill to Septembre so doubtles there is a time prefixed to those seducers and false Popishe clergie Euen thus hath also the Apostle S. Paul him self comforted the church which after he had prophecied that the church should be wōderfully vexed of hipocrites false teachers incontinently he addeth and like as Iamnes and Iambres resisted Moses 2. Tim. 3. righte so doe these resist the trueth men of a minde corrupte and lewde as concernyng the faith but they shall preuaile no longer For their madnes shal be manifeste to al men like as that was of the other And Primasius they are ment here saieth he which although they were intangled with false doctrines yet hauing remorse about the ende of their life they receiue Gods veritie Againe we see as I warned you in the .7 chapt that al did not perish whiche were ones intāgled with the snares of Antichrist For at the length through the mercy of God they escaped required the grace of God to be geuen them through Christ forsaking al superstitions we see moreouer by reading of histories how god hath at certē times opened the veritie by his faithful ministers through whose preachyng the lewdenes of the Locustes is interrupted that menne began to smell them out and to eschewe the same not withstanding the regenerated many times haue retourned c. And likewise other ministers haue retourned home c. How great is the force of the poyson And furthermore he declareth howe great was or is the force of this euil Their tourmēting sayeth he is as the tourment of a Scorpion when he hath striken a man At the first there is no greate payne felte by little and little it gathereth strength and at the laste aketh exceadyngly Yf remedy be had in time the poison is not deadly if it be not takē he dieth that is stongen therwith To the declaratiō of this tourmēt whiche men fele in their consciences apperteyneth this that followeth and in those dayes men shal seke death c. And it is a like phrase of speache in a maner as is that same mountaines fal vpon vs and couer vs c. Wherof I spake in the. 6. chapt And it is the voyce of one that is sore afflicted and brought in a maner to dispaire Doubtles the popishe doctrine of merites of the monastical perfection of other such like doctrines haue driuen many headlong into desperatiō Hereunto is added that the times of the locustes were most full of sorrowes wherof al histories cōplayne The lyfe was not pleasaunt the Locustes did so set menne together by the eares emongs themselues c. And to be briefe they brought men in such case that they wisshed to die The Lord Iesus deliuer vs from the poyson of these Locustes ¶ The Locustes are described by a maruelouse Hypotiposis the Popish clergie and is shewed of what sorte the Antichristian warre shal be The .xl. Sermon ANd the similitude of Locustes was like vnto Horses prepared to battel and on theyr heades were as it were crownes like vnto golde and theyr faces were as it had ben the faces of mē And they had heere as the heere of wemen And their teth were as the teth of Liōs And they had habergions as it were habergiōs of yrō And the sounde of their winges was as the sounde of chariotes when many horses rūne together in battell And they had tailes like vnto Scorpions and there were stinges in theyr tailes And theyr power was to hurte mē fiue monethes And they had a king ouer them which is the Aungel of the botomlesse pitte whose name in the Hebrewe tongue is Abadon but in the Greke Apollion We haue spokē already of thoriginal power of the