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A68136	A letter vvritten by a true Christian Catholike, to a Romaine pretended Catholike Wherein vppon occasion of controuersie touching the Catholike Church the 12. 13. and 14. Chap. of the Reuelations are breifly and trulie expounded. Which conteine the true estate thereof, from the birth of Christ, to the end of the world.	Herbert, William, Sir, 1553?-1593.	1586 (1586)	STC 12752.5; ESTC S112797	52,029	90

Boniface the eight both before recited it may make some demonstration of the power and authoritye of the Popedome in those dayes And he caused the earth and those that dwell there to worshippe that first beast whose deadly wounde was healed In the thirde verse of this Chapter it was declared that one of the heads of the Romaine Empire was as it were wounded to death But his deadlye wound was healed We there expound that head to be Rome and Italie it selfe so that the sense of this place is that the Popes shall cause the inhabitantes of the earth to haue in great account honor and reputation Italie and Rome which are that beast and head whose deadlye wound was healed and such estimation brought they it vnto that the simpler sorte worshipped it as the chaire of Peter as the rocke and bulwarke of christian religion and as the inuincible fortresse of the faith the wiser and discreeter feared it as a place of no lesse perrill then power and as the lyons denne which moued Rodolfe a very notable Emperour liuing about the yeare of our Lord 1282. vnto such as asked him the cause why he would not into Italie to yeeld this answere that the lyon vpon a time had inuited all kindes of beastes to come vnto him which when they came at the hower appointed to the mountain where the lion dwelled The fox wiser then the rest finding no tracke of anyes returne drewe backe alleaging a reason thus recited by Horace Quia me vestigia terrent Omnia te aduersum spectantia nulla retrorsum 13 And he did great wonders so that he made fire to come downe from heauen on the earth in the sight of men In the sight of men that is in the opinion Iudgment and conceit of men hee made fire to come downe from heauen that is to come out from the church vpon the earth that is vpon the wicked vpon the obstinate vpon the accursed and reprobate this fire was the flame and thunderboultes of their excommunications which in the opinion of men was wonderful and terrible and blasted them and made them accursed vpō whom it lighted But it was not so in deede it onely appeared so in the sight of men that is in the corrupt iudgement of the ignorant for the excommunications papall were no lawfull censures of the church but were the vnlawfull and tyrannous proceedings of an vsurped power and here it is good to note in that there is mention made of heauen and of earth that in the course of these prophesies as the earth is opposite vnto heauen it is taken in the worse parte as the earth is opposite vnto the sea it is taken in the better parte as the earth and the sea are opposite to the heauens both are taken in ill part But to returne to the Papall excommunications so wonderfull were they in operation that by them Leo the Emperour by Gregorie the second was cut off both from the tribute and from the obedience due vnto him in Italie His subiectes there were made to rebel against him two of his exarchats were slaine and the thirde had his eyes pulled out The king of Lumbards seased vpon much of the Emperours territories and Rome and the Romaine Dukedome were seased vpon by the Pope By this fyre also Henry the third a most honorable personage and Emperour of very great wisedome corage and industry was vtterly consumed ouerthrown by Gregory the seuenth by force of the same flame Alexander the third made Fredericke the Emperour to come to the city of Venice to aske him forgiuenes to kisse his feete to hold his stirope and to do him seruice obeisance the sparkes of this fyre were interdiction suspention inhibition relaxation of subiects from their othes of alleageance dispensation with othes and such like the coales that were hereby kindled were vprores tumultes disloialties conspiracies rebellions seditions and turbulent commotions For in sighte of men these appeared to be fyres from heauen that is to be the censures of the church which euery man thought himselfe bound vpon paine of damnation to yeelde vnto and obey whereas in truth they proceeded from the fyre brands of hell Who by these practises weakened wasted and consumed the states of Christendome and aduaunced themselues to the type of all earthly honor 14 And deceaued them that dwelt vpon the earth by the signes which were permitted him to doo in the syght of the beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they shoulde make the Image of the beast which had the wounde of a sworde and did liue These signes of their power and authoritye which God permitted them to shewe euen in the face feeling of the Emperours deceiued no doubt them that dwelt on the earth and wrought in them this perswasion that the power that coulde bringe such wonderfull thinges to passe was sacred heauenly and altogether diuine and hauing gained this authoritie and reputation with the inhabitants of the earth they willed an Image of the beast to be made which had the wound of a sworde and did liue The beast as is before declared is the Empire of Rome The Image that is made to represent it is the church of Rome where in wee are to consider the dignitye authoritye religion lawes and proceedings howe proportionably they are framed and fashioned to the portrature and Image of the olde Romaine Empire for the firste and second the principall instrument and pencill wherby the Popes painted this Image was the false and forged donation of Constantine wherein they faigne imagine and beare the worlde in hande that the Emperour hath decreed that as his earthly power imperiall so the holy sacred Romaine Church shall reuerently be honored and that the most sacred seate of Peter shall bee gloriously exalted more then the Empire and earthly throne yelding vnto it power and dignity of glory and also vigour and honorificence imperiall and againe that to blessed Syluester chiefe Bishoppe and vniuersall Pope of the City of Rome and to all Bishoppes his successours which shall sit to the ende of the world in the seate of blessed Peter he presently together giueth his palace of Lateran appertayninge to his Empire and also his diademe that is to saye the crowne that belongeth to his head and his white miter called Prigium with the coller that commeth ouer his shoulders and compasseth his imperiall necke and withall his purple cloake and scarlet roabe and all other his imperiall indumentes yea and the dignitye of hauing imperiall presidentes and maisters of horse bestowing also vpon him the imperiall Scepter together with all the ensignes bands and sundrye ornaments imperiall and all kinde of proceeding of the imperiall celsitude and glorie of his power and that the moste reuerent men they of the cleargye seruing the same holye sacred Romaine church in sundrye degrees shall enioye the same celsitude and heyght of honour in singularitye power and excellencye with the glorie wherof the moste honourable

the faith of the Saintes With good reason it is here required that men should be attentiue for here is declared the course of the iudgementes of God whose diuine maiestie not vnlike to the lawe of Talion punisheth men by that by the which they doe offende 10 For if anie leade into captiuitie he shall goe to captiuitie If anie kill with a sworde he must be killed by a sworde Sith therefore this Romaine Empire by force and fraude by power and pollicie hath wrought the ruyne and ouerthrowe of manie it is the iudgement of God that by force and fraude by power and pollicie manie shall worke the ruyne and ouerthrowe of it how inseparable and insuperable soeuer it seeme Here is the patience and the faith of the Sainctes That is that in the expectation heereof there is matter giuen for the Sainctes to exercise their faith and patience For it was not a matter so probable but that faith was needefull nor yet so quickely accomplished but that patience was requisite seeing that by little and little it was wasted and consumed For as the Popedome which here next is described did by degrees increase so did the Empire decay by the same meanes that the dignitie of the one was aduanced the authoritie of the other was diminished 11 And I behelde an other beast comming vppe out of the earth which had two hornes like the lambe but he spake like the Dragon The former beast rose out of the sea that is out of the waues of worldlie gouernementes out of tumultes and tempests of people and nations out of the which in time was produced and brought foorth the Romaine Empire And Saint Iohn when he sawe that vision stoode vpon the sea sande that is entered into consideration of worldlie gouernementes estates and dominions whose foundations are like vnto the sande of the sea vppon the which there may be no sure building for that they are subiect to the variable tumultes of people and nations as the sand is to the raging waues and surges of the sea But this other beast commeth vp out of the earth a place of more constancie of greater stabilitie a place of fruitfulnesse and fertility which ought to yeelde a plentifull croppe to the Lorde of the haruest who hath prepared for the pure wheate of his elect the barnes of euerlasting blysse The earth heere therefore signifieth the church out of the which the seconde beast commeth which is the Popedome Which had two hornes like the lambe but he spake like the Dragon That the Popes pretende the hornes of the lambe that is the power and authoritie of Christe aswell touching his priesthoode as his principalitie all christendome can witnesse who knowe right well that as Christe is in trueth the chiefe Prince and chiefe Priest of the faithfull so for these manie yeares the Byshoppes of Rome haue applyed these two hornes of the Lambe vnto themselues As concerning the Popes priesthoode Durandus one of his fauourites thus writeth This is Melchisedeth whose Priesthoode is not comparable Vnto others hee is the heade of all Byshoppes from whome they all growe as members growe from the heade and of whose fulnesse they all receaue as touching his Princehoode thus writeth Pope Adrian to the Emperour Fredericke My seate is in the citie Rome the Emperours seate is in Acon in Arden a forest of France what soeuer the Emperour hath hee hath it of vs as Pope Zacharias translated the Empire from Greece into Germanie so may we againe translate the same frō the Germaines to the Greeks Beholde it is in our power to bestowe the same vpon whō we list Therefore are we appointed of God ouer nations and kingdoms to pull downe to roote vp to buylde and to plant againe in respect of both these authorities Pope Boniface the eight at Rome in a great Iubilie as it were in the face of the worlde went in publicke procession one day in his priestly pontificalibus and the next day in the robes Imperiall with a naked sword carried before him causing this sentence to be proclaimed ecce hic duo gladij beholde here are the two swordes Thus this seconde beast hath two hornes that is to say priesthood and princehood like the lambe that is like Christ but he speaketh like the Dragon that is like the Deuill falselye and corruptlye subtillye and maliciouslye proudely and prophanely such is the speach and doctrine wherein he resembleth the Dragon who is a murtherer and a lyer from the beginning and the father of lyes 12 And he did all that the firste beast coulde do before him and he caused the earth and them that dwell therin to worship that first beast whose deadly wound was healed The might poysons and authoritie of the Popedome grewe to be such that it was equall altogether if not superiour in power and dignitie to the olde Romaine Empire in so much that it could do in commanding and gouerning the prouinces potentates of the world as much and as throughlye as euer the old Romaine Empire in his greatest dignity and authority could do and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in conspectu eius euen in the sight and presence of the Emperours who were brought to that weakenes feeblenes of estate that they became rather beholders of the Popes greatnes then exercisers of their owne Yea and beheld it with feare and trembling for when the Popes were growen to that greatnesse and authoritie that they could depose Emperours as appeared in the lamentable fall of that most noble Emperour Henry the third and that their practice therein by the condemnation of Vecilo Archebishop of Ments of heresie for holding the contrarye was by the iudgement and decree of a counsel as a sounde point of doctrine established in the myndes of men no maruaile if the tallest Ceaders of Libanus did shake for feare of the bramble least fyre should come out from him and consume them From this point of doctrine that it was in the power of the Pope to depose the Emperour another was inferred of no lesse moment that it was likewise in his power to make the Emperour for that the ceremonie of imposing the crowne vpon the Emperours head belonged to the Pope When they had attained their greatnes they altered this peece of seruice to a point of soueraignety interpreting the imposing of the crowne to bee the disposing of the crowne Therefore Innocentius the second vpon the coronation of Lotharius the Emperour the yeare of our Lord 1133. caused the whole solemnity therof to be drawen in picture within his Pallace of Lateran with these verses subscribed Rex venit ante fores iurans prius vrbis honores Post homo fit Papae sumit quo dante coronam The king doth come before the gate And sweares first to the Cities state Him then the Pope his vassall makes And so to him the crowne betakes If hereunto be added the letter of Pope Adrian to Fredericke the emperour with the practise of

good Lord more and more to consume her and shortlye to abolish her with thy moste glorious comming and in the meane tyme O Lord thunder into the innermoste eare of the deafe papistes the threatninges of thy thirde Aungell that if any man worship Antichrist his romish church made to the Image and representation of the olde Romayne Empire and receaue his Character or doctrine in his forehead and in his hande that is in his fayth and practise in his conceite and conuersation to be both beleeued and boulstered with his counsel and execution the same shall drinke of the Wine of the wrath of God yea of the pure wine which is powred into the Cup of his wrath and shal bee tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before thee and the smoke of their tormentes shall ascende for euermore That with the consideration hereof they may be strooken in conscience harken vnto thy voyce go out of her my people that you be not partakers in her sinnes that you receaue not of her plagues and for that O Lorde a tyme and space is required for the vtter consuming of this hideous body of antichrist during the which he and his adherentes repining at thy trueth and iudgementes with all rage and rancor maligne and persecute thy chosen and faythfull Indue vs O Lord with patience in all troubles and afflictions giue vs grace to keepe thy Commaundementes and make vs feruent and fruitefull in thy fayth and what so euer euent thou shalte giue vnto our troubles in this worlde yea though it bee thy will that the force or furie of Antichrist preuayle agaynst the mortall bodyes and worldelye estate of our selues or of our brethren yet let that thy heauenlye voyce styll recomforte our soules Blessed are the dead which hereafter dye in the Lorde euen so sayth the Spirite for they reste from theyr laboures and theyr workes followe them Wee knowe and acknowledge O Lambe of eternall light that with thee is true rest voyde of labour true life voyde of death true felicitie voyde of all trouble and miserie Wee knowe also that our workes which thorow thy grace we do according to thy wil go not before vs to make our way and passage into heauen which thy bloud and merites only haue done but that thither by thy great goodnes and fauour they followe vs to receiue reward at thy bounteous and liberall hand Lastlye for that the tyme of thy fynall iudgement doth approach and thy Aungels are shortly to be sent to reape the haruest of the earth and to cut downe the vynes of the vyneyarde thereof endue vs O Lorde with thy grace instruct vs in thy trueth that as pure Corne wee maye bee gathered into the Barnes of thy euerlasting blisse and neither as tares or wicked weedes bee throwne into the furnace of eternall fyre nor as the vngratious grapes full of vylenesse and vanytye bee cast into the Wnepresse of thy wrath which shal be trode without the citie that is executed without thy kingdome for without shalbe doggs and enchanters and whoremongers and murtherers and Idolaters and whosoeuer loueth or maketh lyes the bloud shall come euen to the horse bridles the tortures and tormentes shall reach from the meanest man to the mightiest monarch that for the space of a 1600 furlonges which is for euer and euer for rightlye may that square number of foure times foure intimate vnto vs eternitie And syth O thou second Adam and restorer of mankind thy church hath since thy natiuitie walked here on earth nowe neere sixtene hundred yeres as it were 1600 furlongs which is in hundreds of yeres proportionable to the time that was betweene the first Adam and the floud of Noe strike into our heartes with thy remembring spirite a deepe impression of thy comming that it be not with vs as in the days before the floud wherin they did eate and drinke and marrie and gaue in marriage and knewe nothing till the flould came and tooke them all away but that casting away all carelesnes and securitie we may like wise and faithfull seruantes be founde watchfull readie and diligent in fulfilling of thy will and doing of our duties earnestly praying and dayly expecting for thy comming that thou our Lorde and master so finding vs being the author and fountaine of all blessednesse mayst truely make vs blessed Come Lord Iesus Let thy mightie hande and out stretched arme O Lorde be still our defence thy mercy louing kindnes in Iesus Christ the deare sonne our saluatiō thy true and holy worde our instruction thy grace and holy spirite our comfort and consolation vnto the ende and in the end Annotations WHereas in the tenth verse of the xiij Chapter mention is made of a beast rysing vppe out of the earth hauing two hornes like the Lambe but speaking like the Dragon wee expounded the earth to be the Church militant so taking it in the better part as conferred and layde opposite to the sea from whence the former beast did proceede taking the sea for gentilisme and the earth for Christianisme Jf it shall better please any to take the earth in that place in the worser part then doth it signifie corruption superstition terrestriall appetites and earthly conceiptes of heauenly matters and in whether soeuer part the worde be interpreted the designation of the person there expressed is the same and receiueth no alteration Whereas in the thirde verse of the xiij Chapter there beeing mention made that one of the seauen heades of the Romaine Empire was as it were wounded to death but the deadly wounde thereof was healed we there expounde that heade to be Rome and Jtalie and the wounde to bee ciuill warres which interpretation is iustified by truth of historie yet considering the course of this prophesie and the exposition of the Angell in the xvij chapter in these wordes the seauen heades are seauen hilles whereon the woman sitteth they are also seauen Kinges fiue are fallen one is another is not yet come and when hee commeth he shall continue but a short time and the beast that was and is not is the eight and one of the seauen We incline rather to this interpretation that followeth and one of his heades was as it were wounded to death and his deadlie wounde was healed The seauen heades signified seauen Kinges or soueraigne gouernours that haue ruled and borne chiefe authoritie within the citie of Rome The first were Kinges the seconde Consulles the thirde Dictators the fourth decem viri the fift were Tribunes Militare the sixt Romaine Emperours the seuenth French Emperours the head that had the deadly wound but was healed was the sixt which receiued that wounde in the death of Iulius Caesar and which wounde was twelue yeares after cured by Augustus for in Iulius Caesar the Emperours beganne and in him that heade had like to haue ended but that the deadly wounde thereof was cured by Augustus as for the triumuirate it