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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01207	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 3 of Nouember 1594. intreating of the second comming of Christ, and the disclosing of Antichrist. : With a confutation of diuerse coniectures concerning the end of the world, conteyned in a booke intituled, The second comming of Christ. / Preached by Iohn Dove.	Dove, John,	1594 (1594)	STC 7086.5; ESTC S91767	27,513	64

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Monarchies foure beasts This beast hath the shape of a Beare a Leopard and a Lion because it consisted of three other Empires of the Persians Macedonians and Babilonians before destroyed which by these three beasts were represented This beast had ten hornes and seuen heads the ten hornes are interpreted in the seuenteenth chapter to be ten kings or kingdomes into which the old Empire was to bee diuided after the decay thereof which afterward came to passe the number of ten which is certaine beeing vsed for an vncertaine number according to the maner of the Scriptures The seuen heads chapter seuenteene are interpreted to be seuen hils and seuen kings or orders of supreme Gouernours But Rome hath seuen heades whether you take them for hils or Kings The hils which it was builded vppon are these Capitolinus Palatinus Auentinus Celius Exquilinus Viminalis Quirinalis The orders of Gouernours by whom it was ruled at seuerall times by reason of alterations were Kings Consuls Dictators Decemuiri Triumuiri Emperours of the auncient Nobilitie of Rome and lastly Emperors of strange families Vpon those heads whether yee talke them for hils or Kings were the names of blasphemie for vpon the hils were builded Temples dedicated to Minerua Saturne and heathen gods and the Gouernors or Kings themselues were heathens and worshipped Idols of the Gentiles One of the seuen heads which was the race of the Emperours of the auncient Roman Nobilitie was wounded in the person of Nero which beeing the last of the Family of Iulius flue himselfe after whose death the whole estate of the Empire was in ieopardy by reason of disention among them that did affect the Empire But that deadly wound was healed againe by Vespasran which appeased all strife and himselfe sustained the burden of the Empyre Fiue of those kings saith the Angel are fallen one is the other is yet to come and when he commeth he must continue but a short space Those fiue which were fallen were Kings Consuls Dictators Triumuiri Decemuiri which order of Gouernours were abrogated before S. Iohns time the sixt which was of the Emperours of the auncient Nobilitie of Rome was then remayning when S. Iohn liued Domitian being Emperour the seuenth which was of the Emperors of straunge families was then to come and when it came it continued not long after the departure of Constantine into the East To which hee addeth The beast which was and is not is the eight and is one of the seuen and shall go into destruction By which eight hee meaneth the order of the Popes Of the beast meaning the whole Empire hee speaketh in this manner The beast which thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse pit meaning that the Empire was it was not In the time of Domitian it was because it stood it was in the power of the Roman Nobility but it was not in the same state in which it was before because from Iulius to Nero it was hereditary and tied vnto one familie but Nero the last of that family being dead it was deuolued to Emperours of an other stocke and kindred and it was to ascend out of the bottomles pit not in the former state vnder the Emperours but in another state vnder the Popes Lastly he sheweth the destruction of the political Antichrist saying If any leade away captiue he must be led into captiuitie if any kill he must be killed Wherefore nowe that hinderance is taken away which Paul speaketh of 2. Thess 2. the Emperors giue place to the popes and the Ecclesiasticall Antichrist is described in this maner I saw another beast with two hornes ascend out of the earth c. This beast with two hornes is all one with the purple harlot Apocal. 17. for both be token the state of the popedome the ecclesiasticall Antichrist This beast ascendeth out of the earth that is it commeth of base parentage hath two horns like like the lambe for Antichrist taketh vpon him to be Christes vicar speaketh like the dragon for he teacheth lies which proceed from the old dragon the deuill which was a liar from the beginning giues life to the image of the first beast for notwithstanding the ancient emperours are deceased the popes haue ordained new emperors in the west which keep the same name and title although being compared with them they be but images or rather shadows And the number of the name of this Antichrist is 666. which number both in Greeke and Hebrew doth agree with the bishops of Rome In the Hebrew name Romijth is the same number for Resh signifieth 200 Vau 6 Mem 40. double Iod 20. Tau 400 which being put together make the number of the beast 666. Likewise the Latine name Romanus written in Hebrue characters maketh the same numbers for Resh signifieth 200. as it did before Mem 40. Gnaiin 70. Nun 50. Vau 6. Schin 300 which make 666. Likewise in Greeke this name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which also is the name of the Bishops of Rome by adding to according to the maner of the Greeks in such names as are made Greeke as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Casarea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Nepthalim signifieth 30. α 1. τ 300. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 50. ο 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 200 which make 666. Lastly concerning the place where this Ecclesiasticall Antichrist doth reign that same beast with two horns Which is called the whore Apo. 17 which whore in the same place is interpreted to be a great Citie which reigneth ouer the Kings of the earth sitteth vpon the beast with seuen heads and ten hornes which representeth the Empire of Rome vnder the old Emperors wherein it is manifest that the Ecclesiastical Antichrist succeedeth the politicall and sitteth in the place of the Roman Emperors so that Antichrist further than Rome is not to be sought for Thus haue you heard how all the prophesies concerning the disclosing of Antichrist are fulfilled in the Bishops of Rome and that all those prophesies can not bee verified of any else it is most euident for as much as no other Bishops or secular Princes take vpon them to bee Christs Vicars generall ouer all the world which is to sit as God in the Temple of God No other States ascribe vnto themselues power aboue all powers in heauen and earth which is to exalt themselues aboue God No other States haue set vp Emperours in the West which is to giue life to the image of the beast Finally no States beare sway in a Citie builded vpon seuen hils which Citie reigneth ouer the Kings of the earth but they Therefore I may safely make this conclusion The succession of the Bishops of Rome which hath beene since Boniface the third and continued these nine hundred yeares is that Antichrist which Saint Iohn speaketh of in this place Wherefore seeing the comming of Antichrist is an argument of the latter end of the world and this great and notorious Antichrist hath beene reuealed vnto vs so long agoe what remaineth but that nowe wee lift vp our heads for our Redemption draweth neere and that we looke for a newe Heauen and a new Earth and the holy citie newe Ierusalem comming downe from God out of Heauen prepared as a beide trimmed for her husband Against which comming God grant we may be readie our nakednes being clothed with wedding garments our loynes girded our steps lightned with our Lamps in our hands for the Lambe Christ Iesus his sake to whom with the father and the holy Ghost be ascribed all honour power and glorie both now and euermore Amen FINIS