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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11229	Sacræ heptades, or Seaven problems concerning Antichrist 1. of his place. 2. Of his state. 3. Of his names. 4. Of his rising. 5. Of his raigne. 6. Of his words and actions. 7. Of his times. Necessarie to be read and knowne of all men, who professe Christ Iesus, and hope to be saved by no other name. By G.S.	Salteren, George.; Sandys, George, 1578-1644, attributed name.	1625 (1625)	STC 21492; ESTC S116309	165,194	236

answer then who haue read the Gospell Iohn 19. by whom was our Saviour accused who condemned him what kinde of capitall punishment did he suffer who crucifyed him in what place for what crime or offence or upon what accusatiō was he brought in question was he not accused by them that cryed we haue no king but Caesar the Roman Emperor was not Pilate the Roman he that condemned him was not the cause pretended for that he spake against Caesar in making himself a king was it not by that kinde of punishment execution Vide Scalig in notis ad Ioh. 18 31. which by learned men is observed to haue been properly used by the Romans were they not Roman souldiers by whom he was crucifyed was it not extra portas Ierusalem was it not all done by the power of Caesar and what followeth of all this Vbi Caesar ibi Roma where Caesar is there is Rome sayd the old Lawiers as the new say now a dayes Vbi Papa ibi Roma Panorm where the Pope is there is Rome To this adde that all voide places and places appointed for publique execution of justice were by Roman civill Law Iuris publici the proper demeanes of the Empire of Rome Now it is manifest that Golgatha was the common place of execution and therefore de Iure publico of right belonging to Rome We must therefore confesse that our Lord was crucifyed in Ròme unlesse we shall thinke that S. Iohn yea the spirit of God do not speak properly And if he had meant the old Ierusalem what needed so many words or circumstances to describe it These four points therefore being cleared it is not hard to apply three others unto it which are mentioned in the same place of scripture to make up the number of seuen viz. 5. That this is the same great cittie where the beast should make warre against the saincts and 6 where he should kill the witnesses of God and 7 where their dead bodies should lye in the streets and therefore the place of Antichrist A third scripture speaking of the place of Antichrist Rev. 4. is that where her destruction is briefly denounced and there it is called Babylon that great cittie the spirit of God giving us thereby to understand that he would haue that cittie seuen times at least in this booke called Babylon the great to be sufficiently known unto us to be Rome the second Babylon which then was great not the old Babylon which neither in her best estate was able to compare with the greatnes of Rome and in the time of S. Iohn was in great decay having beene twise or thrise before taken sacked and spoyled namely first by Cyrus Dan. 5. drawing diverting Euphrates while Belshazzar sate feasting and drinking Secondly by Darius with the help of Zopirus Herod lib 3. Iustin. who reduced it to an absolute subjection under the Persians and with the rest of that Empire it was conquered by Alexander the Great Diod. Sic. l. 19. and after his time it was spoyled againe by Demetrius and thereupon forsaken by her inhabitants and never rose afterward to any greatnes authoritie or power Whereupon S. Augustine observeth that as the Assyrian monarchie decayed so Rome the second Babylon and as it were the daughter of the first grew and so it was in S. Iohns time the great cittie Ladie of the world and governed onely by Caesars one of her seuen Heads which ruled over the kings of the earth A fourth scripture is that Rev. 18. wherein her destruction is much more largely and particularly described by seuen notable attributes most agreeable to Rome 1 She is called againe Babylon 2 That great cittie 3 With whom the kings and nations of the earth haue committed fornication 4 Most proud and vaine-glorious for she sayth I sit as a queen and am no widow And so Tully calleth her Vide Lip● de magn●● Rom. Princeps omnium terrarum and Frontinus regina domina orbis and beyond all these Martial Terrarum Dea Gentiumque Roma 5 Therefore in the text she is truly called mightie 6 Abounding in all riches and Treasures Non auro tectisve modus And 7 Lucan lib. 1. abounding in all delicates and pleasures abundantes voluptates Livy in prol Of which points I haue said somewhat before and for the two last notes of the super-aboundance of their riches and wantonnes in pleasures and delicates I will cite but two examples more out of Horace whereof the first shall not be of any of their Princes Senators or Patritii no nor yet of their Equites or Gentlemen but of the meanest sort Quinti progenies Arri par nobile fratrum Nequitia nugis A couple of knaues Horat. Serm. lib. 2 sat 3. Luscinias soliti impenso prandere coemptas They were wont to dine upon Nightingales though verie deerely bought A dish that I thinke no Prince in Christendome would desire for any good taste nor these men but for their luxurious prodigalitie And yet see another not of Antonius or Cleopatra but of a stage players sonne Filius Aesopi detractam ex aure Metellae Scilicet ut decies solidum exorberet aceto Diluit in signem baccam O braue drinker that dissolved in vinegar a pearle worth fiue and twentie thousand Crownes as the Interpreters expound it in Eng. coine about 6250 pound if you take these crownes to be English taken from the eare of the Ladie Metella that he might drinke it of at a draught I would faine knowe whether these men did more abound in riches or in Luxurie in wealth or in wantonnes that were so costly luxurious in their meats and drinks Ioseph antiq lb. 18. Neither do I now marvail at the summe which another Roman gentleman offred to expugne the chastitie of the Ladie Paulina being 25 Myriades drachmarum everie 100 drachmae being accounted worth 58 shil 4 pence and consequently amounting in our English coin to aboue 7290 pounds what cittie was ever like to this in treasures or filthie pleasures But I hast to a fift place of scripture which will deserv both longer stay and better consideration And because I shall herein differ not a little from all other interpreters that I have read I have the greater reason to continue my course in Problems Rev. 16 The text of Scripture is the Prophecy of Armageddon or Armagedon noted for a place where the Kings of the earth are gathered together to the battell of the great day of God almighty The word is Hebrew and because the Hebrew names by reason of the difference of the points are subject to diverse manner of readings I would first learn whether it may not be taken for Harmegeddon which signifieth the mountain of pleasant and precious fruites For so the word Meged importeth Cant. 4 13. as it is expounded in other parts of the Scripture Gen. 24 53. to which is added the