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A08269	A theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous worldlings as also the greate ioyes and plesures which the faithfull do enioy. An argument both profitable and delectable, to all that sincerely loue the word of God. Deuised by S. Iohn van-der Noodt. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.; Theatre oft Toon-neel. English	Noot, Jan van der, ca. 1538-ca. 1596.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.; Roest, Theodore.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Rime. English. Selections.; Du Bellay, Joachim, 1525 (ca.)-1560. Visions. English. Selections.	1569 (1569)	STC 18602; ESTC S110162	92,217	282

shall wax colde But so many as beare more loue to God and séeke more to please hym than the diuell they must take good heede to do that which pleaseth him according to his reuealed wil For whom it is not sufficient to know Antechri●t to blame him to speake and reporte of him as his doings deserue but it is requisit● for them most chiefly to confesse the name of the Lorde euen from their very hearts to honour feare him to beleue and put all confidēce in hym to loue hym and as neere as we can to expresse him in oure conuersation thorough loue vnfayned therby to shew oure selues to be hys Disciples For not euerye on● sayeth oure Sauioure Christe that sayeth Lorde Lorde shall enter into the Kyngdome of heauen but suche as doe the will of my father Again saythe Christe Whosoeuer louethe hys lyfe héere in thys worlde shall loose it and who so hateth his lyfe here for my names sake shal kéepe it to life euerlasting Againe he that will be my Disciple let hym folowe me and where I am he shal be also Who so serueth me my Father shall honoure hym The seruaunte is no better than hys maister and a messenger is no more than he that sente hym If we kéepe the commaundements of Christe we shall remaine in his loue euen as hée did the will of hys father and remayned in his loue Hys commaundement is that we loue one an other as he loued vs let vs therfore henceforth leade a good lyfe cōuersation according to the wyll of the Lorde and frame our lyfe to the doctrine and exaumple of our maister and Lorde Iesu Christ in kéeping the commaundementes of the Lorde Christe Lette vs not be wrathfull but loue one an other Praye sayeth the Lorde for them that persecute you and speake euyll of you and be ye perfect as I am perfecte That thys our sinful body might be destroyed and that henceforth wée serue sy●ne no more for he that is dead is frée from sinne Let vs then thinke that we are dead to sinne and liue not to our selues but to our Lorde and Sau●our Iesus Christ. Let not sinne saith the apostle S. Paule raigne in your mortall body that ye shoulde obey the lustes thereof but be ye true seruantes of righteousnesse vnto life not seruaunts of sinne of the fleshe or the world ●o death neyther gyue ye henceforth your mēbres as weapons of vnrighteousnesse vnto sinne but as weapons of righteousnesse vnto GOD. For when we were the seruauntes of synne we were not vnder righteousnesse what frute had we then in those things wherof we are nowe ashamed for the ende of those things is death but contrarywise the fruite of rightousnesse is euerlasting life Brethren it is now tyme to awake from sléepe forasmuche as the nyghte is passed and the day approcheth and is euen at hande God hath fréely sent his true and faithful ministers and giueth his woord plētifully to be preached let vs cast away then the workes of darkenesse and take vnto thée the armour of light walke honestly as in the daye time not in gluttonie dronkennesse nor in chambering wantonnesse nor in strife nor enuying but put ye on the Lord Iesus Christ take no thought for the fleshe to fulfill the lustes thereof but according to the good pleasure of God in al spiritual exercises The workes of the flesh are notorious manifest as adulterie fornication vncleanesse wantonnesse Idolatrie witchcraft hatred debate emulation wrathe contentions heresies enuie murthers dronkennesse gluttonie and suche like The workers whereof are y e most wretches and miserable slaues that euer wer yea they are threatned that who so euer cōmitteth such things shall not enherite the kingdom of heauē On the other side the fruit●s of y e spirit are loue ioy peace long suffering gētlenesse goodnesse faith méekenesse temperancie and suche like After this sort ought euery christian mā to walke being carefull to mortifie his own flesh exercising himself in these good works which God hath prepared for him to walke in casting of the old mā which is corrupt through deceiuable lusts be ye therfore renued in y e spirit of your mind and put ye on the new man which after god is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Wherfore cast of lying speak euery man true vnto his neighbour For we are members y e one of the other Be angrie but sinne not let not the Sunne goe down vpon your wrath neither giue place to the Diuell Let him that stole steale no more but let him rather labour and work with his hands the thing that is good that he may haue to giue him that néedeth Let not corrupt communication procéed out of your mouth but that which is good to edifie withal that it may minister grace vnto the hearers And gréeue not the holy spirite of God by whom ye are sealed vnto the day of redēption Let all bitternesse anger and wrath crying and euil speaking be put away from you with all maliciousnesse Be ye courteous one to an other and tēder hearted forgiuing one an other euē as god for Christs sake forgaue you Be ye then followers of god as dear children walk in loue euē as Christ hath loued vs hath giuen him self for vs to be an offring and a sacrifice of a sweet smelling sauor to god So then fornication and all vncleannesse or couetousnesse let it not be once named amōg you as it becometh sainctes Neither vse ye filthinesse nor foolish talking neyther iesting which are things not comely but rather giuing of thāks For this ye must know that no whoremonger neither vncleane persō nor couetous person which is an Idolatour hath any inheritaunce in the kingdom of Christ of God Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes for by such things cometh the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience Be not therefore companions wyth them for so much as ye were once in darknesse but are now light in the lord walk therfore as it becometh children of light for the fruite of the spirit is in all goodnesse righteousnesse and truthe Approue and assay that which is pleasing to the Lord and haue no fellowship with the vnfruitful works of darknesse but euen reproue them rather take ye heede that ye walke circumspectly and wisely not like the foolish but as the wise and redeeme y e time for euen these dayes are euill and dangerous days Therfore be ye not ignorant but replenished with knowledge and spirite Let the woord of God dwell in you plentuously in all wisdom teaching and admonishing your own selues in psalms spirituall songs synging

time many other realmes as of the Chaldes and great Cart●age and other ar likewyse perished So Rome neuer obtained the like estimation since as it had before being in his floure as it is to be séene yet by some auncient monuments buildings columnes walles which appere there as yet to beare witnesse of Gods vengeance which came vpon them for their sin and wickednesse to the ende that all godly and well disposed persons mighte perceiue that God can and will perfourme his promises the which he hath thretned in his worde Besides all this the Romaine Empire hath ben without an Emperour .iij. hundred twentie yeares nam●ly since Augustus vntill Charlemayn In the meane time the Bishop of Rome began to forget all maner of simplicitie humblenesse and pouertie and to neglect the seruice and administration of a true pastoure and to put his minde vpon temporall dominion and rule beginning so through the liberalitie of many great Princes as King Pepin and manye other great Lordes which he inchaunted vnder the pretence of holinesse to become so great that at length he hath set him selfe in the cha●re as soueraigne aboue all the rest that euen Emperoures were at his commaūdement elect and deposed For the feruent zeale deuotion was in many Christians already cold many of them were addicted and giuen to worldly quietnesse great estate and all maner of intēperancie and voluptuousnesse so that they had more mind to securitie and idlenesse than to labor and paine to sleepe than to work to take than to giue to banquet than to preache and had rather to take their pleasure in this wicked world than to enioy the heauenly pleasures in the world to come After this dissention rose amongst them for the supremacy then sought they ambitiously to rule and gouerne euer all the whole world They wold wel be confessors as they termed them but few or none woulde be Martirs for preachyng was cast aside and pride had occupied the roum of it wherupon did folow of necessitie as Scripture speaketh where as Gods word is not preached ther the people perish many and diu●rs heresies schismes and sects as Sabellians Arrians Emonians Macedonians Priscellians Nestorians and Eutichians which diuers and sundry wayes erred in the doctrine and faith cōcerning the diuinitie The Mani●hes contempned and made light of the olde Testament The Donatis●s did holde it necessary to be rebaptised again The Pelagians taught that men could deserue heauen by merits without grace other like to thē Amongst the Bishops was discorde in all places In the R●mish church were many mutations about their el●ction Betwene Liberius Feliciꝰ was great dis●ord about y ● popeship Likewise was it betwéen Damasiꝰ Vrcisiꝰ Boniface Aulatiꝰ Simache and Laurence Boniface and Dioscore Constātine and Philip Eugenius and Sisine Formosie and Stephē S●rgie and Christopher Benedict and Leo Gregorie and dyuers other Amongest which many were accused of heresies some of incest and some of other kyndes of euill of whiche some were banished some deposed some s●landred some had their eyes put out other some miserably slaine and murdered no practises fraudes guiles nor violence or oppression was left behind to none other ende than to attaine vnto promotion honor dignitie and great estate and to obtaine their malicious purpose After this sorte did the bishops procéede in al kindes of vanitie and idlenesse to become loytering prelates puffed vp in pride and presumption wherby veritie and truth was defaced and quite abolished The Sunne began nowe to be darkened and become blacke as a hairen cloath and the Moone like vnto bloud the starres of heauen to fall downe For they dayly practised to get newe and more dominions they attempted by al means possible to increase their aucthoritie and power all their whole study and labour was to aduaunce their h●nour and dignitie héere vpon the earth not without scattering of the commons and innumerable murthers of the people Iohn Archbishop of Constantinople debated to be Primate and soueraign of all other Patriarkes Boniface the third of that name Bishop of Rome tooke vpon him to raigne and rule ouer all and to be the lieuetenāt of God vpon earth Again Mahomet comming afterward would be adored as a great prophet and messanger of God So that by the meanes of couetousnesse ambition and carnall concupiscence the truth is darkened the church of Christ moste miserably scattered and dispearsed The I●wes by a craftie sleight wrested the scripture to maintaine their Talmuith the Sarazens their Alcorane and these prelates and Bishops their Decretals and all other errors and herisie● which were vnder that false prophet Mahomet in Asia and Affricke and vnder the Pope in Europe with all their curssed traditions and trifles They haue banished abolished Christe and his doctrine euery where preferryng their owne ambition profit cōmoditie ease Whervnto to obtain it the rather they haue brought in many superstitions traditions of men as Latin seruice bicause y e comon people should not vnderstād their doings bells organs play cymbales incense palmes candles tapers purgatori● masses for al soules diriges obsequies Pilgrimages indulgences to deliuer the soules out of purgatorie after thei haue gotten money inough Item church holy days Rogatiō dayes Relikes yea coales wherwith S. Laurence was broyled Iosephs ●osen the armes of S. Cornelis with many more trifles and other relikes They proc●ed further to the forbidding of mariage meate egges butter in lyke manner images and crucifixes were sette vp woorkyng thereby false miracles alwayes foreseing to their Mao●in that is great shops churches temples chapels and Altars where they might sell their trumperie fréely not without great gain yea so wel that they were mounted ●o hie in power riches and voluptuousnesse as we haue se●ne by experience and dayely is to be seene in places where they are that they rule aboue emperors kings princes all this vnder a shewe of pietie and holynesse as we heretofore haue say●e Of these S. Iohn in his reuelation doth warn vs in his sixte chapiter where he sayeth manifestly that whē the lambe had opened the seuēth seale he saw a pale horse and he whiche satte vpon it was named death for this cōgregation of hipocrites notwithstanding their copper faces and carbuncled noses through their vnmeasurable gluttony and dronkennesse are yet in their soule pale deadish black and blew as vnholsom dead bodies for th●i haue no true life within thē nor y e blessednesse that co●sistet● in Christ Iesu his holy word And he which sate on it was death Their doctrine and teaching is nothing but death and damnation For hypocrisie eng●ndreth nothing but des●ruction of saluatiō their f●uits are shame and confusion For hell foloweth them to destroy those that are seduced by them Daniel and Paule they haue foretold that Antechrist shoulde be borne of the subuersion of the Empire and

enuie dissimulation falshoode and inconstancie vaine glorie iniquitie sorcerie superstition and impietie than doth in this one dominion of Antechrist He alone hath more contaminated Gods holy Temple than all the infidels together that euer were they haue most shamefullye intreated and iudged the very electe people of God which are the vessels of his glory They haue most miserably and narowly kept vnder and as it were in prison the true Minister● of God by their Decrées and traditions The seueritie and rudenesse of Pharao Antioche and Caiphas is nothing in the comparison of theirs for in them is all kind of beastlinesse vncleanlinesse wantonnesse concupiscence and carnall securitie No reason or humanitie hath any place amongst them they are more lyke beasts than men The rigorous Proclamations against the Iewes at the request of wicked Ammon and of Antioche are nothing to speake of to the ordinaunces and statutes of the Antechrists for those were only against the body but theirs are against the soule and conscience of man also After this sort doth the Popedō which is the dominiō of Antechrist bear the Image of the Leopard of the Bear of the Liō bicause it is not only partaker of al y e wickednesses with oth●r realmes but it excéedeth and surmounteth al other vi● times double in all kinde of iniquitie idolatrie abhominations y t euer were cōmitted vnder heauen They haue the mouth of a Lyon always blasphemyng cursing and banning Their feete lyke a beare signifiyng their insatiab●e couetousnesse runnyng headlong to euery kinde of mischiefe very ready to sheade bloud as leopards are they polluted and spotted with dyuers and sundry inconstant mindes institutions obseruings neuer stedfast or constant but in al thinges chaungeable and foolishe for suche as receiue not Gods truthe are worthily forsaken of God Therfore God shall sende them strong delusions that they shoul● beleeue lies that all they might be damned which beleue not the truth but haue pleasure in vnrighteousnesse The D●agon sayth S. Iohn which is Sathan the Diuell● gaue to the beast or cursed generation of Antechrist his beastly membres his whole power his seate of blasphemie and his great authoritie To giue them his power is nothyng else than to make them perfect and skilfull by all maner of crafte subtiltie and dissimulation cunnyngly to seduce the simple silly soules and so forth to confirme and stablysh them in al kinde of wickednesse and falshods To gyue vn●o hym his seate is to leaue him he●e a glorious kingdome full of vain glory ●is●imulation other wickednesse To giue him hi● great authoritie is to worke by false miracles signes and wonders and by false and ●rr●nious do●●rine to allure the p●●ple and to draw the vnb●leuing infidels the rather to the p●t of perditiō and euerlasting torments On this maner is that greate Antechrist a king with Sathan ●uer all the children of pride and darknesse He occupieth and possesseth ●alsly with Lucifer the seat and ●oume of God taking vpon hym euen to search and créepe into mens consciences For he b●steth him self to stand in Gods stede to deceiue th●m that ●well on the earth to reigne and to beare rule ouer them for so much as they hauing a blind guide are l●d into the ditche of all errour and false doctrine the very way vnto euerlasting pe●dition Touchyng the seat euen as Christe our Lorde with his Father raigning eternally sitteth in heauen vpon the seate of his Maiestie in eternall glory felicitie euē so sitteth ●ntechrist the Pope of Rome I mean● with his ●ather the Deuil full of pride and blasphemie in the seat of cōdemnation in eternal darknesse ignomie and shame Cōcerning his power euen as Christ receiued his power of God his father euen so hath he rec●iued his authoritie of his father the Deuil Euen as Christ is full of mercy truthe euen so is this Antechrist ful of enuie and hate vntruthes and lies and al other mischiefs of whose abhominations errors the vnbeleuing and infidel hath tasted As the holy ghost and the sprite of Christ openeth the misteries of the truth in his elect euen so on the other side hath the spirit of erroure since the death and reuelation of Christ darkned truth and set forth the secretes of his malice in the ennimies of Christ. Cōcerning his aucthority as christ being man receiued his aucthority of god to doe such miracles as no man else could do Euen so doth this Antichrist by the Deuill and Gods permission amongs the infidels and vnbeleuers So that he in all power and aucthoritie vniustly vsurped foloweth yea passeth his father the deuil For as he robbed the godly man Iob and spoiled him of all his substance goods children seruaunts and cattel and tormēted him in his body with ●oils and Botches euen so doth this rauenous and greadye Leuiathan and cruell murtherer vexe consume and oppresse the poore people by his spoiling Grashoppers defrauding the poore of their sweat and bloud of theyr paines trauaile necessitie and liuing no not sparing the féeble and sicke neyther widow nor fatherlesse No kind of good be it neuer so vniustly gotten being brought to them in shriuing of some one burdened in conscience but that they are cōtented to receiue it and that by the way of restitution Yet neuerthelesse do they which is worst of all lead mennes mindes to dissimulatiō false belief and other diuelishnesse doubtfull desperate and comfortlesse Finally euen as in the body of Christ dwelleth fulnesse of the whole Deitie Euen so in this body of Sathan dwelleth the whole masse of impietie subtilitie fraud and malice with power to worke all maner of mischiefe mightely substantially and corporally And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death with the sword of his mouth that is through the anouncing and preaching of the Gospell Which thing is come to passe since the time of Iohn Hus in Boheme after that in Germanie and is since God be praised daily more and more that the head of the Beast is wounded in places where gods word is preached As in England Fraunce Scotland Poland and else where as euery one may wel perceiue except he will needes be blinde For it is euident to al men that in most places Buls and Pardones of the Pope are little set by hys power and might troden vnder féete hys name blotted out his Purgatory Masses Pilgrimages Idols and other like trumperies cried out vpon If this be not a deadly wound on the head of the beast I think it to haue none at all If this be not a manifest token of his fall to come there is none to be looked for But his deadly woundes were healed Although the Gospel hath ben preched in sundry and diuers places and the popes abhominations cast vpside downe yet remaineth in some places their false priesthood vows not to mary Sodomish chastitie auricular

it nor beleeue any parte of it so long as it agréeth not wyth the doctrine and gaye Ceremonies of our holy father the pope our mother the Romish churche Vpon the .xij. Sonet or vision I saw sayth S. Iohn a woman sit vpon a scarlet colored beast This woman did a far off seeme to be honest vertuous but in deede she was farre otherwise as ye shal heare This beast is that great Antechrist of whom we haue spoken right now or rather the bodie of the diuel containyng within him the Pope Cardinals patriarkes legates bishops doctors abbots priours chanons Monkes friers prebendaries priests indulgences bulles Nonnes and the reste of all suche diuelyshe sectes beyng full of hypocrisie and dissimulation reignyng wythin the whole Popedome In lyke manner all Magistrates and secular powers that fortifie and defende as well the Pope him selfe as also the abhominations and detestable idolatrie which the Romishe church doth vse be he Emperoure King or Prince Duke Earle or Lorde Maior Iudge Chauncellor Bailie Constable or whatso●uer that maintaine defende and vpholde by force and violence any thing against God and his truth Of whose number I my selfe haue bene sometime and that to myne owne great griefe be it spoken thorough méere ignorance thinkyng to do God great seruice Wherof I am now ashamed and most ●arnestly repent me and am sory for it And I pray God that this nor any of the rest of my sinnes be layde vnto my charge but that he will pardon me thorough hys infinite goodnesse and mercie in the name of his dearely beloued Sonne Iesus Christe oure onely Sauioure and redéemer And I thanke hym from the bottome of my hearte that it hathe pleased hym of his mercie without my deseruings to haue called me wyth the Apostle S. Paule out of the shadowe of death and the companie of hys enimies to the knowledge of his eternall wisedome in the felowship of his true spouse his churche Of these I say which seeke not themselues nor any thing in this worlde but seeke the glorie of him that bought them and the accomplishment of his kingdom● counted in the sight of the world as outcastes but glorious in the sight of God This beaste is whole of the colour of scarlet reddish in token of greate tyrannie sheddyng of bloud and murthers which they cōmit against those which will not agree to their wicked diuelish institutions She is also ful of ignominious blasphemous names as your holynesse your clemencie your lordship your fatherhod your mastership your serenitie your worthinesse honour reuerence magnificence bounty vicar of God● spiritual lord phisition of the soule defen●er of the faith supreme head of the church and many ot●er as it is se●ne dayly by their letters and writyngs Moreouer their too too mu●he know●e trumperies and Iack an Apes plays are no lesse blasphemous than processions confirmations greasyngs purgatorie Masses for al soules pilgrimages pardons mattins Aue Maria stella or Salue regina Placebo Candlemasse Palm sonday c. This beast had seuen heades and ten hornes signifiyng all his subtil practises his craftie fetches and false conspiracies therby to impeche and withstande the graces of God and giftes of the holy Ghost And vnder a cloke of authoritie through tyrānish violence resist the commaūdements of God And this woman was aray●d in purple and gilded with golde and precious stones and pearles Which signifieth their coapes of gold corporal stoales staues miters c. and other like trumperies of silk purple crimosin sattin redde coloured bordered wyth golde pearles and precious stones and aboue this their counterfaite pietie and shewe of holinesse This painted pampred vp and so gaily decked Romish churche bragged and boasted muche of hir Gospel and hir Apostles of golde siluer wood or stone decked and arayed wyth all kinde of costlynesse whiche is but an outwarde appearaunce for they looke for nothyng lesse than to imitate or follow and to expresse them in their conuersation She had a cup of golde in hir hande full of abhomination and filthinesse of hir fornication This cup is hir false and cursed Religion whiche she dayly communicateth distributed aboute the Chalice whiche hir Merchauntes doe so wickedly abuse It containeth all kynd of false and dyuelish doctrine all kinde of erroures lyes and beastlynesse all manner of craftie workes of hypocrites all manner of inuentions of fleshly wysedome all mans wittie deuises eyther by crafte arte or otherwise inuented as also all straunge kinde of worshippyng of idolatrie fornication Sodometrie and all other kynde of iniquitie Outwardly she séemeth to be gilded she reporteth yea boasteth to sette forth the glorie of God namely the magnfying of the name of Christ. They say they preache the sacred Scripture they lyue in chastitie and all is nothyng else but a false a counterfaite and deceiptfull shewe of holynesse full of hypocrisie and dissimulation a couer or cloke of all mischiefe and abhomination it is but the bare letter and the onely name as the rest of all their doings are And in hir forhead was a name written a mysterie great Babylon A name declaring what manner of woman she is She is knowne wel inough by hir naughty fruites of such as are skylful of godly knowledge and haue also the spirite of vnderstandyng So that they b●yng illuminated conducted and ledde by the spirite of GOD maye easily perceyue iudge and knowe accordyng vnto the Scriptures that shée is nothyng else but an vnshamefaste and pestyferous whoore full of all iniquitie abhomination and wyckednesse But thys iudgement is hydden from the Infidels the whyche are so bewitched and inchaunted by the meanes of their fayre outwarde shewe their humble knéeling creepyng and gaye Ceremonies that what soeuer she doth speaketh or commaundeth and taketh in hand they make muche of it worship and imbrace it as holy honest perfect good which thing God permitted for theyr vnbeliefs sake She is called mother of whoredomes and abhominations of the earth muche passyng the towne of the Chaldees in all kinde of wickednesse for she is the mother and fountaine both of spiritual and carnall whordome and abhomination And I saw that she was the maried wyfe of the deuyll For I saw hir dronke of the bloud of Sainctes and with the bloud of the martyrs of Iesus which she outragiously and most seuerely hath persecuted and slayne And when I saw hir so I maruelled with great maruell not onely bicause I saw hir defiled and sprinkled of murther and sheding of innocent bloude but also bicause of hir greate and abhominable blasphemies And most of al I was aboue measure amazed and maruelled that almightie God coulde or woulde suffer or permit so long hir intollerable wickednesse and detestable and horrible impietie This woman is called of the Angell the great whore that great Citie which ruled ouer the kings of the earth namely Rome It is no meruaile though she be called that

Lord the rod and scepter of his dominion against the wicked in those dayes as he shall say Goe from me ye curssed into euerlasting fire Again how comfortable ioyful a thing shall it be for the elect to see them selues exempted of this condemnation and to haue the fruition of that souerain blessednesse in eternal glory For he it is that treadeth the wine presse of the fierc●nesse and wrath of almighty God That is he shall poure forth his vengeaunce vpon the proud and infidels and shall punish them most greuously with his strong mightie arme stretched ouer their heads striking them in his rage furie wherunder all things are set And I saw an A●gell standing in the Sunne signifying the Apostles and al true ministers of the word of god which stand in the bright cleare sunne of righteousnesse which is Christ Iesu that amiable and shining morning starre And these worthy witnesses stand fast in a sted●ast assurāce of faith in his name against the whole multitude of Antechrist without mouing of their féete from y e well grounded stone which is Christ Iesu which for nothing in this world be it persecution paine torment or deathe will shrincke therefro And he cried with a loude voyce to all the Foules that did flie by the middes of heauen This voice cried and shall call vntil the worldes end with a feruent and constant mind vnto al foules which flie vnder heauen to them which are humble of mind and be●●me spiritual through faith and heauenly giftes These f●ying foules laying aside quite abolishing all worldly plesures or corruptiblenesse lift themselues vp aboue their affections on hie and make their cōuersation to be in heauen and lead héere in earth an heauenly life These are the chosē soules which the father féedeth and sustaineth wyth●ute their own deserts Such a one was Abrahā in Mesopotamie Moyses in Sinai Helias vpon y e mount Carmelus Daniel amōgst y e lions ●aul in Damas●o S. Iohn in Pathmos and many moe euen herein England and in other places and shal be to the worlds end The maner of their calling is Come assemble you in vnitie of faith and mind knit your selues togither in Christ Iesu in loue which is the bond of perf●ctnesse that the peace of god which passeth al vnderstanding kéepe your hearts mindes in Christ Iesu our Lord. Prepare ye sayth the Angel to come to that great and supernaturall good supper of the Lord Which is that eternall and euerlasting refreshing of the soul. Come on and tast of the most daintiest dishes most sumptuous fare which neuer eye hath séene neither care hath heard neither came into mannes heart which God hath prepared for them y ● loue him learne out of gods holy word what his good wil pleasure is folow the same in life maners flie from al worldly pleasures Liue soberly temperately chastly righteously in the feare of god attending and waiting vpon the cōming of our Lord and God Finally order and frame your life so that ye may eat t●e fl●she of kings that ye may by exhortation and ensample teach the worldly gouerners to conuert vnto the Lord and to forsake all maner of filthie carnall and sinnefull lustes And that ye may eat the fl●sh of all captaines and mightie men pluck down the hie minded hearts of tirāts to bring vnder their ●rueltie and loftie stomacks deuour also the flesh of the worldly rich and proud mā cause him to leaue of al worldly pleasures ●xcesse and manifolde vanities And the fl●she of horsses ●nd of them that sit on them And the flesh of al fre men bōdmen and of smal and great Regard neither horsses nor them that sit on thē but teare their flesh in péeces Spare no man neyther hie nor low rich nor poore bond nor frée but checke and taunt them that they leauing their old wicked wayes turne to the lord As for the obstinate and stubborn which wil not bow but resist break them and hew them in pieces punish the wicked and carnall worldlings of what degree so euer they be and these beastly Antechristes cruel Grashoppers which sit on them take away the pride and loftinesse from these loitering prelates and idle bishops and also of thē that imitate and follow their mischeuous hipocrisie deliuer the oppressed and turne back the cruell persecution from the innocents poure downe thy wrath ouer the wicked according to their desertes and let none escape Imitate the Eagle and Kite resort there where as the dead carkasses men without liuely faith and drouned in sinne be Teache euery one to walke honestly in their vocation let Princes vnderstand that it behoueth them to be learned and wise in all sciēces but abo●e al in the holy Bible which be the Scriptures and that it becometh thē to walke in the feare of god not to do al things vnaduisedly and according to their owne pleasure but orderly as reason and equitie doth require not to oppresse the poore innocents and fatherlesse but to aid succoure and helpe them and to punishe the wicked and malefactors nor vse exfortion in taxing ouermuch their commens subiects The rich welthy that they be merciful good stewards distributers of y e gifts of God cōmitted to their charge To the hipocrites Idolaters that they leaue of their vaine trust or confidence in any creatures returne vnto the liuing God Again the whoremonger that he goe no more like a beast and Mule in whom is no vnderstanding after other mennes wiues but rather take his own wife to flie al occasions of euil Cōmaund the ruler to be faithful in his calling and the Commons louingly to obey The wife to be true and obedient to hir husband againe the husband to be friendable and louing to his wife defend hir cherish and nourish hir euen as Christ defended his Church and cared for hir Children to be obediēt to their Parents the Parentes not to prouoke their children to wrathe And the seruaunts to obey them that be their masters c. Thou shalt eate the flesh of the Giantes and drinke the bloud of the Princes of the earth of the Weathers of Buckes and Bulles which shall be slayne at Basan And I saw the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their armie That is these Ruffians and lecherous Bishops Monkes Abbots and the rest of these shauelings of Antechrist with the Princes of this world cruel tyrant● catchpols and hangmen of the Beast are assembled together to consult and gather souldiours and set them out to fight against him which sate vppon the white horse to make warre against Christ and his beloued Churche his chosen and peculiare people his seruaunts which without any kind of doubt or wauering follow him They séeke I say to kil and slay