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An epistle [s]ent to divers [pa]pistes in England prouing [th]e Pope to bee the beast in the [1]3 of the Reuelations, and to be the man exalted in the temple of God, as God, Thess. 2.2 ... / by F.K.
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Kett, Francis, d. 1589.
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fortitude of reasons by Godes grace as that I hope I shall âe yours and you shall bee myne and âe shall be both one in Christ A dehortation ANd now whereas Danâ prophesing of th' extreâ abhomination saith thâ the time shall come thâ the great Prince Michâââ which standeth on the peoples side shââ arise vp for there shall come a time trouble such as neuer was since there ââgan to be people vnto the same tyrâââ Which Christ doth also affirme in 24. of Mathew saying that then thââ shall be great tribulation such as was from the beginning of the World to ãâã time that except those dayes should ãâã shortened there should no fleshe beeâued but for the chosen sake those daââ shall be shortened Touching the whââ Christ declareth the occasion and reaââ of such tempestuous dayes of daungeâ that there shall be such false Christes ãâã false prophets that shall doe such mâââcles and wonders that if it were possâ the very elect should be deceiued So ãâã it appeareth plainly that before the end of the world shall great stormes of troubles vniuersaly happeÌ answering rightly to the 6. of the Reuelation that when âhe two Prophets or witnesses of God haue ended their testimony which is the preaching of his glad tidinges of his testamentes throughout all the world according to the 24. of Mathew that then the time is come that the Beast in the 13 of the Reuelations shall arise to heale his wound by making warre against the gospellers for by that great meanes of tribulation spoken by Daniel and by our Sauiour Christ shall his wound which he hath receiued by the preachers of the Gospell be healed vp agayne and that through the meanes of that two horned Beast like a lambe whom Sathan will and shal raise vp at this his last loosing before the end of the World to doe such magiâall miracles that if it were possible the âlect should be deceiued For then commeth it that Daniel sayth hee shall be grimmer then all his fellowes c. Foâ then is the time come that he shall moââ highly exalt hym selfe in the Temple ãâã God as God according to the Thess â and 2. whom the Lord shall destroy wiââ his owne appearauÌce when he commeââ in the Cloudes and this aunswere to thâ 13. of the Reuelations that there shall bâ an Image made vnto the Beast by tââ meanes of that two horned Beast like lambe that is the great false Prophet that shall make fire come downe froâ Heauen in the sight of the Beast and tââ people and then shall the dayes bee daungerous and cruell that whosoeueâ riche or poore high or low that doe ãâã take the marke of the Beast can not bâ suffred to liue By which meanes it is âuident that if the Lord should not shââ ten such dayes of tyrany and darkenâââ it would goe hard with all flesh in thâ they shal be inforced either to hold wâââ the Beast or else to die for the Gospeâ So that then is that performed of Danâââ that many shall bee purified clensed and tried but the wicked shall not regard it Daniel 12. and then happy are they that shall fight the good fight and so put on the shield of fayth as to waite vntill a thousand thirty and fife dayes for the Lord will geue them Eagles winges to flie into the wildernes there to be fed with his holy word as Elias was And now when this tribulation shall begin shall three foule spirittes like frogges come out of the mouth of the Beast Reu. 1â the Dragon and false Prophet being error enuy and hipocresie Reu. 16. Whereby that flowing Euphrates of the preaching of Christes Gospell shall bee dried vp by the cruell hurly burly of Gog and Magog Reu. 20. being the two last heads of Esdras Eagle receiued to the end whoÌ SathaÌ shall raise vp to compasse the holy âentes of the Saincts and then is that âast abhomination of desolation come to passe spoken of by Daniel the Prophet ând this is it that Paul sayth in the last âayes shall bee perillous times men that shall resist the truth as Iannes and Iambres withstoode Moses and therefore shall preuaile no longer Math. 10. whereby it is euident that Iacob shal bee turned into Esau in that the fathers shall then deliueâ their sonnes to death the brother thâ brother and the children arise against fathers and mothers and put them to death For then is it that the truth shall be laid in pryson equity growne aside righteousnes stand farre off conscience falleâ downe in the myre pitty shutte out and loue frosen to dead Whereupon it standeth euery man in hand to watch and pray that hee may holdout to the enâ when hee shall bee crowned with the crowne of life for the Angell sayth thaâ who so euer take the marke of the Beaââ and commit spirituall fornication wiâ that Whoore of Babilon being Rome ãâã succession of the fourth Monarchi shâââ be punished with fire and brimston Aââ therefore seing it is told vs before in tââ 21. of the Reuelations that the Beast gainst the end of the world shall haue his wouÌd healed Reu. 13. and that his seate being darkened shall be established againe by the two horned Beast and false prophet Antechrist as in the 13. of the Reuelations and that hee shall ouercome the true professors of Gods word and reioyse ouer them as in the 16. of the Reuelations and that theÌ in the great security after this reioysing of the victory got ouer the two witnesses of God the Lord shall come euen as a thiefe in the night when they shall say peace and no daunger then commeth on them sodayne destruction as traueling vpon a woman with childe and they shal not escape Therfore we ought to be carefull to worke out our saluation with feare and trembling considering what teÌpestes doe hang ouer vs. And now consider what a lamentable expectation this is to looke for change of Religion and what a woeful wrechednes it is to beleue in the Popes traditions who is that Beast that ere the end of the World shall worke such tyrany and tribulation against the Gospell as that the people shall bee by this meanes Math. 24. in such perplexity that they can not tell which way to turne them Wherfore to comprehend in short that which I minde to discourse vnto you at length by worde of mouth I exhort you to renounce clearely the Pope and all his traditions and laboure to make your election sure by holding the fayth of the Gospel euen vnto death that your Soules may goe vnto them that are vnder the golden aulter Reu. 6. who suffred before for the testimony of the truth Hold fast for the time is at hand Yours in the same profession of the Gospell euen till Christ come in his glory to cloth vs with our heauenly mansion F. K. Iune 3. 1585. The righteous shal bee had in euerlasting remembraunce hee will