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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15761	The hunting of Antichrist VVith a caueat to the contentious. By Leonard Wright.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1589 (1589)	STC 26031; ESTC S120413	23,031	38

the Church of Rome to be the whore of Babylon and the Pope and his Cardinals Antichrist for which they with diuers others for the like offence were committed to the fire and burnt to ashes The ruine of that proude Sea was long ago prophecied by a parable of a certaine bird who being deckt and adorned with the fethers of all other birds in the fielde became so hautie proude and disdainefull that shée fell to pounce and beate the rest of her fellowes whereupon assembling together they agreed with one consent that euerie one shoulde take againe his owne feathers and so leaue her naked Theodorius Bishop of Croatia in the yeare of our Lord 1380. did prophecie that the Sea of Rome which was so horriblie polluted with Simonie and auarice should bee vtterly subuerted and ouerthrowne for euer and that the true Church should flourish Hereunto agréeth an olde prophesie in these wordes Papa citò moritur Caesar regnabit vbique Et subitò vani cessabunt gaudia cleri Pope Leo the tenth creating in one day thirtie and one Cardinalles at which time fell such grieuous tempest thunder and lightning as in the same Church where they were created the image of Iesus was violently remooued out of his mothers lappe and the keyes out of Saint Peters hand which many did interpret to foreshew the subuersion of that proud sea The Hebrew doctors or Rabbins affirme that in the same night that Israel came out of Egypt all the Idolatrous temples of that countrie by earthquakes and lightnings were destroyed When Lot was departed out of Sodome by fire and brimstone it was vtterly consumed And so shall Antichristes Idoles of errour Go out of Babylon oh my people sayth the voyce of the Lord that you be not partakers of her plagues for her sinnes are gone vp to heauen and god hath remembred her wickednesse All that will liue godly sayeth Mantuan bee packing from Rome for there all things are lawfull but to be good it is not lawfull About the time of Saint Briget one Iohn Hilton an English man did prophesie that in the yere 1516 one should come and vtterly subuert all Monkerie In like maner Iohn Hus and Ierome of Prage beeing condemned to the fire by the councell of Constance for inueying against the abuses in the Church of Rome at the place of their execution did prophecie that after an hundred yeares were come and gone their enemies should yéeld account to God them Which thrée prophesies were verefied by Luther who began to write in the yeare of Saluation 1516. iust an hundred yeares after These with many other faithfull witnesses haue boldly both preached and written against that sinke of sinne the sea of Antichrist painting out those Romish wolues in their colours yet could they neuer preuaile till the comming of Luther who as the rest had touched only their filthie liuing he goeth on further and reprooueth their supersticious doctrine not séeking the man but shaking the seate It chanced that Leo the tenth vnder the pretence of warre agaynst the Turke had sent out his pardons into all Realmes christened perswading the people that whosoeuer would giue ten shillings should at his pleasure deliuer one soule out of purgatorie but one dodkin lesse thē ten shillings would profite nothing Wherevpon this famous and swéete mouthed hound taking then his fit occasion so hunted his Bull as vtterly spoyled his sale so tossed his seate as it could neuer stand steddie after and set his triple crowne so farre awrie as it will neuer be set straight againe Shortly after began to rowse our noble and valiant Lion of England Henrie the eight of famous memorie who taking his borespeare in hand vncoopling his trustie kenell of English houndes our godly and learned prelates well taught to choose and hunt their game so coursed that venemous Dragon pearsed his bodie razed his holdes and defaced his dennes as inforced him with vncurable wounds to retire to the sinke from whence hee came Who yéelding at length his debt due vnto nature left off his line that godly and valiant Champion Prince Edwarde who as eager and couragious as his father pursued with might and maine that gréeuous enemie to Christ and his Gospell till vntimely death to Englands wo beréeued vs of that woorthie and precious iewell After whose decease for our sinnes no doubt that bloudie monster according to his woonted manner began afresh to rouse and rage agaynst the poore members of Christ persecuting his truth and putting out againe the light of our soules Till at the last it pleased the Lorde in his mercy to send vnto vs that chosen vessell that famous woonder of the worlde that noble Lionesse of the right royall race of the English Princes Elizabeth his faythfull annoynted handmayde our gratious souereigne Quéene and Mistresse Whose very name the seuenth of God the rest of God and fulnesse of the othe of God doeth signifie vnto vs that as the blessings of God were accomplished in Henoch the seuenth from Adam and Dauid the seuenth sonne of Isay so in our Elizabeth borne in the seuenth moneth of the yeare and seuenth day of the wéeke our Christian Sabboth the Lorde will performe the fulnesse of his othe and promise which he sware vnto our fathers in heaping the treasure of his mercies vpon those that feare and loue him and execute the terrour of his iustice on those that hate and loath him Being the seuenth vertuous Prince since William the Conquerour in whom as in a mirrour of vertue doe rest the fortitude of Iosua with noble Henry the second The magnanimity of Gedeon with valiant Edward the third The triumphant victories of Machabeus with inuincible Henrie the fift The prudēt wisdome of Salomon with her good grandfather Henrie the seuenth The zealous affection of Ezechias with her noble father Henrie the eight And the godly deuotion of Dauid with her religious brother Edward the sixt Who for the loue of that noble Lion of the tribe of Iuda that so wonderfully hath preserued her from so many horrible and treacherous conspiracies both forreine domesticall hath most valiantly with honourable Iudith cut off the heade of proud Holifernes With faithful Debora deliuered Israel from the tyrannie of Sisera With vertuous Hester endangered her owne life to saue her people and defende the truth With godly Iosia cleansed the land from Idolatrie and restored Religion to the children of God And by vncoupling her matchlesse crie of swéete mouthed houndes the graue godly and learned Prelates and Pastors of our Church hath so hunted tossed and chased that Romish Antichrist with all his superstitious trash and traditions out of the forrest of England as except by stealth in priuie corners he dare not once he séene to shew his head The Lord in his mercie still preserue defende and kéepe her Maiesties person in health wealth honor and prosperitie that to the ioy and comfort

speake in defence of her maiesties supremacie in causes ecclesiasticall and her booke of common prayer then disobediently to inueigh against them This ought not to be my good bretheren and countrimen of England and therefore now at the last for our better agréement let vs rather giue eareto the Apostle who in most louing and charitable manner exhorteth vs to cease all bitter contention and studie to be quiet it becommeth not the seruants of God to be contentious neither to séeme wise in their owne conceites but peaceable vnto all men If you bite and deuoure one another saith he take héede lest you be consumed one of an other Let euery soule therefore in the feare of God humbly submit him selfe vnto the authoritie of the higher powers not onely for feare of vengeance but also because of conscience knowing that whosoeuer resisteth power resisteth the ordinance of God The authoritie of Princes and duetie of Christian subiectes THe ciuil magistrate is a minister armed with lawes and sworde appointed of God as a nurse to the Church and a father to the common wealth to defend the guiltlesse punish the guiltie execute iustice and kéepe outward discipline as well in causes ecclesiasticall as temporall Moyses a temporall Magistrate receiued the whole order of religion at Gods hand and deliuered it vnto the people and sharpely chastised Aaron the Priest for making the golden calfe Dauid brought home the Arke and restored religion which Saule had destroyed Salomon remoued Abiather the Bishop and appointed Zadock in his stead Ezekias brake the brasen serpent when he saw the people fall downe to worship it It is therefore the duetie of euery good Christian subiect obediently to submit him selfe vnto all publike gouernment and ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the king or those that be set in authoritie vnder him not onely touching ciuill policie in the common wealth but also external discipline decencie ceremonies orders rites fashions in the Church which are not particularly expressed in the holy scriptures but left generally as thinges indifferent to the disposition of the same whereof the prince next vnder God is supreame head at whose commandemēt they are to be vsed and refused as time place both require according to the Apostle Let al things be done after a decent order Hereunto agréeth the saying of S. Augustine In his rebus de quibus nihil certi statuit scriptura diuina mos populi dei vel instituta maiorum pro lege tenenda sunt And in another place quod neque contra fidem neque contra mores iniungitur indifferenter est habendum pro eorum inter quos viuitur societate seruandum Notwithstanding if the magistrate shall command any thing against the substance of religion concerning matters of faith doctrine remission of sinnes and eternall faluation we ought then with Peter and Iohn rather to obey God then man The Prince is but Gods inferiour officer and if God command one thing and the prince another the higher is alwaies to be obayed before the lower so Daniel prayed and Peter preached contrarie to the magistrates precept and as the Lacedemonians being conquered of their enimies were commanded certain things against their religion no quoth they we had rather dye then be commanded things harder then death So our bodies lands and goodes are at the commandement of our Cas●r but our soules and consciences partaine to God only But for asmuch as our gracious Soueraigne is a most vertuous godly christian Princesse a most faithful professor and louing imbracer of the Gospel of Christ without halting in any one point of religiō being so prouident to preserue it so careful to defend it and so desirous to haue all her louing subiects learne and vse it as to resist her Maiesties procéedings is to resist against God himselfe Of the office titles aud dignities of Bishops and Archbishops TOuching the honourable titles and dignities of our Bishops I wonder why they should séeme offensiue to any séeing I partly knowe by that which I haue read and great Clearkes haue taught that the best and most principall pillers of the Church since the time of Christ vntill this day haue taken the same vpon them The Apostle himselfe setteth downe the office of a Bishop and I doe finde in Ecclesiasticall Histories that Iames was Bishop of Ierusalem Peter of Antioch and Marke of Alexandria We must weigh and consider the order of the Lordes procéedings in his Church from time to time and make a difference betwéene the infancie and strength of the same As first vnto the children of Israel Moyses was sent onely with a rodde in his hand and had Aaron giuen him for his mouth When the people were deliuered from the bondage of Egypt and came into the wildernesse Moyses by the counsell of Iethro his father in lawe appoynted Captaines ouer hundrethes fifties and tennes When the lawe was giuen the Arke and ornaments thereunto belonging with ceremonies sacrifices the Priestes office and garments was ordained And after the people were setled in the land of promise were kings and prophets appointed So when Christ himselfe was sent downe from his father hee made choyce of his Apostles who after his ascention according to their commission went foorth and preached through the whole worlde ordained Elders and Deacons in euerie congregation And after when the Church grewe to more ripenesse were Bishops appointed to haue the charge and ouersight of the rest And as it appeareth by the Apostle himselfe there was great difference betwéene a Bishop and an Elder the Bishop was taught not sharply to reprehend an Elder but gently to admonish him and to receiue no accusation against him vnder two or thrée witnesses but we reade not that the Elders were permitted to reprehend or receiue accusation against a Bishop And as for Archbishop Patriarke or Metropolitan being titles of equall degrée they are verie auncient euen since the time of the Primatiue Church as before is mentioned But say some they were not called Lorde Bishops sure I thinke so because the people of those countries could speake no English but rather in the Lattin tongue Domini which signifieth Sir or Lord. The Elders that rule well saith the Apostle are worthie of double honour especially they which labour in the worde and teaching And why should we be more curious in yéelding vnto our godly and reuerend Bishops those titles of honour then Hanna a figure of the Church was in giuing the same vnto Ely the high Priest who perceiuing her lippes to moue and her voice not hard thought she had beene drunke Not so my Lord quoth she I haue drunke neither wine nor strong drinke I am a woman of a sorrowfull heart and haue poured out my soule before the Lord. Againe when that good man Obadia ruler