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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

as easie to be intreated now in heauen as he was upon earth when he did not reject Marie Magdalen that had seauen divels the woman of Canaan whom he rebuked by the name of a dog nor the man possessed with a legion Secondly how do they acknowledg him to be full of truth when they say that his H. word doth not contain all truth but it must be pieced out with the traditions Canons and expositions of their Church 3. How do they acknowledg him to be our wisdome Scriptura seipsam exponit Chris Aug 2 Tim. 3. when they will not haue his word to be sufficient to interpret it self and to instruct us make us perfect in all good works but we must resort to the Church and receiue her judgment from the mouth of their Pope 4 How do they acknowledge our Saviour Christ by himself to haue purged all our sinnes when they say that we must satisfie by good works in our life and after our death we must go to Purgatorie 5 How do they acknowledg him to be our justification when they say that we are justified before God by our good works and not onely by faith in his death and passion although it be written if thou confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and belieue in thy heart Rom. 10. Hebr. 10. that God raysed him from the dead thou shalt be saved 6 How do they confesse him to be our sanctification or that by one sacrifice he hath consecrated for ever them that are sanctified when as they teach that there must be offered up dayly sacrifices for us in the Masse And lastly how do they accept him for their Redeemer which affirm that our poenarie works Concil Trid. ses 14. Bellarm. de paenitent l. 4. truly properly do satisfie God for the guilt of our punishment which after the fault forgiuen remaineth to be expiated But these points with many others which may be produced to proue that the Pope and his Church if not expresly yet by consequence which is equivalent doth deny the fulnes of all graces to be in our Saviour Christ I leaue to our learned Divines of whom some haue urged these things alreadie and others I doubt not will prosecute them more at large hereafter The summe of all this may be reduced to this Problem Whether any may more properly be called Antichrist or may be called an adversarie to Christ then he that thus denieth the graces of our Saviour Let us come to that which is not onely easie to our understanding but evident to our senses which may be seen with our eyes and felt with our hands For if we take the name of Christ here as he is in the sacrament who hath been a greater enimie to Christ thē the Popes one of them poysoning it another casting it into the fire all changing adding or diminishing it But take the name as it is communicated to Kings Priests and Prophets and so Antichrist to be an enimie to them I demand who hath in secret as Antichrist must be deceiueable been a greater enimie to all christian kings and Princes then the Popes sometimes incensing them to fight with Pagans and Saracens abroad as de did Godfry of Bulleyn many Princes with him in the meane space neglecting their Christian subjects at home our king Richard the first and the Emperor Frederike sometimes stirring up seditions and rebellions at home as he did against the Emperor Henry the IIII. Henry the IIII. king of France and Queen Elizabeth sometimes ministring occasions to make wars betwixt themselues as Pope Iohn did by crowning another Emperor while the first was living sometimes by giving away their kingdomes as Navarre and England sometimes leaving them destitute of succour and open to the universall professed enimie of all Christians the Turke as they did the Grecian Emperors sometimes setting secret Traitors to murder them and sometimes procuring open enimies to invade them ever excommunicating cursing and interdicting one or other of them Let the histories of late times be perused and see whether their ende and drift hath not been continually for these 900 yeeres and upwards to maintaine and advance their own power riches jurisdiction and preeminence by holding christian princes alwaies obnoxious to them and to make them obnoxious and to keepe them under awe by such meanes as aforesaid So likewise for Priests and Prophets is he not an adversarie to all that will not submit themselues unto him as namely to the Greek Church and all the bishops and learned pastors of the same to the godly Valdenses Albigenses Wicklevites and others Lastly if we take the name of Christ here for his mysticall body which is the Church this is also a speciall note of Antichrist For so it is plainly said that the woman was drunke with the bloud of Saints and Martyrs And who hath shed more bloud of godly men professing the word of Christ Iesus then the Popes haue done for these last nine hundred yeares I referre my self to the histories and Chronicles of those times See Abb●t demonst antich In that one warr which they caused Christian Princes to undertake for Ierusalem under Godfry of Bollen it is recorded that there were slayn two thousand millions of Christians In Merindall Cabriers and other places held by the poore Valdois they murdered all men women and sucking children In the Massacre of France Anno 1572 within eight daies were murdered a hundred thousand beside many other at other times in England and else where So that howsoever we take the name of Antichrist either as Vicar to Christ or as adversarie eyther denying his graces or suppressing his Liuetenants and ministers or persecuting his members I finde this name most agreeable to Rome and I demand Whether it can be so well applied unto any other But here will be demanded of me a question how this name Ho Antichristos that Antichrist as they expound the Greeke Article which they would perswade is to be understood of one man can be applied to a succession of men especially seeing some of the Fathers seeme to speake of him but as one man For the Fathers to clear that first it must be confessed that quaestionibus non dum motis P●●k in Prob. they spake sometimes impropriè incautius as Bellarm. confesseth or securius as S. August sometimes Rhetoricè as S. Ierom. sometimes populariter as others do affirm This question concerning Antichrist was not appointed for them but for us upon whom it must needs be confessed that the uttermost ends of the world are fallen neither did they much labour in it And yet we see not all of them runne in one straine Hilarie seemeth to speak more largely He that refuseth the judgment of the Scriptures Antichristus est Chrysoft in opere imperfecto doth not restraine himself to one man but we sayth he videmus abominationem desolationis jam stantem in loco sancto id est populum Antichristi in

same who turn the Grace of God into wantonnes defiling the flesh and speake ill of Magistrates Such perhaps as the Nicholaitans Ebion and Cerinthus were which at first were Christians and would be called Christians and yet fell to teach Heresies in Doctrine and loosenes of life Cerinthus did not deny in word that Christ was come in the flesh but taught that the works and Ceremonies of the Law were necessarie to Salvation Whereupon the Apostle inferreth Gal. 2. Then Christ dyed in vayne So by consequent he denyed Christ in denying the effect of his death and passion to be such as the Apostles teach us So the Primitiue Fathers teach us to understand the denying of Christ Hilar. Quisquis Christum qualis ab Apostolis praedicatus est negat Antichristus est Ambros Christum negat qui non omnia quae Christi sunt confitetur See more of these in that learned Demonstration of Antichrist set forth by Doctor Abbat Ca. 12. For in Charitie indeede we must hold that He that is not against us is with us Lucae 9. but in Fayth He that is not with us is against us Ebion did not denye Christ to be come but denyed him to be verie God Luc. 11 and so denied him to be such as the Apostles taught and therefore against him S. Iohn wrote his Gospell The Nicholaitans did not deny the comming of Christ verbally but in turning the grace of God into wantonnes holding that wiues ought to be common and using Promiscuous filthines and adulteries they denyed that great and inseparable effect of his comming to call us to repentance and holynes of life and to be a Saviour to saue us from committing sinne as well as from the punishment of sinne committed So the Simonites and Menandrians which were also in the Apostles time in holding that the graces of God were to be purchased by mony denyed by consequent the effect of Christs comming namely the free giveing of the Grace of God as it is written He ascended up on High and gaue gifts unto men Nazianz. Ephes 4. And so it may be sayd of all other Heretikes which professing Christianitie do affirm and teach any thing contrarie to the Doctrine of the Apostles and Prophets For there are two kinds of denying God In Tetrast Tit. 1. sayth Nazianzen out of the Apostle Verbo Opere in Word or in Works Or as David Ore Corde Ps 53. Naz. or as by another is proved Expresly or by Consequent Non tantum divinam Authoritatem habent fide tenenda sunt ea quae in sacris Scripturis expresse continentur sed etiam ea omnia quae ex illis necessaria evidenti consequentia deducuntur sayth the Father By all which testimonies layd together I thinke it may easily appeare what the Apostle meaneth when he sayth that manye Antichrists are gone out into the world which deny that Christ Iesus is come in the Flesh And His comming is with deceitfulnes c. Not any Iew Turke Pagan or other that should expressely directly and verbally deny the coming of our Saviour but such as professing Christianitie teach any false Doctrine and so by consequent denie him to be such as the Scripture hath taught us This also agreeth with other parts of the Description as with his place in the Temple of God with his names to be Vicarius Christi as well as Adversarius to be the Successor of Iudas c. I demand then if the name of Antichrist was so intended by the Apostles and Primitiue Fathers and if that were then held the denying of Christ to denie him by works or by consequent what warrant haue we to hold that the Great Antichrist must be a Iew Turke Pagan or any other that should verbally expresly or directly deny Christ Iesus as now the Romanists would haue us to beleeue And if these Prophesies must be understood of Christians that were Heretikes and these were the preparations or workings of iniquitie then surely the Great Antichrist himself must be of like qualitie and he that is held to be the highest and chiefest of all Christians if he be an Heretike he must be That Antichrist For so sayth Chrysostom The greatnes of sinne is considered eyther by the Magnitude of the offence or by the Altitude of his dignitie that committeth it So of all Christians Dist. 40. he that most excelleth in dignitie and most turneth the grace of God into wantonnes He that is most advanced and yet most defileth the flesh and despiseth government speaking ill of them that are in Authoritie he must and none else can be that Antichrist And who that is I referre it to thine owne conscience Christian Reader Who is it that being in dignitie among Christians most supereminent doth yet most defile the Flesh and despise government Who is it amongst Christians most High and yet most preacheth Christ otherwise then the Apostles teach us as where the Scripture sayth that the Spirit quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing I aske whether they which teach that the flesh carnally taken doth conferr Grace Ioh. 6. opere operato may be sayd to confesse such a Christ to be come as the Scripture setteth forth So he that affirmeth that the Picture of Christ or the Crosse or the Virgin Marie is to be worshiped with divine adoration I aske whether he do confesse that such a Christ is come as the Apostles haue preached if yea then where did our Saviour Christ or his Apostles teach any such thing And so of other points of doctrine and manners which I leaue to learned Divines to prosecute And how the Pope hath been declared to be an Heretike not onely by some particular men or congregations but by the whole Christian Church in Europe and that in three great and generall Councels shall be shewed hereafter So much therefore be spoken of the beginnings or preparations of Antichrist which the Apostle plainly affirmeth was in his time adding this 2 Thes 2. Onely he which now withholdeth shall let till he be taken away and then shall that lawlesse man be revealed This concerneth our second consideration Hierom Lact. 〈◊〉 Theo. Cecum Ambros August Tertul Abb. in demonst c. 4 alij Then the ea● of the Dragon Rev. 13 2. wherein we haue first to speak of the Withholder or Impediment secondly of the Remoue and thirdly of the revelation Concerning the Impediment The most learned and best Interpreters both old and new do agree it to be the Roman Empire which as the Apostle sayth shall withhold donec e medio fiat untill it be removed out of the way or out of the midest he saith not till it be abolished Marke And then sayth the Apostle shall that wicked man be revealed But when that was or how it should be removed it is not so well explayned although comparing the Scriptures and times well together it seemeth to me that we may well understand it if we marke

vos aut communicata vobiscum Doth not Virgil say as much Divisum imperium cum Iove Caesar habet And again Iupiter in Caelis Caesar regit omnia terris 2 All the world worshiped the dragon and the beast Is there any man ignorant of the generall idolatrie worship that all the world offered aswell to the Divell as to the state of Rome in those times All the world wondred and followed after the beast saying who is able to warre with him Is not the same question moved by Livie Where he proposeth it as doubtfull If Alexander the great had come into Italie whether he could haue conquered it yea he concludeth it upon many reasons to be without doubt that he could not Polyb. also seemeth to affirm the same Againe was it not verified in the time of Dioclesian whose victories were so great that the Roman Empire was said to haue no bounds but where their soldiers could not march 4 There was given to him a mouth speaking great things blasphemies as that which was recorded of Augustus that he would haue himself be honoured in Temples by Priests Flamines Tacit. ●●n 1. with all the Ornaments belonging to the Gods and although he seemed at the first to refuse it if we beleeue Sueton yet it appeareth he was afterward well enough content with it Suetoni●s as the same Sueton witnesseth that divers Provinces made temples altars and playes to his honour as they did to other of their Idols so Virgil. Hic illum vidi juvenem Melibaee quotannis Bissenos cui nostra dies altaria fumant Virgil. Argl. 1 And againe Illius aram Saepe tener nostris ab ovilibus imbuet agnus which was followed by his successors Petr. Crinit de honesta discip l. 17. Neque illud ignoratur more fuisse Rom. Imperatoribus suas quoque imagines in templis adorandas apponere quod a Tertulliano magnis convitiis accusatur Such also are the speeches which they were content to hear from others and to allow and reward them En huius nate auspiciis illa inclyta Roma Imperium terris animos aequavit olympo 5 Power was giuen him to do or to continue two and fortie moneths Which reckoning according to propheticall computations everie moneth for 30 dayes make 1260. This may be understood eyther of the continuance of the power of the Roman idolatrie from the beginning or of their persecutions of the Christians For the first reckon 1260 yeares from the first setling of the Roman state Livy lib. 1. after the death of Tatius the Sabin when Romulus alone held the government peaceablie and enlarged the cittie by taking in the Caelian and Quirinal hilles and established the divelish worship of Iupiter in the first temple that was made in Rome which was the 25 yeare of his raigne before which time it was in continuall wars and troubles reckon I say 1260 yeeres from that 25 yeer and we shall come to the yeer 1285 ab urbe condita which was the yeere from the nativitie of our Lord 533 the verie next yeer after which that is to say in the yeere 534 à Christo nato the Christian Emperor Iustinian the first perfected his learned and excellent bookes of the civill lawes In co● wherein beginning with a most christian and pious confession of his fayth and confidence in our Lord Saviour Christ Iesus he first purgeth and suppresseth all the ancient Idolatrous and superstitious lawes and then enacteth speciall lawes for the confirmation of the true Christian fayth as appeareth in the beginning of the Code And this was in the year of our Lord 534. as the best Chronologers do agree Marianus ●ibhander Helvins Onuphr Rensuer and in this booke reciting the former godly constitutions of Constantius Gratianus Arcadius and other christian Emperors for the shutting up of Idolatrous Temples and abolishing of divelish sacrifices and auguries he gaue such vigour and force thereunto by his authoritie and confirmation that shortly after the Roman Consuls which as Salvianus testifieth euen in Christian times were wont to be inaugured with heathenish and idolatrous rites utterly ceased and were left off and so may you see the 1260 yeares of the continuance of this Roman beast or Monarchie of idolatrie in Rome fulfilled to a day Although if any man think better to follow the computation of the Godly learned M. Fox I will not speak against it He maketh of this two fortie moneths the number of 294 yeres by taking everie moneth for a sabboth of yeares and so interpreteth this prophecie to signifie the continuance and determination of the great persecutions of the primitiue Church beginning the account of those yeares from the first persecution of our Saviour Christ under the Iewes and Herod unto the end of the last persecution under Licinius I will not I say speak against it For I must needs with open armes accept and imbrace the judgment of that Godly Father Who sayth de civ dei li. 11. that the obscuritie of the word of God is profitable in this respect that it bringeth forth often times in one word many sentences of truth and sheweth them to the light of our understanding whiles that one man apprehendeth it in one sence another in another so that alwayes sayth he that which is collected in one obscure place be confirmed eyther by the attestation of other manifest things or by other places not doubtfull for the same Author saith he in another place in the same words which we labour to understand peradventure did see de doctr chri lib. 3. and thinke upon this same other sentence and without all peradventure the spirit of God which used the Author for a pen-man did foresee that such a sence or sentence also should offer it self to the Readers understanding Yea and did provide prepare this sentence also to meet with his intelligence because this sentence also is true aswell as the other For out of whose mouth soever a truth doth proceed it is not to be ascribed to a mutable and mortall man that spake it but to the immutable and eternall God that gaue it Vide August in confes l. 12 and therefore here I will not be afraid most humblie to confesse my great darknes and ignorance in all divine knowledge unto thee O light of my soule and soule of my life But what hurt is it to me if I thinke the meaning of the Prophet is not as another man thinketh it to be so long as I make no other sence of his words then that which thou the light of all true speaking mindes hast approved to be true But if any be contentious then O life of the poore my God in whose light Aug. in conf there is no contradiction in whose goodnes there is no shadow of change raine downe meeknes into my hart that I may patiently beare with such as do not so much understand the sence of thy