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A68136	A letter vvritten by a true Christian Catholike, to a Romaine pretended Catholike Wherein vppon occasion of controuersie touching the Catholike Church the 12. 13. and 14. Chap. of the Reuelations are breifly and trulie expounded. Which conteine the true estate thereof, from the birth of Christ, to the end of the world.	Herbert, William, Sir, 1553?-1593.	1586 (1586)	STC 12752.5; ESTC S112797	52,029	90

thousand two hundred and three score daies That is to say two and forty moneths the which if we reckon after the accompt of Daniel euerie moneth for a sabboth of yeres it amounteth iust to two hundred foure score and fourteene yeres the which number of yeares containeth the whole persecution of the Primitiue church from the first of Herode to the last of Licinius who being ouercome by that most renowmed Emperour Cōstantine the great the church enioyed therupon after a long grieuous storme a sweete blessed happy calme In the meane time she was by Gods especiall prouidence preserued nourished not in pompous glorious ostentation but in hydlock and as it were in the desert not persecuting but persecuted not giuing but receiuing the crowne of martyrdom not glittering with tēporall riches but shining with spirituall vertues not practising the law of armes but preaching the law of God not superiour to all gouernments but subiect to all gouernours not releasing subiectes of their allegeance but instructing them to the doctrine of obedience not making merchādize of gods mercies freely bestowed vpon vs but diuiding frankly and faithfully to the children of God the bread of life O how wel beseemed this the church of Christ how contrarie vnto this is the church of Antichrist 7 And there was fought a great battaile in heauen Michael and his angels fought with the dragon and the dragon and his angels fought Here is described a fight and great battayle whereof the place and parties are specially to bee considered for the place it was in heauen that is to say in the church for the congregation of beleeuers is termed heauen euen as the companye of the vnfaithfull and vnbeleeuers is called the earth so wee finde in the beginning of this chapter that the Dragons tayle that is to saye false teachers tyrants persecutors and such like drewe the thyrde parte of the starres of heauen that is to saye a great number that were accompted beleeuers and members of the church militant and caste them to the earth that is made them reprobates vnbeleeuers The parties are Michael and his angels on the one side that is to say Christe and his ministers that is godly magistrates instructers according to the saying of the prophet Daniel in that time shall Michael the great prince arise which standeth for the sins of thy people On the other side is the Dragon and his angelles that is Sathan and his ministers which are tyrants persecutors seducers false prophetes hypocrytes and such like with death sinne hell and damnation 8 But they preuailed not neyther was their place found any more in heauen Here he declareth vnto vs the successe of the battaile the victorie was Michaels the dragon was conquered driuen out of the church and had no place in the hearts of the faithfull Thus Christ vanquished the Diuell death hell sinne in so much that none of these haue any power or authority vpon his elect and chosen people 9 And that great dragon was cast out euen that old serpent which is called the Diuell and Sathan which deceaueth all the worlde hee was euen cast into the earth and his Angels were cast out with him The dragon that is to say the Deuill beeing driuen out of heauen out of the Church out of the heartes of the godlie was cast into the earth that is into the reprobate the vnbeleeuers the wicked whose heartes are the temples of Sathan whose sences are grose and earthlie whose adorations and religions are terrestriall whose affections are altogeather fixed vpon earthlie and worldlie thinges And his Angels were cast out with him death sin hell such other the Dragons associates ministers as they haue no place with the faithful so amongst the vnbeleeuers reprobates they haue their proper seate and throne being together with Sathan their leader cast into the earth that is to say among the wicked and earthly people 10 Then I heard a loude voyce saying now is saluation in heauen strength the kingdome of our God the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast downe which accused thē before our God day night Here is laide before vs the reioysing of the heauenly Citizens for the felicitie and happines of the church that by Christs death and passion had ouercome and obtained the victory ouer the Diuell and his aungels For Michaell ouercame the Dragon Christ vanquished the Diuell ouerthrew his dominion power and authoritie and now raigneth only himselfe in most heauenly and triumphant sorte in the hearts and mindes of the faithfull So the accuser is cast downe that we may well say with S. Paule VVho shall accuse the elect of God It is God that iustifieth VVho is he that condemneth It is Christ which died yea which rose againe which is also on the right hand of GOD which maketh intercession for vs. So the accuser of our brethren is cast downe which accused them before our God day and night 11 But they ouercame him by the bloud of the Lambe and by the word of their testimony and they loued not their liues vnto the death The faithfull the chosen and elect people of God ouercame the Diuell but how Not by their desartes workes or merits but by the bloode of the Lambe and worde of their testimonie that is to saye by the death and passion of Christ and by beleuing in him that raised our Lord Iesus from the dead who was deliuered to deathe for our sinnes and is risen againe for our iustification the apprehension by faithe of this incomprehensible benefite which was the word of their testimony by the blood of the Lambe doth ouercome the Diuell conquer the world vanquish the flesh ouerthrowe sinne death hell and all infernall powers according to the saying of Saint Iohn This is the victory that ouercōmeth the world euē our faith And they loued not their liues vnto the death That is to say they most willingly suffered death for the truthes sake and for their testimony in respecte whereof they loued not their liues but after the counsell of our sauiour in the fourteenth of Luke denied themselues tooke vp their crosse and followed Christ and hated their life in this worlde to the end to keepe it to life euerlasting 12 Therefore reioice ye heauens and ye that dwell in thē VVoe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea for the Deuil is come down vnto you which hath great wrath knowing that he hath but a short time Therefore reioyce o ye congregation of the faithful and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabitāts of the earth wo vnto you earthly and wicked people woe vnto you inhabitants of the Sea woe vnto you wauering inconstant and vnstedfast in beleefe for the Deuill is come downe vnto you who shall vexe you with sundry calamities both inwardly and outwardly shal replenish you with al vices torment you with anguish and greife of minde

good Lord more and more to consume her and shortlye to abolish her with thy moste glorious comming and in the meane tyme O Lord thunder into the innermoste eare of the deafe papistes the threatninges of thy thirde Aungell that if any man worship Antichrist his romish church made to the Image and representation of the olde Romayne Empire and receaue his Character or doctrine in his forehead and in his hande that is in his fayth and practise in his conceite and conuersation to be both beleeued and boulstered with his counsel and execution the same shall drinke of the Wine of the wrath of God yea of the pure wine which is powred into the Cup of his wrath and shal bee tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before thee and the smoke of their tormentes shall ascende for euermore That with the consideration hereof they may be strooken in conscience harken vnto thy voyce go out of her my people that you be not partakers in her sinnes that you receaue not of her plagues and for that O Lorde a tyme and space is required for the vtter consuming of this hideous body of antichrist during the which he and his adherentes repining at thy trueth and iudgementes with all rage and rancor maligne and persecute thy chosen and faythfull Indue vs O Lord with patience in all troubles and afflictions giue vs grace to keepe thy Commaundementes and make vs feruent and fruitefull in thy fayth and what so euer euent thou shalte giue vnto our troubles in this worlde yea though it bee thy will that the force or furie of Antichrist preuayle agaynst the mortall bodyes and worldelye estate of our selues or of our brethren yet let that thy heauenlye voyce styll recomforte our soules Blessed are the dead which hereafter dye in the Lorde euen so sayth the Spirite for they reste from theyr laboures and theyr workes followe them Wee knowe and acknowledge O Lambe of eternall light that with thee is true rest voyde of labour true life voyde of death true felicitie voyde of all trouble and miserie Wee knowe also that our workes which thorow thy grace we do according to thy wil go not before vs to make our way and passage into heauen which thy bloud and merites only haue done but that thither by thy great goodnes and fauour they followe vs to receiue reward at thy bounteous and liberall hand Lastlye for that the tyme of thy fynall iudgement doth approach and thy Aungels are shortly to be sent to reape the haruest of the earth and to cut downe the vynes of the vyneyarde thereof endue vs O Lorde with thy grace instruct vs in thy trueth that as pure Corne wee maye bee gathered into the Barnes of thy euerlasting blisse and neither as tares or wicked weedes bee throwne into the furnace of eternall fyre nor as the vngratious grapes full of vylenesse and vanytye bee cast into the Wnepresse of thy wrath which shal be trode without the citie that is executed without thy kingdome for without shalbe doggs and enchanters and whoremongers and murtherers and Idolaters and whosoeuer loueth or maketh lyes the bloud shall come euen to the horse bridles the tortures and tormentes shall reach from the meanest man to the mightiest monarch that for the space of a 1600 furlonges which is for euer and euer for rightlye may that square number of foure times foure intimate vnto vs eternitie And syth O thou second Adam and restorer of mankind thy church hath since thy natiuitie walked here on earth nowe neere sixtene hundred yeres as it were 1600 furlongs which is in hundreds of yeres proportionable to the time that was betweene the first Adam and the floud of Noe strike into our heartes with thy remembring spirite a deepe impression of thy comming that it be not with vs as in the days before the floud wherin they did eate and drinke and marrie and gaue in marriage and knewe nothing till the flould came and tooke them all away but that casting away all carelesnes and securitie we may like wise and faithfull seruantes be founde watchfull readie and diligent in fulfilling of thy will and doing of our duties earnestly praying and dayly expecting for thy comming that thou our Lorde and master so finding vs being the author and fountaine of all blessednesse mayst truely make vs blessed Come Lord Iesus Let thy mightie hande and out stretched arme O Lorde be still our defence thy mercy louing kindnes in Iesus Christ the deare sonne our saluatiō thy true and holy worde our instruction thy grace and holy spirite our comfort and consolation vnto the ende and in the end Annotations WHereas in the tenth verse of the xiij Chapter mention is made of a beast rysing vppe out of the earth hauing two hornes like the Lambe but speaking like the Dragon wee expounded the earth to be the Church militant so taking it in the better part as conferred and layde opposite to the sea from whence the former beast did proceede taking the sea for gentilisme and the earth for Christianisme Jf it shall better please any to take the earth in that place in the worser part then doth it signifie corruption superstition terrestriall appetites and earthly conceiptes of heauenly matters and in whether soeuer part the worde be interpreted the designation of the person there expressed is the same and receiueth no alteration Whereas in the thirde verse of the xiij Chapter there beeing mention made that one of the seauen heades of the Romaine Empire was as it were wounded to death but the deadly wounde thereof was healed we there expounde that heade to be Rome and Jtalie and the wounde to bee ciuill warres which interpretation is iustified by truth of historie yet considering the course of this prophesie and the exposition of the Angell in the xvij chapter in these wordes the seauen heades are seauen hilles whereon the woman sitteth they are also seauen Kinges fiue are fallen one is another is not yet come and when hee commeth he shall continue but a short time and the beast that was and is not is the eight and one of the seauen We incline rather to this interpretation that followeth and one of his heades was as it were wounded to death and his deadlie wounde was healed The seauen heades signified seauen Kinges or soueraigne gouernours that haue ruled and borne chiefe authoritie within the citie of Rome The first were Kinges the seconde Consulles the thirde Dictators the fourth decem viri the fift were Tribunes Militare the sixt Romaine Emperours the seuenth French Emperours the head that had the deadly wound but was healed was the sixt which receiued that wounde in the death of Iulius Caesar and which wounde was twelue yeares after cured by Augustus for in Iulius Caesar the Emperours beganne and in him that heade had like to haue ended but that the deadly wounde thereof was cured by Augustus as for the triumuirate it