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A20037	That the pope is that Antichrist: and An answer to the obiections of sectaries, which condemne this Church of England Two notably learned and profitable treatises or sermons vpon the 19. verse of the 19. chapter of the Reuelation: the first whereof was preached at Paules Crosse in Easter terme last, the other purposed also to haue bene there preached. By Lawrence Deios Bachelor in Diuinitie, and minister of Gods holy word.	Deios, Laurence, d. 1618.	1590 (1590)	STC 6475; ESTC S118248	84,851	202

this partelie the Gospell is called the Gospell of the kingdome These are the principall thinges pertaining to Christes kingdome heere in earth and these by his grace and goodnes wee haue among vs. Nowe they haue a third branch of a kingly reigne which is a forme of outwarde gouernement the ende and scope whereof is that order should bee kept sinne shoulde bee punished and corrected among Gods people by ecclesiasticall punishments and censures This they saye wee want and therefore doe not acknowledge Christ our king They imagine that Christ hath set a forme externall by which euery congregation shoulde bee framed in this behalfe as that there must bee besides the teachers in euerie congregation a certaine number of Elders which must electe depose ordeine make orders and decrees reprooue suspende and excommunicate when they see good This is the kingdome which they striue for if this bee not in euery parish Christ they saye can not bee our king we haue cast him off Christ is our king not onelie by his necessarie to saluation directlie commaunded as the Priestes did in the dayes of Malachie If wee reiected gouernement and refused all correction and punishmēt for sinne we reiected an expresse commaundement of Christ our king But in reiecting the censures of ten or sixe or any such number in euerie congregation wee doe not repugne anie open or knowen commaundement of Christ our king Wherefore notwithstanding the gouernement which wee haue and the excluding of that gouernement which they would obtrude wee haue Christ to bee our king and hee acknowledgeth vs his people subiectes and armie Nowe wee must see what it is that maketh them to thinke that we denie the priesthoode of our Sauiour Iesus Christ and so make that he is no priest to vs. If hee be no priest for vs then hath hee not sacrificed and satisfied for our sinnes then hath hee not neither doth make intercession for vs. Hee that denieth the priesthoode of Iesus Christ loseth these his benefites He is a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech and all must come vnto God by him Now then wherein doe wee deny his priesthoode Because saye they we sacrilegiously prophane his name with our idolatrie and because we prostitute his blood and make him a priest and sacrifice to infidels and most wicked offenders His priesthoode were denyed if we trusted in anie but in his sacrifice for the forgiuenes of our sinnes or if wee made prayers to God in anie mediators name but his But they saye wee denie his priesthoode because wee make prayer vnto him out of a booke for this they call idolatrie But by that booke wee praye to God the father in his name for thinges agreeable to his will with faith and from the heart Therefore there is no idolatrie in that nor any thing that derogateth from his priesthoode The second thing wherein wee denie his priesthoode is they saye because wee prostitute the blood of Christ and make him a priest and sacrifice to infidels and the most wicked offenders In baptisme they say it is prostituted because wee giue the Sacrament to the whole nation in the Supper because wicked impenitent persons are receaued of vs to it and generally in both because at the first by proclamation of the prince and vpon the sudaine from idolatrie and poperie streight after the reigne of Queene Marie all were receaued to the Sacrament and that people is yet retained But for the infantes to bee baptised although the parentes were wicked there is good warrant First for that their auncetors were receaued into the couenant and the sinne of the father shall bee vpon himselfe and is personall and necessarily the punishment passeth not God himselfe sayeth the sonne shall not beare the iniquitie of the father Another reason is because there is hope of the childe that hee shall bee brought vp to knowe God and beleeue in Iesus Christ and last of all for that there is none baptized but some doe vndertake for him that it shall be performed they marueile that a whole nation shoulde bee baptised and yet Christ hath saide Go teach all nations baptising them And as touching the whole multitude receaued after the ende of the reigne of Queene Marie First it can not bee saide but they had teaching in the dayes of the most worthie king Edwarde although they fell from it Secondly they came not as meere strangers to Christian Religion but as men from an aberration in Christian Religion which they might easilie correct if they were not wilfull And what shoulde that preiudice the Church nowe If they had not bene taught then yet nowe they haue bene taught aboue these thirtie yeres Last of all in such maner Gods people haue bene reduced to Gods worshippe againe from idolatrie vnder Iosias and Ezechias Kings of Iudah Nowe concerning the Sacrament of the Supper we doe not prostitute it to infidels We cannot count any in this land infidels whome we know and receiue to the Sacrament of the Supper All make profession of faith all acknowledge Christ God and redeemer and hope for saluation in him if they haue not this we may and ought reiect them If any neglect his duety it is no preiudice nor cause to condemne the rest So likewise knowen wicked offenders if they be impenitent are remooued and if it were so that some such as are not to be made partakers doe communicate is that a denying of his sacrifice and priesthoode to the rest It is euill applyed to such but it is not thereby plucked from the rest It is applyed to him that hath no benefite but he is not depriued to whom the benefite belongeth The places of Scripture by which they woulde prooue that we denie Christs priesthoode for giuing the Sacrament to such as we receiue are these Ezec. 44.7 first the complaint of God in Ezechiel Yee haue brought into my Sanctuarie strangers vncircūcised in heart vncircūcised in flesh to be in my Sāctuary to pollute my house when ye offer my bread God reproueth thē for making such priests as were vncircūcised in flesh strangers euen heathens idolaters for to be in the sāctuary there to minister was to be a priest Such we make not this pertaineth nothing to the receiuing of any among vs to the sacramēt To this they ioine another complaint of Ieremie Lam. 1.10 The enemie hath stretched out his hand vpon all her pleasant things for she hath seene the heathen enter into her sanctuarie whom thou diddest cōmand that they should not enter into thy Church This is spoken of the enemies which should possesse al they had be Lords ouer them spoile their Sanctuarie by violence These were heathen idolaters the Babylonians Such should not enter into the Church We receiue none such as professe themselues to be idolaters as beleeue not in Christ and are open persecuters of his people Thus it is apparant we do not prostitute the blood of Christ to

the poyson of their doctrine and his mightie defence against all their manifest terrors and secret conspiracies This the God of all might and comfort graunt vnto vs through Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour To whome with the Father and the holy ghost three persons and one God be all honour and glory world without ende Amen The second Sermon vpon Apoc. cap. 19. verse 19. I Deuided this verse into two parts The one is of those that doe oppugne the other of those that doe defend I haue spoken alreadie of them that giue the onset They were the beast the kings of the earth and their armies I shewed that the beast is the Pope of Rome the kings of the earth are they that yeelde obedience to him their armies are first the spiritual and learned sorte that striue to maintaine the popedome by witte learning and secondly the warriers and other people that by sword and force do fight for him Now it remaineth to speake of the parties the are oppugned and doe defend themselues They fight against him that sitteth on the horse against his armie For armie some translations reade souldiers But it doth not so well aunswere to the Greeke The word signifieth an armie pressed forth and set in order to battel He that rideth on the horse is vnderstoode to bee Christ His armie are they that beleeue his gospel obey it These are assalted oppugned by the beast his armies Two thinges must bee obserued in this onset made against Christ and his people by the enemies First that Christ and his people haue the right and lawfull possession of the Church and the trueth of heauen of earth and of all things and that they would thrust both Christ and his out of this possession Christ sayeth of himselfe All power is giuen vnto me in heauen and in earth and his people are made the heires of the world for to thē it is said all things are yours and againe He that ouer commeth shall inherite all The beast then and his armies labour to thrust Christ his armie out of all Which they could not doe if Christ and his people had not the right and possession of all And Christ hath suffered them to besiege him and his people and to thrust them into verie great straites for a season For they haue bene constrained to flie into the wildernes and there to ly hid But now Christ will vp on the white horse and raise the siege and bee shut vp so straite no longer That is the first thing that followeth of this that the beast is he that maketh the assault The second thing that followeth thereof is this that the enemies euer seeke their owne destruction or els it would not come vpon them It should seeme reason that Christ and his people should set vpon the beast his armies For is it meete that they holding that which belongeth vnto Christ frō him should not be suffered to liue and to enioye it But Christ dealeth not so he suffereth thē quietly to withdrawe thēselues from him and letteth their fury increase till they go about to roote him and his people from among them He giueth them scope to shewe their malice Now when Gods people seeme strangeliest assaulted and are in danger of greatest bondage then is their deliuerance neere at hand A prouerbe was made of the dealing of Pharao with the Israelities Quando duplicantur lateres tum venit Moses When the brickes are dubled thē Moses commeth When the enemies armies are greatest and best furnished then are they most neere their ouerthrow It is a thing worthie to be marked how Antichrist still giueth the onset and all his attempts for the most part haue turned to his losse This much of the beast his assaulting and of Christ and his being assaulted and defending thēselues It followeth to shew what it meaneth that Christ is described here by riding vpon a horse The horse that he sitteth vpon is said to be a white horse And that it is Christ that rideth vpon him there can be no doubt For the discriptiō that goeth before can agree to none other Thus Iohn saith of him I sawe heauē open and behold a white horse and he that sate vpon him was called faithful and true and he iudgeth and fighteth righteously his eyes were as a flame of fire on his head were many crownes he had a name written that no man knew but himselfe he was clothed in a garment dipt in blood and his name is called the word of God and out of his mouth went asharpe sword that with it he should smite the heathen For he shal rule them with a rod of yron for he it is that treadeth the wine-presse of the fiercenes wrath of almightie God All these thinges agree to Christ alone He is faithfull and true in his promises hee iudgeth fighteth righteously in punishing the wicked defending his people while they continue in obedience to him his eyes are as fire he seeth searcheth all things yea the hearts of men He reigneth ouer all and hath obteined many crownes by many victories and kings and princes subdued vnto him his garment was dipt in blood to redeeme vs and he hath dipt it againe doth now dayly in the slaughter of his enemies his name essence is such as none knoweth but God that is himselfe And hee is the word of God which was in the beginning which is God by whome all thinges were made Out of his mouth commeth the sharpe sword of Gods iust decree which cōdēneth the enemies last of all he executeth gods vengeance vpon thē and as it were presseth them in the winepresse of his wrath Christ therefore is vnderstood by him that sitteth on the horse But why is Christ said to sit vpon a horse that a white horse What meaneth this horse It is well knowen to all men that the horse is a warlike beast as it were made for warre He is strōg to carry bold to come vpō the face of the enemie he is swift to make speede fit to be turned this way that way So he was apointed to warre But for priestly actions and persons he was not thought meete Therefore the priests of Egypt might not ride vpon a horse It was thought among them a thing prophane Neither might some of the heathen Romane Flamines so much as touch a horse And euen now it is thought an vnseemely thing for the Pope to bee seene to ride vpon a horse within the citie of Rome except onely vpon one solemne day in the yeare when he rideth to the Laterane and all his prelates with him vpon white horses For otherwise in Rome he is caryed vpon mens shoulders for the most part Once a yeere he would like Christ ride vpon a white horse yet hee neuer rideth on the horse whereon Christ rideth he can not abide that white horse What then is this white horse