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A20307	A short description of Antichrist vnto the nobilitie of Englande, and to all my brethren and contreymen borne and dwelling therin, with a warnynge to see to, that they be not deceaued by the hypocrisie and crafty conueyaunce of the clergie	Old, John, fl. 1545-1555, attributed name. aut; Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586, attributed name. aut	1555 (1555)	STC 673; ESTC S116863	35,736	88

al heretikes by crafte gyle and falsheed seduced and begyled the Emperours and kinges and robbed them of their dominions and powers wherby the hath exalted him selfe not only aboue them but also aboue God And then became he a most cruell tyrant and made lawes of death for all soch as he and his fylthy secte did adiuge heretikes Therby colourably to morther and destroye all soch as did ones speake or preach against his vsurped power or by any meanes reueyle his iniquitie for that calleth he and all his filthye generation of infideles heresie Which exemple of makinge of lyke lawes oure english bishops did compasse and bringe to passe about the yere of oure Lorde 1420. then beinge a bishop Lorde Chaunceloure and a nother lorde priuey Seale wherby being in great authoritie high estimation amongest the nobles and counselours thorow flattery circūuented the kinge and his counsaill and other of the nobles to make a law in Englande to suppresse heresie spronge vp in this realme But what that heresie was that must only be adiudged by the Antichristes lawes and by his sworen secte the generation of infideles the enemyes of God aduersaries of Christe For as it is reported by cronicles it was the reuelation of Antichristes iniquitie that he calleth heresye Forther to colour their cruel tirānie they sayed with their forfathers the Bishops Priestes Scribes and Phariseys and the rest of the Iewish clergie It is not lawfull to vs for to sley any man And as for vs ye may trust well inough we be to holy to deceaue you You maye frely wtout scrupulositie of consciēce crucifie whome so euer we committe in to voure handes For if he be not an euill doer we wil neuer deliuer him vnto you You re honours neade neuer to examine the cause but boldly burne him Oure soules for youres His blood vpon oure heades And by soch subtile meanes made all Kinges and Officers of Englāde that haue bin synce their tourmentours and hange mē A goodly office that they haue sett all kinges and you right honorable lordes in They haue made the kinge and you their hange men not a whit better And yet for al their warrantyse puttīge their soules for youres though ye wash neuer so cleane your hāde with Pylate whē ye thus morther the innocentes for their saith in Iesu Christe be assured that Gods curse will not departe from you youre howses excepce ye spedelye repente But how that law agreeth with Gods worde it shal appere Euen as God the deuel Christ and Antichrist light and darkenes First God by his Prophet Esai sayeth Esai 11. they shal not hurte nor shall they kil in all my holy hyll By this holy hil meanīg this his church Wherfore yf youre lordly Lorde bishops were true ministres in this church they wold not morther any man for his faith / or for want of a good faith which he can not haue of his awne power and studie The Prophet Hieremie sayeth also Iere. 7. Behold these men saye vnto me where is the worde of the Lorde Let it come Where as I neuer the lesse leading the flocke in thy wayes haue compelled no man by violence for I neuer desired mans deeth This knowest thou well Here Hieremie sayeth that he leading the flocke in the Lordes wayes compelled none by violence to walke therin This doctrine and exemple geuen by Hieremie agreeth but sclenderlye with Antichristes canons decrees lawes nor with the law newly reuyued by your lordships consentes and laste of all with youre bishops mortheringe and tormentinge of your lerned men Also when Christe going vnto Hierusalem Ioan and Iames entered in to a citie of the Samaritanes to make prouision for Christe But the citesins wold not receaue Christ Wherfore Ioan and Iames retourned to Christ and shewed to him the vnkindnes of the citesins sayeng vnto him Master will thou that we commaundye fyre to come from heauen and consume them Iesus turned to thē / and rebuked them sayenge You know not of what spirit ye be The sonne of man is not come to destroye mēs lyues but to saue them If your lordly lorde bisshops were Christes true seruātes then wold they folow his doctrine and example As Christ sayeth He that serueth me let him folow me Ioh. 18. Ioan. 12. And he that foloweth me walketh not in darknes But all men maye perceaue that this their mortherīge is mere contrary to both Christes doctrine and example and vtterly bewrayeth them to be the seruantes of Antichriste As Paul sayeth 1. Tim. 5. Good deades be manifeste and they that be euyll can not be hid The parable of Christe of the tares sowed by the enemie vpon the good seed which the master wold not haue drawē vp vntill harueste leste drawinge vp the tares Math. 3. the good wheate shuld also haue ben drawen vp declareth manifestlie that Christe wold not any man of an euil faith to be killed for his euill faith For if Paul had byn tormented to deeth for wāte of a good faith whē he was a persequuter of Christes church He thē had neuer bin the Apostle of the gentiles ne yet the most laborious worke man that euer wrought in Christes vinyard And if Sainte Augustine had foūde so cruell tyrātes to haue persequuted him to deeth before he was cōuerted by God at the preachinge of S. Ambrose thē the church had wā●ed at this daye as godly a doctor wryter as euer wrote in Christes church sence the Apostles But ouer besides Christes doctrine and exmple which be not any errours or vperfite doctrines the Apostles doctrine is that the seruante of God shulde not stryue 2. Tim. 2 but to be gētle to al men apte to teach and one that can suffer the euill with mekenes and can enforme them that resiste the trueth He sayeth not can kill them that resiste the trueth but can enforme them For neither he nor nay mā can know when it shall please God to open the eyes of his heart and to geue vnto him a perfite faith which now ys holdē captiue in vnbelefe at the wil of the Lorde This doctine of the Apostle although you wil not geue credite therto yet proueth it manifestly before all men that your lordly lorde bishops be not the seruauntes of God that shuld suffer the euill accordinge to Christes doctrine and example And also this doctrine of the Apostle proueth that youre law reuyued is against the doctrine of Christe and of his Apostle And therfore is a wicked law inuented by Antichriste and his filthy genratiō and sluttish secte of infideles to subuert extinguish al godly knowleage faith Also the Apostle sayethrif ther be any that obeyeth not oure teachinges 2. Thes 3 sende vs worde of him by a letter and haue no company with him that he may be ashamed And counte him not as an enemie but warne him as a brother Perceaue ye not honorable lordes

oure trust and confidence that we oughe to haue of remissiō of oure sinnes at Gods handes for Christes sake only and now to haue confidence to haue it at Antichristes handes for a litle money that is most contrary to God to Christe in all thinges Oh most abomination of desolation stādinge in mans cōsciēce that shulde be the tēple of God and the dwellinge place of the holy goost Is it not a foule abomination of desolation stādinge in the holy place In the stede of Christes only one sacrifice which he made of himselfe to God his father for vs vpon the crosse now to set vp a new sacrifice to be made to God for vs of a pece of bread and a cuppe of wyne and to lyfte vp them to be shewed to the people to be gased vpon and to be worshipped and not to be receaued and to be eaten drōken accordinge to Christes institution and commaundemente Is it not abhomination of dēsolation stādinge in the holy church of God in the stede of the gospell to be preached and declared vnto the people in soch maner that they mighte receaue comforte and hope therby to haue the gospell and other partes of the holy scriptures / to be read songe in a speache nether vnderstanded not knowen of the hearers of them Rom. 15. Sainte Paul sayeth / what so euer was written was written for our doctrine and learninge that thorow patience and consolatiō of the holy scriptures we mighte receaue hope But Antichrist hath ordeyned a payne sownde to occupie the eares of the people callinge it the gospell although therbe no interpretation or declaration therof made to the people Ephe. 5. For he his filthie secte well knowe that the Apostle sayeth that all thinges that be declared opened bringe lighte Which Antichriste his filthy generation maye not suffer nor abydes because their workes Ioan. 3. which be al wycked and done in darkenes shuld by the lighte he made manifest and openly knowē to the world For euen as Christe came an to the world to geue light to the world Euen so is Antichriste came in to the world to take awaye from the people the light that Christ broughte in to the world 1. Cor. 14. The Apostle commaundeth that what so euer be done in the church that it should be done to the instruction and edificatiō of the congregation For sayeth he yf any man speake with tonges let it be by two or thre at the moste and that by order let one interpretate or declare And yf ther be no man there to let him kepe silēce and speake not to the congregacion Do not your lordships perceaue plainly how Antichriste his filthy generation study and laboure with policy to subuerte all godly and profitable ordinaunces made by Christ and by his Apostles Wherfore cōtrary to Paules doctrine and the godly ordinaunces receaued do ye suffer our priestes to reade a synge the holy scriptures dayly in the churches to the people in a tonge that they vnderstande not nor perceaue that is spoken calling it Gods seruice cōpelling the people to come to heare it Who vnderstādeth or is taught any thinge therby They mocke the people with a vayne soūde wherby they haue no lust nor commoditie nor profite Is not this Antichristes ordinaunce of the holy scriptures to be reade in a tonge or speche nor vnderstande nor perceaued of the people Collos ●● cōtrary to the scripture that commaundeth that the worde of God shuld dwel in vs abundauntly that we mighte teach the one the other A wōderfull crafty abomination of desolation standing in the holy place depriuinge the people of the vnderstandinge of holy scriptures And where Christe hath ordened certen Apostles certen prophetes some Euangelistes and doctours to fynish a nomber of the electe and to buylde the misticall body of Christe In the stede of which ministers of Christe by Antichriste are entred in theues that receaue and take greate reuenuwes and profites of the benefices but they do no thinge the office that Christe appointed and assigned vnto the office to be done Euen raueninge wolfes that nether spare nor fauoure the flocke of Christe And no meruayl it is for in that they take the profites of their benefices and do not the office ther vnto belonginge by Christes sentēce they be theues by daye and by nighte Ioan. 10. Whose office and cominge is not to feede and to fauoure the flocke sayeth Christ but to steale to kyll and destroye as your lordships haue therof to moch experience and most certen profe Is it not therfore abomination of desolation standinge in the holy place to see a thefe and a murtherer stande in the church of God in the steade of a true and diligente pastoure and godly feader or bisshop Is it not abomination of deslation standinge in the chief cytie of Englande to sea franked fat Boore sittinge at euery sermō preached at Pauls crosse and thesame not be founde ones in the yere in the same pulpet feadinge the flocke committed to his spirituall charge Is it not abominatiō of desolation stādinge in the holy place to se the holy scriptures in oure natiue English tonge writtē vpon euery wall in the churches now to be by commaundemente blotted out and in the stede therof erected kerued ymages of wood and of stone by Gods owne sentence accursed and all they that make the same And how they that cause thē to be set vp shall escape the same curse I know not They also vpon palmes sondaye lifte vp a cloth and saye hayle oure kynge to a Roode made of a wooden blocke Doutles a worthy kinge for soch a people Now right honorable Lordes I trust ye be not ignorante of the tyme wherin Antichriste shall come regne and rage againste God and Christe Euen verely now when there was neuer moare abomination of desolation standing in mās conscience and erected and set vp in the temple and church of God Where as in the stede of a constante fayth in Christ is planted a most wicked faith trust in the man of sinne And in the place of Christes only one sacrifice made vnto for vs for euer sufficiently is erected and set vp a sacrifice made of bread and wyne daylye to be made a sacrifice for vs. And in the stede of the holy scriptures to be declared that the people might vnderstāde the sence and meaninge therof is erected and ordeyned the gospels and holy scriptures to be read and spoken in a tonge and speache that the people which heare the voyce ●a●e no profite or comforte therby By this pointe of abhomination of Desolation all the clergie for forth them selfes that they abhorre no thinge moare then the lighte of Gods worde Ioan. 3. Which no man doeth but he that doeth euill sayeth Christe that lyeth not In the stede of pastours and spiritual teachers be entred in theues and most cruel murtherers And in the stede of