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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

shall ascend to his high exaltation of power and dignitie out of the same place from whence the Seauen headed Beast was raysed or to speak plainly it shall be exalted to the highest by the divell who gaue to the first Beast his power For this cannot be meant of his first rising because it is expressely sayd in the text that this beast was before And so it seemeth that all the difficulties may be cleared touching this seuenth Head which as it is evident in the Text is sometimes called the Beast And now for a breathing I desire to know whether any person monarchie or kingdome can be found in the world or whether any can be imagined to come hereafter to whom all these Prophesies can be so fitly applyed I come to the next remarkeable circumstance which is the ten crowned hornes That the Roman Empire as well in the time of their Consuls as of their Cesars had many kings at their commaund is evident by their Histories and I haue partly proved before But in this Revelation Probl. ● and specially in the 17 chap. there are divers singularities to be observed in the description of these hornes whereof in Daniell there is no mention First because it is said that at the time of this Revelation they had not received a a kingdome 2 But they shall receaue power at one hour with the beast 3. They are crowned 4. They haue one minde to giue their power and authoritie to the Beast 5. They shall fight against Christ 6. They shall be overcome by him 7. And then they shall hate the whore and make her desolate and naked shall eate her flesh and burne her with fire Not one of these things can be truly applyed to the kings that were under the ancient Roman Empire which are indeede spoken of by Daniel For they had receaved their kingdoms before and were not to expect it in time to come 2. They are not sayd to be crowned because perhaps they held their crowns but as tenants at sufferance 3. They did not giue their power to the Romans but were conquered and subdued We do not read that they did professedly fight against Christ although they were Pagans or that they were overcome by him neither can it be said that they did hate the whore or burne her with fire Massinissa Prusias and Ptolomee gaue their kingdoms to Rome but they had receaved them long before S. Iohns time and did never hate the whore nor make her desolate or burne her with fire The Goths Vandales did burn Rome but they never gaue their power authoritie to the Romans The like differences may be shewed of all other kings that were in the time of the Roman Empire or before These ten hornes therefore spoken of in the 17 chap. of the Revelation cannot be understood of those ten which were spoken of by Daniel although they may haue somewhat in common with them But where now shall we finde these kings Look over all the world and see where they may be found When shall they receaue their kingdome and how long shall we looke for them The impediment of the Roman Empire is long since removed by the testimonies See Probl. 7. as well of Divines as Chronologers If the beast or these kings be not yet come when will they come Out of Rome I say again as it is said or the Roman Empire Vide Abb. demonst Antic c. 4. there note the words of the Synod cited out of Aventin ann 7 it is in vain to seeke And if these kings which shall giue their power and Authoritie to Rome haue not yet receaved their kingdome nor given it to the beast when shall they receaue it or giue it to him or when shall we see the accomplishment of this Prophecie shall we looke for it as the Iewes looke for their Messias But it is the opinion of the best soundest Interpreters Our most excellent learned Soverain king Iames holdeth this opinion in Ep. Admonit So Napier in Apo. Rensuer in Isag c. that these ten hornes do signifie the ten chief Provinces subject to the Roman Empire which at one time with the beast namely upon removing the power of the Empire receaved their power and by degrees grew up into kingdoms about the same time when also the Pope began to take upon him the title of Pontifex Max. namely about the yeare of our Lord 700 or within an hundred yeares after As it may be these Graecia Germania Gallia Brittania Asturia or Leon. Whereunto now is joyned Spaine Pannonia or Hungaria Polonia Suetia Dania and Norvegia Greece you may say was before True as a Roman Province but upon the translation of the state it became a Monarchie in it self which was not absolute as long as the chief title was giuen to Rome Now if this be so when shall we see this performed if it be not alreadie When we see that all these great Princes of Christendome heretofore did yeeld their authoritie power to the Roman Pontifex And now many of them haue forsaken him as England Scotland Denmark Sweden and others of Germanie A great parte of the Dutch Swisses and divers other which are fallen away from Rome France and Venice wavering is it to be imagined that they will againe giue their power authoritie to Rome or ever come againe to giue their power and authoritie to any other Therefore I say that this prophecie is now fulfilled or never to be expected For if we consider well the times forepast we may see that all the great kingdoms of Europe which were before subject to the Roman Empire did arise and begin to take upon them absolute soveranitie and power of the sword upon the remoue and decay of the Roman Empire which was the time foreshewed for the revealing of Antichrist And did all giue their power and authoritie to the Roman Pontifex they did all fight against Christ Iesus in persecuting the professors of his word and Scriptures by the incitement and instigation of the Pope And all those which are fallen from the Pope haue been overcome by the scripture word of God which is called the sword of Christ Iesus If these things be so then why should we looke for any other accomplishment of these Prophecies or how should we understand that they can be fulfilled if not alreadie Can it be denied but all Christian kings gaue their power and authoritie and some gaue their lands and territories also to Rome Constantine they say gaue to the Pope his diadem with the pallace of Lateran and imperiall seat Arithpertus otherwise called Herebertus the Lombard gaue the Cottia Alpes wherein standeth Genua Pipin and Charles of France gaue the principallitie of Ravenna with the Duchie of Beneventum and Spoletium Henry the IIII Emperour of Germanie and Iohn king of England gaue up their crownes to whom but to the Pope of Rome Can it be denied All the Christian kings of that part

church as well which is in Brittanie Germanie France Spaine Africa America and India parts where thou art not as at Rome and yet confine him to heauen as if he were wholly excluded from the earth who is here as present as there But they say againe the Pope claymeth onely as Vicar to Christ O still blaspheamer answer againe what hath a Vicar to doe in the presence of his superiour yea of such a Superiour who filleth heauen and earth and hath bound himself by speciall promise Ier 23. Matth. 28. to be with his church for ever Dost thou not in making thy self his Vicar deny his presence and in denying the presence of our Lord and Saviour Christ in his church deny him to be truly God Quid verba audiam cum facta videam Againe I aske whether thou dost not in this name usurpe the rights of our Saviour and so also declare thy self to be his enimie When the valiant King Edward the third of England intended warr against Phillip the French King he proclaymed himself King of France that was the beginning of the warr so everie Prince taketh it for a denuntiation of war when his neighbour Prince taketh his title And shall not we say that this is a publike proclamation of war by the Pope against our Saviour Christ when he taketh upon him the stile of Pont. Max. that properly belongeth to our Saviour and was never giuen truly to any man but to him yea doth he not exalt himself aboue Christ For Christ did not take it to himself but received it of his Father But the Pope taketh it to himself without the gift of any unlesse it were of Phocas the Murtherer of whom we shall speake hereafter Neyther yet doth he onely take this title to himself but other titles also not inferiour as caput and sponsus ecclesiae c. which onely belong to our Saviour I demand further whom doth he follow in this title Doth he follow Melchisedek or Aaron They were both called High Priests and they were indeede Types of our Saviour Christ the onely true High-Priest and ordeined by God for certeine signes that he should come and so had a lawfull calling But when the truth was come then all types were abolished yea and they also are abolished from Christ fallen from grace whosoever do use them Whereupon the godly Fathers do affirme that the Céremonies of the Law are now not onely mortuae but mortiferae not onely in use dead but to be used deadly And the reason is apparant for that whosoever doth use them doth deny that our Saviour is come in the flesh namely by using those Ceremonies which were Instituted to shew that he was not then come but to be expected But the Pope using the title of High Priest after the order of Melchisedek or of Aaron doth use a Ceremonie instituted to shew that Christ was not come in the flesh but was to be expected Therefore I aske Whether he doth not denye that Christ Iesus is come in the fl●sh and so also declare himself to be Antichrist But if they will say that in taking this title upon him he followeth our Saviour Christ I aske by what authoritie or who calleth him to it No man sayth the Apostle taketh this title upon him saue he that is called of God as was Aaron And againe the Priesthood of Christ cannot passe from one to another The reason because Christ is God eternall who can haue no successor in his offices and therefore he that will take upon him to succeed Christ doth deny his divinitie as he that will be his Vicar by pretence of his absence Well if the Pope can shew no calling then I ask by what example or precedent if it were a title lawfull to be used why did none of the Apostles nor of the Disciples use it not Tuus not Timothie not Paul nor Peter not Iames the brother of our Lord Bishop of Ierusalem President of the counsell of the Apostles nor yet our Apostle S. Iohn which outlived all the rest and therefore might best do it In a word I finde none to whom this title of Summus or Maximus Pontifex hath any wayes ben applied but either Melchisedek or Aaron or to our Saviour Christ nor any that hath taken it upon them by humain authoritie but onely the Idolatrous Pontifex Maximus that was in Rome of whom I haue spoken before And if the Pope cannot justifie his highest and greatest Pontificalitie by some title from one or other of the three first it will fall out inevitable that he is the true and undoubted successor of the last And that is most consonant and agreeable to the words of our prophecie that Antichrist should be one of the seauen heads of Rome and namely that head of whom S. Iohn sayth He was and is not and yet is as is before proved Probl 2. The same also may be proved by his name Papa whereof divers haue made divers derivations but for my part I thinke none more probable then to say it cometh from one of the titles used or usurped by the old Roman Emperors which upon their coines were wont to stampe Pa. Pa. for Pater Patriae and now the Roman Prelate as he succeedeth them in the name of Pont. Maximus so he taketh that title of Papa likewise to proue himself their undoubted Successor I will not therefore stand here further to confute their pretence and claime to be Vicarius Christi although I might say that it cannot stand with the celsitude of a Pontifex max. to be but a Vicar neither can a Vicar dispense with the lawes of his superiour nor will I answer to Tu es Petrus and such like which haue been so many times answered by our learned divines neither do I think my self bound to refute the immoderate titles giuen to the Pope by S. Barnard or other late Doctors a pointe of this weight is not to be carried away with swelling phrases of Rhetorick but by evident testimonies of undoubted truth Certain it is that he who said Tu es Petrus never sayd Tu eris Pontifex Maximus nor Tu eris meus vicarius Chrysost no nor super hunc Petrum aedificabo c. neither did he giue any keyes to him more then to the rest of the Apostles But if I may speak my opinion this name Pontifex max. is the verie name of blasphemie written in the forehead of that purple whore euen that Antichrist c. So much therefore be spoken of this name of Pontifex Max. which the Pope taketh to himself A third title is Servus servorum Dei This attribute the Pope also and he alone accepteth acknowledgeth and useth it But this title was never giuen to any but by the godly prophet and patriarch Noah to the cursed Canaan whose Father was the scorner of that godly patriarch and his posteritie the mortall enimies of our Saviour Christ in his Church of Israell and so a type

greater abhominations Anno 998 Silvester the second got the Popedome by the helpe of the Divell to whom he did homage Kingdome of the Divell Fasc Temp. Volat. Plessis ex Pantal. Quid ais Suares which was so well knowne that divers of his Successors made those diuelish Artes their profession Was this the Chaire of S. Peter are these his Successors If these be not who are their Successors Benet the eight and Iohn the one and twentieth And of these Necromantick popes there were 22. saith Napier one of Zegedin And this being now the seat of the beast the divel how hath it been recovered from them since Responde both Magicians Benet the ninth otherwise called Theophilact the scholler of Silvester This Benet sacrificed to Divels in woods and mountains and by Magick practised to gette himselfe the loue of women sayth Cardinall Benno Silvester the third and Gregorie the sixth also Magicians And at this time being about 1046 the Sea of Rome began to shew it self like the Divell having three heads like Cerberus namely Silvester the third Benet the ninth and Gregorie the sixth Anno 1048 Damasus gott the popedome by poysoning his predecessor and intrusion shortly after whom followed two Schismes more Yet the kingdome of the divell and so we come to the renoumed Gregorie the seauenth otherwise called Hildebrand famous for Negromancie Blasphemie Sacrilege He also threw the holy sacrament into the fire sic Benno Responde Suarez Perjurie Simonie Treason and murther the Trumpet of Sedition and firebrand of Civill warres who ruled all things at his pleasure in the times of divers of his predecessors untill he had gotten the papacie to himself which is sayd to be in anno 1073. Anno 1080 followed another notable schisme for one and twentie yeares together O abomina●ionem de olatonis Plessis ex Lamperto Herveld Responde Sua Anno 1103 Anselmus Archbishop of Canterburie in a Synod publikely declared that by forbidding Priests to marrie Sodomie became frequent amongst them Anno 1118 followed another Schisme in number accounted to be the two and twentieth Schisme of that Sea and that was no sooner ended But anno 1124 another Schisme being the three and twentieth and anno 1130 the four twentieth schisme and so for many yeares one schisme followed another which continued till the year 1138 〈◊〉 of cursing Psal 10. vid. H●eron in iocum the Popes still curssing and excommunicating one the other whereby arose manie factions and seditions in Rome in the time of Innocent the second which continued still to 1188. Anno 1154 Hadrian the fourth thundered out excommmunications against the Romans untill they had driuen their Consuls out of the cittie and likewise against the Emperor Frederick for holding his left stirrop and putting his owne name before the Popes and thereupon sowed the seeds of Rebellion in the Empire Anno 1177 Pope Alexander most insolently treadeth upon the necke of the Emperor Plat●n Biblian Pless ex Pant. c. when he had submitted himself to him his Cleargie singing in the meane time Super aspidem Basiliscum c. Anno 1181 Lucius the third of whom that moderate Elogium which I will recite for a breathing recreation to the Reader Lucius est piscis rex atque tyrannus aquarum A quo discordat Lucius iste parum Devorat hic homines hic piscibus insidiatur Esurit hic semper hic aliquandò satur Amborum vitam si lanx aequata notaret Plus rationis habet qui ratione caret Which may be thus Englished Lusy the fish a tyrant is or king of fish by title From him Pope Lucy differeth in nature but a litle The fish hunts fish men to devour the man doth exercise The fish is sometimes satisfied the man will nought suffice If both their liues were laid in scale weighed with equall hand More reason would be found in him that none doth understand Anno 1188 Clement the third filled all things with robberies and murthers while he sought to get the kingdome of Sicily by armes as escheted unto him Anno 1198 Innocent the third excommunicated King Iohn of England Full of cursing psal 10 7. another spe●●all mark of Antich and filled England with Rebellions and murders till he had forced the poore King to yeeld up his crowne and yet so he could not be in quiet The same pope also excommunicated the Emperor Phillip and published the fiue first bookes of the Decretals Anno 1215 Transubstantiation was decreed and confirmed in the councell of Lateran consisting of 1300 Praelates whereupon insued the Idolatrous worship of the Sacrament Anno 1223 Gregorie the ninth excommunicated the Emperor Frederick He loved cursing psal 109 and sent him to warre against the Saracens and in the meane time tooke Apulia from him absolved the Emperor for a great somme of mony and then excommunicated him twise againe He canonized Francis and Dominick whom their followers compare with our Saviour Christ and are by the Pope allowed Anno 1243 Innocent the fourth excommunicated the Emperor Frederick the second againe and corrupted some of his houshold servants to poyson him The Popes succeeding for many yeares continued in most disloyall and wicked practises against the Emperors of whom I will not speake particulerly because me thinks I stay too long from the most excellent and renowned pope Boniface the eight anno 1290 or 1300. Who commeth in with a pageant of Antichristian pride fulfilling all the prophecies concerning the Revelation and Raigne of Antichrist the place Rome and the state of Rome the thousand two hundred and three score dayes in the Apocalyps being fulfilled and the 1290 dayes of Daniell also being expired Dan. 12. the time drawing neare to the 1335 dayes of the same Prophet which conteyneth fully twise 666. Another great concurrence of prophecies The actions suteable first he reneweth the Iewish Ceremonie of a Iubile by consequent denying Responde Suarez that Christ Iesus coming in the flesh had ended all Iewish Ceremonies and brought in an eternall Sabboth and Iubile By the same he maketh a change of times and by his Indulgences he dispenceth with lawes He sheweth himself one day in Pontificalibus as Pontifex Max. the next day in Imperialibus with a naked sword before him as an Emperor and absolute head of the Roman Empire arrogating to himself in his Decretals and namely in the Sent which he published fulnes of knowledge and power and so boasting that he is God Claiming supreame power and dominion over all princes Kings and Emperors and so advancing himselfe against and aboue all that is called God Pronouncing full remission of all sinnes not poenitentibus as our Lord Iesus Christ did but visitantibus Apostolorum limina These things doth this man a Murderer of his Predecessors if we beleeue Collenucius a nourisher of intestine warres amongst Christians as he did in Greece a rebell to his Soveraigne the Emperor forbiding all Cleargie