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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

Prophet as they loue their own prejudicate opinion not because it is truer but because it is their own For otherwise they would in like manner and measure loue and approue the true sentence of another as I also loue that which they say when they speak truth not because it is their sentence but because it is truth Therefore to returne to our purpose whichsoever of these two interpretations we take or if we take a third more unlikely then eyther considering whereof we speak namely of the continuance of the power of the Ethnike Roman Monarchie that these 42 moneths making 1260 dayes are to be taken for so many yeares from the incarnation of our Lord it must needs be that they are long since expired and consequently that the power and time of that first beast and Monarchie is long since ended For to take them literally for three yeeres and an half as that godly Father from whom I do not willingly dissent doth in another place limit the continuance of Antichrist upon the words a time two times and a half To take them I say literally that is for three yeeres and an half I thinke to all that haue eyther read or heard of their actions will seem to favour of much mistaking I might say of much ignorance but that reverence to that good Father who had not then the help and light which we now haue makes me forbeare other mens affected and obstinate and wilfull blindnes in this point which deserveth the whipping post But of this more hereafter Let us come therefore to the sixth note which is of his Blasphemie against God and his Church But of this I neede not speak any more having said so much alreadie The seuenth is of his warres against the Saints whereof also I need speak but little seeing the said ten horrible persecutions and many others stirred up by the Roman Emperors against the godly christians of the primitiue church are notorious and known to all men and never the like to be found in any kingdome or nation whatsoever no not under the Turkes But I proceed this Beast or Empire had power over all nations As to giue instance but in one we may read of Dioclesian that within a verie short time he obteyned mightie and great victories in all parts of the world then known namely in Africk over Egypt in Asia over Persia in Europe over France and Brittanie Vpon all which premises I conclude with this Problem Whether these things can be applyed to any person kingdome state or monarchie besides Rome And whether any other can be the Antichrist according to these prophecies but onely he that is the seauenth Head king or Commander of the Roman state And thus we see the place of Antichrist and the state or bodie politique which he must haue Let us now come a little nearer to consider of his names III. The Names No men est per quod quidque noscitur The name of everie thing is that whereby it is known or as it were not a men it is that whereby everie thing is noted or distinguished The authoritie to giue names belongeth primarily to God as Gen. 1 Gen 1. Secondarily to princes and superiours as Adam Gen. 2. Gen. 2 19. Thirdly to the people by consent as Ioh. 13 13. Ioh. 13.13 The conditions required in the imposition of names to make them answerable to the definition and notation aforesaid are veritie congruitie certaintie Vide Platon in Cratyl Thus being imposed and approved they are not to be changed For they are notes of our notions notions of things limits of distinctions and dignities signes of truth and measures of certaintie which being violated or neglected all knowledg turneth to error and confusion all justice to injurie all vertue to villanie as Cato in Salust well noteth In Con. Cat. I am pridem nos vera rerum vocabula amissimus And Seneca complayning of the wickednes of times Prosperum faelix scelus virtus vocatur And hereby may we see the force of the Apostles argument Heb. 1. Hebr. 1 4. and the ignorance and presumption of Heretikes Schismatikes who dare take to themselues new names and leaue the common name of Christians giuen by oracle from God most certainly approved by God Now if in names giuen by men Acts 11 26. certaintie ought to be observed shall we think that the Spirit of God giveth uncertaine names or will call darknes light or light darknes Esa 5. Questionlesse he doth not giue idle or uncertain names Hebr. 4 12. but in this as in all things els useth words liuely and significant And herein is to be noted a difference betweene the names giuen by God the names instituted by men For men giue names a posteriori because things are so and men conceiue them to be so therefore they call them so But the names giuen by God are a priori because God the Almightie maker of all things hath ordeyned that they shall be so therefore he calleth them so and because he calleth them so therefore they must be so Let us see therefore what names are giuen to this great enemie of Christ and his Church and how these names are used and applied in the Scripture And first of the name Antichrist This name as all men though but meanely learned in the Greeke tongue do know is a word composed of the preposition Anti and the word Christ Anti is used in Greeke sometimes to signifie an adversarie sometime a Deputie or Vicar as many learned men haue heretofore observed and proved That it signifieth an adversarie is confessed by all that it signifieth a deputie substitute or vicar appeareth by the word Anthupatos which is expounded by some Proconsull Act. 19 38. 18 12. by others Deputie Now the names of Christ So AntiStrategos signifieth either a lieutenant or the adverse capteyns which in Hebrue is Messiah and in English signifieth anointed is diversly taken in the holy Scripture First properly personally and Individually for our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ who is God blessed for evermore Secondly Aug. de civ dei l. 17 c. 4. appellatiuely for all that haue a similitude with him by their unction as Kings Priests and Prophets in which sence it is used in the Psalme Psal 105 15 Touch not mine annointed and doe my Prophets no harme and David of king Saul sayth The Lord keep me from doing that unto my master 1 Sam. 24 the Lords annointed to lay mine hand upon him for he is the annointed of the Lord. Thirdly the name of Christ is used mystically for the mysticall bodie of our Saviour Christ 1 Cor. 6. which is his church In which sence the Apostle speaketh Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ 1 Cor. 11. And again Christ is the head of everie man for as the bodie is one 1 Cor. 12. and hath many members and all members

what shall we say of Boniface the eighth who hired the Saracens to warre against the Christians in Sicilia What shall we say also to the first comming of the Turkes into Europe Who transported their armies by Sea but the Popes owne subjects of Genua the countrie that was giuen to the Pope by Herebertus the Lombard and whom he might haue easily restrayned if he would More of this might be sayd but let this suffice and let me demand upon it whether we may not justly thinke him guiltie of all the Christian bloud that hath been shed by the Turkes in Europe I aske againe whether any of these Pontifices Maximi haue amended these things or shewed any repentance or sorrow for them or any dislike thereof since their perpetration yea whether they haue not by all meanes extolled and approved of those their Predecessors boasting of their Succession from them and mainteyning that they cannot erre and that they ought not to be judged by any man And therefore before I passe from this point let me speake one word to thee O Lord of Trueth Loue and mercie or let my teares speake to thee that yet at length thou wouldest take pittie upon thy rent and torne bodie thy poore distressed Church which by intestine dissentions and the malicious practises of this inward and secret enimie is become the common stage and Theater of all bloudie Massacres and dolefull Tragedies while their enimies both forreyn and domestick prosper and triumph in their unitie and agreement O let it please thee at length to reunite in Trueth and Loue that the enimie may no longer say Where is their God Well the last note is inseparable and undeniable It is sayth the Holy Ghost that Great cittie that ruleth over the Kings of the Earth Whereof I haue sayd sufficiently before and having shewed that it cannot be applied to any other place in the world and that the Antichrist can be no other then the seuenth Ruler of that High seuen hilled Cittie and namely that Head which next succeeded the Emperors as the best Fathers and ancient Interpreters with one mutuall consent do agree I will adde to the description of this Antichristian state a short survey of the words and actions of Antichrist as by the H. Apostles and Prophets they are noted to shew how all Prophecies are fulfilled touching the comming of Antichrist and do all concurre in the Roman State and Prelate and this is the sixth generall part which I proposed at first VI. Of the words and actions of Antichrist THe Prophet Daniel speaking of Antichrist giveth us four notes Dan. 7 25. verie notable and remarkeable Whereof the first is He shall speake words against the Most High Secondly He shall consume the Saints of the Most High Thirdly Apoc. 17. He shall thinke to change times Fourthly He shall thinke also to change Lawes Our Apostle repeating also the two first addeth two more Adulterie and Idolatrie 2 Thes 2. And the Apostle Paul addeth one namely Luciferian pride and Exaltation For he exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped and he sitteth in the Temple of God boasting himself that he is God Of some of these things I haue spoken so much alreadie that I need not stand long upon them First He shall speak words against the Most High which is Blasphemie Did Antiochus so for of him some do interpret this place when he forbade sacrifices 1 Mat. 1. and burnt offerings to be made unto God when he burnt the bookes of the Law and commanded Idols to be worshiped And haue not the Popes of Rome done so when they forbid prayers and thanksgiving to God in the vulgar tongue caused the Bibles translated into English and other tongues to be burned and commanded Images to be worshiped Secondly He shall consume the Saints of the most High Did Antiochus so in commanding godly men to be put to death And hath not the Pope done much more Haue they not caused many millions of Christian men to be slayne in their great expeditions and Massacres Hereof sufficient hath been sayd before and yet because it cometh now to hand I hope it will not seeme tedious to adde one instance more Do not eccl cap. 18. out of the Arch-advocate of Antichrist Bellarmin who confesseth that in France in one expedition under Innocent the third there were slayne an hundred thousand Thirdly He shall thinke to change times Lawes two things which God seemeth to challenge as reserved and peculiar to himself For of Times David sayth My times are in thy hands and Daniel Psal 31. God changeth times and seasons And our Saviour Christ himself sayth Dan. 2. that God hath kept them in his owne power And of Lawes Act. 1. Salomon sayth By me Kings and Princes decree just things Prov. 8. Now I aske of those that will haue these Prophecies to be applied onely to Antiochus What did he in this kinde what times did he change or what Lawes But of the Pope and all the Popes since Boniface who is called the fourth but indeed the second that tooke upon him that title which was about the yeare of our Lord 607 I demand whether they haue not all taken upon them this power to change times and lawes Did not Boniface himself make a new feast to the honour of all Saints Haue not his Successors likewise made verie many new Feasts and Fasts Let their owne Kalenders be witnesse Haue they not ordeyned Iubilees and altered them at their pleasure Haue they not altered the whole Kalender of the Iulian year from the Dionysian account to the Litian or Gregorian and thereby altered all the Feasts both moueable and unmoueable from the times wherein by the old account they are observed Haue I neede to stand long to proue this point which is knowen to all the world Hath this been done upon any warrant of Gods word Or hath it not beene done by Astronomicall computations of Minutes and Seconds which are almost insensible and imperceptible Will they say it may be done by Arte And what will they answer to those excellent learned men who deny their account and haue noted great defects in men of no meane estimation among the learned namely Scaliger Vid. Thuan. l. 129. Petavius and Vieta to speake nothing of our owne Countriman Lidyat What will they say to those that hold the Arte of Astronomie not onely imperfect but impossible to be perfected and therefore compare the studie of it to the building of the Tower of Babylon And that also was the sentence of a man not of the meanest account no lesse then Raimarus Mathematician to the Emperor Rudolphus Act. 1. So that the sentence of our Saviour Christ may seeme to extend to this also Non ad vestrum scire tempora You must be content sapere ad Sobrietatem to be wise and not too wise but within the compasse of sobrietie Now let me aske

and unseemly not onely for the majestie of divine Truth or dignitie of Apostolike writings but euen for the gravitie of a sober man to speake so often or make such incuications of things that should either come so late or continue so small a time Therefore to speak of the first consideration I ●ske whether it be not expressely directly intimated unto us by the Holy Apostle S. Paul where he sayth 2 Thes 2. the Mysterie of Iniquitie beginneth to worke alreadie And by S. Iohn 1 Iohn 2. Euen now there are manie Antichrists And againe 2 Iohn 7. now alreadie he is in the world And againe Manie deceivers are entred into the world which confesse not that Iesus Christ is come in the Flesh 2 Pet. 2. such a one is Antichrist And S. Peter and S. Iude with many words great diligence warne the Church of God Iude epist that there were then certaine men crept in which defiled the fl●sh and despised government Is it possible that the Apostles should be so carefull to admonish and advertise the church that there were such beginnings and such workings of Antichrist in those times and yet that he should not come in 1600 yeares after or should continue so short a time I am not ignorant that it was the opinion of some learned and godly men from whom I do not willingly dissent But I know that God doth not reveal all things to one man nor all things at one time nor in one manner Iohn 3. Everie man hath his gift and measure Everie thing hath his time and season and everie time his temper and disposition Eccles 3. It was sayd of a verie learned and excellent Doctor of the Church Non videt omnia And he that is non unus è multis See Io. Pic. Mir. in apolo sed inter omnes prope singularis held some strange opinions Yea Moses and David erred in some things It may be also that the Fathers of the Primitiue Church having other great Controversies in hand gaue themselues but little to the studie of the Apocalyps that booke being then in question as it seemeth and not publikely received untill the Councell of Toledo which was about the yeare of our Lord 630 Vida concil Pantal. as if our Lord had provided it against that time Yet somethings they saw and where their opinions are consonant with the Scriptures they are verie much to be regarded Leaving therefore the ignorance of those godly Fathers in some points to sleepe with them in their graues and covering them with a vail of just excuse in that they saw not the successe of times and fulfilling of divers prophecies which haue since appeared and with a Robe of Honorable and Sacred Memorie for the gifts and graces of God which otherwise shined in them as Shem and Iaphet did the nakednes of their Father Let us follow with straight steppes the light of divine Trueth shining in the Scriptures whereunto the Fathers themselues do send us to guide us out of the mistie cloudes and perplexed Labyrinths of Humane Errors And let us see what the Apostles meant by the words aboue cited as where one of them sayth 2 Thes 2. The Mysterie of iniquitie worketh alreadie And againe His working is with all deceiuablenes c. And another Iohn 3. Euen now there are manie Antichrist c. and there are many deceivers gone out c. Did they meane this of Turks which were then scarce heard of in the world or of Iewes which did not then deceitfully but had long before openly and professedly shewed themselues to be the Enemies of Christ and all Christians Or of Heathenish Pagans that were also open persecutors or of any that should openly and professedly deny that Christ was come as now the Greate Patrons of the Romish cause would perswade us If so what needed they to tell us of a Mysterie Deceiveablenes Deceivers c. What Mysterie or deceit could there be in the direct and professed denying of Christ 1 Iohn 3. Or doth not S. Iohn teach us plainly that they meant it of perverted Hereticall Christians where he sayth They went out from us but they were not of us For if they had been of us they would haue continued with us They went out from the Church and they would haue continued with the Church Do not both these words signifie that they were sometimes of the Church and not Iewes Turkes or Pagans that were never of the Church So in the Epistle to the Elect Ladie where he sayth Such a one is a deceiver So S. Paul His comming is with all deceiueablenes These admonitions might seem verie impertinent if they had understood that Antichrist should haue been a Iew Turke Pagan or other professed enemie of Christ So in another place They professe that they know God but by works they deny him and are abhominable disobedient Titus 1. and to everie good worke repr●bate The like may be sayd of that fatherly and serious admonition and charge which the beloved Apostle giveth unto us 1 Iohn 4. that many false Prophets were gone out into the world and therefore that we should trye the Spirits What tryall neede we make of anie Turke Iew Pagan or professed enemie of Christ 2 Pet. 2. And the Apostle Peeter seemeth also to warne us of such men whom he calleth False Teachers which should privily bring in damnable Heresies denying the Lord that bought them c. He sayth Heresyes shall we say Iudaisme Turcisme Paganisme He sayth privily shall we say openly What manner of Interpretation is this to contradict the Text Surely the Ancient Fathers would not so interpret it Tertullian Qui pseudoprophetae sunt nisi falsi praedicationes De praescript qui pseudoapostoli nisi adulteri Euangelizatores qui Antichristi interim semper nisi Christi rebelles Ad Magnum Cyprian Indignandum dolendum est Christianos Antichristis assistere praevaricatores fidei atque proditores Ecclesiae intus in ipsa ecclesia contra ecclesiam stare August August Opera loquuntur verba requirimus Magis mendax est Antichristus qui ore profitetur Christum factis negat In Matth. Chrysostom Exercitus Antichristi sunt omnes Haereses praecipue ista Bern. quae obtinuit Ecclesiae locum Ministri Christi serviunt Antichristo Were these men ignorant of the Catholike veritie Or are not these ynough to proue that which Vincentius requireth Quod ubique semper ab omnibus creditum est Vincent Let us returne then to the Apostle S. Iude Iude epist. who exhorteth us earnestly to maintaine the faith against such as turne the grace of God into wantonnes and defile the flesh speaking ill of Magistrates denying the onely Lord God and our Lord Iesus Christ If we should aske upon these words who they be that deny God would not the Apostle himself answer us that they are the