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A14707	Antichrist, that is to saye: A true reporte, that Antichriste is come wher he was borne, of his persone, miracles, what tooles he worketh withall, and what shalbe his ende: translated out of Latine into Englishe. by I.O.; Antichristus. English	Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586.; Old, John, fl. 1545-1555.	1556 (1556)	STC 25009; ESTC S119373	149,758	392

most victorious king Iesus Christ shall suffre him to haue so great autorite who at leynght wyth his iust iudgement shall slea and despeche that fearce and prowde aduersarie wyth all his membres and wyth sentence past calling again shall iudge him to be punyshed in the torment of vnquēcheable fyre Hereunto ther shal be a faithful admoniciō takē out of Christes wordes instede of a cōclusiō how the godly ones faithfull folkes ought to behaue thē selues vnder his rageing tyrannye And in dede I shall by the grace of God purpose to treate of all these maters with suche for sight and diligence as shall lye in my best possible power to doo Now as perteynyng to the furst wher Antichrist was borne question of Antichristes original begynnyng and the place of his birthe the holy goost hathe sufficiently and perfitely instructed vs by Daniel the Prophet which saithe that the litell horne by the which we hearde in the Homilie before that Antichrist was figured sprong out of the fourthe beast that is to wete out of his head as of that parte wherof hornes commonly vse to growe out Now forsomuche as this fourthe beast is a figure of the fourthe monarchie that is to saye of the empire of Rome as it is before largely ynough declared it foloweth yea it is out of all paraduenture euen by the vnfailing demonstracion of the holy goost that Antichrist shall spring out of the empire of Rome yea and out of the heade of it that is to wete out of the principal citie Rome euen ther he must be sought for Here vnto that sayeng must partly be referred that How the temple of god is to be vnderstand here Paule thapostle speaketh of the departing and that he teacheth that his seate must be placed in the temple of God For that sayeng may not in any wise be expoūded of the temple of Ierusalem but it ought to be vnderstāden of the felowship and congregacion of the faithfull which is the true and lyuing temple of God Notwithstāding least the dulnesse of our witte might doubte somthing in this behalfe our Lord Iesus Christ himselfe dothe shewe yet more euidently and more clearly poynteth as it were wyth his fyngre that Antichrist must be borne in the very citie of Rome For in that reuelacion which he shewed to his beloued disciple Iohn the Apo. 17. great aduersarie of Christ is ment by the Image of the hoore which sytteth vpon many waters is caried vpon a mightie beast an vnknowen that gothe rageing grymmely wyth seuen headdes armed wyth ten hornes And the angell willing to interprete the mysterie of the Image to Iohn thapostle saithe that the waters wher the woman sitteth are the people and folfe and naciones tongues whom she shall beare rule ouer And that woman quam he whome thow sawest is the great citie which hathe rule ouer the finges of the earthe and the seuen heades are the seuen mountaines wher vpon it is sette Now who is it that seeth not herin the openly manifest and euident descripcion of the citie of Rome For Rome if a man considre the olde circuite of the walles comprehendeth wythin it seuen mountaynes and that of famous reporte in the monumentes of olde writours of which mountaynes bothe the tokens and the names remayne euen yet to this daye And the same Rome whā Domitianus was Emperour ther in whose tyme Iohan thapostle being banished for the faithe of Christ in to the I le of Pathmos receaued this reuelacion of the Lorde reigned hade empire ouer the kinges of the earthe For at that tyme the power of the Romaynes hade conquered and subdued wyth their marciall powers the greatest parte of al the hole world vnder their autoritie empire By reason wher of it is vndoubtedly playne by most certain reasones argumētes that Antichrist must be borne of the empire of Rome place his seate in the head of it that is to wete in the very citie of Rome And this I saye more ouer The B. of Rome is the great Antichrist ꝓfesse frely bothe wyth mouthe mynde that the chief mightie greatest Bishop which hauing his seate in the citie of Rome chalengeth to him self the dominion name of the same citie is the very right and great Antichrist the exceding enemie of Christ our saueour like as in these that folowe we shall wyth a thicker rāke of argumentes most euidently declare Therfore those men erre and be toto muche deceaued as mani as put their cōfidēce in those fals feined popishe gloses mynde to seke for the right Antichrist either in the citie of Babilō or Ierusalem They are deceaued also no lesse begyled than the other before as many as being entāgled with the blynd folishe loue of the empire which at this why Mahomet is not the right Antichrist present is cōmōly called Sanctū Romanū imperiū the sacred empire of Rome crye out sayeng that Mahomet the autor of the Turkish faythe and religion is that great enemie of our saueour why Mahomet is not the right Anticrist Christ and Antichrist to thintēt they might by that meane expelle the slaūderous marke of Antichristes name frō that empire of theirs which they haue in so great estimacion and obedience For albeit no true faithfull person dothe doubt that Mahomete is a most pestilent wicked man a singular enemye of Christ our Lorde a most cruell persecutour of Christes churche an abominacion to be abhorred wyth all the powers of our heartes and a most pernicious seducer of very many men yet for all that we shall neuer be hable to proue that he is the notable and great Antichrist inasmuche as he was nother borne in the head of the Romayne empire that is to saye in Rome but in Arabie farre distaunt from Rome ne yet placeth nor occupieth his seate in the temple of God that is to wete in the congregacion among them that reioyce to be compted christianes but maketh a manifest departing quyte from them teareth awaye the name of Christ wyth so vehement hate and wickednesse that he can in no wise abyde to vse it to the professing of his relygion Which not withstanding are al applied by the notable sayengs bothe of the prophetes and the apostles vnto that mightie houge Antichrist Therfore in this case we nede no white tongued wordes nor groping reasones of flaterers of suche as saye as other men saye but rather if we intende to com to the certain and vnfailing knowlage of Antichrist it is requisite for vs to seke him in that place wher he is most accustomed to haūt that is to wete at Rome wherof euen our elders in tymes past not without the mocion of Goddes prouidence commonly vsed this cōmon prouerbe The nerer a man cometh to the citie of Rome the farther he is of from the faithe and religion of Christ The meanyng of whiche prouerbe

with hādes which are similitudes exāples of true thynges but is entred into very heauen for to appeare now in the syght of God for vs not to offre hym selfe often as the hygh Priest entred into the holy place euery yeare with straunge blood for than must he haue often suffred synce the worlde begāne But now in th ende of the worlde hath he appeared once to put synne to flight by the offring vp of him selfe All those sayenges belong also to this purpose wich the apostles speake of Christ Iesus in this meanyng as these be Christ is of God made vnto vs wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption 1. Corin. 1. God forbidde that I shoulde reioyce but in the crosse of our Lorde Iesu Christ by whom the worlde is crucified to me and I to the worlde Gal. 6. Also Ther is one God and one mediatour betwene God and men the man Iesus Christ 1. Timo. 2. If any man synne we haue an aduocate with the father Iesus Christ the righteous And he it is that obteyneth mercie for our synnes not for our synnes only but also for the synnes of all the worlde 1. Ioh. 2. Ther is non other name geuē vnto men vnder the sunne wherin they maye be saued but only the name of Iesu Act. 4. To this same ende perteyneth the voice of God the heauenly father wherwith he sounded once and eftesones frome heauē sayeng This is my welbeloued sonne in whō I am pleased Math. 13. 17. chap. Hereunto must the sayeng be referred that the Lorde him self by his holy spirite speaketh in Esaye the prophet I the Lorde This is my name and I will not geue my glorie to any other But the glorie of Christ our Lorde is this that he alone with his raunsomyng blood hath set vs free frō the tirannye of synne deathe hell and sathan and is therfore the Lorde of vs all that is to wete whom he hathe redemed with his owne blood which was shead for vs and so ought to be acknowlaged of vs all Concerning this glory and honour he saithe and professeth that he will geue it to none elles Out of which wordes of Christ it shall appeare by euidēt and stedfast demonstration that he is Antichrist who is Antichrist who so euer gothe about to robbe our Lorde and saueour Christ of this glorie and honour and take it vpon him selfe Who so euer than taketh vpon him selfe to geue remissiō of synnes the benefites of the grace of God the giftes of saluacion the kyngdome of heauen is Antichrist Who so euer taketh vpon him selfe that honour of priesthode to saye that he sacrificeth for the synnes of the worlde is Antichrist Who so euer maketh him selfe an intercessour to God the father for the quicke and the dead by any other reason or maner than we are cōmaūded to pray mutually one for an other according to the trade of the scriptures is Antichrist Who so euer also declareth that these giftes of our saluaciō which we haue now rehearced either all together or singularly by them selues may be hade any wher elles than at our Lorde Iesus Christ only and teacheth men to seke them elles wher than at him alone which was offred for vs once for all now sitteth bodily in heauen he setteth out vnto vs a false Christ yea euen Antichrist and is of the nombre of those false prophetes whom Christ our Lord rekoneth vp here by name Wherupon this also shal euidently appeare vnto vs that Antichrist is not only one man by him selfe as we thought whan we wandred in the darknesse of popishe supersticion but that ther are many Antichristes as we shewed a litell before out of Iohn the apostle And yet ther is an head a certain chief ruler of this abominacion yea all these felowes haue a kingdome and a chief seate of their kingdome And he that occupieth it is that vndoubted very great chief Antichrist in whom the commō enemye of mankynde satā setteth furthe all his streynghtes all his might all his power and operacion yea and al his endeauours deceates fraudes subtilties and coūsailes to mennes vndoing and vtter destruction This mater we shall treate of in the thrid place so as we shall set furthe what is contayned in the scriptures hereof with the most playne demonstracion that we possiblie can But forasmuche as the holy sacred scripture in many places as we haue allready noted speaketh of this abominable busynesse of Antichrist it wolde be a worke of great labour and trouble and a worke that should bring in more darkenesse than light if we wolde studie to bring furth al the places of the prophetes apostles that are touching this mater Therfore out of al we wil chose only two which ypoūde vnto vs al this ado throughly al his misteries most plaīly painted out The furst is of Daniel whose writinges in this behalfe ought worthely to be hade in most highe credence and autoritie with vs inasmuche as we may see the same thinges rehearced of Christ our Lorde in this chaptre who also dothe moue vs to the diligēt reading and knowlage Math. 24 of it And that other shal be taken out of Paule the noble and excellēt apostle of Christ which also is called the electe vessell and instrument of Act. 9. God and being rapte in to the thrid heauen sawe secretes of the kingdome 2. Cor. 1● of heauen wiche can not be expressed with tongue The prophet of God and desirous man Daniel being by diuine reuelaciō taught the ordre of the thinges that shoulde happen from his tyme to the last ende of the worlde and mynding to haue the same notified vnto them that shoulde com after him writeth on this sorte I sawe in my vision by Dan. 7. night and beholde the foure wyndes of the heauen stroue vpon the sea and foure great beastes came vp from the sea not one like an other The furst was like a Lyon and yet had he eagles winges I sawe that his winges were plucte from him and he taken awaye from the earthe that he stode vpon his fete as a man and that ther was geuen him a mannes hearte Beholde the seconde beast was like a Beare and stode vpon the one syde Among his tethe in his mouthe he had .iij. great long tethe it was saide vnto him Arise eate vp muche fleshe Thā I loked and behold ther was an other like vnto a Leoparde this had winges as a foule euē vpō the backe This beast hade foure heades ther was power geuen him After this I sawe in a vision by night beholde the fourthe beast was grymme and horrible and maruelous strong It hade great yron tethe it deuoured and destroyed and stamped the residue vnder his fete It was farre vnlike the other beastes that were before it for it hade ten hornes wherof I toke good hede And beholde ther cam vp among them an other litel horne before whom ther

the office of teaching monishing exhortyng reprouing correcting and comforting which be all comprehended in the ministerie of the worde which as it manifestly appeareth Matth. 28. was not committed to Petre alone but to all the apostles wtall This is also manifest that the Lorde neuer graunted vnto Petre the apostle any supremacie ouer the rest of his disciples but that he rather repressed with sore sharpe wordes al their ambicion and desire of rule bearing if they began once to be ouercomen with the infirmitie of the fleshe and stryue who should be chief aboue the rest Matth. 18. 20. Luc. 22. Io. 13. Concerning the keyes it is euidētly declared also that they signifie not what the keyes signifie the thonderbolt of the popes curse or his pelting pardones but the vertue and power of the gospell and worde of God which proclaymeth forgeuenesse of synnes to all them that trust faithfully in Christ and are hartily repentaunt for their synnes and it sealeth vp and confirmeth their consciences with the promises of God And on the contrary parte it threatteneth the punishement of euerlasting damnacion to them that are vnfaithfull and can not repent These maters and infinite others such like whan men hade learned by the light of Goddes worde and on the other parte whan they therby hade once espied the B. of Romes sleighty iuggling deceates and lies than was Antichrist slayne wyth the breathe of the Lordes mouthe and laye dead in their consciences For after that tyme they passed not vpon him but beganne to esteme his blessinges for cursinges and his cursinges for blessinges as for the thonderboltes of his excommunicacion they laught them to scorne and reckoned all his power to be nothing elles but wicked and blasphemous tirannie Therfore as Golias was in the olde worlde vnder Dauid so doo we see that the B. of Rome is now slayne wyth his owne sweord I meane with that same places of scripture by the which being miserably and violently wrasted he hath established his tirannie And thus we see it truly fulfilled that the Apostle Paule being inspired wyth the spirite of Christ spake before hande concerning Antichrist For although he rage horriblye in his membres and blustre out threatteninges and thōderclappes yet those people are nothing moued with his procedinges which are true faithfull christianes in dede and haue their Bishop king and priest and their only head and mediatour in hauen vnto whom hauing their myndes lifted vp vnto those thinges that are in heauen they doo obey and passe not a pynne of the popes masking visours nor the procedinges of the hoore of Babilon for all that she is rose coloured with many a sayntes blood Now vnto this furst parte Paule Antichrist shal be despeched at the Lordes commyng addeth also the other poynt cōcerning Antichristes destruetion and saith the he shall vtterly be despeched at the glorious cōmyng of our saueour Christ This he dothe speake of the last daye and final iudgement whan Christ the sonne of God and of Mary shall geue vnreuocable sentence vpon all fleshe and thus the Apostles mynde is to teache vs with what iudgement Antichristes wickednesse shal be than punished and that Daniel the prophet dothe more pleyntifully and more clearely describe in these wordes I loked till the seates were prepared till Daniel 7. the olde aged sate him downe His clothing was as white as snowe and the heares of his head like the pure wolle His throne was like the fyrie flame his wheles as the burnyng fyre Ther drewe furthe a fyrie streame and went out from him a thousaūt tymes a thousaunt serued him X. M. tymes X. M. stode before him The iudgement was set and the bokes opened Than I toke hede ther vnto bicause of the voice of the prowde wordes which that horne spake I behelde til the beast was slayne and his body destroied and geuen ouer to be brent in the fire In these wordes is described Antichristes payne and the punishemēt that he shall suffre And in dede Damel dothe furst paynt out almightye God the iudge with all his maiestie to teache vs that it is God of whose power name and autoritie Antichrist braggeth which shall punishe Antichriste More ouer he saithe that the iudgement shal be iuste vpright wherin the bokes of goddes prouidence iustice shal be necessarily opened which no priuileges no bulles no seales or any such other mater shal be hable to coūtrepaise Last of all he reporteth that the hole beast with this litle horne is cast in to the burnyng streame or burnyng rooke of fyre that is in to the fyre of euerlasting damnacion as that welbeloued disciple of Iesu Christ teacheth Apoca. 〈◊〉 and. 20. chaptres Therfore must Antichrist the head of wickednes and abominacion with all his membres that is with al them that beleue his doctrine cleaue vnto him and serue him be nedes cast holly into the eternall fire of euer lasting damnaciō accordingly as the prophetes Christ and the apostles haue tolde before I am not ignoraunt that it is a sore and dredfull sentence I knowe that to vttre this sentence is not only odious vnto many but it is also exceding daungerous Howbeit we must nedes speake that which the spirite of truthe hathe spoken before vs that Christ wolde haue to be in stede of a faithfull warning vnto vs. therfore it shall stande vs in hāde most louing brethren in Christ to considre diligētly this last final iudgemēt that Antichrist his mēbres shal receaue herin we shal note two chief specialties The abominable condicion of the popishe religion Furst what a hainous and abominable pestilēce the papacie the Pope him self is whō I haue all this while declared to be that ryght and myghty houge Antichrist For in this behalfe are some simple that otherwise are no euill men very muche deceaued which cōfesse in dede the popishe fayth and religion to be false and contrary to the truthe yet in the meane while they take it but for a common ignoraunce and a tryfling errour and an errour that is easie to be pourged whithe they may folowe yet be saued to And forasmuche as they are brought in to a fooles paradise with this opinion they do not muche abhorre the wares of the Antichristian fayth nother do they thinke it wicked or much daungerous for them to sticke still within the filthe therof or for aduauntages sake to turne to that vomite agayne eyther yet to make their children subiectes to the yowke of Antichristes tirannye by bondes of mariage or other suche lyke meanes But we are tolde an other maner of tale farre wyde from their myndes by the oracles of Christ and the Prophetes which testifye with one accorde that Antichrist euen the bishop of Rome with all his membres shal be cast hole into the vnquencheable fire of ouerlasting damnacion This are we taught not only by oracles reporting this mater but ther are vnfallible reasonos of

his glorious cōming we may be able to stande surely before his righteous and dredeful iudgement For we shal haue him to be our iudge that can nother be frayde with the glorie and power of the worlde nor be entreated by any noble blood nother yet brybed with worldly richesse But the thing that he only regardeth and rewardeth is faithe working by charitie Gal. 5. The seconde thing that the Lorde speaketh of in this last chief point of his admonicion is that he teacheth The state of the faithful at the Lordes commyng vs what the condicion or state of his people shal be at this his cōmyng and glorious iudgement For it semeth a harde and a fearfull mater to the fleshe whan it heareth that al the pleasures of this worlde wherin it only delyteth shall perishe once and that all we shal be presented before so mighty a iudge But it is full of comforte that the Lorde speaketh here For where so euer saithe he the carcasse is ther also shal the eagles resorte or be gathered together Here he compareth the faithfull people vnto eagles and him self vnto that meate wherunto they flye For like as the eagles with their high flyeng moūte vp to the cloudes with great delyte beholde the brightenesse of the sunne the shyning beames wherof non other lyuing creature is hable to loke directly vpon euen so those that be faithfull people being caried with the wynges of faithe aboue all the cares of this worlde lifte vp their heartes to heauen wher their cōuersacion is and their right citie that euer shall endure so with the eyes of their mynde they beholde the sunne of righteousnesse Iesus Christ which is our righteousnesse and the only quickenyng meate of the faithfull For he is the bread of life which being eaten by faithe fedeth vs vnto life euerlasting And Christ saithe that these eagles that is the faithful people shal resorte vnto him so that they shal be gathered to him as it were in one moment aswell those that were departed afore in the true faithe as those whō the Lorde at his commyng shall fynde prepared and ready in faith For thus dothe Paule 1 Thessa 4. expounde Christes wordes This we saye vnto you in the worde of the Lorde that we which lyue and are remayning in the commyng of the Lorde shall not com ere they which slepe For the Lorde him selfe shall descende from heauen wyth a showte and the voice of the archangel and trompe of God And the dead in Christ shall aryse furst than shall we which lyue and remayne be caught vp with them also in the clowdes to mete the Lorde in the ayer And so shal we euer be with the Lorde Wherfore comforte your selues one an other with these wordes Marke louing brethren how ioyfull howe pleasaunt and howe comfortable those sayenges be that are specified in the scriptures concerning the glorious comming of Christ vnto iudgement But if we lust to hearken to the papistes in this behalfe they will tell vs such tales as are hable not only to dryue mennes consciences in to feare and drede but also in to flatte desperacion For they haue forged horrible and cruell tokens by the rehearsal wherof they haue spoiled the rude people of all comfortable reioyceing and haue fraide thē most pitifully But the spirite of our saueour Christ speaking by the apostles maketh so playne menciō of the mater as that which made vs afraide whan we wandred in the darkenesse of popery is now ioye myrthe vnto vs so that with cōtinual prayers and feruent desires we loke for the Lorde and wold fayne haue his commyng to drawe nere For how great how honourable shal the sayntes glorie be whan those that were dead and resolued in to earthe and duste shall ryse again with clarified bodies and shall lyue and be transformed in one moment and al the nature of corrupcion and what so euer hade ben corruptible and mortal infirme and subiecte to sorowes in them they shall put of and by and by they shal be coupled with their spouse Christ and be caried with him vnto the eternall glorie of true blessednesse Than I saye the faithfull eagles shall continually beholde their sunne of righteousnes for euer and shal be fedde with the meate of eternal life so that they shall neuer fele hongre And contrary wise that bloody and cruel cursed generacion of rauēs and grypes I meane the wicked tirānes enemies of his churche which in this worlde persecuted the Lordes saintes with fire sweorde with al kinde of merciles crueltie all beastly bely cheare myniones men geuē to their paunche and hoorishe lustes shal be gathered also vnto their carion carcasse to that houge and stinking beast and her head Antichrist that they may be tyed vp with him and cast in to the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone and thā shall they fele who it is that they haue done after and who it is that they hated whā they lyued in this worlde Now for asmuche as I shal treate more largely of these maters whā I shal haue more oportunitie to entreat of them let it suffice that I haue presently touched thē now in fewe wordes Hitherto we haue heard in these fyue homilies all the mysterye of Antichristes tirannie and therwithall we haue also knowne the faithful counsail of our saueour Christ which he coummaundeth men to folowe in the last seasone of the worlde Let vs therfore rendre deuout and humble heartie thankes to our heauenly father which hathe vouchedsafe to reueale this weighty daūgter vnto vs and to arme vs with his counsailes against it And let vs endeauour our selues to take hede to our Lordes admoniciōs so as we may doo after thē that he thinke not his admonicions lost vpō vs. Moreouer wher it is manifest out of the apostle Paules wordes that Antichrist must be destroied with non other weapō but with the sweorde of the spirite that is the worde of God for he cā not otherwise be destroyed let vs frame our consciences brethrē after such wise as the worde may be hade in autoritie much price amōg vs that all men may aduaunce the studie of it that we may endeauour our selues to reade heare and knowe it with suche diligence that by the power of it Antichrist maye be slayne dye in our consciences and that Christ our Lorde may lyue in our heartes least at the dredefull daye of dome we be cast with that houge stinking beast in to the fyre of damnacion so perishe euerlastingly but that we maye like true membres faithful eagles be filled with euerlasting fode be gathered vnto the meate that shal neuer waste and to the sunne of righteousnesse that neuer shall fade Amen Thus endeth the. 5. Homilie Apoca. 18. BAbilon is fallen great Babilon is fallen and is become the habitacion of Deuilles and the holde of all fowle spirites and a cage of all vncleane and hatefull birdes for all nacions haue dronken of the wyne of the wrathe of her fornicacion And the kinges of the earth haue cōmitted fornication with her and her marchaūtes are waxed riche of the abundaunce of her pleasures