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A04809	An epistle [s]ent to divers [pa]pistes in England prouing [th]e Pope to bee the beast in the [1]3 of the Reuelations, and to be the man exalted in the temple of God, as God, Thess. 2.2 ... / by F.K.	Kett, Francis, d. 1589.	1585 (1585)	STC 14944.5; ESTC S2164	14,613	51

AN EPISTLE ●ENT TO DIVERS ●●pistles in England prouing 〈◊〉 Pope to bee the Beast in the 〈◊〉 3. of the Reuelations and to be the man exalted in the Temple of God as God Thess 2.2 Whereby the true Church of God and the good profession of the Gospell is knowen from the euill ●●●y hereby haue beene conuerted of late by F.K. 〈…〉 ●●●igence to make thy election sure 〈◊〉 1. 〈…〉 ●n eternall life whereunto thou are called 〈◊〉 6. ●RINTED AT LONDON by Henry Marsh 158● TO THE MOST Reuerend father in God Iohn bishop of London long health and felicity in Iesus Christ BEing stirred vp most Reuerende father in God with the sweete exhortation of Paul who sayth in spirituall thinges I would not haue you ignoraunt but couet spirituall giftes and most chiefely for to prophesie which doth edefie exhort and cōfort I thought it good seeing the church of God tossed with stormes through the depenes of Sathan who roreth like a deuouring Lion and worketh the spirit of error in mens harts soweth tares among the wheat of the Lord to laboure in the vineyard of spirituall vnderstanding by the goodnes of the vnspotted Lambe who openeth the booke with the seuen seales wherein the whole state of his Church is reuealed in what case it shall stand from his assention till his comming in glory Touching which Reuelations with all the misteries of the Scripture I hauing written a booke at large called the golden closet and Key that vnlocketh heauenly misteryes and another called the glorious garland of mans glorification thought it good in the meane time hauing sent this epistle and others to diuers Papists in England touching whom a good worke by the grace of God is wrought to dedicate this same vnder your protection hopyng that as it hath done good to others by writing so by Print it may doe much more if it shall please you of your good fauoure and Heauenly giftes wherewith you are knowen to bee fruitfull among men to the glory of God and consolation of Soules and to the reward of your Heauenly calling in Iesus Christ to accept it Thus I doe cōmend your Lorship in my daily prayers to the keeping of the Almighty Your Lordships most humble to commaūd Francis Kett. An exposition who is the Beast in the 13. of the Reuel Iesus speede vs leade vs and feede vs. c. MY desired to the truth of the Gospell When I considered how great a wishe Paul doth insinuate towarde hym selfe as to bee Anathemy touching his body in respect to winne his brethren I am or else I ought to bee so much thereby stirred vp vpon the tendernes of loue as to offer some porcion to you and others of that good gift and tallent which the Lord hath gieuen me If by the grace of God it may please you to accept it sincerely and meekely that by that meanes the spirite of adoption standing at the doore of your heart may enter into your inward man and worke more redely that sweete motion in you as not to harden your heart when tha● you heare the voice of Gods holy truth I write not to molest your conscience an● minde but to walke with you in the way of persuasion trusting by the powred Gods word which is sharper then a tw● edged sword Heb. 4. and parteth the bone from the marrow the spirit from the soule● to persuade you by the intercession o● hym beyng a true mediator for euer who sitteth in heauen on the right han● of the Father before whom we must appeare in Iudgement to make an accomp● at the great and feareful day of the Lord that you will be so much contented b● the will of God as to deliberate with beter aduisement touching that sentence of S. Paul Philip. 2. who sayth worke out thy saluation with feare and trembling And also touching the sentēce of Peter Pet. 2. which sayth Vse all diligence to make thy election sure Wherein we are sufficiently counselled how much it standeth euery man in hād to looke to the sauing health of his soule which is so sweete and preciouse considering that there is a way to saluation and a way to perdition Timoth. 2.2 Therefore we ought deepely to consider of that sentence of Paul which sayth that if a man striue for a maistry hee is not crowned except hee striue lawefully For which cause I am moued in the tender kindnes which my soule beareth toward all soules to desire you in the springling of Christ his bloud that you will looke so carefully into your selfe as that you may bee sure by grace so to striue and ron as that you may win the crowne of eternall life Cor. 1.10 For S. Paul willeth vs to bee most vigilant when hee sayth you that seeme to stand take heede you fall not So that let not presumption or stifnes stop your eares from the truth and cary you away to vnknown ceremonies but first proceede with sincerity of hea●e and pure praiers offred vp to god intreating him to geeue you his wisedome according to S. Iames. Iames. 1. If any mā lacke wisedome let him aske it of God and he geueth it ask in fayth wauer not c. And with this order in heart examine your selfe for God knoweth the secrete motions of all mens heartes and then ponder what I write to you and I am persuaded in my fayth that you shall presently feele the spirite of adoption to moue your spirite and to leade you into all truth alwayes prouidyng in the examining of your owne conscience agaynst the flesh the world and the deuill which striue agaynst man to holde hym backe in the dungeon of darkenes by contrary resistance of minde through the spirite of error which is busy in all mens thoughtes Whereupon it standeth you and all vs the more in hand to looke to the foundation of our Saluation Cor. 1.3 lest that wee buyld vpon a straunge foundation or else doe buyld timber and strawe vpon the foundation which the Apostles ●aue layde and so vndiscretly ron with Nadab and Abihu Leu. 10. bringing straunge fire ●efore the Lord and so be in daunger of ●he Lordes consuming fire Wherefore ●et me persuade with you to vse no other ●yne then the golden rodde of the Gospell to measure your religion with all ●est that you leaning to much to traditions doe decline from the measure of the Gospell when as God sayd streightly to Moses Heb. 8. buildyng the tabernacle see that thou doest all thinges according to the pattern which was geuen thee And therfore Christian wisedome doth moue vs in the feare of the Lord to follow the very patern of the Gospell if wee minde to walke as children of the day professing the good and true profession In consideration whereof I hope that you will accept this my wryting as a sweete motion with examining the deepenes thereof to your consolation in a confirmed verity of a better profession then

as yet you holde And now to proceede the grounde of the matter Whereas o● heauenly Sauiour and high Melch●●dech being ascended vp to heauen 〈◊〉 vpon his aboundāt loue shew vnto Io●● how much he did tender his church 〈◊〉 beloued congregation when as by mistery of reuelation he did signifie ho● and by whome his church and tem●●● should be from time to time euen to 〈◊〉 worldes end afflicted and troden down It is then that we consider how all thing are written for our learning accordi●● to Saint Paule and that eyther by hist●ry precept doctrine figure parable● mystery So that we ought to be caref●●● wise and vigilant in vnderstanding 〈◊〉 reuelations Reu. 1. For Saint Iohn sayth th● happy is he that keepeth the wordes this profecie For which cause I co●● now to the marke to shew by euide●● scripture by the holy will of God 〈◊〉 is that great Beast in the 13. of the Reuel●tion Reu. 13. and who is that sinfull man that ●●●teth in the temple of God as God according to the Thess Epist 2. Cap. 2. Thes● 2.2 and which Citty is the whoare of Babilon with whome the nations of the earth haue committed spirituall fornication Reu. 18. according to the 18. of the Reuelation To the confirmation whereof that the truth may bee truly extracted I wyshe that all mens hearts were opened Fyrst by prayer and then to cōsider the deepenes of these reasons which ensue Of the which first and principally I thus declare and proue by introduction The Turk that the Turke is not that Beast nor sinfull mā for the Turke hath beene an enemy from his first vprising manifested to all Christians whereby it appeareth playnely that hee is not the sinfull man exalted in the Temple of God For S. Paul sayth that the sinfull man must bee opened at this time Thess 2. ● who cōmeth by the delusion of Sathan But the Turke hath bene alwayes an open aduersary therfore can not bee sayd to be opened For what soeuer is manifest can not be say● to be opened but he which is a close priuy secret coulored aduersary is say● to be opened so that the Turke is not th● sinfull man and Beast named in the 13 of the Reuel but hee is the very imitate● of Antiochus who did alwayes shew hym selfe an open tyrant to the Israelites Presbiter Iohn Next to this Presbiter Iohn of the South of Affrica can no way bee say● to bee the Beast in the 13. of the Reuelation or exalted man in the Temple fo● as he doth dwel beyond the middle Sea● so he hath little or no conference in religion with other kingdomes but is knowen to meddle little with Europe or Asi● and besides the state of his Kingdome 〈◊〉 such that neither Asia Europe nor East India do much acquainte them selues 〈◊〉 the doinges of Presbiter Iohn who ha●● no such seate nor no such Citty with whom the Nations of the Earth ha●● committed spirituall fornication according to the 18. of the Reuelatiō Also tha● Beast and sinfull man or Whoore of Babilon Great Cham. can not bee applyed to great Cham and his Cittyes in the North East of India for hee was neuer knowne to passe beyōd his Mountaines neither any way that the succession of the Monarchy of Babilon did discend into his Coūtrey or Presbiter Iohns Countrey of the South and therefore neither of them can bee any way accounted the Beast in the 13. Reu. 13. of the Reuelation and sinfull man exalted in the Temple of God as God Thess 2.2 or any of their Cittyes to be the Whoore of Babilon in the 18. of the Reuelation Next Reu. 18. it can not bee the Emperours Emperour for they were also open persecutors of the truth and therfore being manifest aduersaries could not be said according to S. Paul to bee opened Thess 2.2 Neither is it the high King of Persia or any temporall King of the Earth For Christ to discide this whole controuersy and to make the truth hereof to bee knowne to his congregation doth manifest to Iohn by Reuelation that hee is a Starre fallen to the Earth that hath the Keyes of the bottomles pit according to the .9 Reu. 9. of the Reuelation and that he burneth like a blasing lampe and not like a pure candell to bee sette vpon a Candelsticke Reu. 8. according to the .8 of the Reuelation c. Whereby it being euidēt by all the places of the Scriptures that a Starre doth represent a prelate and spirituall pastoure of the Church as in Daniel 12. and Reuelations 1. And this being apparent that there is no Prelate in the World that doth so much exalt hym selfe as the Pope doth therefore by true consequence I affirme the Pope to be this Beast in the .13 of the Reuelations Thess 2.2 the sinfull man in the Thessa and his seate and Citty the whoore of Babilon in the .18 of the Reuelations with whom all nations haue committed spirituall fornication Thess 2.2 And now that the mistery of the Reuelations and the prophesie of Paul doe agree with the beginning proceeding opening and darkening of the Popes auctority and his seat and also that his Citty by succession and inheritaunce triumphant is the onely heyre of the first Babilon inioying the fourth Monarchy whereupon the beginning proceeding opening and darkening of the seat of the Pope Reu. 16. aunswering to the pouring out of the vialles and to the measuring of the Temple by Iohn with his golden rodde Reu. 11. doe euidently to any spirituall minde shew it selfe to bee a case most playne that the Pope is the foresayd Beast and further to proceede effectually to proue this matter that you may bee rooted in the truth you shall vnderstand Reu. 6. that first after the ascention of Christ into Heauen that then his Church proceeded pure his word sincerely preached by his Apostles and so proceeded vnder the coloure of a white Horse Reu. 6. according to the opening of the first seale After their time it proceeded in the coloure of a red Horse representing bloudy persecutions as in the Emperours dayes as in the second seale opēning And after the diuision of time it proceeded in the coloure of a blacke Horse being contrary to the first white Horse which was pure religion for then did arise the ceremonies of the Romise Church and the exaltation of the Pope and his seate Whereupon his vprising being in the fiue hundred yeare after Christ is aunswering rightly to the thir● seale opening of the blacke Horse c. And to the mistery of Iohn measuring the Temple Reu. 11. where he is commaunded to ca●● out the quire or outward court which by computation commeth to foure hundred cubites which represent yeares meaning thereby that whereas the Gentyles and vnbeleeuing Emperours haue persecuted the Church openly for fow● hundred yeares after Christ that h●● should not measure that