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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

to be burned as Heretikes which refuse to worship these Images For what cause 〈◊〉 moved Sabinian to burne the bookes of Gregorie but because he had defaced Images howsoever Platina goeth about to blanch the matter What else did they object against the Emperors of Greece What else did they urge against the Valdenses and Wicklevites but that they refused to worship the Roman Pontifex and his images What else did they object to Cranmer Ridley Latimer Hooper Sanders Bradford and other godly men in Queene Maries time that I may speak of England not of other countries but that they refused to acknowledge the reall presence and so to worship the Sacrament other of their images I demand also whether the Turke or any other Idolater do command and compell men to worship images under such capitall and Tyrannous paynes Whether any Idolater do compell men to worship so many Images or set up so many to be worshipped And whether any do proceed so cruelly against those that refuse to worship their Images The Popes in their lawes declare them to be Heretikes and excommunicate which do not worship their images and consequently depriue them not onely of lands and goods but also of their liues yea if it be a Prince they absolue his subjects from obedience and alleagiance givin his subjects power libertie to kill their Natiue king and giue away his kingdome to another Did ever any Iew Turke Infidel or Pagan attempt to doe the like If they should is it credible or likely that they should be believed and obeyed as the Popes haue been Thus therefore their actions being so agreeable to the Rising of this second Beast I demande againe How these Prophecies can be otherwise performed by any Monarch Prince Potentate State or person whatsoever past present or to come And if not then Whether this be not that Antichrist or whether we may expect any other And so we come to the description of Antichrist mounted upon the Roman State and raigning in his glorie which is the fifth generall parte of his description V. The Raigne of Antichrist IT is not unworthie of our observation that the Holy Ghost in setting forth the kingdome of Antichrist useth no such forme of speech as when he speaketh of particular men but such as is commonly used applied in scripture to signifie greate kingdomes and Monarchies When he prophecieth of particular men for the most part he noteth them by some proper Adjunct As of Iohn Baptist Esay 40. A voyce cryeth in the wildernes prepare the way of the Lord. c. So of our Saviour Christ My Righteous servant shall justifie many and againe He was broken for our sinnes c. Sometimes by the name of some other man as Mal 4. Behold I send you the Prophet Elijah c. Sometimes he calleth them by their proper names as that He sayth to Cyrus my Sheepheard Esay 44. c. and I will call Eljakim and so he prophecieth of Iosiah and against Shallum Coniah The king of Babel and Tyrus Esay 22. Ier. 22. But when he speaketh of great kingdomes or Monarchies he figureth them sometimes under the names of Great Beasts as all the four Monarchies in Daniel sometimes under the names of women ●zech 23. as Ezechiel calleth the two kingdomes of Ierusalem and Samaria Two women Nahum calleth Niniveh Esay 47. the beautifull harlot Esayah and Ieremie resemble Babylon sometimes to a woman tender and delicate sometimes to a Queene Iu. 51. sometimes to an Harlot whose words and Phrases our Apostle delighteth much to use It is no marvell therefore that having here to speak of the state of two Great kingdomes namely the Kingdome or Church of Christ and the kingdome or Synagogue of Antichrist He describeth one of them as a Chaste and undefiled spouse prepared for her husband and the other as a sumptuous glorious luxurious proud and intising Harlot alluring kings princes and all sorts of people to come unto her Wherein although it be true that Contraries compared layd together do illustrate one the other yet I will not here prosecute that glorious and heauenly description of the true Church of our Lord Christ Iesus able to take up all my thoughts and meditations but strictly following my former course obserue seuen Attributes in the Description of the Antichristian state and power Revel 17. now mounted upon the back of the Roman state First it is called the Great Whore Secondly which sitteth upon many waters Thirdly with whom the kings of the earth haue committed fornication and the Inhabitants of the earth haue been made druncken with the wine of her fornication Fourthly most richly and gorgeously cloathed and adorned with purple and scarlet gold and pearles having a golden cup in her hand full of her fornications Fiftly shee hath a name written in her forehead a Mysterie Babylon The great Mother of Harlots abhominations of the earth Sixtly She is druncken with the bloud of the Saints and Martyrs of Christ Iesus And lastly to make all plaine who this is It is sayth our Prophet the Great Cittie that ruleth over the kings of the earth Of some parts of which Description I haue spoken before both in the first and second Problem For which cause I shall not neede to speak much here but onely of such things as haue not been touched before And to speake a word by the way of that which is most plain and evident which is last mentioned that it is called the Great cittie by which name we commonly understand the king Prince or Prelate thereof as in the Prophecies against Iuda Israell Babell Ninive we understand many times their Princes and principall men and in our common speech we call Prelates by the names of their Seas as Canterburie London Magunce Trever c. So here by the most proper Adjunct we understand Rome and by Rome her Prince Prelate or Governour It will be in vaine therefore to aske whether this be hee seeing the Holy Ghost sayth this is he But it will be I thinke worth our labour to consider how these qualities may be applied to the chief Pontifex of Rome and whether they may be applied to any other And if to them alone then whether to one more then to another or to the whole succession Let us therefore peruse them in order The first qualitie is The Great Whore Whoredome in Scripture as hath been sayd is understood sometimes literally for the corporall filthines sometimes mystically for the spirituall whoredome which is Idolatrie Now for this later it is evident not onely by the Testimonie of Salvianus aboue recited but of their own histories that the verie Heathen Idols continued undefaced in Rome and worshiped untill the time of Boniface the fourth who having obteyned the Pantheon of the Emperor Phocas did consecrate that Temple to the honour of the Virgin Marie and of all martyrs Platina Fasc Temp. ejectis prius

himselfe to be the thiefe and restore the stollen goods to the right owner But as the acknowledgement of error and of injurie is not to be expected from him or his who loue the world the pompe glorie and power thereof a little too well to resigne their Soveraigntie So in all these courses whilst he thinkes cunningly to hide himselfe he bewrayes himselfe the more to be ANTICHRIST unto such as haue spirituall eyes illuminated by grace from aboue to discerne trueth from falsehood Thus you see their Egiptian wisedome and what paines they take with those Magicall Iuglers Iannes and Iambres 2 Tim. 3 8. to conceale themselues and how much it concerns them so to doe On the other side it concernes us with Moses to relye upon the Hebrew simplicitie and sinceritie for our salvation but withall to be learned in all the Egiptian wisedome Act. 7 22. the better to discover Antichrist his clowdie walking that so diverse Controversies may be at an end For were he fully discovered then all that belieue in Christ and loue him and desire his glorious comming would hate this Monster who is like Iudas amongst the twelue a counterfeit Apostle carrying the bagge an Hypocrite playing the parte of a Vicar a Deputie a Substitute but from the stage appearing a naked ragged beggerly vacabond And doubtlesse his person being thus discovered his lawes and decrees would be rejected and Kings Princes and people would cast the Egiptian yoake from their overgalled neckes Yea such as thinke they doe now God good service in murthering the poore Lambs of Christ in all places for him would leaue him come out of his Babylonish profession and not so much as trade or trucke with him in the least exchange of those doubtfull commodities or touch any of those garments spotted with the flesh It cannot be denyed but Iesabell was once young and Chast and faire But this proues not that she is so now It cannot now be denyed but that she is full of wrinckles and a royall whore the Mother of fornication Rev. 2 20. fitte for all commers and withall painted to uphold her rotten reputation And we doubt not but God will stirre up some Iehu zealous perhaps for his owne interest if not for Gods to cause her owne Eunuchs those Fryars Monks and other Votaries 2 King 9 30 to throw her out of the windowe that he may treade her under his horses feete And doubtlesse as this shall in time come to passe by the powerfull preaching of the word which shall wast him by degrees 2 Thes 2. so as an effect of the word preached first the usurped authoritie of the Papacie and Roman Cleargie over Kings and Princes shall be broken and reformation shall begin where deformation came first into the Church So that Antichrist shall say as Hanniball once did Eadem arte qua prius cepimus Tarentum amisimus And this is with Iehu to treade Iesabel under foote Bellarmine confesseth that Constantine the Greate gaue the Pallace of Laterane Bellarm. li. 2 cap. 17. de Rom. Pontif. multa alia temporalia to the Pope Ditionem tamen spiritualem neque dedit ullam neque dare potuit So the spirituall dition made way for the temporall donation and then was poyson powred into the Church when the bountie of Princes sought to satisfie the ambition of Priests The Priests then grew downwards towards the earth and Princes then began to climbe upwards towards heauen And the coveteous Clergie finding the fayth of fewe for the faythfull are but fewe a verie little flock and oftentimes not very rich in wooll not to be so fruitfull as the superstition of many they nourished that profitable and liberall humour by their uttermost arte and from hence got S. Peter a rich patrimonie being dead who when he lived had scarse a house wherein to hide his head This temporall patrimonie graced with so holy a patronage as the reverenced name of S. Peter did speedily and mightily increase in all places especially where superstition was interteyned in the name and stead of true Religion and where Clergie men knew how cunningly to raise questions and quarrels under hand and then to intrude themselues as equall arbitrators and impartiall umpires but ever to manage and determine all for the advantage of the Catholike cause as they called it and for the ruine of particulars as it is reported of that Lawyer who decided the difference betwixte the lame man and the blinde concerning their oyster that each of them should haue a shell and he the meat Thus dealing for the Church by pretence themselues being mostly single and unmarried and so unsuspected to trade for the world and posteritie they had oportunitie to inrich themselues and their particular fraternities and to performe such actes with commendation because they pretended S. Peter and the Church not themselues as would haue been counted cousenage treacherie exaction oppression injustice and perhaps forgerie and Robberie if perpetrated by any other persons or to any other ends But the generall opinion of their Cause and Persons supposed and stiled sacred made all passe currant without question or controule Thus in a short time where they were lately glad to be graced by Kings Kings were now glad to be graced by them And where Kings had persecuted their predecessors for the trueth they now persecuted Kings for falsehood and chalenged the investiture of such Princes by right upon whom their predecessors out of the opinion of their pietie and the superstitious desire to be inaugurated by so blessed an omen had been sometimes formerly invited or admitted to lay their holy hands Now therefore they began to cutte out large cantles of the earth for their owne share and made so manie sanctuaries and Citties of refuge that they incouraged malefactors who ought to haue represt them and gotte well by the bargaine too For they so mightily grew by this meanes that the world and the wealth of it was found with Priests and pietie was onely found with the poore the secular was onely regular according to Christ and the Regular was master of misrule in all secular affaires Marchandize forraigne negotiations and the Government civill and ecclesiasticall first by the civill and imperiall lawes after by the Cannon Law a Law of their owne was wholly moderated and managed by them Kings were made their wardes and deposed for Hereticks as soone as they once thought themselues of age to rule themselues and their people aright without their helpe Yea Mars himselfe was interteyned into their service and the Crosse of tribulation fayth and patience which was at first but a staffe in the hand of the Cleargie to support them in their constant sufferings was now perverted in the use and turned upwards in prosperitie and spirituall pride and so became a sword in everie Cleargie mans hand to invade and disturbe the peace of Christendome and Confession served as a secret racke or torture of Conscience a kinde of