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A20307	A short description of Antichrist vnto the nobilitie of Englande, and to all my brethren and contreymen borne and dwelling therin, with a warnynge to see to, that they be not deceaued by the hypocrisie and crafty conueyaunce of the clergie	Old, John, fl. 1545-1555, attributed name. aut; Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586, attributed name. aut	1555 (1555)	STC 673; ESTC S116863	35,736	88

how contrary your bishops be to Christe and how contrarie they be to his doctrine and to the doctrine of his Apostles and also how wicked your law lately by your consētes reuyued is contrary to Gods worde But good my lordes thinke not that you can gather grapes vpon thornes This their mortheringe of their brethern for their faith declareth vnto all men whose vnderstandinge is not takē awaye by God that they be the theues of which Christe speaketh Ioh. 8. of whome cā not come any good frute For morther is a worke that proueth them to be the deuels seruātes who was a mortherer from the beginninge sayeth Christ that lyeth not But as Abraham had two children one borne after the fleshe called Ismael Gal. 4. and an other after the spirite called Isaac As then he that was borne carnally persecuted him that was borne spirituallye euē so is it now sayeth Sainte Paul Did Christ my good lordes compel any mā to come to his religion with imprisonemente or with fyre Did Christe kill the Iewes scribes pharisees that hearinge his doctrine and seinge also his wonderous miracles not withstandinge both wold not beleue in him Ys not faith honorable lordes the only gifte of God liberally geuen to whome it pleaseth him Can any man by his awne industry studie and laboure obteyne faith If you will suffer youre byteshepes so cruelly to morther men for wante of soch faith as it hath pleased them to deuyse by lyke equitie and Reason maye you suffer them to morther all them that haue not the lyberall gifte of God to make whole the sicke And also with moare equitie you your selfes maye hange vp the bishop of London and all youre other bisshops preistes as theues and mortherers that take charge of soules receaue the profites of their benefices which haue not the gifte of God to preach the gospell to the flocke accordinge to Christes commaundemente And by no lesse equitie all they must suffer deeth that haue not the gift of chastitie allthough to deceaue the people they saye they haue auowed it And although your lordships as ye thinke do not any violence against soch as now suffer by force of that wicked law that by youre consentes is reuiued because your lordships haue referred al the determinatiō iudgemēte of heresie vnto your byteshepes Yet be your lordships and all they that haue consented to the reuiuinge and makinge in force strēgth of the sayd law gyltie of the blood and deeth of all thē that haue suffered deeth shall suffer or do suffer by force s trēgth of the said law For not only all they that committe do euill be worthy deeth sayeth Paul but also all they that consente therto Rom. 1. Not only because the law by force wherof many suffer deeth was reuyued by your consētes But also bycause the same law is manifest wicked vnrightuous because it is contrary to the worde of God Wherfore it cā not be but wicked And therfore the same law wherby all they suffer vniustlie and the blood of thē that suffer deeth shal be a witnes before God against you of their tormentes and deeth And then good my lordes remember the sētence of God pronounced against al them that shede innocēte blood vnrightuously not only that they be mortherers who shal neuer inheret the kingedome of heauen 1. Cor. 5. Gene. 9 But also the holy goost sayeth he that shedeth innocente blood of men his blood shal be shed againe by men If your lordships do not thinke God false in his promises loke most certēly for your blood if ye do not vnfaynedly spedely repente to be shed of men againe And although you wold not beleue the promises of God to be true Yet way you the late experience of that trueth verefied in the late dukes of Somerset and Northumberlande whose doinges to al them that did know them do manifestlie prooue the sayed promises of God to be most certenly and truely verefied in them As they can not be otherwise in all men And now I trust your lordships do well vnderstande and perceaue that this law by your consentes lately reuiued made a law in force and stength is contrary both to the doctrine and example of Christe and of his Apostles and Prophetes Wherfore it can not be but a wicked law Esai 10. Woo therfore be vnto you that make wicked lawes sayeth God by his prophe Esaias And if a nother magistrate shuld by the prouision of God be called to reigne oue vs who iudgeth the forme of religion last receaued of vs to be contrary to Gods worde and therfore to be worthely abolished then maye he persecute all youre bishops and thē that now haue consented to morther christen men for their fayth but nor because he perceaueth that they haue no perfite faith or els a wicked faith for then should he commit lyke iniquitie but because the worde of God sayeth The same measure that you haue measured to other the same shal be measured to you againe By this sentence that is no wicked law al youre mortheringe bishops maye iustly be handles as they haue handled them This law of late by youre consentes reuyued and made in force and strength as a perfite law doeth not only reproue youre lordships of youre inconstauncie who not longe tyme before vpon reasonable and godly causes wel wayed frely disputed and reasoned did dysanull make frustrate voyed the same as a wicked law but also this youre sodeine reinuinge of the same declareth that you care not what you do be it neuer so wicked contrary to God so that you maye auoyde the displeasure of the magistrate and supreme eyuill gouernour Wherby it appereth manifestlie that you regarde more the displeasure of man then the displeasure of God Doeth nor your lordships consider that God saith by the prophere Psal 5. The lorde shall breake the bones of them that do studie to please men Halas right honorable lordes who har● so be witched you now that you so sodenly aye fled from Gods trueth Gal. 3. Your awne cōnsciēces so longe tyme approuīg the same Before whose eyes Iesus Christ was so lyuely preached and so faithfully set forth And neuertheles now not only his doctrine and the true and profitable vse of the sacramentes be by your consētes repelled for heresie but also Christ him self in his holy membres and misticall body most truelly tormented and slayn Halas that foreyne nations shal obsecre this inconstantie to your dishonours namely to be so in constante and ●…inge in the principall pointes concerninge a Christen mans religion and faith consideringe that by your owne consentes the same religion now by you repelled as heresye was by your commandemes set forth and commaunded thorough all the Realme and dominions of Englāde to be taught and also to be receaued of the people To what trueth and to what religion maye the subiectes of this realme here

a misterie and office perteininge to a misticall bodie wherof the principall minister is called the chief Antichriste as all the other membres of the same faction misterie and office be also Antichristes All which receaue power autoritie and office from their heed Antichriste that in al his doctrines maners and lyuinge is mere contrary to Christ For euen as that congregation is the misticall body of Christe wherof he is the supreme heed that hath receaued the true and sincere preachinge of the law and of the gospel and lyue accordinge to the preachinge of the same and also haue the sacramentes duely administred vnto them accordinge to Christes institution of the same The description of Antichriste Euen so is that malignaunt church and congregation the misticall bodie of Antichriste that hath not amongest them the true and sincere preaching of the Law and of the Gospel ne yet the sacramentes dulie administred vnto them accordinge to Christes institution of them ne yet accordinge to the practise of the Apostles nor of the primatiue church nor the same can be content to lyue according to the rule and doctrine of Gods heauenly worde nor suffer any other to lyue accordinge to the same but will compell thē with tormentes to receaue a new religion that must consiste other in vayne thinges which be of no commoditie or profit to any man ether spirituall or temporal or els it is manifest wicked and repugnaūt to Gods holy worde And first touchinge their vaine thinges and deed ceremonies of their religion that be of no commoditie or profite to any man excepte onlye to the sluttishe secte of perdition I note all their popishe traditions of confirmacion of yonge children with oyntinge of oyle and creame and with a ragge knitte aboute the necke of the yonge babe the christeninge of belles the halowinge of oyle and creame the halowinge of churches of churchyardes of chalices of vestimētes of aultares of aultare clothes of salte of bread of fiere of asshes of water of candles of palme stickes Iudas bels with candels blowē out at the ende of euery Psalme and lesson crepinge to the crosse with egges and apples dispelinge with a white rodde wasshinge of aultares Of all which thinges the holy scriptures commaunde not one to be done although in this churche of Antichrist they be straytly cōmaūded to be vsed And yet I know no wise man that wil or can prayse the comoditie or profite that cometh therof to any man but only to the priest that hath the cādles egges c. that be offred vnto hym And although ther riseth not any cōmoditie or profite other spiritual or tēporal to any man yet as I haue said they be straytly cōmaūded to be obserued / cōtrary to Gods cōmaun̄demēt that sayeth Deut. 12 That which I commaūde you that only take hede do to the Lorde Putth on nought therto Not withstandinge which commaundemente / because Antichriste wold partly set forth his awne nature and propertie that is to be contrary and disobediēt to God and Christ he hath erected these new holy thinges neuer of God commaunded And therfore as they be not of God so be they of no commoditie or profite to any of the people of God why Antichrist commaūdeth vanities But yet ther is some consideration wherfore Antichriste hath commaunded these vayne thinges to be done One is that he wold haue his filthy generation to be had in estimation of the worldly babes because that they haue receaued soch holines from his holy fatherhood that they maye sanctifie and make holy that God hath halowed allready lyke as the thinges of Gods creation were not sufficientlye halowed thorowe his eternall worde wherby he created them Exalteth not he himself aboue God honorable lordes that taketh vpō hym to adde holynes to that which God hath sufficiently halowed Be not these his halowinges of Gods creatures a necessary point perteininge to the vocation of a spirituall pastoure / that hath cure and charge of soules Or be they not necessary thinges to be done of a Christen man / towchinge his vocation and dutie to be done towardes God and towardes his neighbour And although they be worthy rather to be laghed at and mocked / yet by these his vanities he occupieth the tyme hat shuld be spente in the instruction teachinge the people in the lawe and the Gospell Moreouer by these as also by many other their doinges / they declare their diligente cure and studye that they haue to obeye Gods commaundement geuen to them to instructe and to teach the people Gods worde that leaue the gospell vnpreached and occupie the heartes and mindes of the people with soch trifles and vanities But because these vayne thinges do not sufficiently reuele this wicked Antichriste and his secte That he may be knowen of all men I will commende to youre memories honorable lordes some of his false doctrines Not soch as I of myne awne brayne call false doctrines and the doctrines of deuels and of soch as departe from the fayth and be lyeng masters and geue eare to the spirites of erroure But soch doctrines as Christe and his Apostles note to be the doctrines of deuels and of soch as by the same doctrines shal deceaue 〈◊〉 and shall cause many to folow the sp●…tes of erroure So that euery man that heareth soch doctrines preached maye boldlye saye that the preachers therof be false preachers and sectes of perdition that they be the adulterouse generation of Antichrist that these many yeres haue deceaued and bewitched the world And although Christ and his Apostles haue manifestlie declared and euidently set forth to the world the sayd doctrines to be the doctrines of deuels and of them that departe from the faith and the very selfe same doctrines wherby Antichriste and his filthy secte shulde deceaue many Yet soch hath ben the blindnes of the worlde that they can not vnderstande nor perceaue those doctrines to be the same wicked doctrines wherof Christ and his Apostles admonished thē al men to beware not only because he coloureth his doctrines with false paynted gloses Ioan. 3. but also because the world loueth darkenes moare thē the lighte And also to verifie Christes wordes of prophesie to be truely fulfilled in them saying I am come in my fathers name and you receaue me not Iaon 5. But yf a nother shal come in his awne name him wil you receaue Now touchinge the false doctrines of Antichriste Sainte Paul sayeth 1. Tim. 4 The spirite manifestly sheweth that in the last tymes certen men shal departe or go awaye from the faith attending or geuing eare to the spirites of erroure and doctrines of deuels prohibitinge to mary and commaunding to absteyne from meates that God hath created to be receaued of them that beleue and know the trueth with thankes geuinge By this doctrine of sainte Paul manifestlye appereth honorable Lordes that the forbiddinge of mariage is the doctrine of

in their whorish confessions nor yet know they what is a gospel moch lesse cā they preach the gospell Halas by what meanes do these beastes of the bely geue remission of synnes to the people when they speake not one worde of Christe that the confessed doeth vnderstande or perceaue But in their absolutions they geue penaunce to the confessed fastinge certen dayes lyplabour in sayenge of thinges they vnderstande not masses to be sayed and almes to be geuen for the satisfaction of their sinnes Thus burye they Christes passion and deeth and bloodshedinge which only be oure satisfaction for oure synnes And no nother can be And although God by his prophete Esai commaundeth all pastours that haue the spirituall charge of soules Esai 43. to shew vnto his people their synnes sayenge Crie and cease not Lyft vp thy voyce as a trumpet Esai 58. shew my people their synnes Notwithstandinge this commaundemente of God geuen to all them that haue spirituall charge of soules Antichriste myndinge to shew to the world that he thinketh him selfe wiser thē God and that he can make more godly and holsome prouision for soule health then God hath made a law that all people of euery kinde once in the yere at the leest shal confesse and shew their synnes to their awne Pastour or curate God commaundeth that the pastoure shall shew to the people theyr synnes But Antichriste commaundeth cleane contrary that the people shall shew their synnes to their curates By these meanes the people for the most parte beleue that they haue remission of their synnes because they haue nombred their synnes in to the eares of their confessoure Or els for what cause shulde we confesse thē to our curates For euery man knoweth what is synne that he shal be damned yf he forsake not his synne yf the priestes execute the commaundemente of God geuē by Esai Esai 58. But the simple people thinke verely that when the curate pronounceth a certen sownde and voyce of wordes ouer their beedes which they thinke is an absolutiō frō their sinnes although they vnderstande not one worde what he sayeth yet beleue they that the wordes that he speaketh hauinge his hande vpon their heedes haue vertue and power to forgeue to them their synnes euen because the priest sitting in Gods stede as they thinke and as the priestes boaste them selfes to do pronounceth and speaketh them Wherin all be deceaued lamentablye Assured meanes wherby euery man maye haue remission of sinnes But doutles he that earnestly repenteth his sinfull life fully mynded neuer after to returne to the same thē trusteth cōstantly to Gods promise made of remissiō of sinnes to hym for the passion deeth of oure sauioure Christe / the same hath remissiō of his synne althouth he neuer nombre them in to the eare of any preist And then yf he fealinge and perceauinge true repentaunce and faith in his hearte will resorte to any prieste to receaue absolution and remission of his synnes wherof he is assured by Gods promise the same declareth hymself to mistrust Gods promise made to hym of remission of his synnes and then is he an infidele that by no meanes can haue remission of his synnes And if he be not fully mynded to forsake his former euill lyfe and neuer to retorne to the same againe then can he not haue any trust to haue remission of his synnes because that is promised to them only that for euer forsake their synnes And therfore if he mindeth not to forsake his synnes he goeth in vayne to his curate to haue remissiō of his synnes And if he repenteth his synnes and beleueth as I haue said then doeth he euyll to fatch remission of his synnes wherof he is assured already by Gods promise to be forgeuen And therfore his goinge to his curate to be confessed is veraye vayne and a poynte of infidelitie Oh that the curates of Englāde wold theye and obserue Gods commaundemente geuen to them by the mouth of his prophete Esaia But that will they neuer 〈◊〉 But their master Antichristes cōmaundementes wyll they deligently obeye although they bringe no commoditie spirituall or temporall to any man sauinge to their fylthie paunches Euery man maye well perceaue wherfore they be so gready to holde and to maynteyne this whorish confession Th causes why the clergie so earnestlie maynteyne auriculer confession and authoritie to heare testamentary causes c. Ouer besydes that they prouide for them selfes in their confessions where they maye be sped of a whore or two all the yere after Yet by these their cōfessiōs the chiefe Antichrist kepeth his sluttish secte of perdition in estimation with the comen people in whose cōsciēces they sitte as God and execute Antichristes office that is to fill hell with soules And so in their confessions be euer ready to worke sedition and treason against both Emperoure kinge and al other gouernours of that Empire realme and dominion that ether cōtendeth or striueth with their holy father Antichriste or speaketh against his vsurped power his false and craftie deceated wicked doctrines wherby he seduceth begyleth all men for the most parte leading them with a false confidence and fayth to haue remission of their synnes because they declare them to his filthy generatiō of serpentes And by these meanes innumerable soules be le●… 〈◊〉 to hell And moch sedition and treason is wroughte wherby moch bloodshedinge and murther is broughte to passe to the vtter subuersion and destruction of many Realmes As the last sedicion stirred vp in the North in Somerset shire Deuonshire and in other partes of this Realme be most miserable monimētes and witnesses And this is not their only comen practise practised with vs in Englāde but also the like practise was practised with the Princes of Germany that will neuer suffer their treasōs to be out of mās memory Wherfore this whorish confession wherof procedeth so moch euyll and mischefe to all realmes which also bringeth no profite with it but seduceth and begyleth many ought to be banished and abolished although they saye that they cānot well gyue medicine or plaister that shal be holesome or profitable excepte they also know the particuler disease and grief Which answere oure holy father hymself desproueth For he geueth cleane remission a prenaet a culpa that is from peyne and synne to thē that neuer shewed their offences to hym and healeth all sickenesses and sores with this one plaister that is all that be truly sory and penitente for their synnes and be confessed to a priest haue cleane remission As for faith in our sauioure Iesus Christe it forceth not so thou be confessed it maketh no matter whether thou beleue in Christe or no. And yet without Christ are we all for euer remidiles damned Why do ye right honorable lordes / admit this blasphemous doctrine of remission of synnes without faith in Christ All that be truly sorry for their synnes

entendinge thorow Gods helpe / neuer to retorne to the same and put their trust and faith in Christes blood for the remissiō of their synnes haue a generall pardō graūted vnto them by God hym selfe by his promise though they neuer come to priestes eare which is a sure bull nor sealed with lead but with the bloodshedinge of Iesus Christe And therfore if oure english priestes wolde truly preach the law to the people openly thē shuld they shewe the people their sinnes accordinge to Gods commaundemēte and geue them the generall plaister that is they must vtterly forsake their sinnes and trust to Christes satisfaction made for the same This maye they do without carish confession And this is the only true waye to forgeue sinnes and of it selfe sufficiente Awaye therfore with this blasphemous care confession and compell youre priestes to preach the law and the gospel And so maye youre lordships auoyde many euyls and moch wickednes that ensueth this whorish confession And good my Lordes beware of them that saye I am Christe that is so anoynted of God with grace that euery man maye haue of me the same benefite that they may haue of Christ For they that come so in the name of Christe sayenge Math. 24 I am Christe shal deceaue many sayeth Christe who can not speake vntruly Beware therfore my lordes of a nother of Antichristes false doctrines and practise A nother of Antichristes false doctrines A nother false doctryne of Antichriste is that he hath inuented and erected the new sacrifice to be made in the ydolotrous Masse for the soules of the quycke and of the deed 2. Petr. 2 By the which sacrifice they make marchaundise of mens soules for money But for as moch as Christ hath offred hym self vpon the crosse to God his father and become for vs a perfite He. 7. et 9 whole and sufficiente sacrifice for oure sinnes ones for euer wherwith he hath taken awaye oure sinnes By what meanes can oure false sacrificers / with their false sacrifice made in their ydolotrose masse neuer commaunded of God to be made for the synnes other of the quycke or of the deed take awaye oure sinnes Cōsideringe that Paul sayeth Hebr. 10 where is remission of sinnes there neadeth no forther sacrifice to be made for sinnes but Christe with his only one sacrifice made to God his father for vs hath taken awaye oure synnes as all the holy scriptures beare manifeste witnesse And in the articles of oure crede we confesse the same Wherfore this sacrifice made in the ydolotrouse masse is most wicked and sinfull can not by any meanes take awaye oure sinnes but is one of Antichristes false craftes and subtile deuises therby to maynteyn his sluttish generation of infideles to lyue ydly proudly and lecherously And by this their false sacrifice made in their ydolotrouse masse they robbe Christ not only of his honour of oure redemption and of the thankes dew for the same But also they make many to haue a false confidence and trust to haue their synnes to be taken awaye thorow their false sacrifice made in their masses Wherin they be lamētably deceaued And also they robbe vs of oure money be the selfe same robbers that Christe sayeth do deuoure widowes houses vnder the coloure of longe prayers Mat. 23. Marc. 12. and also that make marchādice of oure soules in couetousnes 2. Pet. 2 These be the same Antichristes that cōfesse not Christ to be comē in the flesh denye the Lorde that bought them 1. Ioan. 4 The selfe same sacrificers righte honorable lordes take vpon them to be mediatours and aduocates with God for the people not for loue An other of Antichristes false doctrines as one man is boūde to praie for an other But these holy mediatours and aduocates will not praye but for money That the comō prouerbe maye be verified in them Where is no pēny ther is no Pater noster Prayer Prayer is of all thinges most spirituall And no man can praye truly except God teach hym Math. 6 As it appeareth by the Apostles that desired Christ to teach thē to praye And also Paul sayeth Rom. 8. we can not praye as we oughte to praye Therfore if our clergies sacrifices and prayers were spirituall as in dede they be but veraye liplaboure and most deceatful bablinges they shuld committe Symonie for takinge for a spiritual office a tēporal rewarde But moneye all other thinges be spiritual when̄ they medle with them They in them selfes be so spiritual But mediatours aduocats wil they be although the holy scriptures saye the cōtrarie And that Christ is our only mediatour aduocat as it appereth Ioan. 14 ▪ 17. 1. Tim. 2. and. 1. Iaan 3 Yet will oure wicked priestes vsurpe vnto them the only office of Christe to be mediatours and aduocates And therby saye that they be Christe But beware of them honorable lordes For Christ biddeth you beware of them For they shal deceaue many sayeth Christe Beware therfore of a nother of Antichristes false doctrines All christen men be bounden to beleue that oure sauioure Christe in his naturall body is ascended in to heauen and ther sitteth on the righte hande of God the father acccordinge as both Peter and Paul haue taughters 1. Petr. 3. Coloss 3. And accordinge to oure comē crede But Antichriste and his adulterous generation of infideles haue taughte a nother doctrine sayenge Here is Christe and there is Christe But none saye here is Christe and there is Christe but these Masmongers which saye that they thorow their speakinge of foure wordes scz this is my body do make Christes body of bred ther to be really and bodely presente vpon euery altare in one instāte that thei might offer him once againe for a sacrifice made for money but not for sinne This doctrine is to be moch suspected to be a false doctrine because that Christ commaundeth you not to beleue them that so teach or saye And Peter sayeth that he is in heauen and that the heauens shall there reteyne hym vntill all thinges be fulfilled c. Act. 3. Consideringe that he in his bodely presence is in heauen and his bodie is lyke to oure bodies in al naturall thinges except onlye sinne And oure bodies can not be in diuerse places at one tyme therfore nor Chrifles body cā be in diuers places at one tyme. Wherfore good my lordes be not any more ignoraunte who be false deceauers wicked prophetes Christes body is in secrete places that is in euery pixt and lienge masters the natural broode of Antichriste The same secte sayeth that Christ is in secret places which be all they that saye Christes natural body is in euery pyxe hāginge ouer euery altare beware of them For Christe sayeth that by these wordes they shall deceaue many Which doctrines our English priestes dayly do preach Now I will reherse a nother of his