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A08559 The coniectures of the ende of the worlde, translated by George Ioye; Conjecturae de ultimis temporibus ac de fini mundi, ex Sacris literis. English Osiander, Andreas, 1498-1552.; Joye, George, d. 1553. 1548 (1548) STC 18877; ESTC S120761 47,723 118

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that there is no perell in callyng the Emperour or the Pone of Rome Antichrist as theyr confederation and coniuracyon thys day ay●●st the Lorde and hys worde declare them But let vs at last returne to our coniectu re Syth it is geuen to the beast nowe agayn puttynge vp her heade to exercyse and execute her tyrannye xlij Romane moneths which stād vpon xxx dayes y t is to weit dayes m. cc. lx and the thynge compelleth vs to take them for Aungels dayes that is for m. cc. lx of oure comon yeares it can not be doubted but that these yeares once fulfylled the ende of the worlde is anone at hande But the doubt is where we shall begynne these yeares Some there be that thynke them to begynne anone from the tyme of the Emperoure Constantyne the great because of the gyfte that is fayned to haue had ben geuen to Pope Syluester and because of the translation of the seat Emperyall to Constantinople for that Paul saith He that holdeth must be takē away and then that man of sinne shalbe reueled truely fro that tyme wherin they fayne themselues to haue had that ryche gift of Constantyne and they endoted enryched w t the best part of the Empyre euen with hole Rome Italy and halfe y e Empyre as they saye there was a voice herde in the ayer That now is the moste pestilent poysone entred into the churche of Rhome From that day I say yf the noumber be tolde which I wold gladly it shulde there beginne then is the Popedom at an ende within these xxxin yea res or after Daniel within lxiij yeres For then shuld the ende of the world fall about y e year of our Lord. m. ccccc lxxvij or after Daniel m. cccccc vij as it apeared to me by turnynge y e dayes into we●is whē I gathered my exposicion vpon Daniel as ye may there read my cōiectu re But by what fraud els soeuer y e beast then gote her emperyal possessions prī cely riches it semeth not true to me saith Osiander y t Constantyne gaue it them for euē y e style only of y e instrumēt made of the same deuocyon gift or legacie proueth it playnlye to be a stark lye of all lyes y t euer were made vnder heuen the most shameles as the moost well lerned man Laurence Valla and Nicholaus de Cusa also Ierome Gatlatanus and other most graue writers now sence haue mooste clerely shewed proued it Wherfor albeit Constantine made a beginnyng to take awaye the former domi nacyon whiche letted y e mouing of y e ryches to y e popedom yet because the beast had not then as yet ben vtterly destroid she myght not be sayd properly to putte forth hir hornes or to lyfte vp her heade ayen except she had first haue ben vtter ly subuerted ouerwhelmed as it were w t waters And therfor we shal iustly begīne to reken fro y e yere in y ● which after the translatiō of the empire Rome was takē spoyled brēt of y e Gothes brought thyther of theyr Capitain Alaricho For this is y e very iust end of y e former dominacion after Daniel And this was done in the yeare of the citie about m. c. lxiiij in y t yere of Christ about CCCC xij put nowe together the yeares of Christ. cccc xij and the yeres of the Pope M. cc. lx and thou hast the iuste noumber of M. CCCCCC lxxij And whē we shal write and tell so many yeres from Christe then is the fatale ende of the Pope of the citye of Rome present at hande yf it rather be not so as I haue coniectured it aboute xxx yeares to come And thys cōiecture maketh me that I thynke the yea res fro the celestiall Adam vnto the fyerve floude in the seconde coniecture and the iubile yeares of the churche in the thirde coniecture must not be rekened fro the byrthe of our Lorde but from hys re surreccyon For before that tyme he bore the forme of a seruaunte as hymself said to not haue ben comen to be serued but to serue From hys resurrection therfore he beganne iustely to possede hys kyngdom when he sayd All power is geuen me in heauen and earthe For so shall it come to passe that the ende of bothe the Pope and of Rome and of the worlde shall fall into the yeare of our Lorde aboute m. cccccc lxxxviij Whiles the fall of the Pope is lyke to come in the yeare of Christ about m. cccccc lxxij So that y e Popedom slayn extinct yet shal there remaine as it were ▪ xvi yeris in whiche men the aduersary of Christe and antichrist taken away and the gospell frely preched they shal begin ayen to lyue in a wealy securytye and in almaner voluptuose lustis as they wer wont to do And when they shall say peace and secu ritie then shal the soden destructiō come ouer them as the panges of a woman trauelling of childe and they shall not auoid it Wherfore let vs awake watch and be sober lest this daye take vs as a thefe in the night These things haue I setforth of the coniectures of the laste tymes and ende of the worlde For ther be yet many other things which I will not open nor communicate to the multitude But as for these things what credit there ought to be geuen to them I leaue it to be estemed of the spirituall church of Christe which can iudge all thinges them selues iudged of noman Couiecturs ar they I knowleg and confe●●e it and no oracles Not withstandinge yet vnlesse I be begyled they shal not litely begile ne deceiue any Christen reader Come down Lord Iesu vnto iugement and deliuer they persecuted lytell sely flocke So be it Another cōiectur added of y e translater When the citie of Rome was olde M xxxvij abouth y e yere of Christ. cclxxxvij when Dioclesane themprour begane to raigne there were suche dissencious sectis heresies false doctrine in the church of Rome as of the Manicheis Pelagiās Arrius c. as had not ben herd of before the popis then being Felix or rather In felix Euticianus an heretique Caius not good By whose contencious scismes and sectis and their so gredy ambicion for euen then begane they to begge and steall from the emprours parte of theyr most pleasant cities and richest possessions and londes and to set themprours and Kings togither by the earis Dioclesiane was so greuosly offended that he abhorred them and their false religiō and persecuted it whiche they called the christen religion as they do now the popis faith when it was nothing lyke Christe and his gospell but rather Sathans Kingdom and worse then the haithen Here begane the popis of Rome todeclare them selues very antichristis the beast was reueled euē vnto the very haithen emprours For
millenarie be all full hole geuen to the laborouse last mortal lyfe but y t most gloryouse beutyfull parte therof aboute the euenyng sh●lbe anteuorted and preuented of that blessed and euerlastynge reste as it shal appere clearlyer in the cō iectures followyng and in the mysterye of the supper of oure Lorde preuented celebrated in the euenyng and in the para bles of y t callinges to supper after which refreshyng there followeth no more laboure but reste The secōd coniecture is takē of y ● wordes of christ red Matth. 24 Mar. 13. thus But the daye and hower nomā knoweth it no not thaungels in heauē nor yet the sone him selfe but onlye my father But as were the dayes of Nohe so shalbe the coming of the sone of man For as in the dayes of Nohe before the floude they were eating drynkyng and marying vnto the daye in which Nohe entred into y ● arke and knewe not therof till the floude came ouer them taking all awaye euen so shalbe the coming of the sone of man For in these wordes Christe semeth not to compare only the qualyte but also the quantite of the tyme. The qualitie of the tyme I call the corrupt maners of that worlde and age the quantitie is the nomber of the yeres And as for the qualitie ther is no doute therof when Christ said playnly Luke xvij That as in the dayes of Nohe and Lot they ate and dronke toke wyues and maried bought and sold planted and builded euen so shall it be when the sone of man shalbe reueled But as touchyng the quantyte or noumber of the yeris albe it the thing be hid obscure yet in some behalfe it shyueth sheweth her selfe wher Math. saith perfectly As were the dayes of Nohe so shalbe the coming of the son of man Namely when Paul Rom. v. affyrmeth Adā to haue had ben the forme and image of Chryst to come as in y ● i. Cor. xv of christ he maketh an other Adam euen into the spirit that quickeneth The fyrst Adam was erthey out of the earthe but the seconde man is the Lorde him self out of heuen Nowe if Christ be the other Adā of whom the fyrst was the forme and similytude and the comyng of Christe be as the dayes of Nohe aboute the floude who wyll not beleue but that how much tyme passed from the earthey adam vnto the dayes of Nohe euen to the floude so much tyme shall there passouer to the celestiall Adam our Lorde Iesus vnto the ●nde euen to that last fiery floude wherof Peter sayth The daye of the Lord shall come lyke a thefe in the night at whose coming the heuens shal passouer lyke a storme and thelements shall melt awaye with heat y ● erthe al y ● workes theri shal be brūt vp And the heuens shalbe consumed whith fyer and thelementes moltē it is so manifest that from Adam to the floude there passed ouer Mcccccclvi yeres wherfor it is very like that in y ● year of our Lorde Mcccccclvi the end of the world shalbe comen before our dores whiche now is not much more thē an C. yeres hēce except it be rekoned from y t re surreccion of Christ. And as Nohe knew not the day ne hower of the floude tyl the Lorde bode him go into the arke but the year he knewe it when God told him before that he wold graunt him yet to the men cxx yeres space to repent euen so we albeit the daye and howr we knowe not yet the year maye we knowe or coniecture very nighe it ☞ The thirde couiecture is taken frō the tyme of Christes birthe vnto his passion and resurreccion whych is xxxiij ye res and some dayes more whose noumber we yet knowe not For when he was baptized he was full xxx yeres olde or very nyghe so that he was full thyrtye ere he toke the offyce of a leuite as to preache and to teache openlye Thus the sone of GOD whyche of euerlasting was in the bosome of the father manisshappe taken vp to him is becocome conuersant wyth vs lyke as one of xxx yeris olde For as touching his godheit he tolde the Iewes sayng Before Abraham was borne I had my being essenciall name called Sum. And yet to cer tyfye vs the more in this thinge behold the Astronomer Ptolemeus which in cal king the yere expressed plainly in y e course of y e. xxxiiij yeres of Christ to be euen such an easter day or passouer day as we finde nowe described of theuāgelistes at y t passyon of Christ which daye fyll then iustely vpō the fryday as did then Christ vpon the same daye kepe it with hys Discyples Albeit the Iewes then differred trauslated it into the next sabboth which was saterdaye and then ate they theyr Passe lombe at euening in y ● which forenone was offred the very trwe passe lombe Christe the ende of all the fygures therof the Iewes not yet seing y e verite but abiding still in their dead blinde shadows The iewes differred y e feste as they do yet when it so falleth vpō the friday lest two gret festes in which they may not do so much as make their owne fyer or cut their brede shulde be contynued togither whiche thing that Christe shuld eate his Passe lombe on the fryday and suffer also on the same day makyng saterday the hole restyng daye vpon son day erly to ryse many hitherto haue not ●speyd But this mater Paule Bisshop of Sēpronie serched for wyth gret study and could not fynde it out only because he perceiued not the Iewes not to tell y e fyrst day of the moneth from the coniun● cion of the sone and mone next before but from the eauening euen at v. of the cloke before the chāg in which the lerned astro mers did euidently shewe it or els lawful witnes proued it to the elders or senators of Ierusalem that the newe mone was sene or might haue had ben sene But returne we to our purpose Wherfore when our Lorde Christ born of the virgē concerning his fleshe was in this our miserable lif cōuersant with vs. xxxiij yeres and some dayes more it is very like him self also to be borne spirytually of the in corrupt vyrgyne the holy churche by the free confession and pure doctryne of the gospell euen so many yeares but yei great yeres and so to remayne and abyde with vs styll in his spirytuall birth these xxx great yeres in this worlde But here must ye knowe that there be two maner of grete yeres in holy seryptur One is the Angels year and the tother is Moses year One Angels year cō teineth somany of our comon yeares as we haue daies in our yeare that is 354. of our yeares for so many daies be there in our lunare yere For w t vs which be cō cluded vnder y e heuens y t course of y t sone frō east to west