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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20037	That the pope is that Antichrist: and An answer to the obiections of sectaries, which condemne this Church of England Two notably learned and profitable treatises or sermons vpon the 19. verse of the 19. chapter of the Reuelation: the first whereof was preached at Paules Crosse in Easter terme last, the other purposed also to haue bene there preached. By Lawrence Deios Bachelor in Diuinitie, and minister of Gods holy word.	Deios, Laurence, d. 1618.	1590 (1590)	STC 6475; ESTC S118248	84,851	202

THAT THE POPE IS THAT ANTICHRIST AND An answer to the Obiections of Sectaries which condemne this Church of England Two notably learned and profitable Treatises or Sermons vpon the 19. verse of the 19. chapter of the Reuelation the first whereof was preached at Paules Crosse in Easter Terme last the other purposed also to haue bene there preached By LAWRENCE DEIOS Bachelor in Diuinitie and Minister of Gods holy word REVEL c. 19. v. 19. And I sawe the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make battell against him that sate on the horse and against his armie ¶ Imprinted at London by George Bishop and Ralph Newberie An. Dom. 1590. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND MOST REVEREND FAther in Christ my Lorde the Archbishop of Canturbury his Grace Primate of all England and Metropolitane one of her Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsell THE impugnations which the enemie of the whole Church so strangely diuersly maketh against this Church of England are not so much to be marueiled at as of euery true Christian heart to be lamented They of the Church of Rome condemne vs for falling away so farre from them such as are sprong vp amongest our selues and are gone out from vs because wee approch so neere vnto them The first hold vs as Antichristian for shaking off the Popes gouernment whome they make Christes vicar the others for that wee retaine they say his gouernment still are in bondage to it The first say we are out of the true Church the others say no lesse and that we haue not Gods Church amongst vs. The first affirme that we haue no Ministers no sacraments no lawful seruice of God amongst vs the others that we haue no Ministers rightly called no sacraments duely administred no worship of God and that we worship a false Christ The first holde that the seruice of God in our Churches is so wicked as it is not to bee frequented the others that it is idolatrous and to be auoided The first are of opinion that the Soueraigne Christian Magistrate ought not to haue gouernment in causes Ecclesiastical otherwise then to defend the Church and to see the lawes therof executed because making of Church lawes and gouernment Ecclesiasticall is soly in the Pope and in his Clergy the others holde the like position against the Princes Ecclesiasticall supremacie for that this gouernment belongeth to Elderships and Synodes of Ministers and Elders for else Christ doth not gouerne in his Church as they teach Thus both sortes push at the peace of this Church with the hornes of the beast and albeit vpon diuerse groundes yet to one and the selfe same end which is the vtter ouerthrowe of the Church if their courses be not carefully and speedily preuented Which me thinketh may best be effected by doctrine and by discipline The first by instructing the simple seduced and by confuting mightily the froward and insolent the second by sharper corrosiues against the wilfull and obstinate sect-masters on both sides being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men condemned euen of their owne consciences This teaching and confutation in sundrie weightie pointes is in mine opinion very soundly and iudiciously though in briefe sorte as best fitting sermons here performed both against the Romanistes and Catharites The copie whereof happely falling into my handes I haue made so bolde with the Authour as to prefixe a title thereunto implying not all but the most principall matters treated of and thus to publish it for common instruction and comfort Dedicating the same to your Grace as to him to whom the Author hath dedicated himselfe in all duetiful seruice and who daily seeketh by the said two meanes mixed with mildnes and grauitie to reforme the fancie-full nay sinnefull conceipts of both the factions and to settle this Church in the vnitie of the spirite and bonde of peace Which that your L. and others in authoritie may effectually bring to passe vnder the long and blessed gouernment of our dread Soueraigne to Gods glorie the propagation of the Gospell exceedingly impeached by them and to the comfort of all godlie and peaceably affected English The Lorde of Lordes in mercie graunt for Christes sake Amen 17. Nouemb. 1590. Anno 33. D. Elizabethae Reginae The first Sermon vpon Apoc. cap. 19. verse 19. TWO things especially are sette foorth in this whole booke of the Reuelation First the persecutions and the rewardes of those that with true faith cleaue onely to Christ secondly the assaults and wicked attempts of the enemies of the trueth against the Church together with their punishments and ouerthrowe Because it is a prophesie of thinges to come therfore is the booke hard to be vnderstood for prophesies sooner are fulfilled in the worlde then the world can perceaue the true exposition and interpretation of them This verse doeth minister occasion to speake both of the wicked which do persecute and of the godly which are persecuted and it hath some thinges in it easie and some harde to bee vnderstoode Who the beast is and who be these kings and what be their armies and what is the maner of their fight we knowe and who it is that rideth on the horse and what is his armie wee may with smal searching easily finde out for time hath reueiled these things But the time wherein this last fight of the beast shall bee and the maner how he shal be ouerthrowen hath some doubt I wil speake of these things in order as they lie in the text The beast here spoken of is the Pope of Rome the Kings of the earth meant in this place are the princes that submit themselues to the obedience of him their armies are both the captaines and warlike souldiers and also the manifolde and sundry sortes of Ecclefiasticall and spirituall persons as they call them which either by force of armes or by witte and eloquence by strength or pollicie fight for him Hee that rideth on the horse is Christ his armie are they that beleeue in him onely for saluation and obey his Gospell In speaking of Antichrist and his armies and their fighting I must striue to bee the more briefe not onely because the matter of it selfe is large and such as whereof a man can finde no end if he would go about to speake all that may be said but also because I feare it would be somewhat tedious vnto you to heare me speake of that whereof you haue heard others speake very oft and largely already Of the other part that is of Christ and his armie it is comfortable and profitable for vs to heare because wee doe account our selues which doe professe the Gospell in this land to be as it were a wing or an olde trained band of that armie I thought it necessary to speake of these two pointes at this time First because Antichrist either now reneweth or continueth still his warre against vs or at least is suspected and of some reported so to doe Secondly because