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A01327	A sermon preached at Hampton Court on Sonday being the 12. day of Nouember, in the yeare of our Lord. 1570. VVherein is plainly proued Babylon to be Rome, both by Scriptures and doctors. Preached by VVilliam Fulke Bacheler of Diuinity, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge.	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.	1571 (1571)	STC 11450; ESTC S102774	26,607	59

circumlocution then Rome For it any man wyll be so froward to except that the word of hyls is not taken in the proper sence but figuratiuely and Metaphorically for some other thing as some would seme to interprete seuen hils in this place for vij kingdoms he shall plainly be conuinced by these reasons First it wer absurd that the Angell should repeate one thing twise for in the next clause hée sheweth that the seuen heads doo signify kyngdoms also But specially we must remember that this is an interpretaciō of the Angel which must either be plaine easy to be vnderstood or els it deserueth not the name of an interpretaciō Therfore if the Angel offering to expound the mystery of the seuen heads geueth this exposition that they signify seuen hyls if hyls be not taken in their proper sence to what purpose serueth this exposition For if the name of hyls hath nede of an other exposition he had bene as good to haue left the name of heades vnexpounded And as for the interpretaciō of hyls to signify Kings is more obscure dark far fet then that heads shuld represent Kings for it is more apt by Metaphore to call a King an head then to call him an hyl Therfore except we wil say that the interpretacion of the Angel is in vain yea more darke then the thing that is expounded by him we must needes confes that hyls ar taken in their proper sence for hyls and then the Citye builded vpon seuen hyls without all controuersy is the City of Rome The fourth last proofe that I wyll take out of the holy scripture is the last verse of the same 17. chapter which is yet a more plain descriptiō of Rome if any thing can be more plaine then that hath bene already spoken of For ther the Angel in plaine woords expoundeth that the woman which S. Iohn saw which was the great whore Babylon is that great City which hath do●inion ouer the Kings of the earth What brasen face is so impudent to deny that Rome was that great city which had dominion ouer the Kings of the earth at that time when this was spoken Or what other city had dominion ouer the Kings of the earth in s. Iohns time but Rome Who is therfore so froward and vntoward the he will not acknowledge Babylon here to be plainly called Rome If I should name the chiefe City of England who would not vnderstand London If I should speake of the cheif city of Eraunce who would not conceiue Paris And when the Angel named the chiefe citie of the world who could be ignoraunt liuing in that time or knowing the history of that time that he vnderstood it of the city of Rome which was the Sée of the Empyre and from whence wee should looke that Antichrist should come according to the former prophecies For it is a shame in this place to slée vnto Allegories and further expositions of this Angelicall interpretacion which as I said before if it be not cleare playn and easy to be vnderstood deserueth not that name of an exposition as when one knowen thing is expoūded by another as much or more vnknowen it is vayne superfluous and ridiculous Wherfore whom any bandes of reason wyll hold in they must be satisfied with the expositiō of the Angel that Babylon is Rome For seing it was necessary for the church of God to know as well the place wher Antichrist should sit as to be instructed of his craft and cruelty our sauiour Christ the Author of thys Reuelation would not suffer his congregation to be ignorāt therof but sent his Angel playnly to interprete and expound the vision of the great whore that the Church being throughly admonished of her wickednes instructed perfectly to know her might more easely take heede of her flée from her and abhorre her So that according to my promise I haue sufficiently proued by autority of holy Scripture this first proposition which I tooke in hand that Babylon is Rome But because some ar of such obstinate wilful frowardnes that nothing will satisfy them but they wyl styl grudge and repine ●arpe and obiect against my interpretacions of the holy scriptures for the text they cānot deny I wish them that are such if they like not these expositions which I haue brought to the defacing of Antichrist his religion then that they admit and reuerence those expositions which their own Authors bring for the maintenance of the Popes authority his religion Of which sort are these God saith Moses in Genesis made two great lights the Sunne to rule the day and the Moone to gouern the night That is saith the famous Interpreter God ordained the Pope and the Emperour to rule the world By the Sunne is ment the Pope by the Moone the Emperour And looke how much greater and more glorious the Sunne is then the Moone so much greater and more glorious is the Pope then the Emperor And not content with this he coūteth by Arithmatike how much greater the Sunne is in quantity then the Moone by proportion that it hath to the earth so by many parts be cōcludeth that the Pope is greater then the Emperor But here a mā might help him what by Geometry what by Arithmatike for wher as the Sunne is 166 times greater then the earth the earth 39. times greater then the Moone as is proued by Mathematical demonstration the Pope shoulde bée 6474. times greater then the Emperor This is one noble exposition that is set forth to aduaunce the dignity of the Pope and his kingdome Another like to this is vpon the words of the Apostels which answered vnto our Sauiour Christ when he commaunded him that had no sword to sell his coate bye one signifiyng the great daunger the was at hand Lord say they here are two swordes These words sayth the Glosar are the Ciuill Ecclesiasticall power which rem●ined in Peter therfore his successor the Pope hath preheminence of both No doubt a worthy interpretacion that agréeeth wel w the text doth the Pope great worship Againe S. Paule saith to the Corinthians 1. Cor 2. The spiritual man iudgeth althings and he himselfe is iudged of none This spirituall man saith the Interpreter is the Pope which is Iudge of all the world may not be controlled of any man no though he draw with him innumerable soules into hel fier ther to be tormented with the Deuil him for euer more yet no man must be so bold as to finde fault with him or to say Domine quid ita facis Lord why do you so Is not this an handsome exposition Yes I promis you euen like vnto this other Statuimus vt Clerici nec ceruam nutriant nec barbam radant We decrée sayth the Canon of an auncient Counsel that the Clergy shall neither weare lōg héere nor shaue their beards The Glosar finding this Canon to be so cleane contrary