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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

person hath built such Stewes and Brothelhouses for Venerie and Sodomy Wherein whores Sodomites and Fornicators are dayly bred cherished increased and multiplied None but they haue granted pardons faculties and dispensations for such things And if any had done or should do the like may we thinke it possible or credible that he should obteyne such absolute power and reputation of Holynes as the Pope hath to be credited and beleeved in the same Was there ever any Sodomite Aegyptian Babylonian Iew Turke or Infidell so desperately impudent as the Romans haue been not onely in doing such things but in boasting of them and setting forth bookes thereof as of old Virgil Ovid Tibullus Catullus Propertius and of late Casa the noble Archbishop of Sodom Boccate their Conceits upon Orlando Baptista de Albertis Petrus Haedus and manie others Cornel. Agr. de van Sci. cap. 63 64. Vidi ego nuper Italica lingua editum Dialogum utriusque Veneris omnium flagitiosissimum And againe Flagitiosissimi Lenones scelestissimaeque Lenae saepe sub Religionum pellibus delitescunt And hereupon againe I aske Whether this can be applied to any Prince Potentate State or person and whether these prophecies can be otherwise fulfilled The sixth note also is evident She is druncken with the bloud of the Saints and Martyrs of Christ Iesus Peruse the Histories of the Christian Church likewise of all Iewes Turkes Infidels and Pagans that haue been since the beginning of the world and shew me whether ever any nation haue shed so much Christian bloud or haue caused so much to be shed as the Romans haue done To omitt those ten Primitiue Persecutions which remaine without parallell of any other How many millions were slayne in those sacred warres stirred up by the Popes to recover Palestina in the civill warres of Germanie and France How many were massacred in France in the yeare 1572 and not long before in Merindall and Cabrieres How many Reverend Bishops and godly Preachers were burned in England with Men women Children and Infants under pretence of their fierie zeale How many thousands did their great Champion the Duke of Alva destroy in few yeares in the Netherlands what by his Soldjors what by his Hangmen and executioners How many haue they swallowed up in their bloudie Inquisitions To speake nothing of those which they count but viles animas as the Valdenses Hugunots Gewses Lutherans and Calvinists how many Princes and Noblemen haue they made away Egmond Horne and the Prince of Orenge in the Low Countries The Admirall Chastillon Count Rochfocault Teligni the Queene of Navarre and two Kings in France In Spaine Prince Charles besides many others But what talke I of particulars Let all Princes of the world joyne together against the Lord and his Christ as the Iewes and Romans did against our Saviour Yea let the greate Turke and great Divell joyne with them and raigne but three yeares and an half or but for a mans life and spend all that time in murdering the Saints of Christ Iesus and I will yet aske Whether any man can imagine that in so short a time they be able to kill so many godly Christians as haue been murdered and slayne by the power practises and procurement of these Pontifices Max. since they got that Antichristian title And if men will not confesse the truth I will againe appeale to the Earth and aske Whether she in so short a time be able to bring forth so many to be martired And if the Consciences of men be not more dull and dead then the earth I will demand againe of them Whether all these Pontifices maximi and everie one of them be not guiltie of all the Bloudsheds of their Predecessors by Consent Approbation Imitation and prosecution And whether the like can be sayd of any State Potentate prince or person in the world besides Let us yet cast our eyes a litle more abroad and consider of the great destructions of Christian men by Turkes and Saracens It cannot be denyed but these open and professed enemies of Christ haue shedde much Christian bloud yet I thinke if Histories be diligently searched and compared together it may be proved that since the sayd yeare of our Lord 700. the Popes and their Sectaries haue been verie Great if not the chiefest meanes and causes eyther by procurement Qui non defendit nec obsistit si potest infuriae tant est in vitio quam si parentes aut patriā aut sucios deserat Cic. lf Offi. or destitution of the Effusion of all or the most part of the Christian bloud that hath been shed by those Miscreants in Europe For what was the meanes whereby the Saracens first prevailed in Asia but the weaknes of the Graecian Empire And what caused that weaknes but the Revolt of Italie and other westerne Countries from the Empire procured by the Pope Whereby the Graecian princes were not onely deprived of many mightie Christian kingdomes but distracted by Rebells at home from defending their subjects abroad And what then brought the Turke into Europe but the weakenes of the same princes when they were neither able to hold their Provinces which they had in Asia nor to suppresse the factions in Graecia Who stirred up the Christian Princes of Britayn Germanie and France to spend their subjects bloud in Syria where so many millions of Christians were slayne and then left them succourlesse to their enemies and sometimes rewarded them with excommunications seditions stirred up against them at home whereby their subjects rebelled and their enemies prevailed Who moved our noble King Richard the first to enter into that Saracenicall warre where he lost so many men Math. Fari●● and yet when he was taken Prisoner by a Christian Prince in his Returne what meanes did the Pope make for his libertie Blesensis for all the pittifull letters of his mother when in the mean space his kingdome was most greevously oppressed and spoyled What help had the Grecian Emperors In conc Lugdun ann 1275. in concil Bouon circa 1439. a'ter which within 16 yeres the Turk tooke Constantinople when with most humble submissions supplications they sollicited the Pope to assist them being Christians against the Turke being the common enemie of our fayth Who was the cause of that wofull and never sufficiently deplored slaughter of Christians at Varna but the persidious Pope and his Cardinall Iulian causing the poore seduced King to violate his oath and league with the Turke What helpe or succour did the Popes giue or procure to those two Invincible Soldjours of Christ Iesus Hunniades and Scanderbeg Historia Scanderb against the Turke though this later with all humilitie in person desired it offering to driue that publike enimie out of Europe if he might haue assistance It is sayd indeed that Pius the second gathered an armie such as it was to help him but nothing came of it and perhaps he lost nothing by the Bargain And

but the king of pride durst to take upon him Let us yet goe forward and see how he is further revealed in the time of his Raigne and how the prophecies of that time also were fulfilled we haue before considered the description of his raigning and how he sitteth on the seauen headed Beast Now of the time which falleth out to be likewise 666 yeares or thereabouts For that is the number of the Beast Rev. 13. sayth our Euangelist And if we adde this to the former number we come againe to another strange and wonderfull concurrence of prophecies events times and actions namely the yeare 1366 and 1400 whereof we will speak hereafter when we haue taken a view of the actions that fell out in the meane time namely in the end of the said first 666 yeares and beginning of the second and somewhat considered what manner of men raigned over the Roman state during the second terme of 666 yeares First therefore as the Apostle prophesied that there should be an Apostasie so there fell out about those times especially divers great and lamentable Apostasies such as the like were never seene neither can the like be expected in any time to come namely first about the year 760 the great and wofull rent and departure of the East Church from the West by reason of that wicked contention betweene the Patriarches for primacie and that abhominable doctrine of Idolatrie which an Historian verie Christianly calleth execrable Secondly the wofull rent and departure of the west Empire from the East by the Popes setting up of the French kings Pipin and Charles Thirdly the rent and division of the greatest part of the East Empire from their lawfull Prince by the sodaine and great victories of the wicked Saracens in Asia sent of purpose to plague Christians I thinke for their Idolatrie as they do object it unto us unto this day And fourthly the lamentable spoyle and falling away by that meanes not onely of those seauen excellent churches whom S. Iohn by his Epistles so strongly fortified and forewarned but of all the rest of the flourishing Churches of Asia which yeelded either by feare or force to the overflowing Impieties of Mahomet ô lamentable times O times never without grief and shame and teares of Christians to be remembred Within a few years and as it were with a sodaine floud and inundation of impietie blasphemie and filthines the great and mightie kingdomes of Arabia Syria Palestina Phoenicia Anatolia Persia and Media and many other Countries the famous churches of Ierusalem Antioch Ephesus Nice Galatia and all the rest of the lesser Asia which the Apostles had so diligently planted with their doctrines which the Martyrs so plentifully watered with their bloud crowned with their Confessions yeelded to the horrible blasphemies and Idolatries of Mahomet with infinite effusion of Christian bloud and murder of Soules What Apostasies were ever like to these or how can we looke for the like in any time to come Say that we should imagine an Antichrist yet to come can we haue the prophecie of the Apostle S. Paul concerning an Apostasie precedent so fulfilled Hath all the Christian world now sufficient roome or place wherein the like Apostasies may fall out What do these Summi Pontifices these Vniversall Bishops which would needs be the Head of the Catholike Church in the meane time Let us take a short view of their actions also in generall and particular and see whether it be possible for any Antichrist hereafter to do the like The first great action that we meete with of theirs is the puting downe of three kingdomes to advance themselues according to the prophesie of Daniell concerning the Litle Horne before whom three of the other Hornes fell For first they draue the Grecian Emperors out of Italie upon the quarrell concerning Images by the helpe of the Lombards Secondly having subdued the Lombards by the helpe of the French they draue out the French by their owne dissentions and the help of the Germans and lastly they expelled the Germans also by raysing factions amongst them selues the Histories whereof because they are too long for this place are well collected by the learned Mornay I think needlesse here to prosecute Is it possible for any Antichrist to come to doe the like Are there any such three kingdomes in the Christian world everie one of them having command of Rome and Italie to be put downe hereafter to make roome for another Antichrist And it is to be observed that this first Action containeth in it self manifest Treason and rebellion against their lawfull Princes the Emperors whom Gregorie and all the Bishops of Rome before him had acknowledged to be their gratious Lords Colimus Imp. ut hominem a Deo secundū soloque Deo eminorem Terul ad Scap. Whom they were bound to obay as those to whom God had giuen power over all men The second great action was their ambitious and Luciferian exaltation aboue all Bishops Patriarchs Princes and Emperors in taking the title of Vniversall Bishop and usurping power over them by excommunications deprivations interdictions and other sentences incouraging sometimes their Enimies and sometimes their subjects against them as they moved the Lombards against the Emperors the French against the Lombards and cherished factions and divisions amongst the French and thereby still increased their owne power and dominion And in this they advance themselues against God and our Lord Iesus Christ to whom onely the Supreame and Royall Priesthood after the order of Melchisedek is confirmed by the oath of God himself and that individually as we noted before and who hath placed Kings and Emperors in their supream places A third action is the lawlesse pardoning and dispensing with horrible and crying sinnes still to advance their owne authoritie As namely their dispencing with the horrible Parricides Treasons and Rebellions of Phocas who murdered not onely the Emperor Maurice but all his male children namely Theodosius then crowned Plessis Tiberius Paulus and Iustinian Peeter his brother Constantine a principall Senator and divers others And this is that Phocas notwithstanding whose actions they all to this day justifie and Baronius will haue us to beleeue that he was a good Catholike Although he can shew no testimonie of his repentance but that he sent his owne picture and his wiues to Rome which were presently sett up in the pallace And in this point also the Popes advanced themselues aboue God himself who never pardoneth sinnes without repentance But this Phocas three years after the murders of Maurice and his sonnes Plessis hearing that the Empresse Constantia and her daughters were kept secretly hidden in a Church sent certayne Souldjers to make them away But Cyriacus the Patriarch of Constantinople withstood them and would not deliver them till he had taken an oath of the Tyrant that he would do them no violence Whereupon this good Roman Catholike conceived a deep and inplacable hatred against