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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

about him without hurt thereby to winne the more authority to himselfe Others rather take this of the fire to be spoken allegorically for what is excommunication but as it were an heauenly fire by which he hath reuenged himselfe on many emperours and kings and whereby he goeth about still to consume his enemies This fire he flingeth about him like a madde man He hath cast it against our most gracious Queene and this whole land but it is quenched in the sea I hope it will not set any on fire here as it hath done Fox taketh this fire fetcht from heauen to be the Scriptures interpreted in a wrong sence Christ sayth he came to cast fire on the earth and that his desire was it should be kindled speaking of his word This fire the Pope fetcheth out of heauen for he wringeth and wresteth it out of his naturall place and applieth it to prooue his authoritie and all superstition which he hath brought into the world This is my body and Thou art Peter and vpon this rocke will I build my church and many such bright shining starres hee hath pluckt from heauen downe to the earth The Pope therefore is that new kinde of Alchymist that is sayd to fetch fire from heauen The fift marke poynteth out the Pope also For partly by his two hornes and partly by fire from heauen and by the meanes of his lying signes and miracles he is growne to such credit and power that at his commandement they that dwell on the earth are content to make the image of the beast which had the wound of a sword and did liue and also he did giue a spirit to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast did speake This making of an image and the causing of it to speake hath diuerse interpretations The Papists expound the head wounded and reuiued to be Antichrist himselfe fayning himselfe to die and to rise againe and that of the image speaking they vnderstand of an image which Antichrist shoulde make to represent himselfe which shoulde giue answeres to those that sought vnto it These are vaine deuises and shifts to put it from the Pope But the head wounded and healed is the state of the empire fallen and raysed againe in the Pope for Rome was wounded with a sword and reuiued in the Papacie The image made by the people and caused to speake by the Pope some haue thought to bee the emperour which in deede is but the Popes creature whome he hath put downe and set vp commanded to speake or holde his peace at his pleasure But it seemeth rather to be the authoritie of his Legates and Cardinalles and their Courtes and Consistories in all kingdomes for all people were persuaded to entertaine them and the Pope did as it were breathe life into them and they spake by the spirite of his Canon lawe or absolute pleasure The sixt marke is agreeable in like maner He caused that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed The reiecting of the Popish Legates and courts and lawes the refusing of the Spanish inquisition is death For hence proceede all the warres and rebellions among all people that professe the name of Christ It perteineth also to their bloodshedding and cruelty that he saith None could be suffred to buy or sell except he receiued the beasts marke For there was no place nor being for any except he did sweare subiection And when the patience of Gods people is cōmended for induring such things as they lay vpon them it is a token of their bloody cruelty Here is the patience of saints here are they that keepe the commandements of God the faith of Iesus And in the iustifying of their punishment which daily now falleth vpon them the cause is giuen for they shed the blood of the saints and prophets and therefore hast thou giuen them blood to drinke for they are worthie Her attire and ornaments also doe witnesse this thirst and shedding of blood that hath bene is in them I saw a woman sit vpon a scarlet coloured beast and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet What colour so fit for a bloody beast and what kinde of people either vsed or esteemed it so much as they To these things agreeth that which our Sauiour saieth hauing relation to the latter times The time will come when they that kill you shall thinke they doe God good seruice But to remooue this note from themselues the Papists say that the killing which they haue exercised is not answerable to those speaches for they say the latter beast must kill mo of Gods scruants then the first beast and with more crueltie I finde not yet where it is so sayd but that is true in them although they denie it For who can reckon vp the number that iudicially for the cause of poperie haue bin put to death in England Scotland France Spaine and all the countries of Christendome within these two or three hundred yeres And as for inuēting of torments if burning by fire be not cruell inough yet they haue deuised more exquisite torments in their Spanish Inquisition vsed much more crueltie thē euer the Heathen did And one thing they haue committed whereby they haue shed infinite mens blood which the heathen did not against the Christians They make warre vpon vs only for religion in those wars in France and Germanie the low countries in all places where by inuasion or rebellion they can prevaile haue made infinit slaughters Wherfore numbers slaine by them exceed the number slayne by Paganes But there is not so precisely any thing spoken of the number They kill all and would doe that will not be subiect to them This they haue practised and this they doe practise this is the drift of their warres and Counsels and indeuours and this is the marke of the beast I sawe the woman sayth Iohn druncken with the blood of Saintes and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus Although we kill many in these warres yet the whole is to be imputed vnto them for they are the cause of the slaughter not onely of others but also of themselues The seuenth note is that the beast made all both small and great rich and poore free and bond to receaue a marke in their right hand or in their foreheads and that no man might buy or sell but he that had the marke or the name of the beast or the number of his name Here is wisedome let him that hath wit count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his number is 666. There is no Religion that euer was that hath so many markes and characters and so gloryeth in them as the Popish Religion And all that are vnder them are signed with some token or other as their sheepe Their little infants with their oyle and creame and other matters Their Emperors and kings and all men that