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A02024	Little Timothe his lesson: or, A summary relation of the historicall part of holy scripture plainely and familiarly comprized in meeter, for the helpe of memory, and instruction of the ignorant in the writings of God. By E.G. Mr. in Arts, and practitioner in physicke for the Kings hospitall of St. Bartholomew, in the city of Glocester.	Graile, Edmond, b. ca. 1577.	1611 (1611)	STC 12171; ESTC S117271	36,912	121

9 16 by whom she procured the death spirituall of Kings and nations that dranke of the cup of her abominations This being done the soules of the Saints cry for vengeance ver 10. and their crie is heard and request graunted vnder the sixth Seale ver 12. 17. CAP. 9. 1 MOre at large and in this kinde by his craft and strength c. He is called a starre fallen from heauen or some notable person of great dignity in the Church falling like Lucifer from giuing light vnto the world and erecting a kingdome by a noysome packe of craftie and cruel vermine He hath the key of the bottomlesse pit Or of hell it selfe whither he sendeth and letteth in thousands of soules thorow the smoakie mists of darknesse ignorance and superstition out of which smoake came those Locusts or Abbats Cardinals Monks Friers Priests and Shauelings which sting like to Scorpions or with damnable errors and heresies al saue the greene ones of God ver 4. And these so stung finding no comfort in pardons masses merits dirges crosses and the like shall in torment of conscience seek for death and not finde it verse 6. These Locusts are strong and fierce as horses and their crownes shew them to be conquerours They haue the faces of men or faire pretenses of holines but haire of women or hearts full of lust teeth of Lions to catch inough and hold fast inough witnesse the manie fat morsels they did deuoure where-euer they were seated Their King is a badde one or Abaddon the Diuell and his Vicar the Pope the spoilers and destroyers of the Church of God Their doctrine is set down ver 20. Worship of diuels and idols or spirituall fornication murder both spirituall corporall sorcery by reliques agnus deies inchanting praiers to preserue from shot sword thunder and the like Fornication corporall through inordinate lusts and lecherie increased by idlenesse and bellicheere in both sexes restrained from holy mariage to a filthy monasticall life as by many proofes hath beene made apparant theft robbing God of his Titles and bestowing them on Antichrist and cosening men of their goods by pardons Iubilees iugling wares and marchandise The description is ended Cap. 10. 6. Where the Angel sweareth Time shall be no more and the next Angell or seuenth blowing the seuenth trumpet doth shew the mystery of God to be finished ver 7. CAP. 13. 11. THirdly by his growth and manner of gouernement Hee is called another beast because he dissers from the former ver 1. or ciuill Romane Emperor in spirituall iurisdiction tyrannizing ouer men by an ecclesiasticall power which the Emperors had not He is said to rise out of the Earth or from a base and low estate to mount vp thorugh the Emperors fauor by little and little Hee hath two hornes like the Lamb signifying his kingdom his Priest-hood his ciuill and ecclesiastical power which he vsurpeth from Christ but hath indeed from the dragon like whom he spake in all his Decrees Canons practises and proceedings Hee did all that the first beast could doe that is hee is strong and mighty and nothing inferiour to the Ethnick Emperor priding himselfe in lies and wonders verse 13. sending fire of excommunication from Heauen deceiuing by damnable doctrines of Diuels verse 14. Killing and burning for heretiks all that wil not worship the beast and marking all that do worship for slaues and vassals And this marke must be set in their foreheads to signifie their professiō and to acknowledge their subiection or in their right hād to testifie their absolute actuall obedience to his commands vpon supposition that he cannot erre None may buy or sell without this marke and therefore periury and breach of promise faith with Christians is a vertue in a catholique Now that Rome is this Antichristian beast the Number doth signifie and shew verse 18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 latine seruice Romish faith Romish Church answereth to it in number and measure Vpon this beast are seuen Vials of Gods wrath and vengeance propheced to be powred out cap. 16. and the seuenth being emptied it is said that Babylon came in remembrance before God Verse 19. CAP. 17. 3. LAstly by his dangerous and deadlie allurements As the true spouse cap. 12. so heere the adulterous spouse is likened to a woman but yet a whore for her spirituall adultery and drunken with the blood of the Saints though a gorgeous and glorious whore in outward shew Verse 6. The inscription by which shee is to bee knowne is called a mysterie Verse 5. First as shee takes herselfe to bee the visible head of the Church the mysticall bodie of Christ and the dispenser of the mysteries of God Secondly as shee deserues indeede and as the rest of her titles beare witnesse Verse 5. mother of whoordoms c. or a mysterie of all abominations vnder a pretext of holines Now this whore of Babylon that rideth on the beast is not any one man but a succession in gouernment Cap. 17. 18. The beast is said to haue seuen heads cap. 13. 1. and cap. 17. 7. Which are expounded to be Roma Septicollis or Rome built on seuen hills the names whereof are these Palatinus Quirinalis Auentinus Viminalis Coelius Exquilinus Capitolinus Or else seuen formes of gouernment as is shewed before of which the sixth viz. the goruernement by Emperors was in beeing when Saint Iohn wrote Cap. 17. verse 10. The seuenth was not then come namely the Ecclesiasticall gouernment by Bishops which succeeded at Rome vpon the Translation of the imperiall seat to Constantinople and was to continue but a short space or about two hundred seuenty sixe yeares viz. from the time of Constantine to the time of Phocas the Emperor who gaue to Boniface Bishop of Rome the title of Vniuersall Bishop and head of al Churches And by this meanes the perfection of defection and popish corruption comming in was brought forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eight beast one of the seuen in shew 〈◊〉 still seeming to succeed the Bishops in Ecclesiasticall forme of gouernement The meanes by which Antichrist shall be confounded CAP. 11. 3. THey are called two witnesses and they may signifie either the old and new Testaments both which Antichrist hath endeuoured to disgrace deface corrupt suppresse and destroy calling the Scripture a nose of waxe a dead letter a leaden rule and preferring the traditions of men aboue them These witnesses in the primitiue Church were cloathed in sackcloth and preached repentance by the space of fiue or sixe hundred yeares But hauing done their ●●…ssage the Romane beast made war vpon them and ouercame them so that they lay open to contempt cared for of none vnderstood of few and feared of all to bee medled withall Yea they were killed and the very throat of them cut by a generall Censure printed at Venice anno 1562. Which condemneth all for hereticall that contradict their traditions Thus lay their bodies without vigor verse 8. as sometimes