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A20307	A short description of Antichrist vnto the nobilitie of Englande, and to all my brethren and contreymen borne and dwelling therin, with a warnynge to see to, that they be not deceaued by the hypocrisie and crafty conueyaunce of the clergie	Old, John, fl. 1545-1555, attributed name. aut; Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586, attributed name. aut	1555 (1555)	STC 673; ESTC S116863	35,736	88

and false religion And a nother doctrine and religion receaued to the former religion and doctrine directe and manifest contrary some mē therfore wil doubte whether the first doctrine and religiō be godly or the later doctrine and religion receaued be the truer and better to be folowed I will commende vnto youre godly remembraunces right honorable lordes not such doctrines as any new writers call of their awne heedes false doctrines and doctrines of deuyls or the doctrines of lyenge masters But the same doctrines that Christ and his Apostles expresly call false doctrines and the doctrines of Deuyls So that your lordships nor any other shall haue any iust cause to be ignorante what be the doctrines of deuyls and who be wycked preachers and lyenge masters the wicked secte of Antichrist who also is the heed Antichrist The people serue Antichrist and yet do not knowe hym Although doubtles righte honorable lordes I well perceaue the multitude of the worldly people so plaged of God with blindnes and hardnes of hearte that all though they with all dyligence studie and obedience dayly do serue Antichriste the greatest aduersary of God and of Christe yet do they not knowe nor vnderstande hym to be Antichriste christ nor do perceaue his crafty illusiōs his hypocrisie and disguysed fashons So that except a man consider beholde hym assuredlye by the light of Gods worde he shal neuer vnderstande espie nor perceaue hym although he had a subtyle and pregnant witte as clere and wel seyng eyes and as craftye a brayne as euer had man He cōmeth in so disguysed vnder the colour of holynes Yea and that in the name of Christ vnder the pretence to condemne al false and erronious doctrines and heresies Which thing all Christen princes and all other good men wil be most diligent and glad to do But herin he most subtilie and shamefully begileth al men For he and his adulterouse generation will chalenge to him and to them autoritie power only geuen to determe discerne and to iudge what is heresie errour Antichrist in the name of heresie condēneth the trueth what is false doctrine And by that meanes be the doctrine neuer so true and godly yf it soūde any thinge against his vsurped power his pryde his profite his vngodlye decrees and lawes made in generall Counseils and other his false and wicked determinations and iudgementes he will condemne it for heresie And he that preacheth it hym will he accurse callyng him the enemie of God and of al the holy church a seditious person not worthye to dwell in any comen wealth But yf Emperours Kynges other ciuill gouernours rulers wolde examin his doctrines and trye them by the light of Gods heauenly worde and proue all his other procedinges how they agree with the same They should then sone perceaue vnderstāde knowe that he himselfe although he calleth him selfe the head of the church and Christes vicar vpon earth the successour of the Apostles yet should they fynde and proue hym to be the head Antichrist the Arch-heretique the man of Synne and childe of perdition And al his sectes to be the sectes of perdition that departe from the fayth that also attende to the spirites of errour denyeng the Lorde that bought them But for as moch right honorable lordes as no man can wel put any diuersitie betwixt two extreme cōtraries except he perfitly vnderstande and knowe bothe the contraries I will first describe and set forth vnto your good lordships Christ who is contrarye to that wicked Antichrist according as the holy scriptures Ioh. 5. which as Christ sayeth beare true witnesse of hym And then I will also paynt in his lyuely colours that Arch heretike Antichriste that extreame contrarye to Christe But no nother wyse then Christ and his Apostles in the holy scriptures haue reueled and euidētly expressed and declared hym So that the one contrarye compared and set nere to the other contrarie shall expresse declare and set forth the other more euidently playnlye and more aparauntly Fyrst Christe is as muche to saye Christ as annoynted as Iesues Christe was of God the father not with oyle creame coniured of our Bishoppes but with the holy Ghoste who in the holy scriptures Psal 44 and. 88. is called the oyle of gladnes by whome God enlighteneth enstructeth and teacheth his holy Churche of the which he hath appointed and authorised Christe to be the Supreme head Kinge Phil. 2. Hyghbisshop and euerlasting Priest Who beyng equall with God his father dyd vouchsafe of his mere mercy good wil to descende from heauen toke on hym our vile nature not forsaking his diuine nature but ioyning them together both natures remayning not diminished hurt or altered became a perfite man in all natural miseries like vnto vs excepte only synne Ro. 5.8 Col. 2. And euen then when we were his enemies he reuyued vs and offered hymself to God his father vpon the crosse as a sacrifice to be slayne for the redēption of oure sinnes Heb. 10 By which this his only one sacrifice ones performed for vs not for a litle season but for euer he hath made holy and perfite them that be and shal be made holy and perfite And by this meanes he hath reconcyled vs to God his father Eph. 2. pacifienge his fathers wrath that then was against vs thorough his bloodshedinge and paynfull death And he that was without synne became a ful 2. Cor. 5. iust and perfite satisfaction for oure synnes Eph. 2. Col. 2. And hath taken awaye the curse and condemnation of the lawe delyueringe vs from the cruell curse and iudgemente therof And after thorow his awne power he ouercame death and ascended to heauen where he continueth oure aduocate mediatoure and only sauioure from oure synnes Ioan. 10. Oure onely waye and doore by the which we must enter into eternall ioyes To whom only we be boūde to geue the honoure and thankes for our redemption from synne hell Ezech. 43 Luk. 2. and death euerlastinge And therfore to obeye and serue hym all the dayes of oure life in holines and righteousnes accordinge to oure callinge Herin haue I described and declared to your honorable lordships oure redemer and only sauioure Iesu Christe and his only office and benefites most mercifully exhibeted and done to vs. By the which description your Lordships maye / with moch more facilitie ease haue certayne sure vnderstanding knowlege of Antichrist the other extreme contrary to Christe This Antichriste must not be vnderstanded and taken righte honorable Lordes for one naturall man what is Antichrist that by nature is as all other be a miserable synner or that he shuld be a certen wicked persone that shuld be begotten betwixt a Freere and a Nonne or betwixt a Monk and a Nonne according to olde wiues fables and winter tales But this name Antichriste is the name of

deuels For God in paradise first ordeyned mariage sayenge It is not good for man to be by hymselfe alone Let vs make to him a helper to beare hym company so forth as it appereth in the texte Gen. 2. Consideringe that God sayde It is not good for man to be alone doutles it is not good generally for mā to be alone without his helpe Esa 45 And the Prophete Esay curseth all them that speake againste their maker Nomā therfore durst be so bold to forbidde mariage to any people excepte only Antichrist and his fluttish and shameles secte which euer be againste God and Christ Also because it was not good for man to be alone without his wife in the state of innocēcie It is not now good but moch worse to be without a wife whē man is fallē by synne beyng the fleshe more frayle prone to synne And therfore that man that hath not the especiall gifte of chastitie and will lyue alone not take a wyfe The same not onlye contemneth Goddes mercyfull ordinaunce made for man in the state of innocencie but also despiseth Gods louinge benefite and remedy prouyded for the infirmitie of man wherby he might auoyde fornication other wicked lustes forbiddē by God accordinge to Sainte Pauls doctrine sayenge 1. Cor. 7. To auoyde fornication let euery man exceptinge not priestes haue his wife and euery woman exceptinge not vowasses haue hir husbande And because mariage is Gods ordinaūce and mercifull remedye prouided for all men ●hat haue not the gift of chastitie It is therfore good for euery mā that haue not receaued the gifte of chastitie to haue a wife namely because it is Gods mercyfull prouision and ordinaunce prouided for the helpe of man and commaūded in the holy scriptures by Gods holy spirite where no euil thinge can be cōmaūded And also the same state of matrimonie in Christes religion is praysed of the Apostle sayeng Maryage is honorable Heb. 13. the bed not defiled Christ also approuinge the same estate in that he was borne of a virgin in mariage Luc. 1. and not of a virgin out of mariage Ioan. 2. And also Christe hym selfe in his godly presence honored matrimonie with a great miracle done in Cana where he turned water in to wyne Abraham the father of all beleuers and other the patriarkes and Prophetes had lawful wiues that were not disproued of God nor was no impedimente vnto them but that they had the spirite of prophesie the faruoure of God Wherfore then shuld oure vnlerned priestes refuse to marye wiues specially because all men perceaue by their lyuinge that they haue not the gifte of chastitie But for so much as Paul sayeth honorable lordes Tit. 3 that all thinge namely of Gods creation and ordinaunce is pure and good to them whose consciences be pure and good All mē that knowe any thinge in the holy scriptures knowe and certenly beleue that yf oure Antichristian priestes were pure cleane towardes God his ordinaunce of matrimonie wold not be forsaken of them But for as moch as by the residew of their conditions and qualities many thinke them to be soch as Peter writeth of 2. Pet. 2. that haue eyes full of adulterie and of the insatiable luste and offence so defiled with filthy lustes To our English priestes godly matrimonie is nother pure nor cleane and therfore are they vnworthy of chast matrimonie because their consciēces be nether pure nor cleane And then be they so cast of frō God that they can not iudge chast matrimonie good for thē although they can not denye matrimonie to be Gods ordinaunce which can not be euill to a good man And also they know that as good men as any that the holy scriptures prayse were maried had both wiues and childerne An obiection But to this they saye that matrimonie is godly so that it be by soch as maye laufully mary But because they haue made vowes to lyue sole and vnmaried they saye they maye not take any wiues of their owne But I desyre them to shewe me whether God requireth of thē any soch vowes to be made by thē Esa 1. And also I require of them to shew me without any dissimulatiō Answer whether they wold haue made any such vowe yf it were not for to be apte to haue a benefice And because the Pope which maketh lawes to fil hell / by his most wicked decrees hath ordened that euery Priest that shuld be apte to receaue ecclesiasticall promotion shuld be with in soch orders Note that it shuld not be lawfull for hym to marie a wife therfore make the priestes their vowes But for a conlusion righte honorable lordes ther is no prohibition nor for biddinge of mariage made to any persones but only to priestes and vowesses Doutelesse therfore that prohibition of mariage made to them ys the selfe same doctrine of deuels that Paul speaketh of And their vowes be wicked because the vowes that they make be proude vowes that they can not rēder to God and soch as they oughte rather to aske of God yf he wold geue them And therfore folish vowes be they that displease God Eccl. 5. as the holy goste sayeth And if your Lordships wold wel consider waye and pōder how moch adulterie fornication deflowringe of virgins murder of infantes and of maryed men whoredome and the fylthie synne of buggery haue be cōmitted thorow these folish vngodly vowes of sole lyuinge prohibitiō of matrimonie made to priestes vowesses I thinke that nether your lordships nor any christē mā cā otherwise other iudge or saye but that this forbiddinge of mariage is the self same doctrine of deuels wherof Paul speaketh As the same doctrine wherby the Deuel hath greatlye and will maynteyne and fill his kingedome Beware therfore my good Lordes of one of Antichristes wicked doctrines And note well whether ye haue any in youre Englishe clergye that teache that doctrine and stobernly defende the same And knowe ye them to be Antichristes disciples And although all the heauens crye out vpon them and al the earth wondereth at their abhominable whoredome adulterye and fornicatiō yet be oure priestes permitted and suffred nay rather cōpelled to make soch wicked and folishe vowes therwith to mocke the people that they shuld not mistrust thē with their wiues doughters nor womē seruantes because they saye they will haue no nother wyfe but our Lady But Englande can not be ignoraunt of the multitude of their whores and bastardes 1. Cor. 5. How this agreeth with Pauls doctrine that cōmaundeth vs not to eate with soche iudge you my Lordes that shuld se it reformed And for your owne honoures prouyde that adulterie maye be punished with the same punishement that God ordened adulterye to be punished Do you doute whether God did erre in iudgement Yf you do not thinke iniquitie in God Wherfore do ye not folow hym in iudgement that

oure trust and confidence that we oughe to haue of remissiō of oure sinnes at Gods handes for Christes sake only and now to haue confidence to haue it at Antichristes handes for a litle money that is most contrary to God to Christe in all thinges Oh most abomination of desolation stādinge in mans cōsciēce that shulde be the tēple of God and the dwellinge place of the holy goost Is it not a foule abomination of desolation stādinge in the holy place In the stede of Christes only one sacrifice which he made of himselfe to God his father for vs vpon the crosse now to set vp a new sacrifice to be made to God for vs of a pece of bread and a cuppe of wyne and to lyfte vp them to be shewed to the people to be gased vpon and to be worshipped and not to be receaued and to be eaten drōken accordinge to Christes institution and commaundemente Is it not abhomination of dēsolation stādinge in the holy church of God in the stede of the gospell to be preached and declared vnto the people in soch maner that they mighte receaue comforte and hope therby to haue the gospell and other partes of the holy scriptures / to be read songe in a speache nether vnderstanded not knowen of the hearers of them Rom. 15. Sainte Paul sayeth / what so euer was written was written for our doctrine and learninge that thorow patience and consolatiō of the holy scriptures we mighte receaue hope But Antichrist hath ordeyned a payne sownde to occupie the eares of the people callinge it the gospell although therbe no interpretation or declaration therof made to the people Ephe. 5. For he his filthie secte well knowe that the Apostle sayeth that all thinges that be declared opened bringe lighte Which Antichriste his filthy generation maye not suffer nor abydes because their workes Ioan. 3. which be al wycked and done in darkenes shuld by the lighte he made manifest and openly knowē to the world For euen as Christe came an to the world to geue light to the world Euen so is Antichriste came in to the world to take awaye from the people the light that Christ broughte in to the world 1. Cor. 14. The Apostle commaundeth that what so euer be done in the church that it should be done to the instruction and edificatiō of the congregation For sayeth he yf any man speake with tonges let it be by two or thre at the moste and that by order let one interpretate or declare And yf ther be no man there to let him kepe silēce and speake not to the congregacion Do not your lordships perceaue plainly how Antichriste his filthy generation study and laboure with policy to subuerte all godly and profitable ordinaunces made by Christ and by his Apostles Wherfore cōtrary to Paules doctrine and the godly ordinaunces receaued do ye suffer our priestes to reade a synge the holy scriptures dayly in the churches to the people in a tonge that they vnderstande not nor perceaue that is spoken calling it Gods seruice cōpelling the people to come to heare it Who vnderstādeth or is taught any thinge therby They mocke the people with a vayne soūde wherby they haue no lust nor commoditie nor profite Is not this Antichristes ordinaunce of the holy scriptures to be reade in a tonge or speche nor vnderstande nor perceaued of the people Collos ●● cōtrary to the scripture that commaundeth that the worde of God shuld dwel in vs abundauntly that we mighte teach the one the other A wōderfull crafty abomination of desolation standing in the holy place depriuinge the people of the vnderstandinge of holy scriptures And where Christe hath ordened certen Apostles certen prophetes some Euangelistes and doctours to fynish a nomber of the electe and to buylde the misticall body of Christe In the stede of which ministers of Christe by Antichriste are entred in theues that receaue and take greate reuenuwes and profites of the benefices but they do no thinge the office that Christe appointed and assigned vnto the office to be done Euen raueninge wolfes that nether spare nor fauoure the flocke of Christe And no meruayl it is for in that they take the profites of their benefices and do not the office ther vnto belonginge by Christes sentēce they be theues by daye and by nighte Ioan. 10. Whose office and cominge is not to feede and to fauoure the flocke sayeth Christ but to steale to kyll and destroye as your lordships haue therof to moch experience and most certen profe Is it not therfore abomination of desolation standinge in the holy place to see a thefe and a murtherer stande in the church of God in the steade of a true and diligente pastoure and godly feader or bisshop Is it not abomination of deslation standinge in the chief cytie of Englande to sea franked fat Boore sittinge at euery sermō preached at Pauls crosse and thesame not be founde ones in the yere in the same pulpet feadinge the flocke committed to his spirituall charge Is it not abominatiō of desolation stādinge in the holy place to se the holy scriptures in oure natiue English tonge writtē vpon euery wall in the churches now to be by commaundemente blotted out and in the stede therof erected kerued ymages of wood and of stone by Gods owne sentence accursed and all they that make the same And how they that cause thē to be set vp shall escape the same curse I know not They also vpon palmes sondaye lifte vp a cloth and saye hayle oure kynge to a Roode made of a wooden blocke Doutles a worthy kinge for soch a people Now right honorable Lordes I trust ye be not ignorante of the tyme wherin Antichriste shall come regne and rage againste God and Christe Euen verely now when there was neuer moare abomination of desolation standing in mās conscience and erected and set vp in the temple and church of God Where as in the stede of a constante fayth in Christ is planted a most wicked faith trust in the man of sinne And in the place of Christes only one sacrifice made vnto for vs for euer sufficiently is erected and set vp a sacrifice made of bread and wyne daylye to be made a sacrifice for vs. And in the stede of the holy scriptures to be declared that the people might vnderstāde the sence and meaninge therof is erected and ordeyned the gospels and holy scriptures to be read and spoken in a tonge and speache that the people which heare the voyce ●a●e no profite or comforte therby By this pointe of abhomination of Desolation all the clergie for forth them selfes that they abhorre no thinge moare then the lighte of Gods worde Ioan. 3. Which no man doeth but he that doeth euill sayeth Christe that lyeth not In the stede of pastours and spiritual teachers be entred in theues and most cruel murtherers And in the stede of

false and wicked doctrines Yet a false doctrine inuented only therby to maynteyne a nomber of ydle harlottes and to lead innumerable soules thorow a false fayeth and vayne trust in to hell This is his doctrine of purgatorie the pyke purse of all Christendome And although the holy gooste sayeth / that by mercy and sayth synnes be purged Yet Yet hath this Antichrist foūde out a prison Purgatorye which he calleth Purgatorie therin to punysh soules vntill other he or some of his marke must make a sacrifice for his soule in his ydolotrous masse But it were no good policie to trust to moch to their sacrifice because ther is no mention therof made in any place of the holy scripture Nor yet is it wisdome to trust moch to their prayers because the prophete sayth that the prayer of the wicked is not wel hearde of God Psa 108. but rather to synne Wherfore it is beste for a christen man to trust vnto Gods mercy and not to popish sacrifices nor prayers which be nother mercy nor faith And we be sure that nother the mercy of God nor faith in Christe be in the Popes hādes to distribute where it pleaseth him Wherfore he can not purge soules neither of their sinnes nor of the peynes dew for the same by Gods iudgemente It belongeth only to God to purge soules frō their sinnes As the prophete sayeth Psal 48. No mā can delyuer his brother nor make agreamente for him to God for it costeth more to redeme their soules so that ye must let that alone for euer Ioan. 3. Ioan. 1. Ro. 8. Christe sayeth he that beleueth hath now eternal lyfe is the sonne of God coheire with Christe to whome God hath promised remission of synnes frely for Christes sake Therfore the Pope shall do him to moch wronge to ponish him for his sinnes to whō God hath forgeuē thē And if he were a true vicar to God Christe he wold not so cruelly ponish his masters childern nor louinge seruantes But that we maye not trust vnto this popish purgatory wherof ther is no mention made in the scriptures Let vs resorte vnto the holy scriptures wherin we may heue a sure hope of a true purgation of oure sinnes S. Ioā sayeth 1. Ioh. 1. If we walke in the lighte euē as he is in the light thē haue we felowship with him And the blood of Iesu Christe his sonne clenseth vs frō al sinne Here maye all Christē mē haue sure cōfidēce that if they walke in the lighte of Gods worde that thē Christes blood purgeth thē frō al their sinnes But many persons the more it is to be lamented so walck in the darkenesse of sinne trust to haue helpe thorow sacrifices made masses that they can neuer come to Purgatory but go assuredly to hel wher no purgatiō of sinne can be because Christes sentēce iudgement is geuē that he that beleueth not is alredy cōdēned And the holy scriptures saye where the tree falleth there he shal lye whether it be at East west North or South Eccle. 11. Be not therfore deceaued honorable lordes nor trust to this false doctrine of purgatorie that sinnes shuld be purged with fyre A Christen man wold not put fyre in the stede of Christes blood where with oure sinnes be purged only As Paul sayeth Hebr. 1. Christe is the brightnes of the glorie of his father and veray ymage of his substaunce bearinge vp all thinges with the worde of his power that hath in his awne person purged oure sinnes Excepte therfore oure holy father will proue himselfe to be the natural sonne of God euen Christe hymselfe he purgeth not oure sinnes Apo. 1. It is Christe that so loued vs that he washed vs in his hearte blood sayeth Sainte Iohn Considering right honorable lordes that I haue called to youre memories certen of Antichristes false doctrines which I of myne awne herd do not name to be doctrines of deuels doctrines of lyenge masters and of subtile deceauers and of them that departe from the faith but out master Christ and his apostles to whom all christen men 〈…〉 geue credit calleth them so the preachers of the same false Apostles and soch as with their false doctrines shall deceaue many Of whō Christe admonisheth you to beware Mat. 24. and the Apostle desireth you to marke well to take hede of them and to decline or departe from them For they serue not Christ the Lorde but their belly Ro. 16. And yet notwithstandinge these louinge admonitions and warninges geuen vnto you not by lighte preachers but by Christe hymselfe and by his Apostles thesame doctrines be dayly taughte preached / alowed and malitiouslye defended with you Therfore haue I accordinge to my boundē dutie set thē forth that you might beware of them and of the preachers of them So that ye maye auoyde the plage of God that hangeth ouer vs for oure departinge from Christe and from his true doctrines vnto the seruice and obedience of Antichriste and of his false doctrines / which be mere and plaine contrary to Christe and his doctrines By the which condition and sure marke youre lordships maye well knowe them euer And bycause I haue rehersed so many of Antichristes false doctrines that al men maye wel discerne and iudge the residue of his false doctrines by them that I haue here written I will now directe my penne to expresse and declare a certen assured signe and token geuen by Daniel and also by Christe of the tyme wherin Antichrist shuld come and rage againste Christe Mat. 24. Christe warneth vs to loke for him when we shall se abhomination of desolation stande in the holy place For the true declaration of the which texte it is to be noted honorable lordes that the Apostle calleth vs the temple of God sayenge 1. Cor. 3. The temple of God is holy which be you Consideringe that we be the temple of God and the holy place What more abhomination of desolation can ther be in the holy place then to exile God out of his temple and holy place not only by the workinge of manifolde sinnes fylthynes and detestable wickednes wherof was neuer moare plentie vsed but also in the stede of God to receaue Antichriste the men of synne and childe of perdition as Paul nameth hym Is not this to put man in Gods stede whē we trust to receaue remission of sinnes and eternall lyfe of the Romish Antichriste and that in perchmeyne s●●●nes cōsideringe that we heare not him preach any gospell to vs wherby oure sinnes shuld be forgeuen vs nor yet knoweth he any of our sinnes If he can forgeue vs oure sinnes without hearinge oure sinnes nombred vnto him and without speakinge with vs wherfore wyl not our priestes forgeue vs oure sinnes excepte they must heare them tolde in to their eares Is not this abomination of desolation standinge in the holy place To geue ouer