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A01279	A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis, wherin are compared to geder Christes actes and oure holye father the Popes.	Frith, John, 1503-1533.; Luther, Martin, 1483-1546. Ad librum eximii magistri nostri magistri Ambrosii Catharini defensoris Silvestri Prieratis acerrimi responsio.; Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.	1529 (1529)	STC 11394; ESTC S102643	102,239	210

¶ A pistle to the Christen reader ¶ The Revelation of Antichrist ¶ Antithesis / wherin 〈◊〉 compared to geder Christes act●s and our● holye father the 〈◊〉 ¶ Richarde Brightwell vnto the christē read Philip. GRace / mercye the peace of god passinge all vndstōdige which is the jure cōfidence of remission of sinne in the bloude of Christ / and perfaite truste of the heretage of everlasting liffe in the same Christ oure lorde be with the Christen Reader / and with all that call vpon the name of Iesus All be it there was nothinge that Christ spake beinge present amōg vs in this mortall liffe but it had a quicknes sprete / and conforte Ioannis vi● yet chefly of all this warning precessed in mi●iudgemēt all other wordes / where he exhorted vs / while we had light to beleve in the light / that we might be the children of light And ageyne / yet a litle while / Ioan. xi● is the light with you walke while ye have light lest the darkenes come on you for he the walketh in the darke wo●teth not whether he goeth / who is this light that we are exhorted to beleve in truly it is Christ as saint Ioā doth testifye He was the true light that lighteneth all mē / which come in to the world Ioan. ● To beleve in this light maketh vs the childrē of light / the sure īheritours with iesu christ Evē now have we cruell adversaryes which set vp their bristles sainge / why then shall we do no good workes To these we answer as Christ did to the peeple in the .vj. of saint Ioan. Ioan. v● Which axed him what they shuld do that they might worke / the workes of God Iesus answered and sayd vn to them This is the worke of god / that ye beleve on him / whom he hath sent and after it foloweth / verely verely I saye vnto you / be that beleveth on me hath everlastinge liffe To this also cōdessendeth saint Ioan in his epistle sainge i Ioannis v● These thinges have I written vn to you that beleve on the name of the sonne of God / that you may surely know / how that you have eternall liffe / what is the name of the sonne of god Trvely his name is Iesus that is to saye a saviour / therfore thou must beleve that he is a saviour But what a vayleth this ●ovi ii The devils do thus beleve ād tremble They knowe that he is the sonne of god ●ath viii And sayd vn to him crying O Iesu the sonne of god / what have we to do with the They know that he hath redemed mankinde by his passion / and labored to let it / ●ath xxvii for when Pilate was set doune to geve iudgement / his wiffe sent vn to him saynge / have thou nothinge to do with that iuste mā / fore I have suffered many thinges this day in my slepe aboute him No doute she was vexed of the devil to th entent that she shuld persuade her husband to geve no sentence vpon him / so that the lenger Sathā over mankinde might haue had iurisdiction They know that he hath supressed sinne and death / as it is written / death is consumed in to victory ● xiii ●re ii ●in xvi Death where is thy stinge hell where is thy victory the stinge of death is sinne The strength of sinne is the lawe i. Ioan. v●● But thankes be vn to god which hath geven vs victorye / thorow oure lorde Iesus Christ / Roma viii which bi sinne damned sinne in the flessh / for god made him to be sinne for vs that is to saye a sacryfice for oure sinne / ād so is sinne taken in many places of the .ij. testamentes which knew no sinne / ii Corinth v ▪ that we by his meanis / shuld be that rightewesnes which before god is alowed It is not therfore sufficient to beleve that he is a sauiour and redemer but that he is a sauiour and redemer vnto the / and this canst thou not confesse / excepte thou knowleg thy self to be a sinner / for he that thinketh him silf no sinner / neadith no sauiour ād redemer Mathei ix And of these Christ sayth I came not to call rightewesmen that is to say them that thinke thē selves no sinners / Psal xxxiii Roma iii. for in very dede there is none righteous / no not one but sinners to repentaunce For they whiche are stronge have no nead of a phisition / Math. ix but they that are secke There fore knowlege thy silf a sinner that thou maist be iustifyed Not that the enumberinge of thy sinnes can make the rightewesse But rather a greater sinner / yee ād a blasphemer of the holye name of god / as thou maist se in Cain which said that his sinnes where greater then that he might receave / Gene. iii● forgevenes of God and so was reprobate Thou must kepe therfore an order in thy iustification / first cōsideringe what the lawe requireth on the / which truly bindeth the now to as moch as though thou were in the state of innocencye / and cōmaundeth the to be with out concupiscence which is originall sinne Condempninge the infantes that are not baptised in his bloude for this originall sinne yet could not they do with all which God of iustice wold not do / excepte they had transgressed his lawe ād were bound to be with out this cōcupiscēce / if thou woldist reason / why God doth thus / take Paules answer Roma ix O mā what arte thou which disputest with God Know this that it is god which geveth the sentence with whō is none iniquite but all iustice and mercy How be it if thou aske me / why he bindeth vs also which are come to perfaite vnderstondinge to that which is impossible for vs to accomplysch Thou shalt have saint Augustyns answer / which sayth in the second boke that he wrote to Hierome / that the lawe was gevē vs / that we might know what to do and what to eschewe / to th ētent that when we se oure selves not able to do that which we are bound to / nor avoyde the contrary that then we maye knowe what we shall pray for of whō we shall aske this strēgthe so that we maye saye vnto oure father Good father commaund what so ever it pleaseth the And geve vs the grace to fulfill that thou cōmaundest And whē we perceave that we cānot fulfill his will / yet let vs confesse that the lawe is good and holy / that we are sinners carnall sold vnder sinne / Roma vij but let vs not here sticke for now are we at hell gates / and truly shuld fall in to vtter desperatiō excepte God did bringe vs agayne shewinge vs his Gospell and promisse / saynge feare not litle flocke for it is your fathers pleasure to

the glorious name of god which delyvereth vs frō all evils The second is the flesshe where of it is writē The flesshe lusteth cōtrary to the sprete / Gala. v the sprete cōtrary to the flesshe These are cōtrarye one to the other so that ye cā not do that which ye wolde The flesshe is called not only the desyres of the flesshe but all thinges that we do / thinke or speake / yee our hole body / soule reason / with the cheffe and hyghest powers of them / yf they be not led and gowerned with the sprete of God The sprete is every outward ād inward worke that a mā havinge faith ād cherite which are the frutes and gyftes of the sprete Gala. v. doth worke seakinge spirituall thīges This sprete beareth witnes vnto oure sprete that we are the children of god / Roma viij for he that hath not this sprite of Christ / is none of his kingdome But is the bōd seruāt of synne / vnder which he is subdewed and remayneth captive vnder the lawe ij Pet. il Roma vi Roma vij But ye deare brothren are made dead as concerninge the lawe / by the bodye of Christ / that ye shuld be coupled to him that is rysen agayn from death / that we shuld bringe forth frute vnto god / for when we were vnder the lawe / the lustes of synne which were sturred vppe by the lawe raigned in oure membres / to bringe forth frute vnto death But now are we delivered from the lawe / and dead from it / where vnto ne were in bondage that we shuld serve in anew conversation of the sprete / and not in the old cōuersatiō of the letter We knowe that the flesshly mind is enmyte against God Roma vij For it is not obedient to the lawe of God nether can be / so that they which are geven to the flessh can not please god We knowe that every mā is tempted / drawne awaye / and entyesed of his awne concupicence / Iaco. j. and when this concupiscence and lust hath conceaved / she bringeth forth synne / And synne when it is fine sched bringeth forthe death We knowe that as longe as we lyve in this world we carye aboute with vs the old man of synne / which with out he be with contynuall diligēce suppressed ād mortifyed beseageth the new mā with his venom and concupicēces which is original synne planted as naturall ye in him as venom in a serpēts toth / syth thē we can not be with out this old mā of synne for the which / no man shal be iustified in the sight of god / i. Ioan. j for which Yff we saye that we haue no synne we are lyers / and the trueth is not in vs. For the which also / yf we profite neuer so hygh / yet must we ever saye forgeve vs / Math. vj father oure trespases yet let vs do oure diligēce / callinge for the sprete of god / that this cōcupiscence raigne not in oure mortall bodye ever knowleginge with a milde harte oure iniquites to oure father which is in hevē / Io. vi for he is faithfull iust / i. Ioan. j to remitte vs oure synnes / and to purge vs from all iniquite / thorow the bloude of Iesu Christe his sonne The third which other alone / or els chesly is counted Antichrist / because he resisteth the personall cōminge of Christ in the fleshe for oure redemption / is the world / of the which it is writhen Yf the world hate yow / ye knowe that it hath hated me before you / yf you were of the world / the world wold loue that that is his awne because ye are not of the world but i have chosen you out of the world / therfore hateth you the world / and sanct Ioan exhortteth his brothers like a faithfull minister of Christ sayinge i. Ioan .ij. Se that you love not the world / nether the thinges that are in the world / if eny / man love the world the love of the father is not in him / for all that is in the worlde as the lust of the flesshe the lust of the eyes / and the pride of this lyffe is not of the father but of the world The world in this place is vnderstond for thē that are carnall carnallie minded / for these trulye are Antichristes But how shall we prove that / sith sanct Ioan seameth contrarye / i. Ioan. iiijj where he sayeth / Derely beloved beleve not every sprete / but prove the spretes whether they are of god or no / for many false prophetes are gone out ī to the world / hereby shall ye know the sprete of god Every sprete that confesseth that Iesus Christ is comē in the flessh / is of god And everie sprete which confesseth not / that Iesu Christ is come in the flesshe is not of god / this is that sprete of Antichriste / of whom you have harde how ●hat he shuld come / evē now all redye is he in the world what shall we now saye / Doth the world confesse that Iesus Christ is come in the flesshe yee verely / how shall they thē be Antichristes Ioan. ● Truely by sanct Paules expounding of this place where he saith / They confesse that they know god / but with dedes they denye him / And are abominable / and disobedient / and vnto all good workes discommendable Do they saye that they know him and denye him in workes yee truely / let vs then also note what sancte Ioā sayeth / he that sayeth I know hī / i. Ioan. ● kepeth not his cōmaūdmētes / is a lyer and the verite is not in him To know the lord is to have perfect fayth in him And perfect fayth hath with hī sure hope cherite / of these foloweth the fulfillinge of the cōmaūdmites necessarylye / Evē as the light foloweth the fyre / how be it here had we n●de to make a division / for the world hath two sortes of Antichristes The one sorte are in greate power authorite / the other in subiectiō The one obdurate reproved / the other wāderinge out of the right way untill it shall please the father to drawe thē vnto grace Ioan. vi The one resistīge for subbornesse knowing the trueth so sinne agaynst the holy goste / the other only for ignorācye transgresse the preceptes / these will I not speake of because there come not so great ioperdyes perels of thē / cōmittinge thē only vnto the provision of god / desyringe hī / that his wil be fulfilled to shew his glorye in them The first I will thouch some whate i. Ioan. ij Not for to teach them which are chosen of god for they have an oyntemēt of the holy gost know all thīges And nede not that enyman teach thē But only to monyssh thē of that

he shal be burned / be it in case he were the verye adversary of Christ but I know none of them that will go to the fyre shuld they then burne him and Christ saye naye Yee forsoth / for they can sett Christ to scole / ād say this is better / ywes Paule had never bene good corne / yf he had bene destroyed when he was wedes and the adversarye of Christ Let them beware lest they be ordered as Saul was / ij Regum xv which was commaunded to destroye the kinge of Amelech ād all his goodes / how be it he spared the kinges liffe and the fayrest goodes catelles makinge sacrifice with them vnto God / which if bely wisdō were any thinge worth shuld seame a mervelous good deade / how be it / it did displease God so sore that he saide vnto Samuel / he repented that he had made Saul kinge because Saul had forsakē him and had not in dede fulfilled his wordes And therfore he was depryved of his kingdom and ranne far in to the indignation of God Even so I feare me these Antichristes which presume to contrary Christes wordes will lese the kingdome of glorye which was prepared for the faithfull before the foundations of the world were caste Ephesi i. Now let vs prove the minor for of these .ij. partes foloweth the conclusion of necessyte ¶ The minor is / that all Popes / Cardinalles / Busshopes ād their adherentes do per sequute Minor Nedeth this any probation I thinke some of you have proved it I ensuere you they are as mercyfull as the wolf is on his praye they were ordened to blisse men ii Corinth x i. Corin. xiij But they curse as the devill were in them Paule sayeth that he hath power in to edifyinge and not in to destruction But I wot not of whom these bloudy bestes have their authorite which do so moch reioyse in cursinge / and destruction i. Corin. v We read how Paule did excommunicate the Corinthiā and treuly for a greate transgression to th entent that he might be ashamed of his iniquite And desyred agayne the Corinthiās / to receave him with all cherite / ij Corin. ii but that the Apostles did curse eny man truly we can not read in scripture / for Christe commaunded them to blisse those that cursed them / and to pray for those that persequuted them / sainge vnto them In this world you shall have affliction / and in me you shall have peace Ioan. xvj But the Popes / Cardinalles / with all their ragmās roolle have none affliction Therfore other they are none of Christes flocke / or els Christ him silf is a lyar ●i Timo. iij Sancte Paule sayeth that all which will godly lyve in christ shall suffre persequution / but the Pope with his adherentes suffre not / but rather persequute Therfore they lyve not godly in christ or els Paule thou arte a lyar for thou exceptest none I thinke oure minor be sufficiently proved / how be it thou maist not saye so / for truly they will seperate you from their sinagoges yee to this furyous madnes are they come the if they kille you as christ prophesied they will thinke them selves / Ioan. xvj to do honoure and pleasure to god / and this shall they do vnto you because they have not knowen my father nother me / Math. x how be it let vs not feare them that kille the bodye and have no farther power / but rather him that after he hath fild the bodye hath power to cast the soule in to everlastinge fyre And to him let vs praye with one accord that he will shorten ●hese parylous times / ● Timo. iiij and all though we be synners / worthely abiecte / and clene vnworthy this godly deliverance / Danie ix for we have synned and committed iniquite / and have departed / lord / from thy cōmaundmentes Yet consider good father thy holy testament ād promise for thou arte rightuous be we never so weked and must nedes fulfill thy promise for thy trueth sake Psalm lxxiij Arise good lord and avenge thyne awne cawse forgete not these abhominable blasphemes which this folisshe and bestly people clene ignorāt of thy iustice / and sekinge their awne rightuousnes / do cast vpon the continually / they are thy enymyes And speake odyous weked wordes against thy glorious sonne Iesus christ whom thou hast geven vs / and whom thou haste made oure satisfaction / iustificacion / redemption vaynly presuminge vpon their awne workes and merites Extend thy hād oh lord against their presumptuous mīdes How greatly have they prevayled against thy holye sonne How longe shall thine enimye prouoke the Shall he continew resistinge thy name perpetuallye Remembre the holy congregation whom thou hast chosen from the beginninge ii Timo. ●● Suffer them not to be brought in to this strōge illusion which for aboundence of synne thou hast sent in to the world / that they might be cōdempned / which have not beleved the truthe but had pleasure in iniquite Selyver the soules of thy chosen from these bestes / that thou maist be knowen to be verye god / and that thy name may be glorified thorow all the world / that they which by thy sufferance and lenite have not be brought vnto repentance / Roma ij may feall thy scourge and be compelled as Pharao was to dimitte thy chosen children / Exodi xvi and to knowledge thy power omnipotencye And that we may serve the with a pure hert knowleginge that thou and thy sonne Iesus Christ be but only one God / Ioan. xvij whose grace be with all that love the lord Iesu Christ vnfayned lye / which is very God / and everlastinge liffe to whom be all glorye / now and eternally AMEN ¶ Danielis viij ANd after their kingdoms Transgressiō and synne invadinge and cominge vpō thē / there shall stōd a kinge mightye in faces / and vnderstondinge rydles and his power shal be strengthed and not in his awne power and might And he shall corrupte mervelous thinges And he shall prospere and do / and shall corrupte strōge thinges / ād the people which are holy And he shal be after his awne opinion And deceate shal be directed and prosper in his hād And he shal be exalted in his awne herte And in his prosperite he shall corrupte many / and he shall resiste the prince of all princes And shal be consumed with out hande FIrst they are not to be alowed that vnderstand this and soche other places of the prophetes / and wold have them only verefied vpon one person For they are clene ignorante of the prophetes maner / which are wonte by one person to signifye the hole bodye of a realme And therfore evyll they do applye this Antichriste whō Paule do the calle the mā of sinne / i● Thess ij the sonne of perdition