Church At the last he calleth Luther that falling starre That falling starre not Luther and the Lutheranes Heretikes and the Protestants Locusts whose armie he brought out of the bottomelesse pit when hee fell Of that anone now I demand how an abiect silly Fryer as they call him out of his cloyster that examineth all things by Scriptures can bee that starre falling from heauen not that great Lucifer much lesse that little Luther can be called the falling starre but some great Byshop as loftie as the starres Lucifers mate who a good while since hath forsaken heauenly doctrin and holy life and hath betaken himselfe to earthly businesses and wicked manners that is hath fallen from heauen to earth For then are Byshops said to stand in heauen What the fall of a star meaneth when they performe their duties and then fall to the earth when forsaking holy life and doctrin they seeke after worldly matters But this doth not agree with the Pope onely for many other starres hauing beene pulled downe by the Dragons taile are falne to the earth The Popes key and the effects of it True But none besides the Pope is of that power as holy Iohn ascribes vnto him For the key of the bottomlesse pit was giuen to this falling starre This great Byshoppe while he shined as a starre in the Church that is in heauen he vsed the key of heauen committed to him as he ought but after he fell from heauen he tooke to himselfe the key of the bottomlesse pit Therefore Antichrist the Angell of the bottomlesse pit is the key keeper of hell Apoc. 9.1 1. Tim. 4.1.3 Whereof blessed Paul giueth a double reason One that by that his key hee brought into the Church the doctrine of Diuells in forbidding meates and marriages Another that lifting vp himselfe aboue all that is called god that is aboue Kings and Emperours hee doth shut them out of their kingdomes and thereby hath brought the darkenesse of the bottomlesse pit into the common wealth Is not this the liuely image of the Pope who assoone as he left of to be a starre by his fall began afterward to be a foolish fire Ignis satuus Whose key is now no longer the key of heauen but of hell For his hatred to that doctrine and gouernment that proceede from God is a most certaine brand of Antichrist Of the key I shall speake more hereafter in the Creede CHAP. VI. Wherein Antichrist is proued an Apostata and vniuersall Bishop WHom Saint Iohn tearmeth a falling starre Saint Paul tearmeth an Apostata from the faith and makes him a Captaine not of a particular but an vniuersall Apostasie whom he so sets downe with his proper markes that he seemeth to haue pointed his finger at the Church of Rome to whom euery way they doe agree She forbiddeth marriages and meates not in open blasphemie as some old Heretickes did but in hidden hypocrisie as the forenamed Apostataes as the Apostle noteth Whence I inferre thus The head of the vniuersall and generall Apostasie is Antichrist The Pope is the head of the vniuersall and generall Apostasie Therefore the Pope is Antichrist Therefore Antichrist is not a Iew or head of the Iewes who cannot be said to haue departed from Christ before they came to him but an Apostaticall Christian Lib. 4. Epist 32.34.38 And as it is obserued by Gregorie the great A Bishoppe beleigerd with an armie of Priests not a Bishop onely but an vniuersall Bishop Not that hee alone for that cause did depose all other Bishops but that he aduanc'd himselfe before all others Whence againe I argue thus An Apostaticall Christian an vniuersall Bishop is Antichrist The Pope is an Apostaticall Christian and an vniuersall Bishoppe The Pope therefore is Antichrist And that title of vniuersall Bishop Pope Gregorie calleth wicked prophane sacrilegious Whereunto to consent is nothing else saith he but to lose the Faith As hee writ to Anianus and thereby to aduance himselfe in honour aboue the Empire as he writ to Mauritius which whosoeuer doth as Iohn Bishop of Constantinople did already and Ciricius did afterward he doth pronounce him confidently to be the follower of Lucifer and the fore-runner of Antichrist The Pope first vniuersall Bishop Pope Gregory was a true Prophet alas too too true a Prophet for within fiue yeers after that King of pride whom he foretolde to be so neere at hand with his army of priests did vsurpe that chaire from whence Gregory did deliuer that Oracle and hath held it now aboue 1000. yeeres being first called the vniuersall Bishop Then vniuersall Prince because he hath the iurisdiction ouer all Bishops As first Boniface that falling starre After that vniuersall Prince created out of himselfe because he had the soueraignty ouer all Kings and Emperours as Gregorie the seuenth So that the Bishop of Rome is by a Bishop of Rome prophetically concluded to bee for his treason Lucifer Lastly Lucifer and Antichrist for the losse of his faith Antichrist But the Bishop as themselues affirme cannot erre in his definitiue sentence for hee hath the Spirit assistant and tied to the Chaire The Bishop therefore is Antichrist for that I may cast vp all into a short summe Antichrist is a falling starre a degenerating shepheard a domineering Bishop CHAP. VII Antichrist within the Church in stead of God and how he lifts vp himselfe against God DOe you not behold your selfe in this Looking-glasse Paul the fift suffer not your selfe to bee deceiued by those men who imagine Antichrist to be an outward aduersarie whom the Apostle doth make an homebred stubborne Traytor for as he doth abuse the name of a King against a King so he doth oppugn Christ in the name of Christ Whom therefore Paul doth place within the Church not without it and sitting not in a bodily gesture but in a spirituall gouernement Besides that Theod. in 2. Thess 2. the thrones of Kings are called the seats of Bishops And he sitteth not in a materiall Temple for Temple is not any where so taken in the new Testament as Bellarmine confesseth therefore in the spirituall Church for the which the Temple of God is alwaies taken as the Fathers expound it Chrysostomus Oecumenius Hieronimus ad Algasium quae 11. who all affirm he shall sit in the Church not in the Temple of Ierusalem Antichrist hee sitteth in the Temple of God not in the Temple which hee shall re-edifie in Ierusalem as is imagined for that should not bee called the Temple of God but of the Diuell Againe he is said to sit against the Temple as Augustine did well translate it out of Greeke as if he were the Temple of God that is the Church Wherein the wretched man bearing rule doth not thinke himselfe to bee God much lesse God alone as Bellarmine dreameth Antichrist is not such a foole but in stead of God for he sitteth as God and taketh vpon him as he were God
Pauls authoritie one of them that S. Peter without doubt was a Catholike but Paul if he be not warily expounded seemes to smell of heresie Thother that places out of Paul by the testimonie of Peter were hard to be vnderstood and had need of a Romish Commentarie Peter I said made mention of the hardnes but not of the commentarie In whose Epistle say they whatsoeuer soundeth against the Romane faith therein wee do not attaine to the true sense that which the Rhemists haue obserued Rhem testam argument epist in gene For he in the first chapter say the Fryers did commend the faith of the Church of Rome whereto Cyprian denieth that vnfaithfulnes can haue accesse But in the 11. chapter I say Epist 50. he warned the same Church that if it departed from the bountifulnesse of God it should take heed lest as the Church of Israel was cut off so shee were not cut off also It may therefore be cut off be it spoken by Cyprians leaue For it is in act cut off when it is fallen from that foundation which is placed in the only mercy of Christ apprehended by faith That faith therefore of the Church which Paul the Apostle so much commended and taught by his writings is one and the faith of this Church which Paul the Pope hath left so deformed with his vnwritten traditions is another And yet shee glorieth much as I said that Paul is hir founder I had rather they would vse him as an author But she will neuer doe it Shee maketh more accompt of Pauls Bulls than Paules Epistles which the ancient Fathers did rightly tearme the key of the Scripture Which most of the popish sort do so feare that they cannot reconcile Paul and S. Iames together but oppose them one against thother The reconciling of Paul and James as if Iames the Apostle had concluded that a man is iustified by his workes before God not with faith alone against the Apostle Paul when as Paul doth not vnderstand the same faith and the same iustification which Iames doth For hee requireth faith placed in the heart this reiecteth faith bragged on in the tongue Hee requireth a liuely faith this reiecteth a dead faith Hee doth enforce a heauenly faith which layeth hold on the promise this casteth of a diuelish faith which doth onely acknowledge Christs historie without application hee doth commend and extoll fruitfull faith working by loue this doth rightly condemne a barraine faith voide of the duty of holinesse he doth set forth the iustification before God which Aquinas calleth the righteousnes of imputation Iames the iustification before men whom the same Aquinas calleth the righteousnesse of declaration Moses from whom either Apostle drew his testimonie doth expound ech and doth take vp the controuersie begun by the Aduersarie The imputation of righteousnesse whereof Moses maketh mention Gen 15.6 went thirty yeares before that worke for which they dreame that Abraham was iustified before God Which circumstance of time Paul most earnestly weighing concludeth that faith was imputed to Abraham to obtaine righteousnesse before God 15 yeares as Moses noteth before hee begat Isaac and other 15 yeares at the least before he would haue sacrificed him They know not well how to loose themselues out of this indissoluble knot whosoeuer thinke that righteousnes was imputed to Abraham before God because he killed his sonne who was not as yet borne when as the Holy Ghost doth pronounce him to be righteous which S. Iames himselfe v 23 seemeth to vnderstand as Oecumenius gathereth out of the place that Abraham was the image of iustification which is wrought by faith alone when it was imputed to him for righteousnesse ver 23. ver 21. that he beleeued and of that iustification also which is by workes when hee would haue offred his sonne Isaac vpon the Altar Therefore faith did make perfect the person of Abraham and the worke did iustifie the faith and declare ech to be perfect Is this a fight is this an opposition especially betweene two holy Apostles who writ their Epistles with the instinct of the same spirit But no one thing doth more neerly gaule the Synagogue then that Paul the Apostle by the direction of the spirit writ the commentarie of the mysterie Apoc 9. 2 Thess 2. 1 Tim 4.1 which S. Iohn afterward set forth of that great Antichrist whom hee maketh to be the falling starre i. an apostata from the faith or rather the prince of the apostacie as Paul expounds it Iohn calls him the Angell of the bottomlesse pit the key-keeper of hell the beast arising out of the earth and counterfeyting the lambe with two hornes and in his voyce resembling the Dragon Therefore in shew the Vicar of Christ in deed his aduersarie in ambition aboue Kings Gods emulus as Paul explaines it Iohn in order the 7. King of the Romane state Apoc 13. the reviued image of the former beast to be after reuealed within the Empire decayed as Paul doth interpret it Iohn sitting in the common place Lord of the seauen hill'd Citie in the speciall place in the temple of God A description of the Pope that is in the Church of God as Paul doth expound it for Kings thrones are called Bishops seates Therfore he is in office a Bishop in name Romane or Latine in his disposition a great hypocrite and a notable dissembler by his cunning an inchanter and bewitcher of soules by his worship an Idolater by his malitious practise a murtherer giuen ouer to sinne sold ouer to destruction as both of them define Water is no liker water than Antichrist to the Pope But S. Paul being not therewith content defineth Antichristianitie to be not iniquitie but the mysterie of iniquitie And doth after diuide it into three parts 1. Curious speculations 2. Absurd superstitions 3. Iewish ceremonies whereof it is wholy compounded which who so holdeth doth not hold the head as the Apostle speaketh I beseech thee Christian Reader tell me what is more like than old and new Antichristianitie What is become of them who deny that Poperie hath his beginning from the antient heresies which being of the same age with the Apostolike truth in many things as Tertullian saith was wounded with the Apostolike style as shall be made manifest in the discourse following I do therfore more disdaine than admire that the Apostle Paul doth so exceedingly displease the Romane synagogue who did foreshew that Poperie should be patcht together of Paganisme Idiotisme and Iudaisme A little Glasse of Christ and Christianitie BVt I purposing to set out all the force and nature of Antichrist and Antichristianitie in latine I thought good to set before it a liuely and short forme of Christ and Christianitie which the Apostle defineth to be the mysterie of godlines that the truth of the Gospell being brought into light out of the labyrinth as it were of discoursing might put to flight with her authoritie and countenance
Images The Popes imagine that they be Masters of abstinence and continencie when for conscience sake they forbidde meates and marriages when as in truth they bring in the doctrine of deuills as S. Paul teacheth They doe not intend so you will say The murtherer doth not intend to kill his Father but his enemie but in stead of his enemie hee killeth his Father in the darke shall we say hee killed not his father but his enemie because he intended not his fathers but his enemies death which if it be absurd to speake in this outward darknes do we not thinke it as absurd in this inward darknesse of the soule if any man say that he doth worship God when hee doth worship the Dragon because hee doth intend to worship God not the Dragon Therefore the Emperours and the Popes doe agree in a third that is in worshipping the Dragon from whom they haue receiued their power Adde hereto that the Pope in whom the image of the first beast doth reuiue and liue againe as shall appeare afterward while he driueth men to worship himselfe it may be said that he doth compell them to worship the image of the first beast from whence thus I dispute He that compelleth men to worship the image of the first beast is Antichrist The Pope doth compell men to worship the image of the first beast The Pope therefore is Antichrist CHAP. XV. The decayed Emperour reuiued by the Pope 5 FOR shee is said to cure and heale the deadly blow of the former beast and to restore to him a spirit and a voice That I may not be longer about those things which are so copiously vnfolded by others the Empire tooke a deadly wound in Augustulus The Empire dead which was the last Emperour of the East from whom the Empire lay as it were dead for 325 yeeres till it was restored againe by the Pope and receiued as it were new life in Charles the Great as Bellarmine doth vauntingly confesse For he saith That the Pope did translate the Empire first from the Greekes to the French reuiued afterward to the Germaines and appointed that the choice of the Emperour should be made by seauen Electors on that condition that the confirmation and inauguration of the Emperour so chosen should belong to the Pope that by this meanes that dead head might seeme to liue and flourish againe by the spirit of the Pope But reseruing to himselfe the power of the Empire hee left the title to the Germaines Cap. 15. de mira Anti as Bellarmine doth vnaduisedly confesse that Antichrist shall be the last that shall enioy the Romane Empire without the name or title of the Romane Emperour The Emperor but titular And therefore the Germane Emperour in respect of his power is only Titular for the Pope hath not only deriued to him the spirituall power but the temporall also therefore the state of Antichrist is the liuely image of the old Empire The Germaine Empire is not now the Empire but the title and dead ghost of the Empire to whom the Pope giueth spirit that is authoritie and a voice that is his Edicts when he giueth life to the Emperour by his confirmation To what end I pray you â— that it may sustaine and vphold the Popes Seate wherein the power of the Empire doth reside without a name according to Iohns Prophecie Hence the Germane Emperour is called the Procurator and protector of the Apostolicall See I dispute then thus Antichrist is the restorer of the old Romane Monarchie witnes S. Iohn The Pope of Rome alone is the restorer of the old Romane Monarchie Bellarmine not onely witnessing it but glorying in it The Pope of Rome therefore alone is Antichrist CHAP. XVI Of bringing downe fire from heauen BVt Bellarmine doth expound this place according to the letter as that likewise of bringing downe fire from heauen Antichrist saith he and the Antichristian Church doth make the image of the Beast to liue and speake But the Pope and the Popish Church did neuer make the image of the Beast to liue and speake Therefore the Pope is not Antichrist Besides Antichrist saith he doth cause fire to come from heauen in the sight of men The Pope did neuer bring downe fire in the sight of men The Pope therefore is not Antichrist The proposition of the former syllogisme taken literally is not S. Iohns proposition for not the image of euery beast is to take life from Antichrist but the image of the first Beast that is of the Romane Empire which the Pope in name and title renued in the Emperour in strength and power retained in himselfe And therefore hee peruersely collecteth out of Iohn that power is giuen to Antichrist to giue life and frame speeches to Images which may seeme as credible to sober men Popish false miracles as that the picture of Memnon being enlightned by the Sunne beames spake very plainely as Tacitus reporteth But grant it be so the assumption literally taken agreeth with the Pope and the popish Synagogue if ye beleeue the Legend How often by them are images counterfeited to moue to sweat to nodd to speake in the sight and opinion of simple people that they may be allured to the worship of those Saints whose images they be There was some wonder toward as oft as the image began to speake Martialis The Deuill did often speake in the images of the Ethnicks but a Priest in the images of the Papist that hee may seeme to take the Deuils turne in deluding of men I retort therefore this argument Whatsoeuer Church doth make images to speake in the opinion of men is Antichristian But the popish Church doth make images to speake in the opinion of men Therefore the popish Church is Antichristian 6. Now I come to Bellarmines latter syllogisme if first I shall explaine the sixt action of the Beast Shee worketh great signes so that she maketh fire to descend from heauen in the sight of men The Beast that is Antichrist doth worke great miracles v 13. which blessed Paul calls lying signes and wonders 1. in respect of the end because they serue to seduce men Ioh 14. 2. in respect of the matter for they be either the counterfeytings of lying men or the wonders of deceitfull spirits as Augustine speaketh 3. In respect of the forme for whereas true miracles doe exceede nature and are wrought by the omnipotent power of God false wonders are they which are partly effected by naturall causes partly by the power of Sathan Bellarmine doth well agree with vs in all False miracles The miracles of the first and second kinde haue been infinite in the darke kingdome of Antichrist the apparition of Spirits the visions of Angells our Ladie how often hath shee come gliding out of heauen how often haue the miserable soules crept puling out of Purgatorie besetting high-wayes and recounting their torments to procure men to pittie them hence the market of
Purgatorie is growne very gainefull and the bargaines about sinnes very profitable Then could the Images walke a foote then could the Bells strike alone without helpe then could the Angells like Quoristers chant it out in Canterburie Minster and play vpon Dunstans Harpe then could the Apostles come downe from heauen to helpe Basill to say Masse These lying miracles were faigned by cheating knaues to confirme strange lyes and to cozen simple people of their coine For how often hath a spirit being apprehended by the Magistracie and an Angell stript and our Ladie sent to her Cell been all of them notably whipt Soules so whipt with rodds that they had rather beene in Purgatorie So they couerd all their tricks and conueyances their kinde of deceit and their manner of working with the feare of punishment Of these miracles Paul spake which being meerely false had a shew of miracles but not the power being the deuises of cogging companions There were other miracles of deceiueable spirits which were wrought partly by the force of naturall causes partly by the power of Satan So that that Synagogue seemed to be another Canidia Antichrist doth make fire to descend from heauen in the view of men saith S. Iohn that is in the opinion of men as they imagine Whether that be taken mystically or literally let vs in a word consider Fire according to the Scripture descends mystically either when God doth approue the religion and sacrifices of his seruants How fire descends from heauen in the Scripture as of Abel and Elias or when God doth by an extraordinarie fashion send downe the graces of the Spirit into their hearts as in the fiery tongues or when God did cast downe fire from heauen moued by the prayers of his seruants as of Elias to destroy his enemies Three sorts of fire 1. Is the fire of sacrifice 2. The fire of grace 3. The fire of Reuenge In all these Antichrist is Gods Ape For he hath confirmed and approued the sacrifice of the Masse and Transsubstantiation with miracles The Masse confirmed by a false miracle witnesse that pillar of fire from heauen falling to the earth euen vpon that place where by the negligence of the Priest as the Legend reports the bodie of God fell out of the pixe vpon the grasse that pillar of fire shining like the Sunne was about the bodie of God so that all the beasts of the field except a blacke Horse which bended but one of his leggs bended all their foure leggs to the bodie Which miracle I haue brought out of the Legend that I might gratifie Bellarmine who knowes that beasts then were well nurtured like to his leane iade that forgetting to eat his meat did adore the sacrament vpon his knees which the beasts had not done if God forsooth had not brought downe the fiery pillar from heauen whereby they might haue discerned the bodie of God lying vpon the grasse Adde hereto that Antichrist doth bestow the grace of the spirit sanctification vpon his Agneit Dei his hallowed graines his holy water and his bells as Primasius hath it Further hee striketh his enemies with vengeance from God as it were with fire fallen from heauen but that in the conceit of men that they whom Antichrist his furie doth daunt may seeme to be wounded with heauenly reuenge as it were with fire falne from aboue Which whether it be true of the flash of excommunication which the Pope who is called the God of reuenge casts abroad let Kings looke to it whose kingdomes haue been often set on fire by such popish lightning But to excommunicate a King is say they no miracle But so to excommunicate a King that you cast him out of his kingdome and release subiects from the obedience of their Kings it is a great miracle that either Kings are so patient to endure or Subiects so madde to beleeue Wherefore this is not materiall fire but mysticall brought downe from heauen by Antichrist in the sight of men not that he doth so indeed but that he seemeth so to doe Although if the literall sense doe more content you I haue found out Gregorie the seuenth Gregor the 7. miracle that notable enchanter who could strike fire out of his bosome as oft as he listed Thus I infer Whosoeuer in the conceits of simple men doth seeme to bring downe reuenging fire out of heauen is Antichrist This the Pope doth and hath done Therefore the Pope is Antichrist CHAP. XVII Of the Popes Character I Proceede The Beast is sayd to imprint his character vpon all both great and small to bee carried either in their fore-head or their right hand Wherein he doth peruersly follow Christs character which GOD doth imprint vpon his seruants subiection to Christ and the acknowledging of him to bee their head and Sauiour And it is partly inward partly outward Christs character of two sorts The inward character is true faith imprinted vpon the soule by the spirit of God whereby we beleeue that Christ is our onely Redeemer The outward character is the confession of the mouth the operation of the hands And therfore a Christian doth beare the marke of God in his heart by faith in his fore-head by profession Rom. 10. in his hand by working as S. Paul hath expounded besides that the two sacraments are the seales of faith the witnesses of profession and the practises of holinesse The diuers characters of the Pope In like sort Antichrist hath a marke proper to himselfe of his owne which he doth imprint and brand the Antichristians withall Which character hangs vpon his name and his name vpon his state Of the first Beast that is of the Romane or Latine monarchie The seauen formes of gouernment among the Romanes there were seauen heads that is seuen kingly formes of gouerning the common-weale 1. Kings properly so called 2. Consuls 3. Decemviri 4. Tribunes of souldiers 5 Dictators 6. Emperors properly called 7 Antichrist The state of the Beast is Romane or Latine Therefore the character of the Beast is a note of difference whereby all they are discerned from all other who are of the Romane or Latine Religion whom we tearme Papists And the subiection to the Pope of Rome as to their head and the acknowledging of that See the inward and outward marke of Antichrist The double marke or character of Antichrist The inward marke is that implicite faith which I toucht before The outward marke is that outward profession of the mouth and the conformity of life to the Popes lawes as the obseruation of the heathenish rights was called the character of the Greekes which is made perfect by the sacraments of confirmation and order inuented by the Pope And Antichrist doth so imprint all his with the marke of the Beast that hee will suffer none to buy or sell except they be branded with the Beasts marke So euery Papist is a stigmaticke otherwise he cannot hold his house
thought of Bellarmine and Julian alike who with Iulian the Apostata will fasten a lye vpon Christ while together with him he will as it were carrie stones to the building of it he in a mocke to Christ this in the honor of Antichrist That Bellarmine may feare fire from heauen to disturbe the worke which as the storie reporteth Iulian suffred Theodoret. lib. 3 cap 20. Sozom lib. 5. cap. vlt. Cic de orat 3. One thing I greatly feare that Antichrist will not take it in good part that such a mightie Monarch of the world as he is like to be must sit in a Temple bâ—â—â—ded in part Cicero did pretily set out the praise of the Capitol wherein Latine Iupiter doth reside that the roofe was not onely good for vse and necessitie but for ornament and beauty that although the Capitoll were builded vp as high as the heauen where the raine was not engendred yet it would haue no name if it had no roofe But Bellarmine although he caried morter and stone to the Temple of Ierusalem by the helpe of Antichrist wherein so great a Prince should sit so farre of he was for tendring his Masters honour that he did not supply necessitie for hee left the Temple with out beames or roofe hee left it on the earth where many showres doe gather many stormes doe sodenly fall that he may seeme to haue exposed the great Prince to the pleasure of the vnmercifull heauen in the middest of his stately Palace But let vs make vp the rest of the tale of this imagined Prince gouerning in an imagined place For hee addeth many things of his kingdom and his victories whereof the Scripture hath not one word It is a very conceited dreame that is fetcht out of Daniel mis-vnderstood who prophecied of Antiochus Epiphanes the sonne of great Antiochus the brother of Seleucus Philopater the successor of that namelesse beast the tenth horne literally and properly as of nine others which went before cap. 11. which Bellarmine himselfe confesseth and yet concludeth 1. That Antichrist rising out of a most base stocke by fraud and guile shall obteyne the kingdom of the Iewes 2. That he shall fight with three Kings of Aegipt Lybia and Ethiopia and shall possesse their kingdomes themselues being vanquished which was not true of Antiochus himselfe being the figure of Antichrist 3. That he shall make captiue seuen other Kings and shall enioy the Monarchie of the whole world O noble conqueror to be preferred before all the Pompeis Caesars and Alexanders who shall doe so great acts in the compasse of three yeeres and a halfe 4. With his mightie armie he shall persecute the Christians and these be the warres of Gog and Magog Doe you thinke these to be the oracles of the Scriptures or Bellarmines owne dreames grant that Antiochus was Antichrists type in many things what then if we should apply all those things Antiochus Antichrist vnlike to make them the same many absurdities do follow which were proper to the person of Antiochus to Antichrist in respect whereof he was not the type of Antichrist and shall inferre from them not the like but the same thing Let Antiochus be fetcht out of hell and let his soule passe into Antichrist that he may performe all those things And although Antichrist be a most vilde beast as Antiochus yet he must come not out of a most vilde but a most honorable stocke that he the sonne of Antiochus the Great the brother of Seleucus Philopater and successor in the kingdome of Syria as Antiochus is plainly set downe by Daniel cap 11. v. 21. in whose place one that is very vilde shall arise Platoes great yeere must returne againe that Antiochus againe must be an hostage at Rome before he come to his kingdome and kill his Nephew Demetrius as Richard the third King of England did and make three voyages into Egipt And great Achilles must be sent againe to Troy Let Antiochus make warre againe let him in his returne plague the Iewes and let Antichrist do all the acts of Antiochus which Daniel the Prophet doth so liuely describe that to Porphery who knew not with what spirit he wrote he seemeth to haue compiled an historie rather then a prophecie whereof more hereafter Now let vs pursue the rest of the pretty passages of this tale Enoch and Elias must come againe from heauen to earth to wit those two witnesses who preach the Gospell in their owne persons and fighting with Antichrist shall be killed by him and shall rise againe after three daies and a halfe and the rest which out of the 11 of the Apocalyps they miserably by force presse out by wringing the letter so that they seeme to play the Iewes in no place more Although in that place neither Enosh nor Elias The second beast mistaken for the first nor Antichrist as certaine learned men thinke is vnderstood for the beast that makes warre against these witnesses of God is said to ascend out of hell which seemes to be the first beast which is said to rise out of the sea cap 13. v. 1. when as the second is said to rise out of the earth Againe the floore of the Church is said to be giuen ouer to be trampled on by the Gentiles 42 monthes v 2. which time is assigned to the persecution of the first beast cap 13. v. 5. Againe it is to be troden on by the Gentiles not the Iewes whose Prince Antichrist is faigned to be Now they which precisely take the two witnesses to be two men The two witnesses Apoc. 11. not agreed on could neuer yet agree among themselues about the persons Some that they were Elias and Moses some Elias and Elizeus some not Elias but Ieremie others together with Elias and Moses thinke that Iohn the Diuine is added as a witnesse aboue number of Enoch none of the Fathers make any reckoning of the two Testaments as two witnesses and the diuers sincere Interpreters of the two Testaments who expound the place they doe more easily shift themselues as it shall be vnderstood afterward who being clad with sackcloth in great sorrow and griefe did preach repentance to the Gentiles at whose hands in steed of reward Persecution committed they receiued most cruell death The cruell persecution of the first beast wherein they deuoured the most faithfull witnesses of God lasted 294 yeeres which made the 42 monthes according to Daniels weekes whereof more anon Neither did God suffer his witnesses to die vnreuenged Persecution reuenged if wee compare the storie to the Prophecie For God did punish those bloody Emperors for his two witnesses sake so that the Nations were consumed by sharpe and quicke diseases growing by long drought and too great heat of the Sunne which bred such plagues that often deuoured whole Cities and consumed whole armies So happily the two witnesses may be said to haue shut heauen that it should not raine and to haue opened
openly inuade the Church For such persecution becommeth Antichrist the Pope it becommeth not And why because there bee so many hypocrites and false brethren in the Church hee meaneth the Romane I grant it it is a defence full of truth The Pope that great hypocrite The Pope that great hypocrite must needes beget sons like himselfe arrant hypocrites and dissemblers But I feare I may not grant him that where hee saith that hypocrites and syncere Christians whom as chaffe and wheat Christ saith are not to bee diuided before the day of his comming Bellarmine affirmes that they are to be separated before the comming of Antichrist Hence thus I dispute When all hypocrites shall be made knowen Antichrist shall come When Christ commeth all hypocrites shall bee made knowen Therfore when Christ commeth Antichrist shall come Therefore Antichrist shall bee not a beast of three yeere olde but a beast of a day olde vnlesse he thinke that Antichrist shall come after the comming of Christ and the end of the world for that which hee addes in the end that there shall bee such a persecution vnder Antichrist that all the publike ceremonies and sacrifices of religion shall cease is a meere dotage He wholly forgets what is set downe by the Apostle that Antichrist shall be a notable hypocrite not an outward but an homebred enemy who with fained holinesse and sanctity shall entice and deceiue simple people as Acosta Viega Pererius Ribera foure principall Iesuits doe plainely set downe and by this meanes doe greatly weaken Bellarmines idle demonstration Which let vs waigh if you please The publike worship of God and the daily sacrifice of Christians vnder the persecution of Antichrist shall cease at that time when Antichrist shall come The worship of God and the sacrifice of Christians is not ceast Therefore as yet Antichrist is not come Hee prooues his poposition out of the 12. Dan. 12.5.11 of Daniel vers 11. from that time when the dayly sacrifice shall be taken away are 1290. daies where Daniel Bellarmine against Daniel if wee credit Bellarmine speaks of Antichrist Daniel himselfe gaine-saying it who expounds himselfe chap. 8. v. 11. chap. 11. vers 13. directly affirming that the daily worship of God shall bee taken away by Antiochus Epiphanes and his army speaking not of the daily sacrifices of Christians but of the daily sacrifices of the Iewes The manner of the Iewes was to offer sacrifice to God morning and euening which they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which sacrifice was taken away by Antiochus as Iosephus and the author of the first booke of Macchabees and Chrysostome plainely witnesse And to Daniel demanding when the end of these euils shall be God answers from that time When the daily sacrifice shall bee taken away and the abomination of desolation set vp whereof hee spake chap. 11. vers 31. that there should bee 1290 dayes to the restoring thereof and the deliuerance of the Iewes from Antiochus tyranny Of this restoring and deliuerance I shewed out of Daniel Diuers degrees of deliuerance that there were diuers degrees noted by Daniel at diuers times For from the hinderance of the worship of God to the first restoring of the same by Iudas Macchabeus the Prophet saith there were three yeeeres and tenne dayes which space chap. 7. vers 25. hee called a time times and a peece of time To the victory of Iudas Macchabeus when hee draue Antiochus forces out of Iury and so did establish the first restitution Daniel saith there was three yeeres and an halfe which space chap. 12. v. 7. he calleth a time times and halfe a time To the time wherein Antiochus strucken by the hand of God promised he would restore the Iewish religion hee vnderstands there were 1290. Bellarmine mistaken in taking away the daily sacrifice dayes to the time of his death 1335. in all which numbers the prophesies of Daniel and histories of Iosephus and the Macchabees doe very well agree I maruell the more that Bellarmine was so blinde in the prophesie and so ignorant in the history that he dreameth that the publike worship of God and sacrifice of the Iewes taken away by the most greeuous persecution of Antiochus within three yeere and a halfe should bee the like publike worship of God and sacrifice of the Christians taken away by the persecution of Antichrist three yeeres and a hafe before the end of the world Hee confirmes the assumption by experience which doth testifie that the publike worship of God was neuer taken away by the Pope that the sacrifice of the Christians neuer ceased He means the masse and other publique voluntary worships of the degenerated Church of Rome which the Creede shall make plaine to be neither worship of God nor the sacrifice of Christians So the proposition is fetcht out of the Scripture misunderstood the assumption is the begging of the thing in question And is not this a worthy demonstration CHAP. XL. Of the 5. note of the continuance of Antichrists kingdome Now to the 2. last signes following 1. The continuance of the kingdome of Antichrist 3. yeares and a halfe 2. The dissolution or end of the world fiue and fortie daies after And doe not these make as doughtie a demonstration as the former An impossibilitie The kingdome of Antichrist must last iust three yeares and a halfe All which time is not sufficient for the gathering of the Iewes together dispersed ouer the face of the whole earth much lesse for the building againe of the temple which is so defaced and raced that not one stone is left vpon another 2. Chr. 2.2 The 2. buildings of the temple described The first building whereof in great peace in great prouision of all necessaries by the most exquisite workmen the number of whom the scripture sets downe to be a hundred and fiftie thousand could not be perfected in lesse then 7. yeares by Salomon But the second reedifying of it being oft hindred by the incursion of a neere enemie and their own frights that often the worke was interrupted the high wales and the stately roofe vncouered and was not finished vnder 46. yeares Ioh. 2. And yet Bellarmine allots but three yeares and a halfe to so great a worke He doth to good purpose imagine Antichrist to be an Enchanter who can call foorth spirits out of hell and send them as Messengers Note being carried on the wings of the winde to gather the Iewes with all speede out of all the coasts of the world and after may hire Marlines workmen to carry stones and lay them artificially in the worke But that he should in the same three yeares and a halfe bring into captiuitie all Christians subdue 10. Kings get the Monarchie of the world is a tale so incredible that Turkes may laugh at and Christians abhorre Let him write this to his fooles whom he teacheth that faith is not in the vnderstanding but in a blinde
long hence But the consequence is false Therfore the antecedent He proues his proposition out of the Apostle That Antichrist shall come a little before the end of the world and immediately before the second comming of Christ and then that ioyly fellow shall appeare whom the Lord Iesus shal consume with the spirit of his mouth and the brightnesse of his comming But the Apostle doth distinguish betweene the comming and the destruction of Antichrist betweene the substance of Antichrist and his appearance or reuelation betweene which and his destruction there is a great distance He lay close hidden in the daies of Saint Iohn Saint Paul as I haue said before he was therefore He did appeare after the remouing of the Empire for that did hinder that he might not appeare which happened not till many ages after Againe the Apostle distinguisheth betweene the consuming of Antichrist and his finall ouerthrow After he is reuealed he saith hee shall wast away by little and little with the spirit of the Lordes mouth but shall bee vtterly put out by the brightnesse of his comming Bellarmine a prophane Iester Heere let me a little touch Bellarmines prophane iesting Surely saith he the spirit of Christ must be very weake if it cannot dispatch Antichrist raging aboue a 1000. yeares And there it pleaseth him to distinguish betweene the word of God and his power As though there is not power in the word of God to weaken and breake Antichrist in peeces the force whereof the beast shall feele in his fall and destruction Now the thing is a working now Christ doth enfeeble Antichrist with his word afterward hee shall destroy him with his presence Hee shall kill him by weakening him that I may put off the Cardinals ridiculous distinction who doth thus distinguish Hee doth not say he shall weaken him but hee shall kill him And it pleaseth him to scoffe at vs when wee say that now Antichrist shall be ouerthrowne by the word of the Lord ☞ when as now the word of the Lord shall be ouerthrown by him May not a Christian and an old man and a Diuine blush for shame as for a Cardinall nothing will make him blush to sport and iest in a matter so weighty and serious As God himselfe so Gods word is eternall his Ministers Gods witnesses Antichrist could kill the word it selfe he could neuer kill which shall abide when he rots to nothing Yea truely as the word of God is a liuing word so the Ministers of the word Gods faithfull witnesses being slaine shall by the power of the word rise againe if not in their seuerall persons yet in a succession and kill this murthering Antichrist Christ therefore hath not a weake spirit but the Cardinall hath a weake braine who doth not as yet vnderstand the degrees and meanes which Christ vseth in the abolishing of Antichrist But he tells vs Saint Iohn saith that Antichrist shall come in the last houre What is ment by the last houre But he vnderstandeth the last houre to be all that time from the ascension of Christ to his second comming which God doth call an houre very short in respect of the Saints glory but very long in respect of their patience This testimonie I thus retort When that Antichrist commeth it shall be the last houre saith Iohn But Antichrists are now come meaning the whole bodie together with Antichrist that head which elsewhere he affirmeth is come Therefore now is the last houre And if then was the houre of the comming of Antichrist he is not to be destroyed three yeeres and a halfe before the end of the world CHAP. XLI Of the sixt and last Note BVt he proues it out of Daniel Cap 12.12 that after Antichrist hath raigned three yeeres and a halfe hee shall be destroyed 45 dayes before the day of iudgement For when he had continued 1290 dayes he addes happy is he that shall liue to see 1335 dayes Daniel mistaken This place is properly to be vnderstood of Antiochus of his death and of the deliuerance of the Iewes But grant that the place be to be vnderstood of the kingdome of Antichrist and the end of the world then it would follow Three absurdities first that the kingdome of Antichrist lasted not 1260 daies which make three yeeres and a halfe but 1290. Againe it followes that Antichrist is to be destroyed 45 dayes before the end of the world whom the Apostle saith must be destroyed at the comming of Christ Thirdly it would follow that the time of Christs comming should be knowne to men which Christ doth assure vs is vnknowne vnto Angells If these consequences be absurd then the Antecedent is absurd from whence they arise You haue Paul the fift Bellarmines six demonstrations making small proofe that Antichrist is not yet come Now seeing I haue dilated about Antichrist all the questions whether he be what he is of what kinde what is his kingdome and retinue what hee doth and wherein he is busied the name wherewith he is termed the marke wherewith he is branded What Antichrist is the seate wherein he ruleth the time wherein he is reuealed and withall what he is not It is not requisite that I tell you in many words who it is when you your selfe seeme to haue Antichrist wholy in your breast and to carrie him in your bosome Antichrists sufferings You haue heard what hee hath done now heare what hee shall suffer For wee are so farre from doubting of his comming that wee thinke of his destroying foretold of the Angells in Iohn Apoc. 14.7 The first Angell I saw saith he an Angell flying in the middest of heauen hauing the eternall Gospell to preach vnto them that are vpon the earth and to euery nation tribe tongue and people speaking with a loude voice Feare the Lord and giue honor to him because the time of his iudgment is at hand and worship him who made heauen and earth the sea and all that are therein This Sermon of the Angell what is it else but a briefe summe of all those Sermons which Luther and Caluin The Angell and the Protestants prâ—â—ch alike and other Preachers of the Gospell preached in all the coasts of the Christian world that they might bring the people to the faith of Christ the feare of God and the worship of him alone He onely that made heauen and earth is to be worshipped he only is to be serued God only made heauen and earth Therefore we must worship and serue God only This syllogisme of the Angell as a Ramme is aduanc't by our men to batter ouerthrow and expell out of the consciences of men all those forces of Idolls which Antichrist hath erected And there followed another Angell saying The second Angell Apoc 14.8 Babylon is fallen Babylon that great Citie is fallen because she hath made all nations drunke with the wine of the wrath of her fornication Here the spirituall fall
the like destruction Apoc. 16. 17. c. This the seuenth Angell which powred out his viall into the aire doth notably set out There went a great voyce from heauen out of the throne saying It is finished And there were made lightnings and sounds and thunders and a mighty earth-quake such an one as was not since men inhabited the earth And the great city was diuided into three parts and the cities of the Heathen fell and great Babylon came into remembrance with God to giue vnto it the cup of the indignation of his wrath And euery Iland did flie away and the hils were not found and a great haile like talents fell downe from heauen vpon men and men did blaspheme God for that great plague of haile What maruell if when the Creator is offended all the creatures be likewise offended for as then the stars abiding in their order course did fight from heauen against Sisera for Deborrah so now the lightnings and thunders and wonderfull earth-quakes and the mighty talentary haile shall when God is angry fight for his Church against great Babylon And as then the victory at the waters of Megiddo so these now shall not bee attributed to the force of men but the powers of heauen So likewise in the 20 of Iohn when Sathan shall be loosed after a thousand yeeres by whom Gog and Magog shall bee mustered to battell the tents of the Saints and the beloued city shall bee besieged but hee addeth that fire shall issue out of heauen from God which shall consume the enemies In which place Iohn doth not vnderstand those enemies whom Ezechiel describeth the Seleucidae inhabitants of Syria and Asia the lesse For Gog doth signifie Asia the lesse deriuing the name from Giges their king Magog is Hierapolis the chiefe seat of Idolatry in Syria builded by the Scythians by them so called So that in Ezechiel Gog is taken for Asia the lesse and Magog for Syria now because the Seleucidae were the most outragious cruell enemies of the Iewes by whom after their captiuity and before the comming of the Messias they were to endure most greeuons afflictions therefore by a vsuall prouerbe among the Iewes the cruell enemies of the Church are called Gog and Magog The enemies of God called Gog Magog And why which Iohn did apply to the setting out of the enemies of the Christian Church whom Sathan in the latter dayes vnder the conduct of Antichrist should stirre vp to warre against the Saints Not therefore the same whom Ezechiel describes but the like called Gog and Magog consumed and deuoured by fire sent from God out of heauen that the conquest being got not by earthly but by heauenly powers might take away courage from the Antichristians and encrease it in the Saints In the meane time one of the seuen Angels chap. 17. had conference with Iohn saying Come and I will shew thee the condemnation of the great whore which sits vpon many waters that is people nations and tongues with whom the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication and the people haue beene drunke with the wine of her fornication who after they haue a long time fought on the beasts side a against the Lambe at last being conquered by the Lambe who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords shall ioyne their forces against the Beast The order in destroying of Antichrist and shall deuoure and consume by fire the Babylonish whore left naked forsaken of all men And marke in what order the victory shall proceede First Antichrist is consumed with the spirit of the Lords mouth that is with the ministery of the word but with the brightnesse of the Lords comming is cleane abolished So saith Paul so Iohn After the preaching of the eternall Gospell by the second Angell followeth the spirituall fall of Babylon denounced by the third Angell chap. 14. Babylon is falne Afterwards Gods decree of Antichrists ruine being published by the seuenth Angell his destruction followes shewed by one of the seuen Angels and the outward ouerthrow of Babylon procured by Princes That prophesie is fulfilled this is to bee fulfilled let that which is fulfilled win credit to that must be fulfilled There followeth at the last the last condemnation and euerlasting destruction of the whore chap. 18. proclaimed from heauen by another Angell Babylon that great city is falne is falne Antichrists Metropolitane seat is now become a dwelling place for Diuels An exhortation to come out of Babylon and a cage for euery vncleane spirit and euery vncleane bird There is ioyned by him an heauenly admonition to them who as yet abide in Babylon Come out of her my people lest as you bee partakers of her sinnes you likewise be partakers of her plagues Heere the Angell speaketh to all Papists cheefely to them that be simple and ingenuous that they be careful of their saluation if the words of God cannot mooue them let his deedes moue them if they will not hearken to men let them hearken to Angels if they feare not temporall punishments let them feare eternall let them come out of Babylon with all speede lest as they be found partners of her sinnes they be found partners likewise of her plagues which the Angell doth describe very liuely in the verses following While at the last the last Angell being of great strength tooke vp a stone as it were a mill stone and cast it into the sea saying with such force shall Babylon that great city bee cast and shall neuer be found againe Where the most bitter lamentations of her louers and the exceeding ioy and triumph of the Saints is described In which battell whereof the Angels prophesie there is no cause Comforts for Gods children in respect of the Captaines why the Antichristians should lift vp their mindes or Christians deceiue theirs For if wee looke vpon the captaines of either side on that side the Lambe on this Antichrist on that side the inuincible lion on this a silly beast shal fight If we look vpon the subsidiary souldiers on that side Souldiers most valiant Princes conuerted by Christ shall fight on this side with old doating Priests forsaken by Christ If we look for souldiers from heauen we shal haue the Angels fellow-souldiers in this battell whom we had fellow-witnesses of the Gospell So heauenly bands shall fight with earthly forces If we look for the authors of this war God on this side shal fight with the Diuell Authors powre and eternity with weaknesse and rottennesse If we looke to the causes of this warre the truth and the pure worship of that one euerliuing God Causes written religion sound faith heauenly magnanimity shall fight with deceipt with idolatry with superstition with perfidiousnesse and feare And if God doe suffer some of his souldiers to fall in the quarrell that they may rise againe and come to him will hee suffer his cause to be lost will he suffer his
Britaine What maruaile is it if they raile vpon holy Doctors that doe but write against them when they reuile great Princes that can proscribe them But that is no maruaile that they spare not the good name of a King when they spare not his blood For they be not only byting doggs but deuouring wolues as appeares not only by the gun-powder Treason I should haue said the Iesuites treason but by the cruell death of Henry the third and fourth Kings of France An exhortation to Princes I am grieued at your sluggishnes I am greeued at your slauerie ô yee Kings and Princes who doe endure such sowers of sedition such teachers of periurie such authors of King-killing Beware of these dogs catch these foxes driue away these wolues as my spirit hath aduised you to whom slandering is a sport consening is a game rebellion and conspiracies is meat drinke Foresee that your patience be no longer hurtfull both to you and me Awake out of sleepe at the last and defend my glory together with your owne safetie take the cause of the Gospell in hand and laying aside Antichrist put on Christ Iesus not a false and a faigned Iesus as he is deuised by that Apostata but true and right Iesus as he is preached by the Apostle Doe no longer hold shadowes for bodies shewes for substances preferre not things vaine before those that be sound nor things fraile before eternall Vaine and fraile is the outward shew of Christ which deceiues the eyes sound and eternall is the truth that feeds the soules it is not the forme but the power of the Crosse that brings saluation Let not the glistering shew of Antichrist which wrongs you being aliue and cannot helpe you being dead deceiue your eyes that it may keepe you from Christ from whom you may expect comfort in life and true rest in death Whereby their madnes seemes the more who groueling vpon the ground so dote vpon Antichrist that they neglect the faith of Christ his name onely being reteyned who cannot feele the sauing force of the Crosse nor the inward power of the Spirit nor the heauenly light of the Gospell nor the spirituall glory of my kingdome As if my estate base and contemptible in whom there is no outward forme nor shew to be desired as my Prophet Esay said had caused you to turne both your looking and your liking from me or as if I had suffred the most greeuous anguishes of the soule and the most bitter tortures of the bodie for mine owne sake and had not been wounded for your transgressions and broken for your sins that the chastisement of your peace might reside vpon me and saluation out of my wounds and miseries might come to you For this is the very truth the basenesse of the estate I vndertooke ☜ the weaknes of the flesh I tooke on me the ignominie of the Crosse I endured for your sake seemes vile and contemptible in the iudgement of flesh and blood But if that heauenly maiestie if that power if that glory which through the vaile of humilitie weaknesse and ignominie is transparent to the eye of faith might appeare to your mindes euen as I am described by Iohn a lambe slaine and a lyon inuincible that so I may appeare to you a mighty God in the forme of a weake man How great loue and feare if you beleeue either a heauen or a hell would the vniting of so infinite mercy with such infinite power and iustice stirre vp in your soules Great sinners such as commonly Kings are had need of great grace the preaching whereof shall be as acceptable to you as necessarie when once you shall feele the stinge of an accusing conscience pricking you whereby you might come to heauen by the way of repentance that could not come thither by the way of innocencie But they that vnderstand not the force of their sicknes desire not the force of the remedie And while they feele not the wound inflicted by sinne they looke not for the remedie applied by grace To whom I denounce that I will proue either a most louing Patron or a most seuere Iudge with my right hand to saue them or to be reuenged on them All men whatsoeuer they haue or are owe it all of right to me but Kings and Princes chiefly whom by my speciall fauour and grace I haue aduanced a few ouer so many millions of men and placed them in mine owne throne To what end to what end I pray that they might giue themselues to lust and idlenesse to serue the Dragon to aduance and adorne Antichrist not so not so verily But that they may watch ouer the Church may fight for the Lambe may spoile teare in pieces the Beast if that heauenly quire of Saints in heauen fall down before the lambe sitting on his throne and worship him that liues for euer and cast their Crownes before the throne saying Thou art worthy ô Lord to haue all glory and honor because thou hast made all things and being slaine hast redeemed vs by thy blood vnto God If that innumerable ranke of melodious Angels doe with sweet and loud voices sing of the power wisdome and strength of the Lambe that is slaine and giue him all honor due vnto him What ought you to doe you vnder whose purple robes as yet abideth dust and ashes and who weare but corruptible Crownes vpon your heads what ought yee to do in the cause of your King and Redeemer for since I haue brought those holy soules after the end of all their trauels dangers in my quarrell and battell into the possession of true happines promised and vowed vnto them you that as yet are in the very heat danger of the battell both the necessity of my helpe the expectance of the reward ought to stir you vp to a more feruent desire to defend mine honor Heere I haue a iust grieuous cause to complain that your mutual suspitions quarrels haue made Antichrist weake and contemptible in himselfe to be so dreadfull and mighty Hence it is that that Laterane Idoll hath taken to it selfe the golden head of a swelling title and spread abroad the siluer armes of his pecuniary inrisdiction and strouted out the brazen belly of conspiracy and rebellion and hath mooued and stirred from home those iron feet of violence and pride wherewith he hath not onely trod vpon your crownes but your neckes I tell you plainly the discord of Kings hath encreased Antichrist their amity shall weaken him Is it for your good to admit of spies that may search into your counsels fiery spirits that may cast the seedes of discord betweene neighbor-kings and set them together by the eares Harpeyes that may spoyle you of your treasures Horse leeches that may sucke your blood secret traytors that with faire words may cut your throats who when they haue laught at you in their sleeues that they haue left you lead and taken your golde that