for the Kings from the sun rising The same matter of Machmad and Turke arising from Euphrates and vexing the West was vnder the sixt Angells Trompet Geball All Tarik is a memorie how Machmadistes vexed thence Spaine and Italie But rather for a scourge then to hold long possession of old Euphrates stayed Parthians from the Empire But for Popes Idolatry euen Germanie is troubled by Hagarenes that Virgill might well say of both for Rome Hinc mouet Euphrates illinc Germania bellum On this side Euphrates begins to iarre On that side Germany doth menace warre And for Ciuil warres I may continue the verses following in the Poet for the words following in Iohn Vicinae ruptis inter se legibus vrbes Arma ferunt saeuit toto Mars impius orbe The neighbour Cities hauing broke their lawes Each against other vp in Armes arise And wicked Mars through all coasts of the world Acts mercilesse most cruell Tragedies And I saw that from the mouth of the Dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false Prophet three vncleane spirits like vnto froggs for they be spirits of Diuels working signes goe foorth vn to the Kings of the earth to gather them into battel of the great day of the God of hostes Behold I come as a thiefe Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments that hee walke not naked that men see not his shame And hee gathered them into a place called in Ebrew Armageddon The Dracon is the company of the spirits that fell of old the beast the starre that fell from heauen chap 8. 9. and 11. 13. Prophecie is to teach the Gospell chap. 11. So false prophet is the troupe of false teachers three is exceeding many as cha xi two make many thousandes for Zach. chap. 4. Their spirites bee vncleane for doctrine of Diuells from the froggie puddles of slimie doctrine truth resteth in this HE shall bruse the old serpents head Rom. 16. God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall tread Satan vnder your feete God in CHRIST destroyeth the workes of the Deuill and the verie Zohar vpon Gen. 3. saith HV HE is the holy and blessed Eternall But the old serpent deceiueth the Woman that sitteth on Rome beast to say that SHEE shall bruse the head of the serpent so their Latin goeth so their translations so their checking of the Hebrew text Thrise hauing the masculine gendre so against all Hebrewes and Greekes so against all prophets and Gospell and Gods creation that the woman should doe more then the man So to make this idle that God should be in Christ reconciling the World vnto himselfe if a woman could doe more then man and God in man Their writings are so plentifull vpon this poinct that they can deny nothing and so they crosse all the Bible which is but a commentarie vpon this place and all popery is a fight with this place and Satan conquering them for this maine castell hath conquered them for all the Bible That they haue against all religion Satans spirit Popes spirit and his Academies seruing the Pope These be the three vncleane spirits going against all holinesse of the Bible most euidently in deifying Creatures and their made sainctes and Bread with Wine which they would make better then all the world A seale of most high matters is most highly to bee estiemed But none without athean madnesse will say the seale is the King the Kings auctority it should haue to bee as himselfe as Tully saith to his brother But none of witt would make it the King him selfe All their doctrine is such that their Temples Masse and dayly profession in all things is from the vncleane spirite so that no man conuersant in the Bible can abide their Diuinitie For Liberall artes Law and Phisique they hold the principles of nations They should as well for the Bible and the Thalmudiques agreed with Saint Paul but for the incarnation and resurrection And in that the Pope granteth the storie But in all his proper differeth from all men therefore hee must haue a spirite from the vncleane Diuels The threatning of comming as a thiefe in the night is from Obadiah telling of Idumeans destruction suddenly who beeing of Izhaks house yet were close enimies to the truth The commandement of watching was vsed Math. chap. 24. And the apparell of the minde teacheth from care to our bodie what care we should haue to apparell our soule That faith regenerating trimme it The allusion to Armageddon where Barake of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fought the combats of GOD that Mageddon was a mountaine of men cut in pieces that Iabin King of Chanaan was fully broken there this sheweth extreeme breaking of the enimie And when the world was not worthy of good Iosias GOD would plague Iuda at Mageddon So the name of it is fit to expresse a full ouerthrow by God from heauen Barak and the People did litle but God from heauen by the starres Auctors of weather fought from the storehouse of haile and raine that his mighty hand was Auctor of victorie The next Cupp expoundeth that plainely alluding further to the victorie of Iosuah where haile slew more then the men did And the seauenth Angell poured out his Cup on the aire and there came forth a great voice from heauen saying it is done and there came a great voice from the Temple in heauen from the throne saying it is done and there were voyces and thunders and lightnings and a great earthquake such as had not bene since men were vpon the earth so huge an earthquake so great Haile and fire mixed with blood were Pharaohs open punishments and thunderings and at the Law giuing was thunder lightnings and heauy cloude The Pope to come by supremacy weakning Greece by all meanes and begging landes and hauing Princes helpe to further his forgery of Constantinus donation made such warres and troubles that by Scripture phrase haile and fire was mixed with blood Then Princes thought the Turke getting Grecia should neuer plague them But now that they see him the cause of the Turks greatnesse and by Idolatry as Apoc. 9. told the cause of that successe and whole hinderance to saluation they requit him with taking from him what they gaue him He obscured sun and ayer all kind of learning Ebrew Greeke Latin hee abolished histories hee obscured that none of his applied well Greeks to Daniel the bridge to both Testaments Rhetorique tropes which Sacraments require hee turnes to propriety as in This is my body and This is my blood wherein all Couenants the signe hath the name of the thing signified Logique he turneth to sophistry To patch an whole art and policie ouer mighty kingdomes by sophistry most ridiculously when it is examined Not he but martyrs made the Gospell knowen which stirreth Princes against him that as to ouertrow New Rome or Constantina they gaue their authoritie to old Rome and atchieued their counsell but to their owne great mischiefe
Now this false Prophet forging himself taught by the Angel Gabriel taketh Daniels terme in the highest sense Machmad delite it self Rashi telleth that because he humbled himself before GOD in fasting and prayer he was so called But Turk and Pope will have the holynes of Apollo past repentance CHAP. X. Now commeth a most lively description of Christ opening himself from Esa 19. and 54. and Genes 9. and Apoc. 4. Daniel 10. and Exod. 14. and Dan. 12. and Es 31. and Iob for the thunder of his power which is past vnderstanding and shall not be perceived of the Pope till the next trumpetter or common place teacher soundeth and endeth the world Now the Angel biddeth Iohn take from Christ the litle book of the Gospell and to eat it which was sweet in his mouth in preaching but bitter in affliction and to the enemy also as Ezekiels book CHAP. XI Iohn sheweth that the Church shall be built as Ierusalem freed from Babel vnder Zorobabel and Iesus when Zachary seeth an Angel with a reed meating the length breadth So Iohn hath a reed to meat the tēple and altar that is from the litle book to shew the breadth and length and depth and height of the love of God in Christ Christ himself is the temple Therefore to check Thalmudiques which to this day look for a third temple as sheweth Rambam whom vpon Koheleth Salomon the oratour I have cited and translated to check them he sheweth court of sacrificing is geven to the heathen and Ezekiels goodly citie is a city of affliction as Christ was afflicted 42. monethes Zacharies olive trees Zorobabel with Israel and IESVS with Levi and candelstick of Gods fauour Churches Chapter 1. revived Here is a new Elias a new Moyses to call fyer from heaven and to stay all dew of grace and successe and to turne their waters of armies into blood to plague their enemies with all kind of plague The experience followeth The combat of the King of Locusts with the Martyrs When the Martyrs begin to revive the Gospell the city which is called for spiritual vncleannes of religion spiritually Sodoma for cruelty against Israel Aegypt setteth fourth the King of Locustes who commeth with his Locustes winges of chariots and warre horses and fighteth in all nations with these two captaynes of Martyrs and killeth them and their case is playne how they are murthered as if a Crowners quest went vpon the policy that crucified Christ after his preaching 42. moneths or dayes 1260. or yeares three and an half Now as Beda and Carthusianus well note in three yeares and an half all time of preaching Christ in memorie of his preaching so long so the time of their noted death while their ashes may be seen and they are not put in grave is in a proportion called three dayes and an half Now that all may know that two yeare is not proper twise one but as all the returned from Chaldea Babylon be two Zach. Ch. 4. and 5. So the witnesses of truth that leave spirituall Babel all are in that sense called two and the citie which killeth them in peoples tribes tongues and nations is not a building of houses but a building of policie So the two be not two men but two companies and the dwellers in earth would not reioyce and send giftes one to another as Iewes against Haman in Ester for two but for the companies of two sorts rare wightes full of eyes 24. Bishops and the troupes that give glorie to God and the Lambe and pray onely to the Lambe the great God and Saviour these in all nations where the king of Locustes tyranny reacheth are the two Prophets who vexe them whose mindes dwell on earth and cannot see the heavenly policy of Christ In that sense after three dayes an half spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood vp and feare fel vpon their enemies and they heard a great voice from heavē saying vnto them come vp hither and they ascēded vnto heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw it Iohns vision went vpon two and vpon one city one beast But Romes policy the king of pit keyes with his Locustes and the states that write and fight against them must be meant of whom when one is dead an other is alive iump in the same veine as though it were the same man and their enemies see they goe vp to heaven and the beast which is ascended out of Abyssos that is all his corporatiō millions of millions these visions represent corporations and vnder one millions of men be told all Papistes goe from their Abyssos of black ignorance vnto Abyssos Luke 8. and Zohar vpon Genes 1. 2. whither the Divels shall come in their time but are yet in this world to be tormented for ever and ever After this teaching and fighting a great earthquake shaketh a tenth part of the king of Locusts city which crucified Christ and prayeth to the virgin Mary to commaund her sonne the Eternall God by the right of a mother as though she were mother to the godhead because shee was mother to the Person one of two natures And they are very wise who thinke the mother of God in schoole phrase can finde no better speculation in heaven then to listen to the Citie that crucified the Lord of glory Iscariot the traitour confessed his fault yet Christ gave him over to hang him selfe Rome that kild Christ after justifying him sinning so against the holy Ghost and sinning more then if they had kild all the men in the world yet is worse then Iscariot and wil not cōfesse sin but clayme right to rule the world because once they durst crucifie the maker of the world and pray to the Virgin Marie to forgive the Popes holynes the Vicar of Pilate In Elias 7000. bowed not the knee to Baal and live In this Citie 7000. that bow the knee to Baal dye are kild in vision 7000. in storie seaventie millions of thousandes with this 120. yeares of the Gospell revived And full many give glory to God and leave the virgin Mary alone to be happy as other faithfull Bathshebagh Ruth Thamar and Sarah al her mothers and who more in sin yet stayed vpō her sonne who was then in their loynes Thus the second woe is past The Popes fall the seaventh trumpet of common place Since Kingdomes match the Pope in strength and have brought him that he dare not queck but be content to hold his owne An open voice is in kingdomes that whereas the Pope hath been once cast out and now God reigneth wee looke for no chaunge till the resurrection at 6000. by old guesse Hence at 463. For our Lord was borne at 3927. adde 1610. then now Adams soule and dust hath 55 37. at 463. the gesse will shew it self At 3000. the Arke was brought into Salomons Temple at 4000. exactly the Romanes destroyed Zerobabels temple And as the Pope falleth by steppes as he
of boyles that dayly some losse he hath as he brought warres to be hayle and fyer mixed with blood He became a mountain of fyre cast into the sea to make the third part of it bloud so his nations be made all known dead in sin and in seas of war fall from him The starre wormwood fell into the rivers fountaines of Scriptures made them bitter His rivers fountaines of forces are turned to drink blood He obscured the sun of justice the sun of persecution parcheth his He got lands for Monasteries that the Locusts might make him their King But now the throne of the beast is darkened by contempt and pillage of Land In the old time Virgil complayned of Romes distresse that Hinc movet Euphrates illinc Germania bellum and at Euphrates Ch. 9. Angels were tyed but to be loosed by starts now the river is dry that Turks and Saracens come even to Germanie and Germanie also looketh to freedome that now the king of Canaan the servant of servantes the false prophet sending from his mouth three that is many vncleane spirits to cause kings to war hath no better successe then Iabin by Sisera at Mageddon and here a faire warning is given to watch and integritie The ayre was darkned and earthquake shooke the citie that the tenth part of the citie fell and Gods wrath ended all So here a great earthquake and hayle greater then Iosuahs falleth vpon the enemy who can not repent but holdeth on to destruction Thus men Gods messengers shall give the Pope measure for measure that he can not repent but blasphemie not knowing how far Patmos passeth Rome CHAP. XVII As Daniel at the last openeth his Visions in proper speaches so here vision and proprietie come togeather though some knots be knit that the wise may vnderstand and no wicked take the paynes to search One of the seaven Angels calleth Rome an harlot sitting vpon manie waters that is people and troupes and nations and tongues as Daniel 3. speaketh with which the Kings of the earth committed spirituall fornication by accepting that filthy Idolatrie as dronck with the wine of her Idolatry This Angel doth in vision that which a Doctor would in reading And he carieth Iohn into a wildernes in vision as men are best to judge when the noyse of city troubleth not Now he hath another vision for the Empire revived a beast with heades and hornes as the former the old Empire and purple colour as more in persecution and full of names of blasphemie as accepting the Popes Canons and Masse and Ceremonies and a woman sitteth vpon this beast clothed in purple and scarlat as drunk with the blood of the Saincts and golden in Gold as old Babylon Esa 14. and brave in pearles and precious stones as be the Popes in their Copes and their Arch-Bishops and Cardinals in cloth of Gold and Aharons stones mocking with God in apish imitation as they mock with the keyes that God gave his Apostles which Saint Paul had as the best if any could be better then other and Iohn specially authour of Gospell and Epistles and Apocalyps That Ruben might as well be chief Patriark as Peter chief Apostle And this woman had in her hand a golden cup as old Babylon full of her lothsome filthy fornication though Rome set soorth in gold and silver their crucifix and Virgin Marie and Saincts And in the forehead a mysterie Babylon the great the mother of the fornications and lothsomenes of the earth Here we see plainnes that none should think that Babylon meant whence S. Peter wrote Rome is Babylon in a mysterie and trope S. Peter was to speak properly as all men when they tell whence they write But visions are in borrowed speaches Now this is sure and plaine The woman is the city which hath kingdome over Kinges of the earth Now of the beast his body this is told that the beast is is not and is In Caesars it was in Rome Dead by Constantinus house and not being and againe revived by the Popes The seaven heads are seaven hilles whereupon Rome was built famous for that and also seaven Kings whereof five ruled Iudah before our Lord came in the flesh Pompey Crassus Iulius Antony Brutus with Cassius Iohn and all Iewes knew that well Then commeth the whole Empire the old a sixt head then present afterwards the Empire to be revived the seventh and by the Pope the eight King as he ruleth the Empire Now the ten hornes are Kingdomes as they serve the revived beast not yet so set vp but in the Popes time it shal be Now these shall with one mind give their power to the Pope and persecute But Christ and his Martyrs will overcome as in Chap. 7. and 10. and 11. and 12. and 14. and 15 and 16. And when Martyrs teach the truth countreyes will revolt from Rome and make it desolate that the empire shall not be prophane nor favouring Rome but as in new Rome before the Turk ruled CHAP. XVIII An Angel that lighteneth all the earth by his glory proclaymeth that Rome is fallen knowen to be a dwelling of vncleane spirits in all places of the policy and the holy are commaunded to come out of all that policy Their Canons and Prayers and apparrel are al bent to a blind drift and not fittest to have bene vsed in our tongue The whole frame is out of order The Lords prayer is maymed from their Latin Mat. 6. leaving out a most noble sentence Their Creede is foolishly translated that 20. severall opinions are made of a most cleare phrase of 3000. yeres vse of going to God their letany is dangerous in phrase praying to te Persons severally and is applyed vnto their doctrine of doubting of justification and in Battologie is hatefull to God and in trifling arguments for sainctes dayes and hath lies for the place of Eves creation and Archangels our Lords comming into the world at midwinter Wee should come out of all these follies if our myndes put on white and clean linen and wee tye golden girdles about our brestes Specially the Divelish fable of Toby is vntolerable to be still kept Bishops vnder Q. E. gave leave in allowance of these things to adde in subscription this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things may be suffred Romes fall is told from Babels Tyrus and Ierusalems Ierem. 51. Esa 21. and 47. and Esa 23. and Ezekiell 27. and Ier. 7. to shew from stories past the certainty of all this And these reasons are rendred that the Roman policy killing men for the Prophets is guilty of their blood as the Scribes for Abels Math. 23. that the Kinges who should be Bishops next God trafiqued with Pope for his confirmation by the witchcraft of Papistry CHAP. XIX When people can sing Haleluja that is praise onely God in whom we breath who drenched Pharoh when Iah stopped his breth Exo. 15. there Iah is first vsed when foure times Aleluja is vttered from all sorts
thirstie I will giue of the fountaine of the water of life freely Heere all excuse is cut off from the wicked that they are called to the waters of life but refuse Rome begging landes thirsted not to haue the waters of the Lawe to refresh the soule but made them bitter Therefore their condemnation is iust And for these waters be our fightes from Tiberius to this day since Ierusalem came from heauen He that ouercommeth shall possesse all thinges and I wil be his God and he shall bee my sonne Heere is a valiant combat The waters of life of the Hebrew and Greeke Testament are drawen from a deepe well many fadom of yeeres deepe and policies still will haue will haue their owne deuices and bestow death on such as offer men life Heere the faithfull vnto death shall haue a kingdome as the Sonnes of God But the cowards and the faithlesse and the lothsome and murtherers and fornicators and witches and Idolaters and all the false shall haue their portion in the lake burning with fire and brimstone They who take not vp their crosse and felow Christ are not worthie of him they who belieue not the Gospell are not worthie of him certaine beasts foules fish forbid to Iewes to distinguish them in diet from heathen are called vncleane or lothsome so be all without the Gospell in their high learning as Socrates Plato Cicero Varro Plutarch and the ciuilest Murtherers of the Martyrs specially wherein the Spanish Inquisition is the deepest Fornicators in Rome Venice and all Italy haue open freedome and of old Horace age and all epicures still as Turkes wallow in that and therfore S. Peter to the Iewes of Arabia giueth sharp warning against that and witches in all common Weales are hated and the subtilest witchcraft is that of the Popes TRANS-SVB-STAN-TIA-TION a monstrous terme for a monstrous matter besides all other their coniurations Of Idolaters Idolaters be the Papists the grossest that euer were and where Christ had infinite griefe to bee seene on the Crosse though in glory he darkened the Sun and shooke the earth and rent the stones yet Papists think that gold as in Nebuchadnezar his Image Daniel chap. 2. or siluer or Alablaster or stone or wood is a goodly worship Christ in whom is hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge could haue commanded that if he had liked of it and we should not be better learned then Alpha and Omega The Popes brabarous Answere An Idol is heathenish and vnlawfull an Image is lawfull as no man saith the Idole of God but may say the Image of God Answere Neither Attique Greek translated by Tulli nor 70. Greek nor the Apostles Greeke nor any Talmudique will suffer this distinction therefore it is for Witches not for Doctores 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Aratus is Corâ—i Imago 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Plato is forma species in Tulli offi 1. Idolum Dei is in Apian Imago simulachrum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chal. Imago figura corporea vel incorporea Targ. idem and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is in Num. 33. 52. and the same is in Gen. 1. 26. 2 Kin. 11. 18. 2 Chron. 23. 17. Dan. 3. 2. Isai 40. be all vnlawfull They who would haue People to adventure their aeernall state vpon such quirks against all teachers of speach are pestilent witches and most impudent teachers He that cannot remember Christ by all thinges made ours for Christ is no Christian The starres serue Man for CHRIST the Ayer Lande Sea Plantes Beastes Foule Fish and what neede wee an Image which can represent but a base man in base sort No Iewe for Ebrewe no Attique for Greeke will cleare the Pope therefore he is Popes and teacheth doctrine of Deuils and Rome is a meere Babel confusion to holy speach And all liars haue their portion in the lake all who misse of Gods trueth are liars and perish The Thalmudiques who agreed with Paul for all iustice of the Law Rom. 10. yet missing of Christ lost all Now the Papistes be most impudent in lying as when they teach to vse Latin for Hebrew in the Law and for the Greeke in the Gospell their lies be of infinite number in their Purgatorie and where Haides hath but heauen and hell in the bread and wine against eisight the witnesses of God and their whole policie is a lie therefore chap. 19. the beast and false prophet was cast into the fire The second death The phrase second death is a Talmudique vsed in Onkelos vpon Deut. 33. and Ionathan vpon Isai 22. and in Zohar and later infinitelie And no soule goeth to it but perisheth for euer Of this I wrote vpon great occasion in an Epistle to Doct. Whitg to which he gaue great testimonie though one vnlearned brent the Copies after his death which flame may bring him and is very like to the fiery water Dan. 7. and heere And there came to mee one of the seauen Angells which had the seauen Cuppes full of the seauen last plagues and hee spake with me saying Come I will shew thee the Bride of the Lambe The same art it is to plague Rome and to build Ierusalem and in vision an Angell doeth this visibly learned trueth wherein Iohn him selfe is the principal Angell The Church hath heere a goodly name warning to be carefull of a wise holy soule the Bride of the Lambe All the song of songs goeth vpon this and the end of Isai Such Concent of Scripture Bellarmine and all that Brackmunim that would not haue all to know may looke for fire and brimstone to bee their portion All be bound to praise God and to doe that skilfully And his word teacheth that the Pope and each such is a Buy-shop from Satan not a Bishop from God which would not haue the word of God to dwell richly in vs. And he caried mee in the spirit into a mountayne great and high and he shewed me the Citie the great the holy Ierusalem descending from heauen from God and hauing the glorie of God This expresseth that which Ezekiel wrote of old concerning the building of the Church vnder Christ The Iewes to this day looke for a building in Chanaan Against that Saint Peter giueth this rule That euery Prophecie of Scripture is not to bee expounded properly because the holy men of God spake as they were caried by the spirit of God This place strengthneth Saint Peter and so expoundeth Ezekiel that all Iewes â—ight see Christ spake by the fisher of Galilee the deare to Christ Ezekiel was brought to an high mountaine so Iohn and our Lord Math. 17. when he would shew his glory tooke Peter Iames and Iohn and caried them into an high mountaine alone Visions must agree with spirituall matter Buildings of Princes be vpon mountaines stately to behold and hard to be come to by enimies to vex And wicked Rome braggeth twise in Virgill Septem quae vna sibi muro circumdedit arces This Rome
of Constantinus and he removeth the Empire to Byzantium calleth it new Rome and indueth it with the privilegies of old Rome Our West brought him to the East and one of our Helena despiseth old Rome buildeth new Rome near Troy where the wicked Helena wrought destruction to the house of Assaracus that after 300. yeares old Rome should begin by blood and spoyling And this may be noted that Q. Elisabets agent did that in Constantinople that none of other nations could That the Turkes Princes and Iewes there desired to have from England the Gospell preached there in Greek and Hebrew and the Kings royall mynd is to be commended for his bent to allowance that way L. Barton wrote that if N. could be gotten thither it were like to turne to the common good of Christendome So God offered our nation againe glory in the stateliest soyle But Satan hindreth by his servants that can turne themselves into Angels of light God will look to it One libeller would perswade that the Iewes letter comming in severall copies and translated there and thence sent to Basil and printed there was forged there A strange dealing a strange impudency None learned would think that all Christendome setting their wittes together could forge such a letter The slaunderer could not read one line of it And what a barbarous vnthankfull wight is the Libeller of these words Because your armes are the owles you think you must bring owles to Athens and because the Iew saluteth you as you feigne you think you are the onely Rabbin of the world If the base borne wight had bene of Constantinus kindred he had bene of an other spirit but now he could not consider the height of that cause The like vnto him is he that sayd these words The knight which said the King would give 500. lib. annuitie did but flatter and I will stay the King that he shall give no allowance to Iewes matters All the Oratours that ever were can not sufficientlie expresse the deadly hatred that these men have to the truth of God There is no other way to make Christians readie in the Bible but by handling the Gospell by Thalmudiques to whose tenour of studie all the new Testaments stile is bent The best learned Iesuits at Francfurt in the hearing of a gentleman of England hartily requested this done saying that by me they ready to cleare the new Testament could soone turne the Indians The Iewes over Germanie hartely desire this Princes made great promises but the old serpent wil be hindring whom the great Angel can tye in chaynes that he deceive not and deale with his factours as they wil be boūd with chaynes of darknes To which matter I require the cuppes of the foure wights and 24. Bishops full of incense to be powred before the Lambe that Iannes and Iambres may receive according to their workes that no more regard whence the sixt seale brought on a new world nor how the fallen must be lifted vp CHAP. VII Three hundred yeares were passed ere that men were sufficient in number to have kingdomes of Christianitie Then Schollers began to remit zeale and Hebrew studie which had soone overthrowen Arians shewing GOD to bee our Creatour Eccles 12. and Christ Iehova our righteousnes Yea the Apocalyps had most tamed Arians and Iewes and had been clear at the first by Thalmudique veine of studie By 300. moe Byshops pride and sloth made but a gaine and ambition of the Gospell Antioch would have chief Patriarkship following Antiochus old pride Alexandria would as Alexāder would be a God Old Rome would as it crucified Christ New Rome would for the Empires seat None considered that the Scholers of Patmos should be the sealed martyrs whē neither North-wind rose nor South-winde blasted in the garden that the spices might flow the beloved come into the Garden and eat of his precious fruites Cant. 4. But foure Angels held the foure windes God favoured Antioch that where sinne abounded mercy might more abound That men should not therefore be high minded but feare in the ende Hagarenes take it Cush or Abushini in Keturahs house had Abrahams familie and long held well but in the end held but the Gospel and few Epistles and the Psalmes for all the Bible That which Colen Rome hath printed Moscovia from Constantinople held litle sound Rome was the cause of falling to all still weakening the East Empire that should have holp the rest So God telleth that a generall fall shall come that not the open be the true but the hid bee the servantes of God such as God sealed As in Ieremies dayes in Ierusalem the ill figs the troupes of Ierusalem were a Synagogue of Sathan when all the Levites condemned him to dy and God in Ezekiel sealeth all his whom Israel condemned So here an apostasie is told which groweth vp 300. yeares by many wicked steps And then commeth to the Popes supremacy and soon maketh the open Church a Synagogue of Satan That onely men vnknowen few to mens sight but many to Gods ey that seeth all be the Church Here the Papists might have their answer when they aske where our Church was The tribes all have ech one twelve thowsand Though Dan is not named he is vnderstood But when Iosephs two sonnes and Levi be reckoned one is left out as Symeon Deu. 33. So Dan here They be shallow who hence gesse that Antichrist commeth of Dan. S. Paul taught Chrysostome 2. Thes 2. that he should come from Rome The latter halfe of the Chapter sweetly expresseth the poinctes wherevpon all standeth that salvation is from God and the Lambe All more in religion is from the serpent All honor to Mary Saincts Also Martyrs and their comfort is sweetly expressed This matter in time followeth the eight and ninth CHAP. VIII Out of the seventh seal come matters more to bee sounded thē six afore had The Church had peace a small while but angels seven are prepared to sound wrath arising Christ the Mediatour is ready to receyve prayer he is contemned by Rome dallying with his mediation Therefore hee powreth voyces thundrings lightnings and earthquake Angels here tell it Men in playn work The first common place Warre Hayle and fire mixt with blood sheweth vexation with warre ever since Constantines house fell the Popes bestird them to stirre warres to overthrow the East Empire and to set the West by the eares The second common place The Popes supremacy The arising to be a great mountayne became a mountayne of fyre when he cast himselfe into the sea of nations That a third part of men became dead in sin in profane trafique of life The third common place Corruption of Scripture wrested to his policie A great star burning as a torch fell from heaven and fell into the rivers and fountaynes of waters the name of the star is wormwood c. Angelus ecclesiae the Doctor is a star Ch. 1. heaven is the Church burning
as a Citie brent from heauen for many plagues by Egypt for good note a broad Citie as Romes policie was broad and large And for a most sure note the Citie policie and authoritie large in which the Lord was crucified This name striketh the naile vpon the head Of the Citie which crucified the LORD Thalmud Ierusalemy noteth in Sanedrin and Maymonie that fouretie yeares before the destruction of Ierusalem causes of life and death were taken away from Israell so they teach that Christ was not crucified in the policie of Ierusalem but vnder Pontius Pilate in the Roman policie as the foure Evangelistes record carefullie When the Sanedrin concluded to kill Christ they brought him to Pilate he cleared him yet whipped him and deliuered him to bee crucified And the Romā soldiers shewed all wickednesse 1. They brought him into the Common hall 2. They gathered the whole band against him 3. They put off his owne apparell put in mockage a scarlat robe vppon him 4. They platted a crowne of thornes and laid it vpon his head 5. They kneeled in mockage and said All haile King of the Iewes and spate vpon him with a reed they stroke him on the head and when they had ended mocking of him they put off the robe and put his owne clothes on him and brought him to be crucified and pierced his handes and his feete and pierced his side with a speare and cast lotts for his coate These so great contempts from Romanes the vilest in the world against the Lord Eternall could neuer be put vp But that Rome should bee the miserie in tyrannie while the world stoode Pilate kill'd him selfe and the Emperours for 300. yeres were miserable And Rome by many spoiled and since Popes supremacie a new Egypt Now as the Iewes who betrayed Christ are slaues ouer the earth so Rome that went further was to bee revealed to haue all curses the old serpents poyson chap. 12. Cains murder of Abel chap. 13. a Deluge chap. 12. Biting of tongues chap. 16. consumption as the cursed brent Cities cha 11. Egypts miserie told aboue Iosuahs haile cha 16. Siseraes fall at Mageddon chap. 16. Iezabels miserie from Elias chap. 11. Daniels beasts miserie chap. 13. and the Romans miserie by Pompei and Iulius Psal 97. handled in Appian fullie and as the Pope knew more then the Caesares so his sinnes were more strong against the holy Ghost and he should be openly Man of sinne to all sage in this world The foure Euāgelistes might teach the simplest this much That seeing Rome grieued Christ as he complayned Isai 49. Psal 22. and felt too most high griefe Rome should bee Sathans throne while this world stood and all reliques of theirs a curse And people tribes tongues and nations shall see their Carcases three dayes and a halfe So this Citie must meane a very large Common Weale and Kingdome and the two in generall may be full many thousandes in particular And as all the time of persequution of the liuing is three yeares and a halfe the bodie is heere three dayes and a halfe And they shall not suffer their carcases to be put in graue This plainely sheweth the burning of Martyrs whose bones and ashes may be seene three dayes and a half and are not put in graue So good Bucers bones in this honor were taken out of the graue not to rot there but with pure fire to haue consumption as Elias in his fierie chariot had his body consumed and our Father Henoch that in his life matched the dayes of the sunne 365. was without paine dissolued when God tooke his soule to heauen and Moses had not mans buriall God prouiding somewhat better for the ancient that they with out vs were more perfect and for rare honor to their persons though by the doctrine of the Gospell aboue the Law we haue the perfecter but no whit to soules ioy But as they with smaller helpes passed vs farre in following God so their minde heere was infinitely fuller of graces then ours though the ioy of aeternall life is aequall to all In not suffering the best men in the world to be buried the Citie that crucified Christ is openly the throne of Satan And they that dwell on the earth shall reioyce ouer them and be glad and send giftes one to another because these two prophetes tormented the dwellers vpon the earth The dwellers on the earth are the Locustes their friends earthly minded and feared the companies of sound Christians because they taught Princes to hate the Popes religion and Pride and Wealth Monasteries The Hypocrites immitated the Iewes who vpon the death of Amalekites kept in open Townes the xiiij of Adar with ioy and banquet and wake day and sending of giftes one to another These two Doctores of Diuinitie Prophet is heere in that sense were such a torment to the Papistes as the first martyrs to the prophane Caesares who taught that they were not Diui and had no religion but from vncleane spirites And after three dayes and an halfe spirite of life from God entred into them and they stood vpon their feete and great feare fell vpon them that beheld them In his Vision of the Lordes day he hath by light and darknesse three dayes an halfe resembled vnto him for viewing of the martyrs from the eye-sight to the minde thus we must turne it When men behold the bones and ashes of the martyrs they hold them not dead but passed from death to life because they died for honor to Gods plaine religion teaching to honor GOD onely and to receyue aeternall life onely by his mercie in CHRIST the onely Rocke and to pray onely to GOD and to haue a sure faith in him and to lothe all proceeding that is not agreeable to Gods holy worde and that it hath a plaine and sure meaning The old Martyrs for these groundes were in honor with the Pope these two armies of Doctores died in the same cause therefore their enimies heartes must needes confesse that they are gone to heauen euen as if they had heard them called vp and seene to ascend as followeth And they heard a loud voice from heauen saying vnto them Come vp hither and they went vp to heauen and their enimies saw them As the case of Elias was to the body so the Martyrs is to the soule expressed bodily in this vision Of all soules passage at death It is appointed for all men once to die and then cōmeth iudgement Eb. 9. so all soules must when they leaue the bodie returne to God that gaue them to iudgement for euery hid thing good or euill Ecc. 12. 2. Cor. 5. so all ascend Ecc. 3. And onely the soules of the beast descend The commune place is called in Greeke Haides and the happie part of it is heauen to Abraham Eb. xi Luc. 18. And a place of burning torment to the wicked The faithfull went hence to Gods eternall tabernacle Leuit. 26. 2. Cor.
locusts if they might haue good maintenance to hold vp better truth and liberall artes that serue trueths honor Of the third woe and last Trumpet The second woe is past behold the third woe commeth And the seuenth Angell sounded the Trumpet and there were great voices in the heauen saying the Kingdomes of the world are now of our God and his Christ And he shall reigne for euer and euer Where the kingdome of the beast Abyssigena bred from the Pit is gone all the Church proclame that CHRIST will haue no more alterations vntill he shew heauen to all his So the speach passeth to the worlds end The Prophets communely passe ouer matters of cōmon state as needlesse to be handled specially and stepp from one thing of plague presently to Messiahs kingdome as notably in Hosea after mention of Israels scattring the kingdom of Messias is ioyned So wen Esay had spoken of Babels fall after Sanecheribs then he steppeth thence to CHRIST his preaching By the voice of a crier in the wildernesse So Daniel telleth of his kingdomes their comming vp their vrging of Idolatrie their chastisement their ouerthrow omitting matters of ordinarie course where the present age would looke to it selfe So Apoca. 6. handleth the prophane Caesares and thence omitteth the Churches sliding away till it come to an absolute fall And then telleth of tyranny and after tyrannies end steppeth to the worldes end The third woe is the plague of the enimies by Kings of good religion continually vnto the end The summe of the Bible Great voices expresse the voice of whole nations and the Kingdome of God Christ the matter of all the Bible Adam had that theme to preach 930. yeares Sem the great by S. Paul and Gamalies likened to the eternal author of iustice peace figured this matter and confirmed Abraham in this 75. year reioyced in Elam troden downe by Abraham And all the large writings breathed by the holy Trinitie teach no other matter but this and punishments for contempt of this and nothing should be suffred in the Church but to this summe In the prayer which our Lord prescribed for a cōmon forme to the whole Congregation this conteyneth all Thy Kingdome come thy will be done on earth as it is in heauen So when Iohn Baptist opened the kingdome of Christ when the Leuiticall policie was to cease and all nations should serue God by Lawes writtē in the heart Rom. 2. Ier. 31. Then the kingdome of heauen is said to come when men humble themselues to receiue the iustice of Christ and to be clothed with the SVN The fulnesse of kingdome cōmeth when the holy soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 leaueth this world goeth to God and there reigneth for euer and seeth the Locusts pitt-bred in Haides torment fryed in fire for euer and euer The pitt-bred beasts had sunne and aire much darkened when they knew not whether mans soule ascendeth or descendeth and whither the holy goeth to heauen or to hell This saying Caterchesthaeis haidon is neither more nor lesse then to goe to God when the godly haue a light place of ioye and the godlesse a darke place of torment And this exposition cutteth off at the least fifteene bad opinions direct bad for this article by consequents fifteene score The Kingdome heere spoken off is termed Haides in the Creede and wee may not put Hell for Heauen nor descending for going to God Purgatorie falleth when Haides hath but two partes Heauen and Hell and with it all Poperie Satan entred into many vnthankefull Caytifes that could not suffer the holy soules going into the kingdome to be most eloquentlie spoken in the Greeke Creede if they descend not to Hell as our Lord did in the Creede they shall ascend vp and before Gods throne haue an hell for euer and euer And the 24. Elders which sate on their thrones before God fell vpon their faces and worshipped God saying Wee praise thee O Eternall who is and who was and who will bee that thou takest vpon thee thy great power and doest reigne As the Nations haue kept a stirre thine anger is come and the tyme of the dead to be iudged and to giue rewardes to thy seruants the Prophetes and to the holy and to such as feare thy name The Elders be the Gouernors of Gods people in all offices specially in sage vsage of Scripture on assembly dayes all learned in the scriptures and able to giue faithfull exhortatiō out of it and all borne in wealth are brought vp amisse that are not gronuded in yong yeares to read with delite in the holy Booke Albion seeth who hath opened that way and faithlesse Iewes cōfesse though Atheā pāches for enuy burst These haue thrones before God not Buyshops and Archbuyshops of Papists But chosen of the holy congregation to teach what God telleth but as Moses gaue no commandement of his owne head nor Christ in the flesh but as he taught in Moses so these speake all frō scripture few wordes by old playne warrant and yet in few lines shake of all poperie all errores In number they be 24. as knowing the XII tribes story how the tribe should not depart from Iudah till his childe came and how the XII Apostles gathered the XII tribes to make them the foundation of the heauenly Ierusalem These are not many but 24. yet a resonable good number Many nobles in Albion and others that liue by their owne reuenues studie the Bible with as good dexterity as any feed-men and know it better then some after 42000. Brabant Gilders charges againe 40000 crownes charges such be humble and know Iehouah who is who was who will bee still the same to rule all ages to one summe of saluation in Christ how in him GOD was manifested in the flesh and taken vp in glory and the saluation of all ages Enosh age the flood Babel Ieroboam felt the price of despising this life And after the great saluation begun by the Lord himselfe to be spoken and confirmed by his hearers with all guiftes of the spirit for contempt the world was soone giuen ouer to Arius Pope and Turke yet God sealed a few and at length placeth them in open kingdomes to be seene though stil the greater part in open policy careth but for this life as in Salomons dayes all were of great shew but soone after his death Ephraim turned all but Iuda to worship calues not God So great Constantinus holpe Christians but few of his men cared for God So heere Popes Idols murder of the saincts cause God to shake him to dust as he shoke the Macedonians after Antiochus Epiphanes persequution That the Iewes receiued their owne kingdome vnder the Maccabees and that meanes the psalmes 97. and 99. and others about them howe the power of Christ breaketh Idoll kingdomes that God should take the protection of all into his owne handes So heere Elders shewe Popes strength cast of that others be so
spirites which haue names in the Law And they only in heauenly Daniel called Son of man as admitted vnto Angells company so Ezekiel and only they two From Daniel chap. 8. and 9. Gabriel is brought to Luc. 1. For most rare vse The wise will vnderstand it but the wicked will neuer vnderstand Dan. 12. Michael is vsed thrise in Daniel twice chap. 10. and one chap. 12. Dan. 10. vers 13. Beholde MICHA-EL the principall or only of the chiefe Princes is come to aide me Daniel saw a glorious vision of Christ before which he fell as dead then an Angel in the forme of a man that is Gabriel speaketh how Christ shewed his assistance against Cambises inhibition of the Temples building and giueth him a notation Hee that is in the forme of God from Exod. 23. The Angell which hath the name of God in him The character or forme of Gods person Ebr. 1. 3. That doth MICAEL signifie In our Lords wordes Ioh. 10. from Dan. 12. The Father and I am one As I haue shewed vpon Dan. 12. In Dan. 10. vers last the matter is playner in these wordes there is none strong for you in these affaires but MICHA-EL YOVR PRINCE Daniel acknowledged no creature of spirites his PRINCE therefore Micha-el must bee the Son of GOD. So he is called chap. 12. in the same Angells speach Michael the great Prince that standeth vp for his people No created spirite dare chalenge a princehood ouer people so here in the exposition of praise MICHAEL is expounded Christ Of Tobies fable The Iewes as I haue written in Ierusalemi vpon Dan. 8. say their Fathers brought with them Angells names from Babilon Michael and Gabriel Then if Angells had no names before Tobie that bringeth Asmodaeus for a spirite must bee a late fable Neither Thalmud Ierusalemy nor Babilonian hath that name Only late Rabbines Yet the fable of Tobie cited by Clemens of Alexandria is elder then the compiled Talmudes But they are made from Writers all Elder then Tobies fable Thargum Eccl. is a late worke and eldest Iew for record of Asmodai the Prince of Diuells The Pharisees had Beelzebub Prince of Diuells And later Iewes made Prince of Diuells Ben Tzirgha sonne of Leprosie To disgrace our faith of the SON Prince among the holy Angells The wicked Rabbines feigne a Prince among wicked spirites But wee make no created Angell Prince the Eternall Sonne Creator of all is the only Angell Prince And hee is the Arch-angell that could not suffer Satan to speake bad speach of Moses the first King in Israel But Iehouah before Iehouah said The Eternall rebuke thee Satan The Iewes in Midras Rabba Deut. chap. 33. feigne pleading from Satan before God for Moses and in Abboth Rabbi Nathan S. Iude telling Rabbins that they would destroy the Nation by resisting rule bringeth their owne commentary how Michael the Archangel checked Satan for contempt of Moses King of Israel and giueth him the high checke from Zach. chap. 3. The Eternall rebuke thee Satan So the Eternall Sonne before the Father spake in Zacharie what in Iudes Rabbins in a like cause Michael the Arch-angell speaketh and Zohar Gen. col 46. saith Where Michael is head of the holy Angells there Gods maiestie is meant This hath Zohar And we should not fauor Arias more then our enemies would Tobies fable disturbing Scriptures glory where euen Rabbins speake for it should no more come among holy workes then a worke of Beelzebub Asmodaus or Ben Tzirgha being a leprous wicked worke from the principall mischiefe of the Diuel Of Michaels Angells All the true Christians are called Michaels Angells they fight by the two edged sword of Gods word which originally in the Ebrew and Greeke new Testament is pure in writ cleare in meaning and perfect to discusse all sage matters Caesares Diui were soone confuted because all knew their profanesse they were soone by all sides excluded from all mens regard for any hope of happy state But the great fight here is with the King of Locustes and his garrisons Satans Angells that they may be knowen not to be the People of God Here is a sore combate that of the two Prophets ch XI Of the wicked spirites names Dragon old Serpent Diuel Satan bee the names of the wicked spirites companie King Pharaoh Esa 27. is a Dragon as old Pharaoh who for all Moses Rod would bee but a Serpent So the king of Madai and Paras worshipped in Babel that for a moneth none should pray but vnto him is in the Apocrypha fable a Dragon worshipped in Babilon So the Roman Diui Caesares and the Pope shewing himself in the Temple of God as if he were God make a Dragon as the old enimie worketh in them Of old Serpent The old Rabbins as Zohar and Aben Ezra and many moo confesse that the Angells which fell spake in the old Serpent And that company is called the old Serpent or Tempter as Adam gaue the Serpent from his nature the name Tempter The Rabbins whom I haue cited in an Hebrew treatise of fitting Iubilees to the yeare of our Lordes death so terme the Tempter later Aben Ezra though late wicked Iewes turne all to fables of a naturall Serpent who may be musselled by their owne ancient Of Diuell Diabolos in Greeke is the commune name of any slanderer but applied by Iobs translater chap. 1. to the Ebrew Satan enimie where our enimie the false accuser goeth about like a roaring Lion seeking whom hee may deuour There Diabolos expresseth enimie by occasion taken from Satan slandering of Iob. Saint Pet. 1. 5. taketh both names The Zohar telleth vpon Gen. 3. howe the Diuell accuseth each one from his comming into the world all his life So by the Iewes hee accused Christ as an enemie to Caesar and made him pay for robbery Psal 69. though it was not robbery for him to say hee was the Sonne of GOD. Christ held it no robbery to bee eaquall to God but the Diuell the Slanderer made Caiphas vrge this as a deadly matter so the Christians were slandered to the Caesares as athean and the reformed now are haeretiques to Papistes some trapps we lay in their way wherby Gods iustice doth whipp vs by their tongues Of trapps laid by our selues Whereas Catelthein eis haidon in the godly is all one as to remoue hence to the father Geneua denying Christ a passe Catelthein eis haidon denieth in tongue that he went to the Father And so denieth all religion Likewise Lutherans by Vbiquity for the humanity of Christ wound all the doctrine of incarnation wherein the humanity is according to our kinde sin onely excepted Besides we grant to the Papists that text of both Testaments is corrupt and so wee weaken the auctority of scripture and make no end of checking the holy Greek Testam that the Iesuits binde not it but Ieromes Latin with Ebrew in octauo Also where the Apostles speake plainly to all learned Iewes wee expound them as if
they had coined Phrases to new vexation of our spirits and make the word seeme a nose of wax Thus we hinder our owne fight but some still hold the truth that the accusation cannot be generall The rest should be wise with them The Diuell and his Angels by MICAEL that standeth vp for his people who be his Angels are banished from the Church and knowen to be vnclean spirits A second and playner exposition of the Dragons warre And I heard a great voice saying in the heauen now is come the saluation and power and Kingdome of our GOD and the auctority of his CHRIST because the accusar of our brethren who accuseth them before GOD day and night is cast downe And they haue ouercome by the blood of the Lambe and by the word of his Testimony and despised their liues vnto death Therefore reioyce yee heauens and they who dwell in them wo be vnto them which dwell in the Land and the Sea because the Diuell is come to you hauing great wrath knowing that he hath but a litle while Where a company by Martyrdome shew that saluation commeth onely by the death of CHRIST and are constant in that Testimony then troupes that make the heauens kingdom heere protest they know how saluation cōmeth know Gods power that falleth the mighty state of the Pope and know wherein the Kingdome of God standeth And the auctority of Christ where the Pope had a Kingdome of Satan in his policy through all partes of all common weales euen from ruling Emperours to the poorest that had but a chimney to pay a Peter-peny The holy Testament playnelie shewing our Creatores And how the spirit of CHRIST flootereth vpon all the waters of both Testaments and cleared the holy story And cleareth our hearts to call vpon GOD with a good heart this sheweth in this plaine sum what the Kingdome of God and auctority of CHRIST is Gouernement standeth vpon plaine rules The wealthy that know CHRIST Kinges Dukes Earles Barons Knights will study to excell in Diuinity to be true Bishopps and Elders to eate vp the Booke of the Gospell and to see all miscariage sagely restreined being those that Saint Paul and the Talmudiques meant by Pastors And will see how by Church lands an infinite company may be made cunning in tongues and sense of both Testaments That the Angelos Ecclesiae and daylie Seniores may be so taught in Diuinity as men are in liberall artes to know the wholle facultie and the propre vse of euery holy booke And what concent all the scripture hath and where one error putteth all out of tune but may soone be remoued so a faithfull minde will often in a day runne ouer all the Bible and see all ages faithfull as trees planted by waters and all wicked as dust scattred by the winde And such will be true Bishopps as Cucullus non facit monachum so a courtiers fauor and title maketh not a Bishopp for saluation and power and kingdome of God and authority of Christ Buy-shopps mocke with GOD but all Mordecaies will vse them as Agagites and as leprous to the Church So when all Gouerners in state be learned Bishopps ioy will be in the Church that the Diuell must goe to Land or quiet state of the Pope or sea warres of Emperors bad to seeke whom he can deuour The learned dealers for the Church will finde for it meanes in persequution to be protected Yea and to make the Land or Papisticall state as King H. VIII did drie vp the riuers of the Popes persequution In the middle of Papistry he ouerthrew the Pope by Papistes Who were content to buy the Abbeies that fed Idolatrous Locusts could not for starke shame denie a common prayer booke made from the masse booke turned to English so so much was chosen from the masse booke to be in English as seemed not directly to fight with Gods trueth and subscription for allowance to that was no further meant but that the Papists could finde no fault with it Vnder K. E. 6. and Q. E. the best Bishopps allowed the communion booke no further and gaue others leaue to expresse that how they bare with it vntill fitt tyme of amendement Of the Dragons short tyme. This speach sheweth the tyme neere the seauenth trumpet for the worlds end by the Dragons tayle the Pope heere meant in his persecution that the Diuell is fierce knowing that he shall not be long the God of this world And the Pope feareth least his Kingdome shall soone fall And our Buyshopps that vrge his canons damned by our common Lawes are now in rumores that they incense some to begge all Buyshopps lands Leicester went farre to chaing 40000. lib. for rack rent but more harme is bred by Buyshopps tyranny now Bishopps vnder King Edw. haue beene such as none but of Satans spirite would deny them to bee lawfull Bishops And such as agreed well with Nobles Gentry and all The name troubleth none but the Barbarous They who hold the place without teaching the people the trueth and with tyranny breake the cōmon lawes of the realme which stand with reason that is the Law of God such should chainge their minde and obey the Gospell lest their short tyme be for Sarans seruice and for euer And when the Dragon saw that he was cast into the earth he persequuted the woman which brought forth the male child This common place toucheth all the Popes persequutions though it be vttered as at one tyme. The Pope had still ready cruell torment for all of his that descried wickednesse in his religion And to the woman were giuen two winges of an eagle to flee into the wildernesse into her owne place to bee nourished there a tyme and tymes and halue a tyme from the praesense of the Serpent The Pope driueth the Church into the Wildernesse as Pharaoh droue Israel Saul Dauid Antiochus the holy Iewes the Pharisees he Lord of glory for a tyme two tymes and halfe a tyme three yeeres and an halfe and as I shewed all tyme of persecution is called in remembrance of our Lordes a persecution of dayes 1260. as chap. XI or of a tyme two tymes and halfe a tyme As Beda and Carthusianus well noted In Exo. 19. God saith hee brought Israel from Egypt as with eagles winges so the persecutor heere is a newe Pharaoh and Rome is Egypt spiritually as in chap. XI And the Dragon Pharaoh is heere a new Dragon And the Pope which will bee worshipped for a God is as Darius Dan. 6. and in the fable vpon that as the Dragon which the Chaldeans worshipped The Phrase of the fable folowed a true storie Of the tyme of these persequutions And the Dragon did cast after the woman out of his mouth water like a riuer to make her riuer-caried But the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and dranke vp the riuer which the Dracon cast out of his mouth And the Dracon was angry with the
tymes to stirre all to spend their life in the word of life That euery thing heere might teach how God inviteth all to saluation And the very Geometrical forme of Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth Heb Vau Zain c. sheweth that when God gaue them their order he gaue them also the forme which wee haue now and the Ebrewe name is from the forme which we now haue and the Ebrew named Alphabet is followed in the Greeke Alphabet old in the dayes of Phisistratus when Aristarchus diuided Homers Iliad and Odyssea by Alpha Beta Gamma c. Now this was old before Ezra was borne and later then the Ebrew Alphabet that was later then the formes of Ebrew letters which wee now haue therefore Ezra inuented them not as Popes would persuade but they are as God gaue them in the Tables be 613. there whēce the Lawes 613. haue their order 248. bidding cōmandements telling what we should belieue or do 365. forbidding euil The Iewes say the bones in a man well anatomed be 248. which all should work what God cōmādeth That rule is only giuen for memory hath no further mystery the 365. call Henoch into mind that as a son walked with God had his yeeres as the dayes of the suns yeer and so shall they that walke with God as Messias psal 72. To these cōmandemēts all disputations are called all the N. T. The Law thou shalt make a King that commandement is for Messias chieflie handled in Maymonie Tom. 4. Nowe the Scribes knewe not that Messias was to bee God Therefore this Law IEHOVAH our God IEHOVAH is One. is vrged vpon the Pharises that Messias must not only be Dauids son but also his aeternall Lord from Psal 110. and so Mat. 1. sheweth a golden Candlesticke of 42. notes and Emanuell and chap. 2. MESSIAS the holy of all holinesse is sought for the K. of the Iewes And all the 613. Lawes are called into his life The N. Testa beeing so handled might bee laid in one view to make Princes admire it at the first when the yeares and promises of Christ and punishments for contempt and Oeconomie of states are laide in one light and children when they first read were taught to read his familie and the end of Salomons house and are taught the afflictiones of Sorobabilidae in Daniel seuen tymes ouer Thus an vnspeakeable loue of the Gospell would flame in Princes heartes when they should see euery thing that can bee disputed brought to this Law And the Law for the King that he must write a copie of Moses And once a yeere read it himselfe So states could neuer be deceiued millions might be skilfull in speaches of the holy Trinitie and in the storie of them from whose feede CHRIST was made after the flesh the blessed God in the Diuine spirite and so great God and Sauiour Moyses made three crownes one for the arke which kept the Law which for knowledge euery man should weare in heart and the oratores of the Congregations also in tongue to bring all the Bible to short speach as Matth. 1. Luc. 3. Act. 7. and the epistle to the Hebrewes doth to a readie minde The Table with shew-bread remembreth the King of care to feed all his xii tribes so Moses was King and still craving of God what the people wanted so Iosuah so Dauid so Daniel made rich by wisedome chap. 2. praeferred his zealous nobles hoater for Gods glory then the fier who kept their nation from further danger of Idolatrie And by Daniels wealth the returned aboue 49000. were inabled to restore their policie And God gaue Cyrus Croesus gold to bee abler to send the Iwes home to teach the houre of true happines by our Lordes death in Iubilie 28. such men weare the crowne no lesse learned then the sacrificer and these exalted the horne of Christ as much as hee that by the Crowne of the Altar of incense morning and euening brent perfume The third Crowne was on the Altar of incense touched now and honorable in zeale and skill of praying to God Zacharie father to Iohn Baptist not high sacrificer but of the eighth course of 24. had a Crowne of praise for his cariage in that office Nowe for these Crownes euery man should knowe the Arkes meaning the mercie seat the Cherubim and know who would beare this Law in a minde golden within and without But skill of speaking should be required only of the practised vnto ripe yeares not bearing of the Arke be laide vpon shoulders of Beastes To the maintenance of all by bread belonged gouernement for all offences That the court of all tribes vsed when heathen tooke away capitall causes then excommunication was all that could be done Otherwise hee that kept his Fathers wife had felt death at once Princes were neuer excommunicated Ierusal Sane The high sacrificer was whipped in all sortes iudged as any other man ibid. Leuies tribe was bound to be ready to answeare to all demandes for applying Ceremonies to their spirituall meaning But they were often worst as in condemnation of Ieremie and Elies Sonnes and Iehosuahs in Nehemiah and Zacharie and Malachie An application of the Popes calling to this It was death for any of Israel to meddle with Leuies propre dutie when his office is quite extinguished it is a most high contemt of God to reuiue it by imitation from mans braine so all the Popes Priesthood and Masse is cursed As Archisynagogus was chosen for the best learned so where many learned bee one to bee chiefe reason and practise allway suffred this but so that he should not ouerrule or doe any thing of his owne head Reuenues altered not the case which Lawes and reason require to bee spent for Christian good and not for purchase to idlenesse Numius Ecclesiae Sheliah Zibbur The Talmud terme is now the office of a Bishop or Elder and none can bee fitt that way without rare and chargeable education And neuer yet any Pope was so learned as with skill of the holy speaches to make a true narration for the strength of the Gospell They make their Cathedrals dennes of thieues when professing to teach saluation blinde leade the blinde into the ditch They who wrest S. Matt. 20. Marc. 10. Luc. 22. for condemning of Gouernours of nations deale most wickedly Our Lord. Prou. 8. that hee giueth Princes wisdome to gouerne and stories shew that heathen gouerned for this life and ciuill commoditie as well as euer anyother Neither any terme vsed of the three Euāgelists meaneth tyranny but as in the 70 answereth to ordinary Ebrew And Zebedes sonnes Mother requested not place of tyranny but of ciuill auctoritie as for to be great in Iuda And our Lord would neuer answere beside the Qu. Their barbarous blindnesse is vnspeakeable who wrest holy wordes to maintaine Buyshopps sauage and more then hagarene tyranny and how can such escape the fier of Gehenna A doubt for the manner of policie now
the gates of death shall not praeuaile against Rome where the speach meant that terror of Romes persecution should not stay the building vpon Christ the Rock Buy-shopps should be knowen how wickedly the merchants become wealthy blinde leaders of the blinde vnto eternall destruction Vncleane spirits and hatefull birdes if Esay 13. 14. 21. 23. 47. and Ier. 51. Ezek. 27. and againe Ier. 7. should bee read comparing old traffique with the Popes ritches and ruyne this chapter would haue great light which of it selfe needeth not further exposition For the next cha telleth how Rome falleth by the ioy of the godly which in order of tyme handleth matter whence the ruyne of Rome cōmeth The terme witchcraft bestowed vpon the Popes doctrine is to be noted They who say bread after wordes spoken is no longer bread would haue men bewitched and so for the wine Sense is a diuine testimony and if two men should witnesse that others did worshippe bread or wine no hypocrisie should saue them Christ gaue the Law in Moyses and will not the tokens to bee worshipped that must be kept for God onely Where Rome killed men for the Prophets doctrine and holy Apostles they are as gilty as if they had killed them and all holy in the same faith All the holy spake of Christ and Rome by Pilate killing him was worthy to haue for Popes neither forgiuenesse in this world nor in the world to come but heere to be openly cursed as Iscariot and in the world to come eternall flames This kind of speach troubled great Doctors I wil therefore digresse a litle to this phrase Maymoni in treatise of repentance saith there is a sin whereof sentence passeth that he shall be punished in the world to come no harme passeth ouer him in this world and there is a sin which is punished in this world and in the world to come as be the Iewes that betrayed Christ the Romans that crucified him The Iewes are plagued with blindenesse and slauery and Rome with horrible Idolatries and tyrannies and warres and blood CHAPTER XVIIII I say Ieremy and Ezekiell compared with this ch bring great light And after this I heard a great voice of much people in heauen saying Allelu-iah saluation and glorie and honor and power belongeth to the Lord our God for his iudgements are right and iust because hee hath iudged the great whoore which corrupted the earth by her fornication and reuenged the blood of his seruants out of her hand And againe they said Allelu-iah And her smoke ascended for euer and euer c. WHEN the Angell filled the earth with his glorie then much people prayseth GOD for reuenge against Rome and the 24. Bishopps sage learned and the speciall rare the foure wightes full of eyes and tell of the Lambs supper and his mariage with the Church which matter Psalm 45. and Cantic directly handleth and all the scripture runneth vpon that Now for the terme Hallelu-iah It is vsed first in Psalm 104. where the verse afore wisheth the wicked to bee destroyed out of the earth And the old Hebrewes turne that speach of the Psalm to haue beene the preaching in the dayes of Noë when the flood came and Midras Tillin noteth that Allelu-iah was neuer vsed till Psal 104. after prayer that the wicked should be taken away out of the earth The auctoritie of the book is litle but the peise of the argument is much So in the New Test Aleluiah is neuer vsed till speach commeth of the Popes destruction The sinfull to haue Pyrrha the wife of Deucalion The fable which made Noë Deucalion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conteined a fable which Ouid hath Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur affore tempus Quo mare quo tellus immensaque regia coeli Ardeat mundi moles operosa labores That is Iupiter bethought him how tyme should come When Sea and Land and great Heauens pallace Should burne the worlds workemanship decay As once the world perished by water so it should by fire Sem and Iaphet taught that in sadnesse But their sonnes turned it into a fable yet S. Pet. 2 Epi. 3. restoreth the matter vnto old trueth And as the Midras turneth in fable Halelu-iah to be vsed at holy preaching in Zohar vpon Gen. 6. by the argument and first Psal 104. vpon the destruction of the wicked so heere first vpon the destruction of the man of sinne the word is vsed And that foure tymes Of the Hebrew terme God only wise contriued the world vnto Macedonian victories and reigne of 300. yea from West vnto all partes that Greeke was made common ouer all the world by the tyme that the Apostles were to write the Gospell that in the Greeke tongue and only in the Greeke tongue they might write it for all nations Yet God would haue the tongue which Adam spake and Heber kept and that in which the Law was penned to be still studied Therefore the N. Test hath many yea full many wordes that require Ebers helpe and in expressed letters about 50. And whereas Esai 19. telleth that in Egypt they shall speake the tongue of Chanaan he meaneth that with the Gospell they shall haue the Hebrew tongue and Origens Octaplun eightfold worke in Epiphanius Ancorato had Hebrew in Hebrew letters and the same spelled in Greeke and six Greeke translations so here the studie of the Hebrew Prophetes to open the Gospell doth fell the Pope and the Pope is closely touched by the word Allelu-iah Praise God in whom wee breath and not Idoles which haue no breath in their nostrills Of the best way to ouerthrow the Pope The Turkes Princes moued Q. Elizabeths agent L. Barton of godly memory to the known way by common witt to open the trueth in causing a Rabbin to demand a proofe of the New Test by Ebrewes The Apostles proued all by Ebrews so should all expounders of them And the Pope vnable therin falleth and all his Cardinales and Archbuyshops And our King tooke once a noble course that way the hinderer shall abide iudgement and that a most heauy shall not haue his shame forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come An Ebrew explication of the N. Test by sayings granted of Iewes would moue Iewes Gētiles to hold one truth My Hebrew explicatiō of Nathans house Mat. 1. Luc. 3. from Dan. 7. fold shield and the Hebrew chayning of the Chronicle hath moued Salem and Rome though Nazaret would bring the auctor to the top of a Rock This matter is worthie of record that Gods vengeance may bee marked while the world standeth how he will deale with so gratefull babes But now let vs abridge the text People Bishops rare godly praise God for calling to the Mariage that the Church is married to Christ and clothed in white iustice and Christ warreth to ouerthrow Rome Amen Aleluiah And a voice came from the throne saying
no studie so good as this nor so much desired of all sortes Hee knew neither the Low nor High Ierusalem that would threaten to hinder this studie and is worthy to be recorded foreuer for an example to others The treatise of Dauids family and Nathans comforted through all Daniel of the Rome-Beast one made of foure sauage vnto Constantinus the great This shewed more thē any Academique in Ebrew and Greek or either euer the way to the heauenly Ierusalem The right honorable S r. Iohn Fortescue reading the workes told the bearer thus Tell the auctor I will obtaine of the King a very great stipend for him The honorable Gentleman knew what a priuy Counsellor should doe death praeuented him yet as it seemeth from his motion the Kinges kingly promise came and for Ierusalem his memory shall not die Dressed as a Bride trimmed for her husband The Citie for a ruler is trimmed as a Woman to be married for her husband Esai 52. Rules of saluation are a greater trimming for the minde then any outward trimming can bee for the body The holy Prophets wordes haue all trimnesse that speach can conteyne in language The promises of Christ all trimnesse of sharpe wisedome the stories of contemners endlesse to destruction and of Embracers few to saluation all trimnesse of storie and so the New Test for the age heere meant all trimnesse of wisedome and learning and cariage rules of faith haue wisedom passing all heathen and Christian true policie is more ciuill then all heathens So the Citie is trimmed for a Citie as a bride for the bridegrom And I heard a great voice from the heauen saying Beholde the tabernacle of God is with men he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himselfe will bee with them their God and God will wipe all teares from their eyes and death shall be no more nor mourning nor crye nor paine shall be any more for the first thinges are past In Leuiticus 26. God telleth that if they keepe his Lawes God will haue his Tabernacle with them and they shall be his people and he shall be their God So before the captiuitie of Babel they that conquered the lande with Iosuah and the Iudges and vnder Dauid and his house many were And Ezekiel telleth that after they haue bene in Babylon to teach the Creation of the world and returne from Babel in the hope of Messias they should be the people of God and the same is heere spoken for vs heathen comming vnto CHRIST And now that men be taught of Christ plainly no affliction will make them weepe as in Babylon they wept at the Riuer sides Psal 137. not knowing cleerly Gods counsel how the Lord sent them thither to teach by Babels punishment that ONE the God of heauen ruled all and when men see the death of Christ to giue life that they who belieue in him die not but passe from death to life then death mourning cry paine will be nothing as the first case is altered Andrew was Petros before Symeon in Photius because he first acknowledged Petram all who do so are sure that the courtes to kill Christians the gates of Haides shall not preuaile against them When they knew that in Haides God hath Paradise for the Godly So Athanasius telleth that the Martyrs feared not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The going to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And he that sate vpon the throne said Behold I make all things new Isai 43. and 2. Cor. 5. Turne this to a new life heere and in that sense Christ about fourteene yeares after Ierusalems fall spake to Iohn in this vision that although the Church in the sight of the world should be base it should be a new heauē The Iewes see a new light in Moyses and the new Testament calleth vs from the toile of Moses to the rest in Christ that Daniel chap. 9. 24. shineth as Saint Stephens face as the face of an Angell and the minde which by the new Testament doeth see the old seeth a new world aboue that which was seene in Poperie Where Bellarmine and his labor to disgrace the scripture the waters from which they that be not baptized by the spirit shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen And he saith vnto me write for these wordes bee true and sure When the Apostles were all dead but Iohn and the Disciples were in great affliction and the God of this world was mightie in persequution the naturall man would thinke it harde to looke that the Bible should bring a new world Therefore the WORD who made this worlde and will make a new world would haue this written that in this world first he will make a new world And he saith vnto mee it is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end The learned note Ebrewes as Kimchi and Greekes as Eusebius that the Prophets spake in the praeterperfect temps for things to come because with God all is praesent and as sure as thinges past So should men haue regarded this booke that all in it though strange should come to passe That the Romane Emperours should bee plagued to ouerthrow that a new Rome should bee built for Empire neere old Troy that a beggerly scholar by lies and false miracles should set vp an Empire making himselfe as if he were God and deceiue the world men feared not this But Christ what hee spake in the beginning bringeth it to passe in the end Of ALPHA and OMEGA In that Christ nameth himsefe by the Greeke letters the first and the last he giueth great honor to the Greek tongue that they who seeke not from his words but from barbarous Latin his wisedome should be guilty Many Latin termes haue greatly deceiued as sacramentum for mysterion dispensator for Oeconomus Descendere ad inferos for Cateltheim eis Haidon and such hence come seauen sacraments dispensing with Gods word and going downe to Hell Briefly the smoke from the Pit is bred by wrested Latin as that an Image may be worshipped not an Idoll When Papae Cardinales Arch-buyshopps and Buyshopps rule the sheepe ignorant of Gods words they become wolfes and the most deadlie enimies to the truth The Pope hath an auctor in opusculis patrum which by the LXXII reiecteth the Ebrew truth adding an hundred of yeeres more then Moyses gaue at Seths birth and he allowed this blasphemie That Moyses omitted an hundred of yeeres His notes for soules 75. Act. 7. teach by Gregorie Martyn that either the old Testament or New faileth and his translation not the Septuagint taught that the dwelling of Israel which they dwelt in Aegypt was 430. year And their translation checking S. Pauls Greeke for 450. after a sort made Beza and our BB. after Bibliander and others hold the text corrupt and their rude translation made Achaziah two yeeres elder then his father and 20. yeer elder then himselfe And their barbarousnesse not knowing