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

a misterie and office perteininge to a misticall bodie wherof the principall minister is called the chief Antichriste as all the other membres of the same faction misterie and office be also Antichristes All which receaue power autoritie and office from their heed Antichriste that in al his doctrines maners and lyuinge is mere contrary to Christ For euen as that congregation is the misticall body of Christe wherof he is the supreme heed that hath receaued the true and sincere preachinge of the law and of the gospel and lyue accordinge to the preachinge of the same and also haue the sacramentes duely administred vnto them accordinge to Christes institution of the same The description of Antichriste Euen so is that malignaunt church and congregation the misticall bodie of Antichriste that hath not amongest them the true and sincere preaching of the Law and of the Gospel ne yet the sacramentes dulie administred vnto them accordinge to Christes institution of them ne yet accordinge to the practise of the Apostles nor of the primatiue church nor the same can be content to lyue according to the rule and doctrine of Gods heauenly worde nor suffer any other to lyue accordinge to the same but will compell thē with tormentes to receaue a new religion that must consiste other in vayne thinges which be of no commoditie or profit to any man ether spirituall or temporal or els it is manifest wicked and repugnaūt to Gods holy worde And first touchinge their vaine thinges and deed ceremonies of their religion that be of no commoditie or profite to any man excepte onlye to the sluttishe secte of perdition I note all their popishe traditions of confirmacion of yonge children with oyntinge of oyle and creame and with a ragge knitte aboute the necke of the yonge babe the christeninge of belles the halowinge of oyle and creame the halowinge of churches of churchyardes of chalices of vestimētes of aultares of aultare clothes of salte of bread of fiere of asshes of water of candles of palme stickes Iudas bels with candels blowē out at the ende of euery Psalme and lesson crepinge to the crosse with egges and apples dispelinge with a white rodde wasshinge of aultares Of all which thinges the holy scriptures commaunde not one to be done although in this churche of Antichrist they be straytly cōmaūded to be vsed And yet I know no wise man that wil or can prayse the comoditie or profite that cometh therof to any man but only to the priest that hath the cādles egges c. that be offred vnto hym And although ther riseth not any cōmoditie or profite other spiritual or tēporal to any man yet as I haue said they be straytly cōmaūded to be obserued / cōtrary to Gods cōmaun̄demēt that sayeth Deut. 12 That which I commaūde you that only take hede do to the Lorde Putth on nought therto Not withstandinge which commaundemente / because Antichriste wold partly set forth his awne nature and propertie that is to be contrary and disobediēt to God and Christ he hath erected these new holy thinges neuer of God commaunded And therfore as they be not of God so be they of no commoditie or profite to any of the people of God why Antichrist commaūdeth vanities But yet ther is some consideration wherfore Antichriste hath commaunded these vayne thinges to be done One is that he wold haue his filthy generation to be had in estimation of the worldly babes because that they haue receaued soch holines from his holy fatherhood that they maye sanctifie and make holy that God hath halowed allready lyke as the thinges of Gods creation were not sufficientlye halowed thorowe his eternall worde wherby he created them Exalteth not he himself aboue God honorable lordes that taketh vpō hym to adde holynes to that which God hath sufficiently halowed Be not these his halowinges of Gods creatures a necessary point perteininge to the vocation of a spirituall pastoure / that hath cure and charge of soules Or be they not necessary thinges to be done of a Christen man / towchinge his vocation and dutie to be done towardes God and towardes his neighbour And although they be worthy rather to be laghed at and mocked / yet by these his vanities he occupieth the tyme hat shuld be spente in the instruction teachinge the people in the lawe and the Gospell Moreouer by these as also by many other their doinges / they declare their diligente cure and studye that they haue to obeye Gods commaundement geuen to them to instructe and to teach the people Gods worde that leaue the gospell vnpreached and occupie the heartes and mindes of the people with soch trifles and vanities But because these vayne thinges do not sufficiently reuele this wicked Antichriste and his secte That he may be knowen of all men I will commende to youre memories honorable lordes some of his false doctrines Not soch as I of myne awne brayne call false doctrines and the doctrines of deuels and of soch as departe from the fayth and be lyeng masters and geue eare to the spirites of erroure But soch doctrines as Christe and his Apostles note to be the doctrines of deuels and of soch as by the same doctrines shal deceaue 〈◊〉 and shall cause many to folow the sp●…tes of erroure So that euery man that heareth soch doctrines preached maye boldlye saye that the preachers therof be false preachers and sectes of perdition that they be the adulterouse generation of Antichrist that these many yeres haue deceaued and bewitched the world And although Christ and his Apostles haue manifestlie declared and euidently set forth to the world the sayd doctrines to be the doctrines of deuels and of them that departe from the faith and the very selfe same doctrines wherby Antichriste and his filthy secte shulde deceaue many Yet soch hath ben the blindnes of the worlde that they can not vnderstande nor perceaue those doctrines to be the same wicked doctrines wherof Christ and his Apostles admonished thē al men to beware not only because he coloureth his doctrines with false paynted gloses Ioan. 3. but also because the world loueth darkenes moare thē the lighte And also to verifie Christes wordes of prophesie to be truely fulfilled in them saying I am come in my fathers name and you receaue me not Iaon 5. But yf a nother shal come in his awne name him wil you receaue Now touchinge the false doctrines of Antichriste Sainte Paul sayeth 1. Tim. 4 The spirite manifestly sheweth that in the last tymes certen men shal departe or go awaye from the faith attending or geuing eare to the spirites of erroure and doctrines of deuels prohibitinge to mary and commaunding to absteyne from meates that God hath created to be receaued of them that beleue and know the trueth with thankes geuinge By this doctrine of sainte Paul manifestlye appereth honorable Lordes that the forbiddinge of mariage is the doctrine of

A short description of Antichrist vnto the Nobilitie of Englande and to all my brethren and contreymen borne and dwelling therin with a warnynge to see to that they be not deceaued by the hypocrisie and crafty conueyaunce of the Clergie Ioh. 10. He that is of God heareth the worde of God OH Lorde God / although suche lordes haue dominiō ouer vs / as knowe the not / yet graunt that we may hope only in the / and kepe thy name in remembraūce For beholde the Lorde will go out of his habitation and visite the wickednes of them that dwell vpon the earth Esa 26. He wil discouer the blood that she hath deuoured / she shall neuer hyde them that she hath murthered Muster you and gather you / muster you and gather you Take your counsaill together Yet muste your counsaill come to nought Go in hande withal / yet shall it it not prosper / except Emanuel / Esa 8. that is / God be wyth vs. For ther is no prudence / ther is no wysdome / ther is no counsaill against the LORDE ☞ ☜ THere is nothing more perilouse right honourable Lordes ne yet more pernitious and euell to the Christē mans religion then so to be corrupted poysoned and blinded in his vnderstanding and iudgement that he estemeth iudgeth euel in the stede of good errour in the stede of veritie cloked superstition in the stede of Christes true religion painted hypocrisie in the stede of godly vertue manifest and open ydolatry in the stede of true worshipping of God mens dreames and traditions in the stede of Gods most holy lawes ordinaunces a cōmen custome long tyme vsed of our forfathers in stede of a sure grounde and firme foundation of our christen faith And finally to accepte and take Antichrist the Man of synne and childe of perditiō as Paul nameth him in the stede of God and of Christ Who neuerthelesse is moste contrary to God and moste hatefull enemye to Christe in all his doctrines workes and conditiōs Such erronious blinde and corrupte iudgementes God by his Prophete Esay pronounces accursed sayeng Esa 5. Wo be to you that saye good is euil and euill is good light is darkenesse and darkenesse is light c. Also the Apostle S. Paul fearing like errour and corruptiō in iudgement to come to the Corinthes thorough the wicked doctrine of subtile and false preachers 2. Cor. 11. exorteth the Corinthes to beware of deceauers sayeng I feare that it come to passe that as the serpente deceaued Eua thorough his subtiltie euen so your wittes shoulde be corrupted frō the singlenesse that you had towarde Christ For false Apostles sayeth he are deceatfull workers and fashion them selues lyke vnto the Apostles of Christ And no merueil for Sathan him selfe is chaūged into the fashiō of an Angel of light Therfore it is no great thing though his ministres fashion them selues lyke as they were the ministers of rightuousnes Whose ende shal be accordinge to their workes Euen so right honorable lordes I can not but feare lest your vnderstandinges and iudgementes be now corrupted drawen and caryed awaye from the simplicitie and purenes of sincere vnderstandinge and godly iudgemente which late you had of Christe thorow the crafty persuasions deceatefull and false illusions of Antichrist that hath transfigured hym selfe in to the fashion of an Angell of lighte For I am not ignorante that now the monstrouse beaste Antichriste Sathās vicar general in earth and all his adulterous generation of vipers that be his false Apostles most subtile and crafty deceauours and the most malitious enemies of God and Christe cease not daye nor night with false lyes colored with cloked hypocrisie and deceatfull and flatteringe persuasions to deceaue the Quenes magestie and all you my lordes of hyr most honorable counsaill wherby they might draw hyr highnes all you from the godly and most pure knowleage which you had in litle tyme past receaued of Christe in to their fylthy Puddels and vayne inuētions that they of their owne braynes without any authoritie of holy scriptures haue inuented to reuiue and to stablish the vsurped power and bloody kyngedome of Antichrist in this realme By whose false doctrines all the people of this realme shall be drawen from God and from our sauiour Christe to trust in most vayne and deceatefull vanitie But if your lordships wolde both waye and ponder that not only God by his holy prophetes and Apostles but also Christ hymself admonisheth and warneth you and all men to beware of false preachers and of craftye and subtile deceauers your Lordships wold be moch more circumspecte and well ware because that not only the Prophetes and Apostles but also Christ him self to whō you ought to gyue credence hath warned you to beware of soch deceauers And namely because this deceate ys not a manifeste and playne deceate easely to be perceaued and knowen of al men but so craftly coloured and subtylie painted with dessebled persuasions and of soch as shall come euen in the name of Christe and of his holy church And therfore they shal deceaue many sayeth Christe Sainte Paul also sayeth 1. Tim. 4. In the later tymes some shall departe from the faith geuinge eare to the spirites of erroure and doctrines of deuylles 1. Cor. 11. And the same sayeth that heresies must neades be that the proued and godly maye be knowen Sainte Peter also sayeth that there were wicked Prophetes 2. Pet. 2 as there shal be false masters amonge you that shall bringe in sectes of perdition that shal denie the Lorde that hath boughte them Also S. Iohan sayeth 2. Ioh. 4 Antichriste is come and that ther be many Antichristes Consideringe that the Prophetes of God Christe and his Apostles haue this certenly-and diligently admonisshed and warned you and all men of false preachers and of leenge masters that departe from the fayth / and bringe in sectes of perdicion / and of soch that will come in the name of Christe / Math. 24 lyke as they did preach his true doctrine / which neuertheles preach their awne dreames and the doctrines of deuils denyeng the lorde that brought them / and in all thinges folowe the spirites of errour 1. Tim. 4. It behoueth your Lordships and it is the parte and most bounden dutie of euery Christen man diligently to search out these false Prophetes lyenge masters and to laboure studiously to knowe which be the doctrines of deuils and spirites of errour accordinge to the admonition and warninge of the Prophetes of Christe / and of the Apostles geuen to them that they maye circumspectly eschew and auoyde them that they be not deceaued by them and their doctrines And because in the reigne of Edwarde the sixte of famose memory by the cōsent of his honorable counsel ther was a doctrine preached and religion receaued in this realme of Englande which now is reiected and banisshed as a doctrine of the deuyll and as heresye

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