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A08269	A theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous worldlings as also the greate ioyes and plesures which the faithfull do enioy. An argument both profitable and delectable, to all that sincerely loue the word of God. Deuised by S. Iohn van-der Noodt. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.; Theatre oft Toon-neel. English	Noot, Jan van der, ca. 1538-ca. 1596.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.; Roest, Theodore.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Rime. English. Selections.; Du Bellay, Joachim, 1525 (ca.)-1560. Visions. English. Selections.	1569 (1569)	STC 18602; ESTC S110162	92,217	282

Signifying and representing all manner of false Prophets vngodly teachers which are in their intents purpose wholy and altogither beastly idle carnall and corrupted They are also abhominable in the imagitions of their malitious harts not seking god but their belly not y e honor of christ but their own aduancemēt vain glory They rise out of the earth enclined giuen wholly to earthly worldly wisdom The desire and lust which they haue to raign in this world maketh thē to preach not for any loue or zeale which they bear to truth The desire of money couetousnesse thrusteth them in Thei go forward in al kind of wickednesse shall continue til the Lord destroy thē euen as the godly goeth on in vertue godlinesse til y ● time that they shall sée ●od face to face in that euerlasting Sion This beast was a murtherer from the beginning first of all in Cain and consequently in the carnal children of this world Namely in Cham the first vnshamefast sonne of Noe in Ismael Esau in Iames and Iambres in Balaam and al the false prophets of Baal in Annas and Caiphas in Baricha and Diotrephe and is now a dayes risen again in Friers Monkes Chanons Priests and Chanters as euery one haue he neuer so little a sparcle of light in him may easily sée and perceiue especially in their cathedral church where they haue their ●ull course Thys beast had .ij. horns like the Lamb but coūterfaited altogither fals For she spake like th● Dragon The horns of Christ are hie great wherout only springeth the sweete comfortes of the promises of God giuen to his Church congregation and people Gods word is right and the Scepter of the au●thority of Christ and the rod of his righteous ordinaunces that wheresoeuer this worde ruleth there are none other strāge scepters institutions or customes The Lambe of God vpon the Mount Sion signifying Christ Iesus hath seuen hornes for in him consisteth the fulnesse of al truth This beast hath but i● hornes and those counterfaited and false They haue well a shew to be Christes hornes but of a truth they are not These then do signifie the corruptyng and falsifiyng the meaning both of the old and new Testament expounded and wrested to a worldly and carnal vnderstanding Wherout it is too apparant and manifest that it is but a false shew ful of dissimulation and altogither contrary to the Lordes meaning not discearning the true meaning of the holy Ghost This letter without the spirite of God is death and nothing agreable vnto Christ neither hath any regarde vnto him He is the truthe and life this is very lies and death His word is spirite and life theirs is but sounding Erasse or tinkling Cimbal fantasticall ●ained Sophistical and crafty although they séeme to haue a likenesse to Christ yet are they to none more vnlike They are onely the hornes of the beast to maintain the kingdome of Antechrist and not of Christe for Christes ●yngdome is not of thys worlde They chaunge the true vsage of the good creatures of God making Idols of trees adornyng and deckyng stockes and stones with golde siluer silke veluet and other iewelles turning the holy estate of Matrimonie into shamefull whoordome and to all kinde of vnchafte liuyng to make vs to wander from that seruice which God hath commaunded vs to their false moste abhominable superstitions so to abolishe and make of n●ne effect Gods commaūdement and to establish their wicked traditions to bring leade men at length to detestable idolatrie wherof they are ful and to worship things forbidden And for the maintenāce of their estate they haue wyth the ayde and helpe of Sathan their chief captaine wrested chopped and chaunged the scriptures to proue the adoratiō of the departed Saintes to be necessarie their masse meritorious and their workes of supererogation profitable their purgatorie to bee a fearefull and horrible thyng and other innumerable These beastly asses and belly God byshops are not ashamed to saye that by the ●yter whyche they doe weare is represented the olde and newe Testamente whiche to be true they defende wyth toothe and nayle They confesse as it is in de●de that they do weare but the figure of the thyng for it is but a shadowe in déede and an outwarde shewe not to the glorie of ●od but their owne ambition profite and cōmoditie séeking an occasion to persecute the very truthe They are of a truthe the false Prophetes the very limmes of Sathan deceyuers Wolues hie mynded inconstant shakyng wyth all manner of wyndes traitours and very folowers of Iudas dreamers liers idolaters enimies and aduersaries of truthe and veritie serpents and generation of vipers Foxes destroying the vineyarde of the Lorde deceiptful workers ●aintyng pastors blynde watchmen dumbe dogs diuels incarnated wycked or euill routes insatiable beastes whose belly is theyr god and their end perpetuall confusion and shame All these and many more names the holy Ghoste doth attribute vnto them bycause they myngle the swéetenesse of the word of God with the bitter worme wood of their Traditions so that almost the whole worlde is defiled with the dregs of their inuentions This beast did all that the first beast● coulde do before him This beastly generation hath the selfe same lying power to deceiue the p●ople and vnder the shew of holynesse to continue and vpholde thoroughout all the worl●e the same abhohominations as that greate Ant●christe hath done euery where Namely vnder the Pope in Eu●ope and in Asia and in Affrike vnder Mahomet Fynally there hath Sathan his chayre whe●e any s●range wors●yppyng or false seruyng of God is admitted And he caused the earthe and them that dwell therin to worship the beast They make not those onely to commit idolatrie that are ignorant and blinde but force suche as haue knowledge and vnderstandyng Oh how many are at this instant in Brabant Flande●s and the low countrey and else where whiche agaynst their belefe conscience and the holy ghost maintain allowe and permit the mani●est ●abylonicall abhomination communicating the venemous dregges of the barbarous cup of these Baals priestes They had rather to tarrie ignominiously in this beggerly trashe and filthie ceremonies than to be depriued of this worldly fri●ndshyp to forsake father mother childrē estate office and liuing banished persecuted or aduenture their liues and if néede so require to loose it for the truthe so delectable and swéete these worldely pleasures are vnto them They rather with Samuels sonnes wyll perishe transgressing the ordinances of GOD and with Dathan Chore Abiron be swallowed vp and sinke into Hel amongst the wicked than to suffer wyth Christe any trouble contempte reproche pouertie or other calamitie Suche I say as séeke and loue the commoditie and ease of their owne fleshe

title and supremacie ouer them ●or that onely belongeth vnto Sathan for the Diuell is sayeth Iob the onely chiefe head of the proude And power was giuen vnto them sayth our text for .xlij. mon●ths to rule which are the thrée yeres and a halfe of Helias and one halfe tyme of Daniel and the thousande two hundreth and thrée score dayes of S. Iohn He openeth his mouth to blasphemie against God and his name and to blaspheme his holy Tabernacle and inhabiters of heauen The tabernacle of God is Christ Iesu in whom the fulnesse of the godhead abideth wholy and perfectly By the inhabiters of heauen is ment his true church whereout the Aungels are not excluded These inhabiters then are those whiche leade an heauenly lyfe in a true and vnfained faith séeking the things which are aboue and not on earth worshipping god the father in spirite and truthe abidyng stedfast and immoueable to the ende Many haue entred into this heauen but are not founde faythful and constant vnto the ende whiche is lamentable And to this beast or beastly Antechrist was giuen power to fight against the Sainctes They trouble and vexe continually with force and violence by their wicked and vngodly Decrées lawes and ordinances by their worldly aucthoritie and power the true witnesses and godly preachers of Christ instructed and taught euen as the Apostles were of God him self in the truth of his holy word euē as the wicked Phariseis in the time of Christ and his Apostles did They persecute them by writs proclamations by banishments fire and sword as the cruell tirant Pharao and Antiochus did to shew manifestly that Christ is that stumbling stocke and the stone of offense whereat the world stumbled They search and seeke héere they hunt there neuer ceassing vntill they haue him fast in prison and forth-comming wherat they are not yet satisfied till such time as they haue procéeded openly before all men following theyr placcate thereby to fortifie men in theyr error against them And so vanquished as they boast to condemne thē although they are otherwyse before GOD. Then either they make him to recant or else if he abi●e constant in the faythe of Christ they put him to most cruel death either by fire or water And power was giuen vnto the Beaste ouer euery kinred tongue and nation For these wicked and abhominable Antechristes spare no man small nor great yong nor olde high nor low riche nor poore sicke nor whole learned nor vnlearned but that they must bow before them and become subiecte to their most wicked commaundements either by force or otherwise they must haue them at the least once a yeare at shrift before them to knowe their minde and intention whether they be Towne dwellers or Straungers Gouernours or common people No excuse will serue or take any place in this behalfe or else they must wyth Christ raigne at the Barre among Théeues And thys power they haue not onely in one place but in all places tongues and in euery Towne yea they must haue to doe amongst euery familie destroying the true and godly fayth of all men For all that dwell vpon earth shall worship the beast They must all consent to their great abhomination They muste blaspheme and offend God obserue and keepe their most filthy traditions and Romishe trashe They that dwell vpon earth are such as doe loue them selues more than God their owne affection more than Gods truthe putting theyr confidence comfort and hope in the only beggerly merites and vile deseruings of these beastly and abhominable Hipocrites and not vpon the swéete promises of God in his worde Whose names are not wrytten in the booke of the Lambe They which are not confessed of Christ nor accepted by his word and promisses They which wyth the righteous as members of one spirituall body and ●idden in him are not marked nor Registred whose part and portion is not in the land of the liuing that are not of the nūber of those which the father hath giuen vnto Christ to be participant of one spirit with him They which are not ordeined predestinated nor written in his forknowledge neither of him before the foundations of the world elected chosen to be hys childrē immaculate in Christ. Al these I say must worship the Dragon The Lambe is Christ Iesu the which only taketh away the sinnes of the world in whom is only life for he is the life him selfe of them namely which beleue on him which was slaine from the beginning for all them which are created to saluation So that his only death resurrection and ascentiō through the promise of God is the saluation of thē all for they all haue tasted of one spirituall meat dronke of one spiritual stone Albeit he came a long season after them in the flesh he onely did tread downe the head of the Serpent Also he hath bene slaine from the beginning in his members as it is to be seene euidently in iust Abel Ieremy Iohn Baptist many more But those which are not written of the Lamb in the booke of life be sealed in the booke of death and kept as S. Peter saith with the Diuel and his angels to eternal death bicause of their vnbeliefe He that hath cares to heare let him heare sayeth the text He y t hath any wit let him giue place to y e admonition which followeth he that will be wise let him iudge according to the demonstration of these things After this sort doth the holy Ghost certifie hys faithfull warning them to consider that all which is written is wrytten to our learning and edification He that leadeth into captiuitie● shall goe into captiuitie Thys warning giueth the Lord let them take héede i● they lust for he wil that his iudgments be knowne They which doe afflict and vexe the faithfull in their bodies outwardly shal be vexed and punished in the spirit with inward darknesse and strickē with blindnesse of the minde to abide the rather in the net of Sathan and sinne God wil leaue them in a reprobate sense and inordinate lust and suffer them to enter into great errors and diuelishnesse to belieue all manner of lies that they might be damned If any kil with the sword the pore and innocent for their faith must also be killed iudged and condemned throughe the sword of the spirite which is the worde of God The word which I haue spoken saith Christ shall condemne them at y e last day as he testified also in his Reuelation in the eleuenth Chapter If any will molest or trouble them the fire shall procéede forth of their mouth to consume their aduersaries A●d I saw yet sayth S. Iohn an other Beast rising out of the earth hauing two hornes like the Lambe

their honour profite more than the aduauncement of Gods truthe lette them not persuade them selues to bée worthy of his grace for they must worshyp the beast whose deadly wounde was healed hys olde and abolyshed Relygion polyshed and vernyshed vp a newe and hys woren Romyshe trashe p●tched and newly redressed embrace vpon payne of death To those hellishe dogges and infernall Cerberus must be rendred and giuen for a time more honour reuerence and worshyp than to GOD hym selfe Their wicked and moste fylthie traditions must now be more in our countrey sette by than the pure worde of God and the eternall veritie And why should it not be so Haue not they erected a new sinagoge and congregation wherein the wounded head of the beast is nowe altogether cured and made whole They haue amended botched and renued agayne their Idols to some they hau● made a newe nose hand arme or legge other some are paynted vp or coloured vernyshed and made a new so that they now more like mad men do carrie them rounde aboute the Citie in Procession honouryng the same images which they ●aue so newly arayed and decked wyth silke veluet golde pearles and precious stones beades gyrdles purses flowers greene bowes and all manner of swéete herbes with song and sundry musicall instrumentes torches candles offerings and all other kynde of seruice and knéelyng before them bare headed they worship serue and holde vp theyr handes to them They keepe and obserue nowe againe their diuelyshe feastyng solemne processions and church holy dayes They eate they drinke they laugh they quaffe and run after whoores they fight and pike quarels their stewes are furnished wyth whoores ruffians and bauds are nowe good vittaylers and are haunted fréely yea all manner of filthynesse iniquitie and wickednesse are cōmitted with al greedinesse Briefly the kingdom of Sathan is in all things newly erected fortified and established the head of the beast wel annointed and redressed so lōg as the popish church stādeth so long must they obserue his comaundementes of his religion and maintaine and vpholde his customes so long shall the true seruauntes of God the good Christians be persecuted bannished blamed slaundered mocked and scornefully intreated cried out vpon taken imprisoned killed myserably slayne and burned in suche sort that their corpses are cast here and there abrode hanged on trées g●bets and bushes and no man will burie them But thys diuelysh generation and fleshly mynded and wycked people clappe their handes together in token of greate ioy they daunce and leape they make mery and are gladde they make great diners and sende presentes one to an other being wonderful wel disposed bicause they sée those that dyd rebuke them of their wycked conuersation and vngodly behauioures so irkesomly intreated they sing and make ballettes they compose in metre and sette forth bookes of greate slaunders blasphemies and lyes against GOD his Christe and his Churche whyche thyng surely dothe sufficientely proue the wickednesse of their hearts they rage and fume they are woode lyk● bloud thyrstie Tyrantes they gnashe as fierce and cruell Lyons and they are very sorie that any shoulde escape theyr bloudy handes Thys may those testifie whiche haue hearde the Sermons of one B. Cornelis y ● Hisper at Bruges B. Iohn vanden Hagen at Gaunt and that worthie knaue that preached at S. Goule whiche for his behauiour was banyshed oute of the Haghe in Hollande as the rest of them were woorthie to bée But God be thanked that the Papistes of oure countrey can none otherwyse clense them selues than wyth suche ●oule and filthie dishe cloutes and fyght wyth such darts wherwyth they hurte them selues And it was permitted to hym to gyue a spirite vnto the image of the beast so that the image of the beast shoulde speake After thys sorte come they then hauyng receyued power of the diuell flatteryng to the Image to maynteyne their malycious wickednesse saying after thys manner Your maiestie is the most vertuous the most gratious the most valiant the most wisest the most puissant the most noble the most blessed and most learned of all Christian Princes and Potentates all other are but Asses yea nothing in comparisō of your highnesse If it please your maiestie to cōmaund this or that or establish ordaine any thing in your realme and iurisdiction who is he that dare withstād your maiestie yea if it were against the commaundementes of God twentie times it must be obserued and kept Upholde then the old Catholike religion of our mother the holy Church of Rome against these Heritickes so can ye not doe amisse God shall prosper you in all your affaires Command therfore throughout all your dominion and straightly charge them by law and Proclamation sending one vpon an other so straightly as it is possible to shew manifestly that you are the liuely Image of the Pope It is our duetie to make the Image of the beast to speake Therfore lift vp your voice speak out with a corage commaund and charge that against the word of God our old Decrées traditions and Ceremonies be obserued let them be published and cried abrode in your name and authoritie in euery streate and cause euery one of your subiects to keepe your placate vpon paine of death And albeit other Realmes or Princes blame or check you for that you gouerne not well and according to equitie make ye no account of them neither regard their sayings but go forward stil and obstinately persiste and stand to that which séemeth good in your owne eyes Giue ye straight charge that all be put to death that wil not worship the Image of the beast or how their knees before it and keepe all his ordinaunces Thus doing ye shal be our welbeloued sonne Let no man escape your hāds Let none of them liue but slay and kill them either by fire water sweard rope or any other torments spare no man neither olde nor yong rich nor poore great nor small man nor wife maried nor vnmaried yōg man nor maiden for they al speak against vs and oure Dragon wherby our kingdom should fal we should lose our best profits and suffer great damage and losse Cause also that all and euery one great and small riche and pore bond or free be marked on their right hand or on their forehead And aboue this that al Massemongers Monks Friers and Priestes be shauen their fingers greased and then holding vp theyr right hād which they are not ashamed to call it the second baptisme promise and swear by othe to obey and reuerence the Pope and the Romish Church and there to vowe chastitie Moreouer that Emperoures Kings and Princes Archbishops Bishops and Doctors scholes and all estates receiue also a token by oth which they sweare to him that they shall take nothing in hande which is agaynst the Pope and his Decrees lawes and ordinaunces his Seat and priueledges yea that all men receiue this marke in the forehead For he that