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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

enuie dissimulation falshoode and inconstancie vaine glorie iniquitie sorcerie superstition and impietie than doth in this one dominion of Antechrist He alone hath more contaminated Gods holy Temple than all the infidels together that euer were they haue most shamefullye intreated and iudged the very electe people of God which are the vessels of his glory They haue most miserably and narowly kept vnder and as it were in prison the true Minister● of God by their Decrées and traditions The seueritie and rudenesse of Pharao Antioche and Caiphas is nothing in the comparison of theirs for in them is all kind of beastlinesse vncleanlinesse wantonnesse concupiscence and carnall securitie No reason or humanitie hath any place amongst them they are more lyke beasts than men The rigorous Proclamations against the Iewes at the request of wicked Ammon and of Antioche are nothing to speake of to the ordinaunces and statutes of the Antechrists for those were only against the body but theirs are against the soule and conscience of man also After this sort doth the Popedō which is the dominiō of Antechrist bear the Image of the Leopard of the Bear of the Liō bicause it is not only partaker of al y e wickednesses with oth●r realmes but it excéedeth and surmounteth al other vi● times double in all kinde of iniquitie idolatrie abhominations y t euer were cōmitted vnder heauen They haue the mouth of a Lyon always blasphemyng cursing and banning Their feete lyke a beare signifiyng their insatiab●e couetousnesse runnyng headlong to euery kinde of mischiefe very ready to sheade bloud as leopards are they polluted and spotted with dyuers and sundry inconstant mindes institutions obseruings neuer stedfast or constant but in al thinges chaungeable and foolishe for suche as receiue not Gods truthe are worthily forsaken of God Therfore God shall sende them strong delusions that they shoul● beleeue lies that all they might be damned which beleue not the truth but haue pleasure in vnrighteousnesse The D●agon sayth S. Iohn which is Sathan the Diuell● gaue to the beast or cursed generation of Antechrist his beastly membres his whole power his seate of blasphemie and his great authoritie To giue them his power is nothyng else than to make them perfect and skilfull by all maner of crafte subtiltie and dissimulation cunnyngly to seduce the simple silly soules and so forth to confirme and stablysh them in al kinde of wickednesse and falshods To gyue vn●o hym his seate is to leaue him he●e a glorious kingdome full of vain glory ●is●imulation other wickednesse To giue him hi● great authoritie is to worke by false miracles signes and wonders and by false and ●rr●nious do●●rine to allure the p●●ple and to draw the vnb●leuing infidels the rather to the p●t of perditiō and euerlasting torments On this maner is that greate Antechrist a king with Sathan ●uer all the children of pride and darknesse He occupieth and possesseth ●alsly with Lucifer the seat and ●oume of God taking vpon hym euen to search and créepe into mens consciences For he b●steth him self to stand in Gods stede to deceiue th●m that ●well on the earth to reigne and to beare rule ouer them for so much as they hauing a blind guide are l●d into the ditche of all errour and false doctrine the very way vnto euerlasting pe●dition Touchyng the seat euen as Christe our Lorde with his Father raigning eternally sitteth in heauen vpon the seate of his Maiestie in eternall glory felicitie euē so sitteth ●ntechrist the Pope of Rome I mean● with his ●ather the Deuil full of pride and blasphemie in the seat of cōdemnation in eternal darknesse ignomie and shame Cōcerning his power euen as Christ receiued his power of God his father euen so hath he rec●iued his authoritie of his father the Deuil Euen as Christ is full of mercy truthe euen so is this Antechrist ful of enuie and hate vntruthes and lies and al other mischiefs of whose abhominations errors the vnbeleuing and infidel hath tasted As the holy ghost and the sprite of Christ openeth the misteries of the truth in his elect euen so on the other side hath the spirit of erroure since the death and reuelation of Christ darkned truth and set forth the secretes of his malice in the ennimies of Christ. Cōcerning his aucthority as christ being man receiued his aucthority of god to doe such miracles as no man else could do Euen so doth this Antichrist by the Deuill and Gods permission amongs the infidels and vnbeleuers So that he in all power and aucthoritie vniustly vsurped foloweth yea passeth his father the deuil For as he robbed the godly man Iob and spoiled him of all his substance goods children seruaunts and cattel and tormēted him in his body with ●oils and Botches euen so doth this rauenous and greadye Leuiathan and cruell murtherer vexe consume and oppresse the poore people by his spoiling Grashoppers defrauding the poore of their sweat and bloud of theyr paines trauaile necessitie and liuing no not sparing the féeble and sicke neyther widow nor fatherlesse No kind of good be it neuer so vniustly gotten being brought to them in shriuing of some one burdened in conscience but that they are cōtented to receiue it and that by the way of restitution Yet neuerthelesse do they which is worst of all lead mennes mindes to dissimulatiō false belief and other diuelishnesse doubtfull desperate and comfortlesse Finally euen as in the body of Christ dwelleth fulnesse of the whole Deitie Euen so in this body of Sathan dwelleth the whole masse of impietie subtilitie fraud and malice with power to worke all maner of mischiefe mightely substantially and corporally And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death with the sword of his mouth that is through the anouncing and preaching of the Gospell Which thing is come to passe since the time of Iohn Hus in Boheme after that in Germanie and is since God be praised daily more and more that the head of the Beast is wounded in places where gods word is preached As in England Fraunce Scotland Poland and else where as euery one may wel perceiue except he will needes be blinde For it is euident to al men that in most places Buls and Pardones of the Pope are little set by hys power and might troden vnder féete hys name blotted out his Purgatory Masses Pilgrimages Idols and other like trumperies cried out vpon If this be not a deadly wound on the head of the beast I think it to haue none at all If this be not a manifest token of his fall to come there is none to be looked for But his deadly woundes were healed Although the Gospel hath ben preched in sundry and diuers places and the popes abhominations cast vpside downe yet remaineth in some places their false priesthood vows not to mary Sodomish chastitie auricular

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

loued most of al y ● did write the Reuelation in Pathmos 10 The tenth of a Chrisophrasius whose nature is to shine like gold and yet greenish in the sight Such are those who hauing receiued good knowledge perfecte wisdom of God distribute vnto others according vnto the talent which god hath deliuered vnto thē Therby to awake the sluggish and dreaming people and bring to heauenly meditations Amongst those may Ezechiel wel be coūted which in his time did sée maruellous things and wonderful straunge Reuelations 11 The eleuenth of a Iacinct the colour of which stone is like vnto water hauyng stripes glistering like the bright shining beames of the Sunne By this stone are represented suche as doe séeme to be ignorant and are counted noddies fooles before the world which notwithstāding haue heauenly wisdom inough although in sight very ideots voyde of all knowledge yet neuerthelesse are they instructed and taught of God to reueale hidden and secrete mysteries of the numbre Of those are Ozee Ioel Amos whiche was but a poore shephierd with the rest of the small prophets Such were also Andrew Peter Philip Thomas and the rest of the Apostles of Christ. 12 The twelfth an Ametist this is of a violet or purpure and roste colour and this signifieth them which abide zelous meke and stedfast in the knowne truthe of the Lorde whiche also are ready at all times to die and shed their bloude euen for the same suche were the seuen brethren of the Machabees with their mother Such were also Iames the greater and Antipas that faithfull witnesse with many more disciples and martirs No man can shew any greater loue than this when any mā bestoweth hys lyfe for hys friendes All these sayth our Sauiour are blessed and the kyngdome of heauen doth belong vnto them On this maner then is notified by these fundations the same which the true and faithfull ministers and pastors of the churche of Christ according to the diuersitie of gifts giuen vnto them haue buylded vpon some gold siluer or precious stones but such as haue added to this buildyng any wood hay or stubble which are customes traditions and other dūbe Ceremonies or else vayneglorie worldly honoure riches and pleasures shall neuer be accompted among thys heauenly companie These fundations haue ben prefigured by the precious stones which were in the stomacher of Aaron the high Priest and in the costely and royall garmentes of the Kyng of Tyrus He whiche is desirous to know more of the nature condition and propretie of these precious stones may reade Plinie his .xxxvij. booke of naturall Histories or Bartholomeus de proprietatibus rerum and concerning the mysterie and allegorie reade Saint Hierome vpon the .54 Chapiter of Esaye or Beda Haymo Costasius Bacōthorp Eleyne Tilney and dyuers more other whiche haue written vppon the Reuelation It suffiseth vs to haue shewed thée according to the meanyng of Saint Austen that these stones doe signifie the manyfolde gyftes and diuers grac●s of the holy Ghost for the onely spirite of the lord worketh all these thyngs dyuersly Hée measureth hys gyftes vnto euery one according to hys good will and pleasure th● whiche altogether are singular preciou● and moste excellente as it shall well a●peare in that great and ioyous day of the chyldren of God And the Angell sayeth Sainct Iohn whiche dydde shewe all those foresayde thyngs moued me in spirite to take the more heede to the gracious and mercifull purpose of the Lorde and to bryng me to a more déeper knowledge of his misteries shewed me a pure Riuer of water of life whiche is therefore called the Water of Lyfe bycause it maketh whole and gyueth saluation to oure soules Thys Ryuer is nothyng else but the fl●wing veritie and the worde of Saluation or the myghtie doctrine of Christe Thys is that swéete Ryuer whyche proce●deth of Edom to refresh Paradise which diuiding it selfe in foure watereth the foure parts of the earthe This runnyng water maketh the Citie of God very pleasant and delectable This riuer is maruelous comfortable springyng into eternall lyfe it is here a spirituall comfort for the childrē of God and shal be hereafter that incomprehensible glory of the Sainctes in heauen To whome shal we go sayth Peter but to thée for thou hast the worde of eternall life The vertue and nature of this water is to satisfie purge and cl●̄se to comfort to make whole and healthful for it procéedeth and floweth frō the maiestie of God it commeth from that eternal and excellent schoole of the father and thence procéedeth forwarde to the ouer-fulnesse of the lambe Christ Iesu and his diuine spirite I will poure cleane water sayth the Lorde vpon you and ye shall be frée from all your filth vncleannesse I will also gyue you a newe hearte and plant in you a new spirite In the middes of the strete of it and of either side of the riuer was the tree of life This riuer signifieth the two testamentes of the Lorde wherby stode that moste pleasant trée of lyfe namely Christ Iesus the mediatour and pastour the sauiour and redéemer of the worlde Out of the roote and progenie of Dauid spryngeth thys tree according to the fleshe conceyued of the holye Ghost borne of the virgin Marie As the tree of life in the beginnyng was planted in the middest of Paradise euen so is hée spiritually in the middest of his Churche whiche is his moste pleasaunt garden if that grounde or earth which maketh the trées twice fruitefull in the yeare be called happy so may this garden by good rereason well be called happy and blessed Where this trée standeth whiche neuer is without frute nor drieth vp or withereth which dothe not onely beare twyce a yeare fruite signifiyng all the vnspeakable giftes of the holy Ghoste but rendreth his frutes euery month of the yere that is continually bothe Sommer and winter All they which are thys Congregation people haue continually so long as they lyue greate Consolation in all theyr assaultes and trialles and in all kinde of aduersitie bothe spirituall and temporall And the leaues of the trees serued to heale the nations with The promises and the worde of GOD are spirite and lyfe the nature propretie and vertue of them are blessednesse and eternal saluation These leaues can not by any meanes wyther awaye When Gods worde is sincerely preached and taughte then we remember the benefites of oure deliueraunce then is oure conscience appeased and satisfied and the minde mery and gladde then dothe the soule of man reioyce and rendreth therfore to GOD the Father moste heartie thanckes worthie prayses syngyng and magnifiyng hym for his eternall goodnesse and mer●ie So then the Nations are quite healed and made healthfull thorough beléefe and cleauing faste vnto the woorde acknowledgyng and confessyng Christe Iesu to be their onely Sauiour righteousnesse and true holynesse The woorde of GOD