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
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
place gainesaid This sheweth that Peter was neuer at Rome And Saint Pauls iourney telleth Rome that God hated them If he had not beene sought to bee killed Lysias had not sent him to Caesarea and if the Iewes had not againe there sought to haue killed him hee had not appealed to Caesar God would not that hee should come to Rome but vpon extreamities So the iourney thither shewed that Christ hated the Citie that crucified him was strange in calamities and Paul was brought thither as a prisoner and kept in prison though somewhat free CHAPTER XIIII And I saw and behold a Lambe stood vpon mount Syon and an hundred fourty foure thousand were with him hauing the name of their father written in their forehead THEY which were called afore two Prophets are now 144000. hauing the name of God written in their forehead the same number is said before to be sealed ch 7. by a speach from Ezekiel ch 9. 4. There in the 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the terme of chap. 13. in Kimchy a signe or writing S. Paul expoundeth the speach that God will make them knowen who be his that they who professe the name of God shall depart from wickednesse So they who haue Gods name are made knowen who bee his and expound his word and follow trueth of worship due to him bearing a marke in open profession as sacrificers such as Aharon had In this sort the holy Church still had some nūber to professe the summe of saluation though on mount Sion a small hill for the mountaines of the world not one to a million of ADONIKAM and his Children of three fold as storie 666. that number chap. 13. to beare the number of his name was vsed for any number of Apostatique profession So heere the 144000. twelue tymes twelue is vsed for any Company that trusteth in Christ as the Patriarches did And I heard a voice out of heauen as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes and they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the foure liuely wightes and the Elders The heauen commonly in this booke is the Church waters voice is continuall so heere continuall singing is meant harpes signifie song with agreement the new song is for mans praeseruation euery day The foure wightes are the rare as Daniel Ananias Azarias and Misael and all the Euangelistes and S. Paul full of courage of Lions so were all the Apostles of rare patience ready to be sacrificed euery day and they were the true Philosophers thinking what should befall them after death and they were the Eagles of high flight sight The Elders are the Bishops or Teachers the sage in gouernement and skill in the holy Hebrew and Greek Testaments The song none could vnderstand but the 144000. as no Papist soundly thinketh of all things made for Gods glorie in Christ and how by him wholy iustice commeth and he onely must be worshipped When this is told them they are like vnto men that dreame and know not who they are that are bought from the earth not what their religion meaneth Thereupon it is written And none could vnderstand the song but the hundred fourty and foure thousand which were bought from the earth What this songe was Through the whole scripture this song is one and the same that IEHOVAH our GOD IEHOVAH is ONE The FATHER the SON the Holy Spirite be one Coaeternall and Coessentiall the SON is called the WORD by the WORD the Father made the World and by the Spirite beautified the heauens And because the WORD would become flesh the World was made to serue once Adam the first The Angells that grudged at that fell for euer and deceiued Adam and made him dead in sin and brought him to be turning dayly to dust vntill he dyed and for him the whole frame of the Creature was pronunced corrupt But he belieued that Christ made of a woman made vnder the Law God being in him to reconcile the World to himselfe should giue Adams soule iustice by faith should raise vp his Bodie and make a new World by his power whereby hee can subdue all things to himselfe This is the summe of the song tolde through all Bookes of the Bible A Digression to shew the Concent of all the holy Bookes Geneses sheweth how by the WORD of IEHOVAH the heauens were made and all the settled army of them by the Spirite of his mouth and when man fell the WORD telling that to destroy the workes of Satan he would be made flesh and haue a Tabernacle in vs. In which point the Fathers faith vnto the charge of Iosephs bones to bee caried vnto the Land wherein our Lordes resurrection should be a Testimony of a new World taught by Ioseph in his bones long after his death By faith he taught by his dead bones of the new world and therein Geneses end hath a new Geneses All simple should learne CHRIST from the Gospell of Geneses wher 's his Godhead so familiarly delited in the holy Prov. 8. and shewed in appearances that he would be man All yong men brought vp to be Bishops of the Kings armies or Church would reioyce to haue learned Geneses in Ebrew by heart In old age they should gather the fruit Obiection of them that are not bought from the earth S. Ierome saith Iewes read not the three first chapters of Geneses till they be 30. yeeres old Answere None should cite Ierome to make him a foole or to win the Whetstone Maymony in Morch Nebuchim hath this sentence that none did Darash read as a Doctor expoundeth Genes 1. and 2. and 3. and Ezech. 1. before he was aged 30. So S. Ierom meant Iewes all teach their Children from seauen to read all Moyses It were better that Rome were with Helice and Bura then Popes should be suffred so to bring most wickedly the word of life into a deadly hatred Of Iob. Iob is a booke for all holy to take notice of for instructing their families in the knowlede of Christ which Abraham carefully did as God testifieth the comfort of it their posterity shall finde as the booke setteth forth the faith and loue the effects of the Gospell 1. Thes 1. of his posterity euen before the Lawe was giuen to shewe that the godly had alwaies the Law written in their hearts 2. Cor. 3. Ier. 32. Rom. 2. Iob is a patron to all the faithfull in prosperitie for loue compassion iustice and equity c. in his afflictions his faith and hope in the Redeemer the seed promised whom he knew would take our nature vpon him to dy for him and by his Godhead rayse himselfe from death and that by his resurrection he should be raysed in the last day be made like his glorious body and that he euer liued to make intercession for him these thinges were his comfort in his greatest
That is If a heavy day had now first shined vnto me neither had sailed before so troublesome seas there would be iust cause of sorrow c. So sea is Dan. 7. Apo. 12. where Empires arise so the men of the seas policie called fish such as seemed aliue Chap. 3. Forsooke the waters Esa 55. and Eze. 48. which giue life to all where they come turned here to haerefie be turned to death and traffique of ciuill policie is turned to corruption The third blast expounding the second The third explication of the learned great telleth that the messinger of the holy Synagogue or heauen for the kingdome of heauen shall fall from his calling to be as Babilons king Isai 14. A star setting Nemrod his house on fire will soone corrupt the third part of the Bible called waters Isa 55. Ioh. 3. and 1. Ioh. 3. and infinitely in Rabbins Hee shall turne Iustice of faith into Idolatry as Ephraim in Amos. That many men died the second death called fish afore by Idols worship So the Pope turning the holy doctrine into idolous waters is called wormewood Articles of the Popes corruption of Scriptures First He holdeth not the Hebrew and Greeke holy text in vse God owne holy wordes penned by the Eternall Spirit speaking all of life by the SON in dayly esteeme for all in leisure of studie to know and which all of leisure to studie should know But in steed of it brought in a Latin worke of which tongue none is bound to haue regard and brought vnto schooles Latin for Greeke and Ebrew II. The Apocrypha bookes were all made by Men of Iuda And speake not a syllable of CHRIST yet helpe Iosephus for all Israel against Appiones Instim Diodorus Siculus Cornelius Tacitus in madd Antiochus and so far haue their vse The fable of Tobi is made to busie heathen for Assurs captiuitie which heathen neuer mention nor Iudahs deportation to Babel or returne For it Barucs forged Epistles Susannaes allegorie for the whole state King Ioakims wife polluted by the Babilonian Iudges but reuenged by Daniel is wittilie fabled The enuious heathen neuer mention the fire quenched by Daniels most noble Cousins Therefore a Rhetoricall song was formed to shew what in the fyer their cause might speake to Idol-seruers But Daniel recordeth nothing spoken who knew all and would omitt nothing of glorie So no heathen tell as Ieremi of Babell Bels seruants who thought Bell gaue them kindoms that GOD by Cyrus would take out of Bels throte all the kingdomes which he had deuoured therefore the fable of Bell mocked heathens blindnesse No heathen tell of Daniel cast into the Lions den for not worshipping the Persian Emperor or Dragon as Pharaoh is Isa 27. and mouing the K. to renounce that the fable of the Dragon worshipped in Babel and destroyed telleth of their enuy and folly And vpon Darius speach to Daniel that GOD in whom he belieued would saue him and Daniel said he was saued because justice to GOD and the K. were found in him Abbakuks saying the iust man shall liue by faith is enlarged by a fable that Abakuk brought Daniel pottage from Iudea The heathen knew not Gods counsell that God by Iewes would teach in Babels fall how he hated the pompe of this world and hath another world for soules Rest where wicked shal be plagued for euer and telleth that true happinesse standeth in the knowledge of Christ who gaue Cyrus all Croesus gold to send Iewes home from all quarters to preach of their Eternall hope and to confute Greeke sages The 3. of Esdras is much true much in fable to smooch this in a greek stile familiar for heathen and such fables be the additions to Hester The fourth of Esdras was made to keepe Esdras another Moses from contempt amongst heathen who would thinke him base that handleth but Iewes genealogies and the Temples building without telling the reason and diuorcements therefore they faine for him deepe speculations as the greeks Clem. Strom. 1. feigne all the Law was lost and Esdras by reuelation restored all The Persians for religion were a new Nebuchadnezar their warriers one Holophernes Herodotus nameth one so The Iewes states Iudith Gods justice against Elam Iudiths sword And thus heathen that would mocke truth are mocked by fables Wicked Diodorus Sicul. and Tacitus commend madde Antiochus for his endeuor to ouerthrow the Iewes religion Two workes of seuerall Iewes the later very foolish and vnlearned yet good enough for prophane heathen were receiued to stop such mouthes The whole nation is of wicked Tully termed barbarous and superstitious to stoppe such a mouth eloquent Syracides passing him in sentences and shewing all the Lawes glory and eloquent Philo imitating Salomons wisedome for mans good end were receiued to check heathen though one knew not Christ Of these the fable of Toby is by the Pope made Gods word The Thal. Ieru in Ros Hasana for Michael and Gabriel make it a late fable wicked For Manasses caried to Babel by the King of Assur some tryfling declamer would shew what one in his case might speake as doth Homer for Agamemnon Achilles Calchas Nestor and such but it were a ridiculous babishnes to hold that trifling worke better then Tobies fable A plaine fable throughout and no fitter to be read in sadnesse in the Church then Lucians dialogues The Popes ioyning of these to the Bible is wormewood III. Wormewood holdeth not these 3. principles true which all should 1. The text of the old Testam is kept in letter most sure by the orthographie dictionarie or Massoreth that no letter was more nor lesse nor of other orme in Moses tyme with vowels and accents margine reading expounding the text then we haue it at this day 2. That the Rabbins expound all in grammer sense well for our vse 3. That all good for religion and life is in Moses as the Prophets and Apostles draw him foorth at large IIII. The Pope in Bellarmine and others peruerteth or contemneth euery whit of the Bible V. He maketh a whole policie wicked against all points of faith and ciuill lawes and would bee as a God in the Church so set foorth 2. Thes 2. Thus he is wormewood it selfe How he groweth vp to be a great mountaine to be able to vexe the world that followeth in the next Trumpet and keyes of the deepe The fourth expounding the third The fourth Angell sounded and the third part of the Sun Moone and Starres were stricken for their third parte day and night Gen. 37. Iacob expoundeth Sun Moone Starrs for his Church so it is heere day and night are ruled by the starres and meane the tymes more or lesse prosperous scholars and learned falling away corrupted scriptures make an ecclesiasticall mountaine from a burning lampe falling from God The occasions of the Churches fall from heauen The two Testaments shew that CHRIST is the Angell of the Couenant standing by his humanitie at the Altar
is a sin most high to crucifie Christ againe and to make him an open shame the Crucifix through all popery sheweth heere that he is Apollyon Pilate knew as Mary that Christ was crucified But that holpe nothing But he could not consider the L. of glorie crucified And the Crucifix cannot expresse that but leaueth only a base obiect Heerein hee is an Apollyon and so in all Pointes A digression to our Prayer booke made from the Popes Our prayer booke was made when Papists were the more in Parliament and allowed by our side for mens infirmitie as Luc. 3. alloweth Cainā a sonne to Arphaxad And Acts. 7. soules 75. for 70. And as S. Paul allowed circumcision for Timothie But Christ should profit the Galathiās nothing if they simply did it allow The whole booke is bent to the Popes veine if there were nothing false in wordes the frame draweth hate with it For weaknesse in other I would allow it vntill I could persuade to better But seeing prayer is our seruice to God the Lords prayer and his Psalmes learnedly chosen for all occasions should serue the turne Tobie is a fable and pēned full of lies of purpose that the reader should hold it no better Yet because Antiquitie saw some vse in the fable ours suffered it till better light came When simple put a Parliament in trust the Parliaments ouersights should be no plague to the simple Al who feare God will stick only to his word vrge no more I haue taught most vnthankfull Buyshopps the Creedes article that soules go vp not downe and the holy to heauen not to hell Archbi Whitgift yeelded by M r Geoffrey King and knew that I cared not for voices of men sure to perish if they stood to their error And thirteen year agoe I knew not of an other liuing of my minde but I was sure I could make them worthy of Ioakims buriall that durst burne my writing and Anathema Maran Atha while they liued and for euer Spedily the best ouer Christendome flocked to my minde although some of Geneua Marpurg Hanaw for rancour deny all helpes for their owne victorie make them selues enimies to God and al good men to make a Gehennean torment of a going to the most happy dead in Abrahams bosome The learned Fath. L. T. Winton hath cleared this cause shewed that neither Westminster nor Rhodanus Alpin through-flowen towne should binde men to their witts Our speach to God is our only cōfort in this world and they who will hinder vs from the best in this kinde shall haue their portion with profane in weeping gnashing of teeth Since the King came to England the Realme might haue had the Bible well translated 5. yeares agoe with euery mans freedom to speak for the best a table for psalmes for all the ordinarie yeare all particular occasions and for reading Law with Prophets Gospel Epistles and both Vniuersities by this day ready in both Testaments But they had rather rent one another thē haue the peace of God to guard their tongues in the eloquence of Gods worde But now let vs returne to our Popes Of Antichrist his Chaldy name Ionathan Ben Vziel a rare Ebrew Doctor elder then S. Pauls Gamaliel expoūdeth Isaich xi When he saith Christ shal consume the wicked with the spirit of his mouth He sheweth what wicked euen wicked RHOMILVS he knew that Balaam made but East Assur West Cittim Grecia Grecia Maior Italy to afflict the holy therfore speaketh vpon a most sure groūd that that wicked was Rhomilus Arias Monta. knew that heere he brake the Popes neck if he came forth truly vnder the Popes grant therfore leaueth out the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Romylus And what be our Papae of Croydon other Parochies that could neuer spie this dealing If the K. Roial vow to the Bibles honor had not bin hindred by Bishops the Ebrew with Massorit the Caldy in true copie had been seene by this day in work But whē Buishopps crossing hindereth the workman what can the Kinges money doe when the dogges neither eat hay nor suffer the oxe yet heere the old Prouerbe taketh place Mendacem memorem esse oportet Boderianus the fellow-laborer in his Chaldie dictionarie he not priuie to the guile citeth the Chaldi perfect But spelleth it subtilly not Romylus which Ionathan expressed most learnedly to any Rabbin but he spelleth it Armilus to make nothing of it but Antichrist or Antideus or by some Gog or Magog But Gamaliels scholar who to the Hebrewes passeth in Talmudiques all Ebrewes that none but by Talmudikes helpe shall euer vnderstand him speciallie in Melchitzedeke liuing still as God whom he describeth in office euen as they who in storie knew to be SEM this Talmudique of Salem Orator of Tarsus borne to be Abba Abba Papa for Rome as Peter for Babell Psal 87. He expoūdeth Isai xi and Ionathan most soundly that when the present gouernour should be taken away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is any gouernour that restrayneth others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then man of sinne should come And although God still plagued Rome by Alaricus Gensericus Thodoricus and Totilas specially yet the Papae still begged land and tooke Imperiall name as Pontifex in Sozimus and by wealth ouermatched Constantinus Popes that whē no punishment made Rome humble but would haue there the Empire againe set vp and cared not for the trueth spirite of deceit should worke to their destruction that would not receyue the loue of the trueth to saluation SO THENCE WAS THE REBELLION TO ARISE MAN OF SIN APOLLYON SONNE OF PERDITION ENIMIE LAVLESSE KING OF LOCVSTS THE NEW ANTIOCHVS EXALTING HIM SELFE ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD AND NOT SETTING THE IDOLL OF IVPITER OLIMPIVS IN THE TEMPLE BVT VAVNTING HIMSELFE AS IF HE WERE GOD to expound scriptures to loose or fasten sin to sett vp or depose States And to haue a people of his owne frame and to burne the true Temple of God The Epilogue for the description of the Pope Fiue Trumpets described the Popes greatnesse how it grew to be a kingdome of Locusts able to sting and to ouerrule in warres his last mischiefes are tolde first how in his high power he bringeth haile of troubles fire mixed with blood when he is made a mountaine of Empire cast into the sea from a starre or Doctor of the Church falling into Idolls worship and soone darkening a third part of the chiefest in quicke processe a smoke of blindnesse darkeneth Sonne and Sunne and Scripture that the Pope is to mightie to bee ouerthrowen As when he sent Princes to warre for Ierusalem and to spend all their strength there since now 600. yeres his might is high Now follow three poinctes Machmads inuasions and martyrs fight and lastly Christians Policies in warre his match Of Machumed or Machmad or Moamed in Piel Hiphil Hophall the participles three are vsed in Arabique Rabbins The
wickednesse as high as the Diuels can goe Yet all that goe vnder Papists names are not of this minde nor Giltinesse but all well charged with error here are gilty without good change of mind While this standeth honor to Mary aboue her place The Popes throne Satans be all one For this maine poinct would I gladly haue a learned Papist to reply that all might see what can be spoken against the trueth Of the Dragons speach Lawes be the speach of a Policy and the Popes decretals ouerruling states are wicked commonly though all cannot be senslesse yet by vnlawfull men vrged they are all wicked Seeing the Pope can haue no more right thē a Teacher if he were learned al frō him is like an hand blackened with pitch And S. Paul taught the Romans that euery soule should submitt himselfe to the higher power Nero was then in place and S. Paul appealed vnto him And Nero the wicked man in politie sensible from natiue witt was S. Pauls gard the good of the world against the Scribes Synedrion to which all must stande Deut. 17. prouided alwayes that they speake sensibly from the Law otherwise all their right was lost and when they persequuted Christ He gaue the Romanes their auctority for life and death that Iewes might not kill any 40. yeares before Ierusalem fell So the heathen Lawes giuen for mans ciuill good be the earth that drinketh vp the riuer cast out of the Dragons mouth to drowne the Church Of the two hornes counterfaiting the Lambes The Pope praetendeth to folow Aharon and the Leuites and thence commeth his spirituall sword and he will without all color of warrant be a King of Kings and Lord of Lords His wickednesse in the first being detected should shew that the Dragon speaketh in him Aharon had no more to doe with gouernemēt then any other man nor any of his sonnes and it was death for any to meddle with his trade that was not of his seede that his house should be distinct till Christ of Iudah sacrificed himselfe through the veile of his flesh went not into the Limbum as the deceiued hold but into the very heauens after this Leuies office was wholly ended though M r. Eduward Liuely be commended for his Persian Chronologie Which maketh sacrifices of Gods house hindred in Emporour Vespasians dayes that they could not be done by whom they ought to be done or not so diligently as they ought He and his commēders missed strangely of Christianity vnto the depth of Satans badnesse and next them the Pope Aharons sonnes for strange fier were presently killed and were not forgiuen in this world but were in the world to come But the Pope blaspheming the Holy Ghost and the plaine trueth of Gods spirite shall neither be forgiuē in this world nor in the world to come but as Iscariot in this world is giuen ouer from sin to sin that he cannot come to the iustice of God and is expresly condemned to aeternall flames for the world to come Chap. 19. Of the Popes succession The Popes brag of succession euer since S. Peters dayes in vaine S. Peter was no Priest nor of Leui But an Elder 1. Pet. 5. and hauing no more honorable faith then those Elders Elders neuer had particular succession though he Thalmud in Aboth to proue wicked traditions feigne succession howe one deliuered ouer Lawe by mouth May. praef Tom. 1. Gamaliel had S. Paul S. Paul Timothie and millions who kept the Bible to this day And Christian Princes who truely knew God left succession in some of their policie and still there were some Apostolie or Angelie Ecclesiae that sagely read the Bible and Baptized and brake bread the Communion of the body of Christ and gaue the Cupp his New Testa blood The high Councill made Doctores and they were all either learned in Diuinitie or in great blame before God and one skilfull might make thousandes in few year that men should not brag of succession from one to know both Testaments pure in write sure for meaning by auctores of the tongue where enimies and friendes vse language alike and praeceptiue for all that ought to bee knowen this dutie a Doctor should performe to shew the face of Christ to shine like the sunne through all the Bible But neuer Pope to this day could doe this much Therefore they should not clayme the spirituall horne As holy Paul wished K. Agrippa and all the assemblie equall to himselfe sauing his bondes And S. Luke ioyed to pen S. Paules infinite witte therein and what an Asse he made of Tertullus so true Papae would haue reioyced to haue made all Princes that gaue them reuerence perfect in the word of God But they had not S. Ieromes spirite to goe by might to learne of a Iewe the Ebrew tongue and to write till 91. to open Gods worde Hee alone did more then euer were in Rome Papae Therefore hee deserued more reuerence then they all and the slow bellies should be ashamed to be such Kinges of Locusts in the world and all Cardinals Buyshopps that crosse that crosse the common Lawes of nations And People must needes be wicked that honor the prelate in Iudgement Esai 32. repeteth Moyses law and saith for the Gospell that vnder it Nabal shall not be called Nadib The foole shall not be called most reuerend or right reuerend But hee shal be such whose studie standeth in most reuerend or right reuerend matters I now translate Nadib a generall terme of high title Isai 13. to particular speciall vse euery commandement of God hath his Maiestie which created the World and they breed Monsters that make crosse lawes Of the ancient facilitie in teaching the Law The holy Iewes did as all men should honor the finger of God in the two tables wherein all wisedome of faith manners is conteined And a late worke Tiphereth glory of Israel telleth that Ebrew letters vowels prickes accents are at this day as God set in the two tables All Popes Academies deny this their owne glory and would make mans witt auctor of these three that all should bee accursed who make man their strength So wise is the Church that cannot erre as to deny the pillar of truth But still God kept in the company of some that belonged to the Church the ground of trueth This being setled wee may go on to shew how the godly did honor the tables of God There they reckon letters 613. And because the ten Commandements for faith and workes conteine all Diuinitie the holy Scribes drew all Lawes of Moses into the number of 613. They might haue made them moo or fewer But by Gods spirite in honor of Gods writing they bring them to his letter 613. to shew Gods care in the Law that one Iod or prick should not perish so wee see that God honoreth the Alphabet order psalmes 25. 34. 37. 111. 112. 119. 145. Prou. 31. Lam. 6.
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
manifold and vnsearchable is the wisedome of God The Iewes seeing Ioseph gone for Ieroboam might feare lest Iuda should fall more for killing of Christ that now only Saint Pauls Bishopricke of the West is best in Christianitie he foretold how Rome would deceiue and bad them not to be proud but feare and not ouerrule the ciuill officer but be subiect all this is vaine to many Iosephs Beryll the glorie of Paradise is now abiect Of the Topaz Simeon hath the ninth place to be very base yet afore manie of the handmaides children Of the Chrysophrase The Chrysophrase is a white Achate with a golden lace and part greene Achate simply is in Exod. 28. for Nephtaly Iohn giueth the trimmest of Achates as God shewed him And Nephtali is set before Dan because Dan first fell away Of the Hyacinth Leshem was Dan his stone and in notation it is Folow God and in the partition of the lande Leshem the Towne was giuen to Dan as prophecied in the name of his stone though it were farre from the other soile of his where Samson dwelt Semel is an idole Alpha and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mega gaue him warning that he turned not the Letters But none can stand longer than God stayed him Ionathan the some of Manasses of Gerson of Moses who would thinke it he and his house were Priests to the idole till the remouing of the glorie from Ephraim and Ieroboam regarding not that set vp a Calfe in Dan. The Antichrist by imitation of idoles is Dans childe Barbarous Rome cannot auoid that but by a ridiculous distinction of Idole and Image Of Gads Amethyst God of ordinarie course should folow Dan and Aser the yonger being set before him for Anna the daughter of Phanuel Thus Iohn comforteth the 12. tribes in their owne veine of speach calling all their stories of 1700. yeeres often reuolued in the same desert to shew the Constancie of God to encourage the 12. tribes not to be amazed that Rome hath crucified Christ and destroyed the lowe Ierusalem but to know that it also shall be destroyed after vnwilling furthering of the Gospell by martyring and when ease and wealth bringeth blindnesse and error it shall vnder praetense of holinesse and by persequution cause more study of Law then all former ages had The Iewes soone would climme into the mountaine of Tabâ—r in minde to acknowledge this description to be all from the Prophets and most easie to vnderstand And this cutteth off all Iudaisme which the Rabbins haue to this houre who from Ezekiel 40. looke still for a returne to Canaan But against that S. Peter told them that euery Prophecie of Scripture is not to bee expounded properlie And the twelue gates were twelue pearles euery one seuerall gate was of a pearle The wordes of the holy Apostles open the way into the Citie and the spirit of God spake in them and no one could be aboue the other but euery one stood a foundation vpon the Rocke By them which haue written we know that the others had wordes also as pearles When the Pope buried the stile of the Apostles and brought in Romes tongue and neither that pure then the pearles lost their gaynesse And the street of the Citie was pure gold as cleere glasse The open lawes are agreeable to the soules frame in iudgment from God and rules of faith bee cleere Rome hath scant one rule of either But their lawes crosse commune reason and their speaches of faith be either false or litigious And a Temple I saw not in it for the Lord God of hostes is the Temple and the Lambe Earthly buildings profit not as all S. Stephens oration telleth and the faithlesse Iew Izhak Ben. Arama Port. 52. shewing how the Tabernacle thrise described and set vp did litle helpe they presently misbelieuing And Salomons Temple after his death was robbed by Shisak King of Egypt and rejected of the tenne Tribes And this as the Iew confesseth to shew that God rested in CHRIST a goodlier Temple the heauen and the earth whose teÌ„ple when it should be once pull'd downe he would raise it vp the third day Moyses Law ye shall stand in reuerence of my Tabernacle tooke effect for punishment in Ephraim for Elies sonnes defiling of women waiting there that God foresooke his Tabernacle in Shiloh and Ephraim fell in the day of battel 34000. 1. Sam. chap. 4. and Psal 78. Nabuchadnezar that destroyed the Temple was so many yeeres like a beast as the Temple was in building And his Babell for the holy Temple was destroyed The carnall Iewes vrged Moyses Law against Christ as to death That he said destroy this Temple and I will build it againe in three dayes He spake of his owne Temple For which the Law of Moses was made and the Tabernacle and the frame of the world and because they stood not in reuerence of his Temple hee destroyed them By the former Law as they martyred S. Stephen for saying Iesus of Nazareth would destroy the Temple And they meant as much for S. Paul for speaking teaching against the Temple and they thought he had brought Trophimus a grecian of Ephesus into the Temple and so polluted it But the true Temple they saw not till theirs was destroyed And here Iohn expoundeth Moses That God the Lord of hostes the Angels and goodly frame of the world That CHRIST in whom all fullnesse it selfe dwelleth is the Temple And they that crucifie a picture as his making him vile or worship a piece of bread as his body being a mockage to Angells and men shall finde no place in Ierusalem The Temple of the Lambe must be vsed as hee teacheth It sitteth in shining light in heauen and may not be made base in this darke ayer by our foolish inuentions his owne commanded works as Salomons Temple cannot conteine God 1. King 8. Act. 7. Esai 66. This one rule ouerthroweth all Talmudiques by the Prophets whose words they reuereÌ„ce A plaine conclusion from Esai 60. and 51. and Ezeck 47. of the Gentiles Ierusalem And the Citie shall haue no neede of the sun to giue light in it for the glory of God lightneth it and the Candle of it is the LAMBE Isai 60. Arise be lightned for thy light is come and the light of the ETERNAL riseth ouer thee Ephes. 4. He saith arise thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead and Christ shall shine to thee Many Rabbines as S. Paul draw Esaies words to Christ and when Iohn wrote 144000. Iewes faithfull would so take it Isai 60. The Sun shal be no more thy light on the day and the brightnesse of the Moone shall not giue light vnto thee But the ETERNAL shal be thy continuall light and thy GOD shall bee thy honor Thy Sun shall no more sett and thy moone shall not be hid for the Eternall will be thy continuall light and the dayes of thy mourning shall be gone worldly ioy shall not bee thy