praise our God all his seruants and they that feare him both small and great This short summe of Diuinitie distinguisheth vs from Papists who make Gods of Creatures and giue praise to them where God only will be feared And I heard the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters as the voice of strong thunders saying Halelu-iah for the Lord God of hostes doth reigne let vs reioyce and be glad and let vs giue him glory For the mariage of the Lambe is come and the wife hath praepared her selfe and it was giuen her to put on white linen pure and shining For the linen is the iustice of the sainctes When whole kingdomes call vpon God and fight for the Gospell with successe it is fitted to continual noise of waters as Ezekiel 1. 24. the kingdomes that made Gods iudgements knowen are likened to much water the thunder of Gods power is well expressed by thunder of the ayer Psalm 29. All tendeth to Aleluiah Praise God in whom wee breath for rescuing vs from Satan with manifestation of his kingdome And let not England forget the goodnesse of the Lord but acy remember it and not hide it from their children but to the generation to come to shewe the prayses of the Eternall his power also his wonderfull workes that he hath done The light of the Gospell now these hundred yea hath bene exceeding great to greater knowledge then euer since the Apostles tymes the Church had And all reformed Countreies flow with learned men And sage cariage is heere laid out to the eye in white linen This short rule must alwayes hold God will make known who bee his and all must depart from sinne that call vpon the name of God And he saith vnto mee write Blessed are they that are called to the supper of the mariage of the Lambe This should be written in all hearts that they only be happie which in the Lords Supper protest the aboundance of grace of the gift of iustice The bread bare wine bare taken in the sage vse that our soules feed vpon his incarnation and redemptioÌ„ is as strong as the frame of the world to stay vs in Christ The auctority of the speaker who made the world by his word must be looked vnto and as our eyes iudge of the frame of the world and our minde to what inuisible vse all was made subiect to a man so our eyes must iudge of bread wine our minds that Christ suffring for vs ended sacrifice offring By seale of things without life by bread and blood of the grape by the terme supper the whole tenor of Christianity is meant but the acceptation of the seale is an open action to distinguish vs froÌ„ others The Pope corrupted from the playnesse that is in Christ and making Priest sacrifice hath missed wholy of the trueth in Christ as Iannes â—nd Iambres resisted Moses Papists would make fooles belieue that Calvin bread this symbolum corporis and in other matters if Calvin hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a rash word they vrge that vpon whole Churches Their eyes might tell that the ancient Grecians neuer made question heere neither had combat with haeretiques heere Eusebius after Origen recorder of the whole Churches opinion in praep calleth Bread and Wine Icones symbola Neither did any after him striue against that but full many followed him God is light and all the Bible is so plaine to a sound student that none can moue doubt but to his plague The Papists cary in a siluer chest a wafer of meale as the bodie of Christ making themselues a scoffe to God and his Angels and the barbarous thinke by vnlearned prating to make their cause good They come 40. yer short of learning to defende the common groundes against a subtill Iew or Turke as to this syllogisme of Machmad If the scripture be corrupted another iudge must be had The Pope not only granteth but vrgeth also this this But the scripture is corrupted Therefore another iudge must be had I will ioyne with Turke Iew and Pope to grant the Preposition But against Turke Iew and Pope our side I deny the assumption and hold the text pure This no Romist yet euer saw Therefore their studies must bee holden vnfitt to rule in Diuinity And he saith to mee these words of God be true By reason that the carnall man cannot see the glorie of the wisedome which is in the couenant of CHRIST in plaine simplicitie full of heauenly trueth The Angell stayeth vpon this doctrine as opposite to Rome working Romes fall handled chap. 18. And I fell downe at his feete to haue worshipped him he saith to me do not For I am fellow seruant to thee to thy brethren which haue the testimonie of IESVS Worship God for the spirite of prophecie is the testimonie of IESVS Heere Iohn sheweth mans weaknesse to Idol-seruice in his transe ready to worship the Angel And telleth that Angells be ministring spirites for our saluation God only must bee worshipped The spirites that teach teach of Christ that he only must bee worshipped In the old Testament Christ is called an Angel and is worshipped but no created Angel is worshipped The warres of Christ and Christians against the Empire and Pope And I saw the heauen opened and behold a white horse and hee that sate vpon him was called faithfull and true and in Iustice doth he iudge war And his eyes were like a flame of fire he had vpon his head many Diademes hauing a name written which none knew but himselfe and clothed in a garment dipped in blood and his name is called the WORD OF GOD. The heauen opened sheweth what shall be opened in the Church the white horse is sincere might the Ryder is called faithfull and true to assure vs of victory against mighty states and he iudgeth warreth in righteousnesse vnable to abide sinne still to reigne his eyes bee a flame of fire searching in iustice to the bottome as Daniel 10. for the ouerthrowe of Xerxes armie and Apo. 1. and 2. And his many Diademes sheweth that he will rule Kinges in many Countreyes And the name written which none knoweth but himselfe signifieth the Godhead dwelling in light that none can come to His garment dipped in blood is expounded Esai 63. shewing that the enemies blood shall make him known as vnder old Assur and Cittim And his name is the WORD OF GOD as in Iohn the first and infinitely in Onkelos Iehouah is the WORD of IEHOVAH These mightie titles comfort the Church that they shall bee sure of a victorie Reigne still O King MESSIAS for we rest on thee reigne still O King of Sainctes and wee will folow after thee And the armies in the heauen folow him vpon white horses clothed in linen white and cleane The valiant Christians with speed and courage folow Christ and in synceritie of truth though Lutherans
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
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.
alone which mongst the Cities all Hath seauen hills encompass'd with a wall And Ovid is playner Quae de septem totum circumspicit orbem Collibus Imperij Roma Deumque locus Of Empire and of godds Rome is the place Which from seau'n hills all the world doth outface Propertius and Galen in Aphoris Hipp. and they who name the mountaines may be spared All serue Apo. 17. Now God that is One he from one mountaine will fight against seaven Psal 68. will tell what Mount Zion is The church hath high matter vnto whose height of studie the prophane cannot climme Alexander could match Porus vpon his high rock But he durst not medle with mount Tzion So Philosophers can speak much to the height of heauen but vnto Paradise aboue the heauens no thought of theirs could euer come And as heathen were amazed at starres worshipped them so Papists are amazed at Martyrs and worship them The Pope should studie the Bible and cause all scholars to do the same in Ebrew Greeke and conference of stories to passe all Martyrs sauing the Apostles age taught from God without studie should confirme in open studie the doctrine which Christ sealed by his blood So he had made an holy Citie But Rome begun with bloodshed of brother when Romulus killed Rhemus not as Salem with Sem and Izhak in peace redemtion would ende with bloodshed of brethren and to goe to heauen as Romulus and Iulian the Apostata in somnio Scipionis and in Sozimus and Apolline Delphico And as Libanius said that Iulian was with the Daemones and the Greeke Doctores granted that with heart and good will So we will grant with heart and good will that the Pope and his Martyrs shall be together Of the great Citie Ierusalem Though Nympha the Church in song of SS hide it selfe as a doue in cliffes of rockes as few yet when all of all ages are put togeather they make a great Citie And this Citie should haue holy Lawes to worship God in spirit and truth all sent from heauen and hauing the glory of God And the light of it was like a most pretious stone as the Carbuncle stone glittering The 70. in Isai chap. 54. 12. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Codcod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Thargum Ierusalemy Nophec the stone of Iuda is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christallos Thence Saint Iohn hath his matter and he that marketh not that teach that Iohn bringeth matter without warrant which he neuer doth thorough his booke but still confirmeth his matters from olde speaches So the stone of Iuda maketh the windowes that the sunne of iustice may shine in and the gates shal be of flaming stones cleere Doctrine that may call all vnto Christ And all thy borders shall bee pleasant stones for thy children shall bee taught of the Eternall so the taught of God be the precious stones such was Moses and Iosua such were Isai Ieremy Ezekiel Daniel such were Paul and all the holy Apostles and all that sincerely know and cleaue to their Doctrine But no Bellarmine that would disgrace the wit writ of the scriptures No such shall be any stones heere but be as common sandes parching in heat and dangerous in winde still fruitlesse And it had a wall great and high hauing xij gates and vpon the gates xij Angels and names written which are of the 12. tribes of the sonnes of Israel The wall is the defence by Christ as followeth anon that the inner building of the wall was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carbuncle The gates haue Angels to conduct them that shall be saued and the true storie of the XII tribes taught heere by their names teach others a passage into the citie This matter expresseth Ezekiel 47. where the names of the tribes of Israel be vpon the gates and the gates 3. to each of the foure corners of the world From the East three gates from the North 3. gates from the South 3. gates from the West 3. gates Ezekiel beeing in Babel North from the East of Israell began that men should come to the holy Citie from the North where Israel was scattred But for vs in the West where the Church is best in our ends of the earth the possession of Christ Ierusalem beeing East was first to be named and next the North for holy Daniels sake the light of the world whom moo in Albion vnderstand then in the world besides and I hope moo shall by my inlargement nowe comming forth teaching how the new Testament commenteth vpon him Then the ordinary course the coast ioyned to the East the South where the Iewes were scattred by the Ptolomies and a long tyme Alexandria bare Patriarches Athanasius a wonder for holy Diuinity and Greeke eloquence and great Cyrill great though not equall to Athanasius whose long commentarie vpon Isai in Greek I haue and wish it printed Thence D. B. may see vpon Isai 38. what he meant by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strengthen his owne most learned Syllogisme which breaketh the necke of Purgatory when Haides is knowen to haue but Heauen and Hell Alexandria in the South had glorie as Antioch North. That wheresin abounded grace should more abound Antiochi deserued no such fauor the head of Magog in Siria But God promissed Eze. 39. to glorifie his name about Magog And therfore would haue Christians to beare the name first from the place most hatefull and next Alexandria the next hatefull to bee high and Rome that crucified Christ yet for some helpe they had shewed the Maccabees and certaine good captaines Math. 8. and 27. and Act. 10. and 23. and 27. God would pity that cursed towne Though Constantinus new Rome bare sway a great while but the Buy-shop of Rome still worked to ouerthrow Bizantium that he might haue the throne of Satan in higher measure And Bizantium had not medled with Gods people and long had no occasion of high throne for God to shew later anger But had farre more learned then Rome euer and scant euer acknowledged Romes purgatorie And to the West from Chanaan in the Land Gyges or Gog as Croesus wealth enabled Cyrus when hee tooke Sardis to send Israel home from 120. nations So God by Iohn gaue Sardis his Apocalyps that it kept religion farre longer then Rome Now as God placed the tribes about the Arke three nobles of Leah Eastward the blemished to parching sun and the basest Northward and the last borne and dearest towardes Sun-set to shew that his mercy reacheth most to the furthest off Of these the Psal 80. speaketh before Ephraim Beniamin and Manasses stir vp thy strength come and helpe vs. That is as Shem Tob well noteth at the Sun-set of our state and our last birth as Ioseph and Beniamin were most tendered shew O Lord now the fathers fauour to the children Paul the Hebrew of Hebrewes of Beniamin he chalengeth for him selfe and his