sin should arise Both be heere in one dragon which the profane Caesares and the Popes can not perceiue They who be of the heauenly state they all do see the Dragon is the Diuill or accusar of God the great is the Diuells power by Rome the ruddy bloodie persecution His seauen heades are seauē states of Rome ouer THE FAITHFVL as the Iewes knew their story full well Pompei by Rome was an Emperour in the East But perished neere in the land of Cham. So in Iudah M. Crassus was after him armed ouer Iudah as a King for Rome who robbed the Temple of Salem of Abrahams house but at Abrahams Charan he and his army had a most famous destruction Iulius Caesar made Cleopatra Lady of Iudah who perished in Capitolio for that Brutus Cassius force after was a King for Rome They by Antoni perish Antoni hath the East and marieth Cleopatra and ruleth Iuda and both perish So fiue diademes of the Dragon perish The 6. state is the wholle power which crucified Christ and his members till our Helenaes sonne left Rome and New Troy to be a pillage to Alaricus Giezerichus Theodoricus Totilas for old persecuting of martyrs The seuenth is the Popes wealth getting landes by S. Peters forged supremacy and setting vp the Empire in the West These be the seauen diademes spoken to the Iewes plaine vnderstanding Heathen stories may fitt Romes 7. other states The more fall out fitt as often many do to one speach the more Rome that crucified Christ is condemned when GOD turneth continuall reuolution to haue Rome called into minde Moreouer the allusion is to Daniels foure beastes which had 7. heades The Lion one the Beare one the Leopard foure the fourth beast one The Roman state winning all those contreyes of the East are fitly noted by their armes And specially by the then hornes The Seleucidae by fiue kinges vexed Iudah by warres against Lagidae and Lagidae by so many againe wasted Iuda So that Greeke beast in one parted Kingdome had 10. hornes From that beast the Roman beast hath also ten Kingdomes at the least and vnder Augustus and vnder the Pope rekoned to that number Strabo 17. Steuch contra Vallum Lib. 2. so these matters be all most plaine Of the tayle The prophane Caesares persecution moued few Christians the starres of heauen to fall But the taile of the Empire the false prophet that speaketh lies he as Antiochus Daniel 8. maketh many fall from heauen praetending religion with much praetense and no substance The combat of the Roman Empire with the Church And the Dragon stood before the woman beeing in trauaile that when she bore her childe he might deuour it And she bare a manly sonne which will rule all nations with a sceptre of yron And the child was taken vp to God and to his throne The allusion is from the dayes of Christ borne in Bethleem when Satan by Herodes swords would haue deuoured him but his mother fled with him to Egypt after that Satā hoped to deuour him in the graue he was taken vp into heauē so when Christians soules trauailed to breed Christ the Emperors stormed to deuour that doctrine as Dauid told Ps 2. But they brought forth into the light of the world the SON would bruse all nation-with an yron sceptre as he did bruse the image in Daniel And shewed that his throne is in heauen being taken vp vnto the aeternall King And the Christians fled into the wildernesse as CHRIST did in the tyme of his preaching or halfe seauen Dan. 9. and often handled in the Gospell in Eusebius handled and of Beda who cited the Apoc. allusions M. Scaliger and others that make mo yeares of our Lordes preaching spent ill good houres All tyme of affliction is sweetly termed by our Lords affliction to be as his of dayes 1260. though it were of 300. yer vnder Caesares resistance and 600. vnder Popes enimies to Iohns Apocalyps The speach is full of comfort calling vs vnto the afflictions of Christ himselfe who reckoned all his owne dayes and will haue all our teares in his bottle and pay all dogges and Doegs for Cerberean barking A Commentary vpon the former vision And there was warre in heauen MICHAEL and his Angells made warre with the Dragon and the Dragon and his Angells made warre but held not strength neither was there place found any more for them in the heauen And the great Dragon the old Serpent called the Diuell and Satan who deceiueth the wholle world he was cast out againe I say he was cast and his Angels were cast with him into the earth The state of the faithfull heere is sweetly called hēauen to shew our certeinty of hope for the propre heauen as the word of Law and Gospell is as sure to vs as if we saw the third heauen that aboue the ayer and aboue the starres as S. Paul did at his first calling to a comfort against all his following afflictions so the holy Daniel that in one image made abridge from the end of the old Testament vnto the beginning of the new called the state after abrogation of Moises the Kingome of heauen Iohn Baptist doth begin with his tongue The kinddome of heauen is come And the aeternall WORLD the essentiall WORDE who spake and all was made he confirmeth the same speach to shew that Daniels Image was ended and the GOD of heauen setteth vp a kingdome that cannot be corrupted The obseruation of this speach had kept Daniel in a cleare meaning and not brought the West Empire of Christians for East Greeke Seleuco-Lagides athean Nor tymes after Christ for stories teaching when he would come The termes of the Bible be pearles still beate vpon the open story for noblest matters So Saint Paul Ebrew XI speaking of the Maccabees martyrs famous in the Talmudiques and after his dayes historied by Greeke Iewes saith from Daniels last speaches of double resurrection That they would not be deliuered because they looked for the better resurrection So he sheweth that Antiochus persequutions were the last mentioned in Daniel The Romans hindred not the Iewes holy religion till by the Pharisees they vexed our Lord himselfe when he opened the kingdom of heauen dayes 1260. They who without knowledge of Daniel would know the Gospel are as men that would goe from one Land to another parted by great waters without a shipp All that care for the kingdome of heauen will care for him And my paines in a third commentary an English a Latin a shorter in English came forth by my care and charges By the third milliones of our simple might haue knowen the Prophets whole heart But that Bargulus Illyricus would cast him into the Lions den If Lions rent not his bones I will commende him to the God of Daniel and the firy flames streaming from his throne for his fighting for the dragon against MICAEL and his Angells Of MICAEL Michael and Gabriel are the only holy
so Princes seeing that the former age by the Pope brought in the Turke to the hazard of the West and see that he knoweth not one letter in the LAW and is blinde in euery part of it and cannot make his owne cause good against the Turke or Iew they forsake him the seruant of seruants as God left the Chananites to bee conquered of Dauid So he is Chanaan they be Dauid and in his warre he shall be Iabin and by Sisera fall at Mageddon and bee no more able to resist And the great Citie became into three partes and the Cities of the nations fell and Babylon the Great was remembred before God to giue her the Cup of the Wine of the heate of his anger and euery Iland fled and the mountaines were not found and great haile talent bigge descended from heauen vpon the men and men blasphemed God for the stroke of the haile because the stroke of it was exceeding great By the Citie meane the policie and by three partes great diuision that it hath but a third part because the policies of nations fall from it and God remembred his anger told chap. 14. and as vnder the Caesares Ilands and Mountaines were moued from their place that is into another policy so heere alteration of policie is meant haile of a talent is great ouerthrowes by Gods hand the allusion being taken from plaguing the Chanaanites Ios chapter 10. where haile killed more then sword So the Spanish fleete hath often had great shipwrake by the extraordinarie hand of GOD specially 1588. And what an infinite masse of money and millions of men hath Netherland consumed to him And lately Venice shewed his weaknesse that he durst not goe forward to warre and specially Iuliaque where Leopoldu◠Emperour Spanie Pope wish they had neuer begon Touching the quantity of haile in countreies neere the Alpes wee see this speach to keepe neere propriety without a great hyperbole At Zurick my learned friend M. Caspar Wesserus told me of haile lately there that one stone was brought from a field somewhat farre off to the Consull and must melt in cariage yet beeing weighed it peised a wax pound Chanaan and Egypt haue greater haile that trees and beasts be stricken to destruction by it And in all this the Papists repent not but thinke God to fauor the wicked side and so blaspheme and keepe their old Idolatrie and locusts of all professions as before It is hard for men to repent which will not learne from the word of God how their case standeth Their false ground that Peter was the chiefe Apostle and at Rome and the Rocke and that hee had auctoritie to binde and loose more then others and could leaue that to Doctores of the Citie which crucified Christ as though they best deserued that and the fables of their miracles as though they were true these harden them that they cannot come into the Church till the anger of God consumeth the Pharaohs as chap. 15. vers vlt. told CHAPTER XVII Iohn like Daniel And one of the seauen Angels which had the seauen Cupp◠came and spake with mee saying to mee come I will shew thee the Iudgement of the great Whoore which sitteth vpon many waters with whom the Kings of the earth committed fornication and they which dwelt in the earth were drunke by the Wine of her fornication THe wise God maketh the Cloud of his word light to Israel and darke to Pharaoh That the wicked shall not be ouer busie with it he speaketh to them in Visions that they cannot see whither they tend because they know not the ground Besides commorations seeme vnto them new matter and not a commentarie vpon former So to them that be out of the Church all things are in parables But they that know the grounds shall see all easie Ieremiah taught Israel in the playnest propriety of wordes that might bee Ezekiel sweetneth the same with allegories when both are compared together all is plaine Daniel telleth how Iudah should bee afflicted by enemies likened to the proportion of a mans body fist so generally that heathen would not marke the persecuted But the Iewes knew And if at the first they had bene told of great affliction they would haue gone before captiuitie into Countries of Grecia But when they were in Babel and neere returne their enimies are beasts comming out of the sea and terrible but yet reuenged as the image was by strok from a stone so they by fire But the persecuters and persecuted neither be named In a new vision they are expresly named what the Ram and Buck meane and the persequutour aboue all that should goe before him is plainely described And last of all a proper speach expoundeth the Image expoundeth the sea beastes expoundeth the Land beast That no booke was euer plainer then Daniel Iohn is like him He telleth chapter 6. of great plagues to a state but telleth not to what state Then he telleth of a falling away but telleth not by whose occasion Then he describeth the occasioner vnder seauen trumpets but hideth from the profane world what policie hee would haue marked After this he bringeth the old Caesares and Pope with late into one serpent After this he diuideth the serpent into two beasts with resonable plaine notes and sheweth that the former beast cōming out of the sea should be reuiued by that which came vp out of the Land Now that reuiued beast after his particular doings and suffrings is heere to bee seene with the reuiuer The Angell teacheth Iohn in vision the learned men be Angeli Ecclesiae The great whoore is the great Idolatrous City the many waters the harlot sitteth on be people troupes nations and tongues Kings society in Idolatry is the fornication the dwellers on the earth are the Idolous whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or cariage is not in heauen And he caried me into the wildernesse in the spirit As the Church was driuen into the wildernesse to haue a policie vnmixed with Rome so Iohn sheweth that they must not be of Romes part that will condemne her but absolute free from her In Aegypt God could not giue lawes for Israel but they must be separated from other policies so God brought them into the wildernesse And when God would teach Iuda that Moyses Ceremonies were but poore elements and to praepare them for the rest of Christ he carieth them into the wildernesse of the heathen And when Iohn Baptist praepared a way for the rest of Christ and calling of the heathen who in the dayes of Dauid and Salomon were not circumcised but baptized Rambam Asure Bia. Per. 13. So we must goe into a wildernesse simply iudge by Gods word not by rumors of antiquity and vniuersality what is to be iudged of Rome And I saw a woman sitting vpon a scarlat beast full of names of blasphemy hauing 7. heades and 10. hornes So Satan being incarnate in the Empire of Rome had seauen heades and tenne
and cast him into a Lake burning with fire and brimstone which is the second death Chapter 19. But the Romane Dragon shall be tyed 1000. yeeres before the King of Locusts deceiveth generally But then hee makes a new Gog and Magog for the old Ierusalem and thereupon shal be destroied as the old was by the first coming so he by the second of CHRIST from a throne of iudgement as the old Gog and Magog was Chapter 20. As Iohn in Patmos saw the heavenly Ierusalem so Patmos the Church tossed with Aegean waves shal be in Gods fight such as Isaiah Ezechiel Aggei and Zacharie spake of CHRIST saluteth vs poore heathen with his owne most gracious voice To him that loued vs and hath washed vs from our sinnes by his blood be all honour glory for ever Amen Isaie 25. And hee the ETERNAL will destroy in this mountaine the covering that covereth all people and the vaile that is spread vpon all nations THE ARGVMENTS OF THE REVELATION THe Apocalyps may be divided into speach vnto the present age and into prophecies for time to come Common to both are the nations and places and the times The nations to whom the book is commended are cities of old Gyges kingdome called the Land of Gog where the Lagidae and Seleucidae had parted Asia the lesser betwixt them Ezechiel told that when they were overthrowen for scattering his people into all quarters God would be glorified over them and in wrath remember mercy As over Antiochos in that the Land of Magog Antiochia first bare the name of Christians Over both in these seven townes whereof Philadelphia beareth plainly the name of Ptolomie Philadelphus Sardis was the Court of rich Craesus whose wealth God gave to Cyrus the great that sent Israell home from 120. nations and built the temple vpon his owne charges In it the old memory of Ggy or Gog is continued The nations called are from all people The damned for deadly hinderance of the Gospel is Rome plainly described by full many arguments vndeniable The whip of Romes Idolatrie be the Saracenes The time in trope is taken from the time of Christ his persecutions three years and an half But therein is meant the qualitie of state not length of yeres that men should be afflicted the afflictions of Christ So the Dragon Caesars afflict a yeare two yeares and halfe a yeare and the Dragons tayle the Pope and the old Romane Empire monethes 42. and the Vicar of the Lambes hornes the king of Locustes dayes 1260. They who thinke to get any certeyntie hence deceyve them selves and the truth is not in them The allusion is most heavenly calling Christ still into mind The thousand yeares come neare proprietie telling when the Popes authoritie should come to the highest These points may commonly be considered CHAP. I. The present age is saluted with narration of particular place and day and vision of Christ and in seaven epistles the partes of it be applied vnto playne experience CHAP. II. Ephesus learneth how remission of studie loseth the Church Rome continually practised that still shaking off Greek and Hebrew and skill in Gods word Smyrna is told that Iewes not right Iewes whose praise is of God would seeme to be Iewes but should bee found lyars So Rome would chalenge the true Iew. Rom 2. but they that seemed to stand shall fall Pergamus heareth of idolatrie and fornication Rome and Venice be deaf Thyatira hath a new Iezabel with witchcraft and whoredome and Baal Papists are full of charming Nunnes full wanton and Goddes of their owne making CHAP. III. Sardis the court sheweth how the pompe of court hath hardly lively religion yet still some be there So Rome the court towne seemed vnder Iohn alive but had forgotten S. Paul Rom. 11. 13 2. Thes 2. Philadelphia had true love and tryeth who be the sound Iewes and shal be as Salomons pillers in the heavenly Ierusalem Such were full many Monasteries of learned men which knew well what S. P. Q. R. meant when stultus populus quaerit Romam Laodicea followeth the common maner neither hoat nor cold but holdeth on what negligent custome hath once brought in So antiquitie and vniversalitie are the Papistes answer They never plead better skill in the Ebrew Law and Greek Gospell so thar Turkes and Iewes may see how they build not vpon a rocke by sure grounds but flee to custome never allowed of God This from obscure Patmos on the Lordes day Iohn teacheth that the base corners shall have truth when they receive the holy banished and Rome the banisher shal be left in Satans throne to pester the yeare with Popes holy dayes honouring creatures with religion of dayes as Rome did to Iulius and Augustus and as ill in March May Ianuary and February and in all Ovids fastis The stories of times which God writeth be more then yet men would ever learne The Lords resurrection day is surely taught vs and that wee should keepe But his birth day he would not have vs to know and when men would after three hundred yeeres seeke it out God gave them over into a deceived minde to misse 3. moneths that of 1300. yeres that dotage was not espied vntill this age searched about found better matter Yet Laodicea will follow custome and cared not for grace from him who was and is wil be and from the seaven spirits the one Eternall that giveth seaven lampes of oile to his servants and from Iesus Christ that is above all the Kings of the earth Psal 89. Dan. 2. 7. Apoc. 6. and 19. whom Rome pearced with spear and nailes But they shall feel whom they pearced and whom they crucifie agayne to have him counted a base and bare man not as on Tabor when the Godhead made the humanitie shinelike the Sunne Now for times to come CHAP. IIII. When the voyce of Christ like a trumpet making them happy which know the sound Psal 89. behind vs calleth vs from our owne course we shall see God in the heaven of the Church like Beniamins Iasper building his Church in Paules Shebet and like Rubens red Sardius fighting against Hagarenes for the Tribes with the Rainebow of the covenant like Levies Smaragd teaching the brightnes of the Gospell Thus we shall see God sitting vpon a throne whē Christ from obscure Patmos sheweth that heaven is not best seene from great cities which alwayes overflow in wickednes but from place where fewest be to disturbe So shal be seene 24. Bishops or Elders that can apply the Patriarkes storie vnto the Apostles Gospell all these clothed with the iustice of Christ being to the soules as white linen is to the body Seven lampes of oyle grace beatē with much affliction as beaten olive the seven graces of the spirit make this and the whole company be afore the throne a sea cleare and blameles iustified freely by the grace of God And the Church shall not want rare wightes full of
Now this false Prophet forging himself taught by the Angel Gabriel taketh Daniels terme in the highest sense Machmad delite it self Rashi telleth that because he humbled himself before GOD in fasting and prayer he was so called But Turk and Pope will have the holynes of Apollo past repentance CHAP. X. Now commeth a most lively description of Christ opening himself from Esa 19. and 54. and Genes 9. and Apoc. 4. Daniel 10. and Exod. 14. and Dan. 12. and Es 31. and Iob for the thunder of his power which is past vnderstanding and shall not be perceived of the Pope till the next trumpetter or common place teacher soundeth and endeth the world Now the Angel biddeth Iohn take from Christ the litle book of the Gospell and to eat it which was sweet in his mouth in preaching but bitter in affliction and to the enemy also as Ezekiels book CHAP. XI Iohn sheweth that the Church shall be built as Ierusalem freed from Babel vnder Zorobabel and Iesus when Zachary seeth an Angel with a reed meating the length breadth So Iohn hath a reed to meat the tēple and altar that is from the litle book to shew the breadth and length and depth and height of the love of God in Christ Christ himself is the temple Therefore to check Thalmudiques which to this day look for a third temple as sheweth Rambam whom vpon Koheleth Salomon the oratour I have cited and translated to check them he sheweth court of sacrificing is geven to the heathen and Ezekiels goodly citie is a city of affliction as Christ was afflicted 42. monethes Zacharies olive trees Zorobabel with Israel and IESVS with Levi and candelstick of Gods fauour Churches Chapter 1. revived Here is a new Elias a new Moyses to call fyer from heaven and to stay all dew of grace and successe and to turne their waters of armies into blood to plague their enemies with all kind of plague The experience followeth The combat of the King of Locusts with the Martyrs When the Martyrs begin to revive the Gospell the city which is called for spiritual vncleannes of religion spiritually Sodoma for cruelty against Israel Aegypt setteth fourth the King of Locustes who commeth with his Locustes winges of chariots and warre horses and fighteth in all nations with these two captaynes of Martyrs and killeth them and their case is playne how they are murthered as if a Crowners quest went vpon the policy that crucified Christ after his preaching 42. moneths or dayes 1260. or yeares three and an half Now as Beda and Carthusianus well note in three yeares and an half all time of preaching Christ in memorie of his preaching so long so the time of their noted death while their ashes may be seen and they are not put in grave is in a proportion called three dayes and an half Now that all may know that two yeare is not proper twise one but as all the returned from Chaldea Babylon be two Zach. Ch. 4. and 5. So the witnesses of truth that leave spirituall Babel all are in that sense called two and the citie which killeth them in peoples tribes tongues and nations is not a building of houses but a building of policie So the two be not two men but two companies and the dwellers in earth would not reioyce and send giftes one to another as Iewes against Haman in Ester for two but for the companies of two sorts rare wightes full of eyes 24. Bishops and the troupes that give glorie to God and the Lambe and pray onely to the Lambe the great God and Saviour these in all nations where the king of Locustes tyranny reacheth are the two Prophets who vexe them whose mindes dwell on earth and cannot see the heavenly policy of Christ In that sense after three dayes an half spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood vp and feare fel vpon their enemies and they heard a great voice from heavē saying vnto them come vp hither and they ascēded vnto heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw it Iohns vision went vpon two and vpon one city one beast But Romes policy the king of pit keyes with his Locustes and the states that write and fight against them must be meant of whom when one is dead an other is alive iump in the same veine as though it were the same man and their enemies see they goe vp to heaven and the beast which is ascended out of Abyssos that is all his corporatiō millions of millions these visions represent corporations and vnder one millions of men be told all Papistes goe from their Abyssos of black ignorance vnto Abyssos Luke 8. and Zohar vpon Genes 1. 2. whither the Divels shall come in their time but are yet in this world to be tormented for ever and ever After this teaching and fighting a great earthquake shaketh a tenth part of the king of Locusts city which crucified Christ and prayeth to the virgin Mary to commaund her sonne the Eternall God by the right of a mother as though she were mother to the godhead because shee was mother to the Person one of two natures And they are very wise who thinke the mother of God in schoole phrase can finde no better speculation in heaven then to listen to the Citie that crucified the Lord of glory Iscariot the traitour confessed his fault yet Christ gave him over to hang him selfe Rome that kild Christ after justifying him sinning so against the holy Ghost and sinning more then if they had kild all the men in the world yet is worse then Iscariot and wil not cōfesse sin but clayme right to rule the world because once they durst crucifie the maker of the world and pray to the Virgin Marie to forgive the Popes holynes the Vicar of Pilate In Elias 7000. bowed not the knee to Baal and live In this Citie 7000. that bow the knee to Baal dye are kild in vision 7000. in storie seaventie millions of thousandes with this 120. yeares of the Gospell revived And full many give glory to God and leave the virgin Mary alone to be happy as other faithfull Bathshebagh Ruth Thamar and Sarah al her mothers and who more in sin yet stayed vpō her sonne who was then in their loynes Thus the second woe is past The Popes fall the seaventh trumpet of common place Since Kingdomes match the Pope in strength and have brought him that he dare not queck but be content to hold his owne An open voice is in kingdomes that whereas the Pope hath been once cast out and now God reigneth wee looke for no chaunge till the resurrection at 6000. by old guesse Hence at 463. For our Lord was borne at 3927. adde 1610. then now Adams soule and dust hath 55 37. at 463. the gesse will shew it self At 3000. the Arke was brought into Salomons Temple at 4000. exactly the Romanes destroyed Zerobabels temple And as the Pope falleth by steppes as he
made From Psal 18. 45. 110. Isai 31. That the Romanes now be the enemies they who pierced the handes the feete of the morning starre Ps 22. by Kimchies exposition from all the Thalmud and Apoc. 2. 22. So the Prophecie there for Creatures to refuse worship is bent against Rome which stil would worship Creatures None told so distinctly Romes case as now it is handled Balaam in Nu. 24. but generally So S. Mat. 24. S. Paul a litle more at large for the present possessor Caesar till he were gone and then for new Antiochi froÌ„ Daniel 11. to bring al to heathen folly But none told that Christ would plague the Caesares infinitely more theÌ„ euer gouernors were plagued that a King of Locusts idle bellies deuouring the fruites of the earth should come to reuiue the empire These things were sealed for the LAMBE himself to open how he would vse Hypocrites Pilates Murtherers yet washers of handes as innocents in depth of mischiefe murtherers of the king of glory and yet confessors that Iesus of Nazaret is King of the Iewes The revenge is fitted to this cruelty and Hypocrisie against Diuos Caesares a new Empire of hoâ—inesse in title of boldnesse to make Diuos Diuas Christ by his holy martyrs sheweth white might and speede they are a white horse hee gaue them crowns as he wan a crowne Psal 21. a crowne through thornes and thorny in this world but golden for the soule in the world of soules And he hath a Bowe with arrowes sharpe in the heart of the kinges enimies to make people fal vnder him That is one sealed coÌ„mune place The reuenge of the Diui Caesares is three fold in speedy might a red horse and his rider hath a great sword and auctority to take away peace that men should kil one another The Romane stories tell how miserable the Emperors were and often in hazard to ouerthrow the Empire euen at the first persecutions A step further commeth in the black horse on whoÌ„ the rider bare a balance in his hand to sel corne as deere as spice shewing what famine should come greater then was in Claudius dayes Aurelius Victor sheweth of 30. chosen Emperors at once by their soldiers who kill'd one another till all came to one and so in warres famine must be as Virgil saith Quippe vbi fas versum atque nefas tot bella per orbem Tam multae scelerum facies non vllus aratro Dignus honos squalent abductis arua colonis Et curuae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem For where right 's ouerturned and wrong takes place So many warrs through th' world so many a face Of wickedness appears no due regard Is then vouchsaf'd the plough the fieldes are marr'd The Husbandmen drag'd thence now forged are The crooked sithes into stiffe swordes for warre A vehementer degree of miserie followeth in the fourth common place or Seale where the speedie and deadlie vengeance of God is a pale horse death sitting vpon him and the gulfe of the graue following of him and he had power to kill the fourth part of the earth with sword famine and pestilence and with the beastes of the earth That was the punishment of Ieruschalami vnder Tzedekiah when the whole state perished The cause of all this vengeance is expounded in the fift seale The holy martyrs soules lay vnder the Altar Christ our Altar calling for vengeance The Rabbins vniuersall sway placeth holy soules going hence immediatly as Moses soule vnder Gods throne This speach vnder the Altar is in matter the same but distinctly sheweth that by Christ our Altar and sacrificing of our selues wee haue place of rest in Paradise Purgatorie was vnknowen to Iewes and Grecians that was kept for the starr that should turne the waters of Scripture into wormwood This calling for vengeance against the beastes of the earth Diuos Caesares hath an answere that they must be content a while till moo martyrs blood becommeth the seed of the Church till the greater part of the commune weale be true Christians an Emperor fauorable should bee too much troubled with Heretiques as Arrians proued that true Vnder Martyrdome the zeale was an white horse the Church was holy and cleere and heretiques holden heretiques But yet now the martyrs prayer coÌ„meth in short tyme to passe that the Emperors and their great and all idoll policy is shaken their sunnes their moones their starres all their heauen as of old Isai 34. come to nothing That vnder the Gospell by Constantine commeth a new world of al Creatures ioy that they shall serue Christ That starres be no more Gods Nor Caesares come of Venus nor Ayer be Iuno nor Aeolus God of winde nor Neptune of Sea nor Apollo of grasse nor Pan of sheep c. But God shall be One in holy Trinitie and Vnitie This went currant 300. yeares But that Satan blinded euen the learned not to see the Eternall sonne Eternall God Creator of all thinges to bein Adams seed by Dauid Nathan Zorobabel Ely Mary Redeemer of the world Iscariotae in quietnesse would be kicking against our Great GOD and Sauiour CHRIST himself therefore at the last he casteth of the outward power of the Church and returneth all to the badnesse of old Rome And sheweth that the true Church shall be hid in Gods sealed as in Tzedekiahs dayes Ezeck 4. that the windes which in Cant. 4. 16. blew north and south vpon the spices of the garden should be stayed in all quarters that the church should be hid in Gods sealed in all quarters but in men not of sway in commune weales obscure in the world knowen to God and brethren holy and few This commune place reaching to the end of Popes glorie is handled before the fall of the Church yet in time it commeth when the Pope is full King of his Locusts after Satan had beene bound after a sort for generall deceit 1000. yeres The commune place shall be handled in a seuerall title The fall of the Church to be hid is handled in Chapter VII Four messingers of Gods justice Empires wicked stay the spirits of grace from blowing vpon men to be trees which the hand of God planted In the East Machmad in North Tartaria in South Abyssines reuolted in the West Italy stayeth The Iewes of old were scattered by the Macedonians and Assyrians South East North planted there the Gospell that the reuolters vpon open streÌ„gth for the belly should be cast off for euer as the builders of Babel Daniels Image ruled in these parts felt the power of CHRIST the Stone that brake the image to dust and seeing they would to shake of West gouernement shake of the Gospel also those Arabique contreies are shaken of for euer from open cleere sway But the West that last heard of GOD shall haue vnder combat fight by scripture and in all quarters Iewes and Gentiles
locusts if they might haue good maintenance to hold vp better truth and liberall artes that serue trueths honor Of the third woe and last Trumpet The second woe is past behold the third woe commeth And the seuenth Angell sounded the Trumpet and there were great voices in the heauen saying the Kingdomes of the world are now of our God and his Christ And he shall reigne for euer and euer Where the kingdome of the beast Abyssigena bred from the Pit is gone all the Church proclame that CHRIST will haue no more alterations vntill he shew heauen to all his So the speach passeth to the worlds end The Prophets communely passe ouer matters of cōmon state as needlesse to be handled specially and stepp from one thing of plague presently to Messiahs kingdome as notably in Hosea after mention of Israels scattring the kingdom of Messias is ioyned So wen Esay had spoken of Babels fall after Sanecheribs then he steppeth thence to CHRIST his preaching By the voice of a crier in the wildernesse So Daniel telleth of his kingdomes their comming vp their vrging of Idolatrie their chastisement their ouerthrow omitting matters of ordinarie course where the present age would looke to it selfe So Apoca. 6. handleth the prophane Caesares and thence omitteth the Churches sliding away till it come to an absolute fall And then telleth of tyranny and after tyrannies end steppeth to the worldes end The third woe is the plague of the enimies by Kings of good religion continually vnto the end The summe of the Bible Great voices expresse the voice of whole nations and the Kingdome of God Christ the matter of all the Bible Adam had that theme to preach 930. yeares Sem the great by S. Paul and Gamalies likened to the eternal author of iustice peace figured this matter and confirmed Abraham in this 75. year reioyced in Elam troden downe by Abraham And all the large writings breathed by the holy Trinitie teach no other matter but this and punishments for contempt of this and nothing should be suffred in the Church but to this summe In the prayer which our Lord prescribed for a cōmon forme to the whole Congregation this conteyneth all Thy Kingdome come thy will be done on earth as it is in heauen So when Iohn Baptist opened the kingdome of Christ when the Leuiticall policie was to cease and all nations should serue God by Lawes writtē in the heart Rom. 2. Ier. 31. Then the kingdome of heauen is said to come when men humble themselues to receiue the iustice of Christ and to be clothed with the SVN The fulnesse of kingdome cōmeth when the holy soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 leaueth this world goeth to God and there reigneth for euer and seeth the Locusts pitt-bred in Haides torment fryed in fire for euer and euer The pitt-bred beasts had sunne and aire much darkened when they knew not whether mans soule ascendeth or descendeth and whither the holy goeth to heauen or to hell This saying Caterchesthaeis haidon is neither more nor lesse then to goe to God when the godly haue a light place of ioye and the godlesse a darke place of torment And this exposition cutteth off at the least fifteene bad opinions direct bad for this article by consequents fifteene score The Kingdome heere spoken off is termed Haides in the Creede and wee may not put Hell for Heauen nor descending for going to God Purgatorie falleth when Haides hath but two partes Heauen and Hell and with it all Poperie Satan entred into many vnthankefull Caytifes that could not suffer the holy soules going into the kingdome to be most eloquentlie spoken in the Greeke Creede if they descend not to Hell as our Lord did in the Creede they shall ascend vp and before Gods throne haue an hell for euer and euer And the 24. Elders which sate on their thrones before God fell vpon their faces and worshipped God saying Wee praise thee O Eternall who is and who was and who will bee that thou takest vpon thee thy great power and doest reigne As the Nations haue kept a stirre thine anger is come and the tyme of the dead to be iudged and to giue rewardes to thy seruants the Prophetes and to the holy and to such as feare thy name The Elders be the Gouernors of Gods people in all offices specially in sage vsage of Scripture on assembly dayes all learned in the scriptures and able to giue faithfull exhortatiō out of it and all borne in wealth are brought vp amisse that are not gronuded in yong yeares to read with delite in the holy Booke Albion seeth who hath opened that way and faithlesse Iewes cōfesse though Atheā pāches for enuy burst These haue thrones before God not Buyshops and Archbuyshops of Papists But chosen of the holy congregation to teach what God telleth but as Moses gaue no commandement of his owne head nor Christ in the flesh but as he taught in Moses so these speake all frō scripture few wordes by old playne warrant and yet in few lines shake of all poperie all errores In number they be 24. as knowing the XII tribes story how the tribe should not depart from Iudah till his childe came and how the XII Apostles gathered the XII tribes to make them the foundation of the heauenly Ierusalem These are not many but 24. yet a resonable good number Many nobles in Albion and others that liue by their owne reuenues studie the Bible with as good dexterity as any feed-men and know it better then some after 42000. Brabant Gilders charges againe 40000 crownes charges such be humble and know Iehouah who is who was who will bee still the same to rule all ages to one summe of saluation in Christ how in him GOD was manifested in the flesh and taken vp in glory and the saluation of all ages Enosh age the flood Babel Ieroboam felt the price of despising this life And after the great saluation begun by the Lord himselfe to be spoken and confirmed by his hearers with all guiftes of the spirit for contempt the world was soone giuen ouer to Arius Pope and Turke yet God sealed a few and at length placeth them in open kingdomes to be seene though stil the greater part in open policy careth but for this life as in Salomons dayes all were of great shew but soone after his death Ephraim turned all but Iuda to worship calues not God So great Constantinus holpe Christians but few of his men cared for God So heere Popes Idols murder of the saincts cause God to shake him to dust as he shoke the Macedonians after Antiochus Epiphanes persequution That the Iewes receiued their owne kingdome vnder the Maccabees and that meanes the psalmes 97. and 99. and others about them howe the power of Christ breaketh Idoll kingdomes that God should take the protection of all into his owne handes So heere Elders shewe Popes strength cast of that others be so
euen to trie them in the fire to purifie them to whitten them Twise the very same termes be told Heere is the same matter That God would trie the pacience as Dan. 12. of the holy Holy Peter writing from Babylon to the Iewes scattred telleth them of their happinesse in belieuing in Christ whose kingdome tryeth his as gold is tryed The witty wicked Poet could tell so much as Menander Epimenides and Aratus other poinctes Scilicet vt fuluum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore sic duro est inspicienda fides That is As yellow Gold in fier men doe trie So Faith is prou'd in miserie Euery trueth hath Gods warrant whosoeuer doth speake it Now the Popes religion standeth in prosperiti no common weale hath their wealth and quietnesse Therefore they are not of S. Peters faith who from Babylon wrote to the neere scattred Iewes of affliction Although at the first some Doctores of Rome were afflicted and martyrs is too But after quietnesse they still labored to bring home from the East to old Rome and pleaded from the Iewes manner of Fables that the first called Apostle was in the Principall Citie to make him a most wicked man that foreseeing as a Prophet combatts where hee hath beene would not in his owne tyme make that matter past all doubt As Saint Paul Bishoppe of Rome and Saint Luke of Antioh maketh it past all doubt that Peter was neuer neare Rome Clemens and Tertullian made Eusebius write that he was And all who folow them haue but rumores auctoritie And he is cursed that makes mans auctoritie his arme and Melchior Canus a Rhomist maketh a sounde common place that our Churches stories of men are weake testimonies In the 300. yer persequution it was not safe for any to write of others because enemies by such would search out more how to persequute Christians Paul of Romane name borne free in Rome who would not build in others fundations who was carefull for to strengthen the Romans as not hauing yet an Apostle who first told the Synagogue Acts 28. whereupon the Gospell stood sheweth that HEE brought the name of Christ to Caesares pallace Phil. 1. and was told Act. 23. that hee should so doe And saluting 25. Rom. 16. neuer giueth token of one word touching Peter but cleane otherwise Gal. 2. and Peter telleth expresly that from Babylon he wrote his first Epistle chap. 5. whereby all maner of speach all men would require proprietie that the most knowen Babylon should be there meant Yet as Pindarus saith that men belieue fables more then trueth so experience of sage men prooue that true men otherwise sage hold that true that Peter was in Italy as the Chaldi Iob saith hee was at Constantinople and the forged Ben Vziel vpon Num. 24. and millions of milliones after them whereas we despise Iewes Iewes equally despise Romists where any could not misse to haue knowen the trueth if Peter had euer bene at Rome They who say by Babylon he meant Rome would make him a simple Fisher that knewe not where a trope would make a wickedlie and afflict all ages where men neuer date cōmon bookes for all Ages from a misnamed place where the Reader would count the speaker a lyer so the 2. Epistle was written from Chaldea where the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was an S. in Bosor Beor in the 70. and that S. Peter would haue folowed liuing in Greeke landes And I saw another Beast comming vp from the earth which had two hornes like a lambe and spake as a Dragon and practised all auctority of the first beast before him and causeth the earth and them that dwell in it to worship the first beast whose wound to his death was healed c. to the end of the Chap. A most plaine description of the Pope 1. by the beast arising from the earth First his state is a beast as all armes of state are figured by beasts such So the King of Locusts ch 9. is a beast cōming out of the earth ch 11. earth opposition to the sea signifieth a quiet state So the Pope by quietnesse gate lands to be aboue all Emperours yet Ceph the Rocke aeternall would be a seruant And Peter Cephas a fisher but the vnlikest vnder their name would be the vnlikest next the Diuell the God of this world so his a great state vpon the earth in the City which crucifyed Christ By the Lambes two hornes The Lambe signifieth the S. of God Iohan. 1. Apoc 5. Hornes power Psalm 18. Dan. 8. So he that chalengeth to be in steade of Christ and to haue double power from him Ecclesiasticall and Temporall in Ebrew ADONIKAM My Lord is set vp he is heere described He so sheweth himselfe in the Temple of God as if he were God among many millions who knewe him to bee the wicked man But as in old Babel men were of Angells match the three nobles that quenched the fier and made Nemrods sonne confesse their God and gracious Daniel admitted to familiaritie with Christ and his Angells and Ezechiel and Ezra and men like Angells so where the Diuel had his Chappell God had and hath his Church to tell how Satan ruleth the Pope and hath strong worke in error OF ONE ERROR IN THE POPE WHICH MAKETH HIM NEXT THE DIVEL WHERE THE DIVEL WOVLD TREMBLE TO BEE SO IMPVDENT OPENLY The ground of our saluation standeth in belieuing this of the womans seede a destroyer of Satans workes Gen. 3. HEE shall bruise thy head that is spoken twise in Adams tongue in the masculine gender Some late Popes I thinke knewe so much Ebrew though of old few did when they made first the translation called S. Ieromes to be ignorant of this So not SHEE is meant but HEE The aeternall God as the Zoar from Iewes there note God in Christ and againe and againe thou Serpent shall bruise HIS foote-stepp and not HER foote-stepp yet the Popes translation corrupteth that which they call S. Ieromes and say shee shall bruise thy head 1. So the Latin called S. Ieromes goeth though Arias Mōtanus had a better Conscience put forth the true Ebrew 2. Of all Ebrew copies that euer haue bene heard of none herein was noted to differ as by them full many which we read wee may iudge of the rest who would not passe ouer difference in Silence if any difference had bene 3. All Greekes vniversally follow the Ebrew yet against all the Pope would haue not HE but SHEE Marie in his translations in a treatise foisted into Plantines great Bible 4. Satan is broken thus he brought Adams soule to death by sinne the restorer must giue it iustice 5. Satan brought mans body to corruption that HE must restore it in resurrection 6. Satan by Adams fall brought all this world to corruption the restorer must bee able to make a newe world But an HE not a SHEE must doe this wherfore this error conuicteth the Pope of
milde And S. Paul borne to be a Bishop of Rome in Tarsus free in Rome told the same Rom. 13. as he told from 2 Thes 2. howe thence man of sin would arise If 2 Thes 2. had bene read of all Children since S. Paul wrote aged moo then the Starres of Heauen a million for a Starre had knowen what the Pope is and equall giltie Cardinales And our Archbuyshopps in his canones damned by common Lawes following the light of Gods engrauement in soules All Scholars that will bee ouerruling Ciuill matters vnable to shewe skill in the Lawe of one Iod or Prick as our Lordes speach requireth Mat. 5. and will Archbuishopps be and vrge athean othes and imprison better lettered by many yeares studie then themselues and pine in Prison vnto death full many which hold the trueth of redemtion in trades life better then they are in the Popes Giltinesse heere and speake from the Dragon And are sure to goe with both into aeternall flames The learned know that they to whom I now giue the Anathema Maran Atha will sooner goe to Bantam to fetch pepper then replie And as Ouid. speaketh that while the Romane Empire standeth his fables should stand so while the world standeth our reuiuers of Dracons bloody lawes others to profane God shall stand in this my blame in my defence for our King and nations integritie Si quid habent veri vatum praesagia By what Iudaique cursedly reuiued Ceremonie the chiefe diuinitie D. of Rome bewitched Emperors to giue a spice of countenance that the Pope was aboue the Emperor In Iudah Kinges were annointed with oyle praescribed by God to Moses and it was death to imitate that oyle The Thal. hath a full treatise of that Thence all of witt will fetch it No King was euer annointed with this but Kings in hazard King Moses was not King Iesus was not King Samuel was not Saul not accepted was Dauid not accepted was Salomon in hazard by Adonijah was and Ioash for Athalias stirre was All this God alloweth By the Peoples autoritie wicked Ioachaz two yeares yonger then his brother more wicked Ioakim was all these to auoid dissention So annointment was still the token of a person doubted whether the people should accept him or not Now the Patriarke of Constantine beginning annointement of Emperours as in Iustinius the vncle of Iustinian fame goeth chalenged heerein no superioritie but would haue the Emperores that requested the Churches fauor If they were stayned in open blame to want that good will till open repentance came This had zeale and mans witt but God forbiddeth to imitate Aharons ceremonies namely in oinctments No chest might bee made like the Arke no candlesticke no Table no curtaine no building like the holy Touching our manner in England thinke it began in token of freedome as not vnder the Emperor but equall But seeing Priests were the annointers Locusts NOW in flames aeternall it should with sacrifice Aharons cope Leuites linen and name of Priest be left off If my poore opinion were worthie of accompt if quietly they might otherwise ceremonies of force were broken as in Dauids eating of the shew-bread and beeing deadly for vse as circumcision for Galatians yet in Timothie was repeted So the wicked bookes of the Apocrypha whereof none haue one syllable of Christ though Galatinus would bring Baruc to him In God will bee seene vpon earth because the fables spake of Iewes stories whose trueth heathen denied were receiued for mens weaknesse But when Greeks would make iarring sayinges true diuinitie Iewes told Hagarenes their iudgement was weake and so there the Gospell found contemt since the Pope annointed Emperores of weake autoritie after hee deceiued the Empire For 200. yea warre that weakened West Kinges the oinctment was pleaded for a token of superioritie that the beast comming out the earth might haue two hornes like Christs And he doth great signes that he causeth fire to come downe from heauen into the earth before men and he deceiueth the dwellers on the earth before the beast When Israels state came farre badd holy Elias made fier come downe from heauen In memorie of that storie Iohn saw in his vision fire come downe from heauen betokening thereby any signes Saint Paul told this in proprietie that by false signes wicked Romylus Esai 11. in the Venice Chaldy should deceiue if possible the very elect because they would not receine the loue of the trueth as Salomon warneth Ephraim Prov. 3. the Emperors strife was with the Popes for Auctority litle or nothing for Diuinity where they should haue beene of best iudgement as Charles the great was of great iudgement that the Popes for feare of fall by resisting a learned Emperor decreed for him and his successors as I shewed confirmation of Popes that should serue in Rome Of Papists miracles Neuer any commented vpon any text Bible or Law as the Papists doe vpon their Miracles The Iesuites in the Indianes doe such strange Miracles that Lucian de vera historia would as well seeme true as noble learned Saddeel nippeth Turrianus And at dinners and suppers in stead of the Bible they read the stories of their owne Miracles So the Lady of Hales made Iustus Lipsius of a quicker spirite to his stile as Bacchus made Ennius And creeples come to Hales but goe away leaping So at Colen in a stage play creeples came to S. Laurence and went a way leaping So in Walsingam The Host was caried in Cambrige ouer the market place in a coffer by two strong men and praesently became so heauie that both they could not cary it alone And when they put drakes fresh blood to the wine all but Heretiques may see the very wine liuely blood That men sware by the blood of Hales I heard a man in the ende of true faith and fatherlie cariage Rich. Meneuensis say how his conscience pricked him when to Masse he vsed drakes blood I know not but by confession whether this be true or noe At Mentz townes end Eastward in the brim of the fieldes standeth a lowe crosse of stone That way I walked with two Iesuites and a proselyte whose commendation from the Pope to the Bishop and they then sitting with mee on a greene desired to read from Latin to Ebrew for to plead for a principall Cardinalship Of that stone crosse Pater Nicolaus Serarius said thus Once a man drunke armed with a sword stroke this crosse and it poured out blood and pursuite was made after the man and hee was executed Then said I let the Bishop and all his Canons that be not Lutherans I know they will not try take swordes and strike all the crosse and if it shed one drop to my sight I will accept the Cardinalship offred and be of your faith as I am of Saint Peters faith already and belieue no more then Epiphanius that hee was euer at Rome as he cared no more for Clemens Alexand. then did Patriarch Photius and lesse of
Tertullian hurt by Montanus The onely auctores that Eusebius could bring for Peter to haue beene at Rome And that strength beeing broken all further testimonies are but winde The Thalmud in San requireth in testimonie eye-sight And for the newe Moone though they knewe the Mathematiques they vsed two mens testimonie that they saw the Moone vnlesse cloudes hindered before they ordeyned the feasts celebration so God would haue the People to hold their eye-sight iudge as all simple must pleade sure faith So strike you this crosse and make blood come forth to two witnesses which by Moses Law must be my warrant and then I will be of S. Peters faith in your sense Of the Catholike faith I am and of the ancient faith which holy Paul of Tarsus Gygs land and holy Luke of Magogs land in Syria taught and wrote from Moses and the Prophets Ep. 2. 20. Make blood come out of this stone to my sight and I will bee a Pseudo-Catholique as yee are vpon this we turned to read the proselytes letters For whose testimony that I might haue had a Cardinalship principal at Rome One M r. Murton of Yorkeshiere desired me to goe to Mentz with him to heare that asked and tooke occasion in speach of Cardinales to aske what mine had bene worth then said hee about 18000. french Crownes But I shewed that Gods word was plaine to all of the tongues studie and pure in all rules to conuert any well meaning heart perfect to guide through the whole course of life I wishe others to belieue their miracles as I doe who know that God made sense a diuine testimonie that a man conuicted vpon two witnesses conuicted to worship bread and wine should dye the death The Gospell thrise and S. Paul 1. Cor. 11. tell that IESVS gaue bread and wine and that the Disciples dranke what hee gaue That no miracle was heere but the natiue manner of a Couenant And if the Apostles or Greeke Fathers had said The Bread and Wine were altered from their tast or nature for so much heathen would haue sworne the world neuer bare wickedder Magicians nor worthier of death by Moses Law which Christ gaue as aeternall God and came as man to bee iudged of man how hee did performe all so that the natiue power of reason which he planted in all soules should iudge of him that he performed all iustice to plaine capacitie of all nations and required none to belieue further then logique common to euery man would require assent or tell of open rebellion against the trueth This also was a great miracle that Emperor Henry the VII next Albertus in seditions comming to Italy where 60. yer Emperores absence gaue the Pope much auctoritie when the king of Sicilie Robert made stirres and the Pope Clement V. fauored him as a vassall of the Church and then kept at Auinion he commanded both by the othe of fidelitie to keepe the peace He answering that he would take no such othe yet by persuasion would take the crowne of him was soone after of Cardinales by Dominican Bernehard poysoning the Hostia or the Sacrament of the Altar sent to Haides because he would be boūd to no man The beast with two hornes like a Lambe in trueth the Dragon let loose after 1000. yea Apoc. 20. did this miracle The like was done to our K. Iohn who shewed in the Abbot of Glassimbury litle good will to make Popes too fatt And their dayly miracle told afore of the Sacrament of the Altar that men must belieue they haue no sense this Simon-Magus-bewitching of men by Moses Lawe should put them to death howe they would make their Images sweate by a fier and water hid behinde them in the Vestrie and tell how the sainctes were angry that men had no more zeale to offre to them these were commonly knowen to them that liued in our Fathers dayes before valiant King Henry VIII brake both the Popes hornes and ate the flesh of the beast If Erasmus Roterodamus had liued to this houre he could neuer haue iested ynough with the Popes false miracles as Saint Paul termeth them Yet to this day euery where Papists brag of their religion as proued by miracles and so they prooue their doctrine to be new Miracles are to bee wrought at the first deliuery of doctrine When Adam first sacrificed fire from heauen kindled it and Abels sacrifice respected of God are in Octaplo were fired by God That fire was kept vntill the flood Then againe Noes sacrifice was kindled from heauen And that fire was kept by great SEM or Melchitzedeke Abraham sacrificing had fire first in recorde from heauen and in Moses Salomon that is expresly told and thence gathered to the former so when the Iewes came home from Babylon they sacrificed no mention is made of their fire Their priuate storie Salseleth Hakabala saith they had fire form heauen The abridgement of the senselesse writer Iason of Cyren called the second of Maccabees telleth an old wiues tale of fire turned as vnto salt and set against the sunne and so brought to inflame the sacrifice Archimedes fire that set Roman ships on flame at Syracusa with a Christall Glasse of narrow passage for the sunne beames should haue beene as holy a fire as that of Iasons fable yet the Pope maketh great accompt of this inuention as being so true as his miracles whereby he would prooue new sacrifice Before the flood Adam liuing longe to teach the truth and the creation being all miraculous we haue no properly told miracle but our father Henochs assumption Abraham reuiuing the world did miracles so Moses beginning a new state and IESVS in his noble conquest in staying Sunne and Moone and Samuel at Sauls installation Ezekias in great fall of tenne Tribes captiued had the sunne turned backe tenne degrees To Babell the fire was quenched Dan. 3. and the King made as a beast chap. 4. Daniel stoppeth Lions mouths and an handwriting damning the state chap. 5. Thus to nations first motion or fall miracles are giuen but to confirme no other religion then agreeth with Adams But the Pope will dayly transubstantiate and make a Lynceus belieue he cannot tell whether he see Bread and Wine and so make a sacrifice as calling fire from heauen which must kindle euery sacrifice And whereas eye-sight is Gods Testimony by Creation law and allowed euer euen in the seale of the Couenant which may conteine no matter litigious He breedeth warres to make haile fire mixed with blood All this Doctrine is from the mouth of the Dragon Saying to them that dwell in the earth to make an Image to the beast which hath the stroke of the sword and is reuiued The earth is the profane common world opposite to the Church The Image respecteth Dan. 2. as the beast looked to Dan. 7. So the Pope shall challenge power to make Imperiall state termed Image Daniel 2. Padeuicius lib. 3. Capter 10. 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they would that none should be in the Commune Weale but of their marke by othe subscription or whole profession Of the marke in the forehead Aharon his garments conteined the summe of religion whereof one part was a plate of gold in his bonnet thus ingrauen HOLYNESSE FOR THE ETERNALL That is expounded chap. 14. where the Christians hating Idolatry haue the name of God written in their forehead As God will make knowen who be his and all who call vpon GOD must depart from wickednesse So heere the hauing of his name in the forehead is the profession of his decrees The saying of Aue Marie went ouer all to the poore beggars and reuerence to the Crosse and comming to their most wicked Masse and refraining from reading Gods Booke but for licenced and auricular confession briefly all differing from their Dracoes lawes was an heretique and might neither buy nor sell Of the name of the beast and the number of his name That is his owne name So vsuall in states the Antecedent is for the relatiue as Daniel chap. 9. The Gouernor shall destroy the Gouernor owne people for his owne Through the Bible the names giuen by the holy abridge the summe of their life God called the first man ADAM which is also our commune name MAN to tell vs euery moment that dust wee are and to dust we must returne Seth bare a warning that onely some of his should be setled when the flood made a moode of all the earth Enosh telleth of sorrow that profanenesse sprang instead of calling vpon the name of God Cainan telleth of Lamentation due for that Mahal-el how the Almighty bringeth a mixture by water vpon all Iared how all goeth downe He nameth his sonne Enoch consecrated to God to be an onely man in the cursed world and he told in his sonnes name when God would send the flood Methu-Schelach when he is deadp resently God sendeth it Lamech borne in tyme of all sorrowes in his dayes the fathers died and all to euery soule that called vpon God and looked to saue their life by the Arke els they had come to Noë to haue gone into the Arke Noë is conforter All these be fathers to all in the world and all degenerate who desire not to know the reasons of their names So through the old Testament the faithfull printed faith and story in their childrens names And the Booke of numbers hath vnder propre names moo sentences of faith then would make a great volume So that without Ebrew much of the Bible wil be vnknowen So before the Captiuity of Babell the Godly gaue names to their sonns shewing hope of their defense and helpe by Elam of whom came Cyrus one long before called his sonne Elam another also calleth his sonne Elam for instruction that Elam should send the Iewes home And God blesseth these two with most issue Ezra 2. Another calleth his sonne Bagoas by a famous Persian name Another calleth his sonne Adonikam God standeth aboue all Now the sonnes of Adonikam were 666. God then meant to apply that to further matter as seauens in the Bible call into minde the first Sabbath rested in hope of Christ so sixes are commonly a memory of the sad fall and vsed in sorrow Holy Lamech liued yeares 777. then he rested In the six hundreth of Noë the flood came Nabuchadnezar his cursed Image was in height 60. cubites In breadth 6. cubites The gold brought from Ophir to Salomon was 666. talents as no long blessing when after his death Sysac King of Aegypt hath all of the Temple for a spoyle Now Adonikam his sonnes 666. might shew that God would vse that text to some sad matter Let vs now examine the words of the Text. Heere is wisedome Let him that hath wisedome reckon the number of the Beast For it is a number attributed vnto a man And his number is six hundred sixty six Adams wisedome is shewed equall to Angells in giuing names to beastes and foules according to their nature so that mans first wisedome appeared how his soule bare the image of God in fit names His holy sonnes folowed that and all of wisedome will examine what names they haue giuen and see which of all them will fit the beast heere the mans name may soone be found by 666. for onely ADONIKAM of a man hath that number Now the wisedome standeth in the nation of Adonikam how the beast that hath hornes like a Lambe is fitted to that Let vs haue our stories to shew how the Pope is fitted to this Innocentius the third bragged to Emperor Philip that he would take from him the Diademe of the King or he should take from him the Apostolicall Apostaticall ensigne Christ saith by him Kings reigne and Princes decree iustice And he is truly ADONIKAM Lord standing vp sure for defense of his And Innocentius of Adam the earthly of Enosh the sorrowfull he will be ADONIKAM simply a Lord standing sure and haue two hornes of the Lambe though he speake like the Dragon Marke another when Albertus son to Rodulph following his fathers Example sought by entreaters the confirmation of his election of Boniface the eight which bragged that he was Lord of the whole world Then Boniface comming forth girded with a sword and wearing the Imperiall Crowne cryeth with a tyrannicall voice EGO SVM CAESAR ET PONTIFEX and in a chafe he reiecteth the election which was made without his Authoritie as of no force and friuolous and refuseth the confirmation and called the Emperour a murtherer so this Boniface had as brasen a face as Boniface the third which bought supremacie of the murtherer Phocas and vaunting that he is TOTIVS MVNDI DOMINVS LORD OF THE WHOLE WORLD the name of the MAN which hath 666. attributed ADONIKAM wil be his name with the two hornes of the Lambe A repetition of the terme Rocke Speciallie the terme Rocke claymed of the Pope to be his name proueth him to haue this name or notation of ADONIKAM In this Conceit thus hee reasoneth Peter is the Rock The Pope is as Peter Therefore The Pope is the Rocke So the Pope maketh himselfe God who only standeth sure ADONICAM A digression to a disputation at Mentz in the Promotion of a graduat in their commencement 1601. At Mentz in saluation yeere named a commencer gaue the question I then printing in their owne Towne a Greeke Oration of all my groundes in Religion was requested by Pater Nicol. Serarius their D. principall to come to the cōmencement There they requested mee most vehemently to dispute that Rector made shorte the first reply And I tooke the second This was the question Romana Ecclesia est vera Ecclesia Reply Quae facit hominem ex patris semine immediate Petram dici est hostis Dei At Roma facit hoc ergo est hostis Dei Promotus I deny the assumption Reply The terme Rocke is neuer vsed in commendation of Holinesse and Constancie but in God
hornes and vpon his head seauen Crownes because so many states of Rome afflicted Gods people In chap. 13. Tenne hornes had tenne Crownes to shew that so many kingdoms not seuerall kings as in Daniel for Aegypt and Syria belonged to the Empire And the woman was clothed in Purple and Scarlat and golden in Gold and pretious stones pearles hauing a golden Cup in her hand full of abominations and vncleannesse of her fornication and vpon her forehead a name written A MYSTERIE Babylon the great the mother of fornications and the abominations of the earth Red color is vsuall for blood and Lycurgus or Dracoes lawes and most fit for Romulus towne where hee embrued his handes in the blood of his brother but most of all for the Popes persequution The gold reuiueth Babel and the very phrase is taken from it Isai 14. And the story is in Dan. 3. where the King made an Image of gold sixtie cubites high six cubites broad So they amazed foolish with the cost of the matter but of Christ we are to buy the true gold Apo. 3. and 21. The golden rules of Faith and Trueth and not to esteeme of a crucifix of gold to crucifie Christ againe for the matter So the picture of Mary is in diuers places trimmed with chaines of gold and pretious stones and their Copes wickedly following Aharon bee of cloth of gold So the 3. Kings of Colone that returned from Ierusalem to their countrey and were but Persian sages and no Kinges nor any Persian that would be called Baltasar they are said to be trimmed at solemne times with chaines of great Iewels I would not see it because I would not goe bare-head into their Temple A golden Cup had Babel to make nations drunke with Idols making Gods of their Starres and was ful of lothsome things and vncleane fornications So is Rome manifestlie Colon and Spaine as if Babylon a mystery were written in the forehead As the learning of Daniel could doe no good to Babel but still it would keepe the old Gods till Cyrus tooke their kingdome so Rome is so deepe in Idolatrie that no learning will make men leaue their places Pharaoh Nebuchadnezar were neuer so hardened And these passe all that euer were for crueltie in persecution The profane Caesares did not so strictly hinder all vse of religion They hindred not the reading of Gods word as the Pope doth though they feared lest the Kingdome of Christ should be a bridle to them Romes cruelty told chap. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. is now plainely handled And I saw the woman dronk with the blood of the saincts and with the blood of the martyrs of IESVS And when I saw her I marueiled with great marueile Heere the blinde may see that since the Empire was reuiued in the West the persecutions of them who say Christ freely iustifieth and only heareth prayer and will haue the Idole of him selfe as Plato speaketh of vertue to bee fetched from his word were bloody against the Saintes and Martyrs of Iesus When the Pope contemneth a thousand times better learned then himselfe how can hee looke to escape the wrath of God Iohn marueiled to see a womā dronke with blood therefore the Angel calleth him to consider the chapters afore as especially the thirteenth chapter And the Angell said to mee why doest thou marueile I will tell thee the Mysterie of the woman of the beast which beareth her which hath seauen heades and tenne hornes A more perticular description foloweth then was cha 13. But any may see this to be a commentarie vpon that place as God is a perfect expounder of his owne worde The beast which thou sawest was and is not and hee shall ascend out of the Pit The Empire was and againe is made dead by the remouing to Bizantium and it shall ascend out of the Pit chapt 9. when the locust and their king come out of the pit And shall go to destruction This speach is part of Balaams for Italy Num. 24. which should afflict Heber that is the faithfull and hold on to destruction The same he spake of Amalek that he should go on to destruction that was neere a thousand yeares after Balaam spake that was Amalek was destroyed by Israel As a thousand yeeres are but as one day with God so Satan was tyed 1000. yea before the king of Locusts had the winges of horses and chariots to vexe the Church the true Ierusalem for the Low to the ruyne of the West And they who dwell on the earth will marueile whose names are not written in the booke of life from the beginning of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is Heere is a meaning that hath wisdome The naturall man obserueth not that when countreyes fall they rise no more Aegypt Aram Assur Paras Graecia that none would thinke Rome beeing once destroyed should raise againe But the taught of God see a plaine reason That the West in the end should afflict first by strength and next by subtiltie in religion that Christ his seruants should be tried both for body and minde and he pay the City that crucified him both with horse as chap. 6. and by the spirit of his mouth and diligent searching of the Prophets So for easier memory of story Christ would haue Rome that crucified the king of glory once to bee plagued through their Emperors and the Empire to be taken away and the Citie to bee destroyed as by Gothes and by Lybians by Giezerichus a new Annibal And then an enemie to God in all trueth to shewe himselfe in the Temple of God as if he were God to be consumed by study about the Bible by the word and sword that commeth from CHRIST his mouth So the beast was againe is not and yet is God speaketh in the praesent tempus for things to come because all things with him are praesent This is a meaning that hath wisedome as Iobs case and Daniels Image Therefore wee should flee to God to be the expounder who openeth what is in darknesse and with whom light doth dwell The seauen heades are seauen mountaines vpon which the woman sitteth also they be seauen Kings fiue are fallen and the principall is the other is not yet come and when he is come he must tary but a litle while The Iewes felt Pompei heauy that made Iuda prouince to Rome M. Crassus was heauy that spoyled the temple of much gold Iulius Caesar was also heany who strengthned Cleopatra ouer Iudea long lost to set vp Herod at the last Brutus and Cassius were also heauy with their army Antonius who married Cleopatra and holpe in Capitolio Herod to be King was also heauy all these came to destruction for medling with Gods people and all their state by Ciuill warres So fiue Kings are fallen and the principall is Augustus and the other is not yet come the Empire reuiued But at 1000. yer will