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A69171	A treatise, touching Antichrist VVherein, the place, the time, the forme, the workmen, the vpholders, the proceeding, and lastly, the ruine and ouerthrow of the kingdome of Antichrist, is plainly laid open out of the word of God: where also manie darke, and hard places both of Daniell and the Reuelation are made manifest. By Lambert Danæus.; Tractatus de Antichristo. English	Daneau, Lambert, ca. 1530-1595?; Swan, John, d. 1617.	1589 (1589)	STC 6229; ESTC S111048	137,818	208

the aunswere there-vnto is easie and readie that God neuer permitted his Church so long to be seduced but only suffered the wicked reprobate and such as fall from him to wander and goe astray and giue credit vnto lyes and that vpon desert of theirs and as I haue sayde most iustly on his behalfe For although Papistry was neuer the true Church of God yet in the kingdome of Popery and in the very midst of the Papists them-selues God did often wonderfully preserue his Church Now out of all this that hath bin spoken I hope not only that this place of Paule may be easily vnderstood but withall that this point is as clearely laid open out of the word of God as the noone day That the Pope who is not so rightly tearmed the Bishop as the butcher of Rome and his adherents are that kingdome of Antichrist which in diuers places of the Scripture is specified the which sith it is the drift and purpose of this treatise and labour of mine heere an ende concluding with this praier vnto God that he the Father of mercies would vouchsafe to giue to such as haue thus long beene blinded eyes whereby they might see the light of the Gospell reueiled and to such as do already see will whereby they may embrace the truth of the same in their hearts and minds and constantly make profession of the same in holie conuersation through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS A Position propounded and defended at a Commencement in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge Anno Domini 1582. By a famous Scholler and worthie Writer in this our age The Bishop of Rome is that Antichrist of whose comming the Scripture hath fore-tould THE enterprise is great right Worshipfull and worthie and full of doubt and difficultie which I haue taken in hand to affirme maintaine and that in so solemne an assemblie of learned men as this is that the Bishop of Rome who professeth himself to be Christes Vicar in earth the successour of Peter the head of the Christian Church the chiefe of all Bishops the most Catholike of all Catholikes a kinde of Oracle of religion and a mortall God among men to auouch I say and hould that the same man is the very Antichrist an enemie to God a traytor to Christ an aduersarie to religion the ring-leader of heresies and a murderer of Gods Church But as ye are here present in bodies so bee present in attention and if heretofore by meanes of that commō error which generally hath preuailed ye could not peraduenture giue right censure of that wicked monster yet now at length laying aside coniectures thinke vprightly of the matter and whom the Scripture hath fore-tould time hath discouered and the Church hath many ages been burdened with acknowledge him for Antichrist spit in his face and curse him euen to the pit of hell For why should we not both iudge fréelie and speake plainlie in the case or why should wee at all doubt and stagger in a matter so manifest and of such moment If the Bishop of Rome be the Antichrist of whom we can make no other accompt except we will be wilfully deceiued why should wee either looke longer for an other or why should we not call this the very Antichrist I hope that after I haue done none of you will doubt but that that iollie Bishop which keepes such a coyle is the very and only Antichrist in such sort as who will not bee lost for euer ought vtterly to detest him and abandon his societie And herein I purpose to deale so as the right order of disputation requireth namely first in way of confirmation by authoritie of the Scriptures to warrant mine assertian and as for such arguments as may seeme to make agaynst me I will not meddle with them in mine Oration For now it is my part to make plaine and strengthen the cause and afterward to shake of the aduersaries obiections when I shall come to aunswering And first to begin withal I will take that vnto me as graunted which of necessitie must bee yeelded that Antichrist is in the Scriptures set out vnto vs by his true and infallible markes so that wee are neither to imagine of any other not spoken of in the Scriptures but that wee confidently affirme him to be Antichrist vnto whom all those things do so fitly agree which wee reade in the word of God concerning Antichrist For either it must needes bee so or else the Spirit of God hath not well described him vnto vs the which cannot be affirmed without blasphemie Therfore I wil set downe this as the ground of my iudgement and defence that the Scripture hath deliuered vnto vs whatsoeuer was meete for the Church to knowe touching Antichrist and that he without all controuersie is the true or rather the false Antichrist in whom those markes are to bee found whereby the Spirit of God would expresse Antichrist and set out as it were in his liuely and proper picture to the view of all men And as for those things which are set downe in the whole bodie of the Scriptures concerning Antichrist I vphold that euery one of them doth agree to the Bishop of Rome and that they all cannot be attributed vnto any other Now the name of Antichrist is in the Scriptures taken in two sortes generall and proper or perticular For as the name of Christ is sometime applied vnto all those who haue some resemblance of him in their being annoynted such as were the Prophets Kings and Priests in like sence whereof the Prophet speaketh Psalm 104. Touch not mine annoynted and sometime agayne is taken for the very Sonne of God made manifest in the flesh our redeemer and Sauiour Iesus Christ So also in the Scriptures the name of Antichrist is sometime taken for euery aduersarie of Christ as in the 1. Ioh. 2. There are many Antichristes come alreadie that is there begin to incroach many back-sliders which indeuour to corrupt the pure word of God and sometime agayne more properly for that chiefe Antichrist which mallapertly thwarteth Christ himselfe not only in one or two poynts but in the whole frame of religion and kingdome of Christ And euen in such sence did Iohn speak of Antichrist in that very place when he sayth Little children it is the last houre and as ye haue heard that Antichrist should come c. And of this kinde of Antichrist are those things to bee vnderstoode which Paule writeth in his 2. Epistle to the Thess cap. 2. I am not therfore to intreate of those pettie and paltrie Antichristes which are many in number and should sow the seed of the Apostacie and horrible Antichristianisme which was to insue but of that Captaine Antichrist which should in all poynts bee opposite to Christ and of whom the other were but fore-runners And whē I say that the Bishop of Rome is this great Antichrist my meaning is that he is the Captaine and head of that Apostacie which the Scripture

subdued by him there was neuer any called an Italian Emperour 5. Theodoricus King of Gothes being sent for into Italie by Zeno the Emperour to assist him against Odoacer held him-selfe the Romane Empire in Italie by the space of fiftie yeares and to the ende he might make it knowne how little he estéemed Rome he kept his Emperiall residence at Ravenna This man was the fift 6. Athalaricus who succéeded his Father Theodoricus vnder Anastasius the Emperoure For nowe the Empire of the Gothes beganne by a continuall succession of their Kings to take rooting and footing in Italie And vnder the gouernment of this Athalaricus the Gothes continued their defacing of the dignity of the Romane Empire in Italie 7. Theodatus was the seauenth and he also was a Gotish King who succéeded Athalaricus in Italie 8. Vitiges the eight King likewise of Gotland after Theodatus who wasted and spoiled almost all Italie He besieged the Citie of Rome it-selfe which had shronke and reuolted from the subiection of the Gotish Kings vpon confidence of assistance from the Lieutenants and Emperours of Constantinople This man therefore as Sabellicus reporteth vtterly defaced and put out all the lawes customes priuiledges records of Antiquities of auncient families of the auncient Romanes which he found remaining in Italie He liued vnder the raigne of Iustine the first 9. Totilas King of Gothes succéeded Vitiges and this is the ninth of those 10. Kings He liued vnder Iustinian the first Emperour of Constātinople This man both besieged sacked and vtterly rased the Citie of Rome and to conclude euen as the Spirit of God had fore-shewed it should come to passe he burnt it with fire and this fire raunged raged by the space of 40. daies without ceasing in so much as the Citie being then so throughly consumed might iustly be iudged to be that Geddon-Harma the ruine of Rome spoken of in the Reuel that is the only shreads sheards vtter ouerthrow of that famous auncient Citie For after this vastation it remained only a ruinous desolate place And this befell in the yeare of our Lord 546. This scourge continued as is fore-shewed Reuel Cap. 13.5 by the space of 42. moneths that is three yeares and a halfe For when the third yeare was expired after this burning and vtter ouerthrow of Rome done by Totilas Belisarius chiefe Captaine vnder Iustinian began first to renewe the same gathering together such scraps and fragments thereof as were left and at last to enuiron with a wall the plot or soile where once the ould Rome stoode which is the verie same where-with euen at this day that part which they call ould Rome is beawtified 10. Teias who also was King of Gothes is the tenth who succéeded Totilas in the Kingdome and vexed or wasted Italie but a short time seeing that little or nothing was left of that auncient Citie neither was there scarce any print or marke left of the ould Romane Empire This man beeing taken prisoner by Belisarius was caried vnto Constantinople Now touching these matters if we begin to reckon the time from Alaricus they were atchieued within the compasse of about 132. yeares but if we begin as others will rather haue it at the time of Odoacer they were 60. yeares and some-what more in doing Which points being thus made plane we now perceiue and see that God would not haue the kingdome of Antichrist ouerthrowne with worldly or carnall weapons as the scripture speaketh but spirituall that he will not cōtend with him with an yron Sword but with the spirit or breath of his mouth Other earthlie and humane Monarches haue vsed earthlie and carnall weapons both to the raising of themselues and razing of others So did the Persians ouer-runne Assyria with weapon and bloudie warre And so againe did the Macedonians subdue the Persians by dint of Sworde And so likewise did the Romanes tame and bring vnder the Macedonians But the Lord who at first made and framed the whole world by vertue of his word who also sustaineth and ruleth the same by the power there-of and will also raigne in his Church by the Preaching of his worde and lastly who hath giuen vnto Christ a spirituall not an earthlie Kingdome will vse a spirituall sword the effectuall preaching of the Gospell for the foiling of his foes euen as it is in Zech. 4.6 and Esay 9.5 For the saying of Lactantius is right famous and most worthie of credite which he hath in his fifth Booke and ninetenth Chapter It standeth with good reason that thou shouldest maynteyne and defende thy religion with pacience or with death whereby keeping thy faith sound and vpright thou makest it acceptable vnto God and gaynest credit and authoritie vnto Religion And heere that maketh no iarre which is sayd Psal 2.9 that Christ should haue an yron Scepter whereby he should crush his enemies in peeces like a potters vessell For indeede that place attributeth vnto Christ such power and might as against which his most obstinate and mightie foes should neuer be able to resist but yet it doth not properlie or litterally mention the meane or instrument where-with the enemies of the Church shall be destroyed For that must rather be brought to passe by the word of God then with weapons for the weapons of Christians and of the Church of God are spirituall as Paule speaketh 2. Cor. 10.4 Reuel 19.15 and not carnall or worldly VVhether it be lawfull for Christians and such as professe the Gospell to wage warre with the Papistes in purpose to ouerthrow the kingdome of Antichrist and to roote out his doctrine The 29. Chapter YEt we are not hereupon to thinke as some haue done that the outward vse of weapons is by the Gospell vtterly condemned as Tertullian lib. De Idolatria Apologetico Lactan. lib. 5. cap. 22. cap. 19. make report Indeede the Marcionites were of that minde and euen at this day some Anabaptistes haue renewed the same error But if so be that the partie be such as may take warre in hand it is not so of it selfe vnlawfull And such a partie is the Magistrate as appeareth Rom. 13.4 Luke 3.14 But here we haue in hand to shewe the difference that should bee betweene Christes kingdome and the kingdomes of this world For as touching the kingdome of Christ as it is of it selfe spirituall so doth it vse spiritual weapons such as are the word of God the power of the Spirit and the light of the truth But as for politicke and earthly kingdomes in as much as they are to regard the commodities and haue consideration of things belonging to this life and are for that ende and purpose established they do maintaine and defend themselues by outward weapons by the Lords permission yea sometimes by his expresse will and commaundement And hence now ariseth and falleth into this poynt that famous and profitable question so often handled and inquired after Whether any man may at any time in defence of