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A12577	A briefe and learned treatise, conteining a true description of the Antichrist, who was foretold by the prophets and apostles And an evident proofe that the same agreeth vnto the Pope. Written in Latin by M. George Sohn Doctor of Diuinitie, and publike professor thereof at Heidelberg, and translated into english.	Sohn, Georg, 1152?-1589.; N. G., fl. 1592.; Grimald, Nicholas, 1519-1562, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 22891; ESTC S114124	33,734	90

whoredomes filthie lustes or at least doeth tollerate them filleth all Christendome with whores with Bastards with buggerers and others more of the same stampe as it is knowne full well and yet further by giuing dispensation he permitteth incestuous mariages and that which is more then all the rest he maketh a gaine and raiseth a yerely rent of the common stewes So Iohn 13 being found with a queane was run through of the husband of the same harlotte Further how great was the chastitie and honestie of Alexander the sixt it appeareth by this epitaph made for his daughter Hic iacet in tumulo Lucretia nomine sedre Thaïs Alexandri silia sponsa nurus Here lyes entombd Lucretia by name but wee her sawe Thais in life Alexanders childe spouse daughter in lawe So Iohn Casus Archbishop of Beneventum the popes legate among the Venetians hath cōmended published in print that horrible kind of lust and venerie which is not at all to be reported yea that who is called P. Iohn the 8 was both a woman and an harlot as she went to the palace of Laterane shee traueiled in the third yere of the Popedome died of that trauell in the same place whereupon Mantuan in his time writeth after this maner Jpudor in villas si non patiantur easdem villae vomicas Roma est iam tota lupanar O shame to village packe away If it may be found deere Rome is a stewes now chastitie hath no abiding there He also abstaineth from certain meates yet exceedeth in all kinde of excesse because he forbiddeth flesh all things which haue generation by seede or doe sauour of flesh as milke cheese egges to be eaten on set daies vnderpain of deadly sinne to satisfie for sinne to deserue the grace of God life euerlasting but he granteth all the dainties delicates whatsoeuer de consec dist 3. de esu carnium dist quia eadem dist 5. quadr dist 4. c. denique c. 13. quaest 2. animae And yet he will for mony dispēse for the self samething He is couetous because he vseth Symonie that is buying selling making a marchaudise of things spirituall he giueth nothing but selleth al things as the grace of God the sacraments good works heauen life euerlasting out of all of them he piketh out gold and siluer and raiseth his gaine for heauen hell the earth yea time itselfe and all creatures whether they haue life or be without life as wine bread oyle linnen milke butter cheese water salt fire perfumes the stewes c. So that there was neuer hearde of either any greater or more abominable marchandise Whereupon his marchants brokers that is the Monkes the Bishops Cardinals are not onely become rich but are euen princes vpon the earth So likewise doeth he make a gaine of Masses satisfactions pardons burials and Church liuings to wit by selling of benefices annats or vacations preuentions resignations for fauour commendatus dispensations for age for orders for irregularity for blemish of body for redemptions of the Bishops pall and the Bulls Further by reseruation of cases by mariage causes by sinnes and offences to wit when as license for sinnes and all kind of mischiefes are bought and sold after a certaine price and rate and by other cases and causes of the like nature which if wee shoulde recken vp one by one would be very tedious because they want both measure and modestie and there is no great necessitie so to doe for that there is a booke extant of these things which hath this title Taxae Cancellariae Apostolicae Taxae sacrae Poenitentiariae itidem Apostolicae cum not abilibus iuxta stylum hodiernum curiae Romanae In which book thus there is a sentence worthy the remembrance set downe in these wordes And marke this diligently that such immunities and dispensations are not graunted vnto them which be poore For they because they bee not rich can not be comforted Hereof commeth it to passe that an infinite masse of gold and siluer is brought vnto Rome which afterward the Pope Cardinals and the rest of the same rable do consume in their stewes and brothel-houses and doe riotouslie spend as it were in the bottomles gulfe of their vnsaciable gluttonie sensualitie to the great shame ignominie of Christianitie So Franciscus Petrarch hath left it in record that in the treasure house of Pope Iohn the 22 there was founde when hee was dead by his heires 25 thousand thousand crownes that is 250 tunne of gold And of Boniface the eight who was taken prisoner spoiled at the commandement of Philippus Pulcher the French King wee finde it registred that all the kings of the world were not able to disburse so much out of their treasurie within the compasse of one yere as was taken and caried out of the Popes palace wherefore there haue alwaies beene some at all times who both detested that in satiable hunger and vncontented desire and greedines of riches and also lotted not to enueigh against the same hereupon Mantuan saith thus venalia Romae Templa Sacerdotes Altario Sacra Corona Jgni● thura preces Coelum est venale Deusque which is in English thus Churches and Priestes Altars and Princes at Rome are to be solde Kingdomes and rites incense and heauen yea God Rome is so bolde And another thus Curia Romana non carpit ovem sine lana Dantes exaudit nō dantibus ostia claudit which may be thus translated The Romish court doeth make no pay Of sheepe that fleece doe want No man can speed vnlesse he pray Bring giftes and take our graunt And againe another speaketh after this manner The treasure house Apostolicall is like vnto the sea into which all flouds doe runne and yet it doeth not ouerflowe for euen so thousand waightes of golde are brought into this out of diuers partes of the worlde and yet it is not filled Hee is also craftie deceitfull false and giuen to lying craftie hee is for that hee blindeth trueth and falshoode together deceitfull and a lyar hee is in that his feigned seruice to witte when as hee entituleth his lordlinesse with a name of seruice that is when hee calleth himselfe the seruant of seruants vnder pretence of humilitie according to the example of Gregorie the great who for this ende called himselfe the seruant of the seruants of God that hee might giue his successours a patterne of lowlinesse and yet in words and deede hee proudely exalteth himselfe aboue all kings and princes desiring to bee the lorde of lordes as wee declared at large heretofore in so much that hee indeede retaineth the bare name and title but vsurpeth a statelinesse altogether disagreeing from the title so further in the fained donation of Constantine as is mentioned in Cap. Constantinus dist 96. hee produceth a forged instrument of Constantine his deede of gift in which hee affirmeth that

A BRIEFE AND LEARNED TREATISE conteining a true description of the Antichrist who was foretold by the Prophets and Apostles AND AN EVIDENT PROOFE that the same agreeth vnto the Pope WRITTEN IN LATIN BY M. George Sohn Doctor of Diuinitie and publike professor thereof at Heidelberg And translated into english Printed at Cambridge by IOHN LEGATE 1592 ❧ TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND VERTVOVS Ladie Katharine Countesse of Huntingdon his especiall good Ladie Grace and peace in Christ Iesus RIght Honourable Ladie whosoeuer is engraffed into the bodie of Christ and duely considereth the manifold stratagems of the olde serpent and his wicked instruments must needs be mooued with mutuall compassion to pitie their estate and with all abilitie receiued from God to preuent their subtilties and to hinder their malicious proceedings For if Sathan continually doe compasse the earth like a roaring lyon seeking to deuoure if his children hauing their fathers nature doe compasse sea land to withdraw from the faith if both children and father with all his angels of darkenesse doe transforme them selues into Angels of light to deceiue ifit were possible he very elect how much more ought wee to regarde our brethren the children of God least they become the children of Hell be deuoured of the great àragon and be drawne to haue pleasure in vnrighteousnesse and to worship the beast Beholde howe they hazard their goods their landes their libertie and their liues and being as it were inflamed with the fire of hell they come amongst vs to set on fire the Temple and citie of our God to burne vp the corne the oliues and the vineyard of the Lord of hosts that is to say more plainly these Romish and Rhemish foxes endevour by all means to poyson our youth with the leauen of popish opinions to confirme the aged in their olde superstitions and to withdraw all men as well from the holy seruice of Christ as from their loyal obedience to their gracious soueraigne Therefore it is full time that wee should all say with the spouse in the Can. Take vs the foxes not only the greatest but euē the litle foxes which destroy our vines and further to afford all that litle helpe we can for the quenching of these Antichristian firebrands This mooued the author of this treatise * as diuers other very godly and learned men to write diuers books for the benefit of the Church amongst which this seemeth very worthie both his paines of writing and our deligence in reading thereof For here is deliuered a aplain and sound description of Antichrist and the same so mightily applied and surely fastned vpon the Pope that he must either change his nature which is vnpossible or else be enfolded within this conclusion The Pope is Antichrist Here he is most liuely painted foorth vnto you by his name qualities and progenie by his doctrine miracles and authoritie by his life his habitation and the time of his reuelation continuance and vtter destruction here the doctrine of Christ is opposed to that of Antichrist and soundly confirmed not with the weake reede of humane constitutions nor with the sand of mans traditions and authoritie but with the sacred rock of Christ his Apostles Euangelists and Prophets so that though the windes blowe and the raine fall and the floods be at and the gates of hell be opened against the same yet it shall not fall for it is grounded vpon this rocke The word of the Lord endureth for euer Therefore who soeuer pleaseth to see the truth of this great controuersie may within fewe houres know and that out of the word of God what we ought to iudge concerning the Pope namely that hee is Antichrist Whereupon it will follow that as the Babylon of Antichrist is not the Ierusalem of Christ nor the religion of the beast the worship of the Lamb so the Popish Church is not Bethel but Beth-auen not the Church of Christ but the synagogue of Satan and the religion of the Pope is not the religion of Christ but the superstitious homage of the cursed beast So that it cānot be but a lewde practise of them who endeuour to make an vnion of two religions which differ in them selues as light and darkenesse who doe altogether forget that heauenly voyce Reuel 18. 4. Goe out of her my people that ye be not partakers in her sinnes and that ye receiue not of her plagues Nowe that many may be benefited by this learned treatise beeing earnestly entreated and greatly vrged by a good friende of mine I haue aduentured to expresse my authors meaning after a plaine manner in our owne language and to commit the same to the blessing of God and the friendly acceptation of the Christian Reader And these my first fruits of this kinde I am bolde to dedicate vnto your Honour most Honourable Ladie beseeching you to accept of this as of a small yet a publike testimonie of my bounden duetie thankefull remembrance and heartie affection which I can not any way expresse but doe entirely beare toward your Honour and the rest of your most Honourable name and alliance Whose Honourable fauour and goodnesse the fruit of true faith syncere loue and pure religion as it hath beene comfortable to many of Gods children and especially vouchfafed to my Father my selfe and other friendes so is it a worke which God him selfe will regard and reward in mercy with an immortall crowne of euerlasting glorie Who keepe direct and blesse your Honour with the right Honourable my good Lorde and all yours in Christ Iesus that beeing furnished with all spirituall graces and temporarie benefits needefull for this life and the life to come you may continually walke in the waies of righteousnes and enioye at the length the incomprehensible ioyes of the kingdome of heauen the end of your hope the saluation of your soules through Christ Iesus Amen Your Honours most humble bounden in the Lord. N. G. THE POPE OF Rome is that Antichrist OF VVHOME THE Prophets and Apostles haue Prophecied HAuing heretofore discoursed concerning Christ that is the person the office and the estate of Christ we will now entreate concerning Antichrist that the glorie of Christ maie be somewhat the better vnderstood because that according to the common saying Things contrarie appeare more euidently by their comparison Antichrist in generall is hee who doeth any waie oppose him selfe to the doctrine of Christ whome in word he professeth to follow or who doeth oppugne Christ vnder the name and pretence of Christ for thus he is described vnto vs 1. Ioh. 2. 18. v. 22. Chap. 4. v. 3. 2. Ioh. 7. Antichrist is of two kindes for either hee is aduersarie onelie to one parte of the doctrine of Christ or else almost to the wholl bodie thereof Of the first sorte are all heretikes which haue beene euer since the Apostles times and yet continue vnto this daie as were Cerinthus Valentinus Marcion Sabellius Arius Nestorius Eutiches

former beautie first in Germanie Switserland then in England Scotland France Flanders Denmarke other prouinces And though that vnluckie contention concerning the supper of the Lorde did straightwaie beginne amongst the preachers of the Gospell euen in the beginning thereof and continueth also vnto this day Satan endeauouring thereby to hinder and staie the cause of the gospell yet we are to thinke thus First that Sathan hath not now begun but hath practised long agoe to set at variance the holy seruants of God as Paul and Barnabas and againe the same Paul and Peter with others more secondlie that as concerning the foundation of the doctrine religion of Christ all things necessarie vnto saluation there hath alwaies bene and still is an agreement betwixt those men who are the restorers of this gospell which now beginneth to take life againe For hauing consuted merit and trust reposed in workes wherwith miserable men were bewitched in time of Poperie both parties agreed that our whole saluation consisteth in the merites of Christ onely the difference is in the supper of the Lorde concerning the corporall presence and the bodily eating and that the same is common vnto the godlie and the wicked as the one part defendeth and so not necessarie vnto saluation Thirdly it is no great maruell if in the beginning of reformation as it were in the dawning of the day all things were not at the first well considered for it can scarsely be declared what a deep gulfe of ignorance was in popery and what an horrible darkenesse by reason of errours And doubtlesse it was a verie great miracle wrought by God that those first doctours of the gospell could arise from thence in so litle and short space And although the Iesuites which are lately sprong vp indeauour to heale this wounde of Antichrist yet shall they neuer fullie cure the same Finally he shalbe destroied in the last daie of Christ when he returneth to iudgement and shalbe cast into the lake of fire and brimstone according vnto the prophecie before declared In the meane season we are patiently to beare that persecution wherwith he oppresseth vs and we must not for his tyranie leaue or forsake the profession of the truth Which things sith they are all true it followeth that the Pope since the death of Gregorie the great and the murther of Mauritius the Emperour is that Antichrist whome we haue before described out of the Prophecies of the Prophets and Apostles For whether they consider the doctrine or behold the maners and actions of the Pope they all agree vnto these prophecies and though heretofore there were controuersie touching primacie there were diuers errours and they not small concerning the doctrine yet afterwarde the desire of bearingsway did more breake forth Idolatrie and impietie was encreased and at the length Boniface the third obtained of Phocas the Emperour that whosoeuer should be the Bishop of auncient Rome should also bee esteemed as vniuersall Bishop that Rome shoulde be accounted the heade of all Churches and that this priuiledge might be traduced to their successours and within a while after others of them chalenged both the swords for themselues established this by decree that the Masse was a sacrifice propitiatorie for the liuing and the dead and to conclude they made Rome a sanctuarie for Idols Hitherto wee haue shewed who this great Antichrist is But as in the former question the Papistes doe differ from vs what Antichrist should be so likewise in this latter who Antichrist should be for as they doe define Antichrist otherwise then we so doe they vtterly denie that the Pope of Rome is that Antichrist For the Pope with his adherents now playing the part of Antichrist doeth feigne another Antichrist and teacheth that he is yet to come least he himselfe should bee thought to be the Antichrist indeed Of whose opinion and their reasons we will say more as occasion shall be offered for the manner of our positions will not now permit vs to speake of the same God the Father graunt for our Lorde Iesus Christes sake that men may learne to knowe and to abhorre that Antichrist the most dangerous enemie of Christ and the Church and may likewise learne more and more to loue and worship Christ FINIS Doctor Sohn publike professor of Diuinitie at Heidelberg The matter of this booke No vnion of the two religions The definitiō of Antichrist in generall There be two kinds of Antichristes 1 2 The names of Antichrist The types The description of Antichrist in speciall The declaration of the description A man A kingdome or state That is a proper and singular person as Leo Pius Iohn Gregorie Aduersarie to Christ Twofold authoritie Miracles A vaunt as God His Idolatry Hypocrisie Pride Blasphemie Licentiousnes Single life Abstinence Couetousnes Craft Crueltie His author The time of his appearāce His place His throne He sits in the Church His continuance The event or his reuelation His destruction The Papistes description of Antichrist The proofe that the Pope is Antichrist The proofe of the assumption by view in particular 1 Aman 2 Whoruleth a state 3 The Popes profession of Christianitie to which hee is indeede an aduersarie 1 He challengeth the offices of Christ 2. The Pope hath corrupted the doctrine of Christ as appeareth by the opposition of these particulars Voluntarie worship 2. One God 3. Invocation of God 4. Idols 5. One high Priest 6. One Mediatour 7. Christs power 8. Free-will 9. Satisfaction 10. Justification 11. Iustifying faith 12. Obseruation of the law 13. The kingdome of Christ 15. The two Sacraments 15. The vulgar tongue to be vsed in the Church 16. Who are to be baptized 17. the bread in the Lordes Supper 18. The lords supper is no sacrifice 19. Christs bodie 20. All ought to take eate and drinke 21 The bread and wine are to be distributed to all 22 Two places for the soules 23. Mariage honourable for all men 24. Meates are free Popes haue erred 4. The Pope hath two swordes Spirituall Temporall 5. The Popes miracles 6. The Pope as God He chalengeth Gods owne name 2. Gods power and authoritie Head of the Church 2 The Pope the highest Iudge 3. He disposeth kingdomes Examples He is an idolatour Breaden God His hypocrisy His blasphemie His ambitiō Examples of his ambition The Pope is lawlesse His abstinēce and riot He is covetous His craftines and false dealing His lying and contradictiōs The deede of gift for his Iurisdiction and authoritie Primatie Dignitie Succession The matters in which hee dealeth Mariage of Priestes Vse of the sacrament in both kinds Communication The Pope not to be iudged Promise breaking Of Pope Ioan Sedes testiculatrix His crueltie His appearance His time His place The discovery of the pope The destruction of the Pope The conclusion