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A04534	The Duke of Saxonie his iubilee with a short chronologie. Both shewing the goodnesse of God, in blessing the Gospel of Christ, since Luther first opposed the Popes pardons.	Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony, 1585-1656. aut; W. S., fl. 1618.	1618 (1618)	STC 14656; ESTC S106548	14,071	29

nature a Fast Yea Simulatum Iubelaeum fit duplex jeiunium Their Iubile fained makes their Fast doubled Wherefore I may apply that to the Synagogue of Rome which the Poet spake of another Spem vultu simulat prem●t alto corde dolorem Whilst hope in face sits counterfeit heart-pressing greife makes pulses beate Behold their Iubile which should argue ioy and ioy the Spirits dilatation is become a Fast whose associate is greife and greifes the Spirits compression Behold their clapping of handes is nought else but wringing of hands their shoutings groanings their release bondage their feastings fastings And iustly may they so do For such fasting is to them a signe that our bridegrome Christ is not among them for if the Bridgrome were with them how could they mourne Mat. 9 15. But I desire they may still mourne and be inwardly vexed not so much for the downefall of their abhominations as for their abhominations themselues and doe thou good Reader take vp with me in their behalfe the prayer of the Prophet Psal 83.19 Fill their faces with shame O Lord that they may know thy name This is the worst I wish them with which and mine earnest wishes to thee that thou wouldest clappe hands with those in exultation with whom thou art to claspe handes in holy profession I leaue these treatises to thy view and thy selfe to the watchfull eye of Gods prouidence Farewell A Preface set before the Arch-bishop of Spalato his Reasons of Departure printed in Scotland REceiue Christian Reader a proofe of the force of Truth and a presage of the end of that worke God is about to doe in these last Ages A man brought vp in the Learning of Egypt and enchanted with the Sorceries of Babel without the helpe or counsell of any Protestant by occasion of Popish Tyrannie searching the trueth findeth out their error in Doctrine and abuses in Discipline and conuinced of both first in his mind forsaketh their opinions and now in his body fleeth from their societie This is not like to the change of Apollinaris and Arrius of olde or of Carrier in our time whose miscontented humour for hopes disappointed made them alter their opinion But more like to that of Paulus Vergerius Bishop of Iustinople whom vniust suspitions at the first burdened with a secret fauour of Lutheranisme for purging whereof he intended a refutation of Luthers Doctrine But while hee wrangled with the Truth to ouercome it he was taken captiue of it and leauing his place and dignities rendred himselfe at Tubing to our Profession The ground of our presage is Gods truth in times accomplishment wherein Prouidence goes on with remarkeable degrees of persons and places not without some respect to the Periods of time He raised Wickleff from their Schooles Iohn Husse from their Pulpits Martin Luther from their Cloysters and now Marke Antony from their Archiepiscopall Chaire The places haue the like gradation Great Brittaine seemeth too farre from Rome to waken them by Wickleffs crie therefore it founded nearer in Germanie And now Dalmatia looking ouer the Venetian Gulfe assureth Italy that her next Aduertiser shall bee within her bowels It was more than a Poeticall Licence to apply Sybilla's Oracles of Christ to Saloninus the sonne of Pollio for keeping in memorie his victorie in taking in Salonas But this our Saloninus maketh large restitution and applieth the Oracles of God to the owne purpose As the Clergie hath gone before so Princes doe follow The King of Great Brittaine with most of the Princes of Germany stand out already against Rome the ambiguitie of France will resolue in the end in an open departure and the temporizing of Venice importeth more the want of occasion than of will and resolution The Romane Empire did stretch out it selfe by degrees proceeding from the mids to the extremities as circles goe out from the Center and at the extremities againe their ruine began and went backe to the heart The fall of their spirituall Monarchy shall keepe the same course The Periods of time haue their owne obseruation The Iewish solemnitie of Iubilee not brought into the Church till the thirteenth Age was then tyed to the Centenarie number and that their ioy hath since proued to bee like the song of the Marmaid before a storme for soone after Wickleffe began to trouble their mirth and in the end of that Age Iohn Husse made them some more businesse till in the 1415. yeere the holy Fathers at Constance by a Punicke faith brought him to the fire An hundred yeeres after him Luther renewed his song with greater boldnesse and in the 1517. yeere gaue out his Propositions against the Pope from which time they haue perswaded themselues and euen to this day assure their followers that Luthers doctrine can stand no longer then an hundred yeeres This present yere closeth that Period and while they looke for an euanishing of that Doctrine behold euen from themselues it receiueth againe a new light a new testimonie Wee hold with Plato the fatalitie of Periods but Pythagoras numbers are too weake a ground for such a necessitie or if we shall take any numbers it must be these of sinne and in sinne more the degrees then the numbers The Amorites sinnes must come to the height and the Iewes must fill their cup before their punishment The Pharisees of our time doe mightily to fill out their measure The pride and filthines of Sodom the whoredomes of Babel are now multiplied exceedingly and the greatest sinne euen that to death is become an Epidemicke disease among their Clergie Iohn the 22. can deny the truth Leo the 10. can scoffe at it Gardinerus can confesse it at his death but with this addition That it must rather still be impugned then the state of Rome decay All their wits runne vpon this one point but all their meanes turne vpon them The crueltie of their inquisition the tyrannie of their Prohibitions their impudencie in falsifying words and writs giue them but a moments aduantage But euen from these shall come their ruine A lie hath no more strength than for the time it is spoken and credulously embrace● but the eternall force of Truth hath more than a moment any preuailing What then resteth for them but that they giue place to the fatalitie of their estate since they will not giue place to the Truth And for vs while Rome is renting in it selfe take heed that we be not diuided Whosoeuer now casteth the apple of strife into the Reformed Church proueth an enemie to God and an improfitable friend to Antichrist Let vs stand still and behold the work of the Lord and be sure while we imagine we haue left Babel that we haue first forsaken Egypt W. S. THE DVKE OF SAXONIE HIS IVBILEE FIrst wee make no doubt but that every Christian and good loving heart doth duely esteeme what a high and great worke of Grace it is that Almighty God in these latter dayes and on the late evening of the world