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A11229	Sacræ heptades, or Seaven problems concerning Antichrist 1. of his place. 2. Of his state. 3. Of his names. 4. Of his rising. 5. Of his raigne. 6. Of his words and actions. 7. Of his times. Necessarie to be read and knowne of all men, who professe Christ Iesus, and hope to be saved by no other name. By G.S.	Salteren, George.; Sandys, George, 1578-1644, attributed name.	1625 (1625)	STC 21492; ESTC S116309	165,194	236

as easie to be intreated now in heauen as he was upon earth when he did not reject Marie Magdalen that had seauen divels the woman of Canaan whom he rebuked by the name of a dog nor the man possessed with a legion Secondly how do they acknowledg him to be full of truth when they say that his H. word doth not contain all truth but it must be pieced out with the traditions Canons and expositions of their Church 3. How do they acknowledg him to be our wisdome Scriptura seipsam exponit Chris Aug 2 Tim. 3. when they will not haue his word to be sufficient to interpret it self and to instruct us make us perfect in all good works but we must resort to the Church and receiue her judgment from the mouth of their Pope 4 How do they acknowledge our Saviour Christ by himself to haue purged all our sinnes when they say that we must satisfie by good works in our life and after our death we must go to Purgatorie 5 How do they acknowledg him to be our justification when they say that we are justified before God by our good works and not onely by faith in his death and passion although it be written if thou confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and belieue in thy heart Rom. 10. Hebr. 10. that God raysed him from the dead thou shalt be saved 6 How do they confesse him to be our sanctification or that by one sacrifice he hath consecrated for ever them that are sanctified when as they teach that there must be offered up dayly sacrifices for us in the Masse And lastly how do they accept him for their Redeemer which affirm that our poenarie works Concil Trid. ses 14. Bellarm. de paenitent l. 4. truly properly do satisfie God for the guilt of our punishment which after the fault forgiuen remaineth to be expiated But these points with many others which may be produced to proue that the Pope and his Church if not expresly yet by consequence which is equivalent doth deny the fulnes of all graces to be in our Saviour Christ I leaue to our learned Divines of whom some haue urged these things alreadie and others I doubt not will prosecute them more at large hereafter The summe of all this may be reduced to this Problem Whether any may more properly be called Antichrist or may be called an adversarie to Christ then he that thus denieth the graces of our Saviour Let us come to that which is not onely easie to our understanding but evident to our senses which may be seen with our eyes and felt with our hands For if we take the name of Christ here as he is in the sacrament who hath been a greater enimie to Christ thē the Popes one of them poysoning it another casting it into the fire all changing adding or diminishing it But take the name as it is communicated to Kings Priests and Prophets and so Antichrist to be an enimie to them I demand who hath in secret as Antichrist must be deceiueable been a greater enimie to all christian kings and Princes then the Popes sometimes incensing them to fight with Pagans and Saracens abroad as de did Godfry of Bulleyn many Princes with him in the meane space neglecting their Christian subjects at home our king Richard the first and the Emperor Frederike sometimes stirring up seditions and rebellions at home as he did against the Emperor Henry the IIII. Henry the IIII. king of France and Queen Elizabeth sometimes ministring occasions to make wars betwixt themselues as Pope Iohn did by crowning another Emperor while the first was living sometimes by giving away their kingdomes as Navarre and England sometimes leaving them destitute of succour and open to the universall professed enimie of all Christians the Turke as they did the Grecian Emperors sometimes setting secret Traitors to murder them and sometimes procuring open enimies to invade them ever excommunicating cursing and interdicting one or other of them Let the histories of late times be perused and see whether their ende and drift hath not been continually for these 900 yeeres and upwards to maintaine and advance their own power riches jurisdiction and preeminence by holding christian princes alwaies obnoxious to them and to make them obnoxious and to keepe them under awe by such meanes as aforesaid So likewise for Priests and Prophets is he not an adversarie to all that will not submit themselues unto him as namely to the Greek Church and all the bishops and learned pastors of the same to the godly Valdenses Albigenses Wicklevites and others Lastly if we take the name of Christ here for his mysticall body which is the Church this is also a speciall note of Antichrist For so it is plainly said that the woman was drunke with the bloud of Saints and Martyrs And who hath shed more bloud of godly men professing the word of Christ Iesus then the Popes haue done for these last nine hundred yeares I referre my self to the histories and Chronicles of those times See Abb●t demonst antich In that one warr which they caused Christian Princes to undertake for Ierusalem under Godfry of Bollen it is recorded that there were slayn two thousand millions of Christians In Merindall Cabriers and other places held by the poore Valdois they murdered all men women and sucking children In the Massacre of France Anno 1572 within eight daies were murdered a hundred thousand beside many other at other times in England and else where So that howsoever we take the name of Antichrist either as Vicar to Christ or as adversarie eyther denying his graces or suppressing his Liuetenants and ministers or persecuting his members I finde this name most agreeable to Rome and I demand Whether it can be so well applied unto any other But here will be demanded of me a question how this name Ho Antichristos that Antichrist as they expound the Greeke Article which they would perswade is to be understood of one man can be applied to a succession of men especially seeing some of the Fathers seeme to speake of him but as one man For the Fathers to clear that first it must be confessed that quaestionibus non dum motis P●●k in Prob. they spake sometimes impropriè incautius as Bellarm. confesseth or securius as S. August sometimes Rhetoricè as S. Ierom. sometimes populariter as others do affirm This question concerning Antichrist was not appointed for them but for us upon whom it must needs be confessed that the uttermost ends of the world are fallen neither did they much labour in it And yet we see not all of them runne in one straine Hilarie seemeth to speak more largely He that refuseth the judgment of the Scriptures Antichristus est Chrysoft in opere imperfecto doth not restraine himself to one man but we sayth he videmus abominationem desolationis jam stantem in loco sancto id est populum Antichristi in

church as well which is in Brittanie Germanie France Spaine Africa America and India parts where thou art not as at Rome and yet confine him to heauen as if he were wholly excluded from the earth who is here as present as there But they say againe the Pope claymeth onely as Vicar to Christ O still blaspheamer answer againe what hath a Vicar to doe in the presence of his superiour yea of such a Superiour who filleth heauen and earth and hath bound himself by speciall promise Ier 23. Matth. 28. to be with his church for ever Dost thou not in making thy self his Vicar deny his presence and in denying the presence of our Lord and Saviour Christ in his church deny him to be truly God Quid verba audiam cum facta videam Againe I aske whether thou dost not in this name usurpe the rights of our Saviour and so also declare thy self to be his enimie When the valiant King Edward the third of England intended warr against Phillip the French King he proclaymed himself King of France that was the beginning of the warr so everie Prince taketh it for a denuntiation of war when his neighbour Prince taketh his title And shall not we say that this is a publike proclamation of war by the Pope against our Saviour Christ when he taketh upon him the stile of Pont. Max. that properly belongeth to our Saviour and was never giuen truly to any man but to him yea doth he not exalt himself aboue Christ For Christ did not take it to himself but received it of his Father But the Pope taketh it to himself without the gift of any unlesse it were of Phocas the Murtherer of whom we shall speake hereafter Neyther yet doth he onely take this title to himself but other titles also not inferiour as caput and sponsus ecclesiae c. which onely belong to our Saviour I demand further whom doth he follow in this title Doth he follow Melchisedek or Aaron They were both called High Priests and they were indeede Types of our Saviour Christ the onely true High-Priest and ordeined by God for certeine signes that he should come and so had a lawfull calling But when the truth was come then all types were abolished yea and they also are abolished from Christ fallen from grace whosoever do use them Whereupon the godly Fathers do affirme that the Céremonies of the Law are now not onely mortuae but mortiferae not onely in use dead but to be used deadly And the reason is apparant for that whosoever doth use them doth deny that our Saviour is come in the flesh namely by using those Ceremonies which were Instituted to shew that he was not then come but to be expected But the Pope using the title of High Priest after the order of Melchisedek or of Aaron doth use a Ceremonie instituted to shew that Christ was not come in the flesh but was to be expected Therefore I aske Whether he doth not denye that Christ Iesus is come in the fl●sh and so also declare himself to be Antichrist But if they will say that in taking this title upon him he followeth our Saviour Christ I aske by what authoritie or who calleth him to it No man sayth the Apostle taketh this title upon him saue he that is called of God as was Aaron And againe the Priesthood of Christ cannot passe from one to another The reason because Christ is God eternall who can haue no successor in his offices and therefore he that will take upon him to succeed Christ doth deny his divinitie as he that will be his Vicar by pretence of his absence Well if the Pope can shew no calling then I ask by what example or precedent if it were a title lawfull to be used why did none of the Apostles nor of the Disciples use it not Tuus not Timothie not Paul nor Peter not Iames the brother of our Lord Bishop of Ierusalem President of the counsell of the Apostles nor yet our Apostle S. Iohn which outlived all the rest and therefore might best do it In a word I finde none to whom this title of Summus or Maximus Pontifex hath any wayes ben applied but either Melchisedek or Aaron or to our Saviour Christ nor any that hath taken it upon them by humain authoritie but onely the Idolatrous Pontifex Maximus that was in Rome of whom I haue spoken before And if the Pope cannot justifie his highest and greatest Pontificalitie by some title from one or other of the three first it will fall out inevitable that he is the true and undoubted successor of the last And that is most consonant and agreeable to the words of our prophecie that Antichrist should be one of the seauen heads of Rome and namely that head of whom S. Iohn sayth He was and is not and yet is as is before proved Probl 2. The same also may be proved by his name Papa whereof divers haue made divers derivations but for my part I thinke none more probable then to say it cometh from one of the titles used or usurped by the old Roman Emperors which upon their coines were wont to stampe Pa. Pa. for Pater Patriae and now the Roman Prelate as he succeedeth them in the name of Pont. Maximus so he taketh that title of Papa likewise to proue himself their undoubted Successor I will not therefore stand here further to confute their pretence and claime to be Vicarius Christi although I might say that it cannot stand with the celsitude of a Pontifex max. to be but a Vicar neither can a Vicar dispense with the lawes of his superiour nor will I answer to Tu es Petrus and such like which haue been so many times answered by our learned divines neither do I think my self bound to refute the immoderate titles giuen to the Pope by S. Barnard or other late Doctors a pointe of this weight is not to be carried away with swelling phrases of Rhetorick but by evident testimonies of undoubted truth Certain it is that he who said Tu es Petrus never sayd Tu eris Pontifex Maximus nor Tu eris meus vicarius Chrysost no nor super hunc Petrum aedificabo c. neither did he giue any keyes to him more then to the rest of the Apostles But if I may speak my opinion this name Pontifex max. is the verie name of blasphemie written in the forehead of that purple whore euen that Antichrist c. So much therefore be spoken of this name of Pontifex Max. which the Pope taketh to himself A third title is Servus servorum Dei This attribute the Pope also and he alone accepteth acknowledgeth and useth it But this title was never giuen to any but by the godly prophet and patriarch Noah to the cursed Canaan whose Father was the scorner of that godly patriarch and his posteritie the mortall enimies of our Saviour Christ in his Church of Israell and so a type

successor thus Vendit Alexander Sacramenta altaria Christum Emerat ille prius vendere jure potest Of his daughter Lucretia thus Hoc jacet in tumulo Lucretia nomine sed re Thais Alexandri filia sponsa nurus Of Iulius the 2. thus that he threw the keyes into the river Tibris saying that the sword of S. Paul should help him Quandoquidem clavis nil juvat ista Petri. Such kinde of excellent Elogia are giuen to all the rest and yet still their successors Parasites Sectaries call them Most holy Fathers and the Vicars of Christ But if I should recite all it would ask a just volume of it self See 〈◊〉 Myst Let these be sufficient to shew that these are the men to whom these titles The Man of sinne and The lawlesse man may most rightly be given And if any man will yet deny or doubt of it let him answer upon good advisement whether ever he read or heard of such monsters of men among the Iewes Turkes Infidels or any Pagans in the world and whether he thinke it likely that any man should go beyond these men in wickednesse and yet withall obteyne such a privilege and prerogatiue to be lawlesse And if not then whether this be not that man of sinne that lawlesse man that Antichrist I come to the fifth name which is giuen to Antichrist in the Scripture which is The Sonne of perdition A title first giuen by our Saviour Christ to Iudas the Traytor Iohn 17. 2 Thes 2. and after by S. Paul to Antichrist shewing as may easily be collected that Antichrist should be like to Iudas in profession a Christian in calling a Bishop Of Iudas see Act. 1 20. in title an Apostle in practise a Traitour Now whether all these things do not most properly concurre in the Pope let them answer that haue read the Histories of England Germanie France and Italie especially of late dayes For of his profession Bishoprik and Apostolate no question is made And of his treasons let them tell me by whose practises Rome and Italie rebelled against the Emperors See more in Fox Monim in his deserce of the L. Cobham and heye probl 7. by whose practises such rebellions and treasons were set on foote in England Ireland against Queene Elizabeth and in France against the late Henry IV. by whose Partisans traitors of late time haue beene most set a worke approved and commended and whether he be not called a Christian a Bishop and an Apostle The sixth name is Abaddon a Destroyer well agreeing with the former names And how many millions of men the Popes haue destroyed by setting Christian Princes sometimes to destroy their own subjects under the names of Heretikes sometimes to fight with Pagans and Turkes and sometimes to fight one with another they can best tell us who are conversant in their histories I will here instance but in one or two examples in which I desire them to answer how manie thousand Christians were slaine in the civill warres stirred up in Germanie by the Popes in the times of Henrie the IV. and Henrie the V. Conradus Frederick and Adolphus of Nassau Emperors of Germanie Also in the warres stirred up between the two Antipapes Vrban and Clement Fro●ssart when each of them sent out Bulles to stirre up Princes to destroy the adherents one of another See more Probl. 5. How many thousand christians were destroyed by the Turks by occasion of that wofull discomfiture at Varna whereunto the King of Hungarie was thrust by the importunitie of the Pope and his Cardinall Iulian inciteing him to break the Truce sworne to with the Turke How many in France in the civill warres there stirred up by the Legue How manie in Germanie in these last warres which are yet in hand And yet herein is further to be observed that whereas the Turke other Tyrants do murder and kill onely mens bodies and yet do not professe that but desire to be called mercifull gracious Lords onely the Pope professeth that if he draw millions of mens bodies and soules with him into Hell yet he is to be judged of no man he is to be redargued of no man for it I aske then whom shall we call Abaddon a destroyer if this be not he that professeth he may do it without controulment Or what Abaddon shall we looke for besides But if any man will contend that the title of Abaddon belongeth to the Divell yet I thinke he cannot thereupon inferr that it ought not to be giuen to Antichrist at best wise if we consider of the Rule in S. August De diabolo eius corpore Dedoct christ For it is no more inconvenient that the name of the Divel should be giuen to him that doth the works of the divell Psal 82. then the name of God to good princes which do the works of God Iohn 10 34. And so our Saviour expressely calleth Iudas a Divell yea the Apostle Peter he calleth Satan Iohn 6 70. Matth. 16. a scandall perhaps intimating that his pretensed successors should possesse the seat of Satan be the greatest scandall of all others when they should begin to savour the things of men The seauenth and last name giuen to Antichrist in Scripture is that which is not expressed but signified by three Greek letters yeelding the number of 666. which to count the H. Ghost commendeth unto us as a point of wisedome Neither can I easily be drawne to reject the computations of Names of this number by the Fathers and other godly Interpreters Let everie man bring forth his opinion without prejudice to others and pray to God to inlighten us all I for my part thinke it best to follow the ancient opinion so farr as it may stand with the Scriptures Now it is knowne that the ancient godly Father Irenaeus seeking for names answerable to this number findeth none so fit as Lateinos For although he mention other names as Teitan c. yet to the name of Lateinos he addeth his judgment of approbation saying that it is verie like to be the true name For saith he the truest kingdome is called by that name and Latini sunt qui nunc dominantur They are Latines which now do raigne This also suteth with other prophecies of Antichrist whereof I haue spoken before and with the interpretation that some do make of the prophecie of Balaam where he sayth that Ships from Chittim shall afflict Ashur and Eber. which cannot be verified of any but the Romans and S. Hierom there interpreteth Chittim to be Italie And the Affliction of Eber must be also understood of the Prince of Eber the Starre of Iacob and that in his Mysticall body aswell as his Naturall This also agreeth with other names which godly learned men haue foūd out representing the same number all leading and directing us to the Pope as the name of Romanus or Romyth 〈◊〉 in Hebrew letters observed by the venerable