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A68136	A letter vvritten by a true Christian Catholike, to a Romaine pretended Catholike Wherein vppon occasion of controuersie touching the Catholike Church the 12. 13. and 14. Chap. of the Reuelations are breifly and trulie expounded. Which conteine the true estate thereof, from the birth of Christ, to the end of the world.	Herbert, William, Sir, 1553?-1593.	1586 (1586)	STC 12752.5; ESTC S112797	52,029	90

the decaye of falshoode and lastly the glorification of the godly and condemnation of the wicked at the finall iudgement The methode is first a description of the church of God in the forme of a woman out of whose wombe Christ is borne Sathan is described in the forme of a dragon seeking to deuour this childe which the church had brought foorth Thirdly the ascention of Christ is declared and the persecutions raised against the Churche after Christes ascention Fourthly Gods prouidence is layde downe in preseruing the vniuersall church from ruyne which was doone by three meanes by the generall dispersing of the church by the two Testamentes which preserued the trueth of the doctrine and by the mortalitie of the persecutors Fiftly Sathans endeuours are manifested against the members of the Church when as hee sawe that hee coulde not preuaile againste the whole bodie that hee might the more violentlye afflicte the members hee vseth principally two instrumentes the first the Romaine Empire the seconde the Popedome The Romaine Empire is described in the forme of a beast most vglye and cruell The pryde and proceedinges thereof are layde downe and also the decaye which was wrought by another beast that hadde two hornes like the Lambe but spake like the Dragon Which by the iust iudgement of God partly by fraude partly by force inuaded the greatnesse and authoritie of the former and so brought it to ruine which other beast is the Popedome whose pride and tyranny is likewise declared and finally the fall thereof which is wrought by the restauration of the puritie of the doctrine by the woorde of God and shall throughly be accomplished by Christes comming in iudgement And this is it that Saint Paule teacheth vs that the man of sinne the sonne of perdition shall bee consumed by the spirite of the Lordes mouth and abolished by the brightnesse of his comming Nowe the next verse which is the first of the next chapter beginneth to expresse the restauration of the doctrine Christ manifesting himselfe in his Church in mount Sion accompaned with those whome the former persecutions of the Romaine Empire and Popedome had consecrated as martyres vnto him and sendeth an Angell with an euerlasting Gospell to preach vnto them that dwell vppon the earth to euerie nation and kindred and tongue and people which verse beginneth thus Then I looked and loe a Lambe stoode on mount Sion c. Which intimateth this muche vnto vs that when that man shall come whose name shall be sixe hundred sixtie and sixe If it be wittily accounted that then Christ shall manifest himselfe that then the euerlasting Gospel shalbe preached to them that dwell vppon the earth that then the puritie of doctrine shalbe restored that then the will and word of God shall be published by the which Babylon shall fall and the popedome bee wasted and consumed These circumstances do leade vs to Paulus tertius whose name being well accompted contayneth this number of sixe hundred sixtie sixe if wee alter the numerall letters to Arithmeticall figures and reacon it thereafter thus PAVLVS III. 555 111. For Paulus containeth three numerall letters vz. VLV. the firste V is 5. the L and V is 55. which layd downe arithmeticallye thus 555. is fiue hundred fifty and fiue then III which in numerall letters signifieth the thid in arithmeticall account is one hundred and eleuen And both these numbers holde an equall proportion as one ten a hundred fiue fifty fiue hundred which both summes being added together do make vp a third number of the same proportion which is 666. In the time of this Pope the Gospell began to take roote in many countries sundry learned men both by wordes and writinges preaching and professing the sinceritie and truth of the doctrine For the suppressing wherof in this Popes tyme the councell of Trent was assembled and no practise omitted by confederacies leagues and complattes to withstand the progresse of the truth and to persecute the professors thereof but so had Gods goodnes ordayned thinges that now the riuer of Euphrates was dryed vp that the way of the kinges of the East might be prepared Euphrates the glory strength of Babylon the power and authoritye of Rome was so decayed by the euil opinion that many princes and potentates iustly conceiued of it that the way of the kinges of the East was thereby prepared So that as at the birth of Christ there came wyse men out of the East vnto Hierusalem to worshippe him falling downe before him and presentinge vnto him their giftes of golde incense and myrhe Euen so at the second birth as it were of Christ by the restitution of the true doctrine manye noble wise and learned men who by allusion to the former storie are tearmed kinges of the Easte embrased the Gospell fell downe and worshipped Christ and bestowed the talents of their power learninge wisedome iudgement and industrie vnto his glorye and aduauncement of his truth In this Popes time the societie of the Iesuits was constituted and ordayned hauing added to their vowes of single lyfe and pouertie the vowe of obeydience to a chiefe head and principall president cui omnes in terris tanquam Christo parerent cuius in verba iurarent cuius sibi nutum voluntatem instar diuini cuiusdam oraculi ducerent This gouernour was as it were their chiefe prophet and they as the children of the prophets To these three vowes they ioyned a fourth which is that whether so euer the Bishop of Rome shall please to send them thether without any gaynesaying without any rewarde or allowance sought towardes their iorney they must immediately go Whereupon this Pope enlarged their societye with his priueledges firste to the number of threescore and afterwardes vpon experience of their faithfull seruice vnto him he made it sans number These Iesuites are the three or threescore or many folde spirites or frogges that come out of the mouth of the Dragon that is by the direction of the deuill out of the mouth of the beast that is by the direction of the Pope and out of the mouth of the false Prophet that is by the direction of their preposite or president For they are the spirites of deuils that is to say deuillish voyde of all trueth and charitie which worke miracles by their hypocrisy illusions and ostentation of learning and go to the kinges of the earth and of the whole worlde whether soeuer it pleaseth the Pope to sende them to gather them to the battaile of the great day of god almightye that is to moue them to the affliction and persecution of the true christians in the which they shall confederate band combine themselues by these mens perswasions but shall be destroyed vanquished and ouerthrowne in the middest of their mischiuous enterprises by the omnipotent power of God Thus hauing declared by these premises how this misticall number is the number of a man whose number is 666. we will here impose an ende

stir vp hatred dissention debate war and murder amongest you for his wrath is great knowing he hath but a short time For he is a roaring Lyon that knowing his ende to be at hand is the more fierce He is that cruel tirant that knowing his raigne to be but short sheadeth so much the more blood the more his time is diminished the more is his malice increased what he wanteth in measure he will fill vp in waight 13 And when the Dragon saw that he was caste into the earth hee persecuted the woman whiche had brought forth the man child When the Dragon that is to say the Deuil perceaued himselfe to be vanquished and ouercome driuē and expulsed out of the harts of the faithfull caste and throwen downe amongst the vnbeleeuers and reprobats hee persecuted the woman whiche had brought forth the mā child he persecuted the church the congregation of the faithfull which to her eternall happinesse had brought forthe the man childe Christ Iesus euen the Lord her righteousnesse her beauty and her saluation 14 But vnto the woman were giuen the wings of a great eagle that she might flie into the wildernesse into her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the presence of the serpent The prouidence of God assisted the Churche against the malice of Sathan The Church hauing her faith supported by the two testaments as it were by the two wings of a great eagle in this wildernesse of the world did infinitly spread it self by the outward preaching of the gospel and the inwarde operation of the holy Ghost The time times and halfe a time that is to say a yeare two yeeres and halfe a yeare is the selfe same that we reade before a thowsand two hundred and threescore daies the which wee there reduced to 42. monethes and expounded the moneths by Sabaoths of yeares according to the prophecie of Daniel It may also signifie both heere and in the place before the whole time and troubles of the church militant frō the birth of Christ to the end of the world reckoning for a time 500. yeares for times 1000. yeares for half a time 250. yeares 15 And the Serpent cast out of his mouth water after the woman like a flood that he might cause her to be caried away of the flood Sathan that cursed serpent abounding in malice against the church cast out of his mouthe water after the woman that is stirred and procured sundrie people nations and gouernments which heere are comprised in the word water to persecut and to endeuor to extinguishe the church Like a flood that is to say aboundantly violently and ragingly That he might cause her to be carried away of the floode That is to the end that he might cause her to bee destroyed by persecution and as it were caried awaye by violence from the face of the earth 16 But the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed vp the flood which the Dragon had cast out of his mouth The church increased by persecution dayly the persecutors died the earth swallowed them vp in their graues and as it were opened her mouth dailye for them and they daily fell in But the church remained continued and augmented euery day and the blood of the Martirs became the seed of the church So the earth holpe the woman and swallowed vp the floode 17 Then the Dragon was wroth with the woman and wēt and made warre with the remnant of her seede which keepe the commaundements of God and haue the testimony of Iesus Christ. The Dragon that is to say the Deuil hauing attempted first the head Christ Iesus Secondly the church his body aand finding his labor frustrated and his power too weake to worke the destruction of either of them taketh a third coursein executing of his malice which is to molest and persecute the members of the church which are the remnant of her seede which keepe the commaundements of God haue the testimony of Iesus Christ To the whiche ende he hath specially stirred certain diuelish and wicked instrumentes whose estats qualities actions and proceedings are very liuely pithelie and effectually set forth in this next Chapter ensuing 18 And I stood on the sea sand Heere the holy Apostle and Euangelist S. Iohn procureth in vs a certaine attentiuenesse and earneste animaduersion of the vision following declaring first the place wherein he stoode secondly what hee sawe which is this that followeth CHAP. xiii 1 And I sawe a beast rise out of the sea hauing seauen heades and tenne hornes and about his hornes were ten crownes and vpon his heads the name of blasphemy 2 And the beast that I saw was like a Leopard and his feete like a beares and his mouth as the mouth of a lion and the Dragon gaue him his power and his throne and great authoritie HEERE is described vnto vs the Romaine Empire vnder the forme of a beast most monstrous most cruell most strong and most terrible Saint Iohn heerein alludeth to the description laid downe thereof by the Proph. Daniel in his seauenth Chapter The fowrth beast saith he meaning the Romain Empire was grimme and horrible and maruelous strong it hath great iron teethe it deuoured and destroyed and stamped the residue vnder his feete it was vnlike the other beasts that were before it for it had tenne hornes Which ten hornes are expounded in the 24. verse of the same chapter to be ten kings which shal grow out of the ruines of this empire And therefore the tenne hornes are heere laide downe to haue vppon them ten crownes of these kings and kingdomes we shal speake heereafter it had also seauen heads which are the seauen hilles whereon Rome standeth Vppon which heades was the name of blasphemye For so much did the Romaines attribute to their prowesse and pollicie their force and foresight that they termed their city Romam aeternam and as it were mating the most mighty vaunted Diuisum imperium cum Ioue Caesar habet Which their wickednesse is well heere expressed by the name of blasphemye Moreouer it is likened to a Leopard in proportion and shew to a Lion for the mouth and for the feete to a beare whereby we vnderstand that it not onelye had the countries and countenances the possessions and proceedings the might and maiestye the conditions and crueltie of the former monarchy but also in al euil and tiranny farre and much exceded them Daniel vnto this place giueth very great light who likening the Babilonian monarchy to a Lion the Persian to a beare the Macedonian to a Leopard teacheth vs that S. Iohn in this Romaine Monarchy foresawe the mouth and foote the pride and pase the state and steppe the rage and rauening of all the former to be expressed contayned and represented Heereunto is added that the Dragon haue him his power and his throne and greate authoritie That is to saye the Deuill assigned him to bee his