they had coined Phrases to new vexation of our spirits and make the word seeme a nose of wax Thus we hinder our owne fight but some still hold the truth that the accusation cannot be generall The rest should be wise with them The Diuell and his Angels by MICAEL that standeth vp for his people who be his Angels are banished from the Church and knowen to be vnclean spirits A second and playner exposition of the Dragons warre And I heard a great voice saying in the heauen now is come the saluation and power and Kingdome of our GOD and the auctority of his CHRIST because the accusar of our brethren who accuseth them before GOD day and night is cast downe And they haue ouercome by the blood of the Lambe and by the word of his Testimony and despised their liues vnto death Therefore reioyce yee heauens and they who dwell in them wo be vnto them which dwell in the Land and the Sea because the Diuell is come to you hauing great wrath knowing that he hath but a litle while Where a company by Martyrdome shew that saluation commeth onely by the death of CHRIST and are constant in that Testimony then troupes that make the heauens kingdom heere protest they know how saluation cōmeth know Gods power that falleth the mighty state of the Pope and know wherein the Kingdome of God standeth And the auctority of Christ where the Pope had a Kingdome of Satan in his policy through all partes of all common weales euen from ruling Emperours to the poorest that had but a chimney to pay a Peter-peny The holy Testament playnelie shewing our Creatores And how the spirit of CHRIST flootereth vpon all the waters of both Testaments and cleared the holy story And cleareth our hearts to call vpon GOD with a good heart this sheweth in this plaine sum what the Kingdome of God and auctority of CHRIST is Gouernement standeth vpon plaine rules The wealthy that know CHRIST Kinges Dukes Earles Barons Knights will study to excell in Diuinity to be true Bishopps and Elders to eate vp the Booke of the Gospell and to see all miscariage sagely restreined being those that Saint Paul and the Talmudiques meant by Pastors And will see how by Church lands an infinite company may be made cunning in tongues and sense of both Testaments That the Angelos Ecclesiae and daylie Seniores may be so taught in Diuinity as men are in liberall artes to know the wholle facultie and the propre vse of euery holy booke And what concent all the scripture hath and where one error putteth all out of tune but may soone be remoued so a faithfull minde will often in a day runne ouer all the Bible and see all ages faithfull as trees planted by waters and all wicked as dust scattred by the winde And such will be true Bishopps as Cucullus non facit monachum so a courtiers fauor and title maketh not a Bishopp for saluation and power and kingdome of God and authority of Christ Buy-shopps mocke with GOD but all Mordecaies will vse them as Agagites and as leprous to the Church So when all Gouerners in state be learned Bishopps ioy will be in the Church that the Diuell must goe to Land or quiet state of the Pope or sea warres of Emperors bad to seeke whom he can deuour The learned dealers for the Church will finde for it meanes in persequution to be protected Yea and to make the Land or Papisticall state as King H. VIII did drie vp the riuers of the Popes persequution In the middle of Papistry he ouerthrew the Pope by Papistes Who were content to buy the Abbeies that fed Idolatrous Locusts could not for starke shame denie a common prayer booke made from the masse booke turned to English so so much was chosen from the masse booke to be in English as seemed not directly to fight with Gods trueth and subscription for allowance to that was no further meant but that the Papists could finde no fault with it Vnder K. E. 6. and Q. E. the best Bishopps allowed the communion booke no further and gaue others leaue to expresse that how they bare with it vntill fitt tyme of amendement Of the Dragons short tyme. This speach sheweth the tyme neere the seauenth trumpet for the worlds end by the Dragons tayle the Pope heere meant in his persecution that the Diuell is fierce knowing that he shall not be long the God of this world And the Pope feareth least his Kingdome shall soone fall And our Buyshopps that vrge his canons damned by our common Lawes are now in rumores that they incense some to begge all Buyshopps lands Leicester went farre to chaing 40000. lib. for rack rent but more harme is bred by Buyshopps tyranny now Bishopps vnder King Edw. haue beene such as none but of Satans spirite would deny them to bee lawfull Bishops And such as agreed well with Nobles Gentry and all The name troubleth none but the Barbarous They who hold the place without teaching the people the trueth and with tyranny breake the cōmon lawes of the realme which stand with reason that is the Law of God such should chainge their minde and obey the Gospell lest their short tyme be for Sarans seruice and for euer And when the Dragon saw that he was cast into the earth he persequuted the woman which brought forth the male child This common place toucheth all the Popes persequutions though it be vttered as at one tyme. The Pope had still ready cruell torment for all of his that descried wickednesse in his religion And to the woman were giuen two winges of an eagle to flee into the wildernesse into her owne place to bee nourished there a tyme and tymes and halue a tyme from the praesense of the Serpent The Pope driueth the Church into the Wildernesse as Pharaoh droue Israel Saul Dauid Antiochus the holy Iewes the Pharisees he Lord of glory for a tyme two tymes and halfe a tyme three yeeres and an halfe and as I shewed all tyme of persecution is called in remembrance of our Lordes a persecution of dayes 1260. as chap. XI or of a tyme two tymes and halfe a tyme As Beda and Carthusianus well noted In Exo. 19. God saith hee brought Israel from Egypt as with eagles winges so the persecutor heere is a newe Pharaoh and Rome is Egypt spiritually as in chap. XI And the Dragon Pharaoh is heere a new Dragon And the Pope which will bee worshipped for a God is as Darius Dan. 6. and in the fable vpon that as the Dragon which the Chaldeans worshipped The Phrase of the fable folowed a true storie Of the tyme of these persequutions And the Dragon did cast after the woman out of his mouth water like a riuer to make her riuer-caried But the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and dranke vp the riuer which the Dracon cast out of his mouth And the Dracon was angry with the
Iohn ibidem Of Iude 227 Of the Combat of 144000. 228 Comparisons of Phrases for holy soules departed 231 Reuenge for Christ his iustice 232 Reuenge for the prayers of the Church ibid. Reuenge by the iniuried themselues 233 The sure euent of Gods iudgements 234 The 15. Chap. pag. 235. A Plaine exposition of the woman fleeing in the wildernesse ibid. The Chap. 16. pag. 238. AS the Popes manner of rising plagued the world in a like manner God consumeth him ibid. Chap. 17. pag. 251. IOhn like Daniel ibidem A plaine description of the Popes comming vp 259 Of the Popes fall 261 A plaine condemnation of Rome pag. 263 Chap. 18. pag. 264 THE King is Angelus to cause the word to be sounded pag. ibid. Chap. 19. pag. 267. ISai Ieremy and Ezekiel compared with this chap. bring great light ibid. Of the Hebrew terme of Hallelu-Iah 268 Of the best way to ouerthrow the Pope 269 The warres of Christ and Christians against the Empire and Pope 273 An open proclamation of the Popes destruction 275 An abridgement of all Gods iudgements in one 276 Chap. 20. pag. 277. THE Diuells are not simply bound ibid. The Pope deceiued not generally till 1000. yeares 279 The Pope weakned the West in superstition prouoking to warre for the holy Land 280 The Pope is a Beast of Empire by his might 281 A liuely description of the latter Iudgement ibid. Chap. 21. pag. 284. THE second discourse vpon the 21. and 22. Chapters of the Apocalyps ibid. Iohn began the N. Testam and he likewise ended it ibid. Of Iohn 285 Of Ierusalem ibidem Of Melchitzedeke and Isaack causing glory to Ierusalem 286 Of Saint Pauls heauenly Ierusalem 287 Of the Iewes error to this day ibid. Of Alpha and Omega 292 Of ignorance in Alpha how it bred daylie error 293 Of Vowells 294 Of Tiphereth Israel ibid. Of Cethib and Kery 295 Of the Papists interlinear Bible 296 Of a most wicked slander ibid. Of Cetib and not Kery and Cery and not Cetib ibid. Of Iod not condemned 297 Of Omega ibid. Of Greeke stile 298 Of 4. Dialects in the Greeke 299 Of Attique Greeke ibidem Of the 72. Greeke 301 Of the Thalmu Greeke ibidem Of forgiuenesse in this world what Talmudiques meane ibid. Of the Apostles peculiar Greeke pag. 302 Of S. Pauls most eloquent expressing Moses ibid. Of the Talmudique agreement with the N. Testam 303 Of Idolaters 306 Of the Popes barbarous Answere pag. 307 An answere to his ibidem Concerning the second death 308 Of the great City Ierusalem 311 Of Arias Montanus placing the Altar of incense in the most holy 317 Of Prayer 318 The order of the Tribes 319 Reason of their order 320 Of the terme Iasper in the third place 323 Of the second fundation ibidem Of the Carbuncle 324 Of the Smaragde ibidem Of Sardomix 325 Of Sardius ibidem Of Chrisolite ibidem Of Beryll 326 Of Topax 327 Of Chrysophrase ibidem Of Hyacinth ibidem Of Amethyst 328 A plaine conclusion from Esai 6. and 51. and Ezeck 47. of the Gentiles Ierusalem 331 Chap. 22. pag. 334. THE Epilogue the Angells speach 336 How the Apoc. would force any Iew c. to yeeld c. 337 A sequell by any Iewes grant ibid. A digression to Iewes desire ibidem The greatnesse of the Iewes request pag. 338 The speach of Christ To whom be Kingdome power and glorie for euer and euer Amen 339. FINIS “ An Ebrician must teach the word to the simple the discourse would be harsh †Eph. 5. 27. In Iulian the Apostata †Beracoth Perek evening prayer fol. 28. †Iohn followeth the 70. most wisely hiding the Eb. propriety from dull heathen 2. Thess 2. Chap. 1. Chap. 2. and 3. Isai 54. 9. Chap. 4. Chap. 5. 2. Pet. 1. Chap. 6. Psal 21. Psal 45. 1. Seale 2. Seale 3. Seale 4. Seale 5. Seale In Aboth R. Nathan So the Israelites in Aegypt were sealed Exod. 12. 7. 13. 22. 13. 7. Seale Mat. 1. 11. Psal 141. 2 Rom. 5. Ephes 2. Psal 22. Ephes 3. Hebr. 2. Exod. 20. Iliad 3. †Chap. 1. the 7. stars be seauen sergeants of the Church Genes 49. Act. 17. 18 Attique Greeke The septua greek The Apostles Greeke 2. Cor. 5. Moses and Paul teach one thing Rom. 10. Psal 71. 20 Heb. 11. The Thalmudgreek Maymo Saned Mat. 18. compared with Rom 8. 38. 2. Cor. 11. 23 24. c. Act. 26. 21 22. Mat. 7. 2. Cor. 4. 6. Maymo in Hagigah 1. Tim. 3. 1. Cor. 2. 8. Iohn 3. So Babell and Antio Daniel 7. Isai 9. 1. Iohn 3. 2. Thes 2. Eph. 3. 16 17. 18. 19. 1. Cor. 5. Iohn 2. Heb. 9. and. 10. But when it pleased the Lord to make the Gentiles his people saith Esai Make larger Curtaines Chap. 54. 2. 1. Cor. 14. 22. Heb. 10. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 2. Cor. 5. 9 Mat. 16. Psal 109. Act. 1. Zach. 4. That the Popes iudgmēt must stād Heb. 11. By faith these turned to flight the armies of the aliens Mat. 12. Maymo poenit Apoc. 1. Maymo Beidh Apo. 20. Isai 22. Vzielides 1. King 19. 10. Rome hath all the plagues of Aegypt but two Note how and why Rome is called Egypt Sodom Babel ch 18. and compare the old stories of the old Test with Rome Hester 9. 1. Cor. 3. Such the Apost only speakes of Tit. 1. 14. many other places and he writing by the spirite could not crosse the spirit Rom. 15. 4. New Visions opening the former Gen. 3. 1 Iohn 1. 1. 3. 8. 5. 20. Eph. 2. 1. Rom. 5. The seauē heads afflicting the Church Rome is condemned both in these the other of Kinges Consuls Decemvires Dictatores Triumuires c. psalm 2. The Angell of his praesence saued thē Isai 63. †Commentarie or Register 2. Cor. 4. 3 The seauē heades afflicting 1. Pet. 1. 1 Ioh. 3. In Bar. his booke for D. Bil. syll 1. Chronic 24. 10 †This word signifieth an earnest pressing of men in suing for offices and bribing thē Adri. 63. distinct Auentinus lib. 4. Or Auentinus lib. 7. seq Naud others Naucler Gene. 44. A Miracle of the Popes transubstantiating the bread into Poyson These fables God hated and forbiddeth Tit. 1. 14. 1. Timoth 1. 4. and 4. 7. and so his people will Naucl. Gen. 44. C. 1. de Iure Iure in Clem. Abbas Vsp Naucl. Gene. 44. Cuspinianus in vitae Alberti Naucl. Genet 44. Psalm 2. The Concent of all the holy Bookes Geneses 1. Iohn 1. 1. 3. 8. Heb. 11. Exodu◠Exo. 15. Leuiticus Ioh. 2. Numbers Act. 26. 22. 23. Deutero Iosua Psal 95. Iudges Samuel Psalmes Canticles Prouerbes Ecclesiaastes Ruth 1. and 2. Kings Chronicles Daniel Hosea Ionas Ioel. Amos. Isaiah Michah Nahum Habba Ieremie Ezechiel Daniel Aggei Zacharic Malachie Ezra Nehemias Esther Matthew Marke Luke Iohn Acts. Romanes 1. Corint 2. Corint 2. Cor. 4. Galatians Ephes Philippi Colossi 1. Thess 2. Thess 1. and 2. Timot. Titus Philemon Hebrews Iames. 1. and 2. Pet. 1. 2. and 3. Iohn Iude. Ier. 10. Isai 21. Ier. 51. Psal 75 Psal 21 Esa 34. Ioel 3. 13. Against the law of nature against the lawe of England Rome cōpared to Aegypt the old Israel with the Spirituall This song is more fully described chap. 19. 2. Cor. 4. Ion. 3. 1 Cor. 15. 29. Rom. 6. 2. Coll. 3. 3. A myracle This Chap. is a plaine speach opening all the former Visions Iohn like Daniel Phll. 1. 27. Rome passeth al the enemies of the Church in cruelty and Idolatrie So Antio tooke away Moses Law The seauē heades afflicting * Walsingham Psalm 19. * Isa 41. 2. 3 Psalm 22. 2. Sam 22. The Gospell is the ioy of the godly As old Isratel praysed the Eternall IAH for their deliuerāce frō Aegypt Canaars Babel Antiochus all their enemies so heere the holy doe for deliuerāce frō Rome which is called and compared with Aegypt c. because that the cruelty Idolatr of all the enimies the the Gospel since the beginning was in Rome Psal 135. Psal 136. 9. 15. 24. Psal 78. 2 Tim. 2. This is made famous in 1588. and 1605. for our Albion Psalm 2. 1. Tim. 5. 6. Rom. 10. Paul taught nothing but Moses and the Prophets Act. 26. Rom. 4. 22. 23. 24 Heb. 12. Ier. 10. 11. Ioh. 3. The of God is not boūd consider the A post speach ◠Rō 15. 19. and the◠Lord gaue great victorie * that is perfected Heb. 2. 89. 1 Cor. 15. 27. Act. 14. 17. Eph. 2. 1 Cor. 1. 2 Pet. 3. Rom. 2. Rom. 11. Gen. 9. 1 Pet. 4. 3. Col. 3. 1 Virg. Georg. Lib. 2. This is the ancient faith this is that which the Apostle saith Eph. 2. 20. Heb. 6. Luc 2. 49. Luc. 2. 37 Iarchi vpō Iud. 18. from the Thal. Act. 2 20 Isai 61. 1. Iohn 3 Ezek. 47. 2. Chron. 2. 17.
contempt of Godly teaching Christ was great Noe Sem Arphaxad Selah Eber Phaleg brother to Ioctan hath cast thē of hitherto The West-Indians seeme to come of the East as both speake some Ebrew Now God driueth vs to both Indians not for Pepper and Tobacho but in tyme to shew his name And the Iesuites in teaching the holy Trinity Person and Iustice of Christ may saue many and the Pope shall haue an outward reward of longer successe and some hundreths of yeares must be spent this way Of the old opinion of 6000. yeares God hath cast old ages into a pleasant frame of measures of them for Iewes and from Iewes I dedicated an Ebrew worke to the Landtgraue of Hessia Now thousandes I will touch In 3000. exactly the Temple was fully furnished euen to the Arke In 4000. exactly the Romanes destroyed the seconde Temple if without it Messias dayes haue 2000. yeares from the yeare of Christ 1609. of Adam 5536. One as Heber may come to the worlds end by 464. yer The trueth God only knoweth reason telleth affaires in worke require such tyme But no particular person is sure of one day but all should watch when the Bridegrome commeth And to destroy them that destroy the earth Although no Creature but Angells and men know God yet the close bent of all Creatures is framed to serue man for Christ God bending them so And in that sense euery thing is weary of their toyle Eccl. 1. and groneth looking for the Redemtion of the Children of God Rom. 8. and being turned to seruice of Idolls grone in Gods estieme as corrupted such was the old world in corrupting their wayes such were Babel builders till heathen came to God and almost all to this day And Apoc. 5. All creatures giue glory to the Lambe in seruice of Christians But alas men to this day would neuer search Gods word the wealthie and principall of state but remit that ouer vnto others as a base worke for themselues to regard whereby God cast off the world And the Temple of God was open in the heauen and the Arke of his Couenant was seene in his Temple and there were lightnings voices thunders earthquake great haile After papistries ouerthrow Christ who is the Temple and the Arke who hath the Law within him is the mercy seat shall be opened to the few saued and God will pay Papists with warres for the haile and fire that they mixed with blood troublesome meteores eloquently expresse troubles of state as before our Lordes first comming the Romans miseries destroying themselues were a wonder to historiques because Crassus robbed the Temple and Pompei afore made Israel serue Rome and Brutus with Cassius and Antonius with Cleopatra and againe Iulius so Rome that still will crucifie Christ shall haue as great stirrs to warne them of vtter ruine But by warres profanesse breedeth to all sides that when the SON OF MAN commeth he shall scant finde faith vpon the earth The best way to keepe faith is to exercise our vniuersities in the Ebrew and Greeke Testament and to leaue ciuill gouernement to sage courtes fitt for it as Zuricke in Zuitzerland doth that Scholars tyrannie make not new papistrie And thus once all is reueiled vnto the end New visions tell the same matter for better clearnesse CHAP. XII A description of the Church AND a great signe was seene in the heauen a woman clothed with the sun With the moone vnder her feet and a crowne of 12. starres vpon her head and beeing with child cried in trauaile and peigned to beare child THE woman is the church through the song of songes and there pure as the sun heere clothed with Christ the Sunne of Iustice And the state of the faithfull is called through this booke heauen and they are a great signe to the profane world to wonder at The Moone and all vnder the Sunne is contemned of the faithfull and the doctrine which the 12. Apostles equall in knowled and authoritie deliuered to the world is the Crowne and they be 12 starres Iudas Iscariot fell a starre from heauen and Matthias became a sonne of consolation in his stead to keepe still the number of XII for the XII tribes and as S. Paul trauailed of the Galathians that is of Christ to be formed in them that they frustrate not the Gospell by holding circumcision nowe abrogated So the faithfull trauailed in soule to haue Christ brought forth to heathens knowledge that all might knowe that all this world was made obedient to a man At the first which man fell from God his first day and then God opened his Counsell that the Sonne Eternall would be made man of a woman to destroy the workes of the Angels that fell who all are collectiuely satan the enemie Satan brought Adam to lose the life of his soule and his body to death and dust and all this world to corruption Christ kindled light in Adams soule and after 930. yeares heauinesse for sin tooke it to his ioy and will raise vp the body and make a new world that all men who will receiue the abundance of grace of the gift of iustice may reigne by Christ and all who will not regard this mercy so cleare as the sunne they all by Adams fall dead in sin shal be damned for euer with the Diuils This is the trauaile of the Christian minde Speach of this is in all books of the Old Testament in Adams tongue in all the newe in Greeke made most common for this Gospell And Lawe with Gospell expounded by groundes of art which enemies grant should bee the trauaile of our minde And if Academies had brought vp their scholars in Ebrew and Greek exercises for the holy eternall Trinitie in Vnitie and for kissing the SON to happinesse Psal 2. By likely-hood of mans reason the world had benefull of true Christians where as now our Papes Archbuyshopps and Buyshopps know not one letter prick accent of the Law what authoritie it hath from God A pitifull matter that such blinde should bee leaders But the blinde will no other leaders So God cannot pittie them who will make knowen them that be his and despise them that despise him that they poore Caytifes shall perish for euer and feele the aeternall wrath of him whose mercy they haue despised while they counted the mercies offred in Christ to be but folly Of the Prophane Caesar and Pope reuiuing of him both comprised in the body and taile of one Dragon Another signe was seene in the heauen For beholde there was a great ruddie Dragon with 7. heades and ten hornes and vpon his heades seauen diademes And his taile draweth a third part of the Starres of heauen and cast them vnto the earth Iohn saw with his eyes in Vision that which hee and all the Apostles as S. Paul 2. Thess 2. saw in their minde That from Rome the Ruler should rule till hee were taken away After thence man of
sin should arise Both be heere in one dragon which the profane Caesares and the Popes can not perceiue They who be of the heauenly state they all do see the Dragon is the Diuill or accusar of God the great is the Diuells power by Rome the ruddy bloodie persecution His seauen heades are seauē states of Rome ouer THE FAITHFVL as the Iewes knew their story full well Pompei by Rome was an Emperour in the East But perished neere in the land of Cham. So in Iudah M. Crassus was after him armed ouer Iudah as a King for Rome who robbed the Temple of Salem of Abrahams house but at Abrahams Charan he and his army had a most famous destruction Iulius Caesar made Cleopatra Lady of Iudah who perished in Capitolio for that Brutus Cassius force after was a King for Rome They by Antoni perish Antoni hath the East and marieth Cleopatra and ruleth Iuda and both perish So fiue diademes of the Dragon perish The 6. state is the wholle power which crucified Christ and his members till our Helenaes sonne left Rome and New Troy to be a pillage to Alaricus Giezerichus Theodoricus Totilas for old persecuting of martyrs The seuenth is the Popes wealth getting landes by S. Peters forged supremacy and setting vp the Empire in the West These be the seauen diademes spoken to the Iewes plaine vnderstanding Heathen stories may fitt Romes 7. other states The more fall out fitt as often many do to one speach the more Rome that crucified Christ is condemned when GOD turneth continuall reuolution to haue Rome called into minde Moreouer the allusion is to Daniels foure beastes which had 7. heades The Lion one the Beare one the Leopard foure the fourth beast one The Roman state winning all those contreyes of the East are fitly noted by their armes And specially by the then hornes The Seleucidae by fiue kinges vexed Iudah by warres against Lagidae and Lagidae by so many againe wasted Iuda So that Greeke beast in one parted Kingdome had 10. hornes From that beast the Roman beast hath also ten Kingdomes at the least and vnder Augustus and vnder the Pope rekoned to that number Strabo 17. Steuch contra Vallum Lib. 2. so these matters be all most plaine Of the tayle The prophane Caesares persecution moued few Christians the starres of heauen to fall But the taile of the Empire the false prophet that speaketh lies he as Antiochus Daniel 8. maketh many fall from heauen praetending religion with much praetense and no substance The combat of the Roman Empire with the Church And the Dragon stood before the woman beeing in trauaile that when she bore her childe he might deuour it And she bare a manly sonne which will rule all nations with a sceptre of yron And the child was taken vp to God and to his throne The allusion is from the dayes of Christ borne in Bethleem when Satan by Herodes swords would haue deuoured him but his mother fled with him to Egypt after that Satā hoped to deuour him in the graue he was taken vp into heauē so when Christians soules trauailed to breed Christ the Emperors stormed to deuour that doctrine as Dauid told Ps 2. But they brought forth into the light of the world the SON would bruse all nation-with an yron sceptre as he did bruse the image in Daniel And shewed that his throne is in heauen being taken vp vnto the aeternall King And the Christians fled into the wildernesse as CHRIST did in the tyme of his preaching or halfe seauen Dan. 9. and often handled in the Gospell in Eusebius handled and of Beda who cited the Apoc. allusions M. Scaliger and others that make mo yeares of our Lordes preaching spent ill good houres All tyme of affliction is sweetly termed by our Lords affliction to be as his of dayes 1260. though it were of 300. yer vnder Caesares resistance and 600. vnder Popes enimies to Iohns Apocalyps The speach is full of comfort calling vs vnto the afflictions of Christ himselfe who reckoned all his owne dayes and will haue all our teares in his bottle and pay all dogges and Doegs for Cerberean barking A Commentary vpon the former vision And there was warre in heauen MICHAEL and his Angells made warre with the Dragon and the Dragon and his Angells made warre but held not strength neither was there place found any more for them in the heauen And the great Dragon the old Serpent called the Diuell and Satan who deceiueth the wholle world he was cast out againe I say he was cast and his Angels were cast with him into the earth The state of the faithfull heere is sweetly called hēauen to shew our certeinty of hope for the propre heauen as the word of Law and Gospell is as sure to vs as if we saw the third heauen that aboue the ayer and aboue the starres as S. Paul did at his first calling to a comfort against all his following afflictions so the holy Daniel that in one image made abridge from the end of the old Testament vnto the beginning of the new called the state after abrogation of Moises the Kingome of heauen Iohn Baptist doth begin with his tongue The kinddome of heauen is come And the aeternall WORLD the essentiall WORDE who spake and all was made he confirmeth the same speach to shew that Daniels Image was ended and the GOD of heauen setteth vp a kingdome that cannot be corrupted The obseruation of this speach had kept Daniel in a cleare meaning and not brought the West Empire of Christians for East Greeke Seleuco-Lagides athean Nor tymes after Christ for stories teaching when he would come The termes of the Bible be pearles still beate vpon the open story for noblest matters So Saint Paul Ebrew XI speaking of the Maccabees martyrs famous in the Talmudiques and after his dayes historied by Greeke Iewes saith from Daniels last speaches of double resurrection That they would not be deliuered because they looked for the better resurrection So he sheweth that Antiochus persequutions were the last mentioned in Daniel The Romans hindred not the Iewes holy religion till by the Pharisees they vexed our Lord himselfe when he opened the kingdom of heauen dayes 1260. They who without knowledge of Daniel would know the Gospel are as men that would goe from one Land to another parted by great waters without a shipp All that care for the kingdome of heauen will care for him And my paines in a third commentary an English a Latin a shorter in English came forth by my care and charges By the third milliones of our simple might haue knowen the Prophets whole heart But that Bargulus Illyricus would cast him into the Lions den If Lions rent not his bones I will commende him to the God of Daniel and the firy flames streaming from his throne for his fighting for the dragon against MICAEL and his Angells Of MICAEL Michael and Gabriel are the only holy
euen to trie them in the fire to purifie them to whitten them Twise the very same termes be told Heere is the same matter That God would trie the pacience as Dan. 12. of the holy Holy Peter writing from Babylon to the Iewes scattred telleth them of their happinesse in belieuing in Christ whose kingdome tryeth his as gold is tryed The witty wicked Poet could tell so much as Menander Epimenides and Aratus other poinctes Scilicet vt fuluum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore sic duro est inspicienda fides That is As yellow Gold in fier men doe trie So Faith is prou'd in miserie Euery trueth hath Gods warrant whosoeuer doth speake it Now the Popes religion standeth in prosperiti no common weale hath their wealth and quietnesse Therefore they are not of S. Peters faith who from Babylon wrote to the neere scattred Iewes of affliction Although at the first some Doctores of Rome were afflicted and martyrs is too But after quietnesse they still labored to bring home from the East to old Rome and pleaded from the Iewes manner of Fables that the first called Apostle was in the Principall Citie to make him a most wicked man that foreseeing as a Prophet combatts where hee hath beene would not in his owne tyme make that matter past all doubt As Saint Paul Bishoppe of Rome and Saint Luke of Antioh maketh it past all doubt that Peter was neuer neare Rome Clemens and Tertullian made Eusebius write that he was And all who folow them haue but rumores auctoritie And he is cursed that makes mans auctoritie his arme and Melchior Canus a Rhomist maketh a sounde common place that our Churches stories of men are weake testimonies In the 300. yer persequution it was not safe for any to write of others because enemies by such would search out more how to persequute Christians Paul of Romane name borne free in Rome who would not build in others fundations who was carefull for to strengthen the Romans as not hauing yet an Apostle who first told the Synagogue Acts 28. whereupon the Gospell stood sheweth that HEE brought the name of Christ to Caesares pallace Phil. 1. and was told Act. 23. that hee should so doe And saluting 25. Rom. 16. neuer giueth token of one word touching Peter but cleane otherwise Gal. 2. and Peter telleth expresly that from Babylon he wrote his first Epistle chap. 5. whereby all maner of speach all men would require proprietie that the most knowen Babylon should be there meant Yet as Pindarus saith that men belieue fables more then trueth so experience of sage men prooue that true men otherwise sage hold that true that Peter was in Italy as the Chaldi Iob saith hee was at Constantinople and the forged Ben Vziel vpon Num. 24. and millions of milliones after them whereas we despise Iewes Iewes equally despise Romists where any could not misse to haue knowen the trueth if Peter had euer bene at Rome They who say by Babylon he meant Rome would make him a simple Fisher that knewe not where a trope would make a wickedlie and afflict all ages where men neuer date cōmon bookes for all Ages from a misnamed place where the Reader would count the speaker a lyer so the 2. Epistle was written from Chaldea where the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was an S. in Bosor Beor in the 70. and that S. Peter would haue folowed liuing in Greeke landes And I saw another Beast comming vp from the earth which had two hornes like a lambe and spake as a Dragon and practised all auctority of the first beast before him and causeth the earth and them that dwell in it to worship the first beast whose wound to his death was healed c. to the end of the Chap. A most plaine description of the Pope 1. by the beast arising from the earth First his state is a beast as all armes of state are figured by beasts such So the King of Locusts ch 9. is a beast cōming out of the earth ch 11. earth opposition to the sea signifieth a quiet state So the Pope by quietnesse gate lands to be aboue all Emperours yet Ceph the Rocke aeternall would be a seruant And Peter Cephas a fisher but the vnlikest vnder their name would be the vnlikest next the Diuell the God of this world so his a great state vpon the earth in the City which crucifyed Christ By the Lambes two hornes The Lambe signifieth the S. of God Iohan. 1. Apoc 5. Hornes power Psalm 18. Dan. 8. So he that chalengeth to be in steade of Christ and to haue double power from him Ecclesiasticall and Temporall in Ebrew ADONIKAM My Lord is set vp he is heere described He so sheweth himselfe in the Temple of God as if he were God among many millions who knewe him to bee the wicked man But as in old Babel men were of Angells match the three nobles that quenched the fier and made Nemrods sonne confesse their God and gracious Daniel admitted to familiaritie with Christ and his Angells and Ezechiel and Ezra and men like Angells so where the Diuel had his Chappell God had and hath his Church to tell how Satan ruleth the Pope and hath strong worke in error OF ONE ERROR IN THE POPE WHICH MAKETH HIM NEXT THE DIVEL WHERE THE DIVEL WOVLD TREMBLE TO BEE SO IMPVDENT OPENLY The ground of our saluation standeth in belieuing this of the womans seede a destroyer of Satans workes Gen. 3. HEE shall bruise thy head that is spoken twise in Adams tongue in the masculine gender Some late Popes I thinke knewe so much Ebrew though of old few did when they made first the translation called S. Ieromes to be ignorant of this So not SHEE is meant but HEE The aeternall God as the Zoar from Iewes there note God in Christ and againe and againe thou Serpent shall bruise HIS foote-stepp and not HER foote-stepp yet the Popes translation corrupteth that which they call S. Ieromes and say shee shall bruise thy head 1. So the Latin called S. Ieromes goeth though Arias Mōtanus had a better Conscience put forth the true Ebrew 2. Of all Ebrew copies that euer haue bene heard of none herein was noted to differ as by them full many which we read wee may iudge of the rest who would not passe ouer difference in Silence if any difference had bene 3. All Greekes vniversally follow the Ebrew yet against all the Pope would haue not HE but SHEE Marie in his translations in a treatise foisted into Plantines great Bible 4. Satan is broken thus he brought Adams soule to death by sinne the restorer must giue it iustice 5. Satan brought mans body to corruption that HE must restore it in resurrection 6. Satan by Adams fall brought all this world to corruption the restorer must bee able to make a newe world But an HE not a SHEE must doe this wherfore this error conuicteth the Pope of
of GOD and for the testimonie which they had he saw them vnder the Altar who is Christ. The Thalmud of Rabbi Nathan in Moyses saith that his soule and all the iust are vnder the throne of God So as Saint Paul saith Rom. chap. 10. The Apostles doctrine is confirmed by Thalmudiques directly in all thinges sauing the Person and office of Messias Chap. 7. The martyrs haue white garments and palmes in their hands they be before the throne of God c. Chap. 11. They are called vp into heauen and their enimies see them going vp in a cloud Hence purgatorie is confuted which hath no ground from the old Testament as any Talmudique did euer expound it For Leuit. 26. telleth that hence men goe to Gods tabernacle to ioy or before his throne to feele aeternall anger Reuenge for Christ his Iustice And I saw and behold a white Cloud and one rode on the Cloud like the SON OF MAN hauing on his head a Crowne of gold and in his hand a sharpe sickle The cloud is Gods chariot Isaiah 19. as I told chap. 1. and this place telleth what Person was there described Heere he hath a crowne of gold as in Psalm 20. a token of victorie by death so chap. 6. In Maym. Poenit. the iust haue Crownes in the World of soules So to Talmudiques the New Testam would bee cleare The sharp sickle in Ioel is Gods vengeance vpon Iudahs enimies Assur the Image yea and the Image of the beast heere For he speaketh of all enimies The roaring like a Lion and the 7. thunders tell the same thing and chapter X. and the earthquake and destroying of them that destroyed the earth Reuenge for the prayers of the Church Another Angell came forth from the Temple crying with a great voice to him that road vpon the Cloud cast fourth thy sickle and reape tyme is come to reape for the haruest of the earth is ripe The Church be the faithfull the Angell is the representer of their state So Nebuchadnezar saw one watchfull and holy Who telleth that his punishment of 7. yer beastlinesse came by the prayers of the iust Spaine perceiued in the Low Coūtries the force of this is like to feele as good at home What shall befall our Buuy-shop that vrgeth better learned to othe then himselfe neuer heard of in Iuda by either Testament and imprisoneth better learned then himselfe that will not profane the name of God pineth vnto death in cruel prison them who deny him to be lawfull Buy-shop and put by Teachers of saluation from their maintenance 400. What shall become of this man from whom the heart of a man hath bene taken 7. yer Nabuchad dyed two yeares after hee came to himselfe so may this man How prayers of the iust be heard the next verse telleth And he that roade vpon the cloud cast forth his sickle into the earth and the earth was reaped So the crye of the poore ascendeth into the eares of the Lord of Hostes Reuenge by the iniuried themselues And an other Angell came out of the Temple which is in heauen hauing also a sharpe sickle The faithfull heere haue equall strength and try combat with Pope as this yeare for Clieue and Iuliaque All the Protestāts against the Pope Oh that our Albion would thrust in the sickle of good Laws against those Popoi lest they be still prickes in our eyes thornes in our sides as they haue bene And an other Angell came forth from the altar hauing authoritie vpon the fire and cried with a great voice to him that had the sharpe sickle saying Cast forth thy sickle cut the clusters of thr earth for her grapes be ripe In Daniel the Angell telleth chap XI that in the first yeere of Darius the Mede chap. 5. hee was a strength and might to him Iacob had a campe of Angells which story Dauid turneth to all faithfull One paid Sanacharib one strengthneth our Lord One saued Peter Act. 12. So heere the liuely speach of the Angell is an open token of assistance from the Angells of Christ as they be all ministring spirites sent foorth to seruice for them that shall inherite saluation Angells rule fire as that which brent Sodom Gen. 19. and Babel in Xenophon compared with Dan. XI And water in S. Pauls voiage So all anger from God is fire and Angells his seruants The sure euent So the Angell did cast his sharpe sickle into the earth and snapt off the Vine of the earth and cast it into the great wine-presse of the anger of God and the wine-presse was troden out of the Citie and the blood came forth from the wine-presse vnto the horse bridles ouer stadia furlongs a thousand six hundred The Citie is the assembly of the holy the place out of it is the dwelling of the faithlesse The stadia or furlongs 1600. are taken from the quantitie of Chanaan which Talmudiques calling to a square make Ris that is Stadion euery way The place I haue cited in my Concent where I abridge the Apocalyps CHAP. XV. A plaine exposition of the Womans fleeing into the wildernesse And I saw another great and maruelous signe seauen Angells hauing seauen the last plagues for in them the wrath of God is finished Chap. 6. expoundeth this and how when the Church hath a seate in the wildernesse and their Citie there they make the wine-presse of Gods anger out of the Citie And I saw as it were a sea of glasse mixed with fire and them which ouercome from the beast and from his image and from his marke and the number of his name standing by the sea of glasse hauing the harpes of God and they sing the song of Moyses the seruant of God and the song of the Lambe saying great and wonderfull are thy workes O ETERNAL the God of Hostes iust and vpright are thy wages O King of saints who would not feare thee O Lord and giue glory vnto thy name for thou only art gratious for all nations shall come and worship before thee for thy iudgements are manifested Sea signifieth troubles as Dan. 7. glasse clearly considered of God the allusion is to the Red sea at which Israel was persequuted by Pharaoh The addition by fire is an open distinction for the Popes sea of fire and faggott the song of Moyses Exod. 15. is a thankesgiuening for deliuerance from Pharaoh by the blood of the Lambe and the songe of the Lambe conteyneth all the songes in the Bible But most directly they of his incarnation and soules passage from the body to heauen and resurrection and sitting on the right hand of God The workes of God be great and wonderfull that the wicked whom he hath sett vnto wrath beare sway heere for a tyme but soone come to aeternall flames And they who in short affliction professe his name cary away an aeternall peise of glory wicked Babel worshipping creatures had a great reigne that Gods seruants might