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A01327	A sermon preached at Hampton Court on Sonday being the 12. day of Nouember, in the yeare of our Lord. 1570. VVherein is plainly proued Babylon to be Rome, both by Scriptures and doctors. Preached by VVilliam Fulke Bacheler of Diuinity, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge.	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.	1571 (1571)	STC 11450; ESTC S102774	26,607	59

perfect felicity This is chiefest of their ●rokēnes this is chiefest of their fornication and this is the iust iudgement of God that they which haue shut vp their eares from hearyng the truth should be deceiued with strong delusions that they myght beleue lyes Furthermore by the names of these vices the Angell comprehendeth all other vices that followe of them as intemperancy arrogancy impudency and such like as are woont to follow dronkennes and incontinence For these crimes go not vnaccompanied for wher either of them is commonly both will be they haue either of them and both together their trayne to wayte vpon them And all these we sée to haue ouerflowed in Rome the Westerne Babylon as she her selfe though she haue a brasen forehead and be past al shame cannot deny altogether And because of these so great and haynous enormities the iust sentence of God pronounced here by the Angel is come vpon her that she is now in her fall and decay as she was once in her ruffe and glory But this especially is to be noted that the Angell here saith that She should deceiue al nations with the fury of her fornicatiō For thys is the great vniuersallity that they make so great bragges of and would haue it to be a certaine Note and Marcke of the catholike church to be vniuersal Behold the Angel here saith in playne wordes that all nacions should drinke of the wyne of the fury of her fornication Wher is then the vniuersall consent and vnity of all nacions in religion that maketh a true religion And yet vniuersallity and vnity be two great pillers of the Church of Rome And for my part I do not enui her those marks which shee challengeth of vniuersallity and vnity although wee might stand in law with her for them but let her peaceably enioy them for they may helpe to proue her to be that false church of Antichrist but they cannot make her to be the true church of christ We see playnly that Babylon hath here vniuersallity and vnity for she maketh al nations to drinke of the furious wine of her fornication but the church of Christ as he himself saith is a smal flocke and him self by Symeon is said to be a signe of contradictiō a marke that is gaynsaid of most men And here also is answered one great mighty obiection wherwith they thinke to chekers That séeing the church of Christ is the Spouse of Christ how could it be that Christ should forsake his Spouse and suffer her to continue in damnable errours so many hundred yeares Why Christ him selfe declareth that the deceites and errors of false Prophets should be so great that if it were possible the very Elect should be deceiued Yea ther should be such a miserable dispersion that scarse two true Professors of his name should remayne together in one plac● and yet the holy hand of vnity should be in the head which is our sauiour Christ for wher soeuer the carc●sse is thether the Eagles would be gathered And S. Paule in manifest words declareth that the second comming of Christ should not bee before ther were a generall Apostasy that is a departure from the true faith religion of Christ and that the sonne of perdition Antichrist were openly shewed And ●n this Reuelation how often is it sayd that ●ntichrist should deceiue all the world all na●ions people and tonges and that the Church of Christ should be driuen into the wildernes ●ut of the sight of the world and ther remayns a space vntyll she should be brought agayne to light and open knowledge of all men As it is come to passe this day Gods name be therfore euerlastingly praysed But because I haue occupied long tyme I wyll draw to an end For by that I haue sayd I trust it doth sufficiently appeare that God according to his righteous iudgement hath determined vtterly to ouerthrow Babylon because shée hath deceiued all nacions wyth the wyne of the fury of her fornication And now it resteth onely that I speake a word or two of the voyce of the third Angell which is a consequent of this my text and serueth verye aptly for the conclusion of my Sermon The third Angell followed crying wyth a loude voyce and saying If any man shal worship the Beast or hys Image or receyue hy● marke on his forehead or in his hand or shal● acknowledge anye obedience or reuerence to him as willing to drinke of the cup of Babylon● fornication thesame shall drinke of the wyn● of the furye of Gods wrath whych is poure● forth vnmingled into the great cup of God anger and they shall be tormented wyth si● brymstone before the Lambe and his holy Angels and the smoke of their torments shal● ascend for euermore and they shall haue n● rest d●y nor nyght from extreme tormentes that worship the Beast or shew any reuerence vnto Antichrist The effect is in few wordes That horirible intollerable and eternall tormentes remayne for all them that now especially when Babylon is now discouered wyll haue any thing to do with her damnable errors and pernicious doctrine For howsoeuer ignorance before her fall though it were inexcuseable yet semed to diminish the greatnest of the crime Now that her wickednes is openly displaied no pretence can saue men from the extremity of Gods wrath if they wyl styll obstinately continue in her heresies Let vs therfore pray vnto almighty God instantly that al men in their vocation may seeke the vtter ouerthrow and destruction of Babylon that Princes and Magistrats may according to the prophecies of them hate her with a perfect hatred and vtterly abolysh what soeuer belongeth to her that they may reward her as she hath rewarded vs and geue her double punishment according to her workes and in the cup of affliction that she hath poured foorth for vs they may poure forth double as much to her And looke how muche she hath gloryfied her selfe and lyued in wattonnes which was without measure so much they may bestowe vpon her of sorrow and torments That Preachers and Ministers of Gods word may plainly and without dissimulation or halting discouer her wickednes earnestly to vrge whatsoeuer hath yet néede of perfect reformation That all Subiectes may continue in holye obedience first to GOD and then to theyr Prince to the aduauncyng of the honour and glory of GOD through IESVS CHRIST To whom wyth the holy Ghost be all honour glory power and dominion both nowe and euer AMEN The nu●●ring of Beastes name by Greeke ●●●ters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely dwellyng in lytle Bryttayne streete without Aldersgate 1571.

was the stay that he was not presently reuealed But when that stay is taken away he shuld be reuealed in his due time Chrysostome expoūdeth this stay to be the Romane Empire which must geue place vnto Antichrist That like as the Persians came in place of the Chaldeans the Grecians in place of the Percians and the Romanes in place of the Graecians euen so Antichrist should inuade the Empire of the Romanes Vacantem imperij principatum inuadet tentabit ad se capere hominum Dei imperium Antichrist sayth he shal inuade the vacant principallity of the Empire shal assay to draw vnto him self the Empires both of God men And is it not manifest that the Papacie grew tooke increase by the decay of the Empire at the fall of the Monarchy challenged full possession of all dominion both spirituall and temporall Of the same iudgement is s. Ierome writing vpon the same place of Paule vnto Algasia in the eleuenth question whose wordes are these Nec vult aperte dicere Romanum imperium de struendum quod ipsi qui imperant aeternum putant vnde secundum Apocalypsim Iohānis in fronte purpuratae meretricis scriptum est nomen blasphemiae id est Romae aeternae c. that is Neither wil he openly say that the Romane Empire should be destroyed which they that gouerne it thinke to be euerlasting wherefor● according to the Reuelation of s. Iohn in the forehead of the purple whore ther is written a name of blasphemi which is Rome euerlasting Loe here another witnes of good antiquity and sufficient credit which not onely agreeeth plainly with Chrysostome that Antichrist should take possession of the Romane Empire when it should be decayed in the Emperours but also most plainly agréeing with Tertulliane calleth that Babylonicall strumpet which is described in the 17. chapter of this Apocalips that purple whore of Rome the name of the blasphemye to be Rome euerlasting As though hee had heard the Pope brag of the eternity of his Sée which he saith is the Rocke against which the gates of hel cānot preuaile But he is fowly be giled for Rome the Sée of his Popedome is by s. Ieromes iudgement that Babylon of whō the Angel preacheth the howsoeuer the boast of her eternity She is fallen she is fallen euen Babylon that great city neuer shal rise againe They cry out agaynst vs that we rayle and speake cōtumeliously of the holy Sée of the Pope when we call Rome the whore of Babilon but when the old Doctours to whose iudgement they themselues appeale from the authority of the scripture feare not so plainly in their writings to paynt out the Babylonycall strumpet in her right coulors in flat words to say she is Rome the mother of al abominacions the Sée of Antichrist why should we be blamed for saying as we are taught by them And especially of those men that make so great vauntes that the iudgement is altogether on their side by whom they offer to be tryed when they dare not abide the iudgement of the Scriptures Againe consider I pray you of the old Doctors before Antichrist were openly reuealed did vnderstand by the scriptures that he should ●yt at Rome what thinke you would they haue said and written if they had lyued in these dayes knowen and sene all that was prophecied to be fulfilled in him wyth what confidence suppose ye they wold haue inueyed against him With how open mouthes would they haue cryed out vpon him At least wyse do you not thinke in your conscience that when they had considered the autority of the Pope his wholesome doctrine they would haue chaunged their minds and recanted their writings against Rome and repented that euer they had called her the purple whore of Babylon seing she is the holy mother church of Rome the Sée of the most holy father the Pope the head of the same church I must néedes say thus much in your behalfe O ye Papists as yll as I loue you that if Hierome Tertulliane and the rest of the Doctors dyd so account of Rome as you affirme of them they were much to blame to defame her wyth such odious names as to call her the purple whore of Babylon which must néedes make her vehemently suspected to be the church of Antichrist and not of christ For what Papist in these dayes dare say that which Hierome sayd that Rome is that purple harlot Babylon which S. Iohn speaketh of in the Apocalips The same Hierome in his 13. booke of Cōmentaries of the prophecy of Esay vpon the 47 chap. writeth in this maner Licet ex co quod iuxta 70 scriptū est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est filia Babylonis nō ipsum Babylonem quidam sed Romanam vrbem interpretantur quae in Apocalypsi Iohannis Epistola Petri Babylon specialliter appellatur c. That is For as much as the seuenty Interpreters write not the daughter Babylon but the Daughter of Babylon some doe interprete therof not Babylon in Chaldea but the City of Rome which in the Reuelation of saint Iohn the Epistle of Peter is specially called Babylon Note that Hierome in this place accōpted Rome to be Babylon the yonger daughter of Babylon the elder And secondly that this was not his opinion onely but the consent of many other in his time and namely of such as vsed to interprete the Prophet Esay Thirdly and especially cōsider that he affirmeth Rome in the Apocalips to be specially called Babilon So that Babylon in the Apocalips by his iudgement cannot be vnderstood for nothing els but Rome because Rome is there specially figured by Babylon What meaneth Hierome so often to beate in this naile that Babylon is Rome If it had slipped out of his pen but once he myght haue bene pardoned for his ouersight but whē he hath neuer done writing that Rome is Babylon and in the Reuelation specially called Babylon why should we accompt him any longer for a Catholike For in hys Preface vnto the booke of Didimus De spiritu sancto which he translated out of Gréeke into Latin writing to Pauinianus he vttereth these wordes Cum in Babylone versarer purpuratae meretricis essem Colonus iure Quiritum viuerem c. Of late saith he when I was in Babylon and was an inhabitant of the purple harlot liued after the lawes of the Romanes I thought to intreate somewhat of the holy Ghost What néeded Hierome in this place so odiously contumeliously to call Rome by the name of Babilon but that he could neuer consider Rome otherwise but to be that See appointed for Antichrist for in other places wher he interpreteth that scriptures Prophecies concerning Antichrist we may lesse maruel if he interprete Babylon for Rome because no reason could leade him to expound it otherwise But here talking pleasātly with his friend what necessitys compelled him to vse such descriptions of Rome