of God If they had grace and to helpe many landes so to doe that in the Pope as in Elies sonnes a fall extreeme shall be Of Samuel c. When God hastening to shewe CHRIST from Iuda gaue Israel a minde to choose a King hee would giue one of Beniamin that Rachel should be aequall to Leah but soone remoue him then commeth DAVID of Iuda Dauid rare for faith and all humanitie whose Psalmes tell of Christ all that can be known from Stories past and in Prophecies for the state following That all men high and low rich and poore should still sing his psalmes And to him is promised an aeternall throne in Christ Now to prooue that this throne is not for this World Salomon hath all wisedome prosperitie and pleasure and writeth a song of songes that is all in continued allegories of true soules following Christ and Prouerbes to warne Ephraim from Idolls and Ecclesistes to tell that all vnder the sunne was vanitie To the same effect the historie of poore Ruth of Lot leauing Countrey kins folke and fathers house conteineth a sage hope in the songe for the Lambe And Salomons Temple is soone cast off to be despysed and the Kings of his seede in 1. and 2. of the Kings to shew that a King of Nathan Salomons brother should be the true King when Salomons Kings should cause captiuity to Babel and ouerthrow of all The Books of Kings and Chronicles shew that in euent Then Daniel sheweth 7. tymes ouer how vnder Kings Iuda shall bee in affliction till the King of Kings commeth In Prophecie Hosea telleth of his saluation how he shall be called from Egypt and destroy death and aryse the third day which matter Ionas in figure experienced before This saluation Osee teacheth and how Lo-Ammi should be Ammi and Lo-Ruchamah should be Ruchamach Ioel sheweth Gods fauor for the spirite vpon all flesh to speake of the resurrection chapter 2. and sharpe iudgement cited in this Chapter And Amos of erecting Dauids Tabernacle Isaiah is an Euangelist from chapter 40. specially chapter 53. and where not and who is like to Michah telling Herod of Bethlechem where the sonne of Dauid should be borne Nahum comforteth the true Iew with the faire feete of them that shew peace and sayth Aggie Aggeicha festiue thy festiuities though Niniueh scattred Israel yet Iuda should be built The name of Aggei the Prophet calleth that into minde Abbakuk embraceth the people with comfort against Babel and leaueth a messe of potage for Daniel and all good that the iust shall liue by faith Ieremie 40. year telleth Iudah their Ceremonies cannot turne their heartes from strange Gods But Babell shal bee their dwelling to consume the wicked to shew Gods glorie where the Towre brought shame to all nations built to worship Creatures and to forget the Creator Tzephain telleth that Tze-phan Iah the aeternall hath sealed vp iudgement for despysing the Redeemer taught by the Passouer in Iosiahs dayes therefore he will visite the Kings Children for close Idolatry the rulers for cruelty the false Prophets for lying vanities ouerthrow the state cary them to Babell but after confession of their sin he will leaue a poore and humble people that shall trust in Messiah the Lord. Obadiah telleth Edom that for helping Babell to destroy Ierusalem by Babell they should be destroyd yet in tyme Sauiours that is Apostles shall come from Syon to conquer and iudge them Luc. 22. 30. that is to bring them to the faith and that of that Kingdome Christ shall be King Ezechiel sheweth the sonne of man glorious aboue the Cherub Chap. 1. and from 40. a new Ierusalem and chap. 38. sheweth to the eye the resurrection touching his Ierusalem S. Peter tuneth the Harpe on Mount Sion that euery prophecie of scripture is not to bee expouded properly because the holy men of God spake caried by the holy Ghost Daniel expoundeth him that the death of Christ shall bring all nations to be an heauenly Ierusalem Of Daniel I haue written more then any since Daniel wrote how his holy Gospell sheweth Christ vnto Children The Copies of my last edition hee that vseth as the Persians the Prophete shall be commended of mee to the God of Daniel whom hee knoweth not For if he had knowen him he would not so haue crucified againe the Lord of glory So described king of the Iewes and first named CHRIST meere properly in Daniel Ages folowing shall enquire how God will deale with the men Aggei answering in name as was shewed to Nahums words sheweth that of Zorobabel the SIGNET shall come who shall shake the heauen of the Iewes policie and the profane earth Zachary and Malachy with him shewe what Zachary Malachy Luc. 1. should learne to begin the New Testament by the Angell Gabriel on whom they comment Ezra and Nehemias also record his trueth and celebrate the names of the chiefe returned and the number of all And Mordecai in Esther telleth how by faith in Christ they escaped the edge of the sword Thus vpon Mount Sion of old they tuned their harps in the strang land of this world knowing that God would receiue them hence into his Ourano polin yet they were not perfected in their musique heere to see and feele as 1. Ioh. 1. the word of life S. Peter writing to poore Iewes 2 Pet. 1. commendeth the reading of the old harpes as a light shining in a darke place till the morning starre Psal 22. Apo. 2. 21. and Dauid Kimchi vpon Psal 22. arise in our hearts The Popes contrarietie S. Peters most deadly enimie the Pope which would make him the Rock or God and will not learne how he expoundeth Rock to be the Creator 1. Pet. 4. from 2. Sam. 22. will not suffre the people to read the Law a Pope or Daemon openly bent against the goodnesse of God Of the New Testaments musique The Gospell The holy Publican maketh in his first Chapter a stately porch to the new Temple shewing from Abraham to Dauid that the Fathers of Christ were all afflicted in this world and knew the holy Trinitie and foresaw Christ and his kingdom which ariseth from David by Nathan not from Salomon whose house would not be vpright with God 2. Sam. 23. All be faltie but Ioakim so wicked that because hee ouerthrew the state the Iewes enacted not to name him in their narrations and so S. Matthew left him out Now when Nathans house commeth in for whom all Daniels Visions speake in them wee see heauen opened and howe God sate vpon a Throne as if he were like Iasper and Rubi with the Rainebow like Moses Smaragd about the Throne and his harpe hath all tunes of Law till Christ be taken vp So Marke playeth vpon Gabriels harpe Dan. 9. till CHRIST is King in heauen Luke playeth first
eyes whereof one shall see more then millions of Papists full of courage readines to be sacrificed as Timotheus at Ephesus and Polycarpus at Smyrna and at Pergamus Antipas and full of wise pleading as Paul to King Agrippa and of high flight into the heavens carying soules thither not as in Campus Martius when for the Caesars funeral a summer house is made and full of spice and in a corner an eagle is and when it is set on fyre the eagle is let out and fleed high and is sayd to cary the Caesars soule to the Gods Herodian lib. 11. These have a true hight and have six wings two to cover their face from looking into Gods counsell aboue reach two to cover their feet that their wayes be not called into sight two to flee in their course as Vzielides expoundeth Es 6. And the whole bent of these tendeth to honour God And by their examples the common congregation acknowledgeth the holy Trinity and the Creator where the heathen have no lamp of grace not the best learned of them not one spirit of seven Their sage as Pythagoras in tongue confessed God to be one But they knew not the trinity and that the Sonne would be manifested in the flesh to come a man looking through our walles and to come a Iudge of all nor that he framed the world for man because he would dwell in a tabernacle in vs. In the heavenly policy of the Gospell this must be proper to true Christians who finding a victory cast down their crownes when they come before God The Scribes confesse all that we cōfesse The trinity of old confessed they as their workes yet shew which might have broken the Arians necks if Greek pride had submitted them to learne Thalmudique studies One errour in the root maketh a million in the branches CHAP. V. The counsel of God is hid how he will vse the prophane Caesars and how man of sin will afterwardes exalt himself in the Temple of God Moyses by Balaam tould but briefly that Italy should afflict Heber be perishing vnto the end Daniel speaketh nothing of the Romans afflicting the faithfull But shewing that the Image and four beastes being cōsumed by our Lords first comming into the world by implication he sheweth that Italy should kill Christ destroy Ierusalem and so breed a new Image of a beast But his pictures end in the Macedonians Our Lord in Math. 24. only toucheth deceit and vexation and S. Paul 2 Thes 2. sheweth that Emperour shall hould on till he be taken away then shall man of sin shew himselfe in the Temple as if he were God Adoni kam a Lord standing sure But how the Emperour should be vsed and Pope come vp and fall that Daniel meddled not withall who dealt most of kingdomes And proclamation that none in heaven nor on the earth could open the book telleth that he medled not with Antichrist nor Caesars punishment Iohns weping that none could open the book telleth that the matter is of great vse that they shall have weeping and gnashing of teeth which contemne the matter Now one of the 24. Bishops hearing the person of a Doctor said to him being in his traunse now as a child that the Lyon of Iuda spoken of through the Prophets and specially Num. 24. how he should vnwall and subdue al the sonnes of Seth and is the roote of David his figure who conquered all resisters set vp religion he will tell what Esay spake of his conquests So Christ standeth at the mids of Gods throne in a playn description a lambe Iohn 1. as one that had been slain Mat. 27. slain by Rome vpon whom the revenge must goe having seven horns of power to revenge Satan with his sevē heads and seven eyes which be seven spirits of his providence sending Angels over the earth as in building Ierusalem Zach. 1. and 2. and 6. And he taketh the book from God as Chap. 1. 1. as Mediatour now though he were in the glory of GOD and held it no robbery to be equall with God and then the rare wightes and 24. Doctours pray him to open the state to come and all creatures shew that they shall serve Christ when Idolaters be destroyed CHAP. VI. The Lyon harted the pacient ox the wise man the high fighted eagle tell how by his martyrs he buildeth the Church and for their prayer the Caesars shall have war stil bloudy warre great famine that corne wil be as deare as spice that a bath choenix a pottle wil be sold for the Romane Denarius about half a french crown though GOD strike not vines and olives but in wrath remembreth mercy Such warre that bloud death famine and pestilence shall make a riddance of the fourth part of men This cometh in revenge of the martyrs In Aboth Rab. Nathan in Moses life all the just soulesly vnder the throne of glory Here the terme Altar teacheth that by Christ the Altar they have justice Neyther Scribes nor Apostles knew purgatory Covetousnes bred the teachers slouth and contempt of truth the beleevers They are told that they must have patience a while till martyrs blood be seed to make a Church of a sufficient number to have a Christian empire Then the prophane policies shall have an earthquake their sun of stately empire shal be turned to blacknes their moone of Princes into blood their starres shall fall as olives shaken their heaven shal be lapped vp as a rowl al Ilands and mountaines shal be changed for them Iohn from Esa 2. and 14 and 34 and Ose 10. seeth a vision fitted to their speches that by considering Iudaes fall the ten tribes fall Assurs fall and Daniels Image we may be sure of the Caesars fall and he expoundeth himself the Prophets That Kings great men rich and Coronelles the mighty shall hide themselves and wish as Samaria that mountaynes might hide them from the anger of the Lamb. And so he teach Iewes that for contempt of Christ their destructions came The five seales are not distinguished in time but in common place of victory war famine and both with plague and martyrdome all these in times come sometimes at once The sixt toucheth Constantines dayes Then an vnspeakable riddance was made after Dioclesians persecution that twelve Augusti and Caesars consume one another till all came to the sonne of our Helena who in the ends of the earth made the possession of Christ cometh to York to Constantius his Father that had Christians his chief men and by him is made his heyr of empire and by them and our nation and the neare in the end is alone the Emperour of the world and leaveth the Rome that crucified by the Gospell and 2. Thes 2. where in 100. yeares the slothfull Popes could not make Caesar good but were caught in their lying that Peter should long sit at Rome who expresly writeth that he kept about Babylon Rome in Italy is hated for Idolatry
place gainesaid This sheweth that Peter was neuer at Rome And Saint Pauls iourney telleth Rome that God hated them If he had not beene sought to bee killed Lysias had not sent him to Caesarea and if the Iewes had not againe there sought to haue killed him hee had not appealed to Caesar God would not that hee should come to Rome but vpon extreamities So the iourney thither shewed that Christ hated the Citie that crucified him was strange in calamities and Paul was brought thither as a prisoner and kept in prison though somewhat free CHAPTER XIIII And I saw and behold a Lambe stood vpon mount Syon and an hundred fourty foure thousand were with him hauing the name of their father written in their forehead THEY which were called afore two Prophets are now 144000. hauing the name of God written in their forehead the same number is said before to be sealed ch 7. by a speach from Ezekiel ch 9. 4. There in the 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the terme of chap. 13. in Kimchy a signe or writing S. Paul expoundeth the speach that God will make them knowen who be his that they who professe the name of God shall depart from wickednesse So they who haue Gods name are made knowen who bee his and expound his word and follow trueth of worship due to him bearing a marke in open profession as sacrificers such as Aharon had In this sort the holy Church still had some nūber to professe the summe of saluation though on mount Sion a small hill for the mountaines of the world not one to a million of ADONIKAM and his Children of three fold as storie 666. that number chap. 13. to beare the number of his name was vsed for any number of Apostatique profession So heere the 144000. twelue tymes twelue is vsed for any Company that trusteth in Christ as the Patriarches did And I heard a voice out of heauen as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes and they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the foure liuely wightes and the Elders The heauen commonly in this booke is the Church waters voice is continuall so heere continuall singing is meant harpes signifie song with agreement the new song is for mans praeseruation euery day The foure wightes are the rare as Daniel Ananias Azarias and Misael and all the Euangelistes and S. Paul full of courage of Lions so were all the Apostles of rare patience ready to be sacrificed euery day and they were the true Philosophers thinking what should befall them after death and they were the Eagles of high flight sight The Elders are the Bishops or Teachers the sage in gouernement and skill in the holy Hebrew and Greek Testaments The song none could vnderstand but the 144000. as no Papist soundly thinketh of all things made for Gods glorie in Christ and how by him wholy iustice commeth and he onely must be worshipped When this is told them they are like vnto men that dreame and know not who they are that are bought from the earth not what their religion meaneth Thereupon it is written And none could vnderstand the song but the hundred fourty and foure thousand which were bought from the earth What this songe was Through the whole scripture this song is one and the same that IEHOVAH our GOD IEHOVAH is ONE The FATHER the SON the Holy Spirite be one Coaeternall and Coessentiall the SON is called the WORD by the WORD the Father made the World and by the Spirite beautified the heauens And because the WORD would become flesh the World was made to serue once Adam the first The Angells that grudged at that fell for euer and deceiued Adam and made him dead in sin and brought him to be turning dayly to dust vntill he dyed and for him the whole frame of the Creature was pronunced corrupt But he belieued that Christ made of a woman made vnder the Law God being in him to reconcile the World to himselfe should giue Adams soule iustice by faith should raise vp his Bodie and make a new World by his power whereby hee can subdue all things to himselfe This is the summe of the song tolde through all Bookes of the Bible A Digression to shew the Concent of all the holy Bookes Geneses sheweth how by the WORD of IEHOVAH the heauens were made and all the settled army of them by the Spirite of his mouth and when man fell the WORD telling that to destroy the workes of Satan he would be made flesh and haue a Tabernacle in vs. In which point the Fathers faith vnto the charge of Iosephs bones to bee caried vnto the Land wherein our Lordes resurrection should be a Testimony of a new World taught by Ioseph in his bones long after his death By faith he taught by his dead bones of the new world and therein Geneses end hath a new Geneses All simple should learne CHRIST from the Gospell of Geneses wher 's his Godhead so familiarly delited in the holy Prov. 8. and shewed in appearances that he would be man All yong men brought vp to be Bishops of the Kings armies or Church would reioyce to haue learned Geneses in Ebrew by heart In old age they should gather the fruit Obiection of them that are not bought from the earth S. Ierome saith Iewes read not the three first chapters of Geneses till they be 30. yeeres old Answere None should cite Ierome to make him a foole or to win the Whetstone Maymony in Morch Nebuchim hath this sentence that none did Darash read as a Doctor expoundeth Genes 1. and 2. and 3. and Ezech. 1. before he was aged 30. So S. Ierom meant Iewes all teach their Children from seauen to read all Moyses It were better that Rome were with Helice and Bura then Popes should be suffred so to bring most wickedly the word of life into a deadly hatred Of Iob. Iob is a booke for all holy to take notice of for instructing their families in the knowlede of Christ which Abraham carefully did as God testifieth the comfort of it their posterity shall finde as the booke setteth forth the faith and loue the effects of the Gospell 1. Thes 1. of his posterity euen before the Lawe was giuen to shewe that the godly had alwaies the Law written in their hearts 2. Cor. 3. Ier. 32. Rom. 2. Iob is a patron to all the faithfull in prosperitie for loue compassion iustice and equity c. in his afflictions his faith and hope in the Redeemer the seed promised whom he knew would take our nature vpon him to dy for him and by his Godhead rayse himselfe from death and that by his resurrection he should be raysed in the last day be made like his glorious body and that he euer liued to make intercession for him these thinges were his comfort in his greatest
happinesse Redemption that Iewes and Philosophers could speak of Emperors causes better then they Thus for 9. cōmun in stead of 10. for the Lords prayer maimed and turned to Battus infinite repetition against the Law Eccles 5. that our words before GOD should be few and their beliefe stayned in the maine sheweth how they of Rome taught the people that would not receyue the loue of the trueth but became a great deepe sea of darknesse that Sun ayer Christ the sun of righteousnesse and the scripture by which light commeth to our eyes were darkned by a smok of haeresies marring in their Masse al religion The Iewes though faithlesse yet they doe search most narrowly and profitable the speach and story of the law and shew vs Christ in all whom they cannot see But Romulus man of sinn setting forth him selfe as if he were God in his Masse booke darkneth sunne and ayer in steed of seruing God alone that is praying to God alone as our Lord Mat. 6. repeated his Law when ye pray pray to your Father which is heauen Maymony sheweth vpon what Command prayer dependeth otherwise prayer were sin saith in his treatise for prayer That all the Fathers expounded the Law for seruice to be prayer And Menachem saith God forbid that any should pray but vnto God only euen as Psal 50. Pray vnto me in the day of trouble I will heare thee so thou shalt honour me No holy in all the Bible the ayer to see Christ did euer pray to any Angell but the Eternall Son nor euer to any man departed Therefore Romylides liturgie in praying to infinite millions of creatures hath infinite sinnes Of the Locustes most liuely describing the Popes subjects to make him King of Locustes distinguished from all other policies that be or euer were in the world Locusts came out of the smoke and the hoat vapours of Lybia bred cloudes of Locustes which by South windes flee to Sardinia Silicie Spaine and Italie as others in Ioels dayes to Iudea that in one night the slow-bellies deuoure whole valleies of tender Corne where it would grow otherwise 100 fold This a Sardinian man tolde my selfe merchants manie as past doubt that exorcistes by Satans helpe were invited to helpe the matter Now the millions of Monkes and Friers and such as deuoure other mens labours void of all actions for political vse are so fitly compared with these that we may say God in the Creation made locuste to abound in Lybia to shew in time the locusts bred by Rome which would crucifie the King of glorie and should deuoure the fruites of such as had no loue to the trueth but would Honor the Citie that would kill the Lord of glory that was a greater sinn then the deuouring of all the fieldes in the world A distinction of these locusts from the proper locusts in Ioel that these be as scorpions These had power as the scorpions in Italie which sleepe vnder euery stone that no common weale could be healed of their sting but such as make their blood pay for it and by them selues be healed A further illustration of distinction from naturall Locusts Scorpions These locusts might not strike the blades of the earth nor anie greene thing or coleworts nor any plant but onely the men that had not the seale of God in the forehead professing openly that Christ is the Angell of Couenant and his Humanitie the golden Altar and his Mediation the Censer to receiue the prayer of them who by the aboundance of the grace of the gift of Iustice looke to reigne by Christ Iesuus A further distinction how their sting is not of naturall scorpions but of spirituall These kill not but torment men fiue moneths with a torment as it were of scorpions Heare the reade must marke corporation speaches that the whole state is termed by one man So doth Moses speake to Israel for many thousandes of yeeres in speach as though all were to the present men so Ezekiel speaketh of the King of Tyrus then liuing as hee was for a King in Salomons and Chyrams day Salomon had Chyrams daughter and he was a Proselite and by his charges Chyram the workeman wrought Salomons brasse workes so the king was of Eden garden so heere men of long descents bee stonge and not only for a particular age And as scorpions in locusts haue no more tyme to hurt but hide themselues in winter as Nahum telleth so these locusts hide themselues when sharp weather of policie commeth The Church spend neere 1000. yeeres good Abbates as Bernard others full many in Flaccius Illyricus and Antilogiâ Papae and such telling the Daemones or Popoi of their dealings and Princes resonablie matched them so long but Satan was let loose after 1000. yeeres That Popes deceiued Princes to spend their strength 200. yeeres as Gods enemies to bring the land cursed for euer into glory to make God a liar so Princes being weakned Daemones Popoi by strange forgerie of Constantinus gift became strong Constantinus sonnes knew no such matter no Iulian that scoffed all that he could forge against his Vncle nor Sozimus as bad as Iulian nor any Grecian Yet the Popoi Daemones will haue their owne testimonie for Empires giuen without States consent Thus the Papae or reuerend Father that would be a king by his locusts beggers the wealth of all Countreyes Of the Scorpiones stinges 1. Popoi Daemones taught to deny this that so God loued the world that he gaue his onely sonne to the end that whosoeuer belieue on him should not perish but haue life euer lasting 2. As the serpent deceyued Eue so the Pope hauing the throne of the serpent deceyued many mindes from that playnesse which is in Christ and so stong their heartes as they Iob. 3. who desire the graue and digge for it more then for treasures 3. And whereas this is only the work of God wherein a Christian is distinguished from Ciuill scribes to belieue in him whom God hath sent the Pope teacheth not to rest in this 4. He teacheth trust in wicked workes in giuing Landes to Locustes to auoid Purgatorie vnknowen to Greekes and to hate the Bible as auctor of haeresie to pray to Creaturs to be sure for that only if no more sinne were to perish for euer And he teacheth that men should doubt of their saluation So his Locustes haue the stinges of Scorpions Of the Locusts strength and auctoritie When by their forged Purgatorie and much begging the Locusts had gotten the fatt of all Countreyes thē they were horses prepared to warres that they sett Kings to warre as they would And though they would seeme to haue no secular Power yet their dealinges shewed they ware crowns like gold being in face as priuate men of womans haire in keeping in Cloisters yet haue they teeth of Lions to deuoure all and habergions of yron to defende them selues and the noise of their winges the proper noise of
sonne will be the sorrow of his mother then the Mother saith his rebelliō be vpon me This matter is deepe for a Iew to speak The same saith vpon Gen. 49. IAH is in Shiloh And vpō Gen. 3. By the serpent Christ shall be kild and many of Israel with him And a rare saying of God Rediemer in a Iubilie I graued in a brassen abridgment of the Bibles concent from Zohar vpon Leu. 25. In the Iubilie yere God dwelling in our tabernacle wil be remission Redemption and ending of Sabbath to Israel fol. 53. Col. None of ours of old saw Iubilies sitted to our Lords death the Iewes knew it must be so Ours scoffe it being shewed after that be highly extolled S. Paul describing Sem in the person of Melchitzedeck to be as God hath Rabbins phrases yet extāt in Zohar for his warrant that he held the man and person as they did And for all that epistle Rabbins speak the same that he doth And Rabbins haue bin a bridle to keepe Daniel sound that only holy Iewes bee the afflicted in him and when the image afflicting holy Iewes ended thē Messias should be borne in Bethlechem They might haue taught vs the right meaning of Daniel So for ending the house of Salomon in Iechonias lalkut bringeth Gods oth Maimoni in poenit Gods decree so Barbinel Kimchi and Iarchi vpon Ier. 22 and vniuersally they conclude that the first Adam the first day fell So the first day Christ is called heire of all In this sorte the Bishopps of the Synagogues taught as learnedly as any of Leuie Of the Synedrion Tha◠Ierusalemy in Sanedrin sheweth that the Sanedrin of 70. might be all of Israel without any one of Leui. And that the high sacrificer was not of the Sanedrin but as another if he were rarely learned and sage And for all faltes he was iudged and punished as another and that often they were so simple that the councill taught them their duety on expiation day The high sacrificer might be excommunicated but the King might not but in Ieroboams case Where Mallachi telleth they should aske the Law at Leui that is because they were alway at the Temple and bound to be learned But Samuel of Korah and Daniel of Iudah were not inferior to any Of Athean imitation of Aharon It was death for any of Israel to meddle with Aharons office Samuel of Korah and Elias whose tribe is vncertaine had Gods dispensation Otherwise they had neuer sacrificed And nothing about the Temple might be in Israels houses no building like the Temple arke candlesticke table of bread Altars or Leuites attire yet the father of Rome will counterfaite he will haue a Candlesticke Cope Linen garments precious stones mitre girdle Priest sacrifice Altar Sathan taught him so to dally with Gods Law Greeke fathers began the name Priest and high Priest to be fitted to their Doctores but in the end the gangrene crept to harme vnspeakable that Satan by Turke and Pope ruled the world How Bishops were made in Israel Maymony in Sanedrin sheweth how the Bishops of the Sanedrin made a D. to teach the people that they called him Muphla wonderous learned and held him so first then some of the Sanedrin laid their handes vpon him and said Rabbi take thou auctority to teach what is bound and what is loose Our Lord vseth that speach in making his Apostles Bishopps in giuing them auctority to teach what is loose and what is bound But Iscariot let another take his Bishoprike the rest were faithfull Bishops Of excommunication In King Moses tyme and other Kings Ciuill punishments were vsed but when heathen ruled then the congregation could doe no more but remoue the party from the companie by open voice in their Ciuill court Kehelah in Adams tongue Ecclesia in Iauans Any of the seniors might excommunicate but if the excommunicated complayned of iniurie the Sanedrin examined the cause and vpon iniury they excommunicated the excommunicater A iust but strange doctrine Thal. Ierusal in Illu Megallechim writeth of a Rabbin who fell into an haunt of Iewe thieues They took his mony from him he pronoūced the Anathema for them they returned the curse vpon himselfe that amazed him and comming home he asked Rabbies whether he were in danger of curse doubtlesse said they a money matter where Lawes be open giueth no Anathema so the false Anathema returned sound vpon thy selfe On this he went to the thieues haunt and confessed sinne that for money he gaue them to Satan and requested absolution then said the thieues absolue vs wee will they agreed to both There a woman commeth by a scholmaister beating a boy cruelly saith thou art Anathema the scholmaister asked a Rabbi whether that could binde him frō the Synagogue the ordinary time A mounth doubt lesse said the Rabbi not the person but the matter giueth the authoritie go and confesse thy fault to the woman and thou art free and so he did Thus reason not politique authoritie giueth the force and the Law 1. Cor. 16. If any loue not the L. Iesus Christ let him be anathema Maran atha The Pope the greatest murderer Idolater in the world he will be excommunicating Princes They should returne the curse vpon his owne head and leaue God iudge others may deale alike with al of the Pops keies and God will make knowen who be his so Moses vsed Pharoh so Elias vsed the soldiers so Eliseus vsed the 42. of Bethel so Ieremie vsed Ierusalem so S. Paul vsed Alexander so the martyrs heere deale with the king of Locustes A digression to expound the terme Bishop Much strife is for the Bishop of Rome and for others The manifold sense of the terme must be opened to end the strife In Iob EL the Almighty God is translated Episcopus A looker to mans dealing In the Law PAKID a man of charge as Eleazar or the bishop of the armie is trāslated Episcopus Iudas had Episcopon as I mentioned afore therefore the Apostles were Episcopi in S. Paul 1. Tim. the terme Episcopus is translated in Arabique Zeken a senior that is the right meaning Policarpus the messinger of the congregation of Smyrna is in Greeks Episcopus And so the great teachers so Caluin was and Beza in Geneua was Bishop or yet Archbishop though they tooke other names as high Pastor is vsually the ciuill Gouernor and for Moses that is vsed he was Meparnes to Israel 40. year that is Feeder So Bishop is a terme for Lawfull calling and commēdable if learning tender care of people be to it Otherwise Ananias shal be excommunicated of S. Paul as a painted wall And they shall tread downe the holy Citie two and fouretie monethes Heere by Citie is meant folke as Ebr. 12. the Citie of the liuing God the heauēly Ierusalem so in this chap. where the tenth parte of the Citie falleth people not wall is meant So when the Citie is called spiritually
Tertullian hurt by Montanus The onely auctores that Eusebius could bring for Peter to haue beene at Rome And that strength beeing broken all further testimonies are but winde The Thalmud in San requireth in testimonie eye-sight And for the newe Moone though they knewe the Mathematiques they vsed two mens testimonie that they saw the Moone vnlesse cloudes hindered before they ordeyned the feasts celebration so God would haue the People to hold their eye-sight iudge as all simple must pleade sure faith So strike you this crosse and make blood come forth to two witnesses which by Moses Law must be my warrant and then I will be of S. Peters faith in your sense Of the Catholike faith I am and of the ancient faith which holy Paul of Tarsus Gygs land and holy Luke of Magogs land in Syria taught and wrote from Moses and the Prophets Ep. 2. 20. Make blood come out of this stone to my sight and I will bee a Pseudo-Catholique as yee are vpon this we turned to read the proselytes letters For whose testimony that I might haue had a Cardinalship principal at Rome One M r. Murton of Yorkeshiere desired me to goe to Mentz with him to heare that asked and tooke occasion in speach of Cardinales to aske what mine had bene worth then said hee about 18000. french Crownes But I shewed that Gods word was plaine to all of the tongues studie and pure in all rules to conuert any well meaning heart perfect to guide through the whole course of life I wishe others to belieue their miracles as I doe who know that God made sense a diuine testimonie that a man conuicted vpon two witnesses conuicted to worship bread and wine should dye the death The Gospell thrise and S. Paul 1. Cor. 11. tell that IESVS gaue bread and wine and that the Disciples dranke what hee gaue That no miracle was heere but the natiue manner of a Couenant And if the Apostles or Greeke Fathers had said The Bread and Wine were altered from their tast or nature for so much heathen would haue sworne the world neuer bare wickedder Magicians nor worthier of death by Moses Law which Christ gaue as aeternall God and came as man to bee iudged of man how hee did performe all so that the natiue power of reason which he planted in all soules should iudge of him that he performed all iustice to plaine capacitie of all nations and required none to belieue further then logique common to euery man would require assent or tell of open rebellion against the trueth This also was a great miracle that Emperor Henry the VII next Albertus in seditions comming to Italy where 60. yer Emperores absence gaue the Pope much auctoritie when the king of Sicilie Robert made stirres and the Pope Clement V. fauored him as a vassall of the Church and then kept at Auinion he commanded both by the othe of fidelitie to keepe the peace He answering that he would take no such othe yet by persuasion would take the crowne of him was soone after of Cardinales by Dominican Bernehard poysoning the Hostia or the Sacrament of the Altar sent to Haides because he would be boūd to no man The beast with two hornes like a Lambe in trueth the Dragon let loose after 1000. yea Apoc. 20. did this miracle The like was done to our K. Iohn who shewed in the Abbot of Glassimbury litle good will to make Popes too fatt And their dayly miracle told afore of the Sacrament of the Altar that men must belieue they haue no sense this Simon-Magus-bewitching of men by Moses Lawe should put them to death howe they would make their Images sweate by a fier and water hid behinde them in the Vestrie and tell how the sainctes were angry that men had no more zeale to offre to them these were commonly knowen to them that liued in our Fathers dayes before valiant King Henry VIII brake both the Popes hornes and ate the flesh of the beast If Erasmus Roterodamus had liued to this houre he could neuer haue iested ynough with the Popes false miracles as Saint Paul termeth them Yet to this day euery where Papists brag of their religion as proued by miracles and so they prooue their doctrine to be new Miracles are to bee wrought at the first deliuery of doctrine When Adam first sacrificed fire from heauen kindled it and Abels sacrifice respected of God are in Octaplo were fired by God That fire was kept vntill the flood Then againe Noes sacrifice was kindled from heauen And that fire was kept by great SEM or Melchitzedeke Abraham sacrificing had fire first in recorde from heauen and in Moses Salomon that is expresly told and thence gathered to the former so when the Iewes came home from Babylon they sacrificed no mention is made of their fire Their priuate storie Salseleth Hakabala saith they had fire form heauen The abridgement of the senselesse writer Iason of Cyren called the second of Maccabees telleth an old wiues tale of fire turned as vnto salt and set against the sunne and so brought to inflame the sacrifice Archimedes fire that set Roman ships on flame at Syracusa with a Christall Glasse of narrow passage for the sunne beames should haue beene as holy a fire as that of Iasons fable yet the Pope maketh great accompt of this inuention as being so true as his miracles whereby he would prooue new sacrifice Before the flood Adam liuing longe to teach the truth and the creation being all miraculous we haue no properly told miracle but our father Henochs assumption Abraham reuiuing the world did miracles so Moses beginning a new state and IESVS in his noble conquest in staying Sunne and Moone and Samuel at Sauls installation Ezekias in great fall of tenne Tribes captiued had the sunne turned backe tenne degrees To Babell the fire was quenched Dan. 3. and the King made as a beast chap. 4. Daniel stoppeth Lions mouths and an handwriting damning the state chap. 5. Thus to nations first motion or fall miracles are giuen but to confirme no other religion then agreeth with Adams But the Pope will dayly transubstantiate and make a Lynceus belieue he cannot tell whether he see Bread and Wine and so make a sacrifice as calling fire from heauen which must kindle euery sacrifice And whereas eye-sight is Gods Testimony by Creation law and allowed euer euen in the seale of the Couenant which may conteine no matter litigious He breedeth warres to make haile fire mixed with blood All this Doctrine is from the mouth of the Dragon Saying to them that dwell in the earth to make an Image to the beast which hath the stroke of the sword and is reuiued The earth is the profane common world opposite to the Church The Image respecteth Dan. 2. as the beast looked to Dan. 7. So the Pope shall challenge power to make Imperiall state termed Image Daniel 2. Padeuicius lib. 3. Capter 10. 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they would that none should be in the Commune Weale but of their marke by othe subscription or whole profession Of the marke in the forehead Aharon his garments conteined the summe of religion whereof one part was a plate of gold in his bonnet thus ingrauen HOLYNESSE FOR THE ETERNALL That is expounded chap. 14. where the Christians hating Idolatry haue the name of God written in their forehead As God will make knowen who be his and all who call vpon GOD must depart from wickednesse So heere the hauing of his name in the forehead is the profession of his decrees The saying of Aue Marie went ouer all to the poore beggars and reuerence to the Crosse and comming to their most wicked Masse and refraining from reading Gods Booke but for licenced and auricular confession briefly all differing from their Dracoes lawes was an heretique and might neither buy nor sell Of the name of the beast and the number of his name That is his owne name So vsuall in states the Antecedent is for the relatiue as Daniel chap. 9. The Gouernor shall destroy the Gouernor owne people for his owne Through the Bible the names giuen by the holy abridge the summe of their life God called the first man ADAM which is also our commune name MAN to tell vs euery moment that dust wee are and to dust we must returne Seth bare a warning that onely some of his should be setled when the flood made a moode of all the earth Enosh telleth of sorrow that profanenesse sprang instead of calling vpon the name of God Cainan telleth of Lamentation due for that Mahal-el how the Almighty bringeth a mixture by water vpon all Iared how all goeth downe He nameth his sonne Enoch consecrated to God to be an onely man in the cursed world and he told in his sonnes name when God would send the flood Methu-Schelach when he is deadp resently God sendeth it Lamech borne in tyme of all sorrowes in his dayes the fathers died and all to euery soule that called vpon God and looked to saue their life by the Arke els they had come to Noë to haue gone into the Arke Noë is conforter All these be fathers to all in the world and all degenerate who desire not to know the reasons of their names So through the old Testament the faithfull printed faith and story in their childrens names And the Booke of numbers hath vnder propre names moo sentences of faith then would make a great volume So that without Ebrew much of the Bible wil be vnknowen So before the Captiuity of Babell the Godly gaue names to their sonns shewing hope of their defense and helpe by Elam of whom came Cyrus one long before called his sonne Elam another also calleth his sonne Elam for instruction that Elam should send the Iewes home And God blesseth these two with most issue Ezra 2. Another calleth his sonne Bagoas by a famous Persian name Another calleth his sonne Adonikam God standeth aboue all Now the sonnes of Adonikam were 666. God then meant to apply that to further matter as seauens in the Bible call into minde the first Sabbath rested in hope of Christ so sixes are commonly a memory of the sad fall and vsed in sorrow Holy Lamech liued yeares 777. then he rested In the six hundreth of Noë the flood came Nabuchadnezar his cursed Image was in height 60. cubites In breadth 6. cubites The gold brought from Ophir to Salomon was 666. talents as no long blessing when after his death Sysac King of Aegypt hath all of the Temple for a spoyle Now Adonikam his sonnes 666. might shew that God would vse that text to some sad matter Let vs now examine the words of the Text. Heere is wisedome Let him that hath wisedome reckon the number of the Beast For it is a number attributed vnto a man And his number is six hundred sixty six Adams wisedome is shewed equall to Angells in giuing names to beastes and foules according to their nature so that mans first wisedome appeared how his soule bare the image of God in fit names His holy sonnes folowed that and all of wisedome will examine what names they haue giuen and see which of all them will fit the beast heere the mans name may soone be found by 666. for onely ADONIKAM of a man hath that number Now the wisedome standeth in the nation of Adonikam how the beast that hath hornes like a Lambe is fitted to that Let vs haue our stories to shew how the Pope is fitted to this Innocentius the third bragged to Emperor Philip that he would take from him the Diademe of the King or he should take from him the Apostolicall Apostaticall ensigne Christ saith by him Kings reigne and Princes decree iustice And he is truly ADONIKAM Lord standing vp sure for defense of his And Innocentius of Adam the earthly of Enosh the sorrowfull he will be ADONIKAM simply a Lord standing sure and haue two hornes of the Lambe though he speake like the Dragon Marke another when Albertus son to Rodulph following his fathers Example sought by entreaters the confirmation of his election of Boniface the eight which bragged that he was Lord of the whole world Then Boniface comming forth girded with a sword and wearing the Imperiall Crowne cryeth with a tyrannicall voice EGO SVM CAESAR ET PONTIFEX and in a chafe he reiecteth the election which was made without his Authoritie as of no force and friuolous and refuseth the confirmation and called the Emperour a murtherer so this Boniface had as brasen a face as Boniface the third which bought supremacie of the murtherer Phocas and vaunting that he is TOTIVS MVNDI DOMINVS LORD OF THE WHOLE WORLD the name of the MAN which hath 666. attributed ADONIKAM wil be his name with the two hornes of the Lambe A repetition of the terme Rocke Speciallie the terme Rocke claymed of the Pope to be his name proueth him to haue this name or notation of ADONIKAM In this Conceit thus hee reasoneth Peter is the Rock The Pope is as Peter Therefore The Pope is the Rocke So the Pope maketh himselfe God who only standeth sure ADONICAM A digression to a disputation at Mentz in the Promotion of a graduat in their commencement 1601. At Mentz in saluation yeere named a commencer gaue the question I then printing in their owne Towne a Greeke Oration of all my groundes in Religion was requested by Pater Nicol. Serarius their D. principall to come to the cōmencement There they requested mee most vehemently to dispute that Rector made shorte the first reply And I tooke the second This was the question Romana Ecclesia est vera Ecclesia Reply Quae facit hominem ex patris semine immediate Petram dici est hostis Dei At Roma facit hoc ergo est hostis Dei Promotus I deny the assumption Reply The terme Rocke is neuer vsed in commendation of Holinesse and Constancie but in God
Vbiquitie and others iourney to hell be great spotts yet many are free from these and mo wil be in tyme. And out of his mouth commeth a sharpe sword to strike the nationes with it and hee shall bruise them with an yron Sceptre The sword of his word hath in all ages told that euery trespas should receiue iust recompence and by stories past wee should assure vs of them that be to come and the yron Sceptre taught by Dauid how Christ his enemies should fall And the Image beaten to dust Dan. 2. and the Romane ciuill warres taught them what it was to meddle with the Iewes and with Tully to say Barbara Iudaeorum superstitio Gens nata seruituti So Diui Caesares for 300. yeares were brused and now the Pope for 400. to come may still looke to bee plagued that by 6000. yeeres of the world he shall be as the Macedonians at our Lords birth voyd of all authoritie This short vision may endure a long time as that in Ezekiel of Gog and Magog 38. and 39. contayned matter of 300. yeeres And hee treadeth the presse of the wine of the anger and indignation of God of hostes and hee hath vpon his garment and vpon his thigh a name written KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS Esay 63. telling of the winepresse teacheth now by story of old euents and the other Attributes Nabuchad Dan. 2. giueth to Daniels God and the stories shew the works And students of iudgement would bee ready in heathen which open the holy Bookes from the first Greek stories to the last By garment and thigh written vpon open dealings of Christ teach men to contemne his mediation and to feele that hee ruleth all An open proclamation of the Popes destruction And I saw an Angell standing in the sun and hee cried with a great voice saying to all the birds that flee in the ayer come and assemble vnto the supper of the great God to eate the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Coronels and the flesh of the Mighty and the flesh of horses and of their Riders and the flesh of all free and bound This speach Ezekiel vsed ch 38. speaking of Macedonians that should afflict Iuda specially vnder Antiochus Epiphanes after whom that Kingdome fell dayly more and more with horrible destruction And as the speach in Ezekiel is caried hither so the names of Gog and Magog be in the next Chapter where the Popes chiefe ripenesse commeth to let Satan loose And I saw the beast and the Kings of the earth and their armies to make warre with him that sate vpon the horse and with his armie This short prophecie telleth that the Pope and Empire shall fight against the Restorers of the Gospell and still haue the worse Albion and Ierne haue shaked him off and much of Germanie and Netherland and halfe Zwitzerland and all Denmarke and his murthering of the French King will haue reuenge In Ireland his stirring of Papists vnder Desmond to rebell made greater death then kites wolues doggs could deuoure or men bury or riuers wash without poysoning their fish And Brabant now 40. yer hath seene great slaughters and the Kinges putting of his owne son to death was more losse to his house then many millions And his owne death was of a strange sicknesse So many French that persecuted the Gospell had strange death And one after another while they fight against Christ shall haue strange successe as the Popes haue strange deaths and boyles at home An abridgement of all Gods iudgements in one And the beast was caught and with him the false prophet which worketh signes before him by which he deceiueth them that receiue the marke of the beast and worshippeth his image Both were cast aliue into the lake burning with fire and brimstone Andreas vpon chap. 13. teacheth plainely that Antichrist setting vp the Empire is there meant So Pope Emperor must needes be meant heere to as euident destruction as if they were cast aliue into eternall flames this should be a faire warning for men to come out of Babel to vse no garments no prayers no lawes of the Popes making And the rest were killed with the sword of him which sate vpon the horse which went out of his mouth and all the foules were filled with their flesh The principall had open terrible miserie the others in vision had but death So in Daniel chap. 7. the fourth beast was cast into the fire and the common sort in Ezek. are eat of foules CHAPTER XX. The Diuells are not simply bound And I saw an Angell comming downe from heauen hauing the key of the Pit and a great chaine in his hand and he laid hold vpon the Dracon the old Serpent which is the Diuell and Satan and he bound him a thousand yeeres and cast him into the Pit and shut him vp and sealed vpon him that he should not deceiue the nations any more vntill the thousand yeeres were ended Afterwards he must be loosed a litle while THAT the Diuels are not simply bound one houre Iob. 1. and 1. Pet. 5. teach vs when they fell the sixt day misliking the charge of care ouer man the darke ayer wherin we breath a black Tartarus without starre-light is their lodging in chaines of Gods prouidence as if they were in prison So wee may not thinke that the Diuels were euer simply bound but they were in the Pit whence at the last the locusts came foorth among the company of the profance that they deceiued not the great number sealed chap. 7. and former martyrs ch 6. But for a thousand yeeres some reigned in all ages with Christ and many were martyred and moo vndeceiued to worshippe the beast and his Image to take the marke in the forehead or hand They liued the true life by the Gospell where all faithlesse aliue be dead in sinne as S. Peter saith and Zeror Hamor infinitely The Apostles in their ages liued reigned with Christ and Iustine Martyr and Athenagoras and such in their ages Athanasius and many of his tyme and so others in their ages liued heere the Christian life and reigned as Kinges sacrificing their owne affections chap. 1. Some in all partes of the thousand yeeres not altogether a thousand yeeres The rest of the dead did not reuiue vntill the thousand yeeres were ended as the profane Caesares and Idolatrous Locusts who had great occasion offred to the first resurrectiō with Christ Rom. 6. Eph. 2. But they being dead in sin despised the truth and reuiued not The first resurrection is by faith to be risen with Christ He is happy and holy that hath his portion in the first resurrection The second death shall haue no power ouer them but they shal be sacrificers of God and of Christ and there shall be such to reigne with him for a thousand yeares From Adam of 1000. yer Satan deceiued not generally while the Fathers liued that the flood was denounced in the old world
and blood by scholars made a mountaine of fire cast into the sea by the starr falne from his place c. 81 The 9. Chap. pag. 82. THe fift Trumpet sounding out the Popes cleerely ibid. Whence the Pope chalengeth keies pag. 83. A digression to shew a scandall laid to Iewes 84 Of the Locusts most liuely describing the Popes subiects to make him King of Locusts distinguished from all other policies that be c. pag. 86 A distinction of those Loc. from the proper Locusts in Ioel that these be as scorpions 87 A further illustration of distinction from naturall Locusts and scorpions ibidem A further distinction how their sting is not of naturall scorpions but of spirituall ibidem Of the scorpions stings 88 Of the Locusts strength and auctority 89 Of the Loc. King 90 Of Oathes ibidem Of the Popes aduancing learning pag. 91 Of Popes blindenesse in Ebrew easiest matters ibidem How blindely the Papists wrest Ieroms words that c. 92 Of the Popes names ibidem Of the Popes Greek name 93 A digression to our prayer booke made from the Popes 94 Of Antic his Chaldy name 95 The Epilogue for the description of the Pope 97 Of Machumed or Machmad or Moamed in Piel Hiphil and Hophal the participles three are vsed in Arabique and Rabbins 98 Chapter 10. ibid. HOw Christ helpeth his Church by ruling warr and guile not to passe boūds c. ibid. Of Angell Christ ibidem Comming downe from heauen 99 Of the cloud ibidem Of the rainebow about his head ibid. Of the face of Christ like the sunne pag. 100 Of his feete like a pillar of fire ibid. Of the litle booke opened ibid. Of the right foote set vpon the sea and the left vpon the Land 101 Of the little bookes eating ibidem The XI Chap. pag. 102. THe measuring of the Temple pag. 102 Of measuring the faithfull 103 Of the Court within the Temple to bee cast out in condemnation of Iudaisme 104 A digression to compare the old Temple or Tabernacle with the spirituall 105 Of the holy Synagogues 106 Of the Synedrion 107 Of Athean imitation of Aaron 108 How BB. were made in Israel ibid. Of Excommunication 109 A iust but strang doctrin ibidem A digression to expound the terme Bishop 110 Of the 42. mone 111 Of Prophecying 112 Of the Decalogoue ibid. Of the Popes theft 113 Grounds which all should know that soundly prophecie or expound scripture ibid. Of Arias Montanus works of diuers readings 115 Of Lindanus quarreling with the text and one Erostratus ibid. Of Law vowelled and vnvowelled ibid. Of the Lxxij differing 3600. yeares from the strict Ebrew 116 Of Perfection of script ibid. Autores for the tongue 117 Prayer is our seruice of God ibidem Of the New Testam 118 Conclusion ibid. Blasphemous groundes of Popery pag. ibid. How yong men learned in liberall artes might be rarely exquisite in the Greek N. Testam 120 Of Poper names 121 The Epilogue ibidem The restorers of the Gospell be as Elias 122 The Martyrs be as Moses 123 Of the Citie which crucified our Lord 124 Of all souls passage at death 128 Of Purgatorie ibid. Of the 2. Macca 129 Of Iudahs sacrifice 130 The Conclusion 131 VVhat the Greeke Fathers thought of Purgatorie ibidem Of the third wo and last trumpet pag. 133 The sum of the Bible 134 Of the worldes end 137 Of the Iewes calling ibid. Of our Kings rare bent to the honour of the Bible 139 Of the Popes scholars 140 Of Daniel 141 Of the poore Indians calling ibid. Of the old Opinion of 6000. yeares pag. ibidem Chap. xij pag. 143. A Description of the Church ibid. Of the profane Caesar Pope reuiuing of him both comprised in the body and taile of one Dracon pag. 145 Of the taile 147 The combat of the Romane Empire with the Church ibid. A Commentary of the former vision of MICA-EL defending the Church 148 Of MICA-EL 150. Of Tobies fable 151 Of Michaels Angels 152 Of wicked spirits names ibid. Of old Serpent 153 Of Diuel ibid. Of trapps laid by our selues 154 The Diuell and his Angels by Michael are banished from the Church pag. ibidem A plainer exposition of the Dragons war ibid. Of the Dragons short tyme 157 Of the tyme of the persecutions by the Dragon 158 Chap. 13. pag. 160. OF two speciall points to be noted 161 The second point 162 How the Romans armes are taken from the Kingdomes in Daniel pag. 163 A most plaine description of the Pope by the beast arising from the earth pag. 169 Of the Lambes two hornes ibid. Of one error in the Pope which maketh him next the Diuell where the Diuell would tremble to bee so impudent openly 170 Of the Dragons speach 171 Of the two hornes counterfaiting the Lambe 172 Of the Popes succession 173 Of the Ancient facility in teaching the Law 174 An application of the Popes calling to that 178 A doubt for the manner of policy now what way is best to be taken 179 The answere ibidem What may we thinke of BB. of which sort many Popes and Cardinales bee 180 Of the Pope King of Kings 181 How long the Popes the starres falling could not become mountaines of fire to cast themselues into the sea of Empire 182 By what Iudaique cursedly reuiued Ceremonie the chiefe Diuinitie D. of Rome bewitched Emperors 184 Of Papists Miracles 186 An oration of the Popes Legate very remarkeable 194 Of subiection in all matters to the Pope ibidem Of the marke in the forehead 196 Of the name of the beast and Number of his name ibidem A repetition of the terme Rock 199 A Digression to a disputation at Mentz 200. Chap. 14. pag. 205. THe heauen cōmonly in the Aposignifieth the Chruch 206 What the song of the rediemed was 207 A Digression to shew the Concent of all the holy bookes and first of Geneses 208 Obiections of them that are not rediemed from the earth against that ibid. Of Iob 209 Of Exodus ibid. Romes error against the song of the Lambe barbarous 210 Error Athean ibid. Of Leuiticus ibid. How the Pope disannulleth all Leuiticus 211 Of Numeri ibid. The Contradiction of the Pope against that book 212 Of Deutero ibidem The Contrarie also ibid. Of Iesus son of Num. ibid. The Popes contrarie 213 Of the booke of Iudges ibid. Of Samuel c. 214 The Popes Contrariety 217 Of the N. Testaments musique the Gospell ibid. Of the Acts 218 Of the Ep. Romanes 219 Of the 1. Corint 220 Of the 2. ibid. Against Purgatoris ibid. Of the Epist to the Galat. 221 To the Ephesians ibidem To the Philippians ibidem To the Colloss ibidem To the Thess 1. and 2. Epist. 222 To Timothie 1. and 2. Epist 213 To Philemon ibidem How the seruant of seruants is concordant to Onesimus 224 Of the Epistle to the Hebrews 225 The Popes contrarietie ibidem Of the Epist-Iames ibidem Of 1. and 2. Pet. 226 Of 1. 2. and 3. of