of that in memorie of the difference that the Reader may read it Thus Alpha is as curious in his word as in the frame of the world and requireth due reuerence to it and they are in great danger whose profession of life should be skilfull in it and will deale with it with vnwashed handes Of Iod not contemned The Iewes to shew Gods care ouer euery letter in the Bible bring in the Law cōplayning of loosing Iod with humble cry before God thus O Lord of the world this is thy rule that a Testament which faileth in a letter faileth in all Now in Sarai I had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod when shee is Sarah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod is gone the auctority of the Law is lost God answereth thou hast no losse Iod was in the end of a foeminine and I set it in the beginning of a masculine when Hoshea was called Iehoschuah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus they marke narrowly that which our Lord telleth one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod of the Law shall not perish he that is Aleph and Tau will keepe all the letters from Aleph to Thau More of this is in Thal. Ierusalemie in San fol. 20. Of OMEGA He that nameth himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mega will require that his new Testament shal be regarded in due kinde to defende trueth of Copy elegancy of speach I defended trueth of Copie against Rhemistes translating Act. chap. 13. from the Latin in yeeres not about but after a sort 450. yet a thankfull Pseudographus wrote that I defended the 70. became a scorne none of 1200. yer held the 72. pure Satan was strong in him that would belieue a disputation for sinceritie of their copy and if euer any should bee thought to know the 72. hee that translated the Prophets a new into Greek should be thought to vse all the 72. copies easie to be had But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all vnthankfulnesse would be still cursed in lies The first aduiser of him sped ill Of Greeke stile Because none afore me haue noted Gods counsell in making Greeke common I will often handle that to haue it better vnderstood when God first destroyed Iudahs kingdome and speach hee stirred Greekes first to set vp theirs Then Pisistratus set Homer in honor that children learned him by heart Plato in Timao mentioneth one such Thence of 200. yea all kindes study to make braue Greeke that it came to perfection Then God sendeth Greekes to rule Gog or Gyges land and Magog with all Assiria and 72. kingdomes in the East and North and South to fill all 300. ye with Greek Armies and Colonies That Tully noted in his dayes the Greek to be common ouer all the world Now the Bible was by Iewes translated into Greeke and so read in all nations And the Iewes beeing caryed by the Macedonians into all quarters when the Apostles came to teach granted all saving God in Christ gaue life to all soules that did eate his flesh and drinke his blood feeding continually in soule vpon this and were baptised with the water of the Lawe So the Greeke tongue by O MEGA the ETERNALL taught Iapheth to dwell in the house of Sem. Ierusal in Megilah Midr Rabba ' Gen. 9. And the Iewes confesse in Megilah that no tongue but the Greeke hath words to expound the Hebrew So he that termeth himselfe by the Greeke and Hebrew Alphabet is much despised when Babell banisheth both tongues to a pedlers Latin in so much that the true Latin auctores were out of request Of 4. Dialects in the holy Greeke Of necessitie the Apostles were to speake to heathen in Heathen or Attique Greeke as all that will mooue others speake to their capacitie and they bee ridiculous and citizens of Babel not of the heauenly Ierusalē that will this deny When the Apostles tell stories of Ierusalem to the Church they were to speake in the 72. language And all of wit and conscience would so expound their wordes When disputations are had with Iewes the Talmudiques specially the Iewes schole-phrase doth our Lord vse and his disciples and when none of these three answere the Hebrew fitly then the WORD taketh heathen generall termes to apply vnto speciall Hebrew Reason forced these foure Dialects and they who confound these foure are fitter for Babel then for Ierusalem for confusion then sight of peace Of the Attique Greeke Haides in S. Luke 16. conteyneth the lodge of Abraham in heauen and the lodge of the rich Epicure in Gehenna Saint Luke an Heathen wrote to Prince Theophilus an Heathen And Heathen would iudge whether the Phisition of Antioch of Magog knew Greek in fit sense to teach Gog in Ephesus or Gyges Countrey and Magog in Siria that Christ in their owne language now doth conquer them so farr as to haue the first Christians named of Antiochia and S. Luke to bee the glory aeternall thence though God had no other occasion to honor his enemies towne but to shew that where sinne abounded there grace should once more abound But not often Nicolas the proselyte falling away taught that the towne deserued as much supremacie as Rome that crucified Christ or Alexandria for that Alexander would bee made a God So Haides conteining heauen and hell and nothing els in proprietie Old Chrysologus who placed Abraham in Gehenna and is tossed of Isaack Ben Arama fol. 205. and Purgatory and many opinions moo are confuted If Haides haue but Heauen and Hell Purgatory is gone which maketh a third place so the first Dialect in one word telleth the Pope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let Greeks seeke to Eustathius what meaning is plaine for these wordes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Peter 2. is of heathen Greek in Homers commentary Iliad Of this I spake in Catechizing the modest Archbi Whitg which yeelded and sent M r. Geoffrey King ouer sea to confesse his error I spake generally of Homers commenter and should meane the principall Aristarchus from whom old Didymos made his commentary and Eustathius from both and many moo ancient and though hee were late his commentaries are made from these two and old heathen Two Petifoggers in Greeke would scoph as though I cited Eustathius to be followed of Peter far elder Such Midae bee fitter for Babel then Ierusalem Their further equalling of error to Lybian sandes shew an ill bent Of the Lxxij The Greeke of the 72. commeth often notably Act. 2. in this whom God raised vp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 disannulling all paines that death brought The matter is taken from Psal 18. And thence would the Sadducees expound S. Peters word to proue him a wicked Sophister if hee had meant more They who proue the second death hence know not O Mega the auctor of speach Of the Thalmudizinge These be Talmudique speaches The dead for the profane often in Zeror once in S. Peter 1 Epi. chap. 4. In S. Paul the dead in sin Eph. 2. such is Gehenna
Talmudiques in description maketh a figure of the eternall wight He as Aharon went through the veile of his flesh into the holy from the Altar of the Crosse and performed all measures of justice That is heere taught by measure with a line of Temple and Altar Matters visible were to expresse the inuisible So Christ telleth that he is the Temple saying Destroy this Temple and I will build it againe in three dayes This Law Ye shall reuerence my Tabernacle Leuit. chap. 19. 30. and 26. 2. Commaunded to reuerence infinitly the Tabernacle of Christ And Ben Arama noteth truely vppon Exod. Port. 52. That God soone did cast off Moses Tabernacle and Salomons Temple to shew that he would rest in the Tabernacle or temple of Christ Now the Iewes to make Christ Aharon and Melchitzedek make this death that Christ said Destroy this Temple and in three dayes I will build it vp againe The highest grace for life the slaues of Sathan turne to death whereupon they were neither forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come Profane states bee commonly forgiuen in this world as the Epicure Luc. chap. 16. though in the world of soules they parch for euer but the Iewes sinning against the light of the holy Spirite and grace of saluation perish openly in this world surer of eternal woe in Haides the world of soules in which Abraham in Haides in the kingdome of heauen will tell them that they are not his sonnes For he in Izhak receiued from death saw the resurrection of Christ and reioyced But the Iewes gaue money to Souldiours to haue the resurrection of CHRIST denied Of measuring the faithfull The Curtaines in Moses Tabernacle were made fitt for the number and the number of men aged twentie and aboue was thus the sonnes of REVBEN 1. 46500. 151450. SOVTH Summa totalis 603550. Simeon 2. 59300. Gad. 3. 45650. IEHVDAH 4. 74600. 186400. EAST Issachar 5. 54400. Zabulon 6. 57400. EPHRAIM 7. 40500. 108100. WEST Manasses 8. 32200. Beniamin 9. 35400. DAN 10. 62700. 157600. NORTH Aser 11. 41500. Nephtaly 12. 53400. Thus God in Num. 1. and 2. twise reckoned his chosen of the XII tribes besides Leui. And the Curtains were fitted to such a number So heere Iohns Doctrine shall teach a certaine number such as God hath chosen and no more the other will folow the God of this world A man by mans witt might maruaile why Princes would suffer such a deceiuer as the Pope to stand one yeere his doctrine being altogether against all light and each Prince being able to cast him from his territories But God hath chosen a few only and none can come to Christ vnlesse the Father draw him Of the Court within the Temple to be cast out in condemnation of Iudaisme Maymonides in Bethabechica or treatise of the Temple about 430. yeer agoe wrote how the Iewes yet look for returne to Ierusalem and to haue a temple like Ezekiels or Salomons For Ezekiels Saint Peter telleth Chap. 1. 2. Epist That euery Prophecie is not to be expounded properly because the holy men of God spake as they were caried by the spirit of God Now Dan. 9. telleth that the Iewes Temple should be vtterly destroyed and all sacrifice ended So by Daniell they should know that the Messias should be the building wherein God would delite as the very Iew Izhak Ben Arama noted aboue in Port. 52. Iohn preuenteth Iudaisme in shewing that this Temple hath no Leuites court to sacrifice nor separation for Israell But all be heere kings and sacrificers and their Court reacheth ouer all the Citie And old Iudaisme is now profanenesse A digression to compare the old Temple or Tabernacle with the spirituall The Temple of Salomon imitateth Moses Tabernacle and all Ierusalem within the walles the space within Israels curtaines as the Thalmud noteth Christ is the Temple Ioh. 3. High sacrificer Heb. 3. who went through the vaile of his flesh by his own blood into the Holy He is the Arke golden within and without and conteyning the Law grauen in him And all growen into Christ should haue the Law in their heart and looke for the crowne of the Law In the outer Tabernacle or Temple were the Candlestick of gold lightned with beaten pure oile by the high sacrificer and the table of xij loues set openly that had crowne worke and the Altar of incense couered with golde The Candlesticke the golden people beaten pure oile the spirit of grace that commeth by afflictions the kindler CHRIST him selfe Shem Tob the Iew commeth in words thus farr though he knew not God to be in Christ The Table expresseth the gouernor who prouideth bread for the xij Tribes the xij monethes And that paines findeth a crowne So King Ioseph feeding Israell held the xij Tribes in his Beryll on Aharons shoulders King Moses King Iesus King Samuel King David and King Salomon ware the Crowne for this Table The Altar of incense was proper to Aharons sonnes high Sacrificers and lower as Zacharie of Abia the eighth of 24. courses This worke had his crowne Now Christ is our Angell only to stande at the golden Altar that our prayer as incense may come before God In the court an altar was of sacrificing where daylie sacrifice the Pascha of flocke beast Kidd or Lambe a duetie to all and voluntarie Pascha of Oxe and Ram voluntaire and of two dayes feast Ioh. 18. were killed had their fatt brent on the altar and blood shed at the foote of the altar where pypes conueied it away Christ is our Lambe Oxe and Altar and when he ended sacrifice he gaue bread and wine which his Disciples did eate and drinke in tast like other bread and wine to be his body and blood for our soules Symbolon Typus Antitypus Icon in Greekes who durst not looke for a knot in a bulrush Of the holy Synagogues The Synagogues sauing in 48. Leuites townes vsually were of Israel no Leuite and they were Bishopps all the Ancient learned one Sergeant of the cōgregation he read the Law and the Archbishop requested the other in estieme to speak to the Law how all tended to MESSIAS So a sabbath dayes iourney would draw all the Law vnto Christ And all were holden wicked who being of wealth brought not vp their children frō 7. year in the law Their cōmentaries to this day in peecemeales agree with the marrow of the New Testam Abben Ezra is wōderful Dan. 9. speaking better for our maine battel thē any of ours Where he saith the 70. seauens are from the beginning of Daniels prayer vnto the sealing of Messias the holy of holy Our Acadamiques might be ashamed that a Iew in Rhodes now 500. year ago spake better thē they for our Gospel Zohar on Gen. 1. Elohim in these words Let vs make man may be likened to a father a mother of the work The father saith what wilt thou make man he will rebell and an ill
of boyles that dayly some losse he hath as he brought warres to be hayle and fyer mixed with blood He became a mountain of fyre cast into the sea to make the third part of it bloud so his nations be made all known dead in sin and in seas of war fall from him The starre wormwood fell into the rivers fountaines of Scriptures made them bitter His rivers fountaines of forces are turned to drink blood He obscured the sun of justice the sun of persecution parcheth his He got lands for Monasteries that the Locusts might make him their King But now the throne of the beast is darkened by contempt and pillage of Land In the old time Virgil complayned of Romes distresse that Hinc movet Euphrates illinc Germania bellum and at Euphrates Ch. 9. Angels were tyed but to be loosed by starts now the river is dry that Turks and Saracens come even to Germanie and Germanie also looketh to freedome that now the king of Canaan the servant of servantes the false prophet sending from his mouth three that is many vncleane spirits to cause kings to war hath no better successe then Iabin by Sisera at Mageddon and here a faire warning is given to watch and integritie The ayre was darkned and earthquake shooke the citie that the tenth part of the citie fell and Gods wrath ended all So here a great earthquake and hayle greater then Iosuahs falleth vpon the enemy who can not repent but holdeth on to destruction Thus men Gods messengers shall give the Pope measure for measure that he can not repent but blasphemie not knowing how far Patmos passeth Rome CHAP. XVII As Daniel at the last openeth his Visions in proper speaches so here vision and proprietie come togeather though some knots be knit that the wise may vnderstand and no wicked take the paynes to search One of the seaven Angels calleth Rome an harlot sitting vpon manie waters that is people and troupes and nations and tongues as Daniel 3. speaketh with which the Kings of the earth committed spirituall fornication by accepting that filthy Idolatrie as dronck with the wine of her Idolatry This Angel doth in vision that which a Doctor would in reading And he carieth Iohn into a wildernes in vision as men are best to judge when the noyse of city troubleth not Now he hath another vision for the Empire revived a beast with heades and hornes as the former the old Empire and purple colour as more in persecution and full of names of blasphemie as accepting the Popes Canons and Masse and Ceremonies and a woman sitteth vpon this beast clothed in purple and scarlat as drunk with the blood of the Saincts and golden in Gold as old Babylon Esa 14. and brave in pearles and precious stones as be the Popes in their Copes and their Arch-Bishops and Cardinals in cloth of Gold and Aharons stones mocking with God in apish imitation as they mock with the keyes that God gave his Apostles which Saint Paul had as the best if any could be better then other and Iohn specially authour of Gospell and Epistles and Apocalyps That Ruben might as well be chief Patriark as Peter chief Apostle And this woman had in her hand a golden cup as old Babylon full of her lothsome filthy fornication though Rome set soorth in gold and silver their crucifix and Virgin Marie and Saincts And in the forehead a mysterie Babylon the great the mother of the fornications and lothsomenes of the earth Here we see plainnes that none should think that Babylon meant whence S. Peter wrote Rome is Babylon in a mysterie and trope S. Peter was to speak properly as all men when they tell whence they write But visions are in borrowed speaches Now this is sure and plaine The woman is the city which hath kingdome over Kinges of the earth Now of the beast his body this is told that the beast is is not and is In Caesars it was in Rome Dead by Constantinus house and not being and againe revived by the Popes The seaven heads are seaven hilles whereupon Rome was built famous for that and also seaven Kings whereof five ruled Iudah before our Lord came in the flesh Pompey Crassus Iulius Antony Brutus with Cassius Iohn and all Iewes knew that well Then commeth the whole Empire the old a sixt head then present afterwards the Empire to be revived the seventh and by the Pope the eight King as he ruleth the Empire Now the ten hornes are Kingdomes as they serve the revived beast not yet so set vp but in the Popes time it shal be Now these shall with one mind give their power to the Pope and persecute But Christ and his Martyrs will overcome as in Chap. 7. and 10. and 11. and 12. and 14. and 15 and 16. And when Martyrs teach the truth countreyes will revolt from Rome and make it desolate that the empire shall not be prophane nor favouring Rome but as in new Rome before the Turk ruled CHAP. XVIII An Angel that lighteneth all the earth by his glory proclaymeth that Rome is fallen knowen to be a dwelling of vncleane spirits in all places of the policy and the holy are commaunded to come out of all that policy Their Canons and Prayers and apparrel are al bent to a blind drift and not fittest to have bene vsed in our tongue The whole frame is out of order The Lords prayer is maymed from their Latin Mat. 6. leaving out a most noble sentence Their Creede is foolishly translated that 20. severall opinions are made of a most cleare phrase of 3000. yeres vse of going to God their letany is dangerous in phrase praying to te Persons severally and is applyed vnto their doctrine of doubting of justification and in Battologie is hatefull to God and in trifling arguments for sainctes dayes and hath lies for the place of Eves creation and Archangels our Lords comming into the world at midwinter Wee should come out of all these follies if our myndes put on white and clean linen and wee tye golden girdles about our brestes Specially the Divelish fable of Toby is vntolerable to be still kept Bishops vnder Q. E. gave leave in allowance of these things to adde in subscription this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things may be suffred Romes fall is told from Babels Tyrus and Ierusalems Ierem. 51. Esa 21. and 47. and Esa 23. and Ezekiell 27. and Ier. 7. to shew from stories past the certainty of all this And these reasons are rendred that the Roman policy killing men for the Prophets is guilty of their blood as the Scribes for Abels Math. 23. that the Kinges who should be Bishops next God trafiqued with Pope for his confirmation by the witchcraft of Papistry CHAP. XIX When people can sing Haleluja that is praise onely God in whom we breath who drenched Pharoh when Iah stopped his breth Exo. 15. there Iah is first vsed when foure times Aleluja is vttered from all sorts
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
milde And S. Paul borne to be a Bishop of Rome in Tarsus free in Rome told the same Rom. 13. as he told from 2 Thes 2. howe thence man of sin would arise If 2 Thes 2. had bene read of all Children since S. Paul wrote aged moo then the Starres of Heauen a million for a Starre had knowen what the Pope is and equall giltie Cardinales And our Archbuyshopps in his canones damned by common Lawes following the light of Gods engrauement in soules All Scholars that will bee ouerruling Ciuill matters vnable to shewe skill in the Lawe of one Iod or Prick as our Lordes speach requireth Mat. 5. and will Archbuishopps be and vrge athean othes and imprison better lettered by many yeares studie then themselues and pine in Prison vnto death full many which hold the trueth of redemtion in trades life better then they are in the Popes Giltinesse heere and speake from the Dragon And are sure to goe with both into aeternall flames The learned know that they to whom I now giue the Anathema Maran Atha will sooner goe to Bantam to fetch pepper then replie And as Ouid. speaketh that while the Romane Empire standeth his fables should stand so while the world standeth our reuiuers of Dracons bloody lawes others to profane God shall stand in this my blame in my defence for our King and nations integritie Si quid habent veri vatum praesagia By what Iudaique cursedly reuiued Ceremonie the chiefe diuinitie D. of Rome bewitched Emperors to giue a spice of countenance that the Pope was aboue the Emperor In Iudah Kinges were annointed with oyle praescribed by God to Moses and it was death to imitate that oyle The Thal. hath a full treatise of that Thence all of witt will fetch it No King was euer annointed with this but Kings in hazard King Moses was not King Iesus was not King Samuel was not Saul not accepted was Dauid not accepted was Salomon in hazard by Adonijah was and Ioash for Athalias stirre was All this God alloweth By the Peoples autoritie wicked Ioachaz two yeares yonger then his brother more wicked Ioakim was all these to auoid dissention So annointment was still the token of a person doubted whether the people should accept him or not Now the Patriarke of Constantine beginning annointement of Emperours as in Iustinius the vncle of Iustinian fame goeth chalenged heerein no superioritie but would haue the Emperores that requested the Churches fauor If they were stayned in open blame to want that good will till open repentance came This had zeale and mans witt but God forbiddeth to imitate Aharons ceremonies namely in oinctments No chest might bee made like the Arke no candlesticke no Table no curtaine no building like the holy Touching our manner in England thinke it began in token of freedome as not vnder the Emperor but equall But seeing Priests were the annointers Locusts NOW in flames aeternall it should with sacrifice Aharons cope Leuites linen and name of Priest be left off If my poore opinion were worthie of accompt if quietly they might otherwise ceremonies of force were broken as in Dauids eating of the shew-bread and beeing deadly for vse as circumcision for Galatians yet in Timothie was repeted So the wicked bookes of the Apocrypha whereof none haue one syllable of Christ though Galatinus would bring Baruc to him In God will bee seene vpon earth because the fables spake of Iewes stories whose trueth heathen denied were receiued for mens weaknesse But when Greeks would make iarring sayinges true diuinitie Iewes told Hagarenes their iudgement was weake and so there the Gospell found contemt since the Pope annointed Emperores of weake autoritie after hee deceiued the Empire For 200. yea warre that weakened West Kinges the oinctment was pleaded for a token of superioritie that the beast comming out the earth might haue two hornes like Christs And he doth great signes that he causeth fire to come downe from heauen into the earth before men and he deceiueth the dwellers on the earth before the beast When Israels state came farre badd holy Elias made fier come downe from heauen In memorie of that storie Iohn saw in his vision fire come downe from heauen betokening thereby any signes Saint Paul told this in proprietie that by false signes wicked Romylus Esai 11. in the Venice Chaldy should deceiue if possible the very elect because they would not receine the loue of the trueth as Salomon warneth Ephraim Prov. 3. the Emperors strife was with the Popes for Auctority litle or nothing for Diuinity where they should haue beene of best iudgement as Charles the great was of great iudgement that the Popes for feare of fall by resisting a learned Emperor decreed for him and his successors as I shewed confirmation of Popes that should serue in Rome Of Papists miracles Neuer any commented vpon any text Bible or Law as the Papists doe vpon their Miracles The Iesuites in the Indianes doe such strange Miracles that Lucian de vera historia would as well seeme true as noble learned Saddeel nippeth Turrianus And at dinners and suppers in stead of the Bible they read the stories of their owne Miracles So the Lady of Hales made Iustus Lipsius of a quicker spirite to his stile as Bacchus made Ennius And creeples come to Hales but goe away leaping So at Colen in a stage play creeples came to S. Laurence and went a way leaping So in Walsingam The Host was caried in Cambrige ouer the market place in a coffer by two strong men and praesently became so heauie that both they could not cary it alone And when they put drakes fresh blood to the wine all but Heretiques may see the very wine liuely blood That men sware by the blood of Hales I heard a man in the ende of true faith and fatherlie cariage Rich. Meneuensis say how his conscience pricked him when to Masse he vsed drakes blood I know not but by confession whether this be true or noe At Mentz townes end Eastward in the brim of the fieldes standeth a lowe crosse of stone That way I walked with two Iesuites and a proselyte whose commendation from the Pope to the Bishop and they then sitting with mee on a greene desired to read from Latin to Ebrew for to plead for a principall Cardinalship Of that stone crosse Pater Nicolaus Serarius said thus Once a man drunke armed with a sword stroke this crosse and it poured out blood and pursuite was made after the man and hee was executed Then said I let the Bishop and all his Canons that be not Lutherans I know they will not try take swordes and strike all the crosse and if it shed one drop to my sight I will accept the Cardinalship offred and be of your faith as I am of Saint Peters faith already and belieue no more then Epiphanius that hee was euer at Rome as he cared no more for Clemens Alexand. then did Patriarch Photius and lesse of
miseries and patience and constancie the fruite of his hope he shewed Rom. 5. and commended to vs Iam. 5. And in Iob God describeth the state of the Church nowe florishing nowe wholly afflicted yet by faith in the Redeemer finde recouery vnto eternall life Briefly the whole booke is a diuine commentary on Geneses both for Creation and Redemption Of Exodus Exodus sheweth how God performed promisse to Abraham of multiplying his seed of their affliction in Aegypt for his hainous sin as Rabbi Bechai saith in giuing Sarah to Pharaoh of reuenging Aegypt of bringing Israel thence by the blood of the Lambe drowning Pharaoh wher they sang the song of the Lambe The Tables with letters 613. Vowels Accents as we haue this day in the same forme in the first Law teach how we come from the Aegypt of this World and the Tabernacle how the WORD would haue his Tabernacle in vs. Romes error against this song of the Lambe barbarous Their Latin sayth The dwelling of the Children of Israell while they dwelt in Egypt was 430. year yet Cohach came with Iacob Gen. 46. and liued but 133. year Amram 137. Exod. 6. Moses 120. Deut. 33. all in extremity maketh but 390. year So Moses must be buried 40. year before he receiued the Law So the Pope maketh all the Old Testam nothing worth Saint Paul maketh it but 430. year from the Promisse Gen. 12. vnto the Law Gall. 3. 17. So the Pope would make both Testaments of small force as his knightes in Gen. 3. say shee shall bruse thy head to be the ground of hope that so the Virgin Marie might lawfully be worshipped Error Athean The heauy Commandement Thou shalt not make vnto thy selfe any grauen Image in the Popes decalogue is left out The Chaldean who destroyed the Temple that all of Gold was caryed to Babel so the couering of the Arke and the rest of the Gold that the timber and Tables seeme broken by the wicked those wicked are not more wicked then the other Babylon in a mysterie which to receiue Idolatry would take away one commandement from the tenne Of Leuiticus When the Tabernacle was sett vp the voice of Christ which was terrible on the mountaine speaketh softly to Moses how Leui should cōtriue all the Law by sacrifice hither that when the Iewes had destroyed Christ his Tabernacle hee would rayse it againe the third day and end Leuies trade and the Angell commenting vpon Leuit. 26. telleth the very houre when Christ by death would end sacrifice and offring How the Pope disannulleth all Leuiticus The Pope will haue Priest Altar Cope Leuitique linnen flesh of Bread and Blood of Wine to be for sacrifice against all the light that Christ planted in soules for sense of eye sight tast feeling smelling and hearing of wordes and common reason when words of possessions must be expounded lawyerlike not in naturall sorte He that should vrge naturall proprietie in this Iechonias begate Salathiel should bring infinite absurdities vpon the genealogie He is more senselesse that knoweth not speaches of a couenant how the thing signifying hath the name of the signified Typus antitypus simbolon Icones old greeks Dionysius the forged Origen Eusebius Nazianzene Theodoret. c. could terme the Bread and Wine seales of ending Moses Policie which had the auctority of God equall in wisedome to his wisedome in the Creation of the World Now where God endeth all sacrifice and Moyses policie performing by our Lords death and testifying by S. Stephens martyrdome Thence the beast arising from the profane earth would with the mouth of the Dragon erect a policie ouer the World to make by Satan imitation of Moses policie to turne all Common weales to apish mockage of the sage wisedome in Moses vnto the deceite of Satan who transformeth him selfe into an Angell of light Thus the harpes on Mount Syon will not agree with the Popes Policy by Leuiticus Of Numery When Moses had shewed in figures that Christ was to suffer and being the first from the dead should shew light vnto the World the people were to trye whether by this faith they would conquer Chanaan not by mans strength They are numbred in persons a miraculous number to proceed in 215. yer whence onely 70. male soules arose in 215. yeares 603550. men of warre besides Women and Children But they misbelieue and so come short The Like Popery teacheth that merits of sainctes must be helpes to conquer the Land of Rest And trust not to the Promisse giuen to Abraham Of Deuteronomie Deuteronomie repeateth to the sonnes the fathers religion in an abridgement shewing that all ages should doe soe and giueth an expresse Law that fathers should teach their Children the Law And so many psalmes and many places of the New Testament abridge the heauenly wisedome of God for all former doctrine The Contrarie No Cardinales of Rome nor Princes that gaue them honor knew this much Therefore their gold is in high gilt Of Iesus The booke of IESVS sheweth how IESVS conquered the Land by a lesser number then the first that man should not haue the prayse but only God Psal 44. And their towns 324. as some reckon them in Chananean names shew all commodities of soyle for a land The Contrarie The Iewes were told by Dauid that IESVS settled not the people in the true rest but biddeth them enter into a Rest from mans Ceremonies where Baptisme for Circumcision and Bread with Wine tokens as stronge as the worlds frame vpon Gods word of life to faithfull receiuers are all that religious policie requireth that wee haue a Rest from the infinite toyle of Moses Policie But the City that crucified Christ denyeth this Rest and bringeth from mans wicked braine wicked toyes innumerable to be religiously obserued wherof the least were as bad as the strange fire that Aharons sonnes did kindle Of the Booke of the Iudges Ioseph in his Beryll bare the XI I. Patriarches names as a King and stay of the common Weale when the people fell away other tribes Iuda Beniamin Isachar Zabulon Nepthaly and Dan in part and Leui to alteration vpon ouerthrow in Elies sonnes The 70. for a speciall reason set in Greeke for Iosephs Beryll the Emerauld of Leui that heathen might not say the God of Israell did not foresee what would come to passe Ioseph bare the sway and Ephraim of Ioseph caried except Iuda all tribes landed away Vpon the Greek translation Chrysostome sharper witted then skillfull in the originall in Photius liberary would make the high sacrificer the stay of the state where his office was for the World to come and vpon this the Patriarkes would be checking not teaching the Emperor till both came to nought as Elie his sonnes ouerthrew all the glorie of the states vnder the Iudges The Pope passeth all Greeke Patriarches ouer Kings by whom they stand and by whose guiftes they had means to study the word
600. and 400. as they would meete are cut off When he corrupted the Riuers and Fountaines of Scriptures the waters from which he that is not borne cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen he made a third part dead in sinne Since the Gospell is preached to the dead they that knowe themselues dead in the flesh but liue to God in Spirite pay the worme-wood-starre for bittering the waters of life and wresting all that is spoken of the true Church into protection for his Synagogue of Satan And all together bee one Angell that poure their cupps into the fountaines to make them blood and to shew that they punish the dead in sinne And I heard the Angell of the waters say lust art thou O Lord who is and who was and the gratious in iudging thus because they shed the blood of the holy and Prophets and thou hast giuen them blood to drink For they are worthy The state that plagueth the Pope prosperously acknowledgeth that the successe commeth from God the vnchangeable who is as he was and alwaies gracious Pharaoh by waters destroyed Israels children innocent blood His waters also God turned to blood and againe to oppresse his blood and his armies So because the Diuelish popish Pope shed the blood of the holy Preachers God gaue thē blood to drinke How died Popes full many by poyson since the Monke poysoned the Emperor by transubstantiating bread into poyson Poyson hath bene still practised still in Rome Queene Mary the bloody sped ill And the bloody French dyed in bleeding God as hee was so he is and will be alwayes iust And I heard an other from the Altar saying euen so O Lord the God of Hostes vpright and iust are thy Iudgements For confirmation of this matter it is repeated from the auctority of Christ the Altar by wordes often vsed in Scripture And the fourth Angell poured his Cup on the Sunne and it was giuen him to burne men in the fire And men were brent with a great burning When the fourth Trumpet sounded the third part of the Sunne was darkened There brightnesse of knowledge in the Church was meaned Heere persecution as Mat. 13. In England this fell out Queene Mary persecuted Priest borne in the Realme finde the same and Papists measure for measure and yet they being scholars cannot see the iust iudgement of God as followeth And they blasphemed the name of GOD which had authoritie ouer these plagues and repented not to giue him glorie The Law in England had perfect iustice of God The Prince is supreame Bishop and defendor of the Faith Hee giueth all leaue to read the holy Hebrew and Greeke text to expound the Hebrew by the Apostles Greeke and the tongue of the New by Greekes the Diuinitie by plaine reason And all must confesse that Gods worke is perfect and the man which will adde sheweth himselfe in the Temple of God as if hee were God extolling himselfe aboue all Religion Now the Priests preach the Pope King of England as Irus was King of Lydia Irus had as good a right to Ithaca with Croesus land as the Pope to any Chimney-smoake in England for a Peter-penny They turne Subiects to refuse the Bible the Church obedience to the King and Papists haue endeauoured by Powder to destroy the King and his House and the Gentry of Parliament a treason so barbarous inhumane diuelish Popish this sheweth that the Pope hath the spirit of the former Beast reuiued in all cruelty and deceit and all this fight is openly against God for Satans throne Campian and other the Popes Martyrs making the wicked Apocrypha part of the holy Bible and destroying faith and policy should not haue blasphemed God but haue repented and giuen God glory for iustice Bishop Tonstall vnder Queene Mary fauoured the Gospell in London and Duresmē and although D. Bancroft let Priest Watson print Popery in his house and receiued foure Priests from Rome yet he repented and sent the Priest to Tiburne and is become a M. R. F. Better should all Papistes come to God the shade And the fift Angell poured his Cup on the throne of the Beast and his kingdome became darkened and they did bite their tongues for paine and they blasphemed the God of Heauen for their panges and boyles but repented not of their workes The fift Angels Trumpet could not stay the Starre of Rome from seeking Supremacy and badnesse but by increase of Locusts he would be a King or a Beast comming out of the Earth and with his keyes of the kingdome of darkenesse he could bring a smoake of heresies that darkened all Sunne and ayre Machmad after Lucian the dogge say well for the whetstone but both those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are nothing to his spirits As they haue both their portion in the lake burning with fire and brimstone Lucian was not forgiuen in this world so the Popes states shall haue his throne darkened openly in this world by valiant and holy people strengthened by Angels Darknesse is vsuall for a distressed state in Iob and Dauid and Isai Albion with Denmarke is wholy gone from him halfe Zuitzerland Netherland Germany And the poore schole of Geneua said wel to him though it agreeth with him to slander the pure Text of Scripture Where Beza doth say Deus non agit in malis he calleth backe those errors of his and Calvines whereby they seemed to make God auctor of sin The Senates religion as they gaue mee leaue to expresse it I dare defend against Turke and Iew and Pope while my hand can guide the warbling pen. And where Bodinus saith that Calvin should say of the Apocalyps Miror quid tam obscurus scriptor velit it is not credible that one of his iudgement to shake off all the Popes trash would speake so of a booke penned by the Father of light And Bodinus himselfe should haue told the prayse of God for the light of saluation by this booke God told him that they were happy that read and marke the things written heere chap. 1. As Daniel calleth to him all stories heathen for 600. yer so Iohn for 1600. And as Daniel telleth the same things seauen tymes ouer to infinite delite So doth Iohn repeate as pleasantly The Popes Diuines seeing his throne fall and decay they chew their tongues in speach not fitted to matter But snapping at syllables of the learned and aeschrologia godlesse from vncleane spirits and in all this they cannot repent them of fighting against all plaine truth When fight is for popery by the Gospell the Gospell should be answered and not discourses made to Zwinglius Luther P. Martyr Bucer Caluin Beza Many others match the best of them and learning would try the Law by Ebrew the Greek Testament by Greeks and Iewes and so the waters would runne cleere which now the starrworme-wood maketh bitter And the sixt Angell poured his cup vpon the great riuer Euphrates to praepare a way
hornes and vpon his head seauen Crownes because so many states of Rome afflicted Gods people In chap. 13. Tenne hornes had tenne Crownes to shew that so many kingdoms not seuerall kings as in Daniel for Aegypt and Syria belonged to the Empire And the woman was clothed in Purple and Scarlat and golden in Gold and pretious stones pearles hauing a golden Cup in her hand full of abominations and vncleannesse of her fornication and vpon her forehead a name written A MYSTERIE Babylon the great the mother of fornications and the abominations of the earth Red color is vsuall for blood and Lycurgus or Dracoes lawes and most fit for Romulus towne where hee embrued his handes in the blood of his brother but most of all for the Popes persequution The gold reuiueth Babel and the very phrase is taken from it Isai 14. And the story is in Dan. 3. where the King made an Image of gold sixtie cubites high six cubites broad So they amazed foolish with the cost of the matter but of Christ we are to buy the true gold Apo. 3. and 21. The golden rules of Faith and Trueth and not to esteeme of a crucifix of gold to crucifie Christ againe for the matter So the picture of Mary is in diuers places trimmed with chaines of gold and pretious stones and their Copes wickedly following Aharon bee of cloth of gold So the 3. Kings of Colone that returned from Ierusalem to their countrey and were but Persian sages and no Kinges nor any Persian that would be called Baltasar they are said to be trimmed at solemne times with chaines of great Iewels I would not see it because I would not goe bare-head into their Temple A golden Cup had Babel to make nations drunke with Idols making Gods of their Starres and was ful of lothsome things and vncleane fornications So is Rome manifestlie Colon and Spaine as if Babylon a mystery were written in the forehead As the learning of Daniel could doe no good to Babel but still it would keepe the old Gods till Cyrus tooke their kingdome so Rome is so deepe in Idolatrie that no learning will make men leaue their places Pharaoh Nebuchadnezar were neuer so hardened And these passe all that euer were for crueltie in persecution The profane Caesares did not so strictly hinder all vse of religion They hindred not the reading of Gods word as the Pope doth though they feared lest the Kingdome of Christ should be a bridle to them Romes cruelty told chap. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. is now plainely handled And I saw the woman dronk with the blood of the saincts and with the blood of the martyrs of IESVS And when I saw her I marueiled with great marueile Heere the blinde may see that since the Empire was reuiued in the West the persecutions of them who say Christ freely iustifieth and only heareth prayer and will haue the Idole of him selfe as Plato speaketh of vertue to bee fetched from his word were bloody against the Saintes and Martyrs of Iesus When the Pope contemneth a thousand times better learned then himselfe how can hee looke to escape the wrath of God Iohn marueiled to see a womā dronke with blood therefore the Angel calleth him to consider the chapters afore as especially the thirteenth chapter And the Angell said to mee why doest thou marueile I will tell thee the Mysterie of the woman of the beast which beareth her which hath seauen heades and tenne hornes A more perticular description foloweth then was cha 13. But any may see this to be a commentarie vpon that place as God is a perfect expounder of his owne worde The beast which thou sawest was and is not and hee shall ascend out of the Pit The Empire was and againe is made dead by the remouing to Bizantium and it shall ascend out of the Pit chapt 9. when the locust and their king come out of the pit And shall go to destruction This speach is part of Balaams for Italy Num. 24. which should afflict Heber that is the faithfull and hold on to destruction The same he spake of Amalek that he should go on to destruction that was neere a thousand yeares after Balaam spake that was Amalek was destroyed by Israel As a thousand yeeres are but as one day with God so Satan was tyed 1000. yea before the king of Locusts had the winges of horses and chariots to vexe the Church the true Ierusalem for the Low to the ruyne of the West And they who dwell on the earth will marueile whose names are not written in the booke of life from the beginning of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is Heere is a meaning that hath wisdome The naturall man obserueth not that when countreyes fall they rise no more Aegypt Aram Assur Paras Graecia that none would thinke Rome beeing once destroyed should raise againe But the taught of God see a plaine reason That the West in the end should afflict first by strength and next by subtiltie in religion that Christ his seruants should be tried both for body and minde and he pay the City that crucified him both with horse as chap. 6. and by the spirit of his mouth and diligent searching of the Prophets So for easier memory of story Christ would haue Rome that crucified the king of glory once to bee plagued through their Emperors and the Empire to be taken away and the Citie to bee destroyed as by Gothes and by Lybians by Giezerichus a new Annibal And then an enemie to God in all trueth to shewe himselfe in the Temple of God as if he were God to be consumed by study about the Bible by the word and sword that commeth from CHRIST his mouth So the beast was againe is not and yet is God speaketh in the praesent tempus for things to come because all things with him are praesent This is a meaning that hath wisedome as Iobs case and Daniels Image Therefore wee should flee to God to be the expounder who openeth what is in darknesse and with whom light doth dwell The seauen heades are seauen mountaines vpon which the woman sitteth also they be seauen Kings fiue are fallen and the principall is the other is not yet come and when he is come he must tary but a litle while The Iewes felt Pompei heauy that made Iuda prouince to Rome M. Crassus was heauy that spoyled the temple of much gold Iulius Caesar was also heany who strengthned Cleopatra ouer Iudea long lost to set vp Herod at the last Brutus and Cassius were also heauy with their army Antonius who married Cleopatra and holpe in Capitolio Herod to be King was also heauy all these came to destruction for medling with Gods people and all their state by Ciuill warres So fiue Kings are fallen and the principall is Augustus and the other is not yet come the Empire reuiued But at 1000. yer will
praise our God all his seruants and they that feare him both small and great This short summe of Diuinitie distinguisheth vs from Papists who make Gods of Creatures and giue praise to them where God only will be feared And I heard the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters as the voice of strong thunders saying Halelu-iah for the Lord God of hostes doth reigne let vs reioyce and be glad and let vs giue him glory For the mariage of the Lambe is come and the wife hath praepared her selfe and it was giuen her to put on white linen pure and shining For the linen is the iustice of the sainctes When whole kingdomes call vpon God and fight for the Gospell with successe it is fitted to continual noise of waters as Ezekiel 1. 24. the kingdomes that made Gods iudgements knowen are likened to much water the thunder of Gods power is well expressed by thunder of the ayer Psalm 29. All tendeth to Aleluiah Praise God in whom wee breath for rescuing vs from Satan with manifestation of his kingdome And let not England forget the goodnesse of the Lord but acy remember it and not hide it from their children but to the generation to come to shewe the prayses of the Eternall his power also his wonderfull workes that he hath done The light of the Gospell now these hundred yea hath bene exceeding great to greater knowledge then euer since the Apostles tymes the Church had And all reformed Countreies flow with learned men And sage cariage is heere laid out to the eye in white linen This short rule must alwayes hold God will make known who bee his and all must depart from sinne that call vpon the name of God And he saith vnto mee write Blessed are they that are called to the supper of the mariage of the Lambe This should be written in all hearts that they only be happie which in the Lords Supper protest the aboundance of grace of the gift of iustice The bread bare wine bare taken in the sage vse that our soules feed vpon his incarnation and redemptioÌ„ is as strong as the frame of the world to stay vs in Christ The auctority of the speaker who made the world by his word must be looked vnto and as our eyes iudge of the frame of the world and our minde to what inuisible vse all was made subiect to a man so our eyes must iudge of bread wine our minds that Christ suffring for vs ended sacrifice offring By seale of things without life by bread and blood of the grape by the terme supper the whole tenor of Christianity is meant but the acceptation of the seale is an open action to distinguish vs froÌ„ others The Pope corrupted from the playnesse that is in Christ and making Priest sacrifice hath missed wholy of the trueth in Christ as Iannes â—nd Iambres resisted Moses Papists would make fooles belieue that Calvin bread this symbolum corporis and in other matters if Calvin hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a rash word they vrge that vpon whole Churches Their eyes might tell that the ancient Grecians neuer made question heere neither had combat with haeretiques heere Eusebius after Origen recorder of the whole Churches opinion in praep calleth Bread and Wine Icones symbola Neither did any after him striue against that but full many followed him God is light and all the Bible is so plaine to a sound student that none can moue doubt but to his plague The Papists cary in a siluer chest a wafer of meale as the bodie of Christ making themselues a scoffe to God and his Angels and the barbarous thinke by vnlearned prating to make their cause good They come 40. yer short of learning to defende the common groundes against a subtill Iew or Turke as to this syllogisme of Machmad If the scripture be corrupted another iudge must be had The Pope not only granteth but vrgeth also this this But the scripture is corrupted Therefore another iudge must be had I will ioyne with Turke Iew and Pope to grant the Preposition But against Turke Iew and Pope our side I deny the assumption and hold the text pure This no Romist yet euer saw Therefore their studies must bee holden vnfitt to rule in Diuinity And he saith to mee these words of God be true By reason that the carnall man cannot see the glorie of the wisedome which is in the couenant of CHRIST in plaine simplicitie full of heauenly trueth The Angell stayeth vpon this doctrine as opposite to Rome working Romes fall handled chap. 18. And I fell downe at his feete to haue worshipped him he saith to me do not For I am fellow seruant to thee to thy brethren which haue the testimonie of IESVS Worship God for the spirite of prophecie is the testimonie of IESVS Heere Iohn sheweth mans weaknesse to Idol-seruice in his transe ready to worship the Angel And telleth that Angells be ministring spirites for our saluation God only must bee worshipped The spirites that teach teach of Christ that he only must bee worshipped In the old Testament Christ is called an Angel and is worshipped but no created Angel is worshipped The warres of Christ and Christians against the Empire and Pope And I saw the heauen opened and behold a white horse and hee that sate vpon him was called faithfull and true and in Iustice doth he iudge war And his eyes were like a flame of fire he had vpon his head many Diademes hauing a name written which none knew but himselfe and clothed in a garment dipped in blood and his name is called the WORD OF GOD. The heauen opened sheweth what shall be opened in the Church the white horse is sincere might the Ryder is called faithfull and true to assure vs of victory against mighty states and he iudgeth warreth in righteousnesse vnable to abide sinne still to reigne his eyes bee a flame of fire searching in iustice to the bottome as Daniel 10. for the ouerthrowe of Xerxes armie and Apo. 1. and 2. And his many Diademes sheweth that he will rule Kinges in many Countreyes And the name written which none knoweth but himselfe signifieth the Godhead dwelling in light that none can come to His garment dipped in blood is expounded Esai 63. shewing that the enemies blood shall make him known as vnder old Assur and Cittim And his name is the WORD OF GOD as in Iohn the first and infinitely in Onkelos Iehouah is the WORD of IEHOVAH These mightie titles comfort the Church that they shall bee sure of a victorie Reigne still O King MESSIAS for we rest on thee reigne still O King of Sainctes and wee will folow after thee And the armies in the heauen folow him vpon white horses clothed in linen white and cleane The valiant Christians with speed and courage folow Christ and in synceritie of truth though Lutherans