Seleucolaegidae in ten hornes fiue of each side vexing Iuda But there were tenne particular Kinges heere Kingdomes noted by a crowne vpon euery horne Now exactly fiue Seleucidae are not notable but fiue Lagidae bee So for the strict number God would not haue all the world vexed in men not worthy strict regard of storie But aboueX Kinges of old Kingdomes now be noted And Strabo lib. 17. noteth that Augustus diuided all Proconsulships into X. And Steuchus against Vallu diuideth the Popes in the same sort As I haue in Con. Scr. shewed The color of Leopard is from Alexander Beares foote from Paras Lions mouth from Babell Hornes color feete mouth meane all tyranny demeanour course lawes alike As Babel deified the Image Dan. 2. Paras their King Alexander would bee a God And Antiochus would haue Iupiter Olympius So the Caesares would still be Diui And termed the Christians Atheists as when martyrs were moued to abiure Christ this was the recantation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is away with the Atheists As a speach vnto Caesar to hold Christians Atheists and to request their destruction Eus Eccl. Histor In this sort the Caesar hath a name of blasphemy holding Gods seruants whose conuersation is in heauen to be not Gods seruants but wicked men as the text will shew anon And the beast which I saw was like a Leopard and his feete as a Beares and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion the Dragon gaue him his owne power and his owne throne and great auctoritie Heere we see why Satan bare armes from the Romanes armes Euen because Satans autority was executed by them The god of this world had such auctority giuen to trye the elect that the Gospell might be knowne to be hid to none but to whom the God of this world blinded vnderstanding This farre reacheth the profane Empire which our great Constanstine made dead when he left old Rome and made Bizantiū new Rome By the death of one head the exposition following sheweth the whole beast once dead Pompei with Romes force oppressed Gods people there Iuda felt one head and he perished in Aegypt M. Grassus with Romes army made another head and robbed the Temple of Abrahams sonnes who came from Charran or Carrae At Carrae the Parthians ouerthrew his whole army to the aeternall shame of the Empire Iulius Caesar tamed Aegypt and disposed Cleopatraes Gouernement to haue Iudae vnder a toe of that legge a third head he was kild in the Senate house Brutus Cassius the chiefest of his murtherers their Romane host oppressed Iuda and they made a fourth head Antonius he with the Romane force being made a mighty King in the East maried Cleopatra and made Herod for Her King of Iuda that Daniels Image might haue some remembrance till Christ came He as Pompei perished in Aegypt a fift head Then came the state of Rome to one Person and so continued one head from Augustus vnto great Constantine And in that head when he left cursed Rome the beast there was dead So the sixt head had beene and was not and yet was restored to be a seauenth head and the Pope is in that head with all his power and also will be a seuerall power aboue all and make also an eight head chap. 17. That is heere once told And I saw one of his heades as slaine vnto death and his deadly stroke was healed that admiration was through the whole earth after the beast they worshipped the Dragon which gaue his power vnto the beast and they worshipped the beast saying who is like to the beast Who can warre with him And a mouth was giuen him speaking great thinges and blasphemies and auctority was giuen him to be doing 42. moneths and he opened his mouth to blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his Tabernacle and them whose Tabernacle is in heauen And it was giuen him to make warres with the sainctes and to ouercome them And power was giuen him ouer euery tribe tongue and nation That all who dwell in the earth should worship him they whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slaine fromt the beginning of the world Heere the tyrannie of the profane Caesares caried by the spirite of Diuell is fully described well knowen by Diuus Nero Diuus Domitian and the rest of Diui or Diuels vnto Diocletian That Christians reading this might looke for such troubles as the holy in Daniel susteined This needeth no exposition but it selfe expoundeth chap. 12. for the vpper part of the Dragon And as Dan. 7. God sate vpon a fiery throne shewing a reueng vpon all the afflicters of his people So Apoc. 6. warre bloody black and pale and a gulfe of a graue was opened shewing how the Caesares warred and perished miserably 300. year with their great armies The Romane stories tell all most plentifully and Rome after their destruction felt it by Alaricus in Zozimus by Giezricke in the Eccles story from Lybia a new Hanniball by Theodoricus Totilas THAT AS STEVCHVS CONFESSETH ROME HAD BEENE MADE A MOST FILTHY LODGE OF OXEN AND HOGGES BVT FOR THE POPES Now the Caesares punishment followeth with a seuere taunt of dulnesse to them that will not marke stately speaches From Mat. 13. and Apoc. 2. and 3. If any man haue an eare let him heare Hee that carieth captiuitie shall goe into captiuitie Abb. 1. 2. for the Chaldean if any kill with sword hee shall bee killed with sword Gen. 9. When Antiochus the vile slew Iewes faithfull to God had affinitie with Egypt God plagued both houses more notablie then any families that euer were before Heathen did note it though they knew not that they made a cōmentary to make Daniel a most cleare booke so Aurelus Victor commonly read with Iustine in Grammar scholes sheweth howe the Caesares were plagued to the astonishment of the world since Rome crucifyed the Lord of Glory And Herodian handleth an Iliad of their plagues for 70. yer how the Emperores were so vile as dogges Sozimus sheweth litle better successe And before our Lordes dayes in the fleshe when their Empire made an head ouer Iuda Pompei Crassus Iulius Brutus Antonius and their Ciuill warres were wonders of misery And Plini recordeth what miseries made Augustus weary of his life full often These rules should be a bridle for Buyshopps of Rome and all of their Caius Heere is the faith and constancie of the holy Our gratious aeternall Spirite here meeteth with the weak that they should not iudge of Gods fauor by prosperitie in this world From Cain to Tuualcain or heathen smith Vulcain the wicked bare sway Which Spirite went and preached in the dayes of Noe to them that are now Spirits in Prison Nemrod the Rebel had first dominion and Niniueh and Babel at the last Nemrods house and in Dan. 11. 35. and 12. 10. the faithfull are told what God meant to let wicked Magog so afflict his
from heauen as a bride praepared for her husband trimmed Iohn began the New Testament Iohn endeth it The terme soundeth grace or mercy fitt for the argument So in Zachary at the building of the Temple acclamation should bee Grace Grace be to it And none but a Iohn in heart one that is made gracious Eph. 1. the Hebrew to that is Iehonan and Iohn Iochanan can see the holy Ierusalem The worldly doe looke to worldly pompe as the Pope to rule princes in deed euery teacher should rule Princes by sage aduise not by auctority Of Iohn Iehoiadah the stately high sacrificer is called also Iohn and sundry others and that name is in the 70. Ionan and one of our Lords fathers is called by that name others too Ianna and Ioanna bee of the same notation Grace giuen by fathers that still looked to the grace of God in Christ and all should in heart bee So euery one should be in heart Petros building vpon Petra the Rock Eli Tzur Tzuri-shadday Num. 1. 5. 6. teach that My God is the Rock My Rock is God One word of Hebrew had broken the Popes keies as the Pharisees keies of the Kindome of heauen and all take a foolish course for Diuinity which seeke it from Latines rather then from Ebrew Of Ierusalem Of Ierusalem I wrote at large in my treatise of Melchitzedek where also I shewed why the 70. altered the Hebrew 36. hundred of yeres adding to the Patriarkes at fatherhood to many 100. As Adam at 230. begate Seth where Moses proper truth wrote 130. Our note 1603. hath flat atheisme saying that Moses omitted 100. yer so the note might haue said for Seth Enosh Caynan Mahalaleel Enoch Arphaxad and all to Nachor and that he gaue many hundreds too much to their ends It is trange that most reuerened FF and right reuerend FF after plaine demonstration of trueth will be such fooles as to vtter such athean lies to the people and it is more strange that the people giue them any regard after their vtterance of such blindnesse These teachers are not for Ierusalem the sight of peace but for Abyssus whence the king of Locusts and his swarmes came Salem was the townes name in Sems dayes and the place where Izhak was offred was called by Abraham lireh and of that famous action the towne inlarged was called IERVSALEM the sight of peace Maymony writeth in Bethbechira the chosen house or place where the Temple was built as by historie Isaack was offred there so by tradition Adam and Habell offred there and Noë cōming out of the Arke and that may well be for God troubleth not his people with many places but contriueth all points for helpe of memory and for like matter for our dulnesse As for Rome that crucified Christ God would not plague another Citie but would haue Rome once destroyed to shew his anger vpon it reuiued to be a throne of Satan to plague them that cared not for his warning but would haue all to depend vpon it Of Melchi-Tzedek and Izhak causing glory to Ieruschalaim Sem the great in the title of iust King and King of peace described as God as the very Rabbines note and Saint Paul vpon their grant draweth all vnto Christ in his humanitie how the sacrificer is taken from men and so resembleth not Iehouah Michael in heauen barely but as he should come to his office on the earth being the SEM the great Sem heere conteyneth all with Isaack receiued from death and their story crieth out vnto all Iewes that they should know that God was in Christ reconciling the world vnto himselfe and that Christ was to suffer and being the first from the dead should shew light vnto the world S. Paul most eloquently draweth Moses speach hither Deut. 29. Say not in thine heart who can goe vp into heauē for to bring Christ downe or who can goe to the deepe to bring Christ from the dead but if thou confesse with thy mouth that IESVS is the ETERNAL and belieue in thy heart that God hath raised him from death thou shalt be saued So Melchi-Tzedek and Izhack in their story teach all that God giueth the sight of peace to make the City of God vpon the earth For heathen in Abraham our father as hee and wee belieue that God raiseth Christ from death and that matter is sweetly told in calling Christian Policy Ierusalem So Zachary saith Ierusalem shal be built in Ieruschalaim The sight of peace shal be taught in the soile where SEM dwelt and Isaack was receiued as by a resurrection The low Ierusalem is called holy when our Lord was baptized tempted and when after his resurrection many Izhaks arose and were seene of many But after our Lord his ascension the terme is not bestowed vpon it though in Pentecost the spirit came plentifull to teach Iewes and Proselytes of all nations the resurrection Of S. Pauls heauenly Ierusalem S. Paul in his Epistle to Ierusalem telleth them that the earth which breedeth briers and brambles shall come to be brent vp that so the Low Ierusalem should haue an end And that we are come to the heauenly Ierusalem c. In that terme he expoundeth the Prophet Isay for his Ierusalem Of the Iewes error to this day Maymony and all the vnbelieuing Iewes to this day expect a returne to Mount Sion to restore a Citie there Maymonie may be read in Ebrew and English vpon Ecclesiastes in my disputations from Isaiah with them they said hee speaketh for the world to come in higher matter then that which touched building of stone And they be guilty of S. Steuens blood to this day holding it blasphemie to say that Iesus of Nazaret should end Moyses Law and sacrifice Maymony in the fundations of the Law writeth the Iewes common error thus it is a matter plaine and expounded in the Law that it is a commandement which standeth for euer yea for euer and euer To teach them better vnderstanding of Moyses God brought them to Babel with losse of all Ceremonies sauing circumcision and before he brought them home hee told them to the last yeere when God would end their Ceremonies which made the heathen to hate them and told that their Citie should bee destroyed This matter S. Paul vrgeth through all the Epistle to Ierusalem And I should haue had occasion to haue examined all Talmudiques vpon Moses 613. Lawes and to shew how all the Ceremonies God hath abolished and giuen in the New Test Lawes written in all hearts moo then 613. That we neede not come to Talmudique This argument would require all opened in the New Testament to which of Moyses 613. each thing belonged and would shewe all wherein Talmudiques yeeld to the Apostles and teach Iewes and Greekes how all the New Test translateth Hebrewes He that threatned to stay the king from alowance this way shall in fame bee buried with the buriall of an Asse There is
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
knowen to God a company innumerable shal be witnesse to the truth martyrs in hartes sadnesse as if they had shead their blood Why Dan is omitted is shewed in Scripture Concent Thence they that despise not the work wil fetch a resolutiō How in the West the Church falleth Six seales shewed the Romans violence against CHRIST his seruants plagued with warres death pestilence and ouerthrow of Empire The seauenth sheweth a sinful state in al Satans might deceiuing the West wherof 7. trumpets giue warning which the sealed before will take others will not CHAP. VIII AS Daniel Chap. 4. was amazed a while that Nebuchadnezar a starre should be 7. yeres a beast so the Church the Heauen on Earth is amazed as half an houre to what passe badnesse of scholars in vnlearned ambition will come 7. trumpeters standing before God will sound that vnto the world that the world shall haue a warning long afore the matters come in practise The summe of the Gospell contempt of which causeth God to cast off the open Church CHRIST a sacrificer for euer the Angel of the couenāt maketh his humanity the golden Altar vpon which he layeth the incense of our prayers receiued in a golden censor of his pure mercy they come before the Father for the 144. thousand Iewes innumerable heathen whereof the trumpeters for 7. commune places compaines of holy Doctores be the principall Now because Rome would teach with forcefull deceit not to receiue the abundance of the grace of the gift of iustice of Christ that by faith we should be iustified to haue peace with God to reigne with his Sonne but must seeke helpe from our selues who bee children of wrath Christ turneth his mediation into wrath against the seed of the serpent whose City pierced his handes and feete and by their occasion made others fall As the loue of God in Christ for bredth length depth and height passeth all knowledge so the contempt of the tree of life and of the man a little inferior to Angels in death but after ascention crowned with glory as to the rebellious Angels disdayning mans glory it gaue eternal woe it giueth to men that follow that company called Satan the old serpēt The anger of Christ is heare voices thunderings lightnings earthquake in states as at the Law-giuing Because Christ the end of the Law is contemned This could neuer haue fallen out if the Ebrew Bible with the Massoreth orthographie dictionarie for accents vowels had beene vsual in churches ouer the earth and the N. T. the marrow of all Greeke and sunnes bringhtnesse to the old had beene scholes studie also in all nations But slothful contempt to make translations from translations bred vncertainti and it disdaine it blindenesse it contempt of Christ it reiection Machmad soone turned away all the East whereof old GOD was knowen and God hath for that cast them of for euer The Grecians were so proud of Greeke brauery that of Origens Octaplun of Ebrew in Ebrew letter in Greeke letter in the 70. in Aquilas Symmachus Theodotion and other two vncertaine translations they little cared for the Ebrew but from Greek vncertaine they marred their commenting and gaue Arrius great aduantage And when Arabians Aethiopians and Muscouites translated the 70. not the Ebrew the difference of 1500. and more yeares excesse aboue truth by the 70. in Genes 5. and 11. caused Greece and the other and much of Romish soyles to blaspheme the Ebrew as corrupt so disdayning bitter rootes they missed to gather fruit of nourishment This bred the thundering anger of the Eternall Word which was with God aey and made all things and gaue words Ebrew and Greeke each as pearle and shyning Iewels Hence vnlearned scholars turne all to Ambition and Heresie polititians to profanenesse Of the VII Trumpets As one trumpeter telleth of a kinges power in milliones so heer 7. represent 7000. as might fall out still learned men gaue warning but when the roote of Iessai was contemned the waters of grace were not sent into vncleane hearts The first Trumpet Buishopps stroue for superioritie Monachi fall to idlenesse and extolling of Sainctes Princes giue wealth that way painefull scholers be hated and persequuted their voices make alowd trompet Athanasius Chrisostome Basill Nazianzene sound out matter against herefies and forged Monastiques and contempt of scripture and how the possessor of the West Empire should be taken away and a policy all sinfull should be erected in Rome Andreas Caesariensis doth more plainly shew that being at the rising of it about the 600. yeares of Redemption Patriarches affected supremacy but the city that crucified Christ and now plagued Christians was to afflict in the end and to be a trapp for all coastes to fall The contempt of learned warnings Romes supremacie made east south north fear least old tyranny from Rome should be reuiued So Machmad turned much of the world to fall away that haile of state as in Esai and fyer and blood of warrs come to the world And most of all Popes supremacie challenging Empire raineth haile fyer and blood to this day that men grounded as trees for the third parte and all the weake as grasse fell into Gods anger So this is a commune place of the Popes supremacy The next trumpet soūdeth that poinct more fully The scholars that inueighed against Phocas the murderer for erecting Boniface 3. supreme Papes or Father Of the names Papas and Pope The name Papas in the Greek fathers epistles is from one to another this much Right Reuerend father But when one would haue all to himselfe not by learning in Ebrew or Greeke for Gods worde but for strong hand in supremacy then the name rested in him but turned into Pope which in Homer as Eustachius well noteth is Damon a Deuil The Prouidence of God in mens tongues for names fitted vnto matter is to be regarded much That Pope and Daemon is all one Add vnto this that the Pope is called holines Marke for this S. Paul THE SINFVL MAN THE WHOLE ENEMIE HE THAT EXALTETH HIMSELFE ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD OR WORSHIPPED A NEWE ANTIOCHVS EPIMANES SETTING FORTH HIMSELFE IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD AS IF HE WERE GOD. THIS AND POPE OR DAEMON GONCVRRE The second Angell or Company of Scholars sheweth howe hee commeth vp for the Emperour The second blast expounding the first A Mountaine an huge one burning with fire is cast into the sea Mountaine signifieth an Empire as Babylon is a mountaine destroying Burning with fire is causing hoate warres as in taking the Empires land to become a Mountaine and casting himselfe into the sea of kingdomes to be to this day a firebrand of all our warres The sea is politique states for this sea of our troublesome life as Tully translateth Euripides Si mihi nunc primum tristis illuxisset dies Nec tam arumnoso nauigassem salo esset dolendi caussa c.
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there and Psal 18. and 2. Sam. 22. and often is GOD only And in Deut. 32. a Prophecie is laid of the Rock a defender against the foure beastes that come out of the sea vpon which Rock the Church stood vntill the SON of Man like in body Dan. 10. to Tharshish or sea-like stone tooke part of their afflictions Now the WORD Eternall that gaue all reason the onely teacher in demaunding teacheth to answere saying Whom do men say that I the Sonne of man Dan 7. by Rabbins generall am The fisher of Galile that heard Daniel often read said from Dan. 9. Thou art CHRIST and holinesse there of all holinesse and therefore Psal 2. The Son of the liuing God Then CHRIST calleth him to Deut. 32. speaking Rock in Iobs Ebrew Vpon this Rock wil I build my Assembly that no courts by terrour of death shal be stronger then it Christ is Ceph thou as all that know him to be the Rock Cepha and as the Sanedrin maketh Doctor saying Take thou authoritie for thy keyes of knowledge to teach which is loose what is bound whom thou teachest that God was in the Rocke reconciling the world to him selfe he hath his sinnes loosed by thee on earth by the Rocke in heauen and who so beleeueth not that thou bindest his sinnes in earth and in heauen This matter is the summe of all and Greekes in Photius tell that Andrew was the Rocke before Symeon was And Cephas answered with all thought as well as hee wherefore all had equall comfort and so all godly And because this new sentence hath no new Diuinitie hee leaueth all after confession of the Rocke as knowing him selfe and Theophilus to haue as good right to the name of Cephas But hee by senioritie was to speake first for all and so the name for all must bee tolde to him that they who builde their house vpon the Rocke shall bee shaken with no Windes stormes waues The Sun is not brighter then this meaning for these wordes Let any who dare trye by a conference of holy Scriptures as I doe Now the Popos Daemon denying that Rome crucified CHRIST as Saint Peter denyed that Christ ought to dye and was termed Sathan for that Hee would haue this beleeued of all that Peter had a praerogatiue aboue all the Apostles and was at Rome and left to the Citie that crucified Christ for their good seruice a successour to pardon or to tye sinnes Fiftlie Hence Landes are giuen by Princes and specially in wast wilde groundes for Monasteries where men before rebelled that Monasteries giuing a chiefe rent and superstitious people being fed with hospitalitie wan much in three hundreth yeares that after Buy-shop Gregorie by Creontophonos Phocas helde Sathans throne and became stronger then the Emperour by this proceeding The Bible must not bee studied in Ebrew The Iewes marred it and in Greeke haeretiques As though there were not most learned Christians that could looke to both And this was pretence to pray still neuer to teach trueth and to giue the people in Latin Niene commandements for Tenne And the Creed with a translation that white was blacke that to goe to Paradise in the Greeke Creed should be translated to descend to hell to Gehenna in olde Chrysologus and that the Fathers were there So the Popes Clyents are the tayle of the great Dragon Moreouer the Lordes prayer for many thousande poundes Landes they might haue but maymed to disgrace all auctoritie of the New Testament But they neuer taught the meaning of the Lordes prayer that when we pray we pray vnto the Father which is in heauen That did Pope Daemon disannul sitting in the Temple of God as if HE were God And he teacheth to pray to all from whose name he could get any lande to Marie though Rome killed her sonne to Peter though Rome by auctoritie made him a martyr farre off to Apostles and other Martyrs that Rome martyred as though Apoc. 6. vnder the fift seale all these did not craue vengeance against the beastes of the earth that killed them Moreouer to busie Princes they say If Popingayes sayd ouer Pater noster so often they should haue so many yeares pardon in a new inuented fierie bath of Purgatorie stinging poore soules like scorpions fiue hundred yeares before their Diuels doctrine was espied About the yeare 600. they tamed East proude Prelates and goe on thus From Leui they will make an order and haue an altar and an Aharon with a cope and holinesse in the forehead and Levites in Linnen and the name Priest and of bread they can make flesh and of wine blood and they breake Abben Ezraes rule praef to Moses allowed of all that nothing must be taken properly which goeth against all sense So they will not have the Lordes death to end all sacrifice by the supper But will make the supper a sacrifice against all witt and learning And the Pope is an Aharon and the Priests lippes will keepe knowledge Mal. 2. where hee tells them they did not but should therefore the Grecians would consume them as stubble Also they are flat Arrians praying to Michael who holdeth it not robbery to be equall with God as if he were a created Angell and not the Eternall Son the Angell standing at the golden Altar of incense his humanitie to receiue in the censor of grace our prayers These and such other treacheries against all the Byble first brought the third part of sunne moone and starres to be darkened in the third part but soone Christ the true sun and all ayer for brightnesse of Scripture And by these degrees Man of sinne became able as now 600. yeares wee finde to stirre haile and fire mixed with blood in the earth missing wholy of Religion and not as Turkes by ignorance but by couetous malice A crie expounding the first trumpets warning of fire and blood by scholars made a mountaine of fire cast into the sea by the star falling from his place a burning torch falling into the waters of scipture and making them bitter to darkening the third part of profession of Christianitie Iohn saw an Angell flying in the middes of the heauen saying wo wo wo to them that dwell in the earth from the voyces of the trumpet of the three Angels whose trumpet shall be heard In the open Church companies of godly were martyred for resisting the Locusts deceyuing of the world nowe leaving the zeale that Ephesus once had and the first Doctores in Italy and following Smirnean Iewes haeresie in apish renuing Leuitiques inflat Atheisme of altar cope linen priest sacrifice reuiuing Pergamus Balamites who for wealth and wantonnesse bred Monasteries ioyned to Nunries when Thyatirean Iezabels are with Baals Priests setting vp a newe Sardian dead wealth in profane riches and contemning Philadelphias true loue to saue soules But reuiuing Laodiceas falling to the manner of the world neither hoat in true zeale nor cold as open contemners but Chananean
Sodoma and Egipt where Christ was crucified People of Religiō most lothsome to chast truth and of tyrāny murtherous and the People by whom Christ was crucified as Tiberius the Emperor Pilate his Deputie Cēturion and the soldiers So the holy Citie signifieth here the heauenly Ierusalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 people is once translated by the 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Citie Of the xlij Monethes Elias staid raine 42. monethes when he was fretted by wicked Israel Antiochus the wicked trode downe Ierusalem 42. moneths as I shewed vpon Daniel And our Lord preached 42. moneths or 3. yer a halfe or dayes 1260. or a tyme two tymes and an halfe Eusebius many after him haue shewed that Old Beda and Beroald and others Heere by tyme the manners from a like tyme is meant the persequuting Pharisees manners reuiued by the Pope And no certaine tyme for Chap. 12. all rage of the Serpent is but dayes 1260. And againe the profane Caesares rage which endured 300. yeares is termed but 42. moneths And I will grant the two witnesses of mine that they shall prophecy dayes 1260. clothed in sackcloth these be the two oliues the 2. Candlesticks which stand before the Lord of the whole earth The terme two meaneth a sufficient number according to the Law phrase In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall euery matter stand Nine and fourtie thousand and moo who came from Babilon are the two oliues that stood before the Lord of the whole earth and the two witnesses heere be as much Therefore by two may whole states and many millions be signified Of Prophecying Prophecying is taken for expounding Moyses by ages following when the summe of Religion is shewed how later ages would follow it or leaue it all falsehood falleth So whē Cittim Num. 24. is compared with Daniell xj to know the nation and with Isai xj and the Gospell for the crucifiers of Christ and 2. Thess 2 and withall the Apoc. this prophecying reuealeth the beast that commeth out of the earth the king of Locustes how as the profane Caesars had all their diuinitie from the vncleane spirite so hath the Pope all his to mke a spirituall most vncleane large commune weale His Idolatrie matcheth the profane Caesars he making Saints Archangels to pray to and a third world of Purgatorie merittes not to rest in CHRIST and forbidding studie in the holy Bible and mixing the Apocrypha most foolish and wicked fables as Toby and the 2. Maca. with the most holy Ebrew Bible matcheth or ouermatcheth all the Caesars profanenesse Therfore he cannot abide expounding of Moses when he cannot abide the reading of him Of the Decalogue The holy Iewes honored the Decalogue or Tenne sayings grauen by God in two great stones with such high heauenly reuerence that because it cōteyned the summe of Diuinitie they reduced all Moses vnto it and as the Decalogue had letters 613. so they reduced all the Commaundements that could be gathered out of Moses vnto 613. And reduce to them all that can be spoken in Diuinitie And the Prophets and our holy New Testament goeth no further Of the Popes theft The Pope stole from the people this Law Thou shalt not make vnto thy selfe any grauen Image c. A Citie in Israell that had scraped but one letter from the tables number had been destroyed And of with infinite wickednesse then must we holde the Popes and Popistes to be that so dare contemne the grauen tables of all the frame of Moses Law contriued into the two tables number of lettes for lawes 613. which is by the Popes theft brought out of frame And all must bee holden wicked that wish not his vncleane spirited commune weale destroyed Groundes which all should know that soundly prophecie or expound Scripture First a Doctor should be a grammarian for both Testaments to know the text sound and the meaning plaine 2. The Massoreth defendeth euery letter in the Law or old Testament that no modest witt would wrangle 3. A worke called the Glorie of Israell speaketh sagely that the forme of letters which we haue now were not inuented by Ezra but were in the two tables and vowells accents as we haue them now The holy Ghost hath giuen a double reading a text reading and a word in the margine to expoūd the text which very often standeth vpon like letters as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now they who feigne letters late inuented by the forme which we haue now ouerthrow the authoritie of the double reading and so of all 4. Pisistratus Tyrant of Athens was elder then Ezra hee parted Homer into Alpha Beta c. the Illiad into 24. letters names and so Odyssea Hence it appeareth that the Greeke letters names be elder then Ezra Moreouer they are from the Hebrew Aleph Beth c. and so later then they And the Ebrew names bee after the forme in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therfore these formes were very ancient and all of Gods wisedome at the first Moreouer in Noēs familie like letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gaue double names Dodamin and Rhodamin Diphath Riphath and many such doth Dauid Kimchi note vpon the first of the Chronicles And when the septuagint translated by old dim copies like letters gaue them oftē occasion to leaue the exact ebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Abbak 70. Act. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amos 5. Lxxij Act. 7. Aedom turned to Adam Amos 9. Act. 15. a Prophecier wil trouble him self if he know not these grounds 5. The Alphabets order is celebrated of Gods wisedom often sometimes neerly perfect somtimes wholy perfect somtimes with a verse more sometyme with parenthesis in the middes as Psal 37. 34. 25. 111. 112. 119. 145. Pro. 31. Ier. 1. 2. 3. 4. This sheweth the order to be old Besides the order is consonant to the forme and lines as they depend one vpon another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the frame must be as old as the order Of Arias Montanus worke of diuers readings I noted 848. double readings both holy Kimchi praef to Ios thought the text corrupt in Babell amended after the returne in Ezraes dayes Rob. St. praef to the new Testa folowed that and Arias Montanus at him I marueile more at Kimchi who in particulars giueth sounde reasons of the double readings And Pagninus abridgment refuseth Arias his mind And Elias Leui. praefa to Massoreth in Mos soundly defendeth both readings and still the text is the subtiler as of curiositie and not of negligence and the margin an helpe for the simple Of Lindanus quareling with the text and one Erostratus Lindanus labored to breake the authoritie of Scripture slandering the text as corrupted and namely Caari for Caaru Psal 22. was brought of him Iohn Izhak the
teach there the trueth of saluation That which Ierem. speaketh chap. X. of our Gods prayse against idolls is heere repeated That Egypt and Babel teach the Pope what to look for Thus the holy protest their honor to God and labor to increase the Church that all nations may come and worship him And afterwardes I saw and behold the Temple of the Tabernacle of Couenant was opened in the heauen and the seauen Angells came forth hauing the seauen plagues from the Temple and they were clothed with cleane and pure linen and girded about the breast with golden girdles As Angells help Gods seruants to victories so proper Angells considered with men whom they strengthen may heere be meant Their clothing signifie syncere holinesse which men should desire and the golden girdle about the brest signifieth the binding of the minde in golden syncerity of heart Maymo in Beth Bechira handling Aharons garment citeth traditions from them that saw the high sacrificers manner that Aharon was girded about the brest that sheweth Iohn to speake most learnedly chapter 1. and heere 15. and wiser then any who would forge a booke could doe And one of the foure liue-wights gaue to the seauen Angells seauen golden cupps full of the anger of God who liueth for euer and euer The liuely wight is heere as orator of the whole Church and after the acknowledging of Gods goodnesse by Gods charge the Angells take in hand to poure Gods wrath vpon his enimies visibly by men but vnseene as the armie that guarded Elisaeus So as I told the punishment of Nabuchadnezar Daniel chap. 4. commeth by the decree of the watchfull and the petition of the holy What the Angells desire in reuenge for the Church God appointeth them to help forward in assisting men that be the fighters So millions of millions waite vpon Gods throne to rule the foure beasts that the house of Zorobabell afflicted should know that the heauens ruled and tyrants should soone be tamed by them The Pope should from Dan. 7. learne this and from Apo. chap. 6. where the profane Caesares be destroyed and know that after long angring of God hee must haue full payment Mortall Princes soone fade as a floure But God is euerlasting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Daniel 7. 9. and liuing for euer Dan cha 12. and Apoc. X. and XV. who because men did not receiue the loue of the trueth to be saued sendeth workfull error that they belieue falshood that all may be condemned which belieue not the trueth but delite in badnesse This Booke was penned in such a style that it openeth not onely it selfe but also teacheth how all the old Testament belongeth to Christ And the Temple was filled with a smoke of the glory of God and of his power and none could goe into the Temple till the seauen plagues of the 7. Angells were finished When the Tabernacle of Moyses and the Temple of Salomon were consecrated then Moyses and the Leuites could not goe in while the glory of God filled them Here a cloud of Gods anger filled with defense the Church in the wildernesse that God will not giue the wicked grace to ioyne with them vntill they be cōsumed the sturdy wicked who fight against open light and be of the 666. sonnes of Adoni-kam which had rather haue 666. talents of Cethem from Ophir then all the knowledge of Iohns Reuelation such that striue against the light shall neither be forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come but heere haue a conscience stinged as by scorpions and in the world of soules death aeternall CHAPTER XVI As the Popes manner of rising plagued the World in a like manner God consumeth him As the Popes arisinge plagued the world vnder Angells Trumpets as 1. The earth 2. The Sea 3. Fountaines of waters 4. The Sun 5. By kingdom of Locusts 6. By raising vp the Turk 7. By earthquake So to him plagues come vnder the same terms but in another signification as 1. His earth hath boyles 2. Sea blood 3. Fountains blood 4. Susnn parching persecution 5. By darkned throne of spoile 6. By Euphrates by Turke 7. By whole earthquake And I heard a great voice from the Temple saying goe poure out the cupps of the anger of God into the earth In the heauen Christ is the Temple and the Church by him By his commandement and the Churches care the Popes world is plagued spirits being Gods messengers inuisiblie men visiblie And the first went and poured his cup into the earth and there came boiles sore and painefull vpon such as hath the marke of the beast and worshipped his image The plague of Egypt vnder Iannes and Iambres resisting Moyses is now vpon the minds of Papists which resist Law and Gospell the discouery of which Idolatry becommeth a sound meanes for Kings that made the beast a King of Locusts to eate vp the flesh of the beast The West Kings made the Pope mighty to ouerthrow the East weakned so that Machmad and Turcke ouerhtrew it And euer since the Pope came to be mighty he became auctor of haile and troubles and brought haile and fire of warre to be mixed with blood So now he looseth many Countreies vpon Martyrs telling that he held Satans throne and vpon diligent scholes detecting him in euery part bringing the Apocalyps to be dayly read and all the eloquent N. Testament in Greeke founteine of heauenly water to baptise the minde by the spirit into the kingdome of heauen And the second Angell poured his cuppe on the sea and it became blood as of the dead euery liuing soule dyed in the sea When the poore father of Rome forging S. Peters being there became by Saint Peters name of low and poore an high mountaine he became fiery and cast himselfe into the sea of Empires that by all his warres a third part of the liuing in one age were kill'd and destroyed Till a thousand yeeres hee became not a full mountaine till then Satan was tyed but in Ierusalems warre he was loose that 200. y. warres turned the third part of politicall sea and shipps into blood and destruction And what warrs haue bene since in Europe which the Pope hath not kindled So he payeth for it so hee looseth whole countreies as Netherland with the blood of 40. yeeres warres and wast of the Spanish nation That scant a third part escaped death in them that could warre for his killing of K. Philips sonne bent to heale the boyles of his religious This did they dead in blindnesse and known to be such And a third Angell poured his Cup into the riuers and fountaines of waters and blood came of it Heere lesser waters are lesse forces that continually he hath bad successe and great losse The yeare 1588. gaue him an open token of wrath in this sort and Flanders 1600. And if he had gone forward Venice had taught the same and Iuliaque will 1610. if he goe forward dayly litle riuers of 700.
in the world now of 900. Chanaans sinne was growing to ripenes Amalek of 1000. came not to Amans pride as Israel bred not Sadducees of 1000. yer nor Rome gate rule to deceiue whole states of a thousand yeres Now the text will be cleare The Pope deceiued not generally till 1000. yerees And I saw thrones on which men sate and iudgement was giuen to them and the soules of them that were beheaded for the testimony of IESVS and for the word of God and which worshipped not the beast nor his Image nor tooke the marke in their forehead or vpon their hand but they liued and reigned with CHRIST the 1000. year The rest of the dead did not reuiue of the 1000. year This is the first resurrection Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection The second death hath no power ouer them but they shal be sacrificers of GOD and CHRIST and reigne with him a 1000. year Heere then be martyrs and holy for 1000. year But the starre-worme-wood and the darkened starres and the locusts they continued in profane heathen lot and the Diuels were in their pit helping them to sett him loose to vex the holy Church for the old Ierusalem which Christ pronunced that it should be Iebus or troden downe for euer And when the thousand yeres are finished Satan shall be let loose out of the Prison and shall goe foorth to deceiue the nations ouer the foure corners of the earth Gog and Magog togather them vnto warres whose nūber is as the sand of the sea The Pope to weaken Princes did set them on to recouer the holy land which God would haue to abide cursed that Iewes might see their sinne killing Christ this would the Pope haue recouered and Rome in a thousand yeeres could not learne this one chapter nor remember old Gog and Magog how the Pope now reuiueth that warre in my Concent I haue shewed the termes meaning Thence the Reader may fetch it The Iewes Ierusalem was holy but now the Christian Church is the beloued Citie and the tents of the holy which to besiege and weaken hee stirred this warres for desolate Ierusalem The Pope weakened the West in superstition prouoking to warre for as he termed it the holy Land And they ascended ouer the breadth of the earth and compassed the Tent of the holy and the beloued Citie All the strength of the West was deceiued by superstition to goe fight in the East for Antioch in the land of Magog and other soiles neere Ierusalem and all the force of Machmad from the East assembled and 200. yea the poore Church was afflicted that afterwards Popes might set Kings vp and down as they would And Machmad still since hath vexed the West and the king of Locusts now hath 300. yeares beeing a new Gog and Magog vexed the Church And a fire came downe from heauen and ate them vp As Satan dealth with Iobs sheepe he dealth with the Popes sheepe to eate them vp with fire Euen thence to the worlds end chap. 19. which matter is heere briefly repeated and in that which followeth The Pope is a Beast of Empire by his might And the Diuell which deceiued them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast and false prophet and they shall be tormented day and night for euer and euer The Pope is a Beast of Empire by his might and so the eight is also the seauenth and hee with his Clergie is also the false prophet Heere Papists may see what shall become of them A liuely description of the latter Iudgement And I saw a great white throne and one sitting vpon it from whose presence the Earth and the Heauen fled and no place was found for them and I saw the dead small and great standing before God and bookes were opened All mens doings are in record before God as written in bookes the like speech is in Daniel chap. 7. And another Booke was opened which is of life and the dead were iudged by the things written in the bookes according to their workes All that put not on Christ are condemned for their works Now the sea had giuen vp her dead and death and the graue had giuen vp her dead And they were iudged euery one according to his workes and death and Haides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death Death and Haides are expounded in Arethas sensible Men which commit matter worthie of death destruction And if any were not found written in the booke of life hee was cast into the lake of fire This sheweth that only the chosen in Christ haue life euerlasting and what there companie is euen the heauenly Ierusalem in this world the chapters folowing doe shew And I saw a new heauen and a new earth for the first heauen and the first earth passed and the sea is no more This speach may well be referred to the new world which for vs to search of what sort it shall bee the Law Deut. 29. to leaue hid things to the Lord our God forbiddeth vs to search curiously Of the heauenly Ierusalem I haue made a treatise in Greeke alone at large which I made turne to other tongues This worke is made to conuict Rome to be damned through all and I hastened in the beginning to that and I would not draw the Readers minde from that The last end may bee handled best seuerally So this paines shall heere haue an end AN EXPLICATION OF THE HEAVENLY IERVSALEM SHEWED APOCAL. CHAPTER 21. AND 22. BEING of larger discourse then the former Commentarie made by the same auctor to shew Romes condemnation and with small strife against Rome and such as Rome will not refuse to reade By H. B r. After the destruction of Babylon Let vs behold the saluation of Sion A Commentary vpon the Apocalyps Chapter 21. and 22. CHAPTER XXI The second discourse of 21. and 22. Chapters And I saw a new heauen and a new earth for the first heauen and the first earth passed away and the sea was no more ISAIAH chap. 66. compareth the Gospell hauing the rest of Christ for the Iewes Ceremonies vnto a new heauen and the earthly heathen state called to the church a new earth as God will make indeed a new world And ioyneth the doctrine of both together So heere after mention of heauen and earth passed the wordes import the new world and praesentlie turne to the Gospell in saying the sea shall be no more that is a troubled state shall be no more For the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding guardeth our heartes in the loue of Christ that no sufferings for him is a griefe or trouble and we read chap. 16. that his Angels haue seauen cups of wrath to poure vpon the helhounds that bite his seruants they shall not care for the sea whence the Romane beast ariseth And I Iohn saw the holy City Ierusalem new comming downe from God
quiet words calmed boysterous preparation of warres But my hast cannot suffer stay And so sayd many strangers at Basil and French were earnest to bring me to their King And what will to my rare honour the state of Basil Zurick and Berne meant I will let them write Now for Iesuites humanity D. Pistorius himself four yeares agoe asked M. Hakewill of Oxford at Friburge of me whether I was alive He said he left me at Francfurt then said he I am hartily glad and gave high good words Now he is dead and I am sory for I hoped to turn him Now two Cardinalls of Rome Caesar Baronius as the Iesuites of Mentz told me and an other whose letters were intercepted at Heidelberge of him I heard no more obteyned of Pope Clement a principall Cardinalship for me and dealt with Mentz Iesuites to perswade me who when they could not Archb. Ioh. Adami would have had me of his court and obteyned that in Chapter saying that he reioyced more for my honouring of him with dedication of my Greeke translation of the Prophetes then for his late election to be Prince of the Empire And he should by order have part of his court Protestantes and he spake of me as not misliking my religion But then Q. E. died and I returned and he died soone after None but shamelesse will denie this Now this is past all deniall that Mentz gaue me leave to print in Greeke my owne Religion That brake the neck of Purgatorie besides other Papistique great poincts Of this the best of Paris wrote to Franckfurt to the Kings agent that of nine hundred yeeres so much was never obteyned of the Pope as that booke obteyned Rome must allow what Mentz alloweth And if Haides have but two places as they graunt Heaven and hell Purgatory must give back all the land that it wan Furthermore when my book of Concent came in Latin Pater Baltasar Ezelius in the hearing of his felowes in their college at Mentz spake as by common consent We allow all that that book hath This I have printed in Latin and I am sure he will not deny it and when we are both dead none may seing in my life time it is not denyed So this much is graunted me of Rome to assure the simplest so far how far the city is sunk And badnes or madnes geveth Nabal for name Nabala for fame to him that will not see how vpon this Rome graunt the comment vpon the Apocalyps is past reply I have turned the Apocalyps into Hebrew and so I would expound it if the Turky merchants would pay the charges If they refuse I will leaue them to try whether strange shipwrack shall revenge them Their agent L. Ed. Barton gave the beginning writing thus If M r. Br. may be brought to Const. that may turne to the common good of Christendome This he sent to M r. Stapers Seing our age fleeth wee should sell all to buy the Pearle of heaven Let the just be just still The summe of the Apocalyps IOhns Apocalyps telleth that Christ shewed the state to come to the ende of the world a vision of himselfe as vnto Daniel chap. 10. this doth hee chap. 1. And in singular sweetnes to the seaven starres in the seaven golden Candlestickes all these partes be applyed with addition against all Arrianes that the Eternall the sonne of God the Creator of the world is he that appeared vnto Daniel So Iohn expoundeth Daniel into Salvation of all Iewes of grace This goeth through chap. 2. 3. in easie facilitie Now for tymes to come this appeareth chap. 4. God on a throne fitteth a iudge like Iasper for Beniamins temple Sardius as Ruben to fight for the tribes And Christians in state Persones are 24. Bishops and besides goodly this in chap. 4. Then the Lambe and Lion openeth the Booke of seaven seales chap. 5. then hee cometh further against Caesares on horse white with plaguing riders vpon red blacke pale For the martyrs who crave to destroy the Empire but are bid to expect Diocletianes persecution Then shall their profane world be rowled vp chap. 6. After that a generall apostasie commeth chap. 7. Howe that falleth out the seaventh seale doth shew Christ standeth at the golden Altar to receive all prayers Rome bendes a policy against all this Therevpon Christ as in Ezekiel casteth fire into the earth and Angels trompetters sound howe haile and fire is mixt with blood by that Popes bee made a mountaine so a mountaine of fire cast into the worlds sea to set all on fire when the starre-Byshop falleth from his heavens to turne the Law-waters into wormewood and to darken the chiefe Sunne Moone and Starres comming vp by falling and by turning the Scriptures into gall soone darkening the third part of the Church that three woes are pronounced chap. 8. By his keies of the pitt whence he fetched the wormwood of his haeresies he bringeth locastes of Monkes to devour all the West and able to make warres and becommeth King of Locusts and maketh warres and so becommeth a firie mountaine to make haile and fire mixt with blood This was one woe He weakned the East Empire to set vp the Saracens and is plagued from Euphrates as his Idolatry and treachery turned away the East chap. 9. Christ reviveth the Gospell when men eate the little booke teaching againe how hee is the Angell of Covenant and Mediator for the faithfull chap. 10. Martyrs bring policies to see what the king of Locusts his Citie or policie is and he falleth and the Gospell is restored and he falleth with worlds ende chap. 11. The same matter is repeated for Caesares and Pope in a dragon of Romane Armes As it was called Egypt chap. 11. and Pharaoh a Dragon Esai 27. The vpper parte of the Dragon is shewed to be the Romane Empire one compiled of the foure in Daniel and the taile is expounded to be the beast arising from the earth chap. 11. or King of Locusts chap. 9. he reuiueth the former empire so that none can live in it without his marke chap. 13. His marke is to force Christians to Idolatrie For which vilanie Romane Babilon is told of a fall chap. 14. By vrging Idolatry he driveth from his Aegypt the Church through a sea of fire and fagot into the wildernesse Where the Tabernacle built hath a smoke of Gods anger and Angels seaven plague him as hee plagued all vnder the seaven Trompets Chapter 16. For that our holy Martyrs calling for vengeance from vnder the Altar rowled vp also the Popes heaven as a booke rowled The Beast revived hath no difference from the former but in bloody color and the daughter Rome riding vpon it all bloody Chapter 17. Rome shall fall as Babilon Tyrus did Chapter 18. It shall fall when all nationes sing Halelu-Iah vpon the destruction of the wicked with vnderstanding Then the WORD of GOD will catch the Beast-false-prophet the whole Dragon revived
as a lampe is kindling of wrath the waters be the Scriptures falling into them is wresting of them to mainteyne his kingdome so the sense is bitter and the D. is wormwood that many finde deadly haeresies by this wormwood The fourth trumpet Great fall They which were principall as the sun moone and stars Iacobs familie in Iosephs dreame lose much light Gagnaeus a Papist telleth this to touch Popes Cardinals Bishops A preparation to marke triple woe vpon this An Angell flyeth in the open sky telleth of three woes vpon this CHAP. IX The V. common place The Angel or Doctor falling from heaven the Church hath giuē to him not S. Peters keyes of knowledge but keyes of a deepe pit to darken sun and ayer the office of Christ and law by which we see him So infinite millions of mōkes and fryers come forth locusts for devouring the earth with scorpions stings to torment harts when Christ is obscured and Scripture that men find no comfort but bee worse for their soule then Iob for his body Iob 3. To make warres their wealth will make many horses and they have authority as Kinges with their crownes though they pretend to be as private men Dan. 7. The Chaldean stript of Kingdome is so termed And Antiochus having no right to the kingdome and they keep within doores as of womens hayre but they have Lyons teeth to hold fast all forged and wringed giftes openly forged as Constantinus donation and wringed of kingdomes which they help vp and from deceived by terrour of purgatory They have brest plates of iron to defend themselves and the noyse of their wings is like the noyse of horses running to warres while stil they set Kings by the eares for the first common place that haile and fyre be mixed with blood And their scorpion stinges sting men five moneths till Princes compell them by a cold winter to hide themselves in hedges as Nahums Locustes of Ninivy hide them by enemies An excellent name of the Pope THE ANGEL OF THE PIT KING OF LOCVSTS ABANDDON APOLLYON Our common name which we give the Pope is Daemon in Greek for Popes be Daemones in Eustathius from the Commentaries of old Aristarchus and Didymus and others His Commentaries are from ancient Heathen not from himself as Erasmus well noteth in his observations vpon the Apocalyps Whereas I cited Homers Commentary followed by S. Peter D. B. the learned thought that a foolish oversight as though I must mean Eustathius who was of late And he doubteth whether S. Peter read Homer I am out of doubt he never read him But the holy Ghost gave words of old for S. Peters vse afterward by instinct not by reading And so much a simple Doctor might have knowen B. L. shewed himself in his vnlearned skophing most Athean And as Iannes and Iambres Symon Magus Elymas and Alexander the Coppersmyth are for eternall memorie in the hart of the Bible so deserve such for to be Now as wee vnawares and Papists call the Pope Daemona a Divel vnawares we call him so GOD ruling our tongues that is specially worthy noting When Iulian the Apostata was kild and Libanius commended him that he now was with the Daemones the Greek Doctors took him vpon his word and what an asse he was to speak that which the enemy would wish D. Iohannes Pistorius the Popes chalenger wrote to me that IOHN CALVIN was Dactylodeictes of Antichrist Who shewed by the finger who was Antichrist I took his graunt that so the Pope was For Calvins finger aymed at him So the Popes chalenger overthrew the Pope The same wrote to me the Anathema But God dealt with him as with Balaam the son of Beor in Italy pronuntiation of Bosor in Chaldean where S. Peter kept where the Galilaean his voice told he wrote not from Rome The Doctours Anathema was this to me I Anathematize thee as Paul did Barnabas I take it sayd I. And so thou makest me better then any Pope that ever was at Rome Paul thought him of the same faith and happines But I anathematize D. Iohn Pistorius as S. Paul did Anathematize Elymas Magus Vpon this he yeelded as Helvetia knoweth And to his dying day spake most reverently as some English heard of his checker So here we must mark not what men call the Pope Holy father and vicar of Christ and head of the Church and King of Kings and Lord of Lords but what GOD doth call him and God taught Adam to give fit names Here the Popes names be many One is the Angel of the pit as the star falling had the keyes of the Pit to bring forth his Locusts And the King of Locusts is the fittest name for him In Ebrew he is called Abaddon Num. 24. and Abdan in the Thalmud is the worst name Aruch will teach the place Also he is called Abaddon chiefly for remembrance of Num. 24. where Balaam endeth his prophecy in Italy going on to destruction Iohn Chap. 17. 8. 11. translateth Balaam most properly as D. Kimchi in hard Grammer Adey obed goeth on to destruction In Greek he is another Apollo a Divel of Delphos destroying such as seek to him as Apollo destroyed rich Craesus deceiving him to war against Cyrus He knew well enough that Cyrus should have the victory Esay had told him so and though Craesus gave to Apollos temple very great gifts yet when he asked him whether he should fight with Cyrus he answered Craesus passing over Halys shall overthrow a great King So he did in hope of good But overthrew his own kingdome and rich Craesus became poore Irus So the Pope maketh but a mock of Kings Thus one who of the sixt seale is fully described what the Pope is and what he meaneth to do as Chap. 11. shall tell And this first of the three woes thus set forth reacheth from the Popes supremacy after the yeare of our Lord 600. vnto Ierusalems war ended at 1200. For which 600. yeares the Pope still made haile and fyre to be mixed with blood Now the second woe is in his punishments by the Turk and by the Gospell and Martyrs teaching Princes to cast him off The sixt trumpet and common place Of the Turks comming vp and dealing Cedrenus and Volaterranus in Arabia triplici teach of the Turks and Saracens conjunction and sundry others how they afflicted Spain and Italy Their history I have touched in my book of Scripture Concent I would any of cleane spirit that rageth not against the Concent which GOD gave to Scripture I do but shew to have my best help thence There is a full explication of the second woe Bibliander in Chronologia sheweth that after the Popes supremacie graunted by wicked miserable Phocas to impudent Boniface the third Machumed began to be as gratious a Father as the Pope in Rome Machmad is in Cant. the title of Christ Graces it self And Chamudoth partaker of graces to rare Daniel Chap. 9. by the Angel Gabriel
yet the Pope would so vse the Church though heathen policy bridle him yet Pope Dracon is fierce against remnants as in his Spanish Inquisitions CHAP. XIII Caesars and Popes the Dracon and his tayle are expressed past all deniall who are meant The empire hath armes from the foure kindomes in Daniel So God forceth vs to be ready in Daniel and to compare together the brase of the Angelique men Then Greek Leopard had foure heades that of 23. Captayne 's al made Kings all came to fower quickly and every one dyed a violent death saving old Antipater to have blood for blood as the Romanes here The Beare had but one head the Lyon one and the fourth beast the parted Macedonians but one that beast is not named because it was the same nation with the former but is distinguished from the former by ten hornes or Kings five Ptolemies and five Seleuci or Antiochi that vexed Iudah From these the Romanes have their armes beginning with a beast with ten hornes with this difference Ten Diademes betokening so many kingdomes This beast was coloured like a Leopard footed like a Beare mouthed like a Lion As Nab. said who can deliver you from my hande was a Lucifer and would be equall to God So here it is sayd who can warre with the beast Alexander would be a God So Divi Iulij and Divi Augusti so the Persians And Antiochus Epiphanes hath a mouth speaking great thinges so hath this beast Now the sixt head being as dead sheweth that the Empire should be dead and revived otherwise five heads were gone and the seventh was not yet come But in a speciall sense one head seemeth as dead The time of Tyrannie was 300. yet by Metonymia meaning the argument of persecution from our Lords time it is called three yeares and an half Antiochus Epiphanes raged against the temple properly three yeares and an halfe as Elias plagued Israel properly three yeares and an half But the matter sheweth Ch. XI and twice in the XII and here that proper time cannot be meant Again I must advise the reader to learne Daniel before he learne this booke Twentie yeares ago I made him plain enough and plainer of late though the Dragon cast out of his mouth a river of water The whole Realme by this houre might else have knowne Daniel clearely The Tyrannie and blasphemie of the Caesars and their destructions are knowne The Popes description A beast arising from the earth that is without war having hornes like a Lambe that is Christes Vicar having the mouth of the Devill for divelish lawes restoring the Empire and working Miracles of deceit as though he were Elias a restorer of truth The Iesuites report of their miracles comment well on this And the Popes endevour since great Constantine left hateful Rome to set it vp by revived Empire to destroy the East this matter is famous in continuall stories And Canon lawe telleth that none may live vnder the Empire but by yeelding vnto the Popes lawes in subscribing or oth or some open token as a marke in the forehead And where a nūber given to a man as the sonnes of Adonikam were 666. that being called the number of the beast and to a sense of wisedome which is vsuall in notation A God stāding vp that is Adoni-kam this describeth plainlie the man that stands vp in the temple of God as if hee were God CHAP. XIIII The reviving of the Gospell by worship of God onely in Christ as on mount Sion of old religion taught with as great concent of law and gospell as any harpes can make by rare men of courage patience wisdome and high policie by virgin mindes vnstayned by Idolatry renued by Christ and following him is taught Ch. 14. as Ch. 7. 11. And the Pope is told of fall and of eternall death to all of his bent and the Martyrs of present heavens ioy without purgatorie And Christ sitting on a cloud at prayer of the Church and an Angel comming out of the Church bid by an Angel Lord over fire and Gods heat with sicles cut off Papistes that their blood would reach to the horse bridles over a Land as Canaan made to a square by the Thalmud 1600. furlongs 400. every way The new Testament speaking to Iewes is applyed to their manner of speach plaine to a Thalmudique where it is hardest to vs. The destruction which rebellion in Ireland wrought by the Pope in Desmonds countrey if all the blood of the dead were poured out would a good way reach to horse bridles as that also of Ostend And what would al that war now 40. yeares yeeld in blood of Papistes going withall to eternall destruction Happie are the soldiers that dye with a good heart for the gospell for they rest from their labours CHAP. XV. A new vision telleth the gospels restoring and the enimies punishment persecution borne sincerely through fire and faggot is a sea of glasse mixed with fyre and praise is against Romes Aegypt and Dragon Pharaoh and Romes Babylon from Exod. 15. and Ier. 10. And seaven Angels clothed with pure Iustice come out of the temple in heaven Angels represent what God by men will doe vpon earth when sincere harted fight in his cause These have golden girdles about their brestes as the Sacrificers were girded Maymoni in the holy implements sweateth to prove from Ionathan vpon Ezekiel and Kabalah that the Sacrificers were girded about their brests Iohn made no doubt of the matter but as a Thalmudique taught from God telleth resolutely the whole truth Chap. 1. and here Such poincts shewed would make Iewes all learned Iewes confesse that God penned the New Testament All Christians bee Kinges and Sacrificers and should consider that they must weare crownes of golde which no goldsmith but Christ maketh to rule them selves in order and to obey all in Gods law and the girdle of truth to bind their hartes in stedfastnes Now where one of the fower wightes giveth the Angels seaven cuppes of Gods anger the learned full of eyes teach the people who are the temple to pray vnto God for vengeance vpon Christs enemies and vpon the peoples petition the Angels have charge to serve them as in Dan. 4 Heb. 1. and men are fortifyed by them as Darius Gabriel Dan. 11. 1. As the temple Es 6. was filled with a smoke of Christ his anger and Seraphim the Angels which were instruments of fyer did attend so here the smoke is in all the Church that the enemies shall not perceive the truth till they be cōsumed having sinned against the holy Ghost as the Iewes Esa 6. even by Rambam his graunt could not amend by ten chastisements till the temple was brent CHAP. XVI Vnder the seaven trumpets the earth the sea the fountaynes and rivers the sun the King of Locustes Euphrates and earthquake is celebrated The seaven Angels in plagues keep that order The Popes earth or earthly hold of his possessions is full
New Testaments elegancie The N. Testam in Greeke is so little that by one houre in the morning and euening in one weeke one may with ease and great delite read it ouer Yet this booke hath more seuerall wordes by the fishers of Galile and the Phisitian of Antioch and the tent-maker borne in Tarsus to be the first Apostle at Rome then 100. great Greek bookes aboue 4600. that all old Greekes haue some building in it and all extant now but for fragments kept cannot serue it More in mens names it learnedly openeth Ebrew to rare vse as Bosor for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Pet. 2. by Babels pronouncing not Italy that any maide of Chaldea might see by the speach whence the Galilean wrote So Talmud names come as Lazar for Eleazar whose natioÌ„ is fitt for any one that maketh God his strength to feast in Abrahams Bosom when the soule departeth hence Moreouer the Macedonians spake Greeke wordes in east south hardly found as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and such such from Thalmudiques of Babell the N. T. had and east termes for politique matters from Seleucidae as Angareum to postseruice It hath aboue 50. of Syriaque for rare vse And to shew in what age eueÌ„ vnder the Romans empire beginning Greekes end Iewes haue Greeke names and some Latin as Philip and Andrew and Marc Iustus such This checketh the Talmud which from the depth of Satan persuadeth his sonnes that Iesus our Lord his dayes were long before in the Maccabees gouernement Foure Dialests the Booke hath Attique or commune Greeke for matters knowen to heathen as Spermologos to Paul at Athenes the deadliest that Demosthenes there aboue 300 yeres afore bestowed vpon Aeschynes So from Diphilus and Philemon and Sophocles some for speciall vse and from Epimenides Aratus Menander knowen testimonies briefly from al eloquent some as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for any passage Haides to conteine heaueÌ„ Hell Luc. 16. 4. and in Act. 10. tymes Luke praeuented 15. foolish brawles by Greek But men care not kicking against the spurre Act. 9. is often in Aeschylus Euripides and names of maners from all so that one cuÌ„ning in the N. Testa Greekes should froÌ„ the one still runne to the other in memorie see better vse of both And though one had so many eyes as Argus in Aeschylus 10000. all would heer be well occupied Another Dialect is froÌ„ the 70. wheÌ„ the speach is most to Iewes as Iechonias begate Salathiel so Zedekiahs the vncle 3. yer elder is sonne and Ioachaz first king yonger 2. yeres Ioackim is eldest So Vzziah is sonne to Ioram his fathers great grandfather So our Lord is sonne to Ioseph as men thought to Ely ' c. to Adam to God as sonne of Dauid For some of these the heathen haue the like so Iulian calleth Romulus his Ancestor as S. Maâ—h speaketh of Iechonias and Salathiel so for the word vntill for a matter neuer done Math. 1. and 5. and Homers Ili 5. in Agamemnon to Chryses that he should not haue his daughter vntill she spent her age with him in Argos So a iudge giueth sentence for one that oweth 10000. talents and hath not a peny to pay nor can gett in prison that he shall be in prison till he pay the vttermost farthing The prisoner will not plead that in tyme he must come out Starres be darkened by ignorance of Greeke to put going to Hell for going to Paradise a breeding of Purgatorie which Grecia of 1200. yeares neuer held The 70. Greeke is notable in this whom God raysed vp disannulling the sorrowes or hurtes of death Act. 2. from Psal 18. he that would say Peter spake of the second death or of hell Torment deserueth small thankes Briefly many a thousand of wordes haue the Apostles from the 70. calling vs to remembrance of so many places in the old Testament of them I haue made an Ebrew Greeke dictionarie and my friendes haue it in London and they who will giue securitie for the copy may write it out The old Ierom Erasmus and Beza missed much of lightes by not expounding 70. Greekes from their Ebrew that sun and ayer were much darkened The 3. dialect is the Apostles owne often do they expresse Ebrew in a new manner and S. Paul the Orator of Tarsus borne to be first Papas or father in Praetorio at Rome brought vp at Gamaliels feete to shew in the Epist to the Heb. the best Thalmudique that euer the sunne saw the Ebrew of Ebrewes fathers side and mothers side and rediest in genealogies true and profitable for his sisters sonne and other cousins three Rom. 15. This Iaspar of Beniamin the first foundation of the heauenly Citie shall be cited for clearing Moses Deut. 30. the holy Gospell by expressing Ebrew in new Greeke What to goe vp to heauen to bring Christ downe meaneth What to goe downe to the deepe to bring Christ from the dead meaneth Moses of Leui grauen in the Smaragd and in his Law a sunne In solio Phoebus claris lucentis Smaragdis forbiddeth Israel to leaue studie of the Law as though it were high or farre fetched in speach and thus telleth what Smaragd-light it hath Deu. 30. 11. This commandement which I commaund thee this day is not a wonder for thee neither is it farre off it is not in heauen to cause speach who can goe vp vnto heauen to take it and preach it to vs that wee may do it neither is it beyond the sea to cause speach who shall goe for vs beyond the sea to take it for vs preach it to vs that we may do it But the word is verie near vnto thee for thy mouth for thy heart to do it Thus Moses sheweth that the Smaragd of the Law shineth in the Couenant of the Rainebow Isai 54. for the waters of Noah That Christ in Genesis was knowen to the Patriarkes and all the Ceremonies went no further and the Ciuill lawes were most sensible and all might be acquainted with it The Scribes do teach it sitting in Moses chaire without their owne workes of traditions and such as liued in trauaile of handes might be able to judge Now Saint Paul giueth such testimonie that for the Law they were exact as he yet was a Pharisee but they not knowing that God was in Christ reconciling the world vnto himselfe by the death of Christ and resurrection missed of the end of the Law that blinde zeale to it made them fall froÌ„ God Now S. Paul imitateth Moses whose whole doctrine coÌ„meth to this summe do not say who can goe vp to heauen in high conceite to bring Christ to dwell in our Tabernacle below or who can goe in beleef to the deepe of the earth to bring vp Christ from the dead But what saith hee The word is neere thee for thy mouth and for thy
strong as hee But as vnder the Maccabees new corruption left scant any in faith for Christ his first comming so it will bee for the second that scant faith will bee found in the earth The true Elders complaine not for mens negligence but looke for Christ his second comming vpon the Popes full fall as vpon his first comming the Macedonians had not a foote of ground Of the Worldes end No man can tell when the world shall ende nor when the Pope shall bee vtterly consumed by the spirite of Christ his mouth But that many hundreth yeeres remaine yet we haue many arguments of likely-hood Of the Iewes calling S. Paul sheweth that the Iewes shall first be called Rom. 12. But Christians in name are miraculously bent against that very neere open Atheisme so their calling cannot bee yet when Christian states swear to hinder that Agent Barton moued a Iewe to request an explication of the newe Testament how it is the perfection to the old Two copies of one Epistle from a Rabbi the best learned in the East came to England in a strange Character such as was neuer seene in the West in stile vnlike all Christians veine And in date and particular circumstances so for the writers occasions that all the wittes in the world of the West could not feigne such a Character style and particular matter From England after long viewing these copies were sent to Basill to the partie for whose worke they were written The Epistle is printed and the summe as request was made commeth forth in English Now marke the recompence from a most thankfull nation Libellers the impudentest that euer were in the world that scoffe a Conclusion of their owne auctores allowed sillogisme a most learned worke that brake Gehennean torment the cause is well knowen these raue against him whom the Q. Agent made the Iew belieue to be the ablest of all Christians to handle our Gospell in Hebrew veine And this scoffe from a most vnlearned wight is allowed by the Buyshops Because your armes be the owles you thinke you must bring owles to Athenes and because the Rabbin saluteth you as you feigne you thinke you are the onely Thalmudique of the world The simple people were persuaded that the Epistle was forged thinking that no slaue of Satan durst euer be so impudent as to borrow the princes authority to a slander and seing two impressions of the Libel were soone sold vnder authority they held not as they ought the slanderers to be Anathema Maran Atha but supposed they spake true and ioyned with them to serue Satan Now Christians should haue the first benefite in shewing the Harmony of both Testaments and where Christians hinder their owne good GOD will giue them no honor for Iewes The like prank one of Geneua plaid being aduertised of the Iewes petitiō and being requested to lend Sadaias Arabique Moses kept a coile as though the matter was forged that many marueiled and gaue information of him and when the Senate gaue leaue to printe the Iewes Epistle and answere he by one Grinetus forbad to vse the Senates leaue and bred much coile Thereupon a Greeke oration accusing him of machmadisme is sent to the Senate They call him to his answere Then he saith he thought the Iewes Epistle was forged The Libell from England cited him and hardned him in that And others in Germany kept a stirre that therupon I called his diuinity to accompt and altered Princes from great promisses towards Ebrew opening of the Bibles Harmonie Of our Kinges rare bent to the honor of the Bible Our King vowed to the Bibles honor so that the partie would and might conueniently take the worke in hande 1596. a thousand poundes a yeare after that he reigned in England Satan hindred the workeman by one that made Gehennea torment of going to Paradise in the Creede And blamed the workeman as deceiued vntill he cleared himselfe no modesty would request the Kings pension nor no wisedome grant it The more religious promisses bee made the more circumspection is to be had to the worke of their ground which failing the Promisse is no Promisse Also the BB. would take the Bibles clearing in hand for which worke much of the old purpose began so the workman was cōtent to be freed After questions were cleared a cold letter moueth the king with mention of old bent The King most redily telleth by a Knight of a royall pension to open the Bible against Iewes the offer is accepted a booke is printed chiefe obiections are dissolued and after nobles an high preferred Clerke hath a copy He denieth the Kinges message and said he would stay the King from allowance to Ebrew clearing of the Bible where the King was so willing and a Clerke so crosse A learned man wrot vnto mee that God meaneth not yet to call the Iewes But of duty I haue now 12. yer celebrated the Kinges redy bent and most constant faith And I see that God stirreth vnlearned scholars to force a calling of them to accompt Now by Ebrew and Greeke Iewes must be taught and Zwitzerland would persuade mee that they knew none by story of my study that way and I thinke some hundred of yeares will passe before another of like paines will arise to call them Of the Popes scholars The Popes scholars in Latin Greeke and Ebrew are terrible to ours as D. Pistorius of Friburge was they so play vpon our errores that they haue turned millions so from vs. Geneueans checking of the Greeke Testament makes Iesuites vse the Latin reiect the Greeke many armies would not so much help them Besides rash termes as Deus agit excitat impellit mouet peccatores These giue Iesuites victorie God leadeth them into temptation to shew his iudgement but in light of cōscience warneth against ill But the wicked rebell against light Againe these asystate stand not together Deus operatur omnia in ominibus in good and bad and Deus non agit in malis Beza hath both And this no better Deus agit in impiis deserendo This trifling of vnlearned disputing increaseth papistry exceedingly So this cānot be denyed God hath set vnto anger all that he calleth not to faith But he furthereth not by inward instinct their destruction He hardeneth by patience or too great affliction This speach he praedestineth men to destructiō is not from God For that terme is vsed in furthering the meanes as in the godly for saluation So one rash terme of a weake schole will turne many away Of Daniel Long did Beza roare in french homilies against the Pope from Daniel Iesuites reply that no syllable there medleth with him so all their powder without pellet is lost till Lemanus-lake-fishers emend their nettes they shall not catch 153. great Fishes and they must launch on the right side Of the poore Indians calling Of loctan Gen. 10. come the East-Indians their names famous in heathen for nationes mountaines and riuers tell that Their
contempt of Godly teaching Christ was great Noe Sem Arphaxad Selah Eber Phaleg brother to Ioctan hath cast thē of hitherto The West-Indians seeme to come of the East as both speake some Ebrew Now God driueth vs to both Indians not for Pepper and Tobacho but in tyme to shew his name And the Iesuites in teaching the holy Trinity Person and Iustice of Christ may saue many and the Pope shall haue an outward reward of longer successe and some hundreths of yeares must be spent this way Of the old opinion of 6000. yeares God hath cast old ages into a pleasant frame of measures of them for Iewes and from Iewes I dedicated an Ebrew worke to the Landtgraue of Hessia Now thousandes I will touch In 3000. exactly the Temple was fully furnished euen to the Arke In 4000. exactly the Romanes destroyed the seconde Temple if without it Messias dayes haue 2000. yeares from the yeare of Christ 1609. of Adam 5536. One as Heber may come to the worlds end by 464. yer The trueth God only knoweth reason telleth affaires in worke require such tyme But no particular person is sure of one day but all should watch when the Bridegrome commeth And to destroy them that destroy the earth Although no Creature but Angells and men know God yet the close bent of all Creatures is framed to serue man for Christ God bending them so And in that sense euery thing is weary of their toyle Eccl. 1. and groneth looking for the Redemtion of the Children of God Rom. 8. and being turned to seruice of Idolls grone in Gods estieme as corrupted such was the old world in corrupting their wayes such were Babel builders till heathen came to God and almost all to this day And Apoc. 5. All creatures giue glory to the Lambe in seruice of Christians But alas men to this day would neuer search Gods word the wealthie and principall of state but remit that ouer vnto others as a base worke for themselues to regard whereby God cast off the world And the Temple of God was open in the heauen and the Arke of his Couenant was seene in his Temple and there were lightnings voices thunders earthquake great haile After papistries ouerthrow Christ who is the Temple and the Arke who hath the Law within him is the mercy seat shall be opened to the few saued and God will pay Papists with warres for the haile and fire that they mixed with blood troublesome meteores eloquently expresse troubles of state as before our Lordes first comming the Romans miseries destroying themselues were a wonder to historiques because Crassus robbed the Temple and Pompei afore made Israel serue Rome and Brutus with Cassius and Antonius with Cleopatra and againe Iulius so Rome that still will crucifie Christ shall haue as great stirrs to warne them of vtter ruine But by warres profanesse breedeth to all sides that when the SON OF MAN commeth he shall scant finde faith vpon the earth The best way to keepe faith is to exercise our vniuersities in the Ebrew and Greeke Testament and to leaue ciuill gouernement to sage courtes fitt for it as Zuricke in Zuitzerland doth that Scholars tyrannie make not new papistrie And thus once all is reueiled vnto the end New visions tell the same matter for better clearnesse CHAP. XII A description of the Church AND a great signe was seene in the heauen a woman clothed with the sun With the moone vnder her feet and a crowne of 12. starres vpon her head and beeing with child cried in trauaile and peigned to beare child THE woman is the church through the song of songes and there pure as the sun heere clothed with Christ the Sunne of Iustice And the state of the faithfull is called through this booke heauen and they are a great signe to the profane world to wonder at The Moone and all vnder the Sunne is contemned of the faithfull and the doctrine which the 12. Apostles equall in knowled and authoritie deliuered to the world is the Crowne and they be 12 starres Iudas Iscariot fell a starre from heauen and Matthias became a sonne of consolation in his stead to keepe still the number of XII for the XII tribes and as S. Paul trauailed of the Galathians that is of Christ to be formed in them that they frustrate not the Gospell by holding circumcision nowe abrogated So the faithfull trauailed in soule to haue Christ brought forth to heathens knowledge that all might knowe that all this world was made obedient to a man At the first which man fell from God his first day and then God opened his Counsell that the Sonne Eternall would be made man of a woman to destroy the workes of the Angels that fell who all are collectiuely satan the enemie Satan brought Adam to lose the life of his soule and his body to death and dust and all this world to corruption Christ kindled light in Adams soule and after 930. yeares heauinesse for sin tooke it to his ioy and will raise vp the body and make a new world that all men who will receiue the abundance of grace of the gift of iustice may reigne by Christ and all who will not regard this mercy so cleare as the sunne they all by Adams fall dead in sin shal be damned for euer with the Diuils This is the trauaile of the Christian minde Speach of this is in all books of the Old Testament in Adams tongue in all the newe in Greeke made most common for this Gospell And Lawe with Gospell expounded by groundes of art which enemies grant should bee the trauaile of our minde And if Academies had brought vp their scholars in Ebrew and Greek exercises for the holy eternall Trinitie in Vnitie and for kissing the SON to happinesse Psal 2. By likely-hood of mans reason the world had benefull of true Christians where as now our Papes Archbuyshopps and Buyshopps know not one letter prick accent of the Law what authoritie it hath from God A pitifull matter that such blinde should bee leaders But the blinde will no other leaders So God cannot pittie them who will make knowen them that be his and despise them that despise him that they poore Caytifes shall perish for euer and feele the aeternall wrath of him whose mercy they haue despised while they counted the mercies offred in Christ to be but folly Of the Prophane Caesar and Pope reuiuing of him both comprised in the body and taile of one Dragon Another signe was seene in the heauen For beholde there was a great ruddie Dragon with 7. heades and ten hornes and vpon his heades seauen diademes And his taile draweth a third part of the Starres of heauen and cast them vnto the earth Iohn saw with his eyes in Vision that which hee and all the Apostles as S. Paul 2. Thess 2. saw in their minde That from Rome the Ruler should rule till hee were taken away After thence man of
sin should arise Both be heere in one dragon which the profane Caesares and the Popes can not perceiue They who be of the heauenly state they all do see the Dragon is the Diuill or accusar of God the great is the Diuells power by Rome the ruddy bloodie persecution His seauen heades are seauē states of Rome ouer THE FAITHFVL as the Iewes knew their story full well Pompei by Rome was an Emperour in the East But perished neere in the land of Cham. So in Iudah M. Crassus was after him armed ouer Iudah as a King for Rome who robbed the Temple of Salem of Abrahams house but at Abrahams Charan he and his army had a most famous destruction Iulius Caesar made Cleopatra Lady of Iudah who perished in Capitolio for that Brutus Cassius force after was a King for Rome They by Antoni perish Antoni hath the East and marieth Cleopatra and ruleth Iuda and both perish So fiue diademes of the Dragon perish The 6. state is the wholle power which crucified Christ and his members till our Helenaes sonne left Rome and New Troy to be a pillage to Alaricus Giezerichus Theodoricus Totilas for old persecuting of martyrs The seuenth is the Popes wealth getting landes by S. Peters forged supremacy and setting vp the Empire in the West These be the seauen diademes spoken to the Iewes plaine vnderstanding Heathen stories may fitt Romes 7. other states The more fall out fitt as often many do to one speach the more Rome that crucified Christ is condemned when GOD turneth continuall reuolution to haue Rome called into minde Moreouer the allusion is to Daniels foure beastes which had 7. heades The Lion one the Beare one the Leopard foure the fourth beast one The Roman state winning all those contreyes of the East are fitly noted by their armes And specially by the then hornes The Seleucidae by fiue kinges vexed Iudah by warres against Lagidae and Lagidae by so many againe wasted Iuda So that Greeke beast in one parted Kingdome had 10. hornes From that beast the Roman beast hath also ten Kingdomes at the least and vnder Augustus and vnder the Pope rekoned to that number Strabo 17. Steuch contra Vallum Lib. 2. so these matters be all most plaine Of the tayle The prophane Caesares persecution moued few Christians the starres of heauen to fall But the taile of the Empire the false prophet that speaketh lies he as Antiochus Daniel 8. maketh many fall from heauen praetending religion with much praetense and no substance The combat of the Roman Empire with the Church And the Dragon stood before the woman beeing in trauaile that when she bore her childe he might deuour it And she bare a manly sonne which will rule all nations with a sceptre of yron And the child was taken vp to God and to his throne The allusion is from the dayes of Christ borne in Bethleem when Satan by Herodes swords would haue deuoured him but his mother fled with him to Egypt after that Satā hoped to deuour him in the graue he was taken vp into heauē so when Christians soules trauailed to breed Christ the Emperors stormed to deuour that doctrine as Dauid told Ps 2. But they brought forth into the light of the world the SON would bruse all nation-with an yron sceptre as he did bruse the image in Daniel And shewed that his throne is in heauen being taken vp vnto the aeternall King And the Christians fled into the wildernesse as CHRIST did in the tyme of his preaching or halfe seauen Dan. 9. and often handled in the Gospell in Eusebius handled and of Beda who cited the Apoc. allusions M. Scaliger and others that make mo yeares of our Lordes preaching spent ill good houres All tyme of affliction is sweetly termed by our Lords affliction to be as his of dayes 1260. though it were of 300. yer vnder Caesares resistance and 600. vnder Popes enimies to Iohns Apocalyps The speach is full of comfort calling vs vnto the afflictions of Christ himselfe who reckoned all his owne dayes and will haue all our teares in his bottle and pay all dogges and Doegs for Cerberean barking A Commentary vpon the former vision And there was warre in heauen MICHAEL and his Angells made warre with the Dragon and the Dragon and his Angells made warre but held not strength neither was there place found any more for them in the heauen And the great Dragon the old Serpent called the Diuell and Satan who deceiueth the wholle world he was cast out againe I say he was cast and his Angels were cast with him into the earth The state of the faithfull heere is sweetly called hēauen to shew our certeinty of hope for the propre heauen as the word of Law and Gospell is as sure to vs as if we saw the third heauen that aboue the ayer and aboue the starres as S. Paul did at his first calling to a comfort against all his following afflictions so the holy Daniel that in one image made abridge from the end of the old Testament vnto the beginning of the new called the state after abrogation of Moises the Kingome of heauen Iohn Baptist doth begin with his tongue The kinddome of heauen is come And the aeternall WORLD the essentiall WORDE who spake and all was made he confirmeth the same speach to shew that Daniels Image was ended and the GOD of heauen setteth vp a kingdome that cannot be corrupted The obseruation of this speach had kept Daniel in a cleare meaning and not brought the West Empire of Christians for East Greeke Seleuco-Lagides athean Nor tymes after Christ for stories teaching when he would come The termes of the Bible be pearles still beate vpon the open story for noblest matters So Saint Paul Ebrew XI speaking of the Maccabees martyrs famous in the Talmudiques and after his dayes historied by Greeke Iewes saith from Daniels last speaches of double resurrection That they would not be deliuered because they looked for the better resurrection So he sheweth that Antiochus persequutions were the last mentioned in Daniel The Romans hindred not the Iewes holy religion till by the Pharisees they vexed our Lord himselfe when he opened the kingdom of heauen dayes 1260. They who without knowledge of Daniel would know the Gospel are as men that would goe from one Land to another parted by great waters without a shipp All that care for the kingdome of heauen will care for him And my paines in a third commentary an English a Latin a shorter in English came forth by my care and charges By the third milliones of our simple might haue knowen the Prophets whole heart But that Bargulus Illyricus would cast him into the Lions den If Lions rent not his bones I will commende him to the God of Daniel and the firy flames streaming from his throne for his fighting for the dragon against MICAEL and his Angells Of MICAEL Michael and Gabriel are the only holy
euen to trie them in the fire to purifie them to whitten them Twise the very same termes be told Heere is the same matter That God would trie the pacience as Dan. 12. of the holy Holy Peter writing from Babylon to the Iewes scattred telleth them of their happinesse in belieuing in Christ whose kingdome tryeth his as gold is tryed The witty wicked Poet could tell so much as Menander Epimenides and Aratus other poinctes Scilicet vt fuluum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore sic duro est inspicienda fides That is As yellow Gold in fier men doe trie So Faith is prou'd in miserie Euery trueth hath Gods warrant whosoeuer doth speake it Now the Popes religion standeth in prosperiti no common weale hath their wealth and quietnesse Therefore they are not of S. Peters faith who from Babylon wrote to the neere scattred Iewes of affliction Although at the first some Doctores of Rome were afflicted and martyrs is too But after quietnesse they still labored to bring home from the East to old Rome and pleaded from the Iewes manner of Fables that the first called Apostle was in the Principall Citie to make him a most wicked man that foreseeing as a Prophet combatts where hee hath beene would not in his owne tyme make that matter past all doubt As Saint Paul Bishoppe of Rome and Saint Luke of Antioh maketh it past all doubt that Peter was neuer neare Rome Clemens and Tertullian made Eusebius write that he was And all who folow them haue but rumores auctoritie And he is cursed that makes mans auctoritie his arme and Melchior Canus a Rhomist maketh a sounde common place that our Churches stories of men are weake testimonies In the 300. yer persequution it was not safe for any to write of others because enemies by such would search out more how to persequute Christians Paul of Romane name borne free in Rome who would not build in others fundations who was carefull for to strengthen the Romans as not hauing yet an Apostle who first told the Synagogue Acts 28. whereupon the Gospell stood sheweth that HEE brought the name of Christ to Caesares pallace Phil. 1. and was told Act. 23. that hee should so doe And saluting 25. Rom. 16. neuer giueth token of one word touching Peter but cleane otherwise Gal. 2. and Peter telleth expresly that from Babylon he wrote his first Epistle chap. 5. whereby all maner of speach all men would require proprietie that the most knowen Babylon should be there meant Yet as Pindarus saith that men belieue fables more then trueth so experience of sage men prooue that true men otherwise sage hold that true that Peter was in Italy as the Chaldi Iob saith hee was at Constantinople and the forged Ben Vziel vpon Num. 24. and millions of milliones after them whereas we despise Iewes Iewes equally despise Romists where any could not misse to haue knowen the trueth if Peter had euer bene at Rome They who say by Babylon he meant Rome would make him a simple Fisher that knewe not where a trope would make a wickedlie and afflict all ages where men neuer date cōmon bookes for all Ages from a misnamed place where the Reader would count the speaker a lyer so the 2. Epistle was written from Chaldea where the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was an S. in Bosor Beor in the 70. and that S. Peter would haue folowed liuing in Greeke landes And I saw another Beast comming vp from the earth which had two hornes like a lambe and spake as a Dragon and practised all auctority of the first beast before him and causeth the earth and them that dwell in it to worship the first beast whose wound to his death was healed c. to the end of the Chap. A most plaine description of the Pope 1. by the beast arising from the earth First his state is a beast as all armes of state are figured by beasts such So the King of Locusts ch 9. is a beast cōming out of the earth ch 11. earth opposition to the sea signifieth a quiet state So the Pope by quietnesse gate lands to be aboue all Emperours yet Ceph the Rocke aeternall would be a seruant And Peter Cephas a fisher but the vnlikest vnder their name would be the vnlikest next the Diuell the God of this world so his a great state vpon the earth in the City which crucifyed Christ By the Lambes two hornes The Lambe signifieth the S. of God Iohan. 1. Apoc 5. Hornes power Psalm 18. Dan. 8. So he that chalengeth to be in steade of Christ and to haue double power from him Ecclesiasticall and Temporall in Ebrew ADONIKAM My Lord is set vp he is heere described He so sheweth himselfe in the Temple of God as if he were God among many millions who knewe him to bee the wicked man But as in old Babel men were of Angells match the three nobles that quenched the fier and made Nemrods sonne confesse their God and gracious Daniel admitted to familiaritie with Christ and his Angells and Ezechiel and Ezra and men like Angells so where the Diuel had his Chappell God had and hath his Church to tell how Satan ruleth the Pope and hath strong worke in error OF ONE ERROR IN THE POPE WHICH MAKETH HIM NEXT THE DIVEL WHERE THE DIVEL WOVLD TREMBLE TO BEE SO IMPVDENT OPENLY The ground of our saluation standeth in belieuing this of the womans seede a destroyer of Satans workes Gen. 3. HEE shall bruise thy head that is spoken twise in Adams tongue in the masculine gender Some late Popes I thinke knewe so much Ebrew though of old few did when they made first the translation called S. Ieromes to be ignorant of this So not SHEE is meant but HEE The aeternall God as the Zoar from Iewes there note God in Christ and againe and againe thou Serpent shall bruise HIS foote-stepp and not HER foote-stepp yet the Popes translation corrupteth that which they call S. Ieromes and say shee shall bruise thy head 1. So the Latin called S. Ieromes goeth though Arias Mōtanus had a better Conscience put forth the true Ebrew 2. Of all Ebrew copies that euer haue bene heard of none herein was noted to differ as by them full many which we read wee may iudge of the rest who would not passe ouer difference in Silence if any difference had bene 3. All Greekes vniversally follow the Ebrew yet against all the Pope would haue not HE but SHEE Marie in his translations in a treatise foisted into Plantines great Bible 4. Satan is broken thus he brought Adams soule to death by sinne the restorer must giue it iustice 5. Satan brought mans body to corruption that HE must restore it in resurrection 6. Satan by Adams fall brought all this world to corruption the restorer must bee able to make a newe world But an HE not a SHEE must doe this wherfore this error conuicteth the Pope of
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
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. In Lotharius saxo
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
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
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
tyrannie shall try Lions and Oxen but also mighty deceite that they which receiue not the loue of trueth may be damned for loue to lies shall try man and eagle and who be full of eyes From this place Greekes tell Antichrist should arise from Rome see chapter 2. Th. 2. he maketh the matter plaine So at the first he shewed his care for Rome And as Daniel chapter 2. calleth the Counsell of God in the afflicters wicked a mysterie eloquent Paul taketh his terme thence teaching that as those matters had a most sure euent euen to Antiochus figure of Antichrist exalting himselfe aboue all religion So when the Emperour should fall The Papae or Diuinity fathers of Rome should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with all force of Satan That text is an abridgement of the Apocalyps First and 2. Timothie and Titus Paul in Timothie telleth all what great learning they should haue which should gouerne others euery man of charge is Pakid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Adams tongue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the LXX Elders Acts. 2. and Titus 3. In vertues of regeneration they should be rare and by study they should be learned Exod. chap. 18. is the ground Sanedrin Maymonie an explication Of these the King chiefly was Doctor Maymonie Hagigah And Archysynagogus and the rest chose one of their company to be Sheliach Zibbur Orator of the congregation he read the Law and dealt in exhortation and all prophecied and none should rule ouerthe people but in mildenesse 1. Pet. 5. Maymon in Sanedrin whose words for our Athean tyrany in BB. forcing othes c. I wrote in my Booke to I. C. of reuerend memory Titus is taught the same Now an ape is liker a man then the Pope Pauls Bishop in 2. Thes 2. 1. Tim. 2. Tim. Tit. The opening of S. Paul by the Talmudiques sitting in Moyses chaire would cleere him more then all others He in Greeke abridgeth them writing to Timothie and Titus who knew them at large Geneua doth well this farre that all should bee kept in order in excommunication farr from S. Paul and in letting the raines to Preachers to be Rome Popes Of Philemon After he had described the gouerners learned and louers of the people he handleth the cause of Seruants from Exod. 21. and Israel seruant in Egypt Exod. cha 20. whence in Talmudiques a long common place is of seruants The marrow of all which Gamaliels Scholar contriueth to one short epistle And heere the gracious prouidence of Christ in the notation of Philemon and Onesimus conteyneth the duty of Maister and Seruant so wiseing al to learne Pauls tongue Philemon is louing so should euery Maister be to his seruant Eph. 6. knowing that they haue a Maister in Heauen A famous Greek Poet much cited for Haides Heauen and Hell from Sophocles Herodotus with Menander and Diphilus was called Philemon Onesimus is by interpretation profitable such should all seruants bee to their maisters Not in ey-seruice as men pleasers but as seruing the Lord. The poore Daughter of Israel in Naamans house caused him to seeke Eliseus and GOD and when hee tooke peper in the nose for Iordan his seruants ouerruled him as Onesimus to saluation The name Onesimus is in Lysias the Attique as vsuall in Greekes Onesiphorus S. Pauls great helper is of the same notation How the Seruant of Seruants is Concordant The Seruant of Seruants is such an Onesimus that he bringeth all to pouertie by his treachery and by his Peter-Pence for Chimineies made millions of eyes dimme with smoke and can forge Constantinus donation for the kingdoms of the West If Iulian had heard any such matter he had set that among the chiefe schoffs for his Vncle But neither hee nor any Greekes could heare of such a matter which all the world had knowen in Constantines dayes if it had beene true The robber thus recompenced Constantine for bringing in Christian politie to destroy new Rome and to roote out from the East the holy Gospell Of the Epistle to the Hebrewes From Rome S. Paul the most reuerend Papas that euer was in Rome and S. Luke next him the Ebrew of Ebrewes telleth the Ebrewes that were vpon reuolt that all Moyses Policie ended in Christ and that no further sacrificer must be on the earth and that faith giueth true commendation from the Creation to the Maccabees dayes who in Dan. 12. hoped in the better resurrection In this Epist S. Paul abridgeth all the Bible The Popes Contrarietie The Popes whole doctrine as I shewed would make a new policie ouer the World by imitation of Aharon so that he commeth to the height of sin and denieth the whole doctrine of iustification by faith and that Abraham and the rest went hence to heauen against S. Pauls expressed words praetending chap. XI II. vlt. Where he speaketh as through the Epistle of perfection in the Doctrine which the Gospell hath aboue the Law and not a word hee nor any of reward in the World of soules Also Augustinus Nabiensis writeth wickedly that the Greeke is a translation and faulty in thou hast made him a little inferior to Angells He would haue it A litle inferior to God yet Christ could say how in humanity despised he was a worme as infinitely inferior to his Godhead though both together make the Person great GOD. Of the Epistle of Iames. S. Iames frameth his speach to Iewes who knew that no Bishops of Elder could be aboue another and bringeth a Law not to praeferre any before the rich in knowledge and where Iewes then and yet holde that beliefe in the trueth of the Law and reuerence to it iustifieth as Abr. Sabung in Zeror writeth of some and Moses de Kotzi praef in Talm. Hee telleth such a faith is a dead faith regeneration must follow as all teach Of the first and 2. of Peter Both Peters epistles are written in Iewes veine that by affliction not by the Popes pompe we get heauen and that Christ tooke that course beeing kill'd in the humanitie and made aliue by the spirite the holy Spirit in the Ethiopian and Oecumenius in which hee went ten tymes is that speach of God in the Law and preached to them which are now spirites in prison because they belieued not when Christ preached in the dayes of Noë And he biddeth vs commend our soules to the faitfull Rock chap. 4. teaching the Pope how hee vnderstood the terme Rock to bee all one as Creator where the Pope as I often told chalenging that name sheweth himselfe in the Temple of God as if he were God And chap 5. he telleth expresly that the chosen Church in Babilon saluted them and Marke And all speakers bee wicked deceiuers that vse not proprietie where all mindes require proprietie and otherwise the whole world should be deceiued And in the second Bosor with S. for Y vsed onely in Arabia and Chaldea telleth where he kept Of the 1. 2. 3.
of Iohn These be wholy for contempt of this world and cleane contrarie to the Popes doctrine as his Apocalyps Of Iude. Hee in teaching of Iewes fall by the Rebels in the wildernesse by the Angells that fell and by the vncleane Cities brent from heauen warneth not to bragg that the Church cannot erre And where Iewes thought gouernement a tyranny he sheweth from Talmudique vpon Moses Buriall Midras Rabba Aboth Rabbi Nathan and others that MICHAEL the Archangell could not suffer Satan to speak slander of king Moyses So hee will not suffer Popes to blaspheme Kinges But the Popes vnderstand not so much as Iudes text to know MICHAEL to bee IEHOVA but make him a created Spirit such blinde batts they be And thus all the scripture agreeth as harpes to follow the LAMBE whose doctrine the Pope stayneth by idolatrie that none can vnderstand the drift of the Scripture but the hundred forty and foure thousand These be they which haue not beene defiled by women For they bee Virgins This speach is taken from the song of songes which saith O that he would kisse mee with the kisses of his lippes for thy loue is better then wine Thy name is oynctment poured out therefore the Virgins loue thee Draw mee and wee will runne after thee None may thinke that mariage is a pollution But this speach is a trope for the virginitie of the minde free from Idolatry which is spirituall whoordome These follow the LAMBE which way soeuer hee goeth being the first fruite for God and the Lambe and there is no guile found in their mouth for they are syncere before God and the Lambe They follow the warrant of Gods word for euery thing and bee bought from men the first fruites for God and the Lambe which was a small part of the whole and they hold no haeresie but hold them only happy whose sinne is forgiuen and whose iniquitie is couered as Psal 32. be iust before God in the iustice of Christ The Combat of the 144000. And I saw another Angell fleeing in the sky hauing the aeternall Gospell to preach to them that dwell vpon the earth euery nation and tribe and tongue and people Saying with a great voice Feare God and giue him glory for the houre of his iudgment is come worship him which made the heauen and the earth the sea and the fountaines of water In the seuenth chap Martyrdome was shewed but without telling by whom In chap. XI the Persecuter was told and the persecuted were called two prophets and chap. 12. the Persecuter is double the vpper part of the Dragon and the taile and the persecuted is the woman clothed with the sun but the cause of persecution is not told chap. 13. describeth the Dragon by sure state specially in the Empire reuiued by the Pope and how no man could liue in the Empire without his profession Now that it standeth manifestly in Idolatrie that is heere told and persecution is for preaching that God onely must be worshipped and not the Empire or Pope and Idolls For now God will defend his flock which of long tyme he suffred to be deceiued Now he will iudge and defend their cause The Popes Idolatry is in worship to Mary and creatures called saintes and in prayer to them due only to God creator of all things of whose power creatures put vs in minde and he will not our inuention Now of Idolatry the next Angell telleth how God will reuenge the Citie And another Angell followed saying BABYLON the great City is fallen is fallen Because she hath made all nations drinke of the Wine of the anger of her fornication The old BABYLON now had no auctority to force Idolatrie while it was vnder the Greeke Empire or Turke which hateth Idolls But now Rome beareth sway so shaken from tongue of scripture as old Babylon from Adams tongue which remayned in the house of Heber and farre passed the old Babel in Idolatrie Therefore ruyne is spoken to be sure for it as fell by Isaiah 21. and Ierem. 51. vpon the old Babel And a third Angell followed them saying with a great voice if any worship the beast and his Image that is taketh a marke on his forehead or hand he also shall drinke of the Wine of the anger of God the Wine mixed in the cuppe of his anger and shal be tormented in fire and brimston before the holy Angells and before the Lambe and the smoke of their torment ascendeth for euer and euer And they haue no rest day nor night if any worship the beast and his Image that is if any take the marke of his name Heere is the pacience of the saintes tried heere are they tryed which keepe the commandements of God and the faith of IESVS Patience in this sorte heere and faith of the sainctes was equally spoken of in the profane Caesares dayes heere greater terror is set downe and fit warning against the subtile work of Satan by man of sin to deceiue if it were possible the elect One poinct heere is to be noted that Gehenna is on high no lesse then Paradise as in Leui. cha 26. before the angry face of God So the Iewes in Cether Malcuth folio 11. hold that on high place of torment is no lesse then place of ioy They who thinke that soules descend and that the holy were in Hell and after warning hold this should feare the punishment heere described And the reformed Churches as Zurick take the wisest order that destroy all the Popes markes and most straitly looke to scholars cariage twise in the yeare and referre all punishments to the Consul and Synedrion such was the Apostles doctrine and the Synagogues of old Great reuenues are now most needfull to breede learned to deale with Papist and Iewes But Simon Magus Buyshopps should haue no place in the Church following the Buy-shopps of Rome As Ananias the painted wall and Eleazar his sonne in Raba caused Ierusalem to bee destroyed So one like may bring an whole nation vnder curse And I heard a voice from heauen saying to mee write Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from this praesent Euen so saith the Spirit to rest from their labours and their workes follow with them Because in tyme of blindnesse none could buy nor sell in Popes Kingdome but of his profession other were killed heere is a sure comfort to strengthen the martyrs God who knoweth all being the speaker from heauen that praesentlie after death they are fully happy which dy for Gods truth or in faith to rest from the labours of this life and their workes follow with them their open profession that God onely is to be worshipped and their carefull life teaching all to consider still as all must dy so praesently followeth iudgement Comparisons of phrases for holy soules departed When the fift seale was opened chapter 6. Iohn saw the soules of them which were killed for 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
for the Kings from the sun rising The same matter of Machmad and Turke arising from Euphrates and vexing the West was vnder the sixt Angells Trompet Geball All Tarik is a memorie how Machmadistes vexed thence Spaine and Italie But rather for a scourge then to hold long possession of old Euphrates stayed Parthians from the Empire But for Popes Idolatry euen Germanie is troubled by Hagarenes that Virgill might well say of both for Rome Hinc mouet Euphrates illinc Germania bellum On this side Euphrates begins to iarre On that side Germany doth menace warre And for Ciuil warres I may continue the verses following in the Poet for the words following in Iohn Vicinae ruptis inter se legibus vrbes Arma ferunt saeuit toto Mars impius orbe The neighbour Cities hauing broke their lawes Each against other vp in Armes arise And wicked Mars through all coasts of the world Acts mercilesse most cruell Tragedies And I saw that from the mouth of the Dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false Prophet three vncleane spirits like vnto froggs for they be spirits of Diuels working signes goe foorth vn to the Kings of the earth to gather them into battel of the great day of the God of hostes Behold I come as a thiefe Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments that hee walke not naked that men see not his shame And hee gathered them into a place called in Ebrew Armageddon The Dracon is the company of the spirits that fell of old the beast the starre that fell from heauen chap 8. 9. and 11. 13. Prophecie is to teach the Gospell chap. 11. So false prophet is the troupe of false teachers three is exceeding many as cha xi two make many thousandes for Zach. chap. 4. Their spirites bee vncleane for doctrine of Diuells from the froggie puddles of slimie doctrine truth resteth in this HE shall bruse the old serpents head Rom. 16. God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall tread Satan vnder your feete God in CHRIST destroyeth the workes of the Deuill and the verie Zohar vpon Gen. 3. saith HV HE is the holy and blessed Eternall But the old serpent deceiueth the Woman that sitteth on Rome beast to say that SHEE shall bruse the head of the serpent so their Latin goeth so their translations so their checking of the Hebrew text Thrise hauing the masculine gendre so against all Hebrewes and Greekes so against all prophets and Gospell and Gods creation that the woman should doe more then the man So to make this idle that God should be in Christ reconciling the World vnto himselfe if a woman could doe more then man and God in man Their writings are so plentifull vpon this poinct that they can deny nothing and so they crosse all the Bible which is but a commentarie vpon this place and all popery is a fight with this place and Satan conquering them for this maine castell hath conquered them for all the Bible That they haue against all religion Satans spirit Popes spirit and his Academies seruing the Pope These be the three vncleane spirits going against all holinesse of the Bible most euidently in deifying Creatures and their made sainctes and Bread with Wine which they would make better then all the world A seale of most high matters is most highly to bee estiemed But none without athean madnesse will say the seale is the King the Kings auctority it should haue to bee as himselfe as Tully saith to his brother But none of witt would make it the King him selfe All their doctrine is such that their Temples Masse and dayly profession in all things is from the vncleane spirite so that no man conuersant in the Bible can abide their Diuinitie For Liberall artes Law and Phisique they hold the principles of nations They should as well for the Bible and the Thalmudiques agreed with Saint Paul but for the incarnation and resurrection And in that the Pope granteth the storie But in all his proper differeth from all men therefore hee must haue a spirite from the vncleane Diuels The threatning of comming as a thiefe in the night is from Obadiah telling of Idumeans destruction suddenly who beeing of Izhaks house yet were close enimies to the truth The commandement of watching was vsed Math. chap. 24. And the apparell of the minde teacheth from care to our bodie what care we should haue to apparell our soule That faith regenerating trimme it The allusion to Armageddon where Barake of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fought the combats of GOD that Mageddon was a mountaine of men cut in pieces that Iabin King of Chanaan was fully broken there this sheweth extreeme breaking of the enimie And when the world was not worthy of good Iosias GOD would plague Iuda at Mageddon So the name of it is fit to expresse a full ouerthrow by God from heauen Barak and the People did litle but God from heauen by the starres Auctors of weather fought from the storehouse of haile and raine that his mighty hand was Auctor of victorie The next Cupp expoundeth that plainely alluding further to the victorie of Iosuah where haile slew more then the men did And the seauenth Angell poured out his Cup on the aire and there came forth a great voice from heauen saying it is done and there came a great voice from the Temple in heauen from the throne saying it is done and there were voyces and thunders and lightnings and a great earthquake such as had not bene since men were vpon the earth so huge an earthquake so great Haile and fire mixed with blood were Pharaohs open punishments and thunderings and at the Law giuing was thunder lightnings and heauy cloude The Pope to come by supremacy weakning Greece by all meanes and begging landes and hauing Princes helpe to further his forgery of Constantinus donation made such warres and troubles that by Scripture phrase haile and fire was mixed with blood Then Princes thought the Turke getting Grecia should neuer plague them But now that they see him the cause of the Turks greatnesse and by Idolatry as Apoc. 9. told the cause of that successe and whole hinderance to saluation they requit him with taking from him what they gaue him He obscured sun and ayer all kind of learning Ebrew Greeke Latin hee abolished histories hee obscured that none of his applied well Greeks to Daniel the bridge to both Testaments Rhetorique tropes which Sacraments require hee turnes to propriety as in This is my body and This is my blood wherein all Couenants the signe hath the name of the thing signified Logique he turneth to sophistry To patch an whole art and policie ouer mighty kingdomes by sophistry most ridiculously when it is examined Not he but martyrs made the Gospell knowen which stirreth Princes against him that as to ouertrow New Rome or Constantina they gaue their authoritie to old Rome and atchieued their counsell but to their owne great mischiefe
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
kinges without all color of warrant from God shew himselfe in the temple of God as if he were God beeing in all policie sinfull and blaspeming true teachers so he must needes be hated of Princes that euery one will draw from him all that they can That is to eate the flesh of the Idolatrous towne and burning it in the fire For God hath giuen it vnto their heartes to doe his minde and to doe one minde and to giue their kingdom to the beast vntill the wordes of God be brought about Because they did not receiue the loue of the trueth vnto right happinesse to studie the Lawes of God day and night God gaue thē ouer to a foolish minde to pull downe the East Empire and to set vp one in the West and to set the Synagogue of Rome aboue all to rule all Empire and Kingdomes And to this day that cursed blindnesse abideth in men that they thinke it a shame for a King to be learned or for Noble men True Kingdome standeth in knowledge of the kingdome of heauen and Princes of cunning education might know both Testaments in Greek and Hebrew and veine of storie in yong yeeres that their hearts might a thousand times in a day runne ouer the heauenly frame of Gods booke and see their Ancestors from Adam to Noë the pillars of the world Then the noble warrier Abraham King Moses King Iosuah King Samuel King David King Salomon and noble Daniel the mightiest subiect in the world and greatest warrior best learned And his noble Cousins that quenched the fire refusing Idols should haue taught nobles to haue in equal sort hated Babelish idolatrie of cursed Rome that crucified Christ and by the serpents biting pierced his footestepp and handes and would naile fast all feete and handes from walking in Gods wayes and working in his trueth What a shame is it for Kings that they know not the familie of David penned of purpose to make kings wise David Salomō both wise began the glorie Ioakim Ioachin both vnwise ended the glorie all betwixt are a glasse for Kings to see their owne case Againe the pompe of this world is eminēt in Daniels Image afflicting the holy house of Nathā but beatē to pouder for their paines that madnesse of Counsell is expressed in Nebuchadnezars open madnesse His open madnesse of seauen yeres was not so madd as the Persians or Alexander that made themselues Gods and the parted Macedonians are a patron of slauery to Satan Heere in one Image all Greek and Latin to Liuie is cōteyned and Kings might make their teachers to bring such stately matter into commune knowledge to make a Bridge from the fall of Salomons house vnto the setting vp of Nathans Nabuchadnezar honored Daniel to Iudahs good For chiefe heads of this matter Kings further called should further delite in this kinde So for the Image of the beast Apoc. 13. if Kinges had bene happy they had learned from storie what Iohn foretold but because they despised Gods exhortation to read the Booke God gaue it into their hearts to giue their kingdome to the beast if they would make their people learned in this Booke the flesh of the harlot should soone be eaten All true soldiers should be Doctores of Diuinity such all will conquer with small losse as Israel vnder Iosua which studied Moses 40. yer And Dauids Capteins by knowlede of Moses were mighty in battell Doctors in bare title the Popes and ours deserue so much reuerence as so many apes and all that put any trust in them are like vnto them Now commeth a plaine condemnation of Rome The woman which thou sawest is the great Citie which hath the Kingdome ouer the Kings of the earth All be past shame that see not Rome heere damned vnto the end of wrath CHAPTER XVIII The King is Angelus to cause the word to be sounded After this I saw an Angell comming downe from heauen hauing great auctority and the earth was lightned by his glorie and he cried mightily with a great voice saying BABYLON the great City is fallen is fallen and is become a dwelling of Diuells and a prison of euery vncleane spirit and a prison of euery vncleane and hatefull bird because she hath caused all nations to drinke of the wine of the anger of her fornication and the Kings of the earth committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth became rich by the might of her wealth c. THE like speach is in Ezekiel chap. 47. where the glorie of the Gospell shineth from Christ and waters of doctrine flow with life And the Angels glorie lightned the whole earth cha 10. taught this same matter where Iohn eateth the litle booke And Christ is the Angell he cōmeth downe when he setteth vp the light of his word by which hee shineth ouer the earth Though in vision sundry Angels expresse him And when Ierusalem is builded Babylon must needes fall and where the mighty Gospell is taught of millions there Christ speaketh with a great voice Anabaptistes be the chiefe helpe that the Papists haue to dispute that it is dangerous for the common people to medle with Gods word But a learned officer would with sagenesse soone teach them how they misse burning in fire the obstinat in haeresie Maymo in the treatise Chagigah Perek III. sheweth how the King should read the Law before the people in the feast of Tabernacles and in what sage reuerence A pulpit of wood was made for him in the court where all might come men and women and the synagogue keeper brought forth the booke of the Law gaue it to the Archisynagogue and he to Sagan of the Temple Strategos Act. chap. 4. 1. Chancelor we may terme him he to the high sacrificer and hee to the King and hee read Deuteronomie and of the King he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is The King is Angelus to cause the word of GOD to be sounded If the Iew could thus honor the Law and shew the Kings duty which Iew saw not the true glorie of it by the SON of GOD how much more should wee bring vp our Kings to honor the holy Gospell to read speciall places as the first of Saint Matthew of 1800. yer story and 3. Luke of 3957. or Act. 7. or 2. Thess 2. or some speciall place to stirre nobles a learned reading would be as good as a commentarie And chapters expounding one another and Psalmes might so be chosen that by bare reading great light would come So millions would say that Babylon the great is fallen and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Daemones be all one and Rome is a dwelling of Diuels and Cardinals bee vncleane spirits and Archbuy-shopps be vncleane and hatefull birdes and their keies be keies of the pit and their Idolatry making Peter the Rock against this THERE IS NO ROCK BVT THE ETERNALL had made the Kings of the earth madde in Idols from one error that
the gates of death shall not praeuaile against Rome where the speach meant that terror of Romes persecution should not stay the building vpon Christ the Rock Buy-shopps should be knowen how wickedly the merchants become wealthy blinde leaders of the blinde vnto eternall destruction Vncleane spirits and hatefull birdes if Esay 13. 14. 21. 23. 47. and Ier. 51. Ezek. 27. and againe Ier. 7. should bee read comparing old traffique with the Popes ritches and ruyne this chapter would haue great light which of it selfe needeth not further exposition For the next cha telleth how Rome falleth by the ioy of the godly which in order of tyme handleth matter whence the ruyne of Rome cōmeth The terme witchcraft bestowed vpon the Popes doctrine is to be noted They who say bread after wordes spoken is no longer bread would haue men bewitched and so for the wine Sense is a diuine testimony and if two men should witnesse that others did worshippe bread or wine no hypocrisie should saue them Christ gaue the Law in Moyses and will not the tokens to bee worshipped that must be kept for God onely Where Rome killed men for the Prophets doctrine and holy Apostles they are as gilty as if they had killed them and all holy in the same faith All the holy spake of Christ and Rome by Pilate killing him was worthy to haue for Popes neither forgiuenesse in this world nor in the world to come but heere to be openly cursed as Iscariot and in the world to come eternall flames This kind of speach troubled great Doctors I wil therefore digresse a litle to this phrase Maymoni in treatise of repentance saith there is a sin whereof sentence passeth that he shall be punished in the world to come no harme passeth ouer him in this world and there is a sin which is punished in this world and in the world to come as be the Iewes that betrayed Christ the Romans that crucified him The Iewes are plagued with blindenesse and slauery and Rome with horrible Idolatries and tyrannies and warres and blood CHAPTER XVIIII I say Ieremy and Ezekiell compared with this ch bring great light And after this I heard a great voice of much people in heauen saying Allelu-iah saluation and glorie and honor and power belongeth to the Lord our God for his iudgements are right and iust because hee hath iudged the great whoore which corrupted the earth by her fornication and reuenged the blood of his seruants out of her hand And againe they said Allelu-iah And her smoke ascended for euer and euer c. WHEN the Angell filled the earth with his glorie then much people prayseth GOD for reuenge against Rome and the 24. Bishopps sage learned and the speciall rare the foure wightes full of eyes and tell of the Lambs supper and his mariage with the Church which matter Psalm 45. and Cantic directly handleth and all the scripture runneth vpon that Now for the terme Hallelu-iah It is vsed first in Psalm 104. where the verse afore wisheth the wicked to bee destroyed out of the earth And the old Hebrewes turne that speach of the Psalm to haue beene the preaching in the dayes of Noë when the flood came and Midras Tillin noteth that Allelu-iah was neuer vsed till Psal 104. after prayer that the wicked should be taken away out of the earth The auctoritie of the book is litle but the peise of the argument is much So in the New Test Aleluiah is neuer vsed till speach commeth of the Popes destruction The sinfull to haue Pyrrha the wife of Deucalion The fable which made Noë Deucalion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conteined a fable which Ouid hath Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur affore tempus Quo mare quo tellus immensaque regia coeli Ardeat mundi moles operosa labores That is Iupiter bethought him how tyme should come When Sea and Land and great Heauens pallace Should burne the worlds workemanship decay As once the world perished by water so it should by fire Sem and Iaphet taught that in sadnesse But their sonnes turned it into a fable yet S. Pet. 2 Epi. 3. restoreth the matter vnto old trueth And as the Midras turneth in fable Halelu-iah to be vsed at holy preaching in Zohar vpon Gen. 6. by the argument and first Psal 104. vpon the destruction of the wicked so heere first vpon the destruction of the man of sinne the word is vsed And that foure tymes Of the Hebrew terme God only wise contriued the world vnto Macedonian victories and reigne of 300. yea from West vnto all partes that Greeke was made common ouer all the world by the tyme that the Apostles were to write the Gospell that in the Greeke tongue and only in the Greeke tongue they might write it for all nations Yet God would haue the tongue which Adam spake and Heber kept and that in which the Law was penned to be still studied Therefore the N. Test hath many yea full many wordes that require Ebers helpe and in expressed letters about 50. And whereas Esai 19. telleth that in Egypt they shall speake the tongue of Chanaan he meaneth that with the Gospell they shall haue the Hebrew tongue and Origens Octaplun eightfold worke in Epiphanius Ancorato had Hebrew in Hebrew letters and the same spelled in Greeke and six Greeke translations so here the studie of the Hebrew Prophetes to open the Gospell doth fell the Pope and the Pope is closely touched by the word Allelu-iah Praise God in whom wee breath and not Idoles which haue no breath in their nostrills Of the best way to ouerthrow the Pope The Turkes Princes moued Q. Elizabeths agent L. Barton of godly memory to the known way by common witt to open the trueth in causing a Rabbin to demand a proofe of the New Test by Ebrewes The Apostles proued all by Ebrews so should all expounders of them And the Pope vnable therin falleth and all his Cardinales and Archbuyshops And our King tooke once a noble course that way the hinderer shall abide iudgement and that a most heauy shall not haue his shame forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come An Ebrew explication of the N. Test by sayings granted of Iewes would moue Iewes Gētiles to hold one truth My Hebrew explicatiō of Nathans house Mat. 1. Luc. 3. from Dan. 7. fold shield and the Hebrew chayning of the Chronicle hath moued Salem and Rome though Nazaret would bring the auctor to the top of a Rock This matter is worthie of record that Gods vengeance may bee marked while the world standeth how he will deale with so gratefull babes But now let vs abridge the text People Bishops rare godly praise God for calling to the Mariage that the Church is married to Christ and clothed in white iustice and Christ warreth to ouerthrow Rome Amen Aleluiah And a voice came from the throne saying
and the second death Chrysologus missed grossly for Gehenna that Abraham should bee there whom expresly S. Paul Ebr. XI after the Gospell Mat. 8. and Luc. 13. and all Talmudiques from Leui. 26. placeth in heauen N. N. and his commenders missed most atheanly more then anyeuer since the Diuel deceiued Adam to say that our Lord was in the second death The Diuells trembled till their time to speak so blasphemously he may brag he at the last hath made them next himselfe and more open Of forgiuenesse in this world what Talmudiques meane Maymonides cited by me in poenit Perek 6. saith there be sinnes whereof iudgement determineth that punishment shall bee taken for a man in this world in his body or in his wealth or in his yong children which are his possession and there is a sinne whereof punishment is taken in the world to come And there is a sinne which is punished in this world in the world to come This was an old Ebrew speach and to the Scribes our Lord speaketh in their owne phrase that they sinning against the Holy Ghost should not bee forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come Old and late who hence breed Purgatorie shew that from Babel not from Salem they speak The same sin is said in sinning wilfully 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Core Dathan Abiram did whom the earth swalowed and heat of fire consumed their remnant That punishment haue the Iewes to this day for sinning against the holy Ghost in betraying of Christ and now a dayes many resist the trueth as Iannes and lambres resisted Moyses Such neuer knew him who is O MEGA bringer of all things to passe Of the Apostles pecular Greeke The Apostles peculiar Greeke is wonderfull as in the Lords prayer Giue vs this day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bread neither in superfluitie nor wanting The terme was made by the holy Ghost by the frame of Greekes to Pro. 30. in Agur the sonne of Iakeh Giue me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bread fitlie measured for me Of Saint Paulls most eloquent expressing of Moses to shew a short way to expound the new Test S. Paul saith that he differeth in nothing from the Iewes generallie but in not doubting of the incarnation and resurrection In his speach he foloweth Deut. 30. and doubteth not what minde can goe to heauen to bring Christ downe or what mind can descende to the deepe of the earth Psal 71 to bring Christ from the dead But he confessed with his tongue that Iesus was the Eternall and beleeued in his heart that God raised him from death and assured him selfe and others of a sound way to truth by this Of Thalmudiques agreement with the new Testament Neither the holy Gospell nor holy Epistles teach any thing for Ecclesiasticall gouernement but as the holy Synagogues did many superfluities of ambition the Scribes and Pharisees had as they had in right sort al that the Apostles held taught of old by them and godlier sitting in Moses chaire So that by olde grantes all Diuinitie questions might bee soone ended And this doth Paul in his imitation of Ebrew speak Gamaliels scholar at Ierusalem and the Greeke orator bred in Tarsus free in Rome that none other Apostle should be Papas of Rome but he so called rarely of God and tendered by Coronel Iulius Sergius Paulus and the Proconsull of Melita and the barbarians for a prosperous iourney to Rome to which and of which he wrote more from God then anie sauing Saint Luke Act. 23. and 28. And if Saint Peter had bene there hee knowing the state to come would haue left monumēts of his being there would haue cōmented vpō S. Paul 2. Thes 2. as he cōmented vpon all his Epist 2. Pet. 3. And thus Christ by taking the name from Alpha and O Mega requireth knowledge in the tongues wherein hee speaketh The direct and proper vse calleth vs to an higher matter The beginning and the end He created all thinges and they were very good And created Angells that when man should bee created they should take care of him misliked mans superioritie were condemned to Tartarus are kept in chaines in the blacke aire vnto the iudgement of the great day he hath an end for them that although they sinned of infinite pride and vnthankfulnesse and euery whit from their owne motion yet they ouer raught not the decree of Christ who told the day of their fall and Adams fall that in humanitie he would bee a litle inferior to Angells by suffring of death but would haue all things subdued vnto him In Adams fall all were to be borne dead in sin that all should for euer perish but for further mercie All hee inuiteth to seeke vnto God that they might feele him but al being dead in sinne only they whom he quickneth belieue in him hee still inuiteth the wicked to goodnesse but they rebell against his spirit thinking his wisedom foolishnesse yet hee ruleth them that their sinne shall not haue the rayne to open mischiefe but as he wil. And one open iudgement he shewed in Noës dayes an other he will shew in fire Apoca. 20. And all whom he hath not chosen of eternitie called in due time and quickned from dead and sanctified by his spirit he condemneth for their wicked works and this helpeth them nothing that they doe his decree they did not that which hee telleth plainlie by doing they should liue and their owne conscience damneth them that they iustly perish for euer And in their stubburnesse after long patiēce he sheweth his power And these his wayes bee vnsearcheable But as the letters from Aleph to Tau haue all their forme and sound in speciall vse order and not two the same So from the beginning to the end he ruleth the world in a most wise course to shew his iudgement and mercie wherein this last booke calling old speaches to new matter goeth through the Alphabet of all ages and sheweth how Iapheth hath fellowship with Sems house and Cittim or Italie shall bee perishing when they afflict Heber that he may be seene to ioyne first last in wise order The Concent which is in Moyses and the Prophets and New Test is wonderfull in places tymes and families I wishe all Preachers to follow the holy mens veine but the tongues and stories require much tyme that for Diuinitie the most vse commoration of plaine Ethiques known naturally and litle studie how the Prophetes comment vpon Moses S. Paul vpon the Gospell and how all foure haue their harmonie And if Daniel and Iohns Apoc. should bee made plaine ouer a kingdome that paynes would kill millions of papists The one I haue made plaine in my last edition by which since it was printed many might haue seene light But the God of this world darkened some mindes to hinder that not regarding the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone To him that is a
alone which mongst the Cities all Hath seauen hills encompass'd with a wall And Ovid is playner Quae de septem totum circumspicit orbem Collibus Imperij Roma Deumque locus Of Empire and of godds Rome is the place Which from seau'n hills all the world doth outface Propertius and Galen in Aphoris Hipp. and they who name the mountaines may be spared All serue Apo. 17. Now God that is One he from one mountaine will fight against seaven Psal 68. will tell what Mount Zion is The church hath high matter vnto whose height of studie the prophane cannot climme Alexander could match Porus vpon his high rock But he durst not medle with mount Tzion So Philosophers can speak much to the height of heauen but vnto Paradise aboue the heauens no thought of theirs could euer come And as heathen were amazed at starres worshipped them so Papists are amazed at Martyrs and worship them The Pope should studie the Bible and cause all scholars to do the same in Ebrew Greeke and conference of stories to passe all Martyrs sauing the Apostles age taught from God without studie should confirme in open studie the doctrine which Christ sealed by his blood So he had made an holy Citie But Rome begun with bloodshed of brother when Romulus killed Rhemus not as Salem with Sem and Izhak in peace redemtion would ende with bloodshed of brethren and to goe to heauen as Romulus and Iulian the Apostata in somnio Scipionis and in Sozimus and Apolline Delphico And as Libanius said that Iulian was with the Daemones and the Greeke Doctores granted that with heart and good will So we will grant with heart and good will that the Pope and his Martyrs shall be together Of the great Citie Ierusalem Though Nympha the Church in song of SS hide it selfe as a doue in cliffes of rockes as few yet when all of all ages are put togeather they make a great Citie And this Citie should haue holy Lawes to worship God in spirit and truth all sent from heauen and hauing the glory of God And the light of it was like a most pretious stone as the Carbuncle stone glittering The 70. in Isai chap. 54. 12. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Codcod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Thargum Ierusalemy Nophec the stone of Iuda is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christallos Thence Saint Iohn hath his matter and he that marketh not that teach that Iohn bringeth matter without warrant which he neuer doth thorough his booke but still confirmeth his matters from olde speaches So the stone of Iuda maketh the windowes that the sunne of iustice may shine in and the gates shal be of flaming stones cleere Doctrine that may call all vnto Christ And all thy borders shall bee pleasant stones for thy children shall bee taught of the Eternall so the taught of God be the precious stones such was Moses and Iosua such were Isai Ieremy Ezekiel Daniel such were Paul and all the holy Apostles and all that sincerely know and cleaue to their Doctrine But no Bellarmine that would disgrace the wit writ of the scriptures No such shall be any stones heere but be as common sandes parching in heat and dangerous in winde still fruitlesse And it had a wall great and high hauing xij gates and vpon the gates xij Angels and names written which are of the 12. tribes of the sonnes of Israel The wall is the defence by Christ as followeth anon that the inner building of the wall was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carbuncle The gates haue Angels to conduct them that shall be saued and the true storie of the XII tribes taught heere by their names teach others a passage into the citie This matter expresseth Ezekiel 47. where the names of the tribes of Israel be vpon the gates and the gates 3. to each of the foure corners of the world From the East three gates from the North 3. gates from the South 3. gates from the West 3. gates Ezekiel beeing in Babel North from the East of Israell began that men should come to the holy Citie from the North where Israel was scattred But for vs in the West where the Church is best in our ends of the earth the possession of Christ Ierusalem beeing East was first to be named and next the North for holy Daniels sake the light of the world whom moo in Albion vnderstand then in the world besides and I hope moo shall by my inlargement nowe comming forth teaching how the new Testament commenteth vpon him Then the ordinary course the coast ioyned to the East the South where the Iewes were scattred by the Ptolomies and a long tyme Alexandria bare Patriarches Athanasius a wonder for holy Diuinity and Greeke eloquence and great Cyrill great though not equall to Athanasius whose long commentarie vpon Isai in Greek I haue and wish it printed Thence D. B. may see vpon Isai 38. what he meant by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strengthen his owne most learned Syllogisme which breaketh the necke of Purgatory when Haides is knowen to haue but Heauen and Hell Alexandria in the South had glorie as Antioch North. That wheresin abounded grace should more abound Antiochi deserued no such fauor the head of Magog in Siria But God promissed Eze. 39. to glorifie his name about Magog And therfore would haue Christians to beare the name first from the place most hatefull and next Alexandria the next hatefull to bee high and Rome that crucified Christ yet for some helpe they had shewed the Maccabees and certaine good captaines Math. 8. and 27. and Act. 10. and 23. and 27. God would pity that cursed towne Though Constantinus new Rome bare sway a great while but the Buy-shop of Rome still worked to ouerthrow Bizantium that he might haue the throne of Satan in higher measure And Bizantium had not medled with Gods people and long had no occasion of high throne for God to shew later anger But had farre more learned then Rome euer and scant euer acknowledged Romes purgatorie And to the West from Chanaan in the Land Gyges or Gog as Croesus wealth enabled Cyrus when hee tooke Sardis to send Israel home from 120. nations So God by Iohn gaue Sardis his Apocalyps that it kept religion farre longer then Rome Now as God placed the tribes about the Arke three nobles of Leah Eastward the blemished to parching sun and the basest Northward and the last borne and dearest towardes Sun-set to shew that his mercy reacheth most to the furthest off Of these the Psal 80. speaketh before Ephraim Beniamin and Manasses stir vp thy strength come and helpe vs. That is as Shem Tob well noteth at the Sun-set of our state and our last birth as Ioseph and Beniamin were most tendered shew O Lord now the fathers fauour to the children Paul the Hebrew of Hebrewes of Beniamin he chalengeth for him selfe and his
manifold and vnsearchable is the wisedome of God The Iewes seeing Ioseph gone for Ieroboam might feare lest Iuda should fall more for killing of Christ that now only Saint Pauls Bishopricke of the West is best in Christianitie he foretold how Rome would deceiue and bad them not to be proud but feare and not ouerrule the ciuill officer but be subiect all this is vaine to many Iosephs Beryll the glorie of Paradise is now abiect Of the Topaz Simeon hath the ninth place to be very base yet afore manie of the handmaides children Of the Chrysophrase The Chrysophrase is a white Achate with a golden lace and part greene Achate simply is in Exod. 28. for Nephtaly Iohn giueth the trimmest of Achates as God shewed him And Nephtali is set before Dan because Dan first fell away Of the Hyacinth Leshem was Dan his stone and in notation it is Folow God and in the partition of the lande Leshem the Towne was giuen to Dan as prophecied in the name of his stone though it were farre from the other soile of his where Samson dwelt Semel is an idole Alpha and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mega gaue him warning that he turned not the Letters But none can stand longer than God stayed him Ionathan the some of Manasses of Gerson of Moses who would thinke it he and his house were Priests to the idole till the remouing of the glorie from Ephraim and Ieroboam regarding not that set vp a Calfe in Dan. The Antichrist by imitation of idoles is Dans childe Barbarous Rome cannot auoid that but by a ridiculous distinction of Idole and Image Of Gads Amethyst God of ordinarie course should folow Dan and Aser the yonger being set before him for Anna the daughter of Phanuel Thus Iohn comforteth the 12. tribes in their owne veine of speach calling all their stories of 1700. yeeres often reuolued in the same desert to shew the Constancie of God to encourage the 12. tribes not to be amazed that Rome hath crucified Christ and destroyed the lowe Ierusalem but to know that it also shall be destroyed after vnwilling furthering of the Gospell by martyring and when ease and wealth bringeth blindnesse and error it shall vnder praetense of holinesse and by persequution cause more study of Law then all former ages had The Iewes soone would climme into the mountaine of Tabâ—r in minde to acknowledge this description to be all from the Prophets and most easie to vnderstand And this cutteth off all Iudaisme which the Rabbins haue to this houre who from Ezekiel 40. looke still for a returne to Canaan But against that S. Peter told them that euery Prophecie of Scripture is not to bee expounded properlie And the twelue gates were twelue pearles euery one seuerall gate was of a pearle The wordes of the holy Apostles open the way into the Citie and the spirit of God spake in them and no one could be aboue the other but euery one stood a foundation vpon the Rocke By them which haue written we know that the others had wordes also as pearles When the Pope buried the stile of the Apostles and brought in Romes tongue and neither that pure then the pearles lost their gaynesse And the street of the Citie was pure gold as cleere glasse The open lawes are agreeable to the soules frame in iudgment from God and rules of faith bee cleere Rome hath scant one rule of either But their lawes crosse commune reason and their speaches of faith be either false or litigious And a Temple I saw not in it for the Lord God of hostes is the Temple and the Lambe Earthly buildings profit not as all S. Stephens oration telleth and the faithlesse Iew Izhak Ben. Arama Port. 52. shewing how the Tabernacle thrise described and set vp did litle helpe they presently misbelieuing And Salomons Temple after his death was robbed by Shisak King of Egypt and rejected of the tenne Tribes And this as the Iew confesseth to shew that God rested in CHRIST a goodlier Temple the heauen and the earth whose teÌ„ple when it should be once pull'd downe he would raise it vp the third day Moyses Law ye shall stand in reuerence of my Tabernacle tooke effect for punishment in Ephraim for Elies sonnes defiling of women waiting there that God foresooke his Tabernacle in Shiloh and Ephraim fell in the day of battel 34000. 1. Sam. chap. 4. and Psal 78. Nabuchadnezar that destroyed the Temple was so many yeeres like a beast as the Temple was in building And his Babell for the holy Temple was destroyed The carnall Iewes vrged Moyses Law against Christ as to death That he said destroy this Temple and I will build it againe in three dayes He spake of his owne Temple For which the Law of Moses was made and the Tabernacle and the frame of the world and because they stood not in reuerence of his Temple hee destroyed them By the former Law as they martyred S. Stephen for saying Iesus of Nazareth would destroy the Temple And they meant as much for S. Paul for speaking teaching against the Temple and they thought he had brought Trophimus a grecian of Ephesus into the Temple and so polluted it But the true Temple they saw not till theirs was destroyed And here Iohn expoundeth Moses That God the Lord of hostes the Angels and goodly frame of the world That CHRIST in whom all fullnesse it selfe dwelleth is the Temple And they that crucifie a picture as his making him vile or worship a piece of bread as his body being a mockage to Angells and men shall finde no place in Ierusalem The Temple of the Lambe must be vsed as hee teacheth It sitteth in shining light in heauen and may not be made base in this darke ayer by our foolish inuentions his owne commanded works as Salomons Temple cannot conteine God 1. King 8. Act. 7. Esai 66. This one rule ouerthroweth all Talmudiques by the Prophets whose words they reuereÌ„ce A plaine conclusion from Esai 60. and 51. and Ezeck 47. of the Gentiles Ierusalem And the Citie shall haue no neede of the sun to giue light in it for the glory of God lightneth it and the Candle of it is the LAMBE Isai 60. Arise be lightned for thy light is come and the light of the ETERNAL riseth ouer thee Ephes. 4. He saith arise thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead and Christ shall shine to thee Many Rabbines as S. Paul draw Esaies words to Christ and when Iohn wrote 144000. Iewes faithfull would so take it Isai 60. The Sun shal be no more thy light on the day and the brightnesse of the Moone shall not giue light vnto thee But the ETERNAL shal be thy continuall light and thy GOD shall bee thy honor Thy Sun shall no more sett and thy moone shall not be hid for the Eternall will be thy continuall light and the dayes of thy mourning shall be gone worldly ioy shall not bee thy
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