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A17215	Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come, and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age, and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas Potter	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Potter, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 4070; ESTC S109532	41,593	112

so ouerthrew and rooted vp the kingdome of Lombardy Wherby the third of the thrée Hornes may very wel be said to haue fallen downe But the Citie of Roome was giuē by the ●āe Charles vnto Saint peeter and to the bishop there the successor of Saint Peeter and to the Romain Church And those things which his elders before him had giuen lately the same he enlarged and confirmed But before I procéed to other things partaining to this matter I cannot omit the exposition of Daniel the iudgement of that moste famous and godly man Ebarhardus Archbishop of Salisburge concerning Pope Gregory the ninth and other Bishops of Rome who about the yéer of our Lord 1240. in a common Parlement of the kingdome as it is mentioned by Iohānes Auentinus in his seuenth Book of Cronicles thus said These mightie holy Préests of Babilon desire to reign alone They cannot abide to haue any equall They wil not ceasse til they haue brought all things vnder their subiection and sit in the Temple of God and lifted vp abooue all whatsoeuer is woorshiped Their hunger for riches their thirstinesse for honor is vnsatiable The more thou giuest to a couetous man the more dooth he couet and desire Reach him thy finger and he will couet for thy whole hād We wax the worsse euen all the sorte of vs through immoderate libertie He that is the Seruant of Seruants desireth to be the Lord of Lords euen as though he were God him self He disdaineth the holy assemblies and councels of his bretheren yea of those that be Lords and rulers ouer him Hée is afraid lest he should be cōpelled to yeld account of those things whiche hee dooth daly more and more against the lawes He speaketh great things as though he were a God He imagineth in his hart new deuises to the intent he might establish a Kingdome to him self Hée chaungeth lawes confirmeth his owne defileth robbeth spoyleth defraudeth killeth euen hee that wicked outcast whom they vse to call Antichriste In whose forhed is written the name of blasphemy I am God I cannot erre he sitteth in the temple of God and ruleth far néer But as it is writtē in the secrets of holy Scriptures he that readeth let him vnderstand The learned shall vnderstand but all the wicked shal doo wickedly and shall not vnderstand And by and by after this The maiestie of the people of Roome by whiche in times past the whole world was gouerned is taken away from the Earth and the Empire is returned back into Asia The East shall beare dominion again and the West shal be brought vnder subiection The kingdome was multiplied and the highest gouernment of things is now dispersed in to many cut in sunder diminished I wil not say torn all to péeces Ciuil dissentiōs are sowed abrode for euer And wée sée no end of deadly warres The name of Emperour is but a vain name and but a shadowe only There are now ten Kings at once whiche haue parted amongst them the whole earth béeing héertofore the Romain Empire not to rule and gouern it but to consume it The ten Hornes which seemed incredible to Saint Augustine that is to say The Turcks the Greeks the Egiptians the Africans the Spanyards the Frenchmen the Englishmen the Germaines the Siciliās the Italiās haue in possession the prouinces of Rome and haue rooted out the Romaines that inhabited the same And vnder these grewe vp a litle Horne which had eyes and a mouth speaking presumptuous things He bringeth into subiection vnder him thrée Kingdoms moste cheefly that is to say Sicily Italy Germany and compelleth them to serue him He vexeth the people of Christe and the Saints of God with his intollerable soueraintie He turneth all things vpside down bothe things diuine and humain He attempteth matters horrible excecrable What can be more euident then this Prophecy All the miracles and prodigious wunders of whiche our Hauenly maister did admonish vs read ye the chronicles were wrought a great while ago in which presumption violēce possesse all thinges Good mē are tossed to fro with all reprochefulnes and pouertie All right is confounded and Lawes perish there is no faith in men no peace no gentlenesse no shame no trueth there withall no safetie also no gouernment no rest at all from euil men all the whole earth is in a whurlyburly warres doo rage on euery side all nations are vp in armour assaulting one another Cities néere bordering do fight togither Kingdomes are ouerthrowen and Cities doo vtterly perish not onely with Swoord and fire but also with continuall Earthquakes and ouerflowings of waters and with often diseses and hunger Maruelous wunders happen euery where in all the Elements of the world The aire is infected corrupted and vnholsome through vnsaciable rain sometime with vnprofitable drought sometime with colde sometime with to-much heats Neither dooth the Earth yéeld any foyson vnto man neither the corne nor trées nor Vines haue any fruteful increace And though in their bloughth they giue great showe yet in Haruest they bring no frute Cattel and beastes dye vppon the earth Birds in the aire and the fishes in the waters Blasing Starres and darknes of the Sun the coloure of the Moone the suddain and vnaccustomable falling of the shooting Starres the heauens ouerspred with blood confoundeth the mindes of men with dreadful terrour through the wrath of God against men there rageth Swoord fire hungar and siknes Neuerthelesse the vngodly acknowledge not the Iustice of God but rather increace more and more in euil In so much that they haue eyes and see not And this haue I resited woord by woord out of the Chronicle of Auentinus whiche if any of you desire to read ye shall finde it in the Copie of Ingolstadius printed in the yéer of our Lord. 1554. in the lefe 684. and 685. c. All these sayings of the Archchbishop agrée very well to our matter and expound the same And it appéereth that I am not alone of this opinion that he putteth other Kingdoms in place of the thrée Hornes Whiche thing I commit to the Iudgement of the reader With my exposition accordeth the number of the beasts name Apoca. 13. of which I haue elswhere discoursed more at large Now let vs return to our Daniell bréefly to expound that also which remaineth But thus by casting down of the thrée hornes that litle horne mentioned by Daniel namely that bace Seruant of Christe and euen the Seruant of Seruants did not onely clime vp to the highest top but also became the moste mightie Prince of that fatall Land of Italy Apoc. 17. and Lord of seuen hilled Room and of the Palaice of Antichriste The which he and his repaired and adorned by the space of seuen hundred and fiftye yéeres so that olde Rome by the help of these woorthy Patriarches may now séeme to be new borne again And héerunto Saint Paule séemeth to haue relation 1. Thessa 2.

suddain destructiō shall come vpon thē as the pain of childe bearing vp on a vvoman in trauail and they shall not escape But our Lord in his Gospel procedeth with his Prophetical exposition Luke 18. saith moreouer Iniquitie shall abound and the loue of many shall wax colde so that the sonne of man vvhen he commeth shall scarcely finde faith vpon the earth Saint Peeter also fortelling of the extreme wickednes of this last age 2. Peeter 3. I stir vp your mindes saith hée to remēber the vvords that haue beene spokē heertofore by the holy Prophets and also the cōmaundement of vs the Apostles of our Lord and ●auiour This vnderstand ye first that in the last daies shall come mockers vvhich vvil vvalke after their ovvne lust and say VVhere is the promise of his comming For sins our fathers died all things continevv in the same estate from the beginning as they vvere first made Our Lord also in the gospel addeth moreouer to all these things That hee vvil come in his glory sudainly and vnloked for to iudge the quick the dead that hee vvil giue revvards of life to the godly vvil commit the vvicked to euerlasting Hel fire For as the lightning saith he cōmeth forth of the east and shineth euen vnto the vvest so shal be the cōming of the sonne of man Take heed therfor vnto your selues lest your harts bee oppressed with surfetting and drunkennes and with the cares of this life and so that day steale sudainly vppon you For truely it shall come vpon all the inhabitants of the earth like vnto a snare VVatch therfore praying at all times that ye may be counted vvorthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the sonne of man Verily in this place our Lord is earnest vrgeth so as in no other place more vehemently exhorting all people of all kindes and of all ages vnto a sober watchfulnes In Saint Mark. VVatch saith he for ye knovve not when your Lord vvil come Mark 13. vvhether in the euening or at midnighr whether at the cock crowing or in the dawning lest if he come sudainly he finde you sleeping In S Mathew hée setteth foorth very many parables so the intent hee might the more déeply fasten this thing in the mindes of all men For he setteth before vs An householder that vvatcheth lest the théef in the night breaking in to his house should steale away all his substance He setteth foorth A faithfull and wise seruaunt that ministreth meat in due time to the whole housholde committed to his charge On the other side he setteth against him a noughty Seruant vnthriftliy wasting his maisters goods and also very vniustly dealing against his felowe seruants moreouer drunken and vnwatchful not any whit regarding his maisters comming whom taken with the fault he dooth rent in péeces like a Traitor He setteth before vs Ten Virgins wherof fiue were sober and wise but th' other v. were foolish and slouthful and therfore shut out of the ioyes of the wedding Furthermore hée setteth before vs a certain Noble house holder that looke his iourney into a far countrey and yet first before his departure distributed his goods by Talents which he left to be occupied in merchandise for his gaines who boūd with euerlasting chaines his vnthrifty seruant wicked and slouthful And to euery parable he ioyneth a sentence right worthy méet to be grauen déeply in our harts VVatch therfore be cause ye knowe neither the day nor the houre in which the sonne of man vvil come But moreouer This doctrine of our Lord is to be vrged beare ● in to our mindes who can say that this doctrine vttered by our Lord and Sauiour concerning the last age and the iudgement to coome is combersome or obscure It is surely more cleere then the noone day vnto them that desire to be wise But vnto them that are blinde alwaies all things become darknes because of their owne accorde they procure vnto them selues euē very extreme darknesse But this diligent carefulnes of our Lord and also this wholesome example ought to stir vp all vs his seruants vnto like desire of godlines to th' intent that wée may with great faithfulnesse and diligence stir vp also euē the whole world béeing almost all in these our daies deeply fallen a sleep stir thē vp I say shake them and sharply with ernest calling on vrge them to watch pray and to consider throughly the doctrime of our Sauiour and finally to mark wel those things that haue béen doon in times past and those things also that are now doon in these our daies Verily those things that were foretolde by our Lord By a comparison the prophecy of Christe is made manifest we haue seen them euen in the very things them selues continually in long course of time to haue béen fulfilled For the holy Citie weried with the gréeuous séege of the Gentils at the length was taken spoiled set on fire vtterly destroyed scarcely any few tokens or prints remaining therof But those Iewes that perished not by famin pestilence and the sword were taken captiue by the Romains and dispersed into all nations throughout the whole world And also the Gospel of the kingdome in despite of the Iewes Gentiles and euen in despite of hel gates hath béen receiued throughout the whole world Furthermore we haue seen that there hath burst out of the déep pit of hel Apoca. 9. those great hepes of false prophets those deadly locusts which with moste corrupt and new kinde of doctrine he hath troubled vexed rent in péeces seduced yea and all so replenished with moste vnspeakable calamities the whole Church of Christe But if you as yet sée not these things consider more ernestly what I shall now say The foundnesse of doctrine is corrupted The simplicitie and integritie of the olde and Apostolike doctrine was in that deadly time vtterly corrupted It semed and is yet now adiudged by those Doctors to be a doctrine very vile vnséemly and nothing Catholik which béeing taken out of the moste sacred Gospell and moste simply and plainly set foorth vnto all men according to the example of the Apostles dooth teach that the faithful are iustified by the onely grace of God thorew faith in Christe or that sinners are acquited from damnation their sinnes forgiuen thē and euerlasting life obtained by the death of the sōne of God which benefits they receiue by faith onely and doo shew foorth testify their true faith by good woorks So shall it séem vnto thē a matter vnaduised and nothing plain if thou say that the rule of Christe alone is a moste absolute rule of true faith and good life also that Christe alone suffiseth vnto the godly And that he alone remaineth the Hed the King the high preest of the Churche in which he is present and which he ruleth very wel with his spirite and power euen vnto the

tolde you before should happen knovve ye that the kingdome of God is at hand And therfore look vp and lift vp your heds For your redemption dravveth nigh This short doctrin of Christe our Lord may suffise vnto his Disciples béeing careful and diligent and not delighting in long proces And because I dout not but that some yet doo desire and look for a more plētiful discourse vpō these things we wil therfore bréefly ouerrun the doctrin of blessed Daniel vpon this matter The ꝓphecy of Daniel touching the end of the world and the times of the last age Him we choose out among others and before others because our Sauiour intreating of the destruction of the Citie and the world sent vs back to this Prophet whose prophecy we should easely vnderstand Daniel 7. if we did giue good héed thervnto Daniel therfore béeing taught by the heauenly vision rehearceth foure Monarchies that should arise in the world among which the last be calleth a Beast which he saith should haue ten hornes among which one Little horne springing vp should cast down iij. of them and that the same should growe vp in maruelous forse and far excel all the rest The same also saith he had the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things and that he made gréeuous and perpetuall war against the Saints ouer whōe also he easely preuailed and reighneth most puisauntly and most licenciously vntil the seats were prepared and iudgement placed in throne For then was all that kingdome rent in péeces and the beast thrown into the fire to be burnt with euerlasting flames Saint Ierome expounding these things saith By the fourth Beast the Prophet vnderstandeth the Romaine Empire vvhich ●e neither calleth a Lion as the Empire of Babilon neither a beare as of Persia neither a Parde as of Macedonia but he calleth him a Beast to the intent that vvhat soeuer vvee imagine moste fierce and cruell in beasts the same vve may vnderstand by the Romains Thus much saith S. Ierome But séeing Daniel him self hath sowen abrode the séedes of the right exposition héerof by folowing the things them selues and conferring of historyes I will showe the interpretation of this propheticall vision not inforced but takē out of the woords of the prophet out of the very things them selues therfore easy and apparaunt of the owne accord Verily it is wel knowen that the Romain Empire hath raged ouer the whole earth with furious woodnes more thē beastly For if I should omit to make mention how that vnder this Empire whose vassals were the Herods Ihon Baptist was beheaded and at the last Christe him self was crucified vnder Tiberius the Emperour Pontius Pilate beeing then Lieutenaunt for the Romains all the Apostles of Christe were also moste gréeuously afflicted and at the length most cruelly slain and the Primitiue Church with the x. moste fierce persecutions with fire and sword worne away yea and almoste vtterly consumed yet who knoweth not that there was almoste no parte of the world inhabited wherinto the moste raging weapons of the Romains haue not broken in and vexing of the same with their filthy lust in tollerable pride and vnsatiable coueteousnes haue at the length vtterly deuoured it But the iust Lord in due time hath recompenced blood thirsty Rome according to her deserts The Romain Empire destroyed and by diuision hath made concord and so also hath rent her strength in sunder which thing the prophet hath signified by the x. hornes For while the prouinses reuolted from the Romain Empire and some of them created Kings vnto them selues and other some bare armour against the imperiall Citie and the Emperours them selues within few yéeres it came to passe that the Citie béeing Lady of the whole world was taken sacked of barbarous people and also made a mocking stock and at the laste set on fire and destroyed by Tottilas of Ostgothia a prince worthy of eternall remēbrance and a moste famous seruant of God At the same time and before also when the Cittie was come into the hands of Gensiricus the VVandall and when immediatly afterward it was gouerned by Odacer king of the Saxons who béeing dead it was subiect to Djetricus of Verona the Ostgothes all that while there was no lawful Emperour or Caesar in Italy as afore at Rome Only at Constantinople in the Cittie of Constantine the great the moste godly prince reigned the Emperours of the East vntil Ioannes Paleologus the sonne of Mahuel béeing the last Emperour of Constantinople except one did in the councel of Florence acknowledge Eugenius then Bishop of Rome vnto whome he there submitted him self his also This was doon in the yéere of our Lord 1439. For The Emp●r● o● Constantinople ●●●oued ouerthrowne straight waies his sonne Constantine the vij surnamed Draco béeing subdued by Mahumedes the Emperour of the Turcks lost his Cittie his life and his Empire So that for a iust punishment of that moste filthy reuolting and backsliding the moste auncient Empire of Grecia that had stand vpright 1119. yéeres was by that Turcks thrown down and very cruelly subuerted This calamitie happened in the yéere of our Lord 1453 So that from the councel of Florence to the reuolting were onely xiiij yéeres betwéene And S. Ierome in his Cronicles noteth that the Citie of Constantinople was dedicated by Constantine in the yéere of our Lord 334. Consider héer in the meane while ye worthy men the goodnes and Iustice of our Lord God and therwith all his meruellous trueth The benefits of God bestowed vppon Constantine the greae The blessed Emperour Constantine faithfully serued the true God and his sonne Iesus Christe in rooting out and suppressing of all hethenish Idolatrie and superstition on the other side in planting spreading abrode and establishing of Christian religion and for that cause as S. Augustine maketh mention God that plentiful rewarder of all good men was willing to adorne him not onely with eternall ioy in Heauen but also with moste ample glory and renowne vpon earth For he gaue vnto him the moste famous Citie in the world and a continuall and most inuincible kingdome For God drawing him away from that fatal land of Italy and from the bloody Cittie of Rome which also it is likly the prince him self to haue abhorred brought him vnto Bizantium in Thracia where he built a famoꝰ Citie of his owne name which was vnto his posteritie euen vnto the end of the world a moste worthy remembrance of so very good most mighty a Prince Wherby it come to passe by a certaine prouidence of God and as it were by a certain prophecy that it shuld take the name of Constantine him self and also of that good christian woman Constantia Like as some report Rome to haue taken name of Romulus that slew his brother or as sōe say a robore tirannico immensa superbia that is of the tiranicall force and vnmesurable pride what if ye