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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

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

end of the world that the Church cleueth only to him honoreth him in Spirite and trueth that the same worshippeth him not in elements or corruptible things but in glory at the right hand of God the father If thou doo thus beleeue doo thus plainly and simply cōfesse thy faith thou shalt be accounted nothing Catholick yea suspected of heresy or rather a very Heretick indéed For héerunto thou must ad that Christe indeed dooth iustifie vs but not fréely For Our merits must come to and so our saluation therby is made perfect And therfore by all menes possible they impugne and persecute this proposition as hereticall namely That Sinners are iustified by onely faith in Christe and not by the vvorks of the lawe Moreouer they teach vs to speake more Catholikly and to frame our talke in this wise namely that men haue their sinnes in déed forgiuen thorow Christe but not without the Key graunted vnto the Préests which is lawfully employed in Confessions That mennes sinnes are indéed pardoned as touching the fault but not as touching the pain which pain say they is taken away or ministred by Satisfaction or by the Popes pardons And the beléeuers are saued indeed but yet their soules must first be wel sodden and purged with Fire and Holy vvater They ad moreouer that in very deed the Gospel of Iesus Christe is the rule of true faith and good life but not altogither perfect But that the want therof is patched vp with liuely Traditions and by the decrees of the councels and Fathers That the rule of Munks are moste alowable and moste perfect because forsooth they are in the state of perfectiō That Christ in déed is the hiest hed in Heauē but that he in earth hath placed in his-sted the Bishop of Rome with fulnes of power to be the hed of his Church So that they which doo not acknowledge this hed cannot inioy Christe in Heauen for that we ought vnder pain of damnation to be subiect to the Bishop of Roome So they graunt that Christe is in déed in Heauen with his Father an intercessor and mediator for the faithful yet they ad by and by But he is not a mediator alone For the same thing also is graūted vnto the merits of the Saints in Heauē so that by their menes also they cause our Lord to extend his mercy vnto sinners calling vpon the names of the Saints So they graunt that Christe is to be worshipped in spirit trueth but yet they affirme that he is neuerthelesse to be worshiped with golde with siluer and all kindes of precioꝰ things Iohn 4. Daniel 11. Acts. 17. that are to be offered and dedicated to the ornament of temples So they say that the faithful doo indéed worship Christe at the right hand of the father in glory but that he neuerthelesse must be adored also and worshipped vnder the forme of bread in their Chappelꝭ in their Alters in their Temples in their store boxes and Pixes when by the power of God and of the woords of consecration the substance of bread and wine is turned yea transubstantiated in to the substance of the body and blood of Christe no one iot of the substance of the bread and wine remaining but onely the very accidents and outward shewes that appéer Therfore that Christe is to be worshipped héer euen héer on the earth and vnder the elements and outwarde creatures they doo ernestly affirme by the traditions of the Popes Innocencius Honorius and Vrbanus and doo euen poynt him out as it were with the finger in the earth heere and there moreouer in the desert in the secret places in their Clausters in those their monasteries Yea farthermore to th' intent that the admonition of Iesus Christe our Lord might not be obscure or dark saying in the Gospel They shall saye vnto you beholde heere is Christe beholde he is there beholde he is in the desert beholde he is in the store boxes or in the secret places roūd about the Pix or litle Sacrament box they write in great golden letters Heer vvorship thou God If in any place out of Roome they doo open their Romain pilgremage Ein Romfart that is to say if any where they happen to lay out those their indulgences and Pardons to sale for merchandise then again in the forefrunt of their Scrips satchels boxes and shops of pardons they write in great golden letters Heer is ful remission of all sinnes and these things truely are wel knowen to all men throughout Christendome But what dooth Christe our Lord ad moreouer vnto those things Go not forth do not beleeue them beholde I haue tolde you before Furthermore we haue heard and séene in more then a thousand places great fearful Miracles to haue beē wrought before dum Images and before the bread turned into God And all things were doon to this end that these new Doctor like decrées of the trāsubstantiatiō of the bread of the worshipping of Images of the inuocation of Saints and the purchasing the merits of Saints The persecution of the Church of Christe might be set foorth commēded to the faithful But he that wil not beléeue these things or shall in any iot speake against them is by and by snatched vp to prison to execucion of death We haue learned out of histories that there hath béen neuer at any time stirred vp against the people of God any persecution more greeuous of longer continuance and finally also more cruel then this last by Antichrist The affliction of the people of God in Egipt continued not abooue two hundred yeres It is written in déed that they were in Egipt and on their iourney iij. hundred yeeres But all this time is not ascribed to the persecution of the Israelits But the persecutions which they sustained vnder the Iudges and Kings were very short The captiuitie of Babilon was ended within the space of lxx yeeres The affliction of Antioche and Greece was contained within certain bonds Moreouer the ten persecutions of the primatiue church lasted thrée hundred yéeres euen to the reign of Constantine the great And they had in the mean while certain breathing spaces certain respits and quiet times But since the time in which the Bishop of Rome inuaded the kingdom of Christe began vsurpingly to take vpon him the rule of the Church and lastly to chalenge to him self the fulnes of power there was then no rest at the end of lxx yéeres abooue None or very short truces but continuall laying of trappes and snares perpetuall practises and torments as it were euerlasting The sharp and cruel Inquisicion was written with the blood of the faithful that is to say a more rigorus way to enquire against the faithful then euer was practised by the Emperour Dioclesian such as was neuer séen in any age or time from the beginning of the world Heervnto is mixed Excommunication the strong sinew of persecution This kinde of persecution hath

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.

they may teach Wherfore as many of vs as desire to be saued let vs kéep our selues within the bonds of the example of Christe and of his Apostles ●e must continue in the Apostles doctrin Now touching the Apostles doctrine we are admonished by the Apostle First that we must continew in the Apostles doctrine Afterward he sheweth the causes why euery godly man ought to continue in that kinde of doctrine For he pronoūceth plainly and techeth with great power he saith But tary thou or continevv thou stedfastly As if hée should haue said How soeuer the deceiuers and deceiued go foreward in their errors housoeuer graet numbers of men departing from the plainnes and singlenesse of the Apostles doo folowe corrupt doctrin and those Egiptian Sophisters yet neuerthelesse perseuer and continue stil thou all others that couet to please God and to abtain true saluation In what things I pray you shall they continew The Apostle addeth it In those thinges vvhich thou hast learned and vvhich haue ben committed vnto thee But Timothe had learned the Scriptures and out of thē the holy gospel as straight way the Apostle wil expound him self And this was that precious pledge which was committed vnto him Therfore the godly must perseuer and continue in the Scriptures and in the doctrin of the Gospel So shall it come to passe that they shall not be a pray to the deceiuers and to the most wicked men of this last age what was committe● vnto Tim● the and against traditions Neither must we think as certain foolish men doo fain that vnwritten Traditions were committed vnto Timothe as though the Apostle had ment that without traditions the Scriptures suffise not vnto godlinesse or that he had taught one thing by woord of mouth and another thing in writing For by and by the Apostle him self wil declare that the Scriptures are moste ful and moste absolute such as are able throughly to fashion and make perfect the worshipper of God The Apostle els where affirmeth very intirely 1 Cor. 4. that his doings agrée in one sorte all alike and that he teacheth like doctrin in all Churches He sayeth also that he and his disiples walke all one way and béeing all led by one spirit doo all things with humilitie ● Cor. 3. Again to the Corinthians VVee vvrite saith he none other things vnto you then vvhich ye read and vvhich also ye knovve Yea and so I trust that ye shall knovve vnto the end And again 4. Cor. 10. As vve are in vvords by letters vvhen vve are absent such are vve indeed also vvhen we are present But it is openly apparant that those things whiche those men recken vp among the vnwritten verities affirming the same to be receiued from the Apostles euen as if were from hand to hand are so disagreing with those things which are contained in the writings of the Apostles that they are euen directly repugnant and contrary Of which kinde are those matters which they stuf in conserning the vse of Images in the Church conserning the Masse conserning single life and Munckery and infinit other such ingling deceits Where also euen that is diligently to be noted that he said not Tary thou in those things which thou shalt learn yet heerafter But tary thou in those hings vvhich thou hast learned To vs therfore partain not those things which wretched men after certain hundred yéeres haue learned of Fathers such as indéed may be called stepfathers and of lewd and superstitious Munks It foloweth now why we ought to cleue onely to this doctrin Why wee ought to cleue only to the scriptures Indéed many reasons may be alleaged but among many these are the chéefest First Knovving saith he of vvhom thou hast learned them Truely it is much to be respected of what maisters or teachers we learne any thing For the doctrin receiueth authoritie from the teachers or author therof It is thought that from the more excellent cunning and holy men proceedeth some excellent learned and holy thing Verily from men procéed humaine things and from God procéed godly and deuine things But of whom had Timothe learned or from whom came the doctrin receiued by Timothe Surely from the most holy Apostle and most select instructment of God Therfore not the man Paule but rather the Spirit of Christe inspiring Paule hath purchased authoritie vnto the doctrine Therefore Timothe knewe and al the faithful also at this day knowe that the doctrine of the Apostles sprang not from men but from our Lord God him self and that therfore we ought to beléeue the same and inseperably cleue vnto it For our Lord him self saith in his Gospel Iohn 13. Verily verily I say vnto you hee that receiueth an Apostle or vvhomsoeuer I shall send receiueth me And he that receiueth me receiueth him that sent me Math. 10. And again speaking of the Apostles It is not you that speak but it i● the spirite of your father that speaketh in you Iohn 3. And again He that is from aboue is aboue all He that procedeth of the Earth is earthly and speaketh of the earth He that commeth from Heauen is aboue all and what he hath seen and heard the same he testifieth Wherfore in asmuch as it appéereth that the doctrin of the Apostle is heauenly deuine with good cause doo we beléeue with good cause doo we inseperably cleue to it Neither did the Apostles without great reason say therfore shalt thou cōtinue in the apostles doctrin which thou hast receiued because thou doost surely knowe that thou hast receiued and learned the same from Heauen But can we so say of the vnwritten traditions and of the ordinances of man No by no meanes Therfore why should we beleeeue them why should we receiue them why should we continew in them These things are due to the holy Scriptures only and alone They are vtterly mad that make humain things equall with deuine But they are led by the Deuil that prefer things humain before diuine and thrust downe and embace diuine things as though they were vncertain doutful vnperfect and darke Dauid the moste notable King and moste excellent Prophet of God crieth but against such filthy and blasphemous persons and pronounceth with moste true mouth Psal 19. The lawe of the Lord is a perfect law conuerting the soule The testimonie of the Lord is true giuing wisdome to the litle ones The statutes of the Lord are right and reioice the hart The commaundement of the Lord is pure and giueth light to the eyes Thy word is a Lantern vnto my feet and a light vnto my steps Furthermore the Apostles doctrine is grounded vppon the Scriptures or writings of the Prophets The Apostles doctrine is grounded vppon the Scriptures Paule bearing witnes and saying I was put a part to preach the Gospel of GOD vvhiche he promised afore by the Prophets in the holy Scriptures But we knowe that the same are therfore