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A17182	A commentary vpon the seconde epistle of S Paul to the Thessalonia[n]s In the which besydes the summe of oure faythe, ther is syncerelye handled [and] set forth at large, not onely fyrst co[m]myng vp [and] rysyng with the full properyte [and] dominion, but also the fall and vtter confusion of the kyngdome of Antichriste: that is to say of Machomet [and] the byshop of Rome.	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; R. H., fl. 1538.	1538 (1538)	STC 4054; ESTC S108939	53,970	140

contrary wyse Wherevpon we reade in the Gospell that to the ryche glutton it was sayde Sonne remembre that thou in thy lyfe tyme receauedeste thy pleasure contrarye wyse Lazarus payne Nowe therfore he is refreshed and thou arte tormēted It differeth nothyng frome thys that we reade in the fourthe chapter of the boke of Sapiēce And these thynges truly are to be layd vp in the remembraunce of the faythfull to the intente that in tyme of aduersyte we myght perseuer in truth and ryghteousnes A true sayenge agaynst the tentacions of the deuell For the prosperyte of wycked men whiche they haue in thys world and on the the other syde the trouble of holy mē theyr moost infortunate estate do greatly vexe our myndes for to caste of the kyngdome of God and embrace thys presente worlde Let vs remembre therfore the ryghteous iudgemēt of God and the chaunge of all thynges Forsothe ther were in the tyme of the Prophetes contemners of God and louers of thys worlde which after the maner of our men commendynge the felicite of the wycked and scornynge or condēnynge the perylles that sayntes are in sayde Men serue God in vayne for ther commeth no profyte by that we haue kept hys commaundementes And we se that prowde men and subtyll persons are happy and they that do wyckednes to spede well and to be shorte that suche are safe as do tēpte God And what other thynge is it that men nowe adayes do obiecte agaynste the true worshypers of God what good haue ye gottē by your belefe saye they But what doth Malachie answere The LORDE gaue hede and herde thys and ther was a boke of remēbraunce wrytten before the LORDE ye shall se in tyme to cōme that ther is great differēce betwene the ryghteous the wycked betwene the seruaūte of God the despyser of hym Malachie the .iii. chapter Vvhan the LORDE Iesus shall shevve hymselfe from heauē vvith his myghty angelles in flamynge fyre rendryng vengeaunce vnto them that knovve not god and to them that obey not vnto the Gospell of oure LORDE Iesus Christe vvhiche shal be punished vvith euerlastynge dāpnacyon from the presence of the LORDE and from the glorye of hys povver vvhā he shall come to be glorifyed in hys sayntes and to be made maruelous in all thē that beleue because our testimony that vve had vnto you vvas beleued in that same daye He doth here paynt and wyth expresse and very notable wordes sette forthe before our eyes the commyng of the LORD Iesus and the maner of the iudgemenete The same cōmynge shal be vnto all sayntes very acceptable and moost beste welcome and to the vngodly very sowre and sorowful And euery word hath his strēgth and pythe Nowe saythe he the matter goeth all by wordes But whan the ende of all thynges shall come those thynges shall apeare manyfestly of which all sayntes haue disputed so long many yeares For the LORDE Iesus hymselfe to whōe all power is geuen in heauen in earth and to whome all iudgement belongeth shall apeare in a corporall fourme and lykenes for to iudge all fleshe And nowe doth he descrybe the behaueour of thys myghtye Iudge that vnto all hys enemyes shal be so terryble and so desyrous and longed for of hys frendes He shall comme I saye frome heauen not nowe as once crepynge vppon the earthe nor yet lowe and despysed as he appeared in hys fyrste cōmyng But cōpassed about wyth the hoost of angelles For we reade in Daniell the .vii A thousande thousandes mynistred vnto hym tenne thousand tymes tenne thousande stode before hym And therfore euē as a myghty kyng beynge apoynted with a chosen stronge hooste of men doth sett vpon hys enemy so shall the LORDE Iesus vse the mynisterye of angels in subduynge of the wycked mayntenaunce of the godly Therfore doth he call them the myghty angels of God as he wold saye they by whō god doth exercyse hys power or myghte Nother shall he thē come forth gently pleasaunte and for to heale the vnruly but be armed with horryble and flamynge fyre The Apostle Peter beareth wytnesse also that the LORDE shall iudge the world by fyre .ii. Petri .iiii. And the Prophete Dauid descrybynge that maner of Christes cōmyng to iudgement Psal xviii sayeth Fyre shal go forth before him he shall sende forth hys arowes skatter thē he shal cast oute lyghtenynges destroy thē And Daniel A fyry flowde brake forth sayeth he wēt out frō his syghte Furthermore Paul doth in playne wordes declare whō the LORD shal destroy at his cōmynge He shall of his wrath rēdre vēgeaūce vnto thē which knew not god or at the lest wold not know god which followynge the world regarded not hys preceptes obeyed not the Gospell of oure LORDE Iesus Christe Which thyng agreeth very well to the matter that is now in hāde For the Thessaloniās obeyed the Gospell suffered persecuciō for it It was swete therfore to heare that theyr obedience shuld be healthfull vnto thē to theyr aduersaries that persecuted thē damnable For he repetyng agayn the same thyng whiche he had sayd euē now in other wordes which shal be punyshed sayeth wyth euerlastynge damncion For euē so doth he rendre vengeaūce vnto thē For he punysheth these contēpners when he appoynteth them vnto euerlastynge fyre For so we reade in Daniell also the xii chapter Many that slepe in the duste of the earth shall waken some to eternall lyfe and some to shame and euerlastynge fyre After the same maner also dothe the iudge geue sentence Math. xxv Departe fro me ye cursed chyldren into euerlastynge fyre which is prepared for the deuel and hys angels they shall go into euerlastynge payne And S. Ambrose sayth excellently wel The wycked shall haue the paynes whiche are due vnto them that is they shall euermore fele eternall confusyon and yet shall neuer wholy fayle that the payne it selfe myghte engendre renew them after a certayn maner wherby they may euer from tyme to tyme be as it were consumed Therfore they deceaue and are deceaued as many as do promyse themselues delyueraunce out of hell and do fayne that after the day of iudgemente wycked men also shall be forgeuen The whych thynge men saye the Orygen thought I wote nere how truly but it is sure the certayne of the Anabaptystes haue taught this openlye But out of thys place it apeareth howe falsely and wyckedly For the vngodly shall peryshe by euerlastyng death From the presence of the LORDE that is whē the LORDE commeth from the glory of hys power that is when he shall come gloriously for to shewe hys power strength vnto good and euell For wyth these wordes sayeth Theophylactus he sheweth howe easy it is for God to punyshe nether shall it be harde for hym to punyshe because that rebellious and obstynate people shal be tormented euē wyth the very syghte of hym And the diuine

of Rome for to inuade and gette the Empyre For yf the one had not broken the strength of the Empyre of Rome the other had not raygned But we haue expounded all these thynges more at large in the hystory here before Nowe followeth the ruyne destruccion of Antichrist Of the destruccion of Antichrist He shall not fall by and by after that he is stryken wyth a stroke or weapon but by lytle and lytle after he hath bene made weake by many battaylles he shall at the laste peryshe But he shall not be caste down with mans hande nother yet by the multytude of hoostes nor strēgth of souldyers or gonne strokes but by the hande and power of God For Christ shall fyrste consume hym wyth the sprete of hys mouthe and after that shall he put hym cleane out of the waye wyth hys moost gloryous commynge into iudgemēt The fyrste of these two dyd Paule take oute of the eleuenth chapter of Isaie whose wordes are these With ryghteousnes shall he iudge the poore and wyth equite shall he contende for the meke of the earthe he shall stryke the worlde wyth the rodde of hys mouthe and wyth the sprete of hys lyppes shall he slaye the wycked Nowe the sprete of the mouthe or of the lyppes of God is the true exposycion of the worde of god For the worde of God is the same swearde wherewyth the heade of thys proude Golyas shall be stryken of For Antichrist speaketh on the syde of the moost hyghest and he sayeth that all that he doth is deduced or taken out of the Decrees of the holy scrypture For vnder the pretence of this hath he hetherto raygned safely But when that thoroughe the goodnes of God the lyght of the Gospell that is Goddes worde begynneth to shyne the clowdes of thys deceauer do strayght waye vanyshe awaye For it is playne vnto all men that thys fellowe in hys maners and lawes is clene contrarye to Christe Therefore it commeth to passe that all godlye wytted men the truthe once knowen do abhorre and forsake hym Therfore the swearde wherwyth this man is slayne is the word of God for thē is he moost surely slayne when that hys nature and dysposyciō are manyfestly knowen by the doctryne of truthe The knowlege of hym dothe kyll hym and cast him downe and the clokyng and ignoraūce of hym doth sette hym vp For they that knowe hym not do beleue that he is an Apostolycall prophete yee a god to but they that knowe him trulye are sure that he is Antichriste The latter of these two dyd Paul take out of the .vii. chapter of Daniell where we reade I loked tyll the seates were prepared and the olde aged satte hym downe and beholde ther came in the cloudes of the ayre one lyke the sonne of man and he came vnto the olde aged and the iudgemente was sette and the bokes opened Then toke I hede therevnto because of the voyce of the proud wordes whyche that horne spake And I behelde styll tyll that the beaste was slayne and hys bodye destroyed and geuen ouer to be burnte in the fyre And therfore sayeth Paule Whom the LORDE shall destroy wyth the bryghtnes of hys cōmynge that is to say with his moost gloryous cōmyng For our LORDE sayde in the Gospell Euen as the lyghtenynge commeth oute of the Easte and appeareth vnto the Weste so shall the commynge of the sonne of man be For he shall come in the cloudes of heauen wyth greate power and glory Math. xxiiii And euen as darknes as sayeth S. Ierome is dryuen away at the cōmynge of the Sonne The battail vanquyshyng of Antichriste so shall the LORDE destroy and put hym awaye wyth the bryghtnes of hys commynge Thys glorye and vyctorye is reserued vnto Christe onely For they are deceaued whyche thynke the Antichriste before the daye of iudgemēte shall by abolyshed by the strength of armes But thys battayll betwene Christe Antichriste shall rather endure vnto the ende of the worlde And he beynge bolde of the strength of armes shall breake a sondre treade vnder hys fete the sayntes of the moost hyest but the membres of Christe shall wythstonde hym and shall sette vpō hym with the swearde of the worde of God shall bewraye hys deceate shall accuse his wyckednes and so slaye hym For by thys meanes shall he be put oute of mens hartes and hys authoryte shall fall The vyctory of the Christen stādeth in the truth of Goddes worde and constauncy And in the meāseason although he be ouercome yet shall he take on vntyll Christe the iudge shall putte hym quyte down And therfore my brethren our vyctorye must stande alonly in the truth of Gods worde in the constanucy of our fayth Therfore let vs betake our lyues vnto our faythfull creator go forward in the affyrmyng of the canonical truth glory of Christ ourredemer LORD agaynst the blasphemies of this vnpure draggō Christ wyll be presēt with hys although he delyuer vs into hys handes Vvhose cōmynge is by the vvorkynge of Satan vvyth all povver and lyenge sygnes and vvonders and in all deceueablnes of vnryghteousnes amōg thē that perysh because they receaued not the loue of the truth that they might haue bene saued And therfore god shal sende thē strōge delusiō that they shuld beleue lyes that all they myght be dāned vvhych beleued not the truthe but had pleasure in vnryghtousnes Antichriste raygneth by power and lyes Hetherto hath the Apostle entreated of the reuelacion of Antichrist of the ruyne and confusion of hym he hath spoken also of hys kyngedome and propertyes nowe he turneth hym from that and descrybeth hys strengthe and workes more at large That deceauer shal come sayeth he prepared wyth the sprete and power of Satan the whyche shall shewe forth them selfe in hym moost manyfestly For thys maner of speakynge Vvhose cōmynge is by the vvorkynge of Satan is so much to saye Nowe the strength and workynge of Satan ar chefely murther and lyes as our saueoure sayeth He was a manslayer from the begynnynge and abode not in the truthe because the truthe is not in hym Whan he speaketh a lye he speaketh of hys owne because he is a lyer and the father of it And Paule in this place shewynge the workes of Satan by partes doth teken vp power and sygnes that is lyenge wonders and the deceaueablenesse of vnryghteousnesse also For Mahomet sayeth that he is sente of God in the strength of armoure for thys cause doth he destroye all thynges wyth fyre and swearde And the Byshope of Rome hath abused the armour of al kynges and prynces persecuteth and slayeth the sayntes ether callynge vpon the secular arme or els by excercysynge hy● owne strength The greate destruccion of moost stronge nacions nowe in our dayes do testifye what he maye do by strength and what murthurs yee and betrayēge of kyngdomes and robberyes the deuell hath done in the world by

hys procuremente We maye thanke hys coūsell and crafte that here wythin thys .xxxvi. yeares we haue sene the strengthe of moost stronge nacions that is to saye of the Heluecians Germanes Frenchmen and Spanyardes after they haue bene broken to haue fallen now into the kyngdome of Naples nowe in the dukdome of Myllan somtyme into other kyngedomes theyr kynges or prynces banyshed or els ledde into captyuyte mans lawes Goddes lawes plucte vp by the rootes good studye oppressed moost noble cyties subuerted and plentyfull contryes vtterly destroyed to be shorte ther was none age spared I do wyllynglye passe ouer many thynges of the same sorte whyche the membres of thys Byshoppe and the Ecclesiasticall prelates wyth theyr companions haue done in dyuers partyes of the world and in many kyngdomes and prouynces to the greate hurte of the cōmune welthe and of all goodnesse and specyally of the truthe The prudente reader dothe well vnderstonde by these thynges whych I haue noted what he shulde do beleue or flye Antichristes sygnes and how his religiō hath ben greatly estabyshed by them Nowe ther are two maner of sygnes true and false Those are true whyche are done in dede and sprynge oute of no phantasye or imagynacion but are wrought of God hym selfe by hys mynysters for the stablyshynge of the truthe Suche are all the sygnes of the prophetes and Apostles of Moses of Christe And those are false whyche by the sufferaunce of God are done by the mynysters or workynge of Satan to the derogacion of the truthe or stablyshyng of falshed And of these ther are diuerse kindes For ther are some whyche by a false appearaūce do deceaue men Ther are other whyche are done in very dede as they seme to be but for thys purpose that they myghte leade men away from the truthe vnto erroure For the holy Apostle doth not call them onely lyenge sygnes and wonders whych haue a false symilitude or appearaūce with thē but those also whyche althoughe they be done in very dede do yet brynge men vnto lyes and deceaue the lokers on S. Augustine hath disputed more of sygnes In opere octoginta trium questionum quest LXXIX Our LORD Iesus sayeth in the xxiiii chapter of Mathewe Ther shall aryse false Christes and false prophetes and they shall do greate sygnes and wonders insomuche that yf it were possyble the very electe shulde be brought in to erroure Beholde I haue shewed you before Yf they saye vnto you beholde he is in the wyldernesse go not out beholde he is in secrete places beleue thē not c. Truely greate authoryte happened vnto Machometes relygion throughe lyenge sygnes and wonders Nother yet hath the estymacion of the Byshoppe of Romes relygiō encreassed by ony thyng so much as by the multytude of myracles For by myracles hath he thrust into the worlde the honourynge of sayntes and worshyppyng of ymages For no man can well expresse the wonderous craftes In this pla●e the author of the commēte called Henricus Bullingerus of Tigury had put in dyuers pylgremages of hys owne contrye In the flede of whyche because they were vnknowen to vs I haue set in these of oure olde acquayntaūce withoute ony al alteraciō of the intent that he brought them in for wherwith the deuel hath deceaued the whole worlde They that haue at ony tyme vysyted our Ladye at Wylsoon Muswell Ypswyche or Walsyngame the roode of comforte the roode of rest the roode of grace in Kente S. saueoure at London S. Thomas of Canterbury or suche lyke Idolles they haue sene tables oblacions and more testymonyes of myracles thē a great nauye of shyppes coulde carye awaye For some one hathe crepte into the chappell of oure Lady or some other saynte bothe croked lame and there hath made hys petycion to an Image and came home agayne in good healthe and therefore in wytnes of thys thynge hath hanged vp hys styltes before the Idolle Another hath swymmed safe to lande frō a shyppewracke after he hath called vpon the helpe of some saynte therfore hanged a table or a fygure of a shyppe before the Image The thyrde escapynge of an hoost of men of warre made a vowe vnto the virgyn Marye and dyd therfore dedicate hys harnesse vnto her Some other after they haue broken out of preson haue consecrate vnto a sayncte ether a cheyne or manacles or els a payre of fetters Then came it to passe at length that not alonly those temples but all churches of Christen men were polluted wyth such delusions These false sygnes occupyed the mooste holy seates in Christes churche out of whyche the sygnes and truthe of the Gospell oughte to haue ben declared For oute of suche places were these moost vnshamefast lyes pronounced and shewed wyth greate boldnes of the preachers and wonderous reioycynge of the moost foolyshe people What shall we say that men haue sayde that the very Images themselues haue ether remoued out of theyr places or els haue ben sente of God hymselfe frō heauē or els where as they haue ben hyd in certayn places they haue come to lyght agayn Some haue laught and some haue wepte other haue trembled geuen forth beames out of them yee sometyme they or theyr beardes haue wōderfully growē in length or bygnesse somtyme they were gone clene awaye alone and many tymes they haue spoken And it was lawfull for no man to doubte or els frelye that is to saye truely to talke of these thynges yee a man had stonde in daunger of hys lyfe yf he had not worshyppped and receaued these wyckednesses as thynges that had come from God hym selfe and set forthe to be worshypped Antichriste that Byshop of Rome not beynge cōtente wyth these abhominable thynges and wyth the exteme superstycion and manyfeste Idolatry of the people dyd almoste euery day consecrate new Gods that is as they call it canonysed them dyd ether institute new pylgrimages or els confirme suche as were inuented or receaued alreadye he chose oute relyques of the moost stynkyng and wycked mens bones and sette them forthe to be worshypped yee promysed pardon to the worshyppers of them and commaunded holydayes for those fayned Goddes lefte nothynge vndone which myghte encreace norysh or set forth Idolatrye and dyd so corrupte the true relygion that the very Gentyles were neuer muche more corrupte Besyde thys the prouable appearaunce and wounderous estymaciō of false myracles dyd deceaue all the wysest men in a maner How many good people haue ben deceaued lyke wyse with the fayned myracles of the holy maydens of Rēt Ipswych It lacked but lytle that we were not compelled to haue worshypped in the steade of true sygnes myracles of God the sygnes wonders whyche certayne blacke frerers cōsecrate to the deuell had wyckedlye done in the cytye of Berne in Nuchtlande not wythoute the helpe of wytchcrafte you may be sure They wente already about the confyrmacion and approbacion of the