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B11837	A hundred sermons vpo[n] the Apocalips of Iesu Christe reueiled in dede by thangell of the Lorde: but seen or receyued and written by thapostle and Eua[n]gelist. S. Iohn: compiled by the famous and godly learned man, Henry Bullinger, chief pastor of the congregation of Zuryk. Newly set forth and allowed, according to the order appoynted in the Quenes maiesties, iniuntions. Thargument, wurthines, commoditie, and vse of this worke, thou shalt fynd in the preface: after which thou hast a most exact table to leade thee into all the princypall matters conteyned therin.; In Apocalypsim Jesu Christi. English	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Daus, John.	1561 (1561)	STC 4061; ESTC S107053	618,678	759

Peter by a vision as appereth in the actes Actes 10. And the Prophet Ioel sayd also howe the people of 〈◊〉 newe Testament should see visions And so doeth the bl●sed Apostle S. Peter expounde the same place in the A●● of the Apostles speakyng of the people of the newe Tes●ment And our Sauiour Christ in the Gospell propoun● and declared to the people the moste part of the misteries parables and in maner by fayned fables as they call th● And how much thinke you doe these visions types and ●gures of S. Iohn differ from the same This kynd of sp●● doth not darken matters but maketh them plaine And ●●keth much for the efficacitie and perspicuitie and for the c●firming of the memory For by this meane matters be 〈◊〉 only declared with wordes and heard with the eares 〈◊〉 are set forth also to be sene of the eies and after a sort be fi● in the memory The plaines of the scripture Many for this cause attribute much to pa●ting But I suppose that I may much more rightli attribu● very much to this maner of speaking and teaching wher● the matter is vttered not by a coulored domme dead pa●ting but as it were with a speaking liuely maner set fo● to be sene of the eies Whiche is therfore propounded th● men myght rightly and exactly vnderstand the same Alb● therfore that this whole boke in a maner consisteth of visio● and figures What shall be the expositiō of this boke Yet shall we in dede through the inspiration 〈◊〉 Gods grace shew in our exposition that all that same m●keth for the perspicuitie and plainenes and not for the obse●ring or darkening of most high and godly matters I wy● bring my exposition out of the very scriptures by cōferring ioyning therunto the rule of faith and charitie I will searche out the circumstaunces the thinges that follow go before I wil bring similitudes dissimilitudes I wil adde also ther vnto the experience of things the faith of histories Which maner of expounding the scriptures all interpretours haue always graunted to be sound true 1 Cor. 14 1 Tess 5 If better thinges shal be reuealed to others I wil gladly after the precept of the apostle geue place vnto my betters For I offer these my doings to be wayed of the godly vpon this conditiō that they shuld trie al things that which they shal find to be good to hold fast Secondly they obiect that aswel new men as olde How men of late days haue doubted of thauthoritie of this boke of no smal authoritie haue both doubted of this boke of the authour therof also haue contemned it as full of fables vnworthy to be rekened canonical Let those that so thinke geue me thesame libertie I desire them which they vsurpe tho thē selues and thinke it lawful For if the boke of the Apocalipse ●hould therfore seme worthy to be contemned for that some notable men both old new haue doubted of the authoritie ●herof Why may it not recouer his authoritie againe if I ●hew that the best doctours of the church both old new haue ●ad a right good opinion of this boke And here to thintent 〈◊〉 wold dissemble nothing at al I am not ignorant that doctor Martin Luther a man right notably learned D. Luther in his first edi●ion of the new Testament in dutch with a sharp preface set ●efore hath sticked this boke as it wer with a dagger Howe ●e it good wel learned mē were offended with him for this ●is iudgement which in the same found lack both of wit mo●estie The same mā therfor waying al things more vpright●y diligēly what time he corrected his dutch Bible c. My ●orshipful maister semeth also not to haue set very much by his boke to haue ascribed it not to Iohn the Apostle but to Iohn whō thei called a diuine But herein there is no doubt but that he folowed plainly Erasmus of Roterdā who is his annotations vpon the new Testamēt In al the Greke copies ●aith he that I haue sene the title was not of Iohn thapostle ●ut of Iohn the diuine Erasmus addeth that amongest the Grekes certen old wryters men doubted of this authour whiche thing he declareth by the testimonies of Eusebius and Hierom of whose opinion shal be spoken streightways But the exempler or Spanishe coppie whiche is set foorth after the faith of the moste auncient and approued Grekes exhibiteth to vs suche a title of ths boke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is the Apocalipse of the holy Apostle and Euangelist S. Iohn Diuine For the auncient writers say how S. Iohn the Apostle and Euangeliste for his excellent wryting of the sonne of God was commonly called Diuine Wherof it followeth tha● this title doeth attribute and not take from S. Iohn this booke Certes Aretas was also a Greke Aucthour an● byshop of Cesaria Of the auncientes saieth he certen hau● plucked this Apocalipse from the tongue of that welbeloue● Iohn ascribing it to another but it is not so For that sam● Gregory which as well as he is called a Diuine accom●teth this amongst those scriptures whiche vtterly want a suspicion of counterfeiting saying as the Apocalipse of S● Iohn teacheth me And the same man a litle after But th● this boke was written by the mouth of the holy ghost S. B●sil Cyril Papias and Hippolytus Hippolitus fathers of the church a mete men to be credited Thus saith he What shal we say● that Erasmus confesseth that the consent of the worlde an authoritie of the churche to be of suche force with hym th● he dare not refuse this boke Let vs heare now the iudgement of that moste excellen● best man D. Ioh. Oecolampadius Oecolampadius the moste faithfull p●stour of the churche of Basill and excellently learned in 〈◊〉 prophetical and in al the Canonicall scriptures concerning this boke which he left vs written in the .xii. Chap. of thei●●●cond boke of his commentaries vpon Daniel But S. Io● the Paraphraste or expositour of the Prophetes saith he 〈◊〉 how muche he doth attribute to this our authour whom maruel why certen with so rasshe a iudgement doe reiect as a dreamer and franticke and an vnprofitable wryter● the church Where neuerthelesse he propoundeth and sette● forth very many of the most secret hid things of the old●●●stament and of the Prophetes But those great men do b●wray what a wening they haue of themselues Whose iu●gementes I would verely rather contemne as prophan● than I would cast away such a treasure I could here bringe forth goodly testimonies of other newe wryters but that I make haste to the iudgementes of the auncient fathers The eldest of all after the Apostles The iudgementes of thauncient doctours of the church of the Apocalypse Iustine whose wrytynges as yet remayne Iustine and Ireney the noble Martirs of Christ ascribe this boke to Iohn the Apostle For

kinges Howebeit whilest these kinges considered how they might beste in large their kingedomes and put downe and expulse others full craftely the Bisshoppe of Rome played his parte also For he obteyned the supremacie ouer all Bisshoppes And so gote him great authoritie with Kinges and realmes yea and linked himselfe in league and amitie with Kinges and Princes Whereupon quickely and sodenly or as the Martir of Christ prophecied vpon the sodayne he starte vp and at laste vsurped a kingedome to witte of Rome For by his iudgementes falsely taken for Apostolicall he put downe kynge Childericke of the lignage of Merouinges the lawefull king of Fraunce and auaunced Pipine than Captaine of the French garde to the crowne And so he ouerthrewe or plucked downe one horne and bounde vnto him a most mightie Kinge by whose power afterwarde he was a terrour to the kinges of Grece and Lumbardy Of thexarchate of Italie For aboute the yere of our lorde .269 the Emperour of Constantinople expulsing the Eastegothes did institute a newe gouernement in Italy But sins this kinde of rule and gouernemente is not knowen to all menne I will briefly recite what and howe greate it was by the wordes of Nauclerus the Historiographer ex generat .20 Than beganne sayeth he the Citie of Rome and Italy to haue a newe maner of gouernemente by the whiche they loste more the dignitie glory and feare ouer all the worlde than of all the calamities whiche these .160 yeres haue afflicted them and at the laste had lefte Rome to be inhabited of wilde beastes For Longinus brought in a newe name of dignitie thexarchate of Italie that is the high Magistrate Whiche kepyng still at Rauenna went neuer to the Citie of Rome And in the gouernement of Italie and of Cities he kepte firste this order that the president should not gouerne the prouince or region but euery Citie had their Magistrate to gouerne them whome he called Dukes Wherefore making Rome egall with other Cities and Townes in this thinge only he honoured the same that he called the Magistrate place in Rome presidēt But they that did succede him were called Dukes as they were afterward many yeres so that it was called the Dukedome of Rome as the Dukedome of Narnia and Spolet Nother after Narset and Basill had it any more eyther Consulles or Senate lawefully assembled but by a Duke of Grece whome the highe Magistrate sente from Rauenna the comon welth of Rome was gouerned a long time Thus much he I suppose any manne maye hereby without any difficultie perceyue the Prophecies to be fully accomplisshed Rome vtterly caste downe and the Romane Empire to haue fallen into asshes For shee that had ben the moste mightie Lady of the worlde is sene nowe to bee made a vile gouernemente neuer a deale more excellent than that of Spolet and Narnia c. And here is to be knowen that this Exarchate in Italy was the thirde Lordeshippe instituted sins Augustulus was slayne in whome the Histories saye that the Empire of the weste was finisshed and ended For first when Augustulus was slayne the Germanes vnder their king Odacer possessed Rome Afterwarde the Eastegothes by the conduicte of theyr Duke Theodoricke of Verona Odacer expulsed and slayne reygned at Rome and in Italy Laste of all the Eastegothes by the Lumbardes expulsed and slayne this Exarchate was instituted And Lumbardes beyng called into Italy of the Grekes agaynst the Gothes woulde no more goe out agayne for that they sawe the lande fertile and Riche pleasaunt and aboundyng with sondry pleasures The Lumbardes Warynge therefore of greate power in Italy they subdewed to themselues many Cities and people of Italy establisshyng nowe the fourth domion whiche they called the kingdome of Lūbardes They had most puissaunt kinges Howbeit that exarchate of Rauenna although they layde dilligent awayte for it wente about to inuade it yet coulde they neuer extinguish it till the Bisshop of Rome put to his helping hande pretendyng the sinceritie of religion The mainteyning of Idolatrye maketh of the Bishop of Rome a king Historiographers accompte sixtene Exarches in order which reigned aboute an hondreth foure score yeres The 15. of thē was called Paulus Nauclere in the .25 generat Leo the .3 sayeth he Emperour of Constantinople cōmaunded that they that were subiecte to the Romane Empire should plucke downe al their Images breake them and burne thē Contrarywise the Pope some will haue him Gregory the .2 some the .3 wrote to the whole worlde that they should not obeye these so wicked cōmaundementes of the Emperour Platina sayeth more in the life of Gregory the .3 Gregory by consente of the clergie of Rome depriueth Leo the .3 Emperour of Constantinople bothe of the Empire and also of the communion of the faithfull for that he had plucked downe Images Nauclerus sayeth moreouer But so great authoritie at that time had the Popes decrees that first they of Rauenna and after the people and soldiours of Venise made an open rebellion agaynst the Emperour and thexarche in Italy And the treason increased dayly For Marinus Spatarius Duke of Rome and his sonne Adriane passing through Chāpania were slaine of the Romanes In whose stead they created Duke of Rome one Peter They of Rauenna also whilest some helde with the Emperour and some with the Pope in a tumulte made slewe Paule thexarche and his sonne Thus writeth Nauclere The frēch mē are sent for into Italy by the Pope In these cōmotions the Lumbardes supposyng the occasion so long wisshed for to be nowe offered through the conduite of Luitprande their king inuade the lādes of thempire and besege also Rome it self But Pope Gregory the firebrāde of al the sturres in Italy the soldiour and practicionar of the same and like no priest nor preacher sendeth for Charles Martell king Pinines father with his French chāpions into Italy against the Lumbardes Howbeit this Charles perswadeth the kinge of Lumbardes frendely to departe from the Citie But yet not long after Aistulphus kinge of Lumbardes spoileth againe the lādes of Rauëna reneweth the Italian warre and winneth Rauenna it selfe and demaundeth tribute of the citie of Rome But Stephen the .2 Pope which aspired to the gouernement of Rauenna wisshed the Lumbardes distroyed of king Pipine of Fraunce vnto whō not long sins pope Zacharie by his wrongeful iudgement as many suppose had geuen the kingdome required ayde and deliueraunce as it were offering him the kingdome Therefore are the Frenchmen in armure couetyng also to winne Italy Whilest king Pipine entred into Italy he met with the Ambassadours of the Emperour of Constantinople whiche required that he would restore Rauenna and thexarchate and landes thereof to the Empire whose of righte it was and not the Pope or Romanes Pipine aunswered howe he warred for S. Peter and the pope and to go aboute that the Lumbardes shuld not vexe the church And that he would take from them thexarchate and other

but chieflly to the burning of Sodome to the drowning of Pharao in the red sea and ruine of Iericho c. Those were verelie but seueral destructions and yet terrible aboue measure therfore what thinke we that laste destruction will be which shall be generall Than shall that great Citie be cut a sunder The great citie shal be deuided in to .3 parts the vniuersalitie of men in the great church deuided into thre partes that is to saie in the end shal there thre kindes of menne be found in the Church There be true Christians which attribute to Christe his true glorie that is all thinges of true saluation and cleaue to him alone by sincere fayth There be Papistes which after the lettre ascribe vnto Christe many thinges but not as became them for they ascribe those thinges to Antichriste which belong to Christe alone and in cōmunicating with him such thinges as be not to be cōmunicated they deny Christ For yf the Pope be head of the church vniuersall yf he be king and priest c. Wherfore is Christe preached to haue those thinges alone There be moreouer Newters which will not seme to denie Christe and yet attribute not a litle to Antichriste whome yet neuerthelesse in many things they contemne and despyse vtterly These haue no certayne religion but established and conceaued at their pleasure as it liketh or pleaseth them to beleue this or that There is a great numbre of these men at this day deryding and mockyng whatsoeuer is not tuned after their moste light and wanton Lucianicall wittes You may fynde also in the gospell a felde sowen with sondrie seede to bring forth moste dyuerse fruictes yea euen cockle and darnell which at length in the ende of the worlde shal be gathered c. Math. 13. Moreouer the Cities of the Gentiles sayeth he shall fal The cities of the Heathen fall by the which I vnderstan̄d the Iewish Turkish and straunge religions plucked into sondry sectes or heresies But euery one of these haue their societies rytes and lawes which they commend to be the beste and such as shall endure for euer but they shal fal also The only religion or faith of Christ shall preuayle and ouercome Aretas expounding this place after the same sorte The Cities of the heathen sayeth he falling downe be dyuerse opinions of faith about religion c. They I say are fallen all Great Babilon came into 〈◊〉 remēbraunce of God But especially it was mete and requisite he affirmeth and sheweth diligently that the Citie and church of Rome shuld be destroyed and committed to perpetuall tourments I declared sufficientlie before that Babilon is Rome whiche in very dede is greate not in Italie onelie but through out all Fraunce Spayne Germanie and other Realmes the citie and church of Rome hath seemed to many that it shoulde be euerlasting and triumphaunte for euer Herein the Epicures crie that God careth not for these inferiour thinges but that euery man liueth here eyther happelie or v●happelie according as he hath discretelie and wittelie framed his lyfe that knoweth not of our pleasures and displeasures and our conuersation But contrariwise Sainct Ihon affirmeth that the Lorde hat remembred Babilon and so to haue remembred her that he hath determined to commit her to tourmentes The which he vttereth by a prophetical phrase of speach that he might geue vnto her the cup of wyne of indignation or fearcenesse of his wrath that is to say that he might pūnish her accordinglie as the great indignation and wrath of God requyreth Therefore she shall haue no small punnishmente for the wrath of God is not lighte but moste greueouse and hotte For he requireth and recompenceth the slackenesse of punnishment with the extremitie of payne and tourmente The lyke thinges you may reade in the .3 of Malachie howe God hath bokes written Touching the cup also of the wyne of Gods furie to spoken of before oute of the Prophetes ❀ ●l Iles flee Nowe also emonges other thinges by a figuratiue speach he sheweth that the vngodlye haue no refuge nor way to escape Otherwise wolde the richer so●te in daūgers hyde thēselues farre of in Ilandes that they might be out of gunshot many flee into the Mountaines that they maye there lurke safely But nowe he sayeth howe the very Ilandes flee and therefore that fleyng they can not be ouertaken He addeth that the Mountaynes that is to saye no places of refuge or lurking can be founde Therfore there remaineth nothing but that al vngodly in general beyng taken should be put to tormentes Furthermore he addeth that hayle as bygge as talentes should be caste downe from heauen vpon wicked men and that suche as hath not ben remembred to haue fallen in no memory of mē Hayle like talentes And he semeth to haue alluded to the story of the Chananites which is in the .10 cha of Iosua To be short here is signified that the greuouse and ineuitable iudgement of God pronounced agaynst al vngodly shal at the general iudgemēt tormente the wicked with such an extremitie that no eloquence of men no sence nor vnderstandyng cā attaine vnto for it is alwaies more greuouse Primasius expounding this place sayeth he setteth the wrath of reuēgemēt in haile Whereof we reade the wrathe of the Lorde falleth downe like hayle Nother doeth he without cause mention of a talente weight For with equitie wil he inflicte iudgement c. Here is shewed the obstinate and vncurable mutining and impatiencie of the wicked The wicked blaspheme god in their tormentes wherby they are incensed against Gods iudgementes vomiting out blasphemies agaynst the Iudge him selfe and his iudgement I haue handled these thinges more briefly for that we haue hearde in a maner the same before aboute the ende of the .11 chapt To the Lorde be prayse and glory ¶ The Iudgement or punnishement of the pourple whore is described and also the sinne and vngodlines of the same The .lxxiij. Sermon ANd there came one of the seuen Aungelles whiche had the seuen vialles The .17 chapt talketh with me saiyng vnto me come I wil shewe thee the iudgemēt of the greate whore that sitteth vpon many waters with whome the kinges of the earth haue cōmitted whoredome and the inhabiters of the earth are dronken with the wine of hyr fornication And he caried me awaye into the wildernesse in the sprete And I saw a woman sittyng vpon a rose coloured beast ful of names of blasphemie which had seuen heades and ten hornes He hath hitherto discoursed in generall of the iuste iudgemētes of God albeit that in the meane time he hath touched some particular matters concernyng Babylon or Rome rather than reasoned And nowe consequently seuerally and euidently he handleth the destruction or ende of the beast and of his Image of olde Rome and newe I meane both thempire and papistrie which he semeth to poinct as it were with the fingar In the .13.14 and