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A67922	Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.; Actes and monuments	Foxe, John, 1516-1587.	1583 (1583)	STC 11225; ESTC S122167	3,006,471	816

by no tribulation could they be compelled to forsake the faith Wherfore of them this seemeth to me to be vnderstanded Thē I wil bring vpon thee some of the most strongest people they shal draw their naked swordes c. By these things it may plainly apeare why at this time rather then in time past thys matter is stirred vp and why in this kingdome rather then in other kingdomes the calling of the Gentiles is intreated of to the verifying of the Gospell through the disclosing of Antichrist But forasmuch as many tales and fables are tolde of Antichrist and his comming and many things whych doe rather seduce then instruct the hearers are applied to hym out of the scriptures of the prophets we will briefly wryte those things which are spoken of hym and we will shewe that the same fable sprang from the error of people imagining from no truth of the scriptures prophesying Now then they do say that Antichrist shall be borne in Babylon of the tribe of Dan conceiued of the mixture of man and woman in sinne because that Christe was borne of a virgin and conceiued of the holy ghost They say that he shall be an ill fauoured personage because that it is wrytten of Christ comely and beautifull is he beyonde the sonnes of men They say that he shall preach three yeres and an halfe where Christ preached that he shall circumcise himselfe and say that he is Christ and the Messias sent for the saluation of the Iewes And they say that he shal 3. maner of waies seduce the people by false miracles giftes and torments So that whom he shall not be able to ouercome with myracles nor with gifts those shall he goe about to ouercome with diuers kinds of tormēts And those that he shal seduce will he marke with hys tokens in their forehead or hands He shal sit in the temple of God and cause himselfe to be worshipped as God He shall fight as they say with the 2. witnesses of Christ Enoch Hely and shal kill thē and he himselfe shall finally be slaine with lightening To this imagined man of their own imagination but of none of the prophets foreshewed at least in no such wyse as this is do they apply the Prophets as this of Daniel When y● cotinual sacrifice shal be taken away abhomination shall be placed to desolation That is say they when the worshipping of God shal be taken away desolation to wit Antichrist shall abhominably shewe foorth hymselfe to be worshipped then shall there be 1290. dayes that is to say 3. yeres and a halfe And this time doe they say is the time times and halfe a time And when it is sayde in Daniell Blessed is hee that looketh for and cōmeth to a 1335. dayes This do they say is thus to be vnderstanded 45. dayes of repentance to such as haue worshipped Antichrist whych 45. dayes added to the 1290. make 1335. daies Which dayes they that shall reach vnto shal be called blessed They apply also to thys Antichrist this saying of the Apocalips I saw a beast rising vp out of the Sea hauing 7. heads and 10. horns who had power geuē him to make 42. moneths Which moneths as they say do make 3. yere a halfe in which Antichrist shall raigne And many other things there are told and applied vnfitly to this imagined Antichrist that are not truly grounded vpon the scriptures Now let vs shew the errors of this fable First of al if there shall come such one saying expresly that he is Christ what Christian would be seduced by him though he shuld do neuer so many miracles neither shall he come after the maner of a seducer which shal shew himself an expresse aduersary Neither is it likely that the Iewes can be seduced by such a one seeing that Christ is not promised vnto them of the stocke of Dan by any of the Prophets but of the stocke of Iuda nor yet is he promised to thē to be a king warlike but peaceable taking warre away not making warre For of Christ sayeth Esay And in the last dayes shall there be prepared the mountaine of the house of the Lorde in the toppe of the mountaines and it shal bee exalted aboue the hilles and to it shall all the nations haue great recourse and manye people shal goe and say Come let vs go vp to the mountaine of the Lord and to the house of the God of Iacob and hee shall teache vs his wayes and wee shall walke in his pathes For out of Sion shall there goe a lawe and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem and he shall iudge the nations reproue much people And they shall turne their swordes into plowshares and their speares into sithes There shall not a nation lift vp it selfe against an other nation nor yet shall they bee any more exercised to warre And againe A litle babe is borne to vs and a sonne is geuen to vs and his Imperiall kingdome vpon his shoulder and his name shall bee called The great counsailour The mighty God The father of the world to come The Prince of peace His Empire shall be multiplied and there shal be no ende of his peace He shall sit vpon the seat of Dauid and vpon his kingdom that he may make it stedfast and strong in iudgement and in iustice from hencefoorth for euermore Zachary doeth say of Christ Reioyce thou greatly O thou daughter Sion be thou exceeding merye O daughter Ierusalem Beholde thy king shall come a righteous person and a Sauior vnto thee and yet he a poore man and getting vp vpon an asse euen vpon a yong colt of the she asse And I wil scatter abroad the chariot of Ephraim and the horse of Ierusalem And the bow of warre shal be dispersed and he shall speake peace to the nations and hys power shall be from the sea to the sea and from the floud vnto the borders of the earth By which thinges it is manifest that the wise Iewes knewe well inough Christ to be promised to them of the stocke of Iuda and not of the stocke of Dan that he was geuen all to peace not to warre Therfore it is not likely that they cā be seduced by such a one But if there should haue beene in time to come some such singular Antichrist then would Christ seing he loued his haue sayd somwhat vnto thē of him Now of one singularly doth he not speak but of many saying Many shall come in my name say I am Christ and they shal seduce many persons But now let vs see how the prophecies in Daniell the Apocalips aforesayd be falsly and erroneously applied to the same imagined Antichrist For in Daniel the ix chapter thus it is written And after 72. weekes shall Christ be slaine and they which will deny him shall not be his people And the Citie

thee out of thy clothes All thy fayre and beautifull iuels shall they take from thee and so let thee sit naked and bare c. Here is playnely to be seene what shall happen to the church and followeth more in the sayd chapter Thine eldest sister is Samaria she and her daughters vpon thy left hand But the yongest sister that dwelleth on thy right hand is Sodoma with her daughters whose sinnes were these pride fulnesse of meate aboundāce and idlenesse neither retched they theyr hand to the poore And yet neither Sodoma thy sister with her daughters hath done so euill as thou and thy daughters Neither hath Sumaria that is the Sinagoge done half of thy sinnes yea thou hast exceeded them in wickednesse Take therefore and beare thine owne confusion c. Agayne in the 23. chapter of Ezechiel After the Prophet had described at large the wickednesse corruption and punishment of the Sinagoge turning to the Church sayth And when her sister saw this the raged and was madde with lust loue of riches and folowing voluptuousnes Her fornication and whoredome she committed with Princes and great Lordes clothed with all maner of gorgeous apparell so that her puppes were brused and her brestes were marred And then speaking of her punishment sayth Then my hart forsooke her like as my hart was gone from her sister also And moreouer repeating againe the cause therof addeth Thy wickednesse and thy fornications hath wrought thee all this c. The like we finde also in Esay Ieremy Ezechiel and in all the other Prophetes who prophesying all together in one meaning and almost in one maner of wordes Do conclude with a full agreement and prophecye to come that the Church shall fall and then bee punished for her great excesses and to bee vtterly spoiled except she repent of all her abhominations Whereof speaketh Oseas chap. 2. Let her put away her whoredome out of her sight and her aduoutry from her brestes least I strip her naked and set her euen as she came naked into the world that is in her primitiue pouerty So if she do not it it shal folow of her as in the prophet Nahum chap. 3. For the multitude of the fornication of the fayre and beautifull harlotte which is a maister of witchcraft yea and selleth the people through her whoredome and the nations through her witchcraft And followeth vpon the same Behold I will vpon thee sayth the Lord of hostes and will pull thy clothes ouer thy head that thy nakednes shall appeare among the heathen and thy shame among the kingdomes c. Wherefore by these it is to be vnderstand that vpon this Church the primitiue iustice of God is to be reuealed hereafter And thus much of the first of the foure members aboue fore touched Now to the second member of my theame Iuxta est concerning the nearenesse of time Although it is not for vs to knowe the momēts and articles of time yet by certaine notes and signes peraduenture it may be collected and gathered that whiche I haue here to say For the tractation whereof first I grounde my selfe vpon the saying of the Apostle Paule 2. Thessal 2. where he writeth That vnlesse there come a defection first c. By the whiche defection Ierome vltima quaest ad inquisitiones Ianuarij gathereth and expoundeth allegoricallye the desolation of the monarchy of Rome Betweene the which desolation and the persecution of the Church by Antechrist he putteth no meane space And now what is the state of that common wealth if it be compared to the maiesty of that it hath bene iudge your selues An other glose there is that sayth how by that defection is ment that from the Church of Rome shall come a departing of some other Churches The second note and marke is this when the Church shal be worse in maners then was the Sinagoge as appeareth by the ordinary glose vpon the 3. of Ieremy where it is written The backslider Israell may seeme iust and righteous in comparison of sinfull Iuda That is the Sinagoge in comparison of the Churche of God Whereof writeth Origenes saying Thinke that to be spokē of vs what the Lord sayth in Ezech. 16. Thou hast exceeded thy sister in thine iniquities Wherefore now to compare the one with the other First ye know how Christ rebuked the Phariseis who as Ierome witnesseth were then the Clergye of the Iewes of couetousnesse for that they suffered doues to be solde in the temple of God Secondly for that they did honor God with their lips and not with theyr mouth because they sayd but dyd not Thirdly he rebuked them for that they were hypocrites To the first then let vs see whether it be worse to sell both Church Sacramentes then to suffer doues to be solde in the Temple or not The second where as the phariseis were rebuked for honouring to God with their lips and not with hart there be some which neither honor God with hart nor yet with lips And which neyther do well nor yet say well neither do they preach any word at all but be domb dogs not able to barke impudent and shameles dogs that neuer haue enough such pastors as haue no vnderstanding declining straying all in their owne way euery one geuē to couetousnes from the highest to the lowest And thirdly as for hipocrisy there be also some whose intollerable pride malice is so manifest and notorious kindled vp like a fire that no cloake or shadow of hypocrisy can couer it but are so past all shame that it may be well verified of them which the Prophet speaketh Thou hast gottē thee the face of an Harlot thou wouldest not blush c. The 3. signe and token of tribulation approching neare to the Church may well be taken of the to much vnequall proportion seene this day in the church Where one is hungry and statueth another is dronke By reason of which so great inequality it cannot be that the state of the Church as it is now can long endure For like as in good harmony to make the musick perfect is required a moderate and proportion at equality of voyces which if it do much exceed it taketh away all the sweet melody So according to the sentence of the Philosopher by to much immoderate inequality or dispariety of citizens the cōmon wealth falleth to ruine Cōtrary where mediocrity that is where a mean inequality with some proportion is kept that pollicy standeth firme more sure to continue Now among al the politicke regiments of the gentlle I thinke none more is to be found in histories wherin is to be seene so great and exceeding oddes then in the pollicye of Priestes Of whom some be so high that they exceed all Princes of the earth some agayne be so base that they are vnder all rascals so that such a pollicy or common wealth may well be called