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A01327 A sermon preached at Hampton Court on Sonday being the 12. day of Nouember, in the yeare of our Lord. 1570. VVherein is plainly proued Babylon to be Rome, both by Scriptures and doctors. Preached by VVilliam Fulke Bacheler of Diuinity, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge. Fulke, William, 1538-1589. 1571 (1571) STC 11450; ESTC S102774 26,607 59

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¶ A SERMON preached at Hampton Court on Sonday being the. 12. day of Nouember in the yeare of our Lord. 1570. VVherein is plainly proued Babylon to be Rome both by Scriptures and Doctors Preached by VVilliam Fulke Bacheler of Diuinity and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge APOCALIPS 14. ¶ She is fallen she is fallen euen Babylon that great Citie for of the wyne of the furie of her fornication she hath made all nations to drinke Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely ❧ TO THE RIGHT honorable vertuous lord Ambrose Dudley Earle of Varwike Maister of the Queenes Maiesties Ordinance and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter WHERE as it pleased your Honor to requyre a copy of my Sermon which I preached last in your Honors hearing so far as my memory would serue me to repeate it I thought it my dutie to satisfie your godly desire Not that I count it worthye of longer remembraunce in respect of any great skyl or diligence of myne shewed therein althoughe in regard of the matter I would it myght neuer be forgotten but because I acknowledge my selfe so much bound to your Honor that whersoeuer I may perceiue that my poore seruice may be accepted of the same I would in no wyse be slacke to offer it much lesse refuse to yelde it when it pleaseth your Lordship so earnestly to require it In which request albeit the singuler good wyll that your Honour beareth toward me moueth you to think better o● my simple doinges then they deserue in deede Yet your godlye zeale to the glorye of GOD and the detestation of Papistrie may appeare to all men as it is throughly knowen to those that daylye haue experience of your honorable disposition VVherfore I addressed my selfe to put in writyng that which before I had vttered in speaking obseruyng as neare as I could not onelye the substance of matter but also the phrase of wordes which I then vsed as by reading your Honor can best iudge VVhich after I had sent to a friend of myne in London to be written out at my next repayre to the Citie I found that it was already committed to a Printer who had vndertaken to set it out in prynt For which cause I thought good to set this Preface before it most humbly beseeching your Honor to take it in good part and for the delay of tyme to hold me excused seing it shall come otherwyse into your Lordships handes then of me at the first was purposed The Lord of Lords encrease al honorable godly vertues in your Lordship with prosperitie in this life to his diuine pleasure after the course of this time ended perpetuall ioy and felicitie Your Honors to commaund alwaies in the Lord William Fulke A sermon preached at hampton Court the. 12. of Nouember 1570. THat I may speake to the glory of God and the edifiyng of the Congregatiō here gathered in his name I shall desire you all right honorable worshipfull and welbeloued in our sauiour Christ to ioyne with me in faithfull and earnest prayer And in this praier c. It is written in the 14. chapter of the Reuelation of s. Iohn the 8. verse She is fallen she is fallen euen Babylon that great City for of the wyne of the fury of her fornication she hath in 〈◊〉 all nations to drinke The holy Euangeli●● s. Luke right honorable welbeloued in Christ in the. 4. chapter of his Gospel recordeth that on a time when our sauiour came into the Sinagoge at Nazareth to rede as his custome was ther was deliuered to him a booke containing the Prophecy of the Prophet Esay Which after he had opened at the first be found the place wher it was written in these words The spirite of the Lord is vpon me because he hath annoynted me that I should preach the Gospell to the poore he hath sent me that I should heale the broken in hart that I should preach deliuerance to the Captiues and sight to the blinde that I should set at liberty them that are brused to preach the acceptable yeare of the Lord. Then after he had closed the booke and deliuered it to the Minister he sat downe to preach and the eyes of all them that wer in the Congregation wer bent vpon him Then he opened his mouth spake vnto thē these words This dai is this scripture fulfilled in your eares and they all gaue him testimony that it was so In like maner may I say concerning this place of scripture which I haue read vnto you In your eyes and eares is this scripture this day fulfilled And I pray God you may all likewise beare witnes with me that it is so The last time that I spake in this auditory I entreated of the floorishing prosperous 〈◊〉 of Ierusalem which is the Church of 〈◊〉 forth in the. 122. Psalme and therfore good order now requireth that I shuld speake of the d●cay ouerthrow of the enemy of Ierusalem which is Babylon the See church of Antichrist And for that purpose principally haue I chosen this text of scripture to speake of That by the one we might bee enflamed with loue of the true church of Christ by the other be moued to the hatred of that false church of Antichrist Now this text of scripture She is fallen she is fallen euen Babylon that great City for of the wine of the fury of her fornication she hath geuen all Nations to drinke offereth me thrée speciall things to be considered First what Babylon is secondly what is become of her and thirdly what is the cause of her heauy decay In the first part by the assistance of God and your honorable pacience I shal plainly shew proue that Babylon is Rome In the secend the Babylon or Rome by the iust iudgemēt of God is fallen yea she is fallen In the last the reason of this so sharpe sentence of God against her because she hath deceiued al the world with dronkēnes and whoredome Within the c●mpasse of these thrée propositions I will kéepe my selfe in all my discourse Sauing that by your fauour forasmuch as this is the myddle voyce of thrée Angels that speake in this chapter for 〈◊〉 I wil vse the voyce of the first Angel of whose preaching this my text is a cōsequent an● in the stéede of a conclusion I wil touch the voyce of the third Angel which is a consequent of this the myddle Angels voyce Concerning the Preface it shal be this in few words After that s. Iohn had described the preseruation vnity of the church of god in Christ their head euen in the midst of the fury of Antichrist vnder the figure of the Lambe standing on moūt Syon with 144000. of his chast worshippers Next he declareth that God would bring the same againe into the sight of the world by preaching of the Gospel and the ouerthrow of the kingdome of Antichrist Wherefore he sendeth an Angell flying in