comfort but the ioy of God As Iohn banished into Patmos hath in one day the Lordes day more ioy then all the world is worth when darkenesse couered Caesares and obscuritie nations But God shined ouer him and the glory of Christ was seene to him to shew him in wildernesse the state of the Church If he had not beene banished from Ephesus he should not haue had these visiones But now his comfort is the greater As one farre from his Countrey may study more in six yeeres then in 12. among much acquaintance at home and be lesse grieued from quarrelling of the wicked Now Iohn applying Esai vnto the LAMBE sheweth that all his comfortes cary vnto Christ And all the Prophets doe the same so this booke teacheth all the Myriades of Iewes that belieued to expound all the Bible So doe S. Pauls Epistles expounding all the Law and Prophetes how they speak of Christ And the chap. 61. ver 1. is plainly by our L. Luc. 4. of him selfe And the nations the saued shall walke in her light and Kings shall bring their glorie and honor into her Isai 60. And nations shall walke in thy light and Kings in thy brightnesse that ariseth to thee And her gates shall not bee shut in the day for night is not there that they may bring the glory honor of nations vnto her And they shall open thy gates continuallie day and night they shall not be shut that men may bring vnto thee the wealth of nations also their Kings shall be brought Thus God comforteth the xij Tribes from their knowen prophecies to goe forward to winne at the last so many as would furnish a Citie Fifteene hundred miles square in two thousand year Though the ten Tribes were scattred yet Hosea telleth them that as HE raiseth vp the dead so he can call them backe Cyrus called them from 120. nations vpon his owne charges and some of all Israel returned to haue hope in Christ at 490. yeares by holy Daniel And from all nations some were at Ierusalem the last yeare and men 120. receiued spirit to be sufficient to teach all nations many thousandes were turned and of them euery one would turne many thousand And Iohn stirreth vp their hope And there entreth not into it any common and practising lothsomenesse and lies But the written in the booke of life of the Lambe Prophane infidels vncleane in soule and lying in iudgements as all Papistes bee and old heathen estranged from Christ are not of this but they whom Christ hath chosen called and sanctified This matter is eloquently expressed by Manasses-saw-martyr chap 52. Arise arise put on thy glorie put on thy trimme apparell Ierusalem the holy Citie for no vncircumcised and vncleane shall come any more vnto thee This sheweth that they who be truely of the Church haue their minde brauely clothed and will haue none profane of their companie nor auctores of vntrueth vnfit for the Carbuncle walles of Ierusalem as the Apocrypha lies are with the Bible a meere leprous sorte whereby Papistes terme all the Bible lies yet they that can not read one word of the Law as a professor should will fight to keepe those wicked bookes with the holy and fight to hinder explaning of both Testaments in Saint Iohns Carbuncle veine and in Pauls Iaspers As none can be saued vnlesse hee be borne againe of water Isai chapter 55. so puddles of filthy pooles will marre those waters It is marueile that any dare chirpe to hinder the light of Gods worde seeing God is able and readie to reuenge The Pope putteth the wicked fable of Tobie in the heart of the holy Bible But it had beene better a milstone had beene hanged about his necke and that he had beene cast into the mayne Sea It is better to bee a dore-keeper in the holy Ierusalem then in Emperors Palaces in such mixture to the pure waters of Gods worde Iohn and Ezechiel shal be iudge CHAPTER XXII And he shewed me a pure Riuer of water of life so cleere as Christall issuing from the throne of God and of the LAMBE IN the song of songs liuely waters of CHRIST flow from Libanus they be waters of life Ioh. 7. to teach others life and the true MESSIAS commeth by waters blood and spirite 1 Iohn 4. Water of cleere doctrine blood of suffring and miracles of spirite And if a man bee not regenerated of this Water and Spirite he shall not see life And thus speaketh Ezekiel And he brought mee vnto the brim of a riuer and at the brim of the Riuer was much store of trees on both sides and hee said vnto mee these waters goe forth into Galile the first and descend to the plaine to sea of Tiberias then vnto another sea Lacus Asphaltites to the Ocean and those waters are made holesome And surely euery liuing soule which can creepe into any place where these Riuers come shall be liuely and the fish shall be great Thus Ezekiel telleth whence Christ shall begin to teach in Galilee And the Zohar vpon Geneses doth note that And Iohn saw the euent of this for at the sea of Galilee was hee and Iames and Peter and Andrew called to bee fishers of men And after the resurrection Ioh. chap. 21. at the sea of Tiberias Christ appeared to many of his Disciples fishing and all night they had taken nothing And in the morning the Lord commeth to the water side vnknowen and asketh whether they had any thing to eate they said No. Because they had taken nothing all night Then hee made them cast into the right partes and they make a draught of 153. great fishes whose spaume might match the 353000. Proselites in Chanaan Olde and late Prophecie and storie are thus contriued to make easie and sure the doctrine of life And God must needes hate the Pope that bent not all his wealth to haue so many as he could ready in the Law as were the Fishers of Galilee The Disciple whom IESVS loued hath now Apoc. 21. a third sight of Ezekiels prophecie In Iohn from the throne of God and the Lambe cometh the water In Ezekiel from the Temple so the Lord of Hostes and the Lambe bee the Temple In the middle of the streete of it and of the Riuer was a Tree of life bearing twelue fruites bearing his fruite euery moneth and the leaues of the tree did heale the nations Ezekiel chap. 47. And by the Riuer came forth at his brim on either side all kinde of trees for meate the leafe of none faded nor the fruite failed euery moneth they brought forth newe For the waters came forth from the Temple and the fruite was for meate and the leafe to heale The first psalme expoundeth this that the studie of the Law findeth Christ the tree of life and maketh others fruitfull trees to feede and heale An exposition followeth heere Chap. 22. And no Catanathema giuen ouer as cursed shall bee any more But
teach there the trueth of saluation That which Ierem. speaketh chap. X. of our Gods prayse against idolls is heere repeated That Egypt and Babel teach the Pope what to look for Thus the holy protest their honor to God and labor to increase the Church that all nations may come and worship him And afterwardes I saw and behold the Temple of the Tabernacle of Couenant was opened in the heauen and the seauen Angells came forth hauing the seauen plagues from the Temple and they were clothed with cleane and pure linen and girded about the breast with golden girdles As Angells help Gods seruants to victories so proper Angells considered with men whom they strengthen may heere be meant Their clothing signifie syncere holinesse which men should desire and the golden girdle about the brest signifieth the binding of the minde in golden syncerity of heart Maymo in Beth Bechira handling Aharons garment citeth traditions from them that saw the high sacrificers manner that Aharon was girded about the brest that sheweth Iohn to speake most learnedly chapter 1. and heere 15. and wiser then any who would forge a booke could doe And one of the foure liue-wights gaue to the seauen Angells seauen golden cupps full of the anger of God who liueth for euer and euer The liuely wight is heere as orator of the whole Church and after the acknowledging of Gods goodnesse by Gods charge the Angells take in hand to poure Gods wrath vpon his enimies visibly by men but vnseene as the armie that guarded Elisaeus So as I told the punishment of Nabuchadnezar Daniel chap. 4. commeth by the decree of the watchfull and the petition of the holy What the Angells desire in reuenge for the Church God appointeth them to help forward in assisting men that be the fighters So millions of millions waite vpon Gods throne to rule the foure beasts that the house of Zorobabell afflicted should know that the heauens ruled and tyrants should soone be tamed by them The Pope should from Dan. 7. learne this and from Apo. chap. 6. where the profane Caesares be destroyed and know that after long angring of God hee must haue full payment Mortall Princes soone fade as a floure But God is euerlasting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Daniel 7. 9. and liuing for euer Dan cha 12. and Apoc. X. and XV. who because men did not receiue the loue of the trueth to be saued sendeth workfull error that they belieue falshood that all may be condemned which belieue not the trueth but delite in badnesse This Booke was penned in such a style that it openeth not onely it selfe but also teacheth how all the old Testament belongeth to Christ And the Temple was filled with a smoke of the glory of God and of his power and none could goe into the Temple till the seauen plagues of the 7. Angells were finished When the Tabernacle of Moyses and the Temple of Salomon were consecrated then Moyses and the Leuites could not goe in while the glory of God filled them Here a cloud of Gods anger filled with defense the Church in the wildernesse that God will not giue the wicked grace to ioyne with them vntill they be cōsumed the sturdy wicked who fight against open light and be of the 666. sonnes of Adoni-kam which had rather haue 666. talents of Cethem from Ophir then all the knowledge of Iohns Reuelation such that striue against the light shall neither be forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come but heere haue a conscience stinged as by scorpions and in the world of soules death aeternall CHAPTER XVI As the Popes manner of rising plagued the World in a like manner God consumeth him As the Popes arisinge plagued the world vnder Angells Trumpets as 1. The earth 2. The Sea 3. Fountaines of waters 4. The Sun 5. By kingdom of Locusts 6. By raising vp the Turk 7. By earthquake So to him plagues come vnder the same terms but in another signification as 1. His earth hath boyles 2. Sea blood 3. Fountains blood 4. Susnn parching persecution 5. By darkned throne of spoile 6. By Euphrates by Turke 7. By whole earthquake And I heard a great voice from the Temple saying goe poure out the cupps of the anger of God into the earth In the heauen Christ is the Temple and the Church by him By his commandement and the Churches care the Popes world is plagued spirits being Gods messengers inuisiblie men visiblie And the first went and poured his cup into the earth and there came boiles sore and painefull vpon such as hath the marke of the beast and worshipped his image The plague of Egypt vnder Iannes and Iambres resisting Moyses is now vpon the minds of Papists which resist Law and Gospell the discouery of which Idolatry becommeth a sound meanes for Kings that made the beast a King of Locusts to eate vp the flesh of the beast The West Kings made the Pope mighty to ouerthrow the East weakned so that Machmad and Turcke ouerhtrew it And euer since the Pope came to be mighty he became auctor of haile and troubles and brought haile and fire of warre to be mixed with blood So now he looseth many Countreies vpon Martyrs telling that he held Satans throne and vpon diligent scholes detecting him in euery part bringing the Apocalyps to be dayly read and all the eloquent N. Testament in Greeke founteine of heauenly water to baptise the minde by the spirit into the kingdome of heauen And the second Angell poured his cuppe on the sea and it became blood as of the dead euery liuing soule dyed in the sea When the poore father of Rome forging S. Peters being there became by Saint Peters name of low and poore an high mountaine he became fiery and cast himselfe into the sea of Empires that by all his warres a third part of the liuing in one age were kill'd and destroyed Till a thousand yeeres hee became not a full mountaine till then Satan was tyed but in Ierusalems warre he was loose that 200. y. warres turned the third part of politicall sea and shipps into blood and destruction And what warrs haue bene since in Europe which the Pope hath not kindled So he payeth for it so hee looseth whole countreies as Netherland with the blood of 40. yeeres warres and wast of the Spanish nation That scant a third part escaped death in them that could warre for his killing of K. Philips sonne bent to heale the boyles of his religious This did they dead in blindnesse and known to be such And a third Angell poured his Cup into the riuers and fountaines of waters and blood came of it Heere lesser waters are lesse forces that continually he hath bad successe and great losse The yeare 1588. gaue him an open token of wrath in this sort and Flanders 1600. And if he had gone forward Venice had taught the same and Iuliaque will 1610. if he goe forward dayly litle riuers of 700.
600. and 400. as they would meete are cut off When he corrupted the Riuers and Fountaines of Scriptures the waters from which he that is not borne cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen he made a third part dead in sinne Since the Gospell is preached to the dead they that knowe themselues dead in the flesh but liue to God in Spirite pay the worme-wood-starre for bittering the waters of life and wresting all that is spoken of the true Church into protection for his Synagogue of Satan And all together bee one Angell that poure their cupps into the fountaines to make them blood and to shew that they punish the dead in sinne And I heard the Angell of the waters say lust art thou O Lord who is and who was and the gratious in iudging thus because they shed the blood of the holy and Prophets and thou hast giuen them blood to drink For they are worthy The state that plagueth the Pope prosperously acknowledgeth that the successe commeth from God the vnchangeable who is as he was and alwaies gracious Pharaoh by waters destroyed Israels children innocent blood His waters also God turned to blood and againe to oppresse his blood and his armies So because the Diuelish popish Pope shed the blood of the holy Preachers God gaue thē blood to drinke How died Popes full many by poyson since the Monke poysoned the Emperor by transubstantiating bread into poyson Poyson hath bene still practised still in Rome Queene Mary the bloody sped ill And the bloody French dyed in bleeding God as hee was so he is and will be alwayes iust And I heard an other from the Altar saying euen so O Lord the God of Hostes vpright and iust are thy Iudgements For confirmation of this matter it is repeated from the auctority of Christ the Altar by wordes often vsed in Scripture And the fourth Angell poured his Cup on the Sunne and it was giuen him to burne men in the fire And men were brent with a great burning When the fourth Trumpet sounded the third part of the Sunne was darkened There brightnesse of knowledge in the Church was meaned Heere persecution as Mat. 13. In England this fell out Queene Mary persecuted Priest borne in the Realme finde the same and Papists measure for measure and yet they being scholars cannot see the iust iudgement of God as followeth And they blasphemed the name of GOD which had authoritie ouer these plagues and repented not to giue him glorie The Law in England had perfect iustice of God The Prince is supreame Bishop and defendor of the Faith Hee giueth all leaue to read the holy Hebrew and Greeke text to expound the Hebrew by the Apostles Greeke and the tongue of the New by Greekes the Diuinitie by plaine reason And all must confesse that Gods worke is perfect and the man which will adde sheweth himselfe in the Temple of God as if hee were God extolling himselfe aboue all Religion Now the Priests preach the Pope King of England as Irus was King of Lydia Irus had as good a right to Ithaca with Croesus land as the Pope to any Chimney-smoake in England for a Peter-penny They turne Subiects to refuse the Bible the Church obedience to the King and Papists haue endeauoured by Powder to destroy the King and his House and the Gentry of Parliament a treason so barbarous inhumane diuelish Popish this sheweth that the Pope hath the spirit of the former Beast reuiued in all cruelty and deceit and all this fight is openly against God for Satans throne Campian and other the Popes Martyrs making the wicked Apocrypha part of the holy Bible and destroying faith and policy should not haue blasphemed God but haue repented and giuen God glory for iustice Bishop Tonstall vnder Queene Mary fauoured the Gospell in London and Duresmē and although D. Bancroft let Priest Watson print Popery in his house and receiued foure Priests from Rome yet he repented and sent the Priest to Tiburne and is become a M. R. F. Better should all Papistes come to God the shade And the fift Angell poured his Cup on the throne of the Beast and his kingdome became darkened and they did bite their tongues for paine and they blasphemed the God of Heauen for their panges and boyles but repented not of their workes The fift Angels Trumpet could not stay the Starre of Rome from seeking Supremacy and badnesse but by increase of Locusts he would be a King or a Beast comming out of the Earth and with his keyes of the kingdome of darkenesse he could bring a smoake of heresies that darkened all Sunne and ayre Machmad after Lucian the dogge say well for the whetstone but both those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are nothing to his spirits As they haue both their portion in the lake burning with fire and brimstone Lucian was not forgiuen in this world so the Popes states shall haue his throne darkened openly in this world by valiant and holy people strengthened by Angels Darknesse is vsuall for a distressed state in Iob and Dauid and Isai Albion with Denmarke is wholy gone from him halfe Zuitzerland Netherland Germany And the poore schole of Geneua said wel to him though it agreeth with him to slander the pure Text of Scripture Where Beza doth say Deus non agit in malis he calleth backe those errors of his and Calvines whereby they seemed to make God auctor of sin The Senates religion as they gaue mee leaue to expresse it I dare defend against Turke and Iew and Pope while my hand can guide the warbling pen. And where Bodinus saith that Calvin should say of the Apocalyps Miror quid tam obscurus scriptor velit it is not credible that one of his iudgement to shake off all the Popes trash would speake so of a booke penned by the Father of light And Bodinus himselfe should haue told the prayse of God for the light of saluation by this booke God told him that they were happy that read and marke the things written heere chap. 1. As Daniel calleth to him all stories heathen for 600. yer so Iohn for 1600. And as Daniel telleth the same things seauen tymes ouer to infinite delite So doth Iohn repeate as pleasantly The Popes Diuines seeing his throne fall and decay they chew their tongues in speach not fitted to matter But snapping at syllables of the learned and aeschrologia godlesse from vncleane spirits and in all this they cannot repent them of fighting against all plaine truth When fight is for popery by the Gospell the Gospell should be answered and not discourses made to Zwinglius Luther P. Martyr Bucer Caluin Beza Many others match the best of them and learning would try the Law by Ebrew the Greek Testament by Greeks and Iewes and so the waters would runne cleere which now the starrworme-wood maketh bitter And the sixt Angell poured his cup vpon the great riuer Euphrates to praepare a way
no studie so good as this nor so much desired of all sortes Hee knew neither the Low nor High Ierusalem that would threaten to hinder this studie and is worthy to be recorded foreuer for an example to others The treatise of Dauids family and Nathans comforted through all Daniel of the Rome-Beast one made of foure sauage vnto Constantinus the great This shewed more thē any Academique in Ebrew and Greek or either euer the way to the heauenly Ierusalem The right honorable S r. Iohn Fortescue reading the workes told the bearer thus Tell the auctor I will obtaine of the King a very great stipend for him The honorable Gentleman knew what a priuy Counsellor should doe death praeuented him yet as it seemeth from his motion the Kinges kingly promise came and for Ierusalem his memory shall not die Dressed as a Bride trimmed for her husband The Citie for a ruler is trimmed as a Woman to be married for her husband Esai 52. Rules of saluation are a greater trimming for the minde then any outward trimming can bee for the body The holy Prophets wordes haue all trimnesse that speach can conteyne in language The promises of Christ all trimnesse of sharpe wisedome the stories of contemners endlesse to destruction and of Embracers few to saluation all trimnesse of storie and so the New Test for the age heere meant all trimnesse of wisedome and learning and cariage rules of faith haue wisedom passing all heathen and Christian true policie is more ciuill then all heathens So the Citie is trimmed for a Citie as a bride for the bridegrom And I heard a great voice from the heauen saying Beholde the tabernacle of God is with men he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himselfe will bee with them their God and God will wipe all teares from their eyes and death shall be no more nor mourning nor crye nor paine shall be any more for the first thinges are past In Leuiticus 26. God telleth that if they keepe his Lawes God will haue his Tabernacle with them and they shall be his people and he shall be their God So before the captiuitie of Babel they that conquered the lande with Iosuah and the Iudges and vnder Dauid and his house many were And Ezekiel telleth that after they haue bene in Babylon to teach the Creation of the world and returne from Babel in the hope of Messias they should be the people of God and the same is heere spoken for vs heathen comming vnto CHRIST And now that men be taught of Christ plainly no affliction will make them weepe as in Babylon they wept at the Riuer sides Psal 137. not knowing cleerly Gods counsel how the Lord sent them thither to teach by Babels punishment that ONE the God of heauen ruled all and when men see the death of Christ to giue life that they who belieue in him die not but passe from death to life then death mourning cry paine will be nothing as the first case is altered Andrew was Petros before Symeon in Photius because he first acknowledged Petram all who do so are sure that the courtes to kill Christians the gates of Haides shall not preuaile against them When they knew that in Haides God hath Paradise for the Godly So Athanasius telleth that the Martyrs feared not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The going to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And he that sate vpon the throne said Behold I make all things new Isai 43. and 2. Cor. 5. Turne this to a new life heere and in that sense Christ about fourteene yeares after Ierusalems fall spake to Iohn in this vision that although the Church in the sight of the world should be base it should be a new heauē The Iewes see a new light in Moyses and the new Testament calleth vs from the toile of Moses to the rest in Christ that Daniel chap. 9. 24. shineth as Saint Stephens face as the face of an Angell and the minde which by the new Testament doeth see the old seeth a new world aboue that which was seene in Poperie Where Bellarmine and his labor to disgrace the scripture the waters from which they that be not baptized by the spirit shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen And he saith vnto me write for these wordes bee true and sure When the Apostles were all dead but Iohn and the Disciples were in great affliction and the God of this world was mightie in persequution the naturall man would thinke it harde to looke that the Bible should bring a new world Therefore the WORD who made this worlde and will make a new world would haue this written that in this world first he will make a new world And he saith vnto mee it is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end The learned note Ebrewes as Kimchi and Greekes as Eusebius that the Prophets spake in the praeterperfect temps for things to come because with God all is praesent and as sure as thinges past So should men haue regarded this booke that all in it though strange should come to passe That the Romane Emperours should bee plagued to ouerthrow that a new Rome should bee built for Empire neere old Troy that a beggerly scholar by lies and false miracles should set vp an Empire making himselfe as if he were God and deceiue the world men feared not this But Christ what hee spake in the beginning bringeth it to passe in the end Of ALPHA and OMEGA In that Christ nameth himsefe by the Greeke letters the first and the last he giueth great honor to the Greek tongue that they who seeke not from his words but from barbarous Latin his wisedome should be guilty Many Latin termes haue greatly deceiued as sacramentum for mysterion dispensator for Oeconomus Descendere ad inferos for Cateltheim eis Haidon and such hence come seauen sacraments dispensing with Gods word and going downe to Hell Briefly the smoke from the Pit is bred by wrested Latin as that an Image may be worshipped not an Idoll When Papae Cardinales Arch-buyshopps and Buyshopps rule the sheepe ignorant of Gods words they become wolfes and the most deadlie enimies to the truth The Pope hath an auctor in opusculis patrum which by the LXXII reiecteth the Ebrew truth adding an hundred of yeeres more then Moyses gaue at Seths birth and he allowed this blasphemie That Moyses omitted an hundred of yeeres His notes for soules 75. Act. 7. teach by Gregorie Martyn that either the old Testament or New faileth and his translation not the Septuagint taught that the dwelling of Israel which they dwelt in Aegypt was 430. year And their translation checking S. Pauls Greeke for 450. after a sort made Beza and our BB. after Bibliander and others hold the text corrupt and their rude translation made Achaziah two yeeres elder then his father and 20. yeer elder then himselfe And their barbarousnesse not knowing
quiet words calmed boysterous preparation of warres But my hast cannot suffer stay And so sayd many strangers at Basil and French were earnest to bring me to their King And what will to my rare honour the state of Basil Zurick and Berne meant I will let them write Now for Iesuites humanity D. Pistorius himself four yeares agoe asked M. Hakewill of Oxford at Friburge of me whether I was alive He said he left me at Francfurt then said he I am hartily glad and gave high good words Now he is dead and I am sory for I hoped to turn him Now two Cardinalls of Rome Caesar Baronius as the Iesuites of Mentz told me and an other whose letters were intercepted at Heidelberge of him I heard no more obteyned of Pope Clement a principall Cardinalship for me and dealt with Mentz Iesuites to perswade me who when they could not Archb. Ioh. Adami would have had me of his court and obteyned that in Chapter saying that he reioyced more for my honouring of him with dedication of my Greeke translation of the Prophetes then for his late election to be Prince of the Empire And he should by order have part of his court Protestantes and he spake of me as not misliking my religion But then Q. E. died and I returned and he died soone after None but shamelesse will denie this Now this is past all deniall that Mentz gaue me leave to print in Greeke my owne Religion That brake the neck of Purgatorie besides other Papistique great poincts Of this the best of Paris wrote to Franckfurt to the Kings agent that of nine hundred yeeres so much was never obteyned of the Pope as that booke obteyned Rome must allow what Mentz alloweth And if Haides have but two places as they graunt Heaven and hell Purgatory must give back all the land that it wan Furthermore when my book of Concent came in Latin Pater Baltasar Ezelius in the hearing of his felowes in their college at Mentz spake as by common consent We allow all that that book hath This I have printed in Latin and I am sure he will not deny it and when we are both dead none may seing in my life time it is not denyed So this much is graunted me of Rome to assure the simplest so far how far the city is sunk And badnes or madnes geveth Nabal for name Nabala for fame to him that will not see how vpon this Rome graunt the comment vpon the Apocalyps is past reply I have turned the Apocalyps into Hebrew and so I would expound it if the Turky merchants would pay the charges If they refuse I will leaue them to try whether strange shipwrack shall revenge them Their agent L. Ed. Barton gave the beginning writing thus If M r. Br. may be brought to Const. that may turne to the common good of Christendome This he sent to M r. Stapers Seing our age fleeth wee should sell all to buy the Pearle of heaven Let the just be just still The summe of the Apocalyps IOhns Apocalyps telleth that Christ shewed the state to come to the ende of the world a vision of himselfe as vnto Daniel chap. 10. this doth hee chap. 1. And in singular sweetnes to the seaven starres in the seaven golden Candlestickes all these partes be applyed with addition against all Arrianes that the Eternall the sonne of God the Creator of the world is he that appeared vnto Daniel So Iohn expoundeth Daniel into Salvation of all Iewes of grace This goeth through chap. 2. 3. in easie facilitie Now for tymes to come this appeareth chap. 4. God on a throne fitteth a iudge like Iasper for Beniamins temple Sardius as Ruben to fight for the tribes And Christians in state Persones are 24. Bishops and besides goodly this in chap. 4. Then the Lambe and Lion openeth the Booke of seaven seales chap. 5. then hee cometh further against Caesares on horse white with plaguing riders vpon red blacke pale For the martyrs who crave to destroy the Empire but are bid to expect Diocletianes persecution Then shall their profane world be rowled vp chap. 6. After that a generall apostasie commeth chap. 7. Howe that falleth out the seaventh seale doth shew Christ standeth at the golden Altar to receive all prayers Rome bendes a policy against all this Therevpon Christ as in Ezekiel casteth fire into the earth and Angels trompetters sound howe haile and fire is mixt with blood by that Popes bee made a mountaine so a mountaine of fire cast into the worlds sea to set all on fire when the starre-Byshop falleth from his heavens to turne the law-Law-waters into wormewood and to darken the chiefe Sunne Moone and Starres comming vp by falling and by turning the Scriptures into gall soone darkening the third part of the Church that three woes are pronounced chap. 8. By his keies of the pitt whence he fetched the wormwood of his haeresies he bringeth locastes of Monkes to devour all the West and able to make warres and becommeth King of Locusts and maketh warres and so becommeth a firie mountaine to make haile and fire mixt with blood This was one woe He weakned the East Empire to set vp the Saracens and is plagued from Euphrates as his Idolatry and treachery turned away the East chap. 9. Christ reviveth the Gospell when men eate the little booke teaching againe how hee is the Angell of Covenant and Mediator for the faithfull chap. 10. Martyrs bring policies to see what the king of Locusts his Citie or policie is and he falleth and the Gospell is restored and he falleth with worlds ende chap. 11. The same matter is repeated for Caesares and Pope in a dragon of Romane Armes As it was called Egypt chap. 11. and Pharaoh a Dragon Esai 27. The vpper parte of the Dragon is shewed to be the Romane Empire one compiled of the foure in Daniel and the taile is expounded to be the beast arising from the earth chap. 11. or King of Locusts chap. 9. he reuiueth the former empire so that none can live in it without his marke chap. 13. His marke is to force Christians to Idolatrie For which vilanie Romane Babilon is told of a fall chap. 14. By vrging Idolatry he driveth from his Aegypt the Church through a sea of fire and fagot into the wildernesse Where the Tabernacle built hath a smoke of Gods anger and Angels seaven plague him as hee plagued all vnder the seaven Trompets Chapter 16. For that our holy Martyrs calling for vengeance from vnder the Altar rowled vp also the Popes heaven as a booke rowled The Beast revived hath no difference from the former but in bloody color and the daughter Rome riding vpon it all bloody Chapter 17. Rome shall fall as Babilon Tyrus did Chapter 18. It shall fall when all nationes sing Halelu-Iah vpon the destruction of the wicked with vnderstanding Then the WORD of GOD will catch the Beast-false-prophet the whole Dragon revived
That is If a heavy day had now first shined vnto me neither had sailed before so troublesome seas there would be iust cause of sorrow c. So sea is Dan. 7. Apo. 12. where Empires arise so the men of the seas policie called fish such as seemed aliue Chap. 3. Forsooke the waters Esa 55. and Eze. 48. which giue life to all where they come turned here to haerefie be turned to death and traffique of ciuill policie is turned to corruption The third blast expounding the second The third explication of the learned great telleth that the messinger of the holy Synagogue or heauen for the kingdome of heauen shall fall from his calling to be as Babilons king Isai 14. A star setting Nemrod his house on fire will soone corrupt the third part of the Bible called waters Isa 55. Ioh. 3. and 1. Ioh. 3. and infinitely in Rabbins Hee shall turne Iustice of faith into Idolatry as Ephraim in Amos. That many men died the second death called fish afore by Idols worship So the Pope turning the holy doctrine into idolous waters is called wormewood Articles of the Popes corruption of Scriptures First He holdeth not the Hebrew and Greeke holy text in vse God owne holy wordes penned by the Eternall Spirit speaking all of life by the SON in dayly esteeme for all in leisure of studie to know and which all of leisure to studie should know But in steed of it brought in a Latin worke of which tongue none is bound to haue regard and brought vnto schooles Latin for Greeke and Ebrew II. The Apocrypha bookes were all made by Men of Iuda And speake not a syllable of CHRIST yet helpe Iosephus for all Israel against Appiones Instim Diodorus Siculus Cornelius Tacitus in madd Antiochus and so far haue their vse The fable of Tobi is made to busie heathen for Assurs captiuitie which heathen neuer mention nor Iudahs deportation to Babel or returne For it Barucs forged Epistles Susannaes allegorie for the whole state King Ioakims wife polluted by the Babilonian Iudges but reuenged by Daniel is wittilie fabled The enuious heathen neuer mention the fire quenched by Daniels most noble Cousins Therefore a Rhetoricall song was formed to shew what in the fyer their cause might speake to Idol-seruers But Daniel recordeth nothing spoken who knew all and would omitt nothing of glorie So no heathen tell as Ieremi of Babell Bels seruants who thought Bell gaue them kindoms that GOD by Cyrus would take out of Bels throte all the kingdomes which he had deuoured therefore the fable of Bell mocked heathens blindnesse No heathen tell of Daniel cast into the Lions den for not worshipping the Persian Emperor or Dragon as Pharaoh is Isa 27. and mouing the K. to renounce that the fable of the Dragon worshipped in Babel and destroyed telleth of their enuy and folly And vpon Darius speach to Daniel that GOD in whom he belieued would saue him and Daniel said he was saued because justice to GOD and the K. were found in him Abbakuks saying the iust man shall liue by faith is enlarged by a fable that Abakuk brought Daniel pottage from Iudea The heathen knew not Gods counsell that God by Iewes would teach in Babels fall how he hated the pompe of this world and hath another world for soules Rest where wicked shal be plagued for euer and telleth that true happinesse standeth in the knowledge of Christ who gaue Cyrus all Croesus gold to send Iewes home from all quarters to preach of their Eternall hope and to confute Greeke sages The 3. of Esdras is much true much in fable to smooch this in a greek stile familiar for heathen and such fables be the additions to Hester The fourth of Esdras was made to keepe Esdras another Moses from contempt amongst heathen who would thinke him base that handleth but Iewes genealogies and the Temples building without telling the reason and diuorcements therefore they faine for him deepe speculations as the greeks Clem. Strom. 1. feigne all the Law was lost and Esdras by reuelation restored all The Persians for religion were a new Nebuchadnezar their warriers one Holophernes Herodotus nameth one so The Iewes states Iudith Gods justice against Elam Iudiths sword And thus heathen that would mocke truth are mocked by fables Wicked Diodorus Sicul. and Tacitus commend madde Antiochus for his endeuor to ouerthrow the Iewes religion Two workes of seuerall Iewes the later very foolish and vnlearned yet good enough for prophane heathen were receiued to stop such mouthes The whole nation is of wicked Tully termed barbarous and superstitious to stoppe such a mouth eloquent Syracides passing him in sentences and shewing all the Lawes glory and eloquent Philo imitating Salomons wisedome for mans good end were receiued to check heathen though one knew not Christ Of these the fable of Toby is by the Pope made Gods word The Thal. Ieru in Ros Hasana for Michael and Gabriel make it a late fable wicked For Manasses caried to Babel by the King of Assur some tryfling declamer would shew what one in his case might speake as doth Homer for Agamemnon Achilles Calchas Nestor and such but it were a ridiculous babishnes to hold that trifling worke better then Tobies fable A plaine fable throughout and no fitter to be read in sadnesse in the Church then Lucians dialogues The Popes ioyning of these to the Bible is wormewood III. Wormewood holdeth not these 3. principles true which all should 1. The text of the old Testam is kept in letter most sure by the orthographie dictionarie or Massoreth that no letter was more nor lesse nor of other orme in Moses tyme with vowels and accents margine reading expounding the text then we haue it at this day 2. That the Rabbins expound all in grammer sense well for our vse 3. That all good for religion and life is in Moses as the Prophets and Apostles draw him foorth at large IIII. The Pope in Bellarmine and others peruerteth or contemneth euery whit of the Bible V. He maketh a whole policie wicked against all points of faith and ciuill lawes and would bee as a God in the Church so set foorth 2. Thes 2. Thus he is wormewood it selfe How he groweth vp to be a great mountaine to be able to vexe the world that followeth in the next Trumpet and keyes of the deepe The fourth expounding the third The fourth Angell sounded and the third part of the Sun Moone and Starres were stricken for their third parte day and night Gen. 37. Iacob expoundeth Sun Moone Starrs for his Church so it is heere day and night are ruled by the starres and meane the tymes more or lesse prosperous scholars and learned falling away corrupted scriptures make an ecclesiasticall mountaine from a burning lampe falling from God The occasions of the Churches fall from heauen The two Testaments shew that CHRIST is the Angell of the Couenant standing by his humanitie at the Altar
of incense and in his golden Mediation receyuing the prayers of the holy that with his incense they come before God so he sitteth a sacrificer for euer figured in Sem described as God without father without mother without beginning of dayes without ende of life witnessed in Moses description that he liueth for euer a King of Iustice and a King of peace so S. Paul to Scribes after their owne manner yet extant in Zohar and Menachem and others describeth his Vicar Sem the great as Rabbins terme him to haue figured the Redeemer to the world now of Noahs house The SON thus knowen in our Sonne How the old Testament came turned into wormewood Of the age before the flood God said I repent me that I made man therefore water tooke their bodies prison aeternall their spirits The tower-masons making Gods of starrs in contempt of SEM the high sacrificer and prating daylie against his faith were cut off froÌ„ Sems tongue to let it alone and in Babels captiuitie ended it from commune vse and soone after Daniels age from speach of all but schole learned But Moses by Sabbath reading was some what knowen to the people Besides God made Sems tongue so hard that a mans whole life will hardly catch it and left no authors of it but Sems prophets to make vs search how rare wordes in them open themselues and they vsed but once by the argument So Sems tongue is an hid pearle of it Iob cost me more paines alone then all Greeks who now coÌ„meth to open iudgemeÌ„t Churches had no Hebrew Rabbins for graÌ„mer of yer neare 1000. nor graÌ„mars or dictionaries Origen did put forth Ebrew in Ebrew letters and spell'd in Greeke much cited in Epiphanius with six Greeke translations The 70. hid their minde much specially in 3600. yeres alteration of liues from Moses truth as thus Adam liued 230. yeares and begate Seth. And afterwardes 700. for 130. in Moses and 800. our notes say Moses omitted 100. y. before Seths birth they may as well say he gaue 100. too many afterwardes and so in 3600. yeres Yet though Arabique were neare Hebrew and Aethiopian they translate the 70. And not the Ebrew and Greekes with Muscouia follow them But if Princes had allowed in euery land so big as Canaan 42. great Cities for Hebricians only they had beene Ezdrae for readinesse in the Law and had beene Atlantes to beare vp heauen God saw that his justice could chose but few and of eternitie did set many to anger and therefore gaue not Princes that iudgement nor to scholars one of a thousand millions a minde to such hard paines but to be such monachos as Nazianzenus taunteth giuen all to feed them selues and to enuie all paines and Athanasius Gregorie and his deare brother Basil felt for the holy Trinitie And West Monachos rested in Ierome for text and in S. Augustin for explication Of the New Testament The New Testament penned in Greeke by the H. Spirit is to be esteemed in Greeke better then all the world can euer conceiue Part I hope to vtter but conceiue more The preparation to bring Greeke ouer the world must heere be knowen To Iapheths Iauan God left it and spread his race from Cilicia ouer the West that Bardi Caesar CoÌ„ in France and our Cambria kept Greeke Philosophi And when God meant in open action to end by Babel Sems tongue which he kept in Canaan 500. yeares that Babilons coÌ„fusion hurt not the Kings house but the Chananean dialects twelue came neare his when God would end this tongue in holy Daniels age when hee had shewed the strict yeare and Pascha day of Christ his Pascha who being the first from the dead would shew light vnto the world And Aggei Zacharie and Esdras Malachi had commented vpon holy Gabriels oration when God would haue no more Diuinitie written all being spoken that could bee told he sheweth a miraculous prouidence to fiâ—t the Greeke tongue to the Gospell by Athenes and all Grecia Pisistratus of holy Iosiahs time brought noble Homers wit into more reuerence then Monkes the holy Gospell that children should learne him euery whit without booke and parted him twice in Iliade Odissea into Alpha Beta c. As the vnknowen God dealt Psal 25. 34. 37. 111. 112. 119. 8 tymes 145. Pro. 31. Lamen 6. tymes And Aristarchus made a commeÌ„tarie vpon his hard wordes so that S. Peter by Gods reuelatioÌ„ vseth his noble phrase and him not Eustathius I cited though Bil. and Bar. would win spurres to prick their owne sides Didimus elder then S. Peter kept Aristarchus remnants and froÌ„ Didimos not from Eustathius I brought Aristarchus and Homer whom I am sure S. Peter neuer read but the holy Ghost read him and led Peter This honor to Homer set on Solon to write senteÌ„ces and Theognes Phocillides Minermus that ciuill groundes were made pleasant in braue Greeke to make all eloquent in speach Then arise tragiques Aeschylus an Heroique equall to Homer or old Corinnos of Troyes age and P Alamedes scholar who in other warres gaue Homer his timber Euripides the painter of mans lot and Lyriques rare and Commediques as witty Aristophanes Phisitians Historiques from Hesters age Hellanicus and Herodotus and Plato and Aristotle and tenn Oratores and Theopompus innumerable of all sortes while Iuda was in Babilon and vnder Persian taught Dan. 10. that soone they should bee vnder Grecia till Christ came in some parte and therefore they taught their children Greek that the 70. flaunted in store setting 80. seuerall Greek sometime to one Hebrew tree as to Shub 70. 60. 50. 40. 30. 20. 10. and so to very many Now Macedonians of Selleucus Nicatores people being in 72. Kingdomes East and North were forced to knowe Greeke and by the Ptolomies South learned Greek and the Iewes scattred by them brought the 70. ouer all and mention of Moses So before our Lordes redemption tyme all nations as Tully for Archi saith knew Greek when Latin was kept in a narrow compasse And thus a fundation was laid for elegant timber to the N. Testament The Iewes note in Ierusalemi Megila that Noah prophecied how Sems house should bring Iapheth to faith in the tongue of Iauan the Greeke And Midras Rabba citeth the same and in Megilah theysay that no tongue but Greeke can giue Hebrew fitt termes Christians should vrge their owne testimonie that as a Tribe failed not from Iuda till Messiah came so all nations then spake Greek but not many ages after that And as Abben Ezra confesseth vpon Dan. 9. that the 70. seauens are 490. yeres from Daniels prayer to sealing of Messias the holy of holy wherein not one of a hundreth thousand millions speaketh so truely for our victorie as the sharpest enimy doth So Ierusalemi should haue confessed that the fishers of Gallile were to write in Greeke from Ierusalem after 490. yeres And before it should be destroyed as we see Actor 15. Of the
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there and Psal 18. and 2. Sam. 22. and often is GOD only And in Deut. 32. a Prophecie is laid of the Rock a defender against the foure beastes that come out of the sea vpon which Rock the Church stood vntill the SON of Man like in body Dan. 10. to Tharshish or sea-like stone tooke part of their afflictions Now the WORD Eternall that gaue all reason the onely teacher in demaunding teacheth to answere saying Whom do men say that I the Sonne of man Dan 7. by Rabbins generall am The fisher of Galile that heard Daniel often read said from Dan. 9. Thou art CHRIST and holinesse there of all holinesse and therefore Psal 2. The Son of the liuing God Then CHRIST calleth him to Deut. 32. speaking Rock in Iobs Ebrew Vpon this Rock wil I build my Assembly that no courts by terrour of death shal be stronger then it Christ is Ceph thou as all that know him to be the Rock Cepha and as the Sanedrin maketh Doctor saying Take thou authoritie for thy keyes of knowledge to teach which is loose what is bound whom thou teachest that God was in the Rocke reconciling the world to him selfe he hath his sinnes loosed by thee on earth by the Rocke in heauen and who so beleeueth not that thou bindest his sinnes in earth and in heauen This matter is the summe of all and Greekes in Photius tell that Andrew was the Rocke before Symeon was And Cephas answered with all thought as well as hee wherefore all had equall comfort and so all godly And because this new sentence hath no new Diuinitie hee leaueth all after confession of the Rocke as knowing him selfe and Theophilus to haue as good right to the name of Cephas But hee by senioritie was to speake first for all and so the name for all must bee tolde to him that they who builde their house vpon the Rocke shall bee shaken with no Windes stormes waues The Sun is not brighter then this meaning for these wordes Let any who dare trye by a conference of holy Scriptures as I doe Now the Popos Daemon denying that Rome crucified CHRIST as Saint Peter denyed that Christ ought to dye and was termed Sathan for that Hee would haue this beleeued of all that Peter had a praerogatiue aboue all the Apostles and was at Rome and left to the Citie that crucified Christ for their good seruice a successour to pardon or to tye sinnes Fiftlie Hence Landes are giuen by Princes and specially in wast wilde groundes for Monasteries where men before rebelled that Monasteries giuing a chiefe rent and superstitious people being fed with hospitalitie wan much in three hundreth yeares that after Buy-shop Gregorie by Creontophonos Phocas helde Sathans throne and became stronger then the Emperour by this proceeding The Bible must not bee studied in Ebrew The Iewes marred it and in Greeke haeretiques As though there were not most learned Christians that could looke to both And this was pretence to pray still neuer to teach trueth and to giue the people in Latin Niene commandements for Tenne And the Creed with a translation that white was blacke that to goe to Paradise in the Greeke Creed should be translated to descend to hell to Gehenna in olde Chrysologus and that the Fathers were there So the Popes Clyents are the tayle of the great Dragon Moreouer the Lordes prayer for many thousande poundes Landes they might haue but maymed to disgrace all auctoritie of the New Testament But they neuer taught the meaning of the Lordes prayer that when we pray we pray vnto the Father which is in heauen That did Pope Daemon disannul sitting in the Temple of God as if HE were God And he teacheth to pray to all from whose name he could get any lande to Marie though Rome killed her sonne to Peter though Rome by auctoritie made him a martyr farre off to Apostles and other Martyrs that Rome martyred as though Apoc. 6. vnder the fift seale all these did not craue vengeance against the beastes of the earth that killed them Moreouer to busie Princes they say If Popingayes sayd ouer Pater noster so often they should haue so many yeares pardon in a new inuented fierie bath of Purgatorie stinging poore soules like scorpions fiue hundred yeares before their Diuels doctrine was espied About the yeare 600. they tamed East proude Prelates and goe on thus From Leui they will make an order and haue an altar and an Aharon with a cope and holinesse in the forehead and Levites in Linnen and the name Priest and of bread they can make flesh and of wine blood and they breake Abben Ezraes rule praef to Moses allowed of all that nothing must be taken properly which goeth against all sense So they will not have the Lordes death to end all sacrifice by the supper But will make the supper a sacrifice against all witt and learning And the Pope is an Aharon and the Priests lippes will keepe knowledge Mal. 2. where hee tells them they did not but should therefore the Grecians would consume them as stubble Also they are flat Arrians praying to Michael who holdeth it not robbery to be equall with God as if he were a created Angell and not the Eternall Son the Angell standing at the golden Altar of incense his humanitie to receiue in the censor of grace our prayers These and such other treacheries against all the Byble first brought the third part of sunne moone and starres to be darkened in the third part but soone Christ the true sun and all ayer for brightnesse of Scripture And by these degrees Man of sinne became able as now 600. yeares wee finde to stirre haile and fire mixed with blood in the earth missing wholy of Religion and not as Turkes by ignorance but by couetous malice A crie expounding the first trumpets warning of fire and blood by scholars made a mountaine of fire cast into the sea by the star falling from his place a burning torch falling into the waters of scipture and making them bitter to darkening the third part of profession of Christianitie Iohn saw an Angell flying in the middes of the heauen saying wo wo wo to them that dwell in the earth from the voyces of the trumpet of the three Angels whose trumpet shall be heard In the open Church companies of godly were martyred for resisting the Locusts deceyuing of the world nowe leaving the zeale that Ephesus once had and the first Doctores in Italy and following Smirnean Iewes haeresie in apish renuing Leuitiques inflat Atheisme of altar cope linen priest sacrifice reuiuing Pergamus Balamites who for wealth and wantonnesse bred Monasteries ioyned to Nunries when Thyatirean Iezabels are with Baals Priests setting vp a newe Sardian dead wealth in profane riches and contemning Philadelphias true loue to saue soules But reuiuing Laodiceas falling to the manner of the world neither hoat in true zeale nor cold as open contemners but Chananean
it Gods worke against whom none may plead he maketh one little booke exceed for varietie and elegancie of wordes aboue 4600. chosen wordes Thus the booke might be made easie 1. The wordes should be all in a table that all might read them quicklie 2. Appellatiues and propre should be sett in their colours 3. For Appellatiues all Attique and eloquent Speaches of them as Rom. 12. 3. Paul passeth all Athenes these should all come in their families 4. Next many thousand frō the 70. with Ebrew to them and in how many God followeth the 70. departing from the Ebrew This would carrie the Reader through all the old Testament 5. Thalmudique speaches be plentie and easie to a Rabbin as Forgiuenesse neither in this world nor in the world to come and girded about the brest second death and such these most trouble Greekes and would be easiest handled in their veines and they be very many 6. Sometimes the Apostles mende the 70. or speake more eloquently as in Iaspis Apoc. 21. vers 19 it is Beniamins stone after the Ebrew Exod. 28. But vers xj the Carbuncle Isai 54. So Sardonix for Zabulon and Chrysophrase for Nephtaly are the Apostle Iohns passing in Greeke skill And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eb. 1. 3. from Isai 4. Tzemach Lecabod and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From Exod. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these S. Paul bringeth All this kinde settled together would bring light and delight to all godly learned Of propre names Many propre names be taken from the old Testament wherein the 70. is communely folowed Sarra will try a scholar and Phanuel from the margine reading and Ionanan Luc. 3. and the names from Israell in Egypt being full many shew they knew Ptolomies Egypt should fall many cōteyne Psal 89. as Zorobabelidae Mat. 1. many other speciall stories chiefly Townes full many call to Seleucidae and Lagidae as Antiochia Seleucia Philadelphia such Many are cleared by Thalm. Ierusalemy as Lazar for Eleazar and Alphai for Chalphai a. s in the fathers stead and such The Greeke and Latin in one familie Alexander and Rufus shew that the Thalmud lieth bringing Iesus our Lord his dayes to the Maccabees tymes The name Marck and Paul and all the Latin termes shew that vnder the Romans Christ was on earth Epilogue Thus when euery word should be handled alone and wordes tossed in disputatiō handled alone the whole booke would be soone eaten and millions would be able to Prophecie and to defend the faith against the Beast that commeth out of the pitt of Sathans deepenesse to make Seniorie of true Bishopps that vnlearned pseudo-piscopi should no longer pine better learned in prison sage and learned be lawfull Episcopi bestowing reuenues aright but nobles ought and lower gentrie to be the best learned and to keepe all in sage dealing So the King of Locustes would soone loose his crowne The 2. oliue trees in Zacharie which poure oile into the golden Candlestick are they who not by might but by Gods spirit as they vnder Aggei and Zachary built the Temple The chiefe ruler was holden as anointed so King Iosias though none but the first of the house as Dauid or in stirre as Salomon for Adonias and Ioash for Athalia Ioachaz for elder Ioakim were annointed The high sacrificer was of course so both states were vnder the two oliues and whē all be sacrificers Apo. 1. Then the gouernor that prouideth for bread and they who labor in word are the two oliues that giue matter of light to the golden Candlestick Clothed in sackcloth in sadnesse of their minde considering how the gold is darkened The restorers of the Gospell be as Elias And if any man will hurt them fire commeth out of their mouthes and eateth vp their enimies yea if any man will hurt them so he must be killed These haue power to shut vp the heauens that raine raine not in the dayes of their prophecying Heere the kingdome of the beast arising from the darke pitt is closselie compared with Israell in Achabs dayes when Baal was worshipped by so many false prophetes And Elias knewe none but him selfe left of true religion in Israell and the Altars which GOD tolerated extraordinarie were all broken downe The Papistes damne themselues mightilie when they cast in our teeth That our companie had not open policie still Sigibertus complayneth that at 1200. England admitted not the Popes supremacie So hee answereth Papistes And still our commune Lawes made it treason to appeale vnto the Pope and holy Wickliffe condemned him as freelie as any in our tymes Wickliffe that set ouer the Bible into English Wickliffe that taught how the cōmune Lawes would vtterly fall the Pope Wickliffe whose Bible many yet haue the Copiers of which shew where the Church of God was Such had the spirit of Elias which called for fire from heauen into Bohemia and Prage and Saxonie to burne much of Rome as Elias called fire from heauen to burne two Captaines and two fifties so Eliseus called fire from Hazael that brent vp Israell And Iohn Baptist called for fire from heauen that brent vp all Herodes house And as Elias staide raine three yeares and an half so Eliseus spirit brought famine to Samaria and the Christians in Claudius dayes and the martyrs by the black horse bring corne to be weighed as spice for dearth so still God sendeth famine for his martyrs The Martyrs be as Moses These haue power to turne the waters into blood and to strike the earth with any plague so often as they will This sheweth Rome to be a new Egypt still rebelling against Moses and therefore hath plagues to the same effect 1. Egypt had waters turned to blood so Rome chap. 11. and 16. 2. Egypt swarmed with frogges so Rome chap. 16. 4. Egypt was plagued with serpents and all sauage so the Locustes had tailes like scorpions and their plaguers had horses with Lions mouthes and their tailes had heads like to serpentes and the Caesares people were spent by the beastes of the earth 5. A plague killed the beasts of Egypt so the Caesares people 6. 6. Boyles vexed Egypt so the marked of the beast Apo. 16 7. Haile Fire vexed Egypt so Rome haile and fire mixed with blood chap. 6. and chap. 16. great haile 8. Locustes ate the fruites of Egypt Locustes strangers swarme Apo. 9. 9. Darkenesse vexed Egypt the throne of the beast is darkned Thus God compareth propre Egypt and the king of Locustes Egypt how they that folow Moyses Law and Prophecie and bid the king of Locustes grant freedome to Israel still plague their Pharaoh And when they had ended their martyrdome the beast which ariseth out of the deepe shall make warre with them and shall kill them and their carcasses shall lie in the large Common weale which is called spiritually Sodoma and Egypt where also the Lord was crucified For doctrine of vncleane spirites they are termed
so Princes seeing that the former age by the Pope brought in the Turke to the hazard of the West and see that he knoweth not one letter in the LAW and is blinde in euery part of it and cannot make his owne cause good against the Turke or Iew they forsake him the seruant of seruants as God left the Chananites to bee conquered of Dauid So he is Chanaan they be Dauid and in his warre he shall be Iabin and by Sisera fall at Mageddon and bee no more able to resist And the great Citie became into three partes and the Cities of the nations fell and Babylon the Great was remembred before God to giue her the Cup of the Wine of the heate of his anger and euery Iland fled and the mountaines were not found and great haile talent bigge descended from heauen vpon the men and men blasphemed God for the stroke of the haile because the stroke of it was exceeding great By the Citie meane the policie and by three partes great diuision that it hath but a third part because the policies of nations fall from it and God remembred his anger told chap. 14. and as vnder the Caesares Ilands and Mountaines were moued from their place that is into another policy so heere alteration of policie is meant haile of a talent is great ouerthrowes by Gods hand the allusion being taken from plaguing the Chanaanites Ios chapter 10. where haile killed more then sword So the Spanish fleete hath often had great shipwrake by the extraordinarie hand of GOD specially 1588. And what an infinite masse of money and millions of men hath Netherland consumed to him And lately Venice shewed his weaknesse that he durst not goe forward to warre and specially Iuliaque where Leopoldu◠Emperour Spanie Pope wish they had neuer begon Touching the quantity of haile in countreies neere the Alpes wee see this speach to keepe neere propriety without a great hyperbole At Zurick my learned friend M. Caspar Wesserus told me of haile lately there that one stone was brought from a field somewhat farre off to the Consull and must melt in cariage yet beeing weighed it peised a wax pound Chanaan and Egypt haue greater haile that trees and beasts be stricken to destruction by it And in all this the Papists repent not but thinke God to fauor the wicked side and so blaspheme and keepe their old Idolatrie and locusts of all professions as before It is hard for men to repent which will not learne from the word of God how their case standeth Their false ground that Peter was the chiefe Apostle and at Rome and the Rocke and that hee had auctoritie to binde and loose more then others and could leaue that to Doctores of the Citie which crucified Christ as though they best deserued that and the fables of their miracles as though they were true these harden them that they cannot come into the Church till the anger of God consumeth the Pharaohs as chap. 15. vers vlt. told CHAPTER XVII Iohn like Daniel And one of the seauen Angels which had the seauen Cupp◠came and spake with mee saying to mee come I will shew thee the Iudgement of the great Whoore which sitteth vpon many waters with whom the Kings of the earth committed fornication and they which dwelt in the earth were drunke by the Wine of her fornication THe wise God maketh the Cloud of his word light to Israel and darke to Pharaoh That the wicked shall not be ouer busie with it he speaketh to them in Visions that they cannot see whither they tend because they know not the ground Besides commorations seeme vnto them new matter and not a commentarie vpon former So to them that be out of the Church all things are in parables But they that know the grounds shall see all easie Ieremiah taught Israel in the playnest propriety of wordes that might bee Ezekiel sweetneth the same with allegories when both are compared together all is plaine Daniel telleth how Iudah should bee afflicted by enemies likened to the proportion of a mans body fist so generally that heathen would not marke the persecuted But the Iewes knew And if at the first they had bene told of great affliction they would haue gone before captiuitie into Countries of Grecia But when they were in Babel and neere returne their enimies are beasts comming out of the sea and terrible but yet reuenged as the image was by strok from a stone so they by fire But the persecuters and persecuted neither be named In a new vision they are expresly named what the Ram and Buck meane and the persequutour aboue all that should goe before him is plainely described And last of all a proper speach expoundeth the Image expoundeth the sea beastes expoundeth the Land beast That no booke was euer plainer then Daniel Iohn is like him He telleth chapter 6. of great plagues to a state but telleth not to what state Then he telleth of a falling away but telleth not by whose occasion Then he describeth the occasioner vnder seauen trumpets but hideth from the profane world what policie hee would haue marked After this he bringeth the old Caesares and Pope with late into one serpent After this he diuideth the serpent into two beasts with resonable plaine notes and sheweth that the former beast cōming out of the sea should be reuiued by that which came vp out of the Land Now that reuiued beast after his particular doings and suffrings is heere to bee seene with the reuiuer The Angell teacheth Iohn in vision the learned men be Angeli Ecclesiae The great whoore is the great Idolatrous City the many waters the harlot sitteth on be people troupes nations and tongues Kings society in Idolatry is the fornication the dwellers on the earth are the Idolous whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or cariage is not in heauen And he caried me into the wildernesse in the spirit As the Church was driuen into the wildernesse to haue a policie vnmixed with Rome so Iohn sheweth that they must not be of Romes part that will condemne her but absolute free from her In Aegypt God could not giue lawes for Israel but they must be separated from other policies so God brought them into the wildernesse And when God would teach Iuda that Moyses Ceremonies were but poore elements and to praepare them for the rest of Christ he carieth them into the wildernesse of the heathen And when Iohn Baptist praepared a way for the rest of Christ and calling of the heathen who in the dayes of Dauid and Salomon were not circumcised but baptized Rambam Asure Bia. Per. 13. So we must goe into a wildernesse simply iudge by Gods word not by rumors of antiquity and vniuersality what is to be iudged of Rome And I saw a woman sitting vpon a scarlat beast full of names of blasphemy hauing 7. heades and 10. hornes So Satan being incarnate in the Empire of Rome had seauen heades and tenne
of that in memorie of the difference that the Reader may read it Thus Alpha is as curious in his word as in the frame of the world and requireth due reuerence to it and they are in great danger whose profession of life should be skilfull in it and will deale with it with vnwashed handes Of Iod not contemned The Iewes to shew Gods care ouer euery letter in the Bible bring in the Law cōplayning of loosing Iod with humble cry before God thus O Lord of the world this is thy rule that a Testament which faileth in a letter faileth in all Now in Sarai I had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod when shee is Sarah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod is gone the auctority of the Law is lost God answereth thou hast no losse Iod was in the end of a foeminine and I set it in the beginning of a masculine when Hoshea was called Iehoschuah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus they marke narrowly that which our Lord telleth one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod of the Law shall not perish he that is Aleph and Tau will keepe all the letters from Aleph to Thau More of this is in Thal. Ierusalemie in San fol. 20. Of OMEGA He that nameth himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mega will require that his new Testament shal be regarded in due kinde to defende trueth of Copy elegancy of speach I defended trueth of Copie against Rhemistes translating Act. chap. 13. from the Latin in yeeres not about but after a sort 450. yet a thankfull Pseudographus wrote that I defended the 70. became a scorne none of 1200. yer held the 72. pure Satan was strong in him that would belieue a disputation for sinceritie of their copy and if euer any should bee thought to know the 72. hee that translated the Prophets a new into Greek should be thought to vse all the 72. copies easie to be had But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all vnthankfulnesse would be still cursed in lies The first aduiser of him sped ill Of Greeke stile Because none afore me haue noted Gods counsell in making Greeke common I will often handle that to haue it better vnderstood when God first destroyed Iudahs kingdome and speach hee stirred Greekes first to set vp theirs Then Pisistratus set Homer in honor that children learned him by heart Plato in Timao mentioneth one such Thence of 200. yea all kindes study to make braue Greeke that it came to perfection Then God sendeth Greekes to rule Gog or Gyges land and Magog with all Assiria and 72. kingdomes in the East and North and South to fill all 300. ye with Greek Armies and Colonies That Tully noted in his dayes the Greek to be common ouer all the world Now the Bible was by Iewes translated into Greeke and so read in all nations And the Iewes beeing caryed by the Macedonians into all quarters when the Apostles came to teach granted all saving God in Christ gaue life to all soules that did eate his flesh and drinke his blood feeding continually in soule vpon this and were baptised with the water of the Lawe So the Greeke tongue by O MEGA the ETERNALL taught Iapheth to dwell in the house of Sem. Ierusal in Megilah Midr Rabba ' Gen. 9. And the Iewes confesse in Megilah that no tongue but the Greeke hath words to expound the Hebrew So he that termeth himselfe by the Greeke and Hebrew Alphabet is much despised when Babell banisheth both tongues to a pedlers Latin in so much that the true Latin auctores were out of request Of 4. Dialects in the holy Greeke Of necessitie the Apostles were to speake to heathen in Heathen or Attique Greeke as all that will mooue others speake to their capacitie and they bee ridiculous and citizens of Babel not of the heauenly Ierusalē that will this deny When the Apostles tell stories of Ierusalem to the Church they were to speake in the 72. language And all of wit and conscience would so expound their wordes When disputations are had with Iewes the Talmudiques specially the Iewes schole-phrase doth our Lord vse and his disciples and when none of these three answere the Hebrew fitly then the WORD taketh heathen generall termes to apply vnto speciall Hebrew Reason forced these foure Dialects and they who confound these foure are fitter for Babel then for Ierusalem for confusion then sight of peace Of the Attique Greeke Haides in S. Luke 16. conteyneth the lodge of Abraham in heauen and the lodge of the rich Epicure in Gehenna Saint Luke an Heathen wrote to Prince Theophilus an Heathen And Heathen would iudge whether the Phisition of Antioch of Magog knew Greek in fit sense to teach Gog in Ephesus or Gyges Countrey and Magog in Siria that Christ in their owne language now doth conquer them so farr as to haue the first Christians named of Antiochia and S. Luke to bee the glory aeternall thence though God had no other occasion to honor his enemies towne but to shew that where sinne abounded there grace should once more abound But not often Nicolas the proselyte falling away taught that the towne deserued as much supremacie as Rome that crucified Christ or Alexandria for that Alexander would bee made a God So Haides conteining heauen and hell and nothing els in proprietie Old Chrysologus who placed Abraham in Gehenna and is tossed of Isaack Ben Arama fol. 205. and Purgatory and many opinions moo are confuted If Haides haue but Heauen and Hell Purgatory is gone which maketh a third place so the first Dialect in one word telleth the Pope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let Greeks seeke to Eustathius what meaning is plaine for these wordes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Peter 2. is of heathen Greek in Homers commentary Iliad Of this I spake in Catechizing the modest Archbi Whitg which yeelded and sent M r. Geoffrey King ouer sea to confesse his error I spake generally of Homers commenter and should meane the principall Aristarchus from whom old Didymos made his commentary and Eustathius from both and many moo ancient and though hee were late his commentaries are made from these two and old heathen Two Petifoggers in Greeke would scoph as though I cited Eustathius to be followed of Peter far elder Such Midae bee fitter for Babel then Ierusalem Their further equalling of error to Lybian sandes shew an ill bent Of the Lxxij The Greeke of the 72. commeth often notably Act. 2. in this whom God raised vp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 disannulling all paines that death brought The matter is taken from Psal 18. And thence would the Sadducees expound S. Peters word to proue him a wicked Sophister if hee had meant more They who proue the second death hence know not O Mega the auctor of speach Of the Thalmudizinge These be Talmudique speaches The dead for the profane often in Zeror once in S. Peter 1 Epi. chap. 4. In S. Paul the dead in sin Eph. 2. such is Gehenna