A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis

1. 1Danie. viij.

¶This is the sum of the hole / that he shall resist Christ / and suppress his word / exalting his own word in the stead of Christs / as the apostle doth say / he shall sit in the temple of god showing him self as though he were god. And again / which is an adversary and is exalted above all that is called god or ye is worshipped. To this place pertaineth it that the pope did condemn the trueth of the word of god openly at constancy In Joan huss / persevering unto this present day in the same stubbornness / of contrarying and condemning the word of Christ / for he can not withstand / the person of Christ / but he shall withstand that is to say define things contrary to Christ / And this is his end. For. when he had suppressed the word / and corrupted the faith / despoiling the scripture / and the doctrine of the apostles / Exalting him self above the angels and commanding them. there was nothing remaining / but that he made gross / and well stuffing his belly / should also rise against his lord and god, and higher he would presume if there were any thing higher. But sith there is nothing higher than god / It is necessary that this abomination here stick and remain still / that he may receive his end / as it followeth.

¶This is the sūme of the hole / that he shal resist Christ / and suppresse his worde / exaltinge his awne worde in the stede of Christes / as thapostle doth say / he shall sit in the temple of god shewing him silf as though he were god. And agayne / which is an adversarye and is exalted above all that is called god or ye is worshupped. To this place pertayneth it that the pope did condempne the trueth of the word of god openly at constantie In Ioan husse / perseveringe vn to this present daye in the same stubbornnes / of contrarying and cōdempninge the word of Christ / for he can not withstōd / the person of Christ / but he shall withstond that is to saye diffine thinges conttarie to Christ / And this is his ende. For. when he hade suppressed the word / and corrupted ye faithe / despoilinge the scripture / ād the doctrine of the apostles / Exaltinge him silf above the angels and commaunding them. there was nothinge remayninge / but that he made grosse / and well stuffing his belye / shuld also ryse against his lord and god, and hyer he wold presume if there wer eny thinge hyer. But sith there is nothinge hyer thē god / It is necessary that this abomination here sticke and remayne still / that he may receave his end / as it foloweth.