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

1. 1•anie. viij.

¶So saith also the apostle / ¹whom the lord Jesus shall consume with the spirit of his mouth / and shall destroy with the appearance of his coming. Therefore the lay people shall not destroy the pope and his kingdom / all though the wretches be fore a feared of it (for they are unworthy this mild stroke and punishment) but they art reserved unto the coming of Christ whose extreme and cruel enemies they be and long have continued for so should he perish which exalteth himself and riseth against all things / Not with mans hand / but with the contrary spirit / so that one spirit may destroy an other / and that the trueth may revelate the deceit / which revelation is a very destruction. For the revelation of a lye doth utterly destroy it / Let us therefore pray that god and the father of our lord Jesus Christ at the length may come again and visit us in his glorious power and majesty / And that he may show the joyful day / and coming in glory of his son whom he hath promised / so that this wicked man of sin / and son of perdition may be destroyed / that the operations of errors through Satan may be finished / by the which (alas) every minute many thousand souls are corrupt and cast headlong in to hell / only through the presumptuous powers of this abomination / and tyranny of the see of Rome. Let all men say