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A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis
A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis, wherein are compared to gather Christs acts and our holy father the Popes.A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis, wherin are compared to geder Christes actes and oure holye father the Popes.
At Malborow in the land of Hesse i.e. Antwerp : the. xij. day of July, anno. M.CCCCC.xxix. by me Hans luft i.e. Johannes Hoochstraten, 1529At Malborow in the lande of Hesse i.e. Antwerp : the. xij. day of Iulye, anno. M.CCCCC.xxix. by me Hans luft i.e. Johannes Hoochstraten, 1529
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But who so ever he was let him be the star that fell from heaven to the earth / whether he were Alexander of hales / or else (which I sooner believe) sanct Thomas / 1which after the universities approved and the trumpet of this Angel other was the first / or else the greatest author to bring in philosophy among the christen / being a subtle and very crafty disputer (ye very Aristotle him self) into whom as in to the earth he fell from Christ in heaven / grounding him self upon the authority of the most ungodly and wicked Angel which did approve such manner of study / he toke the key of the bottomless pit / and opened it / & brought out unto us philosophy which a 2little before was dead and condemned by ⟨p. xxxiij⟩the apostles / and from thence did ascend the smoke of this pit that is to say very words and opinions of Aristotle and other philosophers as it had been the smoke of a great furnace / 3for philosophy so did prevail that he made Aristotle equal with Christ as concerning authority and faith / where with was darkened the bright sun (of righteousness and trueth Christ / for in the stead of the faith were brought in moral virtues / and for the trueth infinite opinions) & the air / by the reason of the smoke of this pit / that you might understand / that it was not an eclipse of the sone / but a darkness both of the sun and of the air through the smoke that ascended from beneath / that is to say through mens traditions and learning / Christ and his faith (which are the air and spirit) be oppressed and darkened. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth.4 This is the people of the university which is rooted and brought up in philosophy and are called with a proper name locusts / By cause they follow the Angel of the bottomless pit / which is the Pope clean forsaking their king (Christ) and fly on swarms / as it is said in the .iij. of the Proverbs.5 And then they despoil / and burn up all that is green / in that part where they sit so that the grammarians suppose that they are called locusts a loco