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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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1This word hidoth which Daniel doth put in the hebrew tongue doth signify a problem a ryed all / & a dark sentence / which deceiveth the sense if a man look but on the words. So in the first of Judicū.2 I will propound unto you a riddle.3 And in the .xlviij. psalm I will open in a song my dark sentence. Therefore he is called witty in these subtle reasons and riddles / which can with dark words / deceive the hearers / so that they may hear one thing & understand another. And it is not thus taken that he should be witty in riddles for to understand that that other men shall speak / but that he is apt & mete to deceive other by his own words. I will put an example. When this king of faces / 4in his decrees doth use this word the church for him self and his adherents (be they never so ungodly and wicked) & goeth about to persuade all men that what so ever they constitute and ordain / it is done of the church (as they have now prevailed / ye and triumph by the obtaining of this word) thinkest thou that he hath not propounded a proper riddle / sith that the church doth not signify / but the holy congregation of faithful which live and are led with the spirit of god / which are the body and fulfilling of Christ / as Paul saith.5 What lies shall not this man ground and set forth What obedience shall not he obtain? what law shall not he stablish when he hath so ⟨p. xl⟩fare prevailed that both the hearers and he that speaketh do understand the Synagogue of Satan for the church of god? Wh•• to he that would not obey the church of god? we may perceive by this word that this kingdom of faces differeth from the manner and condition of all other kingdoms by cause he contendeth not with armour / but with words. Not with plain and simple words as the kingdom of Christ & the impery of this world is used and ministered / for the impery of this world in mans laws determine of temporal things with evident words / which of every man soon are understood. And the kingdom of Christ is ruled by the sure and plain word of the gospel But this kingdom doth undermine men & deceive them with dark & double words which sound one thing and mean an other.