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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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These be the consciences marked with hot irons / 1for as all that they do be very cloaks and faces / even so all that they teach be subtle reasons and feigned riddles / so that both in the things and in the words / are nothing else but cloaks and faces / and yet they make a fearful and scrupulous conscience with out any cause or authority.
These be the consciences marked with hotte yerons / 1for as all that they do be very clokes and faces / even so all that they teach be sotle reasons and fained ryedles / so that both in the thinges and in the wordes / are nothinge els but clokes and faces / and yet they make a fearfull and scrupelous conscience with oute any cause or authorite.
- 1i. Timo. iiij.
Observe and note with what sober and meek words the spirit doth handle these cruel and odious monsters / for he calleth the abominable pomp and hypocrisy nothing but faces / which thou canst sufficiently and worthily defame with no word. And he nameth this pestilent deceiving of antichrists doctrine. And this mischievous foxy wiliness to delude men / nothing but riddles.1 This clearly doth Daniel in the .vij. prophesy / where he writeth that after the terrible best that had ten horns (which by the consent of all men is the empery of Rome) he considered and saw an other little horn sprins ⟨image 42⟩ginge out of the midst of them (that is the impery of the Pope which as we said is sprung in the midst of the empery of Rome▪ ••d behold there were eyes like mens […] this horn / and a mouth speaking great and marvellous things. These eyes be the riddles / and the subtle understanding of these riddles / is the wisdom of the flesh / & the blasphemous mouth against Christ.