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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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¶ A Prophecy of Antichrist.
¶ A Prophecie of Antichrist.
Antichrist shall be, borne in great Babylon of an Harlot, that shall come of the tribe of Dā. He shall be replenished with the devil in his mothers womb. He shall be nourished with spiritual evils & mischiefs. He shall rule over the whole world. He shall subdue all mankind unto him by four manner of ways. First he shall bring the common people under his dominion by terror & fear: for he shall exercise great cruelty & tyranny against the true worshippers of god. Secondly, he shall win unto him the noble personages, & such as be in authority, by giving them great gifts & riches, whereof he shall have great aboū dance & plenty: for all the hid money shall be open unto him. Thirdly, with his wisdom & eloquence which shall be wonderful and incredible, he shall make the clergy to cleave unto him: for he shall have great knowledge of all arts, & of the scripture. Fourthly, through signs and wonders he shall deceive such as despise the world, as monks, & such like. For he shall show wonderful signs and tokens. He shall be thought to cause fire to come down from heaven & to consume his adversaries before him, and to raise up the dead to give witness of him. But he shall not raise up the dead in deed. But through his witchcraft and sorcery he shall cause the devil to enter into the body of some damned dead person, & this shall he carry about him, & by this shall he so speak that every man shall think him to be alive, as it is written of him: His coming shall be by the working of Satan, with all lying power, signs & wonders, & in all deceivableness of unrighteousness among them that perish. ⟨image 3⟩[…] ⟨image 3⟩[…] ⟨image 4⟩