Of two wonderful popish monsters to wit, of a popish ass which was found…Of two vvoonderful popish monsters to wyt, of a popish asse which was found…

Name: Of two vvoonderful popish monsters to wyt, of a popish asse which was found…
Author: Philip Melanchthon

Of two wonderful popish monsters to wit, of a popish ass which was found at Rome in the river of Tiber, and of a monkish calf, calved at Friberge in Misne. Which are the very foreshowings and tokens of Gods wrath, against blind, obstinate, and monstrous Papists. Witnessed, and declared, the one by Philip Melanchthon, the other by Martin Luther. Translated out of French into English by John Brooke of Ash, next Sandwich.Of two vvoonderful popish monsters to wyt, of a popish asse which was found at Rome in the riuer of Tyber, and of a monkish calfe, calued at Friberge in Misne. Which are the very foreshewings and tokens of Gods wrath, against blinde, obstinate, and monstrous Papistes. Witnessed, and declared, the one by Philip Melancthon, the other by Martyn Luther. Translated out of French into English by Iohn Brooke of Assh, next Sandwich.

Philip Melanchthon 1497–1560London: printed by Thomas East, 1579

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[figure] ⟨p. 1⟩¶ A DECLARATION of the Monstrous figure of a Popish Ass, which was found at Rome in the River of Tiber, In the year of our Lord God, 1496.

[figure] ⟨p. 1⟩¶ A DECLARATION of the Monstrous figure of a Popish Asse, which was founde at Rome in the Riuer of Tiber, In the yeare of our Lorde God, 1496.

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¶ By Philip Melanchthon.

¶ By Philip Melancthon.

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GOD at all times doth lively represent¹ by certain tokens and after a wonderful sort, either his wrath or […]: And chiefly the […] changes, the increasings […] of Kingdoms and Empires: As we may see in Daniel ²the eight, where after the fourth Monarch, the kingdom of Antichrist is also foreshowed: to the end that all true faithful men and Christians should be admonished in good time, and should take heed of his trumperies and deceits, and of his Idolatries, and execrable blasphemies, and of all his divine service: the which he hath so greatly, and with such craft under the show and appearance of truth valued, that it is to be feared least that the elect and faithful be deceived and wrapped in his errors, as Jesus Christ saith, Matthew Chapt 24.³

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Of two wonderful popish monsters to wit, of a popish ass which was found…Of two vvoonderful popish monsters to wyt, of a popish asse which was found…

[figure] ⟨p. 1⟩¶ A DECLARATION of the Monstrous figure of a Popish Ass, which was found at Rome in the River of Tiber, In the year of our Lord God, 1496.

[figure] ⟨p. 1⟩¶ A DECLARATION of the Monstrous figure of a Popish Asse, which was founde at Rome in the Riuer of Tiber, In the yeare of our Lorde God, 1496.

¶ By Philip Melanchthon.

¶ By Philip Melancthon.

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[figure] ⟨p. 1⟩¶ A DECLARATION of the Monstrous figure of a Popish Ass, which was found at Rome in the River of Tiber, In the year of our Lord God, 1496.

[figure] ⟨p. 1⟩¶ A DECLARATION of the Monstrous figure of a Popish Asse, which was founde at Rome in the Riuer of Tiber, In the yeare of our Lorde God, 1496.

¶ By Philip Melanchthon.

¶ By Philip Melancthon.

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