B11837:74
A hundred sermons upo[n] the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ revealed in deed by the angel…A hundred sermons vpo[n] the Apocalips of Iesu Christe reueiled in dede by thangell…
A hundred sermons upo[n] the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ revealed in deed by the angel of the Lord: but seen or received and written by the apostle and Eva[n]gelist. S. John: compiled by the famous and godly learned man, Henry Bullinger, chief pastor of the congregation of Zuryk. Newly set forth and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties, iniuntions. The argument, worthiness, commodity, and use of this work, thou shalt find in the preface: after which thou hast a most exact table to lead thee into all the principal matters contained therein.A hundred sermons vpo[n] the Apocalips of Iesu Christe reueiled in dede by thangell of the Lorde: but seen or receyued and written by thapostle and Eua[n]gelist. S. Iohn: compiled by the famous and godly learned man, Henry Bullinger, chief pastor of the congregation of Zuryk. Newly set forth and allowed, according to the order appoynted in the Quenes maiesties, iniuntions. Thargument, wurthines, commoditie, and vse of this worke, thou shalt fynd in the preface: after which thou hast a most exact table to leade thee into all the princypall matters conteyned therin.
printed by John Day, 1561printed by Iohn Day, 1561
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There is moreover a learned book of Marsilyus Patavinus,1 written for Lewis the .4, Emperor, against the Pope, wherein he inveigheth sharply against the bishop of Rome, and his tyrannical laws. In the same age, to wit two hundred years past, flourished also Michael Cesena,2 general of the Minorites, who openly accused the Pope as Antichrist, and the church and See of Rome as the whore of Babylon drunken with the blood of saints. An hundred years since lived Laurence Valla, a gentleman of Rome of a noble house, who also objected him self to the Pope and the Romish See,3 for the which cause he was driven into exile: but of the king of Naples, he was honourably received. Moreover, Hieronymus Savonarola of Ferrara. an excellent divine and Philosopher in his time, a man in holiness of life (as he is said of many) notable, preached openly in Italy, that the Pope was Antichrist: for the which cause he was most cruelly burnt at Florence by Pope Alexander the sixth. This is had yet in the Fresh memory of men, where it was don about the year of our lord .1499. Yet John Francis Picus, Count of Mirandula calleth the same Savonarola, an holy prophet. Albeit that Nawclerus signifieth in his story that he did many things for ambition sake and for vain glory. And Marsilyus Ficinus attributeth to the same Savonarola the spirit of prophecy, in a certain epistle, Furthermore. Philippus Commines an Historiographer witnesseth that he was an holy man, and to have had the spirit of Prophecy. For they say how he prophesied of the sacking of Florence and Rome, and the restoration or reformation of the church, and of many other things that should chance unto Italy, which came to pass there in the mean season. I remember, when I was young and followed my study in sundry universities, to have heard certain black Friars say, that Savonarola provoked the indignation of Alexander the sixth, the court of Rome against him by nothing more, then for that he preached against them in Italy the Apocalypse of S. John. What should I say, that the Waldensians four hundred years past in France, Italy, Germany, Bohemia, Poland, and in other parts of the world, professing the gospel of Jesus Christ, accused the bishop of Rome with divers writings, and continual preachings as the very Antichrist, prophesied by. S. John the apostle and therefore to be abhorred.