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But atlast without handis shal be be destroid.
Antiochus was not sla••n of the iews / but ••s he prepared himself vnto a newe betail / being at home fyll down out of an high place and hurt himself vnto dethe as write some writers. And this heuye∣chaunce was because he sawe his owne peple and all other nacions fall from him
which hated him for his cruelty and des∣pised him for his beasily lyuinge. For he which shulde haue bene graue sober and sadde wolde daunce and dalye amonge mommers and maskers in open tau••rns & stewes. He wold drinke dronken among whores in euery comon howse and skater money in the s••rcates / so that of many men / he was nomore called Epiphanes noble and clere but epimanis that is to saye / mad or out of his mynde.
Now conferre me the image of Antio∣chus vnto oure seclare emperours / kinges popes and bishops / which studeing to rai gne aboue all in all welthy pleasures / cō∣tend to destroie those princes which wold receyue the gospell: and they s••inge all powrs both rulers and peple chei••ly to be holden with supersticion / luere and pro∣fits / craftely therfore they deuyse and in∣uent worshippinges and seruices which they know men will wonder at / and sone delight therin / and menis myndis miche to be moued at these their prodigiose prai∣ses and apparent deuocions with admi∣racions in their ▪sses therby to meryt almaner goodnes as victories aduanta∣ges and prosperose successe / luere & good fortune in all their affaires. And because ye wyked soule cannot wayt for helpe from
God only / therfore it seketh many Gods and siche as thei thinke wilbe sone plea∣sed. And for this cause is the worship and inuocacion of dead saintis very desyero∣se and accepted / sone perswaded vnto ig∣norant men. Aftir this begune the chir∣ches to be thrustfull of saints images wherof there folowed ye most fierce mad∣nes in gadding and running to committe idolatry. By this wylde wodenes was ye doctryne of ye rightwysemaking by faith and the trewe religion vtterly extincted and the supersticiouse tradicions of men receyued / with fylthey vowes and syn∣full sole lyuinge / difference of meatis of habits and siche lyke monstrose monkery brought into ye chirche. And in these mad∣nesses to be inuēted they vsed serpentyne subtyltye and bolde arrogant audacite. For it is a very arrogāt act (the worde of god despysed) to institute newe worship∣pings or newe doctrynes ayenst gods cō∣mandemēt or without his expresse word. And a subtyle deceyte is it to studye by what engins menis myndis mighte be trapped & snarled / & what nettis might be bent and layed to augement their An∣ticrysten powr lucre and lustis. Wherfo∣re by lytle and lytle as the ryches of the popis kingdome encreaced euen so shall
the ryches / dominion and synfull pleasu∣res grow vp and encreace in certain secu∣lare kingdoms and in the Turkes to / suc∣cedinge ye romish beast in lyke or in cruel∣ler impietie & persecucion / wherfore they that be yet sworne to the Romesh whore / or to any secular sone of perdicion / they be reteined partely by supersticion & par∣tely with the greate benefites and profi∣tes they possesse or be in hope to receyue of these two ryche beastis. For hytherto pertayne the wordis of Daniel saing.
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The en∣de of An tiochus.