Sermon Preached 12 November 1570, Title page – Dedication
¶A SERMON preached at Hampton Court, on Sonday being the. 12. day of Nouember, in the yeare of our Lord. 1570.
VVherein is plainly proued Babylon to be Rome, both by Scriptures and Doctors.
Preached by VVilliam Fulke Bacheler of Diuinity, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge.
APOCALIPS. 14.
¶She is fallen, she is fallen, euen Babylon that great Citie, for of the wyne of the furie of her fornication she hath made all nations to drinke.
Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely.
❧TO THE RIGHT honorable & vertuous lord Ambrose Dudley, Earle of Varwike, Maister of the Queenes Maiesties Ordinance, and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter.
WHERE as it pleased your Honor to requyre a copy of my Sermon which I preached last in your Honors hearing, so far as my memory would serue me to repeate it: I thought it my dutie to satisfie your godly desire. Not that I count it worthye of longer remembraunce, in respect of any great skyl or diligence of myne shewed therein (althoughe in regard of the matter, I would it myght neuer be forgotten) but because I acknowledge my selfe so much bound to your Honor, that whersoeuer I may perceiue that my poore seruice may be accepted of the same, I would in no wyse be slacke to offer it, much lesse refuse to yelde it, when it pleaseth your Lordship so earnestly to require it. In which request, albeit the singuler good wyll that your Honour beareth toward me, moueth you to think better o… my simple doinges, then they deserue in deede: Yet your godlye zeale to the glorye of GOD, and the detestation of Papistrie, may appeare to all men, as it is throughly knowen to those that daylye hauehave experience of your honorable disposition. VVherfore I addressed my selfe to put in writyng, that which before I had vttered in speaking, obseruyng as neare as I could, not onelye the substance of matter, but also the phrase of wordes, which I then vsed, as by reading your Honor can best iudge. VVhichWhich after I had sent to a friend of myne in London, to be written out, at my next repayre to the Citie, I found that it was already committed to a Printer, who had vndertaken to set it out in prynt. For which cause I thought good to set this Preface before it; most humbly beseeching your Honor to take it in good part, and for the delay of tyme to hold me excused, seing it shall come otherwyse into your Lordships handes, then of me at the first was purposed. The Lord of Lords encrease al honorable & godly vertues in your Lordship, with prosperitie in this life to his diuine pleasure, & after the course of this time ended, perpetuall ioy and felicitie.
Your Honors to commaund alwaies in the Lord William Fulke.