Reformers
knew papacy is Little Horn changing Sabbath to Sunday in Daniel 7:25
George
Joye was in association with the Reformers and he says that his sources for the
Book of Daniel are Phillip Melanchton, Johan Oecolampadius, Conradie Pelican
and Johan Draconite. In this Daniel commentary Joye did a very surprising
identification of the Little Horn as one that changed the Saturday into Sunday
as is common in Seventh-day Adventist scholarship since 1844. What a continuity
of truth with Adventism from the inside of the Reformation on Little Horn
identification!
Van
Wyk Translation of the Middle English text of George Joye in 1545: “He changes the times and laws that any of
the six work days commanded of God will make them unholy and idle days when he
list/or of their own holy days abolished/make. Exo. 23. 20. & 31. 34 &
35. Levit. 23, Deut 5 work days collecting/ & when they changed the Saturday into Sunday/ eating days fasting days / of merry and glad days to merry in/
they can make sorrowful days forbidding marraiges. They have changed God’s laws
and turned them into their own traditions to be kept above God’s precepts. And
as for their own laws, they change & break them when they desire. And this
power shall the antichrist have whether it be for long or short time.”
Original
Middle English of George Joye in 1545 in his book Exposition of Daniel…page 119
which can be online downloaded. [He
chā geth the
tymes and lawes that any of the [Page 119]sixe worke dayes commanded of god
will make them vnholy and idle dayes when he lyste / or of their owne holy dayes
abolisshed / makeExo. 23. 20. &. 31. 34. &. 35. Leuit. 23 Deut. 5. worke
dayes agen / & when they changed ye Saterday into Sondaye /
of eting dayes fasting dayes / of mery and glad dayes to marye in / they can
make sorowfull dayes forbiddinge maryages. They haue changed gods lawes and
turned them into their owne tradiciōs to be kept aboue Gods preceptis. And as for their owne lawes they
will change & breke them when they lyste. And this powr shal antichrist
haue whether it be for long or shorte tyme.]
Book
of George Joy Amsterdam 1545, 2nd edition in Geneve 1553. George
Joye (1553). The exposicion of Daniel the prophete gathered oute of Philip
Melanchton, Iohan Ecolampadius, Chonrade Pelicane [and] out of Iohan Draconite.
[et] c. By George Ioye. A prophecye diligently to be noted of al emprowrs [and]
kings in these laste dayes. Printed at Geneve [i.e. Antwerp: By the successor
of A. Goinus] 1545 More
about George Joye Joye was
not perfect in his biblical doctrines. The Catholic Theology was definitely not
biblical, mostly. It was a case of pockets of thin truth mixed with pockets of
great errors. With the Reformers it was a case of pockets of thin error mixed
with great truths. The other way around. Joye for example believed in Mary
praying, the immortality of the soul. Calvin for example strongly tried to
defend infant baptism in 1559 even adding that the water is holy water, [1]
some superstition to it in line with Catholicism. “Joye
fled to the continent toward the end of 1527 and between 1529 and 1549 produced
a large number of polemical works, among them biblical translations and
commentary.”[2]
Bibliography: Dr. Pineas,
Rainer. “George Joye: ‘Exposicion of Daniel.’” Renaissance Quarterly 28
no. 3 (1975): 332–342, 2009-2014 Pineas, Rainer.
“Some Aspects of John Bale’s Controversial Technique,” Bibliothèque D’
Humnisme & Renaissance, 24 (1962): 583-588. Bale wrote a
commentary on Revelation: The Image of bothe Churches (1548) showing that the
Catholic church is the synagogue of Satan. [1]
J. W. Riggs, Baptism in the Reformed Tradition: A Historical and Practical
Theology. In Columbia Series in Reformed Theology. “Part One: The
Foundations of Reformed Baptismal Theology: Chapter One: The First Generation:
Zwingli, Luther, Bucer,” pp. 19-24, especially page 57, “With the 1559
Institutes, Calvin added that baptism benefits ‘the infants themselves who are
baptized with the sacred water [sacra aqua]”. Calvin rationalize himself by
saying: “But it is not my purpose to drain the force of baptism – without
reality and truth added to the sign – since God works through external means”
(ibid). [2] A number of biographies are available
with extracts online: Charles C. Butterworth and Allan G. Chester, George
Joye (Philadelphia, 1962).