A Caveat for Parsons Howlet, Dedication (1 of 2)

A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Dedication (1 of 2)

To the righte honourable, and my very good Lord, the Lord Robert Dudley, Earle of Leicester, Baron of Denbigh, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, Maister of the Queenes Maiesties Horses, and one of her highness most honourable priuie counsell. I. P. wisheth grace and constancie in the blessed trueth of …, in this life, and aftervvards euer-lasting life by Iesus Christe oure Lord.

HAuing of late according to my bounden duty (right honourable and my very good Lord) testified my pore affection to the Churche of God, and to your hououre aprincipall member thereof, by translating that worthy … concerning the Churche: I finde that one HOVVLET (If I bee not deceiued) nowe lying in Rutlandshire or thereaboutes: one of mine old acquaintance, a scholler in my time, hath taken the matter in great greefe, for that to your honor, I hauehave infinuated the Papists to be enemies to God, and to her royall maiestie. This he saith, I hauehave done to excite youre honour to persecution. The truth …, I did it to youre honour, because, that as God hath set you in a cheefe place ouer this his church, so you and all the rest of your calling, might vvatch against suche enemies, and discharge that trust he hath committed … to you, both to … them from farther … the Church of God, … euermore they hauehave … and also … for the preseruation of the Q…e… ne her … vponupon vvhome … they … fauour & commodity they hauehave bene, are, and shal be, … her most dangerous enemies, suche as from time to time, hauehave gone about to seeke her highnes … subuersion. This argument, though I did then but touch as it were by the …, yet this enemy hath now prouoked me to make a further discourse therof. VVhichWhich althogh it be not don with that glosse & polishing of words that many times ill matters are colored & pounced vvith all, yet it is done truely and faithfully, no one charge being … vponupon …, to my knowledge, that is not iustifiable in eueryevery respect. I graunt it might hauehave bene more fully debated, longer stoode vponupon, and vvith some better order & methode: But this being a common argument, others also hauing dealt and dealing in it, who can better, doe it then I, And considering against what aduersary it is, whose gifts are known vntounto me, I hauehave ben bolde in this simple & rude sort further to prouoke him, not doubting, but by the assistance of God, to be able from time to time, if he shall take any exception, to giuegive him his answere. That I vse my selfe otherwise then my manner is, in roughnesse of words and charpenes of stile, which perhaps some delicate eares will hardly beare, supposing it not fit for the spirite of the gospell, I hauehave done it I confesse, both aduisedly and with iust deliberation thinking it to bee the fittest vvaye, to … dovvne his hawtie presumption. I think I know the man and also his gifts. Neither is it amisse, to vse sharpe medicinesEsa. 58. 10.Isa 58:10 against impostumous corruptions, and fretting cankers.Ier. 10. 21.Jer 10:21 The Scriptures giuegive sufficient warrant, … by examplesEze. 22. 25.Ezek 22:25 confirmed in the Gospell, of round speeche against theMat. 23.Matt 23 aduersaries of Gods euerlasting trueth. I thanke God myMat. 6. 2.Matt 6:2 conscience beareth me vvitnesse of no hatred tovvardesLuk. 11. 42. &cLuke 11:42 their person, but I protest vntounto your honour in the face, & sight of al the worlde, that I hate al their idolatrous and abhominable superstitions, and if they shall at any timePsal. 11. 25. 5.Ps 11:25Ps 11:5 like the proude Philistian, dare to prouoke the hoast of thePsal. 30. 7.Ps 30:7 Lord in maintenance of their false religion, and shall blaspheme the trueth, let them not thinke, but to heare their1. Sam. 17.1 Sam 17 owne. The Lorde hath many in Israel, in vvhat contempte soeuer they holde them, that shall be able to meete them, and eueryevery way to match them, yea with their own swords to cut off their owne heades. I beseech your honour therefore, cheerefully to go for ward in defence of this trueth of God. Beware of the … of these double tongs, their…. 140. 3. mouths are ful of guile, & the … of A pes is vnderunder their lips. As low as they …, & as fast as they vveep, if they mighte but creepe in and hauehave oportunitie to shevve their nature, you shoulde try (as God forbid) vvhat Crocadiles they are: Her …, and al that … the glorious Gospell of Christe, vnderunder her gratious gouernment, should feel then the svvord, vvhichwhich novv, they hauehave so annointed with hony. It were much better for vsus that … the gospell, to fall among Rauens, if necessity should …, then into the hads of these me …, for the one wold neuer light on vsus, til we vvere dead, … as the other vvould deuour vsus vvhilest we are liuing … they hauehave hony … their mouths, & death in their harts As Doeg the Idumean flattered Saul in accusing Dauid, vvho vvas Saules dear Friende and Sonne, so do they by accusing vsus. I savve the1. Sam. 22. 9.1 Sam 22:9 Sonne of … (saith he) in Nob … Achimelech the Sonne of Achitob the priest. So the flattering messenger that came2. Sam. 7. 10.2 Sam 7:10 to informe Dauid of Saules deathe, receaued a iudgement from his owne mouth, a iust … fit for all flatterers. So Rechab and Banaah brought … head of Isboseth to Dauid2. Sam. 4. 8.2 Sam 4:8 in Hebron, with flattering …, But Dauid a iust King, gaue them a iust recompence. So Absalon, stealing the hearts of the subiects, made shew of great readines to execute iustice and spake flatteringly to … people. Their mat2 Sam. 15. ….2 Sam 15 ters were good and righteous, but no man vvas appointed of the king to heare them &c. Oh, if he vvere iudge, hovv he vvould sit in the gates. No man cold make so much as a signe of obeizance, to vvhome his hande vvas not straight vvay stretched ont to take him, and to giuegive him a ludas kisse, so populer he vvas But vvhat became of it? The stron gre flatterye is, and the more examples vvee hauehave, hovve it2. Sam. 16. 7.2 Sam 16:7 hath deceiued, the more vvary had Princes and men of authoritie1. Reg. 22. ….1 Kgs 22 need to bee (against vvhom especially this kind of2. Par. 18. 10.2 Chr 18:10 assault is vsually made) hovve they giuegive credite vntounto it. Sibah2. Reg. 22. 12.2 Kgs 22:12 … man deceiued Dauid, So did Sedechias2. Par. 18. 11. & 10. 10.2 Chr 18:112 Chr 10:10 that horned Prophet vvith his yron hornes, promising the subuersion of Syria. So did the false Prophetes vvho vvould hauehave the king to go vp into Ramoth Gilead, againste the worde of the Lorde, and Rheboams councellers in fee ding the humor of their king, Therefore (good my Lord) As you …, and hauehave hitherto ben, so continue, to be circumspect in your place, and looke aboute you. Trust not faire speeche, not fained freendship in them that hauehave alvvaies shevved themselues so false The diuel that Prince of darknesse deceiueth, by taking vponupon him the shape of an Angel, … appeareth not in his ovvne ougly shape, for then vve should abhorre him. No more do these Synons, these Syrenes that play so pleasantly, and sing so svveetly. Though they hauehave a goodly shape, yet they are vnnaturall monsters. They giuegive titles (as Iob saith) but they are enemies to God, and to her highnes: The Lord Iesus send these Parasitical Papists their iust revvard, keepe her maiestic, and this vvhole state, … their craftie vnderminings, continue his Gospell, that vve may euermore serue him, and … in the obedience of his name, till vve obteine that euerlasting inheritance.

Amen.

August. 30. 1581. Your Lordships bounden and most faithfull. I. F.

A Caueat for Howlet, and the rest of his darke broode.

PARSONS HOVVLET, I am muche beholding to you for youre good remembrance, in your flattering, fraudulent & presumptuous epistle, dedicated to our moste gratious Soueraign, the Queenes most excellent Maiesty. VVho would hauehave thought, that after twenty three yeares, in the cleare lighte of the gospell, such an obscure owle as your selfe, vvhome all the kindly birds of the day must needes vvonder at, durste euer hauehave fluttered foorth in the broade day and skriched oute in her Maiesties eares, suche notable vntrueths and vvicked asseuerations, complaining of the harde case and greeuous persecutions, … of youre Catholiques (as you callIn the Epistle dedicatory to her highnes, Pag. 3. 4. 5. 6. &c. them:) her highnes being a prince of such knowlege, so setled and confirmed in the truth of Christs …, that al your deuises, flattering & fawning speaches, conspiracies and traiterous attempts, shall neuerFol. 2. (I trust,) be able by Gods grace, eyther to fear or remoue, from that glorious trueth, which shec hathHowlers causes of dedicating the book to he highnes. Fol 2. professed to maynteine and continue to the vttermost end of her life. The causes that moued youre dedication, (though the matter were not your own)…. vvas the composition and penning of it, beeing done (as you say) in greate modestye and humilitye, with all … full respect, … to her Maiesty, her Counsailors, and whole estate: … (you say) to the proceeding of al Sectaries (his zeal & opinion in religiō onelyonly …, erued:) the other, the waightinesse of importing her … soule-health, estate, and Realme, … the saluation of many: thousandes … for …, … her confident Children, her highnesse their mother, and … Princesse, before a … they lay downe their griefes, as before the Substitute and Angel of God, &c. If these causes vvere in deede as you pretend, you vvere the more to bee borne vvith, but being subtil, slaunderous and false, youre presumption is intollerable. For first, for the maner of conceiuing & penning that treatise, if it had ben done vvith such modesty and humility you speake of, you vvoulde not so hauehave betraied her maiestyeMat. 26. 49.Matt 26:49 vvith a Iudas Kysse, crying All hayle andaaSaund. lib. 7.pag.730. yet putting her into her enemies handes. You vvoulde not beare the vvorlde in hand, as if of her selfe she … youre Religion, and yet so slaunderously charge her Maiesties Realme and gouernment vvith such diuersitye of Sectes, contrarye to the truth of God.bbPref. Fol. 3.you vvoulde not hauehave charged the glorious religion of Christe, to bee heresy, and the Churche of God, & it to be the Synagogue of Antichrist from vvhichwhich vppon paine of damnation, al your Cateline Catholiques must …, and not communicate, but must vvith all their povvers resist and auoyde. You vvoulde not hauehave snared and entangled the…. fol. 5 consciences of the modester sorte of your dissembling, timeseruing Hipocrites, euen as your selfe accompte them, (who are yet the bane of this lande, hated of you, and to vsus as pricks and thornes in our sides) charging thē to sinne against the holy ghost, (vvherin you bevvray your slender diuinitie)aaBrist. Moti. 6. fol. …, & mot. 12. fol. … you vvoulde not so hauehave … her Maiestie for a Schismatike, her Nobles for heretikes, her vvholeSaun lib. 70. pag 130. & eadem. pag. 7. 3. people for departers and sallers avvay from the faith and true religion. You kisse her, and yet you smite her. you faune vponupon her like gentle Spaniels, and … most cruelly you bite her, (tanquam canes clanculo …, as the prouerbe is, like butchers cutres.bbHovvlet epileafe. 4 & the 14. fol. 5. you prayse her clemencie and mercy, and yet you charge her maiesties gouernment vvith vnspeakable outrage and cruelty. And if you meant as you speake,ccHovvl. pres. fol. 6 fol. 15. calling her The Lordes …, the Aungell of God, the Lordes substitute your mother, … you lay … your … concerning religion, and … of her, Seeing in flattery you acknowledge this to doe harme, vvhy, do not you and the rest to do good, acknoweledge it in trueth, and so denye the pope his forreine iurisdiction within this realme? And … shee be the Lordes Angell and substitute; vvhat hath the Pope to do to entermeddle in her territories and kingdomes? Or hauehave you M. Howlet any speciall priuiledge or commission to speake so directly againste one of your owne groundes, to charme the Prince withall, to thend shee may lende a listening eare to youre vniust complaintes? For that vvhicheThe prince is … chiefest … in … land, to … the care of Gods matters doeth specially belong to see Gods … established. you acknowledge in her, calling her the Lords substitute, vvould bee condemned as ranke heresie in vsus, because it importeth that she hath authority to heare and determine in causes of religion (as in deede she hath) according to the vvorde of God. Such as you call at vnvvares Sectaries, more fauourably then you meane, thereby meaning the … of the Gospel vvere neuer … with such outrage and immodestye of Spirite to the dishonoure of their naturall prince, to pronounce her a Schismatique and an heretique,aa…. mot. 40 vnderunder the title of obe … labouring to discharge her subiectës from their dutifull obedience, too iustle her oute of her seate, and to plucke the Crowne from her head, as you … hauehave done. If you thinke that I speake partially, let the Bull that… mot. 15. fol. 72. …. Felton set vp, sent from your abhominable Father of Rome, be remembred, and the issue that came of it, Let Sanders in his bookebb…. lib. 2. pag. 78 of the visible monarchie… d. …. of the church, be heard to speake, Letcc…. lib. 7. pag. 130. 734. Harding Dorman and Bristow say for themselues. Letdd… imprin ted of … a table at Paris, and therein setteth out the Queene crounle. ie, though in the … amended. RosseeeMor. Phi. his booke of suc cession. Morgan Phillips, and such like traitours be examined, hovve they hauehave borne them selues together vvith this popeholy papiste of the … sorte of Papistes, vvho can abide no communicating vvith vsus, nor our religion in any respecte. And as for the vvaightinesse of the matter being Gods cause, importing her highnesse saluation, Estate, and Realme, with the safegarde of Thousandes, it is but a shamefull asking of that vvhiche yet is in questionHovvlet pre. …. betwixt vsus. This Owle and his Gentleman, should first hauehave proued their particular churche of Rome, to be the … Church of Christe. They shoulde first hauehave set downe vvherein our Churche hath departed from the doctrine of Christe and his …, in vvhat …, …, Nobles; and … are … set, and continue in Heresic and … the woorde of God:The papistes are …, and their seruice and … idolatry to be …. and then the consequence had … playne, that all Christians muste seperate them selues from vsus, so they had vvonne their cause. For vve agree vvith them, that there oughte to bee no dissimulation in the matters of God, that … are to bee …, that their … is to be auoided: but vvee affirme that they are those heretiques in that Apostaticall … fallen from that vvholesom … of Christ; and his Apostles: VVe affirme that … and Lordship of Rome, and the tyrannous … thereof ouer the …, to be thataa…. in …. …. p. … in …. Babylon,August de …. … lib. 2 cap. 1. out of which wee are commaunded to departe, that vve be not … of the same destruction together vvith them. But alacke, this is your olde …,…. … in … 18. de … dei cap. 22 …. 17. Howlet, when you cannot obteine youre purpose, … by the Popes threatning thunderboltes of excommunication, or by your … and … b Excom. Pii …. … obteined by … vvho vvas executed in Cornevvall.bookes to styrre vp her … to rebellion, then you fall to your … and … glosing. You file your tongues, and make them smoother then …, they seeme svveeter then honye, but the poyson of Aspes is vnderunder them: then your compassion … out, her highnesse clemencye and mercy is praysed in yourecc… the papists dangerous to rel. gion, and to … vvhole …. vvante of punishment, which yet in deede is her greatest daunger, and then she is a mother, whome notvvithstanding in deede you … a stepdame: a soueraigne princessc and yet no Queene of youres,ddAllen in his Apologie of the English Seminarie s. cap. 4. neither her Tavves any …, because she is not established by your popes authority, your Gods vicar, of whome you woulde hauehave her hold her crowne in fee …, eyther as tenant at will, or else as … by youre treasons king … vvas compelled to doe, that hee mighte take it agayn … your Popc, & pay a … for it, to hee deposed or … at his …,eeChronica … Mathia; …. Math. VVest. vvhome you holde not to …, vvhen … Harding in his confutation of the Apology.in his Chayre, and aduisedly hee pronounceth any sentence.aaSun …. lib. 1. cap. 4. Now he hath aduisedly and … pronounced her Maiestie a SchismatikeBulla. paspae. pii …. and an here tique, therefore as in your opinion shee ought to be deposed:bb…. mot. 40. fol. 154. so are all her subiectes discharged of their duty and allegeance. And yet (good man,) besides your general and particuler crosses lying so harde vppon your pore backes, that you seldome or neuer, except in the tyme of your greatest ruffe, lay … or fared better: example of your fellows at VVisbich, in the Marshalsey, and else where,ccVVood the priest solicited … to vvhoredome, and gaue her mony and a comfite to make her mad vponupon him. vvho beeing idle and liuing in no calling, are bent to folly and filthinesse, and yet the poorest of them, vvho mighte beg, if they vvere abroade, neuer had more plenty of mony in their liues nor more ease and leasure to followe all delightes, sauing that they are restrained from a little libertye of going abroad: and yet her maiesties gouernmente is accused, if not in respect of her selfe, yet of her counsellors, inferior officers and Magistrates, in executing of herddIf our lavves be vnsupportable, that … not vvith life for religion, what … theirs, that … none? Fol. 6. pref. vnsupportable lawes (as you … call thē) through which there is such cruelty and souadge dealing as the like was neuer heard of before in any age. These thinges are greeuous, yet they … nothing in … of that one … in … Epistle dedicatory of … of booke to the Earle of Leicester hath accused you … be … to God and to her royall …. This crabbeth & nippeth you at the very hart root, And I thinke in deede not vvithout …. For the trueth of the matter beeing so plainely and manifestly … out, and proued in the learned vvorkes of, our time, it lieth more heauily vponupon you, then you are able to remoue: and a man neede not much to stande vponupon it. I vvill not speake … the other points of your … Epistle, nor of that booke so highlyHovvlets impudencye and presumption. cōmended by … graue …, vvherwith you hauehave taken your … into the light, as vvith another mans vvinges, and … your selfe not as an Ovvle in this point, but as Esops crovve vvith other … fethers: … forsooth vvith suche modesty, that it is fit for none but a Queene: and yet the greatest part stollen either out of your fellovvaaGregory … book of Schisme hath the very … and …, … deficit in …. but he … in his minor. Gregery Martyns booke of Schisme, whome you … not a little, robbing him of his glory, or … out of a French book, wherin the protestants rendred reasōs why they could not come to your … masse, vvhichwhich you foolishly hauehave tourned and … to your purpose, I leaue that to be aunswered by one that vvil stand vponupon it, & do it more thronghly.

But because it hath pleased you to dravv me in aganst my wil, specifying my name, I wil by the grace of God. vndertake the proofe of that vvhichwhich I hauehave set dovvn in that …. But before I enter into it, I vvold hauehave this diligently marked of al, that you on ly snatch at those bare vvords of mine, & neuer ansvver any iot of the matter: you mention nothing of those same more general and particular … of treason & …, plainly set down, in thatbbSee the examples … in the epistle. Epistle, by expresse examples, vvhiche made me to call you papistes by your right names, enemies to God & to her royall maiesty: As for your aggrauation & pelting chafe vvith that reuerend Father & his officers, For letting passe the book to the print, for that this … vvas not onelyonly vttered in speeche, but also let it passe in print to the view of the worlde, and vvas dedicated to a noble man of her … priuye counsel, (VVhose honoure like a Katife, you labor to blemish, whilste you insinuate, that I stirre him vppe to cruelty against you) and by suche a brar sicke fellovve, vvhom … possessed a long time for his fantasticall opimous, & yet I think, though he knew your nest and abiding also, with your, companion Carters, or vvhether it be Parsons, that hath put your name vponupon himselfe, for novv you are become such honest mē that in an euil cause you hauehave names at commandement: yet you scarcely knowe him by the face, & are not able for your life to name any of those opinions: to vvhome, you farther attribute such pregnancy (vponupon such honest mens report as your self) of … sing any new religion vponupon a weekes …. Fol. 6 Praefat.&c. These circumstances I would a little consider, before I enter into my proofe.

Concerning the vttering of this matter in speech, being the trueth, and vttered by so many before, it should not so much grieue you, and specially for setting it out in print to the view of al mē, that it might come euen to your owne owlish sight, what proueth it else? but that it was done with confidēcie, & …, not fearing the light? Hovv vvould you hauehave cōplained, if it had bene vttered behind your backs in the dark, as such ovvlish Hovvlets as your self are vvont to do, vvho cānot abide the light? nether louelove to come to trial, vvhat good face soeuer you set vponupon the matter but your common guise is to eate & drinke men behinde their backs, to slander the truth and as much as lyeth in you, to deface it, to rage against it, & to persecute it. VVhē such as cā ansvver you are driuen avvay by your tiranny, and you … the chaires alone: then you fighte vvith youre ovvn shadovves, either hauing them in your handes & also both svvord and fire at your commandemēt to mainteine your chalenges: then you are strong enough to enter into disputations with them, or being abroad, by your truces and safe conductes. you can vvhope and prouoke them by your sweete alluring …, and fawning till you hauehave them faste, vvhose … you hauehave burnt to ashes, vvhen they hauehave come to … the cause of God, & to giuegive a reason of their … inaaConci. Constantiense. …. 19. your generall Councils. Thus trayterously you hold thē in your limed spray,… Pata. & as Mantuan pretily describeth. you bring them toPhilip. …. the spit. Iohn Hus, and Hierom of Prage shall vvitnessePlat. volater. this to be true to all posterities, to the perpetual shame of al such faithlesse traitors and trucebreakers. This the Concill of Constance shall witnesse during vvhichwhich there vvere sometimes at oncebb…. RomPla … Benno. Bucchingerus. threBlond. lib. 3. popes, somtimes tvvo, one, and none: altogether byMirandensis. the eares, in whiche that goodly decree was ratified,Concil Constantiense. …. 19. Quod non obstantibus saluis conductib. &c. that faith is not to be kept with here tikes,ccNicholas de Clamangis in quadam colatde fut Concil. where in steede of the holy ghost, (vvhō they blasphemously said they looked sor,)ddConcil of Constance was begun at Rome vvhere this owle shevved … selfe vvhichwhich they hauehave concealed. an vnlucky owle, ( … ) that same monster of birdes, portending some notable mischief, one of your great ancesters was president that so troubled the Pope and all the company, that two vvhol sessions vvere frustrate and vvithout effect, sauing that they murthered the pore owl, with…. … and cudgels. Seing therfore it is in printe, you may ansvvere it, make vvhat exceptions you can, & take your best aduantages.

And as for being done to a noble man, a cheefe … in our Land, what other thing can it argue. but that you are such dangerous enemies, as they hauehave good cause vnderunder her maiestie, chiefly to vvatche against, to hauehave a diligent eye to the maintenance of the gospell, and to the preseruation of her maiesties royal person the defender of the same, to whom (as faire shewes as you make)aaI et … v. ordes, one. of Saunders chiefe … be … spoken in the parliament house, anno primo of her … reigne. you wish no good.

Concerning that you attribute to my person calling me a brainsick fellow, and in your popish heate and burning charitie, twite … vvith mine imprisonment in Newgate, I will onelyonly saye this vntounto it, the vvoordes of a brainsicke man shoulde not so greatly hauehave rent your catholike heart. But if you call me brainsick and mad, as the vvicked hauehave called the prophets, and the Iewes hauehave called Christe and his Apostles, because by the grace of God I2. Kin. 9. 11.2 Kgs 9:11 hauehave and do stande for the trueth, against your PopishIoh. 10. 20.John 10:20 Act. 26. 24.Acts 26:24and Antichristian corruptions, I hauehave to reioyce in it, and I consider you do but your kinde: you coulde doe little, if you coulde not rayle, and thankes be to God, though you grenne, you cannot byte. As for my beeing in Newgate, the cause vvas not such, as should fasten vppon mee any suche vile reproche as you obiect. And howbbHovvlet fol. 3. pref. standeth this rehearsall of my imprisonment vvith your complaint made before vvhere you saye, that no punishment in a manner is avvarded those that offend against the booke. As for my pregnancy vppon report of sraning nevv religions: the veriest Owle in the worlde vvoulde not so publikely in print hauehave charged a man vvith such a hainous crime vponupon the report of others. In deede this is common vvith the papistes, whose religion being not grounded vponupon the Scriptures, they varie it as eueryevery mans braine and fancie leadeth him. Besides that, fame is an euill lyer, especially vvhen suche are blowers of it, as can breath out nothing but slaunders, and reproches against the trueth, and the true professors of it, yea it deserueth no more credite,Popery a religion patched together of al heresies and variable: A bird of diuers fethers. then … Howlet should … and affirme, that the papistes are no traitors. But hereby may plainely appeare vvhat light …, rashnes, vncharitablenesse and impudencie there is in papists, that receiue credite, blaze, and vtter vvithout all shame, whatsoeuer commeth into their brainsicke heads, againste the true professors of Christs gospell. A man would hauehave thought that he vvho praised modesty and humility, in the author of this peking letter, vvoulde hauehave put it in botter practise himselfe.

VVhereas he … me Puritane, and to require me, sheweth the doctrine of tvvo of my preachers (…, as pleaseth him to call them) vvho preached at an exercise ofaaThe fast at Stamford don orderly, with consent & by authority as shall appeare in the end of this booke. a fast at …, and that against the B …, &c. I vvill not say much in it in this place, because I hauehave proued that, a lovvde and … in the end, vvhichwhich as slaunderous and … as it is, is yet the principal and mayn ground woorke of his vile …. This is …, that vvhereas it vvas at firste somevvhat feared that it vvoulde not proue orderly ynough: and by the intymation of some … not best affected to such holy exercises, yet vvas it afterwards procured both by honourable and vvorshipfull, and done by suche consent and authority, and vvith so good …, that the vvhole Church vvas comforted by it. The preachers vvere suche, and so vvell knovvne to bee godly, learned and vvise, as vvoulde not vtter suche positions as this Momus, and his reporter hauehave spitefully patched together and blazed abroade. The collector therfore vvhome hee nameth a minister, must needes eyther be some such nightebyrde as himselfe, not able to abide the light, or else … carterly misreporter, who giuing them some little endes, those Spiders hauehave VVouen according to their owne humour, to bring the trueth of God into hatred (if they coulde) with her royall Maiestye. But thankes bee to God her Maiestie is wise, not to be carried avvay vvith such malitious parties. Her highnes trusteth not; but with good trial: & wher she trusteth, she will not be carried away by … In hearing reportes she reserueth an eare alwais sor the absent, she is experienced to know … euill, thinges are made at the second hande, and specially vvhen they are vttered of mallice, by such as are not indifferent but partial, not sincere but spitefull. And thus much for the circumstances. Now to the proof of my matter that pincheth you so sore, to vvit, firste that you are enemies to God, and then I saye not enemies onelyonly, but traytors to her royall Maiestye.

That you are enemies to God, the vvhole truth of God, agaynst which, you papistes do mischiuonslye set your selues, doth manifestly proue. For vvhosoeuer is an enemy to his word, … himself against his glory, wrestleth against his wil & ordinance, corrupteth his religion, robbeth him of his greatest honor, & murthereth his people, he must needes be his enemy. That al the papists are such, holding of Anti christ, it shal appeare more plainly hereafter. In the meane vvhile, to proue the popeaaThe pope Antichrist and head of all papistes. Antichrist, as the captaine & head of al this band of enemies, althogh it be needles, considering howe it is a beaten argumente in euerye booke; yet to satisfie the Reader, I vvill in a fevve lines speake of it. He is the speciall Antichriste that directly … him selfe againste, Christ, both in doctrine and manners. And besides, that **Dan. 7. 11. Apo. 17. 1. 18.Dan 7:11Daniel and Iohn in the reuelation hath huely paynred him out, **2. Thes. cap. 2 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. &c.2 Thess 2:32 Thess 2:42 Thess 2:52 Thess 2:62 Thess 2:7Paul ioyneth vvith them, declaring by the effectes, that it must needes bee hee; vvith vvhom the Church was threatned so long agoe.2. Thes. 2. 4.2 Thess 2:4 I am not ignorant that eueryevery heretique, vvho setteth himselfe against the trueth of Christ, is after a sort an Antichrist, but the pope is this great Antichrist, that must hauehave his seate in the Churche of God, must vsurpe his place, and must not be in the stie of the heathen, to bee soughte for among theaaThis being prophesied of before cannot be intended of any singuler man: but of a company and state of men, because it shal endure till the comming of Christ. Turkes, Ievves or Paganes of the vvorld: but must spring and arise amongst his ovvne, And this is not any one man of the … of Dan, as the Papistes vvould hauehave vsus to dream: but a company and estate of men, and therefore it is further called an **Apo. 9. 12. 2. Kin. 21.2 Kgs 21Apostasie, that is to say, a falling avvay from the Fayth, And thoughe hee bee called the man of sinne, and the Sonne of perdition, yet this is not meant of any singular person, but of the effect or quallity, that shall bee in the vvhole state and companye of that Apostasie, in the continuall succession thereof, vvhichwhich is not onelyonly borne in sinne, as all other men are, but euen borne and made, to vphold and mainteine sinbbThough this be spoken of al in respect of original sinne, yet by a special priueledge, it belongeth to this troupe of perdition. A man of Belial, vvho vvill … at liberty from all lavves and subiection, vvho (as Iob saythe) hath drunk in vngodlines as the fish hath don water who hath sold himself to sinne, & is the eldest sonne of the Diuel, that as Christe the onelyonly sonne God, (vvho vvas freely giuen for the saluation of al thatIob. 15.Job 15 Ephes. 4.Eph 4beleeue in him) is the head of thē to gouern them,Rom. 1.Rom 1 to giuegive them lavves, and to enriche them vvith the righteousnesse of fayth reueled by the Gospell. So he might be the head of al the faithles, giuing … lawes directly contrary against Christ, leading them all to spirituall whoredomes, corruptions and al abhominations, to their vtter …, as that apostaticall sea hath done.

And thoughaaSaunders de visibili monar chia Ecclesiae. lib. 8 cap. 3. &c. Sanders labor his hart out, to proue Antichrist to be some singuler man, and no succession of men, and reckoneth vp (as he saith) many … that we hold, strengthening this fly lighte, as abbPlinie lib. 10. Nat … cap. 17. hauk, (because of the old friendship betweene the Owle and the Hauk;) yet the apostle Paul shall conuince him, who calleth it (as I hauehave said) an ApostasieAuxiliatur Accipiter colegio quodam naturae, bellumque partitur. a mistery, that albeit it began to work euen in his time, yet must be no otherwise vtterly destroied, thē by the comming of Iesus Christe: whose greatnesse must be built vponupon the ruins of the Romane empire andccAug. lib. 20. de ciuitate dei cap. 19. must giuegive life to that wounded beast in the reedifyingApo. 13. 15. 16. thereof: which thing besides that, the moste ancient writers do plainly confirm, the practise proueth. For the Romaine empire fell by litle and litle, and this was builded vp and erected. For at the firsteChris. in epist. ad Thes. ca. 2. it vvas not so euident, it crept more closely like the yuy bush, till it had choked the one and gayned theApoc. 17. 18.Rev 17:18 top of the other, vvhichwhich euer since it hath helde and mainteined. And though at the first Rome, was called the cheefe but of courtesy, because it vvas the seate of the Empire, yet afterwards by Antichriste, it obteined, to be chiefe by tyranny, and this by priuiledge thereof would also be vniuersall byshop in despight of Christ and al his pouerty, Fot looke how **Ioh. 14. 1. Tim. 1.John 141 Tim 1God sent his sonne into the world, for the saluation of his, **Phil. 2.Phil 2humbling himselfe euen to the death of the crosse, so is he sent into the worlde, for the destruction & condemnation of mankind,, aduancing himself aboue al that is called God. These are such (as the Apostle sayth) that vvithal other here … turne … grace of God into vvantonnesse, & denie the Lord Iesus the only ruler. They are clouds without vvater, carried hither & thither by the wind, witheredIude. trees, vnfruiful, tvvise dead and plucked vp by the roots: this vvhole body of Antichrist hath an yron forhead, & a brazen brovv, a crooked & a poisoned tong. To vvhom the definition of sinne, Ioh. 3. agreeth in eueryevery point both in false doctrine and corrupt manners; both being most contrary to the doctrin of Christ & his Apostles. For vvheras al our actions that must stand acceptable before god, must flovv from a true and liuely **Rom. 10.Rom 10faith, vvithout vvhiche it vvas impossible to please God: these men hath ouerthrovvne the vvhole doctrine thereof, resisting that righteousnesle, that is made **Rom. 1.Rom 1manifest by the gospell, and thrusting in a patched and vveake righteousnes, stilted not vponupon the lavv but vppon their ovvn deuised vvorkes. And therfore they vvant that same principal effect of fayth, vvhichwhich is true louelove, & hauehave in the place of it most sauadge and beastly cruelty.aaRead the spanish …, and the stories of Fraunce, England, Scotland and other countries. vvhose chiefe heade in his members, killeth, hangeth, burneth, drovvneth, pineth and pincheth Christians vvith all kinde of vnvvonted tormentes, more cruelly then euer did Phalaris or Nero, and that vvithout all couler of Iustice: vvhichwhich is a plaine argument that Sathan the greate Belsire of the Romane Antichrist, vvhose liuely image he bereth (for a goose can … no Ovvls egges) hath instructed him and … him to this office. And therefore sundry of the Popes, in this seat hauehave … familiar conference with the diuell their owne damme, and by his meanes they hauehave had their entrance, … themselues in magicall and deuilish arts.aaVolater in. Polych onic. For Martine the second in the yeare of Christ. 882. atteyned to his Popedome by …, andbbMare histor. Ioh. Marius. Sergius, that … deuised candles to be born vponupon Candlemas day (as they call it,) and Agnus Dei to be sung tvvise at masse, after he hadcc…. lib. 2. cap. 12 …. hegorten Iohn the 12. of that name, of an harlot called Marozia, daughterAnno 928. also to a Harlot I …, kept by Iohn the 11.) he vvas so great vvith the diuell, that by his povver he … great myracles, & at length by the help of this honest vvomans husband; named Guido, her Sonne Iohn was made pope, and the other pitifully smothered vvith a Cushin at Saint Iohns in the pal lace at Lateran. VVhat should I speake of Octauian, called by the name of Iohn.ddPlat Sabellic Luitprand. 13. vvho vvas the sonne of Albericus, the son of the foresaid vvhoore …, vvho kept such …, that vnlesse the Diuell himselfe had bene in his place, hee coulde not lightly hauehave gone beyond him; vvho vvas aeeVolater Plat. Ioannes Mari us Naucieru. commō dicer, a …, a Theefe, a vvhooremaster, vvhome their ovvne authors call a … of men, accursed man, that put out the eyes of some of his Cardinals,Chronic. Sigisb. Robert …. cut out their tonges, cut off their fingers handes and noses, lay vvith tvvo systers one after another, vvho in playing at dice desired the diuel to helpe him, deflovvred Stephana his fathers concubine, a vvidovv called Rainer, and another named Anne: vvho warred,…. lib. 6. burned, brake vp dores and vvindovves, drankeCapg in catalogo Anglic. drunke and pledged the diuell.ffVolater. lib. 12. Platina. This vvas hee thatPraemonstratensis. did homage vntounto Otto, and crouned him. but aftervvard plaied the Traitor vvith him: taking part with Albertus Berengatius his aduersary. This vvas hee that was in such a league vvith Negromancers, thataaCapg. in Catolo. &c. Dunston that Familiar of the Diuels in Englande, who could hold the diuel by the nose vvith pinsons, was dear vntounto him, vvhom he made an Archbishop at length, & yet the diuel in the ende gaue this Pope his …? for being taken in bed vvith another mans wife he was by her husoāde thrust to the heart vvith a dagger. OfbbPlattin a seteth out the vvhole story fully. … second vvho was a student of Negromancie, and fetched avvay by the Diuell, I neede not to speake, the story is more manifest, then that it can be denied.ccSupplementum chronic. mare histor. … the 8. also appeared after his death on a blacke horse, (vvhether it vvere the diuel or no that carried him?… tempor. let Hovvlet and his companions iudge) to a Byshop an acquaintance of his, to whom he said, he was thatIoh. Marius. Rob Barnes.vnhappy Benedict, being in great torment, & shewed thē of an hidden treasure, vvhichwhich til it vvas found he could neuer be quiet (though he had bene Pope) either in hell or in purgatory. AlsoddBucchingarus …. Benedict the ninth gaue himselfe vvholy to this study, and vvhersoeuer hee became, alvvaies hee carried a booke of … aboute vvith him, hee obtained his Popeship by this magical art, he sacrificed to diuels, and made vvomen to follow him into desert places by the helpe of the diuel, vvho vvayted vponupon him ine … the Cardinal Sigebert volat. the likenesse of a sparravv, Ther vvas nothing done in the vvorld (as they sayde though they lied) that was hidden from him: & after he had sold his … Carranza.as he vvas coniuring in the vvoods, the diuell vvhom he had serued, strangled him for his good seruice: he vvas seene … his death in the shape of a beare, sauing that his head and … vvere the heade and taile of an asse, because (as … yeelded the reason) hee liued vvithout reason, vvithout lawe, vvithout God.aaThis vvas he vvho before vvas called Hildebrand. his life is writ ten by Benno the Cardinall. Marianus Scotus. VVhat should I speak ofbbBlondus. Plat Othofr. and others, say that Benedict vvas in the pallace at Lateran, Syluester and Gregorye, and Clement the second vvas elected the 4. Caranza. Gregory the 7.ccDe … & obedientia. Vnam sanctā in glossa distinc. …. …. … in …. of Gregory the 12. that bought his popedom (for at this time Benedict, Syluester and Gregorye vvere Popes all at once; and I vvonder vvhichwhich … the head of the church) of Ioh. the 21. of Alexander the 6. of Paul the third, and of al the rest of them, it vvould make a whole book of a great volume, to set out all their villanyes & vvickednesse, whereby they beare the liuely resemblance of their father, vvhom they serue in that … See of desolation. For they were and so are their successors as proude as the ciuell, liars like himselfe, … as he is filthy, cruell and tirannicall, enemies to the glorious trueth of God, and to all righteousnesse.

And though this Antichrist come like an angell of light, that he may the rather deceiue, & his brood in sheepes clothing, to the ende they may deuoure, that their deceite and illusion may be the stronger, putting on most beautifull titles and glistering vizards, calling themselues **Apoc 17. 18.Rev 17:18most holy, most godly, … Lordes annoynted, yet are they the filthiest of all others, vomiting out **Apoc 16. 16.Rev 16:16blasphemies against the most highest. Let their stories be read, published to the vvorlde by their ovvne vvriters, that testefie their … abhominations. That this seate might fit Antichrist (as the Scripture …) an vvhooreVirgii. lib. 2. sitting vppon a beaste vvith seuen heades and … Georgic.Homes, moste liuely describing theddRoma metro …. See and placeHanc olim ve teres. &c …. …. …. of Antichriste, vvhiche vsually moste interpreters both olde and nevve, expound of Rome hauingeeVrbs, septicolis seuen… nate … illa … Roma. hilles, howsoeuer that corrupter of the Rabbies commentaries, … Aelianus the Italian hath vvith a kind of vvhiting, blotted such places quite out, in the last great Venice Byble: as that exposition of Aben Ezra vponupon the eleuenth of Daniell, verses 36. 37. 38: vvhere Damel mentroning the false God, he … it of the iniquitye of Rome, and so in diuers other places: I say not vvhether it be so fitly expounded yea or no, but of the trecheryChryso. hom. 40. in Mat. of this falsifier, that vvill hauehave nothing, to sound agaynst Rome, and yet it is certaine, that this stateBernard ad Eugenium. and citie, is that **Apoc. 17. 18.Rev 17:18beast, vvoman and vvhore,aaRead Lact. lib. 7. cap. 17. vvho comes in, vvith crueltie and ignoraunce, vvith deceaueable and entising vvordes, vvith pleasaunt sleightes and alluring colours, drawing the vvorlde to her spirituall vvhoredomes and idolatries.bbPolycr. Caxton, Marianus Scotus, Martinus Polonus Sabellicus …. 9. lib. 1. pag. 469 In vvhichwhich seate that vvhore Pope Ioan, as a … testification thereof, vvhoe leyde her burden in the open streete betvveene the … heater Collossae and S. Clements Church; vvhichwhich streete their Popes shunne euer since: although Harding and that … Saunders deny it neuer so impudently agaynst ancc…. tem, Mare historiarum, Plat and a number besides. vvhole cloude of their ovvne Historiographers, and a monument of their ovvne in Rome, that beareth … of it, besides the, antiquitie of theirddPenes portam, Petri, Pauli, peperit, Papa, pater, patriae, paruulum puerum. tenne pees, and yet I say nothing of their Porphyrie stone. This is therefore that **Apoc 17. 18. & 18. 9. Ioh. 17.Rev 17:18Rev 18:9John 17vvhoreNear the gate of Peter and Paul, the pope the father of the country brought forth a little childe. sitting vponupon this beast, compassed vvith those hilles, that by her vvhorish prouocations must allure those blinde princes of the world, vvho set them selues agaynst Christ to drinke of the cup of her abhominations, vvhoe muste be bevvitched and rauished vvith … braueries. … lights, and pompous shevves. This is that ionne of perdition, because he is a lost childe and of suche a curssed state as can not be saued. For vvhome vvee must not pray, but ought to crye out against him, tyl our Sauiour destroy him by the breath of his mouth. Such a lost Iudas as neuer returneth, that betraith Christ vvith a kisse, entreth by craft, not as an enemy, but as a friend, by counter set keies, or else secretly like a thief. He isaaActiue & pas … dicitur filius …. said to be the sonne of perdition it selfe, from the nature of the … begate him, not onelyonly because he is already damned, but because hee shall dravve all his2. Thes. 2. 4. 7.2 Thess 2:42 Thess 2:7 members, of vvhom he is head, to the same damnation. Hovv should it else euer hauehave bene saide, that, albeit he draw an infinite number of soules into hell vvith him, yet must not he be … of any.bbPlattina. …. His place is not among Paynims and Ethniques, but hee shal sit in the church of God: and albeit this mysteryAnno …. of iniquity began to worke long before, euen inConfirmed by a Synod vnderunder …. 607. by 62. b. shops. the Apostles times, and fast after yet the time of his manifestation vvas, vvhen Boniface the thirde obteined by the meanes of Phocas, (vvho had murthered… & 3 deacons: Synod. … vnderunder Constance Heracli …. his Master Mauritius,) the seate and name of … Byshop, vvhichwhichccGregor lib. 40 & 32. 36. Gregorye his predeessour had pronounced to belong onelyonly to the forerunner of Antichriste, the Father of the Sonne pride, and to bee the name of a verye Lucyser, refusing it him selfe, vvhichwhich yet this … sought, kepte and continued, and so did all his successors,…. 40 …. 38. li. 7. …. …. 30 to the ende they mighte make vp that vvhole beast that … to bee throvvne into that …. And as before, this mysterye of iniquirye wrought by little and little in the corruption of true Doctrine, in some pointes, so …. from time … time the contrariety, directly both against the Doctrine of Christ and his manners, shevved it selfe, that the name might best fitte him and agree vntounto him. And therefore he is rightly called Antichrist because heaa…. in …. … 3. shall particularly oppose himselfe againste Christe our onelyonly mediatour and sauiour. And as … in composition signifieth, For and agaynste, as …: Apoc. 16. 13. &c. 17. 3. 4.Rev 16:13… is hee vvhichwhich is in the Kings steede, or agaynst the King, so bothe … this agreeth of the popeApoc. 3. 11.Rev 3:11 For that … is Christes …, and yet settethApoc. …. 13. him selfe … Christe bothe in Doctrine, and manners. And though he do not this in plaine vvords, because he hath tvvo * hornes like a Lambe,… 4. 10. and yet a * dragons mouth: yet it is …; that hee counterfayteth,bbLeo the tenth said it to …. … … the Gospell but a fable, and vsing only die name and letter of it. for his gayne and aduantage * Christe came to fulfill: the lavves vvhichwhich vvere ordeyned of his Father,Luk. 22. 42.Luke 22:42 thecc…, … art 2 … caus. 15. … pope Mar. …. pope violateth …, dispenseth … them,…. 2. 8. and altereth them at his pleasure. * … submittedIoh. 18. ….John 18 him selfe to the … vvill of his father, * humbled… 6. 13. Luk. 12. 13.Luke 12:13him selfe to the death of the Crosse, * declared hisMat, 17. …. kingdome not to be of this vvorld, * … vvhen they vvould hauehave made him king, * refused the decyding of cruill causes, * rendred obedience to … magistrates…. theddPelag: dist. 21. cap. Pope challengeth of right to be Christs high and generall vicar,ee…. Nich. … 21. cap inferior. … him selfe … all soueraigntye and povver,ffBulla Clementis. … agaynste the very Angels,ggDist. …. 3. 40 …. iustleth the vvoid of God, out of his Churches, & keepeth it lockt in a straunge … from the vnderstanding of the cōmō people,hhNon habet papa superiorem. demeth al obedience, chalengeth both the …, and medleth in all …. All that holde of him muste honour him, for Peters successor (though … be a ii… tat. 3. Distinc.Iudas and a theese, yet he must be the head of… 2. in her … at, 1370, Christes Church, & without … aaGlossa extrauag. de sede vacant. ….vndergoe the gouernement of it, which onelyonly … to Christe. Maruel it is, how contrary they be to thēselues in so substantiall poyntes of their religion. For at otherDecret de translat Episcopi cap. times they affirme, that the spirite can neuer depart from him, and then howe can he bee a thiefeQuanto. and a Iudas, and cary soules to hell? VVhatsoeuer1. …. 5. ver. vlt. Christ requireth, it maketh no matrer, he admitteth nothing, neyther must they, that is againste his prerogatiue, against his idolatrous Masse, traditions ceremonies and customes. *Christ will hauehave his children to beware of Idols:bbSee Carolus magnus, Catharinus in libello de imaginibus. The Pope will hauehave… in ca. 1. ad Rom. Sand. de Typhon. & adora imaginum. them placed & worshipped in eueryevery Church. *Christ saith, you erre not knowing the scriptures: theccConci. Trid. ses. 4. de canon cis Scrip. pope & his adherents for him say, The scriptures breede errors, & thatddHarding in his ansvver to the challēge. ignorance is the mother of deuotion,Mat. 22. 29.Matt 22:29 thatHosius de … dei …. the people are swine and dogs, & holy thinges are not to be giuen vntounto them, they are dumbffPighius in lo cis communi. …. lib. 1. cap. 2. Iudges,ggEckius. dead ynke, aHosius lib. 4. de tradit, & … Dei …. blacke gospel,ii… Roman distinct … ynken diuinity, &Cusanus li. 6. excitat vbi ecclesia. therefore the Church is the liuelykkPrierius contra …. brest of Christe. Thell… lus Hos vt …. …. Andr. …. 2. contr. …. Church of Rome may giuegive authority to writings, which neither hauehave it of thēselues, nor of their Authors. ThemmAndra. … 2 …. fables of Esope, & the comedies of Terence, may (if the Church will) be made Canonicall scriptures. … the Pope teacheth is the expresse word of God, & whosoeuer leaneth not to the doctrine of the … and of the Bishop of Rome, as to the … rule of God, of whiche the … taketh force and …, hee is an Heretique, … the authoritie of the Churche is aboue the authoritie of the Gospel. ThennOrth. …. 19. change of the Churches iudgement chaungeth Gods iudgement, and Gods commandement also. VVho can vvithout horror and trembling in all his ioy nts, … these blasphemies, which this man of sinne … himselfe & in his members, beleheth out against the maiesty of the moste highest: I meane Andradius …, …, …, Pighius, …, …, Osorius, Melchior Canus, Harding, Sanders, and suche other bottomles locustes.aaVaux. Canisius catechisme printed at Antvverp by Plantine. In deede our new Iesuites, M. Censurer and suche like, vvho hath vndertaken Campions defence, and the rest of this nevv broode, they seeme to dislike this old rotten stuffe. For they professe knowledge, they seeme to take a course of Catechising, and laying foorth the principles of Popish religion, auouching the necessity of being learned and taughte, so thatbbCarbonaris fides, fides ecclcsiae romanae. Fides Romana, id est …. Hosius Collyers sayth, to beleeue as the Church beleeueth is scarce sufficient with them And yet al this helpeth not their cause, for that they refuse, to bee directed1. Tim. 25. by the rule of fayth, vvhichwhich is the onelyonly vvorde of God.

* The doctrine of Christ acknowledgeth but one mediator,ccTo the virgin Salua omnes qui … glorificant. the Pope and papistes an infinite number,ddThomas … kets bloude is made a ladder to heauen. Christ teacheth that his doctrine is profitable, full, and absolute, to make the man of God …: The pope and his shauelinges saye it is not so, and2. … 2 …. ee… Roma …, nugas dabit, accipit …, verba dat. … Romae, nunc sola pecunia regnat.therefore vve must receiue vnvvritten verities, traditions, and vvhatsoeuer theire idle braynes vvyll thrust out vntounto vsus. The scripture sayth, * It is a more blessed thing to giuegive then to take. The Pope sendeth out his infinite svvarmes of begging …, the very Locustes that came out of the bottomlesse pit, that deuour vp all that groweth vponupon thearth, vvho take all and giuegive nothing. The number ofAct. 20. 35.Acts 20:35 which Sectaries following sundry Sect masters and patrons, vvas long agoe amounted toaaLambert in pre. The … of conformities in the beginning. 94. sundrye …, beyond all vvhichwhich the Iesuites now go, vvho seeming to professe more learning, …, and righteousnes, are the greatest hipocrites, confirming their falfe doctrine vvith wonderfull illusions, whichS. Clare. Bridget. S. Kat. and our S. Kath. of Seene with all their goodly reuelations …. they call miracles, vvho yet are as emptie of trueth, godlines and vertue, as any of their predecessors, S. Frauncis that in most thinges was preferred before Christe: vvith vvhome Augustine, S. Clare, and S. Bridget by their disciples were matched, are now put cleane out of countenance, and their memories in a manner … blotted out, by these new repairers of that … church Christ taught that mariage wasIoh 2. 3. 5.John 2:3John 2:5 lawful, he consirmed it, both by doctrine & myracle1. Tim. 4.1 Tim 4 1 Cor. 7. …. 131 Cor 7vvith his owne presence: thebb… de …. …. 82 …. Pope and his greasie … condemn it as vnholy, and rather admitting whoredoome to their Clearks, and such as hauehave receiued … marke, then this … remedy, they…. …. 1. …. di. 34 cap lector. giuegive thē a vvatch worde to walke vvarily.cc… otho licet ad … in …. … non …, … caute. And though they vvill needes hauehave it a Sacramente, yet it defileth their Cleargy as a prophane thing, and is for them vtterly vnlawfull. And as the Pope in …, and in an infinite number of other pointes, the greatest and vvaightieste…. dist. 82. …. of … religion, … him selfe flatly against Christ, so do all they vvho hold of him, whom for that cause vve iustly call papistes.

ddThe name …, … S.Such holde this Antichrist the pope to be their onelyonly Gods vicar in earth, they depende vppon him…, … Saund. …. and all the … of …. as heade of the Churche, in whome they acknowledge the only direction and ordering of al Churche … to … throughout the vvorlde in all kingdomesaaChristus … coelo paesidet, papa in terris residet. and countries, and therefore … to the … of God, and the vvholesome lavves prouided in that behalfe; they shut out all Princes and … from hauing any thing to doe … those cases, they barre them from the … of their ovvne kingdomes, and from the most principall charge *that God hath layde vponupon…. 17. 17. 18 19. 20 them … I cannot but maruayle at Howlets 3. Reg. 5. 2.1 Kgs 5:2slyp mentioned before, vvhere he acknowledgeth2. Par. 1.2 Chr 1 the prince to bebbHovvlet …. Gods …. But slip I thinke it vvas not. For he spake the trueth, vvith his tong and lied in his …, … he singeth or rather whopeth in the ears of our gratious Nightingale, of obedience, and readinesse in the papistes, to laye dovvne their … in her …, yet this vnhappie owl meaneth nothing lesse. For it is to be thought, … vvryte, that they ioyne with,cc…, alias Ducket, executed the last of Iulie. 1581. A verve … and vvilfull … proueth this. … Hauns, … this other day, for his wicked treasons. The Lord giuegive her highnesse more … subiects to reioyce in, or else it were like to be vvrong vvith her, and vvith vsus all, as it shoulde quickly appeare, I am afraid, if their povver vvere to their hearts, but God hueth and blessed be his name for that holy persuasion he hath giuen vsus in his pro tection. And though he glaueringly calleth her the … of God, yet the gentleman vvhom he extolleth for such rare modesty in the 42 leafe of his discourse, calleth this Antichrist the pope, Christes substitute, without all warrant & ground from him or his vvord.

These are such deadly enemies to God, that malitiously theyddIacob … trac. de …. lib. …. vvithstand that doctrine of faith and uation, vvhichwhich the eternall sonne of God taughte…. Tim. 2. here vppon earth, inseperably cleauing to that vile Idol of the Masse moste derogatory to his dignity.**…. 7. 10. For vvhereas hee is our only high and euerlastingRom. 6.Rom 6 byshop ordeined of God, vvho hath not spared … povvre out his life and bloud for our santisication, by offering vp one … sacrifice once for all. These enemies make it vnsufficient, vvithout effect and imperfect, and pleade another righteousnesse to satisfy the vvrath of God, They pester the earth vvith many Sacrificers and priests, matching them vvith our sauiour Christ? They make them Peeres and companions**Psal. 110. 4.Ps 110:4 with him, to offer vp sacrifices acceptableHeb. 15. 10. & 7. 21. vntounto him, as vvell for the sinnes of the liuinge as the dead, making the Apostles and … lyers, and yet they confesse vvith Dauid, that Iesus Christ is an euerlasting Priest, according to the order of Melchisedech. VVherein they vvholly disaduantage them selues, seeing they must be Priests eyther according to the order Aaron and Leui, or according to thorder of Melchisedech. The**Heb. 10. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. &c.Heb 10:10Heb 10:11Heb 10:12Heb 10:13Heb 10:14 order of Aaron and Leui had an ende vvith the ceremoniall … and sacrifices thereof. And Christe vvas onelyonly that high Priest vvho vvas euerlasting, offered vp a perfect sacrifice, stood not at the aulter, but hauing offered vp his ovvne body, beeing both the priest and Sacrifice, offering not for his ovvne sinnes, but for oures, hath entred into Heauen, and is set dovvne at the righte hande of the Father for euer, hauing finished a perfect voorke of this Priesthood for our full satisfaction and attonement. This vvhole crowde therefore, The Pope, Cardinals, Friars, Priestes, Iesuites, Massesayers, and …, and all that delight in them, & consent vntounto them: they are horrible enemies of God, … Prophetes, vvicked …, Apostataes, VVolues, false pastors, Idolaters, …, & execrable …, murtherers of soules, renouncers of Iesus Christ, and his death and passion, false vvitnesses, traytors, the …, …, and robbers of Gods honor, and most detestable. For by this * sacrifice ofPhil. 4. 18.Phil 4:18 Iesus Christ, al outward and visible sacrifices of anyHeb. 13. 16.Heb 13:16 other priesthood before or after are abolished and made of no effect, except these sacrifices of * praysePsal. 51.Ps 51 & thankesgiuing, of almes conteining the spirituall worship of the kingly priesthod which are perpetuall amongst al Christians. In deede we must hauehave a hie * Priest, who muste bee holye, innocente, andHeb. 4. 4 & 26.Heb 4:4Heb 4:26 without spotte, vvho needed not to offer vp daylye sacrifices, firste for his owne sinnes, and after for the sinnes of the people, but … perfourmed…. 10. 12. 14 this * in offering vp himself … for al. He sayth once for …, because neither it … the like should or could be reiterated. And therfore he is called the * … of Heb. …. 11.… thinges to come, … into the holy place, by his ovvn blood once for all, wher through was wrought euerlasting redemption & …, … of sinnes. VVherfore vnlesse vve vvil renounce Iesus Christe, vve hauehave no neede of such sacrifices. * Behold I come, to thende to doe thy vvill O God, by the whiche Heb. 10. 7. 12. 15. 16. 17.Heb 10:7Heb 10:12Heb 10:15Heb 10:16Heb 10:17vvill vve are …, … the offering vp of the body of Christ once for al. The holy ghost witnesseth that in this new couenant, sealed and perfected in this one only Sacrifice of Christe, that he vvil no more remember … iniquities: and vvhere there is remission of them, there remaineth no more oblation for sinne, The sacrifices of the olde … by reason of their imperfection must be continued & dayly renued, but Christes offering ces of the old lavv by reason of their imperfection must be continued and daily renued, but Christs offering vp himself, finished a perfect worke, & his sacrifice vvas persect. As for their sacrifices, they are imperfect, & therfore they continue & renew a sacri fice & oblation derogatorie to that of Christs, robing God of his glory, & the people of their greatest comfort in this vvorld.aaD. Smith of the sacramen. …. & … of the reall presence. They are suche enemies to God, that they ouerthrovv the trueth of all religion and draw vsus to execrable idolatry, teaching vsus vnderunder bread & wine to worship vvhol Christ whō they affirm in a … presence most grosly & contrary to al the scriptures to be there present, against the truth of a body & notwithstāding his resurrectiō & assension they say, that such a transubstantiation is made, as there remaineth no substance of breade & vvine, most contrary to the nature of a Sacrament, though the accidents remain: & as they are enemies to him in these grosse & monstruous doctrins, so their … hath another ende then the supper hath. For in the supper the seruanes of Christ * make publique profession of their faith, they heare the word preached,1. Cor. 11. 23 26.1 Cor 11:23 they vvitnesse their faithfull persuasion, & … of saluation, keeping an actuall memory of the death and passion of Iesus Christ, & … to remē brance his vvonderfull and vnspeakable louelove, vvho hath giuen his life & shed his bloud freely for them, and all eating of one breade, and drinking of one cup; are admonished of that brotherly louelove and great vnity wherby they are knit together, & liue and die to Iesus Christ, as one body in one and the same spirite: vvhereas in the masse the knowledge of Christ is defaced, the preaching of the gospell is reiected,bbDurandi rationat. … see Gabriel. Biel. the Pontificall. & the time is altogether spent in mockinges and movvings, turnings, and remouinges from one place to another, vvith an infinite number of fruitlesse superstitions and vvicked ceremonies, vvorse then euer those were that vvere inuented by Numa Pompilius, and dravvne from the Paganes. I could vvish in my heart that some young scholler vvould take the paines to translate their Pontificall into English, that al our countrimen might see their more then hethenish and mad customes and abhominations,aaAlexand. ab Alexandr. lib. Ouid. de …. The making of their holiwater, without doubt, they learned of Ouid, as they did purgatory of Virgil, & other their misteries frō other prophaneGenialio. 40. cap. 17. Pagans and vvriters.

Suche enemies to God they are, that vvith the gentilesbbRom. 1. 19. 20. 21. &c.Rom 1:19Rom 1:20Rom 1:21 they hauehave forsaken the liuing God, & chosen to themselues other forren Gods, made of mettall, wood, & stone, potearth & bread, before whom they hauehave …; to which they hauehave praied, which they hauehave adored & vvorshipped, kissed, crept to, & embraced, making their vile priests creators of their Creator. For if he be greater that maketh and createth, then that vvhichwhich is made and created, it must follovve that their dignitie muste needes be more then Gods, that that place of Scripture may iustlye fit them, vvhichwhich saith: Thatcc2. Thess. 2. 7.2 Thess 2:7 that man of sinne, … himselfe … all that is called God. And if eueryevery prieste be greater then God, vvhat is he that createth such creatures, as can make God? In deede, if this vvere true, they are far aboue the virgin Mary, vvho boreSacerdos est creator sui creatoris. Qui creauit me sine me, iam creatur mediante me. him but once, and they make him often. Shee vvas his mother as he was man, but they make him as he is both God and man. vvhichwhich is horrible blasphemy: And therefore their ovvne massebooke saiethddIn the title do dignitate sa cerdotum in a masse booke printed at Paris. that the priest is the creator of his creator, And he that made me with out me is novv made by the meanes of me.

Such wretched enimies to God they are, thataaIoh. Andreas Innocentius. Ioh. de turre. cremata, de ec cle Summa. their sayth hangeth altogether vppon Antichriste their God, vvhome they make not onelyonly a God of the hilles, but also of the vallies. They beleeue nothing but that which he alloweth, as for Christe his Euangelistes, Apostles, and teachers, they make no reckoning of them inbbLanfr. contra VVicklefum Lepus. respect of their Popes lawes and constitutions: heccSee their casus …. that can dispence with them & against them, must needs be aboue them. AndddHochstratus. Eckius in his Enchiridion. Hosius de expresso dei. verbo. therfore their doctors teach that to cleaue to the scripturesLaurentius. Ockam in dia logo par. 1. lib. 5. Ioan.is to be an heretique. Suche enemies to God they are, as are marked vvith Caynes lying, crucltye and murther, bothe agaynste the Lavve ofDreido de Dogmatib. vari s. lib. 4. GOD and man,eeSee the stories of their gouernment, the book of martirs, Spanishe inquisitio. &c. For they hauehave murthered Christians, vvithout all compassion, they keepe no faith nor promise. No nature or kindenesse maketh them spare vvhere hatred is … againste the trueth, no age sex or condition, dravveth any pittye, be they old or young; halte or blinde; with child or without, brother or father, sister or mother, wife or kinsewoman, husband or friend, at home or abroad, Sonne or seruant, but they shal be sure to die a cruell death for it. Al stories are full of examples of their sauage and outragious cruelty, not only against the professors of the trueth, but euen one of them againste another, example is yet freshe in memory offfIuly. 18. 1581 Shervvoodes … againste Hobson; one of his deareste friendes:ggIohn Diazius Pantalio in his Chronic. Sleyd an. Chrisp. muche like the vvicked Treason of Alphonsus against Iohn Diazius his own natural brother, besides infinit examples in these murthers in Fraunce, in the inquisition of Spaine full of hideons tormentes, which shall vvitnesse the trueth hereof to all posterities. This howling owle notwithstanding (by his bolde flight prognosticating some mischeefe) scricheth in her maiesties eares, of the hard handling of Catholikes, how theyaaHovvlet. pag 5. 6. are tossed and tumbled, opmrisoned and pined, husbandes seperated from their vviues, vviues from their husbands, their houskeeping broken vp, & by name, M. Dimock killed in prison, & one mystresse. Tomson a virgin sent for religion to …: … what shal I say, In imbre garrula est noctua. This foolish owle complaineth of case, slaundering her maiestie, to vvhome he vvoulde seeme so dutifull: and her vvhole gouernment and state, of barbarous cruelty: when the trespasse in deede is onelyonly herein, that they are dealte vvith but to gently, considering their continuall attempts against her highnesse estate, crounc, and dignity. ConcerningbbM. Dimocke his ovvne friends hath testified this to be true. M. Dimock of whom he speaketh he had the chusing of his ovvne prison (vvhiche was no choking dungeon, no Colehouse or … tower, (such as they were wonte to stifle men vp in) but a friends house, to vvhome his vvife (if he had any) friends, and other acquaintance repaired, vvhos death vvas by Gods hande and by no procurement of those magistrates, that sought his reformation as his ovvne friends can vvitnesse. As for the yong womā vvhō he cōplaineth to be cōmittedccBridevvell a fit place for M. …, that behaued her selfe immodestly before aucthority. to bridevvel for her conscience forsooth, if conscience may be without knowlege she was cōmitted by her highnes high comissioners to a place, both for aire & expēce, that vvas thought … for her person, & …, hauing behaued her selfe, ouer obstinatly and immodestly … a sober …, hovvsoeuer vvorthy her religion, before them. And yet this perking Parsons or ovvlishe … needs be so, out of his yuie bush might hauehave lerned, that honester then sheDiuers that vvere of the priuate church were committed to that place till they vvere reformed. and al the pack of them vvil euer be, except they amend & hie them apace, hauehave bene cōmitted to that place, both for religiō & other causes, as som others hauehave bene for dishonesty & an il life. Ther hauehave bin such cōitted thither, as he cōplained of before, that they escaped with litle or no punishment for breaking the booke. It is not the place but the cause that putteth off or draweth on an infamy. But her maiesti may see, & so may al the honorable, the malepertnes of this vgly ovvl, that is so curious in cōmonvvealth matters, that he prierh into her highnes officers doings, & hauing so slāderous a toung, pretendeth not vvithstanding such loyalty and duety tovvardes her highnes. But if vve had bene in their handling, vvee should hauehave had little leasure and lesse oportunity to hauehave opened our griefes before any Soueraignty in authority. For besides that they vvere in trueth the practisers of tyranny and cruelty in al other doings, they vvould hauehave dried vp the best bloud in our bodies, and sent vsus to heauen in fierye chariots: after vnspeakable torments, to hauehave put an ende to our wretched liues. Their consciences forsooth may not be vrged, nor their catholikes may not bee allowedConscientia non fine scientia. to obey their prince in comming to the Church, to heare the vvorde of God preached, the onelyonly ordinary vvay to reforme them, and to bring them to saluation: tender regard must be had of the sex and byrth of their offenders, (& yet this vvoman vvhom he vvil needes make a great gentlevvoman is but a francklins daughter) though they offende obstinately both agaynst God and their Soueraigne, vvhom they ought to obey in and for the Lorde, and that vvhen they offend against the vvoorde of God, the peace of the churche, and the good lavves of this Realme. Not so muche as a little imprisonment (in steed of death, being founde obstinate and vncorrigible, and lightly ioyned vvith treason agaynste the state) but it must be exclaimed against, as if they had endured the greatest vvrongs in the vvorlde: vvhen it is plaine, and yet fresh in memory,aaSe the lamen table stories of England, France, Irelād &c. vvhat hauocke they made of the liues of noble and vnnoble, of blinde and lame, of boies & gitles, euen before their counterseite sentence of condemnation vvere past, and yet it vvas for true religion in deede, and but for standing against their blasphemies and curssed idolatries. your opinion and religion (Hovvlet) must be reserued, but to them that did vvith a true knowledge allege that plea of conscience, you vvere and are continually ready to abuse that place of Scripture:Rom. 13.Rom 13 Let eueryevery soul be subiect to the higher povvers, &c. yea, you vvoulde vrge it in all thinges vvith all extremitye and vvithout all condition in respecte of your selues vvhen yet it mighte not binde you nor any of your greasy generation, & this maye appeare by the cold expositiō foūd of late by search in a gentlemans house, in Buckinghamshire, vponupon this very place, together vvith another slaunderous, lying, and seditious libel against those godly learned men, M. Doctor Fulke and M. Charke.

Suche enimies they are to God, that they vvill bring the vvorde of God into doubt,bb… affirming the Churche to bee more auncient then the vvoorde. They vvill aske hovve … knovve the vvorde of God to be the vvorde of God. And albeit (God bee thanked for it) concerning the knovvledge of those tongs theaaAs Daniel in the Chaldey, & some other vvere in Syriake, al the rest in Hebrue and Greeke. Hebrue, Chaldey, Syriack, and Greek, in vvhichwhich the Scriptures were first deliuered, frō which they would faine beate vsus, if they hauehave gayned any thing, they hauehave had it at our handes, … their light from ours, yet they vvill svveare that our … are false, & lead vsus to a translationbbReade Freder. Furius de lib. sacris in vernaculum conuertendis. fathered vponupon Hierome, which we must receiue euē as it is, that yet in deed they can neuer proue to hauehave bene any of his, seeing in his ovvne works, theccThe common translation fathered vponupon Hierom, non of his as may appeare in his ovvne vvorks. difference is plaine in many places, from that of …, vvhiche is ful of Solicismes & imperfect speeches; Notwithstanding euen by this, when vve hauehave accepted of it, and hauehave fought vvith them, their own throtes hauehave bene cut, as vvith their ovvne svvoord, and the errorsddSee Marcus Marinus in his preface prefixed before his Hebrue Grammer. vvhichwhich they maintein hauehave ben confuted, whē they hane admitted it. I think they vvil aske shortly, hovve we know there is a God, as the prophet hath sayd of the vvicked, vvho thogh they vvere ashamed to vtter it, yet *thought they in their harts that there was no God. But that you may consider further of the translation, to which thateeConcil. Trid. Ses. 4. conspiracy of Trent hath taken vponupon them to bind all the vvorld, vponupon pain of theirPsal. 14.Ps 14 black …, vvith what good reason, I vvil set down a fevv testimonies and places. There vvas a very ancient booke in Hebrue, vvhichwhich is entituled vvithout the authours name,ff… in …. …. Nizahon, vvho vponupon that psalm. The heauens declare the glory … God. witnesseth that vvhen Hierome did … that psalme at Rome he saide that he had turned the Byble with great trauel out of the … tong into latin, neither did I alter any thing (sayth he) but ther arose after him (as the author saith) such as with writing it out, … all And in Reuclines library also, being a great learned man in that tongue, there vvas found in a very auncient hebrue coppy written, vvhichwhich had these wordes, Loe Hierome the elder knew our whole …, the whole … &c. VVhat likelihoode is there, that … being so learned a man in all the tongues, his ovvne translations being so far different fromaaRead in Caluin … in Con cil. …. … 4. Canon. that cōmon translation, that a litle after carried his name, vvhichwhich himselfe oftentimes taxeth and findeth faulte vvith in his vvorks, that euer … should be his, vvhere a manRead … in Concil. for his life in sundrye places can make neyther rime nor reason? as farre from the tongue vvhereinTrident. it vvas vvritten, as might be. And this … diuers of the Doctors many times into such …, who vver either altogether ignorant, or but meanly seen in the tongs, that they knew not which way to turn them, as namelybb… Ciuitate Dei lib. 18. cap. 44. Augustine: vvho doubted vvhether it vvere vvithin the space of forty dayes, according to the Hebrue, that the Niniuites should be destroied or vvithin three daies, as that translation fathered vppon the Septuaginta had rendred. And yet, he saith, if his opinion should be asked: he rather thinketh it to be forty, as is in the Hebrue. So Hierome in his Epistle to Damasus, iustly taxeth Hilarius for interpreting that vvord Hosianna, vvhichwhich hee rendreth the redemption of the house of …. And Ambrose almost after the same manner. In … in the primatiue Churche, the Greeke tong so flourished that it vvas the moste common tongue thorough out the vvorld, hovvsoeuer the Romanistes boast of the latine, vvhereuppon it came to passe that euen the Euangelistes and other ecclesiasticall vvriters, liuing both at Ierusalem and Rome, in the vvritings of the olde testament rather vsed the greeke interpretation, then the hebrue founteynes themselues. And it cannot be denied hovvsoeuer there may bee defence made for that interpretation that goeth vn der the name of these 70. both for the antiquitye of it & for their vvonderfull paines, vvho labored in it, yet that it is farre more safe to hauehave recourse to theaaThe best way euermore to goe to the fountaines. founteines themselues, vvho euer denied but suche obstinate enimies? Is it not euer safer for men to looke vvith their ovvne eyes, and to goe vvith their owne feete then vvith other mens? And if any man shall obiect that they might change many thinges by the spirite of prophesie, besides that it vvas long ago confuted by Hierom, vvho affirmed that it vvas one thing to doe the duety of an enterpreter, another of a prophete; this also is to be considered, that vve must not be ouer bold vvith the vvord of the almighty. For albeit vve may & ought to labour precisely to interpret it, yet it becōmeth no mortal mā to take vponupon him, to alter, ad, or deminish any thing in that euerlasting vvord of God. And if they beare no excuse that dravvn vvith an excessiue louelove of the greek that then most florished, & was most generally receiued, faulted: hovve shal they be excused that thruste a Lattine translation vppon vsus that hath a number of vvantes, vvhiche hauing beene often shevved them, yet they vvould neuer vouchsafe to amend any, and is full of imperfections, yea contrary to their ovvnebbDecret. Cano 1. …. 9. Canons, vvhichwhich shevv vsus that the credite of the ancient bookes is to bee examined from the Hebrue volumes, and the nevve from the Greeke. And thereforeccPagninus in … gramat. Hebr. Pagnine a learned Hebritian vvisheth that they could shevve him Hieroms translation. For that saith hee, vvhiche is reade euerye vvhere in his name, is non of that incorrupt trāslation, & that he hath proued by many vnansvverable arguments in his Epistle to Pope Clement himself. And therefore another graue man sayth, that it can not be proued that euer the church of God oughte to be bound to any certaine translation. But as the Lord in mercy shall encrease and continue that necessaryaaThe gift of toungs necessary in the church. gifte of the knovvledge of tongues in his Churche, and shall giuegive light and vnderstanding, so vve ought euermore to repaire to the founteines, & that vve may be fit for so excellent a vvorke of the ministery of the vvorde it is a necessary laboure to learne to vnderstand it, in it ovvne language, vvhichwhich vvhilest men hauehave neglected, we see hovv by the … indgement of God, they hauehave … into palpable darknesse. I wil omit the Psalmes as they are sung in the popish churches, & diuers other places in sundry lessons moste absurd, in eueryevery popish pie and ser uice booke of theirs yet extant. For to reckon them all, vvoulde make a iust volume, and vveary a man. OnelyOnly let this be marked, that as Hierome noteth the corruption of the Greeke interpretation of the seuenty interpretors, vvhichwhich eyther came through ignorance, or negligence, or both, so the common translation, done by an vn knowne aucthor, drawne from them, strayeth further. The Greeke I will passe ouer, and only note some fevv places out of the lattin, sufficiētly cōuincing the translatiō that is, to be none of Hieroms, because it differeth so much both from the Hebrue & the Greek, as in the 65 Psal. ver. 11. where he saith thou shalt water the riuers, in sted of the furrowes. & in 68. Psalme verse 19 day and daily, in steed of daily, and in the 87. … vers. 6. there is read, Nunquid de Syon, vvheras … is neither in the Hebrue not Greeke, and so there he saith Many were, For many vvere borne in her, and in the 88, Psalme vers. 14. Lord vvhy doest thou reiect my prayer, for my soule. The places are infinit and hauehave bene found fault vvith by many, and yet neuer mē ded by any, onelyonly somtimes, they set the trueth in the margent, but they keep the errors stil in the text vvhichwhich shevveth their malic, as in the article referred to the seede, and vvhichwhich is masculine, yet that…. …. they may mainteine their error, they keepe the article feminine and vvould hauehave it vnderstood of theLuk. 15.Luke 15 virgine. So for … domum shee svvepte the house, they keep euertit domum, she ouerthrevv the house, & 1. Pet. 4. 23. He cōmitted himselfe to him that iudgeth vniustly, referring that vntounto Pilate, if it hauehave any sence, vvhichwhich the Apostle meaneth to god For it is contrary. He committed him selfe or his cause to, God to him that iudgeth iustly. These & a nūber of such absurdities there are, some noted also by diuers greate learned men, vvherof I make no mention, & yet forsooth they vvill hauehave vsus onelyonly bound to this cōmon translation and no other. VVe say notvvithstanding, that vve are so farre from condemning the labours of those 70. interpreters, vvosocuer they vvere, that … thanke God for them: vvherein they hauehave done well, we praise their industrie, and so doe vve, the labours of him that did that common translation, and theirs also that since … rendred any thing either out of the Hebrue or Greeke, but thervvithall vve affirme vvith Hierome, that if any question arise amongst the lattines concerning the new …, or if the copies vary, vve must go to the … of the Greeke, or if any doubte occure vvith the Greekes, we must to the Hebrue, read Augustines councell in his booke de doctrina Chr …. lib. 1. If this course had ben held, since God gaue encrease of knovveledge from the beginning, many … had bene amended, and the papists vvould not hauehave ben so obstinat in that vvhichwhich they cannot defend, but it is the proper nature of these … of God, still to vpholde errors, neuer to acknovvledge their … and faults, … the children of God are … ready to amend that vvhichwhich is amisle, and to be thankfull to them that admonish them.

Such enemies they are to God, that they ioyne and participate vvithal the heretikes that euer vvere in one pointe of heresie or other. They hauehave nothing sound in the vvhole masse and body of their religion. From Satan the subtil serpēt, vvhose eldestEuagr. lib. 1. hist. cap. 21. sonne this Antichriste is, he carrieth his fathers resemblaunce in all things. TheaaEpiphan. lib. 2. tom. 1. Adamites vvere beastly, againste marriage vvente naked, vsed allIohn …. Campégius pighius. kindes & Sexes in common and …, as vvee read the frantique Annabapristes did likevvise, and hovv … off are they from these villanies? PopebbCrantius lib. 4. cap 43. Leo the 9. and Paschall, the one in the yeare 1150. the other 1100. ioyne both together in the condemnation of marriage.ccAgrip. art. 21 …. …. 22. & …. 16. vt habetur in cap Si concubina desent excom & gratia. 34. dist …. 40. Their ovvne diuines teach their priesthoode to be defiled vvith marriage, but not vvith harlots, yea, that it is … to playe the … then to marrie: It is … for a Christian man, vvho hath not a vvise, to hauehave a concubine, Neither doe … forsvveare incontinencie but matrimonie. This is the cause that the Pope taketh a … of his Priestes for their concubines, and in … theyIoh …. 34. Christianos. hauehave any or no, they paye their … for it. And … ddAgrippa Bale … Sixti … lib. de Rom. Pont. vitis.Syxtus buylded Stevves for bothe kindes, like an horrible monster, in the yeare of Christe 1474. Herein they likewise ioyne vvithIrenaeus lib. 3. Tatianus, Montanus, and Carpocrates, for theyTom. 3. …. lib. 2. Tom. 1.aa…. confu. 162. & ….mayntein the …, tollerate vvhooredome by… lib. 8. bulles and licences, yeabb… in Alphonso. they preferre Sodomitrie…. and filthy buggery, before that holy remedy of mariage in their priestes, vvhichwhich God hath appointed sor a remedye to all that hauehave not the gifte of …: and therefore Paul the thirde, besides, his commonMant. 2. fast. reuenevve sor forty fiue thousande whoores,Sipudor in vil …, … pati …. … paying forty thousand duckets in Rome, he had also as some report; forty thousande ruffians… iam tota … nar. … de Clamangis de corrupto ecclaesiae statu Constitut. Othonis. de con cubinis clericorum remouendis. Bucer. kept vppon their charges at an houres vvarning, to do him any kinde of seruice. For eueryevery one of these harlots had a champion to keepe her house, & to be her speciall desendant, vvhatsoeuer other incōmers there vvere besides. And though Parsons, Nichols discouerer defends both the stevvs and the stipends arising to his vnholy holinesse for them, vnderunder the name of a punishmente, yet vvho seeth not that it is tollerated vponupon this condition, and matrimonie cannot be tollerated in priestes, vppon any condition.Ioh. Filius. vegerius. Ochi nus. …, Anselmus. ccMark. 10. 4.Mark 10:4The … taught the putting awaye of mens vviues for any cause, and so in a manner doe they. For the pope will dispence vvith any,ddError, conditio, votum, co gnatio, crimē: cultus, …, vis, ordo, ligamen, honestas: si sit affinis, si forte coire nequibit andDriander. there are tvvelue … alleadged, such as the scripture … aproued off, why mē may put away their wiues. The … vvoulde hauehave the vse of othe mens wiues, adultery and sornication to bee an indifferent thing, and soeeIoh de Tur. Crem Laurent. will they, For they teache that simple fornication is no sinne, and though M. … slaunder Luther for pleading the … … lib. 1. cap 38 … de Sanc.Vict. par. 2. Distinct. 34. … qui.… cap 17. …. de ….of marriage, as much as of eating and drinking, yet they say in deed; it is lawful to hauehave a woman once in a monethmonth, aaThomas Aquinas. sent. lib. 3.ad de … renes, to purge the reynes. I would hauehave seene lusty, Campion to hauehave beene as diligent in … the manifest abhominations of their … and Canonistes, as hee is to corrupt Luthers sayings, and to dub that whiche before vvas dispr oued, and neither coldly nor fearfully defended. But they and their complices hauehave … vvhole bookesbbIason pratensis. printed 1549 by Petrus Aretinus at venice, vponupon vvhichwhich booke … there hauehave bene written commentaries and many filthie pictures printed there. de ratione … liberos: de … concubandi, and Ioannes a Casa an Archbishoppe, hath vvritten a booke in the prayse of filthy Sodomitrie, calling it a diuiue vvoorke. Horrible vvere it to read the bookes of these lecherous Locustes, to see vvhat questions andccSumma Angelica de casibus conscientiae. cases of plexitie they put and take vppon them to handle concerning these things, were it not the iust iudgement of God, that they should bevvray their filthy heartes, and leaue suche dung behinde them to infect the vvorlde, which is to bee cast in their ovvne faces to choake them, seeing vvithout shame they vvill dare to open their mouthes against the euerlasting trueth of God. It vvere an infinite vvoorke to reckon vp all their heresies, but this is certaineLut. Cortez in lib. 3. sent dist. 3. Thomae …. that the vvhole lumpe of popery is compact of heresy. They are Iudasses vvith Iudas, vvhome they vvorship for betraying Christ. They are Ievvs vvith the Ievves, vvhome they iustifie for killing Christe, and they plead that they had sinned deadly, if they had not done it. They vvorship the … vppon vvhichwhich … died, the nayles, thornes, … and instruments vvhere vvith he vvas executed, of which they make as sundry Idols, as they hauehave increased the number of such … reliques in sundrye countries. And to the crosse they hauehave dcdicated a day, … it holy roode day, vvhichwhich they vvorship …, the … worship which belongeth to …. VVith the … they agree almost in all things in … separation, apparell, pride, & … vvishings, obseruations, & ceremonies, doing … things like …, to be seene of men, & … for … then to be … & iustified…. of …. VVith the Saduces some of them hauehave … the … of the soule and the life to come, … didaa… hist. …. c. Iohn the 23. and Pope Leo the tenth, and as they saied, that it vvas in our vvill to doe good …. so do they …, that a manbb… and …. needeth not the grace of God to be good. Thecc…. Essees, the …, …, Melitans, Donatists, …, … and Iusticiaries, vvould be saued…. …. 2. … de …. by their ovvne workes, and so vvill they. Simon Magus as they them selues take him, vvas one of their first founders, for besides that he vvas a sorcerer, hee vvould hauehave bought the giftes of the holy ghost, and soddMant. lib cal Read Platina & your ovvne …. would they of whomsoeuer they lerned it. For as… Irenaeus lib. …. Syluester the second, Ioh. the 19 Ioh the 20. … the 4. … the 8. Ioh. 21. …. 9. … the 3.…. lib. 6. …. …. …. Gregory the 6. & … the 7. were sorcerers & cō …. multis … cis.…. so they make no conscience to buy and sell their orders, and … all their places by monyf …. from the … to the lowest hedge prieste. VVith … they … a new …, and… de turre … as … the … and Tatians ho'd that Christ vvas … the virgin Mary: So they hold that all … tooke flesh of the virgine Mary, and came and … Hel. VVithgg…. …. … they … vvater, waxe, Palmes, bread, wine, and many other things, as may appear by their own Pō tificall, with the Gnosticks they mainteineaaCliutoueus de venerat. images, with Montanus they comād superstious fastings, &Gaspar Rutlā dus. forbid meates that God hath cōmaunded to be receiued with thanksgiuing, with Cerinthus they corruptSaunders de Typ. ador. imag. 1. Tim. 4.1 Tim 4 the scriptures, with Marciō & apelles they vrge vncōmāded ceremonies, with the Ande ans, & Anthropomorphits, they make God like an old man, & with the gentiles they make images of al sorts, of foursooted beasts & creping wormes, with Donatists, thei tie the vniuersal church not to a part of the world, as they did to afftick, but to a lesse place, euen to a citye, & both with thē, with the Anabaptists & Pelagians, they maintein free wil. They offer to the virgin Mary & cal her the Queene of heauen, as did the Colliridians, with the Cataphrigians and others who held that Christ ascended without a body, theyThe heresies are knovven & vvhen they shevv a difference, they shall receiue an ansvvere. hold that, that body is stil in their rouud cake, and in infinite places at once. And as Seuerus sayd that a vvoman vvas the Diuels vvorkmanship, and man also from the nauill dovvnward. So Pope Innocent the 8. auouched that they that vvere married coulde not please God, aleadging that place Qui in c … Deo placere non possunt. VVith Manes they make them selues Christe and aboue him. VVith the Catharists they boast of a perfection in this life, & of such worthincsse as deserueth heauen both for them selues and others, agreeing vvith Henrye Nicholas that Arch-heritique, that monstrous head of the frantike Familie of LoueLove, who peruerteth all the scriptures, and glorieth of an essentiall righteousnes. VVith theBullinger aduersus …. Anabaptistes, they deny maiestrates, by cutting thē of from the principall part of their office, & gouernment in their ovvn …, & countries, making thē hogges & swine in cōparison of their Pope, and his annointed ones, to whom no knowledg of god, nor duety in aduancing Christian religion doth belong.

Such enemies they are to God, as directly set themselues against all the commandements of God not only breaking them, as all other men do, when they say notwithstanding they can fulfill them (as other … hauehave done) but in the vvhole course of their doctrine quite thvvart and ourthrovv them.

InaaThey worship many gods. steed of one God the soueraine & only Lord, vvho is onelyonly to be worshipped, called vponupon, trusted in & praised for al his benefits, they set vp a numberExod. 3. 14. & 20.Exod 3:14Exod 3:20 of gods exceeding the … gentiles, robbing God of his glorye, EueryEvery disease must hauehave a seueralDeut. 4. 35. & 6. 4.Deut 4:35Deut 6:4 God both in men & in beasts, & must be called vpō with a paternoster for the cure therof, beside the abo minablebbDurand. Innocent de officiis …. …, that was made a salue for all soares, that being first had, must prosper al the seers, helpe hūters, purge pigges and preserue hogs, cause rain &Guydon de monte Roch. faire vvether, deliuer out of purgatory & direct gene rall coūcels. VVhat was it the masse coulde not doe. And yet least there should be lacke for any thing, not so much as the toothake, but it had a saint ApolinariThis is manifestly to bee seene through out all their bookes. & Valentin was for louers, S. Loe for smithes: Chrispiā & Martin, sor shomakers, Nicholas & Cletus for clearks, George for warriers & for England, Andrew for Scotland, Denis sor Frāce. Iames or IacSaints offices many, all robbing God of his glory. ques, for Spain, & Patrike for Ireland. There was no town, …, priuate house or country, but they had a sundry saint patrō or God, vpō whō they chiefly depēded.Read the Behiue. foi. 252. 253. 254. EueryEvery church and church stepeple must beare the name of one S. or other, or of al Saints that they might match the old idolaters, who had theiraaPaulus Diac. Lib. Ceremo, niarum. Pantheō at Rome, & vvhichwhich was more grosse, their stinking reliques must be sought to, not so much as Huberts key, but must hauehave the vertue to heal the bitingLegenda aurea Rom Breuiar. of a mad dog, & vpō relique sunday the Parsōs brich must be hanged out at the top of the steeple. ThesePontifical. detestable idolatries buried in the darke, & scatrered amongst al christians by the light of the gospel, thisbbHoc est viris auibus quod noctua. &c. horsce owl that seemeth to the birds another won der, & certein other impudent Iesuites from Rome, that they may intangle many in the lime tvvigges,Eglog. 9. and bring them to the spitte of vtter destruction, labour to reuiue, & bring againe from hell, amongst vsus. … it can not be, but portende some notable mischiefe, that this Parsons Owle, or ratherccAlexander ab Alexandro Ob bubonem aut … Cellum Iouis aut Capitolium ingressum Sulphuris & quae lustratione vr bem & Capitolium expiarunt. vvolfe should thus … into Iupiters Cell, and into our highest Capitolium to schriche and howle so ylfauouredly in the eares of our Prince for the mayntenance of cursed Idolatrie against the trueth of God. But I trust, though vve hauehave not that olde sacrifice of the Romanes, neyther vse brimstone or holywater from vvhom those Popish Apes learned such toyes, to purge our cities and temple, yet vve shall cleanse it by a better purgation.

ThonghddImages forbidden. God hauehave forbidden Images to be set in the temple, that Idolatrie might be auoyded that they might not be as snares to corrupt men, vvhoExod. 20.Exod 20 Deut. 4. 12.Deut 4:12are prone and apt vntounto it, as beeing too vile and insufficientEsai. 41.Isa 41 to set him out by: vvhoe is a spirite, almightie,Io. 5. 21.John 5:21 incomprehensible, full of all maiestie and glory: yea, though Christ be God and man, and must hauehave a spirituall vvorship, so that no Image can set him out and beare his resemblaunce, yet rather then they vvil not hauehave *God the father like anAbac. 2. 18. &c Iames praied to … staffe, & therefore we must pray to Images.Hab 2:18 old man, decaying in nature with a vvhite bearde, and a balde head, and hauehave a Roode of sixe foote long in eueryevery churche, they vvill quite leaue oute this aaEpist. Adrian Act. 2.Acts 2second commaundemente, and because theyRead the trim arguments in that 2. Nicen Councel, and you shall see good stuffe. vvould not be taken vvith the manner, all the world knowing that there be ten commandementes, they are fayne to vse this bad shift, to chop and slice the last into tvvo, God hauing made it but one, yea hovvsoeuer the heauen bbThe name of God holy.of heauens cannot contein him, neither dwelleth hee in temples made vvith handes, yet these enemies of his, vvil bring him intoHorrible blasphem ie. the compasse of the earthe, they vvill dreame of aSee Vauses Catechisme & others that commonly leaue it out, One printed at … by the commandement of the King of Spaine. breaden God, vvherein vvhen wormes breede, they will cruelly burne him vvith fire: in despite of God … vvil worship these images, vvith the same worship that belongeth to the holy trinity, whome they feigne to speak, to sweate, and to do great …. bbThe name of God holy.Though the name of God be precious, and to be honoured of al his children, yet these enemies vvill svveare in vaine by him, and because all their religion is carnal, & they imagine of God, as they paintTho. Aquinsuper mandat. him, & set him out in all respects like a man, so they prophane his name in all their idolatrous vvorship,Esai. 66. 1.Isa 66:1 Act. 7. 19.Acts 7:19they svveare also horribly, by soule, bodye, bloude, heart, in their common talke. For from them not only sprang the dishonour of his name by their idolatries,George VVicellus in his retection swe reth horribly. Masses, Dirges, Trentals, vvyll vvoorshippes, deuised religion, charmings, … of creatures, magical abusing the scriptures, but also that horribleProphaning and svvearing comon vvith … papists. svvearing by al the partes of a body, as if he vvere a man, vvhichwhich is vsed of villaines and Ruffianes vvho are vvont to leaue no part of a body …. And vvhen they hauehave done vvith him, then they runneEsay. 18. 19. Ier. 12. 16.Isa 18:19Jer 12:16 to their masse, other idolles and creatures, bothe ofSoph. 15. … ovvne making, & otherwise flatly *against theDeut. 6. 13. & 10. 20.Deut 6:13Deut 10:20 scriptures. This is common I say amongst papistes. not onelyonly in their accustomed speeches, but in their aaExamples of periurie in papistes, reade Ma Par. of the … of Ro mulus in the besieging of Auinion a Legate of the popes in the yeere 1222.solemne assemblies and places … iudgement, and vvhere they should shevv greatest fayth and trueth: vvhichwhich are the very seede of fearfull periuries. And in al these cases their consciences … vvithout all touch, because they make account of some three halpeny satisfaction, vvhiche they may obtrude to God, and he shall not refuse it, as they say, for a iust recompence. If they vvill charge vsus vvith the like,Also before that of the breache of the othe of the cleargie tovvard … the first, vvhen they dispossessed his heire, and crovvned king Stephen. And in the … of Step. they cannot, and their owne mouths shall vvitnesse for vsus, because, they make it a mark of an heretique as they account vsus, if he svveare not ….