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A02469	A sight of the Portugall pearle, that is, the aunsvvere of D. Haddon maister of the requests vnto our soueraigne lady Elizabeth by the grace of God quene of England Fraunce and Irelande, defendour of the faith. &c. against the epistle of Hieronimus Osorius a Portugall, entitled Pearle for a Prince. Translated out of lattyn into englishe by Abraham Hartwell, student in the kynges colledge in Cambridge; Gualtheri Haddoni pro reformatione Anglicana epistola apologetica ad Hier.Osorium, Lusitanum. English	Haddon, Walter, 1516-1572.; Hartwell, Abraham, b. ca. 1542.	1565 (1565)	STC 12598; ESTC S112464	36,621	136

venemous ioice of a basterdlie Religion forgoeth the sounde fruite of heauenly meditation Let vs bind vp al with examples The former auncient churche of apostles and martirs had none of these your costly iewelles yet was there most whot zeale burnynge in their breastes In baser times of religiō by fote and foote in stepped peintrie and so died in the former loue of gods seruice y t was so kendled in mens harts At last rushed in the scholemens diuinitie by whole cartloades a birde of an other nest ouglie mishapen with superstition anon all places were stuffed with peinted stockes and idolls which being euery where risely worshipped the true spirituall honour of God was troden vnder foote Nowe powre out your Philosophie concerning the weakenes of oure capacitie extoll youre holy blockes vntil you sweate withal yet is this deepely groūded in the scriptures that the vndoubted knowledge of god is in his worde and sincere worshyppinge in spyrite As for your pyctures where the spyrite is present they neede not where that wanteth they auayle not It were a tedious matter for you to make of euery thyng a seuerall discourse and therefore with one breath you say that all holly seruice ceremonies and sacramentes ar by vs cleane sacked and destroyed What is it that I heare Is there lyuing any such broode of diuynes that spoyleth and destroyeth all holly seruice al ceremonies all sacramentes Either it is so orels muste this bee as it is in deed a shameful excesse in lying For forreine Churches I can gage nothinge but I haue a good opinion of them Of our orders in diuine affayres I wyll make you a briefe accōpt not suffring you eyther to be ignoraunt youre selfe or to bewytche other First bycause fayth commeth by hearing we send into al coastes of the Realme Preachers to edifye the people in their duties toward God and to enstructe them in the true worshipping of y e same Thē haue we an order of commō prayer collected out of Scriptures by Parliament for so we terme the consent of the three estates of our Realme authorised frō the whiche we suffer no man to wander forseing wyth all diligence two pointes fyrst the holy ghost to be obeyed warning that whosoeuer open his mouth in the congregacion speake the worde of God secondly that in al things be found an vnity wythout dyscorde The sacramentes we cause to be ministred very precisely after the prescript of holy writ and the liuely paterne of the former Churche wherin the Lorde Iesus Christe first in his own person instituted them with his Apostles And all these are propoūded in y e vulgare toung for that it is a brutish folly and plainly excepted in the testament in the presence of God to clatter out that wee vnderstande not our selues The geuing of orders hallowing of wedlock churching of childwiues visitynge of the feble and burying of the dead corses we execute with solemne and publike rites according to y e veritye in the Gospell whych we spice with ceremonies so far forth as al things may procede in order and decently within oure Churches as we are certainly aduertised out of the gospel Of y e times places dayes other circumstances we haue made no alteration neither in the whole body of religion innouated anye thing but y t eyther abhorred from all reason or was stayned wyth open impietie Thus haue I rypped vp vnto you the rites and manners of our Churche whych you see is cleane strypped neyther of holy seruice sacraments nor traditions but of eche sort hath reserued so muche that who so chargeth vs to bee voyde of all wantinge in dede no parcell requisite vnto the peculier anauncement of Gods honor shal shal offer vs vnreasonable iniury You saye we haue shyfted of the yoke of the imperial Bishop and you saye well It was to heauy and broosyng for either vs or our fathers before vs any lōger to susteine Neither acknowledge we any one high superintendent but only our lord Iesus Christ which honor the scriptures assigne vnto him alone And herein do we not part Christs coate as you gesse but wee touse and hale the Popes gaberdine neyther vnlocke we the doore vnto sedicion but stoppe the hyghe waye wherein vpon his lawlesse bulles of leade we rode stepe downe into perdicion You rake together many vnities and therof packe vp an argument that in any wise there must be in the Church one spiritual souereigne or hyghe regent What nedes that sith euen in the soundest age of the Church there was one God one fayth and yet notwithstanding had Peter one prouince Paul another and Iames another and diuers other had seuerall charge whereas the seuering of the persōs was no breach to the vnity in fayth In sequele of time diuerse prelates of Rome were holy Martirs put to death by heathen Princes vsurping no other crowne but the crowne of martirdome As for this extraordinary popish regalty they knew it not and S. Gregorye by name doth defie it Wherfore if the most floryshinge tyme of the Churche were voyde of thys your Monarchy we also may wesleaue if out nay we ought so to do not onely for the streight charge of y e scripture but also the suggestion of all good reason We cannot abide to haue the head so far distant from the body especially hauinge thys souereigne power for the which you labor so harde here at home in England that no nede it is to seke any abrode We haue the full authority of a regall power conteyning the whole vertue of king lye iurisdiction ouer the whole Realme But thys this is it that you cry away withall thys hath set you in such a glowinge that vnto Princes you impute sacrilege bicause they extend their authoritye ouer the Ecclesiasticall lawes dare auenture to touche things consecrate What I praye you M. Hieronimus come out of thys traunce fie vpon this impacience in a professed wyse man let in a littell breath chere vp your spirites you shall se al things in a cleare case The Quenes maiesty reygneth ouer all her subiectes of Englande And reason it is So haue the Frēchmen theyr French king and the Scottes their scottish souereigne Yea but she presseth in vnto church matters Not a whytte Al politike affayres ar gouerned by ciuill magistrates spiritual matters by bishops In spirituall exploites if any publike order be to be taken the diuines determine the same whose determination is by the Quenes Maiesty authorised Now what mislyke you vnder these ordinaunces did the kinges of Israel in those daies gouern the proper and peculier people of God Then ensued the gospel which also making in powers a distinction fyrst hoyseth vp the Regal estate and subdueth thervnto al other degrees by the mouth of Peter Paule whose names and titles by false vsurpaciō you deriue vnto thestablishing of your Romishe Seignory As for you you bidde battel not only in behalf of the Romish Scepter but also for the

their into heauen but ☞ that whiche is opened with good workes and wyth excelent innocencye of lyfe He which vnder the name of godlynes doth striue agaynst the exercyse of godlynes and dedes of charitie doth not leade vs to euerlasting lyfe but bloweth the cooles of vnquencheable fyre intendinge to make vs roste meate for the dyuell They quite them from of all feare which be defyled with soule synnes and they warrante all them whiche be at dagger drawynge wyth godlines that all thinges shall chaunce well luckely vnto them Whiche of them to the intent he might turne away the destruction hanginge ouer his deare frendes hath with many teares bowed god to take mercie ☞ Whiche of them dyd euer burne so with charytie that for the lyfe of other he wolde offer him selfe to deathe Neyther the Prophetes neyther the Apostles neither other most holy men whom God did make partakers of his councels haue come to that degree of moste highe perfection wyth leadinge their life in suche pleasures as these deintie toothed and sugresop gentlemen be delighted with all but rather in marueilous and excellent holines of maners in incredible sharpenes of lyfe in many laboures watchinges prayers wepinges in suche egre desyre of heauenly thinges in suche feruente charitie that they desyred to be kylled and to be tormented with most greuous peines so that other might ☞ be saued Of the whiche vertues where as these men haue not one sparcle but lyue so that it may appeare by many tokens that they take delight in those pleasures whiche the common sorte of men do couet and that they be geuen to those entisementes and prouocations whiche naturall appetite doth greatly desire c. If by meanes of this religion rashenes vnshamefastnes vnclenlines of life dothe more boldely flye rounde about if vntollerable pride and arrogancie be much more established then it was before if seditions contentions fallynges out be more easely stirred vp if traytours be more ventrouse to laye violent hands vpon their Kinges and to laye wayte howe to murther their prynces if neyther shame neyther ☞ feare neither awe of God his displeasure can hold them from doinge of mischiefe which haue yelded theim selues vppe to this newe doctrine This learnynge suffereth the lustes to run ☞ at ryot and that whiche is next dore to it prouoketh hedlonge to all kinde of wyckednes This puffeth vp mennes hartes with pride and teacheth them to despyse all antiquitie auncient religion and holynes of olde tyme. This learning dothe breake peace and teareth the body of Christe his churceh with inwardly consuminge and wasting sedition They disagree with them selues moste inconstantly they to daye holde one opinion to morrow an other cleane contrary one to an other and can not rest longe in one minde and that is the deuylles duetie to scatter and pull a sundre those which agree well together and to breake the bande of all faithfull and fryndly fellowshippe Seing the doctrine of these goodly Gospellers doth rayse vpprores dothe breake peace doth spred one secte into innumerable sectes causeth one secte to be at defiaunce with the other is it not playne that their religion is not drawen by Christ his rule but all together is inuented accordinge to the crafty deuise of subtyll Sathan What greater argumente can we haue then their deadly hatredes their contencions theyr ☞ stamblinge by the eares their tauntinges and ribauldry raylinges ☞ They haue this fetche that they maye quyte take away all the knowledge of god They so farre leape ouer the lynes of vngodlynes that they not onelye hate the Crosse of Chryst and in steade of God worshippe theyr owne lustes and wickednesse but also beleue that the lord and Creator of all thinges whose powre and ryght iudgementes euen the deuelles in hell and damned soules doe feare eyther ☞ not to be or elles not to rule and gouerne the whole worlde Alas they are so farre gone in madnes and tumbled heedlong into all folly that so often as it taketh them in the heade with wicked wordes ☞ they scoffe and mocke those thinges which be written of god his iudgemēts as though they were but Canterbury tales and grym visardes onely deuised to fray yong children ☞ Certeinly that religion which causeth pride prouoketh anger letteth the lustes lose defyleth the soule with synne taketh away shamefastnesse remoueth the feare of God worketh treason against kinges troubleth comon peace bloweth the cole of hatred thrusteth our myndes downe to the earthe warde and drowneth them in the seas of worldely troubles is no religyon but false pestilent and damnable Alluring the people with a iolye shewe of to much lyberty it armeth them agaynst officers agaynst their kinges authority and regiment and hardenth the hartes of the multitude with a false perswasion of Religion If it did only procure destruction of kings so that it brought no daunger and damnation to the soule and by all meanes didde not ouerthrow the lawe of God it were some thing to be wrne wythal But this is greatlye to be lamented ☞ it putteth oute the loue of vertue the brightnes of honesty the light of most true religion and deuocion defileth all commendable comlines with vnpure liuing and vtterly stoppeth vs for entring into euerlasting glory There is no more sworne enemy to Prynces ☞ then that is besibe thae it doth vndoo y e people which couet it and spoyleth them of all lyberty I haue plainlye proued that by meanes of ☞ this religion men be entised to wantonnesse to vnshamefastnes to vnlawfull lustes that troublesome tumults and dissentions be stirred vp that manye naughtye enterprises bee taken in hand that inumerable mischiefes be forged and last of all that the remembraunce of godlinesse is quite blotted out They haue not only left the Christtan common weale vnheled but also wheresoeuer they came they haue bestowed their trauell to thys ☞ end chat if there were any helth in it to take it away and to infect all the members of Christ his Church with most vncurable diseases and maladies The Preface THus reading M. Shacklockes tryumph in the behalfe of Osorius and other hys leaguelowlers ioyned with so vniuersall disabling of all gospellers and namely D. Haddon I thought good to make this search which I haue here set before all mennes eyes takynge the beginning therof at Osorius his first proposition or entrance vnto his mattier and so continuinge the chase vnto his pytyfull conclusion Which collections runne so much on one figure called Rixa or Conuicium are such declamatorie and generall stuffe that a man maye trulye say they haue one especial property that is they may serue more martyrs then one For euen so as he in these his centons or fragmentes impugneth our religion might he thunder against Herostrotus for burning the Temple of Diana euen so against the wilfull murther of Orestes Nero Mithridates Cambises euen so against the sensualitye of Xerxes or Sardanapalus against whom and what he