Surelye the reason is because it was deuised that beeing the further off and nowe brought in cunninglye to bee auenged vppon a dead man it might bee currande amongest Papistes amongest whome nothinge is so vsuall as lying and sclaundering As for Bolsecke his learning credite wisedome and honestie Parsons in praysing them sheweth his partial iudgement one Mule dooth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 another in it For for the proofe of the firste to witte of learning there is no other proofe but this onely booke of Caluins life whiche beeing a barne of so longe a byrth and a woorke of so many yeeres vttered so out of season it carryeth nothing in the forheade but barbarous ignoraunce and scurrilitie And if hee bee of credite wisdome or honestie let Parsons also bee wise and honest As for the place of his lyuing I suppose Parsons knoweth not where Bolsecke lyueth whether in heauen or in hell I haue hearde credibly reported that for the time hee lyued 〈◊〉 nowe I heare hee is deade hee lyued like a fugitiue neyther in credite nor estimation eyther with Protestant or Papiste although I cannot thinke but the Papistes had cause to make some accounte of him that hauing grounde forth such a deale of stuffe for them against Caluine and Beza and beeing then of a Friar become a prieste amongst them as they saye hee was they should for his good seruicehaue set some greater price vppon him and rewarded him eyther to haue made him a Cardinal or at the least some Iesuite Thus much concerning Bolseckes and his protestation till we come afterwardes to speake of M. Beza Where hee saieth that Iohn Caluine was borne at Noion in 〈◊〉 the yeere 1509. hee saieth true beecause hee learned it of them that sette it downe beefore him that better knewe it then hee coulde tell them but in that hee saieth that hee was in his youth a horrible blasphemer of GOD we aske him how he knew it The place of his byrth hee knewe by information but Caluines 〈◊〉 hee coulde not knowe because it was not set downe in anye storie nor giuen him to vnderstande by any sincere information And although it had not beene much to the purpose nor ought not to waye against the trueth if 〈◊〉 youth ignoraunce and blindenesse hee had shewed him selfe suche a one yet they that knewe his parentage his friendes and the course of his youth beeing not partiall haue testified that hee was towardly his lyberal bringing vp in knowledge and his profiting in it that made him a man of so worthy gifts plainely confirming it And if hee had beene suche an execrable blasphemer in his youth is it likelye that hee eyther did or coulde so applye his booke as to come to such perfection euen in his youth at the age of 24. yeeres somewhat vnder to haue written those notable commentaries vpon 〈◊〉 de Clementia Againe when hee saieth that he became at length a Prieste by shiftes and had the cure of a certaine Chappel in Noton It is true that by his fathers procurement being a man of good reputation hee had a prebende in the Cathedrall Church of Noion but that hee euer came by it by anye shfting meanes it is the sclaunder of an impudent Fryar And if hee had come vnto it by any after that sorte yet this ought not muche to preiudice the trueth which then hee neyther knewe nor professed seeing the Popishe Church maketh no conscience of simony and shifting meanes to gette fatte By shopprickes and benefices the most of their Popes buying and selling their Popedomes and benefices as in a common market But yet that he was a priest though hee had a cure and preached certaine Sermons to the people it is vncertaine both because his yeeres had not fitted him to that highest place in their Antichristian kingdome by their owne Canons whoe might not bee a prieste vnder the age of xxx and also because he continued not longe in it his father chaunging his minde in 〈◊〉 to sette him to the studie of the Lawe and M. Caluine 〈◊〉 hauing receyued some light of the trueth by meanes of his 〈◊〉 M. Peter Oliuentanus that made him to withdraw from that abhomination As for beeing taken and conuicted in that horrible sinne of Sodomie if there were any such thing it was a fruite not of the Gospell but of Poperye amongst whome holye Matrimonie beeing detested and shunned as vncleaene and filthy in their Popishe vnction what other fruites coulde it yeeld but Sodometrie Buggerie Whoredome and all other kinde of filthinesse but that it was vnlikely that Caluine was euer teynted with anye such cryme Fyrst wee must thinke that if there had beene any such conuiction or condemnation it would haue 〈◊〉 set downe vppon recorde Besides who euer heard that the Papistes retayned any such law in Fraunce for that sinne hauing so many Abbeyes Nunneries and religious houses as they call them but most irreligious where they made no account of that sinne but alwayes accounted it as a sporte their Popes hauing dispensed with it in some Countries and some of their Cardinalles hauing written bookes in the prayse of it And if hee had beene condemned to haue beene burnte alyue why did not this villaine and wretched lyer set downe the manner of processe the fourme of pardon that was graunted and she we the like practise of anye burnte in the shoulder for the like offence The like is to be said of chaunging his name to make him agree with Luther which impudentlye hee saieth the whole Citie did testifie to Bertilier Secretarie of the councell of Geneua vnder the hande of a publique and sworne Notarie the same beeing extaunt and to bee seene c. For I aske what man of credite did euer see anye such testimony If it were a publique instrument it was not so easily concealed Againe who was this Bertilier Surely a knaue one of Bolsecks companions and of Seruetus faction that troubled the Church that hauing stoode excommunicate of the Church a longe time striued against the discipline of the Churche to bee admitted to the Lordes Supper which Caluine dutifullye resisting hee hated him for it to the death Nowe if Bertilier firste a secretarie and afterwardes a deuiser and vnderminer of the Church haue faigned some such thing what credit can it deserue amongest the godly M. Caluine witnesseth of him in an Epistle to M. Bullinger that beeing thrust from the Lordes Table for his vnbridled lustes and manifolde wickednesses till he should shewe amendemente hee despising the iudgemente of the Church woulde needes notwithstandinge bee admitted and when openlye through his contumacie hee woulde haue ouerthrowen the right of the Consistorie he had obtained of the Senate that which was necessarie for me to denye Furthermore because the brasen forhead of the man was known vnto me the wicked of purpose had set him against me that either he might ouercome me with his wayward stubbornnesse or
that did their best to comfort him with such thinges as they thought meete hee cried out O my Lorde God howe greeuous anguish suffer I nowe about my heart I shall now die Lorde I thanke thee highly I shall nowe lay my bones in Izlibe mine owne natiue Citie And when some went about to comfort him againe hauing nowe sweat c. Yea saith hee but the sweate it colde and full of death I giue ouer this life for my paines increase more and more And further to prooue that hee was no drunken man hee made this notable prayer O my euerlasting father the God and father of our Lorde Iesus Christe yea the Lorde of all Ghostly comfort I render vnto thee most high thanks this houre that it hath pleased thine inestimable goodnesse to make open vnto me a sinner thy moste dearely beloued sonne my Lorde Iesus Christe whome I haue nowe I thanke thee in ful and perfect beliefe him haue I preached him haue I confessed him haue I loued and glorified whome the most wicked Pope with his cursed cormorants doe still yet darken disdayne mocke persecute and blaspheme I beeseeche thee most deare Lorde Iesus Christe mercifully to receiue my soule O my heauenlie father though I nowe leaue this mortall bodie and am taken away from this life yet doe I certainelie knowe that I shall euermore dwell with thee and that none shall bee able to withholde mee from thy gracious handes Then hee rehearsed sundrie comfortable sentences taken out of the scriptures to confirme himselfe in the hope of that glory And then receiuing the quantitie of a sponefull of a medecine that was ministred vnto him hauing 〈◊〉 againe repeated those wordes Lorde and father into thy handes 〈◊〉 commende my spirite c. Hee lay still and quiet and after a good pause beeing asked whether hee woulde perseuere in that doctrine whiche hee had taught hee aunswered with great courage and stomacke yea and so turning vpon his right side after that spake not Thus slept this sweete Luther in the Lorde whome these monsters did persecute a liue and now like mad dogs doe bite vpon being dead As for that which he addeth further concerning Protestants dissentions I haue touched it afore and will not enter into it againe It is confessed there are some differences amongest vs because wee are not all of equall birth growth iudgement and knowledge But our differences are not in matters of substāce or such as do break the foūdatiō vpon which if any man stande not hee is not with vs but against vs. And though Luthers schollers haue growne to greater heate and lesse modestie then was in that singuler instrument of God yea and to som opinions of more fearefull consequence yet we hope if they be Christes the Lorde shall reueile vnto them also his glorious truth in her excellent perfection and beautie And as for Papists dissentions contrarieties they are so many so waightie all besides the foundation as they may be ashamed once to obiect any such thing against vs but of this enough Nowe concerning the life of that notable and excellent man of God M. Iohn Caluine whose laborious and painefull workes ful of sinceritie and wonderfull iudgement beeing so many and so well written mighte not onely seeme to haue taken vp a whole man but euen to haue beene done by many men although I say not onely these workes but also his other painefull labours in his ministerie might giue a sufficient resemblance to all posterities to his friendes and veriest enemies what maner of man hee was yet not withstanding doth this Cerberus for hatred of the truth barke also at the credite of this most reuerent and excellent man And although as I haue noted afore they that are truely taught of God are not wont to measure the truth by men because the best men haue their faultes and imperfections yea the holiest and best that euer were that the truth might stande alone and not bee regarded in respect of mens persons yet this doggishe generation whose liues and very vertues not withstanding are the very sinckes and infections of the worlde that they may deface the Gospell they runne to mens persons and like flesh flies they lye still vpon their soares Wherein yet their stinging biting should nothing so much greeue vs if they did not first also wound vs themselues that they might haue matter and corruption to suck vpon though not from vs yet from their owne filthe to fat themselues withall Thus whereas they shoulde bee 〈◊〉 to God for the wonderful graces that hee giueth vnto his Saints for the edifiyng of his Church they enuie them they barke at the light because they loue darknesse more then light For if this were not so what cause haue they thus to raue against a very Gods man the most singuler and rare instrument that God hath raised vp in our time Wherein yet their fault were the lesse if they had any colour or probabilitie by any reasonable coniecture or warrāted testimonie against him For of all others who is this Bolsecke whom Parsons thus highly commendeth Whom as if hee had knowne hee affirmeth to haue liued with Iohn Caluine both in Geneua Berna and Lausanna thirtie yeeres agone whom hee dubbeth a Doctor of Phisicke and calleth him by a reuerent name as if hee were some greate personage skilfull and of experience such a one as shoulde haue professed and practised Phisicke euen in Caluines time whose booke of Caluines life was written in the yeere of our Lorde 1577. and dedicated to Monsieur Epynack Archbishop forsorth and Earle To conclude this is graunted and standeth fast fixed betwixt vs that it is not lawfull to make God a companion of the faulte or blame in mēs sinnes neither that the name of sinne dooth by anye meanes agree to him And yet this letteth not that that exercifing the power of his hande by a certaine wonderful incomprehensible iudgement thorugh Sathan and the reprobate as it were the organes of his wrath he should sometimes instruct the faythfull to patience and sometimes inflicte such punishments vpon the wicked as they deserue But this prophane 〈◊〉 cryeth out that God is wrapped in this guiltines when we make his prouidence the arbitrer of all thinges To conclude taking away al dif ference betwixte the secreete remoued cause and those neere causes hee suffreth not those aduersities that were layde vpon Iob to bee counted the worke of GOD vnlesse he also bee made guiltie together with the Deuill and those theeuish Chaldeans and Sabeans Wherefore as our brotherly coniunction requireth we beseech you thinke not muche to maintaine and vnburden by your subscription the doctrine of Christe laden and oppressed with the sacriledges of a vile naughty man which because we hope you will willingly doe and of your owne accorde it is in vaine with any carefull and diligent praires to intreate you Wee againe as
together by 〈◊〉 out of Luther Of Luthers Howe the aduersaries are wont to 〈◊〉 our assertions contrary to our true meaning Euerie iust mā sinneth ther ar imperfectiōs in our best workes The doctrine of the councell of Trent It cutteth not the sinewes of vertue to draw men from confidēce in them selues to truste in God neither doth it hinder good workes because we teach that wee are not iustified by workes Apocalyps How a man hath in his power to doe euill Iohn 15. August lib. de spiritu litera Cap. 4. In resp Luth. ad Articulum 36. Of fighting against the Turke How we fight against God 〈◊〉 we striue against his iudgements The Popes impietie who vnder pretence of waging 〈◊〉 againste the Turke hath kept in his owne tyranny and infidelitie So he did in the time of Henry the 3. Concerning the Popes pride in taking vpon him to make new articles of our fayth This is commōly set down in all Popish writers How lawes are not to be layde vpon Christians He meaneth not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but Canon spiritual lawes as they call them made equal with 〈◊〉 word VVhether Luther bodily cōferred with the deuill Luthers assaults many Read his Cōmentaries vpō the Epistle to the Galathiás Luthers doctrine not frō Satan nor frō man but from God Read al the histories that make mention of Pope Martyn Siluester the second of Boniface the 8. the 9. of Greg. the 7. 9. 10. the 12. of Heldeb Iobn Stella Antoni 〈◊〉 Nauclerus The Deuil the authour of the popish religiō Liber 〈◊〉 Iohn Capgraue Lombard bist Luther had no bodily conference with the Deuil though Dunston had when he held him by the nose with his tōges The godly haue many assalts with that enemy of their saluation The Papistes are the deuilles own darlinges by profession cōuersation Concerning Luthers death Iohn Sleidan a godly learned man These 〈◊〉 historio graphers partial because they were deadlye affected towardes the trueth Gropper Charles the Emperour How Luther was called a third Elias Pontacus Burdegalensis a liing historiographer Iustus Ionas is onely named and then Pontacus is alleadged Iohn 7. 8. Mark 11. Acts. 26. 〈◊〉 in A pol. Mertian ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lacta The grosse horrible 〈◊〉 of the papistes deuised against Reuerend and godly men Bolseck what he was Martyn Luthers death when it was and where The labours of Luther in his ministerie 〈◊〉 ching reading confuting confirming were wōderful 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luthers praier Luthers godly prayer a little before his death Ex Melanct. Ex Sleidano 〈◊〉 Acts monuments fol. 966. 967. 981. 982. c. Abbas V sperg Casp. 〈◊〉 Luther con stant in his doctrine Our differēces Colloquium Mar purg in 1529. where Luther and Zwinglius were present agreed vpon all the chiefe points of religion Caluins life The works of Caluin many sincere Reade their Catalogue in the end of his life written by Beza set before his Commentaries vpon Iosua The giftes of God should be praysed in his seruants The nature of the wicked Bolsecks description set out by Parsons to the ende his testimonie might be 〈◊〉 Ephe. 1. 〈◊〉 Bolseck a 〈◊〉 Carmelite 〈◊〉 in vita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 M. Caluin vpō the 〈◊〉 cōfuteth Bolseck out of the scrip 〈◊〉 out of 〈◊〉 Augustine 〈◊〉 inconstant a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in vita 〈◊〉 Cal. de 〈◊〉 Apostata 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 downe in 〈◊〉 before Iosua 〈◊〉 1574. 〈◊〉 80. The whole Church of Geneua to them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sters of 〈◊〉 Fol. 〈◊〉 140. Anthony Cathaline against whom Caluin wrote being a companion of his was such a scholler that wrote in the end of an Epistle Perme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Where 〈◊〉 was borne 〈◊〉 borne of good parentage and well brought vp Caluin no blasphemer Caluine vnder the age of 24. writeth those notable books of Clemencie 〈◊〉 extaunt In the papacie nothing but shifting chopping and changing 〈◊〉 and selling Reade their own stories Caluine by all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 No 〈◊〉 Pope Sixtus 〈◊〉 is alleadged before and sundry 〈◊〉 Bertilier an vngodly man one of 〈◊〉 faction Fol. 127. 〈◊〉 M. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See it answered in the preface beSaunders reasons These thinges areset down in 〈◊〉 storie Whē K. Henry caused the religious houses to be visited anno 1538. D. Lee. D. 〈◊〉 D. Bedel others being 〈◊〉 Thomas 〈◊〉 being the publike notarie 〈◊〉 All these ditches came srom that 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 where that sinne was not accounted of 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 Epist. Farrel fol. 10. The vvōderful iudgements of God against such as resisted the truth 〈◊〉 Epist. 24. Caluins behauiour against his enemies He shold haue set the letters downe A likely matter that the Lords of Berna wold 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 banished 〈◊〉 amongst them of any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Michael Seruetus the vilest heretike that euer liued The malice of papists 〈◊〉 they care not what witnesses they take so they may haue some to bring in against vs. Caluins Institutions were like to be well corrected if 〈◊〉 might 〈◊〉 been put in trust with them Griefe for iniquity is a good griefe The Papists crueltie exceeding for one executed and burned aliue for heresie indeede in many yeeres they haue burned thousands in a few yeeres Who euer saw that booke Such Protestāts as him self belike he meaneth some Anabaptists or such like The notable works of M. Beza and Caluin occasioned by 〈◊〉 Horrible 〈◊〉 absurd false 〈◊〉 great humilitie Galasius hath turned some of Caluines treatises written in French into Latine So Claudius Zantes and Baldwine charge Beza Images ought to 〈◊〉 down Lying the sosidation of the Popes kingdō Caluin no miracle worker that belongs to Iesuits Bristow in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A miracle wrought vpon a whore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Bristow 〈◊〉 sorth solemnlye in three sundrye bookes in his motiues in 〈◊〉 Epitome therof by it self Copus in his dialogues Ex epist. Indicis The Papistes Coniurers such as had great familiaritie with the Deuill Apol. 〈◊〉 fo 347 The 〈◊〉 killed by a young 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Friar Iuniper Booke of 〈◊〉 Friar 〈◊〉 or Friar Rush. In Confo 211 Pope Hildebrād carried the deuil aboute with him in the lilcenes of a Sparrow 〈◊〉 prandium Trim knauery O horrible blasphemy 〈◊〉 the name of Prophet 〈◊〉 to Caluin of Elias to Luther in respect of his 〈◊〉 zeale In lib. Conform 〈◊〉 17. a litle after fol. 49. The stories are mentioned in euery 〈◊〉 Caluins 〈◊〉 Belike Bolseck was both his Cooke baker and butler or els very well acquáinted with him It is meruell you put not in that he had some iellies iunckets and comfects also What an enuious knaue is 〈◊〉 In the papacie nothing but 〈◊〉 cheere 〈◊〉 Apolo Sten fol. 325. In 〈◊〉 Tri. 〈◊〉 Fulgosa lib. 9. cap. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All filthie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 con cerning M. Cal uines death most shameles and impudent See M. Beza his answere to Claud. Xaintes 〈◊〉 fol. 392. CaIuin visited by many excellent persōages By the foure Syndiques of Geneua By the ministers If he had had such a soule dis ease is it like so litle while beefore his death that he would haue come forth and syt amongst them the end of M. Caluin was in the Lord proued by many reasons and argumentes Reade M. 〈◊〉 his desence of Caluin against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fol. 388. 389 390. c. The iudgements of God wonderfull fearefull against his enemies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ante 〈◊〉 de morte Ioh. 〈◊〉 Ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2298. M. Beza The purpose of the ad uersarie Whether M. Beza his father did curse him and disinherite him yea or no. A cursse for righteousnes is a blessing Concerning Beza his father reade his owne 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 of his owne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Praefat. in Trage. Abrahami pag. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 confes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his wife 〈◊〉 chast 〈◊〉 Frarine in 〈◊〉 railing 〈◊〉 translated The Poets cōmonly read allowed com mēded amōgst the Papists most filthy wicked Amadis Oliue Cassandra siderid Neae c A 〈◊〉 filthy knaue there is no such word in the Epigram I blushe to 〈◊〉 downe the wordes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Platina 〈◊〉 Meiero Abbas 〈◊〉 Les 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fraunce Cronic Cronicor Mare bist 〈◊〉 Coucil 〈◊〉 tom 2. See the Articles to the num ber of 54. put in against him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 called Stephana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Textor 〈◊〉 de Monte This was a very strong 〈◊〉 for the purpose Cronicon Sigeberti 〈◊〉 Polonus 〈◊〉 temp Concil 〈◊〉 Plat. Naucl. Ioh. de 〈◊〉 Mariā 〈◊〉 Alexāder Borg. called Alex. the 6. His daughters name was 〈◊〉 who lay with the Pope her Father and with Valentin 〈◊〉 her own 〈◊〉 This was Anthonie Cathalyne as I ghesse All the histories in a maner written in the French tongue doe acquite the Admirall and the Protestāts Nothing 〈◊〉 alone in reformed Churches but by 〈◊〉 Rome had his beginning frō such a foundation Rome the mother of carnalitie carnall 〈◊〉 Men are not the beginners of the gospell Religion is not frō man thogh God giue his giftes vnto mē 〈◊〉 Zvvinglius The Papistes 〈◊〉 heretikes amongst those that are sounde professors to the end to deface them 〈◊〉 As was Siluester the seconde when hee saide Masse in a chappell called Hierusalem in Rome and Alexander the sixth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 The death of Gods saintes precious in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in not forsakinge his flock in the field did the dutie of a saith ful Pastor The people in well reformed Churches sorted to their own parrishes 〈◊〉
worde of God That hee vsed no such practises of strengthening his side or brought in any straunger but that such straungers as from other places were harboured there had nothing a doe in that businesse If there were any great personages by the goodnes of God conuerted from Poperie that fauoured so notable and singuler an instrument and set forwarde so worthie a worke as to recall him backe whose feete were beautiful vnto them bringing the gospel of peace they did but their duetie And the Lorde multiplie many suche amongest his people that aboue all thinges they may haue care to seeke the meanes of their saluation As for that hee alleadgeth concerning Caluines behauionr against his enemies this was not his least prayse that alwayes such were his enemies as were not friendes to God impure men teynted with heresies suche as hee reckoneth vp heere Castalio Caroly Bernardyn Ochine and Peter Morell euery one abandoned and banished by the Censure of the Churche not in respect of any quarrell betwixt him and them but because they walked not with an vpright foote in the trueth of the Gospell but were founde to bee obstinate and runnagate heretiks And as for Perinus Petrus Wandalus the Balthasars and others that he speaketh of as hath been noted before God found out these in their sinnes after M. Caluine was banished the towne and their Acts remain in publike recorde that they were practisers of treason and receiued their iuste rewarde all or the most of them notorious and wicked men fauourers and boulsterers of wickednesse and wicked men such as could not digest the discipline of Christe nor endure that sweete yoke And therfore all that hee addeth of forged letters and other inuentions to bring these men in suspition of betraying the Citie they are forged lyes suche as whereof hee can bring no testimonie from that Courcel of Berna and though hee coulde yet were that no acquiting of them seeing for the time they might bee abused And if they had not beene abused why is not the subornation of M. Caluine set downe Why doth hee not set downe the deniall of his accusation and proue vnder the seale of that Courte this mans 〈◊〉 and what price was paide in his purse who was his paymaster and into what apparrell hee was disguised ' Where is that publike testimonie of the Lordes of Berna 〈◊〉 their common Notaries hande And whie is it not set downe to cleare them if it can of that notable crime whiche by all likelyhoode if it coulde 〈◊〉 beene shewed Caluines faction was not so strong hee beeing but one man and the fauourers of the truth but an handefull in respect of the multitude they might haue been wel restored againe As for those other examples that hee bringeth in to proue Caluins tyrannie against suche as offended hym and namely againste Mountofet a Lutheran Almer to the Queene of Nauarre whome 〈◊〉 sayth hee made to flee Geneua for speaking a worde or two against his partiall distributyng of the Queenes almes sente in greate quantitie to the poore Protestantes of that Citie and as he saith 〈◊〉 and deuoured by Caluine him selfe it is oflike credite as all the rest for who knoweth not that Caluine beeing subiect to the order of the Churche where hee liued coulde not of hymselfe do any thing against the determination of the whole Churche And if he woulde haue doone it yet Montoset beeing Almer to the Queene and therefore hauing in his owne power the distribution thereof and also beeing a Lutheran and therefore coulde not fauour Caluine how coulde it bee that Caluine coulde bee auenged of him and dryue hym out of Geneua for speaking a 〈◊〉 or-two againste his partiall distribution For eyther hee muste bee an Almer absolute to dispose of the queenes almes or els hee must bee none but hee was one as this man affirmeth therefore Caluine coulde haue nothing to do to deale in it Againe if hee parted his right with him or were onelie a messenger to bryng the queenes 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 infected and corrupted woulde haue disposed 〈◊〉 of it 〈◊〉 he ought yet Caluine did but his duetie in 〈◊〉 it there where was most 〈◊〉 And as for deuouring of it himselfe his sober diet life and death 〈◊〉 knowne and his 〈◊〉 amounting 〈◊〉 to so small a summe it muste needes bee a shamelesse sclaunder wherewith hee is charged hauing no greater grounde then the impudent asseueration of a shamelesse Friar And concerning Peter Ameau whome hee saith hee shoulde make to walke thorowe the Citie naked in his shirt with a torche in his hand and to aske him openly forgiuenes for that hee had spoken at a supper in his dishonour c. It is too shamelesse for this man was knowen to be a wicked euill man aduer sarie to Gods 〈◊〉 trueth againste whome if any sentence were pronounced it was neither pronounced nor procured by M. Caluin hym self but by that solemne assemblie whiche by indgemente both coulde and did discerne and discusse of euery faulte as it deserued These Curres therefore that barked so againste M. Caluine for hatred of the truthe were iustly musseled by those to whome God had committed authoritie whose duetie it was to defende the innocencie of their Pastours and Doctours against their rauening mouthes and cursed teethe As for that same wretche Seruetus otherwise called Michaell vella 〈◊〉 Doctour of Phisicke in Uienna of Dolphin c. Whome hee him selfe calleth an heretike and yet for all that bryngeth him in as a witnesse againste Caluine what shoulde a man blotte paper about suche a monster who was not enuious of Caluines glorie but of the glorie of him whome Caluine serued one of the moste monstrous and moste blasphemous heretikes that euer sawe light in this world compounded of al the auncient and newe 〈◊〉 and an execrable blasphemer againste the blessed Trinitie and namely against the eternitie of the sonne of GOD whiche heresies hee had nowe maintained for the space of aboue thirtie yeeres and more vomiting them out both by mouthe and writing And doe you not thinke nowe that this is a fit man to bee brought in as witnesse by Bolsecke and Parsons two cowpled companions in the same mischiefe against M. 〈◊〉 of blessed memorie But so they may haue some what and some bodie against him they care not whome they ioyne with them whether it bee the Diuell himselfe or any of the vilest heretikes that 〈◊〉 liued in the worlde Is it therefore like or probable that hee shoulde write thirtie Epistles directed to Caluine together with a little booke in written hande in the yeere of our Lorde 1546. comming all at once as a Captaine with his troupe vpon M. Caluine to finde so many faultes escaped in his Institutions I suppose a man of a meane sense may smell this or euer hee come at it For was not hee like to bee a good Corrector and to finde faulte to the purpose that was so notable an
established there the Magistrats cast down being rightly instructed those instruments of 〈◊〉 adored and worshipped in euery place contrary to the wholsome doctrine of saluation but that Caluine did it himselfe or by anye extraordinarie course or caused his owne to bee put in place it is shamelesse and where is the proofe His picture might be drawen and was it cannot bee denyed hee being an excellent 〈◊〉 of rare and singular giftes but that it was procured to be doone by him selfe or set vp in places of the Citie or in the Church where the pycture of Christ as hee calleth it stoode to be adored and worshipped or that it was giuen or taken by him or of others to bee worne 〈◊〉 their neckes is moste sclaunderous Indeede the Papists lying Lindan a deadlye enemie Staphilus that rayler and others do charge him with such a thing But we may see from whence all these charges spring euen from that same father of theyrs that hath beene a lyar from the beeginning who hath no other postes nor pillars to vpholde his kingdome in credit with his lying and viperous generatiō The like is to be thought of that answere that he should say that he that cannot abide it let him burst for enuie As for that Legend that he should be a miracle worker especialy v. pon one Brul whom he should raise from death to life and the seruant of a Citizē of Geneua out of whom he should cast the deuil it deserueth no 〈◊〉 as hauing beene deuised by shamelesse and wicked Friars whereas there appeareth no colour of probabilitie of any such thing euer to haue beene done by M. Caluin Besides it is plaine and euident that M. Caluins doctrine is flat against both the one and the other For Caluin teacheth according to the scriptures that we are now not to look for 〈◊〉 that gyft being an extraordinary 〈◊〉 and onely found in the Prophets in Christ and in the Apostles And as for casting out 〈◊〉 though Papistes would make both that and the other a special 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 their religion yet they are indeede as farre from 〈◊〉 able to worke true myracles as we or any other Neither is it a marke of true relygion seeing that Antichrist shal come 〈◊〉 with a ful and powerful spirit of his 〈◊〉 the deuil to deceaue if it were possible euen the elect with lying signes and wonders Indeede the like 〈◊〉 wherof he speaketh here of raysing one from death was sette foorth long agoe to 〈◊〉 beene doone by a Iesuite who take vpon them the work of such miracles as one hath reported vnder the name of Cope an Englisheman yet was not the authour but another as hath 〈◊〉 founde since they cannot onely rayse the dead to 〈◊〉 but also they can make holye water to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and rattes to make barren women 〈◊〉 with childe and to doe manye suche feates beesides but also to coniure out Deuilles and to chase them awaye with the signe of the crosse and we may read in their new legends written of their doinges in the Indies and in other such places where they say they haue conuerted whole kingdomes and countries and brought them from Paganisme to their cursed religion And indeede these Iesuites that haue such exercise in working miracles and not onely imitate Christ in thinges that are supernaturell but in all thinges wil doe as much and more then euer hee did to whome the Pope who can doe what he liste for that purpose hath communicated of his power these are likely to take vpon them to worke such miracles as that storie mentioned beefore written in the Dutch tongue testifieth they did For the 〈◊〉 whereof I referre you to Harrie Steuens booke written in the French tongue intituled his Apologie vpon Herodotus where there is testified a number of examples of their vile and wretched dealinges I referre the Reader to the 333. 337. 379. and 380. pages of the same book As for casting out deuilles where with he chargeth M. Caluine and Parsons also vpon the credit of Staphilus in his marginall note moste falsely chargeth Luther vsing such counterfeite wordes drawen frō 〈◊〉 as doe liuely set out a counterfeit knaue who knoweth not that the Papistes were the greatest Coniurers in the world If M. Luther or Caluine through fayth and the earnest prayers of the Churche haue brought reliefe to any that haue beene either possessed or assaulted they did it not as miracle workers but through Gods assistance without taking vpon them any such power Contrariwise Papistes haue had more dealing with the deuill then they Erasmus in his booke of Epistles sheweth how a night Ghoast was coniured For there was saith he a certaine prieste that kept his own neice who because she was well monied lapped him self in a sheete and towardes midnight entred her chamber counterfeiting as if hee had beene a spirite the woman perceauing the misterie because she would shift of the purpose of this bug desired the helpe of a kinsman of hers who lying the next night in her chamber to defende her in steede of a conturing booke brought a good cogill who so bebasted the deuill that if he had not discouered him selfe to be a priest and so a knaue he had vtterly spoyled him In the yeere 1569. there was a Gentleman of Auspurgh in Germanye who hauing certaine men that made no account of that new found ' secte of the Iesuites a Iesuite him self to plant the greater estimation of ' their coate in their hearts hee disguised himselfe into the habite of his first founder the Deuil and after hiding him in a corner of the house hee so feared one of the maide 〈◊〉 as she had like presently to haue runne out of her wittes and telling this to one of her maisters men hee willinge also to make tryall of the matter founde it to bee true and beinge assaulted in the horryblest manner that this Iesuiticall Deuill could deuise the younge man drewe out his dagger and wrought a miracle for hee killed the Deuill So wee reade also else where howe familiar alwayes the Deuill hath beene with these cloister men Aenaeas 〈◊〉 that afterwardes was Pius secundus reporteth how familiar the Deuil was in a couent of Monkes to whome S. Bennet resorted So also in the Legend which they call golden but indeede 〈◊〉 or leaden in which there are stuffed many such tales of friar Iuniper that made a hoch poch of all thinges together whom Saint Frauncis so highly esteemed for a Saint who also berayed his bed and hath both these pranckes 〈◊〉 forth for his singular prayse in the book of Conformities of Sainte 〈◊〉 in the 62. and 63. leaues What should I speake of Friar Ruffian or Friar Rushe that would besiege the douill and threatned to vntrusse a poynte into his throate and so chased the deuill awaye Or of Saint Frauncis who to proue his virginitie stripped him selfe
had that same foule disease vpon him that he should haue stunke that no bodie could haue abidden him how could that be true that is written of him which yet was most true that he should be visited by so notable excellent personages For he was visited in the time of his sicknes not onlie by y e 4. Syndiques which are 4. chief lords magistrates of the towne to whō M. Cal. made a graue a notable exhortation that they should continue faithfull in that place wherein God had set thē but also by al the Ministers who according to the custome of that Church met at his house in token of that vnitie loue that was betweene thē tooke their repast together at a supper Among whō M. Caluin was brought forth sitting in his chaire to take of them as it were his last farewell in this life and notwithstanding that he were very sick yet he conceaued prayer himself as wel as he coulde cheered vp his guestes and before supper was ended withdrawing himselfe hee tolde them that a wall could not sunder them but that hee woulde bee ioyned with them in spirit After which time going to bed his sicknes grewe to be such as lying vpō his back he neuer rose againe till God had put an ende to all his miseries and receiued him into that euerlasting ioy whiche hee had from before the foundations of the worlde prepared for him Now therefore though Caluine had beene teinted and touched with as sore plagues and diseases as euer was 〈◊〉 and that in his ende the anguishe of his flesh had made him to speake as foolishly as euer Iob did if his bones had beene putrified and corrupted as Dauid confesseth his were he had had all the diseases in himself that many holy men haue cōplained to haue felt yet forasmuch as y e end of a mā simplie in it self is not enough for a mā to be iudged by God exercising his childrē as he seeth to be best for thē and seeing y e breastes bones of the wicked are as full of milke and marrow as the breastes and bones of the godly that neither outward prosperitie nor aduersitie in the ends either of the godly or of the wicked simply in thēselues are iust measures to measure y e fauor or displeasure of God by I cōclude y t thogh M. Caluine had had suche a disease yet hee dying in the Lorde and in the constant profession of his truth this growing vpon him by his great labours and studies taken against such helhoundes and enemies as you are I conclude that he dyed a glorious and an honourable death And besides the reasons before alleadged that he died not any such horrible death with any such discontentment and rage against God hereby it may bee prooued that hee was continually occupied in prayer in writing and ouerseeing sundrie bookes and writings that hee had in hand to finish that hee vttered many golden and excellent sentences made such a solemne and a godly wil died with such peace quietnes ha uing neither clogged himself with trāsitori things not being in loue with the world so as he yelded most willingly neither stirring hād nor foot as by the testimonie of them that were present is declared wheras Bolseck this heretike was both his enemie and also absent and therefore vnfit to giue any testimonie of him But nowe if a man shoulde turne ouer the leafe and looke to the life and death of Papists which as their doctrine is wicked and idolatious so their liues and their deaths are abhominable and hideous hee shoulde enter into such an argument as hee coulde not tell where to begin nor where to ende so copious and plentifull are examples of the iudgements of God vpon them And what peace and honour can bee in the death of them whose life and death is without God Diues in outwarde shewe and to the iudgement of the worlde dyed as a man blessed and Lazarus as a cursed man vpon whose liues and deaths yet if Bolseck and Parsons might haue sate as Iudges Diues shoulde haue been iustified and Lazarus condemned But those wicked ones whose doctrines and liues haue beene wicked and whose death therewithall haue beene marked with some notable iudgement of Gods wrath these indeede are examples vnto vs to make vs to feare So died Steeuen Gardiner a wicked and a wretched man very horriblie with his tongue swolne out of his mouth with such a hideous and fearefull countenance with suche stincke and dispaire as his owne side did loath him for it So likewise dyed Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canturburie Cardinal Wolsey Latomus Francis Spira and diuers others Euen like as in the old time God brought strange iudgements vpon his enemies that were 〈◊〉 and mercilesse persecutors as vpon Antiochus Herode Iulian the Apostata Valerian Decius Maxentius and infinite others So also vpon men euen in our times whose liues were wicked hee made their deaths notorious and infamous by setting vpon them as it were visible signes of his wonderfull and vnsupportable iudgementes I referre the Reader for breuitie sake vnto a speciall booke written in the Frenche tongue wherein there are gathered together as into one summe the wonderfull iudgements of God that haue byn executed vpon wicked men declared both in their life in their death To which also may be added a speciall treatise which M. Foxe hath set downe in his booke of Actes and Monuments in the second part Nowe concerning the life of M. Beza and his maners which Parsons saith this worshipfull writer hath set downe during M. Beza his life and dedicated to the honorable Magistrates Councellours and other 〈◊〉 of the Citie of Geneua c. Although I shoulde not 〈◊〉 much to wearie myself seeing M. Beza is thanks be to God aliue both of sufficient age abilitie in Christ to answere for himself and may perhaps haue seene the booke if it bee deliuered there where it is dedicated yet because I know y t M. Beza will not file his handes vppon suche a shamelesse wretche and also because as Parsons in Englande so also another of the same fether in Scotlande haue been so eger to spread these sclaunders to the discredite of this reuerende and honorable person in Christe I haue thought it my dutie to examine his groundes and to weigh the circumstances of this as I haue done in 〈◊〉 life of M. Caluin First therefore where hee saith that hee hath doone it during his life that if it bee false hee may refute it this maketh no whit to the iustifiyng of his fact Hee that hath shewed himselfe suche a varlet against the truth and M. Caluin for it is it like beeing a bored and branded witnesse that hee will deale with any more 〈◊〉 towards M. Beza Shall wee thinke that his purpose is to finde out the truth or beeing confuted for falshood that hee
if they had beene true all the safe conductes that the kinge of Fraunce coulde haue made him coulde not haue saued him from the shame of such outragious iniquitie or at least if any such challendge had bin made eyther by the fermers or by the Tailer 〈◊〉 that Launoy had giuen the one of them a hundred crownes to stoppe his mouth coulde haue stopped the blaste of this infamie especiallye beeinge in suche a place where they woulde haue beene gladde for to haue hadde some suche matter agaynst him to haue defaced him Where both hee and wee shoulde haue hadde it hotte in our noses sette out to the vttermoste and with the fullest testimonies whereas nowe forsooth onely Bolsecke an heretike an enemie and 〈◊〉 a slidebacke an Apostata are brought in in a dumb shew to witnesse the matter But heere for the better satisfiyng of the godly for I suppose nothing can satisfie the papists that are 〈◊〉 sonable men in regard of these accusations I will set down a letter from M. Beza him selfe 〈◊〉 euen very lately to a learned and godly father of this Realme that had written vnto him a litle before concerning these matters wherein they shall heare what M. Beza answereth which I haue faithfully thus translated Master Beza his Letter to the reuerend and godly learned man M. Tho. S. I Reioyce that it was and is vntrue that lately was shewed vnto mee to wit that you were gone before me vnto that same most quiet hauē to which we haue hitherto striued through so many stormes Blessed bee the Lorde our God euen for this and hee graunt that you may long liue for the benefite of his Church If I had knowen that the matter had beene so you shoulde not haue beene so 〈◊〉 of mee when euē very lately not passing three dayes since y e messenger of our Senate comming thither I wrote letters directed to many concerning our affaires as also vnlesse it were troublesome vnto you I woulde haue you to learn of M. 〈◊〉 or of our M. Fountaine or of those 〈◊〉 Bishops themselues and that you woulde not thinke it much also to lend vs your helping hand in that businesse But as concerning those infamous libels of 〈◊〉 written against Caluine beeing dead and me yet a liue and alleadged 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 besides that I haue long since waxed harde with suffering such reproches yet hee hath deuised nothing of Caluin or vomited out against me vnto which I haue not answered before to wit in Caluins Interim and in my other answere to Claudius then a Monk and now a popish Bishop which concludeth the second volume of my workes For this same Verlet writeth nothing which hee hath not taken from others especially out of a libell of a certaine couled Franciscan published at Lyons twentie yeere agoe in which that wicked wretche beeing expulsed from Lausanna with his harlot when I was Rector or Gouernor of the schoole there sparing none of y e ministers or professors of Lausanna feigned also that same tale of my wife whom I should carry from her husband Vnto whiche libell Caluine also thought good somewhat to answere which if you will looke you shal finde amongst his small bookes published heere together in the yeere 1576. in the 531. Pag. I my selfe doe therefore answere nothing because when hee had spread those sclaunders at Lausanna the authour according to the maior his iudgement had asked mee forgiuesse for his lying acknowledged his faulte vnto mee by writing vnder the common seale of the Towne Afterwardes I vnderstoode that y e wretch with his harlot was for other wickednesses cast into prison at Paris a little before the beginning of the first ciuile warres and at the length as I thinke ended his life in an halter But Bolsecke is also more detestable enterprising by circumstāces of names and times partly true and partly false to put vpon these deuises some colour of truth to deceiue the ignorant being infamous by a threefold banishment and at the length falling into open defection of Papistrie hath now so durst to lye being in the desperate estate of pouertie y t he might win some fauour with the Archbishop of Lions a mā not much more godly then himselfe at that time when as in a 〈◊〉 Towne of the Countrie of Subaudia six miles from this Citie he moste impudently and also vnskilfully professed Phisicke to his small profite Afterwards his libell also being inlarged by another impure Apostata Lan zus whom I heare not to bee there vnknowne vnto you wonderfull things being promised vnto him of which promises when the miserable felow saw that 〈◊〉 were both frustrate he went vnto his place shortly after departed 〈◊〉 life But doe you thinke my good Sampson that I ought so to stay at the barkings of these Curres that by bestowing labour in confuting these thinges againe which haue beene so often confuted I might stirre vp others to followe being more impudent hauing no conscience in deuising any thing Or rather to leane vpon mine own conscience and their testimonie who haue beene beholders of my lyfe these 34. yeeres and by a flat and constant despising the outragious barkings of these dogges which at length of their owne accord will vanishe away as much as I can approoue my faith and integritie to the Churche and to all good men They reprehend my Poemes which fell from 〈◊〉 when I was a young man among the Papistes for which very thing I obteined great praise euen with the Italians The which not withstanding were printed first of all by the permission of the Senate of Paris which Poemes I my selfe first condemned which yet may seeme very chaste in comparison of many of their sorte of writinges and which they themselues doe suffer and woulde haue them printed againe and againe if I forsooth had been giuen to accompanie 〈◊〉 or to haue committed any thing more filthie woulde I haue be taken my selfe into this church or not rather haue abidden still amongest themselues where I may be bolde to say so large a way was opened and by many means vnto great riches and to no small dignities neither was I altogether so senslesse but that I sweat long time and laboured much in ouercomming this ten tation If I went out of my Countrie for debt howe commeth it 〈◊〉 passe that no man for these 34 〈◊〉 hath sued mee in this Citie where it is knowne that the lawe is executed most seuerely If being guiltie of that crime I forsooke Fraunce howe is it that in so long time there appeared no accuser especially seeing I haue so many enemies willingly and of their owne accorde without any fee conspiring againste my life But I knowe that I neede not these excuses neither with you my Sampson or with any vpright Iudges The brethren which are heere neither they of Paris where Lanzus the 〈◊〉 got these thingse to bee printed doe thinke meete that I shoulde once thinke of writing any newe
vir illustrium Epist Clemen 4. 〈◊〉 li. 3. ca. 4. lib. 4. cap. 23. Auctho in vita Dioni Theodo Gaza in prefa in problem Alexa. Aprodise Epist. Ignatii ad Smir. Reade Buchingerus in his eccl fol. 66. 67. 68. The popish 〈◊〉 cession 〈◊〉 brokē a lame succes sion wherein they are not agreed thēselues Cens. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 26. 〈…〉 Ro. 4. 3. 4 5. Psal. 32. 1 Philip. 3. 9. Cens. Col. fol. 46 Conc ' Trid. ses 5. in decrat de orig peccat Caniz de sacra bapti Lind. lib. 3. cap. 19. Tupperus arti 2. de peccar originis In iudi 〈◊〉 vni Coloni 〈◊〉 Pellic. fol. 42. 〈◊〉 44. I. Ioh. 3. Rom. 3. 7. Mat. 5. 28. Ioan. 1. 4. I. Cor. 12. Gal 〈◊〉 Chrysost. homi in Ma. 57. Hierony in 18 Ezecb. Reade that whole treatise of iustification in the Censure of Colen pag. 141. c. Antidi the consent of Colyne Lib. 99. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Catholic 〈◊〉 Perio in Topicis Theolog. lib. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 serm 21. Compend Theo. de grā Andrad lib. 3. pag. 281. 279. Rom. 14. 23. Ephe. 2. 5. 8. Galat. 2. 21. Concil Trident. 〈◊〉 lib. 4. Io. 6. 44. Phil. 1. 13. 1. Cor. 2. 14. Anton. Flor. 〈◊〉 1. part Tit. 11. ca 2 Trident. 〈◊〉 Pet. a So to in asser Cathar de lege Andradius The lawe of God spiritual The proude spirites of the Papists Censur 〈◊〉 Fol. 284. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mariae nuper 〈◊〉 Pu 〈◊〉 Gregorij 17. 〈◊〉 editum 1578 Reade that in 16. fol. 49. 51. thorowout the whole Booke Fol. 50. 51. 52. in 〈◊〉 de beata 〈◊〉 printed at Paris in anno 1534. 〈◊〉 54. 〈◊〉 56. It is called the contemplation of our blessed Lady weeping vnder the crosse 〈◊〉 mater dolorosa Fol. 85. in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 In Breuiario Romano fol. 252. Fol. 45. Fol. 47. 〈◊〉 59. 32000. seuen hundred and 55. yeeres of pardon Fol. 63. Crux Christi sit mecum Crux est quam semper adoro c. The Crosse of Christe be with me The Crosse which alwayes I wor shipe 〈◊〉 66. fol. 72. Ten 〈◊〉 thousand 〈◊〉 of pardon Fol. 73. Campion would haue a Credo for a prayer at the time of his death Fol. 75. Fol. 79. Saint 〈◊〉 prayer 〈◊〉 he learned of the Diuel Fol. 144. It beginneth 〈◊〉 omnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. All haile all soules of the faithful whose bodies rest here or els where in the dust c. Euery thing is not an errour which hath bin reckoned for an errour 〈◊〉 they reade the name of Catholike Church forsooth it muste needs be ment of Rome But there is no such word in lib. 2. cont 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He meaneth such as were alleadged by Donatus to proue that the vniuer sal church was faln that his particuler church was the church August lib. de vnitate Ecclesiae cap. 12. That place out of the 3. booke against the letters of Petilian cap. 4. is set down also for a shewe seeing we leane not to mē but look to the vnitie of the spirite in the truth The like is that out of the secōd book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conc. Constantinopl 6. Act. 4. Tertul. de 〈◊〉 aduersus 〈◊〉 Basil de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Thes. 2. 2. Victor 〈◊〉 This was done in the space of 140. yeeres Hard. answere diuis 28. Volateran 〈◊〉 Origen cont 〈◊〉 sum lib. 4. Arnobius in 〈◊〉 lib. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. 〈◊〉 5. Gerson 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 F. 4. ad 〈◊〉 Epist. 50. Reade August de verbis domini secund 〈◊〉 ser. 24. Concil Constant 5. Act. 1. Euseb. lib. 10. ca. 4. ex or at 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 The Papistes 〈◊〉 vs with Donatists Arrians other heretikes 〈◊〉 Exod. 20. The glory of Rome Christe his truth beggarly in comparison of the pope his false religion Apoc 13. In their 〈◊〉 after the death of any Pope Epist. 〈◊〉 2. 7. Distinct. 8. Popish 〈◊〉 A prayer in their masse They haue turned the whole Psalter to the Virgin Marie Reade Bonauentures Psalter turned wholly to the Virgin Popishe contrarieties Rom. 4. Alensis 〈◊〉 The places are quoted 〈◊〉 Our Iesuits Monks howe 〈◊〉 the olde Monks that were Lay men great Studentes in diuinitie Labouring with their handes from whose superstition yet hauing no commandement frō God hath proceeded all those eerours abuses that wee finde in Monkes and Friers at this day Praemonstratensis Martin Polon platins Sigebertus Benno Cardinalis invita Hilde 〈◊〉 No stay in Popery No vnitie in Poperie Distinc. 93. cap. legimus Distin. 99. cap. 1. Distinct. 4. cap. multi Distinct. 34. The chief 〈◊〉 ter of popish bookes 〈◊〉 spirite and behauiour Howe and by what meanes the 〈◊〉 at VVisbitch was published Conferēce betwixt D. Fulke and the papists at 〈◊〉 Vpon what cō ditions the papistes in VVisbitch woulde haue disputed Conference at VVestminster as is alleadged before VVhat the papists speciallye 〈◊〉 by disputations Reade the stories of France Spaine Flaunders 〈◊〉 Inquisitiō c. The worshipfull writers of Papists 〈◊〉 1. 〈◊〉 4. 7. Papa De concess pr abendae tit 4. cap. 2. ad Apost Dist. 37. cap. relatum Dist. 16. Causa 27. q. 2. Ca. ter di Dist. 2. de poenit Cap Cbaritas Dist. 5. de Cōse cap. 〈◊〉 De consec distin 2. cap. Quid sit sanguis Also ca. Comperimus Cap. 22. q. Dist. 99. cap. 1. Also dist 4. cap. multi Glossa dist 23. cap. prae terea Dist. 93. Ca. Hadrianus Dist. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ca. 21. q. 1. 〈◊〉 cap. 10. 〈◊〉 3. Vnio Dist. 43. cap. Si rector Dist. 38. cap. Ignoran Dist. 〈◊〉 cap. Presbit Dist. 44. cap. Non 〈◊〉 Dist. 81. cap. Non 〈◊〉 Dist. 32. cap. Nullus Ca. Cap. 33. 9. 2. 〈◊〉 Dist. 28. cap. 〈◊〉 Syracus Dist. 〈◊〉 cap. 〈◊〉 c. Dist. 30. Causa 27. quaest 2. Dist. 31. cap. Quoniam Hieron cap. Si cupis De consec Dist. 5. 〈◊〉 30 cap. 〈◊〉 Sub Innocentio 3. 12. 15. Greg. in decretis lib. 3. dist 1. de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 13. q. 2. 〈◊〉 2. de 〈◊〉 ca. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 super 4. 〈◊〉 dist 15. Ambr. Catharin de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tapper art 6. So he chargeth him with taking tythes which he 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 doe not wherein appeareth vpō what 〈◊〉 he neither hauing personage nor 〈◊〉 whiche yet were lawfull enough for him pag. 2. Why the aduersaries publish their own works so oftē and conceale ours The popish 〈◊〉 ner of preaching Reade him in 1. Cor. 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 12. VVhat the sathers meane when they 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Rom. 11. * Origen in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hom 9. bo 4. In 12. cap. Epist. ad Ro. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hom in 〈◊〉 4. 〈◊〉 bom 9. in 〈◊〉 ad Col. ho. 14. 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 ad Threnos Hiero. in Epist. ad Cor. 2. cap. 13. Ad Furiam ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 adē 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 riam Viduas 〈◊〉 Marcellam 〈◊〉 c. Virgines The ministerie of of the word the ordinary meanes that God hath