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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17900	The pathe of obedience, compiled by Iames Cancellar, one of the Quenes Maiesties moste honourable chapell	Cancellar, James,	1556 (1556)	STC 4565; ESTC S116839	17,463	70

whome the holye gost hathe made you ouer seers to rule y e church flocke of god the whiche he hath purchased with his bloud Marke here good countremen how ernestly saynt Paule speaketh of the auctoritie of the church calling them ouerseers and rulers of the company and faythefull which christe hath purchased w t his bloud furthermore I am sure saith saint Paule of this that after my departinge shall greuous wolues enter in amōg you not sparinge the flocke and also of youre owne selues shall menne aryse speaking peruerse thinges to draw disciples after them Haue not good contremē the like Wolues entred among vs in this realme Grafting in the vyneyard of our lord thornes and brambles also drawing christes members from the true obedience and discipline of their mother y ● catholike church As of late manye hath rysen amonge vs in this realme and especially that presumpteous he retike Iohn Bale who hath taken no ●inale trauaïle to hinder through his abhominable heresies the glory of Christes gospel As it doth appeare by diuers and sundry bokes by him made and speciallye in his boke intiteled the vocacion of Iohn Balle to y e bishoprike of Ossery where he not a litle triumpheth of hys daungerous trauailes whyche he had in the same not shaming to compare himselfe with holy saincte Paul in troubles in labours in perill of shipe wracke in perill of the sea in perill of false brethrē in peril of pirates robbers and murtherers Thus whilest he is comparing himself with the holy Apostle lyke a mad harehead begynneth to say why shoulde I shrinke or bee ashamed to boste as the Apostle hath who as it appereth in the seconde to the Corinthians saieth he dyd boste of hys labours perils and troubles in the gospell And the lyke laboure and perilles had I in my Iorneye with no lesse trouble then he had from Ierusalem to Rome sauing that sayeth he we loste not our ship and in the .vii. lefe and on the lefte syde he sayeth I wryhte not this for that I would receiue prayse thereof But that I haue done it also to declare my most earnest reioice in the same god which by grace hath called me by persecucyon hath tried me and of fauoure hath most wōderfully deliuered me Here Frier Bale beginneth craftely to perswade with the poore Christians that GOD hath deliuered him frō peril of death by miracle as thoughe he were called of god in these daies to set vp a light in his churche but as that notable here tyke terinthus did labour to put oute of the Churche of God the true lyght of the gospell in the time of the holy apostle Saint Iohn so doth that shameles freer laboure and trauaile all that he may lyke a false disciple to put forth himselfe to tread downe in these our dayes the true light of the gospell wherefore freer Bale where you saye that god wōderfully hath deliuered you we Christiens would that you did vnderstande that we take your deliuerance from perils of your enemyes to be lyke as the common barratours doe stande by the highe waye syde to take and rob the true manne of hys goodes and after doth flee from towne to towne to saue themselues So doe we well vnderstande you to be a notable heretike a postata and runagate whereby you are compelled of necessite to runne with y e thefe or murtherer frō Citie to Citie and from contrie to contrie for the assuraunce of your lyfe but ondoutedly If you had been as you saye a true disciple of Christ and as felow lyke with Sainct Paule as you wryght your self to be when you by chaunce of wether were dryuen into Douer rode woulde lyke as Paule did at Philippus haue set youre fote on lande preached Christe but contrary wyse as you haue writtē in the xl lefe of your boke and on the lefte syde you were more desirous to sette youre hande to a bill of fyfty poundes more thē you were able to pay to that ende you myghte be set on lande in flaunders for that ye might ●aue spedye trauayle to the rest of your viperous brethren in Germany wheras ye saye you wer receaued with as muche reioyce of your myraculus deliueraunce as you terme it as was sainct Paule at Apiphorum of the Catholycke and christē brethren thus this mad frantike fryer Bale in the myddest of his proude bostinges praisinge him selfe dothe saye If Helias that wether driuen runnagate remayne nowe in a foren lande I pray thee gentyll reader marke here how he hitteth here the nayle on the head of a false lying frier is becom in this one point a true tale teller naming him selfe ▪ Helias w t this addiscion that wether driuen runnagates so hathe he brought hymselfe from the fellowship of saint Paule to be as he is a runnagate and fellowe with the vnplacable enemies of Christes Churche and companion with Cerinthus the enemye of trueth And in the conclusyon of hys Booke the. xliiii leafe and on the lefte syde also he hathe diuers comparysones betwene the prophetes apostles and the Churche of Englande and these are hys woordes What shall I saye more Iohn Baptist is nowe derided in the prison and Iesus the sonne of God is grenned at vpon the crosse but contrarye wyse in Englande mayster Bale Iohn baptist is now deliuered forth of pryson And IeIesus the sonne of god is truely worshipped vpō the crosse and moreouer he sayeth Paule in Athens is hissed at the poore apostles are slyly laughed to scorne But nowe in Englande praised be our lord Iesus Christ Paule is truely preached the Apostles receaue theyr dew honoure and last of al he saith Iohn the sonne of zebede is sent into Pathinos whiles Cerinthus Menander and Hebion play the heretikes at home But otherwise I say Iohn zebed is now receaued forth of Pathinos in to England and Cerinthus Menāder and Hebyon who triumphed in Englande while Iohn was in Pathinos are nowe fledde in to Germany to play the prophets of heretikes there The reste of Bales trachery I will omit at this time returne to my matter Saint Iohn speakinge of the notable heritike Cerinthus doeth saye to his disciples beware that you bath not your selues in bathes wherin Cerinthus the enemy of truth hath washed himselfe lest by thē you be infected with his vntruth it is good for vs therfore good cuntrymē that we whom god now hathe called from the bathes of Cerinthus do run with all our minde and with al our heart in to the lap of oure mother the catholike churche who with her swete bathes wil wash clense vs from al these wicked errors whiche we haue learned of this wicked church of Sathan and then shal we receue such heuēly moysture as shal bring forth in vs vnmouable obedience saint Paule sayeth vnhappye is that grounde and nerest to the curse of God whiche when it receaueth heauenly moystures doth bringe forthe