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A05532	Certaine tables sett furth by the right reuerend father in God, William Bushopp of Rurimunde, in Ghelderland: wherein is detected and made manifeste the doting dangerous doctrine, and haynous heresyes, of the rashe rablement of heretikes: translated into Englishe by Lewys Euans, and by hym intituled, The betraing of the beastlines of heretykes	Lindanus, Guilelmus Damasus, 1525-1588.; Evans, Lewis, fl. 1574.	1565 (1565)	STC 15653; ESTC S106730	25,509	82

of thy neare breatherne these newe made Ministers and yf you will not beleue me looke then vpon the hande of your neare neyghebour and thou shalt fynd there the note signe of thaefte infamie Exeter Gayle can testifye yt there the Bushopes pryson must needes wytnes yt but peraduenture good Reader thow wilte request to knowe the vyllanye of all the reaste of these varletes yf thou doe so I pray thee beare awhyle with me for I doe meane shortlye to shewe and make notyce of their names fylthie facte place wherein their drudgerie was cōmytted so in the meane tyme I tel thee thys that vnū cognoris omnes noueris in knowing one thow hast knowē theym all And o you Ministers what say you to hym who hathe noted all your names the place where you were bredde in borne the arte and occupaciō wherein yow were brought vpp and of some of you the fellonie for the which your handes with whoate burning yron before the iudge hath bene hardened of some other the inceste and whoredome and of the beste of you the worthye discredyte in all your countreye can not thys make you to shrynke and to be ashamed and cannot thys cause yow to change places one with an other as you haue preatelie begunne Notwithstanding all thys wyl you styll be meadling with the highe misteries of God wil you with your theevishe burned thombes fylthelie styll be fyngering of the boke of God be these y e teachers good people which this paynted false attyred truthe brought vs yea be not these the rude shameles rablement whiche vntruthe hathe brought with her as a trayne yes yes these be they good Reader whom I wyshe thee to weyghe with the wyse Fathers Doctors of the primitiue churche whose authorities in this litle boke be alleaged these be the vpholders of thys hanging looke lecherous and faynting fayth and therefore lende thow thy faythful iudgemēt iudge thow indifferētly whether y e chast godly fathers of the former tymes ought more to be credyted or els these cursed and thievish beastlye bankerupte breathren these men be they which were thought meete to be chosen into the Rome place of the graue wyse and learned labourers of the church of Christ such be the wanton wolfes which in these later dayes haue creapte into your howses to werie you these be they which with their whoores at home haue both ioye and pleasure to see your soules to peryshe foreuer Oh the howses wherein sometymes graue studētes wyse men dyd dwel doe beare recorde of the ruefull estate of the Realme of England the Colleges wherein learning of long tyme so laudablie did flooryshe be now defyled with leacherie fylled vp with the fylthie stuffe of whoores and harlottes the Personages Vicarages wherein poore folkes were wonte to haue some foode be now al fylled with the fowle defourmed broode of bastardes the holy churches sometymes duely decked with the memorial of the blessed Martyres singuler Sainctes be now with the fylth of Priestes bastardes throughout the whole chaūcell defyled and berayd I wil not speake of the spoyle made nowe by these Ministers throughout al the spiritual lyvinges in Englande I will let passe their couetous powling that only to pamper vp theyr hawtye and hyeghe mynded Helens theyr bastardes and misbegottē mynions doughters I will nothing towche their wrongeful takinges their byeng selling chopping and changing of benefices and I wyl not at this tyme rehearse the malicious and impudent madd mindes But peraduēture gentle Reader some man wyl dowbte whether I be able to stand by and proue all thys or not wel I promyse thee that the cōsciences of a number in England can testyfie yt and I wolde wyshe that I might without grynding be licēced before M. Grindal to proue it Further I doe wyshe al men to iudge whether they be wicked or no who most wrongfullie accuse the Catolykes of great crymes treason and disobedience for I assure thee that in this theyr aduersytie they doe vpō their knees pray vnto God for the preseruacion of our most gracious Prince and Quene And therefore good people yt is the false preachers of England which beareth her no good wyl yt is they that for the wearing of a cappe will comptrole her maiesties most gracious mynde cōmaundement yt is their dreamyng disobedience which dothe defye her lawes and yt is their churlyshe hateful hartes that murmure and grudge against her maiesties proceadinges For the Catholykes good Christian doe but flye from the tyrannie of these caytyfes they leave the realme to advoyde the rage of such Antichristes and they departe from their country onely to be careful for the saluacion of theyr soules And I wold to God that any indifferent Englyshe man wolde marke what kynde of men there be here they be of truthe the very treasure of our country they be grave wyse learned and godlye fathers yea and they be such as this country wondereth how that our country can wante them But now to make an ende there ys no iuste cause M. Grindall why you shoulde be displeased with me in dedicating thys vnto you for you may not thinke scorne in thys your tyme of forgetfulnes to be schooled at the handes of the right Reuerend Father the Bushop of Rurimunde and you may not dysdayne yf the way truthe be tolde you by the diuines and Doctors of the Church And therefore onles you contemne the Counsayll of such catholyke holye Fathers as Sainct Chrysostome S. Hierome and suche others And onles you wyl lytle weyghe the whole wryters of the true church you can not choyse but thanke me for my good meaning and intent but whether you doe nowe thanke me or not Yet when you haue shaken of thys heavye burthen of heresye I dowbte not but that you wyll then doe yt And thus gentle Reader I commytt thee vnto God who guyde thy harte in the knowelaige of Christ his true faythe Amen Some parte of rhe Protestantes beleefe which theyr hyghe and Archeheretykes do holde translated out of a litle booke made by Fridericus Staphylus 1. First Luther in his confession de Eucharistia aduersus Swermeros saeth that Vltichu● Zwinglius affirmed that Numa Scipio ● suche other ethnikes were receaued by Go● vnto eternall lyf for their excellent natural vertues sake this is y e heresie of y e Pelagiās 2. Luther in his sermone cōcerning Moses affirmeth that y e tenne cōmaundementes do not apperteigne vnto vs but vnto y e Jewes alone This is the heresie of the Manichees 3. Luther in his booke entituled De libertate Christiana Melancthon in his annotation vpon S. John sayth that onelye incredulitie is synne that there is no other kin● of synne This is the heresie of Eunomius 4. Melancthon in his annotations vpo● the Epistle of S. Paule to the Romaines ● Luther in his booke De seruo

yeare in his commune places denied againe by Melanthō y e 30. yeare in y e cōfessiō of Auspurge Three affirmed by Melancthō in his Apologie the .31 yeare denied againe by Melancthon in the .52 yeare in his Commune places wherein he alleageth out of y e woorde of God that holye Order is in the number of Sacramentes Fowre affirmed by Melanthō in his cōmune places y e .31 yeare denied by Theym of Saxonie in their confession vnto the which Melancthon subscribed the .51 yeare Sixe alwayes and somewhere .vij. is affirmed by William Postellus in Panthenosia where he named him self to be Helias Pandocheus that is Helias the inholder or contenter of all companies denied by Lutherans by the Zwinglians ¶ Of Baptisme ¶ Originall synne to be in children is affirmed by Luther his adherentes denied by Zwinglius Caluine and by Seruetus Water to be necessary for Baptisme is by Luther his adherentes affirmed denied by Caluine in his institutions and by Bucer in his cōmentary vpon Matthewe ¶ Abrenūtio to be vsed before Baptisme is affirmed by Brentius in his ordinaūce of y e church at Wirtembrige in the .xiiij. leafe denied by Luther many others ¶ Synnes to be so forgeuē vs in our baptisme as that they shuld not be imputed is affirmed by Luther his adherentes denied by Bucer in his cōmentarie vpon Math. by Caluine in Antid affirming y e water of Baptisme to be of none effect ¶ Concupiscēcie is affirmed to be a synne by Luther Bucer denied by Zwingliꝭ with his adherentes ¶ Children ought to be baptized saeth Luther with his companies denied by the Anabaptistes ¶ Of woorkes ¶ Good woorkes to be necessarie vnto saluation is affirmed bi Luther Melanthō as George Maior in his booke of woorkes dothe declare denied by Luther and Melancthō as Illyricꝭ Gallus do say writing against George Maior ¶ That there are desertes of good deades aswell in this lyfe as after is affirmed by Melancthon in his Apologie and Luther in his declaration denied by Caluin others ¶ That good woorkes deserue life euerlasting is alleaged by Bucer but yeat by free grace as he writeth vnto the Fathers of the Counsaile of Tridentine denied by the Apologie of Auspurge and many others ¶ Of the Sacrament of the Aulter ¶ Bread to be cōuerted in to the bodye of Christ the forme only remaninge is affirmed by Luther in a boke against Zwinglius The bread is chaunged saeth Melanthon in the cōfession of Auspurge in y e .xxx. yeare deliuered vnto Carolus y e Emperour wherein was writen vnder the forme of bread denied by Luter Melancthō in y e cōfession of Auspurge y e xxxj yere printed y e .lvj yere by Iochimꝭ West phalꝭ w t all y e hole crewe against Caluin in y e confessiō of the sacrament Bread to be a bare sygne of the body is affirmed by Zwingl Oecolampadius Caluine and some tymes by Bucer denied by Luther in the cōfessiō of Auspurge by Bucer plaing y e Lutheran in his commentary vppon Mathewe Verie bread to be with y e verie body is affirmed by Luther afterwardes in the fained cōfession of Auspurge by the Lutherans with others denied by Luther at the firste by Carolstadius Zwingl Caluine Very wine to be in the chalice is affirmed by Luther in his booke entituled Capt. Babyl denied by Luther in his second booke against Zwinglius That the sacramēt of y e Aulter ought to be adored is affirmed by Luther in a booke of the Adoration of y e sacrament Carolstadius vnto Alber. Outerius and by Bucer actis Col. Ratisp denied by Brentius in his cōfession of Auspurge by the Lutherans The cōmunion of both kindes to be necessarie is affirmed by Luther in the confession of Saxonie and in y t confession of Wirtemb with others denied by Luther in a boke vnto the Bohemiās and in Captiuit Babyl also in a sermone of the sacrament ¶ Of free will No freewill to be in man is affirmed by Luther Captiuit Baby and in his third boke against Zwingliꝭ by Melancthō in his cōmun places the yeare .22 and also by Illyricus denied by Melancthon in his cōmune places the .52 yeare alleaging yt to be an horrible lye and the rage of y e Manichees to denie man to haue free will ¶ Of the invocation of Sainctes Saintes ought to be prayed vnto saeth Luther in his booke intituled the preparation vnto death and against y e Taborites denied by Luther Melancthō Caluine and others ¶ Of Images Images ought to be kept saeth Luther and manie of Saxonie denied by Luther in all the prouince of Bauaria by Zwinglius Caluine and others ¶ Of holy dayes ¶ Holye dayes ought to be celebrated saeth the Lutherans in the ordering of their church at Wirtembryge denied by Luther vnto the nobilitie of Germanie and also by him through all Germanie ¶ Of prayng for the dead Prayer for the dead is done well and without synne sayeth Luther in Cap. Fidei set furthe a litell before his death in the .xliiij. yeare denied by the Luterās by Melancthō Caluin others ¶ Of Purgatorie That there is a Purgatorie after this lif is affirmed by Luther in sundrie places and y t he doth surelie beleue it Also in the boke de Caepitib fidei in the .xliiij. yeare he teacheth that it is lawfull once or at the vttermost twise to praye for the dead denied by the Lutherās Caluine Melancthon by the Zwinglians Sainct Peter was at Rome as Luther in an Homelie doth declare denied by Sebast. Frāc by Velenus and by Caluine S. Peter was at Rome and also there Bushop as Luther and Bucer doe write denied by Caluine Functius That y e Bushop of Rome is not Antichrist is affirmed by Bucer denieng that y e place vnto the Philipp can sounde to reproue him denied by many others Luther all his adherentes to be heretikes is affirmed by Zwinglius in a booke made against the Lutherans denied by Luther and his adherētes boasting them selfes to be true Gospellers Zwinglius with his hole companie to be heretykes is affirmed by Luther in a booke written against the Zwinglians denied by Zwinglius his companie boasting them selfes to be y e true ghospellers L. EVANS SAinct Hillarye in the .vij. booke of the Trinitie alleageth all the doinges of heretickes to be oncertaine and vaine and that they vary amongst them selues not iudging a lyke of anye one thynge yea when ther is but twoe or three of them they do reproche reprehend and blame one an other and euer iarring the differ aboute theyr owne doynges neuertheles they runne headlong togeather into the selfe same purpose of blasphemie Nowe whether the wordes of S. Hillarye be true or no and whether these heretickes doe varye and iarre as he sayeth it dothe vnto all men more then ynoughe appeare and yeat to make that thing vnto thee more euident which is euident ynoughe