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A14579	A testimonie of the true Church of God confirmed as well by the doctrine as liues of sundry holy men, both patriarkes, and prophetes, and also by the Apostles and their true successours. Wherein is manifestly shewed how that God hath in all ages raysed vp some, yea euen in most horrible darkenesse, which haue beene faithfull stewards, and true dispencers of his will, with a catalogue of their names. Translated out of French by William Phiston.; Discours sur le dénombrement des docteurs de l'Église de Dieu. English	Devoyon, Simon.; Phiston, William.	1585 (1585)	STC 24891; ESTC S119337	98,293	180

At Constantinople was assembled a councell by the aforenamed Emperour in the fourteneth yeare of his Empyre whereas were 300. and thirtie bishops there was commaundement giuen that all the images of sainctes shoulde be taken away and burned Also the Emperour made his subiects to sweare that they shoulde no more worshippe any image of God nor of sainctes but condemned to the death al those that shoulde call vppon the virgin Marie for helpe and those that should haue in their houses any reliques of sainctes He commaunded the Monkes to marry and the Nonnes to follow the estate of marriage Sig. Afterwards he sent to the Pope the conclusions of this councell commaunding him to cast the images out of Churches Sabin king of Bulgarie caused all the images in his kingdome to be beaten downe after the example of Constantine wherupon he gat fauour with the Emperour Naucl. 112 In the yeare 782. or thereaboutes after the natiuitie of our Lorde Iesus Christ wās Alcuin otherwise called Albin the disciple of worthie Beda a monke and afterwardes Abbot of S. Martins in Tours maister to Charlemaigne he composed thrée bookes of the trinitie and many other bookes At that time raigned Constātine the sixte of that name the 76. Emperour of Constantinople the son of Leo the fourth who against the will of his mother Hierene caused the images of the temples to be beaten downe about the which not long before she had assēbled a councel at Nice at the request of Pope Adrian and of Therasius Archebishop of Constantinople as Sig. In this councel there were 325. bishops Naucl. And there it was decréed not onely that they should haue images but also that they shoulde of right be worshipped and that all the gainsayers shoulde be excomunicated But this decrée was shortly abolished by Constantine as is afore saide Chron. Euseb Moreouer within a while after that is to say in the yeare 792. was holden a Synode in Spaine in a citie called Elyberis or Granato whereas did assemble ninetene bishops thirtie and sixe priestes or ministers Felix Bishoppe of Aquitaine was there president There it was concluded especially amongst other poynts that that there should not be in Churches any images or payntings 113 During the raigne of Charlemaigne king of Fraunce who was Emperour though that hee had not gotten the imperiall crowne in the yeare of our Lord Iesus Christ 801. was Ansegisus the Abbot who made foure bookes of the decrées of Charlemaigne of Lewis his sonne Amongst all other things and aboue al things hee would that the Bishopps shoulde preache vnto the people the true doctrine gathered out of the holy scriptures and no otherwise alleaging therefore the saying of Gregorie That a minister who is without the sunne of preaching kindleth against himselfe the wrath of the hidden iudge He also ordeined that no person shoulde make profession of Monachisme without lycence of the king for to shunne many deceypts He would that there should be but a fewe feasts ordeyned he repressed the superfluitie of ministers ordeyning that they shoulde be nourished with the reuenewes of the Church with the poore Furthermore in the time of Charlemaigne and in the meane time whilest he passed his Winter at Francfort vpon the Meine a Councell was holden of a great multitude of Bishops in which the decrée of the councell of Nice concerning worshipping of images holden by Hierene as is aforesaide was pronounced false and condemned of all men c. Charlemaigne caused to be published a booke in his name against images the which agréed with the articles of the saide Councell Furthermore hée made aunswere to two bookes which were founde to haue bene written by Adrian the Pope to Therasius the Patriarch and to the Emperour of Constantinople By this writing Charlemaigne taxed and secreatly condemned Adrian without naming of idolatrie There was also one councell holden at Cauaillon vnder Charlemaigne in which amongst other superstitions that were there condemned the going of Pilgrimage for religions sake was sharpely repressed in the 45. Canon alleaging the saying of S. Hierome No man ought to be praysed for that hée hath séene Ierusalem but for that hee hath lyued well c. It is saide of Charlemaigne that he reproued the Archbishoppe of Mayence named Boniface because hée had a crosse all couered with golde beset with pretious stones for occasion so offering hee checked him and saide that it was rather the furniture of an Emperour then of a pastour 114 Haymo Byshop of Albastat scholler of Alcuinus did write vpon all the bookes aswell of the olde as of the newe Testament as is euident yet at this present He dyed in the raigne of the Emperour Lewis the sonne of Charlemaigne in the yere of Christ 834. In his time was also Rabanus who was first a Monke of the order of S. Benit and Abbot of Fulden afterward he was archbishop of Mayence who was also a disciple of Alcuinus he also made commentaries vpon all the bookes of the Byble He dyed in the yeare of our Lorde 855. Strabus was his scholler of whom it is founde written that he was the first that collected the ordinary glose of the writings of the fathers and doctours the which glose was afterwarde augmented by many others who added sentences therto 115 Bertrand a Priest a learned man well instructed in the true Godlynesse flourished in the time of the Emperour Lotharie in the yeare 840. He wrote many good workes of which it is saide that they did not come all to our hands He wrote a very commendable worke to King Charles the brother of Lotharie that is one booke of predestination and one other of the bodie bloud of our Lorde Iesus Christ The cause why he composed that booke wherein he writeth very learnedly of the supper of the Lorde was by the aduise and commaundement of King Charles le chauue that he might bring the people into one and the true opinion who were then deuided touching the said misterie So that one sort saide that Christ was therein taken and eaten in misterie and was figured vnder the Elements of breade and wine some saide on the contrarie that all that which was séene in the saide misterie was chaunged and conuerted and as many doe say vnto this day transubstantiated into the body and bloud of Christ Some said that it was figuratiuely or euidētly this was the proper bodie of Christ which he tooke of the wombe of the virgin Mary with the which he is ascended into heauen others saide that it was the spirituall bodie that is the misterie representation figure vnderstanding and spirituall apprehension of the proper bodie and bloude of Christ deliuered to the death for our sinnes and risen againe for our iustification All which opinions are founde remayning till this present for some holde still transubstantiation others impanatiō others a metaphore but somewhat reall Others there were who acknowledged nothing els but méere breade and wyne all which doubtes be

the time of Traian the Emperour about the yeare of Iesus Christ 101. In that time were likewise other Bishops as Titus Bishop of Crete and others of whom mention is made in the Acts and in the Epistles of S. Paul that is to wit Apollo Aristarchus Gayus Derbée Iason Erastus Sosipater Tychicus Secundus Syluanus Tertius Quartus Sosthenes Epaphras Iesus the iust Demas Archippus Bishop of the Colossiās Eubulus Pudens Linus Artenas and Zenas and Dionifius Areepagita Bishop of the Athenians 64 In the yeare 65. Annianus was ordeyned Bishop of Alexandria and he gouerned the Church 22. yeares looke the historie Ecclesiasticus booke 2. chapter 23. In the yeare 66. beganne the first persecution which was in the 10. yeare of Nero and it abode vntill his death By the commaundement of this tyrant the citie of Rome was set on fire and for to shunne the report of such an act he laide the fault vpon the Christians and caused them to be executed with sundry kindes of death Those that named thē selues Christiās which name was thē so odious as if they had bene enimies to all mankinde and those that were accused hereof by the prisoners besides the other hurtes and abuses that they suffered abode this approbrie that being clad in beastes skinnes they were bayted torne in pieces with dogs some were attached and hanged on the crosse others burned in the fire so as of them were kindled fires for to giue light in the night Thus Cornelius Tacitus witnesseth 65 Ignatius a disciple of S. Iohn the Euangelist was ordeyned the second Bishop of Antioch he was caried prisoner vnto Rome for to be cast amongest the wilde beastes and to be made a spectacle vnto the people He going through Syria to Rome and passing through the countrey of Asia preached in all places where he went to the people and to the congregation the Christian faith and he exhorted the Christians to perseuere in the trueth and to beware of the infections of heretiques which then beganne to budde and that they should kéepe diligently the doctrine that they had receiued of the Apostles The cause of this persecution was for that hauing reproued in Antioch the idolatry of Traian he was apprehended as a seditious person and as being culpable lesae maiestatis and he was deliuered in charge to tenne souldiers or rather tormentors for to be caried to Rome and to be deliuered to the Lyons Whereof Ignatius him selfe saith I haue fought against beastes from Syria vnto Rome by sea and by land night and day among tenne Leopards c. Ireneus in his 5. booke speaking of Ignatius condemned to be cast vnto beastes affirmeth that he saide I am the wheate of Iesus Christ and I shall be ground with the téeth of beastes so as I may be made the bread of God 66 In the time of Domitian the Emperour who raised vp persecution against the Christians Clement Bishop of Rome which was martyred vnder Traianus instituted in his time Notaries for to write the actes of the martyrs their constancie and patience for an example and perpetuall memorie In the yeare of the Lord Iesus 88. Albilius was ordeyned Bishop of Alexandria and was Bishoppe there twelue yeares 67 Anacletus Bishop of Rome of the nation of Gréekes an Athenian gouerned the Church thrée yeares and two monethes He ordeyned that Ecclesiasticall persons should twise in the yeare haue a Synode or cōgregation for the affaires of the church He by his writings exhorted the people amongest other things that they should honor and reuerence their ministers Who so speaketh euill of the ministers saith he speaketh euill of Christ and he iudgeged him separated from Christ He was martyred in the reigne of Traianus Looke the first volume of Councels 68 Euaristus Bishop of Rome who was martyred in the last yeare of the Emperour Traian ordeyned that there should be elected seuen Deacons in euery citie the which should marke and watch the Bishop in preaching and teaching to the people and these he ordeyned for a testimonie of the worde of God and to the end that none should lay to his charge that he had preached euill and against the trueth He ordeyned that mariage should be openly celebrated in the Church That the Church should obey the Bishop and that the Bishop should neuer forsake his Church so long as he liued no more then the husband should forsake his wife or the wife her husband 69 Quadratus Bishop of Athens a disciple of the Apostles presented a booke of Apologie to Adrian the fiftéenth Emperour for the defence of the Christian faith Aristides an Athenian Philosopher being a faithfull man composed a like booke Wherevpon Adriā sent to Minutius Fondanus deputie in Asia that he should no more persecute the Christians but that if they did any thing contrarie to the lawes he would that iudgement should procéede according to the qualitie of the crime That if any body accused thē slaunderously he willed such a one should be punished for his maliciousnesse and that they shuld haue no harme 70 Polycarpus the disciple of Iohn the Euangelist and Apostle was Bishop of Smyrna in Ionia which is in Asia the lesse beneath Ephesus he liued till he was very olde Ireneus saith that he was ordeyned Bishop there by the Apostles it is very likely in déede that he beganne his ministerie in the second or thirde yeare of Traian S. Hierome in his catalogue saith that he was sent by Saint Iohn the Euangelist he offended in the 68. yeare after the passion of Christ as it is reported Ireneus saith of him that one day as Marcion met him he saide vnto him Take counsel and knowledge with vs Polycarpus aunswered him againe I knowe that thou art the chiefest sonne of Sathan The remnant of the life of Polycarpus was in the time of Marcus Antonius and of Lucius Verus the Emperours The chiefest gouernours of the Empire did then stirre vp such persecution against the christians that it extended to them of the citie of Smyrna whereof Polycarpus had bene Bishop long time and there he was burned when he had serued the Church of God about 70. yeares this was in the seuenth yeare of this saide Emperour As some say he was 80. yeares olde The prayer of Polycarpus that he made before his death is in the fourth booke of the Ecclesiastical historyes 71 In the time of Antonius Pius in the 10. yere of his raigne Marke comming from the Gentlyles was elected byshop of the Church at Ierusalem the which citie after the sacking and spoyle made by Tytus vntill that of Adrian had succéeding by order fiue chiefe Bishops Eusebius maketh mention of them in his third booke and first chapter Then after the spoyle made by Adrian there was no more any Church and congregation gathered together there saue of the Gentyls and they appointed Bishops amongst themselues for the Iewes then bearing armes against the Romaines were at the last discomfited and there were killed

other articles Of the kingdome of Fraunce Thomas Readon of the order of Carmelites who hauing knowledge of the trueth was by occasion at Rome whereas hée perceiued to be naught els but filthines al maner hypocrisie in steede of perfect holynesse proud paradises in stead of heauenly graces in stead of the feare of God execrable dissolutenes in steade of doctrine idlenesse horrible superstitions in steade of Apopostolicall simplicitie worse then barbarous tyrannie Moreouer it is saide that this good man amongst other thinges was greatly gréeued at the pride and intollerable ambition that hee sawe in them who ought to shew themselues more humble then others séeing in Rome such abhominable thinges as are horrible to be named So that this good man coulde not refraine from speaking against such villanous corruptions albeit that hee knewe well that his admonitions and counsell would not profite much For it perswasions could haue taken place the books of Wicliefe of many others like might haue sufficed The bloude of Iohn Hus and of Hierome of of Prague did still boyle speaking boldly against all those abhominations Then to be briefe nothing could hinder this good man from pursuing that which he had entreprysed but if néede required he was readie to spende his life He gate hatred by his preaching sparing none shewing euery bodie their faults and especially the horrible misdemeanour of the Cardinals Eugenius who was then Pope caused him to be shut vp in prison where hee abode much sorrowe and euils and after great and cruell tortures hee was condemned disgraded and burned quick That was in the yeare 1439. In the Realme of Englande Roger Dule gentleman was hanged and strangled for mainteining the trueth anno 1441. Of the countrey of Ferraria Hierome Sauanarola a monke of the order of Iacobins an excellent man in life and doctrine with certeine of his companions was burned at Florence at the instaunce and by the commaundent of Pope Alexander the sixt in the yeare 1491. The accusations by proces of Sauanarola bee these that hee mainteined the communion vnder both kinds in the supper that he condemned indulgences and vsed to accuse very sharpely the dishonest and infamous life of the Pope and Cardinals That he denyed the primacie of the Pope he taught that the power of the Keyes was not giuen to S. Peter alone Furthermore that the Pope did neither followe the life nor doctrine of Iesus Christ forsomuch as he attributed more to his pardons indulgences and to his owne traditions then hee did to the merite of Iesus Christ and that therefore he was very Antichrist He affirmed also that the excommunications of the Pope were not to be feared Look in the booke of martyrs Some also doe holde opinion that hee composed certaine meditations vpon the fifty Psalme some others It will scarce be possible to gather to a heape all the histories of so many doctours and martyrs of euery estate order condition which the Lord hath raised vp through all regions of the worlde for to teach and preach his holy trueth and which haue béene readie when néede required to shed their bloud rather then to accept the tyrannicall traditions and constitutions of men And considering also that you may haue recourse to diuerse bookes of martyrs c. I will not make any long mention of them In the meane while I haue thought good to note certaine for to shewe a continuall order of good and faithfull doctours and martyrs whome God hath raysed vp in time for to crie out against the horrible misdéeds of men and against their abhominable traditions repugning against his holy will Iohn Goose an Englishman which in this time was vniustly condemned and burnt at the Tower hill 1473. in the moneth of August this wee finde recorded that the saide Iohn being deliuered to Robert Belisoon on of the Shriefes to seacute e him burnt in the after noone the Shriefe like a charitable mā had him home to his house and there exhorted him to denie saith the storie his errours But the godly man after long exhortation hearde desired the Shriefe to be content for he was satissied in his cōscience Notwithstanding he desired the Shriefe for Gods sake to giue him some meate saying that hee was verie sore a hungered Then the shrieffe commaunded him meate whereof he tooke and did eate as he had beene towardes no daunger and saide to such as stoode about him I eate nowe a good competent dinner for I shall passe a little sharpe shower ere I goe to supper And when he had dined he gaue thankes and required that he might shortly be led to the place where he should yeeld vp his spirite to God Ex Polychron Iohannes de Wessalia who florished in the yeare 1476. was complained vppon vnto Dietherus the Archhishop of Mentz by the Thomistes vppon certaine Ariicles and opinions gathered out of his bookes which are as followeth That all men bee saued fréely and through méere grace by faith in Christ frée will to be nothing Only that we should beléeue the worde of God and not the glose of any man or fathers That the worde of God is to bee expounded by the collations of one place with an other That mens traditions as fastinges pardons feastes long prayers peregrinations and such like are to be reiected Extreme vnction and confirmation to be reproued confession and satisfaction to be reprehended The primacie of the Pope also he affirmed to be nothing Certaine other articles also were gathered out of him by his aduersaries but in such sort that they may séeme to follow their owne malicious gathering rather then any true intelligence of his minde Ex Munstero Weselus Groningensis who was in the yeare of our Lord 1480. a famous and learned man borne in Phrisia he was so notable and so worthie a man that of the people he was called Lux mundi that is the light of the worlde Concerning his doctrine first he reprehended the opinion of the Papistes as touching repentance which they deuided in three partes of the which thrée partes satisfaction and confession he did disalowe Like wise purgatorie and supererogation of works pardons he did disproue both at Rome and at Paris He speake against the Popes indulgences by the occasion whereof diuers of the Popes Court persuaded by him beganne to speake more fréely against the same matter then he himselfe had done The abuses of Masses and praying for the deade he disalowed and likewise the supremacie of the Pope he vtterly reiected Item that the precepts and commandements of the Pope and prelates be no otherwise but as the Councels precepts of Phisitions binding no further then they are founde to be holesome and standing with the truth of the worde of God Item that the Pope can commaunde no man vnder payne of deadly sinne except God commaund him before he saith that the keyes of the Pope and the Prelates be not such wherewith they open the kingdome of heauen but